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Monday, August 25, 2025

Five of the bills killed by Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament

By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to prorogue Parliament after announcing his resignation plans means several key pieces of legislation are now dead.

Prorogation suspends all Parliament business – including committees – and terminates all bills that have not yet received royal assent. Bills can be reintroduced in the next session of Parliament but the process starts from scratch with a first reading.

Governor General Mary Simon agreed to prorogue Parliament until Mar. 24, the latest date until which the government could remain suspended before it runs out of money without a supply bill being passed.

Here are some of the twenty-six bills now terminated due to prorogation.

Bill C-63: The Online Harms Act

The Online Harms Act was a bill that would have amended the Criminal Code to add penalties for “harmful content online,” including speech deemed to promote “hate” and internet child pornography.

The Liberal government recently announced that the bill would be split into two parts to expedite the part of the bill which deals with non-consensual pornography and child exploitation while leaving the more controversial aspects of the bill up for debate.

Several civil liberties organizations in Canada have raised alarm bells about the bill’s provisions on online speech and their potential to chill free expression. Many aspects of the bill were criticized, including imprisonment for hate speech, the ability for anyone to make a report which could result in overwhelmed tribunal requests and long trials, and penalties for those found to reasonably be expected to post “hateful” content online in the future.

Taxpayer advocates also warned the bill would establish an online hate enforcement bureaucracy which the parliamentary budget officer said would cost at least $200 million.

The bill received its first reading and was in the process of receiving its second reading before Parliament prorogued.

Bill C-65: An Act to Amend the Canada Election Act

After being bounced to the standing committee on procedure and House affairs, the electoral participation bill was also in its second reading. Bill C-65 aimed to make it easier to vote via mail-in or “special ballot” and to penalize electoral interference and the spread of “disinformation” during elections.

Within the bill was a provision to allow the Chief Electoral Official to alter the day of an election if it was found to be in conflict with a day of cultural or religious significance. 

The bill also would give two additional days for advanced voting, an easing of restrictions including certifying special ballots that include just a party name rather than the name of a candidate.

Bill C-293: The Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act

The Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act is a private member’s bill introduced by Liberal MP – and now cabinet minister – Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. The bill was in its second reading in the Senate after passing through the House of Commons before prorogation terminated it.

The bill would have mandated that the minister of health establish a comprehensive national plan to tackle the next pandemic. It would create an advisory committee to assess the country’s pandemic response and analyze the “health, economic and social factors” relevant to the pandemic.

Food and agriculture experts and stakeholders criticized the bill for permitting public health officials to close facilities such as food manufacturing plants they consider to be “high-risk.” Sylvain Charlebois, the author of the “Food Professor” blog, raised the alarm over this bill’s potentially devastating impact on Canada’s agricultural sector.

Bill C-413: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (promotion of hatred against Indigenous peoples)

The residential school denialism private member’s bill introduced by NDP MP Leah Gazan aimed to make it a criminal offence to “willfully promote hatred against Indigenous people by condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada.”

The bill, which completed its first reading, would deem “misrepresenting facts” about residential schools a criminal offence.

One historian warned that the bill would chill debate on Canada’s residential school system, imposing sanctions and lengthy human rights tribunal trials, which many historians or experts with contrary views to the government might find not worth their time.

Bill C-372: An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising 

In the name of climate action, Bill C-372, a private members bill put forward by NDP MP Charlie Angus prescribes hefty fines and jail time for anyone found to be promoting Canada’s oil and gas sector.

The bill would have banned fossil fuel ads, fining scofflaws up to $1.5 million or sending them to jail for up to two years. The bill attempts to frame the oil and gas industry in the same way as the tobacco industry was when its own advertisements were banned. 

If passed, anyone found to be “falsely” promoting fossil fuels would be subject to a $750,000.

The bill prohibits advertisements which claim  “the practices of a producer or of the fossil fuel industry would lead to positive outcomes in relation to the environment, the health of Canadians, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples or the Canadian or global economy.” Which leaves the door open to preventing Indigenous communities from promoting resource development projects.

It was introduced last February and received its first reading. The bill was placed on an Order of Precedence on June 17, 2024 but had yet to receive its second reading before prorogation.

Ben Shapiro trolls Trudeau, Poilievre about annexing Canada

By
Noah Jarvis, True North Wire
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Source: X

As President-elect Donald Trump has drawn significant media attention for his repeated suggestion that the United States should annex Canada, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro poked fun at the idea on X.

