In an exchange with an independent MP during Question Period on Thursday, Hajdu dismissed a question about how vitamin D supplements may help prevent illnesses like COVID-19.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
GUNTER: Here’s what massive emissions reductions really means
On Thursday, as part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s virtual eco-summit of international leaders, our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Canada to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 or 45% from 2005 levels by 2030. That’s up from the 30% cut Canada had been pledging.
Are you as tingly as I am, fellow Canadian, about Justin’s latest pious promise?
BONOKOSKI: The insensitivity of feminist talker Chrystia Freeland
There is good timing and then there is bad.
As she prepared to bring down the first Trudeau Liberal budget in two years — which was a flood-fest of wild spending in the billions — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland showed off a pair of Zvelle heeled shoes she would be wearing, manufactured by a woman-led business in her riding.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s carbon tax, global emissions keep rising
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised carbon taxes April 1 and pledged deeper cuts to Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions at a virtual climate change summit convened by U.S. President Joe Biden last week, global emissions are projected to skyrocket this year.
Freedom of Expression Under Attack: The Liberal Government Moves to Have the CRTC Regulate All User Generated Content
… Read that again: “all the programming that is on those services would be subject to the Act.” Despite the warning, Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin put forward a motion to remove the exclusion, which gained the support of the committee.
This is a remarkable and dangerous step in an already bad piece of legislation. The government believes that it should regulate all user generated content, leaving it to regulator to determine on what terms and conditions will be attached the videos of millions of Canadians on sites like Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, and hundreds of other services. The Department of Justice’s own Charter analysis of the bill specifically cites the exclusion to argue that it does not unduly encroach on freedom of expression rights. Without the exclusion, Bill C-10 adopts the position that a regulator sets the rules for free speech online. As Emily Laidlaw tweeted, human rights apply online and offline.
MALCOLM: No, Minister Hajdu, the Vitamin D conversation isn’t ‘fake news’
Vitamin D is “fake news” according to our ever-wise federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu.
In an exchange with an independent MP during Question Period on Thursday, Hajdu dismissed a question about how vitamin D supplements may help prevent illnesses like COVID-19.
Canadian gov’t. to introduce first-ever internet control bill
OTTAWA, Ontario, April 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In a legislative first, the Canadian government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is introducing a bill that will censor the internet for its own citizens. The bill proposes to ban “hate speech,” including “hurtful” language against politicians.
Canada’s Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday that the bill will be considered in Parliament within the next fortnight during a videoconference with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Weimarization.
Trudeau’s chief of staff knew of 2018 Vance allegation: ex-senior staffer
The chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew there was an allegation made against Gen. Jonathan Vance in 2018 and that it had been referred to bureaucrats to probe, says an ex-senior staffer.
Elder Marques, a former senior advisor to Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s Office, testified before the House of Commons defence committee on Friday that he had been asked by either Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff, or her assistant to contact Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan‘s chief of staff about the matter.
Trudeau pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030
Trudeau said Canada will reduce emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a target much lower than the one first pitched by the former Conservative government and agreed to by former environment minister Catherine McKenna at the Paris climate talks in 2015.
Only white people can be racist: Inside Global Affairs’ anti-racism course materials
“Objectivity” and “worship of the written word” are being taught to Canadian diplomats as markers of “white supremacy”
Monday’s federal budget included a massive expansion of race-based programming, including a new drive for race-focused data collection, funding earmarked for what Ottawa is calling “equity deserving groups” and even a plan to prioritize government procurement from “Black-owned businesses.”
It’s a ramping up of an initiative first begun in 2019, when the Government of Canada began rolling out antiracism training within its departments in a bid to combat a federal bureaucracy that they asserted was shot through with “systemic racism.” Ottawa’s focus on antiracism training became all the more acute after worldwide Black Lives Matter protests prompted by the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd in police custody, which was reflected in the more than $300 million put towards “equity” programs in the 2021 budget.
Trudeau increases Canada’s 2030 emissions target to 40-45%
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that Canada is increasing the country’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 to 45 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030.
This is an increase of Canada’s previous commitment of 30 per cent.
Jesse Kline: Chrystia Freeland’s budget tries to paper over failed COVID response
Budgets are inherently political documents in which the government always tries to put a positive spin on what it’s done and what it’s planning to do. But the Liberal government’s 2021 budget seems rosier than most. Which is amazing considering the year we’ve just been through, and the uncertainty of the year ahead. If we can glean anything from this document, it’s that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland sure knows how to polish a turd.
Net-zero won’t cure the climate but it may kill Canada
Last November the federal government introduced its Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which establishes our pathway towards reaching that goal by 2050. But don’t hold your breath. It took a full decade to build 12.5 km of electric light rail in Ottawa, arguably the largest green-energy project in Canada over that time. To electrify the rest of Canada’s transportation sector in three decades, as well as our industrial and domestic energy sectors, the new Act starts by convening an advisory board to consult with Canadians on the best pathways to this target . . . tick tock.
Canada’s new climate change target will exceed 40% cut in emissions: Radio-Canada sources
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will take advantage of Joe Biden’s climate summit on Thursday to unveil Canada’s new, more ambitious climate target.
Radio-Canada has learned that Trudeau will not announce a specific figure but rather a range for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets.
According to information obtained by Radio-Canada, the new Canadian goal is to exceed a 40 per cent reduction from 2005 emission levels by 2030. The target is not expected to go beyond a 45 per cent reduction.
LILLEY: Trudeau still won’t act on flights from India and other hotspots
Between April 1-17, 40 COVID-positive flights from Delhi landed in Canada — mostly in Toronto, but also many in Vancouver. This is on top of 26 flights from the U.S., 14 from the UAE, 11 from France, nine fromTurkey, and seven each from Germany, Qatar, and the Netherlands.