From the gun ban to taking a knee, why does the Trudeau government insist on pushing so much American rhetoric on Canadians?
Don’t we have enough of our own problems like the struggling oil and gas sector, economy and missing and murdered indigenous women to worry about?
True North’s Sam Eskenasi discusses why the Liberals do this, and whether or not the different outcomes are a result of disparity or discrimination.
Justin Trudeau’s dream of being a relevant statesman came crashing down on Wednesday afternoon.
After years, literally years, of intense lobbying and sucking up to the UN community, including to despots, tyrants and countries with questionable human rights records, Trudeau lost Canada’s bid for a United Nations Security Council temporary seat.
It wasn’t even close.
Under Trudeau’s leadership, Canada only secured only 108 votes, compared to Ireland’s 128 votes and Norway’s 130 votes.
Don’t get me wrong. The UN is a deeply corrupt organization, and it’s security council is a farce. Remember, Russia and China have veto power over any and all decisions. On balance, it’s good news that Canada isn’t getting further entrenched in a global body that legitimizes terrorist states and treats democracies and dictatorships the same.
But for Trudeau, this is devastating.
After all, he made winning a security council seat a priority. He coveted the seat, he was obsessed with obtaining it and he bet his international reputation on winning this vote.
Since Trudeau was first elected prime minister in 2015, he identified winning the seat as a major priority for his government, while making a habit of routinely telling international observers that “Canada is back.”
Trudeau’s Liberal Party has long been obsessed with the UN and specifically with Canada having a seat on the security council. In 2010, when the former government led by Conservative Stephen Harper was up for a seat, Liberal leader and once-respected foreign policy scholar Michael Ignatieff stated publicly that “Canada did not deserve to win” because of its conservative government.
When the Harper government lost, the Liberals celebrated and their friends in the media painted it like a complete repudiation of Harper’s prime ministership.
This time around, however, things are different. The media (aside from Postmedia) is barely covering the issue. And Trudeau, believe it or not, is basically blaming Harper for his loss, by suggesting that Canada should have started campaign for the seat much sooner, which would mean under the previous government.
The truth is, Trudeau failed, and he failed far worse than Harper did in 2010.
Under Harper’s watch, Canada got 114 votes on the first ballot and it took two rounds of voting for Canada to lose. Under Trudeau, Canada lost on the first ballot.
According to federal documents released in 2011, Harper spent under $1 million on his bid.
Trudeau has spent significantly more. According to a CBC report from April 2019, Trudeau had already spent $1.5 million on his vanity bid. My guess is that number has doubled in the past 14 months.
Last time around, the media made a huge deal about Harper losing. The Globe and Mail called it “humiliating” and a “great embarrassment” for Harper.
Not surprisingly, in 2020, journalists are downplaying this complete failure of what was supposed to be one of Trudeau’s signature achievement. During Trudeau’s media scrum the day after the vote, he was not asked a single question by the English media losing the seat.
While the media are busy covering for him, fair-minded observers know why Canada lost: the countless examples of Trudeau’s juvenile, superficial stunts on the world stage.
He danced in ethnic costumes for photo-ops in India and was snubbed by the Indian government.
He invited a convicted terrorist to a state dinner.
He was directly involved in the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
He dressed in blackface, a despicable and racist trope, and he did it multiple times.
He missed important trade meetings, and according to Australia’s former Prime Minister, he was “flaky” and “humiliated” other world leaders.
He was caught on a hot mic bashing President Trump, acting like a mean girl not a leader.
He pandered to the murderous Iranian regime, insulting Canadians, Iranian dissidents and our closest allies.
And he shamelessly uses every opportunity to virtue-signal.
It’s clear world leaders don’t take Trudeau seriously.
Canada’s isn’t back. Under Trudeau’s watch, Canada is irrelevant.
I just finished writing a column the other night about Michael Korenberg, the University of British Columbia (UBC) board of governors chair who was subjected to an online mobbing after the UBC Students Against Bigotry, an Antifa-affiliated campus group, disapproved of some of the tweets that Korenberg “liked.”
