With just 34 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris is pulling out all the stops. She’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-plays-border-hawk-in-first-border-visit-as-democratic-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">going to the border</a>. She’s busting out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-new-campaign-accent-has-people-comparing-her-to-classic-cartoon-character" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously-unheard accents</a>. And she’s telling voters that former President Donald Trump is coming for their booze.
Earlier this month, the Harris campaign <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/harris-alcohol-prices-trump-tariff-plan-1235113532/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> “Trump’s Tequila Tax,” a social media push aimed at convincing voters that Trump’s tariff proposals would cause imported alcohol prices to skyrocket.
“He wants to tax your tequila, and your Coronas, your Modelos, your Hennessy, all of it,” a campaign surrogate says in a TikTok.
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Have you heard of the Trump Tequila Tax?
Trump wants a 20% tax on all imported goods. That includes your tequila, Modelos, and Coronas. <a href="https://t.co/GjsZcRkp7q">pic.twitter.com/GjsZcRkp7q</a>
&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1839725556981510590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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If one wanted to engage in a little armchair psychology, one might say that Harris is projecting. Because if she wins the White House in November, there might not be any tequila to tax in the United States.
Under Harris and President Joe Biden, an obscure bureaucratic committee has been drafting new guidance, which, if adopted, would recommend that Americans never drink — at all. While these guidelines would not ban alcohol outright, they could, as <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reason reports</a>, lead to a wave of bad press and a slew of class action lawsuits against alcohol companies. Together, that could cripple an already-faltering alcohol industry.
This is hardly the first instance of the Biden-Harris administration attempting to meddle in Americans’ lives in the name of “public health.” Biden proposed banning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-reverses-course-on-banning-menthol-cigarettes-over-fear-of-angering-black-voters-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">menthol cigarettes</a> early in his term, only to reverse course earlier this year when it became clear the ban would make then-candidate Biden unpopular among black voters. And the White House has come under fire for its attempt to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-official-who-supports-gas-stove-crackdown-has-a-gas-stove-in-his-own-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban gas stoves</a> in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
But unlike the Biden-Harris administration’s attempts to ban gas stoves and menthol cigarettes — both of which received ample media coverage and public scrutiny — the effort to change alcohol guidelines has taken place behind closed doors.
Federal dietary guidelines are updated every five years by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. For the current revision, HHS has <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/06/alcohol-dietary-guidelines-congress-koob/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked</a> the alcohol question to something called the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD). The committee is, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2024/08/03/dietary-guidelines-alcohol-consumption/74595108007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a “secretive, six-person panel” that “operates deep within” HHS, far from the public eye.
Currently, the federal government <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-alcohol-use/moderate-alcohol-use.html#:~:text=to%20not%20drinking.-,Moderate%20drinking,or%20less%20in%20a%20day." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines</a> “moderate drinking” as two daily drinks or less for men, and one for women. But <a href="https://tomwark.substack.com/p/no-amount-alcohol-healthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sources</a> close to the ICCPUD say the committee is close to adopting the World Health Organization’s 2023 <a href="https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a>: “No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.”
It may seem strange that an American agency would so wholeheartedly embrace the WHO’s position, particularly since it’s at odds with longstanding federal recommendations.
But it’s less shocking when you consider that three members of the six-person committee are literally Canadian — like, they live in Canada. It’s even less shocking when you realize that those three Canadian panelists were instrumental in imposing similar guidance at home, <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slashing</a> Canadians’ recommended weekly drink intake in 2013 from 15 for men and 10 for women to two across the board.
That recommendation was so controversial it came under fire in Canada, a country where shady, unelected bureaucrats already govern what kind of drugs <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/patented-medicine-prices-review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">patients can take</a>, and whether or not someone is eligible for <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html#a2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elective euthanasia</a>. Imagine how it’ll play in the United States, a country that almost started a whole <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second Revolutionary War</a> two years after the first one ended because the government tried to tax whiskey.
In fact, the ICCPUD maneuverings are already so unpopular that they’ve spurred waves of bipartisan opposition. In April, Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Lisa McClain (R-MI) <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Letter-to-HHS-re-alcohol-review.pdf">wrote</a> to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concern that the Dietary Guidelines revision may be violating federal law. By September 5, Becerra had not responded to Comer and McClain’s request for information, prompting the lawmakers to send a follow-up <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-hhs-and-usda-for-docs-related-to-development-of-alcohol-consumption-guidelines%EF%BF%BC/">letter</a>.
In the intervening months, two separate bipartisan groups of lawmakers wrote to Becerra, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and NIH Director George F. Koob, to express concern about the opacity and legality of the revision process and request further clarification on what the ICCPUD would decide and when.
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So far, they haven’t heard back.
It’s unclear if Harris will allow the committee to impose its new guidelines should she win the White House — but signs indicate that she will. She was presumably on board with her administration’s plans to ban menthols and gas stoves, and has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-campaign-says-she-will-not-push-medicare-for-all-she-fully-supported-it-5-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> remaking the American healthcare system to look more like Canada’s.
She certainly won’t face any pushback from Tim Walz, who imposed a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3118502/zynsurrection-walz-zyn-tax-minnesota/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">95% tax on Zyn nicotine pouches</a> as Governor of Minnesota. Nothing goes better with no drinks like unaffordable nicotine.
