Is it not at least slightly curious that the people who spent decades lecturing us about "microaggressions" now insist on waving an "Arafat scarf" in the face of Jews?
Just received a 2nd peremptory notice from the City of Ottawa demanding to know what use I make of my house, threatening heavy fines for non-compliance, inaccurate answers or unapproved vacancy. My home is my castle. When did it become Caesar's business how often I'm here?
How can you bear to talk such rubbish? The Conservatives have held power only briefly since 1993, more than half the time in a minority situation. Your party held it from 1993 to 2006 and again from 2015 to 2024. If our climate policy is a mess, you did it.
Just got the cottage electric bill.
Power used: none at all
Charge to deliver said no power: $139.02
Regulatory charges: 75 cents
HST on delivery of nothing whatsoever: $18.17
Rebate so I won't be cross at high power prices: $44.45
Logic to any of above: 0
After claiming she had “no worries” about potential traitors in Parliament upon reading the NSICOP report on foreign interference, Elizabeth May says she agrees with Jagmeet Singh’s comment that there are MPs who knowingly provided help to foreign governments at the detriment of
So we're all in this together, huh? Some of us just happen to collect $240,000/year on top of our pension to pitch in. It really is different in the public sector.
“Canadians are not in decision mode right now.”
PM Trudeau is asked if public anger towards him is the reason the Liberals can’t win the next election.
She's hopelessly out of her depth. To throw in "fricking", to use "gaslighting" as an all-purpose insult without regard to its meaning, and to think this response explains refusing to condemn terrorism makes you wonder how she got the job... until you remember who appointed her.
Melanie Joly says Pierre Poilievre is just gaslighting Canadians and is unfit to be Prime Minister because he asked her to condemn all the anti-semitic protests on Canada's streets. I'm not too sure what to even say about that.
My point is we were promised vaccination meant an end to lockdowns. So we got vaccinated. & lockdowns didn't end. I"m not getting a new experimental shot every 3 to 6 months in return for hollow pledges. At some point we have to let our immune systems do what they evolved to do.
How can a person as smart as
@acoyne
, after decades of punditry, not grasp that the Liberals are convinced new immigrants vote for them, and design policy to further their electoral fortunes because they're also certain that what's good for the Liberal Party is good for Canada?
Serious question: is anyone planning for the possibility that we'll have another few years of voluntarily unvaccinated people swamping hospital capacity as new variants emerge? Seems like something we should have figured out how to deal with by now.
Ontario NDP MPP calls for abolition of lsrael in response to Hamas/Islamic Jihad terrorist massacres: "end all occupation of Palestinian land". Is her party comfortable with that stand?
I'm reflecting on my role as a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system, and I ask that all politicians do the same.
#FreePalastine
You want budget advice? OK.
1) Actually table a budget
2) Don't drive the government into insolvency with reckless spending
3) Don't drive the private sector into bankruptcy with reckless taxation
Any questions?
Class dismissed.
Inspired by the group of Ontario high school students that I met through
@CIVIX_Canada
to hear their suggestions for Budget 2021. CIVIX's own 2021 Student Budget Consultation survey has launched so students across 🇨🇦 can also participate! ➡️
Mulroney's greatest political weakness, desperate need for Laurentian elite approval, still grips him. He actually praises
@JustinTrudeau
because COVID was "the greatest challenge" any PM faced "in 156 years". Bigger than World War II? What a blatherskite.
#REPORT
: American officials are alleging that the Communist Party of China is running North American money laundering networks through a "command and control" structure based in Toronto.
Is it really only now dawning on people that this massive cloud of high-priced contracting around the civil service was always about insiders helping one another loot the treasury?
Perhaps Justin Trudeau will now even do the honourable thing and tender his resignation for complicity in China’s interference that he’s attempted to cover up
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the decision to cut another billion dollars out of the Canadian military, and deny you’re doing it, is more proof that we are governed by profoundly unserious people.
How dumb are you exactly? The whole point of an adversarial partisan system is that the opposition "politicizes" errors by the incumbents. Do you really think nobody can or should criticize you and your colleagues when you blunder?
It is disappointing to watch the Federal Conservatives politicize the wildfire in Jasper. If they really care about the facts and what the experts have to say, they should read this.
Trying to be fair-minded, & not think the worst. But is it usual for a bail hearing judge to say "This community has already been impacted enough by some of the criminal activity... you took part in and even led"?
