Canada: Girding Ourselves For More of the Disastrous Same

"We must condemn Hamas, and more importantly the terror sponsors in Tehran who initiated the attacks, the horrific attacks, of October 7."

"We need to defeat the terrorists so that all the people of the world can live in peace."

"We need to get back to the Canadian tradition, which is that when people come to this country, they leave foreign conflicts behind."

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

 

"People come from countries from around the world and they care deeply about where they come from and they should be able to do so."

"[Poilievre's treatment of Palestinians is] disgusting."

"[Carney is wrong for not repeating that Israel is committing a] genocide [in Gaza]."

"[An NDP government would] recognize the state of Palestine, impose sanctions on key figures in the Netanyahu regime [and] immediately impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel."

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh 

"[A  Liberal government calls for an] immediate ceasefire, [the] return of all the  hostages [and a two-state solution]."

"[We have to be] clear-eyed about the fundamental risk of Iran and do everything with our international partners to check it."

"[We note the] horrifying rise in hate, and hate-related crimes [of Islamophobia and antisemitism]."

Liberal leader Mark Carney

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in his concession speech that he intends to stay on as the head of his party. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

These were the positions directly impacting Canada's relations with the State of Israel following the Palestinian Hamas terror group's invasion of Israel on 7 October 2023, stated almost two years later by the competing political parties in Canada during the election campaign that culminated in the vote on April 28, 2025 that resulted in a fourth term of government office for the Liberal party. A Canadian vote that relegated the NDP to 'observer' status in the House of Commons when the vote count left it decimated and without official party status.

 

The only political party in Canada that defended the security and equality of Canadian Jews -- in a country so infiltrated by Palestinian and Muslim immigration, refugees and migrants that the country's Jewish population status has been violated by mobs of Hamas-sympathizing, Israel-hating, Jewish-demonizing rioters allowed to commit criminal offences that would never be tolerated by any level of government other than for Muslim groups, toward whom any criticism is immediately labeled 'Islamophobic' -- has been the Conservative party. 

 

To the great disappointment of the over four million Canadian voters that placed their trust in the Conservative party led by Pierre Poilievre, the Liberal party once again prevailed, to form a fourth consecutive government. To continue its ruinous governance of a once-great nation that has for the past ten years of government incompetence descended into economic insecurity, insufferable population density through runaway immigration policies, crime-ridden streets, identity politics leading to group alienation, provincial inequities, a faltering health-care system, and a housing crisis.

 

 

 

The platform of this 'new' Liberal government will be administered by the 'old' Cabinet minus the previous failed prime minister, which rubber-stamped every nation-crumbling initiative undertaken by the Justin Trudeau Liberal government. Where the green agenda of the previous Liberal government will now be resurrected on steroids by the new Liberal government, alienating Western Canada in its insistence that natural resources such as energy extraction will continue to be blocked, pipelines west-to-east, and exports abroad will be truncated, despite election promises to the contrary.

 

Crime in Canada has surged in the past decade under Liberal rule with dipping incarceration rates and a trend of rising crime. Asylum claims with foreign nationals requesting entry to Canada as refugees are surging, an increase of 1,700 percent from 2015 to 2025. Health care in Canada has been abysmal, with thousands of Canadians dying thanks to an incapacity in the health system for timely treatment; people dying while on wait lists for medical procedures necessary to sustain life.

 

Canada is drowning under a tsunami of national debt. The total sovereign debt stands at $1.4 trillion dollars. New debt has piled up since 2015 at a rate that eclipses anything in Canada's past. The federal public service, while delivering less service to the public than ever before, swelled to 367,722 from the 2015 total of 257,034 employees, a 43 percent increase. The recruitment crisis in the Canadian military has resulted in half of the military's ships, aircraft and vehicles are unusable, due to insufficient personnel to maintain them.

 

Runaway immigration has given us a population of 41.5 million, substantially increased from 2015's 34.8 million. Leading to critical shortages of doctors and adequate housing, while straining all public social services. Canada has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, 1.25 children per woman, similar to that of South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan. Life expectancy in Canada has diminished; where the trend up to 2015 was longer lifespans, the past ten years has seen a reversal. 

