Spooked by polls, Liberal MPs hope Trudeau hears their concerns as caucus gathers

Some Liberal members of Parliament heading into a national caucus retreat this week say they’re facing blowback from voters at the doorsteps — and they hope the prime minister and his inner circle listen to their concerns before it’s too late.

The Liberals are holding three days of meetings starting Tuesday in London, Ont., a key battleground region of southwestern Ontario, as their party faces its worst polling numbers since forming government in 2015.

The talks are set to focus on making housing more affordable and increasing supply, improving health care and fighting climate change, according to a senior government source.

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Poll finds more than half of Canadians want fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s target

More than half of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than it is planning for in 2023, a new poll shows – a rise from one in three in March.

The poll also found that 55 per cent of Canadians want Canada to accept fewer international students than the 900,000 expected by the government this year.

A Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail found a rise of almost 20 percentage points in the past six months in the number of Canadians who think this country should accept fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s 2023 target of 465,000.

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Feds Open to Revising Immigration Targets to Address Housing Challenges, Says Minister

Canada’s housing minister says the government is open to revising its immigration targets amid unprecedented strains on the country’s housing market.

One avenue to alleviate housing pressures could be through reducing the surging number of international student visas, said Sean Fraser, who previously served as immigration minister.

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Blame Trudeau for housing, sure – but the real fault belongs to your local mayor

The pain inflicted on many Canadians by the out-of-control housing market has escalated to new levels, as has the desire to pin the blame on someone.

At the top of that list, according to a recent Leger poll, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. When asked which level of government should be assigned the most blame when it comes to housing, 40 per cent of those surveyed pointed at Ottawa; 32 per cent blamed their provincial leaders; 22 per cent weren’t sure who was at fault; only 6 per cent called out their local city council.


There would be no housing shortage had Trudeau not callously opened the immigration floodgates.

The media narrative however is to gloss over the role of mass immigration in this fiasco to protect the interests of the Corporate class.

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John Ivison: Ottawa fiddles around on firefighting while wildfires burn

Canada’s summer of wildfires has exposed its political leaders as participants in a never-ending roundtable, jabbering about solutions while the country burns.

It must be clear even to this federal government that it cannot keep calling on its combat professionals to sling sandbags and mopping up after fires if it wants to have any level of operational readiness during a period of heightened geopolitical tensions.

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MORGAN: Trudeau is directly responsible for Canada’s housing crisis

Canada needs to have a serious discussion about its immigration levels and fast.

It’s a subject conservative politicians shy away from as they will inevitably be accused of racism and progressive politicians won’t discuss because it’s such an effective wedge against Conservatives.

The politics must stop and reality must set in.

Canada’s heading into a socioeconomic crisis due to immigration policies.

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GUNTER: Trudeau Liberals, BoC’s Macklem seem economically illiterate

It’s not that the Liberals’ record-high immigration is causing inflation, housing unaffordability and unemployment all by itself. Nor are the federal government’s two carbon taxes solely responsible for the rising cost of living. The Bank of Canada’s willingness to print money for the Trudeau government to spend and the bank’s string of interest rate hikes aren’t the only causes, either.

But you roll all of those together and you end up with an economic crisis the likes of which Canada has not seen since the early 1990s.

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Trudeau’s foreign students scam likely underestimates the cost of living for international students

Is Canada underestimating the cost of living for international students?

The Canadian government is likely severely underestimating the cost of living for international students when weighing if they can support themselves financially, a new survey suggests.

According to a recent survey by the Daily Bread food bank, which was released on Wednesday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s estimated living expense used during the application process is nearly half of what a student in Toronto typically spends.

It’s just another leg of Trudeau’s mass immigration scam.

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‘It’s deeply corrosive to our democracy’: What Michael Chong will tell an American probe into Chinese interference about being targeted

QUEBEC CITY—Conservative MP Michael Chong, twice the target of alleged Chinese state interference, will make the case to American legislators Tuesday that more international co-operation is urgently required to thwart Beijing’s efforts to meddle in Western democracies.

