As the pricing increases, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle- and upper-class households should be expecting to pay hundreds, if not thousands.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Rex Murphy: Liberal-NDP ‘coalition’ will make Canada worse off. But that’s just fine for Singh and Trudeau
This is two leaders of political parties cobbling together an arrangement for their shared comfort and ease
The big news of the week was the NDP and the Liberals going from cohabitation to official marriage. I call it big news, but in one sense it isn’t. It’s not about inflation, or how Canada is responding to the Ukraine crisis. It’s not about some serious inquiry into the invokation of the Emergencies Act and the wide and dangerous powers the government wielded, unjustifiably in my view, for over a week.
Canada may one day be able to supply specialized hardened steel needed for Trudeau’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle Ice Breakers
Canada could face trouble buying specialized steel for new $7-billion icebreakers
Canada could face problems buying the specialized steel needed for its new $7-billion polar icebreakers, further driving up costs for taxpayers.
The polar-class icebreaker project was originally supposed to cost $1.3 billion for the construction of one vessel. Two icebreakers will now be built, but the cost has skyrocketed to an estimated $7.25 billion.
Trudeau Insults ‘Uniquely Unhelpful’ in Convincing Canadians to Get Vaccinated: Medical Expert
The federal government has to develop more target-oriented policies to convince those who still haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccine to get their shots, while engaging in name-calling, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did, is “uniquely unhelpful” to that end, a medical expert told parliamentarians.
Trudeau used derogatory terms to describe unvaccinated Canadians, saying they are often racists, science-deniers, and misogynists during an interview on the French-language program “La semaine des 4 Julie” on Sept. 16, 2021. At a press conference days earlier, he called protesters demonstrating against federal vaccine policies “anti-vaxxer mobs.”
Trudeau Carbon Tax Theft: Most pay more in carbon taxes than we get in rebates
GOLDSTEIN: Most of us pay more in carbon taxes than we get in rebates
Ever since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced his federal carbon tax, the Liberals have been dining out on their claim that 80% of Canadian households where it applies receive more in carbon tax rebates than they pay in carbon taxes.
“Our plan will … leave 8 out of 10 families better off …,” then environment minister Catherine McKenna tweeted on April 1, 2019 when Trudeau’s carbon tax came into effect.
Freedom Convoy organizers Lich, Barber facing new charges
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are now jointly charged with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police.
Justin Trudeau mercilessly mocked in Europe over Freedom Convoy response, organizers Lich, Barber facing new charges – Coincidence?
Prominent organizers of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation of downtown Ottawa are facing new criminal charges.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are now jointly charged with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police.
Both were arrested on Feb. 17, a day before police began moving in to clear demonstrators from downtown Ottawa streets.
More… Ottawa police were not ready for number, behaviour of ‘Freedom Convoy’ participants occupying streets: Interim police chief
‘The hate, the disruptive behaviour, the intimidating behaviour, the noise pollution…’ was unexpected, said Interim Police Chief Steve Bell
Canada under the gun as NATO allies to present defence spending plans by June
BRUSSELS — Canada faces fresh pressure to increase its defence spending as the head of the NATO military alliance says leaders have agreed to present plans by June on investing billions of additional dollars into their respective militaries.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed the new pledge at the end of an extraordinary meeting in Brussels, where leaders from across the alliance had gathered for the second time in a month to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
While all NATO members pledged in 2014 to spend two per cent of their national gross domestic product in the next decade, Stoltenberg told reporters after the meeting that allies have now agreed to “redouble” those efforts.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau the clear winner in his deal with Singh
If history is any guide, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got the better of the deal he made with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, ensuring the survival of his Liberal government until June 2025.
It’s not surprising since Trudeau, as PM and the senior partner in the negotiations, was playing from a position of strength.
Singh’s hand was much weaker — as the junior partner — and it showed in the final agreement.
60% of Canadians worry about feeding their families amid inflation: Ipsos poll
Surging inflation has a growing number of Canadians concerned they won’t be able to stretch their dollars far enough to keep food on the table, according to the latest polling from Ipsos.
In a survey conducted exclusively for Global News from March 11-16, Ipsos found that six in 10 Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their families.
Sabrina Maddeaux: So-called leftist pact could be the best thing to happen to Conservatives
The new Liberal-NDP deal may be the best thing to happen to Conservatives in years –– just, perhaps, not certain Conservatives.
Leadership hopefuls eager to take over the country’s top job sooner rather than later got a rude wakeup call when news of a confidence and supply deal broke Monday night. The pact will, barring any surprises from either side, see the Liberals retain power until 2025 in exchange for passage of some NDP priorities.
After Two Days to Flatten the Bouncy Castle, Canada Needs a New Constitution
After crowds cheered them on from overpasses and at truck stops from one end of the country to the other, the Freedom Convoy arrived at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29 to protest COVID vaccine mandates. Thousands of supporters joined them to wave Canadian flags, dance in the snow, play street hockey, and cheer speeches delivered from a flatbed truck. Kids played in a bouncy castle and on hay bales.
Trudeau and the NDP plan to reward allies in predatory public service unions with 10 days paid sick leave
Liberal-NDP deal includes a push for 10 days of paid sick leave for federal workers
OTTAWA – The Liberal Party of Canada and the federal New Democratic Party signed an agreement to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power until 2025 in exchange for moving forward on a series of policies.
The “confidence and supply deal” would secure the NDP’s support for major legislation, such as budget bills and confidence votes, necessary for the minority Liberal government to stay in power until the next election in three years.
It Is Not Enough To End Vaccine Mandates, They Must Be Banned
Many Canadians are happy to see provincial governments, and now even the federal government ending COVID-19 restrictions, mask mandates, and worst of all, COVID-19 vaccine mandates for certain occupations and activities, but is that really enough?
The fact that the government had the capability to mandate vaccines that did not stop the spread of the virus they were meant to fight is quite troubling. In some provinces like Ontario, they have still not scrapped the digital infrastructure for the mandates, making it so that businesses can still continue discriminating against customers based on vaccine status.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is tacitly endorsing discrimination, and even if you think businesses should be allowed to deny service to whomever they please (which is a fair argument), it is undeniable that nobody would care about vaccine status if the government did not tell them to care.
Canadian Energy Official To Biden: Why Look To Venezuela, Saudi Arabia For Oil? ‘We’re Right Next Door!’
“The Biden administration has flirted with lifting oil sanctions on once-shunned Venezuela to temper surging oil prices, yet it appears unwilling to encourage investment in domestic energy production,” Fox News reported.
Meanwhile, Biden’s advisers “are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil,” Axios reported.
But one Canadian energy official last week expressed frustration with the Biden administration for not just turning to its neighbor to the north, which is among the world’s top oil producers.