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Liberal MPs Adam Vaughan, Will Amos, Karen McCrimmon won't run for re-election
OTTAWA -- Liberal MPs Adam Vaughan, Will Amos and Karen McCrimmon say they will not run in the next federal election.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Vaughan says he decided not to seek re-election in his Toronto riding after spending 15 years in politics to spend more time with his family after he turned 60.
The Spadina-Fort York MP says he made the "tough decision" after reflecting on the work he will have to do to achieve progress on files including the national housing strategy, and he found that he cannot do that at "half speed."
In a post on her Twitter account, Ottawa MP McCrimmon says she will not seek re-election in Kanata-Carleton due to "health challenges" that require her attention, noting that she was not forced to take this step.
Amos, who has represented the Quebec riding of Pontiac since 2015, also says in a post on social media that he will not be running after discussing his options with his family.
Last month, Amos's office said he is pursuing a "wellness program" after twice exposing himself during virtual proceedings in the House of Commons, incidents he described as accidental.
In May, Amos was caught on camera urinating -- which was broadcast on an internal parliamentary video feed of Commons proceedings but not seen publicly -- after he appeared naked in April during similar virtual proceedings, which he said occurred as he changed clothes after taking a jog.
Amos won the 2019 election in Pontiac with almost 47 per cent of the votes. The Bloc Quebecois came second with 17.6 per cent, and the Conservative candidate came third with 17.5 per cent.
The Liberal party has not announced a candidate to replace McCrimmon in her Ottawa riding as Conservative candidate Jennifer McAndrew has already started canvassing with her team to win back the seat her party lost to the Liberals in 2015.
As for Vaughan, he says the intensity of being an MP has taken a toll on him especially with a "disappointing" political culture where, sometimes, he says the priority has become shaming people rather than explaining policies.
Vaughan has represented Spadina-Fort York in downtown Toronto since he was first elected in a 2014 byelection. He was a Toronto city councillor for the Trinity-Spadina area between 2006 and 2014.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 9, 2021.
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LILLEY: Another Trudeau trio leaves the stage as the Liberals push for an election
Will Amos, Karen McCrimmon and Adam Vaughan are the latest Liberal MPs bowing out of the next election
On Sunday, a trio of Liberal MPs announced they would not be seeking re-election in the coming campaign.
Adam Vaughan went first, followed by Karen McCrimmon and then Will Amos.
Vaughan was a long-time city councillor and before that local journalist in Toronto who has become a muckraker on Twitter and a man many suspect may run to be mayor of Canada’s largest city.
Karen McCrimmon is a former officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force who stole a long-standing Conservative seat in Ottawa’s Kanata suburbs in 2015 and had previously run for the Liberal leadership in 2013 — her departure is a loss.
Amos is the Quebec MP best known of late for exposing himself naked – twice – over video during virtual Parliament.
This trio though adds to a growing list of Liberals who are saying ‘thanks but no thanks, I won’t be putting in the blood, sweat and tears for another term.’
Is it all a coincidence or a sign of deeper internal troubles for the Liberals?
Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna said her farewell a few weeks ago, saying she was looking forward to spending more time with her daughters and fighting climate change from outside of government.
That comment raised eyebrows with many wondering if she felt the Trudeau government wasn’t doing enough.
While McKenna was the highest-profile goodbye, she was far from alone with many big regional names bowing out.
Former cabinet minister Geoff Regan, the current Speaker of the House and MP from Halifax is saying he’s had enough and will step away.
Wayne Easter was once a powerhouse in federal Liberal politics and after 28 years is also saying goodbye.
The man who has held the riding of Malpeque on Prince Edward Island since 1993, as well as the positions of Solicitor General and Agriculture Minister and various critics roles is calling it quits and calling for reform on the way out.
“I think there’s far, far, far too much control in the Prime Minister’s Office, right throughout the whole system,” Easter told The Hill Times last month.
Some might sneeze at Easter’s departure and point out that he is 72 and ready for retirement, but the same can’t be said for departing MPs like Paul Lefebvre, just 47 or Navdeep Bains, just 44 — both men younger than Trudeau, who himself turned 49 last Christmas.
Lefebvre represents the riding of Sudbury, Ont. and is a Liberal with an entrepreneurial bent, something not likely welcomed in Trudeau’s Liberal party.
Sudbury is a reliably Liberal riding, but the NDP is strong there and held the seat for seven years starting in 2008.
Bains is a bigger loss for Trudeau — a true believer in the Liberal brand under Trudeau and someone who knows how to move the chess pieces in the vital Toronto suburbs like Mississauga and Brampton.
Bains was an MP from 2004 to 2011 and mounted a comeback in 2015 but is now walking away — his departure means Trudeau is losing another person who understands how industry works, something he can ill-afford as he promises to “build back better.”
Trudeau is also losing Kate Young, a strong local MP and former CTV news anchor in London, Ont. as well as Bob Bratina, the former mayor of Hamilton and longtime broadcaster, including his stint as the voice of the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
There are a handful of Conservatives stepping away, a smattering of Bloc and NDP MPs saying farewell, but the largest group of MPs saying they won’t seek re-election hail from the Liberal Party.
So, ask yourself — is that something that would be happening if the massive majority you keep hearing that Trudeau will be getting was such a sure thing? Nope, not a chance, some would leave for sure but many would stick around for a shot at riding the gravy train.
The fact that this isn’t happening tells us a lot about the internal state of the Liberal Party as they push towards a summer election.
Over 2,500 sign petition asking GG to deny any Trudeau request for a snap election
"More than 2,500 people have signed an online petition calling on Governor General Mary Simon to reject any request by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a snap election.
The petition, launched by non-profit organization Democracy Watch, comes as rumours swirl that an election call is coming this summer.
“A snap election will be dangerous for many voters. A fourth wave of COVID-19 is expected across Canada this fall, more contagious than ever, as many people are still not fully vaccinated,” Democracy Watch said in a news release. “Voters who are vulnerable to COVID-19 will, completely justifiably, feel hesitant about going to a polling station to vote.”
The organization also argues that a snap election is “illegal, dishonest, and unfair” for many voters."
LILLEY: Speculation that Trudeau will call an election heats up
Beyond the non-stop spending announcements and cross-country travel, there are other tells that Trudeau's seeking to regain a majority government
‘Will he or won’t he’ has moved on to, ‘when will he?’
The question, of course, being one of timing — speculation abounds that a summer federal election could be called as early as Sunday morning or next weekend at the latest.
Unless, that is, Trudeau looks at what is happening across Canada and pulls the plug.
The never-ending speculation of an election call isn’t happening in a vacuum, it isn’t sprouting from the fevered minds of journalists and pundits, it’s being fed by actions mostly coming from the Trudeau government.
Beyond the non-stop spending announcements and cross-country travel, there are other tells that the Trudeau Liberals want to seek another majority government.
Liberal staffers were told to take vacation time in July and be back in Ottawa for the start of August, while Liberal candidates have been told to rent office space for the next two months.
Perhaps most telling, the consultant class which the party relies on to fill senior roles has been told to be ready to go at a moment’s notice.
All of these moves have left the opposition parties – the Conservatives, NDP and Bloc – along with the media wondering if this latest multi-billion announcement will be the last before an election call.
With the Liberals having called a meeting with media outlets for Monday to discuss logistics, a Sunday call is unlikely but it literally could come any day with voting taking place September 13 or 20.
The question is why does Trudeau want to face the voters — other than with the hopes to secure a majority?
You could point to the polls and say the time is now due to the big lead the Liberals have, but that is only on a selective reading of the polls.
Over the past six weeks we’ve seen polls claiming everything from a two-point gap between the Trudeau Liberals and Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives to a 12-point gap or more.
This doesn’t tell me a majority is a sure thing for Trudeau, it tells me that the electorate is fluid — or as one prominent pollster put it to me, they are fragile.
Sure, it looks like the Liberals are most likely to win more seats in an election than the other parties, but winning a majority is a gamble rather than a certainty.
It will depend on what the ballot question is that voters make their decision on.
If it is the pandemic response, then that seems to favour the Liberals — but if it is anything economic that would favour the Conservatives and the NDP, and could eat away at Liberal support if the election is going to be decided on issues surrounding social programs.
Of course, if voters decide come September that COVID-19 cases are on the rise and they blame Trudeau and his early election call, things could change dramatically.
When even his chief medical officer is warning of an impending fourth wave, this factor is the great unknown.
Cases are already on the rise significantly in British Columbia, Quebec and Alberta — and to a lesser extent in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
On top of that, both BC and Ontario are each dealing with wildfire emergencies that have forced thousands from their homes.
Campaigning in these conditions could backfire on Trudeau.
One thing we should all know by now is that campaigns matter and things can change.
At the start of the 2006 election campaign, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives came out on top despite being written-off as a lost cause while in 2015, Trudeau’s Liberals sailed to victory despite polling in third place for much of the campaign.
Trudeau appears ready to hedge his bet on winning a majority, but he needs to realize that — in this unpredictable world — he could risk losing it all.
Éric Grenier's Poll Tracker
Liberals continue to hold lead over Conservatives
The Liberals continue to consistently show a lead over the Conservatives in national polling, with enough support to potentially put them in majority territory — or just short of it. The numbers for the New Democrats are higher than they were in 2019, though the party is still well back in third. The Bloc Québécois is holding most of its vote in Quebec, while the Greens have taken a hit in their support in recent weeks.
Arrows indicate change in party support since Aug. 5, 2021.
How many seats could each party win
This shows the best estimate of how many seats each party would win if an election were held today
What are the chances of each party winning
Probability of the Liberals winning a majority
Probability of the Liberals winning the most seats but not a majority
Probability of the Conservatives winning the most seats
While we can’t predict with complete certainty the outcome of the election, some outcomes are more likely than others. The balls in the game below show the likelihood of different election results based on where things stand right now. Start drawing balls — you might get some of the unlikely outcomes now and then, but you’ll draw the most likely outcome most often.
