Hands Off Our Heritage Rally in Hamilton
Today we rallied in Gage Park (Hamilton, ON) where radical activists tore down a statue of Sir John A Macdonald back in 2021.
Canadians will no longer stand idly by while out of touch elites and radical activists tear down our monuments, rename our institutions and rewrite our history.
We’re getting organized, we’re getting active, and we will take our country back
Nathaniel-Erskine Smith: He Chose Moslems Over Traditional Canadians: The Moslems Chose One of Their Own Over Him — Serves Him Right
East End Toronto MP, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has bowed and scraped to Moslems for years. An X post shows him in various Moslem garb explaining how he backed an anti-free speech bill on Islamophobia. “For over a decade, I’ve shown up for the Muslim community not just at election time, but in Ottawa. I’m running to bring that same advocacy to Queen’s Park.” Nathaniel Erskine-Smith
He was seeking the Liberal nomination in the provincial by-election in Scarborough South-west. He’s trying to lay the ground work for a run at the Provincial Liberal Leadership. A Moslem Bangladeshi pizza chain owner in good with the pooh bahs of the Provincial Liberal Party beat an angry Erskine-Smith by 19 votes. He’s crying foul. Apparently, many voters had no ID — an epidemic of forgetting them at home. Many took pictures of their ballots on their cellphones — suggesting pay for votes. Well, Nathaniel or “Nate” or would-be-Mohammed, that’s politics Third World style, which you and your treacherous party imported into Canada. SERVES YOU RIGHT!
That’s Erskine-Smith the dude in the blue, a real man of the people, just not OUR people. Well, he threw is his lot with them, and they threw this scalawag out!
That’s Erskine-Smith the dude in the blue, a real man of the people, just not OUR people. Well, he threw is his lot with them, and they threw this scalawag out!
16 May 2026
A long-running charity ad campaign familiar to Canadians for its catchy Kars4Kids jingle will no longer play in California after a court found it violates false advertising laws.
The popular ad shows children singing the tune while playing musical instruments and asking people to donate their cars.
In 2021, however, California cabinetmaker Bruce Puterbaugh, who is in his 70s, filed a lawsuit after donating a 2001 Volvo XC worth $250 US. Puterbaugh claims he was under the impression the charity helped “underprivileged kids from all over the U.S,” according to court documents.
Those documents show it wasn’t until later that he learned the main purpose of Kars4Kids is not helping local disadvantaged children but instead funding a Jewish organization called Oorah.
In his decision earlier this month, Judge Gassia Apkarian of the Superior Court of California noted
Oorah’s programs include “matchmaking for young adults and gap year trips to Israel for 17 and 18-yearolds.”
Kars4Kids gets failing grade from charity watchdog
Similar ads are also running in Canada, and have been for years. That’s a red flag for one Toronto-based charity watchdog.
Charity Intelligence Canada gave Kars4Kids its sole one-star rating, meaning it found failures on multiple issues, including reporting to donors about how their money helped.
“It’s a fail when it comes to transparency,” said Kate Bahen, the managing director. “You have better giving options.”
Wendy Kirwan, Kars4Kids’ director of public relations, did not respond when asked whether any of the proceeds raised in Canada go to help Canadian children.
But according to Kars4Kids Canada’s website, the entity is also part of Oorah Charitable Organization, a non-profit Jewish group. Oorah is listed as a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency.
Canadian tax filings show the organization transferred $12.6 million to the U.S. and Israel in the fiscal year ending May 31, 2025 – the most recent data available for projects such as the Texas Torah Institute and the Cincinnati Hebrew Day School.
Oorah’s CRA filings show $19 million in expenditures in 2024-25 fiscal year, including $3.7 million on advertising and promotion.
The law and the facts are clearly on our side.”- Wendy Kirwan, Kars4Kids’ director of public relations
In an emailed statement to CBC News, Kirwan said Kars4Kids Canada is a separate organization from the one in the United States.
But regarding the California ruling, she added that “the decision is deeply flawed, ignores the facts, and misapplies the law. Kars4Kids expects to win on appeal because the law and the facts are clearly on our side.(CBC, May 16, 2026)
No Wonder Auto Insurance Rates Are So High in Brampton
Yet another gift of “diversity”.
Love Bringing “Diversity” of Business Morals to Canada
Joel Wittnebel • May 13 at 8:00 PM
A pair of court cases with alarming allegations of fraud involving an allegedly improper land sale and millions of dollars in fake cheques led to Scotiabank freezing accounts belonging to a Brampton law firm founded by former MP Raj Grewal, plunging at least one local family into chaos, tying up $714,000 dollars the firm was supposed to transfer for the mortgage on a home.
