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Blacklock's Reporter today pauses for #RemembranceDay observances with gratitude to all who honoured our country. Thank you for your service.
— The Editor blacklocks.ca
Feds order 6,000 bottles of wine to "maintain expected standards" in Parliamentary Dining Room days after @MarkJCarney budget lamented plight of "hardworking Canadians struggling to get by."
blacklocks.ca/feds-fill-up-t… #cdnpoli @OurCommons
Newly declassified 1946 records show #RCMP spied on @RoyalCdnLegion for Communist subversives: 'The menace was brought to the attention of the Dominion President.'
blacklocks.ca/rcmp-spied-on-… #cdnpoli
Cabinet was never told who gave custom sculpture of @SCC_eng Chief Justice Wagner to the Court for public display. Registrar says Court is now "reviewing the relevant information."
blacklocks.ca/cabinet-never-… @JusticeCanadaEn @AdamChamb
.@CanadaPostCorp promises to Buy Canadian in $1.2B program to replace all doorstep mail delivery with community mail boxes: "What are details of each contract?"
blacklocks.ca/promise-to-mak… @DanMazierMP
Old Age Pension cost this yr tops $92B, more than @FinanceCanada forecast, says Chief Actuary, with number of seniors growing 565,000 a yr in a country becoming as grey as Italy or Japan.
blacklocks.ca/old-age-securi… #cdnpoli @OSFICanada
#Budget2026
“The moment has passed.
If PM @MarkJCarney is not going to make the hard decisions earlier, he’s not going to make them later.”
🎙️ Blacklock’s Reporter every Monday with @BenMulroney on @am640
STARTS @ 9:40
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@FinanceCanada @FPChampagne #cdnpoli
“I voted for the budget last year because the Prime Minister stood and committed to achieving the Paris Agreement targets. I was a fool to believe the Liberals. I have repented for being a fool. I see clear-eyed now. They are building pipelines.”
— @ElizabethMay
MP @ElizabethMay in final address to Parliament as @CanadianGreens leader said she felt foolish for siding with Liberals when it counted in past confidence votes. “I was a fool,” she said.
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@liberal_party @CPC_HQ @NDP #cdnpoli
Commons in 2021 was told #slave labour produced 20% of imported cotton products, 32% of tomato products and 41% of polysilicon solar panels.
DOCUMENTS: @CanBorder in 10 yrs seized 0 shipments of slave-made imports. Feds in 2021 promised to "eradicate slave labour from Canadian suppy chains." Not a typo. Zero in 10 years.
blacklocks.ca/ten-years-zero… #cdnpoli @ArnoldViersen
"I was a fool to believe the Liberals," @ElizabethMay says in last Commons speech as @CanadianGreens leader, expresses regret for voting confidence when Libs were minority gov't.
blacklocks.ca/i-was-a-fool-d… #cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: @CanBorder in 10 yrs seized 0 shipments of slave-made imports. Feds in 2021 promised to "eradicate slave labour from Canadian suppy chains." Not a typo. Zero in 10 years.
blacklocks.ca/ten-years-zero… #cdnpoli @ArnoldViersen
Feds propose to end homelessness by 2036 after breaking promise to end it in 2030: "Efforts have fallen short," @MarkJCarney told reporters.
blacklocks.ca/will-miss-2030… #cdnpoli
Feds say 200,000 foreigners here on temporary permits now to be granted permanent residency are typically #Ukrainian war refugees & migrant workers, not illegal immigrants facing deportation.
blacklocks.ca/aid-workers-wa… #cdnpoli @CitImmCanada
.@VeteransEng_ca will not recognize pre-Confederation Indigenous warriors as "veterans" following private request by @AFN_Updates.
blacklocks.ca/wont-backdate-… #cdnpoli
Nation's largest private military cemetery is to be managed by @VeteransEng_Ca at $16M cost: 'It will remain a dignified & respectful resting place.'
blacklocks.ca/heros-cemetery… #cdnpoli
“This dooms the paid press to increasing reliance on corporate welfare and growing public contempt,” she told me. “Independents will fight on but taxpayers will be forced to support media they neither read nor watch nor listen to.”
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@CdnHeritage
.@FinanceCanada to borrow another $182B over next 3 yrs. "Canadians will see themselves in this budget," @FP_champagne tells reporters: "This is a budget for them."
blacklocks.ca/will-borrow-an… #cdnpoli
CEO @Fintrac_Canada faulted in audit as slow & ineffectual says auditors got it wrong, all wrong. "Deeply disturbing," replied one MP on Commons public accounts committee.
blacklocks.ca/audits-all-wro… #cdnpoli @OAG_bvg @JacobMantle
.@CitImmCanada to grant permanent residency to 200,000 foreigners here on temporary permits, won't specify if quota includes illegal immigrants facing deportation.
blacklocks.ca/200000-foreign… #cdnpoli
Feds hike subsidies for paid press by $539M plus $300M more for @CBC after chief lobbyist for subsidized newspapers praised the Carney cabinet as "terrific."
blacklocks.ca/millions-more-… #cdnpoli
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