No Country For Anyone

Look how Canada has devolved:

Within hours of Canada receiving the first news of a terrorist massacre striking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, almost all of its major cities witnessed impromptu public celebrations cheering the violence.

The one-year anniversary of the tragedy was not much different, although the size and brazenness of the celebrations this time was noticeably more extreme.

In Toronto, a crowd of several hundred saturated Yonge and Dundas square on Saturday before massing outside the city’s Israeli consulate. Video captured by Toronto man Jon Fraser showed the entire crowd engaged in a screaming call-and-response of “long live intifada!”

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A masked speaker at a Vancouver anti-Israel rally shouted “Death to Canada” into a microphone, expressed support for terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas and burned a Canadian flag, according to videos circulating on the internet.

 

Aren't you happy that these idiots are everywhere?

 

 

That's what I would like to know:

Opposition MPs yesterday sought a committee inquiry into a videotaped incident in which an armed constable denied Parliament Hill access to a passerby because “he is not a supporter of Palestine.” It occurred during protests over Hamas’ October 7, 2023 kidnapping and killing of Jews in Israel including eight Canadians: “What has become of this country?”

 

What did Pierre Poilievre say that was not true?

Melanie Joly has run interference for the Trudeau government and completely ignored the savage sexual violence against Israeli women. 

Hamas could not ask for a better spokeswoman.

This silencing of Pierre is the long arm of the government showing the lengths to which it will go to quell any criticism of it:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is not allowed to speak in the House of Commons today as his public feud with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly spilled into a second day.

House Speaker Greg Fergus delivered the penalty to Poilievre this morning, a day after he asked the leader of the opposition to withdraw a remark made yesterday accusing Joly of pandering to supporters of the terrorist organization Hamas.

Poilievre made the comment during question period Monday after he asked the Liberals to condemn what he called antisemitic and “genocidal chants from hateful mobs on our streets.”

Joly responded by naming the seven Canadians killed in the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and saying the government stands with the Jewish people.

Poilievre said she hadn’t actually condemned antisemitism in Canada in her response and accused her of refusing to do so in a bid to score political points for what he called her desire to run for the Liberal leadership.

“She continues to pander to Hamas supporters and the Liberal party as part of her leadership campaign rather than doing her job,” he said.

 

Also - your lips to Santa's ears:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday doubled down on his call for Israel to pre-emptively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying such an act would be “a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”

Poilievre first voiced his support Monday at a commemoration event in Ottawa marking the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel. The ensuing conflict in the Middle East reached a new crescendo last week, when Iran — which supports Hamas and other proxy militant groups fighting Israel — fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel, which has vowed retaliation.

 

And:

Fazal Qadeer, an immigration consultant who had worked with Khan, said Khan was applying for refugee status on the basis of sexual orientation, saying he is gay, CBC reported on Oct. 7.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said in September that Khan entered Canada on a student visa.

According to a U.S. criminal complaint that was unsealed in September 2024, Khan repeatedly expressed his support for ISIS and his intention to carry out a terrorist attack around November 2023. That month, he began interacting online with an undercover FBI agent, and explained his plan to attack Jewish religious centres in the United States around the time of the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel.

An ounce of sanity:

As Ottawa continues to airlift hundreds of Canadians out of Lebanon this weekend, a new Leger survey shows slightly more than half of Canadians (52 per cent) think Canada does not owe protection to citizens who decide to stay in conflict zones despite warnings to leave.

According to the survey, only a third (34 per cent) think the federal government has a responsibility to protect and evacuate its citizens.

“The half-empty evacuation flights certainly underscores why the government is being so aggressive in communicating the need to leave now on available commercial flights, says Andrew Enns, executive vice-president at Leger. “As for the poll, those results may come into play should commercial evacuation options cease to be variable and the government has to orchestrate a more deliberate evacuation at their own expense.”

Your Rotten Government and You

In a just and sensible world, none of these people would be working.

 

Let all the people freeze in the dark:

Cabinet proposed renaming inflation as “heat-flation” to persuade Canadians to associate the rising cost of living with climate change, documents show. The idea polled badly: ‘Asked whether they had heard these terms before, none had.’

