We need to go Gdansk or go home:
Will he meet with his MPs? After all, nine Liberal MPs penned a letter last week calling for an urgent, in-person meeting of the entire Liberal caucus. They warned the Liberals’ loss in the June 24 by-election in the party’s long-time stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s was a sign that Canadians aren’t listening anymore.Yet Mr. Trudeau wouldn’t commit to meeting his own caucus. He smiled, but swivelled and skated his way around the question three times in a manner that suggested he’d prefer to dive into a sack of electric eels than meet his own MPs all at once. He’ll talk to some on the phone.“Last week’s by-election loss, not to sugarcoat it, was challenging,” Mr. Trudeau said, sugarcoating it.He said there’s “always a range of perspectives and voices within the Liberal Party and listening to all those voices and giving them time to engage is really, really, important,” but he obviously didn’t mean all, or least not all at once.Mr. Trudeau did meet with some caucus representatives this week, however. What was his takeaway? His answer was a Liberal brochure: People are facing challenging times so the government is “stepping up” on things such as dental care, housing construction, a school food program and so on.Are there members of his team that have asked him to go? Mr. Trudeau said he has had frank conversations but Liberals are focused on delivering.There was a theme to Mr. Trudeau’s answers to questions about him: This is an important time.“There is a challenge faced by democracies all around the world right now,” Mr. Trudeau said. He pointed to the rise of the far right in France, “the election in the United States,” widespread anxieties and what he called “an erosion of democratic principles and rights.”
But we're not a democracy, are we, Justin?
Only your Chinese financiers can depose you now.
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Chrystia Freeland continues to sit on the trustee board for the World Economic Forum while serving as Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister. She and the Canadian delegation spent over $40,000 in travel costs attending this year’s meeting, but it’s not clear what Canadians got out of it. She has provided only generalities about her agenda there, even in a reply to specific questions about her meetings from Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to accept the demand by some of his MPs for an in-person national caucus meeting to discuss the recent devastating Toronto-St. Paul’s, Ont., byelection loss, and the strategy going forward, but MPs and political insiders say that ducking the issue won’t help.
“What we have [now] is an environment where people are now openly and actively calling for his resignation,” said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research, in an interview with The Hill Times. “There are a number of caucus members that want to have a meeting, basically, to bring him to account and to talk about the future of the Liberal Party. If anyone thought that the next election was going to be difficult before Toronto-St. Paul’s, it is now just a steeper mountain for Justin Trudeau to climb because now part of the narrative is not only are the Liberals and Justin Trudeau on the ropes, the Liberals are divided.”
Since the June 24 byelection, in which the Liberals lost a safe seat to the Conservatives, a number of MPs have asked for a national caucus meeting to discuss why they lost one of their fortresses in Toronto, and what’s the strategy for the next election.
Liberal MPs told The Hill Times that up until June 24 the byelection they had been assured by the party leadership that they would win. Now, after the loss, and the national polling numbers showing their party 14 to 21 points behind the Conservatives, there’s no safe Liberal seat in the country, these MPs say. The governing party has been trailing the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre (Carleton, Ont.) for a year now, and there’s no hope that anything will change anytime soon.
The frustration amongst caucus members has been percolating for a year, and the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection result was the catalyst for Liberal MP Wayne Long’s (Saint John-Rothesay, N.B.) email to his colleagues asking for Trudeau’s (Papineau, Que.) resignation. It was also the reason, MPs said, that nine Liberals sent a signed letter to national caucus chair Brenda Shanahan (Châteauguay–Lacolle, Que.) on June 28 asking for a caucus meeting. Some of the Liberals familiar with the thinking of the nine MPs who sent out the email told The Hill Times that these MPs and a majority of the rest of the caucus “genuinely” respect Trudeau on a personal level, but they decided to highlight that the “status quo” is not working, and changes need to be made.
Try to be a little more sycophantic.
Let's put it in these terms: if the Chinese don't cheat for Justin and Jag does not support him, your positions are gone.
Now, who do you "respect"?
Also - oh, it's not friendly:
More than a million people are expected to visit the Calgary Stampede making it an ideal event for political photo-ops. But this year, only Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be saddling up for the event, while both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will stay away.