 

Canadian per capita wages over the last ten years have fallen. The per capita GDP in 2015 was $43,594 according to the World Bank. In the last ten years the per capita GDP has stagnated; as of 2023 it was $44,468. Ten long, weary, disruptive, disappointing, disorienting years of Liberal governance has given Canada a faltering economy, a worsening of crime, pathetic public services, poor affordability levels, refugee backlogs and identity politics. And here we are, starting in on another four years of the same.

 

Canada election: Liberals secure fourth term in office in unexpected Mark Carney victory – video

 

 

A Government in Disgrace Still Playing to Its Preferred Audience

"Canada continues to be deeply concerned by the dire humanitarian situation in Syria. The Syrian peoples’ needs have reached unprecedented levels after 13 years of crisis, with over 16 million people, almost 70% of the country’s population, urgently requiring assistance."

"The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, accompanied by Omar Alghabra, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Centre, recently concluded a visit to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, where they met with government officials and representatives of organizations and partners to discuss international cooperation and humanitarian assistance, particularly in relation to Syria. Minister Hussen’s trip marks the first Canadian delegation to visit the border region of Türkiye and Syria since the end of the Assad regime in Syria."

"Minister Hussen reaffirmed Canada’s commitment to the people of Syria and announced $17.25 million in funding for humanitarian assistance to address their urgent needs. Canada’s funding will be delivered through experienced humanitarian partners and help provide clean water and food; protection services, including for the prevention and mitigation of and response to gender-based violence; sanitation and hygiene services; and health services."

"In Qatar, Minister Hussen and Mr. Alghabra met with Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Misnad, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation. Discussions focussed [sic] on Qatar’s role in assisting Syrians and on development cooperation between Canada and Qatar."

Global Affairs Canada news release

“The conflict in Syria has left millions of people in need of urgent aid. This funding will allow partners to provide them with critical support as the situation on the ground continues to evolve. Canada stands in solidarity with the people of Syria and those in neighbouring countries affected by this humanitarian crisis, and we will continue to work to address its impacts.”

- Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development

“This is a pivotal moment for Syria, the region and the world. After decades of oppression and conflict, the Syrian people are facing an opportunity to build an inclusive and prosperous society. Canada has always been a friend to the Syrian people, and we will continue to offer support to them so they can achieve their aspirations.”

- Omar Alghabra, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Centre

Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen has returned from a visit to Turkey's border with Syria, where he says Syrian refugees told him they are grateful for Canada's support. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is in a precarious governing position, heading toward electoral oblivion. Justin Trudeau's formal announcement that he is stepping down as prime minister of Canada and his follow-up tactics of remaining in power until March through prorogation of Parliament has placed Canada in a vulnerable situation where government authority is absent authority under these circumstances. Yet he and his minions continue to act unimpeded by their reality of a caretaker government unentitled to continue as though they hold a mandate to do so.

Canadians have made it clear that their disgust with this prime minister's behaviour and decision-making has made them anxious to see him depart, with his replacement waiting in the wings. An election is also waiting in the wings where the Conservative Party is prepared to take the reins of government at the behest of the Canadian electorate prepared to give Pierre Poilievre a clear majority government and consign the Liberal Party to fourth-place standing and unlikely to capture more than 6 seats in Parliament.

Despite the loathing of the Canadian electorate for the worst government that Canada has ever suffered under, one that has brought economic ruin to the country, divided east from west, fractured unity not only provincially but by ethnic origins, each in their distrusting and abused silos, with runaway crime going unabated, soaring deaths from contraband opioids, a failing health care system where it has become logical somehow to offer sufferers medical 'assistance' in suicide, and people requiring urgent medical care dying while waiting for vital surgery, nothing appears to have curtailed the arrogance of a prime minister who sneers at those he is meant to serve, who disagree with his policies.

That International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen and MP Omar Alghabra have just completed a formal delegation to Turkey and Syria in the wake of a transitional regime since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Damascus whose 13-year sectarian war against his opposition citizens, where the new government is being led by an offshoot of al-Qaeda prepared to bring Sharia law to the country, is of little interest to Canada. Other than perhaps the 100,000 Syrian refugees the Trudeau government gave haven to. Millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey and throughout Europe are facing an enforced repatriation to Syria. No whisper of similar action in Canada.

