{"id":15677,"date":"2023-08-20T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15677"},"modified":"2023-09-09T23:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T03:35:58","slug":"heres-the-canadian-news-you-have-likely-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15677","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the Canadian news you have likely missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Niagara Independent, August 18, 2023 \u2013<\/em> Canadians can be forgiven if they missed the latest news about the country\u2019s state of economic and social affairs. Canada\u2019s mainstream legacy media is paying little attention to hard news and instead pumping out opinion pieces on Justin Trudeau\u2019s \u201csubstantial\u201d cabinet shuffle, \u201csurprised\u201d marital breakup, or his \u201cprivate\u201d movie outings with his kids and family vacation in Tofino, BC. When the Canadian state-subsidized newsrooms are not pimping the PM, they are adding to wire copy about Maui\u2019s fires, Donald Trump\u2019s indictments, or the latest exploits of Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

As it is, important news items and events are being ignored or not being broadcasted by the country\u2019s legacy media. This news, Canadians need to search out in the country\u2019s independent news sources or in international media coverage.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that Canadians are also seeing less of the country\u2019s legacy news because of the standoff between the Trudeau government and tech companies Meta and Google. This is a standoff over the government\u2019s intent to regulate the internet and has resulted in the removal of all hypertext links to news articles on Canadians\u2019 social media platforms.<\/p>\n

So, to add to the heat of the summer, here\u2019s the significant Canadian news you have likely missed in the past few weeks \u2014 important items that affect you and your family and impact our country\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n

Canada is least attractive of \u201cthe three amigos\u201d for trade and investment: <\/b>This summer Mexico overtook China to become the United States\u2019 largest trading partner \u2013 a position that Canada used to brag about \u2013 until 2014. As American trade in Mexico increases, investment and trade with Canada declines by billions of dollars. Christopher Sands, the director of the Wilson Center\u2019s Canada Institute in Washington, says \u201cMexico\u2019s an attractive place to put your capital so, they\u2019ve been building and building, and some of that\u2019s coming from China, some of that\u2019s new growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada is losing out on new manufacturing facilities producing plastics, medical technologies, and automobile parts and high-end electric vehicles. Remarkably, it is also losing out to Mexico with its trade of oil and liquid-natural gas (LNG), as a direct result of the lack of pipeline infrastructure and the Trudeau government\u2019s unwillingness to develop LNG exports.<\/p>\n

Canada is being ridiculed for its lack of defense spending: <\/b>NATO allies are now openly criticizing Canada\u2019s commitment to its defense program. In summertime meetings there was a suggestion that a spending target of 2 per cent of a country\u2019s GDP be considered \u201cas floor\u201d for membership in NATO. Canada is currently spending 1.22 per cent of GDP and, as reported in the Washington Post<\/i>, PM Trudeau told Canada\u2019s allies his government would \u201cnever\u201d reach the 2 per cent target.<\/p>\n

The blowback has been scathing. The Economist<\/i> featured an article: \u201cCanada\u2019s miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing.\u201d A Wall Street Journal<\/i> editorial called Canada a \u201cfree-rider\u201d that belonged at a \u201cjunior table\u201d: \u201cCanada\u2019s military is so degraded that even its role in peacekeeping missions has waned.\u201d A subsequent Financial Post<\/i> piece picked up on the Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u2019s suggestion Canada be dropped from the G-7 membership, baldly stating: \u201cCanada is not a leader on the international stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subsidies to EV battery plants unchallenged \u2013 and alarming: <\/b>With headlines and editorials praising the Trudeau government\u2019s \u201cgreen investment\u201d in Canada\u2019s future, mainstream media has been trumpeting the announcements of new electronic vehicle battery plants. Few legacy media outlets have critically assessed the $31 billion of subsidies to Volkswagen and Stellantis corporations to build in Ontario.<\/p>\n

