I wish I knew why people would place their lives and the lives of their families in the hands of these wretched, untrustworthy villains.
Really:
Still, the Privy Council Office – the senior bureaucratic department in Ottawa – was disappointed when a recent poll it conducted (published by the online news service Blacklock’s Reporter) found “a majority of voters outside Québec do not trust the Government of Canada and rate it secretive and incompetent.”
Good. Citizens’ healthy mistrust of government and politicians is fundamental to freedom.
Overall, 51% of Canadians surveyed distrusted the feds. A third “strongly” distrusted them versus just 8% who strongly trusted Ottawa.
The highest level of distrust was in Alberta where two-thirds of residents had no faith in the feds. What did surprise was the fact that the highest level of trust was in Quebec.
This Quebec:
Speaking to reporters on Sept. 11, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said he has been having discussions over the summer with his provincial counterparts about what a “fair distribution” of asylum seekers would look like in Canada.
“Our teams have been working on models on what that would look like, and we came up with a set of facts and figures about what each province should be taking based on population weight,” Miller said at a national caucus meeting in Nanaimo, B.C. “That means that some provinces should take on more to ease the pressure on provinces like Ontario and Quebec.”
According to a federal government briefing document obtained by The National Post, a total of 235,825 people are currently seeking asylum in Canada, with most making their claims in Ontario and Quebec. A redistribution of asylum seekers would result in many of them being sent to other, less populous provinces.
The distribution ratio would result in Alberta receiving around 28,000 asylum seekers, British Columbia receiving over 32,500, and New Brunswick receiving 4,952. Other provinces would receive fewer claimants, with Manitoba receiving 1,378, Saskatchewan getting 7,075, Nova Scotia getting 6,131, Prince Edward Island getting 943, and Newfoundland and Labrador getting 3,066.
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On Friday, the Liberal government announced a $2.14-billion loan to Telesat, a Canadian communications company based in Ottawa. The money is aimed at helping Telesat’s low Earth orbit satellite boost reception, particularly for Canadians in remote parts of the country.
Less than half that amount https://t.co/tCS9ktUNuO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2024
The palms, Mr. Musk, have already been greased.
And this douchebag from Quebec:
Never has a government been more manipulatively masterful of finding creative ways to tell Canadians that what it does is none of their business. The list is exhaustive, but these are few recent examples.
• How much was disgraced Chief Human Rights Commissioner Birju Dattani, an activist who said Muslim terrorism was a “well-calculated strategy” paid to go away after a backlash erupted over his appointment?
None of your business. The Privy Council isn’t at liberty to divulge personal information about what its mistake cost Canadian taxpayers.
• Why was Liberal Party donor Annette Verschuren, who had an obvious conflict of interest, so swiftly chosen over 100 applicants to head a now-disbanded green slush fund — Sustainable Development Technology Canada? Was she punished in any way for breaching the Conflict Of Interest Act by voting to award six-figure grants to companies in which she held a direct interest?
Was anyone held accountable for 186 known conflicts of interest by directors of the agency that paid $856 million in corporate subsidies over a six-year period?
Sorry, that’s private information.
• What was Parks Canada’s forest management policy prior to the June wildfire that ravaged one third of Jasper? Well, that’s a matter they’d rather not delve into now, instead opting to withhold details until May 2025. Just trust the slippery Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault who said it was “simply not true” that Parks Canada mismanaged fire preparedness.
• How was 20-year-old Pakistani Muhammad Shahzeb Khan who arrested in Quebec over an alleged ISIS plot targeting US Jews able to get into Canada?
Sorry, can’t say due to privacy laws and an investigation.
• Who were the elected and government officials alleged to have been influenced by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other foreign agents who used illegal methods to threaten Canadians?
Again, none of your business. Move along now. Please don’t ask us again.
• We still don’t have a clue about who got billions of the hundreds of billions of dollars — $240 billion just in the first eight months — spent during the COVID-19 ‘pandemic.’ Or why the Liberals spent $123,000 trying to hide information about Chinese spy scientists affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army working at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
It goes on and on and on despite Trudeau’s big and broken promise of transparency.
No wonder a majority of voters outside Quebec don’t trust the federal government, according to in-house Privy Council research
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been told he can’t win the next election and should quit before he’s defeated.
Several MPs and former cabinet ministers have publicly called for his exit, including veteran Quebec Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès at this week’s caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.
Privately, prominent party heavyweights, elder statesmen, fundraisers and campaign strategists have all urged Mr. Trudeau to leave.
Two sources say that Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, was one of those who told Mr. Trudeau in a July conversation that he can’t win the next election.
A former Liberal cabinet minister said that when he bluntly gave the Prime Minister the same message, he didn’t blink an eye.
“I can’t wait to take on Poilievre,” was Mr. Trudeau’s reply.
Call an election, then, Justin.
Liberal members and MPs are fully aware of how vulnerable they are with Trudeau remaining leader, but the bench with potential successors is not very deep. A loss on Monday would undoubtedly intensify a schism in the party. Many would see his departure as the only way to flip the narrative before next year’s election, versus those who might still hope an improving economy by then, together with Trudeau’s campaign skills, could turn the tide.
Or will Justin use prorogation of the government as his ace-in-the-hole?
Justin is still hurt because the NDP, that wisp of a party, is no longer supporting him and the carbon tax (a tax on living) is now incredibly unpopular (why was it ever? Ask Canadians.):
A day after the NDP indicated it was turning against the Liberal carbon tax, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the party that recently backed his government of having “no idea what to do to fight climate change.”
(Sidebar: more here and here.)
The about-face is not going to save the NDP, however:
So according to David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, the best carbon tax in the world is bad for British Columbians.
Meanwhile, according to federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national carbon tax, which borrowed heavily from B.C.’s model, is bad for Canadians.
Describing these policy reversals by the NDP at the federal and provincial levels last week as “flip-flops” given their support of carbon taxes up to now, doesn’t do it justice.
This is more like blowing a two-and-a-half reverse somersaults dive in the pike position at the Olympics and ending up doing a massive belly flop into the pool.
It makes you wonder if NDP strategists have been infiltrated by double agents working for federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, because they’ve just handed him two more clubs to beat Trudeau over the head with heading into the next federal election, where Poilievre wants his promise to scrap Trudeau’s carbon tax to be the defining issue. ...
When B.C.’s then Liberal government brought in North America’s first revenue-neutral carbon tax in 2008, it was widely praised by everyone from the United Nations, to the World Bank, to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — as well as by the Trudeau government itself when it was elected in 2015 and imposed a federal carbon tax in 2019 — as the best, or among the very best, climate policies in the world.
Ditto climate activists, climate scientists and climate think tanks, many funded by the federal government.
Sixteen years later, however, Eby, heading into a provincial election in October facing a stiff challenge from B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad — who has vowed to scrap the carbon tax if he wins — has conceded that it’s unsaleable to many voters and could make the NDP unelectable.
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Eby admits that residents are struggling with affordability, but a re-elected NDP government would make "big polluters" still pay to take action on climate change. There was no admission that carbon dioxide is a natural substance we breathe and is not a pollutant but necessary for life itself to survive on the planet. Their new scheme claims that the industry will still pay, but in reality, consumers will still pay some of the bill. The NDP keeps their myth of the climate change mitigation fairytale.
Eby says the federal government's approach to the carbon tax has "badly damaged" the political consensus on the issue. That is the slick rationalization that Pierre Poilievre has won the carbon tax debate with Canadians.
The BC Conservatives have pledged to end the carbon tax from the beginning. Consequently, in view of the polls, the NDP caved in. The economic devastation to average voters can no longer be denied.
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