Canada begins process to ratify USMCA trade deal

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally introduced legislation to his country's parliament Wednesday to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade. Parliamentary action on the deal, which would replace the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, had been held up for months by a dispute between Trudeau's administration and the White House over steel and aluminum tariffs. Trudeau urged Canadian lawmakers to quickly wrap the deal up now that the dispute had been resolved. "The new NAFTA will secure access to a trading zone that accounts for more than a quarter of the global economy,” Trudeau said, according to Reuters. “It is now time for the members of this House to ratify it.”

Trudeau is set to meet with Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday to coordinate strategy on passing USMCA through their respective legislatures. Earlier this month, the Trump administration agreed to restore exemptions Canada and Mexico had on U.S. tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. The Trump administration initially granted the exemptions last year when it first enacted the tariffs, but removed them during negotiations as a tactic to pressure Canada and Mexico. After a deal was struck late last year, the Trump administration resisted pressure for months to restore the exemptions, prompting Canada and Mexico to refuse to ratify the agreement until it budged.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has yet to commit to bringing the USMCA up for a floor vote, arguing that the trade deal lacks proper enforcement provisions, among other shortcomings. Canada and Mexico have refused to reopen the deal for further negotiations, a position the Trump administration has taken as well. "The reality is that Speaker Pelosi, under the Trade Promotion Authority, has the keys here about when this gets brought up and what the process is," Marc Short, chief staff to Vice President Mike Pence, told CNBC.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/canada-begins-process-to-ratify-usmca-trade-deal

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-applications-for-asylum-in-canada-for-syrian-white-helmets-stalled/

Applications for asylum in Canada for Syrian White Helmets stalled over security concerns

Ten members of Syria’s White Helmets and their families are still living in a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert, with their applications for asylum in Canada stalled over security concerns, nearly a year after the federal government won plaudits for leading the operation to save them.

They were among 422 people who escaped southern Syria last July in a one-day operation that was concluded just as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, who have repeatedly targeted the White Helmets throughout the conflict, recaptured the rebel-held Daraa region. The White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group, gained fame for their collective bravery while trying to save victims of Syria’s eight-year-old civil war.

The international rescue, which saw Israel open its heavily militarized border in the Golan Heights so that the White Helmets could be whisked to safety in neighbouring Jordan, was a diplomatic triumph for Ottawa, with Canadian diplomats – including Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland – heralded for helping make it happen.

But nearly a year later, Ms. Freeland finds herself at the centre of another complicated diplomatic endeavour: trying to resolve the fate of the 10 families who remain in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp, long after the Jordanian government had been promised they’d be resettled to one of Canada, Germany or Britain.

Germany and Britain have each taken in their agreed share of the 422 evacuees, and Canada resettled 117 of the Syrians last year (Ms. Freeland’s office declined to say how many refugees total Canada agreed to resettle). But 10 families – at least 42 people – remain in Azraq, an austere tent city 80 kilometres east of Amman that’s also home to more than 30,000 other Syrians.

Four sources with direct knowledge of the situation, who were granted anonymity by The Globe and Mail because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the 10 families were rejected by Canada over security concerns that were uncovered by Canadian officials who travelled to Jordan to interview the White Helmets and their families. Canada, the sources said, was now trying to find another country or countries willing to accept the families.

he international rescue, which saw Israel open its heavily militarized border in the Golan Heights so that the White Helmets could be whisked to safety in neighbouring Jordan, was a diplomatic triumph for Ottawa, with Canadian diplomats – including Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland – heralded for helping make it happen.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-helmets-evacuation-from-syria-could-happen-very-quickly/

Sadiq meeting with Trudeau after Trump was in Londonistan.

Toronto Muslim Supports Executing Gays: ‘That’s Sharia Law And It’s Coming To Canada’ (Video)

(Gateway Pundit) – A Toronto Muslim told a Rebel Media reporter over the weekend that he supports executing homosexuals because he adheres to Sharia law.

Al Quds Day protester in Toronto on June 1 advocates that Canada should be ruled by Sharia law, Rebel Media reported.

his interview took place during Al Quds Day in Toronto, while is a yearly rally held around the world pushing the belief that Jerusalem belongs to Islam, not the Israelis. And with that belief comes people like our Muslim friend here advocating for replacing Canada’s legal system as well as violent antisemitism.

He also confessed to me that he intentionally didn’t say the Oath of Citizenship properly when he became a Canadian citizen. Oh, and there’s a LOT more — we had a long conversation.

The Muslim then bragged that Islam and Sharia law will eventually take over Canada because Muslims are the only ones reproducing.

“What are you going to do when there’s a Muslim majority?” the Muslim man asked the Rebel Media reporter. “You can’t stop Sharia law…It’s coming to Canada,” the man said.

“[A gay couple] would be executed in [Gaza] according to Islamic law. Islam doesn’t endorse gays — Islam doesn’t endorse homosexuality,” the Muslim protester said.

At least this Muslim man was honest about the Muslim migrants’ plans to reproduce and impose Sharia law in their host country.

https://www.teaparty.org/toronto-muslim-supports-executing-gays-thats-sharia-law-and-its-coming-to-canada-video-366282/

Canadian politician, Maxime Bernier just shared a positive tweet about a Q Anon supporter, sending progressives into a fit.

MSM rag VICE does a hit piece on Populist Prime Ministerial Candidate and leader of brand new People's Party of Canada because he tweeted a video by Q researcher Amazing Polly.

link to twat https://twitter.com/vicecanada/status/1137079303873675265