Justin Trudeau has been Canada’s Prime Minister for eight years and with the NDP’s adoring homage we may never see the end of him. And what have we gained with his rule. Scandal after scandal after scandal. high food costs, high housing costs, high transportation costs, economic hardships, attacks on civil rights, government dictatorial over-reach, and a climate change regime that is at the same time extreme and ineffective. But first let’s look at the scandals.
Scandals
- SNC-Lavalin Affair (2019): Allegations that high-ranking officials within the Liberal government, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, attempted to interfere in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec-based engineering company facing corruption charges. The allegations against SNC-Lavalin pertained to activities in Libya from 2001-2011. The impugned division, SNC-Lavalin Construction, is alleged to have paid $127 million to two shell companies, according to an agreed statement. Approximately $47.7 million of this money was then used to reward Saadi Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, for helping SNC-Lavalin secure lucrative construction contracts in Libya.The controversy revolved around potential political pressure to offer the company a deferred prosecution agreement instead of going to trial. Mr Trudeau was accused of pressuring his former AG, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to ignore Lavalin’s crimes and his staff spent months trying to convince her that taking the company to trial would cost Canadians jobs, and their party votes. She also said she was subject to “veiled threats”, which she believes were made good when she was shuffled out of her department.
- Cash-for-Access Fundraisers (2016): During the early years of the Liberal government, it was revealed that some Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers were attending exclusive fundraising events where wealthy individuals and corporations paid high fees for access to government officials. Critics argued that this gave special access and potentially influenced policy decisions. Attendees at these events, including attendees with connections to the Communist Party(CCP), would pay up to $1,525 per ticket to meet Trudeau. In response, the Liberal Party of Canada indicated that all party fundraising complied with Elections Canada rules and regulations.[5]Although such cash-for-access events were reported as appearing to violate Trudeau’s “Open and Accountable Government” rules about lobbying and fundraising,[6] Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson interviewed Trudeau and determined that no rules were broken. There was no formal report.
- The.Aga Khan Vacation (2017): Prime Minister Trudeau faced scrutiny for his family’s vacation to the private island of the Aga Khan, a billionaire and philanthropist, which violated ethics guidelines for accepting gifts from friends. The opposition accused Trudeau of a conflict of interest, as the Aga Khan’s foundation had dealings with the Canadian government. Trudeau was found guilty of violating sections 5,11,12, and 21[1] of the Federal Conflict of Interest Act[1] by accepting private-island vacations, gifts, and flights from the Aga Khan, a philanthropist and spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili religion. This was deemed significant as the Aga Khan Foundation, a registered lobby, had received over $50 million of federal funding in 2016. Justin Trudeau adopted the position that he and the Aga Khan were close friends, and the trips were of a personal nature. This was ostensibly supported by a close relationship between Trudeau’s father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and the Aga Khan. Furthermore in 1983, when Justin Trudeau was twelve years old, their two families had undertaken a vacation together to Greece. This is the same defence as now being used in the David Johnson Affair and by Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and it still stinks. ” I’m rich and I have rich friends – Rules don’t apply to us. We’re just doing what the very rich do. Nothing to see here.”
