Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Ottawa's latest plans to combat antisemitism and hate in Canada on Monday, stating that Jewish Canadians are being 'brutally targeted' and the country is failing them. 'The crisis of antisemitism in Canada today is specific, severe, and demands a targeted response. Our government is fully committed to that response,' Carney said.
Meanwhile, a column by Tristin Hopper notes that climate change has disappeared from public discourse. 'Before Steven Guilbeault announced his resignation… he first had to watch the slow dismantling of his Canadian climate change empire,' Hopper writes. He argues that figures like Bill Gates, Greta Thunberg, and even Mark Carney have dropped climate change as a main issue.
In other news, the family of Maya Gebala, a survivor of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, is struggling to find housing. Her mother, Cia Edmonds, wrote on Facebook that the family doesn't qualify for benefits for traumatized families.
Rob Breakenridge comments that former environment minister Steven Guilbeault did the most damage to his own environmental agenda. He notes that Carney has convinced Alberta to agree to a higher industrial carbon price and set the stage for major investment in carbon capture technology, a more meaningful legacy than Trudeau and Guilbeault's.
Finally, immigration lawyer Richard Kurland explains on the Full Comment podcast how former prime minister Justin Trudeau's wreckage of the screening, hearing, and deportation system has made it easier for people to stay in Canada despite not being eligible.
