National
Canada’s Governor General slammed for hosting partisan event promoting Trudeau’s ‘hate speech’ bill

From LifeSiteNews
Mary Simon, Canada’s supposed non-partisan head of state, appeared to be supporting a Liberal government bill that will further regulate the internet.
Governor General Mary Simon, who serves as Canada’s official non-partisan head of state and representative of King Charles III, has taken heat for hosting a conference supporting a new federal government bill that could lead to large fines or jail time for vaguely defined online “hate speech” infractions.
On April 11, Simon hosted an event titled “The Governor General’s Symposium: Building a Safe and Respectful Digital World” at her Rideau Hall residence, with the goal to “bring together individuals who experience online violence and experts from across the country to share their experiences, explore solutions, and create allyship and networks of resilience.”
The guest list for those invited included those supportive of Liberal Minster Attorney General Arif Virani’s Bill C-63, or Online Harms Act. Some of the invited guests included former Global News reporter Rachel Gilmore, LGBTQ activist Fae Johnstone, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, and Ottawa school trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth. No members of the Conservative Party or independent journalists were invited.
After news spread of the event, which Simon herself posted about on X, many took to social media to voice concerns over Simon hosting the event.
“Can you imagine the Queen having a seminar at Buckingham Palace to talk about a bill before the House of Commons in England? That would be outrageous. That’s what @GGCanada Mary Simon just did,” said political commentator Tom Korski on a CBC radio show.
Another X user @IMHeatherAmI wrote, “Trudeau has corrupted everything.GG Mary Simon is abusing her power by “promoting contentious Liberal bills that are trying to be passed in Parliament.”
Rideau Hall gave no comment that Canada’s supposed non-partisan head of state appeared to be supporting a Liberal government bill that will further regulate the internet.
“The Governor General is non-partisan and apolitical,” Rideau Hall said in a statement.
In comments sent to the media about apparent conflicts of interest, a spokesperson for Simon said that she will keep advocating for “digital respect.”
Conservative Party spokesman Sebastian Skamski observed that Simon should be “ashamed” for “politicizing and exploiting” the office of Governor General, which is supposed to be completely non-partisan.
The Online Harms Act was introduced in the House of Commons on February 26 by Virani and was immediately blasted by constitutional experts as troublesome.
Bill C-63 will modify existing laws, amending the Criminal Code as well as the Canadian Human Rights Act, in what the Liberals claim will target certain cases of internet content removal, notably those involving child sexual abuse and pornography.
However, the bill also seeks to police “hate” speech online with broad definitions, severe penalties, and dubious tactics.
Details of the new legislation to regulate the internet show the bill could lead to more people jailed for life for “hate crimes” or fined $50,000 and jailed for posts that the government defines as “hate speech” based on gender, race, or other categories.
The bill also calls for the creation of a digital safety commission, a digital safety ombudsperson, and a digital safety office.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has said Bill C-63 is “the most serious threat to free expression in Canada in generations. This terrible federal legislation, Bill C -63, would empower the Canadian Human Rights Commission to prosecute Canadians over non-criminal hate speech.”
JCCF president John Carpay recently hand-delivered a petition with 55,000-plus signatures to Canada’s Minister of Justice and all MPs.
Business
Global Affairs goes on March Madness spending spree, buys $9,900 Lego set

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
By Ryan Thorpe
Global Affairs Canada bought $527,000 worth of artwork during year-end spending sprees in 2023 and 2024 – a practice commonly referred to as “March Madness.”
Bureaucrats even spent $9,900 on “Lego blocks,” according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“If you want proof that government bureaucrats have way too many tax dollars on their hands, look no further than Global Affairs Canada’s half-a-million dollar March Madness art spending spree,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “It’s supremely disrespectful to taxpayers to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on art they’ll never see in far-flung embassies.”
The government of Canada’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31.
On March 31, 2023, GAC bureaucrats purchased 32 pieces of artwork for $160,000, according to the records.
