India Wouldn’t Let Trudeau’s Plane Land Until He Agreed To Meeting About Harboring Sikh Extremists In Canada

India forced meeting about Sikh activists by keeping Trudeau’s plane in air during 2018 trip

India refused to let Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane land during a visit in 2018 unless he and his defence minister agreed to meet with a government official to air grievances about Sikh separatists in Canada, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a source with direct knowledge.

During the meeting, India’s minister for the Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, handed Mr. Trudeau and then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan a dossier containing the names of about 10 Sikh activists whose activities the Indian government wanted curtailed, the source said.

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Canada’s Captains Of Industry Are Abusing The Temporary Foreign Workers Scam? I Am Shocked!

Fines mounting for violations in Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs

The federal government penalized nearly 200 companies last year for violating the rules of its temporary foreign worker programs, resulting in record fines for infractions such as wage theft and abuse in the workplace.

Ottawa reached 194 decisions against non-compliant employers in 2023 and handed out $2.7-million in penalties, an average of $13,800 per decision, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of figures published by the government. Some employers have also been suspended from hiring temporary labour from outside the country.

But how else will they depress wages?

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Federal government tables bill to create foreign agent registry, changes to CSIS Act

OTTAWA — The federal government tabled a bill on Monday to implement a package of reforms to better combat foreign interference, including the much-awaited foreign agent registry and changes to legislation surrounding Canada’s spy agency.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced An Act Respecting Countering Foreign Interference. The bill was put on the House of Commons’ notice paper in the hours following Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s interim report on foreign interference.

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‘How quickly do they want to sell?’ The Liberals’ Trans Mountain drama opens on a new scene

OTTAWA — When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered her budget speech last month, she gave a nod to the workers on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a $34-billion, government-owned project more than a decade in the making that, after multiple cost overruns and delays, will this month finally begin carrying Alberta oil to the West Coast.

Freeland used the opportunity to take a shot at those who, she said, think government only stands in the way of development.

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If Trudeau stays, he needs one ‘last reboot’ this summer, say Liberal MPs, pollsters, and political insiders

With the Liberals 21 points behind in the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will need to “supercharge his front bench” and give his government “a new sense of energy” if he really wants to lead his party and be competitive in the next election, say Liberal MPs, pollsters and party insiders.

“Assuming that he wants to lead the party in the next election, the budget impact has been flat,” said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research. “It means that if he wants to be competitive, he has to do something different. He has to perhaps talk about what does Justin Trudeau version 2.0 mean.”

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Young Canadians feel poorer in warning sign for economy, Trudeau

Canadians are feeling gloomy about their personal finances — and Generation Z is the gloomiest of all.

The Nanos Pocketbook Index, a measure of how people perceive their personal finances and job security, fell to 50 last week, matching its April 2020 low. It’s one component of the broader Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, which also gauges the public’s expectations about the economy.

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Public Looks Forward To Election Wipe Out Of Freeland Lead Liberals Assuming Trudeau Ever Disappears

Someone will eventually succeed Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader. Here’s what Canadians told a pollster about some of the potential contenders

OTTAWA — Of a slate of potential Liberal leadership contenders largely unknown to the public, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is the most prominent in a hypothetical race with no obvious front-runner, a new poll suggests.

The recent survey by Abacus Data asked 1,500 respondents about their impressions of seven “possible Liberal leadership candidates” to one day succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The respondents were asked who they would prefer to see replace Trudeau as Liberal leader if he announced he was not going to run again.

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India’s foreign minister reacts to murder charges, claims Canada welcomes criminals

OTTAWA – India’s Foreign Affairs Minister accused Canada of welcoming criminals from his country in response to the RCMP’s recent arrests in a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also called Ottawa the No. 1 driver of what he described as a violent movement of Sikhs trying to carve their own country out of India.

“It’s not so much a problem in the U.S.; our biggest problem right now is in Canada,” Jaishankar said Saturday during remarks at a forum for intellectuals in India.

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BC Mayor Censured, Stripped of Budget Over Book on Residential Schools

A mayor in British Columbia has had his travel budget removed and been banned from committees after allegedly distributing a book on residential schools that is critical of media response to alleged unmarked graves linked to residential schools in Kamloops and elsewhere.

Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull was accused of attempting to hand out copies of the book “Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)” by Thomas Flanagan and C.P. Champion. The book, which contains a series of essays, examines the media’s response to the May 2021 announcement of the alleged grave site discovery.

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Former B.C. MP has ‘lost faith’ after inquiry finds foreign interference may have cost him his seat

Former B.C. Conservative MP Kenny Chiu feels vindicated by preliminary findings from a federal inquiry that found foreign interference may have cost him his seat in the 2021 election.

Chui, who ran in the riding of Steveston — Richmond East, is calling on the Liberal government to follow through with its promise of a foreign agent registry like the ones established in the U.S. and Australia.

No one will go to jail. The only ones who won’t lose faith are the Liberals.

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Trudeau and Ford should attach personal fortunes to EV corporate welfare

Last week, with their latest tranche of corporate welfare for the electric vehicle (EV) sector, the Trudeau and Ford governments announced a $5.0 billion subsidy for Honda to help build an EV battery plant and ultimately manufacture EVs in Ontario. Here’s a challenge: if politicians in both governments truly believe these measures are in the public interest, they should tie their personal fortunes with the outcomes of these subsidies (a.k.a. corporate welfare).

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‘Polish voice is on the rise’: The European leader pushing Trudeau to spend more on defence

More than a million people of Polish descent live in Canada. In the rural community where I grew up in southwestern Ontario, there was a Polish hall where I was sometimes recruited to serve up cabbage rolls and pierogis.

Back then, that Polish cohort didn’t stand out from the rest of their European peers — the Belgians, the Germans, the Hungarians. Today, Poland’s role in assisting Ukraine has been a game-changer; the country shares a 200-plus kilometre border with Russia and is the logistical hub for the transportation of military equipment and refugees from Ukraine.

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Trudeau ‘absolutely’ best person to lead the Liberals in next election says man whistling past graveyard

Trudeau ‘absolutely’ best person to lead the Liberals in next election: LeBlanc says

Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc insists he’s not planning a leadership campaign to head the Liberal party, should current leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resign, seemingly quashing rumours he’s planning to make a move for his boss’ job.

LeBlanc — who serves as the minister of public safety, democratic institutions, and intergovernmental affairs — told CTV’s Questions Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday that Trudeau should “absolutely” remain as Liberal leader in the next election.

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Justin Trudeau didn’t start the fire. But the Prime Minister helped stoke Canada’s political polarization

Justin Trudeau led the federal Liberals into the 2015 election on a promise to give the middle ground back to Canadians.

Before long, there was less middle ground.

It had already been shrinking for years when Mr. Trudeau became the Liberal Leader in 2013. He didn’t cause the polarization of Canadian politics, but he noticed it, acted on it, nudged it along. By 2021, that polarization came not only to save his career, but to define it.

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