Freeland peppered with affordability questions, as MPs set to swiftly pass GST boost

Appearing before the House of Commons Finance Committee on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the government’s response to Canadians’ affordability concerns as “focused” and fiscally responsible.

“I think the support we’re talking about today, the GST tax credit, is actually now support that everyone around this table agrees is the right thing to do,” Freeland said, appearing before the committee to testify about Bill C-30, one of the Liberals’ two affordability-focused pieces of legislation. “It’s targeted, it’s focused, it reaches the people who need it the most. And we have really been careful to keep an eye on spending.”

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Diane Francis: Canada need only look to Australia to see how badly Liberals have messed up

Why can’t Canada be as smart and successful as Australia?

Exhibit A: In recent weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the suggestion that Canada could be a major supplier of liquefied natural gas to Germany, questioning the “business case.” Germany is wealthy, needs to replace Russian energy, and Canada has the third biggest reserves of natural gas on the planet.

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Cory Morgan: Liberals’ Pending Indo-Pacific Plan Will Fall Short if Main Focus Is Climate Agenda

The Indo-Pacific zone is fast becoming one of the most powerful geopolitical regions on the planet. A hostile communist China is growing increasingly belligerent, while those hoping to counter its force are forming partnerships with regional powers like India. Every country with coastal access to the region is impacted by it and has come up with plans and strategies for dealing with China’s growing political and economic might.

Every country besides Canada, that is.

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Unofficial Chinese Police Stations in Canada Likely Number More Than 3, Says Report Co-Author

The Chinese regime has likely established more unofficial overseas police stations in Canada than the three in Toronto identified in a report by a human rights NGO, a co-author of the report says.

Spain-based Safeguard Defenders published a report in September warning of the regime’s “long-arm policing” around the world through what’s been dubbed the “110 overseas police stations”—an operation named after the police emergency phone number, 110, in China.

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Jaded, cynical, disillusioned: report says federal whistleblowers fear reprisal

OTTAWA – Federal workers are increasingly cynical, skeptical and disillusioned about the idea of reporting wrongdoing in the public service, says a recent survey.

That pessimism is more “palpable and widespread” now than it was before the pandemic, and bureaucrats have become more likely to fear reprisals for whistleblowing.

Research firm Phoenix Strategic Perspectives Inc. delivered the report in March to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, which investigates serious abuses within the federal government.

Just who exactly is a public service union whistleblower expected to tattle to? Canada’s public service unions and the Liberal government are in bed together. Trudeau feathers their nest and they watch his back and faithfully vote in return.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: How hard can it be for the Liberals to say Chinese laws don’t apply in Canada?

The federal Liberals have long shied away from confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but, as with all bullies, acquiescing to them results not in peace, but undaunted escalation.

The LPC promise love China long time.

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Mendicino says Alberta’s resistance to federal gun buyback plan is ‘reckless’ and ‘a political stunt’

Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro’s plan to direct RCMP in the province not to enforce confiscations of prohibited firearms “reckless,” and is amounting it to “a political stunt” that won’t hold up.

On Sept. 26, Shandro made headlines when he announced he had advised the head of the RCMP in Alberta not to take officers off the streets for this purpose, citing a dispute clause in the Provincial Police Service Agreement— saying the “confiscation program” was not a priority.

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‘Justinflation’ can’t be said in the House of Commons, but MPs are trying anyway

Justin Trudeau crying on cue.

OTTAWA – The Conservatives’ cheeky term for inflation under the Liberals has got some MPs into trouble in the House of Commons, where saying “Justinflation” has been deemed verboten.

Speaker Anthony Rota repeatedly chastised Tory MPs this week for breaking the rules, asking them to “correct the error” when their “play on words” was indirectly violating procedure.

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Trudeau’s fight with Alberta is all because he doesn’t know how to collect guns he banned

The latest political fight between the federal government and Alberta shows just how poorly thought out the gun ban and “buyback” program really is. The Trudeau Liberals are now asking provinces and cities to offer up police resources to take guns from licenced gun owners and they are getting some pushback.

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Unleash the Montney: Canada’s world-class gas field is waiting to be tapped

Straddling the B.C.-Alberta border lies the most valuable Canadian resource you’ve never heard of: the trillion-dollar Montney Formation, a giant gas field the size of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia combined. Its potential is huge but its future is uncertain. With the federal government’s proposed emissions cap, it may remain a sleeping giant.

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Trudeau is about to raise taxes three times but hopes you won’t notice

When is a tax not a tax? When it’s a Liberal raising the tax, apparently.

For the past two weeks, newly minted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been asking the Trudeau Liberal government to halt planned tax hikes due to the rising cost of living. The government has not only refused, they’ve at times denied that raising premiums on employment insurance or the Canada Pension Plan amounts to a tax hike.

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GOLDSTEIN: How to fight climate change without national carbon tax

New Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre claims he can reduce Canada’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions without a national carbon tax. So does U.S President Joe Biden.

That’s not the view of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, of course. He says a national carbon tax/price is the most effective way to reduce emissions linked to climate change.

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Canada sees fastest population growth since 1957, driven mostly by immigration: StatCan

Vicious idiots run Canada

Canada has seen its highest population growth rate since the height of the baby boom, mostly driven by immigration, according to Statistics Canada data released Wednesday.

As of July 1, the number of people living in Canada sat at an estimated 38.9 million, an increase of 0.7 per cent, or 284,982 people, from April 1, 2022.

The estimate, marking the highest pace of quarterly growth since 1957, represents an increase of more than 3,100 people per day.

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Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada

TORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world.

In the first eight months of 2022, Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted 23,358 asylum-seekers crossing into the country at unofficial entry points, 13% more than all of 2017, when an influx of border-crossers at Roxham Road, near the Quebec-New York border, made international headlines.

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