People who voted them in are bad people:
A majority of Canadians believe that Ottawa is on the wrong track when it comes to handling issues the public deems important, and its actions to address them have produced “little in the way of tangible impact thus far,” according to confidential polling conducted for the federal government.The polling results, reported to the Privy Council Office and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, found that most individuals surveyed thought the Liberal government has been slow to act and is not doing a good job tackling inflation and housing issues.“Very few participants believed the Government of Canada was currently on the right track when it came to addressing the priority areas they had identified,” said the survey, titled “Continuous Qualitative Data Collection of Canadians’ Views.”“For most it was felt while the Government of Canada had begun to take actions to address important concerns such as housing affordability and cost of living, these had produced little in the way of tangible impact thus far.”The findings were based on focus group interviews held nationwide. The Privy Council Office commissioned the survey under a $2.4 million annual contract with the Strategic Counsel.Some survey participants held the view that the government lacks foresight in anticipating hurdles the country would encounter.“Speaking more generally, several expressed the opinion that actions taken by the federal government were often reactive in nature and that more needed to be done by federal officials to anticipate the challenges Canadians would face before they became major issues,” the survey said.
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“In addition to being one of the first Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) to sign and ratify the Paris Agreement,” a recent federal government report reads, “Canada has followed through on its Paris commitments over the past seven years by taking action, investing over $120 billion to reduce emissions, protect the environment, spur clean technologies and innovation, and help Canadians and communities adapt to the impacts of climate change.”
We know the government’s spending spree of more than $120 billion on climate is wasteful because the government has said repeatedly that government spending is a relatively inefficient way to achieve its emission-reduction goals.
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Internal government documents show that bureaucrats at Global Affairs became very nervous after the Sun reported on out-of-control expenses for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.
Documents obtained through the access to information system show bureaucrats scrambling to justify the expense for the funeral while also admitting they needed to change their ways for the coronation.
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The Bloc Québécois is forcing a vote on the pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause by provinces. The debate in the House of Commons prompted the Liberals and the NDP to team up to firmly denounce its use and the Conservatives to tiptoe around the issue.
Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet chose to use his party’s opposition day motion on Thursday to push the idea “that it is solely up to Quebec and the provinces to decide on the use of the notwithstanding clause” — even going as far as comparing its pre-emptive use to a vaccine which would prevent courts of law from dictating to provinces what they can and cannot do.
Also - not special:
Liberals are determined to ram through C-13, the official languages bill, despite concerns from their own caucus members representing Quebec’s English-speaking communities.**
He's not an enigma; he's an idiot:
What is currently in place appears to be, insofar as it is comprehensible at all, a deal struck between two men, rather than a compact between two political parties. This is certainly not what Canadians expected or wanted when they last voted, and failed to provide Trudeau with the majority he believed to be his due, and it is far from obvious how the NDP stands to profit.Article content
This all suggests or even indicates that Mr. Singh is incapable of negotiating even on his own behalf, as he appears to have gained very little, while ceding everything. How — given this demonstration of utter ineptitude — can this man possibly be trusted to act wisely on behalf of his party, let alone the country?
This moron is holding up the country.
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Doesn't Justin want to cry in public?:
The prime minister’s lawyers are fighting a subpoena for him to testify at the London trial of a man accused of throwing stones at him, alleging the request is politically motivated and infringes on his Parliamentary privilege.**
What does one do when even Justin's welcome to potential Liberal voters doesn't pan out and even Democratic politicians don't want them around?:
The arrival of the migrants has set off concern among officials in Canada, which has traditionally been welcoming to immigrants but is trying to discourage illegal crossings.Mr. Adams said on Tuesday that the city was not compelling people to leave, and that New York City’s efforts to transport the migrants elsewhere were different from those of southern leaders.“We are not telling anyone to go to any country or state,” he said. “We speak with people and they say their desire is to go somewhere else. So, there’s no coordinated effort. We don’t have a website, we don’t have a recruitment campaign. We’re not telling people go to another country.”New York City has been buying tickets for migrants who want to go to other cities to connect with family or friends for months, officials noted.
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Overrun by asylum-seeking migrants sent to the city from southern border states, New York has been offering free bus tickets to the Canadian border for migrants wanting to start a new life up north, but some are turning straight back around.
Ilze Thielmann, the director of nonprofit Team TLC — which has been organizing busses to Plattsburgh, where there is an unofficial crossing to Montreal — said the reality isn’t as rosy as people expect.
She told CBS: “They think that there are all these jobs up there. They think they’re going to be able to get asylum very easily up there and that’s just not the case.”
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The Trudeau government insists it wants to close this loophole through negotiations with its American counterpart. In the past five years, though – during which the Mounties have intercepted more than 100,000 people on Roxham Road – there’s been no progress toward that goal.
