Regular readers will know that this column is no fan of Pierre Poilievre’s pandering to conspiracy theories and bashing “elites.” But the new Conservative leader was on firm ground on Tuesday, when he said the Trudeau government doesn’t have a plan to fix inflation, and that its planned legislation to boost benefits with borrowed money throws gasoline on the inflationary fire.
A democracy advocate is warning about the Chinese regime’s covert “cultural infiltration” after multiple Canadian politicians lent support to the opening celebration of a new Chinese library that’s part of a China-based project whose founder had said aims to “spread the voice” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The new B.C. library was unveiled during a Sept. 10 “Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival” event held at a winery in Richmond, just south of Vancouver, which was celebrated by a number of federal, provincial, and municipal politicians and reported on by various Chinese state media.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approach to making life more affordable is like giving somebody a bike after totaling their car and then waiting for a big thank you.
Justin’s only concern is securing the approbation of the global elite who wish to rule us, he’ll make you suffer in poverty to achieve that.
Within hours of the Queen’s death on Sept. 8, officials in Ottawa promised that Canada – as Queen Elizabeth II’s largest overseas realm – would be playing a key role in her funeral and interment.
Instead, the world may come to remember Canada’s participation in the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II primarily for two things: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau belting out Bohemian Rhapsody in a London hotel lobby only days before the funeral, and Ottawa’s weird decision to send actress Sandra Oh in its official delegation.
Junior’s government is just a High School for pampered dullards.
Pierre Poilievre and his team will be gratified by the first public opinion poll since he was elected Conservative leader, which gives his party a healthy five-point lead over Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
While there was no sign of a surge in support from voters — Abacus Data has the Conservatives at 35 per cent support, up one point from its last survey — neither was there a drop in approval from Canadians queasy at some of the new leader’s more controversial rhetorical flourishes.
Canadian immigration levels are currently at their highest since the era just before the First World War, when mass immigration was used to homestead the prairies. Just last year, Canada brought in 401,000 new permanent residents.
One result of this influx, according to new projections from Statistics Canada, is that Canada will be home to as many as 50 million people by 2041. It’s twice as high as the Canadian population as recently as 1980. It also means that over the next 19 years, we’ll be adding enough new Canadians to equal the present-day equivalent of all of Western Canada (the combined population of Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba was 11 million in the last census).
Canada – A Great Big Leicester.
One day late last year, Justin Trudeau took to twitter to tout his government’s job creation record.
“Thanks to your hard work and the hard work of Canadians across the country, Canada’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the start of the pandemic. In fact, more than 154,000 jobs were created last month — and … in the COVID-19 Era, more than 1 million jobs have been recovered,” he wrote in a tweet.
Justin has just added to his reliably Liberal vote bloc at our expense.
OTTAWA — In a troubled world, Canadian democracy endures. But some sitting members of Parliament are worried — for various reasons — that it is getting weaker.
Ryan Turnbull is one of them. The Liberal MP for Whitby was first elected in 2019, and sees the problem through the lens of his education in philosophy: the ideal of democracy allows for public debate on a common ground of fact and reality, but Turnbull believes persistent misinformation and its self-serving weaponization by some politicians is threatening this shared basis for a functioning public discourse.
Mostly this is LPC, NDP and Elizabeth May griping about the scary convoy and such. The Star’s is gonna need a bigger fainting couch.
Life comes at you fast when it comes to global energy issues.
It comes so fast that Canada has already missed the boat on adding billions of dollars of economic growth to our economy every year, increasing global energy security and lowering global greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.
The Liberals have done great harm to Canadians on so many fronts it’s difficult to single out one as the worst.
The Liberal establishment’s total paranoia about last winter’s truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa – not some real national crisis – was behind Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Canadians probably don’t need more examples of just how overwrought Ottawa’s ruling elite was about the “threat” from the Freedom Convoy. Nonetheless, yet another example surfaced this week.
I’m referring to the excitement, which some partisans found as inexplicable, that attended Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for leadership — the huge enthusiasm for his rallies and the great numbers that attended.
Ottawa is taking Canada on a headfirst dive into government censorship, with the Senate the only obstacle standing between Canadians and the vast ocean of government control.
Calling Bill C-11 a censorship bill is not hyperbole. According to Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, the bill “would give the CRTC the power to set conditions demoting or applying warning labels to content it considers contrary to Broadcasting Act objectives, which are so broad as to cover a wide range of lawful content.” Geist warns that the bill would see government bureaucrats “force-feed” Canadian content to internet users.
Canadians who donated to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.
A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.
The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.
OMG! Convoy supporters donated! And many were 1st time donors! That must be against the law!
One of the more brazen instances of dodgy Khomeinist big shots coming and going from Canada as if they were just regular visitors and as if Iran were a normal country and not a tyrannical terror state involves the former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier Ali Reza Razm Hosseini.
.@barbaraslavin1, Look into the eyes of this young Iranian girl. Mahsa Amini is in a coma after being beaten by morality police for inappropriate hijab. Tens of women are in jail. Now listen to yourself again to understand why we are fed up with those normalizing our oppressors. https://t.co/P7iWGDtrny pic.twitter.com/COHcOmCvjH
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 15, 2022
In his first speech to caucus as new Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre denounced the “radical woke coalition” running Canada – a reference to the Liberal-NDP agreement to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power until at least 2025.
When asked by the CBC about the term “radical woke coalition,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault responded “frankly, I don’t know what it means to be woke.”