 

It's the carbon tax, stupids.

 

Also:

More than half of Canadians do not support the federal government’s mandate to require all new cars sold in Canada to be electric by 2035, a recent poll finds.

 

Canadians across the country are “a lot more hesitant to ban conventional cars than their elected representatives in Ottawa are,” said Krystle Wittevrongel, research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), in a news release on Oct. 3.

 

The online poll, conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the MEI, surveyed 1,190 Canadians aged 18 and over between Sept. 18 and 22. Among the participants overall, 55 percent said they disagree with Ottawa’s decision to ban the sale of conventional vehicles by 2035 and mandate all new cars be electric or zero-emissions.

 

In all, only 40 percent nationwide agreed with the federal mandate.

 

 

Trudeau the Liar:

“And that made a whole bunch of people who heard me say, ‘last election (under) first-past-the-post,’ translate that into ‘he’s going to bring in proportional representation,’ which I was … never … going to,” he said.

Well, no. People didn’t just hear what they wanted to hear. The 2015 platform document itself promised to “convene an all-party parliamentary committee to review a wide variety of reforms, such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting and online voting.” PR supporters expected their ideas at least to get a fair hearing. They were incredibly naive to do so, but naiveté isn’t a sin. Lying to the naive is a sin.

Indeed, the most remarkable moment in the interview was when Trudeau admitted his campaign language was deliberately designed to “bring in the Fair Vote (Canada) people” — i.e., the most prominent PR-advocacy group in the country, whose members overwhelmingly vote NDP. Trudeau wanted to purloin those votes, at least partly under false pretenses. The results show that it worked.

 

Spoken like a guy who expects the Chinese to rig elections for him:

A newly released document shows federal cabinet ministers were warned in May 2022 that hostile states were targeting Canada's strategic interests, the integrity of Canadian institutions and democratic processes, and the ability of the public to exercise Charter-protected rights and freedoms.

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The Chinese Communist Party “enjoyed” a positive relationship with Ottawa until recently, Canada’s deputy foreign minister testified at the China inquiry. David Morrison explained the Party now feels misunderstood: “They are trying.” 

This China:

A coal-fired power plant in China's Sichuan province.

China now emits more CO2 than the entire developed world combined—completely cancelling out all the sacrifices you are being forced to make in the farcical pursuit of net zero. pic.twitter.com/HPsdMX9V7o

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) October 4, 2024

 

Surely not!:

Internal government research to assess public opinion in Canada about extending the provision of citizenship to illegal immigrants found a significant number of respondents opposed to the idea. 

Pollsters asked focus groups if they’d support citizenship for “out of status” or “undocumented” immigrants who have either overstayed their temporary visas or entered Canada illegally.

Participants expressed “a wide range of opinions,” according to the April 24 survey report, which was commissioned by the Privy Council and first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

While some believed there should be “a degree of flexibility” for those whose documentation had lapsed and were awaiting a new work or study permit, “a large number” did not believe they should be given citizenship, the report said. The participants said giving out-of-status workers citizenship would be unfair to those working to immigrate to Canada legally.

 

 

Learn to code:

Media subsidies buy “social cohesion,” says a report by Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s department. The report defended 100 percent payroll rebates under a program the Canadian Association of Journalists praised for saving unemployable reporters from working in hardware stores: “We are hurting emotionally.”

And:

Fewer Canadians trust news media, says in-house CRTC research.

Blacklock's Reporter says the latest data follow Statistics Canada figures showing journalists are considered less trustworthy than politicians or police.

“Fewer Canadians express trust in news media,” said the CRTC report. “Three in ten (32%) trust the information provided by news media in Canada to be accurate and impartial and are satisfied with the quality of information and analysis offered by Canadian news media (31%).”

Trust ratings had fallen since last year, wrote researchers. “Fewer express trust in news media, down four points compared to 2023, and satisfaction with the quality of news coverage, down six points,” they wrote.