It’s ironic that Harris, who has made so much hay about Trump’s “secret” plan to remake the federal bureaucracy, is currently overseeing a behind-closed-doors push to completely upend American dietary guidelines. Of course, unlike Project 2025, the ICCPUD’s proceedings are not public, nor the subject of any headlines. And, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unlike Trump</a>, Harris has not disavowed, nor even acknowledged, this effort to stop Americans from enjoying the occasional drink.
That’s about as ironic as her saying Trump’s coming for your tequila.

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A new photo has been released which shows the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oceangate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Titanic submersible Titan’s</a> final resting spot after the underwater craft imploded, killing all five of its passengers in June 2023.
During the U.S. Coast Guard hearing on Monday into the cause of the implosion of the OceanGate vessel, officials revealed a photo that shows the submersible on the bottom of the ocean floor in the North Atlantic Ocean, following its final dive to see the remains of the Titanic on June 18, 2023, <a href="https://people.com/photo-shows-moment-titan-sub-wreckage-was-found-after-implosion-8713551?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=14594199-20240917&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=ppl-news_newsletter&amp;utm_content=091724&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;lr_input=a08f4ce0dc67f7e22d138c82b9ce538ad294bfaca0b145e2f563962e58e05ef7&amp;utm_term=AM">People magazine</a> reported.
The image shows the underwater craft with its tail cone embedded into the sea floor. The photo was taken by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), called the Pelagic Research Services 6000, which made the discovery some 12,000 feet below the surface.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Newly released images have just revealed the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible resting on the seabed, just 1,600 feet from the Titanic&#8217;s bow. The submersible tragically imploded in June 2023, killing all five onboard. <a href="https://t.co/Zt0xcx7dIp">pic.twitter.com/Zt0xcx7dIp</a>
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) <a href="https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1835799379132694670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Officials said during the hearing that the new photo has led to the “conclusive evidence of a catastrophic loss” of the submersible and the passengers on board.
Also revealed during the hearing was the final messages from the doomed submersible <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-submersible-tragedy-being-turned-into-feature-film">Titan</a>, with the crew messaging “all good here” only minutes before all contact was lost forever, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/final-message-from-doomed-titanic-submersible-revealed">reported</a>.
<a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Portals/11/Headquarters/Investigations/Titan-Submersible/Exhibits/CG%20001_1%20TITAN_Animation%2020240915_v2.2.mp4?ver=5-KbTGgE5bFAVFruU0CTQA%3d%3d&amp;timestamp=1726499043115">Text messages</a> between Titan and the support ship, the Polar Prince, start after the vessel left the ship around 9:20 a.m. off the coast of Canada. After about 40 minutes, routine messages between the two took a turn with the Polar Prince asking numerous times if the submersible could see the ship on its display. When there was no response, the ship started sending urgent messages.
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After about 15 minutes, Titan responded that it had communication, and the Polar Prince replied, “I need better comms from you.”
Titan, in turn, responded, “yes,” and said they “lost system oand [sic] chat settings.”
At 10:15 a.m., the Polar Prince asked again, “status? do you see polar prince on your display?” Titan responded soon after, “yes,” and, “all good here.”
Minutes later, Titan notified the Polar Prince that they were “east south east [of] the nbow [sic],” which officials suspected meant the crew had almost reached their destination, the wreckage of the Titanic.
Titan then asked the Polar Prince if they were also at the bow, and Polar Prince said, “making our way there … your position jumps significantly each ping” — which the ship repeated to the Titan at 10:36.
At 10:47, Titan messaged that they “dropped two [weights],” and contact was then lost almost immediately, at 10:47:32 a.m., according to the Coast Guard. That was at a depth of nearly 3,350 meters and a pressure of 4,900 pounds per square inch, the magazine noted.
After the ship lost contact with Titan, a four-day rescue mission from the United States and Canada ensued including using airplanes, boats, and submersibles in the attempt to find and save the crew, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/titanic-submersible-oceangate-movie-1235740084/">Variety</a> noted.
On the fourth day, the United States Coast Guard <a href="https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast/status/1671907901542211584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1671907901542211584%7Ctwgr%5Ecbfebb9adb1227d0cfd8b029851173bec1af7999%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D574887action%3Dedit">announced</a> that an ROV had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/titanic-sub-rescue-effort-cost-millions-and-oceangate-likely-wont-be-paying-for-it">found debris</a> from the Titan near the Titanic.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/final-message-from-doomed-titanic-submersible-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Final Message From Doomed Titanic Submersible Revealed</a>

OceanGate Offices As Titanic Submersible Still Missing

New Photo Released Shows Titanic Submersible’s Final Resting Spot

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The final message from the doomed Titanic submersible <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-submersible-tragedy-being-turned-into-feature-film">Titan</a> has been revealed with the crew of five messaging “all good here” only minutes before it lost contact with those on the surface.
During a hearing on Monday with the U.S. Coast Guard — into the cause of the implosion of Titan in June of 2023 — officials revealed that minutes before the five passengers on the submersible were lost forever, the crew had sent a message that the dive was going according to plan, <a href="https://people.com/final-messages-from-titan-submersible-revealed-before-losing-contact-with-surface-8713221">People magazine</a> reported.