"Draw" one ball at a time or "Draw all" to simulate 100 elections and see the most likely outcomes if an election were held today.
How support breaks down across the country
The Liberals have consistently held leads in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada. The Conservatives are ahead only in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The NDP's strongest support is in B.C., where they are vying for second spot with the Conservatives, and the party has also ticked over the 20 per cent mark in Ontario and the Prairies. The Bloc has retained most of the support it won in 2019 in Quebec, while the Greens are not scoring double-digits in any region of the country.
How has support changed over time?
The Liberals have been holding a steady lead over the Conservatives for over a year and there are no signs yet that this lead is in any particular danger. National support for the Conservatives has dipped under 30 per cent in recent months but the slide appears to have ceased. The NDP's trend line has been slowly inching upwards and the party's numbers in Western Canada are improving. The Greens have taken a recent hit in support and their slide in B.C. and Atlantic Canada is especially damaging.
Individual Polls
All national opinion polls used in the Poll Tracker are listed below in reverse-chronological order. Click on the poll to view the full detailed report of the poll or the original source.| Poll dates | Poll | LIB | CON | NDP | BQ | GRN | OTH | Sample | Weight | Method | MOE |
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| Jul 30–Aug 3, 2021 | NewAngus Reid Institute | 35 | 30 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1,605 | 12 | NET | ±2.4% |
| Jul 29–Aug 2, 2021 | Abacus Data | 37 | 25 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2,000 | 11 | NET | ±2.2% |
| Jul 30–Aug 1, 2021 | Léger / Canadian Press | 36 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2,079 | 12 | NET | ±2.1% |
| Jul 23–Jul 27, 2021 | Angus Reid Institute | 33 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1,606 | 9 | NET | ±2.4% |
| Jul 24–Jul 26, 2021 | Mainstreet / iPolitics | 34 | 32 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1,299 | 7 | IVR | ±2.7% |
| Jul 15–Jul 21, 2021 | Innovative / Maclean's | 41 | 27 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 834 | 4 | NET | ±3.4% |
| Jul 14–Jul 21, 2021 | EKOS Research | 35 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1,934 | 7 | IVR | ±2.2% |
| Jul 19–Jul 20, 2021 | Ipsos / Global News | 36 | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1,000 | 5 | NET | ±3.1% |
| Jul 16–Jul 18, 2021 | Léger / Canadian Press | 34 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2,069 | 6 | NET | ±2.1% |
| Jul 14–Jul 16, 2021 | Angus Reid Institute | 33 | 31 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1,625 | 5 | NET | ±2.4% |
Ready or not? Canadians apprehensive as parties brace for an election call
Published Tuesday, August 3, 2021 6:20PM EDT"OTTAWA -- Behind the scenes, federal political parties are finalizing campaign plans in anticipation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling an election this month. But, with the latest national modelling warning that the country may be on the verge of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, Canadians and the opposition parties are expressing concerns about hitting the trail.
“It’s not the right time to have an election,” said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Tuesday. He thinks the prime minister’s focus right now should be on supporting those still feeling the pandemic’s impacts and seeing as many Canadians receive vaccines as possible.
National modelling issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada on Friday indicated that with reopening plans underway the country is seeing an increase in new cases, with thousands more predicted.
How severe the “Delta-driven” influx in new infections will be come September depends on how much higher Canada can get its vaccination rate, officials said.
The same day, the federal government announced it’d be extending the COVID-19 aid programs into October, removing the potential for them to expire amid a fall federal election.
“I can’t comment about the speculation about an election… We all have a responsibility as leaders, elected leaders, to act appropriately based on the disease epidemiology in our region,” said Health Minister Patty Hajdu on Tuesday when asked about whether it would be responsible or safe for Trudeau to call an election.
Singh has been outspoken about his opposition to an election throughout the pandemic, and recently tried to make the case in a letter to newly-installed Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, arguing that there is “no reason” to call an election right now, other than Trudeau wanting more power.
“Sure, people might say ‘that that's what governments do.’… I don't think that's what governments do when you're in the middle of a pandemic, when you're up against a potential fourth wave, when you're up against such serious problems,” Singh said.
While he said the NDP is ready for an election, Singh is offering to continue to prop up the Liberals on key legislation, should they return to Parliament in the fall.
“We're confident that we can show Canadians that we've been there for them and that we fought for them and will continue to fight for them in the recovery, I just don't think it's the right time,” Singh said.
While Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has said he enjoyed getting to go to Alberta in July to meet people and is: “excited to keep the momentum going and meet more people across the country,” a few of his top staffers took to twitter to voice their concerns this past long weekend to question the timing of Trudeau’s widely-rumoured election call.
“A Delta-driven 4th Wave is a clear, immediate, and foreseeable threat to Canada. Its mitigation should be the exclusive focus of the government right now, not an election,” tweeted O’Toole strategist Dan Robertson. "
And now, the alternative-reality government
Paul Wells: Two formidable former politicians, Anne McLellan and Lisa Raitt, are hosting an economic summit that says a lot about the state of Canadian politics today
Anne McLellan attends a news conference in Ottawa on Dec. 13, 2016 (Adrian Wyld/CP)
At last, a policy conference. On Thursday word spread that Anne McLellan and Lisa Raitt, respectively the Liberal and Conservative prime ministers who got away, will be co-chairs of an October summit in Ottawa to champion Canada’s long-term growth.
It’s rather an ambitious thing. McLellan and Raitt are the heads, or the front, of the Coalition for a Better Future, which seeks “a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous Canada” but worries that “if we if we do not act now… Canadians’ long-term standard of living is at risk.”
“Too often the focus of economic discussions is only on the problems, not on the opportunities and solutions,” McLellan says in the news release. “We want to have a different kind of discussion… a national conversation about what actions we can take to ensure that future generations can continue to enjoy the quality of life and standard of living that has made Canada the envy of the world.”
Who’s joining the two former ministers in this enterprise? Basically everybody, is who. The coalition/summit’s advisory council is a veritable Hy’s Who of Laurentian elites, including Yaprak Baltacioglu, a retired deputy minister under Liberal and Conservative governments who could reasonably have been Clerk of the Privy Council; Paul Desmarais III of the Yes, That Desmarais Family; Suncor CEO Mark Little; the heads of the best-connected think tanks in Ottawa, Ed Greenspon of the Public Policy Forum and Anna Gainey of Canada 2020; Carolyn Wilkins, who could reasonably have been governor of the Bank of Canada; and Hassan Yussuff, the former Canadian Labour Congress head who just got elevated to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The broader coalition reads approximately like the list of sponsored tables at a Politics and the Pen dinner: the Asia-Pacific Foundation, the Business Councils of Canada, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, the Canadian Meat Council, the Canadian Red Cross, the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Smart Prosperity and the associations representing Canada’s colleges, universities and the smaller association representing the 15 largest research universities. If you worry that someone’s been left off the list, it’s likelier that they’re on the list and I simply left them off this summary.
I have questions.
I think it’s never a bad idea for smart and experienced people to discuss the economy. This should happen more often, not less. Everyone I know on this list is impressively experienced and full of goodwill. In the present case, however, I’m struck by the confluence of three things:
• apocalyptic language (“standard of living is at risk”);
• a bunch of people yearning for a government that would do what the current incumbent government never stops claiming to do (“inclusive, sustainable and prosperous Canada”);
• and the fact that most of these people have a long history of working closely with the current government and, in many cases, its predecessor.
I mean, I promise you that Perrin Beatty, Eddie Greenspon, Mark Little and the Montreal Chamber of Commerce can get calls returned from the PMO quicker than I can. On a more formal note, every business group in this coalition has a long history of submitting written briefs, and often testifying, in the House Finance Committee’s annual pre-budget consultations. So do most of the associations. As for the think tanks, most of the ones on this list can routinely get four cabinet ministers to show up for each of their conferences. Anna Gainey, newly arrived at Canada 2020, is after all a recent past Liberal Party of Canada president who remains on excellent terms with Team Trudeau.
So it’s not immediately clear what these groups hope to accomplish together that they haven’t been accomplishing singly for years.
Each will have their own reasons, and in any coalition with 60 member organizations and a 14-member advisory council, not all will agree with the theory I’m about to advance. But here goes. I think this event and the coalition that’s sprung up around it respond to a yearning. A sense that, whatever it is that preoccupies the Trudeau government or would preoccupy any currently imaginable Conservative alternative, it isn’t long-term prosperity or a smoothly-functioning economy.
Not to put too fine a point on things, the last several years have been disillusioning for people who think a government should worry about Canada’s long-term standard of living and do effective, coherent things to preserve it. We’re heading into an election campaign, so I should emphasize that this isn’t meant as a particularly partisan dig, and that it’s hard to be encouraged by the alternative on offer. The events of the past year in particular have rattled a lot of people who work at the intersection of business and politics. The Trudeau government fired its minister and deputy minister of finance with no good explanation before producing, after a year’s delay, the thickest budget document in history, one which has interested stakeholders still scrambling, months later, to figure out what the hell that brick says or means. (The chapter on science and research, one researcher told me, “seems to have been written in a panic.”)
In 2019 a senior Liberal campaign strategist told me that one reason they were polarizing that campaign so hard on values was that traditional incumbent-Liberal appeals to sound economic management, the sort of stuff that Jean Chrétien ran on in 1997 and 2002, were unpersuasive to today’s swing voters. This trend continues. This week’s Angus Reid Institute poll is as dire for the Conservatives as most polls lately, but when respondents were asked which leader looks best at managing “the economy,” Erin O’Toole has a nine-point lead over Trudeau. This isn’t fatal: Trudeau soundly thumps O’Toole on management of “health care” and “environment/climate change,” though on the former issue Jagmeet Singh ties Trudeau and on the latter Singh actually outpolls Trudeau.
If anything I was more amazed by the previous week’s Angus Reid poll. It asked supporters of each party whether they have a favourable impression of the party’s leader; and whether they think that party’s leader would be a good prime minister. Again: this is a poll that asks prospective Liberal voters what they think of the Liberal leader.
