I read between Eng & Fr lines/lies of pols/journos๐จ๐ฆEx-Sect'y 2 Cabinet Fed-Prov/PMO Chief of Staff/Amb/DM to BC Premier/Publisher/Columnist/PhD academic
Unfortunately, the keffieh has taken on a whole new meaning in the wake of "the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7thโ [to use the words of our Prime Minister]
By chance, I had the good fortune of being Canadaโs first representative to the Palestinian Authority shortly after I landed in Israel as ambassador in 1992. I have some fond as well as some scary memories of walking around Gaza back then, but these days I mostly wonder how
Dear Followers: Trudeau is not a traitor. You can disagree with his policies, but please stop this talk. From now on, I will block anyone who uses the term
Canadians have finally fallen out of love with Justin Trudeau. The shine has come off a career that at times seemed to defy political gravity. Instead of Trudeaumania, the nation is suffering from Trudeau fatigue....he had hoped to spend as much time in office as his father did.
Basically, the parliamentary press gallery should, at minimum, suspend
@davidakin
for that performance. Can you imagine the outcry in the gallery had he pulled that stunt on
@JustinTrudeau
?
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โJean Charest should be excluded from becoming prime minister after he sold out Canadaโs security for a quick buck by working to get Huawei technology on Canadaโs communications networks,โ
@PierrePoilievre
said.
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In 2014, Harper interrupted his Asia trip, flew back to Ottawa for Remembrance Day from China and then resumed his mission by flying back to New Zealand. It appears Harper put a greater priority than Trudeau on Remembrance Day
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Whoa! The. Smoking. Gun.
...CSIS sought warrant in early 2021, lawyers signed off but Blair did not approve until June, leaving little time to get approval of a federal judge and to decide on best ways to plant bugs before Trudeau called the election in August. Fadden says it
61% of Canadians believe journalists are purposely trying to mislead them by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations [+12 since last year]
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We're getting close to the point in Canada where Justin Trudeau is going to have to put an end to this situation--one way or another--or step aside for someone who has a plan and the will to do so
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I imagine Parliamentary Secretary
@PamDamoff
-- whoโs โdisappointedโ Conservative MPs are demanding answers in the House of Commons -- will be equally disappointed with this front page!
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If I were advising the PM, Iโd be advising Trudeau that this is an ideal opportunity for him to resign: it was he who invited Zelensky to tack on a visit to Ottawa after his visit to Washington, and it is he who needs to apologize to Zelensky on behalf of all Canadians for the
STATEMENT OF THE LEADER OF THE BLOC QUรBรCOIS UPON THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE INDEPENDENT SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR'S MANDATE
โThe Bloc, opposition parties and a broad consensus of civil society are calling for a public and independent inquiry, whose commissioner will be chosen by the
Le premier ministre tente encore et toujours de ne pas lancer la nรฉcessaire enquรชte publique et vraiment indรฉpendante, et pour รงa, en faire nommer la prรฉsidence par le Parlement?
Il faut dissiper lโimpression quโil a quelque chose ร cacher ร la veille de la visite de
@JoeBiden
.
BC had the first and still has the highest carbon tax in Canada and is burning. Face it: Your approach hasnโt been worth a warm bucket of spit
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John McCallum, the former Liberal cabinet minister and former ambassador to China, admitted in a July 2019 interview with the South China Morning Post that heโd been advising the Chinese foreign ministry on how to conduct its affairs so as to help re-elect Trudeauโs Liberals and
[Editorial] Trudeau urged dialogue with pipeline blockaders. Facing BLM protests in violation of Covid rules he joined in. But with the truckers, he refused to meet or compromise.
Uh-oh . Democracy Watch press released revealed that lawyer Sheila R. Block, whom David Johnston retained to assist him in obtaining, reviewing and analyzing secret information that Prime Minister Trudeau gave them access to, seems to have donated a total of $7,593.38 (listed
โThe last time I've seen numbers even close to this were in the final days of Brian Mulroney,โ said
@JohnWrightLive
, executive vice-president of Maru Public Opinion. โI think this could cost him his job.โ
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"That donation is a stink bomb"
A Trudeau Foundation document, obtained by La Presse, indicates that the crisis erupted at the end of March. The Board of Directors was alerted to the fact that the name on the check of the notorious โChinese donationโ was not the name of the real
Ouch. During the G-20 summit, the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval engaged his Australian, UK and Canadian counterparts over the rise of Sikh fundamentalism and violence against Indian assets in their respective countries. It is understood that the Australian NSA and the UK
Trudeauโs explosive allegation may take Canadian eyes off our housing woes and on the inflation numbers released today but Iโm thinking they wonโt play as well at the UN this week and I doubt either the US or the UK will engage in verbal war with India--emphasizing the
[I was offline and am going back offline now to continue reading and reflecting on the Brian Mulroney obits, but want to draw your attention to yesterday's piece by
@sunlorrie
]
"We now know why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fought so hard to keep secret the documents revealing
I grew up in the 1950s and have never seen Canada so divided in so many ways, and as challenged internationally on so many fronts. Canadians' holiday from history is over--which will require leadership, rather than partisan gamesmanship and polarization
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A lot of people who opposed the Convoy engaging in unlawful activity to force the Trudeau Gvt to rescind its vaccination mandates are now supporting CUPE engaging in illegal activity to force the Ford Gvt to rescind its law imposing a contract settlement
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Via
@brianlilley
: "It should have been an easy to answer question, but despite being asked more than half a dozen times, Justin Trudeau replied but he didnโt answer. Is the person CSIS warned was a member of a Chinese foreign interference network a sitting Liberal MP?