<a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Portals/11/Headquarters/Investigations/Titan-Submersible/Exhibits/CG%20001_1%20TITAN_Animation%2020240915_v2.2.mp4?ver=5-KbTGgE5bFAVFruU0CTQA%3d%3d&amp;timestamp=1726499043115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Text messages</a> between Titan and the support ship, the Polar Prince, occurred on June 18, 2023 and began after Titan left the ship around 9:20 am off the coast of Canada. After about 40 minutes, routine messages between the two took a turn with the Polar Prince asking numerous times if the submersible can see the ship on its display. When there was no response, the ship started sending urgent messages.
After about 15 minutes, Titan responded that it had communication and the Polar Prince replied, “I need better comms from you.”
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The Marine Board presented an animation model in support of the Titan submersible hearing. The entire video can be viewed from the MBI website <a href="https://t.co/3TwwWq8TGt">https://t.co/3TwwWq8TGt</a> and downloaded from here: <a href="https://t.co/7lZwbu0dXZ">https://t.co/7lZwbu0dXZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TitanMBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TitanMBI</a> <a href="https://t.co/PToLMpLFw0">pic.twitter.com/PToLMpLFw0</a>
— USCG MaritimeCommons (@maritimecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/maritimecommons/status/1835707952365277549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Titan in turn responded, “yes” and said they “lost system oand [sic] chat settings.” 
At 10:15 am, the Polar Prince asked again, “status? do you see polar prince on your display?” Titan responded soon after, “yes,” and, “all good here.”
Minutes later, Titan notified the Polar Prince that they were “east south east [of] the nbow,” which officials suspected meant the crew had almost reached their destination, the wreckage of the Titanic.
Titan then asked the Polar Prince if they were also at the bow, and Polar Prince said, “making our way there … your position jumps significantly each ping” — which the ship repeated to the Titan at 10:36. 
At 10:47, Titan messaged that they “dropped two [weights],” and contact was then lost almost immediately, at 10:47:32 a.m., according to the Coast Guard. That was at a depth of nearly 3,350 meters and a pressure of 4,900 pounds per square inch, the magazine noted.
After the ship lost contact with Titan, a four-day rescue mission from the United States and Canada ensued including using airplanes, boats, and submersibles in the attempt to find and save the crew, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/titanic-submersible-oceangate-movie-1235740084/">Variety</a> noted.
On the fourth day, the United States Coast Guard <a href="https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast/status/1671907901542211584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1671907901542211584%7Ctwgr%5Ecbfebb9adb1227d0cfd8b029851173bec1af7999%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D574887action%3Dedit">announced</a> that a remotely operated underwater vehicle had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/titanic-sub-rescue-effort-cost-millions-and-oceangate-likely-wont-be-paying-for-it">found debris</a> from the Titan near the Titanic.
“A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic,” USGC Northeast said in a statement. “Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.”
“A debris field implies a break-up of the submersible … that really sort of indicates what is the worst-case scenario, which is a catastrophic failure and generally that’s an implosion,” marine scientist and rescue expert David Mearns told <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735">Sky News</a>.
“The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate — literally in milliseconds — and the men wouldn’t have known what was happening,” Mearns added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-submersible-tragedy-being-turned-into-feature-film" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OceanGate Submersible Tragedy Being Turned Into Feature Film</a>

Final Message From Doomed Titanic Submersible Revealed

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An Islamic man from Pakistan was arrested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> this week for allegedly planning a terrorist attack against Jews in New York City.
The U.S. Department of Justice said late on Friday that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
Khan &#8220;attempted to travel from Canada to New York City, where he intended to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons to carry out a mass shooting in support of ISIS at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York,&#8221; prosecutors said.
He began posting on social media and on an encrypted messaging platform late last year that he supported ISIS and began distributing their propaganda, the DOJ said.
He allegedly told undercover law enforcement sources that he was working with a U.S.-based ISIS terrorist to carry out the attack and that he was trying to create an &#8220;offline cell&#8221; of ISIS terrorists who could launch a coordinated attack killing Jews at synagogues.
He wanted to carry out the attacks on either October 7 — the anniversary of Hamas&#8217; unprecedented terrorist attack in Israel last year in which 1,200 people were murdered — or on October 11, which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
He was originally targeting a city only referred to as &#8220;City-1&#8221; in the indictment, but changed the target to New York City.
Khan said that the Muslims were &#8220;going to NYC to slaughter them,&#8221; which he planned to do by shooting them with rifles or using knives to &#8220;slit their throats.&#8221;
&#8220;Khan repeatedly reiterated his desire to carry out the attack in support of ISIS, and discussed planning for the attack, including by identifying rental properties close to Location-1 and paying for a human smuggler to help him reach and cross the border from Canada into the United States,&#8221; the DOJ said. &#8220;During one communication, Khan noted that &#8216;if we succeed with our plan this would be the largest Attack on US soil since 9/11.&#8221;
The DOJ only charged him with a single count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.
“The defendant was allegedly determined to kill Jewish people here in the United States, nearly one year after Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel. This investigation was led by the FBI, and I am proud of the terrific work by the FBI team and our partners to disrupt Khan&#8217;s plan,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The FBI will continue to work closely with our partners to investigate and hold accountable those who seek to commit violence in the name of ISIS or other terrorist organizations. Fighting terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority.”

