Trudeau’s massive spending on Volkswagens and other things won’t spur economic growth

The Trudeau government recently announced it will spend an estimated $13 billion on subsidies for Volkswagen’s Ontario battery plant and offer $700 million to help with construction, in addition to another $500 million from the Ontario government. Federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne argues that the economic value from this corporate welfare — funded by taxpayer money — will be worth it. But Trudeau’s spending spree hasn’t spurred economic growth yet, so why should we expect it to now?

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As the spectre of China’s meddling spreads, another MP claims he is a victim

During the 2021 federal election in the downtown Toronto riding of Spadina-Fort York, the young, progressive, ethnically-Chinese candidate seemed a shoo-in for the Liberals.

A rising political star with a history of youth advocacy, a university lecturer, entrepreneur and a reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Kevin Vuong was an ideal candidate for a party aspiring to better represent today’s Canada.

But it quickly came to an end.

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Former Trudeau Foundation trough hog says engaging with Chinese officials was ‘naïve’

Morris Rosenberg, the former president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, says in retrospect the embattled charity was naïve to think it would have “soft power” over China when it accepted money in 2016 with ties to the Chinese government.

The former veteran public servant told a parliamentary committee Tuesday night that at the time, there was a belief that engaging with Chinese officials would familiarize them with Canadian governance, rule of law and human rights.

“Was that naïve at the time? In hindsight, probably it was naive,” said Rosenberg.

“We felt we could do more good.”

What gall.

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The alarm on China’s interference is ringing louder

The evidence of China’s interference in Canada’s democracy was already alarming. Now, it’s doubly so, with fresh revelations that Beijing not only meddled with successive federal elections but also attempted to intimidate a sitting MP.

The Globe and Mail previously reported, based on Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, that Beijing operatives tried to swing some riding outcomes in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, although no one is saying those efforts changed who formed government.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trudeau Foundation has deep history of donors with ties to lobbyists

What exactly was going on at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation when a 2016 donation was made supposedly on behalf of the Chinese government in an alleged attempt to influence the prime minister? A clear answer would be welcome, but the foundation has a long association with donors, and members, who were also trying to gain influence with the Liberal party and the government.

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MP Michael Chong a symbol of how little Trudeau cares about protecting Canadians from Chinese interference

When it comes to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is running out of runway. Not a week goes by that doesn’t bring fresh revelations about just how badly Canada’s national security has been compromised under his watch.


Trudeau cares only about protecting the grift for Canada’s China Class.

I don’t care if a foreign power is behind Trudeau’s ouster, in fact I wish them success and godspeed in their effort.

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CSIS confirms to MP that he and family were targeted by China

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service on Tuesday confirmed to Conservative MP Michael Chong that he and his family were targeted by the Chinese government after he sponsored a parliamentary motion condemning Beijing’s conduct in Xinjiang as genocide, the MP says.

He said CSIS also confirmed that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat in Canada, was involved.

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Calgary preacher railroaded on trumped up charges under jackboot of Trudeau regime

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a 2022 protest that lasted more than two weeks, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.

Pawlowski was charged criminally and under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA), following a 20-minute speech to protesters in Coutts, Alta.

“Mr. Pawlowski intended to incite the audience to continue the blockade,” said Justice Gordon Krinke in delivering his decision on Tuesday afternoon.

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Bill C-11: Why is YouTube mad at Canada?

A new law that seeks to give Canadian artists a leg up online has left many influencers and tech giants alike seeing red.

They took out subway ads, they posted TikToks, but in the end, the score was Silicon Valley-0, Ottawa-1.

After many twists and turns, and over two-and-a-half years of review, the Canadian government has passed a new law that makes tech giants like YouTube and TikTok support Canadian cultural content.


A pox on both their houses YouTube is Orwellian and Trudeau’s Liberals are Woke Stalinists. 

“Content creators” fear both being included in the government’s planned forced diet of CanCon which will relegate them to a digital Ghetto, and to a lesser extent being excluded as not Canadian “enough” by the CRTC’s annointed “God’s Of All CanCon.” I plan to continue ignoring CanCan as I have always done. Let’s face it with rare exceptions most of it is unpalatable government agenda swill.

I will now reveal an ugly personal truth: Overplay due to CanCon destroyed virtually all pleasure derived from listening to Gordon Lightfoot’s music.

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Polls suggest public has begun to suspect Trudeau is a deceitful ChiCom co-conspirator

John Ivison: Interference news has Liberals looking soft on a country intent on undermining our democracy

Polls suggest voters are skeptical, not only of the Trudeau government’s relationship with China, but also about the PM’s ability to tell voters the truth

OTTAWA — The serenity shown by one senior Liberal official in late March over the Chinese foreign interference saga was at odds with the fever that was gripping Ottawa.

At the time, it seemed the government was in real trouble. There was compelling testimony that suggested the Liberal party was warned by the security services that some of its candidates were helped by the Chinese government in successive elections.


The Michael Chong revelations leave little doubt that the Trudeau and his Liberal Party are criminally negligent for failing to notify Chong of the threat to his family from the Communist Chinese.

It was not an oversight. It is collusion, it is treason.

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Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship

As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees.

It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking that will include Jordan Peterson’s shows) is of “high standard.”

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Jesse Kline: Trudeau Liberals buy labour peace with other people’s money

It should have been clear from the outset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were never going to let the government workers strike drag on for weeks, especially when the problem could be solved using their preferred solution — spending other people’s money.

After 12 days of job action that saw federal services grind to an even more sluggish pace than usual, around 120,000 civil servants returned to work on Monday following a tentative agreement reached between the Canadian government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) over the weekend, which covers four bargaining units under the Treasury Board’s purview.

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Liberals put forward new amendments to gun legislation following initial backlash

The Liberal government is introducing a revised set of amendments to its pending gun legislation after dropping some initial changes that sparked outcry from firearm owners.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Tuesday the amendments to Bill C-21 include a new definition of prohibited firearms that encompasses certain “assault-style” rifles.

“These reforms are about keeping AR-15 assault-style firearms off of our streets while at the same time respecting gun owners,” he told a press conference.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Censorious Liberal attempt to block news article shows why they want to control the internet

Recently released documents show that although the federal government is sparing in its requests to social media companies to take down comments , such requests can be abused to censor news coverage that paints the government in a bad light. This is especially concerning given the Liberals’ attempts to gain more control over the internet.

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Taxpayers get soaked by Volkswagen giveaway

More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant.

In St. Thomas, Ont., flanked by Premier Doug Ford, Trudeau announced taxpayers are set to give Volkswagen up to $13 billion in exchange for a $7-billion electric car-battery plant.

The plant is costing taxpayers $13 billion and is set to employ 3,000 workers.

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