Conservatives have postponed a series of announcements for tmrw b/c there is talk of something big on the Liberal side happening.
Liberal staff have been told to show up in person.
Does Justin Trudeau resign tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/19hm1aQPcw
— HoCStaffer (@HoCStaffer) January 5, 2025
Consensus leans to a prorogue of parliament followed by the punk’s resignation which buys the Liberals time to pick a new leader.
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces he will step down when Liberals meet for a special caucus meeting this coming week, it could trigger another cabinet shuffle, say senior Liberal sources.
A top Liberal told The Hill Times that only two people, including Prime Minister Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), are aware of whether he intends to stay or leave. When asked if the second person is the PMO’s chief of staff Katie Telford, the top Liberal responded, “That’s a fair assumption.”
It is not uncommon for incumbent prime ministers to keep their exit plans confidential until the last minute to maintain control of the government and the narrative. Once this information becomes public, they lose control of the government immediately.
In Canada, 2024 may eventually be remembered as the year of Milton Friedman’s revenge. Late in his life, the American sage of free markets said on a couple of different occasions that immigration was good, and the mass immigration to the New World of the early 20th century was especially good, but that radically open borders are incompatible with large contemporary welfare states. This may strike many as an uncontroversial claim, but Friedman has never been totally forgiven by radical open-borders libertarians who otherwise venerate him.
We need mass deportations of illegals and remigration of asylum seekers and Islamists.
The Canada Revenue Agency has waived nearly $2.5-billion in interest and penalties related to Ottawa’s tax on vacant and underused homes held by foreign owners, a figure that dwarfs the projected annual revenue of the new levy.
The underused housing tax (UHT), which took effect in 2022, imposes an annual tax of 1 per cent per year on residential properties owned by foreign nationals that are left underused or vacant, with the aim of boosting housing availability. But the levy’s complex reporting requirements initially also embroiled many Canadians, leading the CRA to repeatedly provide relief for late filers. The government eventually largely scrapped filing obligations for Canadian homeowners and corporations starting with the 2023 tax year.
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was back at work Friday but said nothing about his political future as MPs met behind closed doors to hash out what kind of pressure they could exert to force him to declare whether he’ll stay or go.
His caucus is frustrated by the silence. Regional caucus chairs met late in the day, and three MPs said that a national caucus meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, where they want Mr. Trudeau to reveal his decision. The Globe and Mail is not naming the MPs because they were not publicly authorized to disclose internal caucus discussions.
When it comes to political messaging, one rule is paramount: adapt or fade into irrelevance.
This week, we witnessed a striking contrast between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre’s media strategies, offering a masterclass in what to do – and what not to do – when it come to engaging with modern audiences.
Let’s start with Trudeau.
On Dec. 30, I got word that Mark Carney, a fellow who had occupied an uncertain role in momentous events for the past few weeks, had published a year-end op-ed over in the inferior national newspaper. I started hearing about Carney’s piece right away from wiseacre friends, ones who probably don’t realize how any writer shudders a little at such catcalling. (“What are they saying about me out of earshot?”) One of them called it a “perfect, featureless cube of unmeaning,” and another compared it to an “odourless, impenetrable vapour cloud.” I actually ended up setting aside Carney’s op-ed, saving it for a couple of days as a little treat.
You know things are bad in Canada when the country can’t even bring itself to deport what are obviously fake refugees.
This was the development earlier in December, when a federal judge decided last month to call off the deportation of an Eritrean family who claimed asylum status in Canada — despite already being citizens of Sweden. The judge did so because she figured the family’s children would suffer “irreparable harm” if they were made to move during the school year.
One thing has become clearer over this holiday season. Canada’s current political crisis presents a disturbing parallel to the erosion of democratic norms, typically associated with authoritarian regimes. As Chrystia Freeland’s resignation letter pointedly noted, “a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence.”
Yet the stark reality is that neither she nor an increasing number of Liberal MPs believe this government maintains the moral authority to govern.
To read the multitude of articles written by big-shot Liberals, fans of Justin, former fans of Justin, enemies of Poilievre, and a whole bunch of others who are just beginning to read the room, all that needs to be done is replace Trudeau with a new Liberal Party leader and the world will be A-OK once again.
A sleeper election issue is our sinking dollar, which fell this past year by nine per cent against the U.S. dollar, reaching its lowest level since April 2003. It now takes $1.44 in Canadian dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Flipping it over, $1 Canadian dollar costs just 69.4 U.S. cents.
OTTAWA – Canada will not accept new parent and grandparent permanent residency sponsorship applications until further notice, according to a ministerial directive.
The directive published in the Canada Gazette states the government remains committed to family reunification but will focus on processing applications received last year.
According to the directive, it’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s opinion that this will “best support” the government’s goals around immigration and family reunification.
Just another cog in the great replacement scheme.
Enough of the parlour games, enough trying to figure out how the Liberals can win back voter support.
It’s over for the Liberals, their time is up, and Justin Trudeau needs to call an election, take his shellacking and let his party begin rebuilding without him.
The chorus of Liberals demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation has swollen to the point that it’s now fair to ask just who the prime minister thinks he’s still leading.
Days after the Ontario caucus — the country’s biggest by far, with 75 members — concluded it was time for Trudeau to step aside, Atlantic Liberals sent a letter to the prime minister indicating that “time is of the essence, and our caucus is of the view that it is not tenable for you to remain as leader.”
OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is seriously thinking about running for the Liberal leadership if Justin Trudeau resigns, a source close to him says, as the government grapples with uncertainty over the prime minister’s future in the face of the threat of American tariffs and a snap federal election.
A source with direct knowledge of Carney’s thinking told the Star on Friday that the former central banker in Canada and the United Kingdom has been taking and placing calls with dozens of Liberals MPs and political organizers in the days since Chrystia Freeland’s shock resignation as finance minister rocked the Liberal government and preceded the greatest wave of calls so far for Trudeau to leave.
