Dale Smith
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Freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Author of The Unbroken Machine. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars. Nigellavangelist. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Trudeau: Yes, I was a high school teacher before getting into politics, but I’m having trouble remembering what the leader of the opposition did before getting into politics.
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Dear CBC: This narrative that “Canadians elected a minority government and this violates it” is utterly bonkers and has zero basis under our parliamentary system.
Frankly, this is embarrassing for the national broadcaster.
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Freeland gives a full-throated defence of a woman’s right to choose.
Standing ovation except for the Conservatives, most of whom sat silent. A couple of Conservative women MPs clapped fairly quietly, but that was it.
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When asked if today plays into the narrative that Poilievre is being “silenced,” Miller responds “Who’s being silenced? He doesn’t shut up. It would be great if he could shut his yap once in a while.”
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Scheer just repeated in the Foyer that he thinks Trudeau is corrupt.
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Canada is not part of the Quint Group, which is who met and made this statement.
Poilievre knows this, but would rather lie about this to rage-farm and drive clicks.
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Bob Zimmer says people want passports to get a break from the “prime minister’s lockdowns.”
THE PRIME MINISTER DID NOT ORDER ANY LOCKDOWNS. WE HAD NO ACTUAL LOCKDOWNS IN CANADA. THE MOCKDOWNS WE DID HAVE WERE ORDERED BY THE PREMIERS.
FFS
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O’Toole claims they are the founding party of the country.
Erm, no. Your party was founded in 2003, not 1867,
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When Trudeau said that Conservatives can choose to stand with people who wave swastikas, the Conservative benches went ballistic.
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THE EMERGENCIES ACT DOES NOT OVERRIDE CHARTER RIGHTS.
It’s right in the gods damned text of the Act.
FFS.
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No, Andrew Scheer, inflation is nowhere near “historic” highs, and no, CPP, EI and the carbon price are not taxes.
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*sigh*
Once again, for those of you in the back:
RENT CONTROL IS 100% PROVINCIAL JURISDICTION.
LANDLORD-TENANT LEGISLATION IS 100% PROVINCIAL JURISDICTION.
Justin Trudeau cannot tell the premiers to institute rent controls. He doesn’t have that power.
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And there’s the shitpost I was waiting for. Trudeau wasn’t present in order to answer, but Scheer played this for the clips to make it look like Trudeau was there but simply not answering. In other words, he’s lying to followers who wouldn’t have that context.
Justin Trudeau no longer has the moral authority to govern. It was disgusting that he didn’t have the fortitude to answer any questions in Question Period yesterday.
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Trudeau could have ended the occupation in a day if he’d listened to their demands and overturned democracy in favour of a ruling junta of far-right extremists, senators and the Governor General!
Instead, he invoked the Emergencies Act (which protects people’s Charter Rights).
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Here’s the reason “Briane” and the other sob stories don’t exist: For their accounts to have been frozen for donating small amounts to the occupation, the RCMP and banks would need to be doing mass surveillance on the transactions going to the various funds. 1/
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Sorry, how do you not “demonize” a group that is calling for democracy to be overturned?
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The absolute small-town pettiness of Canadian media never ceases to amaze.
Unlike the tens of thousands of people joining the eight-kilometre queue along the River Thames, Mr. Trudeau used a special VIP entrance to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth.
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Holy inflation, Batman! Poilievre claimed in French that a turkey costs $100, and minutes later claimed in English that it costs $120. That’s positively Venezuelan!
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He’s not evasive. He has said straight up he’s not throwing money into a broken system and it’s up to premiers to agree to outcomes before he gives them more money.
Stop carrying water for the premiers. It’s their mess and they need to be held accountable.
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There is no way there was enough vaccine supply in the entire world to get Canada fully vaccinated in January and February, but sure, let’s blame the third wave on vaccines and not premiers refusing to take proper measures.
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Who relaxes at home in a full suit and tie to watch the sportsball game? This isn’t an awkwardly staged photo at all…
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Alberta is not “very broke.” Alberta has huge untapped taxation capacity that they simply choose not to use because they’ve relied on oil revenues.
Cripes.
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This guy’s wannabe goons tried to have me removed from the Press Gallery for making a joke about how terrible one of his MP’s questions was, so I really don’t think he’s all that concerned about the free press.
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Actual media criticism comes from the Beaverton, rather than the outlets who are supposed to be devoted to it, which says volumes about the state of media in this country.
Media promise to start covering Pierre Poilievre’s transphobic comments as soon as they finish 50th story on how Liberals are unpopular
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No originality whatsoever. Just cosplaying the American culture war.
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Reminder: The prime minister has zero authority in this situation.
The Ottawa Police Services Board is the venue to hold the police to account for their many failures in this situation.
You would think a former journalist and current city councillor would understand this.
