“Canada, you are freeloading!” That’s how businessman and former Canadian soldier Lawrence (Larry) Stevenson interprets last week’s letter from 23 U.S. Democratic and Republican senators to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American lawmakers urged Canada to uphold its NATO commitments, and speed up efforts to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP.
Canada is facing social and economic challenges on every front and mass immigration is one of the prime culprits behind it. With nearly 1.3 million people entering Canada in 2023 alone, the correlation is undeniable.
The Trudeau Liberals’ plan to pick the pockets of Canadians of up to $120 million to give 80 newbie MPs a lifetime pension is unravelling.
The NDP is so disgusted by the shady arrangement to give MPs the sweetheart deal that they want to scrap the proposal put forward by the senior partner in their parliamentary pact.
An attempt by the Liberals to avoid holding the 2025 federal election on a date that conflicts with a religious festival appears set to be overruled by the Opposition, following claims that the new date sets up a financial conflict of interest for MPs first elected in 2019.
The current election law says that unless Parliament is dissolved early, the next federal election “must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election” — Monday, October 20, 2025.
It’s all about the pensions.
Justin Trudeau may be wishing that Stephen Maher, author of a new book on the prime minister, was a faster writer.
The book, titled “The Prince,” is laced with some significant praise for Trudeau but also some unflinching criticism, particularly as the story winds to its conclusion and the tale of the past year or so.
“If I had finished the book when I started it, it would have been more positive and cheerier,” Maher said in an interview with me this week.
On Israel, Justin Trudeau has found himself
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself.
For a while, he was lost. But the Gaza war has given him an issue he can get his teeth into.
For much of the last year, Gaza and the Hamas war were seen in Liberal party circles as problems the prime minister would do well to ignore. That’s because they highlighted the fundamental split over Israel that bedevils the party.
If the government criticized Israel, it was called antisemitic. If it didn’t it was called anti-Islamic.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says comments made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that seemingly suggested immigrants were behind recent attacks on Jewish institutions are “dumb.”
“It’s a dumb thing to say, blaming immigrants. No one was blaming immigrants for the trucker convoy,” Miller said at a press conference in Montreal.
SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) – Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries’ defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.
“I raised the concern of foreign interference in all the manifestations that it might take, including interference in our institutions, including our elections, but also actions of collusion against the Chinese diaspora in Canada, our citizens,” Defence Minister Bill Blair told Reuters, referring to his conversation with Chinese counterpart Dong Jun.
I bet he did.
It can be a bit difficult to keep tabs on the various inquiries and examinations into foreign interference in Canadian elections, particularly by China.
Ottawa’s latest growth industry was largely created by a series of leaks of highly classified intelligence that first appeared in The Globe and Mail, and then Global News, that described attempts by the Chinese government to meddle in the last two elections with the goal of returning the Liberals to power, if again with a minority government.
Have you ever wondered why Canada has been run by Quebecers for most of the past 60 years? The answer begins with a book almost 100 years old.
In his 1928 book Propaganda, the father of public relations Edward Bernays wrote,
“A presidential candidate may be ‘drafted’ in response to ‘overwhelming popular demand,’ but it is well known that his name may be decided upon by half a dozen men sitting around a table in a hotel room.
“In some instances the power of invisible wirepullers is flagrant.”
OTTAWA—The way former Liberal cabinet minister Catherine McKenna sees it, change is coming. Either her party supplies it, or they lose power.
She’s quick to say that doesn’t necessarily mean Justin Trudeau needs to go, though she observes that what’s on offer “clearly” isn’t resonating with voters.
The federal government’s promise to build nearly 3.9 million new homes by 2031 is unrealistic and unachievable, construction experts told MPs.
“Right now, we’re staring into a pit,” Residential Construction Council of Ontario president Richard Lyall told the House of Commons human resources committee this week, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“When cranes come down, they’re not going back up. We’re headed down in a big way and our sub-trade pipelines are dry. It’s drying up.”
Canada’s economy went from boom to bust faster than anyone could anticipate. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows slower-than-expected real gross domestic product (GDP) in Q1 2024, along with a downward revision for the previous report. Combined with the rapid population growth, this has led to a rapid decline in per-capita real GDP. In fact, Canada’s per-capita real GDP rolled back to 2014-levels, indicating the country is facing a lost decade of household progress.
… And while Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau responded to this latest shooting at the Toronto Jewish girl’s school, by referring to the attack as, “a brazen act of antisemitism, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice,” it’s just a bit confusing for those of us who have noticed Trudeau’s proclivity towards the acceptance of Woke ideology, part of which seeks to classify certain ethnicities in the oppressed or oppressor category. Because within that warped concept of reducing individuals into divisions, which represent evil or victimhood, Jews have somehow ended up on the side of those who perpetrate hardship, deprivation and even genocide against Palestinians, perennially seen as the consummate victims.
The question I have these days about Justin Trudeau is not “will he run again?” (which is unknowable at the moment) but “how did he and the Liberals screw things up so badly?” How did they manage to fall from the heights of “sunny ways” back in 2015 to the electoral depths they’re stuck in now?
I read Stephen Maher’s new book, “The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau,” with that in mind, looking for clues as to when and why the wheels came off the Liberal bus.
