LILLEY: WE spent big to fly Sophie to U.K. for gig
The average Kenyan earns a little over $2,000 Canadian per year.
Think about that as you absorb the news that WE Charity spent the equivalent of nine people’s annual income to fly Sophie Trudeau and her daughter to London to speak briefly at a WE Day event in March 2020.
I am becoming convinced that a great many “charities” are scams.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said today that Roman Catholics need to demand better from their church — which has so far refused to apologize for its role in the residential school system or release documents that could shed light on unmarked burial sites.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller also said it’s “shameful” that the church has so far ducked offering a clear apology to the many thousands of students who were forcibly confined at sites run by the church.
“Certainly, the Catholic friends that I speak to believe it should be done. There is a responsibility,” Miller said. “I think it is shameful that they haven’t done it, that it hasn’t been done to date.”
That took gall and of course it’s pure deflection. Besides the Catholic Church’s apology dance card is booked for the next several decades.
Also … Ottawa says it’s not liable for cultural damage caused by Kamloops residential school: court documents
The federal government is heading toward trial on a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the devastation residential schools inflicted on First Nation cultures, languages and communities.
The claim for reparations was originally part of a broader lawsuit filed in 2012 by the Tk’emlups te’ Secwepemc and shíshálh Nation in B.C. — along with residential school survivors known as day scholars — who were forced to attend Kamloops Indian Residential School and Sechelt Indian Residential School.
OTTAWA — Parliamentarians on Tuesday argued that collaborations between a Canadian infectious disease lab and Chinese military researchers raises critical questions of national security and said Ottawa should be compelled to provide more details about the facility’s operations.
Over hours of debate in the House of Commons, Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois members repeatedly called on the Liberal government to provide details as to why two scientists were fired from Winnipeg’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) earlier this year, amid an RCMP investigation into the matter.
Canada’s relative debt load compared to other developed nations is far worse than the Trudeau government claims, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday.
It says while the Liberals’ boast that Canada had the lowest net debt to GDP ratio among G7 countries heading into last year’s pandemic recession, that falls to 25th place out of 29 nations with comparable economies when its gross or total debt is calculated compared to the size of the Canadian economy.
I agree that some things are so strange, so vagrant, that they are at least very difficult to ignore. Nearly impossible to walk by or pretend they haven’t happened.
Imagine a person in a powerful position — ok, let’s uncoil the whole rope. Imagine a Member of Parliament treating his office as if it were an out station for a nudist colony, and who went all Adam, full starkers, while communing with other MPs on the Zoom machine. They were wearing clothes.
Last week, Conservative MP Candice Bergen asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why scientists at the Winnipeg infectious-diseases laboratory had been collaborating with Chinese military scientists. Two Canadian scientists have been fired from the lab, so Ms. Bergen’s question was reasonable. Mr. Trudeau’s response was not.
“The rise in anti-Asian racism we have been seeing over the past number of months should be of concern to everyone,” Mr. Trudeau replied, from left field. “I would recommend that the members of the Conservative Party, in their zeal to make personal attacks, not start to push too far into intolerance toward Canadians of diverse origins.”
All members of the Liberal Party, the New Democrats, and the Bloc Quebecois voted against a Conservative amendment to Bill C-10 that would have created clearer stipulations that would count user-generated content as an exception from Bill C-19’s sweeping powers.
Remember, the government of Canada sent out an actual notice to doctors warning them not to deviate from the state narrative on Covid, no mater what the medical science might be.
Quebec will loom large in the next federal election and recent moves by the Liberals suggest they’re making a play for the Bloc Québécois-held seats that stand between them and a majority government.
On a number of files — the protection of the French language, Quebec’s plans to make changes to the Constitution and Bill C-10, a piece of legislation with broad support within the province — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has struck a pose of openness to Quebec.
It’s always Quebec.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inability to see the malevolence of China’s Communist regime appears to be as strong as ever and his response to questions about that threat are as shameful and troubling as ever.
An investment guru once told me that when a public company provides a jet, cars and drivers for its executives, and spends a fortune on consultants, it’s time to short the stock. The same applies to Canada, a nation state with lousy leadership and soaring consultant fees, because few, if any, of our federal political leaders know what they’re doing.
Back in June of the year 2000, a young reporter for a weekly magazine out West handed his editor his usual list of new story pitches — the kind every low-level scribe has to submit. He had, in his own opinion, two particularly strong ones. One was a story about a rising Canadian tech firm called Research in Motion that was winning accolades for its cute, convenient Blackberry internet messaging device. The other was about a shocking new history book that explored the internments of Italian-Canadians suspected of harbouring Fascist sympathies during the Second World War.
You know that you’re on to something when Justin Trudeau throws around accusations of racism.
That’s where Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives found themselves on Wednesday as they asked questions about security at Canada’s top microbiology lab and the partnership with scientists tied to the Chinese military.
The CRTC rejected a Bell-backed coalition’s website blocking proposal in 2018 after massive public outcry. Now, the federal government is bringing it back — and putting our online freedoms on the line.
A woman has filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, alleging that, while she was a scholarship student, she was sexually harassed by her mentor and the foundation then pressured her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep it quiet.