Itโs easy
If QC had oil and gas rather than hydro resources, thereโs absolutely no doubt in my mind that Trudeauโs approach to climate change would not be the current one
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#ableg
The RCMPโs letter confirms it is investigating the allegation that Trudeau, Morneau, some members of their staff, and Michael Wernick obstructed justice by pressuring then-AG
@Puglaas
to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018.
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RESIGN! RESIGN!... JT told reporters that Morris Rosenberg, a former head of the Trudeau Foundation, had been selected in summer 2022 to write an independent report that will assess the effectiveness of govt panel that monitored the 2021 election for foreign threats.
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Ouch!
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Lithuania this week for the annual NATO summit, but itโs too bad there wasnโt a junior table where he could sit. Thatโs where his country belongs based on Ottawaโs feeble commitment to alliance defense...
Canada ranks sixth
"The Canada Revenue Agency's counterterrorism team says it has uncovered "troubling" links between a Hamas support network and leaders of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), an Islamist group that has received millions of dollars in public funds in recent yearsโ
The first responsibility of Canadaโs PM is to bridge our differences not to exploit them for partisan advantage. And
#cdnmedia
should be criticizing Trudeau, not playing his game
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[Globe editorial worth reading]
However honorable his intentions, Mr. Johnston has not only failed in that mission but has also further damaged public confidence in our institutions. The office of the governorgeneral is politically tinged, now that Mr. Johnston has been thrust
The Premier of QC, the Mayor of Montreal and even the former Leader of the PQ have condemned the desecration, but
@JustinTrudeau
, the PM of Canada/MP for Papineau is still biting his lip
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Big tech would rather spend money changing their platforms to block news from Canadians instead of paying a small share of the billions they make in advertising dollars.
Canadians wonโt be bullied. Big tech isnโt bigger than Canada.
TRUDEAU'S PREPARING FOR THE WORST
The Election Act provides for elections on the third Monday in October every four years. Under the law and rules known to everyone, the next elections were to be held on October 20, 2025.
The Election Act provides for elections on the third
The good news is, Conservative MP Michael Chong finally appeared before a bipartisan committee determined to get to the bottom of Chinaโs growing influence over domestic politics. The bad news is, that committee was in Washington, D.C.
Whatโs remarkable, to Canadian ears, is how
There must be some really embarrassing and/or damaging stuff in the WE documents on Mummy or Sophie for Liberal MPs to be filibustering as they are
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Basically, Trudeau misled Canadians--particularly QCers and their premier--about Roxham Rd for one year, and misled
#cdnmedia
right up to the day of the Biden visit
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Asked if he believes Israel is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said โthere are a lot of things that are extremely worrisome that Canadians and people around the world are watching and not entirely understanding.โ
[Ouch!]
โIf Premier Scott Moe decides that he wants to start breaking laws and not respecting federal laws, then measures will have to be taken,โ Guilbeault said.
โWe can't let that happen. What if somebody tomorrow decides that they don't want to respect other federal laws,
The damage to Trudeau goes beyond vaccines: Canadians are now seeing how fake he is, reporters in Ottawa are skeptical & have been asking sharp questions and
#cdnmedia
are focussing on the poor job he's done managing the pandemic compared to other countries
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#bcpoli
IMO, Trudeau is now beyond being the Manchurian Candidate ... and this matter is beyond a public inquiry to deal with the allegations. His Chief of Staff and the Clerk of the Privy Council need to be summoned by MPs to testify under oath.
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Since May 1...he has flown more than 38,000 kilometres. Thatโs just 2,000 km less than Earthโs circumference. Around the world in 38 days.
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I grew up in the 50s, was at the table during the energy and constitutional battles of the 80s, and have never seen Canada as divided in as many ways and confronted by so many concurrent challenges--domestically and internationally--as we are today
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Me I grew up in the 1950s and have never seen Canada so divided in so many ways as we are today -- and have never witnessed a prime minister whose approach has been to divide Canadians rather than emphasize the importance of national unity -- even on vaccinations during a
I'd pay money to watch a debate in which Harper asks Trudeau how he's managed to so quickly screw up the best country in the world that his predecessors created!