Trudeau’s favourable impression is barely higher among Liberal voters—78 per cent—than O’Toole’s among Conservative voters, at 75 per cent. In contrast, 92 per cent of people who say they’ll vote NDP have a favourable impression of Singh. Even more striking, the expectation that Trudeau would be a good PM is the same among Liberals supporters as the expectation that O’Toole would be a good PM among Conservative supporters. Both are at 68 per cent. Among NDP supporters, 78 per cent think Singh would be a good PM.
So a third of the people who are planning to vote Liberal don’t agree with the proposition that Trudeau would be a good prime minister, after six years of watching him be Prime Minister. His enthusiasm gap is comparable to that of the sad-sack Conservative leader. And when respondents in general are asked who’s best on the economy, they’re unlikely to mention the person who’s been in charge of the economy for half a decade.
This is, in particular, a difficult situation for two types of people: those who broadly share the Liberals’ values but wish the government of a G7 country were more than an endless Instagram stream; and those who, when they imagine a first post-Harper Conservative budget, panic a little at the faces that come to mind when they try to imagine who would deliver it. The two groups will gather in Ottawa in October. The McLellan-Raitt coalition is, in many ways, a support group.
What We’re Watching: Election call likely on near horizon
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a provincial byelection event in 2016. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star) As of the afternoon of the holiday Monday that traditionally marks the halfway point in the all-too-brief Canadian summer, there were no signs that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be making a trip to Rideau Hall later in the day. But the countdown to the widely expected, if still hypothetical, election call is now in days, not weeks, with some speculating it could happen as soon as next weekend.
According to the latest dispatch from the Hill Times, “Liberal MPs, candidates, and campaign managers are preparing for an election campaign to get started on Aug. 8 or Aug. 15, with the election date set to be Sept. 13 or Sept. 20.”
That schedule would make the campaign exactly 36 days, which is the minimum duration permitted under federal election law.
“We’re too deep in to not drop the writ (in the next two weeks),” one Liberal source told the Hill Times, although other, similarly unnamed Liberals hinted that the timeline could change in the event of a sudden increase in COVID cases due to the Delta variant.
While the latest flurry of date-checking seems to lean toward the earlier call, it’s worth keeping in mind that an Aug. 15 writ drop would mean just a few days of overlap between the federal campaign and the provincial race currently underway in Nova Scotia, where voters head to the polls on Aug. 17.
As for the duration, conventional wisdom holds that shorter campaigns tend to favour the incumbents, although that’s not always how it works out.
Perhaps more crucial, given the current context, 36 days could be cutting it a bit close for a vote in which many more voters than usual are expected to choose to exercise their franchise via mail-in ballot.
Indeed, as the Hill Times notes, Canada’s chief electoral officer, Stéphane Perrault, has publicly stated that he’d “prefer” a longer campaign, although, ultimately, it’s up to the prime minister to make that call.
In any case, as yet, no parties have announced their respective leaders’ extended travel plans for what could be the final week before they hit the campaign trail.
In the meantime, the Star offers readers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse of Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s attempt to keep the party focused on the upcoming battle at the ballot box.
“Multiple party sources tell the Star that discussions within their ranks these days bring to mind the early 2000s and a fractured right that rendered Conservatives incapable of taking down the governing Liberals,” the Star notes.
“ ‘Everyone is mad on all sides,’ said one senior Conservative operative, speaking on condition of anonymity due to (his or her) work on campaigns.”
Perhaps even more ominous for a leader who marks his first anniversary in the job this month, “two sources close to O’Toole” told the Star “they believe there are elements and individuals within (the party) who would be happy to see the rookie leader lose,” although a third Conservative source “dismissed those concerns (as) paranoia.”
Also marking an anniversary this week is the New Democratic Party, which was officially voted into existence by its members at its inaugural national convention in Ottawa 60 years ago. In addition to formally adopting the name it still goes by — which narrowly beat out its closest competitor, The New Party, by just 41 votes — the more than 2,000 delegates in attendance also chose Tommy Douglas to serve as their first leader on Aug. 3, 1961.
Current New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh will “celebrate the legacy of the NDP fighting for Canadians and building a fairer country for all” during a mid-morning visit to the Jack Layton monument in downtown Toronto. (Tuesday AM)
Out and about this week:
- Health Minister Patty Hajdu teams up with Fredericton’s newly minted Liberal MP Jenica Atwin for a morning appearance at Clinic 554 to announce a fresh tranche of federal support to “help make sexual and reproductive health-care information and services more accessible.” (Tuesday AM)
- Later the same day, Hajdu will hold a Zoom briefing on new infrastructure funding for her home riding of Thunder Bay, Ont., with representatives from the Matawa First Nation and the provincial government also expected to be in virtual attendance. ( Tuesday AM)
- Elsewhere on the New Brunswick circuit, Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan joins the mayors of Chipman and Minto — Keith West and Erica Barnette, respectively — as well as local Liberal MP Pat Finnigan, to announce new federal support for “public transit infrastructure.” (Tuesday PM)
- Meanwhile, International Trade Minister Mary Ng pays a visit to Memorial University’s Signal Hill campus in St. John’s, N.L., where she’ll make an announcement related to her government’s efforts to boost “women entrepreneurship.” (Tuesday AM)
- Back on the mainland, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier visits her home riding of Gaspésie-Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Que., where, according to the advisory, she’ll deliver a fresh load of federal cash to the city of Gaspé for upgrades to the regional airport. (Tuesday PM)
- Also making the rounds in la belle province is Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, who stops by Sherbrooke boot-maker L.P. Royer Inc. to share details of a new contract that will “ensure that the members of the Canadian Armed Forces have the equipment they need to fulfill their commitment to serving Canadians at home and abroad.” (Tuesday PM)
- Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault unveils new federal funding for the 2022 Summer Games during an in-person visit to Niagara, Ont., which will host the cross-country athletic event next summer. (Tuesday AM)
- Finally, Justice Minister David Lametti,West Vancouver-area MP Patrick Weiler, and Shuswap Nation Tribal Council Chief Kukpi7 Wayne Christian join forces to reveal funding related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to action on “revitalizing” Indigenous laws, including — but not limited to — boosting support for Indigenous law institutes. (Tuesday PM)
On the political fundraising circuit, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson makes a virtual headline appearance at a Laurier Club reception in Saskatoon, which, according to the invite, is being hosted by longtime Saskatchewan Liberal Ken Howland. (Thursday PM)
‘Be ready for Aug. 8’: some senior Liberals expect to kick off federal election campaign in a week
Others are preparing for the writs to be issued on Aug. 15, with an election to take place on Sept. 13 or 20.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured alongside his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau is expected to issue the writs for an election on Aug. 8 or Aug. 15
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/a-fall-election-the-liberals-may-not-get-a-better-window/
A fall election? The Liberals may not get a better window.
Philippe J. Fournier: The latest 338Canada model suggests it will be a challenge for the Liberals to win a majority, and it's unlikely to get any easier
Trudeau makes at an announcement in Moncton, N.B., on July 27, 2021 (Ron Ward/CP)
Who is in the mood for a general election in Canada this fall?
Not many of us, according to a recent Nanos Research poll published by CTV News. Results from this survey indicate that only 26 per cent of Canadians “support the prospect of a federal election in the fall,” while 37 per cent would be upset if the writ were to drop in the coming weeks. Regardless, the brief reprieve that was July 2021 has come and come, and August promises to be much busier on the political front, with an election call expected soon, perhaps even in the next fortnight.
So, why an election, you ask? Although federal polls released in the past month have shown some divergence, they all agreed on which party is leading in voting intentions. In June, Abacus Data, Ipsos and Mainstreet Research all measured the Liberal Party (LPC) leading the Conservatives by double digits nationally, while Léger, Research Co. and Angus Reid showed a closer race, but still all gave an edge to the Liberals. Most polls fielded in July (see complete list here) measured a somewhat closer race with Liberal leads ranging from 2 points (Mainstreet Research) to 7 points (EKOS). Only Innovative Research had the Liberals far ahead of Conservative Party (CPC), namely 41 per cent support for the LPC against 27 per cent for the Conservatives.
Here below are all federal polls since January 2021. Looking at the big picture, we see plenty of statistical fluctuations, but very little net movement:
This week’s 338Canada federal update has the Liberals leading the CPC by an average of 6 points, with the LPC sitting at 35 per cent and the CPC at 29 per cent. Worthy of notice is the NDP still standing strong in third place with 20 per cent, despite terrible numbers in the province of Quebec:
It bears repeating that the numbers presented above represent averages, and the coloured bars on the graph depict the projection’s confidence intervals, which follow a bell-shaped distribution. On the graph below is a comparison of this distribution with the latest federal polls for the Liberals. Only Innovative Research lies outside the current confidence intervals:
Here is the graph with results for the Conservatives. Abacus Data is at the edge of the distribution with 25 per cent, but, in fairness to Abacus, its latest public poll was fielded in late June (others were conducted in July), so those numbers may have changed since then. We shall see in the coming days and weeks. Worthy of note: All polls show the CPC below its 2019-result of 34 per cent.
As for the NDP, recent polling has the party near the 20 per cent mark on average. Additionally, every polling firm except Mainstreet measures NDP support higher than the party’s 16 per cent result from 2019. However, let us also recall that most firms had overestimated NDP support in 2019 (by an average of two points), so NDP hopefuls should not count their chickens just yet.
Using data from aforementioned polls, the 338Canada model has the Liberals winning an average of 163 seats, a mere six seats above its 2019-result and seven seats short of the threshold for a majority at the House of Commons. While the Liberals remain clearly in the driver seat, currently available data indicate that the most likely scenario, should an election have been held this week, would be a LPC-lead minority government in Ottawa.
With the Bloc Québécois still holding its own in Quebec and the NDP near the 20 per cent mark, the Liberals would have to benefit from either a collapsing CPC vote in Ontario (which data doesn’t show) or an incredibly efficient LPC vote—meaning getting their vote out in all the right places and winning a majority of toss up districts.