Asked, “Overall how satisfied are you with the quality of content you receive for news and information?” almost half, 48%, had no opinion. Another 10% were “dissatisfied,” said the report Public Opinion Research Tracker: Wave Two.

Researchers found pensioners were most likely to rate media favourably. “Canadians 65 and older were more likely to agree they trust the information provided by news media in Canada to be accurate and impartial, are satisfied with the quality of information and depth of analysis offered by Canadian news media and with the quality of Canadian television programs available today,” said the Tracker report.

Findings were based on interviews with 2,541 people nationwide. The Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunication Commission paid $121,076 for the study by Ipsos Ltd.

One Year to the Day

On this day last year, Hamas conducted a co-ordinated and bloody attack on Israeli and other nationals much to the indifference of the rest of the globe.

Now, Israel stands alone against its enemies in the region while armchair critics twiddle their thumbs on how they should feel about brutality against even children.

The world will be judged:

Across Israel that day, about 1,200 people - including more than 300 soldiers - were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Since then, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli military action in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

The Nahal Oz dead were to include Alroy the balloonist and four comrades, who had engaged in a lengthy battle with Hamas, says his father, citing information given to him by the IDF.

They managed to kill close to 10 gunmen, he said, but the five were outnumbered and were all found dead inside a mobile shelter at 14:30.

The war room - which had been designed as a safe space for the base’s units - was destroyed. Photos and videos show it charred, the screens the Tatzpitaniyot had been carefully monitoring, blackened. Bone fragments were found among the ashes there.

The survivors and the families of those killed and kidnapped are left with unanswered questions about how it went so wrong.

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On the first anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, it’s worth looking back at the lessons we learned, or should have learned, over the past year.

First, it’s always appropriate to remember what happened a year ago. In a surprise attack, Hamas terrorists stormed across the Gaza-Israel border, torturing, raping and killing over 1,200 Israeli citizens and foreign nationals. Hamas also took 251 hostages — some have returned, some have been killed and many remain captive.

Taking a broader regional perspective is also helpful. From Israel’s establishment in 1948 to the Yom Kippur War in 1973, each decade saw Israel face down hostile Arab states. Eventually, many of the Arab countries accepted Israel’s existence. With the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020, many of those same countries agreed to work with Israel, both militarily and economically.

At the same time, Israel made numerous attempts to achieve peace with the Palestinians, who repeatedly rejected such overtures. With the imposition of the radical Islamic regime in Iran in 1979, tensions between Israel and the Palestinians were turned into an opportunity for Iran to work through its proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and others — to destabilize the Middle East generally, and prevent peace between Israel and the Palestinians specifically.

In short, this is a regional conflict that’s been inflamed by Iran’s exploitative radicalization of local populations, including the Palestinians. This context is helpful when we consider some of the responses to October 7 in Canada. Among the more disturbing reactions that followed the attack were pro-Palestinian protests in major cities coupled with the establishment of encampments on several Canadian university campuses.

Many of the protests took place outside Jewish community centres or near neighbourhoods with large Jewish populations. This was the case with the January protests on an overpass in Toronto, as well as anti-Israel protests in front of a synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., in March.

Pro-Palestinian university encampments engaged in even more aggressive tactics, staking out and commandeering sites on campuses from Halifax to Victoria. Students and non-students alike, often supported by a coterie of academic staff, demanded that their respective institutions divest from all companies with ties to Israel and its defence efforts. ...

Today in Canada, as elsewhere in the West, the return of antisemitism is justified by the ideology popularly called “wokeism,” though it is better labelled as “progressive illiberalism.” This doctrine was born in our universities from a mixture of postmodernism, post-colonialism, critical theory and neofeminism.

Over the last decade, it has made immense gains throughout our society. It now expresses itself explicitly through theories of anti-racism, gender ideology and in the settler-colonial narrative that’s used to attack Israel.

Ultimately, it should not surprise us that this same ideology was at the intellectual heart of the Islamic Revolution that took Iran from a relatively free secular society to an oppressive Islamist dictatorship in 1979. And now, in Canada, in addition to promoting antisemitism, it has contributed to the weakening of our immigration system, which has allowed terrorist operatives to use Canada as a staging ground.