The Ottawa Police Services Board does NOT direct the Chief and
@OttawaPolice
Direct your anger at
@CanadianPM
@JustinTrudeau
who caused this mess, and who refuse to be the leader we need to end the occupation. We have asked for his help countless time.
Why is ignoring
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Canada could have had a vaccine pilot facility a decade ago, as was the plan with money from the Gates Foundation.
Instead, Vic Toews objected, and the Harper government pissed the money away on small projects that did very little overall.
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On my way out of West Block after QP, I watched as Michael Cooper was giving thumbs-up to the assembled occupiers outside.
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Trucks leaving downtown right now are laying on their horns like the petulant toddlers that they are.
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Trudeau: Do you know who doesn’t report to the prime minister in our system? The Speaker of the House. If the leader of the opposition wants to change that, he should say so.
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The Liberals are not trying to ban it. The Standing Orders prohibit MPs from being referred to by their proper names.
Poilievre knows this, but is just trying to rage-farm for clicks.
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Dr. Tam says she’s working about 20 hours a day on the current pandemic crisis, in case anyone has been wondering.
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Proper context: Six out of 1308 appointments had attended fundraisers where the PM or other Cabinet ministers attended.
This is not a scandal, and the framing of these stories remains grossly distorted.
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Nope. The carbon price has contributed 0.15% to inflation.
Scheer can’t do math, and is lying to you to make you angry.
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Oh, look—another province with a “surprise” fiscal surplus, while they still haven’t reversed their cut to nurses’ salaries, or to teachers, and who have conspicuously avoided doing anything to make classrooms safe.
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“They didn’t need to have an election.”
Erm, was anyone paying attention to the five months of procedural warfare that ground the Commons to a halt this spring?
#CBCNN
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Candice Bergen continues to ignore that this event was planned an executed by far-right extremists and grifters, who brought along conspiracy theorists for the ride. This was never about vaccine mandates, and the prime minister did not cause it by calling those extremists out.
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It’s a once-in-a-century pandemic and new vaccines have been created in record time. The fact that there are hiccups in early roll-out should be expected. Why are we lighting our hair on fire over each one of them? Seriously, guys.
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Candice Bergen apparently does not understand how Responsible Government works, or hung parliaments.
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Fraser: Your leader’s chief advisor Jenni Byrne is a lobbyist for Loblaws, so maybe he should do one of his favourite things and look in the mirror.
Charlie Angus chirps “clean-up in aisle three.”
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I never thought the leopards would eat my face, etc, etc.
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This is a lie. There is peer-reviewed research that proves that carbon taxes do work.
This is what Justin Trudeau doesn’t want you to know. Carbon taxes don’t work! Just ask BC. Highest carbon tax in Canada and emissions have gone up five of last six years.
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Poilievre keeps calling Rota a “Liberal Speaker” as though he wasn’t the choice of the Conservative caucus.
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Nate Horner saying Alberta will provide a subsidy for people who want to convert from natural gas to home heating oil so they don’t have to pay the carbon price.
Heating oil is 4x as expensive as natural gas, so you’re paying more for spite.
What a gods damned child.
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Freeland: “The leader of the opposition has misconstrued my comments, which is becoming a bad habit for him.”
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So, Stephen Harper, whose government signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with China, and who sucked up to the regime for economic access in the later years of his government, is now trying to sound the alarm about China? 🤔
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Once again, the provinces took the money, didn’t do the job, and now blame the federal government, and legacy media continues to go along with it.
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Finding myself utterly bemused at everyone in the media who is *shocked* that Erin O’Toole blatantly lied in that video, as though it were the first time he’s done so.
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Singh is raising the vaccine cancellations in Scarborough.
THIS IS A QUESTION FOR DOUG FORD, NOT TRUDEAU.
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THE PROTESTS WERE NEVER ABOUT VACCINE MANDATES.
The far-right organizers had been planning it long before the border mandate happened, but sure, keep carrying water for them.
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It was an illegal occupation.
Not a convoy. Not a protest.
Li describes the impact of the "occupation" - she doesn't call it a protest "because I know what that is" - she suffered sleep deprivation, loss of focus, and anxiety even after the injunction, "day to day living in my own home in fear of the sound and the intrusion.."
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I have now read some eleventy-seven columns on what went wrong with Scheer and the Conservative campaign, and not one of them has so much as mentioned that he ran a campaign of verifiable lies while still asking Canadians to trust him.
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But clearly, Justin Trudeau was just picking a fight with India to distract from his poll numbers, or something.
FT Exclusive: A conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil was thwarted by US authorities – who also warned India’s government after concerns that it was involved in the plot
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Yesterday, the Conservatives insisted that four million Canadians are unable to travel, ostensibly because they are unvaxxed. Today they claim it’s seven million. 🤔
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This notion that people can’t get water in these quarantine hotels is ridiculous. They have taps and disposable cups in all hotel rooms. If people can’t drink treated municipal tap water, that’s on them.