Political watchers say the absence of Trudeau and Singh are calculated defensive moves to protect against friendly fire they may encounter at the outdoor festival.
Bluntly, no one likes them, and it's not hard to see why:
A year after the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, it has now come to light that the slain Khalistani terrorist donated money to prominent Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh and his New Democratic Party (NDP).
The revelations were made by investigative journalist Mocha Bezirgan in an article on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday (5th July). Jagmeet Singh, a known Khalistani sympathiser, has received the donation from Nijjar in 2017.
“Elections Canada records show that a Hardeep Nijjar with a postal code of V3W 0J4 donated to the NDP and to Jagmeet Singh in 2017. A simple Google search revealed that the postal code is associated with Nijjar Plumbing & Heating Ltd, Nijjar’s plumbing company where his son Mehtab Nijjar works, as per LinkedIn records,” Berizrgan pointed out.
(Sidebar: and you thought that Harjit Sajjan plumbed the depths of indecency.)
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Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says he is “looking forward to making a real difference” as the government’s new special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism.
The Prime Minister’s Office announced his appointment to the role on Friday, saying Housefather will advise the prime minister and cabinet and work with the Jewish community.Housefather, who is Jewish, has been outspoken about the rise in antisemitism in Canada since the current conflict between Israel and Hamas began in October.The appointment comes four months after Housefather said he considered leaving the Liberal caucus, following an NDP motion on the Israel-Gaza war left him feeling intense anger and isolated within his party.After that period of reflection, he said he would stay as a Liberal and that Trudeau had asked him to work with the government to address the “massive” issue of antisemitism in Canada right now.
Did he leave money on a dresser?
A meaningless position for a coward without principles.
Former foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau says Canada has lost its standing in the world under the tenure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom he criticizes as an ill-prepared leader who prioritizes politics and makes big pronouncements without any follow-through.
"I believe Justin Trudeau has overestimated Canada's impact abroad," Garneau writes in his autobiography, "A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream," which is scheduled to be released in October by Signal, an imprint of Penguin Random House. ...
In his book, Garneau acknowledges being "blindsided" by that decision — one he says Trudeau never explained.
He writes that Trudeau did offer him the ambassadorship to France during a phone call about the decision, but Garneau said no. He said he would prefer to be an ambassador in Washington, D.C. Trudeau thought about that and ultimately said no.
Garneau makes it clear that he and Trudeau had little in common outside of their "Liberal values," and that the two were not close.
Another thing he makes clear: Garneau thinks Trudeau did not value the importance of a foreign affairs minister, and isn't very good at international relations.
"Unfortunately Canada's standing in the world has slipped, in part because our pronouncements are not always matched by a capacity to act or by actions that clearly demonstrate that we mean what we say," Garneau writes. "We are losing credibility."
He describes Trudeau's trips to China in 2016 and 2017, and to India in 2018, before his tenure as foreign minister, as "not successful."
The two China trips failed to kick-start free-trade talks with China, and Trudeau was criticized at the time for trying to bring non-trade issues to the table in talks with the Chinese government. That included pushing on human rights, which did not go over well in Beijing.
The India trip's failures were well-documented, including the embarrassment of inadvertently offering a reception invitation to a man convicted of trying to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister in Canada in 1986.
"We were not properly prepared," Garneau said of the three foreign visits.
"At a fundamental level, we did not understand who we were meeting. We thought we could seduce and were surprised it didn't turn out that way. Gone was the clear-eyed approach of a prime minister like Jean Chrétien, who always knew with whom he was dealing and who forged pragmatic alliances with world powers."
Garneau also criticizes Trudeau for delaying the release of new national strategies for dealing with China and expanding Canada's relationship in the Indo-Pacific region.
The China strategy was delayed largely because Trudeau and his "entourage" were hesitant to release anything on it while Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were still detained in China, he writes.
"I think that was a mistake, pure and simple."
Likewise, he says he could not get a new Indo-Pacific strategy in front of cabinet, and it wasn't actually released until November 2022 — a year after it was ready, and a year after Garneau had been moved out of the portfolio.
