Former prime minister Jean Chretien says deciding when it’s time to step down and leave politics is simple, but “very personal.”
Chretien sat down with CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos for a wide-ranging exclusive interview airing Sunday to discuss how Canada has changed, when it’s time to leave politics and how to work with political opponents.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says in the next few months he’ll be looking at the possibility of putting a cap on the number of international students living in Canada, but he wouldn’t say how great a reduction the government is planning on making.
In an interview airing Sunday, the minister told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos this is a conversation the federal government will need to have with provincial governments “to make sure that the provinces that have not been doing their jobs actually rein in those numbers on a pure volume basis.”
“That volume is disconcerting,” Miller said, in reference to the number of international students in Canada. “It’s really a system that has gotten out of control.”
Feds say Canada’s air defence donation to Ukraine has final hurdle to clear from U.S.
The Department of National Defence says Canada’s donation of an air-defence system to Ukraine is in the midst of clearing one final administrative hurdle with the U.S. government.
A spokesperson says Ukraine and the U.S. are finalizing a letter of acceptance that will confirm delivery timelines for a surface-to-air missile system Canada pledged to pay for more than a year ago.
… It took more than a week to get the response from the Defence Department, which sought information from the U.S. government.
The department spokesperson also says Defence Minister Bill Blair met with U.S. ambassador David Cohen Thursday to ask for an expedited timeline.
Seriously? You spend 500 million and don’t check up on delivery? I watch a pack of socks from Amazon closer.
The Trudeau government’s ongoing craven attempts to play both sides in the Israel-Hamas war truly knows no end.
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made vague comments early Friday that would seem to suggest Canada opposed South Africa’s charge of genocide, the full statement came out later in the day.
Well. That’s what I call clarity and principle. Thank you @PierrePoilievre
This man is going to be 🇨🇦 next PM. Can’t happen soon enough. https://t.co/pkqSYeb2kz
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) January 12, 2024
It’s a stunning, yet entirely predictable, turnaround in public opinion.
Less than a year ago, polling by Nanos Research showed 61 per cent of Canadians thought that immigration levels should either be increased or stay the same, in keeping with a decades-old consensus that welcomes newcomers to this country.
Public opinion has inverted, according to Nanos. In December, 61 per cent of Canadians said immigration levels should be reduced, with just 34 per cent still believing that Canada should maintain or increase the number of newcomers.
I think the alleged concensus around immigration was fraying far earlier especially among urban dwellers.
The myth was propped up by the fact that until recently merely raising the topic of immigration policy was to risk being labeled a racist by the political and chattering classes.
This was done at the behest of the corporate class who to this day dictate Canada’s immigration policy to the detriment of everyone save themselves and their political minions.
The stopper on immigration discussion was only removed in the past year as the ruling class no doubt sensed an imminent explosion.
It’s a start that ideally will result in the will of citizens being made paramount in designing immigration policy.
Our politicians have proven they cannot be trusted to act in our best interests.
One aspect of mass immigration the MSM refuses to address is the impact on society caused by the introduction of incompatible cultures.
Our MSM won’t touch Islam’s clash with western culture despite vast numbers of marauding Hamas supporters in the streets of every major western city.
Despite decades of living under the constant threat of Islamist terrorism and the encroachment of sharia law in society.
Islam’s harmful presence has been an exercise in the tolerance of the intolerant made possible by the elite’s embrace of racist doctrines such as DEI and CRT and the dissent crushing cancel culture bludgeons of official multiculturalism and diversity.
Not all cultures are equal and that is indisputable.
No wave of immigration has cost societies across the west more than Islam.
The dollars spent on domestic policing to keep the Hamas mobs in check is likely already in the millions in Canada alone.
The kowtowing of our political class to ethnic strongmen is a shameless insult to Canada and emboldens groups to import their pet hatreds and battle it out in our streets.
But no longer.
The sacred cows too long off limits in the polite society of our (Often government subsidized) betters are being slaughtered one by one.
Pity the MSM and our mainstream political parties remain behind the curve.