Since Trump won the 2024 presidential election and Prime Minister Trudeau met with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Canada has become the target of the President-elect’s suggestion that Canada should become America’s 51st state.

In response to Trump’s recent claim that he’s willing to use “economic force” to achieve his goal, Canadian political leaders have rebuked the suggestion.

On X, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that there isn’t a “snowball’s chance in hell” that the United States would annex Canada and that the relationship that the two countries have is mutually beneficial for one another.

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre also rejected the idea that Canada would ever join the United States, pointing to the decades-long partnership the two countries have developed with one another.

“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” said Poilievre.

“Our weak and pathetic NDP-Liberal government has failed to make these obvious points. I will fight for Canada.”

Shapiro, a co-founder of the Daily Wire, decided to troll Canada’s political leaders by flaunting the United States’ military power over Canada.

In response to Trudeau’s post, Shapiro suggested that the United States deport the prime minister to Panama to work on the canal.

“When we take Canada, you will be expelled to Panama to work the canal,” said Shapiro.

Showing slightly more respect for the Conservative leader, Shapiro suggested that the United States would put off their invasion plans if Poilievre became prime minister.

“We will call off the planned invasion if you are elected PM. We will make no such guarantees if Fidel Castro’s son remains the PM.”

Earlier in the day, Shapiro posted a map of the North-Western hemisphere with Greenland labelled as “Trumpland,” Canada labelled the “51st state,” and the Gulf of Mexico labelled as the “Gulf of America.”

Ottawa detective who ran unsanctioned vaccine harm probe sues CBC for $875k

By
Jason Unrau
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Marie-Philippe Bouchard - CBC CEO - Source: pbi2024.ca/radio-canada.ca; Detective Helen Grus - Source: X

An Ottawa detective facing disciplinary action related to investigating infant deaths is taking Canada’s state broadcaster to court.

Det. Helen Grus, who finished testifying before her long-running disciplinary tribunal Monday, is suing CBC for $875,000, alleging the broadcaster has waged an “adverse campaign of publishing harmful, malicious, and harassing newspaper articles containing false statements.”

Grus is taking issue with pieces CBC ran between March 2022 and December 2023.

The Ottawa Police Service’s professional standards unit (PSU) charged Grus in July of 2022 with discreditable conduct for actions she took probing a link between experimental COVID vaccines and a spike in infant deaths in the region. At the time of her purported offence, Grus was a member of the sex assault and child abuse (SACA) unit, whose responsibilities included investigating deaths of children under five.

A CBC reporter is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit according to documents filed at Ontario Superior Court last fall. In the statement of claim, which has not been tested or proven in court, Grus alleges that CBC’s Mar. 28 and Mar. 31 articles in 2022 – based on confidential information from unnamed sources within Ottawa Police Service – precipitated the administrative charge against her. 

Grus’ claim also notes a third story published by CBC in December 2023 repeated similar false statements and “interfered with (her) privacy and reputation” while her case was before the tribunal. It was published a day before Grus’ lawyer, Bath-Shéba van den Berg, appeared before Ontario divisional court in a failed attempt to have a police duty book released to her client.  

The named reporter did not respond to True North’s request for comment, but network spokesperson Chuck Thompson said in an email that “CBC believes the claims made by Detective Grus in her lawsuit are entirely without merit.” 

On the first day of tribunal hearings in August 2023, police witness and lead PSU investigator Sgt. Jason Arbuthnot directly references the CBC stories in a nearly three-hour audio recording of Grus’ compelled statement played by prosecutors for the tribunal.

“Parents of the deceased infants were…notified by the OPS about what occurred (and) at least one family retained legal counsel and spoke to the media,” Arbuthnot says near the end of the recording. 

“In turn, two stories were published on the CBC website and generated some public attention. It is alleged your actions have brought the reputation of the OPS into disrepute.”

According to the discreditable conduct charge, Grus engaged in “an unauthorized project” and contacted a single father of a deceased infant about the vaccine status of the mother without making proper notes in her duty book. 

Arbuthnot said the Ottawa Police Service informed the parents of deceased children about a confidential and internal police investigation involving Grus, before the CBC stories were published. Grus alleges this is different from the sequence of events offered in the stories.

