Andrew Scheer has made it clear that he’s not going anywhere. He’s staying on the Conservative Leader and he will fight Trudeau in the next election.
Although the Conservatives did manage to increase their vote share and gained more seats in the election, many on the right are asking if this campaign did the best job at selling their message.
True North’s Andrew Lawton was with the Conservatives on election night in Regina and asked supporters for their thoughts.
Canada’s 43rd general election saw the Trudeau government reelected with a minority despite losing the popular vote to the Conservatives.
In Monday’s election, the Liberal Party won 157 ridings across Canada, forming a minority government. The Conservative Party came in second place with 121.
While the Liberals may have won the most seats in parliament, the opposition Conservatives proved to be Canada’s most popular party. The Conservatives won 34.4% of the popular vote across Canada, compared to only 33.1% for the Liberals.
Statistics pointed to a high level of Western alienation in this election, but the results and fallout afterwards suggest that the East-West divide may be worse than many thought.
In Alberta, the Conservatives won 33 out of the 34 ridings, including four which went Liberal in 2015. In total, the Conservatives won 69.2% of the popular vote in Alberta.
In Saskatchewan the Conservatives took all 14 seats, capturing three won by the NDP in 2015 and one held by the Liberals.
The Conservatives also made modest gains in Manitoba and British Columbia.
After four years of policies and laws which have hurt the resource-based economies of Western Canada. Many people, including some of Western Canada’s most important figures, are fearing that another four years of similar policies may lead to an irreparable regional divide in Canada.
As it stood before the election, 86% of Albertans believe that their province has become more angry with the federal government.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says that Justin Trudeau now needs to decide whether or not he will choose to unite the provinces or cause further alienation.
“Justin Trudeau now has to make a decision if he’s going to change course, have a more cooperative approach with all provinces, or if he’s going to continue down on this path,” Scheer said.
“We’re going to do everything we can to fight for a united Canada.”
True North’s Andrew Lawton attended Andrew Scheer’s press conference in Regina. Lawton asks about the Conservative’s inability to win seats in urban centres like Toronto and their sweep of western Canada.
The Conservatives won all the seats in Saskatchewan last night. They even unseated Ralph Goodale, a senior minister in the liberal government.
True North’s Andrew Lawton says Goodale’s defeat is proof that public servants can’t turn their backs on their constituents and province just because that’s what the leader of your party has decided to do.
True North’s Andrew Lawton is in Regina ahead of the Conservative Party of Canada’s election night party.
Watch his coverage below or follow him on Twitter.
The Liberal candidate for Kootenay––Columbia in British Columbia praised Cuban guerilla Che Guevera during a debate.
A video of the October 3rd all-candidates meeting shows Robin Goldsbury lauding the efforts of Che Guevera during a statement to the audience.
“When we look at the system Che Guevera introduced, which was quite fascinating, because it takes care of children from conception and makes sure they are taken care of right through their education. And personally this is one of the reasons I’m here, it’s for the kids,” said Goldsbury.
Guevera was a communist revolutionary who oversaw the mass executions and arrests of Cubans alongside fellow guerilla Fidel Castro. He presided over murder squads targetting political opponents and also set up brutal labour camps throughout the country where thousands were jailed.
In 1959 while he oversaw operations at La Cabana Fortress, he oversaw the murder of 151 Cubans as judge and sometimes as executioner. It is believed that even children met a grisly end under his watch. Along with the Castro brothers, Guevera believed that violence was key to forwarding his political goal for revolution.
“We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation,” Guevera was quoted as saying about his brutality.
Furthermore, five years later in 1964 while in New York for a United Nations summit, Guevera stood by his cold-blooded tactics admitting to the executions.
“Executions, yes we have executed, we are executing and we will continue to execute as long as necessary,” Guevera told UN members.
During the same year, Guevera advocated for the repression of the media and freedom of speech which he saw as an opponent to the dictatorship he helped implement, saying he intended to “eliminate all newspapers” and that his vision for society was not compatible with a “free press”.
If Guevera had been afforded more power, he even expressed intentions of using nuclear weapons against innocent civilians in the United States. In 1967, while speaking of the Cuban Missile Crisis which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Guevera declared he would have launched nuclear missiles at the U.S., had the weapons been in his control.
Throughout his life, Guevera sympathized and solicited the aid of brutal dictators. In 1960, he had a friendly meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung.
With regard to the personal beliefs expressed, Guevera was extremely racist and homophobic. When he was 24, Guevera penned racist sentiments in his diaries which were later published.
In another instance he had this to say about black Cubans: “We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.”
During the revolution, homosexuals were barred from participating in the army and were forced into work camps where they were treated as “undesirables”. Guevera’s views are believed to have widely contributed to the repression of LGBT rights in the country
Guevera was killed pleading for his life after unsuccessfully trying to spread his violent revolution around the world in Congo and finally in Bolivia, where he was captured and shot.
Will the Liberals and NDP form a coalition?
It’s not against rules and it’s definitely possible.
True North’s Anthony Furey says this would be an underhanded thing to do that violates our sense of fairness and how we all thought the game should be played.
Despite opposition from left-wing activists, the media and the mayor of Toronto, Toronto’s head librarian is not budging on her support for free speech.