The accounts of several numbered Ontario and Canadian companies have also been frozen in relation to the matters which are before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
The Pointer is investigating the names linked to the allegations of wrongdoing outlined in court documents, including the individuals behind the numbered companies.
One of the cases involves allegations that Grewal’s firm, which represented a seller in a property transaction last year, failed to transfer the funds to the company that had provided a mortgage to RSG’s client after the property was sold.
When a court injunction was requested by the company that had provided the mortgage, WIGI (a real estate management company), Justice Fred Myers granted the injunction, writing, “I can think of no honest or honourable reason for the mortgagor, its management, owners, and counsel to think they could take advantage of what had to be an error and ignore the VTB (Vendor Take Back mortgage) that they knew and acknowledged had to be paid out using the proceeds of sale of the secured land.”
He continued, addressing the entities RSG represented in the transaction: “On the evidence before me, the mortgagor and its directors have assets in Ontario. I infer from their seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme that there is a serious risk they will dissipate the proceeds of sale referable to the plaintiff’s VTB security.”
Grewal is a former Brampton MP who resigned in 2019 after he publicly declared a gambling addiction had led to “significant personal debts”. In September 2020 Grewal was charged by the RCMP with fraud and breach of trust during his time as an MP. In March 2023, Grewal was found not guilty of using his MP position to solicit loans to cover his debts, but the case exposed his disturbing behaviour while serving as an elected official and frequenting an Ottawa casino, when he said a gambling addiction influenced many bad decisions.
Grewal is not named in any of the court documents The Pointer reviewed. He did not respond to questions sent this week.
Nitan Waryah, a Brampton resident, told The Pointer a $714,000 transfer from his lawyer to RSG was made on April 15 for a real estate transaction, but it remains frozen in the RSG account after Scotiabank locked the law firm’s trust account, tying up much of his parents’ life savings.
On Friday, May 8, he was given assurances by Grewal personally that he would deal with the matter. In the same breath, during the same phone conversation, Grewal claimed to Waryah that he had sold RSG Law two years ago and is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations.
Then, two days later, on Sunday May 10, Grewal called Waryah, reassuring him the matter would be resolved by the coming Friday, May 15.
The firm name, RSG, stands for Rajvinder Singh Grewal, the former MP’s full name.
Waryah questions why Grewal would tell him he has nothing to do with RSG Law anymore.
“If that was the case, why would he be the one calling me, assuring me he would be the one to take care of it by Friday?” Waryah said.
Grewal did not respond this week when asked about his status with RSG.
Lawyers for RSG declined to comment on the specifics of the allegations made in the court filings as the matters are still going through the judicial process, but claimed the transactions responsible for freezing the company’s account “did not originate with RSG or its clients”.
“(Scotiabank) has traced funds from those transactions and has alleged that some of the funds may have ended up with RSG in connection with different transactions, which RSG had no reason to doubt were legitimate,” Simon Bieber, a lawyer with Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP, explained in a statement on behalf of RSG. “There does not appear to be any sort of allegation by BNS (Scotiabank) that RSG was involved in any misconduct and RSG has instead been caught up in an unfortunate set of circumstances.”
Bieber also declined to comment on Grewal’s current relationship to RSG, the law firm he founded. When The Pointer followed up on those questions, Bieber said he would not be answering because “there is nothing to address.”
“None of the Court proceedings have anything to do with Mr. Grewal, there are no allegations about him and that you’ve raised questions about Mr. Grewal (when none of the parties have) is concerning. I need to be absolutely clear that any reporting that impugns the reputation of Mr. (Davinder) Khattra [a lawyer with RSG], Mr. Grewal or RSG Law will attract a response. I have cautioned about statements that are potentially defamatory and reiterate that now.”
In a paid article that appeared in the Toronto Star this past July, Grewal represented himself as RSG’s leader. Describing the unique business model of RSG Law, the sponsored article, published July 15 2025, reported this was “Raj Grewal’s vision for RSG Law.” It later includes a quote by Grewal: “We aim to be the last law firm a client ever needs.”
As recently as December, the RSG website featured an image of Grewal and described him as the company’s principal lawyer.
Sometime prior to the end of January, Grewal’s name and image were removed from the RSG website, months after the property sale involving WIGI in June of 2025, which triggered the company’s eventual legal action against RSG.
Grewal is also listed as the President of RSG Group, a separate entity from RSG Law, which shares the same address in Mississauga.
