I was wrong. In my Sunday column about the legal attempts to return Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich to jail, I said it was the federal government that was trying to have her bail revoked.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Trudeau cancels appearance at Surrey fundraiser after protesters (allegedly) hurl racial slurs
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to cancel plans to attend a fundraising dinner on Tuesday evening after two speakers at the event said protesters hurled racial slurs at the mostly South Asian attendees entering a convention centre in Surrey, B.C.
Trudeau did not enter the building and spoke to a crowd for about three minutes by Zoom instead of making a speech in person.
He said no one should be intimidated or stopped from exercising their democratic freedoms “because that’s what this country is all about.”
Funny thing is there seems to be no video record of the alleged slurs that I can find, that sort of thing would be fire on Twitter. Please prove me wrong.
Headline: Trudeau cancels appearance at Surrey fundraiser after protesters hurl racial slurs…
First sentence: two speakers at the event said protesters hurled racial slurs at the mostly South Asian attendees entering a convention centre in Surrey, B.C.
What did you read?
— Jœ NëÙÚTön (@wampaloos) May 25, 2022
Protest at Trudeau's scheduled fundraiser in Surrey, BC on May 24. pic.twitter.com/bL4duzIa3u
— Don Wilson, LLB 🇨🇦 (@DNSWilson) May 25, 2022
Smells like LPC propaganda served up by a bought-off press.
Finances worsening for Canadians as inflation surges: Poll
… The number of Canadians who say their finances are worse today than a year earlier has reached 41%, according to weekly telephone polling by Nanos Research for Bloomberg News. That’s the second highest reading for this question in surveys going back to 2008. A separate poll released by Angus Reid on Tuesday found 28% of Canadians believe their finances will continue worsening over the next year – also a record high for this question.
Federal budget bill’s luxury tax will hurt manufacturing and cost jobs, aerospace, boating sectors warn Liberals
Called the Select Luxury Items Tax Act, the new legislation is part of the 440-page budget bill, which is being studied by the House of Commons finance committee. Parliament is likely to pass the bill before rising for summer in June, but it is possible it could be amended based on the feedback from policy experts.
Trudeau’s internet laws will muzzle his critics
Imagine you woke up one morning to find out your Facebook account had been locked out.
At first you think maybe you got hacked, but when you check your email, you see something from Facebook informing you that, unfortunately, according to the new censorship laws, the status update you posted that contained a criticism of the government was labelled as “hate speech” and “disinformation,” so they were forced to shut your account down.
That may seem like a bit of a wild example, but that possible future is closer than you think.
GUNTER: The persecution of Tamara Lich and the gross overreaction to the convoy
Bizarre. Excessive. And indicative of an elite class that has lost its collective mind. At a bail hearing on Thursday, the federal government tried hard to have Tamara Lich returned to jail.
Lich, one of the organizers of February’s Freedom Convoy, has been free on bail for the past couple of months awaiting trial on charges of mischief and counselling others to commit mischief, plus obstructing police and intimidation.
Workers of the World Drop Dead! The robotic revolution is coming to a workplace near you
For decades, Canada has lagged many of its global peers in the types of business investment that would improve productivity. But the green shoots of an automation transformation appear to be sprouting
Amid the hums and clangs of Savaria Corp.’s factory in Brampton, Ont., two wildly distinct eras of corporate Canada can be found just a few steps apart.
In one cramped corner of the 33-year-old company’s plant, which manufactures accessibility equipment such as wheelchair lifts, custom stairlifts and home elevators, a team of 10 workers weld and grind curved steel tubes by hand. A short walk away, a single orange robotic arm Savaria installed earlier this year swings purposefully through the air doing the same task.
The math, as vice-president of operations Sebastien Bourassa sees it, couldn’t be simpler. In a day, those 10 workers typically produce two custom stairlifts. The robot, with two operators, currently churns out five – and that output is set to more than double over time.
See? This is why Trudeau is on a mass immigration tear. He needs to depress the wages of working class Canadians so his corporate cronies can more easily afford the robots that will be used to replace them. Go incognito.