Activists have been trying to shut down a speech by feminist Meghan Murphy for Murphy’s belief that people with penises aren’t women. Murphy was previously banned from giving a talk in rented space at a Vancouver library, but it looks so far like her event in Toronto will be going ahead.
True North’s Andrew Lawton says the library should be commended for taking this stand.
If you trust the polls, Monday’s election will be a nail-biter. No party appears to be in a position to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons, and the Conservatives and the Liberals are neck in neck.
That means this election will be won at the margins — a few thousand votes scattered around swing ridings across Canada.
Your individual vote matters a lot more than usual, especially if you live in competitive districts in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, but also major cities like Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Halifax.
Unfortunately for Canadians, we’re not the only ones voting in this federal election.
As True North reported earlier this week, several non-citizens have come forward to say they’ve received Elections Canada voter cards despite not being eligible to vote.
True North has found yet another example of Elections Canada fraud and non-citizens illegally being invited to vote.
A whistleblower in Brampton, ON sent True North a WhatsApp message showing an Elections Canada voter card addressed to a family member who is no longer in Canada. The card is addressed to Bharti Patel, who “came here as PR (permanent resident) and went back in 2 months. Their PR card got cancelled as they never came back. This was just 2 years back.”
“To our surprise they received voter cards in mail (sic).”
“This means there must be several people that are PR or refugees that have received voter cards mailed to them,” said the source.
Last October, a True North investigation found a Mexican family in Edmonton who received voter cards from Election Canada, despite being asylum seekers and not citizens. They spoke to True North because they were concerned with voter fraud and the integrity of our democracy in Canada.
“I want to give something back to Canada. Canada has done so much for us, and we don’t want to see Canada go in that direction. That’s not fair to Canadians,” said the Mexican whistleblower exposing Elections Canada fraud.
Following our report, Election Canada admitted the problem was far deeper than anyone could have imagined.
In May 2019, CTV reported:
Elections Canada has identified and is set to eliminate some 103,000 people from the federal voters register who have been determined to be on the list illegally because they are not Canadian citizens.
Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault told the Senate National Finance Committee on Tuesday that his office has identified these names on the registered list of qualified electors and will be removing them before the 2019 federal election.
As we’ve learned during this election period, however, Elections Canada failed to live up to this promise.
Australian and British nationals living in Alberta came forward earlier this month to say they received voter cards even though they are not citizens eligible to vote.
Tens of thousands of non-citizens may still have their names illegally included on Elections Canada’s voter lists and could have the opportunity to sway the outcome of this election.
This is a very real example of foreign meddling in our election.
It is certainly the case that this election will be decided by less than 103,000 votes in strategic ridings across Canada.
To quote British national Paul Gabriel, who received a voter card from Elections Canada even though he’s not a Canadian citizen, “Your election is about to be stolen from you by illegal voters… Take your country back my Canadian friends, before it’s too late.”
An Iranian human rights activist has unleashed a furious criticism of a Liberal MP with a long history of sympathy for the Iranian regime.
Human rights activist Heshmat Alavi took to Twitter on Wednesday to expose and accuse MP Majid Jowhari (Liberal – Richmond Hill) of being an apologist for the terrorist regime in Iran.
“A Liberal MP in Canada known for his pro-#Iran regime views & policies, is up for reelection. This thread sheds light on Jowhari being a Tehran apologist/lobbyist,” Alavi wrote.
Alavi gave 15 examples of Jowhari’s behaviour which justify his accusation.
While Iran cracks down on human rights, Jowhari called the Iranian regime a “brave nation” with an “elected government” — a tough pill to swallow for Iranian dissidents and refugees in Canada who’ve been brutally punished by the authoritarian Islamist dictatorship.
“As our government is closely monitoring the ongoing protests in Iran; it is my sincere hope that the brave nation of #Iran have the opportunity to air their legitimate financial, social and political concerns with the support of their elected government, in a secure environment and without the fear of persecution,” Jowhari Tweeted in 2018.
In 2016 Jowhari sponsored petition e-553, which called upon the Canadian government to reopen its embassy in Iran “as a matter of utmost importance.”
Jowhari claimed that he heard from many that Canada should reopen its embassy in Tehran.
“What I’m hearing is a lot of people are saying the first step should be opening of the consular section of the embassy,” he said.
His constituents appeared to have disagreed. Fifteen Iranian-Canadians who live in Jowhari’s riding wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing their concerns about Jowhari’s “moral competence.”
Iran, an Islamist state government ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has a long record of human rights abuse.
Earlier this year a human rights lawyer was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for allegedly “spreading propaganda” and insulting Iran’s supreme leader.
Over 7,000 people were arrested for political crimes in Iran in 2018 alone. In the same year two teenagers were flogged and executed in secret after a rigged trial.
Jowhari also came under fire also for meeting with an Iranian regime delegation around the same time as he put forward petition E-553. He claims that it was just a friendly meeting with the mullahs to discuss Canada-Iran relations.
“It just means we are sitting at the same table and working on understanding the issues and we as Canadians have serious concerns. If we don’t tell them, who will?”
While Jowhari appears to not be concerned with his closeness to Iran, Alavi says that his actions amount to lobbying for the Islamist regime.
“At the end of the day, this thread is aimed at providing information on the true nature of @MajidJowhari as an Iran apologist/lobbyist that should not be reelected into the Canadian Parliament.”