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One of the most basic assumptions about climate change that you&#8217;re told to accept is that, if you give the government enough power and make enough personal sacrifices, you can help change the weather. You can make natural disasters less likely. You can save beaches and endangered species and even entire countries. All you need to do is pay more in taxes to fund more government bureaucracy, and give up your car and your gas stove and airline travel and maybe your entire livelihood. And then everything will be fine.
There&#8217;s no other country on Earth that&#8217;s internalized this way of thinking more than our neighbor to the north, Canada. They&#8217;ve declared a &#8220;national climate emergency.&#8221; They have a constantly-increasing national tax on carbon, which raises the cost of living for pretty much every household in the country. They&#8217;ve banned plastic straws. They&#8217;ve shut down oil and gas permits off their Pacific coast. If you&#8217;re an insomniac and you pull up a video of a debate in the Canadian parliament to help you sleep, there&#8217;s a good chance they&#8217;ll be debating climate change in some way or another.
So how&#8217;s all that working out for Canada? What exactly have all of these taxes and regulations accomplished, aside from hamstringing Canada&#8217;s economy for the past decade? Surely we can assume that, at the very least, Canada&#8217;s carbon emissions are much lower as a result of all of this government bureaucracy. After all, Canada&#8217;s not even a top-20 country by population. Their GDP barely ranks in the top-10. It shouldn&#8217;t be hard for them to rank relatively low on the list of global carbon emitters, especially since they&#8217;ve been trying so hard and punishing their citizens so much.
As it turns out, however, Canada is currently one of the biggest carbon emitters on the planet. They&#8217;re setting new records in the wrong direction. They&#8217;re adding more of that dreaded carbon into the atmosphere than countries three times their size. And it&#8217;s all because of a series of wildfires last year that the Canadian government clearly could not control. Watch:
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All told, the 2023 wildfires contributed more than four times as much carbon into the atmosphere as everything else that Canada did last year, put together. So the plastic straw bans and the taxes and industry-crushing regulations were completely undone, four times over, by these wildfires.
If you check in with the experts, of course they&#8217;ll tell you that the wildfires were only so severe because of climate change. Supposedly the one-degree rise in reported global average temperature from 2022 to 2023 could be the reason the wildfires burned more of Canada than any other wildfire season in recorded history. Therefore, we need to redouble our efforts to ban fossil fuels and so on. That&#8217;s the line they&#8217;re going with.
As MIT Technology Review <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/28/1103186/canada-wildfire-emissions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>: 
<blockquote>Fires are part of natural, healthy ecosystems, and burns on their own don’t necessarily represent a disaster for climate change. After a typical fire season, a forest begins to regrow, capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it does so. This continues a cycle in which carbon moves around the planet. &#8230; While climate change doesn’t directly spark any one fire, researchers have traced hot, dry conditions that worsen fires to the effects of human-caused climate change. The extreme fire conditions in eastern Canada were over twice as likely because of climate change.</blockquote>
The MIT Technology Review concludes with this: 
<blockquote>It was already clear that we need to stop emissions from power plants, vehicles, and a huge range of other clearly human activities to address climate change. Last year’s wildfires should increase the urgency of that action.</blockquote>
What&#8217;s striking about explanations like these is that they conveniently absolve the government of all responsibility for managing the forests, which is the single most direct way to prevent wildfires from spreading out of control like they did last year. And even the Canadian government admits that. I went on the website of Canada&#8217;s National Resources Department and found that, in addition to blaming fossil fuels, they acknowledged that they <a href="https://natural-resources.canada.ca/simply-science/canadas-record-breaking-wildfires-2023-fiery-wake-call/25303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could do more</a> to prevent wildfires from spreading: 
<blockquote>As wildfire risks will continue to intensify as the climate warms, Canada needs to &#8230; adapt fire management and mitigation strategies. There are different ways to manage wildfire risk, including controlled burns, revised forestry guidelines, and procedures to manage fuel around communities and infrastructure. It’s a balance of these techniques that can help deal with future challenges.</blockquote>
One scientist with the Canadian Forest Services put it this way: 
<blockquote>A changing climate means a proactive approach must be taken. Studies like this can offer important lessons to be better prepared for the next time a devastating event like this occurs.</blockquote>
They don&#8217;t mention that preventing arson is another way to stop these fires, even though that&#8217;s true as well. While the majority of these fires were apparently caused by lightning or some other natural event, there was at least one guy who pleaded <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/canada-wildfires-conspiracy-man-pleads-guilty-arson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty</a> to arson for setting more than a dozen separate fires in Canada last year. But even if you set that aside, there&#8217;s a glaringly obvious solution here, which Canada&#8217;s government acknowledges. And that solution is for the Canadian government to do a better job preventing and containing wildfires by improving their first management capabilities.
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That brings me to the broader lesson from this disaster in Canada, which is that the government, in general, should focus on doing basic things competently. They shouldn&#8217;t set out to save the planet with complicated carbon cap schemes and climate emergencies, which is what Canada is doing. Preventing and containing forest fires is a very tangible and straightforward responsibility for the government. When you get the basics right, then very often you don&#8217;t need the more convoluted schemes at all.
