As food bank use skyrockets, Justin Trudeau takes time out of his busy schedule for a photo op. It’s posted on “VanPeople’s” WeChat.
One account is run from Canada.
The other has an IP address in Beijing. Created in 2018, it was used to attack Erin O’Toole in the last election.
Otherwise, it’s business as usual.
They behave as though someone was getting a slice, and they need to hide it.
First, we have senior public servants, Cameron MacDonald and Antonio Utano, giving critical testimony about the ArriveCan affair on November 7, 2023. Their testimony was not only forthright but also directly critical of O’Gorman, Doan, and indirectly, Minister Mendicino. This is where things start getting fishy.
Shortly after this testimony, on November 27, 2023, MacDonald and Utano were made aware of an investigation by the Canadian Border Services Agency. Genuis is rightly suspicious of the timing – just a few weeks after their critical testimony, they’re suddenly under investigation. It stinks of retaliation, doesn’t it?
O’Gorman claims that this investigation was part of an ongoing one from November 2022, but the timing of the informants being notified is suspiciously convenient. Genuis is digging for the truth here: were these new allegations or part of the ongoing investigation? The answers are vague and unsatisfactory.
And this is a sweet one.
January 16, 2023: Trudeau snubs Moe at Saskatoon photo-op
On Monday, Trudeau and Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark toured the Vital Metals facility in Saskatoon, speaking with workers and getting an inside look at the process. […] Moe released a statement earlier in the day saying his Saskatchewan Party government was not aware of the prime minister’s visit to the facility.
January 18, 2024: Saskatoon’s Vital Metals liquidates assets amid bankruptcy
Degagne [McDougall’s Auction] said most of the equipment for auction was brand new and sold for pennies on the dollar. Successful bidders have until the end of January to claim their purchases.
Who would protect us from the scourge of bagel shops and pizzerias?
The Gazette- Federal agency sizing up air pollution from bagel shops and pizzerias
As Montreal area politicians stall on the issue, a federally-run agency is considering forcing wood-burning businesses to report emissions.
Toothless by design.
On Jan. 1, the Forced Labour and Supply Chain Reporting Law, which aims to curb the importation of goods made through forced labour, came into effect. The law is toothless. It merely requires companies to report on their efforts to keep forced labour out of their supply chains.
The U.S. Congress and the Biden administration, in contrast, passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021. That law compels anyone wishing to import products from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to prove that forced labour was not used.
Since its implementation in June, 2022, more than 6,000 shipments entering the United States have been reviewed under the new law, and more than 2,500 denied entry.
But according to Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, not one shipment from China has been denied entry into Canada on the same grounds.
The Department of National Defence says it won’t stand for members of the Canadian Armed Forces removing or vandalizing the feminine hygiene fixtures now required in men’s washrooms.
True North has received reports and photos of damaged or removed tampon dispensers and disposal units, which were mandated in all federally regulated male and female washrooms late last year.
Our country is being run by a cabal of our enemies.
Globe and Mail- An immigration system that’s lowering national wealth? Yes, the Liberals did that
Ottawa has put the country into a bind known as a “population trap.” That’s the conclusion of National Bank of Canada chief economist Stéfane Marion. A population trap is an unhappy state of affairs familiar to poor countries with very high birth rates. It’s unheard of in the developed world. Yet it’s what is happening in Canada today.
Canada’s population growth through immigration has been so high that it has outpaced the country’s savings, and its ability to invest in new capital stock. In plain English, the number of forks in the economic pie is growing faster than the pie, and faster than our capacity to invest in more ovens to bake more pie. The result is less pie per Canadian – declining GDP per capita, and declining living standards.
Brian Lilley: The ethics commissioner’s office has confirmed that they do not ‘pre-clear’ vacations.
A huge wave of liquefied natural gas is about to flood a world that’s supposed to be transitioning away from fossil fuels.
More than $235 billion has been plowed into the next slate of projects for the super-chilled fuel since 2019. The first of those plants will come online later this year, and a further $55 billion may be invested through 2025, Rystad Energy forecasts show.
That will help drive an historic 70% jump in LNG export capacity by the end of the decade, according to Baker Hughes.
The industry is essentially betting the world will need a lot more of the fuel as Europe rushes to replace piped Russian gas and Asia — particularly China — shifts away from coal.
Just today, US producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to snap up a key rival, capitalizing on demand for shipments from the Gulf Coast.
Massive export projects from the US to Qatar will cement LNG in the global energy mix for decades, especially with some purchasing contracts going into the 2050s — beyond targets set by many nations to become carbon-neutral.
Related: It’s not an easy time to be a politician.
It seems my earlier tweet was incorrect.
The RCAF Challenger that arrived earlier today in Jamaica was *not* the PM’s ride home from his Christmas vacation.
It would seem it requires *two* aircraft to get the PM & co. home to Ottawa.
Read the whole thing.
National Post- Trudeau given free stay at $9,300-a-night luxury Jamaican villa over Christmas holidays
Before this year’s trip, the PMO originally told The Canadian Press that Trudeau would be paying for his family’s stay in Jamaica.
Welcome to January 2nd, 2024, folks. As you shake off the festive spirit and step into the new year, brace yourselves. We’re dissecting the 2024 New Year’s Tax Changes report by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and it’s a doozy. The federal government, in its relentless quest for revenue, has already set the stage to make you a little poorer this year. As the New Year’s confetti is swept away and resolutions begin to take shape, Canadians are facing a stark, harsh reality. Your hard-earned dollars are about to be stretched even thinner, victim to a barrage of tax increases that are as inevitable as they are infuriating. […]
The table is set, and the numbers are stark. Whether you’re earning $30,000 or $200,000, the increases are universal, relentless, and indifferent to your personal economic circumstances. The Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance taxes alone are set to take a bigger bite out of your paycheck. The touted second CPP tax, or “CPP2,” isn’t just an additional burden; it’s an emblem of a government that sees no problem in reaching deeper into the pockets of its citizens.
And let’s talk about that carbon tax. It’s not just rising; it’s skyrocketing from $65 per tonne to $80 per tonne. This isn’t just an abstract figure. It translates to more than 17 cents per litre of gas, a direct hit to anyone who drives a car, heats their home, or, frankly, buys anything transported by truck, train, or plane. Trudeau’s government has the audacity to claim that families will somehow be “better off” with this carbon tax and its so-called rebate scheme. But let’s call it what it is: a blatant falsehood.
Update: Cabinet’s billion-dollar carbon tax cut on home heating oil followed months of warnings from in-house pollsters, records show. Homeowners opposed the tax as costly and divisive in Atlantic Canada where 24 Liberal MPs are up for re-election: “Almost all believed the carbon pricing system was too complicated and did not expect this initiative would be effective in reducing emissions.”
Though there are no prizes being offered, we give you this opportunity to shift your comedic genius into high gear and come up with the best caption(s) for this image:
h/t James MacMaster
Sun- Trudeau planning to hike taxes again in the new year
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be reaching deeper into your pockets in the new year with payroll tax hikes, a carbon tax hike and alcohol tax hikes.
National Post- Canada’s UN ceasefire vote reveals what we’ve become — undependable, unprincipled and foolish
The vote on Tuesday was yet another attempt to isolate and pressure Israel, and this time Canada colluded.
Politics is the art of the possible and at the UN not much is possible. Not much was ever changed by a vote by the general assembly.
It hardly needs to be said that the call for a ceasefire is a delusion. Even if Israel recognized the point made by Canada’s Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, that its actions “only enhance the cycle of violence,” with whom would it negotiate a signed agreement?
