www.WeeklyVoice.com FRONT PAGE Friday, March 6, 2020 | A-1 Canada’s Leading South Asian Newspaper - Tel: 905-795-0639 Friday, MarchJune 2, 6, 2017 2020 www.WeeklyVoice.com VolVol 26, 23, No. No. 10 22 PM: 40025701 No Stay On Canadian Passenger Rights Charter, page 6 Why Pakistan Is So Perturbed About J & K, page 10 Ford Lunches With His Page Rudra Rami, page 12 Trudeau’s Approval Rating Drops 10 Points Energy & Climate Issues Singe PM; Conservatives Show Surge OTTAWA: Prime Minister latest public opinion data from rated, after weeks of conflict and Justin Trudeau and his minority the Angus Reid Institute finds the lack of resolution around the Liberal government are bearing PM’s performance has been lack- Coastal GasLi nk blockades. the scars of what has been a most ing in recent weeks, particularly The Prime Minister’s approval bruising start to a federal govern- on the energy and climate change rating has dropped 10 points, ment’s year. front, and this has had a negative and now sits at 33 per cent, right While the first 60 days of 2019 impact on his approval numbers. around where it was for most of were defined by a political scan- The most recent quarterly sur- 2019. dal, the beginning of 2020 has vey of more than 5000 adults More Key Findings: been marked by events at home shows the improved view of him • 34 per cent of Canadians and abroad that have demanded in the wake of the devastating would vote for the Conservative deft and adroit response. Iran plane crash that killed 57 Party of Canada if a new election Unfortunately for Trudeau, the Canadians in January has evapo- Continued on page 4 Health Officials Ramp Eight In Fray For CP Leader’s Post Up COVID-19 Testing Ottawa, ON – The Conserva- ship election. The final day of the tive Party has confirmed the -fi Conservative Party Leadership is nal list of Approved Applicants June 27th and the winner will be Target Is 1000 Samples A Day; Cases Climb To 33 for the 2020 Leadership election. announced in Toronto. Those that have met at least the first requirement of the Leader- ship race are: • Gladu, Marilyn • Husny, Rudy • Karahalios, Jim • Lewis, Leslyn • MacKay, Peter (also a Verified Candidate) • O’Toole, Erin (also an Authorized Contestant) • Peterson, Rick • Sloan, Derek Approved Applicants have sub- mitted $25,000 of the $200,000 registration fee required, and BROKER 1,000 membership signatures BROKER of endorsement of the 3,000 re- quired. Authorized Contestants REMAX REAL ESTATE CENTRE INC., BROKERAGE Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses with new Canadians as he attends a citizenship ceremony at have submitted a further $25,000 Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S. on March 3. Trudeau also spoke about how Canada is preparing to fight the coronovirus threat. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan of the $200,000 registration fee, the entire $100,000 compliance OTTAWA: Health authorities provided an “added layer of con- turnaround time to get results has deposit, and a further 1,000 mem- are working to ramp up Canada’s fidence’’ as researchers across the been cut from 24 hours to six. bership signatures of endorse- capacity to conduct laboratory globe worked to establish testing Allen said the lab is consider- ment of the 3,000 required. 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This could into lower mortgage rates, though market, which he said will be make it easier to pay off higher it remains to be seen how much helpful for slower markets in the interest loans, but the lower rates of the savings financial institu- Prairies and Newfoundland, but might also make banks less eager tions will pass on, says James will drive further unbalance to to issue loans, said Doug Hoyes, Laird, co-founder of Ratehub.ca. already heated markets like the a licensed insolvency trustee at Bank Of Canada, Ottawa. Anything they don’t pass is profit Greater Toronto Area. “The chal- Hoyes, Michalos & Associates CP/ Sean Kilpatrick for them. lenge is if prices get too far ahead Inc. He said that anecdotally “Any area that’s not seeing has dropped.’’ Ratehub says a full of underlying income growth, it some financial institutions are change is simply because the fi- 50-basis cut to a $450,000 mort- triggers substantial corrections.’’ already getting more cautious on nancial institutions are taking gage on a 2.6 variable rate would He said there hasn’t been a sig- loans given the uncertainty about more profit. The cost of funds shift the mortgage rate to 2.1 nificant effect on the real estate Continued on page 2 A-2 | Friday, March 6, 2020 FronT paGE www.WeeklyVoice.com THE WEEKLY VOICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Focus On Keeping Track Where Virus Is Headed Bala Menon Continued from page 1 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS laboratory testing procedures to Amb. Praveen Verma (Retd.) ensure they produce the same re- Dr. Nivedita Das Kundu sults as the provincial laboratory. Harj Chaggar He said Canada needs to look Amitabh Saxena no further than its southern neighbour to see the perils of re- Graphic Design lying on a handful of labs to test a Tamarind Tree whole country.