John Ivison: The Liberals are strangling crypto. Maybe because of something Pierre Poilievre said

Chrystia Freeland is surely the most diligent finance minister this country has ever had — so busy that she can spare an hour of her day on Tuesday to appear at the finance committee to talk about the budget implementation bill, but not a minute more.

The Conservative MPs on the committee have ground proceedings to a halt of late, demanding that the finance minister spend a couple of hours answering questions on an omnibus bill they say amends 51 other acts, Freeland having declined three previous invitations.

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David Krayden: Why Did the Government Wait So Long to Expel Chinese Diplomat Given He Was Targeting Chinese Canadians?

The Liberal government finally expelled Chinese consulate official Zhao Wei last week when it became virtually impossible not to.

With mounting evidence that Zhao had put the family of Conservative MP Michael Chong under surveillance in Hong Kong, even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understood he needed to do something to indicate Canada’s official diplomatic disapproval that China cannot continue to interfere in Canadian politics—and elections—without any sanction.

The 64 Dollar Question.

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Poilievre perceived to be more competent than Trudeau, national poll shows

FREDERICTON — Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is seen as more competent and having better judgment than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a new poll suggests, but the PM is perceived to be kinder and less extreme than his rival.

The Abacus Data poll, conducted from May 9-12, asked 2,500 respondents from across the country a series of questions about the two leaders, including who represents Canadian values well, who genuinely cares about making Canada better and whether Trudeau and Poilievre hide their true views to make them more acceptable.

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Privately, Stellantis warned Justin Trudeau it could pull out of multibillion-dollar EV deal if Ottawa doesn’t pay more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was warned last month that auto giant Stellantis might scrap a $5-billion electric-vehicle battery factory in Windsor if Ottawa refused to match U.S.-style subsidies given to Volkswagen in St. Thomas, Ont., the Star has learned.

In a letter dated April 19, the heads of Stellantis and Korea-based LG Energy Solution — the two companies in a joint venture — told Trudeau the project was in jeopardy if he did not honour what the company says was a promise in writing to close the “competitive gap posed by the U.S. legislation.”

Stellantis upped the ante Monday in a high-stakes negotiation that has been going on for months behind closed doors and halted construction on the facility that’s supposed to open next year and employ 2,500 workers.

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Two solitudes emerging on immigration in Quebec

Quebec sovereigntists were buzzing last week as if they’d found an issue to breathe new life into their cause: the federal government’s expanded immigration targets.

Actually, it’s not really new: Ottawa’s plan to increase the number of immigrants to 500,000 a year by 2025 was released more than six months ago.


The Trudeau government may not have officially adopted the Century Initiative’s goal to increase Canada’s population to 100 million but they’re working on it just the same.

Neither the CPC or NDP will raise the issue out of fear of being labeled “racist” and a need to please the corporate class.

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Stellantis stops construction on Windsor, Ont., EV battery plant – VW Sized Handout Of Tax Payer Cash Likely Needed Says Ford

Doug Ford warns Trudeau government needs to ‘step up’ with subsidies for auto giant Stellantis

As Stellantis halted construction on its massive Windsor battery factory, Premier Doug Ford warns Ottawa has to “step up” to match subsidies given to Volkswagen in St. Thomas.

The Star revealed Friday the federal government is renegotiating with Stellantis — parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Fiat — because the company is threatening to relocate its new electric-vehicle facility to the U.S. unless it receives the same payouts VW received.


Stellantis stops construction on Windsor, Ont., EV battery plant

One of the world’s largest automakers has stopped construction on an electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., saying the federal government has not delivered on what was promised.

Stellantis, which makes Chrysler, Ram and Fiat cars among others, and South Korean battery-maker LG Energy Solution announced the $5-billion plant last year and said it was expected to create 2,500 jobs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he is worried and the federal government needs to support Stellantis in the same way it did Volkswagen.

Why worry Dougie? It’s not your money.

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Average Canadian house price rose to $716,000 in April — up by $100K since January

After plunging due to interest rate hikes throughout last year, the average price of a Canadian resale home has now increased for four months in a row, new numbers showed Monday.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday that the average selling price of a home that sold on its MLS system in April went for $716,000. That’s the fourth monthly increase in a row, and it marks a collective increase of more than $100,000 since the start of the year.