His top-line message: If influence operations go unchecked, they will threaten economic prosperity, undermine public confidence in democracy and place social cohesion at risk.

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Trudeau’s Media Outraged Grass Root Conservatives Vote Against Mutilation Of Children’s Genitalia!

Kids love this says Blackie’s media.

Pierre Poilievre’s push to keep convention focused on economy falls to grassroots votes for social policies

QUEBEC CITY—Efforts by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to keep his party focused on an economic message to win the next election took a blow Saturday as the party’s grassroots voted in favour of social policies likely to give the Liberals a renewed line of attack.

The majority of party members voted in favour of a ban on providing medical or surgical treatments to minors questioning their gender identity, as well as one that voiced support for “women-only” spaces like bathrooms.


What sort of monster gets their jollies from mutilating children?  I wonder at the medical schools that churn out Mengele’s spiritual offspring.

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Advocates call on federal government to fund housing for so called foreign students

Minister, advocates say they fear international students will be blamed for housing crisis

Immigration Minister Marc Miller and student advocates across the country say they worry about immigrants and international students being singled out for blame because of the housing crisis.

“It’s one of my fears,” Miller said in a recent interview with CBC News. “I do worry about the stigmatization of particularly people of diversity that come to this country to make it better, and that includes international students.”

So why did you invite so many Miller? Everyone knows the foreign student scam is just a way to purchase Canadian citizenship.

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Canadian Population Growth Requires 50k New Jobs Per Month: Stat Can

Canada’s population boom led to a talent windfall, but the country has no idea how to use it. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data revealed much better-than-expected job gains in August 2023. However, those job gains failed to keep up with the population growth, ultimately softening the labor market. It may get a lot worse soon, with Stat Can estimating Canada needs to add about 50k jobs per month to maintain the strength of the current market. That would imply a near-record needs to be hit every single month.

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Conrad Black: Steven Guilbeault’s destructive crusade against Canadian prosperity

Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Steven Guilbeault, has been an activist all of his conscient life.

He co-founded an organization that rejoiced in the name Action for Solidarity, Equity, Environment and Development. In 2001, when he was in his early 30s, he scaled the CN Tower like Spiderman to an altitude of 340 metres and unfurled a banner proclaiming “Canada and Bush — Climate Killers.”

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China threatens ‘consequences’ over Canadian inquiry into alleged meddling

China is warning of “consequences” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government unless it stops spreading “lies and false information” about alleged interference in Canadian affairs.

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa issued a stern statement on Friday, a day after Canada announced a public inquiry into meddling by China, Russia and other state and non-state actors in Canadian national elections in 2019 and 2021.

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Frustrated Liberals say Pierre Poilievre is crushing them — and some of them are blaming Justin Trudeau

They are frustrated. Many are discouraged. Others are angry. Morale in the Liberal caucus is as bleak as Grit MPs report ever seeing it.

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hears them out — and his backbench musters up the courage to speak, MPs predict “sparks will fly” when the Liberal caucus meets in London, Ont., next week.

“We don’t feel that we have a partner in the Prime Minister’s Office that is doing what it needs to be doing to help us at this time,” said one of more than a dozen MPs who spoke to the Star for this column. Some MPs requested anonymity to speak candidly, others spoke on-the-record. On or off the record, they all believe change is drastically needed.


This is one of the more bizarre Star/LPC propaganda pieces in a while. Liberal MP’s say they’ve taken the pulse of the people and housing and the cost of living are the issues that matter but the PM isn’t doing enough to communicate the LPC’s concern and solutions to these matters.

Oddly none of the MP’s or the Star columnist mention Trudeau and his corporate cronies are the single greatest creators of the housing crisis with their heinous mass immigration policy. But they have convinced themselves of Justin’s fine environmental stewardship failing to admit  the damage Trudeau’s eco-policy has done to people’s pocketbooks by throttling the oil industry and imposing carbon taxes that are magically supposed to change the weather, fight forest fires and offset China’s use of coal.

Maybe they’re speaking in code or like zombie sycophants are so deeply in Junior’s thrall that reality cannot penetrate.

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