Google Reviews of RSG Law, some posted as recently as two months ago, mention Grewal by name, and thank him for his work.
On Wednesday, May 13, Waryah wrote his own Google Review outlining his current situation and uploaded the court documents to the review detailing the allegations against RSG and the injunctions filed against it. Immediately after he posted his negative review and linked the court documents a series of five star reviews appeared for RSG which included similar wording and praise for the company.
Then, earlier today, on May 14, it appears RSG Law deleted its Google account or stopped sharing its reviews publicly as they have all now vanished from the search engine.
Nitan Waryah says Raj Grewal told him he sold RSG Law two years ago and is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations. Google reviews captured this week, in May, from as recently as two months ago suggest Grewal was still working at RSG.
As recently as December, the RSG website featured an image of Grewal and labelled him as the company’s principal lawyer.
Grewal is also listed as the President of RSG Group, a separate entity from RSG Law, but one that shares the same address in Mississauga.
Raj Grewal is listed as the President of RSG Group, which shares the same Mississauga address as RSG Law.
The Pointer confirmed that Grewal told Nitan Waryah this week that he is no longer involved with RSG Law, but his claim was confusing as it came during the same conversation when Grewal assured Waryah that the matter involving RSG would be personally handled and resolved by him this week.
Grewal did not respond to emails or questions left at his office.
According to court documents, on April 23, WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation, was granted an injunction to have bank accounts of RSG, three officials of an Ontario numbered company, and other third parties, frozen after a piece of land on which it held a $3.6 million mortgage was sold in June last year (WIGI had owned the property previously then provided the mortgage to the entity that purchased it from the real estate company). When the entity later sold the property it failed to pay off the remaining balance owing to WIGI.
The location of the land is not mentioned in the court document. It was sold to a numbered company in 2022 that had received a Vendor Take Back (VTB) mortgage from WIGI, an agreement that sees the seller of the land act as a lender.
RSG represented the seller that was supposed to pay back the mortgage amount to WIGI. RSG never transferred the amount. It’s unclear if the funds were ever made available to RSG.
According to the court documents, Davinder Khattra, a lawyer with RSG, committed to WIGI in March 2025 that the mortgage funds would be paid out by mid-June. Then in May, Khattra said the payout would be pushed to September 2025.
According to the court records, the land was sold in June without notifying WIGI and the funds to pay off the WIGI mortgage were never sent.
In granting the injunction requested by WIGI, Justice Myers said he could think of “no honest or honourable reason” the transaction was carried out the way it was, labelling it a “seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme.”
“(WIGI) submits as soon as the directors of the mortgagor and their counsel decided to proceed with a sale without recognizing the VTB, that they had already acknowledged recently to the plaintiff, they made the mortgagor single purpose company an instrument of their fraudulent design. While it is not clear what purpose they had to ask to extend the date of the VTB to September, a suspicious person might suggest that they were buying time to deflect attention and perhaps move the money,” Justice Myers wrote in his court order.
As part of the injunction granted by Justice Myers, RSG and the other companies involved were ordered to provide information about the land deal and how the mortgage would be repaid within 48 hours of the order on April 23, last month. This did not happen.
After a hearing on May 1, Justice Myers described the lack of action as “unusual and, frankly, quite troubling”.
RSG is named as one of the defendants.
“None of the defendants have yet to provide any of the information required of them under the court’s order…I am very concerned that the law firm has yet to provide any of the information sought. It has not confirmed if it froze any of its trust funds as ordered. It has not disclosed what it did with the funds it received that ought to have been referrable to the plaintiff’s mortgage. It has let days go by for funds to be moved again if someone were inclined to do so,” Justice Myers wrote. “No one put in any evidence today. There was not even a one-line denial of liability or explanation.”
In a decision on May 4, Justice Myers reported that RSG provided documents showing how the money from the land sale had been paid out to the numbered company and several other entities.
With the information, Justice Myers ruled the injunction should be extended beyond the normal 10-day period due to the seriousness of the allegations.
“The Plaintiff has established a strong prima facie case against the lawyers in conspiracy, conversion and knowledge receipt, if not deceit,” Justice Myers ruled. “Given the strong appearance of dishonesty in this case, it is just and convenient to hold funds presumptively subject to proof that they are trust funds belonging to others.”
When asked whether further documents have been provided to the courts following the May 4 order, Bieber, the lawyer representing RSG, said the firm is “addressing each of the matters before the Court with the parties to the proceeding and in compliance with the Court orders.”
While the WIGI case continued to unfold without a resolution, RSG was connected to a separate injunction requesting its accounts be frozen.