Among the simulations performed by the 338Canada model, 54 per cent of simulations result in a Liberal minority, 41 per cent in a Liberal majority, and 5 per cent a in razor-thin CPC minority.
Naturally, national numbers do not tell the whole story. While the CPC is currently down 5 points on average compared to its 2019 national result (34 per cent), this loss of support appears to be mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially Alberta, where the CPC blew away it rivals in 2019, and thus could afford to shed some support without losing many (if any) seats. Current levels of support for the Conservatives in both Quebec and Ontario haven’t bulged much compared to 2019, which explains why the CPC is still projected to win between 100 to 120 seats, and thus making an LPC majority victory mostly dependent on either the Bloc or NDP collapsing.
On the other hand, Mainstreet Research’s latest federal numbers in Ontario showed the LPC and CPC neck-in-neck in the province, while other firms measured LPC leads ranging from 6 to 12 points. Mere subsample fluctuation or a new trend? Should we see a tightening race between both parties in Ontario (and with the NDP still polling at or above 20 per cent), no fewer than 25 to 35 seats could become in play, enough to flip this projection on its head.
So, why an election? The latest polls hold at least part of the answer: Because the Liberals could potentially secure a majority and may not have another window to do so in the foreseeable future, even though reaching the threshold of 170 seats may still be quite a challenge according to the data. Nonetheless, if not this fall, then when exactly could the Liberals hope for a better window to go for their third straight mandate? Next spring, after a second consecutive budget with a deficit ranging in the hundreds of billions? Unlikely.
Some have cited the cases of past premiers whose early election gambles backfired: David Peterson, Jim Prentice, and Pauline Marois all come to mind. However, John Horgan in British Columbia and Blaine Higgs in New Brunswick were both leading minority governments when the COVID-19 pandemic reached our shores, and both came out with majority mandates last year. The Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals also went from a minority to a majority this past winter.
So which of these outcomes will best mirror the next federal campaign? We shall see very soon.
If there is an election, that is.
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Paul Wells: We're heading toward an irreconcilable difference between a hard-to-believe government and an opposition that's being even less useful than the Liberals
Rempel Garner, O'Toole and MP Candice Bergen arrive hold a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 22, 2020 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)
A reporter was unfortunate enough to ask Anita Anand how MPs are supposed to know whether the government’s getting value for money on its COVID-19-related procurement.
This was more than Anand, who is the minister of public services and procurement, could take. “I find the phrase ‘value for money’ really quite interesting,” she said. “What is on the table here is the lives of Canadians.”
The occasion was a news conference in the increasingly precariously named Sir John A. Macdonald Building, where Anand and Treasury Board president Jean-Yves Duclos were explaining their problems with the latest opposition motion.
The motion, which is in 28 parts and asks for everything the government ever did, thought, wondered or hoped in regard to COVID-19, would chase away government contractors, including potential suppliers of an eventual vaccine, the ministers said. This story sums up Anand’s arguments. They have much merit, as do other criticisms of the motion from outside observers not widely known to be in the Liberals’ pocket. I’ll be getting back to the motion and its critics shortly.
And yet I want to pause for a moment to consider the distinction Anand drew—distinction? Open antagonism—between “value for money” and “the lives of Canadians.”
It strikes me as significant because Anand and Duclos had just spent 40 minutes assuring everyone that, while now is a lousy time to seek what the opposition is seeking, full accounting is on its way. I guess I’m not sure why I should expect that full accounting, if the responsible minister plainly believes the cost of any accounting is human lives.
“The value,” Anand said indignantly, “is the protection of Canadian lives that we are ensuring occurs…. These procurements did not happen overnight. They were not easy. It was an incredibly difficult summer”—her tone was rising, her voice becoming more strained—”and we managed to come through it with procurements for Canadians. It hurts my heart to think that they might not be realized.”
As proof of the government’s good faith, Anand offered a page on her department’s website detailing $6 billion of emergency-related procurement to date. There’s a lot of information on the page, and also much that’s missing.
For reasons that make sense to me—including the need to protect suppliers’ information in a globally competitive market for ventilators and personal protective equipment—41 companies’ names are hidden, as are the values of about a dozen contracts. So we don’t know anything about “Company F,” which got $144 million for nitrile gloves. Or “Company Y,” which got $173 million for H95 respirators. Sometimes the hidden names and the protected contract values intersect, so we actually don’t know how much money “Company P” got for respirators. On top of not knowing who Company P is. But somebody got money for something.
The argument against demanding more information now is coming, not only from Anita Anand and Jean-Yves Duclos, but from outsiders who are still able to draw a distinction between the national interest and the Liberal interest. David Naylor, for instance. The former U of T president has written big policy reports for Stephen Harper’s government and for Justin Trudeau’s, and he argued over the weekend that the opposition motion would divert needed resources and scare off skittish companies. And David Fisman, the epidemiologist, whose Twitter rant you can read for yourself.
What we’re heading toward, then, is an irreconcilable difference between government and opposition. The Liberals believe they should determine which information to divulge and which to withhold. The opposition, led by the Conservatives—health critic Michelle Rempel Garner moved the motion at hand, seconded by the party’s new leader Erin O’Toole—prefer, in Naylor’s colourful term, to dredge the harbour.
The Liberals have spent five years energetically making the case, through their actions, that they must not be trusted with a monopoly on information. WE and SNC-Lavalin and the Aga Khan vacation and Morneau’s Chateaus and Safaris and the transformation of the tool shed at Harrington Lake into a Fortress of Solitude were all things this government hoped you wouldn’t notice. This is a government that just fired its finance minister for ethics violations, after all, and not because the Prime Minister found them unacceptable on their face, but because he found they too closely resembled his own. So spare us the sanctimony when we wonder how everything’s going.
That being said, Rempel Garner and O’Toole are managing, in this instance, to be less helpful than the Liberals. Rempel Garner’s motion is a farce. Take another look. It calls for the Health Committee to study every imaginable aspect of the COVID response, “including, but not limited to,” rapid testing; vaccine development and distribution; federal public health guidelines “and the data being used to inform them;” long-term care; the GPHIN early-warning system; protocols for travellers; “the adequacy of health transfer payments to the provinces;” emergency stockpiles, the COVID Alert smartphone app, contact tracing, and more and more. It’s a breathtaking list but it’s not even exhaustive: the “including, but not limited to” wording means that anything else that pops into any member’s mind or inbox could be added at any time.
How shall this committee undertake its work? By calling on six government offices to provide “all memoranda, emails, documents, notes and other records” on “plans, preparations, approvals and purchasing of COVID-19 testing products including tests, reagents, swabs, laboratory equipment and other material.” That’s just one of seven wide-scale fishing expeditions listed in the motion. All requiring massive deployment of government resources. All with potentially zero utility even to the motion’s stated purpose, because if this committee sat until Doomsday it would not be able to examine or discuss the thousandth part of the haystack this motion would order up.
Rempel Garner spent some time this weekend congratulating herself for doubling the time the motion would allot for production of this mountain range of documents. Instead of giving the government two weeks, she’s now pleased to give them a month. This gesture of farcical magnanimity is best understood as a kind of performance art. It’s like suggesting that somebody shove a Buick up his nose—but expecting to be congratulated for giving him an extra two weeks to do it.
Taken alone, each paragraph of the dozens in this motion would be debatable and may have merit. Taken alone, each of the dozens of topics is interesting. Claiming to want to examine them all, all at once, in the same venue, is evidence of bad faith. That Rempel Garner imagines an army of functionaries could feasibly pack up thousands of boxes with the relevant “memoranda, emails documents, notes and other records” and drop them off at the virtual offices of a committee that’s meeting by Zoom; or that the committee’s members could feasibly digest that information before Rempel Garner reaches retirement age; or that the committee could get even half-way through a discussion of that information before the sun goes nova and burns the earth to a cinder; suggests an imagination unbounded by any real-world constraint.
That Erin O’Toole seconded Rempel Garner’s motion casts similar doubt on the new Conservative leader’s own judgment. That the other opposition parties have hitched their wagons to this Macy’s parade of a motion helps to explain why the Liberals rebound so smartly in the polls after each of their missteps: because an election is never a referendum on the incumbent but a choice among alternatives, and if none of the alternatives can even pretend to be serious then voters will simply send everyone back to their previous spots on the gameboard.
So where are we? We’re in a fix. On one hand, a government that is shocked at the news that anyone would believe it capable of doing the sort of things it does all the time. On the other, an opposition that advertises its incorrigible frivolousness with its grandest gestures. The rest of us at least have the luxury of ignoring them. They’re stuck with one another. But not for much longer. Sooner or later, and sooner than I would have expected even a few weeks ago, they’ll be back on the campaign trail, demanding that we settle their differences for them.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Calling an election in August would give Trudeau Liberals best shot at a majority
The last thing any party wants is for its rally to morph into a super-spreader event, something that would be minimized by gathering in outdoor spaces
Election junkies, start your engines. From the appointment of a new governor general to a flurry of spending announcements, an early Canadian federal election is now a foregone conclusion. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh can ask the prime minister to hold off for another two years, but no one is listening; across the country, parties and candidates are gearing up for the fight that’s palpably in the air.
So when will Justin Trudeau pull the trigger? There are many factors at play: his party’s stance in the polls, the state of COVID and the vaccine rollout, and regional issues including the Alberta referendum on equalization, scheduled for Oct. 7.
Indeed, Trudeau would love nothing better than to use Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, both deeply unpopular at present, to dampen federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s support. Having Kenney preaching the evils of equalization while O’Toole is trying to drum up votes in Quebec is a Liberal dream, as is reminding Ontario voters of their government’s chaotic and ill-received pandemic response.
There are two schools of thought on timing. The first would have Trudeau call the vote mid to late August, when Canadians are too busy breaking out of their COVID cages to pay any attention, and hold a vote mid-to-late September, after the kids are back in school and before a fourth wave spoils the party.
