The mid-weekiest!
No one had a problem with Justin in 2013 when he declared his undying love for China, or during his many scandals, missteps, petty tyrannies, gaffes, ineptitude, or destruction of Canada.
But now that everyone might lose their pensions, he has gone too far!:
The only person more toxic to Liberals than Donald Trump right now appears to be Justin Trudeau.Liberal MPs and leadership contenders are falling over themselves to outdo Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre in dumping on the prime minister and his past policies.Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland started the Liberal anti-Trudeau pile-on with her resignation letter accusing the prime minister of “costly political gimmicks” and suggesting he was more concerned with party fortunes than those of Canada.
Now, about this current slate of Trudeau-bashing, was it not everyone in the Liberal Party and their merry band of single-issue voters that defended his asinine government?
Oh, yes, they did.
Imagine being Trump, an adult who knows what he is talking about, who has made promises to fix the mistakes of the past four years, and cannot stand by while his northern and southern neighbours let Americans feels the consequences of lazy governance.
That is why he is putting the boots to everyone.
Instead of caterwauling at him, why not expect elected officials to do their jobs?
Strange, I know:
Many sources confirm that Canada has serious security problems that hostile powers exploit extensively. The Canada-is-back naïveté animating the decaying Trudeau regime led to open borders and infiltration of foreign operatives inside key Canadian institutions, from the Winnipeg Lab to the Parliament of Canada.
Allies question Canada's eagerness to engage in an open diplomatic conflict with India, the world's largest democracy and fastest-growing economy while overlooking China's significantly more damaging actions despite being a formidable adversary to Western democracies today.
Possibly 40 percent of those caught or suspected of potential terror activities inside the United States entered through Canada. It is also well documented that the unguarded border is the point of entry for a significant amount of deadly illegal drugs like fentanyl, coming from China. At Canada's ports of entry, authorities have openly admitted to checking less than 1 percent of all incoming containers. The net effect is that significant illegal activity, including human trafficking, comes into the United States through Canada.
That the situation on the US southern border is worse and there is plenty of crime coming into Canada from the US are lousy excuses not to act; Ottawa must not avoid its duty to guarantee the security of Canadians as much as to help protect our neighbour and closest ally. Fixing some of the border problems would be objectively good for Canada.
In the US, President Donald Trump aims to restore order. He intends to reverse his predecessor's chaotic open-border policies to enhance the country's security.
In part, perhaps because of frustration, and mostly because bombasts and hyperbole are his nature, Trump wants Canada to help him plug the security holes Canada's cavalier attitude to security enables.
Trump has threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods unless Canada does something about the border. However, between Chrystia Freeland quitting Trudeau's cabinet and Trudeau quitting his party leadership, most references to Trump's tariff threats have omitted the border conditions, as if the threats came from nothing.
Why is that?
Tackling the border problems, even if they are not as pronounced as the border issues with Mexico, is a big enterprise. It would be complex and costly, challenging to organize, set up and implement. However, the Trudeau government has spent billions on more superfluous things than securing the national interest and maintaining better relations with our most significant trade partner. What could be more vital?
But rather than address the condition for the threat, the Liberal establishment has decided to magnify the threat, pound their chests and counterattack.
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Donald Trump will not impose new tariffs on Canada and Mexico on his first day in office — but the threat could take form within weeks.
Speaking while signing executive orders at the White House after his inauguration Monday night, Trump said he planned to impose 25 per cent tariffs on the United States’ North American neighbours by Feb. 1.
“We’re thinking in terms of 25 per cent on Mexico and Canada because they’re allowing vast numbers of people, Canada is a very bad abuser also, and fentanyl to come in,” Trump claimed.
Look what merely bandying about the idea of tariffs has done: pushed the Trudeau government to the brink.
Now force it off of a cliff.
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The toadying is SO cringe-worthy:
Trudeau noted outside the cabinet retreat that Trump said he wants to usher in a “golden age” for the United States, which the prime minister said will require more affordable energy, steel and aluminum, and critical minerals to fuel the American economy.
“Canada has all those resources, and we stand at the ready to work with the United States to create a booming and secure North American economy,” Trudeau said.
Too late, sock-boy.
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Reporter: How do you convince businesses to still invest in Canada?
— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) January 21, 2025
Trudeau: um... (dramatic pause)... Donald Trump brings in uncertainty...... Canada is reliable because we worked through the 1st MCA over 4 years ago.....
And invest in Canada because we are a robust trading… pic.twitter.com/o1G5hvQF0T
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The Liberals have utterly ruined Canada and are not finished.
It does not matter what the average Canadian thinks of Trump or his plans because he can do it and there is decidedly no government in place that can stop him. The Liberals certainly don't want to change that now.
Fomenting outrage over a fictional 51st state overlooks how Canada has been a vassal of China, India, and Iran for ages with little to no blowback:
The deadline...
— Paul Mitchell (@PaulMitchell_AB) January 21, 2025
Canada has been given until Feb 1st to make a satisfactory deal to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants across the US border to avoid a 25% tariff on Canadian goods moving into the US.
