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If western Canada really doesn't want to pay the carbon taxes Justin is forcing it to pay, it should cut off the oil and the natural gas it ships out to eastern Canada. It should do so now.

Winter is coming:

Ontario
Average cost per household in 2019: $244
Average rebate in 2019: $300
Average cost in 2022: $564
Average rebate in 2022: $697
Support for small businesses and affected sectors over next five years: $1.45 billion

Yes, about that:

If you live in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan or New Brunswick then Justin Trudeau wants you to know that despite the cost of everything going up, you will get more money back than you will pay.

Directly.

That was a key word Trudeau emphasized as he made the announcement.

“Eight in 10 Ontario families will get back more than they pay, directly,” Trudeau said.

That is key.

The feds won’t be giving citizens a rebate based on the price of pretty much everything getting more expensive, just on what you pay directly.

Higher gas prices, home heating, etc.

Higher grocery or food prices? You are on your own.

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Do you believe him when he says 70% of the people living in those provinces, which account for almost half the Canadian population, will be financially better off when he imposes his carbon tax on them starting next year? 

(Meaning 30% will be worse off.)

Because that’s what Trudeau claimed Tuesday.

He said the average Ontario family of four will pay $244 more under his carbon tax in 2019, while receiving a rebate from the federal government of $307.

In Saskatchewan, he says, the average family will pay $403 in carbon taxes with a $609 rebate.

In Manitoba, $232 more with a $339 rebate and in New Brunswick, $202 more with a $256 rebate.

Do you also believe Trudeau when he says that every year after 2019, the average family will receive more in increasing rebates than in increasing carbon taxes?

While you’re thinking of your answer, consider this.

During the 2015 election, Trudeau predicted Canada would have three years of “modest” deficits under his leadership followed by a $1 billion surplus in 2019-20.

So far, Trudeau’s deficits have been double his predictions, with his government now predicting a $17.5 billion deficit in 2019-20, not a $1 billion surplus.

AND running the carbon tax fraud is free-of-charge, apparently.

Everything looks great when you don't look at the numbers.


 

Also - it's just money:

The federal government is writing off more than $6.3 billion in loans to businesses and students as the Trudeau government marks a new annual high in money it never expects to get back.

The Liberals have already written off some $3 billion in loans in each of the past two years, but they jumped past that mark in the fiscal year 2017-2018 with help from one loan.

Today in "Justin is a scumbag" news:

It really shouldn’t be that hard for a politician marking the fourth anniversary of the attack on Parliament Hill.

Keep it short. Keep it simple and sincere. Honour Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who died in the attack. Honour the Canadian Armed Forces in general. And then, maybe, put in a little something about keeping Canadians safe.

That’s it. Absolutely do not include anything that has the whiff of partisanship in it. But this shouldn’t even have to be spelled out, right? It’s that obvious, any novice political staffer should understand.

Yet take a look at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement issued on Monday morning. It begins properly, denouncing the “tragic and senseless attack”. It goes on to recognize both Cirillo and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, killed in a separate attack in Quebec two days earlier. Then it discusses paying tribute to CAF members and first responders. That should be it. End it there.

Instead, the PM and his staff couldn’t resist. They drop in these tone-deaf lines, the fourth of five paragraphs: “As Canadians, we will not surrender to hatred, and let attacks like these divide us. In the face of cowardly violence and fear-mongering, we will not compromise our most cherished values – freedom, democracy, diversity and inclusion.”

Like the inclusion of child rapists and murderers back into Canada:

Bill C-75, currently before the House of Commons, calls for a whole raft of crimes to be treated under summary conviction.

That includes terrorism offences.

• Participation in activity of terrorist group
• Leaving Canada to participate in activity of terrorist group
• Advocating or promoting commission of terrorism offences
• Concealing person who carried out terrorist activity
• Concealing person who is likely to carry out terrorist activity

These offences currently have sentences ranging from a maximum of five years to 14 years in prison.

Under Trudeau’s Bill C-75, that could be reduced to a maximum of six months in prison.

The changes being brought in by the Liberals allow for each of those offences to proceed via summary conviction. Under the criminal code, the rules are clear, maximum six months in jail.

787 (1) Unless otherwise provided by law, everyone who is convicted of an offence punishable on summary conviction is liable to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both.

Are these the actions of a government that takes terrorism seriously?

Hardly.

The thugs who do these sorts of things:

“An explosive charge believed to be planted by Islamic State militants went off while four children were playing outside a medical complex at the Christian-majority Bartella town in eastern Mosul,” said a local source.  “The explosion left the four children injured.”  The report adds that “Bartella, largely inhibited by Christians, was emptied from inhabitants when the IS group seized the town in August 2014. After controlling the town, IS ordered the Christians to pay a tax, convert to Islam, or die by the sword, prompting the residents to flee the town.”  Documentarian Gwendolen Cates, who spent year in the Arab nation, also said, “The Christians of Iraq, along with other religious minorities, live in constant fear and face potential genocide. … The minorities are being increasingly ‘ghettoized,’ with their land being taken.”

... will get six months for the lot, if that.


Also:

The bill meant to exclude returning terrorists from provincial services passed first reading in Ontario’s legislature Monday.

As reported first in the Toronto Sun, the Terrorist Activity Sanctions Act strips returning participants in overseas terror groups of privileges like holding an Ontario driver’s licence or accessing provincial health coverage.

