With five provinces in Canada that have elected a right-of-centre government in the past year, Trudeau is starting to find himself without any friends in Canada.
What does this mean for the 2019 election?
True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses.
“Defeated” ISIS resumes mass terror in Sri Lankan attacks
The Islamic State has claimed sole responsibility for the deadly terror attack on Sri Lanka which claimed the life of 359 innocent civilians.
ISIS recently announced their intentions for the Easter Sunday attacks, which specifically targeted Christian churches and hotels through the group’s media agency, Amaq.
The Islamic State’s caliphate has since been declared defeated by US and rebel troops after rooting militants out of their final strongholds in Syria, however their influence has not yet abated.
An image was disseminated several days after the attack of those responsible standing before an ISIS flag. In a separate video, the same men swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.
According to a top Sri Lankan official the terror attacks were a retaliation for the New Zealand Christchurch shootings.
Currently, Islamist Sunni extremism, of which ISIS is a leader of, is listed by Public Safety Canada as the number one security threat for the country.
Several Canadian citizens have been identified as members of ISIS, some of which are attempting to return to the country now that they have been captured.
The Canadian government has not yet filed a detailed plan on what it intends to do with returning ISIS fighters.
According to internal sources, the RCMP are in the process of preparing for about a dozen ISIS foreign fighters returning to Canada.
“We need to get ready in case they come back sooner than what we had expected,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gilles Michaud.
When asked by the Conservative opposition to table a report on how the Liberals would deal with the returning ISIS threat, the government tabled a six page report on the problem.
Accused teenage terrorist back in jail after bail breach
A teenager from Kingston, Ontario, alleged to have been planning a terrorist attack is back in jail just three weeks after he was released on bail.
The 16-year-old, whose identity cannot be released due to his age, was released on April 3 but has since been taken back into custody due to an alleged breach of his bail conditions.
The youth had to surrender his passport, wear an ankle monitor, and be in the presence of an adult family member at all times.
He was also not allowed to access the internet or leave Ontario except for approved reasons.
The teenager was charged in January with trying to “deliver, place, discharge or detonate an explosive or other lethal devices against a place of public use with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury.”
After a tip from American authorities, Kingston RCMP raided two locations, arresting the youth and finding enough explosives to perform a controlled demolition.
He was subsequently charged with “making, or having in his possession or under his care of control, an explosive substance.”
At the time of his released, the accused lawyer said his client was “quite happy” with the conditions of his bail.
“I understand the concern that people may have, given the nature of the allegations. All I can say is that we do have a very nuanced but enlightened system of bail in this country for dealing with young persons that balances all of the different competing interests, including public safety,” he said.
At the time of the raids another man, 20-year old Hussam Eddin Alzahabi, was arrested but later released without charges.
RCMP said at the time that the accused had not chosen a location for their planned attack and that any threat to the public was “extinguished” after their raids.
Due to a court-order publication ban, few details on the court proceedings are available.
Progressive Conservatives claim victory in PEI election
Canada’s smallest province will see a new government after the PEI Progressive Conservatives won the most seats, ending 12 years of Liberal government.
This result comes amid a huge surge in support for the Green Party of PEI, which lifted them from a minor third party to official opposition — knocking the Liberals down to third place for the first time ever.
The Progressive Conservatives, led by rookie leader Dennis King, took 12 out of 27 seats in the legislature.
“Welcome to a new day in Prince Edward Island!” King said.
“Welcome to a new era of Island politics. Welcome to the tremendous honour and the tremendous responsibility of governing.”
The Greens, led by veteran leader Peter Bevan-Baker, made history by securing 8 seats, up from just one in 2015.
“Islanders responded (to us) by granting us a record number of seats — by far the most seats ever by a Green party in Canada,” Bevan-Baker said.
The Liberals, led by incumbent Premier Wade MacLauchlan, won only 6 seats, reducing the Liberals to third-party status.
MacLauchlan and six cabinet ministers lost their own seats. MacLauchlan has since stepped down as Liberal leader.
The PC victory comes after months of polls suggested the Greens had a huge lead, significantly different than the unofficial results which report that the PCs got 36.5% of the popular vote, the Greens 30.6%, and the Liberals 29.5%.
King has indicated that he intends to not seek a coalition with the other parties for the time being.
Voting did not come without its difficulties. One district has had its election postponed due to the death of a candidate — another saw a bomb threat close the only polling station for several hours.
PEI becomes the fifth province in Canada to elect a right-of-centre government in the past year, with Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Alberta all preceding Tuesday’s vote.
FUREY: Omar Khadr does not deserve a hero’s welcome
Regardless of how you feel about Omar Khadr, we can all agree that he does not deserve a hero’s welcome. But that’s exactly what the CBC gave him on Easter Sunday.
Khadr, a convicted terrorist, appeared on the CBC funded program “Tout le monde en parle” (Everyone’s talking about it).
True North’s Anthony Furey explains in his latest video.
LAWTON: Hey CBC, are you kidding me?
CBC has given convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr the royal treatment in a fawning and celebratory interview. Not only is this morally wrong, but it says to the United States that Canada doesn’t care about the killing of Sgt. Christopher Speer.
True North’s Andrew Lawton has a message for them: Real Canadians stand with the Speers, even if CBC and the Canadian left don’t. This is why the True North voice is so important.
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Khadr gets CBC star-treatment and says that his $10.5 million settlement was for “all Canadians”
Omar Khadr, a convicted terrorist appeared on the CBC funded program “Tout le monde en parle” (Everyone’s talking about it) on Easter Sunday.
Khadr, who is a convicted terrorist responsible for the death of US Army Sergeant Christopher Speer, was one of a number of guests on the show.
