Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Mid-Week Post

 


Your slow crawl towards Christmas ...

 

 

It's just money:

Cabinet is raising its federal debt ceiling an unprecedented fifty-six percent to near $2 trillion. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday put the current deficit at $381.6 billion with more borrowing scheduled for the next five years: “Taxpayers are on the hook for every single dollar.”

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Paid pandemic furloughs for federal employees who were neither sick nor working from home have now cost $1.1 billion, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Analysts estimated 113,362 staffers took time off at full pay and benefits averaging $481 a day: “We’ve made sure to take care of our employees.”

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The Trudeau Liberals’ fall economic statement stumbles through 200-plus pages of verbal political unreadable claptrap about building back better COVID-19 resilient green gender prudent fiscal stimulus affordable jumpstarted racial equality childcare climate solutions and employee stock option decisive dynamic Indigenous inclusive net-zero cross-border digital tax cut increases. At the end of this onslaught, which is all too typical of annual federal budgetary documents, Canadians are left with two big numbers.

The first is the size of the increase in the federal debt. The statement tabled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland projects the annual federal debt will almost double from $721 billion last year to $1.4 trillion in 2025. That means the debt increases $650 billion, the result of piling it on for four more years after this year’s $381-billion extravaganza.

The second big number is the total value of the loss in economic activity over the same period, 2020-2025. Freeland delivered a lot of upbeat language about “the light at the end of the tunnel” and how the government’s stimulus plans “will help us recover from the COVID-19 recession and prevent the long-term economic scarring that would delay and weaken our post-pandemic recovery.” But the damage and scarring have already happened and are now imbedded in the Canadian economy’s current genetic makeup. According to the fiscal statement, the Canadian economy will not make it back to its pre-COVID projected growth path for at least five years.

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Consumer debt in Canada rose 3.8 per cent in the third quarter to $2.041 trillion, driven by the surging housing market and new auto loans, Equifax Canada’s latest report reveals.
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The Liberal government says it will take steps over the next year to tax foreign homeowners who live outside of Canada as part of a plan to lower housing prices.

 

(Sidebar: rather, it's just a tax.)

 

This country will officially runs out of money a lot sooner than one thinks. Soon, Canadians will realise that there is no more beer money coming in and as they stare at nearly empty fridge, they will wonder to themselves: How did this happen?

Please allow one to illuminate.

You voted for it.

You were told by a snowboard instructor who actually believed that budgets balance themselves that his government would run deficits and you voted for it.

You still believed in this cretin when he screwed up every single trade deal and quashed every single money-making venture.

You were so wrapped up in the Orange Man from down south that you paid zero attention to what your vile sack of Jew-hating perverts were doing to the country that this ugly freak was able to run ragged with money that wasn't even his and drive this country so far into the ground that not even Indiana Jones can find it.

You will know poverty so great that your American counterparts who you teach your children to hate will take pity on you and organise food drives.

You are getting good and hard the government you richly deserve.

Enjoy the decline.

 

Also - whither the love?:

Few Canadians fly the flag but are quietly proud of their country as strong and free, says a Department of Canadian Heritage study. The research was conducted after the pandemic forced cancellation of Canada Day observances on Parliament Hill for the first time in forty-four years: “This is where they were born, this is their country and they love their country.”

 

Another day in Liberal corruption:

The proposal to award WE Charity oversee a $900 million federal student service grant was not reviewed by the Treasury Board. 

Federal Assistant Comptroller General Kathleen Owens told the House of Commons government operations committee on Monday evening that the project was instead approved by Youth Minister Bardish Chagger without a review. 

“In the case of the WE Charity contribution agreement, it did not come to the Treasury Board because it was determined the program was within the Minister’s authority,” said Owens. 

“We determined it was under the Minister’s authority. Therefore the program and the contribution agreement never came to the Treasury Board. The Treasury Board had no role.”

The Treasury Board is responsible for federal spending oversight and is customarily involved in vetting large projects like the service grant. 

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We Charity appeared to misunderstand the Lobbying Act in failing to disclose dozens of contacts with federal staff, cabinet and political aides, says Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Bélanger. The charity out-lobbied General Motors in pursuing a $43.5 million grant, records show: “Would that be okay?”