The one newsroom that has is Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i>, which is tracking the unfolding story as it relates to the financial costs for taxpayers. From this independent news source Canadians learned of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland\u2019s rationalization for the billions of dollars of spending at Cabinet, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux\u2019s demands to get the finer details of the handouts, and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation\u2019s recent calls for restraint in the federal subsidies for foreign auto corporations. (Canadians can depend on Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i> to provide the full story on the $644 million incentive for Ford Co. to build its EV plant south of Trois-Rivieres.)<\/p>\n

Ottawa\u2019s law and order agenda is resulting in increased violent crime: <\/b>Statistics Canada has released crime figures that suggest lawlessness throughout the land. Homicide rate, gang violence, gun crime, victims of violent crimes involving firearms, and fraud and extortion are all on the rise. Crime in Toronto has seen dramatic increases in recent years. Stats Can validates that Canada is a more violent place than it was a decade ago.<\/p>\n

When Trudeau shuffled his cabinet, newly appointed Justice Minister Arif Virani made legacy media headlines in declaring that rising crime in Canada is \u201cjust an illusion.\u201d No state-sponsored news reporters challenged Virani on his claim. Canadians must look to independent sources to appreciate the impact the Trudeau government\u2019s soft-on-crime approach and its enabling legislation has had on Canada\u2019s crime rates. (Verily, CBC<\/i> commentary touting the federal government\u2019s action on gun crime is insulting for residents of Toronto\u2019s Leslieville neighbourhood, for example.)<\/p>\n

Trudeau government continues to foster closer ties with China: <\/b>Months and months have passed since there has been any development regarding the mounting evidence that the Trudeau Liberals have been involved in quid pro quo arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party that pre-date their 2015 election victory. This week Brian Lilley of the Toronto Sun<\/i> broke the story that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is jetting to Beijing to participate in meetings to advise CCP Leader Xi Jinping on environment policy (presumably to shutter China\u2019s new coal plants, introduce gas and oil taxes, and ban single-use plastic products).<\/p>\n

The Globe and Mail<\/i> aside, much of legacy media has given PM Trudeau a pass on his government\u2019s scandalous actions with the CCP. However, readers of this column through the last year will know The Niagara Independent<\/i> has been constant in its calling for an independent review of the Liberals-CCP affairs: \u201cThe case for a full-blown investigation of the Trudeau government\u2019s relations with China: Part One<\/a> and Part Two<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Documenting the demise of Canada under the Trudeau government: <\/b>No mainstream media has covered independent news commentator Aaron Gunn\u2019s series of video news productions. Gunn bluntly asks \u201cWhat is Happening to Canada?\u201d with his series of informative documentaries on some of the most critical challenges facing the country. Warning: content in the documentaries is disturbing \u2013 but these are must-watch videos for Canadians who want to grasp a better understanding of what is taking place across our land. Here are YouTube links for: Canada is Dying<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Fractured Nation | The Pillaging of Western Canada<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0 The End of Free Speech in Canada<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Waiting to Die | Canada\u2019s Health Care Crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By way of a parting comment, there was a Research Co. survey published late July that revealed three in ten Canadians (30 per cent) believe Justin Trudeau is the worst PM the country has had in recent times. This, and the fact that the PM\u2019s \u201csubstantial\u201d cabinet shuffle has had a dead-cat bounce for the Liberals\u2019 sagging popularity has many Ottawa pundits and wags suggesting Justin Trudeau is actively searching for his exit plan. For many, arguing the speculative scenarios has become a sporting pastime.<\/p>\n

This scribe disagrees that the PM and his political operatives are flailing around for an escape; Trudeau\u2019s exit plan has been scripted for years. Here\u2019s my unabashed prediction. In honouring his family\u2019s political lore, Justin intends to take \u201ca walk in the snow\u201d on February 29, 2024 \u2013 as did his father on the 29th of that leap year so many years ago. So, put all those Ottawa rumours to rest and enjoy the final weeks of your summer.<\/p>\n

Chris George<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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