The second would see Trudeau drop the writ in early September and the vote take place shortly after Thanksgiving. This would give the electorate the time to gather with family and friends (within COVID confines, of course), talk some politics, solidify their choices, and provide fodder for one last big poll before they cast their ballots.
![Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Coquitlam, B.C., on July 8.]()
Conrad Black: Justin Trudeau should be wary of calling a narcissistic election
![Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joined virtually by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland as they talk online to a group of front-line pharmacists from across the country on April 20.]()
Tasha Kheiriddin: The Liberals deliver a budget with a shrewd election plan written inside
Given the complications of COVID, Trudeau would be better to start the campaign while the going is good, both in terms of mood and ability to connect with voters at low risk. Outdoor events will be possible throughout the summer; once October hits, colder weather will be sending people back inside, which will restrict the size and nature of gatherings. The last thing any party wants is for its rally to morph into a super-spreader event, something that would be minimized by gathering in outdoor spaces.
And while politics may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, those gatherings may be more welcome than usual, given Canadians’ desire to get back to some semblance of normal. Based on previous, non-pandemic elections, politicians know that meeting a candidate in the flesh increases the likelihood of engagement and support. While social media and virtual campaigning will have its place, there may be a desire for some more old fashioned door to door and in-person activities.
And all other indicators favour the prime minister getting going while the going is good. The latest Abacus poll shows that despite the ups and downs of the pandemic, Trudeau has maintained strong popularity, with 40 per cent having a favourable opinion of him, while 39 per cent have a negative one. While Jagmeet Singh outperforms Trudeau with a 38 per cent positive to 26 per cent negative rating, his party is still in the low twenties in popularity. Erin O’Toole, on the other hand, scored 40 per cent negative to 20 per cent positive, leading some pundits to take to Twitter claiming desperate Conservatives were whispering about bringing back Stephen Harper.
One unexpected wrinkle is the implosion of the Green Party, which is still busy playing knife-the-leader. Even if the party gets it together, much damage has been done, with voters potentially turned off and turning away. The question is who will benefit most if their 6.5 per cent of the 2019 vote slips away: the NDP or the Liberals?
As for Quebec, all eyes are on the Senate and Bill C-10. Will the upper chamber be recalled to pass the changes to the Broadcasting Act, which draw great support in Quebec, as well as Bill C-6, outlawing conversion therapy, before the writ is dropped, or will both pieces of legislation die on the order paper?
As Trudeau weighs all these considerations, seeking to score a coveted majority, Canadians are busily getting back to their almost-normal lives. In politics, as in post-pandemic life, it seems, everything old is new again.
https://ipolitics.ca/2021/08/06/the-rebel-to-rabble-review-derek-sloan-talks-true-north/
The Rebel to Rabble Review: Derek Sloan talks True North
Rebel News contributor Matt Brevens interviews Derek Sloan (Screenshot via Rebel News website)He’s not quite ready to break out the True North-branded lawn signs and thunder sticks just yet, but in a pre-taped “time capsule” interview with Rebel News correspondent Matt Brevner, “renegade Ontario independent conservative” Derek Sloan confirmed that, yes, he was in the process of setting up “a brand new political party,” to be styled as the True North Party of Canada, although as per an on-screen caveat, the name is “pending Elections Canada approval.”
As Brevner explains in his introduction to the clip, back in June, he “had the pleasure of being granted an exclusive interview with Sloan,” during which they “spoke about the threat of COVID vaccine passports, his convictions, and his sense of responsibility to the people over politics.”
But then, “in a candid moment after conducting the interview, (Sloan) subtly mentioned … that he was planning on starting a new political party, which he says would vastly change the landscape of Canadian politics,” Brevner explains.
“In hopes of capturing the excitement of the moment, I asked Derek and his media coordinator if we could conduct another interview about the new party, and approach it as a time capsule of sorts. He agreed under the condition that we would not publicize this revelation until his campaign did so first” — and “this report is the interview from that day.”
(It’s worth noting that, as of this writing, neither Sloan nor his “campaign” have officially announced the creation of the new party, although he’s dropped some pretty big hints while touring Alberta over the last few weeks.)
As for what to expect from the True North Party platform, Sloan stresses that “the elephant in the room” is COVID-19, which, he contends, “is the pretext for all the things that they’re doing to us right now,” which is why “we need to expose the truth on what’s happening” by “showing the science on some of these other treatments that work,” and how “lockdowns don’t work, but just cause suicides and harm.”
Interestingly, Sloan shies away from staking out any particular ideological ground: “We’re not a libertarian party, or even a conservative party per se, although I consider myself a small-c conservative. This is going to be a party that is about putting Canada first,” and “cutting through the lies and nonsense.”
Meanwhile, Rebel News commander Ezra Levantcalls out Unifor — which, he notes, in addition to being “Canada’s largest union,” is also the country’s “largest media union” — for its latest “attack ad against Erin O’Toole,” which popped up on Twitter earlier this week.
“Look, I don’t have a lot of time for Erin O’Toole,” Levant reminds his audience.
“He’s pro-carbon tax, pro-lockdown for citizens but also pro-open borders for immigration, he’s pro-CBC and pro-censorship.”
This particular ad, however, “seems silly and too clever by half,” and “feels like some ad agency guy came up with an idea to impress his friends,” he continues.
“But my main beef with it is: it was bought and paid for by the activists and donors who go on TV and say with a straight face that they’re reporters, calling it like they see it, they’re neutral, they’re unbiased, and that we here are Rebel News are the partisan ones. What a laugh. No wonder so few Canadians trust the media anymore.”
Elsewhere on the site, Alberta Rebel bureau chief Sheila Gunn Reidoffers an extensive — and predictably apocalyptic — rundown of the latest bid by the “Trudeau Liberals” to “control the Internet” — namely, the technical backgrounder on the government’s plan to “address harmful content online,” which was posted on the Canadian Heritage website last month.
“It will be a bill, though it’s not yet one,” Gunn Reid warns her readers.
“It will be introduced in the next sitting of the House of Commons, and it will indeed pass because the Liberals and the NDP will vote together,” while the Conservatives, “if the last 24-30 hours is any indication,” will do “largely nothing” to stop it.
“According to this plan, AI could be used to determine you are hateful, based on the parameters laid out by some triggered-by-everything worry wort Liberal somewhere,” she notes.
“Within 24 hours of your content being flagged, either by AI or by some scolding hate watcher, it will be taken down and the incident must be recorded for the commissioner and maybe even reported to the RCMP. For a mean tweet.”
This, she says, is “the big fight,” and “how the Liberals plan to silence Rebel News, and you too, and millions of other Canadians who disagree with them,” which is why the Rebel has launched yet another petition drive— this time, calling on Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault to “stop the censorship.”
As of August 4, the online form had collected 1,940 signatures, well short of its goal of 10,000.
Back on the COVID-19 beat, Drea Humphreyshares the story of a Canadian couple who, she reports, were “left with no hope and no home for their family” after a planned move to the United States fell through due to pandemic border restrictions, prompting the Canadian government to order them into quarantine “even though they had never even entered another country.”
The couple, she notes, was “left with no choice but to drive across Canada to stay with relatives, while they try to get back on their feet.” (There was, however, a “commendable RCMP officer” who, as per the report, “refused to fine the Browns” for refusing to quarantine.)
Finally, the (non-bylined) Rebel News research team highlights a new tender posted to the CBC/Radio Canada website seeking “close protection security” in “multiple regions across the country,” although the site offers no context or analysis to explain why they find it to be particularly noteworthy.
Over at Post Millennial, Roberto Wakerell-Cruzflags a report that the Cuban consul in Canada is “attempting to sabotage a pro-democracy event” at which several prominent Conservatives are set to be in attendance.
“According to CiberCuba, the Cuban Consul has since started to make calls to members of the Cuban community as a form of intimidation, in order to cancel the event. CSIS has since been informed of the threats,” he explains.
The rally, however, was expected to go ahead as planned in Montreal on August 5, with at least one Conservative MP on the invite list: the party’s public security critic, Pierre Paul-Hus.
Finally, True North News— which, it now bears noting, should not be confused with the soon-to-be-launched True North Party helmed by Derek Sloan — delivers a scathing “fact check” on that “hyper-partisan attack ad” from Unifor, which, it concludes is “full of misinformation about Erin O’Toole.”
Trending on the progressive-left side of the Canadian political mediasphere:
- In the final chapter of a three-party treatise on Emancipation Day in Quebec, Ricochet contributor Ricardo Lamourmakes the case that “new leaders” are needed “in the fight for Black liberation.”
- Rabble contributor Rita Wongexplores the “environmental racism” underlying the construction of British Columbia’s Site C dam.
- Over at Canadian Dimension, Athabasca University associate history professor Eric Strikwerdaexamines how — and why — a “worrying tendency towards overt and obvious denialism of reality has become a trademark of the Jason Kenney government” in Alberta.
- Finally, Passage managing editor Davide Mastraccithinks it’s time for “Western state-funded outlets” like CBC, BBC and others to be formally labeled as “state-affiliated” on Twitter.
Derek Sloan on Twitter suspension, his plans for next election
INTERVIEW: Independent MP Derek Sloan to form "True North" federal party
By Matt Brevner August 03, 2021
https://rumble.com/vkop5w-interview-independent-mp-derek-sloan-to-form-new-federal-party.html
I can finally tell you about a big secret that we at Rebel News have known about for a month. Renegade Ontario independent conservative MP Derek Sloan is starting his own party: Sloan says the name for his new venture will be the “True North” party, pending an approval from Elections Canada.
Back in June, I attended a small home church gathering in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Sloan was the guest of honour at the church, and was in town raising awareness for his then-upcoming summit on Parliament Hill regarding the silencing of medical professionals. (The summit went on to be the number one viewed video on CPAC's YouTube page, but has since been removed and ironically, silenced.)
I had the pleasure of being granted an exclusive interview with Sloan, where we spoke about the threat of COVID vaccine passports, his convictions, and his sense of responsibility to the people over politics. In a candid moment after conducting the interview, he subtly mentioned to me that he was planning on starting a new political party, which he says would vastly change the landscape of Canadian politics.
