"Canada’s in the beginning of a movement of Nativism Of Necessity – we have to make sure our failures don’t make these people come to the conclusion that there’s no solution other than nativism for the long term"
On housing, immigration, and politics
Calling someone who came to Canada before the Beatles played the fucking Ed Sullivan Show an immigrant in the context of his (horrible) actions this week might be the scummiest thing I’ve seen in a while
So, when Justin Trudeau operated a minority government and called an early election he's terrible, but when he negotiates a deal for stability through 2025, he's a socialist? Pick a fucking argument
This is the most blatant act of corruption and political favouritism in modern Canadian history and this *should* end in multiple resignations including the Premier’s
Wasserman: don’t look at the Early Vote because it can skew your perception of things
Also Wasserman: Florida and Virginia Beach turnouts at 1PM hold the key to the election
I have never heard a more coherent, clear-eyed, unequivocal, honest, or compelling speech by PM Trudeau than this. This is what all of us should expect from every Canadian politician and public servant. It gets better and better the longer he speaks.
Daily reminder: if you bought one (1) Bitcoin the day Pierre Poilievre called it a way to "opt out" of inflation, you've lost $18117.94 in value
A return of *checks notes* -30.8%
My hot take on JT’s vacation is that borrowing a second home from a richer friend with a vacation spot is a Canadian tradition and there’s nothing that could be more Canadian than leaving the city for someone else’s cottage in Muskoka or second home somewhere warm
All but 3 English language daily newspapers in this country are owned by Postmedia, a company with a blatant right wing bias
The idea that we have a problem of left wing media bias in this country is so laughably absurd as to be disqualifying of opinion
@EScrimshaw
Come on. Even you aren't that obtuse. The issue isn't "understanding how a wire service works," it's that the media in Canada has an overwhelming ideological bias and the problem is so entrenched they don't even consider how brazenly they flaunt it.
I cannot believe a decent chunk of the Canadian commentariat are saying it’s a bad thing that the leader of the CCP hates Justin Trudeau
I literally cannot understand how this makes Trudeau look bad
So, Global didn’t repeat their accusation about Han Dong on The West Block this morning? They broke the political story of the week and didn’t cover it on their own show?
That’s very odd
I will make a decent sized donation to the charity of their choice if anyone on the CBC coverage refers to Rempel as the MP for Calgary-Oklahoma, just putting that out there
We are literally evacuating a Territorial capital right now because of a consequence of climate change and the Post is running multiple front page op-eds attacking serious climate
#BREAKING
: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, announce on Instagram that they are separating. Full statements:
#cdnpoli
So 6 of ~1300 judges appointed by the LPC attended a fundraiser and Postmedia is making it big news, but Doug Ford literally gave $8B in unrealized equity to (amongst others) guests at his daughter’s wedding and they gave Ford an Op-Ed to defend himself? Do I have this right?
If you’re doing a “Dark Day For Democracy” today I would like to remind you that the now-PM once called a Cabinet Minister a piece of shit in the House so maybe just maybe calm the fuck down
Please tell me the Liberals only found this video this week
Because if they’ve known about this video and haven’t been plastering it with a multi-million dollar ad buy for any amount of time I’m going to lose my mind
It wasn't that long ago that good climate policy wasn't dominated by cynical partisan games and which team jersey you wore.
Conservative leaders could once admit publicly that Canada Carbon Rebates made the carbon price a good deal both for their wallets and the environment.
Good to see the Liberals starting to test run what is likely to be a cornerstone of their next election attack - no career politician is actually the outsider he’s pitching himself as
Question to the Globe And Mail - why, exactly, should the residents of Ottawa who were being harassed and in many cases financially harmed by the Convoy have been empathetic to the Convoy?
Brilliant job for Skippy and the CPC to have made inflation a Trudeau-specific failure when Canadian inflation is lower than the UK and US, brilliant thinking lads
So people appointed to roles by Brian Mulroney are allowed to investigate Brian Mulroney but someone appointed to 3 roles by Conservative PMs can’t investigate a Liberal government?
