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MR TRUDEAU CHINA IS A HEGEMON BE CAREFUL WHICH "BASIC DICTATORSHIP" YOU COZY UP TOO

Does anyone remember when then Liberal Leader, Justin Trudeau, on the campaign trail told members of a women’s group that the country he admired most was China. "There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime." Most Canadian politicians when asked this question would have immediately said “Canada.” Only Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his ideologically-driven left wing, Libera

NORTH KOREA TO FINISH NUCLEAR TEST PREPARATIONS 31 MARCH FOR FIRST WEEK OF APRIL TEST

Joe Varner An unnamed source within the South Korean military has warned the Korean Joongang Daily that, the South has intelligence that North Korea is expected to finish preparations for a nuclear test by March 31" and conduct a test in the first week of April. By way of an update to my March 14th, 2017, commentary “North Korea's brinksmanship is fraught with danger: Trump is not Obama” you will recall that the post announced what is believed to be a pending North Korean nuc

Will Trudeau Protect Canada and Uphold Ban on 50 Terrorist Groups or Buckle?

Hamas has developed a powerful new short range rocket with a heavy payload similar to Hezbollah missiles to target Israeli communities along territory controlled by the outlawed terrorist organization in Gaza. If you have not read Stewart Bell’s article entitled, “Ontario-based relief group linked to Hamas heads to court to get off Canada’s terrorist list” in the National Post then please do so, our country’s national security is at stake. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/on

Trudeau the First's Disastrous Defence Policy Reincarnated

Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s disastrous approach to Defence policy and the Canadian Armed Forces is alive and well more than three decades later. Yesterday, I was reviewing a history of Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s, antipathy for the Canadian Armed Forces through books surveying the period including In Retreat, The Disarming of Canada, True North Not Strong and Free. “The apple does not fall far from the tree,” as the old saying goes. Last week the Trudeau Liberals tabl

An Ugly Week of Terrorist Attacks Seemingly Unnoticed by Trudeau

This past week has been a particularly ugly one on the terrorism front in Europe, and elsewhere, but you would not know it by the Trudeau government’s approach to security. On Saturday, Ziyed Ben Belgacem, an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-inspired, Tunisian national, assaulted a French soldier at Orly Airport in Paris to steal her rifle before he was shot dead by French security forces. On Wednesday, a British-born, self-radicalized, ISIS-inspired terrorist, Khalid M

TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT APPEARS TO BE IGNORING INTELLIGENCE ON TERROR THREATS TO CIVILIAN AVIATION

When asked this week if Canada was going to follow our closest allies, the United States and United Kingdom in banning electronic devices larger than a cellphone in airliner cabins from flights originating in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s response was that Canada was looking at the matter. This is the same Transport Minister who announced new regulations last week to cracking down on recreational drone users with n

Islamic State and Radicalized Attacked Seats of Government in Canada, United Kingdom, Middle East an

Today, we witnessed an attack on the British Parliament Buildings and Westminster Bridge similar in some regards to the attack on Parliament Hill in Canada in 2014. In the Parliament Hill attack, on October 22nd, 2014, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the ISIS-inspired terrorist, shot and killed an unarmed soldier, Corporal Nathan Cirillo, at our National War Memorial, then hijacked a vehicle on Parliament Hill, and carried out a shooting raid in the Centre Block’s Hall of Honor until h

A Snapshot of Terrorism this Week in Europe

In terms of terrorist attacks and plots in Europe, a survey of the last week would seem illustrative of a continuing and dangerous trend as the Islamic States comes under pressure and pending defeat in Syria and Iraq. But Islamic State and Islamic-inspired terror was not the only culprit in increased European insecurity with terror plots represented by both right and left-wing terror groups, long a feature of Cold War-era terror on the continent. In United Kingdom, security s

Trudeau halfheartedly enforces Canadian laws to show up Trump on migration

On January 28th, in response to the Trump travel ban on people from seven countries where Muslims account for a majority, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, tweeted, "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength." It seems people have taken our Prime Minister at his word. People have been crossing over our Southern border and showing up in Canada claiming refugee status from the United States

Trudeau's Purchase of Second Tier F-18 Super Hornets Means Strategic Irrelevance in Future NORAD

The Trudeau government has just taken the next step in rendering Canada’s Royal Canadian Air Force irrelevant in both NORAD and in NATO. They say that the apple does not fall far from the tree and he is carrying on with the disarmament of Canada just like his father before him. When a government makes an announcement during the Christmas, March, or a Summer Break and the House is not sitting, you can bet that it is a real ‘stinker’ and they want to avoid scrutiny. I was once

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MR TRUDEAU CHINA IS A HEGEMON BE CAREFUL WHICH "BASIC DICTATORSHIP" YOU COZY UP TOO

NORTH KOREA TO FINISH NUCLEAR TEST PREPARATIONS 31 MARCH FOR FIRST WEEK OF APRIL TEST

Will Trudeau Protect Canada and Uphold Ban on 50 Terrorist Groups or Buckle?

Trudeau the First's Disastrous Defence Policy Reincarnated

An Ugly Week of Terrorist Attacks Seemingly Unnoticed by Trudeau

TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT APPEARS TO BE IGNORING INTELLIGENCE ON TERROR THREATS TO CIVILIAN AVIATION

Islamic State and Radicalized Attacked Seats of Government in Canada, United Kingdom, Middle East an

A Snapshot of Terrorism this Week in Europe

Trudeau halfheartedly enforces Canadian laws to show up Trump on migration

Trudeau's Purchase of Second Tier F-18 Super Hornets Means Strategic Irrelevance in Future NORAD

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