MPs who’ve been looking into Canada’s role in fostering peace in the Middle East will have their work cut out for them as they prepare a final report after a contentious study that saw witnesses shunned and disinvited.
The committee, which is chaired by Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi (Willowdale, Ont.), held four meetings in October and November to look at the ways Canada can advance recognition of a State of Palestine as part of a two-state solution.
It’s been said that “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” By that standard, the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), more commonly known as the green slush fund), is a failure. No one in the Liberal government or the federal bureaucracy even admits to knowing about the widespread misspending of taxpayer dollars – nearly $1 billion – nor the handing out of rich contracts to friends of the fund’s directors and the directors themselves.
Pierre Poilievre stepped into the culture war on Sunday with a video decrying the assaults on Canada’s national culture that have erupted during Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Some of these are the direct fault of that government, such as the new passports that demean and cheapen Canadian heritage.
Welcome to the woke weird wacko world of Justin Trudeau.
Sign here if you want Canada back: https://t.co/Mlman54OiS pic.twitter.com/hbExw0cfy0
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 17, 2024
Many defenders of Canada’s carbon tax insist it’s a great idea but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t explained it properly.
This is utter nonsense.
Trudeau’s real problem is that he has explained it and millions of Canadians are skeptical.
It’s not hard to see why.
Trudeau government to announce GST vacation on certain items before Christmas
The Liberal government and the NDP have agreed to introduce a two-month GST vacation on certain items before the holiday season, Radio-Canada has learned.
The measure is part of a multi-billion-dollar package designed to provide relief to families hit by rising prices. Ottawa also plans to send cheques to some Canadians in the spring.
Sources said the federal government will announce the temporary GST relief Thursday, which should take effect before Christmas. A long list of items are targeted, including certain grocery products on which the federal tax applies, such as beer, wine and prepared hot meals.
Update: Trudeau government announces $250 cheques for some Canadians, plus GST cuts on food, beer, children’s clothes
h/t Mauser
But you’ll have to double down on starving your kids for climate change come the New Year.
Amid the last-ditch effort to reverse the wreckage of his government’s radical immigration policies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a series of restrictionist moves designed to signal to Canadian voters that he has heard their frustrations.
The cost of Canada’s federal bureaucracy has surged by 73% since 2016, reaching $69.5 billion in 2023-24, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO).
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling for urgent measures to curb spending, citing concerns over inefficiencies and escalating costs.
Trudeau’s vote bank.
Throughout the Nova Scotia election, the Progressive Conservatives have tried to capitalize on the unpopularity of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and dissatisfaction with the federal Liberal Party.
PC Leader Tim Houston has repeatedly accused the leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Zach Churchill, of being “beholden” to Trudeau and the federal party.
One region where that tactic could bear fruit for the PCs is southwestern Nova Scotia, where there’s growing concerns and anger about what many people say is an illegal, out-of-season lobster fishery taking place with little response from Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau recorded a long video(opens in a new tab) on the subject of immigration and released it over the weekend. It was a howler.
In it, he blamed Canada’s immigration crisis on: the pandemic, provincial premiers, colleges and universities, “big box stores” (not joking) and, maybe a teeny, tiny bit, his own government.
Not a word about the plan he espoused to bring Canada’s population to 100 million by the end of this century.
… One expected route people appear to be making is asylum claims, a.k.a. refugee claims. Canada saw 133k refugee claims made as of September year to date (YTD), up 38% from last year. More so, 63.9% of those claims were filed at inland offices, meaning those making a claim were already in the country. Inland filings hover around 50% of total annual claims in previous years, so these filings are a large part of the soaring claims.
One segment of temporary residents, international students, saw a big jump recently. According to an analysis in the Globe, about 13.7k of this year’s refugee claims YTD were people on study permits. At 4.5x the average volume seen in prior years, this volume is unheard of in Canada.
Canadian security agencies believe Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India knew about the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia and other violent plots, according to a senior national-security official who worked on the intelligence assessment of New Delhi’s foreign-interference operations in Canada.
The official said Canadian and American intelligence tied the assassination operations to Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah. Also in the loop, the official said, was Mr. Modi’s trusted national-security adviser Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
Why is Trudeau hosting Khalistan extremists in Canada?
Palestinian Canadians have renewed their calls for Canada to take concrete action to get their loved ones out of the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s unrelenting bombardment, slamming a temporary Gaza visa scheme launched earlier this year as a failure.
Omar Omar, a representative of the advocacy group Gazan Families, said on Tuesday that he has been trying to get his relatives out of Gaza for months.
Whirl with me back in time all the way to September 2023, when the federal and Quebec governments announced that they would be partnering with Swedish battery maker Northvolt to plunge headlong into the bright green future. Canada and Quebec would be laying out about $2.7 billion in capital, and more in downstream subsidies, to facilitate the construction of a vast, hypermodern battery plant in the province’s hinterland to help meet the world’s unlimited appetite for electric vehicles, creating thousands of jobs and contributing to global environmental health. “It’s a win-win-win — for workers, for communities, and for the environment,” trumpeted the prime minister. What could go wrong?
Yazidi victims of ISIS and the long wait for justice
… For many Yazidis, justice means prosecuting ISIS members for what they did in Syria and Iraq, but such cases remain rare in Canada.
Only three of the nine ISIS women who have returned to Canada from Syria face any criminal charges. None of the four women now living disconcertingly close to Bashar in Alberta have been charged.
And while the government has been bringing home Canadians who were in ISIS, it has not yet allowed Bashar’s youngest daughter Wafaa, who survived years as a slave to ISIS men, to join them in Calgary.
Migration has spiralled under his leadership, and the political backlash has been immense
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced his Liberal government was going to cut immigration levels for the first time in years. The number of permanent residents in 2025 will decrease from a previously announced target of 500,000 to 395,000, or 21 percent.
What caused this abrupt shift? Trudeau said in an Oct. 24 press conference that Ottawa “didn’t get the balance quite right” in the post-pandemic period with respect to significant labour shortages. Hence, the government’s decision to “pause population growth” would help adjust this economic deficiency.
Hold on. The Left-wing Canadian PM actually did something right for a change? It’s a miracle! Hallelujah!
