Has this country had enough?:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reaffirmed his commitment to the United Nations’ 2030 agenda and pledged $5 billion in Canadian taxpayer dollars in attempts to achieve it.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocates group, co-chaired by Trudeau, strives to end world hunger and poverty, achieve net zero emissions, and have universal education and healthcare programs.
Trudeau urged his fellow delegates to work with the UN and other institutions to “renew our commitment to the sustainable development agenda for 2030.”
When Trump resumes his presidency in November,one of the first things he should do is withdraw the US and its funding from the UN.
Let's see where this horrid agenda is then.
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More than one-third (36 per cent) of Canadian women between the ages of 18-44 were in the Trump camp — a rate way higher than the 21 per cent of over-44 women who backed Trump.And young Canadian men emerged as the single most pro-Trump demographic in the poll. The survey saw a majority (52 per cent) of under-44 Canadian men vote Trump over Biden.This was higher even than the Trump support found within respondents who identified as Conservatives; those Canadians only picked Trump over Biden in 50 per cent of case.According to the most recent U.S. polls, Canadian young people seem to like Trump even more than their U.S. equivalents. A YouGov poll from last week found Trump polling in the mid-30s for under-44 voters.The Spark Advocacy results would seem to jibe with a growing body of evidence that young Canadians are stampeding towards the Conservatives.
Three former Canadian premiers – at least two of whom have at one point denounced the perils of “American-style politics” – have been announced as the face of a new movement seeking to recruit Canadians for American politics.The group “Canadians for Kamala” announced Thursday it had been endorsed by former B.C. premier Christy Clark, former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne, and former Alberta premier Rachel Notley.The group is seeking Canadian citizens to assist with the presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Specifically, the Canadians would act as volunteer canvassers in Philadelphia.“Hear why we’re coming together to rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris and how you can take action as a volunteer,” reads a Canadians for Kamala social media post.
Only days after former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was appointed as a special advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it has emerged that Carney’s company is soliciting billions in federal dollars for a new investment fund.This week, it was reported that Brookfield Asset Management — of which Carney is the sitting chair — is pitching Ottawa on a $50 billion asset fund that would be seeded by as much as $10 billion in federal dollars.This means that Carney is taking on a new job at the right hand of the prime minister at the precise moment that he oversees a company seeking to secure one of the largest contributions of federal cash in the country’s history.
Only two of over 100 federal government departments and agencies say they made efforts to identify and sanction staff who illegitimately applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.
According to data tabled in the House of Commons Monday, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) are the only two government organizations that investigated and ultimately fired some of their employees who simultaneously received CERB while being employed by the federal government.They are incidentally also the two organizations that administered the $2,000-per-week benefit that was implemented as an emergency financial aid for workers who lost their job due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.In June, Conservative MP Adam Chambers asked each government organization if they had initiated or requested a review to ensure none of their workers had made “possible fraudulent claims” for CERB.
On Wednesday, Government House Leader Karina Gould called on Speaker Greg Fergus to reject opposition parties’ claim that the government violated MPs’ parliamentary privilege by refusing to provide them with unfettered access to thousands of documents regarding Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).
Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused the premiers of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Alberta of weaponizing a working group on asylum seekers and distorting the issue for their own political gains.
Court documents filed in the case of a Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City reveal the RCMP didn’t have enough evidence to hold him in Canada.
The RCMP arrested Muhammad Shahzeb Khan on Sept. 4 in Ormstown, Que., as he allegedly prepared to cross the nearby border into the United States.U.S. officials have charged Khan, 20, with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization — the Islamic State — and they are seeking to have him extradited to stand trial in the Southern District of New York.
Will someone please offer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a job? Preferably, a nice sinecure at an NGO in another country that’s subsidized by Liberal donors.
The Canadian electorate — and now even his NDP sidekick Jagmeet Singh — are fed up with him. Earlier this month, Singh pulled out of a deal to prop up the Liberals, then ensured their political survival by pledging not to support a non-confidence motion that, if passed, would trigger an election. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the same.
“New Democrats came to Ottawa to get stuff done, to work for people, to fight for people, not to play Pierre Poilievre‘s games,” Singh said. “We’re not going to let Pierre Poilievre tell us what to do.”
An election must be held a year from now by law, but Trudeau’s departure cannot come soon enough. He won’t resign, despite terrible polls, because he doesn’t have any career prospects. It now appears that he will make a deal with the separatists to stay in power.
