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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Trudeau government will “wait and see” before recognizing Taliban government

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The Liberal government is not ruling out the possibility of recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan. 

During an appearance on CBC’s Power & Politics, Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau claimed that his government will “wait and see” how the Taliban behaves before making such a determination.

“I would say to you that it’s early days. Right now we want to see what happens. The country has essentially surrendered to the Taliban, the Taliban is saying that it wants to run this government but we’re going to wait and see, it’s too early to answer that question,” Garneau told CBC’s Katie Simpson.

“We have to see how they behave since they have taken over the country. Certainly, their behaviour was totally unacceptable for the short time that they were in charge as the Russians left about 20 years ago, so we will wait and see.” 

According to Public Safety Canada’s official listed terror entities list, the Taliban is a terror groups that “uses terrorist tactics, including the extensive use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and suicide attacks, to further its political objectives.” 

Other countries including the US and the UK have stated that they do not believe that a Taliban government should be recognized internationally.

Over the last week, the Taliban has effectively been able to steamroll through Afghanistan, ultimately capturing the nation’s capital, Kabul, over the weekend as the remaining US troops withdraw from the country.

The quick takeover by the terrorist forces has led to several countries, including Canada, scrambling to evacuate citizens and any diplomatic staff remaining in the country. 

When asked about Canada’s response to the crisis, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that his government is ready to resettle thousands of Afghans seeking to escape the country.

“We have Canadian Armed Forces assets deployed in the region staging out of Kuwait, including aircraft,” said Trudeau.

“We have to recognize the situation is extremely fluid right now, and exceedingly dangerous. We’ve seen the Taliban take control of the country. We need to make sure that the safety of those brave women and men in the Canadian Armed Forces who are doing this work on behalf of Canadians and on behalf of Afghans, are done safely.”

In response to Trudeau, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole accused the prime minister of “doing nothing” to evacuate trapped Afghans. 

The Trudeau government knew that was coming. They had six months at least (knowing) that the Biden administration was pulling out, and the Trudeau government did nothing even to secure folks that had worked at the embassy,” said O’Toole. 

Despite Trudeau’s claims, a recent report by the Toronto Sun has indicated that the Liberal government has been stalling on its evacuation promises despite demands for expediency by the Canadian military. 

The election could drastically change the media landscape in Canada

By
Candice Malcolm
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If Erin O’Toole wins the election, the media landscape in Canada will drastically change – and that threatens the legacy media.

Why else would they scoff and complain when an independent journalist gets to ask a question at a press conference?

The reality is that they see the writing on the wall – CBC numbers are in free fall because increasingly, Canadians don’t trust them and aren’t interested in hearing their propaganda.

And if Justin Trudeau loses his COVID election wager and the Conservatives win this election, it won’t be in favour of the boring stuck-up Liberal status quo – it will be in favour of independent and authentic journalists like the ones here at True North.

Candice Malcolm breaks it all down on The Candice Malcolm Show.

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O’Toole pledges to move Canada’s embassy to Jerusalem

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole revealed on Monday that if elected prime minister, he would move Canada’s embassy to Jerusalem and officially recognize the city as Israel’s capital.

The promise was part of the Conservative’s newly unveiled 160-page election platform.

“Canada’s Conservatives will always support Israel’s existence as a sovereign democratic Jewish state with the right to self-determination and to live in peace and security,” the platform reads. 

“(Canada’s Conservatives will) recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem.” 

On Sunday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau officially called the 2021 election, forcing Canadians to go to the polls in the midst of a pandemic. 

O’Toole’s call echoes a similar promise by former Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer who also pledged to move the embassy during the 2019 election. 

Currently, the Embassy of Canada to Israel is located in Tel Aviv. In 2019, Trudeau refused to pledge to move Canada’s embassy to Jerusalem following a decision by former US president Donald Trump to do so. 

Following Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Trudeau government voted against its long-standing ally in the UN Security Council. 

“I have always been very clear: our embassy will stay in Tel Aviv,” said Trudeau at the time. “We do not believe that actions like this are useful.” 

The Conservative platform also promises to reverse course on Liberal policies which single out Israel in the international community. 

Last year, Jewish organizations accused the Trudeau government for backing an anti-Israel vote in favour of Palestine. Critics argued that the vote’s framing was one-sided and failed to affirm Jewish self-determination. 

Bill C-230 to address “environmental racism” in Canada

By
Joseph Bielmeier
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A new Liberal private members bill aims to address “environmental racism” in Canada.

