A Conservative bill to remove GST from Ottawa’s carbon pricing plan could eventually lead to $1 billion in lost tax revenue, the parliamentary budget officer (PBO) says. The federal watchdog on Tuesday released a report on Bill C-358, which was tabled in the House of Commons by Tory MP Alex Ruff in October. Ruff said … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 22, 2024 3:33 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Quebec man has pleaded guilty to uttering threats toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault in a series of online videos. Prosecutor Geneviève Crépeau says Germain Lemay, 30, pleaded … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 21, 2024 3:48 pm Updated January 21, 2024 4:15 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Officials say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be putting a big emphasis on policies that help Canada’s middle class as he prepares to chair a cabinet retreat in Montreal over … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 19, 2024 7:36 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s doing something in Nunavut he rarely does in public, which is to reflect on his father. Trudeau is in Iqaluit to mark the signing of an agreement to hand over … Read more
Quebec Premier François Legault is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to slow the influx of asylum seekers entering his province, which he said is nearing a “breaking point.” Legault made his request in an official letter to Trudeau sent Wednesday afternoon, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press. “We are very close … Read more
Canada’s interim ethics commissioner was summoned on Wednesday to appear at the House of Commons ethics committee amid scrutiny about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s holiday in Jamaica. Konrad von Finckenstein will appear at the committee at the earliest opportunity once the House of Commons resumes following winter break on Jan. 29. MPs on the committee … Read more
The House of Commons ethics committee will debate Wednesday whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s holiday in Jamaica warrants a study. The committee is set to meet at 10:30 a.m. Eastern at the request of Conservative MPs Michael Barrett, Jacques Gourde, Damien Kurek and Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure. In a letter addressed to the committee’s … Read more
The federal government has quietly guaranteed between $1.75 billion and $2 billion in new commercial bank loans for the Trans Mountain Corporation so it will have enough cash to complete its long-delayed and massively over budget West Coast pipeline expansion. If that money is borrowed, the project’s total cost to the government will now sit … Read more
The Prime Minister’s Office is denying allegations it misled the ethics commissioner, after the federal Conservatives called for an investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vacation in Jamaica. The Conservatives want the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to look into how PMO staff handled the detail that Trudeau stayed for free. Press secretary Mohammad … Read more
The Conservatives are calling on the interim conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to launch a probe into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s holiday in Jamaica. Opposition parties were already criticizing Trudeau earlier this week for spending his holiday at an oceanfront villa in Jamaica at no cost, as first reported by the National Post. Rooms … Read more
