In their attempt to protect vulnerable Canadians from hate crimes, the Liberals are planning to criminalize faith.
This is the compromise they have reportedly made to pass Bill C-9, which would ban the public display of swastikas and terrorist symbols to incite hate against an identifiable group, and create new offences for “hate crime” and religious obstruction.
Readers will recall that I was censorious of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s histrionic emulation of Winston Churchill during the election campaign, lacking only the siren-suit, the cigar and the eloquence, as he promised to lead Canada with raised elbows “in the fields and in the streets,” as he engaged U.S. President Donald Trump, whom he claimed was “trying to break us.” I have since been happy to commend the prime minister for enunciating a policy of promoting the intelligent exploitation and export of the treasure trove of Canada’s natural resources, while protecting the environment.
Ontario Conservative MP Vincent Ho asked a simple question in the House of Commons. He received a simple (yet horrifying) answer.
Ho asked, “With regard to the federal public service, how many employees had an annualized salary of over $150,000?” The Treasury Board told Ho the number was 12,971 which works out to 3.5 per cent of the total federal workforce.
Senators say immigration bill meant to push back against rising ‘xenophobic rhetoric’
A Liberal-appointed group of senators says a seemingly harmless bill to mark Canada’s history of immigration is actually aimed at countering what they describe as growing “xenophobic rhetoric” in the national debate.
Blacklock’s Reporter says senators told the social affairs committee the proposal was timed to influence public discussion around annual immigration targets.
The federal government has removed Syria from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, almost a year after the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Syria had been put on the list in 2012 while Assad was still in power. The country was in the midst of a conflict that began in March 2011, killing nearly half a million people and displacing half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
Syria’s new government — headed by former Islamist insurgent leader and now interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa — has been putting effort into reintegrating the country into the international fold.
They’re all terrorists.
📹 One of hundreds of videos showing the new Syrian Army executing civilians in Pajama, dragged from their homes for the simple crime of being Alawite pic.twitter.com/9EXpRsFMFy
— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻 (@angeloinchina) March 7, 2025
Can you mourn something that never existed? Like the idea of a happy marriage when you knew all along you settled for the first person who accepted your advances? Or the daydream of a life of luxury and indulgence, which feels possible while you’re holding a lottery ticket, but vanishes as soon as the numbers are called? What about the notion of universal drug coverage for all Canadians, which has been under consideration for decades – an official recommendation as far back as the first report from the Royal Commission on Health Services, published in 1964 – and appeared, at least to some, as though it might become a reality under the Justin Trudeau administration?
Prime Minister Mark Carney hasn’t called time of death for pharmacare yet. But everyone can see it’s only being kept alive by machines, still referred to in the present tense because anything else would be too painful.
Since its inception in 2004, the legitimacy of the Safe Third Country Agreement has always been predicated on the convenient fiction that the United States offers refugee claimants the same protections as Canada provides to asylum seekers who arrive in this country.
Even before Donald Trump became U.S. President for the first time in 2016, concerns about the treatment of those who claim refugee status in the U.S. cast long shadows over the bilateral agreement under which Canada turns back most asylum seekers from third countries who try to enter this country at the U.S. border. Successive governments in Ottawa have largely glossed over those concerns, reasoning that the U.S. refugee system, while imperfect, met minimum standards set out in international conventions.
Oh No! Bad Man Trump secures the US border & deports illegals to protect Americans? How awful! You shamelessly shill for a paper that trumpets the import of cheap foreign labour making domestic economic refugees of your fellow citizens. Your luxury values amount to elite theft.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 5, 2025
OTTAWA — More than 10,000 removal warrants in the Canada Border Services Agency inventory have been active for more than a year — even though the agency says removals are at an all-time high.
CBSA statistics show more than 33,000 removal warrants in the current inventory. Agency vice-president Aaron McCrorie said more than 22,000 people have been removed from the country in the last 12 months.
The CBSA says nearly 30,000 removals were “in progress” as of Oct. 31.
McCrorie said the CBSA processes a “never-ending” stream of people entering the country, including citizens returning from abroad, tourists and asylum seekers.
Sorry but I just do not expect honesty from any Canadian government agency. Lying is what they do.
Prime Minister Mark Carney came dangerously close to handing British Columbia a de facto veto over a national pipeline and calling it “co-operative federalism.”
Canada urgently needs a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast. This pipeline would play a crucial role in diversifying Canada’s economy by giving Canada access to Asian buyers instead of relying almost entirely on the United States, where Alberta crude often sells at a discounted price compared with global markets.
To secure Bloc Québécois support for its censorious Bill C-9, the Liberals have reportedly agreed to a troubling trade: removing the long-standing religious defence from Canada’s hate-speech laws. This would be a mistake.
Bill C-9, the Carney government’s combating hate act, would expand criminal prohibitions on expression and increase penalties for speech offences, including online speech. Now, the bill may also gut the defence that protects good-faith religious opinion or speech rooted in religious texts.
‘You are a very bad minister,’ Conservative immigration critic says at tense committee meeting
Immigration Minister Lena Diab sparred with her Conservative critic at a tense House of Commons committee meeting Thursday as the two disagreed on everything from immigration levels and deporting non-citizen criminals to what kind of salad they prefer.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner put Diab in the hot seat throughout her two-hour committee appearance, grilling Diab about her file and accusing her of being “a very bad minister” when she struggled to give a clear answer on whether she will use powers under the government’s pending C-12 legislation to mass extend temporary visas.
💥REPORT: Canada's Immigration Minister:
✅ Makes up automatic deportation legislation that doesn't exist.
✅ Believes reduced sentences for violent immigrants is a conspiracy.
✅ Refuses to denounce rape culture.Imagine being this clueless and making a quarter of a million… pic.twitter.com/JoteLzRegv
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) December 4, 2025
Even if we double home building, buying a house is expected to become less affordable for nearly half the country
The federal government wants to build 480,000 homes a year over the next decade to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. That’s double our normal rate and a pace not seen since the Second World War.
They’ve put some money and resources behind the effort: Along with the new federal agency Build Canada Homes, Budget 2025 included other measures to ramp up activity, such as a fund only accessible to provinces that lower construction-related taxes.
A federal income tax cut pitched by Prime Minister Mark Carney as a major affordability measure will save low-income Canadians roughly $11 a year, senators heard this week, despite the measure carrying a $5.8 billion annual cost.
Conservative Member of Parliament John Brassard states the obvious, pointing to the Brookfield Elephant in the room, “No one should be naive in thinking that Carney left a $1 Trillion company, making millions of dollars in both salary and deferred compensation, for some virtuous reason, to make $400,000 as the Prime Minister, to save us from ourselves”
Whether he intended to or not, Prime Minister Mark Carney cast aside a tenet of the Liberals’ brand last Thursday when he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta that jeopardizes the Grits’ work addressing climate change.
For more than two decades, the Liberal Party of Canada told voters that it was the party that not only cared about climate change but was best able to address it. Election after election, from Jean Chrétien’s climate pivot in 2002 with the ratifying of the Kyoto accord, to Stéphane Dion’s “Green Shift,” to Justin Trudeau’s pan-Canadian framework on “Clean Growth and Climate Change,” to Carney’s platform, which mentioned the threat of climate change 27 times, the Liberal party told Canadians that the future of the planet depended on strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it pledged to do that while strengthening the economy through clean energy investments.