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No rules were broken when the Department of Health awarded a $237.3 million contract to a company chaired by former Québec Liberal MP Frank Baylis, says the Commissioner of Ethics. Baylis was not bound by conflict of interest rules since he’d left Parliament six months before the contract was signed: “Can that be considered a conflict of interest?”

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MPs yesterday expressed unease with an auditors’ proposal to report all delinquent Canada Student Loan borrowers to credit bureaus. Write-offs have cost taxpayers $2.7 billion: “We don’t want to penalize youth right off the bat coming out of university or college.”

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CBC-TV ad revenues continue a historic collapse, falling nineteen percent in six months. CEO Catherine Tait said programming cuts are contemplated despite record subsidies: “We need the public to feel safe and to know that we are a beacon for truth.”

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Canada will not agree to lifting a ban on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak is significantly under control around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.

 

(Sidebar: ... says the douchebag who promised a Chinese-made "vaccine" and then couldn't deliver and then promised a vaccine after everyone else had gotten a load of it.)

 

Also - oh, my! This must harm the Narrative:

 

Also: 

(Sidebar: why would they think that?

 

 (Sidebar: why would they think that?) 

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Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, chuckled when Conservative MP Erin Duncan asked whether she would end the blood ban for gay men. Duncan is a gay man, and represents Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in the House of Commons. The exchange took place on Thursday.

"Does she not feel comfortable taking my blood?" said Duncan. To which Hajdu initially replied with a chuckle. “This is not funny,” Eric Duncan stated, “and this is not what she promised to gay men, to end the stigma, over five years ago.”


(Sidebar: ask the graphic arts designer what she thinks of surgery-fetishists and UN perverts. I mean, if one is going to ban what is considered to be quackery ...)

 

 

Why does this sound familiar?:

Chinese authorities have fined and sentenced a pastor to jail time for holding a religious service that wasn’t approved by the government.

 

Oh, yeah: 

As new cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across Canada, provincial politicians and health officers are beginning to crack down on religious services. Manitoba and British Columbia have both banned in person church services, and while Ontario has declared churches essential, the cap of 10 people that has been imposed on churches in lockdown regions makes it virtually impossible for them to hold services.

This has Canadian pastors worried about the wellbeing of their community, as well as the infringement of their constitutional right to worship. Dr. Aaron Rock is the head pastor at Harvest Bible Church in Windsor Ontario, and has been taking the lead in the fight to keep churches open across Canada.

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Churchgoers in the town of Steinbach, Manitoba have defied the province's pandemic-related lockdown orders by intending to attend a drive-in Church service Sunday morning, leading to RCMP officers blockading the house of worship.

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On Sunday, Winnipeg Sun Scott Billeck mocked churchgoers for defying health orders and suggesting the in-vehicle service was dangerous. ...

Freelance writer and commentator Nora Loreto argued that churches are not at all essential and enthusiastically believes authorities should force churches to stay closed. Loreto, a self-identified socialist, also added that shutting down churches is okay as some “do make profits.” ...

Contributing editor at Maclean’s Andray Domise suggests that people like the worshippers at the Church of God are worshipping a “false god” for believing that going to church should be their right. ...

On Sunday, CBC journalist Georgina Smyth waited outside of a church in Chilliwack, BC and counted people as they entered and left the building. Smyth counted 60 people, which she called a “bold breach” of public health orders.


 

We don't have to trade with China. We don't:

A Trudeau-appointed senator called on Canadians to wish China well and to hope that it will succeed economically. 

“We should signal clearly to the Chinese leadership that we want China to succeed in its economic aspirations,” said Senator Yuen Pau Woo. 

 

(Sidebar: I'll just leave this right here.)

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Canada’s business with China appears to be thriving during the pandemic even as diplomatic relations remain in a deep freeze.

 

(Sidebar: because Canadians do not give a sh--, just as they do not care about their compatriots kidnapped by the Chinese communist state.) 

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Australia demanded an apology after a senior Chinese official posted a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a knife with blood on it to the throat of an Afghan child, calling it “truly repugnant” and demanding it be taken down.

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William Shatner owns us and we need to accept that:

 


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