World’s Greatest Statesman Justin Trudeau says Benjamin Netanyahu is blocking two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians because he gets upset when his people are raped & murdered

Justin Trudeau says Benjamin Netanyahu is blocking two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of impeding progress toward a two-state solution between Israel and a Palestinian state, saying Canada “fundamentally” disagrees with his government’s position on achieving peace.

“Canada’s position has always been that the solution to the extraordinarily difficult challenges in the Middle East are a two-state solution, a peaceful, secure democratic Israel alongside a peaceful, secure, democratic Palestinian state,” Trudeau said Friday during a news conference in Nova Scotia.

What a vote whore.

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Ottawa’s $1.7-million subsidy for 10 pasta jobs reveals deep problems in our economy

Last week, the federal government announced a $1.7-million subsidy for a pasta manufacturer in Brampton, Ont., citing the creation of 10 jobs. This may appear insignificant compared with the tens of billions allocated to industries such as electric vehicles, but it highlights just how normalized corporate welfare has become across our economy.

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Canadians Fleeing Toronto & Vancouver Accelerated To A Record Pace: BMO

Canadians fleeing major cities was supposed to be a temporary trend, but it’s accelerating at a breakneck speed. Net interprovincial migration, the balance of people who arrived and left provinces, accelerated in 2023. Economists at BMO are warning this trend was unusually strong in the country’s traditional economic hubs—Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. The bank attributes the unusually rapid flight to a number of reasons, but ultimately the biggest one is affordability. That issue is about to reshape these cities, and Canada’s economy.

I am growing curious about white flight from Toronto. No records are publicly available assuming they even exist.

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Trudeau supports ICJ call for Israel to stop Rafah operation & beseeches Better Angels Of Hamas to lay down their arms at his behest

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports an order from the International Court of Justice for Israel to stop any military campaigns in Rafah.

Hamas should lay down its arms and release the hostages still in the group’s custody, but it’s also time for Israel to stop its military campaign, said Trudeau.

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Trudeau’s promised made-in-Canada vaccine plant hasn’t produced any shots

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a multi-million dollar funding commitment to build a vaccine plant in Montreal to churn out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by the end of 2020.

Four years later, not a single vial of usable vaccine has rolled off the line.

The publicly owned Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) was built quickly on National Research Council-owned land at the site of a former animal vaccines plant, thanks to a cash injection of nearly $130 million from the federal government.

h/t Mauser

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‘It’s not enough’: Israeli official calls on Canada to be a more steadfast ally

I think that ship has sailed Israel. Justin needs the Hamas vote.

OTTAWA — Canada should be a more steadfast ally to Israel, says Ronen Gilor, Israel’s special adviser on Canada.

In an exclusive interview with the Star, Gilor pointed to several points of tension between the two countries, including that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Israeli government in March privately there would be “no more deals” to export Canadian-made light armoured vehicles to Israel despite written assurances that the equipment was not for military use in Gaza.

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Trudeau Thinks 1 In 5 Households Are The One Percent

Canada made yet another material misrepresentation of the facts when pitching higher taxation. After experiencing sharp criticism regarding the data and statements used to justify an increase in capital gains taxation, the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) is doubling down. In a new video delivering the “facts” on the capital gains issue, the party’s leader implies the media’s criticism is geared towards secretly protecting the rich. Of course, this video also uses data with another material misrepresentation. That’s what us normal folks would call “a lie.”

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U.S. senators write to Trudeau asking him to meet 2% GDP defence spending commitment

A bipartisan group of 23 U.S. senators have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging his country to live up to its commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence amid concerns that key members of the NATO alliance are not pulling their weight.

“As we approach the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., we are concerned and profoundly disappointed that Canada’s most recent projection indicated that it will not reach its two percent commitment this decade,” the senators wrote. “In 2029, Canada’s defence spending is estimated to rise to just 1.7 percent, five years after the agreed upon deadline of 2024 and still below the spending baseline.”

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Liberals hammered over auto theft action plan during meeting on public safety and national security

Auto theft remains a front burner issue in Ottawa, days after the federal government unveiled a new action plan to tackle the crisis.

Conservatives attempted to portray the Liberals as soft-on-crime on Thursday before the standing committee on Public Safety and National Security.

“Are they concerned about the victims or are they concerned about the criminals?,” Arnold Viersen (Cons. Peace River-Westlock) asked the committee.

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Trudeau cabinet withholding documents on foreign interference from inquiry

The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating meddling by China and other hostile states in Canadian democracy.

The government is also completely withholding an undisclosed number of cabinet documents, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO), which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Trudeau’s Government keeps Canada 7th in foreign aid spending despite citizens facing growing food insecurity & being unable to rent or buy a home

Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country

This spring’s budget didn’t include a consolidated figure for how much Ottawa plans to spend on aid. Development Minister Ahmed Hussen and his department did not provide a specific number in the immediate wake of the budget either.

OTTAWA – While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world’s richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada’s borders.

Some 19 per cent of Canada’s aid reported to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development last year benefited refugees and Ukrainians within Canada.

“Most Canadians would not think that counts, because when we think of foreign aid we think of something happening in other countries, not costs that we have here,” said Elise Legault, Canada director with the One Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group.

Canada ranks seventh for dollars spent on foreign aid, according to the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries.

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Michael Taube: Liberals fearmonger over abortion rights that Poilievre won’t touch

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are in desperation mode. They’re down by double digits in opinion polls to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives — and, in some recent surveys, by 20 points or more.

Many Canadians are clearly fed up with the prime minister’s mediocre and ineffective leadership. Every tactic this unpopular government has taken to stop the political bleeding has failed miserably, and the latest one could very well be the most desperate measure of them all.

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Douglas Todd: Why the appearance of a B.C. homebuilding boom is deceiving

The Bank of Canada’s decision to hike rates is making it harder for buyers to get mortgages — and builders to afford new projects.

Orange construction cranes pepper the skyline of Metro Vancouver, seemingly more than ever.

Gleaming new condo towers are going up like never before, from North Vancouver to Surrey. House and rental prices are exorbitant. Old houses are being torn down for multi-unit buildings. It all gives the impression the residential construction business is booming.

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Guilbeault and Officials Provide Conflicting Numbers on Carbon Tax Emissions Impact

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told MPs the carbon tax reduced emissions by nearly 3 percent in a given year, while department officials said the figure was closer to 1 percent.

During testimony at the House of Commons environment committee on May 21, Mr. Guilbeault said the price on carbon was responsible for reducing emissions by 5 megatons in 2018, 14 megatons in 2019, 17 megatons in 2020, 18 megatons in 2021, 19 megatons in 2022, and 24 megatons in 2023.

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