While Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives continue to endear themselves to voters, new polling suggests Tory supporters are among those most likely to change their minds come election day.
A new National Post-Leger poll shows the Conservative with a 21-point lead over the Liberals — with the Tories gaining two points over the last month for 42 per cent support nationally and Trudeau Liberals losing three points to 26 per cent. The poll was taken April 26 to 28.
One of the biggest government initiatives to encourage manufacturers to decarbonize is failing to attract the largest emitters, says Ottawa’s environmental watchdog.
The government’s $8 billion program, intended to help the largest-emitting manufacturing industries reduce their emissions, has failed to entice them, says a report released Tuesday morning by Jerry DeMarco, the federal commissioner of environment and sustainable development.
Of Canada’s top 55 emitters, only two have signed contribution agreements so far with the federal government under its Net Zero Accelerator initiative, the report says. About a dozen other large emitters applied for the initiative but the federal government has not yet signed agreements with them.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was told Monday by a top union leader that grave concerns remain about the hiring of foreign workers at a flagship EV battery plant in Windsor, Ont., when skilled Canadians are available to do the jobs.
In a keynote discussion with the Prime Minister at the annual conference of Canada’s Building Trades Unions in Gatineau, union leader Sean Strickland told Mr. Trudeau that the concerns that emerged last year about the hiring of hundreds of Korean and Japanese workers at the EV factory have yet to be resolved.
The Liberal government is proposing to make changes to Canada’s asylum claim system which could speed up the deportation process for rejected applicants from the country.
The proposed amendments were quietly announced two weeks ago in the 2024 federal budget and come as Canada deals with a record number of asylum seekers.
Most Of Those Sent Deportation Letters Still Living In Canada Years Later
Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian technology is mind-boggling, and is designed to build the People’s Liberation Army as a formidable force against Western interests.
David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told MPs on the Canada-China committee Monday that Chinese hacking and other espionage activities have become a serious threat since Xi Jinping became president in 2012.
It’s tax time, which is always depressing in Canada thanks to the country’s spendthrift federal government.
The Trudeau Liberals have overspent and overtaxed for years, creating an uncompetitive business environment that drives out jobs. Then, to make matters worse, the government “bribes” companies with subsidies and grants to create jobs. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: subsidies are paid out of high taxes, which in turn increase taxes, necessitating more subsidies in order to maintain levels of employment.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is now justifying tax increases by quoting from a U.S. Supreme Court decision almost a hundred years ago.
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in a 1927 decision.
Federal U.S. tax in 1927 was in the low single digits, according to the Tax Foundation, an American organization that focuses on tax policy, as opposed to Canada today where the rate is anywhere from 15-33 per cent.
In his classic A Short History of the World, H.G. Wells asked why the Roman Empire grew, and why it so completely decayed.
He concluded that it grew because the idea of citizenship held it together, creating a sense of privilege and obligation and a willingness to make sacrifices in the name of Rome.
However, the failure to explain itself to its increasing multitude of citizens, or invite their co-operation, led to the demise of its collective mission.
Ottawa is planning to roll out a mandatory buyback program for military-style firearms during the 2025 election year, after the program was delayed by Canada Post’s refusal to participate, sources say.
With only months to go before its launch, details of the vast logistical operation remain in flux, federal officials have told Radio-Canada.
The government likely will need to adapt the program on a province-by-province basis, due to its struggle to find partners willing to collect and transport AR-15s and other weapons that were banned in 2020.
Justin Trudeau was hoping his housing budget would reverse the government’s slide in popularity. Instead, things have gotten worse.
For the good of the Liberal Party he leads, the Prime Minister needs to think about his future.
The government gambled everything on this budget. Younger voters are unhappy. Economic uncertainty and high interest rates have worsened housing shortages, making ownership impossible and rent exorbitant for many. Their support has shifted emphatically from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
Junior will never think of what’s best for anyone or anything but himself.
WOODSTOCK, N.B. — Police officers across New Brunswick are no longer investigating thefts of fuel from service stations unless there is a threat to public safety.
Earlier this month, the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police sent a letter to petroleum retailers across the province, saying the change was needed because there are more effective ways of dealing with the steady increase in fuel thefts. The change took effect April 15.
Conservative MPs are pushing Ottawa to release details of its agreement with Honda Canada to build a sprawling electric vehicle operation in southern Ontario — disclosure they say is necessary to ensure Canadians get all the jobs in the multi-billion-dollar project.
The push for transparency comes after Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU) wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month asking him to intervene on another EV project, the NextStar plant in Windsor, Ont. that’s backed by Chrysler parent company Stellantis and Korean firm LG.
The union said foreign workers are displacing Canadian labourers at the NextStar construction site while 180 local millwrights and ironworkers are unemployed and available to perform the necessary work.
India summons Canadian diplomat over pro-Khalistan separatism slogans at Trudeau speech
OTTAWA — What appeared to be a last-minute trip by the prime minister to attend Khalsa Day celebrations in Toronto has landed Canada in a new diplomatic tiff with India.
The Indian government summoned Canada’s Deputy High Commissioner Stewart Wheeler to explain “separatist slogans” shouted at the parade where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave remarks, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said in a press release on Monday.
A normal PM would know to make a brief statement and leave in such a situation.
Cries of Free Palestine?
#WATCH: Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau both play dress up for a photo op while crowds chant 'Palestine'…
Canada is a fkn joke lead by clowns. pic.twitter.com/gAmWcKyY9G
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) April 29, 2024
It’s a rare day in Canada that sees overt debate about class and power. But after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released her latest budget, that’s apparently what we got.
The triggering element wasn’t the deficit, the debt or new program spending. It was an increase in the capital-gains tax inclusion rate to 67 per cent from 50 per cent for businesses and for personal investment income above $250,000, a move that will generate $20-billion in tax revenue in the next five years.
After the budget, facing much backlash from the business community, Ms. Freeland said something I haven’t heard her say before: The tax changes were part of keeping the wheels of democracy turning.
A budget that angers the rich and does nothing to ease the burden of Canada’s impoverished.
International students will be allowed to work 24 hours a week starting in September
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus up to 24 hours per week starting in September.
The Liberals temporarily waved the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages.
There is no labour shortage – Canada’s Much-Touted Labour Shortage Is Mostly A Mirage
And … ‘No One Wants To Work Anymore’: Employers Complaining About Labour Shortages May Simply Not Be Paying Enough