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Trudeau government allows Communist China to decimate domestic plywood manufacturing industry

Canadian plywood makers seek duties as cheap Chinese rivals carve out half the market

It’s been years since Carlos Zarate and others in Canada’s decorative plywood industry started telling the federal government about a growing problem in their business.

The president of the Canadian Hardwood Plywood and Veneer Association warns of an industry in decline, but not due to falling demand for things like kitchen cabinets, decorative wood panels, furniture, and other non-structural wood products.

Zarate, who’s also president of Industrie Ergie Inc. in Victoriaville, Que., said the association’s members have seen their market share in Canada drop because they are unable to compete with plywood products imported from China at prices domestic producers could never hope to match, let alone beat.

Yet another example of Trudeau serving the interests of the China Class.

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Lack of ‘national security culture’ in Ottawa to blame for missed intel: ex-officials

Canada’s politicians need to be more proactive to responding to foreign interference by establishing a “national security culture” within the government to recognize threats when they emerge, former intelligence and security officials say.

While they believe institutions like the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) are equipped to respond to national security issues — though underfunded — very few people outside those agencies are experienced with the issue.

There is a security culture in Ottawa, the LPC is fully cooperative with Communist China.

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Mendicino concedes there could be new ‘Chinese police stations’ in Canada, insists RCMP will shut them down

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino concedes there may be new so-called “Chinese police stations” in Canada after saying last month they’d all been shut down, but he insists the RCMP will close any new sites if they do exist.

The Spanish human rights organization Safeguard Defenders said last fall it had identified more than 100 of these alleged Chinese overseas police stations, including several in Canada. The groups says these stations serve to spy on Chinese dissidents in Canada and abroad and collect information about opponents to the regime in Beijing, under the guise of providing resources to Chinese people living abroad.

Could be? That’s the answer you’d expect from a CCP compromised government.

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Poobahs in agreement: Tax Payers must fork out however many Billions it takes to please Automotive Corporate Welfare Cases

NextStar battery plant will be built: Kusmierczyk

Discussions on Stellantis’ ominous statement on negotiations concerning the $5-billion NextStar Energy battery plant under construction in Windsor involve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford, said Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk (Lib) Saturday.

“It’s so important to this community, it’s so important to the thousands of workers that will have good-paying jobs here for generations to come. I know that we will get an agreement done and I know that this battery plant will be built,” said Kusmierczyk.

It just keeps getting worse. We get to pay for the batteries powering EV’s we’ll likely never be allowed to own.

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GUNTER: Secrecy over China threats is another form of racism

On Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister Melania Joly announced the expulsion of Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei, the official from China’s Toronto consulate believed to be responsible for threats against a Canadian MP’s relatives in Hong Kong.

The MP, Conservative Michael Chong, is one of Parliament’s most outspoken critics of the Communist regime’s human rights record. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) two years ago told senior members of the Trudeau government that Zhao was allegedly coordinating intimidation tactics against Chong’s relatives in China in an effort to get Chong to clam up.

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Liberal Party economic policy success: Homeless Industry enjoys rapid growth under Trudeau

Canada sees 60% increase in homeless support workers over 5 years

As homelessness in Canada grows, the number of workers in the homelessness support sector has also been increasing.

According to Statistics Canada, the sector saw a 60.7 per cent increase in workers between 2016 and 2021, when there were 10,130 people employed in the field. StatCan says that this outpaced the growth in all other sectors by 3.4 per cent.

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Conrad Black: Free hard drugs for addicts a catastrophic Liberal failure

It is hard for us to miss the unpleasant conclusion that in key areas where questions of public health and ethics intersect, this country, whose governments are so full of ostentation in touting their good intentions and putting on the airs of the bioethical pioneer, has got almost everything wrong. Not only that, it is also secretive about its failings and childishly stubborn in clinging to policies that don’t work. Adam Zivo of this newspaper has composed an extensive analysis of the “safer supply” approach to the alleviation of drug addiction, in which, after comprehensive and diligent research for several months he presents a practically unanswerable case for his view that the safer supply approach has catastrophically failed.

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Trudeau Liberals release video fawning over abortion during annual March for Life in Ottawa

A number of MPs in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party released a video Thursday championing abortion on the same day thousands of Canadians gathered in Ottawa for the annual March for Life.

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