- WE Charity Scandal (2020): The federal government’s decision to award a multi-million-dollar contract to WE Charity, an organization with close ties to the Trudeau family, caused an uproar. Critics accused the government of conflict of interest, nepotism, and favoritism. The contract was eventually canceled after widespread backlash. The scandal took place in Canada in 2020 regarding the awarding of a federal contract to WE Charity to administer the $912 million Canada Student Service Grant program (CSSG). The controversy arose when it was revealed that the WE charity had previously paid close family of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appear at its events, Despite Trudeau making claims to the contrary, Craig Kielburger of WE, confirmed at a parliamentary committee that, WE Charity paid approximately $425,000 to Trudeau’s family
- Norman Affair (2019): Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, formerly the second-highest-ranking officer in the Canadian military, faced charges of breach of trust related to the alleged leaking of classified information. The case was eventually dropped, but it raised questions about political interference and the handling of the situation by the Liberal government. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, who had been suspended from military duty during his legal battle, had been accused of leaking confidential cabinet information about a multi-million dollar government contract to convert a civilian cargo ship into a military supply vessel. The case was dropped, probably because slated to go to court in August, likely would have run through the fall federal election, and would have prompted accusations of political interference at the hands of the Liberal government. MV Asterix, (The ship Admiral Norman got built), is now fully integrated into the Royal Canadian Navy’s fleet. Just months after being delivered to the military in early 2018, it was at sea supporting RCN and allied operations. The RCN has come to rely so much on Asterix – now its only supply vessel – that the service increased the days the ship was required almost immediately. And several months ago the RCN and Public Services and Procurement Canada announced it would extend the navy’s use of Asterix until 2025. What wasn’t publicized is that for years federal bureaucrats and the Trudeau government, fought against the Asterix project ever coming to fruition.
- Arrive CAN After enormous criticism, PM says he’s asked Clerk of the Privy Council to investigate procurement practices related to ArriveCAN app. Trudeau made the remarks after a report by the Globe and Mail said that G.C. strategies subcontracted out $8.3 million of $9 million in federal contracts related to the app’s development to six outside companies. Trudeau was asked why the public service couldn’t hire those subcontractors or perform the work itself. The comments mark the second time in recent weeks the prime minister has deflected blame for contracting decisions to the public service.
- Procurement Canada -Sinclair Technologies – Last month, CBC News revealed that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) awarded Sinclair Technologies a contract worth $549,637 in 2021 to build and maintain a radio frequency (RF) filtering system for the RCMP. Sinclair has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017. The Chinese government owns about 10 per cent of Hytera through an investment fund.
- China Election Interference – In 2022 and 2023, Canadian media reported that the People’s Republic of China had made attempts to interfere in the 2019 Canadian federal election and 2021 Canadian federal election and threatened Canadian politicians. A CSIS report providing an overview of Chinese government foreign interference in Canada, ranging from investigating a Conservative MP’s relatives in China to harassing a mainland Chinese student in Canada who publicly supported Hong Kong’s democracy movement, warned that Beijing is the “foremost perpetrator” of foreign interference in Canada. Its agents are unconcerned about repercussions, the report says, because of the lack of obstacles such as a foreign-influence registry of the kind established in the United States and Australia. In May 2023, Senior members in Cabinet claimed that they were not given access to the report produced by the agency’s Intelligence Assessment Branch and dated July 20, 2021, several weeks before the federal election campaign got under way. The assessment is presented as a “baseline for understanding the intent, motives and scope” of Beijing’s foreign interference in Canada. The report lists several examples of Chinese influence operations aimed at the opposition Conservative Party. The CSIS report said China sees Canada as a key target as it’s membership in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, which also includes the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and, because the country has a “robust reputation that can be used or co-opted to help legitimize [Chinese Communist] Party interests. Against the wishes of all other government parties, the liberal Government, on March 15, 2023, appointed the Right Honourable David Johnston, a personal friend of Justin Trudeau and a member of the Trudeau Foundation, to act as an Independent Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference, a new role created as part of a suite of measures to help combat foreign interference. On May 23, 2023, Mr. Johnston provided his interim report mirroring the Liberal stance on the subject, and rejecting the Parliamentary Inquiry demanded by the opposition parties. To date, no inquiry has been planned.
- ArriveCAN – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday it was “illogical and inefficient” for the public service to give millions of dollars in contracts to a two-person firm that subcontracted out its work on the ArriveCAN app. Trudeau said he has asked Canada’s top bureaucrat to probe the matter. This , after the Liberal government gave a contract worth $9 million dollars to GC Strategies, a two person company, to create the Arrive CAN system. GC Strategies then promptly subcontracted out $8.3 million of the $9 million to six outside companies. Trudeau was asked why the public service couldn’t hire those subcontractors or perform the work itself. “That’s exactly the question that I just asked the public service,” he said. In other words “No-one told me”. The comments mark the second time in recent weeks the prime minister has deflected blame for contracting decisions to the public service.” Note also that, while Sinclair is based in Ontario, its parent company, Norsat International, is owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera.
