Justin Trudeau is doubling down on his approach on climate change by forcing a carbon tax on unwilling provinces. According to internal documents, the carbon tax may actually double or even triple!
If you thought the national federal carbon tax was bad enough, you’re not going to believe this.
Hold onto your wallet because we may see the number of carbon taxes double or triple!
True North’s Anthony Furey has more.
A movement has emerged saying that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has to go because his socially conservative values don’t resonate with Canadian voters. The narrative has been peddled as fact by the media and liberal politicians, but is it backed up by data?
Recently re-elected Conservative MP Garnett Genuis joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss.
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An alleged ISIS recruiter from Edmonton has been successfully extradited to the U.S. to face terrorism charges for helping three Canadians and two Americans travel to kill for the terrorist group.
In 2014, Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi robbed a jewelry store in Edmonton in order to fund his cousins who were fighting for ISIS. The court stayed the charges against Abdullahi in October so that he could be extradited to the U.S.
“Terrorist networks like ISIS cannot exist without supporters. Protecting Americans from terrorists is our highest priority, and we will work hard to bring justice to those who provide material support to foreign terror organizations,” said a news release by U.S. District Court Attorney for the Southern District of California Robert Brewer.
According to estimates, approximately 180 people travelled from Canada to fight for terror groups like ISIS. The Canadian government estimates 60 have returned to the country already.
The Canadian government is allegedly keeping a list of these terrorists and tracking their whereabouts. Very few charges, however, have been laid.
Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale has stated that only four charges have been laid against the returning terrorists, two of which are before the courts.
Abdullahi is currently facing charges for conspiring to provide material support for terrorists in Syria between August 2013 and November 2014. Abdullahi is believed to have provided money and recruits for a cell of terrorists which included family members stretching across Canada and the U.S.
Abdullahi isn’t the only ISIS supporter to be detained in Canada.
Earlier this year, an Edmonton jury found ISIS supporter Abdulahi Sharif guilty of attempted murder after he attacked a police officer and innocent bystanders with a van.
While Sharif did not face any terrorism-related charges, investigators found an ISIS flag in his vehicle. According to a former coworker, Sharif was reported to the police in the past for holding “genocidal beliefs” including praising ISIS.
Several years prior to the attack, Sharif was set to be deported by the U.S. but managed to escape into Canada where he was granted asylum.
House Republicans have called on the U.S. government to investigate how Sharif was able to be released and travel to Canada where he eventually committed the attack.
According to B’nai Brith Canada, an Ontario NDP MPP advocated in support of a member of a Palestinian terrorist group.
Several tweets by MPP Joel Harden lamented the arrest of Khalida Jarrar, who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
According to the Public Safety Canada designated terrorist entities list, the PFLP’s main purpose is the destruction of the State of Israel and the creation of a communist government in the region.
“Since 2000, the PFLP has turned increasingly to the use of suicide bombers, guerilla tactics, car bombings, and mortar strikes. The PFLP was also responsible for the first assassination of a cabinet minister in Israel’s history, killing Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001,” writes the Public Safety website.
In his tweets, Harden called Jarrar his “parliamentary colleague” and said he was “sickened and disgusted” over her arrest by Israeli authorities as a suspect believed to be involved in terrorist activities.
“It does a disservice to the constituents such a candidate would purport to represent, while doing immeasurable harm to the memory of the victims of terrorism, survivors of terrorism, and their respective families,” B’nai Brith National Director Ran Ukashi told True North.
“There is simply no excuse for using one’s position as a trusted elected official to offer praise for a high-ranking member of a listed terrorist entity in Canada.”
Harden has supported the anti-semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) and once tried to get the practice to become official NDP policy in 2018.
BDS has been rejected by the House of Commons in a vote which calls “upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad.”
This isn’t the first time the Ontario NDP has associated themselves with extremist groups and activities. NDP MPP Jessica Bell once advocated for left-wing activists to cause “property destruction,” “seizure of assets” and “economic shutdown.” Bell was arrested at an illegal protest for her actions.
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has defended her candidates’ extremist leanings before saying that people sometimes do “radical things to get the attention of decision-makers.”
True North contacted Harder’s office but had not heard back by the time this article was published.
“We hope that our concerns, as relayed to both Mr. Harden and Party Leader Andrea Horwath are understood and that they unequivocally express their condemnation of the PFLP, its leadership, and all who associate with the organization. It needs to be made abundantly clear that no semblance of legitimacy be granted to members of the PFLP; an organization with decades of experience in murdering civilians, including two Canadians,” said Ukashi.
Manitoba must now issue non-binary birth certificates according to a human rights tribunal decision.
The ruling stems from a complaint filed with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission after an individual, only identified as TA, was refused a gender-neutral birth certificate in 2014.
The Manitoba Human Rights Adjudication Panel said the government has 180 days to start offering new birth certificates.