The time to speak out was then, not after he got his pension.
He and others could easily have crossed the floor.
But no.
Marc Garneau is not only a coward who helped lock down an entire country in which people lingered but did not prosper, his fellow turncoats (the ones not bought yet) are utterly without any scruples, even to save their rancid party.
I hope that Canadians remember Garneau and his band of cowards for how they looked after themselves like the craven weaklings that they are.
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It's just money:
The study found overly long and costly contracts, a lack of variety in suppliers, the failure to prioritize open-source software options, the granting to companies intellectual property (IP) over products they develop for the government and a “dearth of in-house competency.”
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Taxpayers should expect “mind blowing” costs from cabinet’s program to censor legal internet content, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill) said yesterday. Budget Office figures requested by the MP said internet surveillance will take an entire bureaucracy with at least 330 federal employees and a five-year budget of $201 million: “The mind-blowing cost of the bill could grow.”
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There is no evidence a $30 billion national daycare program saw more mothers join the workforce, says a federal document. The Department of Social Development briefing note directly contradicted claims by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland: “That is feminist economic policy.”
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But while business sector wage growth has cooled, wage gains for public sector employees remain at elevated levels. In the first quarter of this year, business sector wage growth increased by 3.4 per cent and non-business sector wage growth increased by 8.4 per cent, according to productivity accounts data. While the report notes the latter increase marks a deceleration from the final quarter of 2023, when non-business sector wages rose by 10 per cent, it remains high.
Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins and author of the report, said he believes a hiring spree and rising wages in the federal public service are driving overall wage growth in Canada.
Employment in the public sector overall has increased by 657,000 workers since 2019, a 17 per cent increase. The private sector, meanwhile, experienced an increase of 662,000 positions, or four per cent, in the same period.
The report notes that at the end of 2019, there were four private sector workers for every public sector worker, now but now that ratio is down to 3.5 to one.
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Milei got rid of useless departments in the Argentinian government.
We keep ours.
Pourquoi?:
Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change billed more than $254,000 in travel expenses in less than two years on the job, accounts show. Catherine Stewart charged for stays at luxury hotels ranging up to $623 a night, according to Access To Information records: “Climate change will bring unprecedented challenges.”
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Not a rumour, just like your attempt to blot out Yaroslav Hunka from Hansard:
Talk of a home equity tax is merely a “rumor” though the Prime Minister met privately for an hour with equity tax lobbyists, says Liberal MP Karina Gould (Burlington, Ont.). Political aides in Gould’s office in a note to homeowners dismissed the meeting as routine and unimportant: “I can assure you.”
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When did we take over Greenland?:
Eight Canadian diplomats couldn’t spot the error on a large map of Canada displayed at our Embassy in Washington, Access To Information records show. Staff at the Embassy yesterday would not comment on the banner that mistakenly identified Greenland as Canadian territory: “Great, thank you.”
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Stick it to them, Saskatchewan!:
The Trudeau-NDP government is sending the CRA after the province’s bank account, all because we are providing the same carbon tax relief on home heating in SK they provided Atlantic Canada.It’s unfair and it’s unconstitutional. The Government of Saskatchewan has filed for an injunction to block the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) from accessing the province’s accounts to reclaim missed carbon tax payments.
The CRA audited Saskatchewan this spring over its refusal to remit carbon levies owed to the federal Crown under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA), and has since ruled the province to be “non-compliant” with those tax obligations.
Federal Minister of National Revenue Marie-Claude Bibeau, in a statement issued to the Leader-Post on Thursday, confirmed that CRA is now pursuing the missing dollars.
“The GGPPA spells out the consequences for non-compliance, and the Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed its constitutionality. The CRA is on the case, and has pursued collections as required by law,” she said.
Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre on Thursday described Ottawa’s move as a “cash grab” by the federal Liberals in response to “when someone disagrees with them.”
“The reason they’re doing this is because we are providing Saskatchewan residents with the exact same carbon tax exemption (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau is giving other Canadians,” Eyre said in a video posted Thursday to social media platforms.
“Other parts of Canada get tax relief. We get our bank account garnished for providing that same tax relief. It’s unfair and it’s unconstitutional.”
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