“Safer supply” advocates want you to believe that their solutions to Canada’s addiction crisis are working. They claim that by providing drug users with free, government-funded substitutes for potentially tainted illicit substances, overdoses can be reduced and lives can be saved.
Canada’s Liberal Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, officially added support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination to its platform after members voted in favor of it at the 2023 Liberal National Convention, which took place from May 4 to May 6 in Ottawa.
The mandate would force all travelers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be COVID-jabbed. It would also mandate COVID injections for federal employees.
Here is the recording from TODAY of a Liberal Party's MP office CONFIRM they DID discuss bringing BACK the #VACCINEMANDATES at the 2023 convention but it still has to go through "approval." For those of you with only 2 original shots remember YOU are considered unvaccinated too.… pic.twitter.com/iWLheU7IhW
— odessa orlewicz (@OdessaOrlewicz) May 8, 2023
h/t Mauser
One would have thought that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat and suspected intelligence officer, would have been sent home by the evening the news broke that he was part of an effort by Beijing to target MP Michael Chong’s family – or better still, two years ago when CSIS first learned about this.
But the expulsion came a week after The Globe and Mail brought the matter to the public’s attention. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly had said the government was considering what economic, consular and diplomatic retaliation might be visited upon Canada if it went through with the move.
She’s really saying Justin had to look out for the best interests of Canada’s China Class, they after all have money invested with the Communist Slave State.
Without debate, Liberal Party members passed a policy resolution to combat online disinformation this weekend that critics warn could give the government control over Canadian media outlets.
The resolution calls for the Liberals to “explore options to hold online information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms, and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced.”
“It’s deeply troubling this was sort of waved through at the Liberal convention,” said University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist.
There is nothing quite as touching as ceremony.
And have we not had a plush weekend of high ceremony? Perhaps the fullest of its kind.
A great time-weary institution — honouring itself — the best and brightest in attendance.
Dignitaries in abundance, elder persons of state and influence, the most touching exchanges between a once queen and a queen — possibly — yet to be.
Political party conventions are strange things.
They’re meant to whip up enthusiasm among potential volunteers and donors in between elections. So on one level, the intended audience is entirely inside the clubhouse. But snippets of coverage will make their way to the broader public, meaning these events also serve as infomercial for the unconverted or undecided.
It’s not 2015 anymore.
Most Canadians support increasing defence spending to reach the two per cent target for NATO allies, according to a national survey conducted by Nanos for CTV News.
In 2021, Canada spent around 1.4 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on national defence, falling short NATO’s two per cent target. The country has not achieved this defence spending target since the 1980s.
But Justin told NATO Canadians would never approve increased military spending which is odd as the Liberals announce millions to billions in new expenditures every week, most of it commited without consulting Citizens.
Asylum seekers bused to New Brunswick left struggling to find help
Jessica arrived in New Brunswick confused and disoriented, stepping off a bus on a cold March night after a more than 10-hour journey from Roxham Road. She knew nothing about Moncton, the city where she had been sent.
“They never told me where we were going,” she said, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.
Jessica is one of more than 200 asylum seekers bused to New Brunswick after arriving in Quebec over the international border. Her relocation to Moncton was part of a scramble by the federal government to redirect migrants to other parts of the country.
The recent controversy involving Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family being targeted by China is an enormous issue. For those who have repeatedly questioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commitment to ensuring that safety and security are among Canada’s highest priorities, this may be the biggest red flag of them all.
The Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife and Steven Chase recently published contents of a July 20, 2021, Canadian Security Intelligence Service report that examined China’s interest in Canada. The nine-page document suggested the former viewed the latter as a “high-priority target,” had employed “incentives and punishment” to gain an advantage, and the targeting was “expected to continue and increase over time.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be cautious about making the same mistake with Pierre Poilievre as Stephen Harper did with him when the Conservative prime minister mischaracterized his Liberal opponent only to see him surpass expectations.
Back in 2015, Harper’s director of communications, Kory Teneycke, told reporters that expectations of Trudeau were so low going into the first election debate “that if he comes on stage with his pants on, he will probably exceed expectations.”
Jean Chrétien dismisses foreign interference in Liberal convention speech
OTTAWA — Former prime minister Jean Chrétien rallied Liberal troops, told war stories and dismissed recent reports of foreign interference at the party’s Ottawa convention Friday evening.
The current Liberal government has been dogged by questions of foreign interference for most of 2023, with allegations that China interfered in the 2021 election, channelled donations to the Trudeau Foundation and, most recently, allegations that China was threatening a Conservative MP’s family.
The Liberal convention is a case of whistling past the graveyard.
OTTAWA— A friend, a man of honour, a man who “embodies all that is best” about the House of Commons.
That’s how not just party colleagues but even partisan rivals described Conservative MP Michael Chong this week as shock rippled through Parliament with revelations he and his family were targets for Chinese state interference in 2021.
But when Chong himself first heard the news, via a Globe and Mail report last Monday, shock wasn’t what hit him.
In August 2019, two months before the 2019 federal election and two years before the 2021 election, which have both raised major concerns about foreign interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) that he created in 2017 to advise him on security issues.
Government still investigating why threats against Chong not passed up to cabinet
OTTAWA – The government is still investigating why warnings that a Conservative member of Parliament was being threatened by the Chinese government never made it to the desk of any cabinet minister, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Saturday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Liberal policy convention in Ottawa, he said the possibility of holding someone accountable for that decision remains “under consideration.”
“It’s important that we unearth their reasons as to why this was not brought directly to the attention of the public safety minister at the time, as well as the prime minister because we take these issues seriously,” he said.
The federal government is under heavy political pressure to expel a foreign diplomat from Canada. Such expulsions are rare — but they do happen.
Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail reported that Zhao Wei, a diplomat at the Chinese consulate in Toronto, was allegedly working on efforts to threaten the family members of Conservative MP Michael Chong.
Junior won’t act without permission from Xi and Canada’s China Class.
