After nine excruciating years of arrogant Liberal rule, rays of sunshine are finally peeking through the dark clouds that have been hovering over Canada.
Prime Minister Trudeau, who sniffed at and scorned Canadians while forging ahead with his own detested secretive, destructive, twisted ideological agenda, got another byelection boot, in another supposedly safe Liberal riding.
The Commons committee on national defence plans to investigate the actions of former defence minister Harjit Sajjan, who instructed the military to rescue a group of Afghan Sikhs in 2021, which military sources said undermined the mission of getting Canadians and Afghans linked to Canada out of Kabul.
The Liberals are being engulfed by diaspora politics and the post-nationalist experiment they brought upon Canada.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the final votes in Montreal’s LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection were counted. They revealed that the Bloc Québécois candidate had eked out a narrow victory, wrenching a previously thought safe seat from their Liberal rivals.
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will join the Bloc Québécois in blocking a non-confidence motion next week when the Conservatives attempt to topple the the government.
The planned votes from the Bloc and the New Democrats eliminate the possibility of a snap election next week.
The federal government just announced what it is calling the “boldest mortgage reforms in decades to unlock home ownership for more Canadians.” Unfortunately, there are good reasons to be skeptical that the proposed measures will help anyone buy a first home.
The government is implementing two new measures: increasing the $1-million price cap for insured mortgages to $1.5-million and expanding the eligibility for 30-year amortizations to all first-time homebuyers and all buyers of new builds.
Justin Trudeau won in 2015 because he was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — the most successful political party in the western world.
But Justin Trudeau will lose the next election, so badly that it would embarrass any normal person, becoming the leader of the fourth party in the House of Commons. Trudeau will be obliterated because Canadians now understand that he is not the leader of the Liberal Party, but the leader of a “movement,” as he referred to the party when he became leader.
Jason Kenney, former premier of Alberta and federal immigration minister, said the Trudeau government likely “imagined” it would be “creating a new permanent Liberal voting bloc” by rapidly boosting Canada’s immigration numbers, but instead ended up eroding Canada’s pro-immigration consensus.
It's utterly true Mr. Typist.
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) September 19, 2024
The Liberals are in freefall. With this week’s Bloc Québécois victory in Montreal’s LaSalle—Émard—Verdun byelection, on top of the five-alarm byelection defeat in Toronto—St. Paul’s earlier this summer, Canada’s “natural governing party” returns to Parliament down two longtime urban strongholds.
The evidence, both from polls and reports of private inner-party conversations, is overwhelming that the problem is the prime minister himself. Yet, he refuses to leave and Liberal MPs have few mechanisms—particularly since they rejected the Reform Act at the beginning of this parliamentary session—to get rid of him.
There are a few basic expectations of any federal government: secure the border, nurture trade relationships, keep the federal courts running, maintain and uphold national defence, cultivate economic growth and so on. These are the fundamentals – the responsibilities that a federal government is supposed to have in order – so as to earn the trust to take on ambitious secondary projects. Indeed, when alleged sex offenders (and even those found guilty) are set free because of procedural delays stemming from judicial vacancies, the government has no business – or credibility – announcing plans for a national school lunch program.
Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be appointing uber-elitist and longtime carbon tax supporter Mark Carney as his key economic policy czar. Mr. Trudeau structured Mr. Carney’s appointment — with his myriad of board appointments, private interests, and investments — so that it would not be subject to any conflict of interest rules for public office holders.
Today, the reason for this may have become more apparent.
There’s a widespread view that it wouldn’t be beneficial for the Liberals to change leaders at this time; that a new leader would do just as badly, if not worse, in an election than Justin Trudeau; that Liberal Party members are therefore not acting like cowards in not forcing him out.
Look at the precedents, contend those who subscribe to this line of thinking. John Turner succeeded the highly unpopular Pierre Trudeau in 1984 shortly before an election had to be called, and a debacle ensued; the Liberals were reduced to 40 seats. Kim Campbell became Conservative leader in 1993 replacing the much-loathed Brian Mulroney at the end of his second mandate, and an even worse shellacking followed: the Tories were obliterated, winning only two ridings.
Old political narratives die hard. It often requires ample time in the face of conflicting facts for them to gradually become undone.
One of Canada’s oldest political narratives is that the Liberal Party is the “government party” or the “natural governing party.” According to this long-standing axiom, it’s the only political party capable of commanding broad-based support across different groups and regions.
The federal government will be further limiting the number of international students permitted to enter Canada next year. It’s the government’s latest immigration-related measure to address Canadians’ ongoing housing and affordability concerns.
In 2025, new international student study permits will be reduced by 10 per cent from the 2024 target of 485,000. That will mean 437,000 permits issued next year, with that same target continuing into 2026.
There was, almost in passing, an allusion to reflecting on things. But the word that set the tone for Justin Trudeau’s reaction to yet another gut-punch by-election loss was “continue.”
“We know we have an enormous amount of work to do to regain people’s confidence in Lasalle, and people across the country who are worried by the situation they find themselves in,” the Prime Minister told reporters. “So we have lots of work to do and we’re going to continue to do it.”
For decades, Canada won a deserved reputation as a country with a sensible immigration policy that brought in large numbers of workers, entrepreneurs and innovators. Yet Canada’s current immigration policies do not align with the country’s economic reality or popular opinion.
It fits the Trudeau agenda.
The LPC seek to remake Canada into a balkanized 3rd world shithole they and their crony capitalist welfare cases can exploit at will.
