Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday taunted New Democrats to dissolve the minority 44th Parliament and hold a fall election. Poilievre accused NDP leader Jagmeet Singh of prolonging the current session just to qualify for an MP’s pension: "Put the people ahead of your pension."
Employers should not rely on migrant labour as a business model, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday. Cabinet is restoring 2014 regulations introduced by then-Employment Minister Jason Kenney that limit foreign workers to 10 percent of payroll: "If you as a business think you need more we have some real concerns about your business model."
The price of electric cars would have to plunge by a third to meet Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s sales mandate, the Budget Office said yesterday. Guilbeault has directed that electrics account for 60 percent of new passenger vehicle sales by the end of the decade: "The relative ownership cost of battery electric vehicles would need to decrease by 31 percent."
The Supreme Court yesterday brought an abrupt end to years of litigation against vaccine mandates. Judges declined to hear legal arguments from People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier and other plaintiffs who called the cabinet orders unconstitutional: 'Canadians had a right to know whether the government acted lawfully.'
Blacklock’s coverage of alleged 2021 voting irregularities is stoking anti-Asian racism, says Liberal MP Leah Taylor Roy (Aurora-Oak Ridges, Ont.). The MP did not comment directly on a China inquiry affidavit alleging Communist Party agents were hired as poll workers in her riding: "I like all my colleagues take the issue of foreign interference extremely seriously."
Police six years ago were unaware of a torture video allegedly linking a Canadian terror suspect to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc yesterday told the Commons public safety committee. “The existence of that video or the information you recounted to the committee now was not available,” said LeBlanc.
MPs yesterday expressed anger and incredulity after officialdom defended security screening of two terror suspects. The Canada Border Services Agency said it was “concerned these two individuals got through” but defended its system as “robust.”
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon yesterday said his order forcing locked-out Teamster rail workers into binding arbitration was “in the best interests of millions of unionized workers.” Speaking at a union convention in Winnipeg, MacKinnon said he remains a friend of labour and considered his appointment as Minister “a fun job.”
The British Columbia Court of Appeal yesterday upheld an order that Canadian National Railway pay $16.2 million for causing a 2015 forest fire. The province’s Wildfire Act allows damages against corporations found responsible: "CN admits as much."
The Department of Foreign Affairs’ New York realtor yesterday testified an existing Park Avenue diplomatic residence was a wonderful penthouse that remains “move-in ready.” The department had cited a need for renovations as justification for buying a new $8.8 million Central Park condo for Consul Tom Clark: “It’s just very interesting to me that this residence was not good enough."
Supporters of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest outside Parliament included current and former Mounties, says a newly-disclosed RCMP memo. The document said then-Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to find Convoy sympathizers within the force: "Past and current members participated in or potentially supported the protests."
Canada was “not as prepared as it could have been” for the pandemic, says a Public Health Agency report. The first-ever admission of failure followed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s boast that Canada was among the best prepared nations on earth: "The Public Health Agency was not as prepared as it could have been."
Taxpayers can wait up to four hours to speak to a Canada Revenue agent, says in-house federal research. The Revenue Agency earlier acknowledged taxpayers who prefer email will wait an average 57 days for a reply: "Not only is the wait time itself annoying but it can also amplify dissatisfaction if a subsequent part of the call does not go well."
A Kenyan phone company that received millions from Canadian taxpayers lost more money again last year, new financial records show. A federal agency bought $43.4 million worth of shares in M-Kopa Holdings Ltd. of Nairobi in the name of international development: 'These are good quality jobs in East Africa.'
Liberal MP Leah Taylor Roy (Aurora-Oak Ridges, Ont.) yesterday had no comment on an affidavit alleging Communist Party agents were hired as Elections Canada poll workers in her riding in the 2021 campaign. Taylor Roy was honoured as a "new local star" at a Chinese Canadian banquet nine days before the election was called: "The name that was given to her is Li Ya Tai Le which has a combined meaning of ‘everything goes smoothly and well.'"
