If there’s one thing Justin Trudeau’s government knows how to do, it’s waste tax dollars. Whether it’s $60 million on the glitchy ArriveCan app, $61,000 on pricey hotel rooms during a two-day anti-poverty summit, or $3 million on a gun buyback program that hasn’t bought a single gun, wasting money is what this government does best.
Right now, my expectations of Trudeau are so low that it’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse.
The federal government’s latest changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program take effect on Thursday.
While the government insists the alterations are designed to reduce Canadian employers’ reliance on the program to fill vacancies, Restaurants Canada is predicting severe consequences.
The agency says there are currently 73,000 openings in the industry, with positions in rural, remote, and tourist regions the hardest to fill.
If restaurants suffer from such razor thin margins why do people keep opening them?
And why should we diminish everyone’s quality of life by importing hordes of cheap labour to support what is obviously a crappy business model.
I have had need to contract a service recently & the sales rep plugged me into a “trusted” providers system.
Having to contact them myself as time was short a heavily accented script reader tried to sell me a service I did not need and this was after lying about having left a message for me.
If your call centre is located in 3rdWorldIstan I hang up.
I found a local provider who actually speaks English.
h/t DS
Well at least that removes all ambiguity https://t.co/yfVfQzshjL
— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) September 23, 2024
Douglas Todd: Not a word was directed at Ottawa to lower its migration targets, even while mayors are not normally shy about asking senior governments to come to their aid
Hundreds of mayors, councillors and planners from across B.C. showed up this week at the annual conference of the Union of B.C. Municipalities for a keynote session on the housing crisis.
After being informed housing prices in Kamloops are now higher than in Calgary, they heard experts, advocates and development-industry officials talk about the “sacrifices” and “uncomfortable” truths B.C. residents, specifically taxpayers, must face to address unaffordability.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expects Canadians to hand him a fourth term because the Liberal gang has more work to do.
These recent examples expose how some Liberal MPs, above being bothered with pesky things like accountability and ethics, have ‘served’ Canadians.
‘Alarming trend’ of more international students claiming asylum: minister
A “growing number” of international students are claiming asylum in order to stay in Canada after being allowed in on student visas, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says, calling it an “alarming trend.”
Speaking to Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block, Miller said those claimants are using the international student program as a “backdoor entry into Canada,” often to lower their tuition fees, and that universities and colleges must improve their screening and monitoring practices to weed out bad actors.
He said his department is studying the issue and suggested further reforms to the program were being explored.
They want a new Canada, one that doesn’t include Canadians. Someone has to vote for them after all.
The two principal foreign and strategic crises of this year, Ukraine and Israel, the federal government has a defensible record on the first but not on the second. In both cases it appears to be motivated entirely by domestic political equations without a glance at strategic requirements, let alone the course of national honour. For a country where Prime Ministers Chrétien, Harper, and Justin Trudeau have allowed our military capabilities to atrophy so badly that the chief assurance of our national security is to keep the telephone number of the Pentagon constantly at hand when we need the Americans to protect us, this government’s policy toward the Gaza war, in addition to being completely mistaken, is also extremely pompous. (Paul Martin wanted to explore the possibilities of Canada taking responsibility for its own defense, but his government was defeated before he could get to grips with this issue; the fact that he even thought of it should not be forgotten.)
Trudeau has promised to buy fighter jets and subs ‘but there’s not a history of (Canada) taking those actions,’ says retired U.S. Gen. Glen Vanherck
As Canada and the U.S. focused in recent years on the “away game” of fighting terrorism in far-flung nations, Russia and China continued to target North America — and found a continent woefully unprepared for the threat, recently retired generals and other experts warned this week.
A Liberal MP says he was pushed by one of the protesters who have been gathering on Parliament Hill for the first week of the fall sitting.
Several MPs say they have been harassed throughout the week by protesters who have been shouting and calling politicians and their staff “traitors.”
Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed told CBC Radio’s The House that one of the protesters shoved him as he was leaving Parliament Hill earlier this week.
From a downtown Ottawa sidewalk, Kevin Aubin has been watching what he describes as alarming changes in the city’s downtown, several blocks south of Parliament Hill.
The veteran panhandler says that he is seeing an influx of troubling newcomers on Bank Street in Ottawa’s core, a main street similar to downtown areas of Granville Street in Vancouver, Yonge Street in Toronto or Water Street in St. John’s.
Twenty-two years after the federal government first launched its bid to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat to his native Algeria as a terrorist, a court will once again convene to consider the case.
A Federal Court hearing in December will review the “minister’s opinion,” written by an unnamed senior official at Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada, that concluded Harkat posed a serious threat to Canada as a member of the al-Qaida network and should be deported despite holding refugee status in this country.
Heading into the next federal election, it’s important to understand that maintaining and increasing the federal carbon tax (Liberals) or killing it (Conservatives), accounts for only a fraction of the total costs Canadians are paying when it comes to addressing climate change.
“A tough but strong decision.”
“Put our country first.”
“His decision to withdraw from the race was in the best interest of the country.”
“A historic example of a genuine public servant.”
These are the words of a world leader, a former House Speaker, a member of the Republican party and a former president. All of them united in their praise of U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid.
Government MPs presented a motion to study Palestinian statehood at committee, sources say
Liberal MPs presented a motion to study a path toward recognizing Palestinian statehood on Thursday, CBC News has learned.
The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
Back in 2012, when Justin Trudeau was training for a charity boxing match that few people thought he was going to win, he ran into his stepfather, Fred Kemper, who asked Trudeau if he should bet on him.
‘You sure about this?’ Kemper asked.
‘Yeah,’ Trudeau said. ‘I got this.’