The bill, Bill C-230, sponsored by Liberal MP Lenore Zann, claims that  “a disproportionate number of people who live in environmentally hazardous areas are members of an Indigenous or racialized communities.” It also states that “establishing environmentally hazardous sites” in areas where these said communities live can be a form of “racial discrimination.” 

The bill calls for the Environment Minister to “develop a national strategy to promote efforts across Canada to redress the harm caused by environmental racism.”

The bill states that the strategy must “assess the administration and enforcement of environmental laws in each province.” This has complications with natural resources as a provincial jurisdiction according to the constitution.

The Conservatives are the only opposition party that oppose this bill. No Conservative MP voted in favour of it. 

Bill C-230 has passed its second reading in the House of Commons. An amendment was added by the Bloc Quebecois citing a concern over the federal government getting involved in provincial jurisdiction. 

The term ”environmental racism” was first developed by Benjamin Chavis, a black civil rights leaderwho defined as: “racial discrimination in environmental policy-making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of colour for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history of excluding people of colour from leadership of the ecology movements.”

With a possible election this fall, Bill C-230 is not likely to become a focal point. This allows the Liberals, along with the NDP and Bloc, to be able to pass the bill in the next parliament with anything less than a Conservative majority.

O’Toole government will repeal Liberal gun bill, order-in-council

By
Andrew Lawton
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A Conservative government would rollback the Liberal government’s increased firearm restrictions, the party confirmed Monday.

The Conservative Party of Canada’s official platform says a government led by Erin O’Toole would focus on smuggling and guns used in crime rather than the Trudeau approach of broad changes that only affect law-abiding gun owners.

This includes a repeal of Bill C-71 and the Trudeau government’s May 2020 order-in-council, which prohibited more than 1,500 firearm models, including the popular AR-15. Bill C-71 introduced a range of restrictions on gun owners, including a requirement to seek specific authorization to take a lawfully owned firearm to a gunsmith or a gun show.

The Conservatives are also committing to a review of the Firearms Act “with participation by law enforcement, firearms owners, manufacturers, and members of the public.”

“We will then update legislation by introducing a simplified classification system and codifying it in law so that it is clear what types of firearms fit into each category and classification decisions can be made quickly, and with the public and firearms owners having confidence that they are not arbitrary,” the platform says.

The Conservative gun plan would require law enforcement to return firearms seized when a person has been charged with an offence if the charges are dismissed.

The O’Toole government would also require “sentencing consideration for courts” if someone is charged for an offence “directed at a property or person that was vulnerable because of their remoteness from emergency services.”

Those using firearms when they are under a prohibition order, or those using firearms in the commission of a crime, will be subject to stiffer penalties under the plan laid out in the platform.

“Our focus will be on keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals,” the document says. “This contrasts with the Liberals, who have refused to take action against gangs while harassing hunters and sport shooters. Canada’s Conservatives will improve the regulation of legal firearms to ensure that it is evidence-based and focuses on protecting public safety.”

Earlier this year, True North released Assaulted: Justin Trudeau’s War on Gun Owners, a four-part documentary series telling the stories of Canadians whose lives and livelihoods have been harmed as a result of the order-in-council.
As previously reported by True North, the federal government spent $2.2 million on a pre-election ad campaign warning Canadians of the rising threat of gun violence, and promoting the Liberals’ firearms reforms.

NDP candidate supported “riots and destruction” during George Floyd protests

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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A federal NDP candidate stated on social media last year that she supported the “riots and destruction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. 

Geneva Allen, who is running under the NDP banner for the Quebec riding of Compton–Stanstead, made the comments in a series of tweets on May 29, 2020 as the protests and riots began. 

“Unpopular opinion but I support the riots and destruction in #minneapolisriots How does one get change otherwise? There has been systemic racism built into the US for too long…” wrote Allen.

In the same tweet, Allen called the violent riots “creative destruction where good can blossom from ashes.” 

Allen also went on to state that “peaceful protests can only go so far” and “revolution” would be required. 

“Revolution is needed at a certain point when it is so engrained in society that people don’t even see it’s happening,” wrote Allen.  

In the aftermath of the riots, reports indicated that violence by the far-left and Antifa cost Minneapolis around $550 million in damage and resulted in two deaths.

Allen’s Twitter account was created in December 2016. These controversial remarks have not been deleted. 

True North reached out to Allen over social media to give her an opportunity to address her past comments but did not receive a reply.

