Five days without an embarrassing international incident ...
Lineup of government limos? Looks like an emergency cabinet meeting.
— Brad Redekopp (@BradRedekopp) September 27, 2023
The Liberals are in full damage control.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/AfM2ho0NUh
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What a difference a day makes:
House leaders were meeting with Rota on Tuesday. Before it began, Government House Leader Karina Gould said she’s spoken with Liberal MPs about the issue.
“I can’t see, based on the conversations that I’ve had, that he will continue to have the support of Liberal members of Parliament and I think it’s time for him to do the honourable thing,” she said.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland also said Rota should do the “honourable thing” given how “truly serious and damaging this error was.”
Don't worry, ladies.
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Until a new speaker is found, parliamentary business - including any talk on Chinese interference in Canadian elections - is paused:
Rota said his resignation would be effective at the end of parliamentary business on Wednesday. While there are deputy speakers who can oversee debates, they can only do so until Rota’s resignation takes effect. After that, all parliamentary business is paused until a new speaker is selected.
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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was asked about the possibility of reopening an investigation into Nazi war criminals living in Canada amid the resignation of House Speaker Anthony Rota on Tuesday. “We’re going to be very thoughtful about any further steps,” Freeland said of the question related to calls on the reopening of the Deschenes Commission.
Remember this when any one group or person is disfavoured by the Liberals:
That matters far more than what happens now in Ottawa. But holy crow, does this ever feel like a brand new low for this unfathomably unserious country. It’s a wholesale repudiation of everything Liberal propaganda officers will tell you Canada is supposed to stand for.
On Monday, Government House Leader Karina Gould sought (and did not receive) unanimous consent to expunge the entire Hunka episode from the official history. The unfortunate events would be erased from Hansard and from all official audio and visual recordings of the day’s proceedings.
Get caught lionizing someone who fought for Hitler … and channel Stalin in response? One almost has to admire the chutzpah … except one suspects Gould didn’t understand how ridiculous she looked. “It goes without saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” Conservative MP Marty Morantz said in response — maybe the easiest empty-net goal in Commons history.
Many seemed baffled by Gould’s proposal to wipe the record clean, but it seems pretty obvious to me what the Liberals had in mind: They’re so hopelessly shipwrecked up their own backsides that they actually thought they might productively accuse the Conservatives of being pro-Nazi for not agreeing to expunge the record. Or at least, they thought that was worth a try, at the cost of Gould’s reputation. And Gould had no problem playing along.
You can hardly blame them, really: Demonizing their opponents as probable Nazis or other deplorables has worked remarkably well for the Liberals over the years. The strategy always had a best-before date, though … and it sure doesn’t work so well when you invite a Nazi to Parliament. As astonishing as recent days’ events have been, they make perfect sense as waypoints on the Trudeau Liberals’ descent into well-deserved oblivion.
How quickly will the Nazi epithet be uttered?
Look - sociopaths do not apologise. It is beneath them. You should have known this when you voted for him:
He has done this to other people.
Do you remember the convoy?
Why would someone wanted by the Indian government for terrorism charges write to Justin?
I think we know:
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the murdered Sikh leader at the centre of a diplomatic row between Canada and India, denied the Indian government’s allegations that he was a terrorist in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016. ...
Nijjar denied all the accusations and urged Trudeau to intervene on his behalf following the Interpol warrant.
“I urge your administration to dispel the Indian government’s fabricated, baseless, fictitious and politically-motivated allegations against me,” Nijjar said, adding that India had “blatantly abused its governmental authority.”
Because Justin can unilaterally act over agencies whose job it is to deport Nijjar.
Naturally.
Sending accused terrorists back to India only lets them win, eh, Justin?
Also:
A lawyer is urging the Federal Court to direct the Canadian government to repatriate a Quebec woman being held in a Syrian detention camp with her six children.
Lawrence Greenspon, a lawyer for the woman, says in a newly filed court application that Ottawa's refusal to help her return to Canada means indefinite detention overseas, which is "tantamount to exile."
The Canadian citizen, identified only as F.J. in the application, and her young children are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that took back the war-torn area from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Global Affairs Canada told Greenspon on June 21 that the woman has "extremist ideological beliefs'' that may lead her to act violently, and the government has no ability to prevent such conduct.
Greenspon dismisses the argument, saying the government could deal with the woman as needed through Canada's justice system.
Once more and with feeling:
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux says 60% of households in the four provinces where the federal carbon tax applies — Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba — pay more in carbon taxes than they get in tax rebates.
This will rise to 80% in Ontario in 2024 and in Alberta in 2028.
Depending on which province they live in, according to the PBO, this costs the average family paying carbon taxes $225 to $507 annually today, rising to $1,145 to $2,282 annually when the tax reaches $170 per tonne in 2030.
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Despite collecting billions in carbon tax revenues, the federal government has returned less than 1% of the promised proceeds to small businesses, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). On top of that, the government is proceeding with a carbon tax hike of 23% to $65 per tonne on April 1.
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Nearly seven million Canadians are struggling to put food on the table as the cost of living and housing crisis continues to bite, according to a new report.
Food Banks Canada released its inaugural poverty report on Tuesday that painted a bleak national picture, with most provinces receiving a grade in the D-range when it comes to tackling poverty.
The report found that more than 42 per cent of the population feels financially worse off compared with last year, 18 per cent is coping with food insecurity, and almost one-third also said they have an inadequate standard of living.
Also:
Canadians are concerned about the state of the economy, a new survey has found, with more than half expecting the country will go into a recession within the next year.
That's according to software company Dye & Durham's latest quarterly Canadian Pulse Report, a survey that gauges consumer sentiment on the economy, real estate market and technology.
The survey of 1,001 Canadians found that 54 per cent expect the country to slip into a recession within the next year, while 32 per cent believe Canada is already in one.
And - what can go wrong?:
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and his advisors have “all powers to do anything they want” to fight inflation regardless of consequences, the Senate was told yesterday. Senators took up Second Reading debate on a private bill seeking greater public scrutiny of Macklem: “The Governor and his team could get it wrong and the Bank Of Canada Act is of no assistance.”
An investigation into unmarked graves and the deaths of children who attended the former Chooutla Residential School in Carcross, Yukon, has found 15 “potential” gravesites at or near the school.
Researchers say they’ve also used archival documents to identify 33 students who either died at the school or shortly after being injured there.
If there are records of these people, then one knows who they are, possibly how they died, and one must conclude that these are not "mass" or "unmarked" graves but untended ones.
Another miracle drug from Japan:
The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner.
A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.
Toregem Biopharma is slated to begin clinical trials in July of next year after it succeeded growing new teeth in mice five years ago, the Japan Times reports.
Dr. Katsu Takahashi, a lead researcher on the project and head of the dentistry and oral surgery department at the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital, says “the idea of growing new teeth is every dentist’s dream.”
“I’ve been working on this since I was a graduate student,” he told Japan’s national daily news site, the Mainichi, earlier this year. “I was confident I’d be able to make it happen.”
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