Great fucking job, Skippy
Justin Trudeau always divides to distract from all he has broken. This time, he is demonizing concerned parents.
Parents should be the final authority on the values and lessons that are taught to children. Trudeau should butt out and let parents raise their kids.
It is incredibly disconcerting that JJ and others miss the fundamental point here, which is that the point of a democracy is people can advocate for weird ideas without being fucking shot
Justin Trudeau calling Peter Kent a piece of shit as a backbench third party MP got more coverage than Pierre Poilievre falsely claiming there was a terrorist attack a mile from our border
Great job everybody!
"What do you get when a German Nazi launches into an attack on [Trudeau]?
According to CTV, a three day news story where you quote her like any right thinking Canadian should give a single fuck what she has to say."
Me on
#CdnMediaFailed
and choices made
Please think for about 12 seconds why the Government vetting who, say, Opposition MPs are allowed to bring in to the Parliamentary Precinct would be a bad thing
Like, seriously, think about this for just 12 seconds, and it’ll make sense to you
HUH? Trudeau says requiring visitors at the House of Commons to be vetted by the government is "actually a grievous attack on the rights and privileges of parliamentarians."
We're in the middle of a national health care crisis.
For years, Justin Trudeau has said the right things — but hasn't followed up on his promises.
It's time to get to work.
Get more health care professionals trained and working. Respect them with better pay and conditions.
I’m not saying the Liberals didn’t make a mistake with C-18 but I remember how bad the takes looked in Australia for those 3 days before Facebook backed down
This is a game of chicken right now, and when the Aussies didn’t fold they won
If Poilievre and the CPC would like to articulate a path to lowering inflation without high interest rates I look forward to their detailed list of spending cuts they want Trudeau to implement
Oh, wait ...
Poilievre refuses to answer whether he would rip up our government’s historic dental care plan in Budget 2023.
Almost 300,000 kids have the support they need to visit the dentist thanks to this program, and he pretends it doesn’t exist.
He wants to take Canada backwards.
#Khalistan
is to
#India
, what
#Quebec
Sovereignty Movement is to
#Canada
. How would Canada react to any foreign nation who sympathize or support the Quebec separatism? Just asking!
I really hate non-lawyers playing Court guesser but I’ll make an exception: the Federal Court decision is a crock of shit and will likely be tossed on appeal easily
"We need to have an honest conversation about CSIS and the journalists who decided that they don’t have to verify intelligence claims before accusing politicians of treason."
On Vincent Ke, Global's reporting, and Treason's High Bar
If you bought Bitcoin on the day Pierre Poilievre called crypto a way to “opt out” of inflation, your investment is currently down *checks notes* 45.4%
But don’t worry, he’ll be able to prosecute a case of economic competence in 2025, no doubt
If I have to hear one more Conservative do this “how can our allies take us seriously” routine I’m going to have a meltdown
The US is a week from potentially blowing up their economy, the UK’s Deputy PM resigned last month and the Home Sec might go too, Italy’s led by fascists
I’m once again asking why people see Pierre Poilievre referring to the child care deals as a slush fund and don’t think he’s walking into the next election with a massive political liability
The Renters’ Bill of Rights is proof this government has its head screwed on straight
It’s not a silver bullet to fixing everything and if you want to judge every announcement against that standard you’ll be unimpressed, but it’s good work that is better than the status quo
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces measures aimed at protecting renters that will be in upcoming federal budget, including a legal aid fund to protect tenants and a renters’ bill of rights.
