10 ways Justin Trudeau made Canada even worse in 2023

From LifeSiteNews

Many Canadians have woken up this year to find themselves living in the dystopian nation that is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada.

According to polling, Canadians ranked Trudeau as the most disliked prime minister in 55 years. Countless other polls reveal Trudeau’s decline in popularity, with 371,169 Canadians calling for him to step down before the next election.

How did Trudeau finally lose popularity with Canadians after serving as prime minister for 8 years? Perhaps the destructive nature of his policies have finally been realized by Canadians. Or maybe the rising cost of living has caused Canadians to wake up to the reality of Trudeau’s Canada.

In any case, here are ten ways Trudeau and his government have destroyed Canada this year.

10. Destroying the integrity and morality of the Canadian military

In June, the Canadian military was roundly condemned for “raising the pride flag” in honor of the “2SLGBTQI+ communities.”

The same month, Canadian troops in Latvia were forced to purchase their own helmets and food when the Trudeau government failed to provide proper supplies, instead spending their resources on Danish soldiers. Weeks later, Trudeau lectured the same troops on “climate change” and disinformation.

In November, officials admitted that the nation’s military is shrinking to dangerously low numbers as Trudeau continues to push the LGBT agenda on Canadian soldiers. In addition to low recruitment, the military is struggling to retain soldiers.

A Canadian Armed Force member previously told LifeSiteNews that between the COVID vaccine mandates and pushing the LGBT agenda, Canadians soldiers have lost confidence in the military.

9. The seemingly never-ending Trudeau Foundation scandal

The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, named after Justin’s father, has undergone increased scrutiny regarding its connection to China this year.

This investigation came just months after Canadian MPs from the House of Commons Public Accounts voted to begin an examination after a report surfaced detailing how the non-profit group received a $200,000 donation alleged to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Following the release of this report, the entire board of directors, including the president and CEO,  resigned.   

Since then, Conservatives have accused Trudeau’s Liberal government of having ignored foreign interference because it was to their political benefit, an accusation that was only made more poignant when Trudeau appointed a “family friend” to be the “independent” investigator into alleged Chinese election meddling

8. Giving a carbon tax exemption, but only for Liberal-voting Canadians

In October, Trudeau announced he was pausing the collection of the carbon tax on home heating oil for three years, a provision that primarily benefits the Liberal-held Atlantic provinces. Most Canadians heat their homes with clean-burning natural gas, a fuel that will not be exempted from the carbon tax. 

The biased exemption was roundly condemned by Canadians as well as many politicians, including Premiers Tim Houston of Nova Scotia, Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick, Doug Ford of Ontario, Danielle Smith of Alberta, and Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, who called for a carbon tax relief for all Canadians.

The carbon tax, framed as a way to reduce carbon emissions, has cost individual Canadians hundreds of extra dollars annually despite government rebates.     

The increased costs are again expected to rise, as a recent report revealed that a carbon tax of more than $350 per tonne is needed to reach Trudeau’s net-zero goals by 2050.     

Currently, Canadians living in provinces under the federal carbon pricing scheme pay $65 per tonne, but the Trudeau government has a goal of Canadians paying $170 per tonne by 2030. 

Despite both Canadians and politicians supporting carbon tax exemptions for all, Trudeau and his government refuse to provide relief to Canadians.  

7. Stripping Canada of her Christian heritage

In May, following the Coronation of King Charles III, the Trudeau government redesigned the Canadian crown that sits on the Royal Coat of Arms by removing all religious symbols.

The new design removed all religious symbols, replacing crosses and fleur-de-lis with maple leaves, snowflakes, and stars. The move caused some to accuse the Liberal Party of politicizing the symbol of the Crown and the Royal Coat of Arms.

This change is not Trudeau’s first attempt at removing religious symbols from Canada, despite the fact he is a baptized Catholic. In 2019, the government of Quebec passed a bill forbidding civil servants to display religious symbols on their persons while at work.  

Additionally, Trudeau was forced to admit that “Christmas is not racist” following a Canadian Human Rights Commission report claiming that holidays such as Christmas and Easter are forms of discrimination and religious intolerance, and that observing the birth of Jesus Christ is “an obvious example” of a type of religious bias that is rooted in colonialism. 