Evidence that Grus did not attempt to contact the coroner’s office was also heard at the tribunal, which Grus alleges in her lawsuit also contradicts CBC’s reporting.

The tribunal also heard that Grus complained to the professional standards unit about the media leaks to no avail, while tribunal adjudicator and former OPS superintendent Chris Renwick denied Grus’ motion to subpoena the CBC reporter and have her answer questions about the source of the leaks.   

During testimony in her own defence, Grus explained her probe was spurred by an increase in infant deaths in 2021, her obligation as a peace officer to protect public safety and multiple additional occurrences while on the job as an OPS detective.

Grus previously told the tribunal during her May 2024 testimony that because public health officials and other lawmakers had heralded these COVID injections as safe and effective that criminal negligence could be a play.

Throughout Grus’ tribunal, van den Berg has argued that her client did nothing wrong, was a victim of bullying by her colleagues and that the media leaks were a continuation of this harassment. In an emailed statement to True North regarding the lawsuit and tribunal, van den Berg inferred it was OPS who failed her client and by extension the wider community. . 

“(Helen Grus’) concerns regarding a potential link between the novel COVID-19 vaccinations and an increase in sudden death of infants were well within her remit as a police officer to preserve life. Babies died suddenly, in circumstances identical to the adverse events reported by Pfizer’s clinical data,” she wrote.  

“It is the duty of (the) Ottawa Police Service to properly investigate the sudden deaths of infants, which includes asking whether, or not the infants or parents took any COVID-19 vaccinations. Failure to ask about medical history is tantamount to a negligent investigation.”

On Monday, van den Berg reiterated to the tribunal that the questionnaire for sudden infant deaths requires attending officers to ask about the medical history of parents, including all street and over-the-counter and prescription drug use.

Grus’ quasi-judicial tribunal – a product of Ontario’s Police Services Act and more-or-less directed by Ottawa police – now closes in on 23 hearing days, longer than most criminal trials.

Grus’ union, the Ottawa Police Association, declined to provide any financial support to mount her defence, diverging from previous practice of offering cops legal aid, even for those accused of violent criminal offences.   

Van den Berg declined to comment on her client’s legal expenses but it is rumoured to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Closing submissions continue Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the community boardroom at 211 Huntmar Rd., Ottawa police’s collision reporting centre in Kanata.

Membership rules risk foreign actors infiltrating Liberal leadership race

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, True North Wire
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Source: Liberal Party of Canada (Facebook)

The chair of the organizing committee that saw Pierre Poilievre elected as Conservative leader is warning Canadians that if the Liberal Party of Canada doesn’t change its lax membership rules ahead of a looming leadership contest, the race could become a free-for-all for foreign actors.

Political scientist and former Conservative Party of Canada leadership election organizing committee chair Ian Brodie told True North that given China’s past meddling in the Liberal nomination process, business as usual is not good enough.

“Yes, there are good reasons to worry about the Liberal rules. The party has done nothing to clean up the rules that allowed Chinese diplomats to bus Chinese students studying in Canada to Han Dong’s nomination meeting. In fact, they seem to think this is a model for how Liberal decisions should be made,” Brodie told True North in an emailed statement.

Brodie was referring to reports citing confidential CSIS sources that claimed now-independent MP Han Dong was assisted by the Chinese consulate in his bid to become the Liberal candidate during the 2019 election. 

Dong would win the nomination and eventually become a Liberal MP before being forced to leave the caucus and sit as an independent once the allegations were made public. Allegedly, Chinese diplomats had arranged for two buses of Chinese Canadian seniors to attend the nomination meeting and ensure Dong’s victory. Dong has since denied the allegations, claiming that his nomination had followed Liberal party procedures. 

“If the Liberals allow a membership sign up period for this leadership race, they will have a race between foreign actors to influence the course of the next government. China. Hamas. Iran. It’s endless,” said Brodie.

True North reached out to the Liberal Party of Canada for comment but did not receive a response. 

Although the Liberals have yet to release their rules for the upcoming leadership race, Brodie isn’t the only one warning the Liberals that without change to how the party handles membership, their leadership process could be compromised.

Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign from leading the party and the country’s top office when a new leader is selected, the party now has only a few short months to organize a leadership race. Furthermore, Trudeau’s decision to prorogue Parliament until Mar. 24, further complicates things for the party given that its constitution requires at least four months for a new leader to be selected.