- Bernardo Transfer – on June 2, 2023 it was revealed that notorious child killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo had been transferred from Millhaven maximum-security prison. . to La Macaza Institution, a medium-security prison in La Macaza, Que. Bernardo, with his wife Karla Homolka, abducted, sexually tortured and murdered three school-aged girls, Leslie Mahaffy, Kristen French and Homolka’s younger sister, Tammy, in St. Catharines, Ont. between 1990 and 1992. Bernardo also committed a significant number of rapes in and around Scarborough, Ontario between 1987 and 1990. Most people, based on the heinous nature of his crimes, assumed Bernardo would rot in Kingston Penitentiary, for the remainder of his life. The official reason for his controversial transfer to La Macaza has not been made public, but, the victims’ families, through their lawyers, expressed understandable frustration, Many Canadians were furious, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was angry, correctly describing Bernardo as “nothing but a scumbag” and wanting to get to the bottom of the matter. On June 13,2023, it was reported that staff in Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s office knew in March that serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo would be transferred to a medium-security prison,” (CBC’s Ashley BurkeCBC’s ), but somehow neglected to inform the Minister until after the event. If the “I wasn’t told” story sounds familiar, refer back to the China interference story. Apparently, Mendicino was among the last to know about the transfer, along with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whose staff also kept him in the dark. Yet no one in either Minister Mendicino’s office or the office of the Prime Minister has been fired for their incompetence. Unless of course, both Mendicino and Trudeau, were aware all along, and thought that the Canadian people were too stupid to find out, or, are such sheep that they would be too naive to care.
10 Major Scandals in 8 years with the reoccurring themes of Chinese Government involvement, personal attacks on individuals, and groups, who don’t bow down to Trudeau’s wishes. The “No-one told me” excuse is prominent when they get caught. The Chinese string of involvement is questionable, since the Liberal leader said in 2013, “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because of their basic dictatorship“. Is Justin Trudeau , behind the scenes, may be following the old family tradition of close Canada-China relations. Dad, The first communist leaning Trudeau, travelled to China in 1949 during the communist revolution and returned again in 1960, prior to his 1968 election as Prime Minister. He was a strong proponent of Canada-China relations.
On Transparency- In Montreal on Day 10 of the 2015 election campaign. Trudeau said, “We will make information more accessible by requiring transparency to be a fundamental principle across the federal government,” Love of China, and official denial of responsibility. If this sounds familiar it isn’t. Our neighbours to the south have a past President who loves Russia, not China, but the denial of responsibility is exactly the same. Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, both believe that their people are stupid and will eagerly swallow there lies.
Food Costs and other legacies from 8 years of Trudeau.
Canada’s Food Price Report for 2023, which was released in December 2022, is estimating price increases that will mean an average Canadian family of four will spend around $16,288 this year on food. A jump of $1,065 compared to the yearly cost of food observed in 2022. The federal carbon tax, does affect food prices by raising the costs of transportation, farm operations and other “inputs” integral to our food system. According to one study, at $50 per tonne (the current minimum level set by the federal government), the carbon tax would increase food prices by 3 per cent, or 1/3 of the observed increase. The decreased strength of the Canadian dollar and the Ukrainian War have also contributed.
Housing Costs –
From: Douglas Todd: Why China’s woes matter to Canada | Vancouver Sun
Canadian polls show young adults are slowly figuring out that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite his sympathetic rhetoric, is working against their dream of buying a first home. Top bankers, retired civil servants, housing analysts, former property developers and housing activists are now declaring the Liberals are directly causing house-price inflation. The Bank of Canada began more than a year ago to raise trendsetting interest rates to slow down the inflation caused by unprecedented Liberal spending. Federal Liberals are doing everything they can to make prices higher, according to Derek Holt of Scotiabank, and this economist is far from alone. Liberals, who have overseen the doubling of Canadian house prices since they came to power eight years ago — are still jacking up the cost of a home.
