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It's an election year!: 

Canadians will continue to have access to the medications they need, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Thursday in the face of escalating worry about a Trump administration decision to allow prescription drug imports from Canada.

We don't have access to medicines we need right now and the incompetent government is going to make things worse by establish a national pharmacare plan. 

Naturally, he won't stand up to Trump or any American and tell them to fix their own pharmacare crises but I digress ...

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Where will you get the money, Andy?:

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising the premiers that he would increase health transfers and a social transfer by at least three per cent every year should he become prime minister. 

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Canada’s military reserve units will see $250 million in repairs and upgrades to their armouries and training facilities over the next five years, changes Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says are long overdue.

Sajjan announced the funding Thursday at Artillery Park, a reserve facility in downtown Halifax.

He said approximately $38 million of the total is expected to be spent on immediate maintenance and repairs across the country this fiscal year.

Wasn't I saying this?:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sunny days have become a little greyer in Quebec.

With the federal election less than three months away, a new poll shows the Conservative Party gaining ground and running neck and neck with the Liberals in a province that was key to Trudeau’s win in 2015.

Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are polling particularly well among those who propelled the Coalition Avenir Québec into power in the last provincial election, and those who live in the Quebec City region.

Oh, burn ...

Could it be Justin's gross incompetence? His douchebaggery? His pledge to tax Canadians back into the Stone Age?

It couldn't be how Ottawa is screwing over the West.




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

Justin Trudeau’s longtime adviser Gerald Butts accused India’s government of trying to “screw” the Liberals to help his Canadian Conservative rivals during the prime minister’s controversy-ridden trip to India.

Trudeau’s visit to India in early 2018 was widely panned because of his dressing in traditional garb; the invitation of a convicted attempted murderer to high-level receptions and the lack of official duties among other issues.

“‘We walked into a buzzsaw — (Narendra) Modi and his government were out to screw us and were throwing tacks under our tires to help Canadian conservatives, who did a good job of embarrassing us,’” Butts is quoted as saying in a new book by National Post political columnist, John Ivison, Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister, scheduled to be released next week.

Butts was principal secretary to Trudeau at the time although he resigned his position earlier this year in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin controversy. However, he has returned to the fold and will work on the Liberals’ re-election campaign.

Yeah, that's what it must have been.

It was never Justin's fault. So he came off as an arrogant @$$hole and humiliated both Canada and India by dancing around like a monkey in an Indian costume and then returning to Canada with no equitable trade deal to show for it. How could that be all of his fault?

And I'm sure the Indian government really liked it when Justin accused it of lying.

Is Butts really the Machiavelli here or is he just as stupid as his frat-boy friend?




But ... but ... woke!:

Fourteen years after Canada legalized full marriage rights for same-sex couples, a new poll has found one in four Canadians still oppose the measure.

One in 10 respondents to the Research Co. poll opposed any legal recognition of same-sex couples, while 15 per cent said they should be allowed to have civil unions but not marry.

Also:

Such an imagined reality is not just blighted by gaping inconsistencies (for example, a fixation with race is not racist if your mission is to empower minorities), it is completely oblivious to the facts of the world today. Our new PM has just appointed a Home Secretary and a Chancellor who just so happen to be of Asian ancestry. Middle England, supposedly corroded with “unconscious bias”, did not so much as blink over these excellent appointments, viewing Sajid Javid as a competent pair of hands for no deal and Priti Patel as the new Norman Tebbit. Not that the elite have any interest in the Right’s progress towards a colour-blind meritocratic utopia. They are too dazzled by kaleidoscopic tokenism, and too fond of uttering words like “diversity” and “woman of colour” to take notice.

Liberal attitudes to conserving the environment are similarly antiquated. In the pages of Vogue, Prince Harry has made a Malthusian pledge to help save the planet by only having two children. This worrying celebrity trend is ultimately rooted in a mathematically flawed 18th-century theory of Thomas Malthus, and a somewhat airbrushed interpretation of China’s 37-year dabble in social engineering. Naturally the movement is being spearheaded by that crumbling-voiced prophet of imminent world collapse, Sir David Attenborough (patron of Population Matters, which campaigns for a clampdown on the world birth rate).

Meanwhile, eco-warrior Greta Thunberg (who obviously made the Vogue top 15) has announced that she will sail to New York for the UN climate summit on a zero-carbon racing boat, sponsored by the Yacht Club de Monaco and owned by a German property tycoon.

Ms Thunberg’s green solutions are regressive. She desires total elimination of carbon emissions by 2025, even though such an endeavour would cause world economic collapse. This latest venture, which vulgarly combines super-rich lifestyle advertising with the impotent modern activist’s weakness for pointless stunts, only highlights further that Leftie campaigners can offer us no practical solutions. Cutting-edge scientists, not woolly liberals, are the ones really taking on the challenge of saving the planet. British innovators driven by capitalism are already immersed in game-changing green research, in areas ranging from lab-grown meat to electric planes.

If anyone had to live with these virtues thy press onto others, they would surely fold.

But it was never about doing but seeming.




If Trump was serious, he would want regime change for China and North Korea, not a chance to trade with them:

President Donald Trump said on Thursday Chinese President Xi Jinping was not moving fast enough on reaching a trade agreement and that the United States would be “taxing” China until a deal is secured.

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the Trump administration remains ready to resume talks with North Korea now, although he regretted that a meeting between the two sides is unlikely at an Asian security conference this week in Thailand.

China said the same thing about the Tienanmen protesters, too:

The top Chinese military official in Hong Kong has called the violent protests of recent weeks “absolutely intolerable,” in a threatening speech that coincides with the release of an extraordinary video showing Chinese soldiers practicing firing on demonstrators.

Together, the speech and the video served as a thinly veiled warning to the protesters in Hong Kong that China’s patience is growing thin and that it is becoming increasingly willing to use force to quell the demonstrations in the semiautonomous territory.