According to a social media post by those close to Allen, she was first sworn in as an “MP candidate for Compton-Stanstead Quebec for the NDP” on July 26, 2021. 

Prior to becoming a candidate, Allen also held an executive position as the communications coordinator for McGill University’s NDP chapter.


True North attempted to contact the NDP on numerous occasions to officially confirm Allen’s candidacy but did not receive a response by the time of this article’s publication. 

O’Toole government would abandon Liberal moves to regulate internet speech

By
Andrew Lawton
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Don’t expect to see bills C-10 and C-36 reintroduced under a Conservative government under Erin O’Toole.

The Conservatives’ 2021 campaign platform says Bill C-10, which would significantly expand the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) mandate to include online publishers – including social media users – ”gives too much power to regulators while failing to provide businesses with the clear guidelines they need to operate.”

While the Conservatives say the CRTC mandate needs an update, they say their plan would exempt user-generated social media content and ensure any changes don’t stifle Canadian publishers.

The platform also says an O’Toole-led government would not expand the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s mandate to prosecute online hate speech, as the Liberal Bill C-36 proposed.

“Free speech, freedom of expression, and a free press are fundamental tenets of Canadian law and Canadian democracy,” the platform says. “We will oppose government censorship of material that is not criminal in nature merely because some may find it to be offensive.”

A Conservative government would continue to use the existing high criminal code threshold for hate speech and use the criminal justice system rather than human rights tribunals when that threshold has been met.

The Conservatives do not appear to be pursuing the Liberals’ planned Digital Safety Commission to enforce speech regulations against social media companies.

Their plan would, however, create a “stronger legal duty for social media platforms to remove illegal content, such as content that incites violence.”

It would also give $25 million to law enforcement agencies to allow them to “follow up more rapidly and investigate online threats of violence, hate speech, sexual exploitation, human trafficking and disinformation campaigns by foreign governments or extremist groups.”

The platform also says a Conservative government would protect conscience rights for healthcare practitioners and work with provinces to ensure postsecondary institutions have a “commitment to free speech and academic freedom.”

Conservative platform commits to reviewing CBC’s business model

By
Andrew Lawton
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A Conservative government under Erin O’Toole will evaluate CBC’s place in the Canadian media landscape.

The Conservative Party of Canada’s 2021 platform, “Canada’s Recovery Plan,” lays out a three-pronged plan for CBC:

  • Giving Radio-Canada, CBC’s French language service, a “distinct legal and administrative structure to reflect its distinct mandate of promoting francophone culture;”
  • Protect CBC Radio and CBC North;
  • Review the mandate of CBC’s English television, news, and online services.

The platform says the review would “assess the viability of refocusing the service on a public interest model like that of PBS in the United States, ensuring that it no longer competes with private Canadian broadcasters and digital providers.”

The pledge is more modest than what O’Toole promised last year during his leadership campaign. O’Toole’s leadership platform promised to privatize both CBC News Network and CBC’s English television within a first mandate, as well as rollback and ultimately end funding for CBC Digital.

Asked Monday morning whether he’d be fulfilling his leadership CBC commitments, O’Toole restated the platform’s pledge to “review” the state broadcaster’s mandate.

“I think it’s unfair for the private sector media outlets that are struggling to transition to digital, that are struggling to gain advertising revenue to see the state competing against them, particularly in areas of digital, where the CBC increases have actually made it harder for the private sector and then Mr. Trudeau creates a media bailout fund to deal with some of the challenges he has caused,” O’Toole said.

Under the new Conservative platform, Radio-Canada would have to forgo user fees for its online streaming service, to ensure it is not competing with private francophone media outlets.

CBC receives over $1.2 billion in government funding each year.

The platform says an O’Toole government would make subscriptions to Canadian news publications tax-deductible and eliminate the GST on subscriptions to Canadian digital platforms, to better level the playing field between them and foreign platforms like Netflix.

A Conservative government would also put an end to the Trudeau government’s $600 million media bailout, arguing that having “approved” media “undermines press freedom, a vital part of a free society.”

The Conservatives released their 160-page platform Monday, just one day after Liberal leader Justin Trudeau triggered a snap election for Sept. 20.

MALCOLM: Let’s talk about who could be harmed by domestic vax passports

By
Candice Malcolm
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Vaccine passports are all the rage these days. As Sun editor and columnist Anthony Furey put it, there is a “current urgent, manic energy around domestic vax passports.”

Quebec was the first to take the plunge, announcing last week that it would ban all non-vaccinated people from “non-essential public spaces” – including bars, restaurants, gyms and festivals – as of Sept. 1.

