OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent.
Joly is heading to Ivory Coast today before visiting South Africa for two days starting Wednesday.
Her office says the trip to Ivory Coast is aimed at exploring shared counterterrorism priorities and affirming Canada’s ties with both English- and French-speaking countries.
Every year at the Fraser Institute, we calculate the total tax bill — which includes income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, etc. — for the average Canadian family. This year we found the average family paid 43.0 per cent of its annual income in taxes in 2023. That is more than it spent on basic necessities such as food, clothing and housing combined, and significantly higher than the 33.5 per cent it paid in 1961.
Put differently, the average family’s tax bill has increased 2,705 per cent since 1961 — or 180.3 per cent after adjusting for inflation.
The Fraser Institute in The Star? Sign of the End Times!
h/t DS
In the past nine years, perhaps no policy has proven to be as harmful for the Canadian society and its economy than the Trudeau government’s immigration policy.
Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later the accumulative negatives outweigh the positives and the populous becomes agitated seeing the same faces providing the same excuses. American author Mark Twain summed up this phenomenon rather colourfully when he observed, “Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
A man is facing several charges after three officers were injured while assisting sheriffs with an eviction late week in Toronto’s west end, say police.
The incident happened last Friday in the Earlscourt neighbourhood, near Caledonia and Rogers roads.
Toronto police said they were called to that area at around noon for reports of a break-and-enter in progress.
On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody.@TPAReid @TPACallanan pic.twitter.com/ZohXhaYIEk
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) August 17, 2024
Charles Adler, a longtime radio and TV broadcaster, former newspaper columnist and my former colleague, is now Senator Charles Adler. The announcement of Adler’s appointment came from the PMO on Saturday, making it 82 people that Justin Trudeau has now appointed to the chamber of sober second thought.
Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the suspects obtained citizenship and whether any other similarly inclined individuals could be lying in wait.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that departments are conducting a review of the matter and findings would be shared at the “appropriate moment.”
The Trudeau government has been on the ropes for more than a year. Polls have been abysmal and it appears nothing will turn them around. Changing the leader of the party could improve their fortunes. It worked for the Democratic Party South of the border but Trudeau appears stubbornly unwilling to step aside no matter how unpopular he becomes. The clock’s ticking for the Liberals. Unless Trudeau steps down within the next couple months, they won’t be able to hold a leadership race and have a new leader well enough established to head into an election in less than a year.
The Center for Strategic & International Studies just revealed the enormity of China’s subsidization of its EV industry
Will she or won’t she? Will Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announce tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles this week? If so, will she follow the American lead and tack on a 100% levy on any battery-powered vehicle BYD or Geely might dare to try to import to the United States? Or will ours be a more nuanced — dare I say World Trade Organization-approved — approach like the “variable” tariffs the E.U. are finalizing? The entire Canadian automotive industry awaits her decision with bated breath, with more than $50 billion — the monies promised to Volkswagen, Stellantis, et al to build battery plants here in the Great White Frozen North — hanging in the balance.
What are Trudeau’s China class backers saying?
In the past three decades, especially between 2019 and 2023, the average Canadian family’s tax bill has grown significantly more than what they’ve paid for shelter, food, or clothing.
OTTAWA — Veteran broadcaster and political commentator Charles Adler has been appointed to the Senate.
The newly-appointed representative for Manitoba was announced Saturday, along with Tracy Muggli, a registered social worker and former Liberal party candidate, who will represent Saskatchewan. Both will sit as independent senators, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said in a statement.
This is a new low.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has launched a Francophone Minorities Communities Student Pilot (FMCSP) to encourage even more immigrants to come to Canada.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller this week announced the program, to be launched August 26. Most of the students will come from Africa. People from France are excluded.
In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that systemic discrimination is embedded “in all [of Canada’s] institutions,” following two RCMP officers using force to arrest a First Nations Chief. Four years later, the narrative persists that Canada is a systemically racist country.
Bad government policies force people to make tough decisions.
“We decided to live in our garage.”
That’s what a couple told the Canadian Taxpayers Federation during the recent Debt Clock tour in Alberta.
The drywaller and his wife stopped by to watch the federal debt going up in real-time on the jumbo screen the CTF has bolted to the side of a cube truck, dubbed the Debt Clock.
The Liberals have piloted the Canadian immigration system for nearly a decade, and they’ve only abused their time in the cockpit. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to drive the machine into the ground in just nine years.
It’s a shame, because responsible, orderly immigration has been great for Canada, helping create a growing, wonderfully diverse nation with a quality of life unmatched nearly anywhere else in the world.