As for Islamist ideology, Canada permits groups like Samidoun, which is banned in Germany, to actively support pro-Hamas rallies across the country. The alliance between progressive illiberalism, settler-colonial ideology and the Islamism promoted by the Iranian regime is undermining Canadian politics and society, while threatening our Jewish and Muslim communities.

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Among the mangled and barely distinguishable ruins were a bullet-riddled window bearing Disney characters that once hung outside a kindergarten; a melted water cooler; a shattered mirror; a scorched mattress; a broken baby bottle; and a singed teddy bear.

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A year after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, a new Leger poll suggests younger and left-wing Canadians are markedly more likely to support Hamas, while older and right-of-centre Canadians favour Israel.

 

This Hamas: 

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Seeking to shore up its shrinking pro-Palestinian vote share, the Trudeau government’s appeasement efforts appear to have only emboldened the anti-Zionist mob as they increasingly target Jewish entities, call for the destruction of Canada and Israel and promote the propaganda of designated terrorist groups.

Israel’s successful attacks against Iran’s “axis of resistance” in recent weeks have provoked further extremism and antisemitism in Canada: over the weekend, flags of the terror group Hezbollah were being waved on Toronto streets, while in Montreal, protesters threw firebombs at police.

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B@$#@rd:

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Biden administration has offered Israel a “compensation package” in exchange for refraining from attacks on a list of specific targets in Iran.

 

And on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, too:

As the fleet sailed out, Pope Pius V ordered the churches of Rome opened for prayer day and night, encouraging the faithful to petition the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary through the recitation of the Rosary.

The battle itself was bloody.

Some 7,500 Catholic combatants and 20-30,000 Ottoman combatants were killed.

It was a decisive Catholic victory, and the Ottoman fleet was destroyed.

Amid the tragic loss of human life, some good news was that thousands of Christian slaves, chained below decks as rowers for the Ottoman ships were freed.

 

(Sidebar: hopefully, like these guys.)

The Rosary needs to be said.

 

Mid-Week Post

 

Your mid-week bout of folly …

 

 

No country for anyone:

The Israel city of Tel Aviv came under direct missile attack from Iran.

CNN footage showed dozens of missiles from Israel's Iron Dome defence system soaring into the air intercepting missiles.

Iran fired up to 200 missiles at Israel.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put Iran on notice.

"Iran made a big mistake tonight — and it will pay for it. The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies. We will stand by the rule we have established: whoever attacks us — we will attack him"

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The Islamic Republic fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state on Tuesday evening, forcing Israel’s entire civilian population of nearly 10 million people into bomb shelters.

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Among the victims of Tuesday terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was Inbar Segev-Vigder, a new mother who died protecting her nine-month old baby.

“Murdered while shielding her 9 month old son Ari,” the State of Israel wrote on the social media platform X. “She saved his life. There are no words. Only heartbreak. May the memory of the victims be a blessing.”

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What a silly b!#ch:

As war spread in the Middle East on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly “unequivocally” condemned Iran’s move to fire dozens of missiles into Israel but asked the Jewish state not to respond in a bid to avoid further escalation.

 

What can one expect from a nation of idiots and proud anti-semites?:

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw says there will be more plainclothes and uniformed officers, as well as patrol cars, dispatched across the city to address the potential for increased protest activity and violent acts amid rising tensions in the Middle East.

Demkiw says there will also be multiple command posts in Jewish neighbourhoods and at various mosques in the city, and police are working with partners and intelligence services to monitor potential threats.

He says police will also continue ensuring safety at demonstrations while balancing the right to assembly and expression.

 

I will stop right here.

This country is poised to pass its THIRD censorship bill any day now.

Canadians gladly acquiesced to house arrest until some truck drivers parked in front of the House of Commons. Said truck drivers were then arrested and had their property seized by a blackface-wearing clown all for the offense of embarrassing him for the coward that he is.

Fast-forward a few years and watch as the police stand idly by while streets are blocked by people screaming death to the Jews and letting shopping centres be invaded by similar sorts of miscreants.

