NDP reversals on carbon taxes a pre-election gift to Poilievre
So according to David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, the best carbon tax in the world is bad for British Columbians.
Lorrie Goldstein
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High immigration policy undermining housing, healthcare and climate goals
It’s hard to know what the Trudeau government was thinking two years ago when it dramatically increased its immigration targets given the added pressure this has put on three issues it says are priorities — housing affordability, improving healthcare and reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Trump’s denunciation of green energy ‘scams’ a major headache for Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies could be thrown into chaos if former president Donald Trump wins the U.S. election on Nov. 5 and makes good on two things he promised in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.
Trudeau Liberals just playing for time
In an interview with Bloomberg News in which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland denied reports of a rift with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, amid speculation he wants to replace her with Mark Carney, she also indicated the Liberals’ strategy for winning next year’s election.
National caucus meeting won't fix what ails Liberals
Whenever the federal Liberals finally decide to hold a national caucus meeting, here is the problem confronting them about the government of their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau does the same things while expecting different results
The reason Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to say whether he’ll meet with his own caucus of MPs to discuss Liberal political fortunes is that he doesn’t have anything new to say to them.
Trudeau wrong choice to lead fight against foreign interference
Here’s the most alarming thing about Canada’s foreign interference crisis. It’s that our response to it is presided over by a prime minister who ignored years of warnings about how serious it was and then fought tooth and nail against holding a public inquiry into it, until he had no choice because of unrelenting political, public and media pressure.
A word in defence of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux and his staff are among the few independent, non-partisan sources of information that critically examine the cost of federal government policies.
Trudeau government keeps moving goalposts on climate targets
A major problem with evaluating the effectiveness of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s $200-billion climate change plan involving more than 100 government programs is that the government keeps retroactively changing the historical record of Canada’s annual industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Trudeau was Teflon, now he’s Velcro
The political trajectory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2024 can best be summed up as his transformation from a Teflon PM to a Velcro one.
Foreign interference goes far beyond federal elections
While the foreign interference inquiry headed by Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue appears to be doing credible work in investigating foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, it isn’t addressing the elephant in the room.
Trudeau wants us to know he feels his pain
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has a “crazy job” and he thinks about quitting all the time, but, “I couldn’t be the man I am and give up the fight at this point.”
The painful truth about Trudeau’s ‘rebranded’ carbon tax
It’s absurd that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals believe that rebranding their “climate action incentive payments” as “Canada carbon rebates” is what’s needed to fix their carbon tax.
Trudeau Liberals are barking mad
The Trudeau government wants you to know it’s mad as hell and it’s not going to take it anymore. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s, to put the term politely, “PO’d” with Bell Media for its “garbage decision” to lay off journalists.
The terrible costs of Canada’s dysfunctional immigration system
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That’s what happened to Lisa Loumakos, 55, of Mississauga. On Sept. 22, 2023, her mother, Stella Skarmoutsos, 77, died in Lisa’s home, where she had been living with her daughter and her now 15-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, since May 2021.
The Israel-Hamas war will end – the anti-Semitism won’t
Now that the evil of the world’s oldest form of hatred – anti-Semitism – has been on full display across Canada for months, what will happen when the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza is over?
The shameless hypocrisy of putting world’s only Jewish state on trial for genocide
At the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Israel is on trial for genocide and, once again, is being judged by standards expected of no other country on earth.
Liberal immigration policy sabotaging Liberal housing policy
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser’s year-end announcement in an interview with The Canadian Press that the Trudeau government will unveil a “renewed” housing plan in 2024 raises the question of what happened to all of its previous housing plans?
Trudeau’s green energy policy means more mining
One of the many ironies of the Trudeau government’s clean energy strategy is that it means dramatically increasing the number of mining operations in Canada and approving them far more quickly than in the past.
