LILLEY: Trudeau has broken every aspect of our immigration system

If it wasn’t clear already, this past week showed there isn’t a single facet of the immigration system the Liberals haven’t broken.

A man on a student visa was in court on terrorism charges, a TD bank report showed temporary workers are harming the economy, and the Trudeau government started talking about moving tens of thousands of asylum seekers across the country.

“We could open a hotel in any particular province and ship people there,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller said at the Liberal caucus retreat.

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Cabinet minister tells Liberals to ‘change their attitude’ as MPs return to Commons

A cabinet minister who serves as the federal Liberals’ national campaign co-chair told MPs at the party’s recent caucus retreat that they need to “change their attitudes” if they want to turn around their dismal polling numbers, sources tell CBC News.

More than half-a-dozen Liberal MPs asked CBC News for confidentiality in order to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the recent two-day caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.

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Little-known program dominates Canada’s massive guest-worker scheme

Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.

Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about Ottawa’s international mobility program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.

The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.

It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.

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‘I’m not going anywhere’: Justin Trudeau says he won’t resign if Liberals lose Montreal byelection

OTTAWA — A combative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he’s not going to resign as Liberal leader if his party loses a high-stakes Montreal byelection on Monday, the same day his minority government is slated to return to Parliament without the NDP promising to prop it up.

In an interview on the Montreal radio station CJAD 800, Trudeau said he will stay on regardless of the result in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, a riding held by the Liberals’ former justice minister David Lametti from 2015 until he resigned from federal politics earlier this year.

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Trial of convoy protest leaders concludes

It started more than a year ago, took nearly 50 days in a courtroom and may not be decided until next year, but the trial of two leaders of the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa finally ended Friday.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber pleaded not guilty to mischief, intimidation, obstruction and other charges.

Crown prosecutors called 16 witnesses and presented hours of video evidence and numerous social media posts in an effort to prove their case.

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Trudeau government attempt to quash UNRWA funding review case struck down

OTTAWA — Efforts by the federal government to quash an ongoing court case seeking a judicial review of Canada’s funding of a contentious UN agency were struck down in court this week.

On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Glennys McVeigh dismissed a challenge by the government, who claimed the court had no jurisdiction over the government’s decision to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA,) and that decisions to support international humanitarian causes are made solely by the executive authority of ministers of the Crown.

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Trudeau says Singh, NDP ‘caved’ to political pressure in fight against climate change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the NDP and its leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday, saying that while they may care about the environment, they have “no idea what to do in the fight against climate change.”

At a news conference in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., Trudeau accused the NDP of “playing simple politics” and “walking away from progressive values” after it ended its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals last week.

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Quebec demands Trudeau’s Islamophobia Czar resign

The Legault government is calling for the removal of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia.

The call for Elghawaby to resign was made on Friday by provincial Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry after it was learned Elghawaby had written to Canadian colleges and universities urging them to hire more Muslim, Arab and Palestinian teachers.

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The government’s stance on military exports to Israel is anything but clear-cut

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle.

One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets) are pushing Canada’s response to the ongoing violence in Gaza as a ballot question, Joly proactively used her scrum at the governing caucus’s retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. to rebut claims the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough.

A deliberate incoherence.

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Auditor general considering probe into Indigenous procurement program

Canada’s auditor general is considering a probe into a multi-billion program meant to boost Indigenous business that has been open to abuse for decades.

Following complaints from Indigenous communities and a recent Global News investigation with First Nations University of Canada researchers, Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office confirmed that it is reviewing a request to investigate the Indigenous Business Directory (IBD)

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Lying Liberal reaches new low in playing the race card …

Harjit Sajjan won WW II among other dubious claims

Pierre Poilievre’s nickname for Jagmeet Singh is ‘racist,’ Liberal minister charges

OTTAWA—The Conservatives and Liberals are sparring over an accusation from a Liberal minister that a nickname Pierre Poilievre uses to ridicule NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is racist.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan told the Star in a statement Wednesday that the Conservative leader’s use of “Sellout Singh” to refer to the New Democrat leader is “absolutely offensive” and “racist” because it targets the Sikh community and perpetuates inequality, an allegation the Conservatives reject.

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Canadian Army says new military sleeping bags not suitable for ‘typical Canadian winter’

Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska with the Americans be issued with old, 1960s-vintage bedrolls.

Troops who had used the recently issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS) late last fall in a preparatory exercise found “several critical issues,” according to an internal briefing note obtained by CBC News.


WTF? Made by Liberals?

Meanwhile Queen Justin stays at 5 Star Hotels

h/t Mauser

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Criminal trial for ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers Lich and Barber to end after one year

OTTAWA – Today is expected to mark the end of the criminal trial for two prominent organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protest, more than one year after the proceedings began.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are co-accused of mischief, intimidation and counselling others to break the law, among other charges.

The trial has been legally complicated and burdened with a huge body of evidence that stems from the three-week long demonstration in 2022 that blocked streets and frustrated Ottawa residents.

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Terry Newman: In Gaza terrorists need tunnels, in Canada they simply apply for visas

On Tuesday, Marc Miller — breathless, voice quaking, and noticeably nervous — told reporters, “I’ve been getting questions about an individual that entered Canada and has been arrested in charges related to an attempt to cross the border for a terrorist plot.” He then confirmed that Muhammed Khan is a Pakistani national who was issued a student visa in May 2023, and waltzed into Toronto’s Pearson airport the following month. Miller had the disposition of someone surprised by the news, but he shouldn’t have been. Our student visa program has always been one of the weakest links in Canada’s national security.

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Smith rejects Liberal plan to relocate asylum seekers to Alberta

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has voiced strong opposition to the federal government’s plan to relocate tens of thousands of asylum claimants to the province, citing concerns over a lack of financial support and the strain on public services.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Smith criticized the federal government’s approach, saying, “Alberta’s government is opposed to the federal government’s plan to relocate tens of thousands of asylum claimants to Alberta, especially without any financial assistance to support the province in doing so.”

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