Do they typically assume charges are true in such hearings?
What about putting her in a position where that recording turned out to be crucial in refuting attacks on her testimony and character? Was that "honorable"?
Where would we now be if she hadn't done it?
Once again the incompetence of the modern state is staggering. We now have a government that quite literally cannot figure out how not to let people in.
Trudeau's Liberals promised to cap foreign students but permits are up. Asylum seekers are up and we are bringing in an average of 109,000 people per month.
As Trudeau might say, we are bringing in people faster than we can absorb them.
Read & RP
#cdnpoli
"Did the world-famous “siege of Ottawa” have a death toll? Did absolutely anything have to be rebuilt when it was over? Did anyone even make off with a manhole cover?"
Government can make us all healthy, wealthy and wise, fix the weather and force us to stop being bigots. But it can't check that the trains it's buying fit on the rails it's buying. That sort of thing is too much to ask of them. via
@ottawacitizen
If I were a PPG journalist I would ask
@JustinTrudeau
"Do you ever wake up, look in the mirror and think 'With the economic mess, fiscal dumpster fire and bitter political division, maybe a bit of humility would help me govern better'? Or is modesty just for the little people?"
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: "The trick the populists have successfully won on around the world is doing a very good job of pointing out all the things that are needing improvement but doing no work to actually provide solutions or opportunities."
Yes, they really did say vaccines meant you couldn't get COVID. I don't mind them changing their story if the evidence warrants... but I do mind denying it ever happened.
Virtually every top official and media personality in charge of the response to COVID insisted the vaccine prevents infection and transmission—not just symptoms. These are the people who claim to worry about “misinformation.”
Surely a turning point in the revolt of the elites. A thoughtful, moderate policy, announced after much soul-searching and supported by a large majority of Canadians, is denounced in hysterically intolerant ad hominem (or ad feminam) terms by a chorus of our supposed betters.
I’m waiting for them to take my passport , someone somewhere is trying to work out what the hell to do with this internationally embarrassing situation they have created
Nous sommes allés à l’école en vélo, ce matin, pour la rentrée de Didi. Ella retourne elle aussi à l’école aujourd’hui, comme bien d’autres enfants au pays. Je souhaite une belle année scolaire à tout le monde. Allons-y... c’est parti!
Imagine the outrage if someone called for killing Muslims anywhere and everywhere. But when it's Jews it's just yawn yeah well whatever like free Palestine, man.
Health Minister Mark Holland: "Watching the Conservatives win in St. Paul means that like everything we are working on could be thrown in a trash bin."
Is it really necessary to remind people that
@JustinTrudeau
expressed his admiration for China's dictatorship shortly before becoming Prime Minister? Somehow or other it was brushed off at the time. Well, guess what? He meant it. And ideas have consequences.
[Ouch!]
Scandalous is not too strong a word to describe what the report reveals, which is a state of affairs that calls into question whether the term “foreign interference” gets at the dilemma that has transfixed Canada since November 2022, or whether what this report discloses
PM Trudeau on Defence Minister Sajjan: "He continues to have my confidence that he is the right person for the job.”
Based on what standards, one wonders. What sort of performance would undermine Trudeau's confidence in a defence minister?
And modest too? "I see myself as a passionate, creative and courageous woman, a hands-on, present, deeply loving mother, a devoted daughter, an intrepid sportswoman... a loyal friend, a fierce advocate and steadfast ally" via
@mtlgazette
This is one of those things where you think "He can't really have said that". So you check before retweeting... and it turns out to be real.
Imagine the fate of a politician who said men entrepreneurs tend to make better choices than "others".
Note also what Trudeau says: “...because women entrepreneurs tend to make better choices than others.”
Feminism used to mean equal rights for all.
Now it’s a radical left-wing ideology trying to impose a new kind of discrimination.
That’s why I’m not a feminist.
Ahem. It's not the job of the AG of Canada to expose serious, persistent attempts to interfere with the administration of justice in Canada? Whose job is it? The PCO clerk? The PM?
What if they're the ones doing it?
Who do you think should have blown the whistle if not the AG?
Justice Hogue tells the Foreign Interference Commission: "I will not be publicly identifying parliamentarians who may be suspecting of having participated in foreign interference activities or of having acted wittingly or unwittingly as agents of a foreign state."
Kier Starmer has been Prime Minister for only one month and is already almost certainly the worst the UK ever had, vain, clueless & inflammatory in an unprecedented crisis, denouncing anyone not far-left as far-right, backing two-tier policing & siding with the West's enemies.