TA, who is transgender, wanted to have their gender on their certificate replaced with “X.” The province now must comply.
“A new decision of the Manitoba Human Rights Adjudication Panel orders Manitoba’s Vital Statistics Agency to ensure its birth certificate documents do not discriminate against non-binary transgender individuals,” the Manitoba Human Rights Commission said.
The adjudicator who heard the case, Dan Manning, called the province’s refusal to offer a gender-neutral birth certificate on “the high end” of seriousness.
“Gender identity is a part of our concept of selfhood. The (vital statistics) director’s practice to not allow non-binary designations of sex designation and only permit male or female designations was effectively the government refusing to acknowledge TA.’s agency and personhood,” Manning said.
“The difficulties faced by trans and non-binary individuals in our society are many. Human rights tribunals have long recognized the disadvantages faced by trans people and non-binary individuals in society.”
Along with allowing for gender-neutral birth certificates from now on, Manning also ordered the province to pay TA $50,000 in compensation.
Manitoba will become the fifth province to offer gender-neutral birth certificates.
The increasing number of gender-neutral government documents has also extended to the federal government, including passports.
At the time, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen call the move an “important step towards advancing equality for all Canadians regardless of gender identity or expression.”
Issuing gender-neutral documents is one of the measures encouraged by the now-infamous Bill C-16, a law pertaining to transgender rights and pronoun use.
Alberta’s NDP-created Elections Commissioner has backed off of a case involving Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel News.
Elections Commissioner Lorne Gibson accused Gunn Reid of violating elections laws while promoting her book, titled “Stop Notley,” with lawn signs and a billboard.
Gibson, who was the province’s former chief electoral officer, was appointed to the position by Notley when she created the commissioner position in 2018. The six-figure job was created in order to investigate third-party advertisers.
In April, the commissioner demanded that Gunn Reid submit her notes and emails regarding the book to his office with the belief that its publication violated newly implemented NDP laws.
According to Alberta’s Elections Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, elections advertising does not include “the distribution of a book, or the promotion of the sale of a book, for no less than its commercial value, if the book was planned to be made available to the public regardless of whether there was to be an election.”
The commissioner hired investigators, including a former police officer, to interrogate Gunn Reid over the book.
“I lawyered up and then refused to submit to an interrogation despite the threats of the investigator, Ken Brander, who said that I could face escalating fines if I didn’t didn’t turn over my internal emails and planning documents about my book,” Gunn Reid told True North.
“The elections commissioner made the process of the investigation the punishment, and my legal fees are my defacto fines for fighting back.”
After a successful legal challenge to the commissioner’s demands, Gunn Reid was vindicated. Her book was found to have been in total compliance with the law.
In a letter from the commissioner, it stated the Gunn Reid had never violated the law. Gibson laments the fact that his office can only enforce the law “as it is currently written.”
“I encourage Sheila Gunn Reid to exercise caution in the manner in which she advertises her books during an election period. Fortunately for Sheila Gunn Reid, my office is only able to enforce the legislation as it is currently written,” claimed Gibson.
According to Gunn Reid, unless the current government addresses the province’s election finance laws, the system will be open to abuse.
“Gibson’s ominous and peculiar warning to me, that I should be more careful in the future, and that I should count myself lucky that he can’t just make up the laws as he goes along, indicates that he’s not quite done with me yet. The left in Alberta was able to utilize the elections commissioner to try to silence conservative critics with nuisance complaints,” said Gunn Reid.
When True North contacted the commissioner’s office about the investigation, Senior Investigations Manager Steve Kay said that “the Office of the Election Commissioner does not comment on investigations that it may, or may not, be conducting.”
Are conservatives in Canada facing an existential crisis?
Was Andrew Scheer a total disaster?
No.
True North’s Anthony Furey says the problem is an inability to stake out firm policy positions not because the polls told you to but because you believe them to be right and then planting your feet firm and arguing for your position.
Canadian journalists embarrassingly fawn over a fringe conspiracy theorist.
The mainstream media continues to run with a made-up narrative on why Andrew Scheer lost the election.
The media FINALLY shows a different side of conservatives – whoa, they’re not all homophobes and racists?!
True North’s founder Candice Malcolm breaks down the most bias news this week (so far)!
Outgoing Green Party leader Elizabeth May has often been treated as the darling of the mainstream media, who are quick to overlook some of her past beliefs and controversies.
Since becoming the first Green Party MP and eventually the leader of the party, May has made numerous statements ranging from the ridiculous to the conspiratorial.
Here are the top ten craziest things former Green Party leader Elizabeth May has said or done:
1. Praising convicted war criminal Omar Khadr at a press gallery
In 2015, Elizabeth May had to be escorted off the stage by former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt after giving a profanity-filled speech praising Omar Khadr and belittling her colleagues.
“Omar Khadr, you’ve got more class than the whole f*******g cabinet,” said May at the end of her rambling speech.