During the segment titled “Omar Khadr: dreaming of an ordinary life”, Khadr entered the studio to general applause and a standing ovation from the audience.
Compared to the rest of the program which was cordial and full of humour, Khadr’s appearance was notably tense and serious.
The program’s host, Guy A. Lepage, questioned Khadr on a variety of different topics including his relationship with his father and former Al-Qaeda financier, Ahmed Khadr.
“No, I don’t resent him. I don’t think my dad knew the extent of what I was doing,” said Khadr about his time as a translator and operative of the terrorist cell.
Shortly after Sgt. Speer’s death, Khadr was captured by American troops and detained at Guantanamo Bay where he confessed to the crime.
Several years later, Khadr was allowed to return to Canada where he sued the federal government for abusing his human rights.
Khadr was awarded $10.5 million by the federal government. The decision was justified by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who claimed that the government would have “inevitably lost” an expensive ongoing legal battle.
When questioned on the settlement, Khadr suggested that it was in the best interest of “all Canadians”.
“I think this settlement is not only for me, it’s for every Canadian,” said Khadr. “I know some people might be offended by it, but I think it’s for all of us.”
Since receiving the lawsuit payout, Khadr has used $3M of his settlement money to purchase an Edmonton shopping mall.
Speer’s wife who was left to tend after their children, has pursued her own civil suit against Khadr for the death of her husband. A Utah court judged that Speer’s widow, Tabitha Speer was eligible for a $134 million settlement in the case. Her lawyers are calling on an Alberta court to enforce the US judgement.
“No court anywhere, either in Canada or the U.S., has found the (agreed statement) specifically was involuntary or the product of coercion,” claims her lawyers.
Since being freed from prison, a Canadian court has recently released Khadr from his sentence, making him a free man.
True North Field Report: The Trudeau government’s dictatorial tendencies
A common misconception with many in the media is that when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “sunny ways” it meant he was going to be nice and warm to get things done. Sunny ways is really all about applying heat to force people to do what you want.
From the very beginning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s Office flexed muscle to get people in line.
Read more: https://tnc.news/2019/04/14/gordon-the-trudeau-governments-dictatorial-tendencies/
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Saskatchewan sides with Ontario against the federal carbon tax
While a constitutional battle unfolded in a Toronto courtroom, the mainstream media focused on the Mueller report even though it has nothing to do with Canada.
Andrew Lawton was the only member of the media present for the entire, four-day hearing.
Andrew caught up with Mitch McAdam, the Lawyer representing Saskatchewan in the carbon tax trial. Saskatchewan is siding with the province of Ontario, arguing that the federal carbon tax is unconstitutional.
GORDON: If white nationalism becomes a real threat, the Liberals will only have themselves to blame
The Trudeau government is pushing the narrative that white nationalism is a dire threat to Canada and the world. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, “Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, ‘incels,’ nativists and radical anti-globalists who resort to violent acts are a threat to the stability of my country and countries around the world.” The prime minister and other cabinet ministers have echoed similar messages over the past month.
It’s a dangerous pattern this government has displayed in playing identity politics. The Liberals are singling out and magnifying the infinitesimal minority of “white” Canadians who are extremists, all while ignoring or even covering up the extremism coming from minority groups, such as removing “Sikh extremism” from a government report on terrorism.
Instead of condemning extremism from all sides, the Trudeau government has decided to exploit and overstate the threat of white nationalism as a scapegoat to distract from its own failures in power, and to link these fringe groups to the Conservative Party of Canada and its leader Andrew Scheer. It’s a desperate attempt from a government struggling in the polls to try and change the channel. (“We might not have been great, and might even look pretty bad, but the other major party is full of neo-Nazis!”)
The Trudeau government has racked up consecutive large deficits over the past few years, adding tens of billions of dollars in national debt with no end in sight for the borrowing to stop. Yet, despite blowing billions, as much as his government claims that Canadians are better off under his leadership, many aren’t.
The real winners under a Trudeau government have been large corporations raking in massive amounts of money Trudeau has poured generously out of the public coffers. Most recently, it was revealed the Liberal government gave billionaire Galen Weston’s Loblaw $12 million for energy-efficient fridges. As galling as this example is for average, struggling Canadians to swallow, it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to corporate welfare (i.e. crony capitalism) in this country.
For example, Bombardier fights to conceal the substantial money it gets from the federal government. Trudeau’s $35-billion Infrastructure Bank looks like it will only take this grotesque graft of taxpayers to new heights. Meanwhile, as some billionaires and major corporations have done very well under Trudeau, his government cracked down on small businesses — the little guy — as his government acted like this was going after the very rich. Sure, some wealthy people fall into this bracket, but overall the uber wealthy and major corporations went unscathed.
Even though the Liberal government is grossly overstating the problem of white nationalism in Canada, it’s definitely a problem, especially with the internet being a powerful tool for evil people to find and radicalize disaffected male youth. If the Liberals were seriously concerned about combating white supremacist extremism — and extremism more generally — they would be focusing on ensuring young men in Canada can find good jobs. Instead, the government has only cared to look at where women are underrepresented in some professional fields, completely ignoring that some male-dominated industries, which women don’t tend to want to pursue (e.g. longer hours, dangerous work) have been hit hard in recent years.
To not only ignore that young men on average are not doing as well (higher suicide rates, lower completion of post-secondary education, vast majority of workplace fatalities), but to also continue to push for gender quotas for women in some professional fields (while ignoring areas where women dominate, like public sector employment), the Liberal government is setting the kindling for a much larger fire to rage.
Often the main reason extremism and tribal violence occurs within a country is because a government blames one group of people for the problems that it created on its own through gross mismanagement and corruption, which leaves the masses destitute and angry. If white nationalism and extremism in general rise in Canada, it will be of the Trudeau government’s own making.