Under our Liberal government, an erasure of personal freedoms in Canada are continuing to gain momentum. It appears Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be of the opinion that existing punitive legal measures for citizens are wholly inadequate.
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Poilievre’s Pay As You Go Plan Would Set Canada On The Path To A Balanced Budget
One of the challenges the Conservatives have faced is that they haven’t provided a genuine contrast to Justin Trudeau’s worldview.
Trudeau pushes a vision of Canada where the federal government is at the centre of everything, and where the solution to every problem is to borrow more and spend more.
The idea that governments should live within their means as the rest of us do is completely alien to Trudeau.
Organization calling for strong police response to upcoming freedom events also wants police defunded
Horizon Ottawa, a progressive organization that lobbies for left-leaning municipal policies, is calling for a strong police response to upcoming freedom events in the nation’s capital – while also supporting the Defund the Police movement.
Freedom events are planned next week in downtown Ottawa for the arrival of Canadian Armed Forces Veteran James Topp and in celebration of Canada Day. Organizers are also planning events on weekends throughout the summer.
Air Canada admits British passengers were rounded up and hauled off flight by armed police in Toronto by ‘MISTAKE’ in heavy-handed crackdown over mask rules
An airline which ejected at least 25 passengers from a Heathrow-bound plane without telling them why has admitted that some were ‘mistakenly removed’.
Air Canada has confirmed that some passengers had done nothing wrong before its staff accompanied by armed police ordered them off the plane.
Officials have been contacting the innocent passengers to apologise for the blunder and are believed to be discussing possible compensation with them.
Crazy.
Trudeau says tow trucks needed Emergencies Act
In a recent CBC Radio interview defending his government’s response to the Freedom Convoy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that tow truck drivers in Ottawa required the Emergencies Act to move in on rigs within the city’s downtown core.
Food is getting more expensive but feds certainly aren’t helping
We’ve just learned that Canada’s food inflation rate was at a record 9.7% in May. Everyone is noticing higher food prices, and no section of the grocery store is immune to what is going on right now. What is hitting Canada is a global phenomenon and food prices are not going to come down anytime soon. The world will see a shortfall in commodity production this fall which could push prices even higher worldwide.
After All The Lies, Who Could Possibly Believe Trudeau’s Claims Amid Brenda Lucki Scandal?
A key problem in Canada today is that the political elites believe they are automatically owed the trust of Canadians.
In our own lives, we all know that trust is earned, and that those who lie constantly are no longer believed.
Somehow, politicians like Trudeau think that doesn’t apply to them.
Thus, in response to the escalating Brenda Lucki-RCMP-Trudeau government scandal, he is trotting out the same tactics he uses every scandal:
Anti-hate experts concerned about rise in online threats toward LGBTQ2S+ events in Canada
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network says “groomer” narratives — a hateful discourse used to target queer and trans people — are being spread across social media platforms like Twitter and TikTok.
According to the network, researchers are seeing an importation of specific discourse topics from the United States. This includes groomer narratives, disinformation about gender-affirming care and transphobic comments about family-friendly drag storytime events.
Our fraying constitutional order
In a recent podcast interview, my American host asked me to comment on whether Canada constituted a nation, in the substantive sense. Beyond platitudes such as a shared commitment to multiculturalism, general good government, and a thin conception of liberty, there is not much there there, I reflected. No, there isn’t really a singular Canadian nation, I answered.
But I was oversimplifying: the fact is that Canada is a nation that contains many nations. The compromises of federalism as set out in the Constitution were specifically designed to accommodate the vast regional and cultural differences across our equally vast land and, for the most part, have held up well.
However, proposals in Alberta and Quebec are starting to nip at the fabric of our constitutional order. Both provinces are, as one academic recently put it, apparently treating the Constitution as a “buffet that one can pick and choose from”, rather than a blueprint for how power flows in a state.
Looks like travel restrictions were political all along
The federal government announced on Tuesday June 14 that COVID-related travel restrictions in place since Oct. 30, 2021 will be ending. Specifically, the government is ending the requirement to show proof of vaccination for domestic travel on planes and trains, for outbound international travel, and ending the vaccine mandate for transport workers and federal government employees.
CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms to Manipulate Algorithms
The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications held an exceptionally important hearing as part of its Bill C-11 pre-study (which is about to change into a Bill C-11 study) last night featuring Canadian Heritage officials and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. I will have a second post on the officials, who struggled to provide clear answers to basic questions on everything from how to identify what counts as Cancon for user content (Youtube’s Content ID was suggested) to the absence of thresholds for what is covered by the bill (there are no thresholds and the government wants the ability to also target small streamers). But the key moment of the day came in questioning Scott about the discoverability and the potential for algorithmic manipulation.
This guy gets it
This guy gets it. I’ve said it before, it’s a spiritual war, they have waged war on our kids, the elderly, women, the vulnerable, the poor, our standard of living, travel, hospitality, privacy and on anyone who questions the narrative. pic.twitter.com/VOjSudbhkg
— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) June 21, 2022
Former RCMP commissioner defends Mountie behind Brenda Lucki allegations
Former RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson and other retired Mounties are defending the integrity of Superintendent Darren Campbell, who has alleged that current Commissioner Brenda Lucki interfered in the investigation of the largest mass shooting in Canadian history to help the Liberal government’s gun-control agenda.
Emergencies Preparedness Minister Bill Blair doesn’t accept Supt. Campbell’s written account of a conference call, on April 28, 2020, between Commissioner Lucki and RCMP commanders overseeing the criminal investigation into the rampage 10 days earlier by a lone gunman in Nova Scotia. Twenty-two people were killed in the shooting.
Here’s why experts say Canada isn’t headed for a recession
Canada’s annual inflation rate hit 7.7 per cent for the month of May, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, the highest level of growth seen in nearly 40 years. With inflation reaching astronomical levels, some Canadians may be concerned that rising costs will lead to a decline in economic activity and eventually trigger a recession.
Canadian taxpayers group says ‘Trudeau needs to follow Biden’s lead’ for gas tax relief
As plans for relief from gas prices come out of the United States, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to follow suit.
“Trudeau needs to follow Biden’s lead and provide gas tax relief immediately,” said CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano in a statement on Wednesday. “Today, Trudeau could save an average Canadian family about $20 every single time they fuel up their minivan by cutting federal fuel taxes.”