LILLEY: Trudeau enjoys California sunshine as Canada crumbles

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In Canada proper now, the federal authorities is greater than a little bit of a catastrophe and the nation is in hassle.

We haven’t heard from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau although – he’s too busy specializing in his priorities as a substitute of what issues to Canadians.

Trudeau is in Los Angeles this week for the Summit of the Americas the place he has arrange conferences with California Governor Gavin Newsom and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley to debate local weather change.

Don’t count on Trudeau to say a lot concerning the rising value of fuel or his authorities’s position in that, he’s extra involved in driving up the fee to cease you from travelling and burning fossil fuels.

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For the final 10 months, Trudeau has been making an attempt to say the rising price of dwelling – be it fuel, meals, housing or every other necessity – isn’t his fault. Inflation in his eyes is solely a global phenomenon and don’t , he’s addressing inflation by bringing in $10-a-day childcare.

Positive, there are worldwide elements at play relating to inflation, however there are additionally home elements like his excessive authorities spending, already excessive however growing gas taxes and a central financial institution that was gradual off the mark. Trudeau doesn’t wish to acknowledge his half; he needs to easily blame others.

Even when we grant him that and ignore his half within the affordability disaster, what about the remainder of his authorities’s disastrous efficiency from airports that don’t work on account of authorities guidelines to a backlogged immigration system and a passport workplace that’s disintegrating. These are all the only duty of the Trudeau authorities and check out as they could, they will’t blame anybody else.

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Every of the ministries concerned in these recordsdata – transportation, public security, and the immigration division – have to get their act collectively. The minister wants to make things better or be fired.

The federal government’s personal web site states that common service for getting a passport is 20 enterprise days, plus mailing time, after you submit your utility, which is an ordeal in itself. One reader reached out to me Wednesday from Vancouver telling the story of his spouse taking a second time without work work and arriving on the passport workplace at 4 a.m. to a line up simply to resume their daughter’s passport.

That scene is repeated throughout the nation, however the place is minister Sean Fraser on this?

The place is Fraser on the immigration backlog?

Proper now, somebody making use of to immigrate by the federal expert trades program can count on a 43-month processing time. That’s almost 4 years simply to course of a profitable utility. Different applications have wait occasions of greater than 5 years in the meanwhile.

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That’s a catastrophe.

Now, if you may get a passport or immigration approval and get to Pearson airport, your nightmare doesn’t finish. The delays are usually not the fault of gradual passengers or incompetent airways; they’re the fault of procedures and insurance policies put in place by the Trudeau authorities.

In a uncommon occasion, Canada’s airways and airports, together with the remainder of the journey business, have known as for redundant COVID journey restrictions and necessities to be dropped, however the authorities has refused. Grilled by reporters about why Canada clings to those guidelines as the remainder of the world strikes on, Transportation Minister Oma Alghabra struggled to offer a solution apart from following “the science.”

Both the science is totally different in Canada or Alghabra is simply following the political science.

Trudeau must be demanding solutions and options on these recordsdata or telling them to get began writing up these resignation letters.

blilley@postmedia.com