As Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer has reported, average Canadian households are already paying hundreds of dollars more in carbon taxes every year than they receive in rebates.
Yves Giroux says those costs – the result of the negative impact of carbon pricing on the economy – will rise every year as the carbon tax increases from $65 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions this year to $170 per tonne in 2030.
In light of the recent killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the already strained diplomatic relations between India and Canada – two countries historically connected through trade and culture – have deteriorated further. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week accused Indian government agents of a role in Nijjar’s murder, a charge New Delhi categorically denied.
Terming Trudeau’s allegations “absurd and politically motivated”, India suspended a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat action and suspended visa services for Canadian citizens. The Indian government also asked Trudeau to provide evidence to back his claim but received none, so far.
Ajit Doval looks nothing like a spy.
Short, balding and bespectacled, the 78-year-old national security adviser to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has none of the James Bond daring you might expect from one of India’s most storied spooks.
For decades, Canada was a safe haven for Sikhs. Many left their native India in the 1980s and ’90s after thousands died there during armed struggles for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. Nearly 800,000 Sikhs live in Canada today, the largest community outside India.
While the Sikh separatist movement is hardly visible in India anymore, it is still very much alive within the diaspora in Canada. The relationship between India and Canada has been tense for many years because of this.
Statistics Canada last week released a sobering but hardly surprising study of the current state of young people in Canada. Many cannot find affordable housing, forcing 43 per cent of 20 to 29-year-olds to live with their parent(s). Nearly 40 per cent believe they can’t afford to have a child over the next three years. Others are having trouble entering the labour market, a problem shared by most youth cohorts but which seems particularly challenging today because of technology. More broadly, Statcan notes young people’s mental health has been declining steadily since 2003, with feelings of loneliness rising and attachment to community declining.
In-house research by the federal government found that some participants in an online focus group thought the budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was “self-congratulatory.”
The study was conducted by market research firm Leger on behalf of the Department of Finance, to gauge public opinion on the Mar. 28 budget speech, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. The findings were released on Mar. 31.
You’ll find your self nodding in agreement.
It has been a very bad couple of weeks for social cohesion in Trudeau’s Canada.
But I am pleased to witness Trudeau’s weaponized use of identity politics blowing up in his face.
To recap…
Junior tossed a hand grenade into the middle of relations with India over his support of resident Sikh separatists.
He offended parents in general by defaming them as bigots because they stood up for parental rights. Now members of the Muslim diaspora are demanding a formal apology.
Then came the topper, his government invited a Ukrainian man with an indisputable association with the Waffen SS to be honored in parliament.
Backed into a corner Trudeau offered his usual mealy mouthed non-apology to all who were offended.
All of this obscuring this week’s upcoming “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation” a celebration of the anti-Christian church burnings Trudeau triggered by supporting the fake graves mania.
No one wins in Trudeau’s genocidal nation of Canada.
We are being deliberately manipulated into a permanent state of racial and sectarian tension.
And that’s how they want us, scared and malleable.
Liberal party policies have resulted in large swaths of society conditioned to believe they possess a permanent entitled victimhood.
Our history and heritage are trampled, our institutions made hollow and our social and economic security crushed under a wave of mass immigration that benefits only the Corporate class and their minion politicos.
This is not the Canada I grew up in. It is not the Canada any of us deserve.
I have never seen the comments section of this blog as inflamed as it was this week.
Reader has been pitted against reader all of it tied to Trudeau’s Photo-Op gone wrong.
My view remains unchanged.
There were no easy choices in that time and place.
The Waffen-SS Galicia Division did commit war crimes.
Poles and Jews are rightfully indignant that a member of the Waffen SS was honored in parliament.
Not every man who volunteered for what came to be known as the 1st Ukrainian Division was a Nazi or personally committed war crimes.
We have not heard the last of it.
There are calls for new inquiries and for old reports to be re-opened with all information withheld to be made public.
No doubt new wounds will be inflicted and old ones re-opened.
But we should not forget our history good or bad.
Operation Keelhaul is one example: The repatriation of Russian POWs turned out to be a ghastly and grisly process. Some of the men simply committed suicide rather than return. The world hardly knew what was happening, though details managed to trickle out here and there.
Let them eat scallops!
Make that seared and crusted scallops, poached shrimp, pulled beef barbacoa and, of course, lamb meatballs.
The homeless will be eating well in Ottawa Friday. Or maybe, more accurately, they are enjoying the spoils of Canada’s parliamentarians.
Canada assassination claim sparks rare consensus in India’s polarised politics and media
When Justin Trudeau stood up in Canadian parliament last week to announce there were “credible allegations” that agents linked to the Indian government had been involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist in a suburb of Vancouver, it sent reverberations across the world.
Countries from the US to the UK expressed concern at the allegations, urging India to cooperate with the investigation. Inside India, the response was defiant. The government called the allegations “absurd” and politically motivated and attempted to turn the tables, accusing Canada of being a rogue state that is a “safe haven for terrorists”.
Things somehow managed to go from bad to worse for the flailing Justin Trudeau on Monday when he was slapped with a stinging rebuke from the Muslim Association of Canada.
In a sharply worded statement, the 55,000-member faith-based organization condemned the prime minister (among other politicians and groups) for making statements that it claimed mischaracterized last week’s 1 Million March 4 Children and, implicitly, the involvement of members of the Muslim community in the protests. (Muslim organizers like Calgary’s Mahmood Mourra were highly visible in the protest’s leadership).
Justin Trudeau’s apology for the Nazi controversy is a start — but it’s not enough
… Trudeau, after issuing the apology on behalf of Parliament, revealed that Canada had already said sorry to Ukraine privately for marring what should have been a great day for Zelenskyy and his visit to Ottawa.
It was only last week that Canada’s relations with India, the world’s largest democracy, went downhill fast. The drama became a big international story and when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the United Nations in New York last week, the India affair was pretty much all he was asked about.
Trudeau publicly accused the Indian government of participating in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil—a Sikh independence activist born in India who has been accused of terrorism, a charge he had denied. Trudeau produced no meaningful evidence and India was not happy, creating a chill in relations that included the stopping of all visas for Canadian citizens.
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It is entirely appropriate that Justin Trudeau has issued a formal apology to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Jewish communities around the world for the grave diplomatic humiliation of paying tribute to a Nazi in the House of Commons, even as the Ukrainian president struggles to kill the myth that Nazism is rampant in his nation’s politics and society.
Months after a pro-Khalistan activist was shot and killed in Surrey, B.C., a second Sikh activist was allegedly warned by law enforcement about threats to his life, according to a newly disclosed document.
The document, titled “duty to warn” is addressed to Gurmit Singh Toor and dated August 24. It was made public by pro-Khalistan activist group Sikhs For Justice.
Speaking through a translator, Toor confirmed to CBC News that Surrey RCMP and the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) came to his home and issued the warning. CBC News is working to confirm the veracity of the document with RCMP, but has not yet received a response.
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian military who, it turns out, fought under the Nazis in the Second World War.