Elections Canada has also echoed concerns about the Liberal membership rules which extend membership to anybody over the age of 14 who resides in Canada, including non-citizens and those who don’t hold a permanent residency. 

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault recently recommended that the party change their rules to bar non-citizens from voting in the nomination process, a change the Liberal Party of Canada has since shown little willingness to make.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz credits Freedom Convoy for Trudeau’s resignation plans

By
Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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Source: X

Texas Senator Ted Cruz attributed the Freedom Convoy as a “major reason” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recently announced plans to resign.

Cruz shared one of his old posts celebrating the convoy from Mar. 10, 2022, on Tuesday, reaffirming in his recent post that he was proud to stand by the truckers.

“His repressive policies were so over the top, that was the beginning of the end,” wrote Cruz.

The reshared photo wasn’t Cruz’s only post about the convoy.

He previously called out the Ottawa police for threatening any Canadians who were involved in the convoy with “financial sanctions and criminal charges.”

“This is what happens without the First Amendment,” said Cruz. 

President-elect Donald Trump previously stood with the truckers as well. 

“The tyranny we have witnessed in Canada in recent weeks should shock and dismay people all over the world,” said Trump. “In an advanced Western democracy, the peaceful movement of patriotic truckers, workers, and families protesting for their most basic rights and liberties has been violently put down.” 

Trump added that Canadians participating in the convoy had their assets and life savings frozen, and were slandered as Nazis, racists, and terrorists. He said they were arrested and charged with phoney crimes and falsely accused of being foreign loyalists. 

“They’re being hunted down like enemies of their own government and treated worse than drug dealers and murderers or rapists,” said Trump. “A line has been crossed. You’re either with the peaceful truckers, or you are with the left-wing fascists.” 

Trump said at the time that he stood with the truckers and Canadians fighting for freedom to a standing applause from his supporters.

Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance similarly previously supported the convoy.

“The Canadian truckers have killed zero people and are being treated like terrorists in their own country,” wrote Vance in a post to X in Feb. 2022. 

Vance also stood up for Canada, specifically Canadian Christians, when he sided with Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who was calling for additional protections. 

Trudeau announced on Monday that he would resign as Liberal leader and prime minister when the party chooses a replacement. He also prorogued Parliament until Mar. 24.

President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20.

Ford retorts Trump’s merger talk with plan to power up U.S.-Canada energy alliance

By
Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

Instead of “wasting time” on unrealistic U.S.-Canada merger rhetoric, Ontario Premier Doug Ford hopes that incoming President-elect Donald Trump might be swayed by his new plan to supercharge Canadian energy exports to the United States.

Despite previously threatening retaliation against Trump’s proposed tariffs, Ford outlined his Fortress Am-Can plan on Wednesday, with particular attention paid to Trump’s goal of decoupling the American economy from China.

If implemented, Fortress Am-Can would expand existing electricity grids and pipelines shared between Canada and the United States. The plan also hopes to streamline the approval process for new small modular and large nuclear reactors, while cutting other red tape.  

Ontario recommended a suite of measures on top of building Fortress Am-Can. Among the recommendations is establishing a working group between lawmakers in the two countries to address threats posed by foreign interference, cyberattacks, terrorism, and extreme weather.

“By leveraging our nuclear energy advantage and proven technologies, we can displace reliance on undemocratic regimes as we generate more clean power for our economy and the world,” said Ontario’s Minister of Energy Stephen Lecce. 

The Ontario government has already called on the Liberals to address U.S. economic and security concerns by matching U.S. tariffs on China, banning Chinese software in cars, delaying the digital services tax, and finally meeting its 2% of GDP on defence spending NATO requirement.  

If Ontario were a standalone country, it would be the U.S.’s third-largest trading partner, with two-way trade totalling $493 billion in 2023. Ontario is the number one export destination for 17 U.S. states and comes second in 11. 

When speaking at a press conference shortly after the announcement, Ford said that Ontario’s energy grid sends enough electricity to power 1.5 million homes in the United States, but hopes that Fortress Am-Can will result in even more energy production.

“Together, let’s stop wasting time and ridiculous ideas about merging, and instead focus on efforts on restoring the pride of Made in Canada and Made in U.S.A.,” said Ford. “Our country is not for sale. It will never be for sale. We could be the richest, wealthiest, most prosperous, safest jurisdiction anywhere in the world if we work together.”

