Guy who lied about Emergencies Act says he gonna bring greater oversight to RCMP … so they won’t get Junior in trouble again

Canada’s public safety minister ‘deeply committed’ to enhance oversight of the RCMP

The federal public safety minister says he is “deeply committed” to enhancing oversight of the RCMP by strengthening the role of the national police force’s management advisory board.

In an interview, Marco Mendicino expressed a desire to give the board the “independence and autonomy that it needs” — possibly through legislative amendments — to ensure adequate supervision.

He also stressed the need for a clearer line of communication between the board and his office to help build “trust and confidence” between Canadians and RCMP.

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Trudeau: Unvaccinated Accepted ‘Consequences’ Like Losing Jobs and Access To Travel

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his use of the Emergencies Act on Freedom Convoy protestors and restrictions on the unvaccinated, saying unvaccinated Canadians accepted the consequences of not taking the vaccine.

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Cost of living concerns must be balanced with fiscal restraint, Chrystia Freeland says … and uh… pleasing our corporate class

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she must strike a balance between helping Canadians suffering from the effects of inflation and pursuing a policy of fiscal restraint — or risk making the cost of living problem worse.

In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Freeland, who also serves as deputy prime minister, said she was open to further action on affordability issues but that she believes measures already underway — worth $8.9 billion — would help alleviate the impact on Canadians.

“I have to strike a balance. One is supporting Canadians with affordability challenges and the other is fiscal restraint, because I don’t want to make the Bank of Canada’s job harder than it already is,” Freeland told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.

Rent is out of control in urban centers. Why is rent out of control? Too many renters competing for too few available rentals. Why are there too many renters? One big factor is the insane mass immigration policy of Freeland’s Liberal party. They’re “fighting inflation” by depressing the wages of working class Canadians through record setting immigration rates. If interest rates move higher a lot of homeowners will no longer be able to afford their mortgage payments, they call that cooling the market they helped heat up by creating too much demand through … needless mass immigration. 

And that sets the stage for this interesting coincidence …

Canada isn’t prepared to deal with large investors’ growing interest in single-family homes

Rising borrowing costs, dimming economic prospects and stricter lending rules are taking some of the air out of housing bubbles in Canada, the United States and other markets in which strong demand, tight supply and speculative fever have driven prices to record levels and deepened an already serious affordability crisis.

The evidence that overheated markets are cooling is mounting. Canadian home resales slid 8.6 per cent in May from the previous month, and much more than that in such hot markets as Vancouver. Prices fell for a second consecutive month, after shooting higher through most of the COVID-19 pandemic, and some economists forecast a decline of up to 20 per cent this year as higher mortgage rates hit home.

Restoring a modicum of sanity to residential markets won’t do much for people seeking accommodation they can afford. But at least it will prevent the crisis from getting even worse, right? Well, not really.


Heat, shelter or food?  Let Freeland choose for you!

 

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Poilievre’s Pay As You Go Plan Would Set Canada On The Path To A Balanced Budget

One of the challenges the Conservatives have faced is that they haven’t provided a genuine contrast to Justin Trudeau’s worldview.

Trudeau pushes a vision of Canada where the federal government is at the centre of everything, and where the solution to every problem is to borrow more and spend more.

The idea that governments should live within their means as the rest of us do is completely alien to Trudeau.

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Justice Canada says it erred in withholding critical information from N.S. shooting inquiry

Justice Canada says it should have consulted the inquiry looking into Canada’s worst mass shooting in history instead of withholding critical information from them for nearly four months.

This admission of fault came on Friday after the Mass Casualty Commission confirmed that it did not receive the entirety of RCMP superintendent Darren Campbell’s handwritten notes, including the pages that describe allegations of political interference in order to advance the Liberals’ gun-control agenda.

This says the Trudeau Liberals corrupt everything they touch.

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JIVANI: Jagmeet Singh’s legacy as Trudeau’s hype man

Singh knows his role isn’t to rock the boat, even if some of his voters want him to.

I never wanted Jagmeet Singh to lead our country. But I did want him to be a competent leader for the NDP.

Unfortunately, after choosing to support Trudeau’s internet censorship agenda, Singh’s legacy will be that of a total failure.

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How much influence should politicians have over police?

Controversy erupted this week when allegations came to light that the Liberal government may have tried to interfere in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting where 17 people were killed.

According to RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell’s notes, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said in a phone call that she had promised the Prime Minister’s Office and then-Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair that the RCMP would publicly release information about the weapons the gunman used. Lucki was reportedly angry when the RCMP did not do so.

The Liberal government is alleged to have wanted the information made public to further their gun control agenda. Critics and opposition politicians have accused the government of attempting to use the tragedy for political gain. Lucki, Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have denied that there was interference in the investigation.

Just the CBC running cover. Everyone knows Trudeau lied, it’s what he does.

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After All The Lies, Who Could Possibly Believe Trudeau’s Claims Amid Brenda Lucki Scandal?

A key problem in Canada today is that the political elites believe they are automatically owed the trust of Canadians.

In our own lives, we all know that trust is earned, and that those who lie constantly are no longer believed.

Somehow, politicians like Trudeau think that doesn’t apply to them.

Thus, in response to the escalating Brenda Lucki-RCMP-Trudeau government scandal, he is trotting out the same tactics he uses every scandal:

Lie & Deny.

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Almost half of Canadians are doing worse financially than the previous year: survey

As inflation rates soar to the highest they’ve been in Canada in forty years, nearly half of Canadians say that right now, they’re doing worse financially than they were at this time last year.

A further third say they expect things to get even worse in the coming year, the largest number of people to answer this way in more than a decade.

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RCMP held back senior Mountie’s controversial notes about Trudeau-Lucki interference for months, inquiry says

Four crucial pages of a senior Mountie’s notes were missing the first time the federal Department of Justice sent them to the public inquiry looking into the Nova Scotia mass shooting.

The key section included allegations the head of the RCMP promised politicians the force would release information about guns used during the April 2020 rampage.

The Mass Casualty Commission said the federal government sent 132 pages of Supt. Darren Campbell’s handwritten notes in mid-February 2022, but that the file had no references to a meeting with Commissioner Brenda Lucki on April 28, 2020.

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Our fraying constitutional order

In a recent podcast interview, my American host asked me to comment on whether Canada constituted a nation, in the substantive sense. Beyond platitudes such as a shared commitment to multiculturalism, general good government, and a thin conception of liberty, there is not much there there, I reflected. No, there isn’t really a singular Canadian nation, I answered.

But I was oversimplifying: the fact is that Canada is a nation that contains many nations. The compromises of federalism as set out in the Constitution were specifically designed to accommodate the vast regional and cultural differences across our equally vast land and, for the most part, have held up well.

However, proposals in Alberta and Quebec are starting to nip at the fabric of our constitutional order. Both provinces are, as one academic recently put it, apparently treating the Constitution as a “buffet that one can pick and choose from”, rather than a blueprint for how power flows in a state.

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Trudeau doubles down on tin-pot tyranny – defends vax mandates, Emergencies Act decision, in interview

 

Justin Trudeau says people who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 must accept the consequences of those decisions, including lost employment and restricted access to transportation and other services.

“It was their choice and nobody ever was going to force anyone into doing something they don’t want to do,” the prime minister said in an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing on Saturday.

“But there are consequences when you don’t. You cannot choose to put at risk your co-workers. You cannot choose to put at risk the people sitting beside you on an airplane,” Trudeau said before leaving for international summits in Africa and Europe.

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