Your Incompetent and Immoral Government and You

Don't worry. Your political betters will always have prime rib:

During a Commons industry committee meeting, Liberal MPs lamented the fact that Canada was not a leader in producing alternative sources of protein including insect-based “lab meat.”

On Mar. 4, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne was testifying before parliamentarians on his mandate letter when the discussion turned toward climate change and the purported threat to global temperatures caused by the agricultural sector.

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith referred to a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), asking whether the federal government would invest in the technology.

“Lab or ‘clean meat’ is one potential contributor to the human demand for protein in the future. That’s obviously a high-risk, high-reward initiative. It’s one that the U.S., Singapore and Israel are all pursuing. Canada is not, unfortunately, at the moment. Entrepreneurs are leaving the space in Canada, unfortunately. I wonder if you would turn your mind to high-risk, high-reward research via the net-zero accelerator?” said Erskine-Smith.

 

Where are those doctors and engineers we were promised?:

Despite a reduced number of high-skilled immigrants being accepted into Canada over the next two years, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser insists Canada will have the people it needs to fill the jobs it has.

Last month, Fraser introduced in Parliament his first levels plan as immigration minister. It proposes having 431,000 people become permanent residents next year, rising to 451,000 by 2024.

But in the next two years, the number of immigrants in the federal high-skilled category will be almost half of what the government had previously planned. The government is targeting to bring in 55,900 people in that class, while in October 2020 it forecast it would be bringing in 110,500 people.

Now, about that:

According to the 2016 Census, which is the last time we had a full scope of the entire labour market field in this area, about 20 percent of the total number of physicians in Canada are immigrants. That means about 28,000 people here in Canada are immigrant physicians. ...

Foreign-trained doctors are more likely to practice primary care medicine and more open to working in more rural and poorer areas.

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While all industries are dealing with a labour crunch, 38,000 jobs in health care, 29,000 in food services, 24,000 in manufacturing and 21,000 in construction were unfilled in the second quarter of this year.

 

(Sidebar: would this be because of lockdowns and firing people who refused to be jabbed?)

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Temporary foreign workers are now exempt from the federal government's mandatory hotel quarantine rules, meaning they can spend their 14 days in isolation at the farms where they'll work.

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Under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program announced by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Ukrainians can stay in the country for at least two years. There is no limit on the number of people who are eligible to apply.

 

(Sidebar: why only two years?) 

So, who are we training and why aren't they finding an entry-level position for poor hours and pay?

Oh, wait ...

 

Also - you voted for it, Canada:

A new study from the Finance Department suggests that single parents, lower-income households and recent immigrants are more likely to lose more for extra earnings than most other groups of workers.

Also more likely to lose out from extra earnings through working more hours or getting a higher-paying job were workers who live in Quebec, and those between the ages of 35 and 44.

 

Canada punishes success.

Or didn't you know?

Didn't Harper have a tax credit for this?:

Children’s participation in sports has declined so sharply it could affect future Olympic programs, says the Department of Canadian Heritage. Staff blamed high costs but made no mention of cabinet’s 2017 repeal of a fitness tax credit: “This could result in a gap in the number of high performance athletes competing in a decade or so.”

 

 

Mario Dion is a lap-dog so who care what he thinks?:

A Parliament Hill ban on lobbyist-paid interns is unfair, says the corporate-sponsored Canadian Political Science Association. The practice was prohibited four years ago by Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion as a clear conflict of interest: “They are not volunteers because they are paid by the organization that places them.”

 

Responsibility is just not what governments do: 

The Department of Transport that regulates national airports does an inadequate job of managing its own, says an internal audit. Investigators found favouritism in contracting, misuse of government credit cards and unexplained spending at seven small, federally-owned airfields: “Employees have side jobs, family relations work together and business partners are friends.”

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Cabinet’s $327,000-a year chief science advisor has not published an annual report in two years despite a requirement to account for the “state of federal government science.” Records show Dr. Mona Nemer, an Ottawa chemist, instead spent nearly a quarter million flying from Yokohama to Paris since her appointment: “Science is everywhere.”