Planned Shortages

Remember that Justin did not stop flights from China coming into Canada in 2019:

According to one industry insider, the current product shortages can largely be attributed to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, which is triggering staff shortages across the industry.

“The supply chain has slowed way down because we’re missing so many people at once,” said Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

 

Is that so?:

In a joint statement, Canada's transportation, health, and public safety ministers said that Canada’s initial policy stands, requiring truckers coming into Canada from the U.S. to be fully vaccinated, or face PCR testing and quarantine requirements.

Despite the CBSA telling reporters on Wednesday that unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers arriving at the border would "remain exempt" from testing or quarantine requirements, the government says that information, provided by a spokesperson, was incorrect.

“During that 16-hour window, when government put out the statement that said returning Canadians won’t have to quarantine, some drivers were dispatched,” Millian said. “We have a supply chain shortage, a driver shortage. There’s loads that needed to be covered.

“So the announcement came out, some of them were dispatched, and 16 hours later, the government does an about face, and now we have drivers out on the road that when they return, are going to have to quarantine, and they also have to get a PCR test within 72 hours of arriving at the border, and they didn’t know about this until late yesterday afternoon.”

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In a desire to gain even more power, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government appear to be taking the following risk:

Deliberately damage Canada’s economy, while hoping all the anger from the damage can be directed towards unvaccinated Canadians.

The reason to reach this disturbing conclusion is that there is no possible way that the Trudeau government thinks the mandate won’t damage the economy.

They know it will.

They know it will worsen supply chains that have already been damaged by lockdowns & the distortionary impact of rampant money printing.

They also know that damage to supply chains will raise prices even higher due to shortages, and will hurt millions of Canadians.

Nothing generates more widespread public anger than sustained price increases and shortages of key goods.

Trudeau and his advisors know this as well.

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Truckers tell 680 CJOB that a slow-roll protest is delaying trucking and other traffic as some truck drivers protest the vaccine mandate for all truckers that came into effect on Saturday.

Driver Jamie Throp says it took him 30 minutes to reach the border crossing from the start of the protest.

“Truck drivers are circling MB-75 between Emerson Duty Free and the Commercial Inspection station blocking all lanes heading south to the United States and Northbound traffic coming from the USA,” Throp said.

 

It's like they are angry at someone.

 

Also:

A British Columbia labour adjudicator has rejected firefighters’ appeal to suspend a mandatory vaccination order. A firefighters’ union local in Richmond, B.C. challenged the program as intrusive and heavy-handed: ‘They must choose between getting a vaccine they do not want or giving up on their careers as firefighters.’