And now the mayor of New York, faced with a flood of more than 42,000 Latin American asylum seekers and economic migrants bussed to his city by cynical southern Republican governors, is actively making the situation worse?
This development, along with last year’s record number of people intercepted at Roxham Road, suggests the situation at Canada’s border is about to get worse. It also makes it clear that Canada and the U.S. went into the STCA with very different goals.
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The opposition Parti Quebecois, meanwhile, has called for the provincial police to shut down Roxham Road entirely — but the party hasn’t said what it thinks should be done if asylum seekers choose another of the many forested routes into the country.
The province recently announced $3.5 million in aid for community organizations that have been struggling to provide food, clothing and housing for rising numbers of asylum seekers.
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Liberal MP Chandra Arya used House of Commons funds to purchase $21,931 worth of “protocol” gifts from the same local company that handles his constituency printing and communications work, a Global News analysis of expense data shows.
Arya’s total spending of taxpayer funds on “gifts given as a matter of protocol” far outstrips any other MP, including cabinet ministers who frequently meet with foreign officials and dignitaries, between July 2020 and Sept. 30, 2022.
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Oh, look!
Another way to divide Canadians on artificial lines:
The federal government is being urged to follow through with its commitment to develop a Black Canadian justice strategy.
The Liberal government committed to creating such a strategy in the 2021 election campaign after advocacy groups and the United Nations raised serious concerns over anti-Black racism in the Canadian criminal justice system.
Black Canadians are consistently overrepresented in Canadian jails: Black people make up less than four per cent of the Canadian population but about eight per cent of the federal prison population.
And - Marci! Marci! Marci!:
Canadians should educate themselves on slavery even if it was outlawed here decades before Confederation, Equality Minister Marci Ien yesterday told reporters. “It doesn’t matter who was in charge,” said Ien.
Marci Ien, the minister of women and gender equality, gave $10,000 in constituency contracts to Munch More Media, a Toronto-based public relations firm specializing in promoting the restaurant and food services industry.
The b@$#@rds will only find another way to cheat:
Most Canadians oppose internet voting, says Elections Canada research. A Liberal Party proposal for voting by smartphone was rejected by the House affairs committee prior to the 2021 campaign: “A majority agree that voting over the internet should not be an option.”
The RCMP yesterday said it did not conduct any criminal investigation of alleged Chinese interference in the 2019 federal election. Members of the House affairs committee said the testimony was not reassuring amid repeated claims of illegality: “I am very, very frustrated right now with the lack of information.”
The government and, therefore, Canada, isn't directly helping the disaster-stricken areas of Syria and Turkey. It is - as is often the case - outsourcing assistance to others.
Such is the tenor of this government and the people who put it into power. Let someone else do the heavy lifting and make it seem like we're kind of caring.
We have watched and waited to see Canada’s contribution. We are good at this; our Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) is known for its successes, especially its ability to provide clean drinking water, primary medical care and engineering/mapping services. By our own definition, “Since 1998, Canada has sent the DART to help when natural disasters and crises have struck other countries. It assists when local responders are overwhelmed, and people have nowhere else to turn. The DART can remain in place for up to 60 days. It works to stabilize a crisis until long-term aid is underway to help the country recover.” Surely the team is already on its way?
Not so. Instead of seeing the Maple Leaf on the shoulders of a team of 200 heading to Turkey, we have been told that Canada has sent an “assessment team” and promised $10 million to various aid organizations. The whole point of the DART is that it is ready to deploy. Now. Within 48 hours the 200-person team could be en route. Instead, the tap dancing and handwringing continues and, once again, Canada fails. Why? ...
In truth, the Canadian Armed Forces have very little capability to help. Missing more than 10,000 soldiers, fielding old kit, reeling from dozens of misconduct allegations and the need for “culture change,” our forces are unable to send emergency troops to help in a real crisis. The “staff checks” the media has been told about are likely a beleaguered Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre, being asked if he can pull blood from a stone. What current commitment, operation or exercise can he curtail in order to redirect his meagre resources to help Turkey and Syria? ...
Canada donating money to relief organizations reminds me of Ottawa’s approach to the humanitarian crisis in Albania in 1999. As the head of the Kosovo Verification Mission’s Refugee Task Force, I was sent to Albania to “look after the refugees being sent across the border from Kosovo to Albania.” Not the usual clear mission statement I was used to as an army officer. As I was working to support the Albanian government in all the prefectures (provinces) to receive and house the refugees, I watched how Canada was supporting the crisis. I was told repeatedly that Canada was providing millions of dollars to the Canadian International Development Agency for the UN relief agencies; however, this was not something Canada could get visible credit for in Albania or indeed across the international community. Yes, our political masters could talk about it, but it was not apparent to anyone — certainly not to Albanians — that Canada was doing anything.
Interesting:
I run all my best Canadian renewable energy money-maker corporate machines receiving tax-payer grants from Liberals through shell companies established in Bermuda so that I don’t pay taxes.
