Canada may extend the deadline of a program created this year to give temporary residents working in key sectors a route to permanent residency, and is considering expanding the program’s eligibility to include refugee claimants, Canada’s immigration minister told Reuters on Thursday.
Being populist to me means listening to people who actually work for a living, not just those who have the luxury lifestyle of being paid to give opinions, which really isn’t work. One of the things that bothers me about elitists is their refusal to use plain language. And I don’t believe it’s because they’re smarter; smart people believe in communicating effectively and clearly. The over-use of jargon, the invention of fake words and using complicated words where simple ones will do, isn’t about improving communication, it’s about making it harder, to keep out outsiders. Use jargon; use acronyms; denounce other people’s language as obsolete or even racist. That’s a form of elitism.
It was on Aug. 15, 2021, that Canadians were alerted by their leader to a “pivotal moment,” one that was “maybe the most important since 1945, and certainly in our lifetimes.” What were the elements that gave our leader grounds for declaring that out of all the moments we have had since the Second World War — of which there were many — this moment was the “most important”?
I’d like to start with an excerpt from a recent public document. It’s a bit longish but you need to catch the flavour of the thing. It has a magnificently “certain” tone, speaks of vast issues, asserts a Universalist impact, and has dread warnings for our country, Canada. Then I will offer a quiz.
With Albertans apparently voting “yes” in a referendum on the elimination of Canada’s equalization program, advocates hope the federal government will enter into negotiations that could see the scheme reformed.
A soon-to-be-released book written by corruption expert Frank Vogl, the founder of Transparency International and a former World Bank official, excoriates Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government over the 2018 SNC-Lavalin scandal.
In “ The Enablers : How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption — Endangering Our Democracy,” Vogl argues that western politicians must take greater responsibility. “For example, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lost the shine on his public image when in 2018 he intervened in the prosecution by the Justice Department into alleged bribery by one of Canada’s largest engineering companies, SNC-Lavalin. Trudeau got off too lightly,” Vogl writes.
Canada piled on new debt at a faster pace than any of its Group of Seven peers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iain Stewart played a central role in government efforts to block publication of documents regarding the firing of two scientists from a Winnipeg microbiology lab
OTTAWA — The recent departure of the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada could stymie opposition efforts to uncover details surrounding a high-security microbiology lab in Winnipeg, where two scientists were fired earlier this year for undisclosed reasons.
Today, let’s consider the bafflegab Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has been spouting recently about the Liberal record on climate change versus the Conservative one.
It’s an appropriate time to do so as a huge, 12-day United Nations conference on climate change in Glasgow, Scotland will begin Nov. 1, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Wilkinson will be talking about the issue endlessly.
According to the Liberal government’s own data, Canada’s foreign aid budgets involve transferring funds to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and African Development Bank.
From 2003 to 2020, the World Bank’s Doing Business Report(DBR) was generally seen as a trusted measure of how business is conducted around the globe. Yet, according to former World Bank senior manager Paul Cadario, there has been controversy about the DBR’s methodology since its inception. China is a major shareholder of the World Bank and therefore has considerable financial leverage over it.
“The DBR was discontinued this year , after data irregularities in its 2018 and 2020 editions suggested that China, as well as a few other autocracies, were given unfair bumps.”
In other words, a discovery of corruption within the ranks. It is within this context that Cultural Action Party review Liberal government foreign aid policy.
A former governor of the Bank of Canada is bracing for the inflationary trends that central bankers are wrestling with around the world to last a little longer than some people might think.
You could say that four days is not exactly a decent interval between Beijing’s release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and Canada’s ambassador to China returning to his habit of loudly pimping for profits from greasy state-backed enterprises in Xi Jinping’s People’s Republic.
Canada’s China Class and the Liberal Party – there really is no difference.
Failed deal with China delayed made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine plans
The federal government’s failed collaboration with a vaccine manufacturing company in China early in the pandemic has led to a delay of nearly two years in efforts to create a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine.
Government documents obtained by The Fifth Estate show that Canadian officials wasted months waiting for a proposed vaccine to arrive from China for further testing and spent millions upgrading a production facility that never made a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) signed an agreement with Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics in early May 2020 to “fast-track the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada for emergency pandemic use.”
When it comes to communications regulation, let’s be clear: the election did not give Justin Trudeau’s government a mandate to continue messing with free speech on the Internet.