Khadr, who was a known member of Al-Qaeda, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court of murdering U.S. Army Sergeant Christopher Speer. In 2017, prime minister Justin Trudeau awarded Kahdr over $10 million in a settlement to avoid a legal battle with the convicted war criminal.
Instead of taking responsibility for her remarks, May blamed it on the flu and a long workday.
2. May said Stephen Harper’s environmental policy was worse than appeasing the Nazis
In 2007, May told a church congregation that Harper’s position on climate change was “a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis.”
Despite unanimous agreement that May should have withdrawn her comments, she insisted on defending them and said she was borrowing the quote from an author. She then went on to blame the Conservatives for ruining Canada’s international reputation.
3. May was the only MP to vote against a bill that banned child rapists from being near their victim’s homes
In 2013, Elizabeth May was the only Member of Parliament to vote “no” on Bill C-489 which barred child sex offenders from being within two kilometres of a victim’s home.
“This enactment amends section 161 of the Criminal Code to require a court to consider making an order prohibiting certain offenders from being within two kilometres, or any other distance specified in the order, of any dwelling-house where the victim identified in the order resides or of any other place specified in the order,” wrote the bill.
The house voted unanimously to pass the bill, except for the Green Party leader.
4. She once said that “most Canadians are stupid”
In a TVO television program, Elizabeth May was asked why there’s so little political will to implement a carbon tax and she replied by saying it’s because “most Canadians are stupid.”
“All politicians are scared to death to mention the word tax and they think Canadians are stupid, and I fundamentally agree with that assessment,” said May.
When pressed on her comments, May blamed the slip up on “talking too fast” and that another panelist had said it also.
5. Used Twitter to promote conspiracies
Over the years, Elizabeth May has used several hashtags pandering to anti-vaxxers and chemtrail conspiracy enthusiasts.
In one tweet from 2011, May referred to the chemtrail conspiracy, which is the belief that the government is using plane emissions to spread chemicals onto the unwitting population. She also referenced the U.S. HAARP program, which conspiracy theorists believe is being used to manipulate the weather.
A later tweet from 2013 also referenced chemtrails and seemed to promote the discredited anti-vaccination myth that vaccines lead to autism in children.
6. Said that Harper was turning Canada into “North Korea”
In 2013, Elizabeth May took to Twitter once again to criticize Stephen Harper’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol by saying that he was turning Canada into “North Korea.”
“So upset Harper pulled us out of another global env treaty. He’s making us a rogue nation. The North Korea of environmental law,” tweeted May.
Harper’s decision to leave the Kyoto Protocol was made in order to save the country from approximately $14 billion in international penalties the agreement would have caused.
7. Suggested that Canada should erect a monument for “victims of capitalism”
When the Harper government floated the idea of a plan to fund a monument to honour the victims of communism, Elizabeth May got into a Twitter fight with then Conservative MP Jason Kenney by suggesting a similar monument should be raised to the “victims of capitalism.”
“No mention of monument to victims of capitalism. :),” wrote May on Twitter.
“Perhaps that’s because no one was shot in the back while risking their lives to flee eastward over the Iron Curtain,” replied Kenney.
Estimates show that communism has killed approximately 100 million people by way of starvation, mass killings and other authoritarian measures.
8. Presented a 9/11 truther conspiracy petition in the House of Commons
Elizabeth may presented a petition to call on the Canadian government to review the September 11 terror attacks. The petition was put forward by the conspiracy group ReThink 911 which promotes the myth that the attacks were the result of a controlled demolition and the U.S. government was involved in a cover-up.
When confronted about why she decided to promote the petition, May falsely suggested that she was required by law to present all petitions put forward to her. However, the House of Commons Procedure and Practice makes it clear that “members are not bound to present petitions and cannot be compelled to do so.”
9. Suggested that the election of Harper made people want to cut their wrists
In a 2007 profile of Elizabeth May by the Ottawa Citizen, she said that when Harper was elected it made people want to tear their hair out and cut their wrists.
“The election of Stephen Harper changed my life because I saw I was going to lose 20 years of my life’s work… You’ve got a right-wing agenda that’s anti-environmental to an extent we’ve never seen. You’re going to spend all of your time tearing your hair out and wanting to slit your wrists. So you might as well get into politics,” said May.
10. Said that wireless internet was leading to the “disappearance of pollinating insects”
In an article about Elizabeth May’s “war against WiFi,” the Green Party leader blamed wireless internet for the “disappearance of pollinating insects.”
Despite providing no proof for her claims, May cited the scientific soundness of her claims saying, “I do not act without scientific info.”
Elizabeth May stepped down as Leader of the Green Party of Canada and now they’re in search of a new leader. But before we get into who will be the new leader, we should ask what exactly is the point of the Green Party?
There’s already a party that claims their main priority is the environment and climate change, and they lecture Canadians about it non-stop – the Liberal Party of Canada.
True North’s Anthony Furey explains in his latest video!