What Demkiw really means is that the police will once more stand by while screaming anti-semites do what they want.

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Toronto has seen a 69 per cent increase in hate crimes against Jewish people in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, according to the city’s top cop.

Year-to-date, Chief Myron Demkiw’s force has fielded reports of 350 hate crimes, a 40 per cent increase over the first nine months of last year.

“While many different communities have been targeted, the greatest increase has been against the Jewish community by 69 per cent,” Demkiw told reporters at Toronto Police Headquarters.

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Aviva hasn’t been back to her house at Kfar Aza. There are bullet holes and shattered pieces of things the terrorists destroyed. They looted what they could. Her wedding album was salvaged by her daughter, along with some small personal items. Those taken hostage didn’t have their houses burned, says Hagar Yechieli, 53, the kibbutz spokesperson. “They left these houses but burned the ones with people still inside hoping they’d run out so they could kidnap them.”

Kfar Aza is a kibbutz of about 700 people. A typical kibbutz looks like a retirement community or a ski village. People live in modest bungalows, often attached. There are kindergartens, a medical clinic, a dining hall, agricultural activities and farming equipment. Everyone is within walking distance. Dogs and children run wild. Aviva, as a senior member in the nursery, soothed, cuddled and changed the diapers of many of those killed when they were babies. Some members have returned to the kibbutz, but it still needs to be rebuilt.

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Cabinet should not declassify a secret blacklist of suspected Nazi collaborators recommended for prosecution 39 years ago, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress said yesterday. Suspects named in the confidential 1985 list even if long dead have “several generations of descendants” who deserve privacy, said the Congress president: “Today we hear repeated calls for the disclosure of the names of these innocent people.”

 

 

Canada was once a country that worked.

Once:

Young Canadians have “diminished faith in the future,” the Government Representative in the Senate said yesterday. Senator Marc Gold (Que.) called it “disturbing.”

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Canadians are told that the best thing they can do is abort their children and live a life free of responsibility.

Here are the results:

Statistics Canada revealed last week that 2023 was the second year in a row that Canada’s fertility rate hit an all-time low. The nation’s total fertility rate — a figure, based on current fertility levels, to determine the number of children a woman would be expected to have throughout her reproductive life — is at 1.26, down from 1.33 in 2022.

 

Why even walk through the pretense of adoption?

If there is no child before birth, there is none afterward.

Enjoy the demographic decline, Canada.

You must be so pleased to go extinct.

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Her again:

Government House Leader Karina Gould yesterday claimed cabinet’s climate plan cut emissions by “the equivalent of 60 million cars.” Aides did not substantiate the claim. Emissions went up in the last official reporting period, and Canada has never had 60 million cars: “We just got the news.”

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It is easy to conclude that the lack of ambition is due to lack of capital and opportunity.

That is partly true.

It is also true that a country that aims for mediocrity gets or failure:

The president of e-commerce giant Shopify Inc. is calling on Canada to address a problem he calls “the 600-pound beaver in the room.”

That problem is a lack of ambition that Harley Finkelstein described as hampering the growth and long-term success of Canadian companies, the country’s tech ecosystem and its broader economy.

“This idea of injecting more ambition into the Canadian psyche, of not going for bronze but going for gold, of owning the podium … is unequivocally necessary,” he said late Tuesday during an interview hosted by astronaut Chris Hadfield at the Elevate tech conference in Toronto.

While they first delved into Finkelstein’s previous DJ career, why he starts his day with meditation and Shopify’s views on remote work (great as long as staff still gather regularly), the pair eventually got down to business, discussing the state of Canadian tech.

The conversation saw Finkelstein compare startups in Canada, where he lives and runs Shopify, with their rivals in the U.S., where he went to school.

The difference between the two, he pointed out, is that the lack of ambition in Canada has left the country’s startups with a reputation for being acquired, often by their U.S. counterparts, which are known for swallowing up buzzy businesses.

“I want more Canadian companies to be headquartered here,” Finkelstein said. “I don’t want to be a country of branch offices.”

