Monday, August 12, 2019

It Only Sounds Bad When You Say It Like That

Naturally.

Surely these problems that cripple economies and create distrust and disfranchisement among the masses are overblown trifles:

In July, Canada lost a stunning 69,300 private sector jobs. That would be the equivalent of the United States losing nearly 700,000 private sector jobs in just one month. Imagine what the media would be saying if that had happened…


While some of the private sector losses were made up by an increase in self-employment (27,700) and the public sector (17,500), that doesn’t mask the seriousness of the private sector loss.

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The unemployment rate (which already drastically undercounts the true number of jobless Canadians) rose to 5.7%.

Oh, but the wages grew.

That's something, right?


It's a good thing we have someone serious at the helm.

Oh, wait:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once sent President Donald Trump a note which included a smiley face he drew next to a report on the US-Canada trade surplus, Axios reported on Sunday. 



It's just money:

The Liberals were warned on the eve of an election year about the political consequences of following through on a four-year-old campaign promise to review the employment insurance system, newly released documents show.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had asked one of his senior ministers to conduct a sweeping review of the social safety net program to come up with ways to adapt EI to changing labour force demands.

The program hasn’t had a review in more than two decades, during which time it has become more complex while the number of people qualifying for benefits has dropped.

Documents provided to Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos late last year warned about how a detailed review could drum up “significant expectations” on the Liberals to enact very costly changes to the program, tailored to each group’s priorities.



That's nice.

Now are these allegedly discounted drugs you plan on giving the Americans going to be available to Canadians?:

The biggest reform to Canada’s drug price regime since 1987 would save Canadians C$13.2 billion ($10 billion) over a decade. The rules will save money for patients, employers and insurers including the government at the expense of drug company profits. They also could eventually cut the earnings of drugmakers in the United States, the world’s largest pharmaceutical market. 

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association called the regulations “a crucial step to lower prescription drug costs for all Canadians.” The province of British Columbia also applauded the move, saying in a release: “People in B.C. and across Canada are now better protected against excessive drug prices set by manufacturers.” 

The new rules were largely in line with a December 2017 draft. They came after months of delay prompted speculation the government would back down in the face of industry lobbying or simply run out of time before Canada’s October election.



Where are those engineers and doctors we were promised?:

A growing number of newcomers to Canada are ending up in shelters or are finding themselves homeless, newly released government figures show.

Two new reports released this week by Employment and Social Development Canada offer a glimpse into the extent of the homelessness problem across the country and reveal the populations that are most vulnerable.


The national shelter study, which looked at federal data on shelter users between 2005 and 2016, found an “observable increase” in refugees using shelters.

In 2016, there were 2,000 refugees sleeping in shelters, not counting those facilities designated specifically for refugees — an increase from 1,000 just two years earlier when the figures first began to be tracked.

Ah, here is their true purpose:

Ahmad Almahmoud has dedicated time every day to follow the news, wanting to be an informed citizen for this fall’s federal election.

He is one of 25,000 Syrian refugees that were resettled in Canada between the October 2015 federal election and February 2016. More Syrian refugees have landed in the country since then, with Statistics Canada numbers showing almost 60,000 being resettled as of this past February.

Now, he is on the verge earning his citizenship as others have done so he can do something on Oct. 21 he wasn’t able to do in Syria — vote in a free and fair election.

Vote Liberal, Ahmad, and vote often!


Also - political multiculturalism is a failure. If people truly believed that Jew-hating and Christian-killing were on par with the values that Justin previously said we didn't have but now says that we do (because election) then no one would be sweating bullets over an ISIS thug:

On Friday, the PPC took aim at Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has championed Canadian multiculturalism since taking office in 2015 and raised the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year to about 1% of the population. 

"With his cult of diversity, Justin Trudeau has pushed this ideology even further into a form of extreme multiculturalism," the PPC said in a statement.

The PPC went on to say that immigrants have a right to maintain their cultural heritage, but their efforts should not be supported by "government programs and taxpayers' money." 

(Sidebar: the reason why the New World progressed as it did is because people insisted on abiding by one set of rules, laws and languages. Reinvention did not mean the complete disappearance of former cultures, just that they remained in the background and ultimately became something of a time capsule rather than a rule-of-thumb for future generations.)

"The vast majority of Canadians rightly expect them to learn about our history and culture, master one of our official languages, and adopt widely shared Canadian values," the PPC said.

On Friday, the PPC added that it would repeal Canada's Multiculturalism Act, which was passed in 1988. The act formalized the government's commitment to protecting diversity in Canadian society. The PPC also said it would eliminate all funding to promote multiculturalism.



How is that Singapore thing working out?:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Saturday’s test of a new weapon, state media KCNA said on Sunday, as a senior diplomat dismissed the possibility of inter-Korean talks in protest against South Korea-U.S. military drills.

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There will not be inter-Korean talks unless South Korea and the United States end joint military exercises that set North Korea as an “enemy,” a senior official at Pyongyang’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.

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North Korea's missile test on Saturday suggests the North is capable of raining down hundreds of cluster munitions that can decimate an area the size of three to four football fields.


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