Trudeau pledges billions in permanent funding for public transit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans today for the federal government to spend an additional $14.9 billion over the next eight years on public transportation projects across the country.

The funding includes $5.9 billion in short-term funding that will be disbursed on a project-by-project basis, starting this year.

The rest is to go toward the creation of a permanent transit fund of $3 billion per year starting in 2026. Money from that fund will be earmarked following consultations with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities.

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More death, more deficit: The dire consequences of Canada’s botched vaccine procurement

It is now clear that Canada is dramatically behind the rest of the developed world in immunizing its citizens against COVID-19.

One quarter of Israel is now fully vaccinated, and the U.K. has administered 13 million doses. But in Canada, procurement issues and late deliveries have effectively stalled our vaccination program after only one million doses; roughly the amount of shots that the United States administers every 16 hours. It’s now estimated that Canada will not achieve widespread vaccine coverage until mid-2022, nearly six months after the same goal will have been met by the United States, the U.K. and the E.U.

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State actors have done ‘significant harm’ to Canadian companies, says head of spy agency – Trudeau’s Liberal government not named leading many to question report’s integrity

State actors have done ‘significant harm’ to Canadian companies, says head of spy agency – Trudeau’s Liberal government not named leading many to question report’s integrity

The head of Canada’s spy agency said today Canadian companies in almost all sectors of the economy have been targeted by hostile foreign actors — and named Russia and China as two of his main sources of concern.

“The threat from hostile activity by state actors in all its forms represents a significant danger to Canada’s prosperity and sovereignty,” said David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in his first public speech in three years.

“Our investigations reveal that this threat has unfortunately caused significant harm to Canadian companies.”

Russia and China are certainties but how could he forget to include Trudeau’s Liberals?

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William Watson: Maoism’s disasters show why Canada should ignore even kindly economic planners

William Watson: Maoism’s disasters show why Canada should ignore even kindly economic planners

Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University, who used to be director of research at the World Bank, has an interesting new working paper out that tries to estimate how much Mao Zedong and Maoism cost China in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.

How China would have done without Maoism depends on what would have replaced it. Ravallion suggests that could have been “political capitalism” à la Taiwan and South Korea, two societies not dissimilar to China’s, with their “Confucian philosophical roots,” strong work ethics, reverence for learning, central importance of family, and so on. In 1950, after decades of regional and world conflict, all three countries were very poor, China poorest. But then the other two took off and China didn’t.

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‘We’re double-dipping’: Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash

‘We’re double-dipping’: Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash

Justin Trudeau is facing growing pressure to speed up Canada’s sluggish distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, as the country fends off accusations that it is taking supplies of the drug meant for developing countries.

The federal government drew sharp criticism last week when it announced that it would draw on Covax, a mechanism created to fairly distribute Covid-19 around the world, for its supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Canada is entitled to receive shots through the Covax program, which uses advance purchases by wealthy nations to subsidise doses for poorer countries. But it had already completed a series of direct deals with pharmaceutical companies to secure its own supply, prompting accusations of “double-dipping”.

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“Canadians have a right to not be detained” | Keean Bexte on mandatory quarantine for travellers

On last Friday’s episode of Rebel Roundup, host David Menzies was joined by Alberta-based Rebel reporter Keean Bexte to discuss his story about a woman in Calgary who was forced into quarantine in one of the federal government’s COVID-19 hotel/jails.

No matter what you call it, Canadians are being held against their will by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government — ironic, coming from a government that touts itself as being transparent.

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Canada’s visa application centre in Beijing run by Chinese police

Chinese police own a company that collects details of people applying for visas to Canada and numerous other countries, giving Beijing security services a direct stake in the processing of private information provided by people planning travel outside China.

Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, which operates the Canadian visa-application centre in the Chinese capital, is owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, a Globe and Mail investigation has found. And at least some of the people working inside the centre are members of the Communist Party, recruited from a school that trains the next generation of party elite.

