Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government – Page 394

Canada’s immigration backlash is far from populist

As the United States and Texas state governments clash over the Mexican border, a very different kind of immigration crisis is taking place elsewhere in North America. Unlike in the divided US, Canada is supposed to be one of the world’s most solidly pro-immigration societies. More than just another self-satisfied Justin Trudeau facade, this attitude has been attested to by historically high levels of public support.

However, an unfolding shift in public sentiment may now change that. Amid a housing crunch and soaring costs of living, Canadians are turning against the prospect of welcoming more immigrants. And the Trudeau government has slowly started to bend under this pressure.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2024January 31, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Poilievre is worse than Harper’: Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are clearly bugged by the Conservative leader

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is convinced he is really getting under the skin of Justin Trudeau and his Liberals. He may well be correct.

“Yes, I’ve had it up to here with Mr. Poilievre,” Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, one of the steadiest voices in the Trudeau cabinet, said in an interview this week.

Health Minister Mark Holland launched into an impassioned, lengthy diatribe at the microphone on Wednesday, lamenting how Conservatives were profiting from fear and anxiety in the country. It was prompted by questions on how the Liberals are being massively out-fundraised by the Conservatives, according to the latest reports.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2024February 1, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Gwyn Morgan: The runaway cost of government construction projects

Costly woke obligations adding to price tags of already over-engineered projects

Not so long ago, a $10-million government infrastructure project was regarded as a significant expenditure. But now $10 million doesn’t come close to funding projects as simple as a firehall or new police station. Here in the Victoria region, a new firehall in the District of Saanich originally budgeted at $27 million has jumped to $45 million. In the Langford District the estimated cost of a new RCMP building is an incomprehensible $82 million. Just north of Victoria, the cost of what was to be a simple flyover eliminating a dangerous left turn across the busy Patricia Bay Highway has spiked from its original estimate of $44 million to $77 million.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2024January 31, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

After Court Win on Emergencies Act, Challengers Say They’ll Sue Feds and Banks

Several challengers to the Emergencies Act say they’re preparing to sue government officials and financial institutions after the Federal Court’s recent declaration that the invocation of the act was not justified.

Military veteran Eddie Cornell, police veteran Vincent Gircys, and Jeremiah Jost said in a Jan. 29 statement that they will sue “those in government, the financial institutions who froze people’s bank accounts, and the police officers who beat up and injured innocent.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Trudeau Liberals’ policies causing Canadian economy to lag

Canada’s economy shrank in the fourth quarter of 2023 by 0.2%. That’s the second quarter of shrinkage in a row. In the third quarter, it fell 0.3%.

Technically that means Canada is in recession, since the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of Gross Domestic Product shrinkage. Yet no one in the government or over at the toady Bank of Canada will use the “R” word.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Philip Cross: From swaggering to staggering: Canada’s decline into irrelevance

It’s remarkable how much our international reputation has faded over the past 10 years, both diplomatically and economically

It is remarkable how much attitudes about Canada have shifted, both here and abroad, over the past 10 years. A decade ago, riding the wave of a booming economy, Canada was widely admired for a banking system that had got through the 2008-2009 global financial crisis without government bailouts. Today the country’s global stature is much diminished and Canadians are rapidly losing confidence in their economic prospects.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party have caused this harm to Canada.

The damage has been so thorough, so devastating that to deny it was deliberately orchestrated places one in the ranks of conspiracy theorists.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 31, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Justin Trudeau’s government may rebrand its carbon pricing program. But is it too late?

OTTAWA — The federal government’s discussions around rebranding the rebate program for its carbon pricing system are aimed at ensuring Canadians are aware of what their rebates are for, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.

The first public acknowledgment of a potential rebrand of the government’s flagship climate policy comes as the Conservatives immediately dismissed the idea, and experts and political insiders raised questions on whether a rebrand would boost perceptions of the carbon price.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada Should Exit CCP Leader Xi’s Imperial Bank

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 ignored multiple warnings and committed Canada to membership in Xi Jinping’s pet project—an infrastructure bank that finances Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and furthers China’s bid to become an imperial power.

The bank, known as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), pretends to be benign—just another multilateral development bank, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank—but its corporate structure belies such “business-as-usual” claims.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Frank Stronach: Canada starting to look neo-feudal as rich-poor gulf widens

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer goes the old saying. But is it true? It certainly seems to be the case in Canada.

A new report published by Statistics Canada last week showed that the wealth gap in our country continues to widen. According to the report, the richest 20 per cent of Canadians accounted for nearly 70 per cent of the country’s total wealth in the third quarter of 2023, while the bottom 40 per cent of Canadians represented a meagre three per cent of Canada’s wealth in that time. The wealth gap between these two groups rose by 0.2 per cent from 2022 to 2023.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Tom Mulcair: Weak communications are the Trudeau Liberals’ Achilles heel

In political communications, “too much” is sometimes worse than “not enough”.

It’s understandable that the Liberals, frustrated at the success of Pierre Polievre’s freewheeling demagoguery, would be tempted to go into overdrive on the message front.

On Monday, the day of Parliament’s return, we saw a case of overdrive becoming overkill.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau’s Jamaica vacation ‘clearly a generous gift’ but not against the rules: ethics commissioner

Canada’s interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein has confirmed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau consulted his office in advance of his latest Jamaican vacation, and he was within the rules to accept the gifted accommodations from a friend.

“He consulted us, and we advised him,” von Finckenstein told MPs while testifying before the House of Commons ethics committee about the rules around gifts and trips on Tuesday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2024January 30, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Conservatives accuse Liberals of being ‘pathologically obsessed’ with carbon tax as House returns

OTTAWA – Tensions flared on the prickly issue of the carbon tax as the House returned from its break Monday, with Conservatives accusing the Liberals of being “pathologically obsessed” with the tax, while Liberals said the Tories wanted to take rebate cheques out of the hands of Canadians.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2024January 29, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Procurement watchdog finds 76 per cent of listed ArriveCan subcontractors did no work

An investigation of ArriveCan spending has found outsourcing companies repeatedly won contracts by listing subcontractors who ultimately did no work, one of many findings that led the federal procurement ombudsman to conclude contracting rules were not followed.

The report specifically singles out contract work by two-person IT staffing company GCStrategies, saying the company frequently failed to prove that its proposed team of subcontractors had the résumés and work experience required.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2024January 29, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ottawa’s next immigration emergency

A pattern has emerged in Liberal immigration policy over the past year: Ignore mounting evidence of trouble, dismiss rumbles of criticism and, finally, take the smallest possible action to avert an all-out calamity.

There was abundant evidence for months that the pace of new arrivals, particularly temporary migrants, was putting unacceptable strain on housing in big cities and other social infrastructure. But it was not until November that the Trudeau government took the tentative step of tamping down the growth in permanent immigration – misleadingly referred to as “stabilizing” by the government. Even with the change, permanent immigration targets will rise this year and next, with an extra 55,000 people admitted over that two-year span.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2024January 29, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government