My prediction is the Liberals will make damn sure that Canada…
The Trump Effect in progress:
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said Tuesday that while he "really fought against" Northern Gateway's construction before it was scuttled in 2016, that was a "different time" and Canada now has "no choice" but to reconsider.
"We are staring into the abyss of uncertainty right now with climate change, the climate crisis and the American threat," Phillip said in a news conference ahead of a meeting with B.C. First Nations leaders and the provincial cabinet in Vancouver, highlighting the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump.
"I would suggest that if we don't build that kind of infrastructure, Trump will — and there will not be any consideration for the environment or the rule of law or anything along those lines.
"I think that we can do better. I think we need to do better."
Now, about this alleged lack of consideration for the environment:
President Donald Trump signed the country's largest wilderness preservation legislation in a decade, providing widespread protections for Joshua Tree and Death Valley national parks.
Trump's signing of the National Resources Management Act, or S.47, marked a surprisingly overwhelming bipartisan congressional effort and began with the environmental protection bill introduced by Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in January. The bill expands federally protected land, where there can be no logging, drilling, mining or road construction, and establishes 375,000 new acres of wilderness across California, Oregon, New Mexico and Utah. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 92-8 and the House with a vote of 362-63.
So there's that.
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Back to a time when all crimes in the US were political crimes:
Well, someone's in a bad mood:
Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault has attacked the Western Standard on social media over a recent story calling him out.
Guilbeault previously published fake news from the Associated Press via CTV about 2024 being the "hottest year ever." All while Los Angeles burned.
The Western Standard provided strong evidence from geologic history, via Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, that average global temperatures were much warmer prior to human industrialization.
Moore said, overall, Earth's temperature is actually cooling when charted through geologic time. There is a very slight recent warming — used by Guilbeault and others to provoke hysteria.
"Enough is enough," Guilbeault said on Tuesday. "The non-stop spread of misinformation is one of the greatest threats to fighting the run-away effects of a changing climate. This recent example from the Western Standard is particularly appalling."
Many of Ottawa's economic and environmental polices revolve around Guilbeault's religious attachment to climate change — Net Zero — ideology and carbon tax / rebate socialism — which has been a disaster for Canada.
He didn't appreciate being called out.
Extreme climate change, painful as it can be, is a normal part of life on earth. It's not new — but its politicization is.
Most atmospheric C02, crucial for survival, is produced by the earth.
Guilbeault has threatened to impost a de facto production cap on Alberta oil and gas to help save the planet from climate change.
Canada produces less than 2% of global emissions. A production cap would harm the economy and further necessitate dependance on carbon tax rebates — validating Guilbeault's beliefs.
"There is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the last 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age," said Moore, who holds a PhD in Forestry from the University of British Columbia.
This Guilbeault:
Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie is accusing federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault of corruption related to the so-called “green slush fund.”
On Friday, Kusie (Calgary Midnapore) said Guilbeault invested $254 million into a company he owns.
“This government is failing to comply with parliament and hand over the documents pertaining to this potentially corrupt activity,” said Kusie in a social media post.
“Canadians deserve answers and accountability from this scandal plagued Liberal government. When will they hand the documents over to the RCMP?”
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Oh, my!;
Cabinet may not “go ahead with the consumer carbon price,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said yesterday. He called the carbon tax “very unpopular.” The rate will jump an average 20 percent effective April 1 to 21¢ per litre for gasoline: “What went wrong?”**
Are we through with this money-leeching scam?:
A federal program paid intervenors to take the federal government’s side in a 2021 Supreme Court of Canada challenge of the carbon tax, records show. The Court Challenges Program yesterday would not discuss subsidies paid to advocacy groups to argue in favour of cabinet’s fuel tax: ““It is no simple matter to tinker with the Constitution.”
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan cancelled 17 meetings with the Canadian Forces ombudsman as the military watchdog became more vocal about the need for the government to help injured soldiers.
(Gracias for this hat tip)
Shrink until there is nothing left:
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will shrink the federal public service and wants to find ways to monitor bureaucrats’ productivity, because “work isn’t getting done.”
Striking while the iron is hot:
Moments after U.S. President Donald Trump revealed his intention to apply steep tariffs to Canadian exports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office fired off an internal email to Progressive Conservative staffers saying the government needs an even stronger mandate to effectively battle the American president.
The internal memo, obtained by Global News, is yet another sign that Ford is set to dissolve his majority government and ask voters for another mandate, with more than a year left in his current term.
But is he?
We shall see.
A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.
The online survey by the Canadian Medical Association and Abacus Data conducted last November found that 37 per cent of respondents used medical advice they found online because they couldn’t access a doctor or a medical professional for help.
Twenty-three per cent of those surveyed said following health advice they found online resulted in a bad reaction or had a negative impact on their health.
The survey of 3,727 adult Canadians can’t be assigned a margin of error because online surveys are not considered truly random samples.
The CMA says the number of Canadians turning to online sources for medical help emphasizes the lack of accessible health care across the country, as an estimated 6.5 million people – one in five Canadians – do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner they see regularly.
This never happens at my church (the real one):
President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Hudson:
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