We don't need any of these people:
Sources speaking to the National Post on the condition they not be named said the letter that was read aloud to Trudeau did not contain the signatures of those who had signed it, but said upwards of around 30 who spoke expressed a desire to see the prime minister step aside. More came to the microphone, according to sources, some of whom called for the turmoil to end.
Ministers filing in to their weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday morning dismissed calls coming from some of their fellow MPs that caucus should vote on Trudeau’s leadership through a secret ballot — a mechanism that does not exist under current rules for either the caucus or party.
Either confront the aging frat-boy (pension or no pension) or slither away.
The Liberal caucus cannot force Justin out, nor will he leave.
Canada is not a democracy but a land-mass ruled by the worst sorts of people.
If it's not China, it's India:
Trudeau has always been a lightweight. Canadians wanted a fresh face and a new style of politics. Trudeau, the son of a former leader, provided Canadian politics with the same makeover and generated the same enthusiasm that former Prime Minister Tony Blair did in the United Kingdom in 1997 or former President Barack Obama did in the United States in 2009.
Leadership is not a Hollywood movie, however. Trudeau quickly proved himself a naïf on the global stage, and China moved fast to exploit his international innocence.
Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, was Canada’s prime minister from 1968 until 1984, with a brief nine-month interlude in 1979-80. In 1973, Pierre Trudeau was the first prime minister to visit the People’s Republic of China, where he met with Mao Zedong. In 1984, the elder Trudeau invited Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang to address the Canadian Parliament. Justin Trudeau picked up where his father left off. China is Canada’s largest trading partner after the U.S. and the country to which Canada runs its largest trade deficit.
In 2016, Justin Trudeau paid a weeklong visit to China seeking a more balanced relationship but failed. In subsequent years, only press exposure stopped Chinese efforts to win favorable extradition treaty terms and the ability of Chinese state-owned enterprises to sue local Canadian provincial governments, including over environmental regulations. That same year, journalists uncovered a Chinese cash-for-access scheme in which Chinese interests could make large donations to meet Justin Trudeau in the homes of wealthy Chinese Canadians.
In 2019, Justin Trudeau’s defense minister attended a celebration to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule in China at a time when the Chinese Air Force increasingly violated Canadian airspace and harassed its jets.
Earlier this year, Justin Trudeau testified in an inquiry after evidence emerged that China interfered in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections by illicitly subsidizing candidates it thought were sympathetic to Beijing’s interests. While Justin Trudeau downplayed the impact of Chinese interference, intelligence provided by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service led to the exclusion of one long-term party ally with whom it alleged Beijing had compromised. Justin Trudeau’s party won both elections in which Beijing supposedly supported candidates.
With his allegations against New Delhi, Justin Trudeau had lowered the evidentiary baseline upon which Ottawa acts. If circumstantial evidence is the new standard, then there is far greater evidence to suggest he knowingly or unknowingly acts as Beijing’s useful idiot. Certainly, Communist China’s spies must be having a good chuckle at the witch hunt Justin Trudeau is leading against India when Chinese spies act with nearly free rein across Canada.
If Justin Trudeau purposely ignores Beijing’s machinations, the trouble could be even worse. From Beijing’s perspective, India’s rise is among its greatest strategic challenges. Not only is India now the world’s largest country, but China’s population is in free fall. Both trends have profound economic ramifications. Two years ago, I toured part of the India-China border between Ladakh and Tibet. As one Indian guide pointed out, every Indian soldier had three or four siblings. Every Chinese soldier was an only child.
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Canada’s top security and intelligence officials appeared before a parliamentary committee Tuesday to discuss the Indian government’s links to assassinations in this country, but MPs focused most of their questions on partisan talking points about leaks and security clearances.
Because of course they did.
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Members of the Commons yesterday expressed shock after a lone Liberal MP single handedly vetoed a motion to appoint a special committee on Canada-India relations. The dissenter, MP Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North), parliamentary secretary to the Government House Leader, did not comment: “It may not look good on Justin Trudeau.”
Pander to your new overlords! Pander, I say!:
The Senate is close to passing a private Liberal bill proclaiming April as Arab Heritage Month. “We are open to the world,” said MP David McGuinty (Ottawa South), sponsor of the bill: “How can we use this bill to heal divisions and reduce bigotry?”
Also - I never agreed to this:
A coalition of Canadian charitable groups is raising the alarm about a shortfall in donations to help with Lebanon’s humanitarian crisis, as Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly joined colleagues at a summit to try helping the country cope with the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes.
France hosted dozens of countries at the summit on Thursday, which it said had raised US$1 billion in pledges for Lebanon. A fifth of that is for the country’s military while the rest is targeted at humanitarian aid.
Canada has already allocated just under $50 million in humanitarian aid to Lebanon this year, but Canadian charities say they’re falling short of a goal set with Ottawa to match donations.
