Behind Guilbeault’s ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Speech

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When the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a report a few weeks ago saying the carbon tax is a “net loss” to most Canadian households, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the report didn’t account for the costs of climate change itself, also tweeting that “the costs of inaction on climate change far outweigh the costs of taking action.”

On April 19, Guilbeault upped the ante on the issue of carbon emissions, saying that the government will use a “new tool” called the “social cost of carbon” to fight climate change and that the cost of Canada’s emissions could be five times higher than previously thought.

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Canadians Wary of Gov’t Deciding What Is ‘True or False’ Online, Federal Research Finds

Canadians are wary of Ottawa deciding what information on the internet is true or false, according to in-house federal research, which also found that few are likely to rely on federal government websites for information.

“Many participants expressed reservations about the Government of Canada telling Canadians what is true or false,” said a report by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Conservative MP accuses minister of taking ‘no meaningful action’ on Chinese ‘police stations’

… In a testy exchange, Cooper pressed Mendicino to explain why Canada hasn’t arrested any officials or expelled any diplomats tied to the handful of police stations China is believed to have operated in Canada.

Human rights groups have accused the Chinese government of using the stations to threaten and monitor members of the diaspora abroad.

“Not a single Beijing diplomat expelled. Why not, minister?” asked Cooper. “You’ve taken no meaningful action.”

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Can Justin Trudeau’s Canada get any more authoritarian?

The Liberal Party’s new online-streaming bill is yet another egregious assault on our liberties.

Canadians will soon be relieved of the stress of seeking out content they find interesting on social media. Instead they will be able to relax, while the government chooses it for them.

This is the intention of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, which is currently being debated in the Canadian Senate. If passed, it will empower the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a government agency, to filter what Canadians see in their social-media feeds and on YouTube.

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Care about climate change? Support nuclear power

Knee-jerk opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sensible position in support of nuclear power, as Canada decreases its use of fossil fuel energy, drives home a basic point about the more radical elements of the environmental movement.

While they profess to love the planet, they hate the people on it, believing it would be far better for life on earth if there were a few billion less of us around to pollute it.

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Cuz All Our Problems At Home Are Solved … Liberals fund women’s rights abroad as Trudeau to raise abortion politics in New York

OTTAWA – The Liberal government is announcing funding for women’s rights abroad, in an apparent bid to showcase the Liberals’ position on reproductive rights against that of conservatives, both in Canada and the United States.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to reaffirm the Canadian government’s commitment to supporting reproductive freedom in New York City today, where he is attending a star-studded summit.

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NYC trip another in long list of Trudeau bad judgments

So while our Armed Forces in CFB Petawawa are showering in cold water, and Canadians who need to travel cannot get passports renewed because of 150,000 federal civil servants out on their second week of striking (asking for more in their guaranteed-for-life jobs than most Canadians will dream of ever earning), our prime minister is saddling up his private taxpayer-paid jet to spend a few hours at an exclusive reception hosted by film stars and rock legends in Manhattan.

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You pay PSAC’s salary while they strike

Only in Ottawa’s world: Go on strike and still get paid

The pain from the national strike by federal public servants is escalating from irritation to significant disruption as the labour dispute grinds on through a second week, with no sign that the two sides are close to a compromise.

But one group is likely to be insulated from any major hardship: the striking workers themselves. A combination of rickety payroll technology, bureaucratic inflexibility and clumsy bargaining by the government means that many – perhaps most – of the 100,000 or so striking workers will still receive their regular pay in two weeks.

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Jesse Kline: Trudeau demands climate sacrifice, while China burns coal with abandon

Last week, my son announced at the dinner table that his school had turned off the lights for a time to “celebrate” Earth Day. To my mind, it seemed more of a lesson in why we need electricity to power our modern civilization, yet the kids were apparently allowed to spend the time playing computer games, which makes the overall point of the exercise hard to decipher.

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Sajjan says he was unaware of senator sending travel documents to Afghans because ‘I wasn’t reading my e-mail’

Minister Harjit Sajjan says he wasn’t checking his e-mail during the 2021 fall of Afghanistan and it’s possible his inbox includes correspondence that a senator’s office was distributing Canadian government travel documents but he didn’t authorize the practice.

Mr. Sajjan told the House of Commons immigration committee Wednesday evening that he also wasn’t aware that his then chief of staff, George Young, had sent templates of the federal documents to Senator Marilou McPhedran’s office, or that the senator then helped distribute them to hundreds of Afghans trying to escape the brutal Taliban regime.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Justin Trudeau’s Great Canadian Gun Confiscation

When governments take private property, such takings are usually done to carry out some larger public project — like building roads and other infrastructure. Unlike property seizures of the past, the Trudeau Liberals’ gun confiscation (“buyback”) isn’t supporting some larger project for the benefit of the public. It’s a confiscation of private property for the sake of fulfilling a platform point.

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Surprise surprise!

Tsk Tsk … CBC getting political

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Canadian government was warned for weeks that Sudan conflict was coming: sources

Canadian officials were warned three weeks ago that Sudan was sliding towards a major civil conflict, raising questions about the Liberal government’s statements that the situation took the world by “surprise” amid concerns over the pace of evacuation efforts, multiple sources tell Global News.

While Canadian Armed Forces members and assets are already in the region, as of Wednesday they had yet to begin military evacuations for diplomatic personnel and Canadian nationals. The 180 Canadians that have been evacuated as of Wednesday have done so on aircraft operated by Canada’s allies.

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Trudeau Says Marijuana Legalization Kept Drug From Kids; Stats Show Otherwise

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on April 20—a celebratory day ritualized by cannabis users known as 4/20—that he has successfully kept cannabis out of kids’ hands by legalizing the drug.

The main studies on youth cannabis use, however, “are not very conclusive,” says Chantal Vallerand, executive director of Drug Free Kids Canada.

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It’s OK to ask whether immigration is intensifying our housing crisis

According to Statistics Canada, Canada’s population grew by 1,050,110 people in 2022. International migration accounted for 95.9 per cent of this growth.

Some have questioned whether Canada’s immigration policy is at odds with its efforts to address the housing crisis. Paul Kershaw of UBC has pointed out that newcomers, through no fault of their own, will amplify demand for housing and drive up home prices. CIBC CEO Victor Dodig recently expressed concern that increasing immigration levels without first increasing housing supply risks triggering Canada’s “largest social crisis” over the next decade.

OMG! The Star grabs a clue.

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