Your Corrupt Government and You

When not planning on banning kitten videos, they are doing something else:

A federal agency bought stock in a money-losing Kenyan cellphone company at three times the price of shares in Ford Motor Co., records show. Export Development Canada called the “investment” speculative, and said it now plans to dump the stock that cost taxpayers $15,400,000: “The rate of return on this investment is difficult to predict.”

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Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says she needs to “do a better job of explaining” where billions have been spent on public works. Auditors in a March 25 report said they found only a partial picture of where the money went: “Even the Auditor General for Canada can’t connect the dots.”

If they were really sorry, they would not have stopped the inquiry:

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is apologizing to ‘any woman’ who experienced harassment while serving in the military — though she says she never knew about the allegations against former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance.

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But Conservative committee members wrote to the committee clerk today asking for further hearings into the Liberals’ handling of the allegation against Vance following Friday testimony from former Trudeau adviser Elder Marques.

He told the committee that he was directed by Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford or her assistant to reach out to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office in March 2018 to talk about an allegation against Vance.

That testimony appeared to contradict the sequence of events laid out by Sajjan and raises new questions about what Trudeau knew about the allegation before a Global News report came out in February.

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The Conservatives are expected to press for Telford to appear before the committee if members agree to further hearings.

That's if you believe that carbon is a pollutant - which it isn't:

Based on our current emissions of 730 tonnes (for 2019, the most recent government figures available) that will require a 324-million tonne reduction by 2030.

That would mean eliminating the equivalent of Canada’s entire oil & gas (191 million tonnes), agriculture (73 million tonnes) and electricity sectors (61 million tonnes) — totalling 325 million tonnes — in less than 10 years.

That’s absurd. No Canadian government, Liberal or Conservative, has met a single emission target it has set in three decades.

When Trudeau came into power in 2015, Canada’s annual emissions were 723 million tonnes. Today, they’re seven million tonnes higher.

Canadians are paying a high price for Trudeau’s failures — $60 billion for “climate action and clean growth” from 2015 to 2019, and another $53.6 billion for “Canada’s green recovery” since October 2020, according to the PM’s own statement at the Biden summit.

Finally, no matter how much Canadians pay in carbon taxes (currently $40 per tonne of emissions rising to $170 per tonne in 2030), nothing we do matters because Canada is responsible for less than 2% of energy-related global emissions.

China alone is responsible for more than 28%.