If we want to do something about climate change, shouldn’t we be doing it because we want to do it? Not because we signed on to an unrealistic deal that the bureaucratic UN set the criteria for?
True North’s Anthony Furey thinks the Conservatives should have a serious conversation about withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.
Manitoba will be getting $5 million in funding from the federal government for illegal migrant housing, the latest in a long line of spending announcements on the issue.
This is on top of the $3 million Manitoba received last year to house asylum seekers who crossed illegally into the province.
The purpose of this funding is to offset some of the costs Manitoba has incurred housing asylum seekers, but this is a far cry from the $17 million the province has already spent.
“We are pleased with this financial support and partnership with Canada to help offset approximately $17 million in costs, and to address housing and associated needs for those seeking a safer life in our province and country,” said Manitoba Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen.
“The province will continue to negotiate with the federal government for full recovery of costs incurred,” said a government spokesperson.
Manitoba RCMP has intercepted over 1500 people claiming asylum at the border with the United States over the past two years.
The province had received $3 million in 2018, as part of the $50 million for cities and provinces struggling to cope with the costs of housing for border crossers.
While $50 million is a significant amount, it has been just one of the long lists of taxpayer-funded handouts to deal with Justin Trudeau’s open invitation to come to Canada.
In July of 2018, the government gave $11 million to the City of Toronto to help them house illegal border crossers. Toronto received another $15 million in January.
In total, $114 million was pledged by the feds for migrant housing in January alone.
But it goes beyond housing. Budget 2019 pledged $283 million to provide healthcare to those who entered Canada illegally.
It is unclear if there is a limit to how much taxpayer money the current federal government will spend on those who break Canada’s laws by entering illegally.
If Scheer ends up becoming prime minister and keeps the bailout he will be propping up an army of left-wing journalists that will continue to push this country further leftward. As Blacklock’s Reporter revealed, the $595 million is not a fixed amount — the sum will likely only grow with dependence.
Scheer needs to realize that anything short of opposing the media bailout is an utter betrayal of fundamental conservative principles as well as the future of the Conservative movement in Canada.
Read more: https://tnc.news/2019/06/16/gordon-is-andrew-scheer-for-the-595-million-media-bailout-or-not/
A recent Leger poll revealed two-thirds of Canadians are concerned about immigration as it relates to integration.
This doesn’t mean Canadians are racist or anti-immigrant, as the Trudeau Liberals have suggested. Canadians want immigrants who are more consistent with the Canadian way of life and Canadian values.
True North’s Anthony Furey suggests the Canadian government should consider taking in people from Hong Kong.
Last month a Hezbollah sleeper agent was tried and convicted in New York on multiple charges related to terrorism. And the media hardly noticed. The Canadian media ignored the matter completely. I should add that Hezbollah is a proscribed international terrorist organization in both the U.S. and Canada.
This should be a concerning story for Canadians because what the Department of Justice’s release did not say was that one of the targets Kourani had along with JFK Airport was Pearson Airport in Toronto. That information came out at trial.
The sleeper agent, Ali Mohamad Kourani aka Jacob Lewis, was convicted on all eight charges in the indictment. He faces a lot of serious jail time when he will be sentenced in September.
Following his conviction, the Department of Justice said this in a press release: “Ali Kourani was recruited, trained and deployed by Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization to plan and execute acts of terrorism in the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Berman.
“Kourani’s chilling mission was to help procure weapons and gather intelligence about potential targets in the U.S. for future Hezbollah terrorist attacks. Some of the targets Kourani surveilled included JFK Airport and law enforcement facilities in New York City, including the federal building at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.”
Part of the duties assigned to him by his Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) handler was to gather security information on certain facilities. Pearson was one such facility.
He documented everything from uniform security checkpoints, shift changes and CCTV camera locations. There is no question Hezbollah was planning an attack in Canada at Pearson Airport.
But the great work of the FBI that might have succeeded.
One of the key points Kourani identified that he was checking for was whether security officers were armed. True North covered this before in a discussion about CBSA officers who were trained, certified and issued sidearms but were not allowed to carry them at Class 1 Airports in Canada where they were deployed because of a bureaucratic directive.
This one case shows why that directive needs to be repealed as soon as possible.
Kourani was not just an innocuous information gatherer either. A Lebanese national by birth, in 2000, he had specialized weapons training in Lebanon. He emigrated to the U.S. in 2003 and was naturalized in 2009.
The IJO recruited him in 2008 and provided him with specialized training in tradecraft, weapons and tactics. The DOJ press release says that in 2011 “Kourani attended a weapons training camp in the vicinity of Birkat Jabrur, Lebanon, where he used a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, an AK-47 assault rifle, an MP5 submachine gun, a PKS machine gun (a Russian-made belt-fed weapon) and a Glock pistol.”
The press release and the evidence led in the trial described in detail how the IJO controlled Kourani and communicated with him including assigning targets which included prominent Jews to be targeted for assassination.
The U.S. dodged a bullet with the arrest of this man and the disassembling of his network. But so too did Canada. The information about what and how he was acquiring information was included in a CATSA internal newsletter this month.
In the days since 9/11, we have been hearing from the hand-wringers in Canada that we don’t have to worry, that these things can’t happen here.
Well, it seems they can as evidenced by the truck attack in Edmonton last year, the Danforth shooting, the interception in Kingston and the recent seizure of bomb-making precursor materials in Richmond Hill. But, and more to the point, this case shows that those who hate the west and our way of life are definitely actively planning attacks on this country.
