‘It was political’: China actively blocked development of CanSino vaccine, MPs learn

A Canadian vaccine researcher says he believes that Chinese political machinations ended a vaccine partnership last summer.

Dr. Scott Halperin, the director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology, made the accusation Thursday to the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations.

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Federal emails: COVID “accelerating in Canada” while Trudeau gov’t claimed “low-risk”

Canada’s chief public health officer Theresa Tam described COVID-19 as “low-risk” up until a few days before internal Trudeau government emails discussed the “accelerating” situation in Canada compared to China.

COVID-19 was “mostly under control in China, but accelerating in Canada” according to a March 20, 2020 email sent from Privy Council Office staffer David Hamilton.

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Canada’s health minister: Gov’t ‘working on the idea of vaccine passports’

Canada’s health minister Patty Hajdu said the government is “certainly working on the idea of vaccine passports” with its fellow G7 partners.

“I was on a call with my G7 health minister counterparts just a couple of weeks ago and that is a very live issue,” Hajdu explained last Sunday on CTV’s Question Period. “We’ll be coming back to Canadians as we understand more about the intentions of our counterparts internationally, and as we understand more about how that will unfold around the world,” she explained.

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FATAH: The Swiss have banned the burka — when will Canada follow?

Why are Canadians scared to speak out against what is a symbol of anti-West hatred and the flaunting of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda right in our midst and in our face? It’s the label of ‘racist’ that hangs like the sword of Damocles over our heads.

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Liberals’ New Hate Speech Bill Could Lead to Revival of Controversial Law

Your Enemy – Steven Guilbeault

Canada’s new hate speech legislation soon to be tabled by the federal government may include a new statutory definition of hate and could revive a controversial law previously repealed for infringing on rights.

Repealed in 2013, Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act had made it an act of discrimination to communicate anything online or by telephone that was “likely to expose” a person to hatred or contempt, as long as they were “identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”

The controversial law was widely criticized for being overly broad with weak safeguards to protect speech rights.

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The Two Michaels to Be Tried Soon

And no one in the government knew:

Canadian officials are not aware of any new timeline for the trials of two Canadians detained in China, despite reports in China claiming Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig will soon be tried.

In an article published in the Global Times, an English-language paper that effectively functions as a mouthpiece for the Chinese government, a source “close to the matter” is cited saying that the two Canadians have “already been prosecuted.”

“Another source close to the matter told the Global Times previously that due to the COVID-19 epidemic situation, the hearings for both cases have yet to commence, and the court will push forward the trial soon,” the article reads.

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You Must Pass the Bill Before You Read It

It’s that famed Liberal transparency and vigilance I’ve heard so much about:

Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau gave his own cabinet scant minutes to hurriedly review the National Energy Program the very day it was introduced in Parliament, say declassified secret records obtained by Blacklock’s. Cabinet members complained they could not “get an adequate grasp of the details” of the landmark tax plan: “Ministers were generally surprised.”

 

But Pierre wasn’t done with his @$$holery:

Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau proposed to introduce a permanent federal lottery “in support of the Liberal party” but vowed to keep planning low-key, say declassified records. The secret 1980 plan was stymied by an agreement signed by a previous Conservative cabinet: “There did not seem to be a reason for the federal government to avoid acting in this area as a trade-off.”

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Liberals are Very Late Releasing 2021 Budget – Not a Good Sign for Fiscal Conservatives

Canadians can usually expect the federal government to present in February or early March each year, especially after a government has been in power since 2015, but the Liberals are taking their sweet time with the 2021 federal budget.

The next fiscal year starts on April 1 and MPs have been given no indication of what the budget is going to look like, outside of the fact that everyone at this point expects a Liberal government to run a massive deficit, and the longer the time it takes to present the budget the less fiscal restraint is to be expected.

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Trudeau Liberals ‘double down on fake investment,’ say Conservatives

Conservative Party MPs released a statement accusing the Trudeau Liberals of “doubling down” on a fake investment of $30 million to a Nova Scotia PPE manufacturer.

“The simple fact is that no investment exists,” wrote Pierre Paul-Hus, Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Services and Procurement, and Chris d’Entremont, Conservative MP for West Nova.

The statement calls on the Liberals to stop their campaign of “misleading Canadians on their fake investments.”

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