The new dollar numbers are big, but it’s still the same old story, a fight for funds and automotive glory that, in the past, has produced few long-term substantial benefits that economists have been able to measure. Will the $13 billion that Canadian governments are now showering on Volkswagen to set up a battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., produce a century of benefits as promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals?
A senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told MPs that he was the one who briefed Trudeau during the 2019 election campaign after Canada’s spy agency reportedly warned the Liberal campaign about a candidate working in cahoots with the Chinese regime.
Jeremy Broadhurst, who works in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), was asked about the Sept. 28, 2019, briefing as he testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on April 25.
OTTAWA—The Liberals are dropping a plan to added hundreds of firearms to a list of banned weapons in Canada as part of their broader promise to tighten gun laws in Canada.
But they will try again to legislate a definition of what would constitute an illegal weapon in a move that is sure to reignite controversy around one of the most politically sensitive files on the government’s agenda.
The definition is expected to be part of a new package of amendments that could land within days as the legislative clock on the federal government’s latest effort to tighten gun laws — Bill C-21 — is running out.
Alberta Continues to Stand Against Justin Trudeau‘s Gun Control Push
Alberta is continuing its stand against PM Justin Trudeau’s gun control push by barring police and municipalities from participating and/or enforcing the gun controls without written permission from Alberta’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Tyler Shandro.
In case you haven’t heard, the Trudeau government is heaving tax credits and other supports toward every “clean energy” project on the horizon, including clean electricity, hydrogen, vehicles, manufacturing, battery production, grid “modernization” and the list goes on.
The whole Green scam is an LPC slush fund.
This was a bad week for free speech in Canada.
It has become clear that “progressive” opinion is lining up behind censorship of what Canadians can and cannot say on the Internet, including criticism of politicians and bureaucrats.
According to a story on the Ottawa-insider news site, Blacklock’s Reporter, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault told a podcast affiliated with the Liberal Party that the government believes federal regulators should have the authority to temporarily block or even shut down websites that say hurtful things about politicians and public servants.
OTTAWA — Liberal party officials said Tuesday that recently reported claims that security agencies told them to drop MP Han Dong as a candidate before the 2019 election were not accurate.
Global News reported earlier this year that national security officials warned the party that Dong was part of a foreign interference network directed from Beijing. Dong, the current MP for Don Valley North in Toronto, left the Liberal caucus after the allegations were reported and has since launched a defamation suit against Global.
Conservatives hatred of journalism is damaging their brand
Conservatives get confused when they see a media attack on one politician as proof of partisan loyalty to another.
The first conservative to destroy his party through a hatred of journalists was, of course, Richard Nixon. The next was Donald Trump, who has delivered three defeats since his razor thin single victory, all the while ranting his denunciation of “fake news” media.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre appears to be genuine in his contempt for many Canadian journalists. Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper always appeared more theatrical in his, given how close he was to journalists before he won power. This hatred is, of course, dangerous for democracy, but it is also damaging the Canadian Conservatives’ brand.
The message: there is trouble at CSIS, and if the government doesn’t wake up, it could leave Canada vulnerable to threats from hostile foreign interests – or, conceivably, from domestic terrorism
… The message sender(s) – one or more disgruntled, or genuinely alarmed, CSIS officers – were not whistleblowers in the customary sense. Their mission was not to expose malfeasance, corruption, or some ghastly mistake that the agency had made.
Their message was political, its delivery staged to embarrass the government without revealing any truly damaging information. It conveyed a sense of festering antipathy in the relationship between CSIS and the Trudeau Liberal government.
Canada’s intelligence agency warned MPs and senators ahead of the 2021 election that their public conversations probably would be monitored by foreign states and that threat actors could target their staff, according to recently obtained documents.
“You are of immediate and constant interest to certain hostile state actors,” reads a copy of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) talking points prepared for briefings with elected officials prior to the 2021 election.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is “very serious” about reviving nuclear energy production to lower the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.
The prime minister made the comments in response to a question about Canada’s LNG exports to Germany during a discussion with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and university students in Ottawa on Monday. Trudeau last year said he wasn’t persuaded to advance liquid natural gas exports to Germany, which has been searching for alternative energy sources as it moves away from Russian imports after the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
That Fucking Liar is Fucking Lying again.
Thirteen billion dollars in government subsidies are going to Volkswagen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ontario. That’s what the Liberal government calls a “business case.” Thirteen billion dollars to build a $7-billion factory. Of course such a massive payout — bribe? — would only be provided for a “green” business case.
Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra drew the ire of the internet after sharing a video of male Canadian politicians walking in high heels to raise awareness of violence against women.
Violence against women is still prevalent in our society. Hope in Heels is an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution. We wore their signature pink heels in support to this important cause. @HaltonWomensPl pic.twitter.com/5qngxQ6Myu
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) April 20, 2023
I ask myself the following question: how many foundations in the country have access to a room in the Prime Minister’s Building and also have access to five deputy ministers at the same time? There shouldn’t be many. Dimitri Soudas, political analyst and former close associate of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“I wish I had another example of a foundation that had such access. Seems like preferential treatment for a foundation that had the name of the father of the current prime minister,” he added.
What did Justin Trudeau know about this roundtable? Nothing, argues the Prime Minister’s Office. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Prime Minister’s staff attended this meeting. The Prime Minister was not aware of this meeting,” said Alison Murphy, spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau.
Note – Google translate.
Canada’s apparent unwillingness (or inability) to meet NATO’s defence spending target has not dented the country’s reputation among its allies, one of the country’s former top diplomats told MPs recently.
But the longer the war between Russia and Ukraine lasts, the more impatient other nations are likely to become, said former Canadian ambassador to NATO Kerry Buck.
Buck made her remarks before the House of Commons defence committee on Friday — just days after a report in the Washington Post, citing leaked Pentagon intelligence documents, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told allies that Canada will not meet NATO’s defence spending benchmark of two per cent of national gross domestic product.
I suspect it was diplomatic courtesy.
The Chinese contribution to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation does not seem to me very worrisome in itself. A contribution of $200,000 from a wealthy Chinese businessman apparently closely affiliated with the governing Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, is not an especially consequential event for a foundation that was launched the year after Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s death and was endowed with $125 million from the government of Canada.
