Canada's House of Death

The world leader pictured at lower right [should be left, no? Ed.] is Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of Canuckistan, with the dog who doubles as his deputy and Finance Minister. 

The lovely and talented dwarf [Which one is that? Ed.] will have her work cut out for her to find the $6.2 billion ($4.4 billion in real money) needed to pay for M Trudeau's latest attempt to bribe Canadians with their own money, but we'll come to that in a minute.

Her master returned to the House of Commons -- the lower house of Canada's Parliament -- on Wednesday, after a week of swanning around South America telling the Latinx not to worry about Trump, Canada will save the world. 

M Trudeau found things much as he left them, except that his bloated cabine has been reduced to 37 ministers, down from 38 at the beginning of the week. For stats freaks, 37 is 24% of the 153 Liberal Members of Parliament eligible for the extra salary and perqs that go with a cabinete position. How does the US of A manage to get along with a cabinet of only 7 or 8?

Canada's misgovernment will have to get along without the services of the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, who was the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages -- the title tells you all you need to know about Canada -- until he got caught in a web of lies about his racial status.

M Boissonnault has been under the microscope for months, from the House Ethics Committee's scrutiny of his former medical supply business partner's texts and subsequent probing around "the real Randy", to "revisions" of his past claims to indigenous identity. The Notional Pest revealed this week that the honourable minister is not a First Nations (read: Indian -- feathers, not turbans) person, but only a Pretendian. His previous claim that his great-grandmother was Cree was untrue, as was his claim that he had been adopted by a Cree family. That family turned out to be Métis, and in Canada that's a hyuge difference.

M Boissonnault has also previously said that upon re-election, he cut ties with the company he co-founded -- an assertion that’s been in question since last spring -- but faced new scrutiny recently after it came to light that the company claimed to be "Indigenous-owned", thus entitled under Liberal DEI rules to preferential treatment when bidding on federal contracts.  

Friday's announcement that Boissonnault had walked the plank came less than 24 hours after M McBlackface insisted that his only Alberta minister still had a place on the Liberal front benches. During Question Period, Cuckservative Leader Pierre Poilievre snarked, "Up until a minute ago, had a minister with a double identity. The prime minister knew the former minister was directing his business illegally from inside cabinet. He knew the former minister had claimed there was another Randy when there was no other Randy. He knew the former minister had falsely claimed to be Indigenous… yet he stood by him up until yesterday."

Little Potato (that's what the Chinese call him) responded by restating, "the member for Edmonton Centre has stepped down from cabinet to focus on clearing these allegations." So that's all right then.

To take Canucks' minds off this latest scandal, M Trudeau and his dog announced on Thursday a gigantic Christmas Winter Holiday gift to the shivering frostbacks, in the form of a two-month "tax holiday" from the hated GST on numerous items, such as Christmas Winter Holiday trees, to take effect on December 14th. Who buys a Christmas Winter Holiday tree in the middle of December?

But wait (the Gliberals said), there's going to more. Every Canadian who worked in 2023 but made less than C$150,000 will get a cheque for $250. How about that?! Those who were unemployed, and senior Canucks living on their pensions get squat, but that too is all right.

But there's a fly in the ointment. [Isn't there always? Ed.] To be able to cut the cheques, the Gliberals will need to get a supply (American readers, read: appropriations) bill through Parliament, which means the House of Commons since the Canadian Senate is only a rubber stamp. Unfortunately, the House has effectively shut down. 

On Monday, the House will mark two months in which it hasn’t actually done anything. MPs are showing up to work, petitions are being tabled and quips and japes are being hurled across, the floor, but bills aren't getting passed, votes aren't being held and legislation isn't being debated. In other words, the MPs, although collecting their pay, aren't doing anything to earn it.

With no routine supply bills being approved, parts of the federal government could start running out of money as early as December 10th, according to the President of the Treasury Board, who last week tabled a $21.6 billion supply bill, which is simply mouldering on the order paper with everything else. Adding another $6.2 billion won't make life any easier for the Natural Governing Party.

In fact, the Trudeaunians can't do anything at all, owing to the current gridlock, which was caused by a demand by the opposition parties, for access to unredacted copies of documents, including e-mails, related to alleged [LMAO. Ed.] corruption at Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a foundation that funds and supports "clean technoloy innovation" (read: greenscam). 

The SDTC is also known as the Green Slush Fund. Back in September, the House (in which the Liberals do not have a majority) passed a motion requiring every scrap of paper related to the SDTC to be handed "forthwith" to the Mounties for "investigation". So far, most of the documents the Liberals have turned over have been severely redacted. Whole passages have been blacked out, and hundreds of pages withheld. 

