“It’s been the law in the United States since 1938. In this country? Influential people got so upset they put it off for years and years.”

PODCAST: Public Safety Canada minister Dominic LeBlanc says cabinet will soon legislate registry of foreign agents.

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“An astonishing figure because it’s double what debt ceiling was just 3 years ago. It’s almost equivalent to entire economic production of Canada in one year.”

PODCAST: Finance Canada Minister Chrystia Freeland hikes nat’l debt ceiling to record $2.1 trillion

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Pre-elxn interest rate cut 'would be a confidence booster,' @BankOfCanada Governor tells senators; next announcement is June 5. blacklocks.ca/interest-cut-w… #cdnpoli

'We'll be reviving the dream of home ownership,' Justin Trudeau tells MPs even as #CMHC data show housing starts are down and prices are up for years to come. blacklocks.ca/tells-renters-… CMHC

Canadians give feds no credit for fighting inflation says in-house @PrivyCouncilCa research, rate cabinet slow, reactive and late. blacklocks.ca/no-credit-for-… François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦

Professor who went on TV as #CBC legal pundit while collecting undisclosed @PrivyCouncilCa consulting fees is now a Lib-appointed a judge: 'I wish Justice Mathen every success.'  blacklocks.ca/cbc-pundit-is-… #cdnpoli  @ViraniArif

.@CanadaPostCorp will 'struggle to keep it all going' without significant changes, managers tell MPs. Latest data on losses are due any day now. blacklocks.ca/struggle-to-ke… #cdnpoli

.@CaFreeland hikes pre-elxn debt ceiling for 2nd time in three years to $2.1 trillion, a Canadian record. Not a typo. 'Our gov't is at your service,' Freeland told reporters.  blacklocks.ca/feds-hike-debt… #cdnpoli

Cabinet will mandate foreign registry to unmask China agents, Dominic LeBlanc tells reporters ahead of Friday report by China inquiry: 'It's coming soon.' blacklocks.ca/china-agents-w… #cdnpoli  @YuenPauWoo

.@PrivyCouncilCa admits it was slow to fire suspected spies Health Canada and PHAC lab with links to Chinese army; it took more than two years to fire them: 'Things could have been faster.'  blacklocks.ca/admit-spy-sear… #cdnpoli

Lib @PBainsY sits silently at tense committee hearing as ex-MP Kenny Chiu 🇺🇦 brands him a 'willing participant' in China slander campaign in 2021 vote: 'Let me introduce my former opponent.'   blacklocks.ca/lib-mp-silent-… #cdnpoli

In-house @PrivyCouncilCa research finds public support for Danielle Smith pullout from Canada Pension Plan depending on the math. blacklocks.ca/math-key-to-pe… #cdnpoli  Heather McPherson

Feds @EnvironmentCa budgeted $279M to eliminate plastic litter but don't know how much plastic litter there is, says Enviro Commissioner: 'Info is incomplete.' blacklocks.ca/plastic-litter… #cdnpoli  @S_Guilbeault

“You have a corrupt system…
It’s left to the Ombudsman, MPs on gov’t operations, public accounts & ethics committees to pull these little threads. It’s not like there’s a Cabinet running this!”

PODCAST: Insiders are “using the system” says Office of the Procurement Ombud

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Fed insiders are 'using the system,' Office of the Procurement Ombud warns MPs, says 'now is the time to act' to end favouritism costing taxpayers a fortune.  blacklocks.ca/insiders-using… Larry Brock Irek Kusmierczyk

DOCUMENTS: Feds only days after October 7 attacks polled Muslim focus groups on whether 'more could be done to reach out and collaborate with Arab cultural organizations.'  blacklocks.ca/polled-muslims… #cdnpoli

Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס won't discuss BC appeal to combat public disorder under cocaine decriminalization: 'What does that say to you about the policy?' blacklocks.ca/wont-discuss-b… #cdnpoli

DOCUMENTS: Canadians under 34 tell Canadian Armed Forces focus groups they are not interested in enlisting as Regular Forces continue to shrink. blacklocks.ca/job-seekers-ar… #cdnpoli