Halloween Week: The Beginning (of the End)

The destruction of Canada will continue unhindered.

What could be more frightening?




No pipeline will ever get built:

The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that pull carbon out of the atmosphere.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau told The Canadian Press in an interview this week that the expanded pipeline is not fodder for negotiating with other parties in the minority government. Rather, he said, it is a crucial piece of the puzzle of financing Canada’s transition to a clean energy economy.

“We purchased it for a reason,” said Morneau. “We now see how it can help us accelerate our clean energy transition by putting any revenues that we get from it into a transition to clean energy. We think that is the best way we can move forward in our current context.”

No, Bill, you used taxpayer money to keep it out of the reach of private interests and then used more taxpayer money to hand it over to Big Aboriginal.

(Sidebar: the same Big Aboriginal that won't demand the abolition of the Indian Act that would prevent this kind of thing from happening.)

British Columbia, while perfectly fine shipping coal to China, refuses its ports to its fellow provinces to export oil.

The US is the biggest consumer of our oil and sells it back to us at inflated prices.

Your boss (China's favourite hand-puppet), his seething hatred of Alberta felt even before the 2015 election, has promised to phase the lucrative and necessary oil sands. He has even given money to American anti-oil groups.

How can the biggest beneficiary of these Albertan oil sands - Quebec -survive without the only product that makes any real money?


Also:

The Ontario government says it will carry on with its legal challenge of the federal carbon tax despite the results of Monday’s federal election.

Premier Doug Ford had previously said the outcome of the vote would determine whether he persisted in his plan to fight the tax, and his office said earlier this week it would evaluate the results of the election that saw the Liberals return to form a minority government.

But Environment Minister Jeff Yurek now says the province will see its roughly $30-million court battle “through to its end.”

The carbon tax was imposed in Ontario after Ford’s Progressive Conservative government scrapped the cap-and-trade system, fulfilling one of his key campaign promises.

The premier banded with several other provinces, including Saskatchewan and Alberta, in opposing the federal program.

This is the same carbon tax that is going to increase:

In fact, the carbon price must rise over time — and fast. Pricing carbon emissions below the cost of their damage to society — the “social cost of carbon” — subsidizes air pollution and climate change.  

(Sidebar: carbon isn't a pollutant and air pollution is an unrelated but more serious and urgent concern that everyone is ignoring.)




If Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is going to weasel out of Albertan separation then he needs to think about not contributing to the employment insurance scheme and stopping equalisation payments (read: welfare to other provinces) or Alberta will continue being Quebec's vassal province.

It's separation or cutting off the rest of Canada. That is the only way to survive.




If Jody Wilson-Raybould had the fortitude, she would spill her guts on Justin now. Do it before he shreds every document relating to his complicity in the SNC-Lavalin scandal:

Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says her victory as an Independent candidate sends a message to Ottawa about the need for change in the country's politics.

Wilson-Raybould will be the only Independent in the House of Commons after she was ousted from the Liberal party over the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

Also - but she is one:

The Ottawa riding office of Liberal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was defaced overnight with a spray-painted vulgar slur.

In a photo of the defacement shared by McKenna’s office with media, the slur can be clearly seen sprayed in red across an image of McKenna’s face on the exterior wall of her riding office in the downtown neighbourhood of Westboro.

“We’ve just been through a really divisive campaign with a lot of negative rhetoric and this is really beneath us as Canadians,” she told reporters.

You're beneath Canadians, Barbie.




No one cares about autistic students beyond lip service:

Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, chair of the Canadian Pediatric Society’s task force on autism spectrum disorders, said the increasing prevalence of the condition calls for community-based pediatricians and other primary health-care providers to be trained and supported to assess and diagnose it and provide follow-up care.

“There have been pockets of innovation in Canada, really demonstrating that it’s possible to support community pediatricians to do some of that assessment work,” he said, adding that is the case is parts of Ontario, British Columbia and to a lesser extent in Alberta.

“This really needs to be part of the standard of care in Canada and to not do so contributes to disparities in access and also bottlenecks in the system and likely contributes to lengthy wait lists,” he said, adding the involvement of a team of health-care providers who assess autism is not always necessary and impractical in some areas.

How is that Singapore thing working out?:

North Korea on Thursday accused U.S. officials of maintaining hostility against Pyongyang despite a “special” relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump and urged Washington to act “wisely” through the end of the year.

The statement issued by Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan was clearly referring to an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for the Trump administration to offer mutually acceptable terms for a deal to salvage their diplomacy.

“Contrary to the political judgment and intention of President Trump, Washington political circles and DPRK policy makers of the U.S. administration are hostile to the DPRK for no reason, preoccupied with the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice,” Kim Kye Gwan said in the statement, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “We want to see how wisely the U.S. will pass the end of the year.”

It's time to re-arm Japan.


Also - snakes exist everywhere:

Lee also bolsters long-standing claims that the Moon administration has slashed funding for North Korean human rights groups, especially those that refuse to toe his pro-“engagement” party line. (The Moon administration denies this.) According to Lee, Moon’s party and administration see South Korea’s new North Korea human rights law—which they opposed, stalled, and weakened for years before the law finally passed in 2016—as an unwarranted interference in the North’s internal affairs (which is just how Pyongyang sees it). The U.N. High Commission for Human Rights, which conducted an extensive investigation that found evidence of Kim Jong-un’s responsibility for crimes against humanity, clearly disagrees with that view.

Now that it’s in power, Moon’s “Democratic” Party has stalled the implementation of the human rights law. It would clearly prefer that the world heard less from North Korea émigrés, at least those who resist its attempts to control what they say. It has also gone largely silent as an advocate for the human rights of North Koreans, and for North Korean refugees. Perhaps not coincidentally, China has since shut down so much of the support network for the underground railroad from North Korea to South Korea that desperately hungry women are selling themselves to sex traffickers to survive.

(Kamsahamnida)




And now, for your Halloween listening pleasure, Camille Saint-Saens's  "Danse Macabre":