On September 26th, Speaker Greg Fungus told the Trudeau government that this was against the rules, and that the House of Commons was owed unredacted documents. When the Liberals continued to refuse, the Conservatives responded by seizing the wheel of the House, by tabling a motion to refer the issue to a committee, where the matter has been debated ever since.

Since the debate is on an issue of Parliamentary privilege, it takes precedence over absolutely everything else, including more than a dozen pending bills that haven't been touched in two months. The Bloc Québécois or the NDP could table a motion to end the debate, but they haven’t. Whether the proposal to declare a "tax holiday" will dynamite the log jam remains to be seen.

Canadians are itching to get rid of Chief Walking Goose, and would dearly love him to call a snap election ASAP. It seems more likely that he will hang on until the last minute, which would be 20 October 2025, according to the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act. Among the Liberal proposals languishing on the Order Paper is one which would postpone the date to 27 October 27, to avoid conflicting with Diwali. Surprised? 

The one-week delay would ensure that dozens of MPs, of all parties, would "serve" (as they call it) long enough to qualify for generous pensions, even if they are defeated in the next go-round. If you're still suprised, you don't understand Trudeau's Canada. But so what. The only things that matter to Canadians are hockey and beer. Watching a game of shinny while slurping up a bucket of suds and whining about the government... that's Canada.

VIDEO: Canuck socialist leader dreams BIG!

Some things are still funny, even in Canuckistan, the wokest country on earth. [Seriously? Woker than Britain or France or the USA? Ed.] The House of Commons, the lower house of the Canadian Parliament, is about to take its annual two-month Christmas vacation [should read "Winter Holiday vacation". Ed.] but there's still time for a little give-and-take during the daily Question Period. 

Here's a clip showing Canuck solons in high spirits [about a quart, I should say. Ed.] listening to the Hon. Jugmeat Singh, leader of the pinko New Democratic Party, trying three times to ask Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface a simple question.  

Dream on, Mr Singh. But don't forget to order your parachute -- a pink one, perhaps -- for after the next election. Maybe instead of aiming to be prime minister of all Canuckistan, you should be looking towards your homeland, Khalistan.They won't laugh at you there... will they? 

Trudeau caves! = We ARE winning (part 2)

Ed. here. Earlier this week Walt wrote that he was "watching and waiting." The waiting is over, with big news overnight about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the quasi-defeat of Just In Trudeau, the dictator of Canada. We'll start with that the less important of the two, and pass on news from our agent in Ukraine later today.

To understand what happened in the world's second-coldest capital city yesterday, you need to understand the workings of Canada's parliament. Like that of the USA, the federal legislature is bi-cameral. There is an elected lower house, the House of Commons, analogous to the House of Representatives. And there is an upper house, the Senate. Unlike in America, Canadian senators are appointed by the government of the day, to serve until struck by lightning or age 75, which ever comes first.

In times past, this meant that Liberals were in the majority in the Canuck Senate most of the time, because the "Natural Governing Party" was in power, most of the time. But when he became leader of the Gliberal Party, M Trudeau decreed that henceforth, Liberal senators would not be Liberals any more, i.e. not members of the Liberal caucus, so they could think and vote in a non-partisan manner, for the good of the country.

Not only that, he said, all his new appointees would be "independent", with no party affiliation. Canadians were not surprised when all of them turned out to be, if not "Big-L Liberals", then "small-L liberals"... and great admirers of the new emperor who put them into their cushy seats in the Red Chamber. (No kidding. That's what it's called, not without reason.)

Fast forward to February 2022. Truckers and supporters of the Freedom Convoy are occupying Parliament Hill and its surrounds making it difficult for the Karens and Kens to get to Starbucks to sip their lattes. After dismissing the protesters as a "small fringe minority" of "racists, neo-Nazis, transphobes, white supremacists" yada yada yada, and refusing to meet with them or even listen to their grievances, Blackie McBlackface invokes the Emergencies Act, a 1988 statute designed to give the government the power to deal with an insurrection.

The Emergencies Act allows the government to call in the armed forces, but Gerald Butts (the puppeteer who pulls the emperor's strings) didn't like the optics of that, so the Liberal party line was that it gave the police "enhanced powers", which were on full display last weekend as an old lady was trampled by a mounted police horse. See WWW passim.

The police already had all the power they needed to enforce existing laws if any were being broken. For the most part, the protesters had done nothing beyond agressive snow-shovelling. At the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit and Windsor ON, police had already cleared the blockade without need their "enhanced powers"... and without pepper-spraying anybody.

The real teeth of the Emergencies Act, it turned out, were in the provisions allowing the government to freeze or seize (read: steal) the bank accounts of anyone who donated to crowd-funding sites for the support of the convoy. Embarrassingly for the Liberals, the hacked list of donors included members of the Toronto Police and Ontario Provincial Police, as well as members of the armed forces.

