The trucking industry has been in freefall for close to 2 years now. Declining freight volumes show the economy is in recession, but that doesn’t fit the left’s narrative, so it isn’t reported by MSM. Alternative media the rescue once again.
This video is short and gives a clear picture of what is happening in the North American economy.
Trudeau cabinet minister Harjit Sajjan wanted to use Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel as a backdrop for Punjabi pop star Diljit Dosanjh. Dosanjh, a Sikh from the Punjab region of India, is a well-known entertainer in that country.
As first reported in The Globe and Mail, Sajjan, who was minister of national defense for six years, received a request in April for uniformed military personnel to participate as in Dosanjh’s Vancouver performance on Apr. 27.
It is unclear whether the CAF members were expected to sing or dance. As defense minister in 2017, Sajjan presented Dosanjh with a medal while the singer was touring Canada. […]
“Minister Sajjan agreed the concert would be a good opportunity for the Canadian Armed Forces to engage with and expand connect to a diverse community of young Canadians, along the lines of the CAF outreach and recruiting events at professional sporting events,” said Sajjan’s press secretary Joanna Kanga.
Trudeau’s rapey-beheader wing will not be pleased.
Justice Minister Arif Virani says he has received the review of online comments made by incoming human rights commissioner Birju Dattani, and that Dattani has “agreed to take a leave” just one day before he was set to begin serving in his new role.
“While I carefully consider this matter, Mr. Dattani has agreed to take leave,” Virani said in a statement Wednesday night.
“I will have more to say in the coming days.” […]
Dattani’s appointment was announced in June, after which a Canadian Jewish advocacy group called attention to some of his past social media posts, saying they were antisemitic.
“The appointment of someone with such a deeply flawed background only exacerbates the skeptical public perceptions of the CHRC and undermines our confidence in the commission’s ability to adjudicate issues of hate and discrimination,” the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said at the time.
I’ve written the CBC writer to inquire if Dattani will be receiving pay.
h/t to JD
BREAKING: is withdrawing all staff and families from and moving them to Jordan due to the security situation. Diplomats to remain. For now. There has been no communication between Embassy and Cancits in . is only country doing this based on media reports which have been confirmed.
David Coletto- Liberals can’t reduce their polling deficit without changing how people feel about Trudeau
Overall, our survey finds that most Canadians have a negative impression of Justin Trudeau and those negative feelings are more intense than they have been at previous points over the past four years.
For some, change is what they want and so their negative emotions towards Trudeau is simply caused by wanting someone else leading the country.
But there is also a personal side to the negativity towards Trudeau. Many believe he lies, breaks promises, is arrogant (that pops pretty clearly), and is incompetent.
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to Beijing last week was built around an understanding of China that’s at least a decade out of date.
The minister and more than a few media analysts lauded the opportunity (the first by a Canadian foreign minister in almost seven years) for “dialogue” with China’s leadership. But dialogue involves a conversation, a shared approach to illuminate or resolve an issue. It’s what happens when senior officials from normal countries meet. But China hasn’t been a normal country since Xi Jinping ascended to paramount leadership in 2013. Xi’s China doesn’t do dialogue. […]
China almost certainly saw the visit in historical terms, as the deference shown to the ruler in Beijing by the emissary of a smaller state. And in this particular case such deference will be understood, unhelpfully, as Canada being invited to apologise face-to-face for daring to complain about China’s behaviour.
And more from Sam Cooper: The Power behind Mélanie Joly’s bow to Beijing
According to newly unearthed documents, the Liberal government was warned as early as 2017 that Jasper was a “tinderbox” waiting to explode but climate activists within the government refused to alter the “pristine environment.”
According to documents obtained by the Western Standard, the Jasper National Park Management Plan identified the mountain pine beetle as a major risk for wildfires as far back as July 22, 2016.
“Mountain pine beetle expansion in Jasper National Park and associated forest ‘may’ increase wildfire risk to values on neighbouring land,” said the plan.
In Jasper National Park alone, 1.1 million hectares were identified as at risk from an infestation that spread from British Columbia starting in 2006.