(Use Incognito)

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“Canadian” Khalistan separatists threaten Indian diplomats – Trudeau cabinet, NDP Leader so far ruled out as suspects

Trudeau govt wakes up to death threat to PM Modi, provides security to top Indian diplomats

The Trudeau government last Friday instructed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to provide protection to the Indian embassies in Ottawa and Vancouver after external affairs minister S Jaishankar spoke to his Canadian counterpart Marc Garneau on February 5.


Remember this? Terror reports to reference ideology, not religions after ‘Sikh extremism’ criticism: Goodale

Friday evening, hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit one of the biggest Sikh temples in Canada, his government agreed to change the language in a report on terror to no longer explicitly mention Sikh extremism.

 

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Infographic: Canada’s Cancelled Energy Projects

Infographic: Canada’s Cancelled Energy Projects

While Canada’s resource sector was dealt a blow with the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit by the United States, Canadian officials are facing another challenge as Michigan’s governor tries to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.

The Line 5 pipeline, which crosses Wisconsin and Michigan, brings oil from Western Canada east, where it is refined in Sarnia, Ont., into products like gasoline, diesel, and home-heating fuel. Shutting down Line 5 would have a major impact on the crude oil supply of Eastern Canada and cost thousands of jobs.

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Britain’s vaccine success the path Canada should have followed

Britain’s vaccine success the path Canada should have followed

On May 16, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke publicly for the first time about Canada’s deal to try and develop a COVID-19 vaccine with the Chinese firm CanSino.

On that very same day, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government had its own announcement about vaccines.

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Senior Liberal staffers discussed withholding details about COVID-19 response to avoid accountability

 

“Would say that there are several factors that we may want to consider with respect to the level of detail for the announcement,” said the email sent by a senior policy advisor for Trudeau.

“A detailed announcement [would] mean that the government could be held accountable to show that funds were spent exactly as announced (reducing flexibility to move money across buckets if necessary).”

In other words make it the usual bullshit.

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Shipped Deadly Viruses to China: Scientists let go from National Microbiology Laboratory amid RCMP investigation

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi!

Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an RCMP investigation and internal review have been let go from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CBC News has learned.

“The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20, 2021,” Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and PHAC, confirmed in an email late Friday.

“We cannot disclose additional information, nor comment further, for reasons of confidentiality.”

Sources say members of the lab’s special pathogens unit were called to a meeting on Thursday and told that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, will not be returning to work. They were not given an explanation.

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Biden’s Chinada Challenge

Will “Big Guy” Joe Biden come through for the “not bad folks” of Communist China?

Joe Biden is on record that the Chinese Communists are “not bad folks, folks,” and “not competition for us.” The Delaware Democrat, is facing a crucial decision on China, by way of Canada, that deserves careful monitoring.

In December of 2018 in Vancouver, Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. China responded by taking captive Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. As Solarina Ho of CTV News reports, Trudeau has spoken to Joe Biden about the case and “should the U.S. withdraw its charges against Meng, it could give China a reason to release Kovrig and Spavor,” now in their third year of captivity.

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Trudeau government has become the things it despised

Trudeau government has become the things it despised

Almost all governments eventually become the things they said they despised before they became the government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is no exception.

During the 2015 election campaign that brought them to power, Trudeau and the Liberals said they despised government secrecy as the default position of the previous Stephen Harper regime and they would deliver “open and transparent government.”

They were always corrupt.

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Canada First? “Never Apologize” For Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Ahead Of Poorer Countries

Canada First? “Never Apologize” For Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Ahead Of Poorer Countries

Whoa, Canada! Our neighbor to the north has come under fire for drawing COVID-19 vaccine doses from the international consortium meant to preserve supplies for poorer countries, a consortium that the US under Donald Trump pointedly eschewed in favor of Trump’s “America First” philosophy. Now, Justin Trudeau’s government has resorted to defending its self-interest, vowing no apologies for putting Canada first…

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