Commentary The disintegration continues. The latest revelation about the Trudeau Liberals’ blindness to Chinese election meddling is that then-public safety and emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair took months to grant CSIS a warrant to monitor election activities by former Ontario cabinet minister infamous for his links to communist China. And they still have no idea…
John Robson: Expect More CSIS Leaks Given Blair’s Inadequate Response to Latest Beijing Interference Allegations
How Much More Can a Security Service Do for Canada?
Commentary The Old Testament is full of stories of prophets who tried to warn their populations of impending disasters. Jeremiah is a good example. All these accounts tend to follow a pattern: prophet sees something about to happen, tells local leadership about it, is criticized and jailed/punished for doing so, and sees his warnings shunted…
Feds Don’t Know How Many Public Servants Are Working Remotely: Budget Officer
The federal government does not know how many employees are working remotely from home, according to Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux. On May 2, Giroux testified before the Senate national finance committee, soon after the government and roughly 120,000 workers represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reached a tentative agreement to end…
Details of $13 Billion Volkswagen Subsidy ‘Not Public’: Industry Canada Director
Canadians will not find out details about the multi-billion-dollar subsidy promised to Volkswagen Canada for a battery plant in Ontario until after the money goes to the European automaker. The Senate national finance committee was told April 25 that the Department of Industry would not discuss the $13 billion subsidy for the St. Thomas, Ontario,…
John Robson: Increasing Government Intervention in Economy Won’t Fix Cost-of-Living Crisis
September 20, 2022
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Commentary Whatever is to be done about Canada’s economic problems? Actually, you don’t need to worry because (a) we don’t have any problems given the wisdom and compassion of those in charge, and (b) they just fixed those problems with more of what caused them. If you follow politics closely, including its rhetorical aspect, then…
Proposed Reforms for RCMP Panned by Professor, Former Mounties
A stronger role for the RCMP’s management advisory board, as suggested by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, will do little to solve its fundamental problems, say an Ottawa criminology professor and some retired Mounties. Mendicino said in early June that his department was looking into “how best to strengthen the oversight role of the RCMP’s…
Political Interference Plaguing RCMP, Say Retired Canadian Mounties
Some retired RCMP officers say political interference has long been a problem for the force and that the latest scandal involving Commissioner Brenda Lucki is only one indication. Lucki is alleged to have pressured the Nova Scotia regional RCMP division to release information to the media about the types of firearms used in the April…
No Back Pay for Civil Servants on Unpaid Leave for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine, Say Feds
Civil servants who refused vaccination for COVID-19 will not be compensated for months of unpaid leave, the federal government has said. On June 14, the government announced it would suspend its vaccine requirements for travel and federal workplaces but would reinstate them later if necessary. According to the new rules, unvaccinated RCMP members and civil…
‘A Kind of Newspeak’: ‘Modern Supply-Side’ Budget Downplays High Costs of New Spending, Say Experts
News Analysis Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland classified her budget as “modern supply-side economics,” but its greater reliance on government spending represents a new twist on the concept, some experts say. In her April 7 budget speech, Freeland said that “housing and immigration and skills and child care” are not only social policies, but “just…
Davos Patricians Want Your Property, Your Country, and Your Freedom
Commentary In June of 2020, some four months into the calamity created by the CCP engineered COVID-19 pandemic, readers may recall that a virtual meeting of the “World Economic Forum,” attended by a fashionable cohort of Davos luminaries, revealed a cunning plan to remake the world order. After the 2020 meeting, World Economic Forum Chairman…
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