“‘we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities,’ Starmer said. ” And he'll deploy a “standing army” to protect them. Everyone else is fair game, though. It’s not even dhimmitude. It’s worse.
Not that complicated. The Liberals gave us a modernist flag in their party colours in 1965, deliberately removing blue to conceal our heritage lest we, like Britain and the U.S., have a red-white-and-blue flag. via
@nationalpost
Also the speaker reproached Poilievre for attacking the PM's character, but in every answer to questions on BC drug policy the PM slagged Poilievre for allegedly courting Diagolon support and the speaker said nothing.
When dealing with adolescents, it’s best to pick your spots. Not every issue has to be turned into a test of your authority.
Poilievre looked small, both in the language he used and his grudging withdrawal of it. But he did withdraw. Speaker should have taken the W.
"'This isn’t just about picking a team,' said Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin... 'Our hearts are big enough to care for both.'"
Wow. Big enough for people trying to slaughter Jews, and Jews trying not to be slaughtered.
What moral giants you must be.
At times it really does seem they are trying to drive us insane: "The China inquiry tomorrow opens its public investigation... Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, the 1st to testify, earlier told MPs he saw no evidence of Chinese interference but acknowledged he didn’t
We are governed by blithering idiots part 1,738: Steven Guilbeault says "There is no simple answer when it comes to climate change or modeling" then gives a typically simplistic one: "Carbon pricing works. This has never been clearer." Then he bungles the math.
What a blatherskite. In what way is Canada "strengthening transatlantic defence"? Indeed that claim is itself misinformation so you're spewing it not fighting it. As for protecting our democracy, how about those Chinese pawns in Parliament you won't name?
Canada and France are partners in so much important work right now, from strengthening transatlantic defence, to fighting misinformation, to protecting our democracies — so
@EmmanuelMacron
and I had a lot to discuss at the
@G7
this week.
Am I the only one who thinks the Ethics Commissioner's breezy initial dismissal of the Boissoneault "Who's Randy?" affair () shows that he's part of the problem in Ottawa not part of the solution?
“…after it emerged that Birju Dattani posted links on social media to articles comparing Israelis to Nazis, and Palestinians to Jews incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto.”
Here's a disquieting thought: How many people who followed the convoy issue at the time & are now following the inquiry are satisfied that they were given a reliable picture by the legacy media of what was happening in the streets & the corridors of power while it was happening?
It's not sloth or cluelessness, though both are present. It's that these people hold the same kind of beliefs and attitudes as the people doing the vetting.
Imagine if 150 Muslim parents had to accompany one kid to school. The PM would be in high dudgeon. But somehow Jews are expected to treat it as a remarkable achievement instead of a basic right that the kid wasn't pounded out again by um uh let's not go there.
This entire community just walked a Jewish boy to school — 150 people to protect him.
The little guy is REPEATEDLY attacked by schoolmates.
Gets death threats Hamas style.
Kids throw rocks at him.
Being a Jewish kid is a huge safety risk in Canada.
For any Canadians watching what's going on in NYC I should probably explain that the US is a country where scandalous conduct gets investigated and has consequences. I know it sounds crazy, but we might want to try it.
You're the victim of misinformation.
@acoyne
said so. Everyone on his side relies on facts. Everyone who disagrees is crazy. There was a coup. & Nazis. There still is an emergency. These are facts. Facts facts facts!!!
Any questions & we freeze your bank account. Just in case.
This story quotes one protestor/university TA who plans to make it "part of their credit" for students to attend a blockade.
If the university's cool with that plan it's another striking instance of a revolt of the elites.
Imagine someone making students attend a counter-protest.
IS TRUDEAU WORSE THAN A USEFUL IDIOT?
In my latest Loonie Politics column I can no longer avoid asking a question that once seemed crazy: Is the Prime Minister of Canada actively assisting powers hostile to this country, from ideological or personal motives?
It's not a sacrifice unless it's voluntary. They had these things taken away from them through state compulsion. Perhaps wisely, perhaps not. But let's call things what they are.
We don't thank teenagers enough for the sacrifices they've made during this pandemic. They've given up proms, graduations, school sports, clubs and social lives, all to save seniors they've mostly never met. By
@calphonso
The other question here is whether anyone, one single person, in the Liberal caucus feels that they cannot be part of this cover-up any longer? Even on practical grounds I'd take it. But how about on moral grounds? Anyone? One single MP in whom the public placed their trust?