 

 

The Bloc Quebecois, whose mandate it is to tear apart the country, will never vote for an election due to its poor numbers, limited funding, and unwillingness to let a vote for accountability get in the way of political extortion:

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is giving the Liberals a few more days to follow the will of the House of Commons and grant a royal recommendation to his party’s bill to increase old age pension payments for all seniors.

 

Speaking of Quebec:

Quebec Premier François Legault says his government has asked Ottawa to set up "waiting zones" for asylum seekers, as is the practice in France.

Legault told reporters during a press conference in Paris on Tuesday that Canada should take inspiration from the European country. Waiting zones in Canada, he added, could be located close to airports or elsewhere on the territory.

The premier has for months been calling on the federal government to redistribute would-be refugees across Canada. He says Quebec is home to 45 per cent of asylum seekers in the country, despite accounting for just 22 per cent of the population. "So can we think about having waiting zones in other provinces?" he said.

In France, people arriving by boat, train or plane can be placed in a waiting zone at the border for up to 26 days if they are seeking asylum, if they are refused entry, or if they're denied boarding to the country of their final destination.

Ahead of Tuesday's cabinet meeting in Ottawa, federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused Legault of using immigration for political ends. "Secure zones are a completely different order of magnitude from anything that has been conceived in Canada. And it's never been mentioned in our working groups," he said. "I think Mr. Legault is desperately trying to keep the public's attention on the immigration issue.”

Miller said he had "no idea" what exactly Quebec is calling for. "They're just throwing it out there," he added.

 

(Sidebar: shut up, Marc! No one likes you!)

 

Why not wait in their former countries?

How much slave labour does this country need?:

The owner of a Canadian Tire store in Toronto is being investigated by the provincial and federal governments for allegedly mistreating and financially exploiting employees hired through Ottawa’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

At least 13 of those employees resigned or were fired by the store late last year, according to documents reviewed by The Globe and Mail and conversations with several of the workers.

They allege their wages were arbitrarily reduced by the owner and that they were forced to do jobs for which they were not hired. They also claim the owner threatened to fire them on multiple occasions when they brought up their concerns about the working conditions.

Federal government rules dictate that employers cannot arbitrarily decrease the wages of temporary foreign workers or materially change their job duties. If they do, they will have to apply for a new labour market impact assessment (LMIA), a document needed to hire foreign workers.

A spokesperson with Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Training, Immigration and Skills Development confirmed to The Globe that the province is investigating Ezhil Natarajan, who owns and operates a Canadian Tire store in Etobicoke, which comprises Toronto’s west end.

Meanwhile, a federal investigation is being conducted by an officer of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), the ministry in charge of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. ESDC would not confirm if it was still investigating Mr. Natarajan, but an e-mail exchange as recent as Aug. 14 revealed that one of its officers was in contact with one of the workers regarding wages allegedly owed to him by Mr. Natarajan.

We don’t have to trade with China:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other federal officials were warned 163 separate times of foreign interference over a six-year period, China inquiry records show. Trudeau as late as 2023 denied he was ever told of illegal activity by foreign agents: “This list does not include additional ad hoc meetings that may have occurred.”

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Populations are being subjected to cognitive attacks that leverage a combination of psychology and new technologies, a former Canadian spy boss has warned, identifying China and Russia as key perpetrators.

David Vigneault, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), delved into “cognitive warfare” while testifying before the Foreign Interference Commission on Sept. 27.

Vigneault described this form of unconventional warfare as an evolution of psychological warfare, which has long been used to degrade an adversary’s morale and will to fight.

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Chinese language media in Canada are dominated by Communist Party news and views, a retired editor of one of the nation’s foremost Chinese dailies said yesterday. Foreign agents typically co-opt publishers trying to make a living on a “shoestring budget,” the Commission on Foreign Interference was told: “From Toronto to Vancouver much of the Chinese language media in these communities exist under the immense influence of the Chinese Communist Party.”

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Chinese spies target political aides including unwitting assistants who express no strong views on China, says a secret federal memo. The document by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service explained political staff are co-opted as “gatekeepers” for MPs and senators: “Foreign interference activities often transcend party lines.”