Since I’ve been complaining about our national myopia on matters of economic growth and productivity, let me give you a timely example. Consider two fresh news items pegged to an announcement of quarterly financials by the supermarket giant Loblaw: one for Yahoo written by Financial Post alumna Alicja Siekerska, and one for the CBC by Sophia Harris.
“I am really, really concerned about the escalation of violence in our city, particularly the violent incidents that we have experienced, whether close to the Belvedere LRT station, or the random shooting that took place in the west end.”
That’s how Mayor Amarjeet Sohi summed up his concern two weeks ago after occupants in a luxury car engaged in three separate shootings in our city on July 15 and after 52-year-old Rukinisha Nkundabatware was murdered in a random stabbing at the Belvedere LRT station the previous week on July 9.
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals want their recent cabinet changes to improve their economic message, but new data show Canadians believe the Liberal government is the party the least equipped do deal with economic concerns.
An Abacus Data poll released just hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his overhauled front bench on Wednesday, showed the Liberals 10 points behind the opposition Conservatives. If those numbers held until the next election, they would virtually assure Conservatives of winning the most seats and possibly a majority government, but a deeper look shows the Liberals to be especially weak on pocketbook issues.
The guy who cut my hair last week taught me something about the Temporary Foreign Worker program: It’s even looser than I thought.
Fixing that, and a number of other things that aren’t quite right about the immigration system, comes down to the Trudeau government. So, don’t hold your breath.
After Sean Fraser was shuffled from Immigration Minister to Housing Minister on Wednesday, he said Canada can’t “close the door on newcomers.” As if that’s what the government’s critics are calling for. Is it possible for Canadians to discuss a serious economic issue, seriously? Or is polarizing name-calling all that our politics has left?
The TFW is a worse scam now than under Harper.
For China watchers, the arrest of a retired RCMP officer for allegedly helping China with its interference efforts in Canada is not surprising, given Beijing’s extensive network of spies and agents in Canada and its ambitions for global domination.
Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, says Canada is particularly infested with a proportionally higher number of CCP agents compared to other countries.
Here’s a short list of things that Ottawa spends money on but has no constitutional responsibility for: health care, child care, new fridges for big grocery companies, and Gen Y tech consultants for small businesses.
Not on that list, however, is full-fledged support to pay for the rapidly mounting costs of immigration – borders and immigration being, when last we checked, within the ambit of the federal government.
Wednesday’s federal cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was about as big as any by a government in the middle of its term.
Justice minister out. Not shunted to an equally powerful position or even demoted, but out completely. Public safety minister out. President of the Treasury Board, out. Transport, too.
Conservatives are ‘stoking anger’, Trudeau says, following massive cabinet makeover
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to paint a clear choice between himself and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in Newfoundland on Thursday one day after the Liberals overhauled their front bench and assigned 23 cabinet ministers new portfolios.
Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet shakeup is taking place at time when the Liberals have been losing ground to Conservatives in a number of public opinion polls and while Liberal insiders say a shakeup was clearly needed just two years shy of the last federal election. When he unveiled his cabinet, the Prime Minister did not say the changes were as a result of internal issues. Instead, the Liberals are promising a greater focus on the economy and housing.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the big shakeup of his federal cabinet on Wednesday was about bringing “fresh energy” to focus his government’s attention on the affordability problems Canadians are facing.
But the shuffle — the biggest since coming to power in 2015 — is being seen by some as an end of the Liberals’ sunny days of yore. Here are four problems that are facing Trudeau that potentially played a role in the cabinet renovation.
The cost to Canadian taxpayers of mandatory quarantine hotels used during the COVID-19 pandemic has already hit nearly $339 million and accounting isn’t finished, according to figures disclosed to date by the federal government.
A Health Canada briefing note, disclosed by Blacklock’s Reporter on July 25, indicates that expenses for each traveller housed in a hotel for 72 hours were at a cost of more than $17,000.
But it always get worse …
‘Pain for Canadian Taxpayers’: Trans Mountain Will Not Be Profitable, Say Analysts
The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion project has reached the point where it cannot make enough money to cover its growing debt. That’s according to several analysts who have been watching the project.
Earlier this year Trans Mountain announced that project costs had ballooned to $30.9 billion—a far cry from the $4.5 billion the federal government paid for the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, expansion project, and terminals in 2018.
To say first what can be said: Anita Anand and Jean-Yves Duclos will each bring a reputation for competence to portfolios – Treasury Board and Procurement – that could sorely use some.
Dominic LeBlanc is a safe pair of hands to throw Public Safety to. Marc Miller will bring passion and commitment as Minister of Immigration. The choice of rising star Sean Fraser for Housing indicates what a hot issue it has become.
Wednesday’s cabinet shuffle proves that the Trudeau Liberals realize they have mishandled key files, in particular housing affordability, said opposition leaders, but they don’t believe the new ministers will change much.
“Justin Trudeau fired a lot of ministers today and admitted that his government is broken, but he didn’t fire the minister of inflation Chrystia Freeland, who weeks after saying that government deficits drive inflation decided to introduce $60 billion more in government deficits,” said Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in Timmins, Ont.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fueled economic growth and plugged gaps in the labor market by ramping up immigration, but now new arrivals are straining public services and contributing to an overheating economy, economists say.
Since taking power in 2015, Trudeau has brought in an estimated 2.5 million new permanent residents, driving the population above 40 million.
Trudeau is deliberately changing the nations demographic. He hates Canada.
The climate-change movement is a powerful cultural entity. It does not affirm or negate the reality of its core narrative, which is for science to decide. Culture does, however, explain the power and prevalence of the narrative, the political and societal responses to it and the apparent willingness of many people to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat, without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact. In a new book available from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Grip of Culture: the Social Psychology of Climate Change Catastrophism, Andy A. West, who works for the Philosophy Foundation in London, provides an academic analysis of the phenomenon. Its lessons have particular relevance to Canada’s climate obsession.
Canada is run by a collective High School mentality with roughly the depth of darling Greta and it most assuredly is not a High School for the gifted.
Earlier this week, several leading members of Justin Trudeau’s team were asked which of the summer blockbusters they wanted to see first: “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer.”
The prime minister wasn’t one of the respondents to the Politico survey, hunkered down as he was working his own summer blockbuster of sorts — the major cabinet shuffle unveiled on Wednesday.