The question now is: who are/were these MPs and senators who are/were working for China and India? And who knew that they were — if CSIS knew, so presumably did others — and did nothing about it?
#BREAKING
: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized on behalf of Canada after a veteran of Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces was included in a parliamentary event last week honouring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Wow. This story just keeps on giving. And remember, our government's priority wasn't preventing the espionage, it was preventing Canadians from finding out about it.
I'm willing to give it a try. I think people who immigrated to Canada and started yelling genocidal slogans should go back where they came from instead of trying to turn our country into a similar mess.
Let me get this straight. You get $400 grand a year to wield unchecked power, boss us about & view yourself as social justice incarnate & it's not nearly enough. Fine. Quit. I'll take the job.
Incredible how whiny the entitled are.
via
@nationalpost
If my homeland is in Europe yours is in Asia so you have no right to be here either. And if you think none of your ancestors ever violently displaced someone else you are living on Fantasy Island not Turtle Island.
@fractureproof
@thejohnrobson
Your homeland is in Europe. You have no right to tell people where to go. You should be grateful that you’ve been welcomed into our First Nations homelands. Canada has no legitimate claim to land, resources or sovereignty btw. If you don’t like it you can always leave.
I notice that our Prime Minister is very free with advice to Israel on what it should not do to ensure its security. But he has little to say on what it should do. (And given his record on our security, it's hardly surprising.)
"The single biggest item the government needs more money for is an extra $3.2 billion to service the national debt." So the feds are borrowing more because they borrowed too much. Gee. I wonder how this one ends.
Do not, under any circumstances, vote for an MP who could release those names, or get them released, but refuses to do so. Regardless of party or program.
The government knows the names of the MPs who apparently were working with foreign governments, spying on other MPs, aligning with China, India, Iran and others.
Voters MUST know their names. Anything else is unacceptable.
Read & RT if you agree
#cdnpoli
How do you actually know any of that stuff? It could be true. But if you're a journalist not a government shill, you'd be worrying about and looking into possible abuses of power more eagerly than at possible errors by those not in power.
Wouldn't you?
It’s not retroactive. No assets were seized. It did not target small donors. The RCMP is already working to unfreeze the few accounts it did freeze because the point of the freezing has passed now that the occupation has ended.
Just stop.
The 43rd time someone threatens to break up with you, and you can't remember the last time they said anything nice, it just might be the moment for "Au revoir et bonne chance".
The people in charge in Canada hate Canada. They'll celebrate anything and everything unrelated to our heritage, but Canada Day? Yuck. (And don't even mention Dominion Day.)
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.
Those who support it should do likewise. How much per tonne will be enough for the emissions reductions you say are necessary and how do we get other countries to do it too? If you can't or won't say, you don't have a plan either, just an attitude.
SHIP OF FOOLS
In my latest Loonie Politics column I call sending an underarmed Arctic patrol vessel to Cuba to greet a Russian flotilla, then babbling a shifting set of unconvincing explanations, another example of the plague of incompetence engulfing us.
However did Maclean's get so tritely Laurentian woke? They just emailed me "Canadians don’t like to talk about private medicine. The whole idea violates a central aspect of our national mythology and a point of great pride: public health care for all."
Is it 1968 out there?
My city councillor just announced he has COVID. Has there ever before in history been a vaccine where the more often you took it (and praised it) the more likely you were to get the disease?
How we laugh at medicine in ages past.
In my latest National Post column I say the tendency of Western feminists to side with Hamas, even denying systematic rape during the Oct. 7 attack, reveals starkly a very dark side to progressive ideology that boasts of love but screams hate.
"avg elementary-school teacher salary in 2021–22 was $94,100... avg 2nd-school teacher made $96,600.... top pay for Ontario teachers, just under $102,000, is the highest in Canada."
So they squeeze even more from taxpayers who make less. It's how much they care... about
Whatever his failings, Neville Chamberlain did not appease Hitler for fear of alienating German voters in his riding... nor would he ever have contemplated doing so. And BTW Mulcair confirms that Joly is, precisely as Poilievre charged, deliberately pandering to terrorists.
The sad and scary thing is that Mulcair tosses this in part-way through what is mostly an attack on Poilievre for going after Joly for being soft on terrorism. You'd think the latter would be what really upset him.