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If I were advising Trudeau, Iโd be advising him to fall on his sword for Canada and bow out of politics today on the high note of ministerial responsibility -- in short, on a personal level, that this would be the ideal moment for him to resign from office and focus on his
Trudeau was the Minister responsible for the Zelensky visit, which was designed to support Ukraine in resisting Russiaโs invasion. The visit, at Trudeauโs behest, turned out to be a blow to Zelensky personally and to Ukraineโs war effort, a gift to Putin and an embarrassment for
Quite something when Trudeauโs former Minister of Finance is more critical of his Government than the parliamentary press gallery -- whose main focus appears to be the Official Opposition
#justinjournalism
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In seven years, Trudeau will have accumulated larger deficits than all his predecessors combined. Heโs so addicted to his credit card that his government shows no embarrassment in further postponing a return to balance. Worse, he even abandoned the small anchor that remained to
Ouch!
@PierrePoilievre
: "The current PMโs woke and out-of-touch ideology is so egotistical that he cannot imagine there are any Cdn stories bigger than him That is why he deletes Terry Fox, the soldiers who died at Vimy, the City of QC, and the RCMP from our passport to replace
Police didnโt ask for it, and a back channel for a negotiated deal was quashed by the Trudeau Government? If so, basically it lied to Canadians about the need to invoke the Act.
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[Basically, Trudeau shit the bed -- and itโs hard to see how he gets Canada out of the mess he created with his explosive allegations in the House of Commons]
In response to Indiaโs travel advisory, Immigration Minister Marc Miller urged calm, telling reporters that โeveryone
[Almost criminal what Trudeau has done to this country]
"A population trap is an unhappy state of affairs familiar to poor countries with very high birth rates. Itโs unheard of in the developed world. Yet itโs what is happening in Canada today.
Canadaโs population growth through
โFrankly Iโm surprised we screwed it up because we sit in such a privileged position in Canada,โ Beata Caranci, chief economist at Toronto-dominion Bank, told a packed audience at an Economic Club of Canada event on Thursday.
Unlike many other countries, including the U.S.,
I'm old enough to remember when a Liberal prime minister boldly asserted that Canada is the best country in the world, rather than taking every opportunity to trash his country
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Governments in Canada have taken to blaming Canadians for COVID -- because they're deathly afraid we'll start blaming then for their screw-ups
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I grew up in the 1950s and have never seen Canada so divided in as many ways, and confronted by as many international challenges, as today. And, when the Opposition is not functioning or not allowed to function inside the House, itโs more likely to take to the streets
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Seems to me that, if the Liberal filibuster at Committee continues, the Opposition parties will have no choice but to present a motion of non-confidence lest they allow our parliamentary system of responsible government to fall into disrepute
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Will be interesting to see whether
@JustinTrudeau
has learned something from this experience and, specifically, whether he'll try governing for all Canadians or continue to polarize and practise wedge politics
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"During the 2015 election that brought him to power, Trudeau repeatedly assured Canadians he would deliver three years of modest deficits followed by a balanced budget with a $1-billion surplus in 2019.
Claiming Liberals knew how to balance budgets (a reference to the Jean
All along, the PM and his Chief of Staff have misled and covered up Chinaโs election interference, going so far as to enlist a former GG in their subterfuge
As a career public servant who was seconded to PMO, I like to think the two national security sources would not have felt the need to provide this information to the media had they believed that Trudeau was intent on getting to the bottom of the matter expeditiously rather than
It appears that โtwo separate national security sourcesโ reported by
@globalnews
were not specially satisfied by the rapporteur or by his mandate or by the prospect of Telford testifying for two hours at a Liberal-chaired House committee
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Me I think the
#CPC
leadership candidates, rather than attacking each other, should be attacking the Trudeau Government's policies and outlining how they would fire and replace them in Ottawa
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Dear Governments and
#cdnmedia
: Don't take Canadians for fools. Inadequate supply of Pfizer and Moderna doses is the reason Canada has gone to an interval of 4 months for the second shot, and the reason we're using AstraZeneca immediately
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"Michael Chong is the personification of principled opposition. He has been standing by those principles since he entered Parliament. He has sacrificed his political prospects for them. He has earned the wrath of the Chinese government because of them.
No wonder so many
Trudeau was the Minister responsible for the Zelensky visit, which was designed to support Ukraine in resisting Russiaโs invasion. The visit, at Trudeauโs behest, turned out to be a blow to Zelensky personally and to Ukraineโs war effort, a gift to Putin and an embarrassment for
"Every party in the Commons, except the Liberals, supports a public inquiry. The majority of Canadians, according to several polls, want a public inquiry. Other Canadians calling for an inquiry include Richard Fadden, the former CSIS director and national security adviser to
Dear Progressives: As yourselves whether youโd want a
@PierrePoilievre
Government to have the power to override Parliament/infringe on civil liberties/freeze bank accounts whenever he feels like doing so
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