National
Unemployment Surges as Trudeau’s Policies Wreak Havoc on the Economy
From The Opposition News Network
By Dan Knight
Let’s get real, folks. You look around, and it doesn’t take a PhD in economics to know something is seriously wrong. Unemployment’s ticking up to 6.6%, and wages? They’re not even keeping pace with inflation. Canadians are working harder than ever, yet the cost of everything—from the food you put on the table to the roof over your head—is spiraling out of control. And who’s at the wheel of this runaway train? Justin Trudeau, that’s who.
Trudeau’s government has unleashed a storm of reckless policies that are driving inflation through the roof. And what’s their solution? They’ve forced the Bank of Canada into a corner, leaving them with no choice but to keep rates above 4% interest rates at 4.25%. The result? Ordinary Canadians are feeling the squeeze like never before, struggling just to make ends meet. This isn’t some fluke; it’s a direct consequence of Trudeau’s economic mismanagement.
But here’s the kicker. While Canadians are tightening their belts, Trudeau’s government is flooding the country with immigrants, artificially inflating the GDP so they can keep funding their ridiculous green energy fantasies. That’s right. Instead of focusing on real, sustainable economic growth, Trudeau is pushing the numbers with mass immigration to cover up the economic disaster he’s created.
Think about that. You’re paying more for your groceries, your gas, your mortgage—all because Trudeau wants to make his government look good on paper. But it’s you who’s footing the bill.
Housing Crisis? That’s On Trudeau
Why can’t you afford a house anymore? Why are young families, people who grew up in this country, completely locked out of the housing market? The answer is simple—*it’s Justin Trudeau’s fault*.
Let’s be clear. The Bank of Canada has openly admitted that the housing crisis is a result of excess demand. But here’s what they’re not shouting from the rooftops: *that demand isn’t homegrown*. Trudeau’s open-door immigration policy has flooded the market, pushing housing prices through the roof. He’s not bringing in record numbers of immigrants because it’s good for Canada; he’s doing it to boost GDP artificially. The problem? That so-called “growth” is driving Canadians out of their own housing market.
You’ve got ordinary Canadians, people who’ve worked their whole lives, now completely priced out of homeownership because Trudeau has cranked up demand with his immigration policies. And while he’s busy making his numbers look good, you’re the one left without a chance to buy a home.
And what’s the solution Trudeau offers? Higher interest rates. That’s right. The Bank of Canada has been forced to keep rates above 4% (4.25%) just to cool down the mess Trudeau created. So now, not only are you dealing with sky-high prices, but the higher interest rates mean if you do somehow scrape together enough to buy a house, you’re stuck with a mortgage you can’t afford.
This isn’t just incompetence. It’s a deliberate strategy by Trudeau to artificially inflate the economy through immigration, all while making life harder for the average Canadian. This is the Trudeau legacy: inflated numbers on paper, while regular Canadians suffer in reality.
The Reality of Trudeau’s Policies
Everything costs more under Trudeau—everything. From your grocery bill to your taxes, life has gotten more expensive. But let’s not pretend this is some random economic downturn. This is the result of deliberate policies designed to make Trudeau look like he’s growing the economy. In reality, he’s burning through taxpayer dollars, and making life harder for the people who are actually *keeping this country going*—you.
And here’s the worst part: it’s not going to get better. As long as Trudeau is in charge, you’re going to keep seeing rising costs, more immigration to mask the economic stagnation, and higher interest rates making it impossible for Canadians to get ahead.
It’s time to stop pretending this is some unavoidable consequence of global forces. This is Justin Trudeau’s Canada, and the reality is, you’re being priced out of your own country.
Why Everything Costs More
Here’s the ugly truth: under Trudeau, everything costs more—much more. Groceries? Skyrocketing. Taxes? You can barely keep track of how many you’re paying. Energy bills? Forget it. These price hikes aren’t a coincidence—they’re a direct result of Trudeau’s reckless economic policies. This isn’t an accident; it’s the result of a deliberate plan to reshape Canada’s economy into some kind of climate-change fantasyland, and you’re the one paying for it.
