For a Monday

A lot going on ...




A year before the federal election and the smell of desperation is strong in the air:

In a rare example of cross party support, the Conservatives & Liberals have said they will support an NDP motion to ensure that money allocated towards Veterans Affairs is actually spent on Veterans every year, instead of being unspent and going towards general revenues.

Previous reports revealed that the Trudeau government had left nearly $400 million in money allocated toward Veterans unspent since winning power, which is a total disgrace. The Conservatives also left over $1 billion in money allocated for Veterans unspent.

This money:

Between 2002 and 2010, 270,000 Canadian Veterans were screwed out of $165 million in disability and pension payments.

According to a recent report by Murray Brewster, “The mistake was uncovered by the veterans ombudsman’s office, which has worked with the federal department for over a year to get it to confirm the mistake and make amends, federal sources said Monday. The error was made in the monthly indexing calculation on disability awards and pensions and is believed to have started as far back as 2002.”

Veterans Affairs failed to consider the provincial tax credit for individuals in their calculations. As a result, many Veterans received far lower monthly payments than they should have.

Sadly, over 170,000 of the Veterans who were shortchanged have since passed away.

Justin is skating on thin ice right now. With defeats out east, it's not like he can afford to further anger and marginalise people who lost limbs for this country.

Or anyone else, for that matter.




Ahmed Hussen is a known liar:

Hussen was caught in numerous lies, including about the number of illegal border crossers, claims that Ontario government Minister Lisa MacLeod called illegal border crosser names, and falsely saying that there were no numbers showing illegal border crossers using up shelter space in Toronto.

Now who is "fear-mongering", Ahmed?




North Korea also has a "universal" healthcare system:

The legal battle for private medicine being conducted by Vancouver’s Dr. Brian Day in the case of Cambie Surgeries Corporation vs. (the attorney general of) British Columbia is a heroic struggle Day has been leading for many years to improve Canada’s health-care system. He founded the plaintiff company and it is one of the largest private medical facilities in Canada. He has 100 doctors and dental surgeons and he owns almost 10 per cent of it. Cambie Surgeries performs over 5,000 surgical procedures a year and has revenues of over $10 million a year. Day says that private clinics do more than 60,000 operations in B.C. and save the provincial government $300 million each year. Day dismisses the government arguments of the need for uniform treatment as piffle: there are exemptions for workers’ compensation, the armed forces and RCMP, and even federal prisoners, and others. To the charge of only favouring private medicine to make more money himself, Day replied that he could make much more if he took one of many offers to move to the United States to practice medicine, but has chosen to continue “improving the provision of surgical services in B.C. and not maximizing (his) financial well-being.”

Also - this North Korea:

North Korea has warned it could revive a state policy aimed at strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country.

It's just money:

The federal government spent $23 million buying more than 600 brand-new cars for use at this year’s G7 summit — and is now struggling to sell them off second-hand.

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As Rideau Hall prepares a “thorough review” of the lifetime expense program for former governors general, the National Post has learned Adrienne Clarkson’s expense claims since leaving office are substantially higher than revealed by the public accounts, in some years reaching the program’s annual spending limit of $206,000.

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A UN report which the Trudeau government has cited has even said the tax needs to be 100 times higher – which would absolutely destroy the entire Canadian economy and send our standard of living to that of a third world disaster country.

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Imports and exports both fell, and Canada ran a trade deficit for the 21st consecutive month.

In September, exports fell 0.2%, while imports dropped 0.4%.

Canada’s trade deficit in September hit $416 million.



It had been originally thought the streak of trade deficits was broken in August, when the government initially said there had been a surplus of $526 million. However, that was since revised to a deficit of $551 million, keeping the streak of deficits going.

I'm sure this is nothing to worry about:

Canada’s unemployment rate fell back to four-decade lows, but sluggish wage increases and slumping exports offer little evidence the economy is running hot enough to warrant accelerated interest rate increases.

Statistics Canada released jobs data Friday that showed modest employment gains, but with a shrinking labour force and the slowest wage gains in a year. A separate trade report continued to show sluggish flows in September, with both exports and imports recording back-to-back monthly drops.

But other parties don't have access to my banking information: 

All of the parties keep detailed personal files on literally millions of voters. Unlike last year’s scandal over Cambridge Analytica’s use, on behalf of its political clients, of information illegally scraped off of Facebook users’ pages, the data here is acquired legally, which is to say the law has been written in such a way as to allow it.

A bit disingenuous there, Mr. Coyne. 




There should already be measures to keep trespassers off of one's property:

The Saskatchewan throne speech last month included a reference to changing trespassing laws to “better address the appropriate balance between the rights of rural landowners and members of the public.”

Finally. Grassroots action: 

About a hundred people crowded the steps in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill Friday chanting “Send her back” and “Life means life,” in the hopes of convincing the federal government to transfer convicted murderer Terri-Lynne McClintic out of an Indigenous healing lodge and back to a maximum security prison.

Canadians should do this all the time.




F--- you. You know what you did and why you did it. You can stay there:

“My husband didn’t want to stay in the U.K., he wanted us to live in an Islamic country. The plan was to go to Saudi Arabia but then he decided on Syria. I had no choice but to follow him,” she claims.

 
Go and get a beverage and a snack and watch this commentary on The Gulag Archipelago. Go on now.