$17.25 million in funding for humanitarian assistance; food, protection services, sanitation and health services, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer has been given to Syria. Little different than offering millions to the Taliban in Afghanistan, which has taken up where it left off before the U.S. led NATO in a conflict to rescue Afghans from the Islamist talons of the Taliban and the capture of Osama bin Laden, after the tragedy of 9/11. Israel's 7/10 atrocities imposed by the Hamas terrorist group elicited a yawn from Trudeau and a ban on providing Israel with military gear in its invasion response of Gaza.

In Qatar the two Canadian Parliamentarians of Islamic heritage met with Qatar officials, as intermediaries in assisting Syria. Qatar, the friendly oil-rich state to the Taliban, and Hamas, whose funding of Hamas ensured it could assemble a military stockpile of deadly rocketry, hundreds of which have been aimed at Israel from the past to the present. Synchronizing with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar has infiltrated its brand of jihad discretely and effectively throughout Europe and North America. Is this where Canada's interests lie?

Hussen announced that Canada stands in solidarity with the people of Syria and those in neighbouring countries; that 'his' government is prepared to continue work to address the impacts of conflicts roiling the Middle East. Unspoken is the absence of Israel's welfare in this current Canadian government's concerns over the situation in the Middle East; the very nation that has been continually attacked and forced to respond in kind, but whose responses fail to find favour or support within the hallowed halls of Parliament under this Liberal government.

While Europe and the United States remain concerned over the Islamist factions in partnership with al-Qaeda of those insurgents now governing Syria on an 'interim' basis, Canada appears to have no such troubling concerns under the Liberal government's 'watchful' eye, focused unerringly on the impression it is making on the large Canadian-Muslim population that has swelled in the past ten years, under Liberal/Trudeau governance.

Power & Politics hears from Syrian-Canadian MP Omar Alghabra on the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria. CBC

A Tempest in Parliament ... The Liberal Agenda

"Before the Holocaust, Jews were hated because they were poor and because they were rich; because they were communists and because they were capitalists; because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere; because they clung to ancient religious beliefs and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing."

British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (deceased), then-head of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

 

"[I had] never experienced more anti-Semitism and Jew hatred from people I thought I knew well ... The progressive and climate communities have displayed, at some points this week, overt and virulent anti-Jewish behaviour [including from some] Green MPs."

Noah Zatzman, adviser to Green Party leader Anamie Paul

 

"[There should be] an immediate de-escalaton in the violence and a return to dialogue as a means to seeking a peaceful solution [to the 11-day May conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza]."

Anamie Paul, leader, Green Party of Canada

 

"Canada is calling for a ceasefire [and will work to] de-escalate the situation."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

 

“I stand with Palestine and condemn the unthinkable airstrikes in Gaza. End Apartheid!” May 11 tweet

"[There are] no two sides to this conflict, only human rights abuses [by Israel] pursuing a policy of apartheid]."

Jenica Atwin, Green/Liberal Party Member of Parliament 

MP Jenica Atwin speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Sept. 29, 2020. Atwin has crossed the floor to join the Liberals, after being elected as a Green Party member in 2019. Photo by Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/File

Dissatisfied with Green Party Leader Anamie Paul's diplomatically political statement referencing the conflict between Hamas in Gaza, lobbing over four thousand missiles at civilian targets in Israel, and the Israel Defence Forces' bombing raids in Gaza pinpoint-targeting Hamas-owned targets, the newly-elected leader Ms.Paul, spoke of restraint on both sides to avoid further casualties. In essence, equating both adversaries as equals, bypassing the reality of Hamas as a terrorist group, outlawed in many countries, including Canada.

But even that non-accusatory statement failing to acknowledge the cause of the conflict and the entirely defensive response to the war-crimes-level action of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, infuriated Jenica Atwin, who slammed her party's leader for not outright condemning Israel for defending itself. Atwin's statements condemning Israel, and supporting 'the Palestinian cause' has not changed; she reaffirmed her contention that Israel is an 'Apartheid' state, irrespective of the fact that 20 percent of Israelis are Arab Palestinian citizens, and no Jews are permitted to live in a 'Palestinian State' by diktat.