Trudeau’s inflation problem started with his wild spending. The government kept printing and spending money, and soon enough, we had 8.1% inflation. While they love to pat themselves on the back for bringing it down to 2.5%, the reality is prices aren’t coming down. Groceries are still unaffordable. You’re paying 15-20% more for the basics like meat, vegetables, and even milk. Your wallet hasn’t seen any relief, despite their so-called victory lap.
Now, let’s talk about energy. Trudeau’s green energy agenda is a black hole sucking up billions in taxpayer dollars. Billions spent on unproven clean tech projects, and yet, have you seen your energy bills drop? Of course not. They’ve gone up. The kicker is, while Trudeau spends your money on windmills and electric buses that no one can afford, your gas and heating bills have soared. You’re being told to tighten your belt, but the government is lighting taxpayer dollars on fire.
Oh, and don’t forget taxes. Every time you turn around, there’s a new tax or an increase to an existing one. Carbon taxes, fuel taxes—everything is designed to make life more expensive. You’re paying more at the pump because of Trudeau’s so-called climate policies. Every single tax increase hits the working-class Canadian, the family just trying to get by. Meanwhile, Justin and his globalist buddies are laughing all the way to their next climate summit in a private jet.
A Trump Factor to Watch
And if you think this is bad, just wait. If Donald Trump wins re-election, Trudeau’s green pipe dream might come crashing down. Trump has promised to roll back Biden’s climate change initiatives. No more wind farms, no more billions funneled into solar power plants that never seem to get built. If Trump dismantles these climate policies, Trudeau’s entire green energy house of cards falls apart. Canada is deeply tied to U.S. climate cooperation—without it, Trudeau is left holding an empty bag. And what happens then? *You* will pay the price again as the government scrambles to find another way to fund their utopian schemes.
But it’s not just Trudeau’s climate pipe dreams that Trump could affect. Trump has been crystal clear—he’s bringing back tariffs, and Canada’s already weak GDP will take another hit. With Trudeau’s economic mismanagement, we can’t afford to take another blow. If Trump slams down new tariffs on Canadian goods, we’re looking at fewer jobs, higher prices, and an even deeper recession. Trudeau has left Canada exposed, and we’re the ones who will suffer for it.
Trudeau’s Legacy: Pain for the Average Canadian
Let’s face it—Trudeau’s legacy is one of pain for the average Canadian. He’s bloated the government, jacked up immigration numbers to artificially inflate GDP, and used that growth to justify even more spending. But who’s benefiting? Not you. Wages are stagnant, while the cost of living has gone through the roof. Why? Because the demand for everything from housing to groceries is being driven by immigration policies that Trudeau is using to fund his agenda. This isn’t about building a better Canada; it’s about maintaining the illusion of growth by bringing in more people to mask his economic failures.
Why can’t you buy a house? Because Trudeau’s open-door immigration policy has created an artificial demand for housing that has nothing to do with Canadians. The Bank of Canada has admitted it—excess demand is driving up housing costs. But here’s the kicker: this demand isn’t from Canadians trying to buy their first home. It’s from a government that’s using immigration as a crutch for economic growth that doesn’t actually exist. Meanwhile, you, the hard-working Canadian, are priced out of the market. You’re paying more, and Trudeau doesn’t care.
From taxes to groceries to housing, everything costs more under Justin Trudeau. And it’s all part of a grand scheme to push his climate agenda while using *your* hard-earned money to do it. So the next time you see your grocery bill or try to pay your heating bill, remember: this is the Canada Justin Trudeau built. How much longer can Canadians endure this? How much more can you take?
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Alberta
Alberta government announces review of Trudeau’s euthanasia regime
From LifeSiteNews
Alberta announced it ‘is reviewing how MAID is regulated to ensure there is a consistent process as well as oversight that protects vulnerable Albertans, specifically those living with disabilities or suffering from mental health challenges.’
The Conservative provincial government of Alberta is pushing back against the Canadian federal government’s continued desire to expand euthanasia in the nation, saying it will launch a review of the legislation and policies surrounding the grim practice, including a period of public engagement.
The United Conservative Party (UCP) government under Premier Danielle Smith in a press release said the province needs to make sure that robust safeguards and procedures are in place to protect vulnerable people from being coerced into getting euthanatized under the MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) program.
