A recent event held by a group advocating for Canada’s population to reach 100 million by 2100 highlights the extent to which Canada’s immigration debate has increasingly become an economic one rather than one focused on multiculturalism.
Canada can learn from the British intelligence agency MI5 about how to handle intimidation campaigns against citizens and politicians, said a Canadian MP who has endured such a campaign against himself and his family.
As Canadians continue to watch prices rise at the checkout, even as inflation shows some early signs of cooling, it’s fitting that a former Bank of Canada governor is on the shortlist of authors for the Donner Book Prize.
A former Conservative MP who says meddling by the Chinese government cost him his seat in the 2021 election claimed this week that his story should have been a warning to the government to get its act together on foreign interference.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that he expects further retaliation after expelling the diplomat responsible for an intimidation campaign against an MP’s family. But Trudeau said it’s more important to send a message that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable in Canada and that he won’t be “intimidated.”
Canada doesn’t have a legal definition for foreign interference, pushing the authorities to find other crimes committed by malign foreign actors if they want to prosecute them, a national security expert said.
It’s too easy for hostile foreign powers to interfere in Canadian democracy with few consequences, national security experts said in the wake of revelations that China had targeted for intimidation the extended family of a member of Parliament.
A top United States defence expert said there’s no coordination between Western allies on defending the Arctic, an issue that will only get worse as the world becomes more geopolitically unstable.
The silence amounts to either an all-party endorsement of the big subsidy or an admission that there’s no easy political hay to be made out of it.
With the two progressive parties working so closely together, the Conservatives are starting to worry that winning the most seats in the next election won’t be enough to give them a chance to govern. The Liberals and NDP will have a constitutional right to test the confidence of the House and possibly keep governing.
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