Citing the failure of her leader to condemn Israel, Ms. Atwin announced her decision to cross the floor and join the Liberal Party of Canada, which welcomed her with open arms -- after having conducted lengthy discussions over her leaving the Green Party for the Liberals far in advance of her controversial anti-Semitic statements. Anamie Paul was elected to lead the Green Party by a wide margin of votes and she is recognized as the first Black, Jewish leader of any Canadian political party, even a tiny, struggling one like the Greens whose focus is mostly environmental.

In crossing to the Liberals to great fanfare, Ms.Atwin retracted the heat of her words; they were quite simply misunderstood; that old 'taken out of context' conundrum. So misunderstood that listeners/readers of what she wrote and said totally failed to understand that her words were intended to "send strength and love" to people she recognized requiring support. So Jews in her New Brunswick riding and throughout the country who vote Liberal are to feel love, courtesy of Ms.Atwin despite the venom of her sentiments.

"Palestinians are suffering. Israelis are also suffering as well as their loved ones in Canada and around the world", the new, amended statement emphasized, encouraged without doubt by the Liberal Party apparatus to fall more in line with the more opaque position of the Liberals and Prime Minister Trudeau on the matter of Israel and Jewish sensibilities. "No one wins with war. I regret if my choice of words caused harm to those who are suffering."

 In point of fact, this woman's clear and consistent defamation of Israel has not changed; she re-emphasized on a later interview opportunity that she would not disavow her statement of Israel as an Apartheid state, despite that it clangs deafeningly with the official line of the Liberals who much prefer discreet rather than brash statements that require explication to offended voters. 

Until fairly recently, Canadian Jews who have a natural tendency to identify with liberalism and thus are generally supporters of the Liberal Party, could be assured that Canada would always view Israel as a fellow democracy with values similar to Canada's own. Under the new Liberal administration headed by Justin Trudeau that assurance no longer has currency. This is a prime minister who enjoys apologizing for past wrongs in Canadian history, a man whose sensitivities and assurances are beyond shallow.

 

Which had him apologizing for the rejection by the government of Canada of the plea in 1939 that the MS St.Louis carrying 900 German Jews desperately attempting to flee Nazi Germany, be accepted as refugees. Like all other countries that refused them, Canada, their last resort, did likewise, the ship forced to return to Europe where the passengers faced their deadly fate. Yet when the official opening of the Holocaust Museum in Ottawa took place to great fanfare nowhere to be seen in the dedication plaques or heard in the speeches, any mention that the victims of Nazi genocide were Jews.

 

The previous government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper made it clear both to Canadians and to Israel that Canada stood in solid support of Israel's right to exist, denied it by Arab Palestinians in their insuperable demands. The position of the Liberals under Justin Trudeau is more 'nuanced', so much so that it saw fit to vote against Israel on several United Nations resolutions, geared as always to elevate the Palestinian 'cause' and denigrate the Israeli reality.

 

With the understanding that UNRWA, the UN refugee body dedicated to the welfare of Palestinian 'refugees' works in quiet tandem with Hamas, and that UNRWA school texts are rife with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda, the Conservative government cut off funding to the body. With the very same knowledge available to the Liberal government, funding for UNRWA was restored, even though it is also well known that Hamas runs UNRWA in Gaza, and the funding is funnelled through to Hamas.

 

That Justin Trudeau and his Liberal apparatus has wooed and welcomed into the party a blatant anti-Semite as a new Liberal Member of Parliament, bringing with her coveted votes from New Brunswick for the Liberal Party, speaks volumes of the new left-progressive values of this government. Whose judgement and principles have long been in doubt in so many areas of governance; carrying on the tradition of the Liberal Party of Canada's susceptibility to corruption, and outdoing its predecessors on every imaginable file, from currying favour with Quebec, and the same with China, neither of which have the best interests of Canada in mind.

 

Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc and Jenica Atwin arrive at a news conference in Fredericton on June 10, 2021, after it was announced that Atwin was leaving the Green party for the Liberals. Photo by Kevin Bissett/The Canadian Press