Tasha Kheiriddin: Trump election threatens to upend Liberal policy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals may be anxious about the rise of Pierre Poilievre, but their real problem isn’t the Conservative leader. It’s Donald Trump.

With the former president returning to the White House in January, Trudeau faces a rapid dismantling of his progressive agenda at the hands of Trump’s new administration. From immigration to the environment, trade to health care, Trump’s bro-heavy cabinet is poised to upend American policy — and, by extension, rip up Canada’s, before the Conservatives even get the chance.

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Trudeau Stronghold of Toronto was the child poverty capital of Canada in 2022, new report says

Toronto: Challenge accepted!

Toronto had the highest poverty rate of any city or municipality in Canada with a population over 500,000 people in 2022, a new report says.

The report, authored by national anti-poverty group Campaign 2000 and Social Planning Toronto, found the city’s child poverty rate jumped from 16.8 per cent to 25.3 per cent between 2020 and 2022.

“Toronto has the unfortunate distinction of being the child poverty capital of Canada,” the report reads.

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New survey finds Canadians are feeling anxious about Trudeau’s nation destroying replacement immigration scam

New survey finds Canadians are feeling anxious about immigration

Canadians are feeling increasingly uneasy about immigration and its role in generating “economic strain,” according to a new survey conducted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Among other things, the survey found that many Canadians believe too much attention is being focused on newcomers and refugees, and that asylum seekers receive too many benefits.

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Cabinet minister’s Cree great-grandmother claims were untrue, records show

OTTAWA — For years, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault spoke in Parliament and at public events of his great-grandmother as “a full-blooded Cree woman,” sometimes called “Lucy Brown Eyes.”

Now, facing scrutiny over shifting statements he made about his connections to Indigenous ancestry and, presented with records suggesting otherwise, Boissonnault’s office acknowledges that this was not true and his adoptive great-grandmother’s family in fact had Metis lineage, and she was not “full-blooded Cree.”

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The Precarious Future of Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau became a national figure on Oct. 3, 2000. While delivering the eulogy at the state funeral for his father, Pierre Trudeau, the 29-year-old became the heir apparent for the future of the Liberal Party.

“Friends, Romans, countrymen,” he began, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The very words convey so many things to so many people. Statesman, intellectual, professor, adversary, outdoorsman, lawyer, journalist, author, prime minister. But more than anything, to me, he was dad.” His father was perhaps the most controversial, and consequential, prime minister in Canadian history. He ended the eulogy by saying: “But this is not the end. He left politics in ’84 …. But he won’t be coming back anymore. It’s all up to us, all of us, now.”

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Ottawa ‘unlikely’ to see profit from Trans Mountain sale, budget watchdog tells committee

OTTAWA — Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said on Monday Ottawa is likely to lose money on its eventual sale of the Trans Mountain pipeline, after shelling out more than $34 billion to complete the project.

Giroux told members of a House of Commons committee studying the matter that federal officials will be hard-pressed to find a private buyer willing to pay a premium for the pipeline, which has been operational since May, even under an optimistic scenario where foreign demand for Canadian oil stays high.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau gov’t tripled spending on Indigenous issues to $32B annually in decade, report says

While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.

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Kelly McParland: Of the long list of Liberal blunders, immigration takes the cake

In a contest for which liberal-minded policy project has gone most disastrously wrong, there would have to be big money on immigration.

There are rivals, of course. The massive debts racked up to finance heavy spending on well-meaning initiatives is one, but voters don’t care much about debt until it sparks a crisis. The climate war is another, except most people view it as a worthy goal, they just don’t want to pay for it.

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Migrants receive gold-plated benefits — Ottawa pivots on immigration

According to a government document circulated online on Monday, people seeking asylum in Canada can receive $224 per day to cover housing and food while waiting for application processing — that’s $81,760 per year.

Claimants in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) operated hotels, regardless of how they enter Canada, are provided with accommodations and meals once they are relocated, says the document dated March 14, noting the average cost per room across all sites is $140 per night. The average cost per day for meals is $84.

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Painting Tories as ‘Trump-lite’ not a winning strategy for Liberals post-U.S. election, say strategists

Liberal MPs need to stop comparing Canada’s Conservatives to Donald Trump’s Republicans as that strategy is losing its persuasive power following the U.S. presidential election, say observers.

Former Liberal staffer Olivier Cullen was among several strategists who advised the Liberal government to avoid such language.

“Positioning yourself as running against Trump-lite may not be the best approach,” he said.

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More than half of Canadians say Trudeau should be replaced as Liberal Party leader, poll shows

A new poll shows a majority of Canadians say the Liberal Party should be led by someone other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the next election, with only 24 per cent saying he should stay on.

The Nanos Research survey conducted for The Globe and Mail asked whether Mr. Trudeau should lead the Liberals in the next election or whether the party should choose someone else.

Fifty-seven per cent said someone else should be leader. Fifteen per cent said they had no preference, and 4 per cent said they were unsure.


He’s not going to leave of his own volition.

He really thinks he can just post a video blaming everyone but himself for all the ills he has visited upon Canadians and voila he’ll be back in our good graces.

Yes he is that delusional.

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Trudeau’s replacement migrants plan one-day strike Dec. 18

Immigrants sick of being scapegoated plan one-day strike Dec. 18

This year “we’ve seen an aggressive shift against the temporary migrant in Canada, whether student, refugee, temporary worker, with numerous migration restrictions from one day to the next that are creating greater precariousness for migrant workers,” Immigrant Workers Centre organizer Hector Salamanca told reporters.

The Grift is over.

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Canada’s Crickets-for-Food Schemes Are Turning Out To Be a Bust for Climate Crusaders

Canada’s multimillion-dollar factory to farm crickets is falling silent amid layoffs. Once dismissed as a “right-wing conspiracy theory,” harvesting insects for human consumption is an emerging policy goal for the worldwide left. Without an understanding of the market, though, such schemes will be a breakfast boondoggle.

“In matters of taste,” a quote attributed to various retail pioneers goes, “the customer is always right.” The first half of the slogan has fallen away in the century since it emerged, truncated to “the customer is always right.” On the matter of serving bugs, the entire phrase is being ignored by those who think they know better.

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