“Alberta’s government is reviewing how MAID is regulated to ensure there is a consistent process as well as oversight that protects vulnerable Albertans, specifically those living with disabilities or suffering from mental health challenges,” said the government Monday.
The government said a online survey regarding MAiD open to all Albertans who have opinions about the deadly practice will be available until December 20.
“We recognize that medical assistance in dying is a very complex and often personal issue and is an important, sensitive and emotional matter for patients and their families,” said Alberta’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Mickey Amery.
Amery said it is important to ensure this process has the “necessary supports to protect the most vulnerable.”
The government said that it will also be engaging with academics, medical associations, public bodies, as well as religious organizations and “regulatory bodies, advocacy groups” regarding MAiD
The government said all information gathered through this consultation will “help inform the Alberta government’s planning and policy decision making, including potential legislative changes regarding MAID in Alberta.”
When it comes to MAiD, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government sought to expand it from the chronically and terminally ill to those suffering solely from mental illness.
However, in February, after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed the mental illness expansion until 2027.
Alberta’s Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Dan Williams said that the UCP government has been “clear” that it does not “support the provision of medically assisted suicide for vulnerable Albertans facing mental illness as their primary purpose for seeking their own death.”
“Instead, our goal is to build a continuum of care where vulnerable Albertans can live in long-term health and fulfilment. We look forward to the feedback of Albertans as we proceed with this important issue,” he noted.
The Alberta government said that as MAiD is “federally legislated and regulated” it is main job will be to try and make sure that it protects “vulnerable individuals” as much as possible.
Alberta’s Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange reaffirmed that the Alberta government “does not support expanding MAID eligibility to include those facing depression or mental illness and continues to call on the federal government to end this policy altogether.”
The number of Canadians killed by lethal injection under the nation’s MAiD program since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.
To combat Canadians being coerced into MAiD, which LifeSiteNews has covered, the combat pro-life Delta Hospice Society (DHS) is offering a free “Do Not Euthanize Defense Kit” to help vulnerable people “protect themselves” from any healthcare workers who might push euthanasia on the defenseless.
Bruce Dowbiggin
The Pathetic, Predictable Demise of Echo Journalism
It can be safely said that the 2024 U.S. presidential election couldn’t have gone much worse for legacy media in that country. Their biases, conceits and outright falsehoods throughout the arduous years-long slog toward Nov. 5 were exposed that night. Resulting in the simultaneous disaster (for them) of Donald Trump winning a thunderous re-election and their predictive polling being shown to be Democratic propaganda.
Only a handful of non-establishment pollsters (Rasmussen, AtlasIntel) got Trump’s electoral college and overall vote correct. Example: One poll by Ann Selzer in Iowa—a highly-rated pollster with a supposedly strong record—showed a huge swing towards Harris in the final week of the election race, putting her three points up over Trump. He ended up winning Iowa by 13.2 points (Selzer now says she’s retiring.)
Throughout, these experts seemed incapable of finding half the voter pool. By putting their thumb on the scale during debates, the representatives of the so-called Tiffany networks and newspapers signalled abdication of their professional code. Their reliance on scandal-sheet stories was particularly glaring.
Just a few lowlights: “the brouhaha over a shock comedian at a Trump rally calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage”. Unhinged outgoing POTUS Biden then called GOP voters “garbage”. So Trump made an appearance as a garbage man, to the snarky disapproval of CBS News chief anchor Nora O’Donnell.
Then there was Whoopi Goldberg on The View predicting Trump will “break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: “He’s going to deport and you, put the white guy with someone else… The man is out there!” Media ran with this one, too.
Worse, disinformation and lying reached such a proportion that Team Trump turned its campaign away from the networks and legacy papers down the stretch, creating a new information pathway of podcasts and social media sites (such as Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Adin Ross) that promise to be the preferred route for future candidates looking for non-traditional voters. A few prominent media owners sought to save themselves by refusing to endorse a presidential candidate, but the resulting tantrum by their Kamala-loving staff negated the effort.
