“In most other sectors, when one company becomes so large with regard to something that's so important to the public, they often are brought under public control, or public regulation."
The Pandora Papers are "the tip of the iceberg," says one policy analyst.
“What the pandemic has done has just driven home how vulnerable we are to the pharmaceutical industry. It was clear that it was a problem for Canada that we didn’t have domestic vaccine production capacity.”
“The COVID conspiracy movement and the far-right are not happy with Erin O'Toole. So this time around, many more of them decided they weren't going to vote strategically, and they were going to vote for the PPC.”
“It’s most likely to be a tax shelter for a very, very small pool of Canadians who have very high incomes under the age of 40.”
“I’ve had officers put hands on me on two instances where I was on the side of the road, doing my job.”
“We don’t have this kind of weather normally in Vancouver, but climate change is happening …(those who died) weren’t even that old.”
Roman Shukevych collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War, and scholars believe he is responsible for the deaths of approximately 100,000 people, including Jews, Poles, Belarusians, and non-nationalist Ukrainians.
O’Toole insists that he condemns racism, is pro-choice and accepts the reality of climate change. However, many observers remain skeptical about O’Toole’s level of commitment to those positions.