Peak Stupidity

All civilisations devolve this way ...




Because you've done an enormously marvelous job before:

First Nations would need about $3.5 billion in funding over five years to effectively take over responsibility for child welfare services as they will be able to do under a new law that comes into force on Jan. 1, says Manitoba's Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regional chief.

Bill C-92, or An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families, passed earlier this year, carves out jurisdiction for Indigenous groups to take over their own child welfare systems and prioritizes placing Indigenous children taken into care with their own families and Indigenous communities.

More money stops people from abusing their kids, right?




The United States puts its money up front which is more than what one can say about Canada or France:

U.S. President Donald Trump put Justin Trudeau on the spot Tuesday over Canada’s NATO defence spending.

“What are you at? What is your number?” Trump pointedly asked, referring to how much Canada spends on NATO defence as a percentage of its GDP. The two men met on the sidelines of a major NATO military alliance meeting in London.

(Sidebar: don't ask a trust-fund baby about money. He can't count it.)

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“Would you like some nice ISIS fighters?” Trump asked. “I could give them to you, you could take every one you want.”

“Let’s be serious,” Macron responded.

Alright.

The United States commits 3.61% of its gross domestic product on NATO defense while France pays 1.78% and Canada pays an appalling 0.99% (even countries like Greece pay more than Canada or France do).

France has repatriated its ISIS brats and Canada doesn't care how many ISIS rapists have flooded the streets provided that they vote Liberal.

How is that for serious, Emmanuel?


Also - indeed:

As my colleague David Bercuson wrote here on Friday, Canada is rapidly falling behind Russia in its ability to effectively enforce claims to sovereignty over the Arctic. If anything, Bercuson was probably too polite. To call our military capability in a vast swath of our own territory token dangerously overstates our means.

Canada was able to get away with neglecting not just the Arctic but our national defence in general for many, many years. I’m afraid for so many years that it will be an impossible habit to break. But I am not the only one who has noticed. The United States is becoming increasingly frustrated with us. This matters. ...

But we can’t be nearly as confident that either of those assumptions hold as true today. As Bercuson noted in his column, the Russian military presence in the Arctic is growing rapidly. Their Arctic region is already more developed than ours, giving them inherent advantages compared to Canada, with our sparse populated North. Those advantages, combined with their military buildup, would leave Canada completely unable to enforce its sovereignty if Russia chose to cause problems for us.

China, likewise, is developing its naval power, including Arctic capabilities. Meanwhile, we content ourselves with a few thousand lightly armed rangers, and took a bafflingly long time to even replace their rifles — the most fundamental piece of military equipment of all. Our Arctic patrol ships are not capable of year-round Arctic operations and are behind schedule anyways. Talk during the Harper years of building a proper military base in the Arctic is essentially forgotten.

Is Russia about to invade? Of course not. But it’s hard to look around the world today and feel any reassurance that long-held assumptions about our stable geopolitical order and rules-based international system still hold much water. The world is getting tougher — and we are not adapting.

Parents should decide that they have had enough and demand school vouchers:

We made significant changes to our bargaining position. What has not transpired is any change at all by the teachers unions,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said at Queen’s Park during question period on Monday.

Lecce, who took over the education file in June, has cut government demands on class size increases and online courses.

While the government originally wanted to boost the average high school class size from 22 to 28, they have moved that figure down to 25. Class sizes for Kindergarten through Grade 3 have not changed at all while middle school grades increased by an average of one student.

As for online courses, the government originally wanted students to take four courses between Grades 9 and 12 and reduced that number to two courses over their high school career.

The union says it’s not good enough.

“Those are not concessions,” OSSTF President Harvey Bischof told CP24 on Monday.

Bischof went on to say that he will only accept an average class size of 22 and doesn’t want any online courses for students. Oh, and he still wants a 2% wage hike for his very well paid members.

Have I mentioned the average teacher in Ontario earns $92,000 a year, plus benefits, pensions and their three months off?

It's like the Russians value a strong and stable economy based on a commodity everyone wants:

As multiple Canadian pipeline projects linger in limbo, Russia and China have just turned on the taps on a natural gas behemoth long enough to connect Timmins, Ont., to Burnaby, B.C.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping brought the Power of Siberia pipeline, which will stretch 3,000 km from Siberia into northeast China, online Monday. The US$55 billion pipeline is expected to carry five billion cubic metres of natural gas into China in 2020, with production eventually ramping up and hitting 38 billion cubic metres by 2025.

Also - brain-drain - another consequence of a Liberal government:

There has been a brain drain from Alberta to Texas in recent years, with many saying the state is a great place to do business.

Compared to Canada, it has fewer regulations and low corporate taxes. The high U.S. dollar doesn’t hurt, either, as it translates into more money for the Canadian companies doing business stateside.

“It all comes together to create a really attractive environment,” said David McLellan, principal at Ridgeway Strategic Consulting.

Who are the racists? Political dilettantes who like the ideas of racial diversity and political multiculturalism but don't have to deal with any of its realities:

White liberals deem that any speaker’s references to personal responsibility brands the speaker as bigoted. Black people cannot afford to buy into the white liberal agenda. White liberals don’t pay the same price. They don’t live in neighborhoods where their children can get shot simply sitting on their porches. White liberals don’t go to bed with the sounds of gunshots. White liberals don’t live in neighborhoods that have become economic wastelands. Their children don’t attend violent schools where they have to enter through metal detectors. White liberals help the Democratic Party maintain political control over cities, where many black residents live in despair, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago.

And - what could go wrong?:

On Monday, SNC-Lavalin announced that China National Nuclear Power Corporation had chosen the Québec-based engineering firm to do “pre-project work” to build a pair of 700-megawatt “advanced heavy water” CANDU reactors for Shanghai Electric Group.

Ones like these but instead of working, they create four or five Chernobyls.




Women's shelters are as useless and vain as the people who suggest them.

God forbid someone suggest that children be raised properly in married two-parent homes or that basic morality is enforced or that single motherhood is not encouraged or that beating women and children is a crime that can't be plead out or that mandatory sentences for these abuses are unnecessary or that a woman and her children remain in these places forever:

The choice of cause, for Anne Marie’s family, was deliberate. Their sister and daughter was killed in North York. The man accused of her murder allegedly targeted women specifically. Her aunt also worked at the shelter. She saw first-hand the good it does and the need it fills.

Let everyone know your virtue from space.




If you are a part of the system that ostracises Israel, then you are part of the problem:

In a statement posted to her Facebook page, Wright says she felt intimidated into refusing the trip and feels she has been the target of thinly veiled anti-Semitism. That post was shared nearly 2,000 times and Wright’s story has been picked up by the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and the Canadian Jewish News.

Wright told the Montreal Gazette that McGill is, overall, a great place to be a Jewish student, but that some recent flare-ups point to religious and cultural tensions on campus.

“There have been a number of instances in the last few years where students have been targeted for their ethnic identity or religious affiliation,” she said. “Many of these instances have been focused on Jewish students, but there have also been a variety of issues affecting Muslim and Indigenous students as well.”

Oh, do you mean like the typhoons and tsunamis that have always happened?:

A new report has found that as many as 20 million people are displaced by climate-fueled disasters every year — a figure that equates to one person being forced out of their homes every two seconds.

Every two seconds, eh?