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) February 13, 2023
You should too. pic.twitter.com/gYCQR0YD7O
Also:
A new poll has found the overwhelming majority of Canadians have never heard of the Liberal government’s “just transition” plan, and more than half of respondents doubt that Ottawa can achieve its stated goal of replacing jobs lost in the oil and gas sector due to a transition to a low-carbon economy.
Furthermore, 60 per cent of all Canadians think we shouldn’t make major changes before larger global polluters make serious efforts to reduce carbon emissions, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
What this certainly shows is that Canadians aren't watching what the b@$#@rds in Ottawa are doing, nor are they paying attention to science.
(SEE: carbon, not a pollutant; oil, we need it)
And:
Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan yesterday said Canada needs more oil and gas workers, not fewer, and cursed cabinet’s “just transition” climate retraining program. “I can’t stand the phrase ‘just transition,’” said O’Regan: “We asked workers in Saskatchewan and Alberta to figure out how to get oil out of sand and by God they did it.”
It's only anti-semitism (and embarrassing, apparently) if you get caught:
Laith Marouf, an anti-racism consultant at the centre of a scandal over a series of tweets about “Jewish White Supremacists,” was barred from re-entering Canada from Syria in 2009 and interviewed by a Canadian intelligence official at the embassy in Damascus.
The FBI also questioned the American grandmother of Mr. Marouf’s partner, Gretchen King, about his application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident, Mr. Marouf told The Globe and Mail.
“I was delayed for six weeks, and then called in to the Canadian embassy in Damascus. When I arrived, I found out I was alone in the building with a CSIS agent,” he said. “The three-hour interview included gems like ‘what do you think is the solution to the Indigenous problem?’ and ‘do you think Indigenous people have the right to carry arms?’ ”
On Monday, the Commons Heritage committee will resume its inquiry into federal funding of the Community Media Advocacy Centre and Mr. Marouf, who is a consultant with CMAC. MPs plan to ask what checks were made between government agencies and departments to vet Mr. Marouf.
Melissa Lantsman, deputy leader of the Conservative Party who sits on the committee, said the revelation raises “serious questions” not just about Ottawa’s vetting process for groups receiving public money but about “how many people in the government of Canada knew about this individual and for how long.”
CMAC is a non-profit that was awarded a $133,000 anti-racism contract last year by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
After Mr. Marouf’s tweets emerged last summer deriding “Jewish White Supremacists,” francophones, and Black and Indigenous public figures, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen cancelled the contract and instructed CMAC to return the funding.
Mr. Hussen pledged to improve the department’s vetting process to make sure it doesn’t fund groups espousing hatred.
Mr. Marouf, who had lived in Canada since he was a teenager, said he was delayed from returning to Montreal even though he had a work permit and temporary residency. He had gone to visit family members in Jordan and Syria in the fall of 2009.
Mr. Marouf launched a legal challenge in Federal Court to the decision not to allow him to return, which was dropped after he was permitted to re-enter Canada by the beginning of February, 2010.
Quite frankly, I don't blame Danielle Smith.
She must be pretty sure that everyone else has had their tentanus shots.
Of Justin? Not so sure:
Well, it all starts here. This is one of the worst handshakes ever recorded, and it was between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Smith obviously doesn’t like Trudeau very much, but it’s actually kind of an Alberta tradition to look miserable next to Liberal prime ministers, particularly when they’re Justin Trudeau. ...
So why all the side-eyes? Trudeau is deeply, deeply unpopular in Alberta, and always has been. Basically, if you don’t look absolutely miserable around him at all times, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll be accused of selling out to Ottawa.
But why did she shake everybody’s hand at the press conference? Maybe just to show that she still knows how.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she agrees with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe that the “private health information” of the people of their provinces should be protected.“I agree and stand firmly with [Premier Moe] in protecting Albertans’ private health information,” Smith said in a Twitter post on Feb. 10.“I will ensure that any agreements with the Federal Government do NOT include the sharing of any such personal information with the Feds or third party.”Smith’s post was in reaction to a letter issued by Moe regarding the current health care negotiations between the provinces and the federal government, in which he said his government wouldn’t agree to the creation of a digital ID.
The special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burials at residential schools is calling out the federal government over a deal with an international group tasked with locating missing people lost through armed conflict, human rights abuses and other causes.
Kimberly Murray says she's "very concerned" Canada's $2-million technical agreement with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) lacks transparency and places the commission under the influence of bureaucrats at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC).
She's urging Minister Marc Miller to release the agreement so communities can see the details for themselves.
"It should be made public," Murray said.
"Canada and the ICMP entered into the agreement without telling anyone that they were entering into an agreement. They didn't actually consult with any of the national Indigenous organizations. They didn't have any input on the contract.
"There was no transparency to it."
Oh, does that bother you?
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