Just when you think the Liberals couldn’t possibly sink to another new low, they rose to bring disgrace upon the House of Commons.
Theoretically non-partisan House Speaker Greg Fergus banned Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre from speaking in the House Tuesday. This stemmed from a Monday exchange Poilievre had with Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly who refused to denounce antisemitic and “genocidal chants from hateful mobs” supporting terrorism.
Let the gravity of that sink in.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says the Liberal government has only days left to secure his party’s support in the House of Commons by agreeing to boost to some pensions and shield supply management from concessions in trade talks.
“The solution is so simple. It is so simple that I do not know what more I could explain,” Blanchet said Wednesday. “They know what we want, they know how to proceed to give, not only us, but all those in Quebec and Canada who want it, they know how to give it,
“They only have to proceed or find themselves another way out of this, but they know how we will behave.”
Video shows Harper saying his warnings about Trudeau ‘have come to pass’
Update: The video was pulled.
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Things went missing in Bill Blair’s office in the spring of 2021. Important things.
Mr. Blair was, after all, the public safety minister, responsible for the intelligence agencies, the RCMP and the border agency, among other things.
Yet a CSIS intelligence note addressed to the minister didn’t make it to Mr. Blair’s eyes. And when CSIS sent a warrant application to the minister’s office seeking to conduct surveillance on an influential Ontario Liberal and former provincial cabinet minister, Michael Chan, it took 54 days before it got to Mr. Blair’s desk.
The federal government is “seriously” considering building the country’s first high-speed rail link between Quebec City and Toronto, says Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.
Ottawa announced plans back in 2021 to build what it called a “high-frequency” (HFR) rail corridor with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Laval and Quebec City. At the time, the government estimated the cost at between $6 billion and $12 billion.
Train wreck ahead. I can’t even imagine the scale of waste and graft that this boondoggle will generate.
When an enormous wildfire roared through Jasper National Park and Jasper townsite in July, the feds wanted very little input from Alberta. Parks Canada asked Alberta, which has a lot of expertise in fighting wildfires, for a bit of help on the ground, but it wouldn’t invite Alberta officials into the integrated command structure.
It’s no secret that politicians often cherry-pick statistics instead of telling the full story when the full story doesn’t look great for them. For example, amid concerns of rising auto theft and crime, the federal Liberals recently highlighted that auto theft is down 17% versus last year. But this statement deserves scrutiny.
Ten years ago, commentators were telling Americans their northern neighbor was a middle-class success story. Now, every province has lower median earnings than every state.
Last month I wrote a post about a comparison of GDP per capita between U.S. states and Canadian provinces. It found that Ontario would be the fifth-poorest U.S. state, Quebec would be second-poorest, and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island would each be the poorest U.S. state, as measured by economic output per person.
“Antisemitic mobs take to the street shouting, ‘From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone.’ … Will the government clearly and unequivocally condemn these genocidal chants from hateful mobs on our streets?”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asked this question of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in the House of Commons on Oct. 7, the first anniversary of the most heinous attack on Jews since the Holocaust. On that day, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, raped and murdered around 1,200 people and kidnapped over 250. Ever since, they have been busy spreading antisemitism, including on the streets of Canada.
A 2021 analysis of China’s foreign interference operations intended to spark discussion among senior government figures did not make it to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or cabinet ministers, the Hogue commission heard Monday.
The report, produced by the Privy Council Office (PCO) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and delivered in January 2022, was stalled for months in the office of Trudeau’s then-national security adviser, Jody Thomas.
The federal government is finally acknowledging that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has been too lenient in issuing visas, and that our asylum system is being abused.
Last month, Immigration Minister Marc Miller admitted that Ottawa needed to do a “stronger job” of preventing people who had been given visitor visas from taking advantage of our overly generous policies. He had previously acknowledged that the immigration system had gotten “out of control” and he’s called overseas police checks “unreliable.” He has also said it was “alarming” that increasing numbers of international students were claiming asylum to stay in Canada, and he has drawn attention to India, “where we are seeing people exploiting the visa system.” India was already the main source country for both permanent and temporary residents in Canada; it is now also a source of migrants who are “not legitimate asylum claimants,” according to Mr. Miller.
Mass immigration = Vote harvesting
The Liberal Party means you harm.
Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. And hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate.
But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?
For the Conservative leader, there seems to be no such thing as overstatement. And he seems to feel it’s almost always worth going on the attack.
I am doubtful of Poilievre on the matter of mass immigration and it is likely I will vote PPC on that issue alone however he reaches Canadians for a very simple reason.
After years of Trudeau’s lies, the scandals, the graft, his lunatic obsession with changing the weather, and of course the destruction of our economic and social stability through his ruinous mass immigration policy Canadians have found a voice speaking in their defence.
Trudeau has never “listened” to Canadians instead he has governed like a high school tyrant, a ‘mean girl’ and a really stupid one at that.
If there is conflict in the land you can trace it back to Trudeau.
Trudeau’s media is resorting to tone policing because Poilievre resonates with Canadians and they fear the loss of press subsidies.
Canada is heading toward another existential crisis as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau desperately clings to power. He’s hobbled his way through governing since 2015, and now he’s been abandoned by his NDP partners, even after promising to fix everyone’s teeth and hand out free prescription drugs.
After NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pulled out of his confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals, Trudeau looked to court the Bloc Québécois, a separatist party led by Yves-François Blanchet.
Fifty-two years too late, Justin Trudeau seems to think a bit of humility might do him good. In an hour-long podcast interview last week with relatively freethinking Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, the prime minister lamented the way he had handled the electoral reform file. He even posted the clip to his social media, with the caption, “If I could have done one thing different, it’d be this.”