According to the Globe and Mail, “Quebeckers would need to scan a code on a smartphone application to get into busy public spaces” but interestingly, “employees at those businesses will not face the same vaccination requirement to avoid running afoul of labour laws.”

This policy may seem extreme, but it isn’t out of step with plans being drawn up by other levels of government.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plan to make vaccines mandatory for all federal government employees and all federally regulated industries — a cleverly devised wedge issue just in time for the election campaign.

There appears to be an elite consensus around vaccine mandates and passports, and Trudeau seems to be betting his minority government that Canadians will agree.

Writing in the Globe and Mail, former Chretién advisor Peter Donolo proclaims that passport vaccines are Trudeau’s path to a majority.

“The fact is that 80 per cent of those aged 12 and older have already received at least one dose of vaccine. By that measure, we can infer that a supermajority of actual voters have been inoculated,” says Donolo.

“Anyone who has ever advised a political leader will tell you that when you have an issue that roughly 80 per cent of the electorate agree on, you have a winner – especially if your main opponent won’t touch it.”

What Donolo is roughly describing here is what political scientists call a “tyranny of the majority.” He seems to believe that 80% of Canadian adults who are vaccinated will happily run roughshod on the 20% of the population who are hesitant to get vaccinated.

A national vaccine passport would be an institutionalized policy of discrimination against those who have not been vaccinated. And while many Liberals seem giddy about this idea, it may put them on the wrong side of history.

That’s because it appears that vaccine passports and forced vaccination schemes may prove to disproportionately harm black and Indigenous Canadians.

Allow me to explain.

In data obtained by True North, Statistics Canada observes that “certain sub-groups in Canada are more likely to report COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. These include black Canadians, Indigenous peoples, newcomers, and younger adults, among others.”

The StatsCan report, which is based on a COVID-19 vaccine willingness survey from March of this year, reveals that black Canadians have the lowest willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine (56.6%), while Indigenous Canadians have the second-lowest (71.8%).

With that in mind, will the Liberals really stake their election hopes on a pledge that may end up marginalizing certain Canadians by banning them from public places and demonizing them throughout the election?

As reported by True North, First Nations band councils, as well as community services staff on reserves, are also federally regulated industries.

Is Trudeau prepared to fire any black civil servants or remove any First Nations band councillors who refuse to get vaccinated? Is he willing to impose a policy that will further harm these already marginalized groups?

When Trudeau took a knee at a protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, or when he went on about “systemic racism” in Canada, does it become meaningless if he’s also willing to implement a policy that may exclude and harm a sizeable percentage of the black population in Canada?

If Trudeau imposes a vaccine passport, a future prime minister may one day apologize for it.

Two new “independent” Senate Advisory Board appointees have deep ties to Liberals

By
Caitlin Rose Morgante
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Source: Senate of Canada

The governing body in charge of appointing so-called “independent” senators has two new members — both with extensive ties to the Liberal Party of Canada.

On Thursday, President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc announced two new appointments to the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments (IABSA).

The appointment of Gerald Glavine and Sandra Kelly have again raised concerns over the “independence” and “non-partisanship” of the selection process.

The two “independent” appointees, have both made multiple donations to the Liberals. 

Kelly has made four donations since 2001, amounting to a total of $210.00. Glavine, who served as Chief of Staff to Liberal Premier Brian Tobin, has made a whopping 21 donations since 2008, worth $6,306.95 in total.

 “The IABSA plays an important role in ensuring…representation by providing the Prime Minister with non-binding, non-partisan, merit-based recommendations for Senate appointments,” read the news release. 

Trudeau founded IABSA in 2016 to supposedly circumvent the partisanship associated with Senate appointments. 

Senate appointments are “recommended by the IABSA, and chosen using the merit-based process open to all Canadians.” This process is supposed to “ensure Senators are independent, reflect Canada’s diversity, and are able to tackle the broad range of challenges and opportunities facing the country,” according to the government. 

However, the Conservatives have criticized Trudeau, arguing that he didn’t change the partisan nature of appointments because, in the end, Trudeau still has total discretion over who gets chosen. In 2017, independents voted with the government 94.5% of the time.

Some have questioned the efficacy of the selection process since it seems difficult to make “non-partisan” recommendations when the board itself has members with deep ties to the Liberals. Of the 2021 Senate appointees, five made large donations to the Liberals, two were former Liberal candidates and one was a director of the Trudeau Foundation. 

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