The Liberal caucus found itself, once again, a house divided as the United Nations’ top court met this week to hear arguments put forth by South Africa that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
As the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) convened on Thursday, two Liberal MPs, Iqra Khalid and Omar Alghabra, released separate statements on X in support of South Africa’s submission against Israel.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made a stop Thursday in Toronto’s Canary Landing, a new rental community just east of the city’s downtown, to discuss the government’s new housing plans. But a question about recent warnings concerning immigration levels and housing supply elicited a less than satisfactory response.
Filthy liar.
Chrystia Freeland is asked why the Trudeau government didn’t lower immigration levels when it had been warned that housing levels could not keep up with immigration growth. pic.twitter.com/Itiz93CvRs
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) January 11, 2024
The story about Justin Trudeau’s Christmas vacation to Jamaica won’t go away, and with good reason – someone isn’t telling the truth.
Canada’s current immigration policy — among the most open in the world — is now causing economic damage and needs to be reconsidered, according the country’s top economists.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to dramatically increase immigration — and allow a flood of temporary workers and international students — without providing proper support has created a laundry list of economic problems, including higher inflation and weak productivity, chief economists at Canada’s biggest banks said Thursday during a wide-ranging panel discussion in Toronto.
… “I’ll put it bluntly: We’ve fallen into the population trap,” said Stéfane Marion, chief economist at National Bank of Canada. An increase in the standard of living is no longer possible because “you don’t have enough savings to stabilize your capital to labor ratio.”
You have to wonder how low Justin Trudeau’s support would be if it weren’t for seniors. Right now, that’s the best performing demographic for voter support that Trudeau’s Liberals can count on and he’s not even winning them.
Flavio Volpe, head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, believes the recent electric vehicle targets set out by Canada’s environment minister also carried this pointed message to Canada’s domestic auto industry: “Let them eat cake.”
Volpe says he has come to this conclusion because he believes those goals, which include a national target of 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035, cannot be met.
Federal public servants warned the government two years ago that large increases to immigration could affect housing affordability and services, internal documents show.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press through an access-to-information request show Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada analyzed the potential effects immigration would have on the economy, housing and services, as it prepared its immigration targets for 2023-2025.
The deputy minister, among others, was warned in 2022 that housing construction had not kept up with the pace of population growth.
In my view this is a cruel criminal act that has caused deep and lasting harm to Canada’s social fabric.
Trudeau’s Liberals have harmed virtually all citizens the most vulnerable of whom can no longer afford rent or even dream of home ownership.
Only Trudeau’s vile corporate cronies have benefitted from this greed driven plot.
Does no law exist that can remove Trudeau from office?
Expect no help from the CPC as they are committed to the same destructive mass immigration policy.
Sadly that lickspittle Singh will continue to support that pig Trudeau.
Big Frickin Deal You Lying Sack of Sh*t It won't undo the deliberate & profound economic harm your government's cruel mass immigration policy has caused Canadians: Immigration is making Canada's housing more expensive. The government was warned 2 years ago https://t.co/7dgusKEPMx
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 11, 2024
Canada has granted permanent residency to more than 355,000 foreign students over the past three years, according to recent disclosures by the Department of Immigration.
These students are part of a larger group of over 627,000 former temporary residents who obtained permanent residency during the same period, spanning from 2021 to 2023, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. These numbers coincide with the highest federal immigration quotas in Canadian history.
Justin Trudeau responds to calls for probe into allegations of sexual assault by Hamas
OTTAWA — Calls by women from across the political spectrum for Canada to play a role in investigating Hamas’s use of sexual violence in its Oct. 7 attacks on Israel are finally being answered.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ordered two key cabinet ministers to look into exactly how Canada could support a request from former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne, former deputy Conservative leader Lisa Raitt and others to commit $1 million to support victims and survivors, and send the RCMP to Israel to aid in investigations.
Allegations? Trudeau craves the Muslim vote he won’t do a damn thing.
OTTAWA—At the dawn of a new year that could see the federal Conservatives continue to outpace the slumping Liberals, fresh polling suggests Justin Trudeau and his government are entering 2024 with some of its worst-ever levels of support.
The newest numbers from Abacus Data, shared exclusively with the Star, show that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives reversed their five percentage point drop in the polls from December by gaining four points during the research firm’s latest round of polling.
But the findings offer the grimmest outlook yet for the Trudeau Liberals since they ascended to power, with the survey showing that 58 per cent of Canadians disapprove of the current federal government.
