To wit ...
The Liberals need to tell everyone what they think is "misleading".
Like the truth, for example:
Cabinet claimed a right to censor charities from making statements deemed “false or misleading” under threat of losing their tax status, then-Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote in a 2023 email. The document was disclosed yesterday under Access To Information: “It frightens me.”
Also:
Cultural and broadcast industry groups are calling on the Liberal government to support the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act, as the Prime Minister’s Office refuses to say whether the bills are part of trade negotiations with the United States.
"We are aware that the U.S. is exerting pressure on the [federal government], and the cultural sector is undoubtedly on high alert," said Marie-Julie Desrochers, executive director of a coalition representing the cultural sector.
Kevin Desjardins, president of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, which has supported both pieces of legislation, said his group is concerned when it hears the threats.
Both Desrochers and Desjardins are hopeful the government will keep the bills in place, as the Liberals stay mum on their intentions — a marked departure to the Trudeau government’s attitude toward the bills.
Last week, the U.S. State Department took aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticized press freedom in Canada, a week after a group of U.S. Republicans urged the Trump administration to push Canada to eliminate the Online Streaming Act.
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Wait, what?
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 21, 2025
Anita Anand gets a meeting with Marco Rubio and cuts it short and cancels a press conference to head home on an earlier flight?
"Anand was supposed to hold a quick conference, a quick news conference after that meeting, but it did not end up happening."
"We're told… pic.twitter.com/TyUeoxFqur
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Couldn't they rely on foreign nurses as opposed to ones we won't train or keep here?:
The Department of Health spent more than $200 million on a pandemic program with untrained staff and little oversight, says an internal report. Auditors relied on grant recipients to explain if they used the money wisely: “Most of the original staff members had left and those who replaced them had no previous experience.”
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An enormous salary isn't enough for these unelected and unaccountable judicial activists:
The commission tasked with reviewing judicial compensation says that $414,900 per year isn’t enough to keep the bench attractive to top applicants and recommends the government increase judges’ salaries by at least $28,000.
“The current salary and benefits paid to judges are inadequate,” reads a report by the commission reviewing federally appointed judges’ compensation that was tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday.
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It's not like anything will be done about it:
Federal inspectors have confirmed a black market in migrant worker permits, says a labour department briefing note. The department said it would tighten inspections amid public complaints that foreigners have cost Canadians jobs and wages: ‘Misuse includes the buying and selling of permits.’
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A federal subsidy program that gave away more than $130 million on a promise of promoting business start-ups and creating jobs achieved neither, says a Department of Industry report. Auditors could not identify a single start-up or count any net job creation despite claims of success by then-Trade Minister Mary Ng: “These would have been useful.”
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This is their reward for being loyal Liberal voters:
Cabinet should cut billions in seniors’ benefits, says a federally-funded research group. A total $13.9 billion in cuts are detailed in a budget submission by Generation Squeeze, a University of British Columbia group that previously lobbied cabinet for a home equity tax: “It’s appropriate to ask retirees with six-figure incomes to accept fewer taxpayer dollars.”
Why don't we have a cut of MPs' pensions?
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If Canadians will still back a known liar, then they deserve every bad thing that comes their way (and it will):
Buoyed by growing anxieties around affordability and the economy, the Conservative Party of Canada has edged ahead of the Liberals for the first time since Mark Carney became prime minister in March, according to one new poll.
New figures from Abacus Data released Sunday show a “modest but meaningful shift” in terms of national vote intention with Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives (41 per cent) edging the Liberals (39 per cent) among decided voters. The Liberal share is down four points since early August.
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