On April 28, Scotiabank requested a court order against RSG and several other numbered companies after millions of dollars in fraudulent cheques were issued, two of them ending up in the accounts of RSG.
The fake cheques originated with Brampton law firm Rajkiran Sidhu Law Professional Corporation (RSL), which deposited three cheques worth $6,095,000 into a trust account at the Bank of Nova Scotia on April 14. The Pointer was unable to contact RSL. A reporter visited two addresses listed as the headquarters of RSL, but neither were occupied by the company.
The cheques were immediately flagged by the bank as this was “out of keeping with the ‘usual’ pace of activity in this trust account for a sole practitioner,” the court order details.
A lawyer for Scotiabank declined to comment.
The cheques had the appearance of legitimacy with encoding and a watermark banner, but further investigation on April 15 by Scotiabank and TD, where the cheques originated, revealed they were drawn from fake accounts and two of the businesses named on them did not exist.
“TD advised the same day that it had no record of any accounts matching the accounts upon which the cheques had purportedly been drawn. The cheques were completely fraudulent,” the April 28 injunction details.
Through a series of wire transfers and deposits, some of the proceeds of the fraudulent cheques ended up in the accounts of RSG.
The injunction requested by Scotiabank makes no allegations of wrongdoing against RSG. Bieber says RSG had no reason to doubt the transactions were fraudulent.
The RSL money was immediately wired to five different entities. Two of these allegedly then transferred the funds to RSG.
On April 14, $1,414,000 was transferred from RSL to a numbered company. The same day, RSG deposited a cheque of an almost identical value ($1,410,000) from the same numbered company.
Also on April 14, RSL wired $2.6 million to another Ontario numbered company. The next day, the same company deposited $1,947,000 into the RSG Scotiabank account.
According to the injunction request by Scotiabank, RSG provided redacted documents “purporting to show” that the money from the first transaction was used to fund a loan from a borrower whose name was not disclosed.
“No continuing activity in the RSG trust appears to show the advance of such funds to the unknown borrower,” the court order by Justice Sean Dunphy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reports. “The Applicant (Scotiabank) has not yet recovered these funds nor received information from RSG sufficient to determine what portion, if any of the funds in the RSG trust account may be traced to the RSL wire transfer of the proceeds of the fraudulent cheques”.
While accepting the injunction and freezing the accounts of RSG and RSL, Justice Dunphy made no determination of wrongdoing.
“RSL’s trust account was clearly the instrument of fraud whether knowingly or otherwise,” his ruling highlights.
Nitan Waryah and his family are stuck in the middle of the ongoing legal saga. On the same day the fraudulent cheques were being dispersed, Waryah was closing on the sale of his parents home.
“My dad recently went blind due to some health challenges and my parents could no longer afford to own the house they are living in. I was buying my parents house and they were going to move into a smaller space and rent it as it’s easier for my dad to move around due to him being blind,” he told The Pointer in an email.
RSG was representing his parents in the sale, and it seems when Nitan Waryah sent the $714,000 for the purchase of the home, the money was soon frozen inside the accounts of RSG. It has left his parents paying the $514,000 mortgage, preventing them from receiving the $200,000 profit from the sale and Nitan is now paying a separate $840,000 mortgage on the same property.
Bieber says RSG is working to rectify all the issues and ensure the Waryah family receives their money.
After repeated assurances from Grewal himself, which went nowhere, and claims that he isn’t even involved with the law firm that bears his initials, Nitan is now taking matters into his own hands.
“I’ve filed a police report and retained a lawyer now to try and get our money back.”