Included in the purchases were a $25,000 “archival pigment print photograph,” a $20,000 piece of “fabric art” made of “poly-cotton, canvas, steel hanging rod” and a $3,500 piece featuring “cowhide, dyed fox fur, Swarovski crystals, caribou hair and 24K gold.”
Bureaucrats also expensed a $6,000 oil painting on canvas and a $8,500 piece of “fabric art” made of “home-tanned moose hide, cross fox fur, canvas, trim, seed beads, 24K gold beads [and] nylon thread.”
The following year, on Feb. 9, 2024, GAC bureaucrats bought 71 pieces of artwork on the same day, billing taxpayers for $291,000.
Purchases included 31 paintings costing a combined $153,000.
One bureaucrat ordered a $9,900 set of “Lego blocks,” described in government records as “mixed media.”
Then, on March 26, 2024, GAC bureaucrats expensed 12 more pieces of artwork to taxpayers, costing more than $50,000.
Included in the purchases was a $9,000 piece of “fabric art” described as “wool, cotton, embroidery floss,” and a $7,500 piece of “mixed media” described as “handmade khadi paper woven on block printed industrially.”
All told, GAC’s year-end spending spree on art the past two years cost taxpayers $527,000. For the sake of comparison, that’s enough money to cover an entire year’s grocery bills for 31 Canadian families of four.
“March Madness is a long-observed phenomenon in Ottawa which sees federal departments quickly spend all of their remaining annual budgets in the last month of the fiscal year,” according to a report from CBC.
“Every March, taxpayers are forced to watch a bad episode of bureaucrats gone wild,” Terrazzano said. “Taxpayers need the government to fully open up the books, go line by line through each department’s spending and take a chainsaw to all this waste.”
This isn’t the first time spending by GAC bureaucrats has triggered alarms bells.
GAC bureaucrats spent more than $3.3 million on alcohol between January 2019 and May 2024, according to separate access-to-information records obtained by the CTF. That means the department is spending an average of $51,000 a month on beer, wine and spirits.
The CTF has long criticized GAC spending, including a $8,800 sex toy show in Germany, $1,700 for a “Lesbian Pirates!” musical, $12,500 for senior citizens in other countries to talk about their sex lives and a $51,000 red-carpet photo exhibit for rockstar Bryan Adams.
“From sex toy shows to lesbian pirate musicals to a $9,900 Lego set, Global Affairs Canada may be the worst waste offender in the entire federal government,” Terrazzano said. “And that’s saying a lot.”
National
Poilievre can pack a Rally—but can he take on the establishment, China’s influence, and the globalist elite?

Thousands braved the cold to pack Poilievre’s rally, chanting ‘We need you!’
Pierre Poilievre didn’t just hold a rally. He delivered a political earthquake. Thousands of Canadians braved the cold—minus eleven degrees, snow falling, streets covered in ice—to stand shoulder to shoulder, packed into an overflowing venue, with even more watching from spillover rooms.
And it wasn’t just a polite gathering of voters looking for a fresh face to replace Trudeau’s tired, corrupt regime. No, this was something else entirely. It was a moment where you could feel the momentum shifting. It was the kind of rally that terrifies political elites because it tells them one thing—this isn’t just a campaign anymore. It’s a movement.
Now, we’ve seen this before. Obama in 2008, Trump in 2016. The political class and their media lapdogs always pretend these moments don’t exist—right up until the moment they steamroll the establishment and change the country forever. That’s the kind of energy we saw in Ottawa. That’s the kind of political force Poilievre is sitting on.
And the real question is: does he understand just how big this is? Because right now, he is either going to ride this wave to an unstoppable victory, or he is going to let the media, the bureaucrats, and the Liberal swamp talk him into playing it safe and blowing the biggest opportunity of his life.
Let’s talk about what he got right—because he got a lot right.
First, Mark Carney got absolutely eviscerated. And not a moment too soon. For months, the Liberal establishment and their media servants have been parading this unelected banker around like some kind of messiah—as if Canadians have been crying out for a smug, carbon-tax-obsessed globalist to come and save us from ourselves.
