Ottawa’s billion-dollar housing pledges promising but not enough


Canada’s housing crisis heightened in 2020 and 2021, when families with median incomes faced an average house price that was as high as seven to nine times their annual income. Surging home prices and relatively stagnant income growth combine to make the dream of home ownership beyond the reach of most Canadians, especially young people, unless either house prices fall by half or earnings double.

The rental market is no more affordable. Renters spend on average more than 35 per cent of their incomes on rent. In tighter markets such as Toronto and Vancouver, rents could be as high as 45 per cent of income.

Housing unaffordability is a dire issue.

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Foreign Interference Needn’t Determine Election Outcome for Winners to Feel Indebted to China: CSIS Officia

A Canadian intelligence official says while Beijing’s attempts at foreign interference may not have had a decisive impact on Canada’s 2021 election outcome in a specific riding, such covert activities can still leave the elected candidate feeling indebted to the communist regime.

At a closed-door hearing, the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference received a summary of interviews with intelligence officials that said, “even if FI [foreign interference] did not directly lead to the election of a given candidate, that interference could nonetheless have an impact on the relationship with that candidate, and by extension the communities they represent.”

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Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate

“My job is not to be popular.” Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister (pictured), spent much of March explaining himself as he fought a revolt against an increase to the country’s carbon tax. On his own terms, and few others, Mr Trudeau is succeeding. Both his Liberal Party and the tax—which increased from C$65 to C$80 ($59) per tonne of CO2 equivalent on April 1st—are unloved. Mr Trudeau survived a no-confidence vote ahead of the increase, but the debate it sparked has added to the burdens of a prime minister who is staggering through his ninth year in power.

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Beneath ArriveCan

MPs want to know how a mobile app’s costs grew out of control. An abandoned house on an Ontario First Nation is an important stop in the search for answers

The house at 55 Vimy Ridge Rd., a 90-minute drive northeast of Toronto in the Alderville First Nation, has seen better days. The wooden front steps are broken, a basketball-sized wasp nest hangs from its roof, and debris – gas cans, a fridge, furniture and rusting metal – litters the backyard.

Passersby would never guess that the property is connected to a business that has received more than $100-million in federal spending. In corporate records, the home is the registered address for David Yeo, a former soldier who is now an entrepreneur and the founder of Dalian Enterprises Inc., one of the companies at the centre of a growing controversy over government contracting related to the ArriveCan mobile app.

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Vivian Bercovici: Liberals and NDP turned their backs on Jews — in Israel and Canada

On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists launched a massive attack against Israeli civilians that, I expect, succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood had been planned for years, with training support of every kind from the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Islamist proxies in the region.

The goal was not only to invade southern Israel but to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem; to “flood” the mosque with holy warriors — jihadis — and destroy Israel along the way.

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ChrystiaFreeland is at the centre of a political storm. The course she charts out of it could save her Liberal government — or make matters even worse

OTTAWA—It’s 2014, and Chrystia Freeland is laughing on the streets of London.

In classic Freeland fashion, she’s casually strolling with a smart and influential person whom she has known for years: Michael McFaul, a top Barack Obama-era foreign policy thinker, fresh off his stint as the American ambassador in Moscow. Aown a long block of the historic city, the subject turns to how Freeland recently transformed her life. Only seven months earlier, she was elected to Parliament in a downtown Toronto byelection, thus trading her vocation as a successful journalist for a new calling as a Canadian politician.

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CHARLEBOIS: Debating the path to carbon pricing

Over 340 economists have penned an open letter in support of Canada’s prevailing carbon tax policy.

Despite the misleading information noted in the letter regarding the carbon tax’s impact on our climate and its effect on our cost of living – specifically referencing the Bank of Canada’s erroneous calculations – the group certainly has the right to express its viewpoint.

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OH NO! Justin Trudeau is getting impatient, and it shows

“Far too many young people, particularly millennials, and Gen Z, don’t feel like the system works for them anymore, even if they have a great job,” he said. “They are squeezed on housing, they’re squeezed on rent, they can’t save up for buying a home, they’re pressed on groceries, they’re seeing a world where climate change is getting worse and worse. They’re worried about their future and government has a role in making sure that there is fairness for them.”


Blaming others for his mistakes is not impatience, it’s par for the course.

We should encourage this impatience as blaming others for the housing, immigration & affordability crisis Justin himself created proves he’s a liar without care for the impact his lunatic policies have on ordinary Canadians.

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Special rapporteur report by Trudeau crony Johnston complete bullshit new documents reveal

New intelligence documents published by the federal foreign interference inquiry raise questions about the conclusions of former Governor General David Johnston’s probe into the issue.

Johnston, whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed a special rapporteur on foreign interference, ruled out calling a public inquiry last May.

Had Johnston’s recommendation been accepted, a trove of national security documents released this week by the Foreign Interference Commission would have never seen the light of day.

Not at all unreasonable to suspect Junior is working for China.

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CSIS Director changed report on PRC interference in MP Han Dong’s riding after discussion with PM Trudeau’s advisor

Foreign Interference Commission hears 2019 CSIS assessment that a “politically-connected Canadian” impacted the fed election was “recalled”

After the 2019 federal election CSIS director David Vigneault decided to “recall” a controversial intelligence assessment saying a “politically-connected Canadian” had impacted Canada’s 2019 vote in Liberal MP Han Dong’s Toronto riding, Ottawa’s Foreign Interference Commission heard Thursday.

Explosive documents tabled while Vigneault was examined on his decision said the October 2019 CSIS assessment regarding suspected PRC interference in Dong’s campaign was shared with senior government officials including Trudeau’s then National Security Advisor.

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Michael Higgins: Trudeau isn’t the solution, he’s the problem

… The prime minister seemed appalled at the situation as if the explosion of temporary foreign workers and international students in Canada wasn’t his fault.

But it is entirely the Liberals fault. The issue of temporary foreign workers was an issue Trudeau was aware of even before he became prime minister.

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China paid approximately $250,000 to ‘threat actors’ working in Canada, inquiry told

A document presented to the Foreign Interference Commission says Canadian intelligence suggests Chinese officials may have transferred around $250,000 to “threat actors” in Canada in late 2018 or early 2019.

On Thursday, the commission discussed an unclassified summary of intelligence held by security and intelligence departments and agencies – primarily the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

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Ottawa is being sued for restoring UNRWA funding by survivors of terror victims

Canadian relatives of victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks are suing the Canadian government over its decision last month to resume funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), given the controversial agency’s ” history and participation with Hamas,” listed as a terrorist group under Canadian criminal law.

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