Where would Justin be without his loyal toadies, stooges, minions and fellow idiots?
Still in progress (unfortunately):
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.
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Like-minded parties should join forces to prevent any election of a majority Conservative government, Green Party leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.) said yesterday. Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois and Green organizers should be “thinking about how we might co-operate together,” she said.
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Despite Canada facing a devastating trade war with the potential to wreak billions in economic losses, taking April’s carbon tax increase off the table doesn’t seem to be on the Trudeau Liberals’ radar.
During Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Tuesday address, he promised to use “every tool at our disposal” to ensure Canadians are able to weather the storm of the trade war.
“From expanding EI benefits and making them more flexible to providing direct supports to businesses, we will be there as needed to help,” Trudeau said during his speech. “But Canada, make no mistake — no matter how long this lasts, no matter what the cost, the federal government and other orders of government will be there for you.”
But Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, suspects that “no matter what the cost” won’t include important tax breaks — including doing away with Canada’s contentious carbon tax.
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Thirty-four years after the GST was introduced amid a public outcry the federal sales tax remains complicated and stressful for small businesses that collect it, says in-house Canada Revenue Agency research. The vast majority of businesspeople surveyed said acting as federal tax collectors was so complicated they had to hire accountants to manage the paperwork: “Descriptions included words like ‘complicated,’ ‘stressful,’ ‘painful,’ ‘frustrating’ and ‘overwhelming.’”
The only pipelines to built are criminal ones:
Drug cartels are using Canada’s trade system to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, according to an internal police intelligence report obtained by the Investigative Journalism Foundation.
The 2022 assessment from the RCMP’s organized crime division says that “cartel drug trafficking” accounts for most of the money being laundered in Canada through trade, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
I think someone owes Trump an apology.
It doesn't help that you gave the CBC 600 million reasons to prop you up:
The CBC is “politically inconvenient” for the Conservative Party, says a senior Liberal MP. Yasir Naqvi (Ottawa Centre) in a pre-election report to constituents depicted the CBC’s $1.4 billion annual subsidy as a campaign issue: “It is a necessity.”
Would this be the same China that had nothing (wink) to do with electoral interference?:
Canada’s cybersecurity agency is warning regional and local governments about cyber espionage by the Chinese regime, citing repeated and ongoing attempts to infiltrate all levels of government to access sensitive information on decision-making, regional affairs, and Canadians’ personal data.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) “almost certainly” poses the “greatest ongoing” cyber espionage threat to Canada, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said in a bulletin updated on March 4.
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Shocking new details are emerging about a major Chinese organized crime suspect who met privately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a police source who confirmed recent reporting from The Globe and Mail. The individual, Paul King Jin, is allegedly implicated in money laundering operations spanning the Western Hemisphere and has been a target of multiple failed major investigations in British Columbia. These investigations sought to unravel the complex interrelations of underground casinos and real estate investment, fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking, and financial crimes that allegedly funnel drug proceeds from diaspora community underground banks throughout North America and Latin America, with connections to Chinese and Hong Kong financial institutions.
The failed investigations into Jin have involved both the RCMP and U.S. agencies. These operations stretch from Vancouver to Mexico, Panama, and beyond, multiple sources confirm.
During the meeting, Minister Saks served as a political human shield. "No-one could say that Melanie Joly and Justin Trudeau were Jew-hating, terrorist supporters because, after all, there was a Jew right there, smiling, and holding the terrorist’s hand," Ezra said.
Imagine meeting and smiling with Abbas in a selfie. Could you imagine what kind of a Jew would accept that assignment?
Meanwhile, in a email dated April of 2024—just months after the terrorist attack—Saks met with leaders of the West Bank to discuss settler violence and reiterate Canada's support for the Palestinian people.
It also highlighted Canada's funding to UNRWA, a controversial UN agency whose members were allegedly involved in the October 7 massacre of Jews.
During the roundtable, she did not utter a peep on the terrorist attack. In fact, the only "violent" people discussed were Jews who live in the West Bank. No talk about Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups.
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Cabinet should introduce more awareness of “Arab cultures” in schools, says Privy Council in-house research. Cabinet aides in pre-election polling targeted focus groups in cities with the largest Arab Canadian communities: “Many felt more needed to be done by the federal government.”
Dallas Brodie has been kicked out of the BC Conservative caucus over her comments on residential schools.
Leader John Rustad said the Vancouver-Quilchena MLA was "no longer welcome."
"I believe strongly in free speech," he wrote in a statement, "however, using your stature and platform as an MLA to mock testimony from victims alleging abuse, including child sex abuse, is where I draw the line."
Rustad made it clear the move "has nothing to do with whether or not there are undiscovered remains at Kamloops Indian Residential School, where it is objectively true that no new bodies have been found," explaining that, "this is about an elected MLA using her position of authority to mock testimony of survivors of abuse, including child sex abuse."
"Our Conservative Party of BC team will take over MLA Brodie’s files," he continued, "including advocating to ensure the Law Society of BC uses accurate language in training materials, and does not unduly agitate against its members."
I believe that the communists called that "re-education".
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Was it something you said?:
As longtime Liberal MP Pam Damoff prepares to leave politics when the next federal election is called, she is wistful but open about what is driving her to leave a career she has had for more than a decade.
Vocal about the misogyny and threats she faced during her time in government, she wants public safety officials to take these threats more seriously.
“We’ve seen a shift in how people treat politicians, and I really worry that at some point, someone will be injured or killed,” Damoff said in an interview.