The Emergencies Act requires that its use by approved by Parliament as soon as possible, so on the 17th, as police were donning their camos and riot gear, "debate" began in the House of Commons, only to be suspended on the 18th, when the Mounties and other cops started advancing on the protesters. Mustn't let the MPs see the shit-hammer falling!

The "debate" -- mostly lies and name-calling by the Liberals who knew they couldn't lose in the House of Commons, since the farther-left NDP had already declared its support -- droned on through Saturday and Sunday and most of Monday, with a vote scheduled for 2000 on the 21st.

This is when things started to get interesting. Mere hours before the vote, Mr Socks declared that even though the police were "making progress", there was still a serious "threat to democracy", so it would be necessary to leave the Emergencies Act in place for an indefinite period. 

But wait, there was more. Having heard rumours that some Liberals and knee-dippers who had misgivings about the Emergencies Act (especially the seizure of nearly 100 bank accounts) might develop the "diplomatic flu" and not be there for the vote, Emperor Trudeau II declared the vote a "matter of confidence", meaning that if the Commons did not approve his power grab, he and the government would resign, forcing yet another election. Cazart!

Sure enough, when push came to shove on Monday night, all the Liberal MPs, all the "New" Democrats, and the Greens' Ellizabeth May -- "Ms May? Party of one?" -- voted to approve. The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois nayed to no avail. Final score: Pro-tyranny 185 - anti-tyranny 151. Tyranny wins.

But hold on... The Commons' approval of Trudeau's shameful over-reach still needed rubber-stamping by the usually supine Senate. So the "debate" moved to the Red Chamber, where approval of the Liberals' high-handed tactics suddenly appeared to be no sure thing. 

The Conservative senators declared themselves opposed, the senators once known as Liberals demurred, and the "independent caucus" raised a lot of difficult questions, such as: With the "occupation" of Ottawa now ended, was it really necessary for the Emergencies Act to continue in force? 

On Tuesday, Mr Socks -- flanked by Minister of Gender Equity and Finance Chrystia Freeland (the one pushing for the seizure of bank accounts), "Justice" Minister David Lametti, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendacious, and poor old ex-cop Bill Blair, Minister of Emergency Preparedness" -- said that while the "immediate emergency situation is over", the issue itself "won't go away." Why, he had heard that truckers were camped on private property outside Ottawa, just waiting for the state of emergency to be ended so they could re-enter the capital!

That was Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon, in the greatest face-saving statement since "I never had sex with that girl", the Prime Minister of All Canuckistan said he is ending the use of the Emergencies Act "because the federal government has been assured that police have sufficient tools to deal with any further challenges." Which is exactly what the opposition had been saying all along.

M Trudeau also said an enquiry, mandated by the never-before-used legislation, will begin within 60 days. Reports on the invocation of the act and the triggering of sweeping police powers will later be tabled in the House of Commons. So the point is now moot and a vote in the Senate will not be necessary. Everything's OK. Nothing to see here, folks...

From my corner of the forest, that smells like victory. But then, as the Chinese say "Shan gao, huangdi yuan" -- "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away." I note with interest that convoys (yes, plural) of freedom riders, some displaying Canadian flags and other "symbols of hate", are now closing on Washington DC. Stay tuned!

Footnote: Comment from A.E. Neuman in the Groan & Wail: "So, no wheels of mass destruction after all." LMAO

What if no-one wins the Canadian election?

Suppose a country holds an election and no-one wins. What happens then? Because of the nature of the parliamentary democracy which it inherited from Britain, Canada may, this coming Monday, become a case in point.

Public opinion polls (which Americans know are always reliable) show Justin Trudeau's Gliberals in a virtual dead heat with Andrew Scheer's Cuckservatives, each with just under 32% support. In Canada, as in the USA, having more votes than the other guy doesn't guarantee that you'll become head of state. What counts is how many seats your party wins in the 338-seat House of Commons.

If the polls are accurate [as they always are in the USA. Ed.], neither of the two main parties can hope for a majority. Today's morning line has the Liberals emerging with 4 to 8 more seats than the Tories. But suppose it's the other way `round. Will Mr Socks resign and hand the reins of power over to Mr Bland? Time for The King-Byng Thing, a lesson in Canadian history and constitutional law from Agent 3.

The man on the left was a King. The man on the right was a Lord.

Julian Hedworth George Byng came from a noble English family, and commanded the Canadian Corps of the British Army at Vimy Ridge, in World War I. The Canucks won the battle but Byng won the honours, becoming the 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy. In 1921 he was sent to Canada to become the country's Governor-General, the representative of King George V.

William Lyon Mackenzie King (not "king" as in sovereign) was Prime Minister of Canada for most of the period from 1921 to 1948. He lost his grip on power, though, in a general election in the fall of 1925. Then, as may be the case now, no party got a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. Mr King's Liberals came second, a few seats behind the Conservatives. But (and this is where the constitutional point comes in), Mr King was the incumbent Prime Minister, and as such felt he had the right to meet the House and seek its confidence.

