STIRLING: ‘Climate Barbie’ and the cost of virtue-signalling

In 2019, Catherine McKenna declared a climate emergency. In a recent Nate Erskine-Smith interview with McKenna, about her new book “Run Like a Girl,” he has a telling sentence that certainly most Western Canadians will “get it in their guts.” At about 30 minutes into the interview, Erskine-Smith recounts several of McKenna’s initiatives, noting that the carbon tax gets the most attention, but she is also responsible for imposing stringent methane rules on agriculture and industry, the Clean Electricity Standard, and the industrial carbon price. BTW, she also introduced the “no more pipelines” Bill C-69 in 2018.

(Incognito)

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GOLDBERG: Smith’s pipeline gambit will force Carney to choose a side

As Canada’s pipeline saga continues, Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t be able to sit on the sidelines much longer.

Here’s what’s happening: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith isn’t waiting around for a private sector proponent to come forward with a proposal to build a pipeline to bring Alberta oil to British Columbia’s northwest coast.

(Incognito)

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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

 

China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), that country’s ambassador says.

“If Canada removes the unilateral unjustified tariffs on Chinese products, China will also reciprocate accordingly,” Wang Di said through a translator in an exclusive interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “And if the EV tariffs are removed, then China will also remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada.”


I would not be surprised if Carney plays the China card.

Canada is deeply corrupted by Communist China and defiance of the US will create opportunity for Carney’s carpetbagger pals.

The Elbow people will be in 7th Heaven.

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What’s missing from the deficit debate? Any plan to eliminate it

When Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne appeared before the House of Commons finance committee this week, Conservative MP Pat Kelly attempted to corner him with a complicated question disguised as a simple one.

“Minister, what year will the budget be balanced?” Kelly asked.

Champagne spoke a few dozen words in response, but failed to answer, so Kelly tried again. And then again. The discussion devolved into a debate about the existential nature of an answer.


Should be a fun budget.

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WTF?

h/t Patti Jo

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How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong

Between 2021 and 2024, the United States had the highest level of immigration in its history.

That was the conclusion of a New York Times analysis published in late 2024. It estimated that over the four years of President Joe Biden’s administration, about eight million people had immigrated. This movement of people, powered by asylum claimants crossing the Mexican border, represented, said the Times, “a faster pace of arrivals than during any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island, when millions of Europeans came to the United States.”

“Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850.”

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Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent

The Liberal government will begin rolling out a long-awaited automatic tax filing system for low- income Canadians and make the national school food program permanent in advance of a federal budget that the prime minister is promising will lay the groundwork to support the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the measures at a news conference Friday in his home riding of Nepean, Ont., where he also promised to extend the Canada Strong Pass over the holiday season and the summer of 2026.

“In the budget, we will have to make responsible and pragmatic choices, and, yes, difficult decisions,” Carney said.


He spends then talks about cutting spending.

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On Which Side of History Will You Stand? A Former Mountie’s Challenge to Canada’s Lawmakers

OTTAWA — When we held the press conference unveiling Canada Under Siege: How P.E.I. Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party, we did much more than launch a book. We set down a marker: Canada has entered a new era of contestation — over influence, sovereignty, and the integrity of its democratic institutions.

Now, the question we pose to every political actor — federal, provincial, and municipal — is this: On which side of history will you stand?

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Inspections of temporary foreign worker employers in Canada have plummeted — despite a surge of workers

The number of inspections of employers hiring temporary foreign workers has plummeted over the past five years — with most conducted without inspectors ever setting foot on worksites — even as the number of migrant workers and reports of abuse have surged, according to government data obtained by the Star.

Annual inspections fell 57 per cent, from 3,365 in 2020 to 1,435 in 2024, according to Employment and Social Development Canada, the department that oversees the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program.


The Liberals always find new ways to grift.

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John Carpay: If These 3 Bills Pass, Canada Could Be a Police State by Christmas

Canada will be a police state by Christmas if Parliament passes Bills C-2, C-8, and C-9 in their current form, and even more so if the federal government reintroduces the former Bill C-63.

If Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, had become law prior to the April 2025 election, it would have given new censorship powers to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, with penalties up to $50,000, plus up to $20,000 payable to complainants, for offensive but non-criminal speech. A new army of bureaucrats working for the newly created Digital Safety Commission would now be enforcing censorship regulations passed by the federal cabinet. Canadians could be punished pre-emptively with house arrest, ankle bracelets, and curfews for speech crimes they might commit in the future. The maximum penalty for speech crimes would be life imprisonment.

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Pressure Mounts for Release of Long-Buried PEI Report on Buddhist Land Transactions, Amid Broader Calls for Federal Inquiry

OTTAWA — The authors of a new book, Canada Under Siege, allege that a religious group linked to the Chinese Communist Party has been involved in a pattern of suspicious land transactions across Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province, which they say is increasingly a flashpoint for questions about national security, land control, and transparency.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Ottawa admits EV charging plan is falling far short despite billions spent

Ottawa’s billion-dollar push to build electric vehicle chargers has sputtered, with only a fraction of promised stations built and no proof the project will actually cut emissions, according to a new federal audit.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Natural Resources admitted its Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program, launched in 2019, is far behind schedule and may not deliver meaningful results even if completed.


Yours truly predicted the EV Charger scam would be the next Green-Scam scandal.

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Carney needs half a million workers by 2030 to meet infrastructure goals: report

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans to build housing and infrastructure nationwide are threatened by a potential shortage of construction workers, according to a new report from Deloitte.

The report, released Wednesday, projects that Canada will need to mobilize half a million skilled trade workers by 2030 in order to meet its goals, and as many as 800,000 workers by 2034.

The roughly 410,000 to 520,000 new workers needed to meet construction goals given the current workforce doesn’t factor in 270,000 construction workers expected to retire in the next decade and who will need to be replaced.

This is just a scam to bring in unlimited numbers of unskilled 3rd World migrants and provide our Corporate Kings with more slaves.

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Christine Van Geyn: Beware Mark Carney’s censorship agenda

Mark Carney’s Prime Minister’s Office has become famous — or infamous, depending on your view — for embracing British traditions. The National Post reports that the new PMO expects all documents to use British spelling. Staff are expected to dress in formal business attire. Anecdotally, men are expected to wear black shoes — so standard in London’s financial and political circles that there’s even a saying: “never wear brown in town.”

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