Damoff said harassment escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Do you mean this?:
Early efforts to encourage vaccination were largely education-focused, and many were tailored to address the specific conditions of vaccine hesitancy in racialized communities. Some Canadians were reluctant to roll up their sleeves following stories of deadly blood clots occurring in patients who had received the AstraZeneca-Oxford shot, while others remained wary because of how quickly these vaccines went from concept to vial. The majority of those who resisted the shots weren’t lifelong rabid anti-vaxxers, but rather, reasonable people with legitimate concerns about the safety and efficacy of a new shot. So the consensus among public health leaders was to try to reach those who were hesitant with empathy and understanding – not mandates – which also happened to be the view of the federal government at the time.
In January, 2021, Mr. Trudeau was asked by a Reuters reporter whether Canada would consider adopting vaccination passports once the shots became widely available. He responded by saying such a requirement could have “divisive impacts on community and country.” A few months later, in May, he repeated that Canada “was not a country that makes vaccination mandatory.” But on August 13, that abruptly changed: Ottawa announced that vaccination would be required for the federal public service workers, as well as for travellers on federally regulated modes of transportation.
The timing quite obviously wasn’t based on science or numbers. By August, over 80 per cent of the eligible population in Canada had already received at least one COVID-19 shot, making a mandate for federal workers (many of whom were working from home anyway) largely superfluous. Also at the time, questions were starting to emerge about whether vaccination prevented transmission or simply severe disease, meaning it was unclear whether mandating vaccination would actually protect vulnerable travellers on planes or trains. On top of that, new evidence suggested that the existing crop of vaccines was far less effective in preventing infection by the Delta variant, which was making its way across the globe, including throughout Canada.
So why would Mr. Trudeau announce a vaccine mandate at that particular time? Why the stark about-face? And why risk the “divisive impacts on community and country?”
That last question was, in fact, the answer: two days later, Mr. Trudeau would call a snap election, and the divisive impact on community and country was precisely the point.
In 2021, Mr. Trudeau was keen to win back his majority, and the mandate was a perfect wedge to pit the many against the few – the 80 per cent against the 20 per cent.
The Liberals had been struggling at the time to widen their lead over the Conservatives, who were led by the rather affable-seeming Erin O’Toole, who didn’t impress as the typical right-wing bogeyman of Tory leaders past. So Mr. Trudeau had to direct Canadians’ fears and anxieties elsewhere, and he found the perfect target: each other. Implicit in his message was that the unvaccinated were risking the health and security of the country, so the Liberals had to force them to either get the shot – or, as Mr. Trudeau said days after his announcement, face “consequences.” It wasn’t merely a public health decision; it was a political one.
The policy change effectively gave Canadians permission to take out their frustrations over the pandemic on those continuing to resist vaccination. About two weeks after the announcement, the Toronto Star ran a front-page story about simmering tensions between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, which it illustrated with giant quotes that included: “Unvaccinated patients do not deserve ICU beds” and “I have no empathy left for the willfully unvaccinated. Let them die.” (The Star’s editor-in-chief later conceded that the presentation of the story was “clumsy, poorly executed and open to misinterpretation.”) Polling showed that animosity based on vaccine status was boring in a hole in Canadian society, and that it was an issue that personally affected millions of Canadians. Vaccination status was tearing friends, family members and neighbours apart. To this day, many relationships have not recovered.
The Prime Minister didn’t create the acrimony that divided the Canadian population,
(Sidebar: oh, yes, he did.)
... but he did exploit it for cynical political gain. Unlike the other scandals that plagued his leadership up until then, this one touched every single Canadian in a way they all implicitly understood, and at a fragile time when families, friendships and partnerships were breaking apart. At one stop during the campaign, he celebrated the progress the country had thus far in tackling the pandemic, while also pointing to a small group protesting outside as an impediment to returning to normal. “Those folks outside, and the politicians who agree with them, are endangering that,” he said. Months earlier, he might have called those folks our friends, family and neighbours, who could be reached with empathy, education and understanding, not censure.
Mr. Trudeau didn’t win his majority, but he doubled down on his rhetoric. Ahead of the convoy trucker protest in early 2022, he lambasted the “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views” who were on their way to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates.
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Canada lost more than 131,000 small businesses through the pandemic, according to Department of Industry figures. New data follow evidence at the time that one business group took suicide calls from desperate shopkeepers: ‘Business owners saw their life’s work crumble in their hands.’
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Claims for millions in damages against the Freedom Convoy should be heard, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Judges rejected an appeal by protest organizers to dismiss a claim by Ottawa residents for $290 million in damages for “public nuisance” and “psychological distress.”
It's like there is a pattern of this kind of thing:
An advocate for ending violence against women is calling on a Liberal MP to apologize after shutting down her testimony during a parliamentary committee Wednesday by turning the committee’s discussion into a partisan debate over abortion.
Instead of having the chance to share her story and the experiences other survivors who say the Canadian justice system has failed them, Cait Alexander says she left feeling disrespected and “abused.”
She and another witness walked out of the parliamentary committee visibly shaken Wednesday and MPs said they were “disgusted” by the behaviour that drove the witnesses to tears.
At one point, the women even shouted at Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld for overriding their testimony.
Members of the status of women committee had been called back to Ottawa for an emergency meeting by Conservative MPs, who said it was necessary during the summer break due to recent reporting by Statistics Canada showing an uptick in crimes such as sexual assault.
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