Dr James Allan: The Trudeau Disaster

In 1931 the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. For all practical purposes this statute granted legislative independence to the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire, which at the time basically meant Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland. The gist of this very famous statute was that the UK Parliament could no longer legislate for a Dominion without its consent. They were of equal status to the UK.

DTNZ: Trudeau resigns

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he intends to step down as leader of the ruling Liberal Party after nine controversial years in office but will remain in his post until a successor is chosen.

The move comes amid mounting criticism from Liberal legislators, plummeting approval ratings, and growing national discontent.

Andrew Moran: Justin Trudeau Is on the Brink of Falling

Like a coffee at a gas station Tim Hortons, the career of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa is burnt. After nearly a decade at the helm of the Great White North, Trudeaumania 2.0 could be fading to black, with a resignation letter from the country’s top job inching closer to being signed. How did Canada’s Liberal Party leader sit on the brink of a political meltdown? It was a morning that will forever be ensconced in modern Canadian history.

Brendan O'Neill: How Canada became a cauldron of authoritarianism

Now the woke Trudeau regime wants to punish people for ‘precrime’.

It seems Justin Trudeau isn’t only a dick – he also gets his ideas from one. Philip K Dick, to be precise. Trudeau’s government has proposed a new law that would give judges the power to put an individual under house arrest if they fear he might commit a hate crime. That’s right – might. It’s right out of The Minority Report, Dick’s 1956 dystopian tale of a future America in which a ‘Precrime’ police division uses intelligence from mutants known as ‘precogs’ to arrest people before they’ve committed an offence. Welcome to woke Canada, where Dickian nightmares come true.

Mike Hosking: Yet more climate hypocrisy

Have a look at the photo that Justin Trudeau posted of his trip with our PM via his private jet from London to New York.

If you haven't seen it, it's a side on of the two great leaders across the sort of table you get in a private jet.

Karl du Fresne: Peak craziness reconsidered

I wrote a column a few weeks ago suggesting we had reached peak craziness. Alas, I was wrong.

Exhibit A: One morning last week I heard the actress Robyn Malcolm assert on Morning Report that the role of Gandalf in the proposed Amazon TV production of The Lord of the Rings should be played by a woman. And not just any type of woman, but specifically by a kuia (or as she put it tautologically, “an old Maori kuia”).

Brian Giesbrecht: Not even Justin Trudeau is above the law

Nearly a month ago, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called on the RCMP to investigate the Prime Minister’s conduct in the SNC-Lavalin case. 

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion had found that the Prime Minister had breached Section 9 of The Conflict of Interest Act, when he repeatedly and improperly pressured then-minister of justice and attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould to consider a deferred prosecution agreement with SNC-Lavalin. Ms. Wilson-Raybould had made clear to the Prime Minister that she would do no such thing.

Since then, the RCMP have been examining the issue closely; however, they have not launched an official investigation. As reported by The Globe and Mail on Tuesday, the RCMP’s examination has been blocked by the federal government’s refusal to lift cabinet confidentiality.

The RCMP says it will pause its examination during election season, but it should reconsider.