#cdnpoli
Anyone who suggested the Friday Han Dong leak was an act of a whistleblower needs to apologize for getting played
This is CSIS deciding they want to hurt the PM, which is fucking terrifying
"Poilievre is, in reality, everything he pretends not to be – he’s a social liberal suburbanite cosplaying as a cultural conservative, an elite cosplaying as a working class hero, a career politician cosplaying as an outsider." -->
"Poilievre is going into the next election much like O’Toole did – with a credibility issue nobody wants to talk about, and the dental plan just accentuates it"
On Poilievre, O'Toole, and Dental's Political Trap
Things this statement by Global doesn’t include:
• A defence of their story
• A defence of Sam Cooper
• Anything to make anyone believe anything other than they shit the bed
If Justin Trudeau lied on Wednesday and he did know about the threats to Chong’s family before Monday, he needs to resign
If the PCO did not brief the PMO after CSIS passed them the doc, then a whole lot of senior civil servants need to be fired
Either way this is a disaster
Jaime Harrison and Amy McGrath need to immediately transfer their entire warchests to Ossoff and Warnock. Double Barrel For The Senate starts tonight. You should still have more money than God left.
If it's Party and Country over self, they'll announce that within the day
If the story of how Poilievre failed to convert housing anger amongst the otherwise progressive young into votes and he loses the next election accordingly gets written, his gas station anti-carbon tax press conference the same week that Kelowna and Yellowknife burn will be why
I’m sorry if I see one more person who knows better pretend that the Liberals chose the timing on this India disclosure I’m going to start breaking things
The Globe was running it! At that point, the timing has been chosen for you! What about this is so fucking complicated
This is not a prediction, but if the Liberals win the next election, Sean Fraser to Housing will be the most electorally effective cabinet shuffle move since when?
Cause he is doing his fucking best to get this government re-elected
"The prime minister hasn't provided any facts. He provided a statement and I'll just emphasize that he didn't tell me any more in private than he told Canadians in public," says Pierre Poilievre re: Canada's allegation of India's role in killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
#cdnpoli
The LPC/NDP/GPC combined for 186 seats at this election, meaning the CPC would have needed to make at least 18 gains off those three parties to even contemplate government (and 21 gains off the LPC to be level in seats).
This election wasn't close, at all
The land had almost no commercial value and then Doug Ford’s government made developers $8B in yet to be realized net value by rezoning it
Also, if you’re fucking a Ford staffer you should probably disclose that
Appears I need to keep repeating this but the lands taken out of the Greenbelt were privately owned, not publicly owned.
Ford didn’t sell or give away “our land.”
Also, requirements to build include a percentage of affordable housing & other conditions.
This weird thing where people think Justin Trudeau can do the sum of jack and shit to stop the war or end the siege is truly weird
Biden can barely get the Israelis to let aid into Gaza, you think we’re a strongly worded Trudeau press release away from a lasting peace?
So, let’s see - the evidence is real, we got some of it from a Five Eyes ally, and the Americans didn’t rebuff us
Almost as if India actually killed one of our citizens, then
"The Convoy’s a disgrace. It’s also a walking advertisement for hatred, bigotry, and indifference towards your fellow man, all things that Conservatives usually strive to avoid looking like."
Me on Convoy 2.0 and the future of CPC
Feels worth remembering that in 2019 the Chinese were extremely hostile to the Liberals on account of Meng, Huawei, etc, and that the Liberal Party went backwards in the two Richmond seats and Markham-Unionville
Interference in 2019 was almost assuredly anti-LPC
People who own multiple properties and who have made more than 250k in asset value since they bought their secondary property complaining about the fact their taxes are gonna go up are going to single-handedly save the LPC’s polling amongst the young
Slight step aside from PA to give a special shoutout to Tim Ryan. He may have lost, but he single-handedly allowed D's to gain a clean sweep of all 5 gettable congressional seats in OH (wtf?)
Asking very basic questions like “do you have proof of your claims” is neither attempting to silence you or spreading lies
If you’ve got actual proof of your claims, every sane and rational person should support investigations and severe punishment
But you don’t
Pedophiles and Terrorists in Canada are trying to silence us by spreading lies. They are threatening us to insure their plan continue let’s make sure that all Canadians know that cancelling one of us thousands of Canadians will stand up instead!
