Trump in Beijing, Carney practicing rupture while hugging and CBC off the rails...
Plus, Doug Ford releases his Gravy Plane receipts.
All eyes are on Beijing where Donald Trump has arrived, but as I write, he has yet to have major meetings. It’s early evening in Toronto and early morning in Beijing.
According to Fox News, the Americans will be pushing China to take a stronger role when it comes to Iran.
Joining “Hannity” from aboard Air Force One while en route to China, Rubio explained that the U.S. has made its case to Beijing on why it should engage in efforts to settle simmering tensions with Iran.
“It’s in their interest to resolve this,” Rubio said Wednesday. “We hope to convince them to play a more active role in getting Iran to walk away from what they’re doing now and trying to do now in the Persian Gulf.”
According to Fox, Rubio said that the Trump administration is making the case that it is in China’s interests to resolve this war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
Rupture, while hugging astronauts…
Mark Carney continues his conflicting messages when it comes to the United States.
Remember that he told us the old relationship was over, that the days of deepening integration were in the past, that being so close to the United States was a weakness. Then he embraced Barack Obama on the weekend, gave a speech to an American think tank, and said he’s open for deeper integration.
And now he’s hosting the astronauts that were the crew of Artemis II.
Sure, Canadian Jeremy Hanson was part of the crew but the rest are all Americans.
In fact, Hansen wouldn’t have gotten to space or been part of the mission, Carney would not have talked to the Artemis II crew if it weren’t for the Americans. It’s another reason why Carney’s anti-American, Elbows Up rhetoric always rings hollow to me.
CBC trashing our history and conservatives all at once…
So it seems that a CBC and APTN co-production has been trying to lure people they don’t like into a sting style operation to make them look like asses on issues like residential schools.
Lindsay Shepherd, Dr. Frances Widdowson, former CPC candidate Mark Johnson and others have been targeted. My Toronto Sun colleague Joe Warmington has the full story, but here is part of what he got from Shepherd.
“I was deceived by social activists in an elaborate scheme,” said journalist, author and famous anti-pronoun activist Lindsay Shepherd, who last year, while pregnant, was fired from her political job for a tweet about Truth and Reconciliation Day. “A production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A Macdonald.”
That was designed to lure her into their fishing hole and then set the hook.
“In a second filmed interview last week, they turned on me, and it was revealed to have all been a setup in order to demonize Sir John A and smear me. It turns out this is a taxpayer-funded CBC and APTN project,” Shepherd posted to her X account Tuesday.
Do you need more reasons to defund CBC? I certainly don’t.
Again, time to change the voting rules…
We really can’t wait to change the rules on voting in nominations and leadership contests fast enough.
The allegations made by Nathaniel Erskine-Smith about voting irregularities are serious and need to be addressed. I wrote about that in my Sun column earlier today and recorded a video on this that you can watch below.
Speaking of irregularities…
So Mark Carney endorsed Erskine-Smith before he lost the nomination, now the PMO is trying to claim it was not an endorsement.
The Gravy Plane gets returned…
The total cost of the Gravy Plane that Doug Ford bought, one that I think any premier should have, is just over $190,000.
The Ford government released the full set of documents late today after weeks of hounding from the opposition. You can read my full take on it here.
Bottom line, the leader of a $246 billion organization having access to a plane like this is justifiable. Ford couldn’t take the political heat and caved rather than defend the purchase, which he oddly didn’t put in his budget.
Here’s the documents on the extra costs.
Below is the invoice from the Ontario government to Bombardier for $23,730,000 USD.
“CBC off the rails”
The CBC should be audited, closed and sued. It’s a waste of taxpayer’s money that should be going to healthcare or the military.
The CBC was trying to pass of the sting operation as a comedy skit. I don't think making concerned people look stupid because you don't like what they are saying is comedy. It is more like acting like 12 year old. Yup the CBC is well beyond their best before date... and take this hour has 22 minutes with you. They haven't done a comedy skit for 33 years.