Well, Poilievre wasn’t having it. He torched Carney’s entire phony image in a single speech.
This is a guy—let’s be very clear about who he is—who has spent his entire career making life more expensive for you while getting richer off it. A man who cheered for the carbon tax in Canada while personally investing in American coal. A man who killed pipelines here while his own company bought them in the Middle East. A man who spent years whispering in Trudeau’s ear, pushing policies that have already driven over $500 billion in investment out of this country—and now, somehow, wants you to believe he’s the guy to fix it.
It was devastating, brutal, and completely deserved. And the best part? Poilievre made it clear that if Carney wins, Canada loses.
But that wasn’t even the most important part of the speech.
The most important moment came when Poilievre didn’t just talk about the economy—he talked about Canada’s survival.
Because that’s what this is about.
And this is where Poilievre really flipped the script on the media’s latest nonsense.
For weeks now, Canada’s press has been running around like a bunch of headless chickens, shrieking that Trump’s tariffs are going to destroy us—as if the biggest economic threat to this country isn’t the people running it into the ground from within.
And instead of taking the bait, instead of playing defense, Poilievre turned the entire argument on its head.
The real problem isn’t Trump. The real problem is that Canada can’t even trade with itself.
Think about that. Canada’s biggest economic problem isn’t some tariff threat from Washington—it’s that we have more trade barriers between our own provinces than we do with the United States. That is insane. That is deliberate economic sabotage. That is the kind of bureaucratic lunacy that only a Liberal government could create.
So instead of cowering in fear about what Trump might do, Poilievre did what no Canadian politician has done in decades—he promised to tear down interprovincial trade barriers in his first 30 days in office.
And suddenly, the entire media narrative collapsed.
Why? Because if Canada is so fragile that one American president can destroy our economy with a tariff, then maybe the real problem isn’t Trump. Maybe the real problem is that Liberal policies have left us so pathetically weak that we can’t even function as a country without America’s permission.
Now that’s leadership. That’s the kind of offensive strategy Canada needs.
And then, Poilievre did it again.
He unleashed his strongest energy vision yet.
He vowed to repeal C-69, the anti-pipeline law, within 60 days. He promised to fast-track LNG projects, restart the Ring of Fire mining industry, and put an end to the foreign-funded radical environmentalists who have spent decades deliberately crippling Canada’s energy sector while collecting cash from foreign oil interests.
The crowd exploded. Because Canadians know what’s been done to them.
This country should be an energy powerhouse. Instead, under Liberal rule, we have entire provinces collapsing under green energy scams while we import oil from countries that hate us.
Poilievre knows it. Canadians know it.
And yet, for all the things he got right, there was one glaring failure.
China.
Yes, Poilievre called China a hostile power. Yes, he promised to strengthen Arctic defenses and build a new military base in Iqaluit. That’s good. That’s necessary.
But that’s not enough.
Because Trudeau didn’t just let China threaten Canada from the outside—he let them infiltrate our democracy from the inside.
And that’s where Poilievre should have gone further.
He should have hammered the Houge Inquiry—the investigation into Chinese election interference that was so damaging that Trudeau shut down Parliament to bury it.
He should have exposed how CSIS warned the Liberals about Chinese interference—and they did nothing.
He should have pledged to ban CCP-linked companies from buying Canadian land, businesses, and resources.
He should have said, plainly and directly, that Trudeau’s government was complicit in allowing a foreign dictatorship to interfere in Canada’s democracy.
But he didn’t. And that was a mistake.
Because when you are standing in front of a roaring crowd, a movement waiting for a leader to take the gloves off, that is the moment you go all in.
Poilievre is so close. He has the passion. He has the policies. He has the momentum.
But now, he has to finish the job.
That means stop holding back on China. That means stop treating this like a normal election. That means expose the entire corrupt system—not just Trudeau, but the elites who profit off Canada’s decline.
Because the crowd is ready. The movement is here. The moment is now.
The only question is: is Poilievre ready to go all the way?
Watch the entire rally here: (Pierre begins to speak at 29:00)
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