In hopes of capturing the excitement of the moment, I asked Derek and his media coordinator if we could conduct another interview about the new party, and approach it as a time capsule of sorts. He agreed under the condition that we would not publicize this revelation until his campaign did so first. This report is the interview from that day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0LwEl_k1c
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>> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
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>> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:17:33 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Karl Fluri and Jean-Marc Michaud Why are
>> you deleting my comments??? Methinks its for your buddy Chrissy Baby
>> Sky's benefit N'esy Pas?
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>> On 7/15/21, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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>>> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Karl Fluri and Jean-Marc Michaud Why are
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>>> On 7/15/21, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>
>>>> An Interview With Chris Sky
>>>> 162 views
>>>> Streamed live 5 hours ago
>>>> Chance Of Fluri
>>>> 363 subscribers
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>>>> David Amos
>>>> 6 minutes ago
>>>> Why are you deleting my comments???
>>>>
>>>> David Amos
>>>> 9 minutes ago
>>>> Ontario anti-masker arrested at Moncton airport
>>>>
>>>> Police have yet to say what the charges will be
>>>> Alexandre Silberman · CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2020 7:50 PM AT |
>>>> Last Updated: October 10, 2020
>>>>
>>>> RCMP responded to a disturbance at the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc
>>>> International Airport. (Photo: Shane Magee/CBC News)
>>>>
>>>> An anti-mask activist from Ontario was arrested at the Greater Moncton
>>>> Roméo LeBlanc International Airport Friday and is now facing charges.
>>>>
>>>> Christopher Saccoccia, who goes by the name Chris Sky on social media,
>>>> posted a video to Facebook which he claims shows his arrest in
>>>> Moncton.
>>>>
>>>> In the video, Saccoccia can be seen holding what he claims to be a
>>>> "note from a medical professional" in a verbal exchange with a WestJet
>>>> flight attendant.
>>>>
>>>> Later in the footage, a police officer is pictured arriving inside the
>>>> aircraft and telling Saccoccia he is under arrest for causing a
>>>> disturbance. He is then escorted off the plane by RCMP.
>>>>
>>>> RCMP in New Brunswick confirm a man was arrested at the airport Friday
>>>> afternoon after arriving on a flight from Ontario.
>>>>
>>>> Sgt. Jean-François Martel said members of the Codiac Regional RCMP
>>>> responded to a report of "a disturbance" at the airport.
>>>>
>>>> "After being released from police custody, RCMP and officials from the
>>>> Department of Justice and the Department of Public Safety escorted him
>>>> back to the Moncton airport, where he took a flight out of the
>>>> Atlantic region," he said.
>>>>
>>>> Martel would not confirm the individual's name but said a 37-year-old
>>>> man from King City, Ont., is scheduled to appear in court to face
>>>> charges on Jan. 25. He could not say what the charges are.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone entering Atlantic Canada from outside the region is required to
>>>> self-isolate for 14 days.
>>>> Chris Saccoccia speaking at an anti-mask demonstration in Toronto.
>>>> (CBC)
>>>>
>>>> Saccoccia has attended several anti-mask demonstrations and spoken out
>>>> against public health measures and was expected to attend anti-mask
>>>> rallies in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia over the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> Last week, he was charged with breaking federal quarantine rules after
>>>> allegedly attending a demonstration with 500 mask-free people, less
>>>> than two weeks after returning from an international trip.
>>>>
>>>> Friday was the first day non-medical face masks became mandatory in
>>>> most indoor public places in New Brunswick.
>>>>
>>>> Medical professionals point to strong evidence that non-medical face
>>>> masks are highly effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19.
>>>>
>>>> David Amos
>>>> 28 minutes ago
>>>> Methinks Chrissy Baby did crash the event just as he bragged
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.blogto.com/city/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chaos erupts between anti-maskers and residents at Chris Sky event in
>>>> Toronto
>>>> Stay in the loop
>>>>
>>>> Toronto's Kensington-Chinatown is still reeling this week after a
>>>> public debate event — which included prominent lockdown and mask
>>>> opponent Chris Sky — took over the public space in front of a shopping
>>>> centre and cultural hub on Saturday.
>>>>
>>>> Residents and organizations warned one another in the days leading up
>>>> to the rally, which was billed as a community action event that "was
>>>> supposed to feature diverse voices at variance with the anti-mask/vaxx
>>>> movement" in front of the Chinatown Centre on Spadina south of Dundas.
>>>>
>>>> It was also meant to mark the opening of a new "weed-friendly outdoor
>>>> comedy venue" called 420 Cannabis Court, which led to some confusion
>>>> about the nature of the talk.
>>>>
>>>> The event was organized by local lawyer and activist Caryma Sa'd, who
>>>> was to interview Sky given the duo's online beef with one another —
>>>> but community members feared that having the face of the Canadian
>>>> anti-vax movement on the premises and providing him with any sort of
>>>> platform would not go over well.
>>>>
>>>> The event was especially concerning given the fact that there have
>>>> been some barriers to vaccination for the neighbourhood, which has
>>>> become one of the priority areas in Toronto for getting first and
>>>> second doses administered.
>>>>
>>>> Friends of Chinatown wrote in a social media posts late last week that
>>>> Sky and those surrounding him and his movement are also "known for
>>>> their overlapping participation in white-supremacist,
>>>> Holocaust-denying, racist circles."
>>>>
>>>> Worries about the risks posed to community members swirled as the
>>>> event proceeded despite some pushback from the public and a noted lack
>>>> of permission from the mall itself.
>>>>
>>>> Community activists quickly arrived on scene for "a no-engagement,
>>>> no-violence occupation of the space," accounts from the event read,
>>>> while members from the anti-mask crowd likewise showed to watch Sky
>>>> speak.
>>>>
>>>> Attendees who documented the affair on social media cited belligerence
>>>> and aggression from the anti-masker camp — who surrounded Sky like a
>>>> celebrity — as well as confrontations between members of the crowd,
>>>> some of whom had formed a blockade to prevent Sky from speaking.
>>>>
>>>> Sky arrived to take the stage around 10 p.m., though Sa'd was
>>>> allegedly nowhere to be seen. Some accounts state that she had
>>>> retreated into her building, where she had hoped to conduct the
>>>> interview instead given the tensions in the courtyard.
>>>>
>>>> The whole ordeal turned somewhat violent as both sides clashed,
>>>> leading community demonstrators to eventually evacuate the scene and
>>>> police to arrive.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently the anti-mask crowd, some of whom were making comments
>>>> about Sa'd "hiring ANTIFA" to boycott Sky's appearance, stayed back
>>>> for some time, with witnesses stating they were still present as of
>>>> 11:30 p.m.
>>>>
>>>> "They set me up with 50 armed antifa with a barricade? Lol you think
>>>> that could stop me?" Sky himself wrote on Twitter shortly before 1
>>>> a.m. today.
>>>>
>>>> Sa'd herself has publicly blamed Friends of Chinatown for the conflict
>>>> that unfolded.
>>>>
>>>> "You turned an event that was supposed to feature diverse voices at
>>>> variance with the anti-mask/vaxx movement into a Chris Sky rally," she
>>>> wrote on Twitter around 11 p.m. Saturday, along with a video clip that
>>>> appears to be taken from inside Chinatown Centre, looking onto the
>>>> disturbance.
>>>>
>>>> "He was never going to be 'platformed' in the context of my event.
>>>> Your so-called counter protest created violence."
>>>>
>>>> Sa'd explained her motivations for the event prior to the evening,
>>>> saying that "necessary precautions" were going to be taken.
>>>>
>>>> "As we've seen time & again, it isn’t possible to debate (or even
>>>> converse with) someone like Chris Sky. But I want to try breaking into
>>>> the echo chamber in my way," she wrote on Instagram.
>>>>
>>>> She is now facing some hefty backlash online, and claimed yesterday
>>>> that she will be releasing a formal statement on the incident "when
>>>> I'm less heated."
>>>>
>>>> "Please know that I'm not reading any of your tweets, so go ahead and
>>>> spout off," she continued in a tweet on Sunday evening. "There is a
>>>> lot more to this situation than meets the eye, including mall politics
>>>> at the Chinatown Centre."
>>>> Lead photo by
>>>>
>>>> Keven Ages
>>>>
>>>> https://www.sadvocacy.com/
>>>>
>>>> [S]ADVOCACY Professional Corporation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Caryma Sa’d is a prominent lawyer whose cases and legal commentary
>>>> have been featured by local, national, and international media
>>>> outlets. She is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcome for
>>>> her clients.
>>>>
>>>> Let’s talk about you. Please contact Caryma directly to arrange an
>>>> appointment. She will get back to you within 24 hours to set up your
>>>> initial consultation.
>>>>
>>>> Caryma Sa'd
>>>> Called to the bar: 2016 (ON)
>>>> [s]advocacy
>>>> 222 Spadina Ave., Suite 276
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>>>> Phone: 647-360-7182
>>>> Fax: 647-360-7192
>>>> Email: help@sadvocacy.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.blogto.com/city/
>>>>
>>>> Tensions build in Toronto ahead of public debate against anti-masker
>>>> Chris
>>>> Sky
>>>> Stay in the loop
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A local community group is urging the organizers of a Saturday event
>>>> in Toronto's Chinatown neighbourhood to reconsider the potential
>>>> repercussions of pitting two prominent voices from opposite sides of
>>>> the political spectrum against one another during a live, in-person
>>>> public face-off.
>>>>
>>>> Toronto lawyer, activist and artist Caryma Sa'd is scheduled to
>>>> interview the famously antagonistic anti-lockdown poster boy Chris Sky
>>>> (real name Chris Saccoccia) on July 10 at a new "weed-friendly outdoor
>>>> comedy venue" called 420 Cannabis Court.
>>>>
>>>> An exact time for the event will not be released until the day of, but
>>>> promotional materials promise that it will be streamed live. NOW
>>>> Magazine reports that 25 people will also be allowed to watch the show
>>>> in person.