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Poilievre is blaming Trudeau for the collapse of healthcare, never mind that this is the result of generations of provincial premiers cutting the system.
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It’s amazing that a straight, white, able-bodied woman equates consequences for a selfish *choice* with the kinds of discrimination faced by people solely for who they are, like race, gender, sexuality, or disability. The complete lack of self-awareness is boggling.
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What is not “conclusive” about what happened? Rota did not do any vetting. That’s it. That’s what happened.
This was not something PMO should have involved itself in, and anyone who suggests that the Speaker’s Office be subject to PMO oversight in the future is wrong.
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Poilievre says he’s reading J. Peterson’s “Twelve Rules” and effuses about how great it is.
This is virtue signalling for the crowd he’s courting.
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Trying to hide your anti-trans stance behind the atrocity of residential schools is a wholly dishonest choice, and it’s galling the number of people who think that they’re being clever with it.
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Poilievre’s great “filibuster” vote-a-thon is over.
The people to feel sorry for are not the MPs, but all of the staff and security for the House of Commons who had to endure this nonsense to keep the place running the whole time.
All for a stupid stunt that changed nothing.
👋 The House is now adjourned. See you Monday at 11 am ET.
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“Demonizing concerned parents” is the dog-whistle.
Also, Trudeau has no policy levers on education. Those belong to the provinces.
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“We can’t set up our web portal because we don’t have enough vaccines” is the most bullshit excuse I’ve heard in ages, so well done to Rick Hillier for that.
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I’m curious when exactly Justin Trudeau nationalized Air Canada, ports, and roads.
Either that, or Poilievre believes that the federal government directly controls companies that fall under federal regulatory powers, except he knows that’s not the case because he was a minister.
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Still waiting for an explanation for how Trudeau caused world oil prices to spike, and how he caused droughts in food producing regions.
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No, they’re not revoking the Emergencies Act. They’re revoking emergency orders.
Yes, there is a difference.
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While Poilievre hammers away at the cost of the hotel room for the Queen’s funeral, someone shouts “You live in Stornoway!”
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That’s not what happened. Unparliamentary language is unparliamentary language.
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What could the federal government have done when Doug Ford refused to act? Pray tell.
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Poilievre just blatantly lied about what Tiff Macklem said about employee pay.
Blatantly lied.
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Oh FFS—Robyn Urback just repeated the falsehood that donors to the occupation were having their bank accounts frozen.
Donors aren’t. It was participants and organizers.
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“Premiers demand more cash,” while one of them didn’t even spend their current budget and sent vote-buying cheques, another one is promising tax cuts and sent out vote-buying cheques, and none of them have done the very basic of paying nurses better.
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Fact check: Untrue.
Trudeau has retroactively made this illegal. His worst violation of fundamental legal principles. So far…
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The federal government sent Ford billions of dollars in the pandemic, and he used it on his bottom line. He didn’t reverse his cuts to nurses salaries, and the federal government is rightly concerned that if they give him more money, he won’t use it on healthcare. Again.
Ford says feds need to 'step up' to help fix Ontario's hospital staffing crisis
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Ed Fast thinks that Trudeau “forced” the central bank to raise rates.
Yeah, I don’t think monetary policy works like that.
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This kind of populist noise is how we let 24 Sussex decay to the point of collapse. We can’t have nice things.
"We don't need a new home for the prime minister. We need a new home for working-class Canadians," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says when asked about report the federal govt is exploring alternative site to 24 Sussex to build new official residence for the PM.
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Just a reminder that INSURANCE IS PROVINCIAL JURISDICTION.
Trying to blame this on Trudeau is wholly dishonest.
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When Freeland states that MPs should all speak out against a movement that tolerates symbols like Confederate flag, Bergen accuses her of gaslighting, then demands an “olive branch” to the grifter occupation.
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Reminder that the current government already signed contracts for future doses if they are needed. The Conservatives are literally pledging to take credit for Anita Anand’s work.
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Clip of an occupier saying that they are there to save the world from “tyranny.”
The absolute narcissism of these mooks who actually believe that they’re some kind of freedom fighters.
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Cries of “disrespectful!” from the back row as Joly reminds the Conservatives that they cut military spending to its lowest levels.
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Which federal powers, pray tell, is Trudeau supposed to use, for a situation that is *explicitly* the jurisdiction of the Ottawa Police?
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Because Poilievre won’t sit down while the Speaker is standing, a bunch of other MPs are now standing to protest, until Fergus tells Poilievre to sit down until recognised.
This is past childish.
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Pierre Poilievre and John Barlow are blaming the price of lettuce on the carbon price, and not because the crop got wiped out from a climate-related pathogen.
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Oh FFS.
GOVERNMENT DEFICITS ARE NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF CREDIT CARD DEBT.
This trope needs to die in a fire.
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Trudeau: “That leader has no plan and no vision. Perhaps he should put his glasses back on.”
The Conservatives objected to this.
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