Friday Post

Aaahhh, the week-end ...




Of course, he was. Of course:

The man who went on a deadly shooting rampage before killing himself in Toronto's Greektown this summer was an emotionally disturbed loner and did not appear to act out of any particular ideological motivation, police documents released on Thursday indicate.

Yes, about that:

But a law enforcement source told CBS News that Faisal Hussain visited Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) websites and may have expressed support for the terrorist group. They were looking into whether Hussain may have lived at one time in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan, the source said. There is no indication that Hussain was directed by ISIS to carry out the attack.

It's strange how the police missed that (may have?), just as they missed his brother's enormous gun and drugs collection.




Perhaps Justin's handlers should remind him that as a public servant, he doesn't have the right to refuse to answer a question regarding a criminal's receiving benefits:

In Question Period, he was asked about the outrageous situation in which a man convicted of murder – and who never served in the Canadian military in any capacity whatsoever – is having his PTSD treatment paid for by Veterans Affairs Canada.

As a Conservative MP pointed out in his question, if a Canadian soldier had been convicted of the same crime and had been discharged from the military, they wouldn’t have any of their treatment paid for by VAC.

Canadians want answers on this outrage, but when he was asked, Justin Trudeau outright refused to answer the question ...

That's dad's arrogance for you.

Also - more arrogance - and weakness:

In a revelation that is outrageous, yet not surprising, it turns out that Canada Summer Jobs applications are much more likely to be rejected in Conservative ridings than in ridings held by the Liberals.

Conservative MP Karen Vecchio had pushed for the information to be made public, and the results are undeniable.

In Conservative ridings, there was an average of 6.5 Canada Summer Jobs application rejections.

In Liberal ridings, there were 4.1 rejections on average.

That is far too large of a gap for it to be random chance.

According to the data, four out of the top 5 ridings with the most rejected applications are represented by Conservatives. Provencher, Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembrooke, Langley-Aldergrove, and Niagara West.

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In a clear example of weakness, the Trudeau government has made the first move to try and ‘repair’ Canada-Saudi ties, asking the Saudis for a meeting at the United Nations.

It's just money:

Ontario’s finance minister said the province will have to make sacrifices as it grapples with a newly revised $15-billion deficit, a message critics predicted would pave the way for significant cuts to government services.

In a speech to the Economic Club in Toronto on Friday, Vic Fedeli said the province had chosen to adopt the accounting practices used by the auditor general in reviewing the recently defeated Liberal government’s budget and projections.

As a result of the adjustment, an independent commission concluded the Liberals ran a $3.7 billion deficit in the last fiscal year rather than balancing the books as claimed, Fedeli said.

The commission also found the Liberals had overestimated their revenues for this fiscal year, reduced a reserve fund by $300 million and claimed $1.4 billion in cost-cutting measures that weren’t spelled out.

But ... but ... budgets balance themselves!:

The tax on high income earners did not produce the $3 billion promised. Instead that tax category, the much-abused one per cent (most of whom got there by hard work and constructive astuteness, and not as most politicians endlessly imply, by being sociophobic exploiters, greedy speculator, and tax cheats), generated $4.6 billion less in federal taxes in 2016 than in 2015 and about 90 per cent of the decline is claimed by finance ministry sources to come from Alberta. In 2016, more than 30,000 fewer Canadians were in the earlier highest tax bracket, which began at $140,000. It always seems to come as a merciless surprise to politicians on the left, even the soft left, that most people consider that they have earned their incomes, that it is theirs as much as their private property is, and that governments do not have an unlimited, unchallengeable or unaccountable right to gouge an individual’s earned income.

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“Using energy-consumption data from Statistics Canada, and imputing prices from average household expenditure on transportation fuels and provincial gasoline prices, Winter calculated the impact of the carbon tax on a typical Canadian household across different provinces. Far from being painless as advertised, the costs to households will be significant.”

The cost in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia will be $1,111, $1,032, and 1,120 respectively for the average household.

In New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI and Ontario, the cost will be $963, $859, $788, and $707.

The lowest costs will still hit families with a huge tax increase, $683 in Manitoba, $662 in Quebec, and $603 in BC.”

Also:

It is an amazing thing how often politicians elected to serve a particular jurisdiction — could be municipal or provincial — set themselves these grand glorious and green global agendas. “Sorry. Can’t fix the potholes, clear the drains before a storm, unlock the traffic snarling every street and expressway or get the streetcars here on time — but, hey, we’re banning plastic straws and grocery bags and we’re going solar on the billboards.” If you can’t run the city, leave the planet saving for another day. If you’ve got to send out government money to private citizens to allow them to pay their power bills because your policies are the very ones that drove power bills to a level they cannot pay, then reconsider the delusion that global warming is what you were elected to fix.

Ontario’s Green Energy Act was a horror for business, a gross invasion of municipal authority, and sent successive auditors general to whatever is the chartered accountants version of a hospice centre. It had some glorious moments. Following the politically motivated billion-dollar cancellation of the Oakville gas plant — a plant necessitated by the Green Energy fiat that shut down all coal power — and the destruction by Liberal staffers of the very emails in the premier’s office that might have illuminated this billion-dollar waste, Mr. McGuinty, at one hearing offered this immortal rationalization: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”

It would be incredibly funny if the CAQ sweeps the October 1st election:

As high-intensity trade talks ended in Washington Thursday without a breakthrough, speculation mounted that Canada will wait until after Quebec’s Oct. 1 election to strike a deal, hoping to lessen the political fallout from potential concessions around the dairy industry.

Not that the CAQ is willing to shoot its cash-cow (no pun intended) but it's not as co-operative with Justin or Chrystia as the flagging Liberals are.




Alright, little numbskulls, when your math scores plummet again, walk out for that, too:

Students at more than a hundred schools across Ontario pledged to walk out of class on Friday to show the provincial government they disagree with its decision to repeal a modernized version of the sex-ed curriculum.

The walkouts — called “We the students do not consent” — are set to take place in schools from Niagara Falls to Ottawa. The protests also aim to voice opposition to the cancellation of curriculum writing sessions designed to fulfil findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

You can't ever make a deal with the devil:

Also:

Can it be just a coincidence that governments that fetter their economies in the name of social justice generally end up with more corruption and a class of elites enriching themselves on political connections while all others are left to fend for themselves? In this light, is it not a tragedy that a pope whose heart belongs to the poor reserves all his moral outrage for the one economic system that has already lifted billions of desperate people out of poverty? 

Might not some papal outrage be directed at governments and leaders who, in the name of workers and justice, intervene in the economy in ways that make everyday life more costly, crush opportunity and cheat the have-nots of a future of hope and dignity?