Mid-Week Post

What a merry, blustery fall we have ...




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You bet your @$$ he would:

If Trudeau earns a minority parliament in this election he’ll need the support of parties — NDP, Green or Bloc — that could well make the price of their support an end to the now government-owned, ready-to-be-built TMX pipeline. The NDP have been especially clear about that position.

It is hard to imagine anything that could be more destructive to Canada’s energy sector than the kind of bargain Trudeau might be tempted to make to hold on to power. What is much worse is what it would do to national unity.

Unsuited for the position in the first place and with no accomplishments to his name, Justin is fighting for his political life. He says one thing to please some masses, is deliberately light on details and ignores questions outright. Whatever he can't avoid, he attacks.

A completed pipeline free of further regulations is simply not going to happen while Justin is in office. There is no evidence he is going to get it built. By promising, he appeases those who wait in vain. By not getting it built, he holds off the American anti-oil interests. He is looking at a minority government at best later on this month. Will he sacrifice anything, even a pipeline, in a power-sharing scheme with another party?

To hang on to his pension, you bet he would.


Also - for one thing, Harper never lied about not being in blackface nor did he grope a woman.

So there's that:

But, fiscal conservatives that they were, they also said they were doing so strictly on a temporary basis. And they were true to their word. Within five years the $56-billion deficit was down to $0.6 billion — basically gone, as Harper and Flaherty had said it would be. That did involve “cuts.” 

Program expenditures actually fell in one year, which is more or less unheard of in Ottawa. But that “cut” of roughly $5 billion came after an increase of $32 billion the previous year, so it doesn’t really count.

What we observed post-Crash from the Harper government was purposeful rapid expansion of the deficit to deal with an economic emergency, followed by purposeful, adult control over spending to make sure the deficit did promptly come to heel.

Compare that to the fiscal record following 2015. A new government said it would run a modest deficit — $10 billion — to deal with what turned out to be a slight economic slowdown in the summer of 2015 but would then return to budgetary balance after the “emergency” was over. Once in office, however, it increased the deficit to well beyond $10 billion and it has now decided its fiscal anchor will be, not budget balance, but the debt-to-GDP ratio, which its election platform shows falling very slowly, from 30.9 per cent next fiscal year to 30.2 per cent in 2023-24.

Justin Trudeau said over the weekend that the Conservatives want to balance the budget “on the backs” of social services. Never mind that social services don’t have backs. I can’t speak for Scheer Conservatives but traditional conservatives believe that if a generation wants public services, it should pay for them, and not put off financing them onto the backs of their children.

And - cut the b@$#@rds off:

Canadian taxpayers sent $7.1 million to China in foreign aid last year. The Trudeau Liberals also sent $5 million to North Korea, $4 million to Iran and even Putin’s Russia got $200,000.

None of those countries are democratic, all are run by dictators and none have values in line with Canada. So why are we funding them?

For that matter, why are we funding countries like Italy? Yes, we are giving foreign-aid money to a wealthy member of the European Union.

Under a plan announced by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on Tuesday, that kind of foreign aid would be cut. Scheer promised a 25% cut to foreign-aid funding that would see high-income countries and dictatorships get the boot.

“Canadians now can see the choice between sending more of their hard earned tax dollars to countries that rank relatively high on the development index — countries like Italy, like Brazil, like Turkey, and hostile governments like Iran,” Scheer said.

If you find it hard to believe that we are funding some of these countries, here are the numbers from the government’s own figures for last year: Mexico, $6.8 million; Turkey, $4.5 million; Brazil, $4.3 million; and Argentina, $2.1 million.

Why on earth would Canada fund any of these countries with foreign-aid money? They are wealthy trading partners, not countries with the basic needs of their citizens not being met.

Scheer’s plan was denounced by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau as not doing enough for climate change. I’m not sure what giving millions to rich countries like Italy and Mexico — or dictatorships like China and Iran — has to do with climate change.

A lot of things aren't germane to this election but that has never stopped PM Blackface:

Trudeau’s non-stop invocation of Ford’s name isn’t about peeling away disgruntled Conservative voters, it’s about scaring people that might cast a ballot for the NDP or Greens. Ford voters are still backing Scheer — the question is what happens on the progressive side of the aisle.

Also - go ahead, unions. Strike. Do it in an election year when belts are tightened and nerves are frayed. I dare you. Let's see who sympathises with you when hallways are littered with rubbish and parents can't find baby-sitters for their kids who will have triple the workload when this street theatre ends:

The union representing 55,000 education workers across the province says it is preparing to go on strike Monday.

CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn said they are in conversation with other education unions and ideally teachers would not cross their picket lines.

“We’re going to talk to them and figure that out,” Hahn said Wednesday.

When is a gun a gun or a gun not a gun?:

During a press conference, Justin Trudeau was asked to explain the difference between the rifles he plans to ban, and the rifles he doesn’t.

Also:

The main argument against a national ban is that it would not interrupt the flow of guns that are actually responsible for the shootings in our major cities. Those would continue to come in, as ever, over our undefended land border with the United States, a country absolutely awash in guns. A national ban would simply inconvenience and anger, at considerable public expense, a bunch of law-abiding Canadians.

Just in in time for Halloween:

Norman seamen who ventured out to sea on Halloween "were said to have the 'double sight,' that is, each one beheld a living likeness of himself seated in close contact, and if he was engaged in any work, the phantom was doing the same."