Jul 18 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Thank god for the Canadian Senate. The Senate held up the Trudeau government’s obnoxious, anti-democratic Bill C-10 long enough that the legislation to regulate personal posts on the Internet failed to become law.
Jul 11 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Canadians don’t seem to like early elections, at least not those called just for the political advantage of a sitting government. I offer as exhibits David Peterson’s Liberals in Ontario in 1990 and Jim Prentice’s Tories in Alberta in 2015. In both cases, parties with strong majorities looked at the polls, thought they could increase […]
Jun 26 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Liberal government is suing the House of Commons and the Speaker to prevent MPs from getting their hands on documents pertaining to the firing of two scientists with connections to China from their jobs at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab. No one, not even the librarian of Parliament, can find an example of the cabinet […]
Jun 20 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — If former Green MP Jenica Atwin had tweeted the white supremacist slogan “the Jews will not replace us,” it’s a safe bet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not have welcomed her into the Liberal Party of Canada. But because hers was the more politically acceptable tactic of describing Israel as an apartheid state, she was […]
Jun 20 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — You can forgive yourself if you’ve never heard of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB); the largely useless, ultra-expensive federal government boondoggle set up by the Liberals to boost the economy by funding infrastructure projects – “green” projects preferred. Most people in the infrastructure industry have probably never heard of the CIB, or wish they hadn’t.
Jun 13 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Coal produces “unacceptable environmental effects.” Plastic is “toxic.” The oilsands should be “phased out” and pipelines aren’t worth fighting for (except, of course, for the ones that bring gasoline, propane and other fuels to Ontario and Quebec right before a federal election). With an announcement Friday that Ottawa was effectively proclaiming federal jurisdiction over all […]
Jun 6 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The federal government and Catholic church should have to surrender their residential school documents, at least to a judge who can then decide which are to be released to graves researchers, historians and the public.
May 23 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Public Health Agency of Canada (the very same outfit behind the federal government’s chaotic, often self-contradictory response to the pandemic) will not say whether Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were Canadian citizens when they worked at the agency’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg – a Level-4 biocontainment facility.
May 21 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — If Alberta tried to change the Constitution unilaterally, it would be laughed at. Or screamed at. If we wanted to end the unjust treatment we receive over equalization or claim pipelines could not be blocked by one province against another, the federal government would surely balk. And the CBC would line up a legion of […]
May 16 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Americans’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention (the well-known CDC) had a major conversion this week. It finally let the science of COVID (and not the politics) drive its decision on what vaccinated Americans can and cannot do once they’ve had their shots. According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people have a very low […]
May 13 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Let me begin with an admission: Jason Kenney and I have been friends for 30 years. He was a frequent dinner guest in our home before he became a senior federal cabinet minister and ceased having time for social functions. But I wouldn’t be much of a friend if I didn’t tell him the truth. […]
May 2 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Understand one thing: If the Liberals are able to pass Bill C-10 – an update of the Broadcasting Act – Canada will have the most-regulated Internet in the free world. “The plan is not for us to regulate all of the Internet,” Toronto Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin, told the Commons Heritage committee this week. Dabrusin […]
Apr 25 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — On Thursday, as part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s virtual eco-summit of international leaders, our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Canada to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 or 45% from 2005 levels by 2030. That’s up from the 30% cut Canada had been pledging. Are you as tingly as I am, fellow […]
Apr 16 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Not only is O’Toole embracing a carbon tax (although he doesn’t have the courage or honesty to call it that), he thinks those of us who oppose carbon taxes are dumb enough to be deceived by his sleight-of-language. Every time I hear federal Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole speak, I like him less and less. […]
Apr 11 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — This was a bad week for free speech in Canada. It has become clear that “progressive” opinion is lining up behind censorship of what Canadians can and cannot say on the Internet, including criticism of politicians and bureaucrats.