Vacuous and Wicked

That's Canada for you:

Canada can’t ramp up oil shipments quickly enough to bring down crude prices that have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s environment minister said.

“Let’s be reasonable, we can’t help Europe with oil,” Steven Guilbeault said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “Our export capacity is pretty much maxed out. We’re building a pipeline. It’s just going in the wrong direction and the idea that we somehow could start to build a bunch of new infrastructure in Canada and it would magically happen -- either for gas or for oil -- is not very serious.”

 

You ridiculous, rotten man!

Is Putin's war machine running on "green energy"? 

Pouring vodka down the sink is easy.

Refusing Russian cash is not:

Last Friday, Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca had called on the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) to remove Russian vodka from their shelves. 

“Our allies in Ukraine are under attack by Russia and need our help,” said Del Duca in a press release. “Pulling Russian vodka from the shelves of the LCBO is an immediate action Ontario can take to demonstrate our solidarity with the people of Ukraine.”

According to Del Duca, banning the sale of Russian vodka would somehow hurt Russian financing during their invasion. 

Canada imported US$3.78 million worth of alcoholic beverages from Russia in 2021, which is 0.00075541% of Russia’s total 2021 exports of US$489.8 billion.

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But one of the most recognizable Russian elites to have been excluded from Canada’s sanction list is billionaire Roman Abramovich, best known outside his home country as the owner of Chelsea FC, one of the world’s most popular soccer teams.

Abramovich, who had come under intense political scrutiny in the U.K., said on March 2 that he will sell Chelsea and donate the proceeds to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported. The team is only his most visible asset in the West. Among other things, Abramovich is the largest shareholder in Evraz PLC, a steel manufacturing and mining business that has facilities in Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. ...

Alexander Abramov, Alexander Frolov, Evgeny Shvidler and Maxim Vorobyev — all wealthy Russians — are also among the top six shareholders in the U.K.-based company, according to Bloomberg. None of them appear on Canada’s sanctions list.

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Owners of a subsidized Regina mill that hosted a 2018 tour by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are now making steel for Putin’s war machine, the Commons was told yesterday. A cabinet announcement on new general sanctions against Russian investors was abruptly postponed: “There may be some impacts.”

 

 

The same country that threatened to kidnap children and kill dogs:

Canada now kidnapping Russian nationals. https://t.co/StDFpY4wEI

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) March 4, 2022

 

But they live in a "post-national"state where anyone can wander in, Quebec is the only province that matters and people hyphenate their citizenship so as to mark their tribes. The government has woefully defunded and emasculated the army that was last working properly when Vera Lynn was around. And let's not start the crap about loyalty to Canada when the Chief Pants-Wetter loves China to bits:

Ottawa is warning that Canadians who decide to fight for Russia in Ukraine could face severe consequences, even as it acknowledges for the first time uncertainties about whether it is legal to bear arms for the Ukrainian side.

 

And there will be no Ukrainians to replace them:

The House of Commons immigration committee called on government to implement visa-free travel for Ukrainians fleeing the war. The vote passed without the support of the Liberal members of the committee. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee were told that the Liberals will not review visa requirements for Ukrainians.

Over a month ago, we implemented measures to priority process citizenship grant applications for adoption, as well as permanent and temporary residence applications for people with a primary residence in Ukraine who want to reunite or travel with family, study, work or start a new life in Canada,” said Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada spokesperson Julie Lafortune. 

Upon election in 2015, PM Trudeau greeted a planeload of weary Syrian refugees landing in Toronto, telling the first to disembark that “you’re safe at home now” as he handed them winter coats.

“This is a wonderful night where we get to show not just a planeload of new Canadians what Canada is all about, but we get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome people who are fleeing extraordinarily difficult straits,” said the prime minister. Trudeau went on to approve the entry of 50,000 Syrian refugees to Canada.

The Liberal government has thus far approved entry for 4000 Ukrainians. In the meantime, refugees are crossing borders to neighbouring countries such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary. On Tuesday, the United Nations stated that more than 830,000 people had entered these countries from Ukraine. Why is it that Mr. Trudeau, woke advocate of the world, is not applying his “benevolent compassion” to the suffering Ukrainians?