“The presence of a large number of dead and dying trees is thought to to increase the risk of wildfire in the national park and surrounding area and this has been partially supported by the observation that in 2017 in British Columbia about one-third of forest fires were occurring in the dead stands,” it said.
The Alberta Forest Service and Parks Canada approved a forest management plan but it was rejected by the Liberal government, documents show.
Via Mark Milke: I gave a speech to a conference sponsored by the Forestry Association of Alberta in Jasper about six years ago. This is exactly what they told me privately…
Flashback to Kelowna.
The children are our future.
PODCAST: Cabinet approved booklet for schools calling Red Ensign a hate symbol and CPC a target of “infiltration” by racists.
Peter St. Onge- Canada is headed for its worst decline in 40 years as economy fails to recover from the pandemic. Under Trudeau, incomes are West Virginia level, house prices are Los Angeles level, and a middle class family might pay *half* their income in taxes. 7 in 10 Canadians now think that “Canada is broken” — rising to 8 in 10 of the young. Almost half of Canadians are considering moving to another country.
And a promise to do better: Trudeau’s handpicked chair of his billion dollar slush fund found guilty of breaking Canada’s ethics laws.
The children are their future and they’ll be crazy-eyed eunuch warriors, each and every one: Trudeau’s pick for @csiscanada’s interim spy chief, Vanessa Lloyd, authored a report describing parents worried about gender ideology as anti-gender extremists and domestic security threats.
Justin Trudeau’s ongoing refusal to list the Iranian-regime-controlled Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp as a terrorist organization looks more and more sinister by the day, especially as anti-Semitic, anti-Canadian, anti-Western propaganda is being spread within our nation and our own Citizens are being threatened by the Iranian regime:
They earned those bonuses: CBC managers “pushed through the correction” of a news story mildly critical of the federal government, Access To Information records show. CEO Catherine Tait has repeatedly denied any political interference in ensuring “correct” CBC News coverage
No disassembly required: Minister of Labour and Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan confirmed his resignation and that he will not seek re-election in the next federal election in a statement on Thursday.
Globe and Mail- There’s a troubling amount of churn at the top of Canada’s public service
Over the nine years it has been in power, the Trudeau government has shuffled senior officials 98 times, with more than 300 specific changes – some individuals multiple times. On average, there have been about 10 shuffles per year. Meanwhile, there are now 41 deputy ministers – more than ever before.
More Liberal voters. Under Trudeau the civil service has grown twice as fast as Canada’s population.
Going, going… “Canada is amazing.”
“The PMO is throwing their own DPM under the bus,” said one former senior Liberal. “Invoking Katie’s [Telford] name in doing it. Freeland has fought more battles for this government than anyone—she does not deserve this treatment.”
In a tweet, author Stephen Maher tweeted a page from his new book The Prince that suggested that leaks about Morneau were likely the reason why Carney never joined the Trudeau team.
“Seeing Morneau being treated so shabbily seems to have given Carney pause, and he did not allow himself to be seduced,” wrote Maher. “They spooked him by putting the shiv in Morneau.”
On social media, political insiders and pundits blasted the PMO for making anonymous negative comments, and suggested that Freeland should step down before she’s shuffled out of the portfolio.
There’s some sort of accountability exercise going on and Deputy Prime Minister CHRYSTIA FREELAND is being set up as a political sacrifice.
— Her apparent offense: Being an ineffectual sales agent (translation: lousy communicator) for the economic policies led by a PM who went into a pandemic election declaring he doesn’t prioritize thinking about monetary policy.
— It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Cabinet shuffle trial balloon: Two anonymous sources dumped on Freeland by way of a report from The Globe and Mail’s BOB FIFE, knocking the DPM for failing to deliver an “upbeat economic message.”
In Washington at the NATO summit, the story caused a stir among the press traveling with Trudeau, prompting the PMO to smother it with denials.
Paywalled: A cunning plan to leave the Finance Minister dangling by a thread. If there’s an archived version, shoot me a link in the comments
Updated: link here. Thanks Adam!
But if Mr. Trudeau and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, huddle to go over the options that Liberals have mooted to turn things around – the Prime Minister resigning, the chief of staff resigning, or the finance minister resigning – door No. 3 might be a popular choice.