In 2019 Trudeau first announced a tax on homes owned by foreign buyers of residential properties. In Jan. 2023, the prime minister scrambled together a mishmash of legislation to fulfill his promise. But his alleged two-year ban on foreign buyers came with gaping loopholes, for foreign students, for buyers of ill-defined “recreational” properties, commercial investors or foreign nationals on work visas. Polls show that China’s most wealthy people continue to choose Canada as their favourite migration destination and are the beneficiaries of these loopholes. Satellite owners, well-off people, who buy property in Canada even while earning more than 50 per cent of their income outside the country, add to the country’s exceedingly large pool of house investors.
And finally immigration. Don Wright, an economist, said Trudeau’s government routinely raises the “almost entirely fallacious” argument that Canada has a labour shortage, in order to justify welcoming a record 438,000 new permanent residents in 2022, while adding another 680,000 non-permanent residents, and other guest workers. The premier of BC praised Wright for spelling out the problem so clearly, remarking, “He’s absolutely right.”
Transportation Costs – From Joe Chidley • Postmedia Content Works – National Post.
In Vancouver and Toronto, the price of a litre of unleaded gasoline has risen by nearly 60 per cent since April 2020. In Calgary, it has practically doubled. By 2030, when the federal carbon price maxes out at $170 a tonne, Canadians will be paying around 40 cents of carbon tax for every litre of gasoline they pump. In short, transportation will be getting more expensive for Canadians in the not-so-roaring 2020s, which is precisely the point of the carbon taxation. But, if consumers are fretting about paying more at the pump these days, they might spare a moment to consider how Canada’s 300,000-plus truck drivers feel. A typical long-haul truck can put in 230,000 km a year (compared with the average passenger vehicle drive of 15,000 km a year), which at average fuel efficiencies translates into 88,000 litres of diesel annually. At 10.7 cents a litre, the carbon tax on diesel is higher than on gasoline and will comprise about $9,500 in operating costs per truck this year; next year, when the carbon tax will go up again, the carbon price tag could hit nearly $12,000 per truck. In fact, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimates the trucking industry will be paying nearly $3.2 billion in carbon charges in 2022, with that amount rising every year through 2030. Truckers will not simply absorb the added costs that come with the carbon tax. Instead, they will pass the tax along to consumers, who will pay higher prices for food, clothing, appliances — whatever they buy that needs to be trucked over long distances, which means just about everything.
Economy
Food costs more. People are using food banks more, people can’t afford a home, and people can’t commute. Sure Liberal supporting urbanites can take mass transit or bicycle to work but most of Canada is rural. There are no subways, or rapid transit from Sudbury to North Bay, or Regina to Saskatoon. OK! buy an electric car they say, but electric cars aren’t very efficient for rural Canadians and they don’t work so well in Canada’s at minus 40C. Canada’s economy has to work for everyone. Those in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver and the Liberal government who caters to them would be wise to remember that their food and everything else that they need for survival comes from rural Canada, and very often by truck.
