Freeland promises long-awaited deficit update next week

OTTAWA — Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will give Canadians an updated look at the country’s books next week as the government deals with economic headwinds and some big-spending new initiatives.

The finance minister’s long-awaited announcement comes after goading from Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who last week offered Freeland two hours of House of Commons time slated for Conservative motions to deliver the fiscal update.

The fiscal update will take place just two days before the House breaks for Christmas.

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From The Star – A Paid Liberal Party Influencer Operation: Far-right influencers are weaponizing Canada as a warning to Americans!!!

Lauren Southern, aged 29, is nostalgic for the good old days.

In a 17-minute video posted by Tenet Media five months ago titled “My Home Town’s Been Destroyed,” the Canadian-born darling of certain far-right corners of the internet takes viewers to Surrey, B.C., illustrated by soaring drone shots of single family homes backdropped by the Fraser River. Mentally, Southern invites them back to the idyllic mid-1990s when, as she recalls, the famously diverse Vancouver suburb still had immigration, “but you know, we all spoke the language — generally integrated,” she says.

“There were still pockets you could live in, where it was a real community,” she says.


And she’s right. The Star, a paid Liberal Party influencer operation would rather drink poison than admit that of course. Really they’d rather you drink poison than admit they are the “Help” paid to peddle the vicious cons of the LPC.

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WHAT A DUMP: Canadian home prices soar — quality crashes compared to poorest U.S. states

After nearly a decade of Justin Trudeau holding power supported by the NDP, it is revealed that home ownership in Toronto and Vancouver is now more unaffordable than New York, Miami or L.A.

“Canada’s housing prices have risen faster than any other country in the G7 since Justin Trudeau took office,” said federal Conservatives in a recent statement.

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Trudeau’s immigration plan hinges on ‘highly unlikely’ departure of 2.4 million people

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to fix immigration in Canada depends on the biggest exodus of people since at least the 1940s — one that many economists doubt is feasible.

Slamming the brakes on record-setting population growth requires 2.4 million non-permanent residents to leave or change status over the next two years, according to the government’s forecasts, which also see 1.5 million new temporary arrivals during that time.

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Poilievre offers two hours of House time Monday for Freeland to present fall economic statement

 

In absence of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister confirming a date to present a fall economic statement, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is offering to give up two hours of scheduled opposition time next Monday to “tell us how much she’s lost control of the nation’s finances.

Savage.

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John Robson: All I Want for Christmas Is a Capable Canadian Military

In just a few weeks, Santa and his reindeer will cross the North Pole and fly through the Canadian Arctic. And they may well not be alone, though the Canadian Armed Forces proudly tracking the sleigh could easily miss the other stuff. So at the risk of asking that more be loaded into his sack than can reasonably be delivered, I request a working military for Christmas.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Trump’s ’51st state’ comment has Trudeau, premiers running in different directions

Canada as the 51st state? Apparently, that’s what U.S. president-elect Donald Trump suggested at his impromptu dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago last Friday.

When Trudeau said Canada couldn’t stomach 25 per cent tariffs, Trump mused about annexation and suggested that while prime minister is a better title, Trudeau could be governor of this 51st state. Sources told Fox News that another guest then suggested that Canada would be a very liberal state, whereupon Trump offered that Canada could be split into a conservative and a liberal state.

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Federal civil service growing three times as fast as Canada’s population: Report

Since coming to power in 2015 the Trudeau government has been hiring full-time civil servants at triple the rate of Canada’s population growth, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

The fiscally conservative think tank says the number of civil servants has increased by 26.1% from 2015, the year the Trudeau government was elected, up to the fiscal year 2022-23 — the latest data available.

That compares to a 9.1% increase in Canada’s population during that period.

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FREQUENT FLYER: Canada’s climate ambassador defends air travel despite massive carbon footprint

Catherine Stewart, Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change, defended her frequent air travel during testimony at the Commons environment committee, citing efficiency and international obligations.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Stewart, who billed $254,089 in travel expenses during her first two years on the job, said flying often “makes more sense” than using alternatives like trains or videoconferencing.

h/t Mauser

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Millennials helped elect Trudeau in 2015. Nearly a decade later, they’re turning to the Conservatives

Back in 2015, Cisco Armstrong was so inspired by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau that nothing was going to stop him from voting in the federal election.

He and his now wife were going abroad and would miss the election, so they voted early to make sure they could register their support for Mr. Trudeau. “He symbolized progress,” says Mr. Armstrong, who is now 35 and lives outside Sherbrooke. “It was inspiring to vote for change.”

The madness of crowds.

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The Road Ahead for America and Canada

Under the Trudeau regime, Canada and the U.S. may have been working at cross purposes but that will not be the case after Canada has elected a Conservative government.

When Justin Trudeau was first elected prime minister of Canada in 2015, it was partly because of the sort of empty bombast that had helped get Barak Obama first elected president in 2008. Obama had promised “Hope and Change” while Trudeau promised “Sunny Ways.” By the time Trudeau was first elected, America had already soured on Obama, among other things because of his abysmal economic management, his divisive rhetoric, and his stoking of racism.

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