Lord Byng thought the Conservatives should have been called on to form the government, since they had more seats, but acceded to Mr King's request on condition that if the Liberals lost the vote of confidence, Mr King would not seek a dissolution of Parliament and a new election. Sure enough, the government fell and "Mackenzie King" went back to Lord Byng to ask that the election writ be dropped. Lord Byng refused and, in 1926, called on the Conservatives to form a government. They did, and almost immediately lost the next vote of confidence. Whereupon a new election was called, which the King Liberals won.

Lord Byne was duly recalled and a new Governor-General placed on the vice-regal throne. Upon returning to power, Mr King's government sought at an imperial conference to redefine the role of the Governor-General as a personal representative of the sovereign in his Canadian council and not of the British government (the king in his British council). The change was agreed to at the Imperial Conference of 1926 and came to be official as a result of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and Statute of Westminster 1931.

It is therefore settled that the Governor-General of Canada may not refuse a request of the Prime Minister. The last time that possibility was raised, when Prime Minister Harper sought to prorogue Parliament to avoid a vote of confidence, Mr Harpoon threatened to go directly to the Queen to get what he wanted. It wasn't necessary, as the G-G caved.

What that means for Canadians is that even if, on Monday, Just In Trudeau's Liberals elect fewer Members of Parliament than Andrew Scheer's Conservatives, M Trudeau can make a good case for remaining in office. He could meet the House and, with the support of the socialist NDP and/or the separatist Bloc Québécois, could continue his misrule until such time as enough MPs desert him.

It is true, as Mr Scheer says, that no Prime Minister has done that in modern times. The convention for the last half-century or so is that a Prime Minister whose party finishes with fewer seats than another party should resign, and that the Governor-General should then call on the leader of that other party to form the government. It doesn't matter that the other party didn't get a majority of the seats. A plurality would do. So it will be up to M Trudeau, if he loses, to the right thing. But will he? Stay tuned.

AUDIO ONLY: Mark Steyn, Lindsay Shepherd, John Robson heard by Canadian MPs; TV blacked out

I need to set this up for you and explain why there's no video -- only audio -- of most of yesterday's meeting of the Canadian House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights. It appears that in Canuckistan, "human rights" does not include the right to say anything even mildly negative about Muslims or transexuals or anyone except straight white males. Nor does it include the right to have your testimony before a committee of parliament televised if, like our old friend Mark Steyn, you're a conservative who's expected to say something politically incorrect.

The background. The Committee has been holding hearings on the problem of "hate speech". In other words, they're study how to better censor the ideas and opinions of anyone the government doesn't agree with. Last week they gave Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, considerable time to whine about Islamophobic posts on social media, discrimination against followers of the "religion of peace", and so on ad nauseam.

After enduring a quarter-hour of this, Conservative MP Michael Cooper had had enough and took the witness to task, telling Mr Suri he should be ashamed of himself, and quoting (as he said later) "the words of a white supremacist anti-Muslim mass murderer in an ill-advised attempt to demonstrate that such acts are not linked to conservatism." The whitey in question was Brandon Tarrant, who murdered 50 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, this spring.

Mentioning Mr Tarrant by name, let alone quoting from his online manifesto, proved to be a hyuge CLM (Career Limiting Move) for Mr Cooper. For his sins, he was immediately removed tom the Committee by Hon. Andrew Scheer, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, and chief panderer of the Kuckservative Party of Canada. Clutching his pearls, the champion of the mushy middle said it was "insensitive and unacceptable" to quote the Christchurch shooter to a Muslim witness. Oh, the horror!

But the removal of Mr Cooper from the Committee wasn't enough for the Liberal and NDP (socialist) members. Yesterday, before more witnesses were called, they demanded that Hansard be amended to remove Mr Cooper's words, entirely, from the record of the proceedings. Flushed down the memory hole, as George Orwell would have said. The remaining Conservatives on the Committee, doubtless admonished by Mr Scheer not to be politically incorrect, caved.

Yesterday's meeting was to have been televised, so the viewers (Sid and Doris Bonkers) who follow Canada's CPAC channel could see and hear what Mark Steyn, Lindsay Shepherd and John Robson had to say on the subject of free speech. Click here to see what happened.

Sorry about using the word "see". You will only be able to see the first couple of minutes. After the Committee voted to expunge Mr Cooper's remarks from the record, a pinko -- sorry, NDP -- member demanded that the proceedings not be televised, after all. You can see and hear this shameful exercise in what progressives now call "deplatforming". After that, there's only audio. Shameful. But at least the voices of conservatism and common sense can still be heard. But for how much longer?