Email: joel.wittnebel@thepointer.com
| Immigration IS The Viagra Of The State, Dammit My struggle against boneheaded Libertarians, including (until recently?) Charles MurrayPeter BrimelowMay 15 The indicted Southern Poverty Law Center’s favorite picture of Charles Murray. Maybe they were hoping he was about to give a Nazi salutePeterBrimelow.com is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Upgrade to paidRecently, Charles (“The Bell Curve”) Murray tweeted/ XedIn other words, my book ALIEN NATION: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, which came out in 1995, a year after The Bell Curve, made no impression on Charles, although we knew each other well. I had already sort of intuited that.I responded:Charles, to his credit, replied:This exchange inspired the following comment, heartwarming to me personally (thanks Matt!):Gone but not forgotten! Of all the factions I encountered during Alien Nation’s brief but intense moment in the MSM spotlight, Libertarians were by far the most bone-headed. This was a mild sorrow to me because I had been deeply influenced by my encounter with libertarianism after coming to the U.S. from England to study at Stanford in 1970. (Libertarianism simply did not exist at the University of Sussex back then). I spent a lot of time working through the relationship between libertarianism with immigration patriotism—in fact, with any kind of patriotism—as Greg Johnson recently discussed in his review of Quinn Slobodian’s 2025 Hayek’s Bastards, a book which paradoxically is the closest thing to an intellectual biography I’m ever likely to get. (Greg’s parallel podcast interview with me is here).Of course, by then I’d realized that many Libertarians, seeking for a once-size-fits-all explanation of the world, were psychologically similar to the dogmatic Student Marxists who had so brightened up my undergraduate days (and who now rule Britain). Although, of course, the Libertarians’ one-size-fits-all panacea was immeasurably superior.But there was one exception to this: the “Paleolibertarians,” a factional split led by the brilliant (and famously factional) economist Murray Rothbard. Paleolibertarians were enthusiastically willing to consider what the new issue of post-1965 mass, non-traditional, immigration meant to libertarianism, partly because it so irritated what Rothbard gleefully termed The Kochtopus e.g. the Cato Institute. And they did so until Rothbard’s untimely death in 1995, at what now seems to me to be the early age of 68. Thereafter their chief internet forum LewRockwell.com, edited by Mises Institute founder Lew Rockwell, regressed to left-Libertarianism, probably following its donors, and the Paleolibertarian faction was eclipsed.But not completely. Rothbard’s most prominent student, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who has been described as “The Last Paleolibertarian, ” founded the Property and Freedom Society in 2006 and sustained the tradition. (I am sorry to learn that Hoppe’s long relationship with the Mises Institute has recently, abruptly, been Cancelled).I spoke to his PFS conference in 2008. The issue hasn’t gone away. (Sigh again)“Immigration Is The Viagra Of The State”—A Libertarian Case Against ImmigrationFirst published on VDARE.com, 06/04/2008 Ladies and Gentlemen:I want to start off by thanking Hans [-Hermann Hoppe] and Guelchin [Imre, his wife and owner of the equally beautiful Karia Princess Hotel] for hosting this conference and in particular for inviting me to speak here today.We’re at a peculiar moment in the history of liberty. It’s been almost seventeen years since the Soviet Union collapsed. (I’m acutely aware of this because my son was born that day, making him, as I like to think, the very first post-Communist baby!) At that time, even a life-long American academic socialist like Robert Heilbroner was compelled to confess, in a celebrated essay in the New Yorker magazine, [The Triumph Of Capitalism, January 23, 1989] that the century-old battle between capitalism and socialism is over and capitalism has won.Yet in the US it’s very probable that the party of free markets—perhaps I should say the alleged party of free markets—is going to be annihilated in this year’s election and that the party of statism may be in power for a generation.There are obviously a number of reasons for this reversal. But one of them, I think, is that (at least in the US) libertarianism rested on its laurels and simply did not address the next generation of problems that came to the fore amid the wreckage of socialism. One of those is problems is immigration and, ultimately, the role of the national community, the nation-state. As I understand it, the role of the Property and Freedom Society is to address those problems and to rearticulate the libertarian vision.Hans-Hermann Hoppe did address the problem of immigration, in his own writings and by arranging for a special issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the summer 1998 issue [Volume 13, Number 2] guest edited by Ralph Raico, which was devoted to the subject. It’s a seminal volume of essays, revealing for example that the dean of American libertarian philosophers, John Hospers, who actually received one electoral college vote when he ran for President as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1972, rejected Open Borders and the notion that if you support free trade, you have to support free immigration. [A Libertarian Argument Against Opening Borders(PDF). ]I don’t think the debate among libertarians has moved much further forward, greatly to the discredit of the Libertarian Establishment. Hans should really be giving this talk today. But I guess he believes in the Division Of Labor!So my topic today is “A Libertarian Case Against Immigration”. I am myself an immigrant (or an emigrant, depending how you look at it) from Britain to the U.S. with some years in Canada. So I’m not saying that immigration is absolutely a bad thing. But I am saying that it can be a bad thing, and that in the US today—and also Europe—it is a bad thing. In the U.S., we’re