OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s decision to spend billions attracting electric vehicle manufacturing, arguing some recent slowdowns in the market are just bumps along the road.
“Canada has positioned itself to be a leader in the EV industry and we will continue to be because those are where the jobs are going to be, not just a couple of years from now, but a decade from now, a generation from now,” he said Monday.
Trudeau is a genius ya know.
It’s hardly a new development that the Liberal Party is accusing the Conservatives of importing “far-right American-style politics” to Canada. But one gets the sense the accusations have ramped up. Comparing Pierre Poilievre to Donald Trump, calling him a “puppet of the American right” and asserting that Canadian Conservatives are captive to Republican thinking has been central to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s key political message in recent months.
There is no good news for Justin Trudeau in the latest polling of Canadians. Not only has his voter support shrunk to less than a quarter of the population, people don’t believe he has the answers for the problems facing the nation.
(Bloomberg) — It’s getting harder for young Canadians to find a job. A post-pandemic influx of cheap foreign workers in restaurants and retail stores may be making it tougher.
Michelle Eze started actively searching for work around Toronto in October, just as the youth unemployment rate in Canada began to surge. The 22-year-old public-policy graduate sought out teaching and restaurant service jobs to help pay the bills and support her parents, but struck out.
“I was struggling. I was searching on Indeed, looking everywhere, asking friends and like — nothing,” she said. “That was really demoralizing because I had the determination but I was seeing no results.”
The recently appointed chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission says he has agreed to resign today after an investigation into comments he made in the past related to Israel.
The justice minister launched an investigation after Canadian Jewish organizations raised concerns about Birju Dattani’s past activities.
The repeated hiring of antisemitic Muslims will be Trudeau’s legacy.
While Canadians have a more favourable view of former central banker Mark Carney than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, most don’t think adding him to the minority government’s cabinet would help the Liberals’ fortunes, according to a new poll by Nanos Research.
Mr. Carney has been often floated as a potential successor to Mr. Trudeau, should he resign. In the meantime, some Liberals have advocated for him to join the government as finance minister to bolster its economic credentials and the Prime Minister has been openly courting Mr. Carney.
Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds’ office did not provide evidence to support claims that the national school lunch program will save families $800 a year.
Blacklock’s Reporter says advocates warn that achieving the program’s goals would require billions of dollars, not the $200 million currently budgeted annually.
Susan Delacourt: The Liberal caucus is set to meet in a few weeks in Nanaimo, B.C., and while you and I are wary of making predictions, Matt, I’m going to venture one here. The Liberals are going to talk about their “communication problems.” I feel safe making this forecast because it is what Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been saying ever since their fortunes started to slump in the polls. Is that all this is? A failure to communicate?
No one believes a single word they say.
Liberal Jenica Atwin, the New Brunswick MP who was elected as a Green in 2019 and defected to the Liberals in 2021, has asked the government to loosen up its security screening on refugees seeking to leave Gaza and come to Canada.
Oh, yeah. That’s a good idea. Since Hamas controls who enters and also who exits Gaza, there’s no chance they’d take our loosened regulations as an opportunity to smuggle out Hamas operatives under the guise of asylum seekers.
If only the Trudeau Liberals would stop trying to make us into better people.
Thanks to our friends at Blacklock’s Reporter, we are advised this morning that Health Canada has been tasked to research “suggestions for regulatory measures” on alcohol, such as restricting glamorous depictions of drinking in the movies.
Zap. You’re electrified!
Welcome to the mantra of major economies around the world. The fight against climate change demands action. That means more electric vehicles, more carbon capture and global initiatives such as the Green Climate Fund, launched to help developing countries accelerate their energy transition. Here at home, Canada’s action on climate change has focused on carbon pricing, clean electricity, public transportation, energy-efficient buildings and innovation. The Liberal government has also committed billions of dollars to electric-vehicle (EV) projects.
At some future point, historians will need to judge precisely when the free press died in Canada. And while historians are rarely able to identify the exact moment of an institution’s death, this past week is in with a strong shot.
Not that you’d know it. The much-vaunted “free press” certainly isn’t saying much about its own demise. The mighty Parliamentary Press Gallery, a not-infrequent thorn in my side when I was director of communications to Stephen Harper, has been quiet as a mouse. Strike that. The gallery is the dog that isn’t barking.
Fraud in the temporary worker program isn’t the problem. The rules that rig the labour market are
Unemployment has been steadily rising for more than a year, as the Bank of Canada’s anti-inflation campaign weighs down the private sector.
Younger workers and recent permanent immigrants have been particularly hard hit. According to the June Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for both groups has climbed well into double digits.
Meanwhile, the federal government is busy approving record numbers of permits under the low-wage stream of the temporary foreign worker program from companies claiming that they are unable to find Canadians to fill vacancies.
Bastards.
Do you think Pierre is right on this? pic.twitter.com/Xi9VBhF32h
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) August 9, 2024
He’s sounding better.
David Rodriguez says he was abruptly fired from his job after standing up to his abusive employer less than two months after arriving in Toronto from Mexico in 2022 to work as a cook.
The 39-year-old was one of several temporary foreign workers employed at a downtown restaurant, enduring harsh working conditions that he says included aggressive behaviour from the owner and unpaid overtime.
When Rodriguez raised his concerns, his boss fired him on the spot, he says, leaving him unable to find new work, as his status in the country was tied exclusively to his employer.
There is no labour shortage in Canada, there is a surplus of wannabe slave owners eager to abuse the temporary foreign workers program for profit.
Don’t for a minute think that Canada’s business class is above the practice of modern day slavery, they love importing indentured servants.
The latest scam is an active discussion of the need to implement a six day work week as Greece hopes to do.
NEW
Over the past year, Canada gained 575,000 workers (1.2M incl. their families)
but only added 224,000 full-time jobs
causing 226,000 workers to become unemployed, and 121,000 to work part-time pic.twitter.com/cQ9z55I1VV
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) August 9, 2024
Mmmmm …
How would Conservative government deal with hot topic of immigration? https://t.co/dx041Um1XG
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) August 10, 2024
Canadian employment doesn’t look like it moved much, but under the surface was a giant shift. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the number of jobs virtually unchanged in July, growing 1.7% (+345k jobs) over the past year. As a result, the unemployment rate was also flat at 6.4%, adding 0.9 points from last year. Mostly boring until you dive into the details that show the public sector now accounts for most jobs, overseeing 1 in 4 employees in Canada.