6. Restricting Canadians right to bear arms

This month, the Canadian federal government’s controversial gun grab bill, C-21, which bans many types of guns including all handguns while mandating a buyback program for certain rifles and shotguns, became law after Senators voted 60- 24 in favor of the bill.

In May, it passed in the House of Commons. After initially denying the bill would impact hunters, Trudeau eventually admitted that C-21 would indeed ban certain types of hunting rifles.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with premiers from no less than four additional provinces, opposed C-21. But, as with the carbon tax, the concerns of Canadians seemed to be of no concern to Trudeau.

5. Driving up food prices for Canadians through climate regulations

According to a November report, food costs for a family of four in Canada will increase by $700 in 2024 along with increases in household expenses like rent and utilities.

At the time, Canadian Taxpayer Federation Director Franco Terrazzano told LifeSiteNews, “The carbon tax makes grocery prices more expensive.”

“When Trudeau’s carbon tax makes it more expensive for farmers to grow food and truckers to deliver food, his carbon tax makes it more expensive for families to buy food,” he explained.

The report should not come as a surprise to Canadians considering a September report by Statistics Canada revealing that food prices are rising faster than the headline inflation rate – the overall inflation rate in the country – as staple food items are increasing at a rate of 10 to 18 percent year-over-year. 

4. Wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on promoting the LGBT agenda

In June, the designated month of gay “pride,” the Trudeau government pledged $1.5 million in what it claims is “emergency funding” for “pride” month to fund increased security to organizations running parades.

Later in June, records revealed that the Liberal government gave $12 million for “pride” events during COVID lockdown years.

3. Blocking Canadians from viewing and sharing news on Facebook and Instagram

In June, Trudeau’s internet censorship law, Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was passed by the Senate. This law mandates that Big Tech companies pay to publish Canadian content on their platforms.

As a result, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram,  blocked all access to news content in Canada, while Google has agreed to pay Canadian legacy media $100 million under the new legislation.

Critics of Trudeau’s recent laws, such as tech mogul Elon Musk, have commented that the legislation shows that “Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada.”  

Musk made the comments after the nation’s telecommunications regulator announced that due to new powers granted to it via the Online Streaming Act, certain podcasters will now have to “register” with the government.

2. Promoting increased access to abortion and spending taxpayer dollars to kill unborn Canadians

Like his father, Trudeau is a staunch supporter of killing unborn babies, and 2023 was not an exception. In January, Trudeau affirmed a woman’s “right to choose” when he was confronted with abortion victim photography on the streets of Hamilton, Ontario.

Additionally, Trudeau’s 2023 budget included a $36 million fund for abortion while at the same time including text which blasted America’s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The Liberal government also promised it would supply American women with abortion pills if the pills were banned due to the country’s new pro-life laws.

1. Making Canada a leading provider of euthanasia worldwide

According to Health Canada, in 2022, 13,241 Canadians died by MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) lethal injections, which accounts for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country for that year, and a 31.2 percent increase from 2021.  

While the numbers for 2023 have yet to be released, all indications point to a situation even more grim than 2022.

The most recent reports show that MAiD is the sixth highest cause of death. But, in typical Trudeau fashion, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022. When asked why MAiD was suspiciously left off the list, the agency explained that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to choose to end their lives via euthanasia as the primary cause of death, not the actual cause of death.

Sickeningly, on March 9, 2024, MAiD is set to expand to include those suffering solely from mental illness. This is a result of the 2021 passage of Bill C-7, which first allowed the chronically ill – not just the terminally ill – to qualify for so-called doctor-assisted death.

The expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness even has the far-left New Democratic Party (NDP) concerned. Dismissing these concerns, a Trudeau Foundation fellow actually called Trudeau’s euthanasia regime one of “privilege,” assuring the Canadian people that most of those being put to death are “white,” “well off,” and “highly educated.”

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Mark Carney Thinks He’s Cinderella At The Ball

Published on June 26, 2025

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Trish Wood is Critical

And we all pay when the dancing ends

How to explain Mark Carney’s obsession with Europe and his lack of attention to Canada’s economy and an actual budget?