constantly told by immigration enthusiasts, a distinct subspecies among American intellectuals, that immigrants do dirty jobs Americans won’t do. And, I tell them, here I am!I’m going to make this case with special reference to the example of the U.S., partly because that’s where I’ve lived for nearly forty years and partly because I’m a financial journalist, not a philosopher, and I find the presence of actual facts, as opposed to pure theory, kind of comforting. I will say, however, that the problems of America are the problems of the West.How many of you are Americans? Any Canadians? Europeans? Brits? (I distinguish between Britain and Europe!). [PB: Mostly Europeans, a few Americans and Brits, one Australian on walkabout, no Canadians. I am going to start off by reviewing the facts of the US example. Then I’m going to analyze those facts from what appears to me to be a libertarian perspective, looking at practical problems and then theoretical problems. I’ll conclude by suggesting what this suggests about immigration—and about libertarianism itself.Americans are taught to believe that they are “a nation of immigrants.” Of course, all nations are nations of immigrants. There is no known case where people grew out of the ground. What’s different about America is the speed with which it was put together. Unfortunately, it can be unput together just as quickly. And that, in essence, is what’s happening.So these are the facts:For almost 50 years in the middle of the twentieth century, from the early 1920s to about 1970, there was pause during which there was almost no immigration into the US at all.There have been many such pauses in American immigration history, stretching right back into the colonial period, and they have been essential to the process of assimilation. During that period, no-one, not even the great Austrian economists like Mises or Hayek (and certainly not the influential Objectivist novelist Ayn Rand, remarkable though she was), really thought much about immigration. The 1965 Immigration Act, plus a simultaneous decision to stop enforcing the law against illegal immigration, unleashed a new influx. (The decision to stop enforcing the law is very obvious in the date, most glaringly in the 98 percent collapse in workplace prosecutions during the Bush Administration, unmistakably a precursor to the planned integration of North American workforces as in the European Union). About 1 million legal immigrants and some 3-500,000 net illegal immigrants now enter the US every a year.For technical reasons—basically the emphasis on so-called family reunification, which is not family reunification at all but chain migration—immigration has been skewed away from Europe and toward the Third World.As a result, although Americans are stabilizing their population at around 300 million, the government is in effect second-guessing the people on population size, which because of immigration could be 400 million by 2050. One third will be post-1970 immigrants and their descendants. Because these are overwhelmingly non-white, the U.S., 90% white as recently as 1960, will be majority non-white sometime after 2050.This is a transformation without precedent in the history of the world. To adapt Brecht, the government is dissolving the people and electing a new oneAmazingly, the consensus among labor economists, confirmed by the 1997 National Research Council report The New Americans, is that there is no significant net aggregate economic benefit to native-born Americans. There is an increase in Gross Domestic Product, but virtually all of that is captured by the immigrants themselves in the form of wages. If transfer payments factored in, there is a small but significant nation-wide loss.In other words, Americans are not merely being transformed for nothing, but they are actually paying to be transformed.Of course, individual Americans benefit, notably employers of cheap labor, and they lobby hard for the privilege (not something libertarians of which would normally approve). But other Americans, notably workers, lose. And they lose a lot—basically government policy is redistributing about 2 percent of GDP from labor to capital. So here’s something that is having enormous consequences, inflicting enormous expense, operating quite contrary to what was anticipated.Obviously, it’s a government policy!And that’s the bottom line to this review of the US situation, which I really want to stress. The point is that the status quo is statist.We don’t have open immigration in the US or any Western country. We have an extremely complex and intrusive government policy. Government determines, by commission and omission, how many immigrants come in, what race they are, and what skill levels they have. (In the U.S. the post-1965 influx has been significantly less skilled than before, basically of the emphasis on “family reunification”, which is not family reunification at all but chain migration). Doing nothing about immigration as it exists right now is not a libertarian option. It’s a statist option. Conversely, arguing that the US should restrict immigration, should in fact have a simple moratorium, with no net immigration, could paradoxically represent a diminution of the government’s role, in its powers and its opportunity to exercise them. We’ve all heard of the night watchman state. What libertarians also should want, it seems to me, is a gatekeeper state.So that’s the situation in our case study, the US. Now I’m going to analyze it from a libertarian perspective. It seems to me that it presents two types of problems—practical and theoretical.PracticalThe Americans have had mass immigration before—notably the so-called Great Wave of immigration from about 1880 through the 1920s, when it was cut off by legislation. And they’ve had a welfare state before, roughly since the New Deal in the 1930s. But they’ve never had both together. And they just don’t work. At one stage, when I worked at Forbes, I used to interview Milton Friedman every year, until we got a new editor and he stopped it on the curious grounds that Friedman was too old. In one of these interviews, Friedman said something that has been much quoted. He criticized the Wall Street Journal, which has a major and negative role in this and other American debates and said “They’ve just got an idée fixe“ about immigration: “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.