The Liberal government’s recent internal budget cutting exercise at the Department of National Defence (DND) has deprived the army’s system for maintaining equipment and vehicles of up to $150 million, CBC News has learned.
And when the preservation of older systems — the kind that might have to be pressed into service during an emergency — is factored in, the funding gap grows to $260 million, the army acknowledged in a written statement.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a tear. This week he trotted out the b-word — “baloney” — to describe Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for tariffs on cheap Chinese-made EVs threatening to flood the Canadian market and demolish domestic manufacturing. In May, the U.S. hiked its tariffs to 100 per cent from 25 per cent, while the EU has set tariffs north of 38 per cent. The Canadian government just wrapped a 30-day consultation on the issue, with a decision expected soon.
The latest Canadian public opinion poll suggests there has been no impact from the seismic events taking place in U.S. politics and that the excitement generated by Kamala Harris has not rubbed off on voters north of the border.
Rather than any ripple effects reinvigorating Liberal support, the latest Abacus Data poll indicates the Conservatives are consolidating their 20-point lead , with the size of the party’s accessible voter pool increasing and leader Pierre Poilievre’s approval rating hitting new highs. As Abacus’ David Coletto and I discussed in June , 20-point comeback election wins are as rare as world-class Australian break-dancers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants you to know that his government is taking the case of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi very seriously. In case you’ve missed the news, Eldidi is the father part of the father-son duo facing charges after their arrest two weeks ago for what authorities said was a terror plot.
OTTAWA – As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to make his case that fighting climate change and tackling affordability go hand in hand, the government’s own public opinion research suggests Canadians are worried about how much the transition away from fossil fuels will cost them.
Two recently published reports commissioned by Natural Resources Canada earlier this year explore how Canadians feel about the clean energy shift, as well as their attitudes towards zero-emission vehicles.
WASHINGTON/TORONTO, Aug 12 (Reuters) – As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations.
Even so, Bains said she was shocked when four men came to her office in August last year, shortly after California adopted her resolution declaring the killing of thousands of Sikhs in India in 1984 a genocide. The men, who appeared to be of Indian origin, warned they would “do whatever it takes to go after you,” Bains said.
Canada is broken.
We’ve heard that a lot from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre followed by a list of things that are broken: the carbon tax, grocery prices, housing, addiction treatment programs etc., etc. You’d think that we were a failed state.
It sounds a lot like former U.S. president Donald Trump, who forecasts doom and gloom whenever he gets a chance; a third World War, a depression, people flooding into the country from insane asylums. The list goes on and on and of course, only he can fix it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be suffering from cognitive dissonance as he assumed the role of cheerleader-in-chief on Monday at an investment announcement in Ontario.
Canadians need to do a better job of cheering for the country and its achievements, he said in a high-energy, effusive, almost breathless speech.
h/t DS
Trudeau calls Poilievre’s stance on Chinese EV tariffs ‘baloney’
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau took aim at federal Conservatives on Monday, accusing leader Pierre Poilievre of not supporting investments in the electric vehicle sector.
Trudeau was attending a funding announcement at Goodyear’s tire plant in Napanee, Ont. Goodyear Canada announced it is investing $575 million to expand and modernize the plant with the goal of making it net-zero in less than two decades. The federal government is contributing $44.3 million, while Ontario’s government is kicking in another $20 million.
Trudeau said the plant’s increased capacity will include tires made specifically for electric vehicles.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is taking an internal review into the immigration and screening of a father and son recently charged in connection to an alleged foiled Toronto terror plot “extremely seriously.”
“This is obviously a very serious situation that the Minister of Public Safety is ensuring there [is] a full follow up and understanding on exactly how this happened. I know investigations are ongoing,” Trudeau told reporters on Monday.
The Trudeau government has neglected the country’s military, but its immigration policies, and student visa system, represent another serious security lapse.
“As we have all observed, our current government has not been heeding national security advice and has not been vigilant on these issues over the past nine years,” said former Conservative immigration minister Chris Alexander, in an interview with blogger Brad Salzberg.
Two men convicted of mischief at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade are to learn their sentences later this month.
On Aug. 2, a jury also found Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert guilty of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and Olienick was convicted of possessing a pipe bomb. But they were acquitted of the more serious charge of conspiring to murder police officers.
In Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench on Monday, Crown prosecutor Steven Johnston and defence lawyer Katherin Beyak agreed the sentencing hearing would begin Aug. 26.
A final report by UN investigator Tomoya Obokata concludes that Canada’s temporary foreign worker program is a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.
Prof. Obokata is the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and a professor of international human-rights law at the the University of York in Britain.
The recently released final report cements Prof. Obokata’s initial impressions, which he first expressed last year after visiting Ottawa, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver on a fact-finding tour.
Trudeau and our so called Captains of Industry are garbage humans, hateful, greed driven pigs.
Together they plotted to import slaves and undermine the economic security of Canadians.
Now we understand why they were so quick to label us “racists” for speaking up in defense of our best interests: Trudeau and his corporate cronies conspired to exploit our poverty for personal gain.
Never have Canadians been faced with so evil a “ruling class.”
It will take years to recover from the economic and social devastation these monsters have caused if it is possible at all.
The chart depicting the rate of domestic violence in Canada from 2009 to 2022 is shaped like a very gentle U. Its lowest point? Somewhere around 2014 to 2016. It’s a problem that’s proven difficult to talk about in Ottawa.
An attempt was made on the last day of July, when the House of Commons Status of Women committee chair, Shelby Kramp-Neuman, convened a meeting on the issue — only for it to end in a meltdown. Kramp-Neuman, a Conservative, had called three witnesses to speak on the matter of violence against women, only to be shut down by Liberal and NDP committee members angered by the ethnic and gender composition of those present, and insisted on discussing abortion instead.
Federally-subsidized activists claim a Christian pro-life group is a “hate movement” and that most haters are white people, namely white boys and men.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) published its blacklist after receiving $640,000 from Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s department and others for “research,” per Blacklock’s Reporter.
It will be so much fun voting Trudeau into oblivion.