The federal government has pledged to double every dollar the Humanitarian Coalition raises until Nov. 3, to a maximum of $3 million. The funding goes to charities like Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision to provide things like emergency shelter and medical support.
As of Thursday, the group had raised just $1.825 million of the $3 million Ottawa pledged to match two weeks ago.
When does the government match donations to veterans?:
A decade after the Canadian flag was lowered in Afghanistan, advocacy groups are calling for government support for those who fought, saying these veterans are most at risk of homelessness.
Alan Mulawyshyn, the executive director of Veterans’ House Canada, said a “bubble” of veterans who served in Afghanistan more than 10 years ago will soon “burst” onto the streets.
Why don't you just get your friend, Justin, to repeal the tax?:
Premier Doug Ford made the announcement during a news conference in Scarborough on Oct. 29, saying the government is providing the rebates to offset the “high costs of the federal carbon tax and interest rates.”
The provincial government will be sending out cheques to those eligible in the new year, Ford said. An estimated 12.5 million adults and 2.5 million children are eligible, according to an Oct. 29 government press release.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault “received zero dollars” from his interest in a subsidized Montréal firm, managing partner Andrée-Lise Méthot yesterday told MPs. However Guilbeault’s own ethics filings show he drew income from Cycle Capital Management while in cabinet: “I know Steven Guilbeault.”
Also - "common sense" must now be voted on?:
Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic yesterday petitioned Parliament to adopt “common sense” reforms in federal contracting. Jeglic earlier warned MPs that federal insiders were “using the system.”
Hans has just lost the cat-people vote:
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department is targeting household cats as an ecological peril. The department in a report complained tens of thousands of pet cats were roaming Canadian cities hunting birds: “Did you know there could be up to 48,000 cats roaming in Gatineau, Que.?”
When do the forced euthanasias begin?
The woman, 51, requested anonymity because she lives in a small area with a limited number of doctors. She believes euthanasia was raised as “I was literally on my way into surgery” not because of breast cancer but because of her long history with autoimmune and other disorders that, theoretically, would make her eligible for MAID.
Her experience is drawing fresh concerns about doctors in Canada raising euthanasia before their patients do, a practice that is prohibited or strongly discouraged in most jurisdictions in the world with legalized assisted death.
The Nova Scotia woman, whose story was first reported by The Telegraph, worked, raised children and volunteered. She has never wanted to be pitied. “I’m nobody’s teachable moment.” She wasn’t offered MAID, she said. But the blunt question over whether she was aware of it “threw me. It came up in completely inappropriate places and completely inappropriate times.”
Asking you to kill yourself to save up space isn't merely "inappropriate".
Name the evil or don't bother.
Stop asking the government for help or even regard.
Do what you are going to do.
That infuriates them:
The Liberals are playing wedge politics again. They’ve released yet another in a long line of official attempts-to-save-their-arse announcements. This time, they’re letting Canadians know that they’ve had enough of pregnancy counselling centres that provide information about abortion — regardless of their faith — but do not offer referrals for the procedure or disclose that fact. No more charitable tax status for you!, the Liberals announced. Unless these clinics give in, and go against their religious beliefs, or advertise openly that they won’t.
How dare adults seek out non-abortion help?
What will they do next? Think for themselves?
Is this still Canada?!
The Charter is NOT the Magna Carta and it's time that we stopped pretending that it is:
Last Thursday, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that it’s possible for the province’s climate plan to violate the Charter rights of Ontarians — namely, the equality rights of young people, and the right to life, liberty and security of all. ...
Conveniently, Mathur v. Ontario saw the court use cherry-picked facts to imagine an artificially dire scenario, which was then used to steer Canada towards a future in which international consortiums — not Canadian voters, through their elected representatives — decide how we must legislate to mitigate climate change.
In a news release, the province said one of the bill’s most alarming aspects is the “discretionary power it would grant to officials to shut down agricultural facilities without clear, objective criteria.”
The Alberta government also said the bill contains several public health mitigation strategies that encroach upon provincial and territorial jurisdictions when it comes to health-care systems.
Higher taxes means that no one wants to do business in Canada.
“Canada taxes capital gains at a rate of 35.7 percent and dividends at 39.3 percent, well above the respective OECD averages of 19.7 percent and 24 percent,” the report said, noting that Canada ranks 35th out of the 38 OECD countries for capital gains tax competitiveness.
The changes to Canada’s capital gains tax, implemented June 25, mean Canadian companies must pay taxes on 66.7 percent of their realized capital gains, up from the previous 50 percent. Individuals now pay tax on 50 percent of the first $250,000 of capital gains earned in the year, and 66.7 percent of any gain above that threshold under the new system.
Critics of the hike say it penalizes doctors, farmers and small business owners but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has described the changes as a way to encourage “fairness” in Canada’s tax system that will largely impact the wealthiest 0.13 percent of Canadians.
Never send a "journalist" to do an economist's job.
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