“But it’s not obvious to many libertarians, who continue to think about immigration as if it was still 100 years ago and the government was taking just 5 percent of GDP, instead of 30-40%. Yet the welfare state has visibly altered the incentive structure for immigrants. One of the ways it shows up is that, in the last Great Wave, somewhere up to 40% of all immigrants ended up going home. If they failed in the workforce, there was no safety net. Now there is. And net immigration is 90% of gross immigration.Now the Libertarian response to this is often to say, well, let’s just abolish welfare. Obviously, despite the reforms of the 1990s, the US has failed to do that. But it’s also important to note that we’re not just talking about “welfare“, strictly defined. We’re talking about transfer payments of all kinds. One of the most important is public education, which currently represents a subsidy from the taxpayer to the student of some $8000 a year. And because of a Supreme Court ruling called Plyler vs. Doe, American school districts have to educate the children of illegal immigrants. So what rational immigrant is going to go home when his child is getting an education worth, or at least costing, two or three times the per capita GDP of his country of origin?Of course some Libertarians say, let’s abolish public schools too. And I agree—I’ve actually |
TORY MP REVEALS TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRAP BY THE CBC
| Clayton DeMaineMay 13∙Paid |
The fake production company acting on behalf of CBC, involved in setting up conservative critics, including Lindsay Shepherd and Frances Widdowson, in bogus interviews, attempted to also lure Conservative MP Aaron Gunn with the promise of “reclaiming the legacy of Sir John A Macdonald.”
Internal correspondence from Gunn’s office shows staff were told the project was being prepared for CBC, which was allegedly “under pressure to provide a balanced view surrounding John A. Macdonald.”
Two producers, using the aliases “Olivia Goldman” of “Nova Frame Productions” and “Pam Gibson” of “Forge Media,” repeatedly portrayed the project as an effort to “reclaim” Macdonald’s legacy, defend Canadian heritage and provide a national platform for conservatives who felt censored or demonized for challenging prevailing reconciliation narratives. Pam Gibson was later identified as Molly Gore, an American producer who has worked on left-wing ecosocialist documentaries.
The newly uncovered email chain shows the operation spent months cultivating trust with conservative organizers, video producers and eventually Gunn’s parliamentary office by carefully mirroring conservative concerns about free speech, Indigenous land disputes and attacks on Canada’s founder.
Contact with the CBC-backed production company and various conservative figures dates back to January of this year. The emails were provided to Juno News by Gunn, and show those behind the ruse contacted a conservative-leaning video production group and discussed a $2,000 fee to help arrange interviews with subjects critical of “certain Indigenous developments” in B.C. as part of the clandestine smear campaign for CBC Entertainment.
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“We’re looking for people who are rightly critical of certain Indigenous developments, whose point of view deserves more airtime, and looking at what the lack of oversight and democratic debate around these projects means for the future of Canada and the cultural amnesia that activists are pushing for,” wrote Goldman on January 16, 2026.
Several conservative-leaning critics of the misleading media narrative surrounding the Kamloops Residential School “mass graves” claim and open defenders of Canada’s first Prime Minister’s legacy were targeted by the fake media company “Forge Media,” which was actually a front for the CBC-backed project meant to entrap unwitting critics.
Eventually, the email chain transitioned into a bid to get Gunn on board. The conservative contact offered several names, but the fake media production team “Forge Media and Nova Frame Productions” pressed for more controversial and “censored” figures.
“The project brings together a range of perspectives across the political spectrum, and what we’re missing most right now are speakers who’ve taken outspoken, principled positions on Indigenous land issues, treaty interpretation, development, and jurisdiction from a conservative position, specifically those taking a strong constitutional, rule-of-law perspective, those who are openly critical of prevailing reconciliation narratives, dissenting from ideological orthodoxy,” the January 28, 2026 email from “Goldman” requesting more censored individuals reads. “We’ve reserved space to feature more ‘unpopular’ positions, especially those enduring censorship or a good deal of public pushback, in order to treat the issues with the full complexity they deserve.”
“Goldman” specifically asked a contact of Gunn for help booking the Conservative MP.
“We’re now booking an episode focused on reclaiming the legacy of John A., and we would love some help booking Aaron Gunn if he is available for an interview at the end of April in Vancouver,” an email to a conservative-leaning strategist dated March 31st reads. “Is this something you would be able to help with?” The strategist has requested that their name be kept out of publication.
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So far, it’s been revealed that an unnamed RCMP officer, Gunn, authors Lindsay Shepherd and Jerry Amernic, OneBC leader Dallas Brodie, Toronto Metropolitan University professor Patrice Dutil, political commentator Jonathan Kay, and Daniel Tate from IntegrityTO were among those “Forge Media” attempted to interview as part of the sham docuseries.