Civil Liberty
Trucker Convoy – From – Ruthie Blum, a Tel Aviv-based columnist and commentator – Jewish News Syndicate, Unmasking Trudeau’s lies and Steve Scherer Reuters Staff – Canada resists pressure to drop vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers
During a significant decrease in COVID numbers, Trudeau and his gang responded by coming up with yet another rule, requiring truckers returning from the United States to be vaccinated or quarantine for two weeks. Aside from the fact that the majority of the “Freedom Convoy” participants were indeed vaccinated, there’s absolutely no logic to creating such a regulation for long-distance drivers. Truckers toil solo, while delivering and collecting the goods that we all rely on. The risk of these drivers infecting huge segments of the population was remote and the government knew it, but Trudeau pushed ahead with a vaccine mandate for international truckers despite increasing pressure from critics who said it would exacerbate a current driver shortages and drive up the price of goods, mostly food, imported from the United States. Canada would require all truckers entering from the United States to show proof of vaccination as part of its fight against COVID-19. Unvaccinated truck drivers who were not Canadian would be turned back at the border starting on Jan. 15. That could force some 16,000, or 10%, of cross-border drivers off the roads, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimated. For 20 months, when the border was closed, trucks crossed the border freely “because they were considered essential to keep supply chains flowing”. We don’t anticipate significant disruptions or shortages for Canadians,” a source said. “Everyone has been talking about inflation. And this is just going to continue to fuel that,” said Steve Bamford, chief executive of Bamford Produce, an importer and exporter of fresh fruit and vegetables based in Ontario. The cost of bringing a truckload of fruit and vegetables from California and Arizona doubled during the pandemic due to the existing driver shortage, Bamford said, “We’re going to see prices skyrocket for groceries, for everything, if we see tens of thousands of truckers unemployed,” Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said on Thursday, adding there could be “other reasonable accommodations” like regular testing.
Organizers of the protest emphasized that extremist voices do not reflect the position of the protesters. “As you know, we are on our way to Ottawa to hold a peaceful protest,” says the organizer Tamara Lich in a video on the group’s Facebook page. “I just want to put it out there, that nobody in this convoy will be inciting violence or uttering threats. To which, the Prime Minister blasted a convoy of truckers protesting vaccine mandates as showing “disrespect to science” and championing “hate, abuse and racism”. Saying that the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa are holding unacceptable views that do not represent the views of (ME) – Canadians.
on Monday, February 14, 2022 Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history to give the federal government temporary powers “It is no longer a lawful protest, but a disagreement over government policy. It is now an illegal occupation.” Justice Rouleau, a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, who was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made 56 recommendations to better manage future large-scale protests — including a call for major reforms to how police work. at these types of events. But his main conclusion was that the federal government met the legal threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act. Critics have said it was a heavy-handed approach to a protest and an infringement on fundamental rights, but Rouleau concluded “that the very high threshold for invocation was met.” He said, “cabinet was not obliged to adhere to the definition of a national security threat in the CSIS Act“, ignoring both evidence and claims made by some experts and convoy lawyers in their presentations.
Hand Guns to hunting rifles – How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns – Evan Dyer · CBC News
There are Advocates, both for and against the federal government’s firearms bill. The proposed law, would further restrict legal access to handguns in Canada and create systems to flag individuals who may pose a risk to themselves or others. In an obvious effort to appease the Liberal’s urban voter block, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it “some of the strongest measures in Canadian history to keep guns out of our communities and build a safer future for everyone.” Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino also said the legislation “will help to reduce gun violence and keep Canadians safe.” Even though the Bill did very little to address gang crime in cities or illegal smuggling of handguns across the U.S. border. A key measure in Bill C-21 is a “freeze” on the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns in Canada, which unfairly targeted legitimate competitive shooters including Canada’s Olympic Athletes. The bill also made minor increases to maximum penalties for firearm-related offences such as smuggling, made it an offence to alter a cartridge magazine beyond its lawful capacity and prohibited certain replica firearms that closely resemble real guns. The Bill included plans to move forward on its firearm buy-back program, announced in 2020, when more than 1,500 models and variants of so-called “assault-style” firearms (. an undefined and undefinable term,) were banned. The term “assault-style” or “assault weapon” is a wholly political term, which usually refers to a semi-automatic weapon. that the government has determined is scary – looking.
But what shows the dishonesty and insincerity of the Liberal party, was the changes to Bill C-21 that were tacked on by Liberal MP Paul Chiang after it had already passed it’s second reading in the house.
