Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Bill C-11, the Trudeau Liberals’ contentious Online Streaming Act, inched closer to approval this week. After nearly three months in committee, the bill that would let the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulate the Internet the way it regulates radio and television, was sent on to the Senate as a whole.

This is a message for all the doe-eyed students studying at Western’s Ivey School of Business, or the interns fetching dinner for their bosses on Bay Street after hours: You’re going about things in the wrong way.

Yes, your tenacity is adorable, and many will admire your fidelity to archaic, largely disproven mantras such as “hard work is the key to success” and “opportunities are handed out on merit.” But if you really want to thrive in Canada’s relatively insular business community, there is one surefire path to success: Befriend a Liberal cabinet minister.

‘This has got to stop,’ senator says as Red Chamber costs balloon by 70 per cent

The cost to run the Senate of Canada has soared by roughly 70 per cent in the seven years since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected — an increase some say is unacceptable, given that the number of senators has remained static over the same period.

The Senate’s standing committee on internal economy, budgets and administration (CIBA), the body of senators that governs the upper house, adopted a budget Thursday that will cost Canadian taxpayers $126.7 million in the 2023-24 fiscal year.

In 2015-16, the last year before Trudeau’s reforms to the Red Chamber, Senate expenditures were $74.5 million.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went hard after his Conservative rival in a speech to Liberals on Wednesday night, taking aim directly at Pierre Poilievre’s declaration that Canada “is broken.”

“Canada is not broken,” Trudeau said to a crowd of more than 2,000 Liberal Party members at their first in-person national Christmas party since pre-pandemic times.

“Mr. Poilievre might choose to undermine our democracy by amplifying conspiracy theories. He might decide to run away from journalists when they ask him tough questions. That’s how he brands himself. That’s his choice. But, when he says that Canada is broken, that’s where we draw the line,” Trudeau said to applause.