>>>>
>>>> The IRL event will be outdoors, held within the courtyard of Chinatown
>>>> Centre at 222 Spadina Ave., a space otherwise known as the Chinatown
>>>> Anti Displacement Garden.
>>>>
>>>> It's also of note that Sa'd and Sky have been beefing online, very
>>>> publicly, for months.
>>>>
>>>> "As members of the downtown Chinatown and Kensington community, we are
>>>> deeply concerned that an event has been planned for this Saturday,
>>>> July 10th, platforming a known racist anti-vax public figure in the
>>>> Chinatown Anti-Displacement Garden, located in the courtyard of the
>>>> Chinatown Centre on Spadina Ave.," reads a message distributed by the
>>>> Friends of Kensington Market (FOTM) on Friday.
>>>>
>>>> Calling Sky a "known agitator from anti-mask, anti-lockdown, and
>>>> anti-vax rallies across the country," the group points out that Sky
>>>> was recently arrested and criminally charged for allegedly uttering
>>>> death threats, assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, and the
>>>> dangerous operation of a vehicle.
>>>>
>>>> And that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the 37-year-old
>>>> public figure's legal troubles: He's been arrested and charged
>>>> multiple times since the pandemic hit for violating the federal
>>>> quarantine act and causing disturbances, among other things.
>>>>
>>>> "Using his public platform and private social networks, Sky inspires
>>>> copycat actions such as the harassment of small and large businesses
>>>> on camera," reads the FOTM post.
>>>>
>>>> "We have concerns that those sharing his sentiments against businesses
>>>> and racialized individuals will be in attendance, resistant to
>>>> following the 'physical distancing' advertised in event promotions."
>>>>
>>>> FOKM is concerned that the event could put vulnerable community
>>>> members at risk, as Sky's anti-mask supporters obviously refuse to
>>>> abide by most public health orders.
>>>>
>>>> "A crowd of unvaccinated anti-maskers would endanger racialized,
>>>> senior community members, especially during a time when various
>>>> grassroots organizations have been working to get first and second
>>>> doses to the neighbourhood with one of the lowest vaccination rates in
>>>> the city," the group continues.
>>>>
>>>> "As community members we do not condone this event, and we express our
>>>> genuine concern for those who live and work in the neighbourhood. We
>>>> urge that this event be canceled for the safety of the community."
>>>>
>>>> Sa'd addressed the concerns on Instagram Friday afternoon, writing on
>>>> Instagram that "contingency plans are in place for as many variables
>>>> as I could imagine."
>>>>
>>>> "As we've seen time and again, it isn't possible to debate (or even
>>>> converse with) someone like Chris Sky," wrote the prominent Toronto
>>>> lawyer. "But I want to try breaking into the echo chamber in my way."
>>>>
>>>> Said Sky of the event on Instagram: "Because I welcome dissenting
>>>> voices... and we all know she's been DYING to meet me."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:54:40 -0300
>>>> Subject: Fwd: RE I Understand you may have information for me which
>>>> might assist in my upcoming defense against the Crown here in
>>>> Manitoba.
>>>> To: reicherpete@gmail.com, art <art@streetchurch.ca>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.jccf.ca/court_
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Calgary v. Reicher
>>>>
>>>> Posted On: October 15, 2019
>>>>
>>>> In December 2015, Peter Reicher was standing by the entrance to a
>>>> Calgary CTrain station handing out postcards which invited people to
>>>> attend his church’s free New Year’s concert. Despite the fact that Mr.
>>>> Reicher was not impeding pedestrian flow or causing any problems, he
>>>> was ordered to stop by a Calgary Transit officer. The officer told
>>>> him that he was not allowed to distribute postcards there and ordered
>>>> him to move across the street.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Reicher complied and crossed to the other side of the road which
>>>> parallels the train tracks, and continued handing out postcards on the
>>>> pedestrian overpass that links the sidewalk to the CTrain station. A
>>>> short while later, Mr. Reicher was again ordered to stop, this time by
>>>> two Transit officers, who issued him a $250 ticket for violating a
>>>> Calgary bylaw that prohibits passing out written materials without the
>>>> prior approval of a city official.
>>>>
>>>> Believing that his freedom of expression had been violated, Mr.
>>>> Reicher contacted the Justice Centre. The requirement to receive
>>>> prior permission before handing out literature was found to be
>>>> unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Saumur
>>>> v City of Quebec, [1953] 2 SCR 299. There, Justice Locke stated that
>>>> “the true purpose of the by-law is not to regulate traffic in the
>>>> streets but to impose a censorship on the written expression of
>>>> religious views and their dissemination, a constitutional right of
>>>> all of the people of Canada….”
>>>>
>>>> The Justice Centre encouraged Mr. Reicher to assert his freedom of
>>>> expression and provided him with guidance and advice in navigating the
>>>> initial steps in the proceedings. Shortly after City prosecutors
>>>> became aware that a Charter defense would be raised, they informed Mr.
>>>> Reicher that they would be withdrawing the charge for violating the
>>>> bylaw.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.rebelnews.com/
>>>>
>>>> BREAKING: Pastor Peter Reicher served by police: “Canada has become
>>>> communist”
>>>>
>>>> By Rebel News | June 11, 2021
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pastor Peter Reicher has just been served by police with Justice
>>>> Rooke’s wide-sweeping injunction and must now attend a provincial
>>>> court.
>>>>
>>>> Peter has recently taken over pastoral duties at Artur Pawlowski's
>>>> church in Calgary, Alberta.
>>>>
>>>> Pastor Peter's wife Axa livestreamed the police visit this afternoon,
>>>> telling the cops that “the devil has deceived you!”
>>>>
>>>> “I have a recommendation for you,” Axa told another officer. “You need
>>>> to go home and repent! Because what [you're doing is] criminal.”
>>>>
>>>> After asking the officer if he believes in God, Axa asked: “So you get
>>>> paid to persecute Christians?” “We get paid to do our job, yes,”
>>>> answered the officer.
>>>>
>>>> For further information or to sign up you may respond to this email
>>>> reicherpete@gmail.com, contact me personally at 403-870-0226 (text
>>>> message preferred please) or you may contact Pastor Artur Pawlowski at
>>>> 403-607-4434 or email him at art
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:03:42 -0300
>>>> Subject: RE I Understand you may have information for me which might
>>>> assist in my upcoming defense against the Crown here in Manitoba.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://davidraymondamos3.
>>>>
>>>> Sunday, 11 July 2021
>>>> Sheila Gunn Reid and her sneaky cohorts know why the lawyers Leighton
>>>> Grey and Yoav Niv denied getting phone calls and emails from me
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister continues to target political
>>>> opponents with arrests and detentions
>>>> 8,902 views
>>>> Jul 11, 2021
>>>>
>>>> Rebel News
>>>> 1.47M subscribers
>>>> Previously a chiropractor, now turned political activist in Manitoba,
>>>> Dr. Gerry Bohemier was arrested and held in police custody for the
>>>> crime of protesting the lockdown. Dr. Bohemier was arrested on a
>>>> warrant issued by a Manitoba justice, even though it was arguably not
>>>> for an arrestable offence. However, under Premier Brian Pallister this
>>>> seems not to matter, as he has so far only considered the point of
>>>> view presented by a small minority of hypochondriacs in the province.
>>>> ► FULL REPORT: https://rebelne.ws/3xtWkuW
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Manitoba
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Manitoba chief justice says private investigator followed him in
>>>> attempt to catch him breaking COVID-19 rules
>>>>
>>>> Justice Glenn Joyal currently presiding over court challenge to
>>>> pandemic restrictions
>>>>
>>>> Sarah Petz · CBC News · Posted: Jul 12, 2021 10:43 AM CT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>> From: "
>>>> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:49:24 -0500
>>>> Subject: I Understand you may have information for me which might
>>>> assist in my upcoming defense against the Crown here in Manitoba.
>>>> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>> I have received information from a friend that I should communicate
>>>> with
>>>> you regarding my upcoming hearing scheduled for* tomorrow* July 14th
>>>> 2021
>>>> regarding (9) nine tickets received for my participation in several
>>>> rallies in Manitoba over the last year and a half. All rallies were to
>>>> protest the loss of our freedoms of speech, our rights to assemble,
>>>> our
>>>> rights of body autonomy and especially in my case our rights not to be
>>>> obliged to adhere to Medical orthodoxy dictates. The charges are all
>>>> the
>>>> same on all the 9 tickets: "Failing to comply to emergency Health
>>>> orders".
>>>>
>>>> Any information and/or documents which could support my innocence would
>>>> greatly be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> I will forward these documents or information to my legal
>>>> representative
>>>> Mr. Stephen Whitehead of the Law firm Grey Wowk Spencer of Cold Lake
>>>> Alberta.
>>>>
>>>> I will advise him to forward a copy tothe Crown and copy me to that
>>>> effect.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for your interest in this matter. I llok forward
>>>> to
>>>> your reply.
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Freedom Report <freedomreport.ca@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 15:08:06 -0600
>>>> Subject: Re: YO Mayor Nenshi Methinks Tyson Fedor and his CTV cohorts
>>>> have informed us that you want Kevin Johnston locked up just as he
>>>> wishes the same for you Nesy Pas?
