Convenient Excuses

Liars often come up with them.

Cases in point:

Canada will make prudent choices in its budget even as it takes measures to help those who are hit by the coronavirus outbreak, Finance Minister Bill Morneau told business leaders on Friday.  

(Sidebar: this coronoavirus that the upper-class buffoon government originally claimed was nothing to worry about and now refuses to contain in any way.)

The reasons why Canada is a bad place to invest have nothing to do with the coronavirus, as Mr. Morneau well knows.

Blaming the coronoavirus for Canada's decrepit economy is as stupid as blaming climate change warming killing polar bears and not the decline of family values, treating child-rearing as a waste of time, lack of jobs and high taxes for Canada's dangerously low birthrate in populations that were born here and didn't walk across.

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But Macdonald says the primary driver of the decrease in the poverty rate was the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit in 2016 as well as other changes to income-transfer programs, including the guaranteed income supplement and the Canada Workers Benefit.

"It is certainly true that public policy is responsible for a million fewer people living in poverty today versus 2015, but it's not due to tax cuts, it's due to changes in transfer programs," Macdonald said.

So, thanks to government handouts, which would not be possible without taxes, people are two steps away from not eating.

Interesting ...

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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister offered a carbon-tax compromise of sorts Thursday to the federal government and to some Progressive Conservative supporters who have opposed any such levy.

He said Manitoba will enact a flat $25-per-tonne carbon tax on July 1. It is to be offset by a simultaneous one-point cut in the provincial sales tax to six per cent.

“If we stand back and do nothing, we get the Trudeau tax,” Pallister said.

No, you refused to fight this tax (based on junk science) when you could have.

The cost of living will go up in your province. Let's see who thanks you for it.

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This is the same country that let a handful of terrorists blackmail it:

A private member's bill that would restrict anti-abortion protests in Nova Scotia and has won all-party support in the legislature was both praised and denounced Friday by people who appeared before a committee studying the proposed law.

Catherine Dingle, a long-time supporter of the anti-abortion group Campaign Life Coalition, called on MLAs to abandon the move to restrict where she and others can demonstrate their opposition to abortions.

Nova Scotia - if you can read - pick the country you think you live in.