Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to meet with provincial and territorial premiers this afternoon to talk Canada-U.S. relations.
The premiers will virtually discuss a joint plan to tackle the threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports by incoming U.S. president Donald Trump.
The meeting is the first time Trudeau will address the premiers following his dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
It comes one day after Trump made a social media post referring to Trudeau as a governor of “the great state of Canada” — a nod to his ribbing that Canada should join the U.S. as its 51st state.
What’s notable is that some of the premiers of Canada’s biggest provinces had already been pointing the finger at Mr. Trudeau. Some came out saying Ottawa had been sleeping at the switch. Mr. Trudeau might have mollified some premiers with promises that there will be resources for the border, but now it is clear he can’t count on unity through Mr. Trump’s trade threats.Some had come into the meeting demanding to see Mr. Trudeau’s border plan. “We have to reassure Mr. Trump. We have to do more on the borders. Mr. Trudeau must not try to deny there’s a problem,” Quebec Premier François Legault told reporters. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had said earlier this week she’d like to take a Team Canada approach but Mr. Trudeau hadn’t made it easy.Minutes after the meeting ended, Ontario Premier Doug Ford issued a statement saying Mr. Trudeau’s government was slow to react even though he – the premier – had been pressing him to do something for months.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be heading to Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
The premier’s office confirmed Smith plans to attend the Canadian Embassy’s inauguration event, where she will watch the swearing in.
“The event will be a gathering of Canadian and American officials who are key to maintaining a strong and constructive relationship,” Savannah Johannsen, a spokesperson with the premier’s office, said in an emailed statement Friday.
Indeed, no one has any faith in the coward who expects the premiers to do his fighting for him:
A new poll from Abacus Data shows that Canadians are more likely to think America is heading in the "right direction" than Canada. The same poll shows that Donald Trump has a higher approval rating among Canadians than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"Today, 24% of Canadians approve of the job performance of the federal government (down 1) while disapproval is steady at 61%," reads the report. "... We are also tracking Canadian impressions of Donald Trump. And since the tariff announcement last week, positive impressions of Trump have increased. Those with a negative impression are down 7 from two weeks ago while those with a positive view are up 6 to 26%, the highest we have measured since we started tracking in September."
Also - the back-stabbing moron who had three women removed from his cabinet failed to remember that the US is a true democracy and that the Americans voted with their wallets against a failed presidential candidate less popular than he:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, pointing to the recent defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris as an example.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
Get that aging hag vote, Justin!
They still like you.
Maybe.
You sent a "journalist" to do an economist's job.
Why?:
With the fall economic statement to be presented just before they go back to their ridings for Christmas, some Liberal MPs are expressing concern that their government will be blowing past their self-imposed target of keeping deficits below $40 billion.
“It’s not an unlimited pot,” said Liberal MP Wayne Long about the federal government’s financial means. “I think that we do need to show fiscal restraint.”
On the final day the money could be voted on, MPs rushed through the supplementary funding to the 2024 budget, including money for various programs such as First Nations child services, dental care and compensation to Quebec for services to asylum seekers.
Coleen Volk, the $551,000-a year CEO of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, yesterday said executive bonuses at the federal insurer are secret. Even criteria used to decide who gets how much are confidential and cannot be disclosed to MPs, she said: “We attract the best and the brightest.’
Inflation has come down to 2 percent, which is effectively the bank’s target rate it set when inflation was approaching double digits in 2022. Although this may seem impressive, a 2 percent inflation rate is less a result of outstanding economic stewardship when one realizes that Canada has been in a state of economic sclerosis for years. Our present environment is closer to a depression than a normal period of growth.
What surprises bioethicist Kerry Bowman isn’t that more than a third of Canadians think governments overreacted to COVID, according to a new national poll. It’s that the sentiment isn’t higher.
“I think a lot of Canadians have doubts,” said Bowman, who teaches bioethics and global health at the University of Toronto. “What we didn’t do as a nation was think about, in a mature democratic society, how far can we go with restrictions, and how far can we go, quickly, in the absence of clear evidence.”
I am willing to bet that the sentiment IS higher but people are still too afraid to say so out loud.
Communism has that effect.
A man from the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation has been charged with arson in connection with a church fire in the Saskatchewan village of Loon Lake.
Shandon Chief, 25, was arrested on Dec. 7, Loon Lake RCMP confirmed in a news release issued on Tuesday.
He is accused of starting a fire that destroyed St. George’s Anglican Church on Sept. 28.
Chief is also charged with breaching a conditional sentence order. He appeared in Meadow Lake provincial court on Monday, according to RCMP.
Tensions were apparent in the Liberal caucus Wednesday after a committee chaired by Liberal MP Lena Metlege Diab released a report endorsing the disputed concept of anti-Palestinian racism.
Attorney General Arif Virani said he was “alive to concerns” about the notion of anti-Palestinian racism, but stressed the need to confront the rise in hatred since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.
An obsession with conspiracies leads to fatalism, a refusal to take charge of one's own destiny or to take responsibility for the manifest backwardness of one's culture. Instead, everything wrong is blamed on the West, with ostentatious self-pity ...
The Commons justice committee yesterday recommended cabinet tie federal postsecondary funding to enforcement of hate speech laws on campus. It followed testimony that colleges and universities have become hotbeds of anti-Semitism: “There are so many stories to tell and I hear them every day.”
A public registry of foreign agents in Canada should be in place by June, says the Department of Public Safety. Enforcement would come one year after Parliament passed a registry bill into law: “That’s our internal plan.”
A third of government-sponsored refugees rely on food banks in their first year in Canada, says a Department of Immigration report. And more than half remain on welfare five years after their arrival: “Independent living is not clearly defined.”
The staff at Gz2Gentz Barbershop in south Edmonton are still reeling and trying to come to grips after one of their clients found a dead baby lying in the snowy parking lot on Saturday afternoon.
“It’s heartbreaking. I feel so sad.. How could someone leave a baby like that?” said Leo Cerbes, the shop’s co-owner, in a phone interview with Postmedia on Tuesday afternoon.
Cerbes said he opens the barber shop every morning at 10 a.m. and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when he arrived Saturday morning to work. It wasn’t until roughly 2 p.m. when a customer came into the store and notified one of the other barbers about discovering a dead baby in a box near their vehicle after they left the barbershop.
From 2000 to 2009 in Canada, there were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and greater, that resulted in live births. This means that the aborted child died after it was born. These abortions are coded as P96.4 or “Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn”.
South Korean police said Wednesday that security guards were blocking a raid on President Yoon Suk Yeol's offices to investigate his brief imposition of martial law.
Yoon is already banned from foreign travel as part of an "insurrection" probe into his inner circle over the dramatic events of Dec. 3-4 that stunned South Korea's allies.
Police said earlier that a Special Investigation Team "has conducted a raid" on the presidential office, on different police agencies and on the National Assembly Security Service.
North Korea shocked the world by sending more than 10,000 troops to Russia for its war against Ukraine — Pyongyang’s first deployment of troops for large-scale combat since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
But while that number of troops may look impressive on paper, two leading experts on the Ukraine war say the real issue of concern should not be the deployment, but rather how deepened North Korean-Russian cooperation could revitalize and ultimately help modernize Pyongyang’s now-moribund defense industrial base.
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