“Individuals in foreign prisons are set to return to this province after fighting for ISIS and other terrorist organizations,” said Tory MPP Dave Smith, the bill’s sponsor, during question period on Monday.

But ... but ... "core identity" and stuff!:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't want to leave Canadians "holding a billion-dollar bill" by cancelling the controversial contract to sell armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia.

(Sidebar: passing off debts to Canadians has never bothered Justin before.)




While the government of Ontario dismantles Wynne's disastrous labour policies, it has decided to keep everyone on the hook for their poor life choices:

A review of Ontario’s overdose-prevention sites has found that they help reduce drug-related deaths and lower the rate of public drug use, Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday as she announced plans to enhance the program previously criticized by Premier Doug Ford.

Elliott said the Progressive Conservative government will spend just over $31 million a year to fund a maximum of 21 sites, which in addition to overdose prevention will offer drug users treatment and rehabilitation services.

“The evidence clearly demonstrated that these sites were necessary,” she told a news conference.

Yes, about that:

Despite a rescue attempt with naloxone and intervention by paramedics, a drug user who overdosed at a supervised injection site on Murray Street last week later died in hospital.

That the public knows of ...




But there is no country called Gayistan:

A New Brunswick village has taken down a “straight flag” after a single day, following a public backlash locally and beyond.

The flag was raised Sunday afternoon in Chipman, N.B., with Mayor Carson Atkinson saying it met the village council’s criteria because it “recognizes, accepts and respects the rights of individuals under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

Atkinson said it was important to celebrate everyone in Chipman, and said the council previously voted to raise the rainbow flag representing the LGBTQ community.

Terri-Lynne McClintic lured an eight year old child to her death:

Nestled among the rolling hills of southwestern Saskatchewan, several wooden cabins surrounded by autumn barren trees make up what is known as the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.

It may sound like a wilderness retreat, but this is a federal penitentiary.

It's operated by the Corrections Canada to house incarcerated women, including 28-year-old Terri-Lynne McClintic — the convicted killer of eight-year-old Tori Stafford, whose death and disappearance captured national attention after police scoured the southwestern Ontario countryside for months in one of the largest-ever searches for a missing person in Canada.

McClintic's transfer from an Ontario medium-security prison to Okimaw Ohci not even halfway through her life sentence has sparked national outrage, but advocates for the healing lodge are defending its effectiveness to rehabilitate offenders.

"To put people behind bars is really kind of revengeful," said Mary Sanderson, a former art therapist who volunteered at Okimaw Ohci between 2007 and 2012.

"The healing lodge believes that there is something that can be drawn out of those women, who mainly have been abused and come from lives of terrible violence."

Perhaps Miss Sanderson could enlighten the public of the works of art that can come from the mind of a woman who expressed no remorse for a child beaten to death with a hammer.

Now, a feel-good story:

Swedish prosecutors have indicted a 21-year-old woman for breaking aviation laws after she blocked the deportation of an Afghan asylum-seeker earlier this year.

Prosecutors said Friday the woman failed to comply with orders from the plane’s crew to sit down as it was preparing to take off from Gothenburg airport on July 23.

But ... but... sanctions!:

North Korea imported at least $640 million worth of luxury goods from China last year, in defiance of U.N. sanctions outlawing such trade over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, a South Korean lawmaker said on Monday.

The United States has urged strict implementation of sanctions as part of a "maximum pressure" campaign which Washington has credited with bringing impoverished North Korea to the negotiating table.

But there have been signs the campaign has been losing steam since North Korea suspended nuclear and missile tests and leader Kim Jong Un vowed steps towards denuclearization at a U.S.-North Korean summit in June - and as China and Russia called for relaxed sanctions.

"Kim has bought lavish items from China and other places like a seaplane for not only his own family, and also expensive musical instruments, high-quality TVs, sedans, liquor, watches and fur as gifts for the elites who prop up his regime," opposition lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun said in a statement.

"With the growing loophole, Kim would be able to near his goal of neutralizing sanctions soon without giving up the nuclear weapons."

Last year, North Korea spent at least $640 million on luxury goods from China, according to Yoon.

China does not provide breakdowns of its customs figures. Yoon compiled data based on a list of banned items crafted by Seoul in line with a 2009 U.N. resolution.

Japan is making some well-armed friends:

Japan hopes to clinch a military logistics pact with India that will allow access to each other's bases, Tokyo's envoy said on Monday, in a tightening of security ties seen as designed to balance China's growing weight in the region.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Japan this weekend for an annual summit with his counterpart Shinzo Abe, and the proposed Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement between the two militaries is on the agenda.

Under Modi and Abe, bilateral relations have rapidly expanded and the two countries conduct three-way naval exercises involving the United States in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

Japan's ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu, said it was only natural for the two militaries to have a logistics-sharing agreement because of the large number of maneuvers they were carrying out each year.

"We hope to start formal negotiations with regard to signing of the ACSA. It is high time we had mutual logistics support," he said.

Under such a pact, Japanese ships would get access to fuel and servicing at major Indian naval bases including the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which lie near the Malacca Straits through which a large amount of Japan's but also China's trade and fuel supplies is shipped.

India's navy, which is increasingly sending ships further out as a way to counter China's expanding presence in the Indian Ocean, would get access to Japanese facilities for maintenance.