The federal Liberals have long shied away from confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but, as with all bullies, acquiescing to them results not in peace, but undaunted escalation.
The LPC promise love China long time.
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Ottawa mayor wouldn’t speak to Parliament security service during convoy: official
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s office would not return a call from the Parliamentary Protective Service during the height of the “Freedom Convoy,” its acting director told a committee Thursday evening.
Larry Brookson, the acting director of the service, told members of Parliament and senators during a joint committee hearing that he attempted to reach out to Watson and Ottawa’s city manager during the protests that occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks in February.
Cutting CBC would give twice
Cutting government spending is almost always beneficial but new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to eliminate the CBC’s public funding is doubly so. Many other government-run institutions are so blatantly inefficient and do so badly that there is at least the silver lining that they sow public skepticism about further government expansion. The CBC is also inefficient and does badly but it is in the business of pushing stories and promoting ideas, and the ideas it promotes are those favouring government expansion. As Milton Friedman wrote, “Any institution will tend to express its own values and its own ideas … A socialist institution will teach socialist values.”
How many times have we heard conservative politicians rally the faithful with cries of “Defund The CBC?” Yet it never comes to pass. Why is that?
The CBC was once vital to maintaining the façade of democracy that kept we proles in check.
CBC became part of the permanent political class that governs us.
But few watch it anymore if the ratings are to be believed.
Trudeau’s handlers understood the CBC’s diminished reach and brought the rest of Canada’s media on board with subsidies’.
Will Poilievre defund or even cut back the CBC? We’ll see but I wouldn’t bet on it.
And I will want to know why he changed his mind.
‘Completely unjustifiable’: Feds paid out $191 million in bonuses to public servants
OTTAWA – Nearly 90 per cent of federal public sector executives, as well as thousands of other federal bureaucrats, went home with $190 million in total bonuses in 2021-2022.
The bonuses represent an 11 per cent jump from the previous year ($171 million), which coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way?
In China, the high-profile TV drama In The Name Of The People has become a smash hit. In that show, Chinese agents enter the U.S. posing as businessmen so they can repatriate a factory manager who had fled abroad with huge ill-gotten wealth.
But a new study by the European non-governmental agency Safeguard Defenders suggests that there might be some truth to the fiction. According to the NGO, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau has established more than 50 “overseas police service centres” in cities around the world – including three publicly documented ones in Toronto, home to Canada’s largest Chinese diaspora.
h/t DM
Beef wellington, $230 flowers: More details on how Governor-General spent $99K on Middle East trip
Gourmet meals plated on china, orders of beef wellington and carpaccio for 50, and $230 in flower arrangements secured from an Ottawa florist.
Department of National Defence receipts obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation and the National Post lay out the total cost of Governor-General Mary Simon’s pricey week-long trip to the Middle East earlier this year.
h/t DM
Global Affairs Canada admits some costs on nearly $100k in-flight catering tab for GG trip were ‘problematic’
OTTAWA – The federal government admitted certain items on the nearly $100,000 in-flight catering bill for the governor general’s eight-day trip to Dubai in 2020 were “problematic” and is working to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Irving shipyard recruiting foreign workers to build new warship fleet despite vow of more jobs for Canadians
Irving Shipbuilding wants to bring in more foreign workers to help construct the Canadian navy’s new fleet of warships.
Irving is involved in a recruiting campaign to bring in workers from the Philippines as it gets ready to construct the first of 15 Canadian Surface Combatants.
… But Irving employees told this newspaper that the firm is losing skilled Canadian shipbuilders because the firm is not paying enough and benefits are lacking.
Big LPC supporters I hear.
Canada to have 50 million people, half of them immigrant families, by 2041
Canadian immigration levels are currently at their highest since the era just before the First World War, when mass immigration was used to homestead the prairies. Just last year, Canada brought in 401,000 new permanent residents.
One result of this influx, according to new projections from Statistics Canada, is that Canada will be home to as many as 50 million people by 2041. It’s twice as high as the Canadian population as recently as 1980. It also means that over the next 19 years, we’ll be adding enough new Canadians to equal the present-day equivalent of all of Western Canada (the combined population of Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba was 11 million in the last census).
Canada – A Great Big Leicester.
Howard Levitt: Public sector jobs boom is a shell game that plays havoc with our economic future
One day late last year, Justin Trudeau took to twitter to tout his government’s job creation record.
“Thanks to your hard work and the hard work of Canadians across the country, Canada’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the start of the pandemic. In fact, more than 154,000 jobs were created last month — and … in the COVID-19 Era, more than 1 million jobs have been recovered,” he wrote in a tweet.
Justin has just added to his reliably Liberal vote bloc at our expense.
Canadian MPs across the spectrum see threats to democracy: ‘There’s no common middle ground’
OTTAWA — In a troubled world, Canadian democracy endures. But some sitting members of Parliament are worried — for various reasons — that it is getting weaker.
Ryan Turnbull is one of them. The Liberal MP for Whitby was first elected in 2019, and sees the problem through the lens of his education in philosophy: the ideal of democracy allows for public debate on a common ground of fact and reality, but Turnbull believes persistent misinformation and its self-serving weaponization by some politicians is threatening this shared basis for a functioning public discourse.
Mostly this is LPC, NDP and Elizabeth May griping about the scary convoy and such. The Star’s is gonna need a bigger fainting couch.
CBC Has Nervous Breakdown! Convoy donors gave more than $460K to CPC leadership race — and many were first-time federal donors
Canadians who donated to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.
A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.
The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.
OMG! Convoy supporters donated! And many were 1st time donors! That must be against the law!
GOLDSTEIN: Deleted recording increases public mistrust of RCMP’s leaders
Eroding public trust in the RCMP certainly isn’t going to be helped by a recent revelation at Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission.
That is that there was a now-deleted recording of a controversial phone call between RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and senior RCMP officers in the province that raised questions about political interference by the Trudeau government into the investigation of the mass killing in which 22 people were murdered in April 2020.
In response to Leith Marouf scandal, Hussen outlines new training, protocols for Heritage funding
Heritage Canada will ensure multiple government officials review funding applications — and get better training on how to vet social media posts — following the revelations the Liberal government funded anti-racism training by a consultant with a history of antisemitic tweets.
Adam Zivo: How China’s propagandists bamboozled Canada’s media
Last week, it was widely reported in the Canadian media that dozens of Chinese-Canadian organizations had come together to condemn an upcoming parliamentary trade mission to Taiwan. However, what was missed at the time was that the organizations in question were actually members of China’s “United Front” network, which is tasked with influencing foreign societies to Beijing’s benefit.
Careful, you’ll anger Canada’s 5th Columnist China class. Right Justin?