Canada’s new immigration minister said he is open to “having a conversation” on concerns raised by some economists and groups on rising immigration targets amid a housing shortage, but said he still has no plans to lower them in the near future.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Sorry, Prime Minister Trudeau, housing is your primary responsibility
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke from a podium in Hamilton this week sporting a circular bandage on his forehead, the result of an injury he sustained while playing with his kids. I won’t be surprised, however, if the PM appears with an additional band aid on his head in the coming days, the result of banging it against his desk after making arguably one of his worst gaffes in recent years.
Pretty bad when Blackie’s Star takes him to task.
Australia made a deal to keep news on Facebook. Why couldn’t Canada?
Back in February 2021, Facebook blocked news on its platforms across Australia to protest a proposed law that would have forced it, along with Google, to pay media companies for stories appearing on their sites.
About a week later, Facebook and Google struck a deal with the Australian government and the restriction stopped. Yet in Canada, such a deal never materialized.
Instead, Ottawa passed the Online News Act in June, requiring tech giants to pay news outlets for content they share or otherwise repurpose.
Justin Trudeau’s quandary: to go or not to go
Earlier this week, the federal Conservative Party dropped a new online ad targeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
It begins with Mr. Trudeau, on the 2015 campaign trail, promising to “prioritize new investments in affordable housing.” It then jumps to 2021, with the Prime Minister talking about housing once again.
“For far too long a first home has been out of reach for far too many,” he says. “It’s time to change that.”
Finally, the ad concludes with a clip of Mr. Trudeau from this year. “I’ll be blunt as well, housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility,” he says.
Trudeau government’s plan to end fossil fuel subsidies does not actually end a single one
In 2009, Ottawa made its first commitment to end “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.” Last year, this was adopted as a mandate of the Trudeau government.
However, instead of delivering on this pledge when the federal government released its framework in July, the new policy consists only of guidelines to evaluate subsidies without announcing the elimination of any of them.
Decoupling From China: Canada Among the Laggards
Economic decoupling from China gathered steam during the pandemic when the vulnerability of supply chains came to the fore. But Canada’s economic linkages with China haven’t diminished, despite its closest ally the United States actively doing so.
Whether it’s called decoupling or friendshoring or nearshoring, international trade expert Eric Miller says it’s primarily about reducing risk—de-risking—in trade with China and then adjusting to the impacts.
Narcissist Trudeau will run again as Canada’s PM despite separation, shuffle and general public disgust at his very being
Trudeau focused to stay on as Canada’s PM amid separation, shuffle: analysts
Justin Trudeau’s surprise announcement that he and his wife were separating, just a week after a broad cabinet reshuffle, underscores the Canadian prime minister’s focus and intent to lead the Liberal Party into a fourth election victory, despite sagging opinion polls, pollsters and insiders said.
On Wednesday, Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau unexpectedly announced their separation, likely marking the end of their 18-year-long high profile marriage. The separation is one of Trudeau’s biggest personal crises, although insiders and political commentators said he wants to ride out the aftershocks.
GREEN: Trudeau EV mandates wildly out of sync with EV metals timelines
Recently on Twitter, Alberta MP Shannon Stubbs, Tory shadow minister for energy and natural resources, put forth a series of tweets on Ontario’s Ring of Fire region, heretofore a promised land of metals and minerals invoked as an enabling resource for the Trudeau government’s electric vehicle (EV) dreams.
Anthony Furey: Canadians Are Worried About Rising Fuel Prices, and Politicians Should Listen
Canadians’ wallets have been hit hard recently by inflation. Prices have gone up at the grocery store, gas station, and pretty much everywhere else consumers shop. But don’t expect any sympathy from Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her recent remarks on the situation only rub salt in the wound.
Here’s the background to Freeland’s latest gaffe. On July 1, the Trudeau Liberals plowed ahead with their plans to increase the federal carbon tax yet again. This annual increase to what’s basically a “tax on everything” has sadly become a common occurrence.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Liberal policies are fuelling labour strife across Canada
The ongoing B.C. port strike is the labour version of a reality dating show — it’s full of unpredictable twists, hosted by a federal Liberal party that favours sound bites over substance, and one half of the relationship can’t commit.
But it’s far from the only rockier-than-usual labour negotiation we’ve seen as of late. As port workers strike out west, about 3,700 Metro grocery store workers are striking in Ontario, shuttering 27 locations. Manitoba Liquor Mart employees also continue to strike as negotiations have reportedly stalled.
CTF says Ottawa spending too much on government branding
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the feds are going overboard when it comes to branding merchandise with the logo of a department or the motto of a Crown corporation.
“It’s like the government had a contest to see which department could come up with the dumbest way to spend taxpayers’ money and they all won,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director, in a statement.
GOLDSTEIN: Someone tell Freeland she’s not like the average Canadian
Deputy PM and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland would be well-advised to stop telling Canadians personal anecdotes about how she’s just like one of them.
Trudeau discovers housing crisis his destructive mass immigration policy created, declares himself blameless
There are simply not enough affordable places for people to live across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday during an housing announcement in Hamilton, where he promised the federal government would work to scale up supply.
Mr. Trudeau stood alongside Mayor Andrea Horwath in Hamilton to announce a joint plan to build and repair 214 homes in the city, with Ottawa spending $45-million for four projects. The City of Hamilton will contribute $19.1-million.
“Today is about increasing housing supply,” Mr. Trudeau said. “I will be blunt as well: Housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. It’s not something we have direct carriage of. But it is something that we can and must help with.”
What a shit.
Michael Taube: Canadian Governments Need to Do More to Properly Crack Down on Money Laundering
Canada has witnessed a rise in the criminal activity of money laundering. So much so, the word “haven” has been used by Canadian and international publications to describe how some criminals view our country. The federal government and provincial governments, including the recent example of Quebec, have attempted to curtail this long-standing problem. Whether these solutions will make a dent remains a huge question mark.
Trudeau projects own miserable failings on Poilievre
Trudeau pans Poilievre’s approach as ‘dangerous for Canadians’
Less than a week after naming his new cabinet vowing a renewed focus on the concerns of Canadians, the one name Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn’t keep out of his mouth on Monday was Pierre Poilievre.
At an event announcing multimillion-dollar joint federal-municipal investment towards building more homes in Hamilton, Ont., Trudeau brought the Conservative leader up multiple times, from panning his housing, health and homelessness policy proposals, to distilling his leadership style down to “cuts and be angry,” while vowing the Liberals intend to take a different tact.