Your middle-of-the-week snack-break …
It's not like it's the Liberals' money or anything:
“To generate sufficient revenue to significantly increase federal spending, Ottawa must raise taxes on Canadians across a broad income spectrum, not just top earners,” study co-author Ben Eisen said in the report, No Free Lunch for the 99 Per Cent: Estimating Revenue Effects From Taxes On Top Earners.
“If Canadians actually want a much bigger government, they’re going to have to pay for it with higher taxes,” not just higher taxes on the 1% of highest income earners, the fiscally-conservative think tank said.
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Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
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Cabinet must stop deficit spending, the Commons finance committee yesterday wrote in a report. MPs recommended cabinet “present as soon as possible a plan to return to a balanced budget” as the first of 222 recommendations on finances: “What are we looking at as a country?”
Also - if only the government didn't demonise them:
A trucker shortage worsened by the Trudeau government’s cross-border vaccine mandate is expected to triple by next year, and an interprovincial mandate “would be just catastrophic,” a livestock industry leader has warned.
Chair of the National Cattle Feeders’ Association James Bekkering told parliamentarians during a Mar. 24 Commons agriculture committee meeting that farmers were wondering whether they would be able to feed their livestock as a result of transportation bottlenecks.
“Agricultural supply chains are under tremendous pressure and are negatively impacting national food security. In the beef industry, much of the current stress stems from two challenges: securing critical farm inputs, especially feed, and keeping cattle and beef products moving smoothly through the supply chain,” said Bekkering. “Transportation bottlenecks are magnified by a severe trucker shortage, which is expected to triple by 2023.”
When someone insists that the government did a superlative job of "protecting us from Covid", remind them of this:
Most provinces, six out of ten, failed to increase their number of intensive care unit hospital beds from the outbreak of the pandemic, according to the Department of Health. Figures show provinces either cut capacity or left it unchanged despite billions in federal transfers: ‘Funding was committed to address capacity and backlogs.’
Also - Covid cops are not your friends:
A proposal under “initial discussion” would see federal quarantine inspectors gain police powers to ticket scofflaws, the Public Health Agency said yesterday. Managers complained they had to rely on local police to issue tickets for breach of the Quarantine Act: “The Agency could not issue contravention tickets across the country.”
And - it's like people don't want to be associated with brownshirts who trample old ladies:
The image of policing is so poor applications to the RCMP have plummeted, the Commons human resources committee was told yesterday. Almost a third of those who do apply and are accepted never bother to finish training, said the National Police Federation: “Policing is no longer considered as attractive a career as it used to be.”
What happens when a smear campaign doesn’t work?:
A federal agency yesterday declined comment on a project manager who publicly boasted of joining counter protests against the Freedom Convoy and called truckers anti-Trudeau roughnecks. Federal guides state employees must be politically neutral: ‘As a sturdily built white male I could blend in.’
Grift AND censorship is a win-win scenario:
The CBC is the largest beneficiary of a cabinet bill yesterday introduced to exempt news corporations from the federal Competition Act. Bill C-18 the Online News Act allows Canada’s largest subsidized media conglomerates to seek mandatory shares of ad revenues from Google and Facebook: “Monopolies have their thumb on the scale.”
But at least they saved themselves:
MPs are seeking air rescue flight logs following allegations Reid Sirrs, Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan, fled the country with staff aboard a half-empty military plane. Cabinet revealed Ambassador Sirrs received military help in Kabul months before fleeing: “They left in a pretty big hurry.”
Why, it's like everyone knows that Canada contributes nothing and cannot be trusted:
Britain, the United States and Australia on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said, following a call between leaders of the new defense alliance.
The new AUKUS alliance, launched last September, prompted Australia to cancel a contract for a conventional French submarine in favor of a nuclear submarine program supported by the United States and Britain, damaging relations with French President Emmanuel Macron. ...
At the time of the announcement on Sept. 15, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shrugged off Canada’s exclusion, saying the alliance is about selling Australia nuclear submarines — something that doesn’t interest Canada.
Trudeau said he was told the alliance will have no impact on the Five Eyes partnership, which comprises the three AUKUS players, plus Canada and New Zealand.
Further, the new intelligence deal between the three key allies won’t diminish Canada’s ability to defend its own interests in the Indo-Pacific region, he said.
In fact, the trilateral alliance is about far more than nuclear submarines, says Paul T. Mitchell, a professor of defence studies at Canadian Forces College.
Canada’s exclusion from the pact represents growing suspicions about both the Canadian commitment to the rules-based international order and the tacit “grand strategy” underlying our defence policy, Mitchell writes — defend Canada, defend North America and contribute to international peace and security.
“Canada has skated on thin ice so far this century. It’s avoided confronting the erosion of its strategic defence,” Mitchell said.
It is easy to see Justin's indifference to this major slight as merely stupidity on his part but one must also keep in mind that commitments require effort and money, something this member of the plutocratic class does not wish to spend.
We won't spend money on defense (stuff we have to print, I'm afraid).
We certainly won't live up to our NATO commitments.
Why should Canada be included?
Justin doesn't have an answer to that, nor will he.
If only Canada had some kind of vital resource and a way to transport it:
President Joe Biden is desperate to increase oil imports from Canada as the nation continues to struggle with high fuel prices — but is determined not to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline, whose permit Biden canceled on his first day in office in 2021.
People cheated for this.
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Perhaps they can just put it in cans and have Secretary Mayor Pete drive it from Canada in an electric car. https://t.co/pl6pgxFwMQ
— Retired Orrin G. Hatch (@RetiredOrrin) April 5, 2022
That’s right: the federally funded Canada Research Chair program, which doles out roughly $300 million every year to 2,000 academics, adheres to an identity quota system. Universities risk losing funding for positions if they haven’t hired the designated number of research chairs by 2029 in each “identity category” (women, visible minorities, Indigenous people and people with disabilities). As a result, some resumes are going straight into the trash.
Agendas cost professionals and money.
But I guess these guys know what they are doing.
Also - let us decolonise New France (read: Quebec) first.
Let's all put skin in the game:
She continued: "The prime minister has been very clear that working toward reconciliation requires the commitment of all cabinet ministers, so together with my colleagues, first nations, Inuit and Metis partners, and the public service, we are working to change our processes to better support indigenous self-determination, and the well-being and economic prosperity of all indigenous peoples in Canada."
Canada has faced a reckoning over its treatment of Indigenous communities in the past years, especially in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, and in 2021 after the re-discovery of burial sites near former residential schools.
Activists have used such incidents to burn down churches, tear down and vandalize statues of Queen Victoria and the father of confederation, John A. Macdonald. In 2022, Vancouver activists tore down a statue of "Gassy" Jack Deighton.
Why not abolish the Indian Act and allow resource development?
Oh, not THAT kind of self-determination, or cultural identity.
Well, someone had to offer them some dignity:
In a press conference on Monday, antiabortion activist Lauren Handy claimed to have actually had possession of 115 fetuses, although police last week removed five of them from her home last.
“During the five days they were under my stewardship,” she said, “the 115 victims of abortion violence were given a funeral mass for unbaptized children, and the 110 have been given a proper burial in a private cemetery by a priest.”
Police are “trying to find out how did those fetuses end up in that house?… We need to figure out exactly: Were they stolen? Were they stolen in transit? How did they end up in the District of Columbia?” one official said.
Indeed.
Who leaves baby corpses in the rubbish for someone to bury them properly?
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