No Comment: Government Moves to End Debate on Online News Bill Despite a No-Show from Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez
Since its introduction in the House of Commons last month, the Online News Act (Bill C-18) has been debated or discussed just once. The bill was tabled without comment by Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez on April 5th. Thus far, Friday, May 13th was the only one day devoted debate on the bill at second reading, a day when so many MPs were not present that there was a question on whether there was sufficient quorum to proceed. Rodriguez did not deliver a speech or answer questions that day, leaving it to his Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bittle, who I pointed out inaccurately characterized the requirement for payments by Internet platforms as “use” of content and implausibly argued that the bill involved “minimal government intervention.” There has been a total of less than two hours of speeches and debate with just 10 MPs speaking to the bill or asking questions (Bittle and Mark Gerretsen being the only Liberal MPs).
Once a liberal democracy, Canada is now an authoritarian state
Two decades ago, when I was 4 years old, my parents immigrated to Canada from India in search of greater freedoms, autonomy and economic opportunities. They’re core Canadian values — enshrined in our national anthem, which gloriously heralds “The True North strong and free.”
However, the past two years have seen a near complete erosion of the foundational liberal values that have attracted millions of immigrants like myself to this country.
Under the once-righteous guise of COVID safety and online protections, the Canadian government has taken its power to extreme levels once only imaginable — let alone permissible — in a dissent-stifling authoritarian state.
Canada is becoming unaffordable for a majority of parents
Canada’s inflation rate increased 6.8 per cent in April from a year earlier – one of the fastest since the early 1980s – and parents are feeling the pinch.
As the cost of living rises, a majority (71 per cent) of parents feel that Canada is becoming unaffordable, according to a survey by PolicyMe, a digital life insurance firm for parents.
The survey found that almost half (47 per cent) of parents are currently more worried about their personal finances than in previous years.
Terry Glavin: There’s no Huawei ‘ban’ until we get it in writing
Among the many circumlocutions and outright non-answers to straightforward questions about what the federal government announced Thursday, in relation to restraints Canada might place on the ability of China’s multinational telecommunications giants to hack, spy and hold Canada’s critical telecommunications infrastructure to ransom, it isn’t easy to pick one that stands out in its absurdity. That’s because there were so many of them.
Justin Trudeau is making your neighbourhood less safe
Justin Trudeau is making your neighbourhood less safe and using racist tropes to justify it. pic.twitter.com/1nMaD3pirM
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) May 19, 2022
The Trudeau government isn’t using all the tools to protect Canadians from inflation, economist says
… Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have been reminding people that the factors driving inflation are not entirely within their control. Supply chain backlogs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are the main culprits making life less and less affordable for Canadians — especially those on fixed incomes.
One expert said the government’s talking points on the causes of inflation are “a bit of a cop-out.”
“It’s a half-truth at best,” said Carleton University economist Vivek Dehejia during a panel discussion on this weekend’s edition of The House about what can be done to reduce the impact of inflation on Canadians.
They are however continuing their mass immigration plans. They hope to fight inflation by depressing wages. It’s a lie. It won’t work because the total of working class wages are simply not large enough to move the inflation needle. In truth it’s their justification for doing their corporate cronies a favour.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Liberals ban Huawei after inexcusable delay
They finally did it. Nearly three years after they promised a decision on Huawei ahead of the 2019 election, the federal Liberals grew a backbone and officially banned the Chinese telecommunications firm from Canada’s 5G network.
As the saying goes, better late than never, but the Trudeau government’s painfully slow march toward making an obvious choice –– one made much quicker by many peer nations — raises some serious questions.
More Canadians will go hungry in Trudeau’s Canada
TORONTO – Experts and advocates anticipate that more Canadians could be at risk of going hungry as inflation continues to outpace many consumers’ grocery budgets.
Valerie Tarasuk, a professor of nutritional sciences at University of Toronto, said steepening inflation rates are likely to increase the prevalence and severity of food insecurity in Canada. That could mean financial concerns will prompt people to reduce meal sizes, skip meals or even go a day or more without eating.
Overall food costs rose 8.8 per cent compared with a year ago, while Canadians paid 9.7 per cent more for food at stores in April, the largest increase since September 1981, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.