Carney’s pirouette through NATO meetings, always in his custom-tailored navy blue power suits, carries the desperate whiff of an insecure, small-town outsider who has made it big but will always yearn for old-money credibility. Canada is too young a country, too dynamic and at times a bit too vulgar to claim equal status with Europe’s formerly magnificent and ancient cultures — now failed under the yoke of globalism.

Hysterical foreign policy, unchecked immigration, burgeoning censorship and massive income disparity have conquered much of the continent that many of us used to admire and were even somewhat intimidated by. But we’ve moved on. And yet Carney seems stuck, seeking approval and direction from modern Europe — a place where, for most countries, the glory days are long gone.

Carney’s irresponsible financial commitment to NATO is a reckless and unnecessary expenditure, given that many Canadians are hurting. But it allowed Carney to pick up another photo of himself glad-handing global elites to whom he just sold out his struggling citizens.

From the Globe and Mail

“Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to the biggest increase in military spending since the Second World War, part of a NATO pledge designed to address the threat of Russian expansionism and to keep Donald Trump from quitting the Western alliance.

Mr. Carney and the leaders of the 31 other member countries issued a joint statement Wednesday at The Hague saying they would raise defence-related spending to the equivalent of 5 per cent of their gross domestic product by 2035.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the commitment means “European allies and Canada will do more of the heavy lifting” and take “greater responsibility for our shared security.”

For Canada, this will require spending an additional $50-billion to $90-billion a year – more than doubling the existing defence budget to between $110-billion and $150-billion by 2035, depending on how much the economy grows. This year Ottawa’s defence-related spending is due to top $62-billion.”

You’ll note that spending money we don’t have in order to keep President Trump happy is hardly an elbows up moment, especially given that the pledge followed Carney’s embarrassing interactions with Trump at the G7. I’m all for diplomacy but sick to my teeth of Carney’s two-faced approach to everything. There is no objective truth to anything our prime minister touches. Watch the first few minutes of the video below.

Part of the NATO top-up we can’t afford is more billions for Ukraine which is pretty much considered a lost cause. NATO must keep that conflict going in order to justify its existence and we will all pay dearly for it.

The portents are bad. This from the Globe:

We are poorer than we think. Canadians running their retirement numbers are shining light in the dark corners of household finances in this country. The sums leave many “anxious, fearful and sad about their finances,” according to a Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan survey recently reported in these pages.

Fifty-two per cent of us worry a lot about our personal finances. Fifty per cent feel frustrated, 47 per cent feel emotionally drained and 43 per cent feel depressed. There is not one survey indicator to suggest Canadians have made financial progress in 2025 compared with 2024.

The video below is a basic “F”- you to Canadians from a Prime Minister who smirks and roles his eyes when questioned about his inept money management.

He did spill the beans to CNN with this unsettling revelation about the staggering numbers we are talking about:

Signing on to NATO’s new defence spending target could cost the federal treasury up to $150 billion a year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday in advance of the Western military alliance’s annual summit.

The prime minister made the comments in an interview with CNN International.

“It is a lot of money,” Carney said.

This guy was a banker?

We are witnessing the political equivalent of a vain woman who blows her entire paycheque to look good for an aspirational event even though she can’t afford food or rent. Yes, she sparkled for a moment, but in reality her domaine is crumbling. All she has left are the photographs of her glittery night. Our Prime Minister is collecting his own album of power-proximity photos he can use to wallpaper over his failures as our economy collapses.

The glass slipper doesn’t fit.

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It’s not enough to just make military commitments—we must also execute them

Published on June 26, 2025

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From the Fraser Institute

By Jake Fuss and Grady Munro

To reach 2 per cent of GDP this year, the federal government is committing an additional $9.3 billion towards the military budget. Moreover, to reach 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2035, it’s estimated the government will need to raise yearly spending by an additional $50 billion—effectively doubling the annual defence budget from $62.7 billion to approximately $110 billion.

As part of this year’s NATO summit, Canada and its allies committed to increase annual military spending to reach 5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. While this commitment—and the government’s recent push to meet the previous spending target of 2 per cent of GDP—are important steps in fulfilling Canada’s obligations to the alliance, there are major challenges the federal government will need to overcome to execute these plans.