The Trudeau government shows it’s true agenda – (A SOCIALIST UTOPIA as defined by them)
The amendment added long guns to the banned list in four different ways. First, it added a clause that would effectively ban any rifle or shotgun that COULD potentially accept a magazine with more than five rounds, whether or not it actually has such a magazine or not. Critics say that includes many rifles designed for hunters, Many firearms designed and built 40 or more years ago could theoretically be modified. The fact that most of these firearms have no record of ever being involved in any crime is irrelevant to the Liberal party. The list also names guns that fall afoul of two rules nominally intended to ban powerful military weapons such as .50-calibre sniper rifles and mortars. Lastly, the amendment prohibits, by name, a large number of semi-automatic firearms that do not even have detachable magazines and don’t meet the government’s own definition of an “assault-style firearm,” or infringe other rules, but which the government wants to ban anyway.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino insisted, however, that hunters are not being targeted ?? : ) : ). Paul Chiang, Author of the amendment was suddenly travelling and unavailable.
A new streaming bill
Bill C-11, also known as the Online Streaming Act, creates a framework to regulate digital streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify, and would require them to contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian content. The bill passed its third reading in the Senate last month with 26 amendments. It will be up to the House of Commons to decide which of those changes to keep before passing the bill into law..
Those used to gorging themselves at the government trough, including the Writers Guild of Canada and Canadian Media Producers Association, are generally supportive of the bill, but have some concerns that its language could create a two-tiered system that would mean Canadian broadcasters are being held to higher standards than foreign streamers. Meanwhile, Canadian content creators on sites like YouTube and TikTok are concerned about how the bill will impact them.
Bill C-11 doesn’t define what counts as Canadian content on the internet, or say how much Canadian content a foreign streaming service needs to have. That task would fall to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), an independent organization that regulates and supervises Canada’s broadcasting system.
The concern is that the CRTC rules would favour Canada’s large communication networks, (CBC, CTV) and restrict independent Canadian content providers. Of course, no one would accuse the Liberal government of favouring it’s loyal supporters, especially to ensure that Canadians hear only what the Liberals want them to hear- Convoy demonstrators are championing “hate, abuse and racism”., “Nearly all hunting rifles will be outlawed, but hunters are not being targeted”, ” Believe us, that No one told us about Chinese interference, The CBC of course, is an independent observer of Liberal government activities, receiving, $1.2 billion annually from the federal government for their efforts. CTV and other outlets receive roughly $366 million annually for theirs.
Fighting Climate Change – from – Jasmine Moulton – Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation
Fighting climate change with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is like fighting COVID-19 with essential oils. It simply doesn’t work. EXAMPLE – British Columbia has the highest carbon tax rate in Canada, yet its emissions have increased by seven per cent since it got the tax. Emissions went from 63.4 million tonnes in 2007, the year before the B.C. carbon tax was introduced, up to 67.9 million tonnes of emissions in 2018, the last year of available data. While Ontario reduced its emissions by 19 per cent from 2005 to 2018 without a carbon tax, and was already ahead of schedule to reach Trudeau’s emissions reduction target the year he introduced the tax.
Ontario never needed a carbon tax to meet Trudeau’s environmental goals, but his Liberal government chose to ignore the emissions evidence and impose his tax anyway.
Internal documents from Environment Canada state the price of a ton of emissions would need to reach up to $300 per tonne with a tax of 67 cents per litre of gasoline in order to meet the government’s 2030 target. Two clear reasons for not invoking a carbon tax,
First, people can’t afford a soaring carbon tax, especially in the midst of the current economic crisis, which is unarguably partially caused by the carbon tax, and secondly, any politician who is being intellectually honest will admit, climate change is a global issue that Canada’s carbon tax won’t resolve. if Canada were to halt all emissions today, it wouldn’t take long before China’s growing emissions made up the difference.
As Trudeau bluntly admitted in his own words, during an Oct. 20, 2018, interview in Montreal: “Even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, and the other countries didn’t, it wouldn’t make a big difference.”
Canada can play a leading role on the world stage to reduce emissions, but the answer is in smart energy use and trade deals, not big taxes on struggling families.
Convoy, Guns, Internet content,Arrive CAN
