You know why they are playing out this farce of an inquiry into the calling of the Emergencies Act? It’s because the statute that enables the act makes subsequent inquiry mandatory. And despite the hearty bypassing of parliamentary customs and conventions the Liberal-NDP government has enjoyed under the convenient umbrella offered by COVID, outright defiance on serious statutes has been, for now, off the agenda.
(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is opening up Canada to an increase of temporary foreign workers in a controversial experiment aimed at easing strains on the nation’s overheating economy. Starting Saturday, the federal government will loosen limits on hiring low-wage employees from abroad, changes that could bring in thousands of additional migrant workers.
Justin’s friends need to depress wages to further take advantage of the inflation destroying dreams of home ownership.
63% of Canadian non-owners have ‘given up’ on ever buying a home: Ipsos
The Trudeau government is still considering a nationwide ban on handguns as a “last resort,” even as it prepares to introduce legislation that will offer financial support to provinces that bring in their own restrictions.
“There is a robust debate about taking action (on handguns) from coast-to-coast,” said one person with knowledge of the government’s plan.
Do not let the Trudeau government disarm you.
If the government tries to simply obscure the fundamental point here — did it know something that truly made the act the only option? — behind cabinet confidentiality, accountability will be dead on arrival.
While inflation is at its highest rate in more than three decades, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ignoring warnings from his own government’s environmental and financial watchdogs that his carbon pricing/taxation regime is hurting most Canadians in their pocketbooks, especially the most vulnerable.
Q: What is the major question that must be posed by the inquiry into the calling of the Emergencies Act?
A: It is this. Was there ever the slightest chance of the government of Canada falling?
The CBC lied and Trudeau used that lie along with others to justify imposition of the Emergencies Act.
Lockdown measures inspired this “routine” abuse of our freedoms.
Pity that Deadmeet has agreed to prop up the Trudeau corpse for the duration.
Cabinet relied on #CBC stories in invoking #EmergenciesAct, @MinJusticeEn testifies. “CBC reported I believe on 14th of Feb or 13th of Feb there was foreign funding…various pieces of info we had explained the various measures that we took.” https://t.co/aTG0dSwSE1 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/WA6BpG1lqm
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 27, 2022
Ottawa’s promised “just transition” to a new, low-carbon economy is now revealed as a useless sham.
Coals miners in Alberta and Saskatchewan have faced transition for several years now. But the feds have done nothing to help them, and have no working plan to start despite many promises.
That’s the conclusion of the federal auditor general, who finds that bureaucrats sat on their fat portfolios even as coal workers were losing their jobs.
The Trudeau eco-fascists are liars. Evil liars. Period.
With mounting evidence pointing to the Canadian Armed Forces having trained members of Ukraine’s military who are also reported to be part of extremist groups, experts say Ottawa needs to strongly bolster its investigation and vetting of the soldiers it trains and arms in the embattled country.
The Department of National Defence promised a thorough review of Canada’s mission in Ukraine after CTVNews.ca approached them for comment in October 2021, regarding a report from George Washington University that found extremists in the Ukrainian military were bragging about being trained by Canadians as part of Operation UNIFIER.
Justice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked cabinet confidentiality in his appearance before a special committee tasked with investigating the government’s use of the Emergencies Act.
Lametti was asked pointed questions Tuesday evening about federal consultations with provinces and others before declaring an emergency, and when the government received advice to revoke the declaration. On multiple occasions, he responded that he “would not betray cabinet confidence.”
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) keeps saying it isn’t studying the idea of taxing Canadians’ principal residences when they sell them. Yet the Crown corporation keeps paying a group of tax-loving academics to study a form of capital gains tax that is known as a “home equity tax.”
The federal Conservatives want the RCMP to re-open an investigation that ended more than four years ago that examined whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed a criminal act by accepting a free holiday at the private Bahamas Island owned by the Aga Khan.
The Liberals have heeded the age-old advice that governments should never set up public inquiries unless they know in advance what the findings will be.
Ministers provide few details to committee probing Liberals’ use of Emergencies Act
Justice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked cabinet confidentiality in his appearance before a special committee tasked with investigating the government’s use of the Emergencies Act.
Lametti was asked pointed questions Tuesday evening about federal consultations with provinces and others before declaring an emergency, and when the government received advice to revoke the declaration. On multiple occasions, he responded that he “would not betray cabinet confidence.”
Every extra dollar the federal government raises by increasing the personal income taxes of Canadians costs $2.86 in reduced economic activity, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
The study by the fiscally conservative think tank also found the decrease in economic activity when corporate income taxes are raised by $1, is $2.02.
Canada’s environment commissioner said Tuesday the country may not be able to reach its 2030 emissions reductions targets because the federal government’s current plan is based on “unrealistic” assumptions about the role hydrogen will play in the energy mix in years to come.
The commissioner, Jerry DeMarco, released a series of audits today that document the federal government’s environment-related shortcomings — including its failure to produce a meaningful “just transition” plan for energy workers displaced by the transition to a low-carbon economy and the uneven application of a supposedly national price on carbon emissions.
But DeMarco was perhaps most scathing in his assessment of the government’s hydrogen strategy, which he said is based on “overly optimistic” assumptions that “compromise the credibility” of the government’s entire emissions reduction plan.
Was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau right to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history as a way to deal with the trucker convoy in Ottawa?
That’s the primary question that needs to be addressed by the public inquiry that the Liberal government was compelled by legislation to convene.
Yet it looks like Trudeau is already trying to get in the way of the question even being asked.