Not that a convoluted scheme to control the weather makes any sense in the first place, because we actually have very little control over our environment. We don&#8217;t have the capacity to &#8220;fight climate change&#8221; in the way they&#8217;re suggesting. All of the climate change activism in the world can’t change the fact that forests go up in flames all over the world every year, as the MIT Technology Review admitted. And volcanoes erupt, too — like the one I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-alarmists-panic-over-heat-wave-turns-out-it-was-caused-by-a-volcano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked about</a> last year that drove temperature changes all over the world. Remember that? The eruption sent 40 trillion gallons of seawater into the stratosphere. Researchers called it an “unprecedented water vapor injection&#8221; that trapped a lot of heat — and that may have contributed significantly to global warming. No one was responsible for that eruption. It was a natural event. And sometimes those happen, and we have to accept that they happen.
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But there are no indications that the Canadian government is going to accept that they can&#8217;t control the weather, or that they&#8217;re seriously going to revise their forest management or take any responsibility whatsoever. Instead, predictably, they&#8217;re turning the wildfires into yet another opportunity to harp on racial grievances and divide their country even more. 
True North <a href="https://tnc.news/2024/08/28/muslims-indigenous-wildfires-racism-colonialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> this week: 
<blockquote>The Public Health Agency of Canada wants to review the way wildfire evacuations are conducted because they supposedly disproportionately impact minorities. Part of this impact is that evacuating people from First Nations communities traumatizes Indigenous people due to &#8216;colonialism&#8217; and the history of residential schools. A rapid review released by the agency in July included an &#8216;intersectional analysis&#8217; arguing that wildfires disproportionally impacted First Nations groups, minorities, women and non-binary people.</blockquote>
Yes, they&#8217;ve turned their worst wildfire season on record into an opportunity to complain once again about &#8220;non-binary people.&#8221; In the face of an actual, concrete problem — forests burning down and people dying — the Canadian government is worried about a small and highly narcissistic subset of its population with an imagined identity. 
Here&#8217;s a couple of lines from the Canadian government&#8217;s report to give you some idea how unhinged the country has become: 
<blockquote>The impact of wildfires on Indigenous Peoples is influenced by colonialism and has forced many Indigenous Peoples to live in isolation or in communities that are isolated from the rest of society. &#8230; The evacuation measures conducted in Indigenous communities served as traumatic reminders of being taken away to residential schools and/or the Sixties Scoop as some were forced onto buses and separated from family.</blockquote>
Not that you needed it, but this report is your admission from the Canadian government that they don&#8217;t actually care about climate change or preventing wildfires. Their only concern is to preserve and expand their power at every available opportunity. And they&#8217;ve determined that dividing people with crude racial guilt is the best way to do that.
That&#8217;s why Canada — for all its promises to save the world from carbon emissions — is now one of the single biggest carbon emitters on the planet. It&#8217;s a perfect illustration for why no one, anywhere in the world, should ever trust politicians who say they can control the weather, if only you give them a little more power and influence. They&#8217;ll happily take the power and influence; that&#8217;s a guarantee. And then, as your country is burning down around you, they won&#8217;t do anything about it. Instead, they&#8217;ll call you a racist. They&#8217;ll demand even more power to fight &#8220;climate change.&#8221; And then, before you know it, you&#8217;ll wake up one day and you&#8217;re living in a country a lot like Canada. And by that point, it&#8217;ll be too late to do anything about it. Unless you&#8217;re an indigenous nonbinary shaman, no one will care what you think.
If Canada serves any purpose whatsoever, it&#8217;s to provide cautionary tales like this. We can either pay attention and accept that there are some things we can&#8217;t control. Or we can choose to make the problems we do have much, much worse.
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Entrepreneur and media personality Kevin O’Leary warned this week that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the upcoming presidential election, she could turn into America&#8217;s version of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/justin-trudeau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justin Trudeau</a>.
O&#8217;Leary made the remarks during a Friday interview on NewsNation where he claimed that Harris — whom he said was the &#8220;it kid&#8221; — was a &#8220;blank sheet of paper&#8221; regarding her policy positions, despite numerous extreme left-wing positions that she held during her failed 2020 presidential campaign.
&#8220;I don’t blame her for not bringing up policy. She should just rant and rave, saying &#8216;I’m not Trump&#8217; until August 7 because she’s raising so much money,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But then, she’s got to talk policy, and I don’t know what that looks like and nobody does because she’s like a blank sheet of paper.&#8221;
He said that the last &#8220;it kid&#8221; he saw in politics was far-Left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has overseen the rapid decline of America&#8217;s northern neighbor.
“There’s an example of an &#8216;it kid&#8217; up in Canada a few years ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Nobody looked at his background, nobody looked at his policies. He was the &#8216;it kid.&#8217; That country is on its knees! He wiped it out!&#8221;
&#8220;Are Americans basically going to hire or basically bring a president that’s another Justin Trudeau?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;I hope not.&#8221;
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🇨🇦🇺🇸Kevin O Leary comparing Kamala Harris who all of the sudden is a media darling when she was invisible before is akin to Justin Trudeau in Canada.
“Nobody looked at his background or policy”
“And look what happened to Canada they are in their knees Trudeau wiped it out”… <a href="https://t.co/pBANnxSrIL">pic.twitter.com/pBANnxSrIL</a>
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After a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lamented the assassination of terrorist Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who led political operations for the terrorist group, and publicly celebrated the October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre called for defunding the broadcasting company.