@elonmusk
@JustinTrudeau
@X
NEW - PM Trudeau: “Now this is a nice irony, Ontario actually started a cap and trade program. It was scrapped by Doug Ford when he first got elected which means the federal price on pollution that he is now complaining about is in because he got rid of the cap and trade program”
This fucking lobster controversy is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen in all my life and I’m going to lose my mind if people who know better don’t shut up about it
Net Favourability of Selected World Leaders Among British Voters (15 November)
Highest:
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelensky +32%
🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau +14%
🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni +4%
🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez +4%
Lowest:
🇨🇳 Xi Jinping -15%
🇬🇧 Rishi Sunak -19%
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin -46%
🇰🇵 Kim Jong-Un -54%
Since the night of the English-language debate on Sept. 9, it seems everyone has taken the opportunity to share their views, opinions and reflections about it. With the election now finally behind us, I’m sharing mine:
I’m sure there’s a polite way to say this but plainly why the fuck is a union acting like they have any mandate to do this? Your job is to negotiate for your workers not act like a psuedo political party
More than 2000 CUPE delegates have overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for:
1. a ceasefire
2. end the sale of arms to Israel,
3.end diplomatic immunity for Israel
4.end the blockade
5. restore basic necessities of life.
The CUPE membership have spoken.
#Gaza
This is risible nonsense beneath a usually very good reporter and I wish the brain rot that led to this could be fixed
Nobody voted for Trudeau last time or in 2019 or 2015 who won’t now because of the world’s most (publicly) amicable separation
#Opinion
: Liberal strategists have their work cut out for them after cultivating the prime minister’s image as a loving husband and family man,
@althiaraj
writes.
Further on CSIS from Benzie: ‘I’m not sure CSIS did a great job of spying on Pat King so I’m not sure how great a job they’ve done on spying on Beijing.’
I don’t know how to frame this correctly, but if we’re going to make the internal deliberations of the Trudeau Foundation public for a legal acceptance of a donation, shouldn’t we doing this for *every* Canadian charity that’s accepted large amounts of foreign/adversarial funds?
.
@RupaSubramanya
is a journalist in Canada, where censorship at the hand of the government now sadly is the norm.
She's seen first hand how bad censorship can be.
Watch her powerful testimony ⬇️
“There are no pro-choice Conservative MPs” is certainly incendiary, but the Conservative Party of Canada did attempt to pass a law that would treat a fetus as worth protection, which would immediately be used to therefore argue that abortion is a violation of said protections
Aw com'on Catherine.
You don't have to dance to the PMO music anymore. And have you ever MET CPC MP
@MichelleRempel
btw? She's as pro-choice as it gets...
You worked for the dude who lobbied for Huawei and then accused someone of being paid by China because you disagree with them, and you have the fucking temerity to talk about country before party?
Am I living in a joke?
"Lich is a selfish person who put her beliefs above the common good, and then terrorized a city to get what she wanted. She isn’t worthy of your compassion, and if she has it, then you’ve royally fucked up"
On Tamara Lich and who gets our compassion
BREAKING: CBC officially exposed as “government-funded media”.
Now people know that it is Trudeau propaganda, not news.
Sign here to save $1 billion & defund the CBC:
Women in politics shouldn’t be reliant on men to decide their worth based on their gender.
I find it patronizing, insulting and demeaning when Trudeau expects a pat on the back or a standing ovation for placing women in his cabinet to fill a quota.
Women can compete on merit.
"The Liberals are giving people extra money soon and the CPC leader is in hot water for trying to appeal to incels.
And somehow the dude with the incel headlines is the one everyone is claiming is favoured to win the next election"
Me, on Poilievre
"Poilievre is going into the next election much like O’Toole did – with a credibility issue nobody wants to talk about, and the dental plan just accentuates it"
On Poilievre, O'Toole, and Dental's Political Trap
Given Rota “accept[s] full responsibility” for his actions, he has to resign as Speaker
Full responsibility has to mean something. He better resign tomorrow at the rise of the House
So it’s just confirmed that this “object” over Canadian airspace was taken out by a U.S. F-22 jet.
We do not have the capacity to defend ourselves and our sovereignty.
Hard questions need to be asked about the state of the Canadian armed forces.
#cdnpoli