Last week saw a flurry of activity from the Canadian government on national security. First, it announced on June 19 that the IRGC — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — had been formally “listed” as a terrorist entity. Then the Senate approved Bill C-70 calling for the establishment of a foreign agent registry.
New Democrat MP Alexandre Boulerice is outraged that Loblaw Companies and its subsidiaries have received over $10 million in federal subsidies since 2019, while many Canadians struggle to afford groceries.
“Liberals are giving Loblaw millions of dollars in handouts,” Boulerice said in the Commons.
“While ordinary folks are going hungry, CEOs are getting the VIP treatment. Enough is enough.”
Steal bread from the mouths of children for 14 years and you too can be rewarded!
The first Liberal MP to publicly call for Justin Trudeau to step aside for a new leader says he thinks the party can still win the next election — as long as it renews itself.
Wayne Long, the MP for Saint John—Rothesay, sent a letter to fellow MPs Friday arguing that the voters are calling for a change of leader, and adding, “I agree.”
At ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France a month ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a warning about the state of democracy.
It was, he said on Juno Beach, “still under threat today, … threatened by aggressors who want to redraw borders. It is threatened by demagogy, misinformation, disinformation, foreign interference.”
With Canadians poised to go to the polls in at least three provincial elections this fall, and a federal vote due next year, concerns about the strength of democracy are being raised on multiple fronts.
Only if Junior remains in power.
I consider this piece a public cry for help.
Some folks on our progressive flank, which is my political habitat, have come to believe that our money is their money. The federal government has been raising spending year after year, believing that big problems can only be solved by big government. As a result, the bureaucracy has swelled by a whopping 40 per cent. This can only be described as irrational exuberance.
Ottawa is still reeling from Thursday’s bombshell allegation that then Liberal defence minister Harjit Sajjan personally directed Canadian special forces to rescue more than 200 Afghan Sikhs during the fall of Kabul in August 2021. It was a directive, according to military sources quoted in the Globe and Mail, that diverted critical resources away from the evacuation of Canadian citizens, translators and other Afghans who’d aided Canada’s two-decade-long war effort in the country.
MONTREAL – Quebec Premier François Legault warned Friday there’s a risk of “overreaction” against newcomers if the province maintains its current immigration levels.
Legault told reporters on the Gaspé Peninsula he doesn’t want to see Quebec end up like the United States or France, where the debate on immigration has fuelled extremist views. Recent data show there’s been an increase of more than 300,000 non-permanent residents in Quebec in the last two years, a number Legault said is more than the province can accommodate.
“There’s a risk of reaction or overreaction in the face of impacts on services, on the French language, on housing,” he said. “We have to be balanced in how many immigrants we take in every year.”
OTTAWA – Hot on the heels of the Conservatives’ stunning byelection victory in the riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s, new seat projection data from Nanos Research show ridings considered previously safe for the Liberals are increasingly up for grabs.
“What we’re seeing is the Liberal fortress Toronto basically under siege,” Nanos said. “So maybe Toronto—St. Paul’s is the canary in the coal mine.”
Work is starting on Canada’s newest warship fleet even though government officials acknowledge they don’t have a final cost for the multi-billion dollar project or a final design.
Defence Minister Bill Blair and Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the head of the Royal Canadian Navy, announced Friday that construction will begin for a test module for the first Canadian Surface Combatant or CSC. Eventually 15 such warships will be produced to replace the current fleet of Halifax-class frigates.
OTTAWA – Liberal MP Wayne Long has become the first member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus to call for his resignation.
Long, a New Brunswick MP, penned an email letter to his caucus colleagues on Friday afternoon saying that after this week’s disastrous byelection loss in Toronto—St. Paul’s, it is time for Trudeau to step down.
Another MP from Newfoundland appeared to support his message.
And …
Liberal MP Chahal among nine MPs demanding ‘immediate’ caucus meeting to discuss ‘extremely concerning’ byelection loss
OTTAWA — First, the Conservatives took Toronto—St.Paul’s. Next, they’re gunning for Mount Royal in Montreal.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is said to be sharpening his knives to take on a Liberal fortress in Quebec’s largest city in the next general election. And after the party’s stunning byelection victory in a formerly safe Liberal seat on Monday, the Conservatives seem more confident than ever.
Hard for me to have sympathy for Housefather. He blocked me on X for pointing out Trudeau was going to admit 5K plus Hamas supporters from Gaza.
The Liberal Party has failed to protect Canada
Did the Chinese Communist Party interfere in the past two Canadian elections? A fantastic series of leaks from Canada’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) over the winter of 2022/23 suggests so. The leaks point to a vast CCP campaign of political interference that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government allegedly covered up. It has been a major scandal: a Liberal MP named Han Dong was forced to resign from his party in the aftermath, and reports suggest that a “network” of two dozen candidates and staffers were affected.
Among the less commented-on results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election was the performance of the People’s Party of Canada, the populist-nationalist party led by former Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier. If you missed it, here it is: they got 234 votes, or 0.63 per cent of the total.
What a disappointment this must be for the PPC, after winning 2.67 per cent of the vote in the riding in the past general election. But it’s in keeping with the trend nationally. In the 2021 election the PPC took nearly 5 per cent of the vote. Nowadays it’s mired in the two-to-three-per-cent range.
Coyne bullshits for a living, but this nonsense is below even his typically low standards.
The mood of Liberals changed abruptly this week, like a switch being flicked.
There were already party apparatchiks and MPs who thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should go, of course. But before Monday’s by-election loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s, there were many who thought Mr. Trudeau was probably better than the alternatives.
He’s a good campaigner, they said. He wins seats in Quebec. Those waiting in the wings might lead the party to oblivion.
Steven Guilbeault has been taking the temperature of the Liberal Party caucus as calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation mount.
The environment minister was in Toronto this week to meet with Members of Parliament who were awestruck by Monday’s upset defeat in the Toronto–St Paul’s byelection. He spent Thursday working the phones with Liberals across the country trying to take stock of how bad things really are.
I know this because Guilbault did some of this work in public, in the Via Rail business lounge, as he sat next to Canada’s least-recognizable columnist: Me.
Let me get this straight. Liberal Minister was unknowingly sitting next to a columnist on a train – was talking trash about Justin Trudeau needing to go and now he’s like “it was taken out of context”
These people will literally sink with the ship. https://t.co/GzX5asGbdK
— Jennifer Elle (@jenniferelle_) June 28, 2024
