FIRST READING: Ottawa knows its border restrictions don’t make any sense

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The Canadian Army has been sent to the city of Abbotsford, B.C., to shore up the earth in order to prevent it from reverting to a lake . In First Reading, it was mentioned that a body of water was drained in the 1920s to make way for farmland. The system of pumps and dikes that keep the lake from flooding was damaged by the heavy rains. The army is supposed to build a new two-kilometre-long dike that would cause more than a dozen homes and businesses to be submerged permanently. The Mayor of Abbotsford said this has to be done Last week

Meanwhile There are people who have been warning for years that this disaster would hit the city if it didn’t shore up its levees A The study was done in 2015 The B.C. government commissioned a study that found that 71 per cent of the dikes were vulnerable to failure if they were to overtopping

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The COVID-19 test requirements were loosened at the border Theresa Tam, the Chief Public Health Officer, appeared to admit that the whole thing doesn’t make sense . Canadians who travel abroad are still required to provide evidence of a negative test even if they are fully vaccine free. Canadians who return home within 72 hours will no longer have to take the test. The 72 hour amnesty does not apply to foreign nationals in Canada. When asked how Canadians could avoid contracting COVID-19 on weekend getaways to the U.S., Tam replied, ” foreigners couldn’t.” I think that some of it is not as science as it is operational Chris Selley has a full rundown of the press conference Here His opinion that public health officials still take Canadians for idiots is considered

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B.C. is still recovering from the flood damage A massive operation was dispatched into the province’s interior to break up a series of illegal blockades that had stranded as many as 500 workers at Coastal GasLink camps near Houston, B.C. According to images provided by Coastal GasLink, activists cut off the camps by felling trees and hijacking heavy equipment in order to destroy routes into the area. The nation’s elected leadership strongly opposed the blockades, which were supported by a splinter group of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. In a lengthy official statement The blockades were a cause of concern for the Wet’suwet’en First Nation because they feared for the safety of their workers

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A disproportionate amount of the Conservatives have spoken in public. The issue of whether unvaccinated MPs would be allowed into the House of Commons has been the focus of much debate. Conservative leader, O’Toole, said he was fine with it. He said it was unjust. He said his caucus would comply with the mandate, but they still hated it. Weird The Conservative caucus was vaccine free so the whole thing was not an issue O’Toole Last week, he told Radio-Canada All of his MPs are eligible for exemptions

The Conservatives’ Senate caucus refused to follow O’ Toole’s example and remove Senator Batters from their national caucus The Conservative Party has 18 members in the Senate caucus And The members of the group have not decided to place her on the benches

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The floods have sealed off three million people from the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the source of most of their gasoline and diesel. So, as B.C. was forced to Gas rationing should be imposed over the weekend John Horgan wants the United States to solve the problem for his province If there are resources in the United States that can be freed up, that would help us He said that

The Ministry ofNordiques is being inaugurated by Quebec The premier enlisted his most trusted cabinet lieutenant, Eric Girard, to manage the file on how to ensure the return of an NHL team to Quebec capital. Skeptics within Quebec have noted that Legault and Girard are not the first politicians to try to bring back theNordiques Usually attempted A government is about to get a bad press. There is a coroner’s inquest is still going on The number of Quebecers who died in nursing homes in the first few days of the COVID-19 epidemic was wildly disproportionate

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Data is not data

This year The number of immigrants entering Canada is expected to increase The minister of immigration is Sean Fraser An interview with a news agency Canadian immigration is likely to top 400,000 in 2021. The first record of new Canadians in 1913 was 400,900, and was set largely due to federal efforts to populate homesteads in the prairies. Immigration could rise to 411,000 by the year 2022

The number of immigrants entering Canada has never been higher It is still lower than the high rates of mass immigration that Canada experienced prior to the First World War The year of 400,900 immigration in 1913 was more than five per cent of the population, meaning that the population was only 7.6 million. The 401,000 that entered Canada in the year of 2020 represents a rise of only one per cent

Foreign affairs

Trudeau was in Washington, D.C. this week to convince the U.S. president to drop his plan to give a tax credit to electric cars
$12,500 If the Americans move forward with such a large subsidy on their own autos, it would undermine thousands of Canadian-made cars that otherwise would have gone to U.S. buyers. Biden is a man Didn’t seem to notice Trudeau raised the issue in the meeting, but a U.S. congressman later spoke about the intensity of the issue. Michigan Congressman Bill Huizenga, who is also an opponent of the tax credit, said it caught him a little flat-footed told the radio station

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Solid takes

John Ivison talked to the Conservative leader He made sure to ask why people within his party are trying to get him fired The Conservatives lost the election because of O’ Toole, but he disagreed with the idea that he was the reason. Trudeau used to win, but it was only uncertainty with the return of the Pandemic. Read the entire interview with Ivison Here

Canada has a problem with organized crime We allowed huge swaths of our real estate to be used for drugs and other crimes Drug money can be laundered The federal government’s own investigators determined that criminals were shaking down untold amounts of money How telling it is Nobody in the city of Ottawa has said they would respond to it. She writes that if government agencies can’t protect themselves from organized crime, what hope do they have of cracking down on private financial institutions, casinos and real estate transactions?

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