>>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>>
>>>> Is that the law firm for naheed nenshi?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> GO FIGURE Why Chris Scott should have printed this document
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Premier <PREMIER@leg.gov.mb.ca>
>>>> Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 01:23:08 +0000
>>>> Subject: Auto Reply Premier’s Secretariat
>>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 22:22:50 -0300
>>>> Subject: YO Mayor Nenshi Trust that your lawyer Jill Floen should not
>>>> deny that I tried to talk to her after Adam Toy published his article
>>>> about Kevin Johnston
>>>> To: Jill.Floen@calgary.ca, themayor <themayor@calgary.ca>,
>>>> freedomreport.ca@gmail.com, Grace@graceyanformayor.com,
>>>> voteshaoliwang@gmail.com, sunnycanada79@hotmail.com,
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>>>> khchiang@yahoo.ca, info@jandamery.com, info@jeromy.ca,
>>>> info@zacformayor.com
>>>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
>>>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>> erin.otoole@parl.gc.ca, jagmeet.singh@parl.gc.ca, premier
>>>> <premier@gov.ab.ca>, lawdepartment@calgary.ca, cps
>>>> <cps@calgarypolice.ca>, meghan.grant@cbc.ca, ezra@rebelmedia.com,
>>>> premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier <premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier
>>>> <premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
>>>> <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
>>>> <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Bill.Blair"<Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>,
>>>> "Brenda.Lucki"<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "barbara.massey"
>>>> <barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> Sturgeon <sturgeon.nathalie@
>>>> <Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca
>>>> Office of the Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>,
>>>> Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sheilagunnreid <sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Deja Vu Anyone??? If not scroll down
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 22:50:57 -0300
>>>> Subject: Hey Chris I sure hope that you printed the document I
>>>> suggested and said Hey to the RCMP for me
>>>> To: chris.scott@
>>>> <sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>, ministryofjustice@gov.ab.ca, premier
>>>> <premier@ontario.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>>>> "Bill.Blair"<Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, "barbara.massey"
>>>> <barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"
>>>> <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>
>>>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>>>>
>>>> Cafe owner arrested, dozens ticketed leaving anti-restriction protest
>>>> in
>>>> Alberta
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anti-restriction protest at Whistle Stop Cafe goes ahead despite
>>>> injunction
>>>> The Canadian Press · Posted: May 08, 2021 3:38 PM MT
>>>>
>>>> https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/
>>>>
>>>> Calgary mayoral candidate, pastor both released after alleged COVID-19
>>>> violations
>>>> Bill Graveland
>>>>
>>>> Published Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6:11AM MDT
>>>>
>>>> https://calgaryherald.com/
>>>>
>>>> Mayoral candidate, pastor granted release pending contempt hearing for
>>>> breaching public health orders
>>>> Calgary Herald
>>>> Publishing date: May 17, 2021
>>>>
>>>> Kevin J. Johnston outside of GraceLife Church on Sunday March 14,
>>>> 2021. Photo by Larry Wong/Postmedia
>>>>
>>>> Mayoral candidate Kevin J. Johnston was granted his release Monday
>>>> after being arrested Saturday for breaching a court order that
>>>> required him to comply with COVID-19 public health restrictions.
>>>>
>>>> But Johnston complained the condition of his release — that he comply
>>>> with masking requirements, along with other orders issued by chief
>>>> medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw — might be difficult for
>>>> him to follow, pending a June 16 contempt of court hearing.
>>>>
>>>> “I’m already feeling the anxiety,” Johnston told a virtual court
>>>> hearing, as he sat, masked, in the prisoner’s box in a Calgary Court
>>>> of Queen’s Bench courtroom where the judge and lawyers appeared on
>>>> video link.
>>>>
>>>> “I simply cannot wear a mask for that period of time,” he said. “I’m
>>>> already feeling the anxiety of this right now and I’m sweating. I’m
>>>> bothered by having to have this on; I could not possibly wear a mask
>>>> for that entire amount of time.”
>>>>
>>>> But Justice Adam Germain told Johnston that he wouldn’t have to wear a
>>>> mask 24 hours a day; he only had to comply with restrictions regarding
>>>> masking, social distancing and limited attendance at gatherings.
>>>>
>>>> “There’s nothing in these health orders that requires you to wear a
>>>> mask in your own abode,” the judge said. “(Your lawyer Ian) McCuaig
>>>> will get the health orders and brief you on them.”
>>>>
>>>> McCuaig, who appeared via WebEx from his Toronto office, said Johnston
>>>> might raise issues of free speech as a political candidate as a
>>>> defence to his alleged breach of the court order restricting his
>>>> activities.
>>>>
>>>> Before Johnston’s court appearance, Fairview Baptist Church pastor Tim
>>>> Stephens appeared for his release hearing.
>>>>
>>>> Albert Health Services lawyer Kyle Fowler agreed to his release on
>>>> condition he comply with a May 6 order prohibiting non-compliance with
>>>> public heath guidelines.
>>>>
>>>> Lawyer Leighton Grey said Stephens, who was arrested Sunday for
>>>> holding a service without complying with the restrictions, may argue
>>>> an amendment to the initial court order of Justice John Rooke meant
>>>> that pronouncement no longer applied to the pastor.
>>>>
>>>> He too will face a contempt hearing on June 16.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.fieldlaw.com/
>>>>
>>>> J. Mark Jackson QC, Partner
>>>> 2500 - 10175 101 ST NW
>>>> Edmonton, AB T5J 0H3
>>>> T780-423-9589
>>>> F780-428-9329
>>>> mjackson@fieldlaw.com
>>>>
>>>> Jaclyn Nosyk
>>>> Legal Assistant
>>>> T780-423-7667
>>>> jnosyk@fieldlaw.com
>>>>
>>>> https://www.mccuaiglaw.ca/
>>>>
>>>> McCuaig Law
>>>> 647 528 7247
>>>> ian@mccuaiglaw.ca
>>>>
>>>> http://www.
>>>>
>>>> Fairview Baptist Church
>>>> 230 – 78 Ave SE
>>>> Calgary, AB T2H 1C4
>>>>
>>>> (403) 252-1704
>>>> info@fairviewbaptistchurch.ca
>>>> https://gwsllp.ca/contact-
>>>>
>>>> Leighton Grey
>>>> PHONE: (780) 594-0299
>>>> EMAIL: lgrey@gwsllp.ca
>>>>
>>>> https://libertarian.on.ca/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stefanos Karatopis
>>>>
>>>> My name is Stefanos Karatopis.
>>>>
>>>> I am single, and a proud Father who values hard work and raised my
>>>> sons on my own.
>>>>
>>>> I speak, read, and write Greek fluently.
>>>>
>>>> I have lived in West Lincoln almost all my life.
>>>>
>>>> At the age of 13 I obtained my Computer Technician Diploma and shortly
>>>> after opened my own home based computer business.
>>>>
>>>> I have been in our family owned and operated poultry business up till
>>>> 2011.
>>>>
>>>> I have completed an entrepreneur course at Niagara College.
>>>>
>>>> I was a Director on the Agios Haralambos Greek Association in West
>>>> Lincoln.
>>>>
>>>> I am a member and volunteer with the International Tribunal for Natural
>>>> Justice.
>>>>
>>>> I am a past President of the Niagara Landowners Association.
>>>>
>>>> I am currently a Governor with the Ontario Landowners Association.
>>>>
>>>> I am one of the Founding Directors on the International Property
>>>> Rights Association.
>>>>
>>>> I am a Reporter/Photographer for The Landowner Magazine.
>>>>
>>>> I have recently obtained my Paralegal Diploma from Algonquin Careers
>>>> Academy.
>>>>
>>>> I have been an advocate for people all over Ontario assisting them
>>>> free of charge from overzealous bureaucrats and Government overreach
>>>> on all levels. In 2016 I was presented the Landowner of the Year award
>>>> for my private property rights work in the Niagara Region where I had
>>>> achieved many successful outcomes, including for my parents while they
>>>> were out of country in 2009.
>>>>
>>>> I have worked and will continue to work tirelessly for private
>>>> property rights and the reason why I will strive to become a licensed
>>>> paralegal and open a law firm with a lawyer partner in Niagara.
>>>>
>>>> I am a Libertarian and stand for Liberty and to keep Ontario a
>>>> non-communist state and make it so that everyone can keep their hard
>>>> earned money instead of it being stolen by a greedy needy grossly
>>>> overgrown Government and to bring wealth and prosperity back to
>>>> Ontario. To make Ontario a place where our children and their children
>>>> can enjoy a life of wealth and freedom where private property is NOT
>>>> considered a social injustice.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Contact Info
>>>>
>>>> stefanos.karatopis@gmail.com
>>>> phone
>>>> 905 325 2422
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)"<Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>>>>>>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
>>>>>>> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
>>>>>>> productive use of either of our time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
>>>>>>> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
>>>>>>> given due consideration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Charles Murray
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ombud NB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>>>>>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova
>>>>>>>> Scotia
>>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos,
>>>>>>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the
>>>>>>>> Province
>>>>>>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>>>>>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>>>>>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well
>>>>>>>>> Please
>>>>>>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>>>>>>>>> ilian.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I
>>>>>>>>>> must
>>>>>>>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament
>>>>>>>>>> baseball
>>>>>>>>>> cards?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>> 6
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>>>>>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>>>>>>>> United States Senate
>>>>>>>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>>>>>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>>>>>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>>>>>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the
>>>>>>>>>> matters
>>>>>>>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire
>>>>>>>>>> tap
>>>>>>>>>> tapes.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this
>>>>>>>>>> previously.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>>>>>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>>>>>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>>>>>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>>>>>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Date: 20151223
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Plaintiff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Defendant
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ORDER
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>>>>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>>>>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on
>>>>>>> November
>>>>>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of
>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>> in its entirety.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>>>>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the
>>>>>>> Canadian
>>>>>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen
>>>>>>> Quigg,
>>>>>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that
>>>>>>> letter
>>>>>>> he stated:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including
>>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>>>>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>>>>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be
>>>>>>> witnesses
>>>>>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>>>>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>>>>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>>>>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>>>>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>>>>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>>>>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>>>>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and,
>>>>>>> retired
>>>>>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>>>>>> Police.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>>>>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>>>>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>>>>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>>>>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et
>>>>>>> al,
>>>>>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>>>>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party
>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.
>>>>>>> There
>>>>>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>>>>>> Judge
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>>>>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had
>>>>>>> sent
>>>>>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>>>>>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>>>>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>>>>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> most
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>>>>>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>>>>>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>>>>>>> dudes are way past too late
>>>>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre
>>>>>>> à
>>>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel
>>>>>>> à
>>>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Merci ,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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