Your Corrupt and Inept Government and You

Yep:

According to the National Post’s Anja Karadeglija, Budget 2022 included roughly $15 billion in extra spending in order to appease the terms of the Supply and Confidence Agreement, the official deal under which the NDP agreed not to challenge Liberal leadership in exchange for various . It’s why columnist Carson Jerema wasn’t the only voice to brand it the “Jagmeet Singh Budget,” after the NDP leader.

But while the NDP have announced they will vote for the budget, they still plan to publicly slag all the non-NDP parts of it. “We still have critiques and criticisms,” Singh told a Friday press conference. On the eve of Budget Day, Singh even put out a tweet slamming Trudeau’s environmental policy. “In 7 years, Justin Trudeau has not been a climate leader. Real leaders don’t subsidize big oil. Real leaders don’t buy pipelines,” he wrote.

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled her second federal budget Thursday promising a return to "fiscal responsibility" after years of big COVID-related spending.

It's a noticeably thinner budget that left some of the Liberal Party's major 2021 election promises on the cutting room floor. A number of those commitments — most notably more money for health care, mental health and long-term care, and more support for seniors — were slated to roll out starting in this fiscal year.

Freeland said the pandemic blew big holes in the federal budget and it's now her job to "review and reduce" spending and revert to Canada's "proud tradition" of spending within set limits now that the worst of COVID-19 is behind us. The budget is projecting $31 billion in net new spending over the next five years, a fraction of what the government has allocated in past budgets.

 

You never send a journalist to do an economist's job.

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It's five o'clock somewhere:

Unnamed Canada Revenue Agency executives are accused of going for drinks during business hours, according to a confidential report. A consultant cited widespread complaints at the Agency’s Competent Authority Services Division responsible for international tax matters: “Questionable behaviour and work ethic by some staff members or managers were brought to our attention.”

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What can go wrong?:

Attorney General David Lametti says he is “open to other ways of attacking” drug crimes. Lametti made the remark at the Commons public safety committee when asked if he would support decriminalizing possession of heroin and other narcotics: “I don’t think we should close off any possibility of solving those problems.”

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I'll believe it when I see it:

Foreigners convicted of crimes in Canada would automatically have all immigration permits and papers cancelled under a cabinet proposal. Currently the Canada Border Services Agency complained employees must spend an average half-hour manually voiding permits one at a time for every person named in a deportation order: “In 2018 over 30,000 removal orders were issued.”

 

I don't care about their clerical efforts.

I would like to know why no one has been deported.