In the past, poor performances by the Media Party might be dismissed or ignored. But the cataclysmic ratings drops for CNN and MSNBC paired with collapse in sales for blue-blood rags such as the New York Times, Washington Post and L.A. Times spoke to the public’s disgust with people they’ve always trusted to play it straight.
(Now Comcast has announced it’s spinning off MSNBC and its news bundle to save their profitable businesses. Staff members in these places are now panicking. As such the new administration promises to be indifferent to the former media powers-that-be as Trump mounts radical plans to recast the U.S. government. )
As noted here the disgraceful exercise in journalism was cheered on by their compatriots here in Canada. “In the hermetically sealed media world of Canada, natives take their cues from CNN and MSNBC talking points both of which employ Canadians in highly visible roles. (Here’s expat Ali Velshi famously describing on NBC that the 2020 George Floyd riots that burned for weeks— destroying billions in damages while resulting in multipole deaths— as “generally peaceful”.)
The narratives of Russiagate, drinking bleach, “fine people” to Hunter Biden’s laptop— long ago debunked down south— are still approved wisdom in Canada’s chattering class. Especially if America’s conflagration election can be used to demonstrate the good sense and judgment of Canada’s managerial and media class.
The clincher for star-struck Canadians was the overwhelming Kamala love from the Hollywood crowd. Virtually every high-profile actor/ singer/ writer embraced the woman who was parachuted into the nomination in a coup— even as the same glitterati raved about anti-democratic Trump. From Beyoncé to Bilie Eilish to Bruce Springsteen, their support was been a winner in Canada’s fangirl/ fanboy culture.”
Talk about backing a loser. Which leaves us asking what to expect from formerly respected media in the upcoming (it will come, won’t it?) defenestration of Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, probably in spring of 2025. One Toronto Star piece might provide a clue to the bunkered approach of Canada’s globalists. “Europe is leaving Donald Trump’s America behind. Should Canada do the same? As American democracy dives into darkness, Canada is facing difficult choices.”
CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has made it abundantly clear his thoughts on the bias of media. To save billions, he is making a major overhaul— even closure of CBC (not Radio Canada)— as a campaign pledge. He’s also said he will remove the slush fund now propping up failed establishment news organizations that employ unionized workers bent of crushing the Conservatives.
His scorn is obvious after watching media’s reverential treatment of Trudeau’s fake “murdered” Rez children stunt or the silence accompanying PMJT’s sacking of his indigenous Justice minister Jodie Wilson Raybould. Lately, a deadpan Poilievre humiliated a callow CBC reporter quoting “experts” by asking her “what experts?” Her unpreparedness leaves her floundering as Poilievre calls her question another “CBC smear job”.
Perhaps the classic Poilievre humbling of a reporter occurred in 2023 in a Kelowna apple orchard when a reporter seeking to score points with his Woke colleagues saw the bushwhack rebound on him. After numerous failed attempts at belling the cat, the local reporter played his ace card.
Question: Why should Canadians trust you with their vote, given … y’know … not, not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page out of Donald Trump’s book, but, also —
Poilievre: (incredulous) What are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you gimme a page? Gimme the page. You keep saying that … “
No page was produced and the cringeworthy interview collapsed.
Needless to say, the reporter was absolved by his water-carrying colleagues. Here was Shannon Proudfoot of the Toronto Star: “Kicking a journalist in the shins over and over then turning the exchange into a social-media flex is telling on yourself…” Venerable CBC panelist/ Star columnist Chantal Hébert echoed the pauvre p’tit take. “Agreed”.
For these press box placeholders it’s all too reminiscent of the acid-drenched style of former PM Stephen Harper, a stance that turned them to Trudeau cheerleaders in 2015. Which is to say we shouldn’t have high hopes for balance when the writ is finally dropped.
Poilievre has several more ministers (Melissa Lantsman, Garrett Genuis) skilled in exposing media imbalance, so we can expect full-blown pushback from the paid-for media from the usual suspects when Trudeau finally succumbs to reality. One drawback for the Conservatives could be the absence of national podcasters such as Rogan or Von to which they can pivot.
But make no mistake, However much Canada’s press corps denies it, the public has turned away from Mr Blackface and the politics of privilege. They’d best anticipate a rough ride ahead.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
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