The UBC Students Against Bigotry (whose entire mandate is to deplatform non-leftists and get them fired) combed through Korenberg’s Twitter “likes” and found that he liked tweets by mainstream conservative pundits such as Dinesh D’Souza, Ann Coulter and Charlie Kirk. He also liked tweets that wished Donald Trump a happy birthday, and that celebrated Antifa being designated a domestic terrorist group. Most unforgivably, one of the tweets Korenberg liked was critical of Black Lives Matter, which is a group you can apparently never criticize.
Leftist media outlets and academics also joined forces to get Korenberg fired: an article in the Tyee called his social media likes “disturbing,” and UBC education professor Annette Henry opined that Korenberg’s likes reflected a “white supremacist capitalist [hetero]patriarchy” worldview, and “It’s unfortunate that we have people in such positions of authority at UBC.”
Henry couldn’t resist but add, “we still keep hiring white people where we have the opportunity not to.”
Another UBC professor Jennifer Berdahl told the UBC student newspaper that Korenberg should resign.
At the end of the column I had written, I said that I hoped Korenberg would stand up to the mob and that this debacle didn’t end in him issuing a grovelling apology and resignation letter.
But I had to toss out that column, as Korenberg has now released his looming resignation letter.
“Over the past two weeks some articles/statements that I ‘liked’ on Twitter supported regressive voices and took aim at thousands of brave individuals who are standing up against racism, discrimination and hatred,” he wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.
“I accept that in liking these social media posts, I damaged what I support and that I hurt people. I wholeheartedly apologize to them, particularly to the students, faculty and staff of UBC…I have stepped down because it is the right thing to do.”
And that really is all he is resigning for, folks: because he liked some tweets featuring basic, mainstream Republican talking points.
Korenberg was showing signs, early on, that he was the “apologize and resign” type. He told PressProgress that he regrets liking the tweets, giving the weak excuse that he liked them late at night.
But for the rest of us, if we are ever targeted by a mob of leftist campus activists and media outlets for something so minuscule as liking conservative-minded tweets, I hope we can muster up some courage and not be the type to “apologize and resign.”
What happened to that generosity of spirit? It apparently doesn’t apply anymore to the women and men in uniform who head out each day to keep us safe. It doesn’t seem to apply to those public figures who were swiftly de-platformed for wrongdoings that most us still don’t understand despite having read multiple detailed accounts. And it certainly didn’t apply to George Floyd, despite how he clearly told the officers on scene that he couldn’t breathe.
Handle with care. That’s what they told us. Sounds like we could do with hearing it again.
Recent events in the US are quickly escalating and calls to abolish the police are growing louder in Canada.
If the radical left gets their way, public safety and law and order will no longer be in the discussion.
True North’s Leo Knight says police officers in the US need to take back control of the streets and cities. Surrendering to the radical left will be disastrous to the whole of society.
Canadians farmers are speaking up after the Trudeau government raised the carbon tax and claimed it is not a significant cost to the farming industry.
In a recent statement, Grain Farmers of Ontario Chair Markus Haerle said the carbon tax has clearly become a significant expense for Ontarian farmers.
“The numbers are indisputable,” he said. “It is simple math. We have run the numbers and the cost averaged to $5.50 per acre on corn, which means that on a 1,000 acre farm the carbon tax bill would be more than $5,000.”
“That is really just the tip of the iceberg. We estimate that the cost of the carbon tax is $14 per acre if you take into account transportation, inputs, and more.”
Grain Farmers of Ontario recently started a campaign to raise awareness of the harm government policies, including the carbon tax, are causing the agriculture sector.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau recently claimed that the carbon tax was not a significant cost to farmers, saying that the average carbon tax bill per farm was $210-819.
On April 1 the Trudeau government increased the carbon tax by 50%.
Farmers have disputed the government’s calculation, saying that many farmers have already paid much more since the tax was introduced.
Commercial grain farmers across Canada claim they have paid over $10,000 in taxes since the carbon tax was first introduced. Some farmers have reported that they have been receiving bills of over $2,000 every month.
One of the biggest expenses for grain farmers is the cost of drying their grain. This process is necessary in order to keep the grain from expiring.
Members of the Western Wheat Growers Association have reported that the carbon tax is often over 30% of their total drying costs, with carbon tax adding $2000-8000 to their drying bills.
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association President Gunter Jochum is outraged that the government continues to ignore how much carbon tax farmers are forced to pay.
