Trudeau even more unpopular than Dementia Joe

… Many world leaders are also up for re-election. More than 60 countries — half of the world’s population — will vote or have voted this year. Most of the countries in the chart above will vote in national or European Union elections in the coming months.

Why are people so upset with their leaders? Some explanations are local, but four global issues have driven much of the public’s anger. Call them the four I’s: inflation, immigration, inequality and incumbency.

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Canada Should Cut Immigration to Ease Housing Crisis, Canadians Tell Federal Researchers

Canadians want the government to cut immigration to ease the housing crisis across the country, according to new focus group data.

“Asked whether they thought Canada was currently experiencing a housing crisis, all believed this to be the case,” said a Privy Council report, called Continuous Qualitative Data Collection of Canadians’ Views. The report was released on March 26, with data collected in October 2023, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Trudeau tries to win back younger voters with first pre-budget announcement

OTTAWA – The Trudeau government began a series of pre-budget announcements Wednesday targeting Millennials and Gen Z voters in a bid to attract two generations that have largely abandoned the Liberal party.

Trudeau made an announcement in Vancouver, while other ministers made similar announcements in Toronto and Montreal about new programs that will be included in next month’s budget. Wednesday’s announcement included $15 million to go to Legal Aid organizations across the country to help those organizations provide more services to renters dealing with “renovictions” or other issues with their landlord.

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‘He understands Canadians’: Inside what ‘axe the tax’ means to Poilievre’s supporters

When Sarah Morin hears the phrase “axe the tax,” what enters her mind is “freedom.”

The 41-year-old is a stay-at-home mother of two who has been using a food bank amid cost-of-living pressures.

She was among those who packed into a crammed room at a convention centre near Ottawa’s airport on Sunday to listen to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speak.

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Conservatives blast pro-carbon price economists as ‘so-called experts’

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives say they won’t be taking advice from “so-called experts” when it comes to carbon pricing, after more than 200 economists signed an open letter challenging Pierre Poilievre’s stance.

Instead, the party is pledging to listen to the “common sense of the common people.”

The comments come after economists associated with universities across Canada took aim at common claims in the heated debate over the policy.

Economists are pushing back on assertions the carbon price has driven up the cost of living, and calling out opponents for failing to pitch a less costly alternative to reduce emissions.

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Interference inquiry must walk very fine line on secrecy to avoid revealing traitorous actions by Liberal party

Interference inquiry must walk very fine line on secrecy, transparency: commissioner

OTTAWA – The head of an inquiry into foreign interference emphasized Wednesday that the need for secrecy about the sensitive subject has not hindered her work to date.

Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue cautioned, however, that the inquiry must walk a very fine line in balancing confidentiality and the desire for transparency.

Hogue’s remarks came as the commission began two weeks of hearings into foreign meddling allegations and how the federal government responded to them.

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The greedy bastards who demand mass immigration to depress wages are being bit in the ass by the housing crisis they helped create

Canadian businesses say housing crisis is forcing them to boost pay: survey

Business leaders see the housing crisis as the biggest risk to the economy, a new survey from KPMG Canada shows.

It found 94 per cent of respondents agreed that high housing costs and a lack of supply are the top risk, and that housing should be a main focus in the upcoming federal budget. The survey questioned 534 businesses.

Housing issues are forcing businesses to boost pay to better attract talent and budget for higher labour costs, agreed 87 per cent of respondents.


Feck em

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold

Nine months after reaching a population of 40 million, Canada has cracked a new threshold.

As of Wednesday morning, it’s estimated 41 million people now call the country home, according to Statistics Canada’s live population tracker.

The speed at which Canada’s population is growing was also reflected in new data released Wednesday by the federal agency: between Jan. 1 2023 and Jan. 1 2024, Canada added 1,271,872 inhabitants, a 3.2 per cent growth rate — the highest since 1957.

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Liberal MP Housefather Says Deep Leftward Shift in Party Since 2019 Has Left Him Feeling Alienated

The Liberal Party’s further shift leftward since 2019 and deviation from its traditional roots has made Anthony Housefather feel like he doesn’t quite fit in the party, the Montreal MP said in a recent media interview.
“I believe that I am a liberal who would have been very comfortable in the Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien Liberal parties,” he said during a March 24 interview on the Roy Green Show.
“I was comfortable in our caucus in the 2015 to 2019 period. Since then, I feel that things have happened that have left me on the outside. I’m very much a centrist. I’m not too far to the left.”

As predicted he’s going to stay in the LPC to better defend Israel. He would accomplish more by joining Hamas.
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Housing asylum seekers at Niagara hotels cost Canada more than $100 million

Newly released figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada show the federal government spent more than $100 million housing asylum seekers at hotels in Niagara Falls over the last year.

Nearly 5,000 asylum seekers were sent to hotels in the tourist city between Feb. 1, 2023, and Feb. 1, 2024, according to the immigration department. Most were from Nigeria, Venezuela, Kenya, Turkey, and Colombia.

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I saw Justin Trudeau attacked by an angry mob last election campaign — and I worry things are about to get worse

Journalists shouldn’t make election predictions, but here’s one to take to the bank: Canada’s next federal election will be the ugliest one yet.

Anyone could place that safe bet solely on the basis of what happens any day in the House of Commons. But the prospect of future nastiness is further underlined in last June’s report of the task force looking into security and intelligence threats to elections.

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Parliamentary committee agrees to take on probe of Winnipeg lab scandal

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

A parliamentary committee has agreed to question key witnesses about how two scientists studying deadly viruses at a special lab in Winnipeg were able to work closely and covertly with China.

Conservative MP Michael Chong brought forward a motion to the Canada-China committee Tuesday morning to study the recent release of federal documents related to the dismissal of two scientists — Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng — from the National Microbiology Lab.

The ChiComs had the run of the joint.

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The Liberals broke the immigration system at high speed. They’re repairing it by baby steps

They filled the pool with a firehose. Now they’re bailing with thimbles.

After years of the Trudeau government flooring the growth accelerator on temporary immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller last week announced a tap of the brakes. The overdue move is welcome – though so far it’s more pledge than plan, with many details about execution (not this government’s strong suit) still to come.

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Growth of government undermines Canadian economy: report

Combined federal, provincial and municipal government spending across Canada accounts for 40.5% of the entire Canadian economy, far above the ideal level of 26% to 30% needed to maximize economic growth, according to a study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday.


That’s how you buy public service union votes.

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Poilievre: Canada Going in the Direction of Suppressive Regimes Under Current Leadership

Many new Canadians are concerned that, under the Liberal government, Canada is increasingly heading in the direction of the suppressive countries they escaped from, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says.

Mr. Poilievre responded to a question during a March 22 Toronto press conference about immigrants escaping socialist and communist countries like China, searching for freedom in Canada but facing censorship here. He said the situation “is not an accident.”

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Canada brushes off yet another country begging it for LNG

For the third time in 18 months, a foreign head of government has made a rare visit to Canada with the stated intention of buying billions of dollars in natural gas.

And for the third consecutive time, the official answer from the Trudeau government appears to be “no.”

Trudeau is fine with Canada’s impoverishment so long as it feeds his Captain Planet fantasy.

h/t Mauser

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