The Star found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals failed to spend billions of dollars they pledged on a host of climate-related initiatives.
The federal government will “immediately halt” all activity with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as it reviews allegations the Beijing-based international institution is really controlled by China’s authoritarian regime, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday.
The latest survey from Abacus Data has Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives leading the Liberals by seven percentage points, while more than 80 per cent of respondents said its time for a new government in Ottawa.
The former vice-regent defended himself against opposition claims that he’s too close to Justin Trudeau to reliably probe the issue, as he released his first report as the government’s “special rapporteur” on election interference.
The Conservative leader continues to argue the former governor general can’t be trusted to look into the issue because of his ties to the prime minister’s family. On Tuesday he claimed contrary to the conclusion in Johnston’s interim report Justin Trudeau might be “complicit” in Chinese meddling in Canadian politics.