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| “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” |
What Canadians refuse to consider or acknowledge is that the entire country is a plutocracy, from its leaders to its institutions. Only a handful will be wealthy and kept in power and they are never accountable to anyone.
But don't take my word for it:
Fees paid by the federal government for third-party consultants have continued to increase, with costs expected to be $1.3 billion higher this year compared with an earlier estimate just two months ago.
According to a government estimate released in March, the annual cost of outsourcing engineering, legal and other services would reach $16.4 billion in 2022, up from $8.3 billion in 2016. An updated document released on Thursday adds another $1.3 billion to that estimate, bringing the 2022 projection to around $17.7 billion.
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The point of politics is to divide and entrench power, sir. Did you not notice?:
The entire motivation for the new law is political: to exterminate the original separatist party and position the governing Coalition Avenir Québec as the party of choice for the French-speaking majority in Quebec. There is nothing wrong with rough and devious political tactics, as long as they do not damage the welfare of any section of the public. Unfortunately, this bill could do great damage.
(Sidebar: this Quebec because it's special.)
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The only real slam dunk on the order paper right now is Bill C-30, the Liberals’ sprawling budget implementation bill. The omnibus legislation touches on everything from student loan relief to terrorist financing activities to fixing an election misinformation law found to be unconstitutional. ...
Bill C-15, which implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, received its final vote in the House of Commons earlier this week, meaning the Senate should have time to pass it. However, the Conservative caucus opposes this bill and its senators have a history of protesting similar legislation.
The Liberals’ ban on coerced conversion therapy, Bill C-6, will likely get its final vote in the Commons soon. The bill has a broad range of support, with the Conservatives split on it. But assuming it clears the Commons shortly, it will have a good chance of passing by summer. ...
Another is Bill C-10, a hugely controversial bill to enable federal regulation of online platforms such as Netflix and Facebook. The Conservatives have come out strongly against this legislation, and for now it’s unclear whether the Liberals are willing to spend the political capital to try to push it through by the end of June.
The third is Bill C-19, which makes various tweaks to Canada’s elections laws — including to make a pandemic-era election safer to run. This bill has just gotten to a Commons committee, so it has a chance of passing by summer, but it’ll be tough.
Why not just rule by fiat?
Or is that next?
Will China let Justin do that? Isn't that like giving a fire-hose to a baboon?
Get a cold, wet blanket for Mark Carney for he done got burned:
Mark Carney, the former central banker who is now head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management Inc., was badgered on everything from pipelines to human rights abuses in China during a parliamentary committee hearing. ...
Ostensibly, the two-hour meeting was to talk about the transition to an low-carbon economy at a hearing that included other expert witnesses. But instead Carney was aggressively hounded by Pierre Poilievre, a high-profile lawmaker for the opposition Conservatives, who accused him of “hypocritical window dressing” and being a Davos elite.
Leave for Switzerland tonight, Mark.
Oh, this can't be good:
Media reports say Ontario is replacing its chief medical officer of health more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multiple anonymous sources told the Toronto Star that Dr. Kieran Moore will replace Dr. David Williams as the province's top doctor.
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Also - oh, good! Now we get to stay locked up until Christmas and then miss Christmas again! YAY!:
Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.
Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients, and found the new version of the virus. He said lab tests suggested it might spread more easily than other versions of the virus.
He's just like those Italian grandmothers Justin apologised to:
From the prison where Zakaria Amara endures his life sentence, the leader of a terrorist plot to explode huge truck bombs in Ontario said the atrocities of ISIL jihadists drove him to re-evaluate and reject his radical beliefs, making him ready for release from prison.
I totally believe him.
After all, a terrorist would never lie, would he?
Why, it's like communist countries are filled with monsters who do awful things:
Orphans, conscripted soldiers, and students — some appearing to be children — are “volunteering” to work manual labor in North Korea, including in coal mines, farms, and large construction projects, the country’s state media have reported.
Hundreds of graduates of orphan schools “volunteered to work in difficult fields,” according to reports by state news agency KCNA.
North Korea is backed by China.
The Philippines has demanded that China withdraw its ships and fishing vessels from the vicinity of a Philippine-occupied island in the South China Sea, where the Chinese military has asserted its sovereignty and vowed to “unswervingly safeguard” the disputed territory.
Why on earth would anyone want to trade with them?
In conclusion, Taiwan is a country, just like Israel.
#Notatallsorry:
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