The Trudeau years from 2015 to 2024 will be known as Canada’s “lost years.” Trudeau’s policies have unnecessarily bruised the country’s main wealth generator: resource production. His immigration policies have been hare-brained and contributed to the housing affordability problem and the crisis in health care.
Then there’s the “alarming state of federal finances,” as described by Fraser Institute analysts Jake Fuss and Grady Munro in April.
“The Trudeau government tabled its 2024 budget earlier this month and the contents of the fiscal plan laid bare the alarming state of federal finances. Both spending and debt per person are at or near record highs and prospects for the future don’t appear any brighter,” they wrote.
The Trudeau government estimates that program spending will reach $483 billion by 2024/25 and hit $542 billion by 2028/29 — an increase of 18.4 per cent from this year’s level, according to the Fraser Institute.
“Prime Minister Trudeau has already recorded the five highest levels of federal program spending per person (adjusted for inflation) in Canadian history from 2018 to 2022. Projections for spending in the 2024 budget assert the prime minister is now on track to have the eight highest years of per-person spending on record by the end of the 2025/26 fiscal year,” wrote Fuss and Munro.
“Per-person federal spending is expected to equal $11,901 this year. To put this into perspective, this is significantly more than Ottawa spent during the global financial crisis in 2008 or either world war. It’s also about 28 per cent higher than the full final year of Stephen Harper’s time as prime minister, meaning the size of the federal government has expanded by more than one quarter in a decade.”
Accompanying this ruinous spree are dramatic increases in government debt. “Between 2015 and 2024, Ottawa is expected to run 10 consecutive deficits, with total gross debt set to reach $2.1 trillion within the next 12 months,” they wrote. “By the end of the current fiscal year, each Canadian will be burdened with $12,769 more in total federal debt (adjusted for inflation) than they were in 2014/15.”
Trudeau’s track record in other areas is also abysmal. The country’s military has been degraded, our influence internationally has diminished and high taxes plague businesses and civil society. It’s little wonder that Trudeau’s face was not featured on Liberal election signs in Montreal before the recent by-election, which the Grits lost.
It’s enough already.
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Last week, Postmedia’s Bryan Passifiume used flight tracker data to calculate the precise number of kilometres that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau logged by private jet over the course of the summer.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department commissioned in-house polling that asked Canadians if they were willing to pay a green surtax on air tickets or take fewer flights.
(Sidebar: this Steven Guilbeault.)
The research made no mention of frequent travel by public office holders despite Cabinet's 2023 promise to reduce its air travel budget, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“The department wanted to measure the public opinion of Canadians on a wide variety of issues,” said an omnibus public opinion research survey.
“The surveys are a quick mechanism to understand stated behaviour or future behaviour, perceptions and attitudes of the Canadian public. Departmental teams are able to use this information to shape communications, policies and strategies.”
A majority of Canadians surveyed said they did not book any air travel in the past year. Of those who did, 55% said they were vacationing or “visiting family or friends.”
Asked, “How likely are you to consider actions to reduce your flight’s impact on the environment?”, 41% said they were willing to “replace business travel with virtual meeting options.” Other actions were less popular.
Respondents sharply opposed green surtaxes on flights. Asked if they were willing to “pay an additional fee so airlines can purchase sustainable aviation fuel,” 63% were opposed. Asked if they would “pay an additional fee so airlines can purchase carbon emissions offsets,” 65% were opposed.
Findings were drawn from questionnaires with 1,503 people nationwide. The environment department paid $40,000 for the survey by Angus Reid Group.
“Suppose you have planned to take a flight for leisure travel that normally costs $500,” said the questionnaire.
“If airlines were to charge an additional fee to reduce the environmental footprint of air travel, for example by planting trees to offset the carbon emissions of a flight or covering the extra costs of purchasing sustainable aviation fuel, how much would you be willing to pay for your flight?”
A majority of respondents, 61% said, said they would pay nothing and “would not fly.” Only 30% expressed support for a green surtax providing it was $50 or less.
In-house Privy Council researchers have polled Canadians’ willingness to adopt a vegetarian diet for the sake of climate change. Only seven percent of people surveyed identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan: “How frequently or infrequently have you made efforts to eat a more plant-based diet?”
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The agencies said they have seen no sign that more food than needed is delivered to North Koreans. “The main issue … is a monotonous diet – mainly rice/maize, kimchi and bean paste – lacking in essential fats and protein,” the statement said.
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