When Vijay Jayaraj was growing up in India, power blackouts were frequent. He said the blackouts affected everything from schooling to employment—because when there was no power, it was difficult to get much done.
He pointed to the cotton industry of South India, a major employer.
“But all the industries were disrupted whenever there were phases … of continuous blackouts, eventually translating into thousands of lost jobs,” he told The Epoch Times
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his newly reshuffled cabinet will tackle housing affordability when they meet next week to try and craft a plan that will deliver for voters and reverse the Liberals’ flagging fortunes.
Mr. Trudeau will join his 38 ministers in Charlottetown for a three-day retreat beginning on Monday as they prepare for the return of Parliament in September and refresh their policy agenda to focus on the housing crisis – an issue that a growing chorus of people inside and outside the government say the Liberals have been slow to respond to.
During Wynne’s final run for office I was left with the distinct impression she was only going through the motions, even press coverage seemed at best a polite but distant nod as the province decided it was time to move on after years of Ontario Liberal mismanagement.
I get the same sense with Junior of late as both his domestic and foreign image have tanked. No one likes a woke scold and he is not the type able to withstand ridicule.
Canadians have finally fallen out of love with Trudeau. The shine has come off a career that at times seemed to defy political gravity. Instead of Trudeaumania, the nation is suffering from Trudeau fatigue.
The Liberal prime minister’s approval ratings have slumped below 30pc among voters aged 18 to 34, according to national polling group the Angus Reid Institute. This is the group whose enthusiasm helped get Trudeau elected in 2015, re-elected in 2019 and again – just about – in 2021.
Voting intentions tell the same story, with a widening gap between the ruling Liberals and the Conservative opposition. Disillusionment has been fuelled by economic factors, including soaring interest rates and a housing crisis.
In a commencement address to graduating students at Boston’s Northwestern University in May, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the fundamental question of our time is: “Does capitalist democracy still work?”
Freeland recently gave the most depressing graduation speech of all time.
It was so bad, that the audience simply disengaged, focusing entirely on the Fenway Jumbotron as a form of escapism from the unhinged dystopian ranting.
Watch it to the end – you won't be disappointed. pic.twitter.com/2WKasI1bz2
— The Amazing Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) August 17, 2023
She is ignorant of the fact that Capitalist Democracy is not working because of her government’s destructive policies.
So Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is going to Beijing from Aug. 26–31 to cuddle up to the Chinese Communist Party.
If you think that is too strong a contention, consider how Guilbeault is executive vice chairperson on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
Guilbeault’s loyalty is not to Canada.
It is difficult to decide whether Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault’s forthcoming trip to China is the result of extreme naiveté or outsized egotism.
More likely it is a factor of the two, so perhaps he is guilty of egotistical naiveté.
As part of his mission to save the world, Guilbeault is jetting off to Beijing later this month to talk about climate change.
Once you realize Guilbeault is a ChiCom asset his campaign to destroy Canada’s prosperity makes sense.
With Steven Guilbeault set to be the first Canadian cabinet minister to visit China since 2018, questions have been raised about his role with a Chinese regime environmental body.
Mr. Guilbeault, in charge of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), will go to China from Aug. 26 to 31 to participate in the annual general meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
Elizabeth May frustrated by lack of detail in top secret documents on foreign interference
“We don’t know their motives. We don’t know who they are and they seem to think that they can be protected by their own narrative that they’re whistleblowers,” said May. “I don’t buy it.
“Every Canadian should care to ensure that our security and intelligence establishment be reliable, that the people who work there take their oath seriously.”
The CSIS Whistleblower performed an invaluable public service in shining a light on China’s influence over a corrupt Liberal government and in revealing the extent of the rot caused by Canada’s China class. May is unfit to carry water for the unknown CSIS staffer.
How come Justin Trudeau’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, gives China a pass on its emissions but won’t even bother to negotiate new clean electricity regulations or fossil fuel subsidies with his fellow Canadians in Alberta?
Is it because the Communist Chinese government’s politics are closer to his own than those of the conservative Alberta government? Does Guilbeault have more in common with Beijing than Alberta?
With July inflation ramping up again on Tuesday, it’s obvious the battle ain’t over yet. The headline inflation rate jumped to 3.3 per cent from last month’s 2.8 per cent. While mortgage costs and food are major contributors to our stubborn inflation, energy prices have risen 5.8 per cent in the past four months, thanks in part to the carbon tax hike last April 1.
As the world continues its march to net-zero emissions by 2050, an interesting debate is rearing its head as to whether the energy price inflation will affect monetary policy. That point was made last year by Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board: “As we build a more sustainable economy, we face a new age of energy inflation … that can be expected to lead to a prolonged period of upside pressure on inflation,” she warned
Desperate calls by schools to urge local homeowners to rent out their rooms; students paying $650 a month to live three-to-a room in college towns boasting monthly rents upward of $2,000; a viral TikTok video purports to show an international student living under a bridge in Scarborough, Ont.
Housing is a complicated issue. It will take co-ordination, cash, and time to fix. But in the short term, there is at least one glaringly obvious – if surely controversial – way to help ease the challenge of finding affordable rental accommodation: We need to stop issuing so many international student visas.
— davrola (@davrola) August 18, 2023
Canada will be investing $644 million in a new battery materials production plant to be built in Becancour, Que., by automaker Ford Motor Co. and South Korean companies EcoProBM and SK On Co.
The federal government and the province of Quebec will each provide conditional loans of $322 million to build the plant, which is valued at more than $1.2 billion and is expected to create over 345 jobs, the federal government said in a press release on Aug. 17.
Fun fact!
Direct fed aid to electric carmakers now up to $32B, twice the annual output of the entire Canadian auto industry. "Remarkable," said @FP_Champagne. https://t.co/EZxEGfjyTi #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Y8zIKmgfFn
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) August 18, 2023
OTTAWA—Some Liberals say the mood inside their parliamentary caucus has soured in recent weeks over concerns about the government’s performance, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to huddle with his newly overhauled cabinet in Charlottetown.
Members of the government’s front bench will travel to the capital of Prince Edward Island next week for a three-day retreat, where they will strategize and discuss a range of issues linked to rising costs of living — particularly housing — and concerns about public safety and government services, said one senior adviser to the prime minister.
… the Liberal government has gone to extraordinary lengths to give employers a nearly unlimited supply of low-wage workers, with many of those now arriving via the education visa stream. Those visas used to be entirely about education, but many schools now appear to be partly or even mostly peddling something else, namely the opportunity to reside and work in Canada, usually in a low-wage job.
Canada’s immigration system used to be the envy of the world.
Note my use of the past tense.
To appreciate what was good about Canada’s previous immigration strategy – the one followed until recently through governments Progressive Conservative, Conservative and Liberal – contrast it with the dysfunction of our friends down south.
HATE THE LIBERALS.
ChiCom Useful Idiot Guilbeault urged to quit Chinese government advisory body chaired by senior member of Politburo
The federal Conservatives are calling on Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to resign his position on an advisory group to the Chinese government – a body chaired by a former chief of staff to President Xi Jinping – and to end Canadian funding to this organization that instructs Beijing on green development.
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development also promotes Beijing’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, a foreign-investment campaign that has been accused of ensnaring smaller nations in debt and then taking control of their infrastructure for China’s own strategic purposes.
HATE THE LIBERALS.