Since 2014, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have committed to spend at least 2 per cent of GDP (a measure of overall economic output) on national defence. Canada had long-failed to fulfill this commitment, to the ire of our allies, until the Carney government recently announced a $9.3 billion boost to defence spending (up to a total of $62.7 billion) that will get us to 2 per cent of GDP during the 2025/26 fiscal year.

However, just as Canada reached the old target, the goal posts have now moved. As part of the 2025 NATO summit, alliance members (including Canada) committed to reach an increased spending target of 5 per cent of GDP in 10 years. The new target is made up of two components: core military spending equivalent to 3.5 per cent of GDP, and another 1.5 per cent of GDP for other defence-related spending.

National defence is a core function of the federal government and the Carney government deserves credit for prioritizing its NATO commitments given that past governments of different political stripes have failed to do so. Moreover, the government is ensuring that Canada remains in step with its allies in an increasingly dangerous world.

However, there are major challenges that arise once you consider how the government will execute these commitments.

First, both the announcement that Canada will reach 2 per cent of GDP in military spending this fiscal year, and the future commitment to spend up to 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, represent major fiscal commitments that Canada’s budget cannot simply absorb in its current state.

To reach 2 per cent of GDP this year, the federal government is committing an additional $9.3 billion towards the military budget. Moreover, to reach 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2035, it’s estimated the government will need to raise yearly spending by an additional $50 billion—effectively doubling the annual defence budget from $62.7 billion to approximately $110 billion. However, based on the last official federal fiscal update, the federal government already plans to run an annual deficit this year—meaning it spends more than it collects in revenue—numbering in the tens of billions, and will continue running large deficits for the foreseeable future.

Given this poor state of finances, the government is left with three main options to fund increased military spending: raise taxes, borrow the money, or cut spending in other areas.

The first two options are non-starters. Canadian families already struggle under a tax burden that sees them spend more on taxes than on food, shelter, and clothing combined. Moreover, raising taxes inhibits economic growth and the prosperity of Canadians by reducing the incentives to work, save, invest, or start a business.

Borrowing the money to fund this new defence spending will put future generations of Canadians in a precarious situation. When governments borrow money and accumulate debt (total federal debt is expected to reach $2.3 trillion in 2025-26), the burden of this debt falls squarely on the backs of Canadians—likely in the form of higher taxes in the future. Put differently, each dollar we borrow today must be paid back by more than a dollar in higher taxes tomorrow.

This leaves cutting spending elsewhere as the best option, but one that requires the government to substantially readjusts its priorities. The federal government devotes considerable spending towards areas that are not within its core responsibilities and which shouldn’t have federal involvement in the first place. For instance, the previous government launched three major initiatives to provide national dental care, national pharmacare and national daycare, despite the fact that all three areas fall squarely under provincial jurisdiction. Instead of continuing to fund federal overreach, the Carney government should divert spending back to the core function of national defence. Further savings can be found by reducing the number of bureaucrats, eliminating corporate welfare, dropping electric vehicle subsidies, and many other mechanisms.

There is a fourth option by which the government could fund increased defence spending, which is to increase the economic growth rate within Canada and enjoy higher overall revenues. The problem is Canada has long-suffered a weak economy that will remain stagnant unless the government fundamentally changes its approach to tax and regulatory policy.

Even if the Carney government is able to successfully adjust spending priorities to account for new military funding, there are further issues that may inhibit money from being spent effectively.

It is a well-documented problem that military spending in Canada is often poorly executed. A series of reports from the auditor general in recent years have highlighted issues with the readiness of Canada’s fighter force, delays in supplying the military with necessary materials (e.g. spare parts, uniforms, or rations), as well as delays in delivering combat and non-combat ships needed to fulfill domestic and international obligations. All three of these cases represent instances in which poor planning and issues with procurement and supply chains) are preventing government funding from translating into timely and effective military outcomes.

The Carney government has recently made major commitments to increase military funding to fulfill Canada’s NATO obligations. While this is a step in the right direction, it’s not enough to simply make the commitments, the government must execute them as well.