The project name “Counting Coup” is a reference to a Plains indigenous war tactic involving humiliating and persuading an enemy on the battlefield to admit defeat after being tapped by a “coup stick.”
Shepherd, author of “A Day with Sir John A,” revealed that she received similar communications from “Forge Media” presenting themselves as supporters of her advocacy and posing the episode explicitly on “reclaiming the legacy of John A. Macdonald.”
The group also asked if they could film in Shepherd’s home and spoke about her newborn child.(Juno News, May 13, 2026)
NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora SafetySam CooperMay 13 READ IN APP OTTAWA — A senior New Democratic Party parliamentarian has formally demanded that the Carney government release the full text of its secret law enforcement agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security, echoing a set of facts The Bureau has been reporting for months, while warning that Ottawa’s continued refusal to disclose the deal is fueling legitimate fear among diaspora communities who have experienced or fear transnational repression by the Chinese state.Jenny Kwan, MP for Vancouver East and one of Parliament’s most prominent voices on Hong Kong and Chinese diaspora issues, wrote to Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand on May 12, calling the government’s silence on the agreement “particularly troubling” given what she described as the “problematic history of China’s foreign interference in Canada.”“I’m calling on Mark Carney govt to stop hiding RCMP–MPS MOU signed in Beijing,” Kwan posted to X. “Reports that RCMP needs Beijing’s “permission” to show this MOU to Canadians are a threat to our sovereignty.”The letter, addressed to both ministers, focuses on the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in combating crimes signed between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ministry of Public Security during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January 2026 visit to Beijing.Kwan noted a troubling asymmetry.The government has publicly released other agreements signed during the Beijing visit — including the Canada-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Roadmap and a memorandum of understanding on culture — but has declined to proactively disclose the police cooperation agreement, despite what she called its “significant implications for public safety, civil liberties, diaspora communities, and national sovereignty.” “Without seeing the formal written arrangement,” Kwan wrote, “widespread uncertainty and legitimate concern” has been created among Canadians, “particularly within Hong Kong, Uyghur, Tibetan, and broader Chinese diaspora communities who have experienced or fear transnational repression by the Chinese state.”Kwan’s letter is the latest in a widening chorus of alarm that now spans diaspora organizations, independent researchers, American national security officials, and Parliament itself — and it lands directly on ground The Bureau has been reporting for months.The Bureau was first to report the national security implications of the memorandum of understanding, drawing on classified documents and expert analysis to establish that the Ministry of Public Security is not a neutral law enforcement counterpart. It is the same apparatus that Canada’s own National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians documented running covert operations on Canadian soil — including unauthorized trips to Canada, payments to Chinese-language journalists to locate and track dissidents, and the arrest of relatives in China to coerce compliance from targets on Canadian soil. The Bureau reported in February on an extraordinary open letter from ten Hong Kong diaspora organizations spanning four countries, expressing “deep fear and anxiety” over the agreement and warning that even the perception of closer engagement between Canadian agencies and Chinese security authorities chills free expression, civic participation, and journalism among vulnerable communities. That letter, like Kwan’s, went unanswered in any substantive public way by the Carney government.Former senior RCMP officer Garry Clement, writing in these pages, warned that cooperation with the Ministry of Public Security “is never just technical, never apolitical, and never insulated from the priorities of the Chinese Communist Party” — and described in operational detail how liaison relationships erode caution over time, how criminal labels are applied to political targets, and how information shared in good faith migrates to coercive ends.Those warnings have now been echoed at the highest levels of American national security. At the Canada Strong and Free conference in Ottawa last week, former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the Chinese Communist Party’s inside-the-gates operations in Canada and the United States as the primary threat facing Western democracies — more immediate, he argued, than the prospect of a military invasion of Taiwan. Another American expert, Michael Lucci of State Armor, at the same conference, specifically cited the Ministry of Public Security’s role in running covert repatriation and repression networks, the same apparatus Carney’s government has now formalized a cooperation agreement with. The Bureau has documented transnational repression operations on Canadian soil in granular detail — the coordinated campaign against pro-democracy candidate Joe Tay, including a Hong Kong police bounty, mock wanted posters, and a Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force warning issued one week before the federal election.Kwan’s letter does not mince its assessment of where responsibility lies. The government has chosen transparency on trade and culture agreements signed in the same Beijing visit while withholding the one agreement that carries the gravest implications for the safety of Canadian citizens, she argues. |
