Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the first sentence of his first answer at the public inquiry into foreign interference when it became clear that uh oh, he’d summoned That Guy.
You know the guy: Ask him a factual question and the response is a purring, generic values statement so distantly related to the original question they could legally get married.
That Guy. He’s around a lot.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre launched a full-fledged attack against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, accusing him of having broken “with liberalism itself” and the “ivory tower elites” and “so-called experts” who support him.
Poilievre was addressing the Canada Strong and Free Conference, formerly known as the Manning Conference, where hundreds of Conservatives meet annually in Ottawa.
Canada needs a new approach to the housing crisis because we’re spinning our wheels in solving it.
For the next few years we must reduce our immigration intake, following the example of other immigration-friendly countries.
In doing so, we would finally address the demand side of the housing equation, after fixating with increased supply.
h/t PK who notes, the Star must had a mass fainting when this article appeared.
While reading the news on Tuesday, Vimy Ridge Day, I saw a National Post opinion piece by my old friend Rick Hillier, our former chief of defence staff (CDS). He was decrying the death of the dream that was Canada, and it was hard not to agree with his sentiments.
Affordability (or the lack thereof), ideology politics, climate alarmism, higher taxes, mounting government debt, rising antisemitism, extreme immigration, leaders dividing us — the list of what ails our once-great nation goes on. I feel the same as Hillier, and got into real trouble for saying it during a November 2022 speech at the Canadian Museum of History.
There are two peculiar and paradoxical things about the disturbing revelations that have emerged over the past few days from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
The first is that the most disturbing evidence entered into the record isn’t even really news. Pretty well all the bombshell revelations coming out of Justice Hogue’s commission hearings have been the subject of headline stories, one after the other, over the past five years.
The nation is days away from unveiling its federal budget for 2024, and a majority of Canadians are already upset.
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrap up their cross-country tour promoting facets of the budget ahead of the event, a new Angus Reid Institute poll finds the attitudes of Canadians have soured — including previous Liberal voters.
OTTAWA – The parliamentary budget officer says Canada would need to build 1.3 million additional homes by 2030 to eliminate the country’s housing gap.
The newly released report looks at how many more homes would need to be built restore Canada’s vacancy rate to the historical average.
The report by Yves Giroux also accounts for the number of additional households that would form if sufficient housing were available.
What they don’t tell you is that Canada lacks the capacity to build that many homes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a long-winded, full-throated defence of democracy during his appearance before the public inquiry on foreign interference Wednesday afternoon. But if democracy is so important how about letting the citizens know what’s going on?
One thing that is becoming very clear in this inquiry is that lots of people in government knew foreign inference was a troubling problem, but nobody was too keen on telling the public.
Ottawa will be home to a new $65 million installation used to control and operate the military’s future fleet of drones.
But National Defence says the exact location in the city for the new facility to accommodate 198 personnel, simulators and drone control systems must remain secret.
So, how does the Prime Minister hear about intelligence again?
It’s not from reading. There are a lot of documents, Justin Trudeau told the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday, but if you want to get a national security message to a busy prime minister, you brief him in person.
But listen to Mr. Trudeau talk about how that magic happens and you might end up being a little unclear on the actual protocol for translating the essential national security intelligence crafted in secret documents into verbal information for the head of government.
There will be no repercussions, we will have to suffer the prick until the election in fall 2025.
The budgeting process in the past was a foreign country; they did things differently back then.
In my memory at least, Canada’s Department of Finance pushed back against Liberal and Conservative governments. And if budgets produced surprises, they were generally on the positive side: more revenue or lower expenses than had been laid down in what was considered a hallowed tablet of stone.
No longer. A presentation on the upcoming budget by the Business Council of Canada included a table that showed the various spending projections that appeared in Budget 2022, the fall economic statement of 2022 and the fall economic statement of 2023.
The plausible explanation is that the prime minister does not want a light shone on his party’s mutually beneficial association with China
The crux of the foreign interference inquiry is to discover whether Justin Trudeau danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.
In other words, did the prime minister put partisan interest ahead of the national interest by turning a blind eye — or worse, encouraging — China’s meddling in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections to benefit the Liberal party’s electoral fortunes.
Canada has waded into the contentious issue of regulating online content with a sweeping proposal that would force technology companies to restrict and remove harmful material, especially posts involving children, that appears on their platforms.
While the intent to better monitor online content has drawn widespread support, the bill has faced intense backlash over its attempt to regulate hate speech. Critics say the proposal crosses the line into censorship.
The Trudeau government loves to spend money. Lots of it. And all that spending is making life less affordable in Canada — housing in particular.
When the Liberals came to power in 2015, Ottawa was spending a total of $281 billion a year. This year, the federal Liberals are expected to spend $499 billion and next year $519 billion.
