Mid-Week Post

Your denouement of the work-week ...




Look - premiers who are actually doing their jobs:

Trade and economic competitiveness is the main focus of the first day of the annual Council of the Federation (COF), taking place in Saskatoon Wednesday and Thursday.

This is the annual meeting of Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers. ...


Much of the talk Wednesday will be focused on what can be done to remove domestic trade barriers and how to find increased export opportunities while questions linger on trade with China and the United States.

“Matter of fact it’s easier to trade with countries around the world including the United States than it is in the provinces,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.

That's an excellent point.

Ontario exports over eighty percent of its goods to the United States. While over $1 billion of goods are transported between provinces, trade is stymied due to local regulations, laws and taxes.

I wonder why these impediments weren't dealt with ages ago.


Also - are you sure, Japan? Justin can't tell you and China apart:

This past April, during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the first high-level Canadian endorsement of a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” — a vision that is also shared by other like-minded states, such as the U.S. and Australia.

This vision fundamentally rests on the maintenance of a rules-based international order premised on common norms, laws and practices, with an aim at reducing the potential for conflict and promoting sustainable development.

Before everyone forgets, the Quebec company, Bombardier, has been bailed out on several occasions by the Liberals at the taxpayer's expense. Blaming Ontario Premier Doug Ford is nothing more than a transparent ploy on the part of the federal Liberals to strengthen its slippery grip on the reins of power before the election in October:

If the federal government is serious about keeping jobs at Bombardier Inc. in Thunder Bay, rather than “playing politics” it should immediately confirm it will help fund Ontario’s $28.5-billion transit plan, Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli says.

Fedeli was responding Wednesday to comments by federal Employment Minister Patty Hajdu who said Premier Doug Ford “sat on his hands and made empty promises” instead of working with her government to save jobs.

“I think they’re playing politics by pointing a finger at the provincial government, the government who has provided $5 billion in relief to the business community just this year alone, and saying that somehow it’s a problem of the provincial government when it’s the federal government that won’t commit,” Fedeli said.

Why should any level of government commit?

Can't Bombardier make it on its own?




From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

With revelations emerging that the Liberals are planning to impose a secret fuel tax on Canadians, the Trudeau government is refusing to say how much the tax will cost Canadians.

In a press conference to try and counter the damaging revelations, the Liberals tried to deflect and claim it’s not a tax.

Yet, as noted by the CP, the Liberals are refusing to say what it will cost Canadians:

“However, Fraser would not say how much the new standard might affect prices at the pumps.”

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The Canadian Forces senior leadership is facing more turmoil after the second-highest officer resigned Tuesday.

Lt. Gen. Paul Wynnyk, the vice chief of the defence staff, gave notice to Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance that he was leaving the military.

Wynnyk, 55, was asked to stay on beyond his retirement to replace Vice Adm. Mark Norman, only to have Vance change that decision in May, and then reverse it in June.

A series of documents provided to Postmedia News details the chaos at National Defence headquarters, which has seen the retirement of seven lieutenant generals or vice admirals since last year.

After Norman was charged with breach of trust, Vance asked Wynnyk to postpone his summer 2019 retirement and serve as vice chief of the defence staff until the summer of 2020.

But after the court case against Norman collapsed this spring, Vance told Wynnyk on May 13 that he was putting the vice admiral back into his old job and Wynnyk’s “continued service as the VCDS was no longer in the best interests of the CAF,” according to Wynnyk’s resignation letter provided to Postmedia.

But when Norman, who determined he couldn’t work in what was essentially a poisoned work environment, decided not to return to his old job, Vance then turned again to Wynnyk on June 26 and told him that he could continue to serve as vice chief for another year.

If only that pesky Norman had rolled over like he was supposed to.




You traitorous b@$#@rd!:

Speaking to the South China Morning Post, McCallum said “Anything that is more negative against Canada will help the Conservatives, [who] are much less friendly to China than the Liberals. I hope and I don’t see any reason why things will get worse, it would be nice if things will get better between now and [Canada’s federal] election [in October].”

Yes, one would hate to see your pro-China party go under, John, you greasy worm!


Also:

As protesters in Hong Kong continue to rally against Beijing’s tightening grip on the city, dozens of Chinese-Canadian groups have delivered a different message, voicing support for the enclave’s China-backed government and singling out violent “extremists” among the demonstrators.

The open letter published recently in Vancouver and Toronto Chinese-language newspapers is raising questions about who was behind the statement, with some fingers pointing at the Chinese government and its influence machine.

The authors of the message deny any outside involvement.

No, they can support China in the comfortable confines of Canada.

Throw them out!

By the power of Thanos will the dissenters disappear. (source)

That's an excellent question. How can a country with a graying population and a pro-North Korea president pay for those "free things"?:

The welfare promises of the Moon Jae-in administration are coming back to haunt taxpayers. Already the government's drastic minimum-wage hike has increased the cost burden on small business owners, while the mandatory 52-hour cap on the working week has begun to take its toll. Government officials and lawmakers are starting to oppose Moon's attempts to dismantle levees built along major rivers during the Lee Myung-bak administration to prevent flooding. And public-school cafeteria workers have launched a nationwide strike demanding more pay, while postal workers are threatening to walk off their jobs for the first time over similar demands. Toll booth collectors, meanwhile, staged a sit-in protest blocking rush-hour traffic because they want their contracts changed to permanent status. Who will foot the bill for this mess?

 

You're going to need a bigger island:

Sharks were reported in waters off Hamdeok Beach on Jeju Island on Monday. Beachgoers were evacuated and nobody was eaten. 

According to the Jeju city government, a 119 emergency caller reported sightings of two objects that looked like sharks in waters off a skywalk bridge east of the beach around 12:30 p.m. 

Life guards immediately announced the sightings over the public address system and banned beachgoers from going into the water. At the time, about 100 people were in the sea.