Our intelligence and enforcement authorities can’t afford to be complacent or wrong. Those who want to do us harm can afford any number of false starts or failed attempts. Those who protect us can’t afford to be wrong once.
A Conservative MP has promised that his party will repeal the restrictive firearms laws recently brought in by the Liberals if it forms government.
Bob Zimmer, the member of parliament for Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, have pledged to repeal C-71 shortly after they take power. Scheer has also rejected implementing a handgun ban.
Zimmer recently wrote to his local newspaper to explain what is wrong with Liberal gun control bill C-71 and why a Conservative government would repeal it.
Pointing out how most gun crimes in Canada are related to gang violence, Zimmer criticizes C-71 for not addressing gang activities. The word “gang” does not even appear in the bill.
Bill C-71 imposes heavy restrictions on the transportation of firearms and creates a registry to track the movements and sales of firearms.
Zimmer also blasted C-71 for essentially reviving the much-maligned long-gun registry through a backdoor requirement that gun stores log all firearm sales, even with non-restricted guns.
“The last time a Liberal government introduced a long-gun registry they said it would cost $2 million and it ended up costing $2 billion. I firmly believe this time will be no different,” he said.
In 1995, when the Liberal government created the long-gun registry, they estimated the total cost to be $2 million.
By 2006, the real cost had been $1 billion. By the time the long-gun registry was scrapped in 2012, the final cost was around $2 billion–one thousand times the projected cost.
Zimmer says the C-71 requirement for gun owners to file authorization to transport (ATT) requests for things as simple as taking a firearm to a gunsmith creates meaningless regulations for gun owners.
“This will only create unnecessary red tape that will punish lawful firearms owners. No criminal has ever applied for an ATT before carrying out a crime,” he said.
Zimmer reiterated his party’s position to not restrict legal gun owners and to focus on fighting the real sources of gun violence in Canada.
“Rest assured, a Conservative government will repeal C-71. Not only that but we will focus on measures that actually reduce crime like giving law enforcement the tools they need to keep Canadians safe, cracking down on illegal firearm smuggling, and getting tough on gangs,” he said.
“We will do all this while also respecting the rights of our country’s law-abiding firearms owners.”
As a Minister of the crown, Canadians expect Catherine McKenna to be forthright and truthful to them when she speaks to them.
Elected officials should not be misinforming Canadians.
True North’s Leo Knight says it doesn’t matter how loud or how many times she repeats her talking points, she has lost all of her credibility.
True North previously reported that an influx of asylum seekers — making asylum claimants upon arrival at airports or after illegally crossing the border — have overwhelmed the Toronto shelter system.
However, a large office building at 5800 Yonge St. – just north of Finch Ave. — the City of Toronto budgeted $3 million for at the beginning of February to hold it on a contingency basis to be used as a shelter remains empty.
Read Graeme Gordon’s full report: https://tnc.news/2019/06/16/3-million-taxpayer-funded-shelter-for-asylum-claimants-sits-empty/
Canada’s taxpayer-funded state media dedicated an hour of air time to romanticizing Marxism.
In the CBC Radio episode titled “Reclaiming Marxism in an age of meaningless work,” CBC brought in academics to discuss the purported disaster that is our capitalist society, prescribing Marxism as the solution.
“More than a century and a half after Marx first talked about the struggle between the ruling class and labour, the promise of capitalism — that progress was inevitable and would ultimately lead to good things for everyone — has proven empty for many people,” CBC wrote.
“And it seems Marx’s principal critique that capitalism stands in the way of authentic emancipation is arguably more relevant than ever.”
CBC brought in two non-Canadian academics to argue that capitalism has failed us, and that “reclaiming” Marxism is the answer.
One academic, Bristol University’s Terrell Carver, even went so far as to claim that working conditions today are comparable to those Marx saw in the 1840s.
For context, child labour was legal in the 1840s and workplace safety regulations were non-existent.
“I think there’s much more historical overlap than people realize. I think this also has to do with new and revolutionary technologies because the 1840s, like today, was really quite revolutionary in terms of technology. The Industrial Revolution was getting underway. Also: the themes of pollution and exploitation and migration.”
The other academic, Yale’s Martin Hagglund, claimed that capitalism prevents us from creating meaning in our own lives.
Marxism, the school of thought founded by German Karl Marx in the nineteenth century is the philosophical base of communism.
Communism as a political system has failed to produce a standard of living better than that seen in any capitalist nation, including Canada. Quite the contrary, in fact, given communism’s death toll of about 100 million.
Communism and Marxism are themselves the antithesis to the values of individual freedom and tolerance that Canada prides itself for.
Communists governments like the Soviet Union, China and Cambodia have been proven to be directly responsible for the deaths of millions of their own citizens due to starvation, war and oppression.
Yet the CBC, funded by a capitalist government, sees it reasonable to dedicate time to those who glorify the ideology behind so many failed governments.
Without recognizing the disaster all Marxist societies have been, any talk on the subject amounts to a slap in the face to the millions who have suffered and died under Marxist regimes.
Just six years after the Conservatives repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which allowed the government to censor so-called internet hate speech, Liberals on the House of Commons justice committee have proposed bringing it back with even more power.
True North’s Andrew Lawton says the Liberal plan to censor the internet will actually make social media companies state enforcers of the government’s speech code.
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