Correspondent Chris Brown, whose anti-Israel bias seems apparent in his social media posts, posted on X, “If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
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If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen. <a href="https://t.co/DME8MUzuaV">https://t.co/DME8MUzuaV</a>
&mdash; Chris Brown (@CBCChrisBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBCChrisBrown/status/1818499981470511148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Poilievre <a href="https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1818657211637207183">fired back</a>, “CBC is mourning the loss of the leader of Hamas, who carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Destroy Hamas. Defund the CBC.”
Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’ Politburo since 2017, <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-we-should-hold-moment-victory-october-7-and-build-upon-it-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, three months after the October 7 massacre. He declared, “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it &#8230; the time has come for the Jihad of the swords,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
“In 2012, when asked by Reuters reporters if Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle, Haniyeh replied of course not and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms &#8211; popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance,’” The Hindu <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/who-was-ismail-haniyeh-hamas-leader-killed-in-iran/article68467371.ece" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
After the October 7 massacre, Poilievre released a <a href="https://www.conservative.ca/statement-from-conservative-leader-pierre-poilievre-on-the-horrific-terrorist-attacks-in-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying, “I unequivocally condemn the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists and the sadistic violence they have subsequently carried out against innocent civilians. Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks and respond against the attackers. Canadians pledge their solidarity with all the victims.”
On October 11, he stated <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10017673/pierre-poilievre-condemns-hamas-during-okanagan-stop/?ref=readthemaple.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bluntly</a>, “Let us remember that every loss of life in this conflict is the direct consequence of Hamas’s conduct. Hamas is a sadistic, genocidal, terrorist death cult and it must be stopped. &#8230; So Conservatives call for the government to take action to counter Hamas any way we can.”
“One way would be to impose more severe sanctions on Iran, which is the sponsor of Hamas, and to criminalize the IRGC, which is the terrorist arm of the Iranian government that coordinates support for Hamas and Hezbollah,” he added.

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Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s arch-foe, targeted Trudeau, accusing him of dividing the Canadian people in order to distract them and asking Trudeau if he would join Poilievre to call for shutting down “Hamas-inspired hate camps at university campuses.”
Since late April, anti-Israel encampments have been established at numerous university campuses across Canada, including McGill University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Ottawa, Western University (Ontario), the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island University, the University of Toronto, and McMaster University, according to the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-island-encampments-1.7191206">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</a>.
“This prime minister divides to distract,” Poilievre stated. “He turns groups against each other; he fans the flames. He gave funds to an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier. And so, even before October 7, hate crimes were up 162%. And since, we’ve seen the rise of Hamas-inspired hate camps at university campuses that intimidate Jewish students and promote genocide. Will the Prime Minister summon the courage to join with me and call for these hate camps to be shut down and closed up so that students can safely go back to school?”
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Hamas-inspired hate camps have taken over our university campuses, intimidating students and promoting hatred against Jews.
Pack ‘em up. And shut ‘em down. <a href="https://t.co/qVogCiH2Yv">pic.twitter.com/qVogCiH2Yv</a>
&mdash; Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1803208578662064337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In May, six Jewish college students spoke at Canada’s Parliament Hill of the anti-Semitism they were facing on their campuses, CDTV News <a href="applewebdata://A344C7BE-837F-4017-8E1A-39D621BB8C69/v">reported</a>.
“My friends who used to wear kippot on campus instead now wear baseball caps,” Nati Pressman, founder of the Canadian Union of Jewish Students, stated. “This is not because we are any less proud to be Jewish, but because our universities have fostered and create an environment where being openly Jewish could be a threat to our physical and emotional safety.”
“We&#8217;re not students anymore, because instead of begging for an assignment extension, we have to beg for our safety on campuses while we sit in class with the same people who praised the terrorism on October 7,” Anastasia Zorchinsky of Concordia asserted, noting that she had seen comments on her Instagram account saying, “We will find you on campus.”
Only two weeks after the Hamas massacre of over 1200 Israelis, Trudeau, who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trudeau-tells-palestinians-were-here-for-you">publicly criticized</a> the state of Israel and expressed sympathies for Palestinians in the past, issued a tweet saying that his government was “here” for Palestinian, Arab, and black Muslim communities.
“As members of the Palestinian, Arab, and Black Muslim communities gathered for prayer yesterday, I wanted them to know this: We know you’re worried and hurting. We’re here for you. We will not stop advocating for civilians to be protected and for international law to be upheld,” he declared.
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As members of the Palestinian, Arab, and Black Muslim communities gathered for prayer yesterday, I wanted them to know this: We know you’re worried and hurting. We’re here for you. We will not stop advocating for civilians to be protected and for international law to be upheld. <a href="https://t.co/El6KLO2CRw">pic.twitter.com/El6KLO2CRw</a>
&mdash; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1715830517793247728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Suggestions of treason rocked Canada last week after a report said members of its Parliament were “witting” accomplices in foreign election meddling efforts.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), composed of lawmakers given top-level security clearance to conduct a sensitive investigation into foreign influence, released a report last week suggesting that some Canadian lawmakers worked with foreign agents in potentially treasonous ways, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/canada-parliament-treason-allegations-00162163" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
The report says that the lawmakers involved are unlikely to be found guilty of a crime over what the investigation uncovered because of the difficulty of producing classified information in criminal courts for prosecution.