Ford, the chair of Canada’s premiers, said that Trudeau has agreed to meet the premiers next Wednesday. He said that the message to Trudeau would be for him to do everything in his power to address the tariffs. The premiers are requesting a plan from Trudeau. 

The Fortress Am-Can announcement came a day after Ontario unveiled a framework to enhance border security at their shared border with the United States. 

The premiers previously demanded improved border security from Trudeau in response to Trump’s tariff threat. 

“We’re going to hold his feet to the fire until the day he’s no longer prime minister. He still has a responsibility to make sure that we avoid these tariffs at all costs,” said Ford. 

The Liberals subsequently devoted $1.3 billion towards a border security plan.

Ford took the news internationally when he joined Fox News’s Jesse Watters live on air. 

Ford reiterated his stance that China, not Canada, is the root of the problem. 

“China is shipping in cheap parts into Mexico, and then Mexico is slapping ‘Made in Mexico’ stickers on and shipping them up through the U.S. and Canada, costing American and Canadian jobs,” said Ford. 

Despite Watters pushing Ford on the idea of annexation, Ford said economic collaboration was the answer.

“If we join together and take on the world with a great trade deal between us, I think that’d be fabulous. No one could stop us,” said Ford.

LEVY: Trudeau resigned without ever learning what leadership is

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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Source: pm.gc.ca

Down here in Florida we have been avidly following regular updates of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to be ready to roll once he is inaugurated in two weeks.

It certainly looks like he’s put a strong team in place and appears determined to tackle head on, from Day 1, some of the more pressing problems facing the United States — the very reason he took the November election by storm.

Lawfare couldn’t deter him. Neither could the distinct and often inaccurate legacy media narrative.

He’s got his border czar firmly in place to deal with the illegal immigrant problem and it is clear he is serious about trying to return peace to Israel.

Aside from some days on the links, he didn’t take any time off — after a grueling election campaign — to ski out west or head to beaches in Hawaii or St. Croix as President Joe Biden and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, did shortly after Nov. 5.

Whether you love him or hate him, it has become obvious Trump knows how to lead.

He has a tremendous work ethic and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.

Instead of lecturing Americans about diversity, Trump is a man of action, appointing a diverse group of men and women around him based on their strengths not the colour of their skin or their sexuality. 

I thought of what we’re witnessing south of the border as our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped up to the lectern on a cold Ottawa day to say he’s resigning — eventually — for the good of the country.

He could have won an Oscar for his efforts at gaslighting Canadians.

Not all of us are fooled. 

Let’s see now. He’s suspending all activities of Parliament throwing the country into complete chaos and ensuring the spotlight is not on him for nearly three months.

Trump’s tariffs be damned. 

I have no clue whether anyone is actually negotiating with the President-elect — whether it be Trudeau himself or one of the two ministers (Melanie Joly or Dominic LeBlanc) he recently sent down to Mar-a-Lago while he schussed down the hills of Red Mountain, B.C.

But he’s not actually stepping down until another Liberal fills the role (should we consider this echoes of Kamala?)

Dare I suggest that if our PM were truly doing what’s best for the good of the country, he wouldn’t prorogue Parliament until the end of March and he certainly wouldn’t stay on as PM during this terribly fragile period with his neighbour to the south.

Instead of looking outwards and dealing with the valid threats to Canadians, the focus will be on Liberal infighting.

I can’t help but wonder if we’re really doomed.

Ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away, like Trudeau appears to be doing, will do nothing. Playing the role of pugilist like Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to be doing won’t help either

Ford is spending oodles of taxpayer money on a fuzzy wuzzy ad telling Americans all the wonderful things his province does for them.

It ran four times — I kid you not — during prime time last evening.

Whoever advised him to do that proves how out of his depth Ford is.

The only premier who seems to get it is Alberta’s Danielle Smith, who is attending Trump’s inauguration.

Trump is not wrong.

We do have an illegal migrant issue in Canada.

Our progressive leaders, starting with Trudeau, have let far too many people in without proper vetting of their backgrounds.

For example, how many people coming from Gaza have undergone thorough background checks?

Instead of saying silly things that make one appear foolish on the world stage — as in Trudeau reiterating he’s a feminist — or threatening Trump, as Ford has done, perhaps our “leaders” could take a page from the President-elect’s book and address the impact of their progressive immigration policies head-on.

That may be too much to ask. 

