Justin Time
Old photos and video from the early 2000s showing Trudeau in this racially charged makeup resurfaced in the middle of the 2019 federal election campaign.
What is blackface (or brownface)?
This lively 45-minute daily segment of the House of Commons gives opposition MPs their main chance to grill the Prime Minister and Cabinet, often amid loud heckling.
What is Question Period?
Added in 1982, this is the part of the Constitution that protects fundamentals such as expression, religion, and association, and is the document most often used to challenge government power in court.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This president’s 1963 assassination in Dallas remains one of the most theorized events in modern history, with claims involving the CIA, the Mafia, a second shooter, and the grassy knoll.
Who is John F. Kennedy? (or What is the JFK assassination?)
This early-19th-century war between the United States and British North America featured invasions in both directions and helped solidify a distinct Canadian identity under the Crown.
What is the War of 1812?
In February 2022, Trudeau became the first Canadian prime minister to invoke this rarely used 1988 law in response to the Freedom Convoy protests occupying Ottawa.
What is the Emergencies Act?
If this type of motion succeeds in the House of Commons, constitutional convention normally requires the government to resign or call an election.
What is a confidence motion (or motion of non-confidence)?
This official is the federal head of Canadian military and can open and dissolve Parliament.
Who is the Governor General?
This World Economic Forum agenda, heavily promoted by Klaus Schwab, has been interpreted by many critics as a plan for centralized global control under the guise of “building back better” after crises.
What is the Great Reset?
This 1980 presidential candidate campaigned under the slogan “Let’s Make America Great Again,” years before the shorter version became closely associated with Donald Trump.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This optimistic two-word phrase, borrowed from Wilfrid Laurier, became Justin Trudeau’s signature 2015 campaign slogan promising a more open and radiant Canada.
What is “sunny ways”?
A Member who believes the rules or privileges of the House are being breached stands and interrupts by saying these three words, forcing the Speaker to rule.
What is “Point of Order”?
This famous clause in the Charter lets Parliament or a provincial legislature temporarily override certain rights for renewable five-year periods.
What is Section 33 (or the notwithstanding clause)?
This real-estate developer signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center complex just six weeks before 9/11 and later battled insurers in court, arguing the two plane crashes should count as separate events in order to secure a larger payout.
Who is Larry Silverstein?
In 1863, during the American Civil War, this country’s navy sent squadrons to New York and San Francisco in a show of support for the Union and a warning against British or French intervention.
What is Russia?
This international charity co-founded by the Kielburger brothers was handed a sole-source contract to run a $900-million student grant program that collapsed amid conflict-of-interest questions involving Trudeau’s family.
What is WE Charity?
This power, exercised by the Governor General on the Prime Minister’s advice, ends a session of Parliament and wipes the Order Paper clean; Justin Trudeau used it in August 2020 during the WE Charity controversy.
What is prorogation (or proroguing Parliament)?
Originally known as the British North America Act, this 1867 law created the Dominion of Canada and remains the foundational core of the written Constitution.
What is the Constitution Act, 1867?
This declassified 1962 proposal from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended staging false-flag terrorist attacks — including hijackings of civilian aircraft and bombings — on American soil in order to create a pretext for invading Cuba.
What is Operation Northwoods?
This Quebec city became a major destination for United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution and, nearly a century later, a temporary haven for Confederate agents — including a key figure in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy who escaped there in 1865.
What is Montréal?
This 2016 Christmas vacation on a private Bahamian island owned by a wealthy spiritual leader resulted in Justin Trudeau becoming the first sitting Canadian prime minister ever found by the Ethics Commissioner to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act.
What is the Aga Khan vacation (or trip to the Aga Khan’s island)?
This ornate ceremonial staff is carried into the House of Commons by the Sergeant-at-Arms at the start of every sitting; without it present, the House cannot legally conduct business.
What is the Mace?
This 1931 British statute gave Canada and the other Dominions full legislative independence from the UK while they remained under the Crown, effectively ending the last formal colonial restrictions.
What is the Statute of Westminster?
This two-time Medal of Honor Marine general testified before Congress in 1934 that a group of wealthy bankers and industrialists had tried to recruit him to lead a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who is Smedley Butler?
In February 1933 in Miami, this president-elect survived an assassination attempt when Giuseppe Zangara opened fire at close range; the shots instead fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?