NSICOP <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-parliamentarians-conspired-now-what-1.7228005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that certain Canadian lawmakers were or are “‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.” The allegations against the lawmakers include accepting financial or community support mobilized on behalf of foreign missions, providing foreign agents with information on Canadian lawmakers, and sharing privileged information with foreign agents.
“[T]he most prolific actor” among foreign influencers was China, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/canada-politicians-foreign-interference.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. India was the next most influential actor.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have come under heavy criticism in the wake of the report. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, the main opposition to Trudeau, called for the unnamed lawmakers at the center of the report&#8217;s allegations to be made known to the Canadian people.
“The national security committee indicates there are members of this House that have knowingly worked for foreign hostile governments,” Poilievre said last week, according to POLITICO. “Canadians have a right to know who and what is the information — who are they?”
Government officials have resisted calls to make public the names of lawmakers facing accusations. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said that such a move would be irresponsible and a violation of the Security of Information Act.
“My colleague knows full well that no responsible government would disclose names involved in specific intelligence situations,&#8221; LeBlanc <a href="https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/5/elizabeth-may-2/?singlepage=1">said</a> last week in response to a Conservative lawmaker. “It is not entirely accurate of him to claim that a responsible government, one that focuses on the security of Canada and our democratic institutions, would do such a thing.”

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A 116-year-old Anglican church, along with artifacts and artworks, in Canada was &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; in a massive blaze early Sunday morning, according to Toronto&#8217;s fire chief.
Crews responded to a four-alarm fire at St. Anne&#8217;s Anglican Church around 8 a.m., just a little more than two hours before the church&#8217;s Sunday morning service was scheduled to take place, City News <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/06/09/toronto-st-annes-anglican-church-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Firefighters worked to stop the blaze as surrounding properties evacuated as a precaution in case the building collapsed.
“The fire was deep-seated at the beginning … but as you can see the building is completely destroyed right now and as [are] all the artifacts inside,” Toronto Fire Services Deputy Chief Jim Jessop told reporters at the scene.
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Absolutely heartbreaking to see these drone shots of Toronto’s St. Anne’s church. It’s completely gutted. So much beauty, so much history, destroyed within hours.
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No one was injured in the fire, and authorities said they have not yet deemed it &#8220;criminal in nature.&#8221; The Ontario Fire Marshal and Toronto police returned to the scene on Monday to investigate the cause.
&#8220;Nobody was here, the church was locked, secure, all the lights were off,&#8221; said Rev. Don Beyers, the parish priest at the church. &#8220;It&#8217;s a real mystery to us how this even happened.&#8221;
Construction on the historic St. Anne&#8217;s building began in 1907 and was completed in 1908. It housed early paintings from the Group of Seven artists that were installed in the building in the 1920s, CBC <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-fire-church-dufferin-dundas-street-west-1.7229569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Some murals were displayed on the church&#8217;s dome, which collapsed in the fire.
&#8220;The artwork was priceless,&#8221; Beyers said. &#8220;It was murals, beautiful murals. They were stunning. This was the only church that featured artwork by members of the Group of Seven. And I&#8217;m sorry to say that&#8217;s been lost, from what I can see.&#8221;
Beyers also wrote a letter to St. Anne&#8217;s congregants, saying, &#8220;Yesterday&#8217;s fire was not the end of the story, but rather the beginning of a new chapter. We will rise from the ashes stronger and even more committed to our mission to be a church for all people.&#8221;
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Around <a href="https://tnc.news/2024/02/12/a-map-of-every-church-burnt-or-vandalized-since-the-residential-school-announcements4/#:~:text=100%20Christian%20churches%20in%20Canada,located%20near%20former%20residential%20schools." target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 Christian churches</a> in Canada have been targeted by arsonists and vandals since 2021 — after researchers claimed to have found the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children buried near a residential school in British Columbia. Recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadas-mass-graves-narrative-that-sparked-church-burnings-crumbles-amid-dearth-of-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">findings</a>, however, appear to show that the anomalies found on radar were not graves but a septic field.
Meanwhile, further research at two other locations in Canada that were once thought to be mass graves found that there were no graves of Indigenous children.

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Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s arch-foe, gave his usual articulate common-sense answer and cogent criticism of Trudeau when a questioner asked him about the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation saying the country needs 5.8 million homes to address its housing crisis.
The questioner said Trudeau’s Liberal Party has claimed that it already has that in the budget and that Poilievre disagreed.
“I don’t disagree; the math disagrees,” Poilievre stated bluntly. “They promised they’re going to double homebuilding. Their own housing agency said since they made that promise, homebuilding has gone down and that it will go down next year and the year after that. Look at my exchange with Trudeau in the House of Commons last week. To get to 3.9 million — forget to 5.9 million — to get to 3.9 million new homes by the scheduled deadline of 2031 that Trudeau promised, he needs to build 550,000 homes a year.”