But I certainly can see that many Canadians are fed up with paying the freight for the migrants who flock to our major cities for the freebies and have no respect for our country’s values.

We have seen it on the streets of Toronto and Montreal for more than a year.

I have seen the lineups at shelters that can’t accommodate them.

We see the escalating violence on our streets.

I don’t like the idea of tariffs one bit.

But perhaps if they happen, it will arouse our politicians and the people who still support them out of their slumber.

The Rachel Parker Show | Designated TERRORIST group to host Islamic supremacy conference in Ontario

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Rachel Parker
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Source: Hizb ut Tahrir Canada

Today on the Rachel Parker show, Rachel is joined by Jarryd Jäger, a reporter who uncovered that an extremist group is set to host its annual Khilafah (Caliphate) Conference in Ontario. The grouo, Hizb ut-Tahrir, said the theme of the conference is “eliminating the obstacles that are delaying [the] return” of an Islamic caliphate.

Later on the show, Rachel is joined by Sylvain Charlebois, also known as the food professor, who breaks down the latest in food price trends. He also has some positive updates about the impact of prorogation on Canadian farmers.

Tune in now!

Two Canadians legally challenge Trudeau’s decisions to prorogue

By
Quinn Patrick, True North Wire
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Source: Parl.gc.ca

A constitutional rights group will represent two Canadians in a legal challenge to overturn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament, alleging it to be “incorrect, unreasonable or both.” 

The challenge seeks to have a Federal Court judge cancel the prime minister’s demand to shut down Parliament, forcing a return of the House of Commons.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced that it will be providing lawyers to David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos, filers of a court application on Tuesday, which contends that Trudeau’s decision to prorogue “was not made in furtherance of Parliamentary business or the business of government, but in service of the interests of the LPC [Liberal Party of Canada].”’

While the lawsuit must meet a high threshold to be successful, if so, Parliament would have to resume as early as Jan. 27, likely forcing a confidence vote immediately upon its return. 

Trudeau’s rationale for his prorogation request was that the Liberal party needed time to have a leadership race following his resignation as party leader. 

However, the prorogation also thrusts Parliament into a reset, bringing all business on the Order Paper to a halt including bills, motions and committee work. MPs are relieved of their Parliamentary duties until the next session is summoned, which also applies to all Parliamentary committees.

Any unfinished business of bills which have not yet been passed before prorogation takes place will be dropped or die on the Order Paper.

“No explanation was provided as to why Parliament could not recess instead. No explanation was provided as to why Members of Parliaments could not immediately exercise their right to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the government,” reads the JCCF release. “A majority of MPs have now repeatedly promised to do just that, which would trigger an election and provide the needed “reset” in a democratic and legitimate way.”

MacKinnon and Lavranos cited a 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom which found that then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson “had prorogued Parliament unlawfully, as a means of avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny over the government’s ‘Brexit’ negotiations.”

As the deadline for U.S. President-elect Donal Trump’s inauguration nears, the threat of his proposed 25% tariff on all Canadian imports looms heavy as well, something that the plaintiffs addressed in their lawsuit as well. 

“The Decision has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive, particularly insofar as it relates to Parliament’s ability to deal quickly and decisively with especially pressing issues, such as the situation caused by President-Elect Trump’s stated intention to impose a 25% tariff on all goods entering the United States from Canada,” reads the notice of application.  

It goes on to say that Trudeau’s prorogation “stymies the publicly stated intent of a majority of MPs to bring a motion for non-confidence in the government and trigger an election.”

Lawyer James Manson, who is representing the plaintiffs argues that the decision “violates the constitutional principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and Parliamentary accountability.”

“We will invite the Court to conclude that the Prime Minister’s decision to advise the Governor General to prorogue Parliament was without reasonable justification,” said Manson. 

Both the Prime Minister’s Office and the Liberal Party of Canada did not respond to True North’s request for comment.

The Daily Brief | Poilievre defends Canada’s sovereignty in the face of Trump’s annexation threat

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Source: YT: Pierre Poilievre

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will follow a “Canada First” strategy in the face of US President Donald Trump’s willingness to use “economic force” to annex Canada.

The Alberta government has unveiled an ambitious strategy to double oil production and increase exports to the US.

Following public outrage in Mississauga, an extreme Islamist group has relocated its conference to Hamilton.

Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Clayton DeMaine!

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