The federal government is broken — but you wouldn’t know it from following the summer adventures of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
There are now 2.7 million people waiting for Ottawa to process their immigration application
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It’s no secret that the prime minister loves photo-ops, but he usually manages to at least tangentially connect them to some sort of issue. War in Ukraine? Time for a heavily photographed European tour to distract from the Emergencies Act Fiasco in Ottawa, Just-in time (Phew!). Outrage over residential schools? Someone find him a teddy bear and a well-lit place to kneel or light a church on fire.
Part of the sensitivity around the issue is that it involves matters of faith, trust and betrayal that are inextricably bound up in the relationship between Indigenous Catholics and the institution of the church
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But his latest string of photo-ops don’t even bother with rhyme or reason as he tours the country seemingly at random, for no real purpose, doing basically nothing. One day he’s playing camp counsellor in the woods, the next he’s all smiles and no mask on a sightseeing train. Next thing you know, he’s picking cherries and chumming it up with fruit growers in British Columbia.
The prime minister isn't breaking the law, however, as his train wasn't federally regulated
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So far, no one’s been able to figure out quite why he’s doing this. He hasn’t used the trips to make any policy or funding announcements, wasn’t in town for fundraisers and the notion of a fall election seems absurd even by Liberal standards.
It’d be great if the media could ask him during one of his many photo-ops, but he’s forbidden journalists from posing questions he wouldn’t want anything to distract from his carefully curated tableaus, and reporters have a pesky habit of wanting to talk about things other than children’s stories and fruit. (????)
The Trudeau Liberals are failing to deliver even the most basic government services
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It’s becoming harder to find areas of government that aren’t in crisis than ones that are. Chaos and dysfunction are seemingly everywhere. The Trudeau Liberals are failing to deliver on even the most basic government services.
If it's not stranding Canadians abroad, it's confining innocent people to house arrest
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Ironically, it’s the same politicians and political staffers responsible for these failures who can’t seem to fathom why voters are losing trust in Canadian institutions. They view frustration with government “gatekeepers” as unfounded and dangerous, rather than the predictable result of their negligence and general apathy toward average Canadians.
If 40,000 Canadian farmers were protesting drastic new green measures, the leaders would probably be arrested and their tractors seized
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Canadians are frustrated that they cannot receive even basic government services in a timely manner, and that their vacation plans are being disrupted, after over two years of complying with coronavirus restrictions. But the Liberals can’t see that because they’re too busy patting themselves on the back for their supposed moral authority, and Trudeau doesn’t want to hear it while he tours the nation’s summer camps.
The NDP leader 'disses' Justin Trudeau almost daily, despite having agreed to keep the Liberals in power
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Then there’s Jagmeet Singh. Why does he not use his leverage to demand a cancellation of the carbon tax, better treatment for Alberta, a withdrawal of confidence unless boil-water advisories are finally lifted by a fixed and near date? Why not insist that Parliament return to its full, non-remote functioning in the fall, demand far greater resources for the auditor general, make a determined push for a real and immediate inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act, and accelerate the inquiry into the RCMP and the Nova Scotia mass shooting?
Canada today should be a key player in supplying the world with desperately needed oil and natural gas. After all, according to the federal government, Canada is the world’s fourth-largest producer and third-largest exporter of crude oil and fifth-largest producer and sixth-largest exporter of...
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