“I asked him six times in the House of Commons, ‘Are we going to build 550,000 homes this year?’” Poilievre recalled. “He wouldn’t answer. Well, the truth is, he’s on track right now to building about 200,000 homes, not even half of what he’s promised. This is not a matter of me disagreeing; it’s a mathematical fact. He’s not delivering. It’s a mathematical fact that nine years ago when I was Housing Minister, the average rent for a one-bedroom was $973. Now it’s $2,000. These are the facts.”
“Has he spent a lot of money on housing programs? Yes,” Poilievre acknowledged, but pointed out, “He spent $89 billion on housing affordability and the result is that housing costs have doubled. The problem is he’s putting the money into bureaucracy. Government bureaucrats don’t build homes; private sector builders do. Government bureaucrats are in the way. So we need to get the government bureaucracy out of the way and deliver fast, affordable permits to build the homes.”
He got down to bare facts: “One-third of the cost of every newly-built home in Ontario is government permits and taxes. One-third. That’s more than we spend on the labor to build the home. So we’re spending more on the bureaucrats, who don’t build anything, than we do on the carpenters, framers, plumbers, and electricians who build. Isn’t that insane?”
“Like when you buy a house, do you not find it incredible — you have this beautiful house and you say, &#8216;well, where did the money [go]?&#8217;” he said. “I’m buying the house, now say it’s a million dollars. What does the million dollars go to? You know, you break it down: lumber, materials. You think: More money goes to people sitting in government offices than goes to the people swinging the hammers, fitting the pipes, framing the lumber. It doesn’t make sense.”
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“We need to cut the bureaucracy,” he declared. “And that’s why my common sense plan will require cities [to] free up land, speed up permits, cut development charges and fees, as a condition of getting federal funds. If they don’t hit my targets, they won’t get their money, and they’ll be less of those bureaucrats in those corner offices. So, if they beat the target, they’ll get more money. We’re going to pay our municipalities the way we pay realtors and builders: for the number of homes.”
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The math disagrees with Trudeau. <a href="https://t.co/u5wLixn56A">pic.twitter.com/u5wLixn56A</a>
&mdash; Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1798011452206321672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Canadian Conservative Party leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pierre-poilievre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierre Poilievre</a> ruffled a few feathers when he failed to attend a Pride flag-raising ceremony in Ottawa to kick off the start of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Poilievre offered a simple explanation for his absence, saying that he was doing far more for the people of Canada if he addressed the issues they cared about rather than showing up to watch someone hoist a rainbow flag.
&#8220;I was working last night, until midnight, fighting against inflation and interest rate hikes, and that was my focus and will continue to be my focus,&#8221; Poilievre said when asked why he had not made it a point to attend the ceremony.
Canada&#8217;s Liberal Party created &#8220;Wanted&#8221; posters highlighting Poilievre&#8217;s absence at the flag-raising, mocking the Conservative Party leader and suggesting he didn&#8217;t want to attend unless he could wear a &#8220;straight pride&#8221; shirt.
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Is it because he couldn’t wear a “straight pride” shirt? <a href="https://t.co/fPRlRAaWtv">pic.twitter.com/fPRlRAaWtv</a>
— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) <a href="https://twitter.com/liberal_party/status/1797722558328140255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
But the &#8220;Wanted&#8221; poster appears to have backfired, as critics pointed out that it may not have done the damage the Liberal Party hoped it might — particularly because Poilievre&#8217;s own adoptive father is an <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-same-sex-marriage-abortion-1.7222881#:~:text=Poilievre's%20adoptive%20father%20is%20gay,Duncan%2C%20for%20two%20prominent%20positions." target="_blank" rel="noopener">openly gay man</a>.
&#8220;Poilievre’s adoptive father is openly gay, as is one of Poilievre’s deputy leaders. The Liberal party, in its desperation, has absolutely hit the bottom of the barrel,&#8221; one pointed out.
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Poilievre’s adoptive father is openly gay, as is one of Poilievre’s deputy leaders. The Liberal party, in its desperation, has absolutely hit the bottom of the barrel. <a href="https://t.co/I4BIxqJLjl">https://t.co/I4BIxqJLjl</a>
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1797965226404618249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Fear mongering of a man whose own father is gay, whose deputy leader is gay and who is surrounded in friendship and work by openly proud gay men and women. It’s gross and indicative of all the Liberal Party has left to talk about,&#8221; another said.
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Fear mongering of a man whose own father is gay, whose deputy leader is gay and who is surrounded in friendship and work by openly proud gay men and women.
It’s gross and indicative of all the Liberal Party has left to talk about. <a href="https://t.co/s21hOzeKQz">https://t.co/s21hOzeKQz</a>
— Laryssa Waler 🌻 Лариса Валєр (@LWaler) <a href="https://twitter.com/LWaler/status/1798018687196418426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Another day, another excruciatingly infantile tweet from the party running this country,&#8221; said another.
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Another day, another excruciatingly infantile tweet from the party running this country. <a href="https://t.co/lPbA5BhPsh">https://t.co/lPbA5BhPsh</a>
— Mia (@_CryMiaRiver) <a href="https://twitter.com/_CryMiaRiver/status/1797973739768090979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Poilievre has not committed to attending any Pride Month-related events, and when asked, his only comment on the issue was to wish &#8220;everyone a happy Pride month, because our freedom is something in which all of us can take pride.&#8221;

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre Speaks At The Canada Strong And Free Conference

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