The “demographic shock” of mass immigration is aggravating Canada’s affordable housing problem, the National Bank of Canada says in a new report.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
GUNTER: Canadians living the low life

Canadians’ standard of living has declined to a level not seen for nearly 40 years. The average Canadian is now only as well off as when another Trudeau was in the prime minister’s office.
The last time our standard of living was this low, the top movies were Footloose, Terminator and Ghostbusters and the top pop hits were “When Doves Cry,” “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Karma Chameleon.” (Remember Boy George?)
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s pledge of open access to government information lies in ruins

Among all of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, the most cynical has been the abandonment of his pledge in the 2015 election campaign that brought him to power, to deliver open and transparent government to Canadians.
“Government data and information should be open by default in formats that are modern and easy to use,” the Liberals promised in 2015.
Trudeau lies out of both sides of his mouth on mass immigration scam

Canada Needs Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants While Speeding Up Deportations, Trudeau says
There needs to be a path to citizenship for undocumented Canadian immigrants, while in other cases deportation proceedings must be “accelerated,” says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“There needs to be … a pathway towards regularization and citizenship which I know [Immigration Minister Mark Miller] is working on. In some cases we need to accelerate deportation proceedings,” Mr. Trudeau said during a press conference on May 17.
“There’s a balance in making sure that the integrity of our immigration system holds.”
That lying prick is destroying Canada through his mass immigration scam.
Trudeau wrecks country screams ‘ABORTION’ in hope you don’t notice
Chris Selley: Trudeau’s abortion shtick reaches new lows
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States,” the Toronto Star reported this week. I was disbelieving. Even by the standards of Trudeauvian hyperbole and Canada’s kabuki abortion politics, that would be a hall-of-fame howler.
Kielburger Mom’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Canadaland to Go to Trial

A defamation lawsuit filed by the mother of Marc and Craig Kielburger against the Canadaland podcast and its host will head to trial after an Ontario court rejected an application to have it thrown out, finding there is reason to believe the claim has “substantial merit.”
Canadaland, its host Jesse Brown and others involved in the podcast had sought to have the lawsuit—which centres on an August 2021 episode about the Kielburger-founded WE Organization—dismissed under legislation meant to protect people from litigation intended to silence critics or public debate.
Why Affordable Housing Policies Have Failed

Canada now plays host to 807,750 foreign students, 770,000 temporary workers, and 500,000 new immigrants being admitted annually. As a group, they represent mass immigration. Most of these people settle and are concentrated in a few parts of Canada, nowhere more so than southern Ontario and southern BC. Their numbers are rising annually and the 500,000 new immigrants drove our population over 40 million this year. We have the fastest growing population in the Group of Seven (G7). Since 2002, immigration, excluding students and temporary workers, has totalled 5.9 million.
Pat King boasted on social media about ‘Freedom Convoy’ jamming roads, court hears

OTTAWA – “Freedom Convoy” organizer Pat King boasted about his role in gridlocking downtown Ottawa and directed protesters to honk their horns in contravention of a court order in a series of videos published on social media during the events.
Those videos were tendered as evidence in his criminal trial Thursday.
King pleaded not guilty to nine charges related to his role in the protest, including a number of allegations that he counselled others to break the law by breaking a court order, with those individuals then committing mischief and intimidation.
GREEN: Canada accelerating EV ‘investments’ as automakers reverse course

Even as the much-vaunted electric vehicle (EV) transition slams into stiff headwinds, the Trudeau government and Ontario’s Ford government will pour another $5 billion in subsidies into Honda, which plans to build an EV battery plant and manufacture EVs in Ontario.
Canadian Intelligence Flags 2 Canada-Based Media as Being Close to the CCP

Two Ontario-based Chinese media outlets that had published information aimed at former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu weeks before the 2021 federal election have been identified in the foreign interference inquiry report as having “close links” to the Beijing regime.
“Canadian intelligence holdings identify both 105.9 Yes My Radio and CGCTV as having close links to the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government or PRC state-media,” stated the interim report published by the foreign interference commission on May 3.
Oh, Canada!? Justin Trudeau Is The Joke, And Taxpayers Are The Punchline In Cringe Star Wars Skit

When the going gets tough, the tough (and also the Canadian prime minister) get going… straight to social media, to humiliate themselves. Chris Graham suggests you sit down before you dive in because the joke, ultimately, is on the long-suffering taxpayers of Canada.
Chris Alexander: I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues
In March, the Globe and Mail reported that Canada’s population had grown by 1.3 million in 2023—the largest annual increase on record.
This surge was driven by higher numbers of immigrants, international students, temporary foreign workers, and asylum claimants.
Given that the 2021 census showed that 8.3 million Canadians, or 23 percent of our population, had an immigrant background, this latest increase means that, in a Canada of over 40 million people, one in four of us is a temporary or permanent resident, or was born abroad. This proportion of newcomers is the highest since Confederation, beating the previous record of 22.3 percent set in 1921. By comparison, the immigrant share of the U.S. population is today about 14 percent.
NBF: “Canada: Population growth accelerates in 2024” pic.twitter.com/Yaw3G5qKwO
— Scott Barlow (@SBarlow_ROB) May 16, 2024
More … Immigration to Canada surges in April, worsening outlook for housing affordability
William Watson: We need a ‘That’s enough, thank you!’ federal political party

I was struck by some numbers in Robert Lyman’s column in FP Comment yesterday on the costs of net-zero climate policies. The costs he talked about were impressive enough: the units they come in are years’ worth of GDP. But what impressed me almost even more was that, according to a compilation by Navius Research for the Canadian Climate Institute, there are, as Lyman wrote, no fewer than 112 federal and 364 provincial and territorial programs addressed at various aspects of climate change. That’s almost 500 in total.
A Desperate Justin Trudeau Waves The Dead Baby Flag

Justin Trudeau says Canada’s conservative leaders threaten abortion rights
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States.
In some of his starkest comments to date, Trudeau teed off in New Brunswick against federal and provincial conservative politicians, including Premier Blaine Higgs, who he said do not support a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
Newly released figures put Canada’s cost of attending climate summit at nearly $3M

Newly released figures have more than doubled what the government spent to attend a high-profile UN climate change summit last year.
And, according to information sourced online, COP28’s Canada pavilion featured a four-minute climate change hip-hop set by Baba Brinkman, a Canadian rapper and playwright known for rapping about science, literature and environmental issues, and is also the son of former federal fisheries minister Joyce Murray.