“It is shocking Minister Bibeau and her department have arrived at this decision. As the tax comes directly out of our bottom line, grain farmers cannot pass the carbon tax imposed on them on to the end user. The Minister doesn’t understand that we compete with farmers globally who don’t have a carbon tax, ” Jochum said.
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, Grain Farmers of Ontario and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture have all asked for a carbon tax exemption, but this has been denied by the government based on Bibeau’s cost estimate of $210-819.
“Canadian grain growers are net-zero carbon emitters. We shouldn’t be punished with a carbon tax but instead be acknowledged for our positive contributions towards climate change and the environment.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes to play the part of heading Canada’s most feminist government.
In 2015, Trudeau touted his gender-balanced cabinet. He has proudly called himself a “male feminist” on a number of occasions.
In 2018, Trudeau claimed that his party would take a “zero-tolerance” approach when it came to sexual harassment allegations. Trudeau said, “sexual harassment is a systemic problem” and “when women speak up, we have a responsibility to listen to them and to believe them.”
However, under his watch, numerous Liberals, including himself, have been accused of inappropriate behaviour, sexual harassment or other predatory behaviours. The prime minister fell back on his own promises and even skirted his own standards.
MP Marwan Tabbara
The most recent sexual harassment scandal involves former Liberal MP Marwan Tabbara.
Tabbara, who has since been kicked out of the party’s caucus, is currently facing a number of serious charges including assault, breaking and entering and criminal harassment.
Before Tabbara’s alleged crimes became public, the Liberal Party ran him as a candidate during the 2019 election, despite the fact that he was under investigation for a prior incident from 2015 where he allegedly directed sexual comments and inappropriately touched a female staffer.
According to the CBC, the investigation eventually ruled that the claims made against Tabbara were substantiated. However, it is unclear whether he was reprimanded for his actions.
When questioned on his knowledge of Tabbara’s actions and the resulting investigation, Trudeau wouldn’t address the matter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
The prime minister had a scandal himself in 2018 when an old article resurfaced in which a female reporter claimed Trudeau groped her while at a music festival.
“The incident referred to in the editorial did occur, as reported. Mr. Trudeau did apologize the next day. I did not pursue the incident at the time and will not be pursuing the incident further. I have had no subsequent contact with Mr. Trudeau, before or after he became Prime Minister,” said the victim Rose Knight.
When asked to reflect on his behaviour of the incident, Trudeau said, “who knows where her mind was and I fully respect her ability to experience something differently.”
MP Kent Hehr
While serving as the Liberal Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, Liberal MP Kent Hehr was accused by two separate women of sexual harassment.
Kristin Raworth alleged that the minister made women uncomfortable and feel “unsafe” while he was in the Alberta legislature. She claimed that Hehr made unwanted, sexual comments and remarks towards her.
Another woman came forward with a complaint claiming that he inappropriately touched her while at an event. Hehr apologized for the first incident, while also claiming the second incident involving inappropriate touching was unintentional.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept Hehr within the Liberal caucus fold despite the allegations made against him.
PMO Director of Operations Claude-Éric Gagné
Former PMO staffer Claude-Éric Gagné was forced to resign from his position after being under investigation for inappropriate behaviour.
The staffer involved in the accusation was not identified and the PMO refused to provide details on the incident at the time.
Despite his resignation, Gagné denied the accusations made against him.
MP Darshan Kang
On August 31, 2017, Kang resigned from the Liberal caucus after he was the subject of several sexual harassment allegations. The allegations dated back to his term as an Alberta MLA.
Two female staffers came forward with information about Kang’s alleged inappropriate behaviour. According to the Hill Times, Kang was under investigation by the House of Commons Chief Human Resources Officer.
One of the accusers claimed that Kang had forced himself upon her, kissing her and grabbing her breasts without consent. Shortly after the accusations became public, Kang resigned from the Liberal caucus.
A 2018 report found that the reports were substantiated and that he violated harassment rules. In response to the report, Trudeau said that Kang was no longer welcome to run as a Liberal candidate in future elections.
MP Hunter Tootoo
Former Liberal cabinet minister and Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo apologized publicly in 2016 after reports revealed he had been in an inappropriate relationship.
As a result of the scandal, Tootoo resigned from his cabinet position and the Liberal caucus to serve as an independent MP.
“I made a mistake and regrettably engaged in a consensual but inappropriate relationship, and that is why I resigned,” said TooToo.
MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews
In 2015, shortly before Trudeau was elected Prime Minister, two Liberal MPs faced a flurry of allegations from a number of women.
Both Pacetti and Andrews were suspended from the Liberal caucus pending an investigation into sexual harassment complaints made by two female NDP MPs.
One of the women involved accused Pacetti of having sex with her without her explicit consent, while another woman claimed that Andrews had sexually harassed her. Two other possible victims were also identified.
The two disgraced MPs denied any wrongdoing in both instances. Following the investigation’s results, Trudeau who was the Liberal Party leader at the time decided to expel the two MPs permanently from the caucus.
It doesn’t matter how much Trudeau appeases the Chinese regime, it’s not going to work.
After Trudeau applauded China’s handling of the coronavirus and delayed his decision on banning Huawei from Canada’s 5G network, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are being charged by the Chinese regime with various espionage crimes.
True North’s Anthony Furey says Trudeau needs to change his approach to China.
Systemic racism is literally everywhere and if you don’t accept that, you’re a racist! …At least that’s what the media and politicians are telling Canadians.
Instead of asking questions about issues that actually matter to Canadians, the mainstream media uses the Conservative Leadership Debate as a platform to push their own pet causes.
Plus, we’re reminded once again that the Trudeau Liberals are fake feminists.
And Trudeau embarrasses Canada AGAIN on the world stage but his friends in the mainstream media are pretending like nothing happened.
Tune into the True North Update with Candice Malcolm and Andrew Lawton!
The Liberal Party of Canada approved the candidacy of MP Marwan Tabbara prior to the 2019 election despite launching an internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him.
When questioned by reporters on his knowledge of sexual harassment allegations made against Tabbara, Trudeau failed to answer the question directly.
“We always ensure that there is a rigorous process in place whenever there are any sorts of allegations brought forward. We make sure that all the steps are followed, that the conclusions are adhered to, that the recommendations are fulfilled, and of course that confidentiality, which is so important in this situation and in all of these situations, is respected,” said Trudeau.
“That was the commitment I’ve made to Canadians. It is the commitment that all members of the Liberal party make.”
The disgraced Liberal MP, who has since been ejected from the party’s caucus, appeared before a court today regarding several serious charges. Tabbara is currently being charged with assault, breaking and entering to commit an indictable offence and criminal harassment.
Tabbara was arrested for his alleged crimes on April 10 but the incident did not become public knowledge until earlier this month when Global News reported on it.
When questioned about Tabbara on June 8, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed he had no knowledge of the charges prior to the report.
“It is certainly disappointing as a party leader, that the individual in question never chose to inform the party, of which he was a part of, of these charges,” said Trudeau on Friday.
“I will let the police and the prosecutors in this case speak for themselves.”
According to CBC News, the party was investigating allegations going all the way back to 2015. Among the accusations directed against Tabbara by a female staffer, including sexual comments and inappropriate touching.
The Liberal investigation found that some of the allegations were true but it is unknown whether Tabarra was reprimanded for his actions.
Tabbara joins a number of other Liberal MPs and operatives accused of sexual harassment since Trudeau was elected.
In 2015, MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews were kicked out of the Liberal caucus over accusations of harassment made by two NDP MPs.
In 2016 and 2017, MPs Darshan Kang and Hunter Tootoo, as well as the PMO deputy director of operations Claude-Éric Gagné, were also accused of inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
In January 2018, MP Kent Hehr was also forced to resign from cabinet over sexual harassment allegations made against him.
In 2018, the prime minister promised that under his leadership the Liberal Party would have a zero-tolerance policy with regard to sexual harassment complaints.
Trudeau himself was accused inappropriately groping a woman in 2018. The alleged incident took place several years earlier in 2010. Former journalist Rose Knight confirmed that Trudeau had touched her inappropriately during a music festival that year.
“The incident referred to in the editorial did occur, as reported. Mr. Trudeau did apologize the next day. I did not pursue the incident at the time and will not be pursuing the incident further. I have had no subsequent contact with Mr. Trudeau, before or after he became Prime Minister,” said Knight.
“That’s the whole conversation we have to be having around this. People experience things differently and we have to be more thoughtful and that’s a big part of the collective awakening we have to have,” said the self-proclaimed male feminist in 2018.
