Voting Only Encourages the B@$#@rds, Part Deux

One really cannot deny the truth of this.




Cases in point:

The Ontario government’s effort to eliminate its projected $9-billion deficit is a grim struggle that involves unpopular service changes, wage restraint and general penny-pinching. Imagine if there was one change that would cut that deficit nearly in half without raising taxes or taking away any services.

As it turns out, there is. Have you heard about the Ontario Electricity Rebate? That’s the one where the government subsidizes everyone’s power bills, so that we can all pretend that the cost of power is lower. ...

(Sidebar: that ploy sounds terribly familiar.)

 The bill for this act of self-deception is expected to be $4 billion this year. That’s a heck of a way to spend money the government doesn’t have.

The PC government did not invent what was called the Fair Hydro Plan, but it has taken what is probably the worst policy of the former Liberal government and given it a brand new name. Same stupid content, though.

The Liberals, after years of merrily committing to high-priced power deals, finally realized that the cost of electricity had gotten to a number far, far higher than the public was prepared to accept. The government reacted like it was holding a live wire. At first, if offered to eliminate the eight per cent sales tax on power bills. Then it cut 25 per cent from the cost of the bill.

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As fears continue to grow of a possible impending recession in Canada, more bad economic news has arrived.

Canada’s GDP fell 0.1% in October, which followed growth of 0.1% in September.

A key driver of the fall in GDP was a decline in the manufacturing sector of 1.4%.

But there is no recession.

Or so one is told.




It's not about being virtuous but appearing to be that way.

Seeing as Canadians voted for a blackface-wearing, woman-abusing tyrant appeaser, that doesn't really matter anymore:

The most senior and powerful political staff in Justin Trudeau’s government don’t reflect the diversity of Canada, or meet the same representation requirements that the Prime Minister set for his cabinet.

Since the Liberals formed government in 2015, Mr. Trudeau has made diversity a cornerstone of his political brand. When he unveiled his first cabinet, he declared it one that “looks like Canada.” More than four years into government, the senior staff working for those ministers are still predominantly white and male.

(Sidebar: because priorities.)

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Internal government documents show that federal officials moved quickly before the fall election campaign to dole out $50 million aimed at transforming the delivery of social services.

Oh, the Liberals bought off gullible Canadians.

Quelle surprise.




A bribed press is a happy press:

Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier will have direct control over which newsrooms receive $595 million in subsidies under a federal press bailout, says the Canada Revenue Agency. Media seeking subsidies must answer rebuttals from anyone they criticize, including Canada Revenue agents: “I am pleased to deliver.”

Not bloody likely:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a personal appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn the International Criminal Court for taking a major step toward investigating Israel for alleged war crimes against Palestinians.

Justin gets his money from the Chinese and not the Bronfmanns, just as Quebec gets its money from Alberta and would be utterly screwed if - let's say - the Albertans were to withdraw from the national pension scheme and go elsewhere.




They sound like future cabinet ministers:

White-collar criminals have little to fear from the Canadian judicial system, in which nearly all money laundering charges get thrown out before trial, according to statistics obtained by the Star. 

Eighty-six per cent of charges for laundering the proceeds of crime laid between 2012 and 2017 were withdrawn or stayed, according to data from Statistics Canada.

(Paws up)