Your Greedy and Wasteful Government and You

Justin will not stand idly by and let people gape at his excessive greed and sloth:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of struggling “with the concept of friendship” on Tuesday, as he defended his recent stay at a luxurious Jamaican estate belonging to longtime friends of his father.

(Sidebar: friends who give you money? Like your Chinese friends?)

Trudeau is under fire after CBC’s French service, Radio-Canada, revealed that he and his family spent the past holiday season at the Prospect estate in Ochos Rios, Jamaica, on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, where rooms cost anywhere from US$1,000 to US$7,000 a night.

(Sidebar: these vacations.)

The estate belonged to Sir Harold Mitchell, the late father-in-law of Peter Green, who became a friend of Pierre Elliott Trudeau dating back to the 1970s. Both the Green and Trudeau families have taken multiple vacations together in past decades, according to a government official.

The Trudeau family’s stay at the Greens’ estate cost Canadian taxpayers at least $162,000, which includes more than $115,000 in security costs by the RCMP and $47,000 to cover expenses of Canadian Forces flight crew members and Privy Council employees.

 

At no point does Justin explain himself or apologise for what is clearly a conflict of interest, especially at a time when people are struggling to pay bills. 

He attacks like spoiled teen-aged cheerleader.

 

 

Justin will try again to seize every resource in the country like a latter-day and more effeminate Stalin:

Trudeau suggests First Nations want to deal with the current federal government because its easier than dealing with the provinces, but warns of a “toxic” federal government in the future

 

 

Justin bought time with promises to the gullible:

Macdonald finds only 44 per cent of those who would have likely been eligible for the one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit actually received it, while just over half have received the Canada Dental Benefit.

“These are pretty atrociously low take-up rates. We should be learning lessons from this (so) the next time around we have much higher take-up rates,” Macdonald said in an interview.

The housing benefit offered $500 to low-income renters. Applications closed on March 31.

The federal dental benefit was rolled out in the fall to provide families with up to $650 per child under 12 for dental care. It was the first step toward creating a national dental care program, a key promise in the Liberals’ confidence-and-supply agreement with the NDP.

 

 

It's just money:

Canadians are investing $550m to create 660 jobs? $833,000 per job? How many years are they guaranteed? Ng must have friends working there pic.twitter.com/tG9vX0f5so

— Jay Kowal (@jaycola) April 17, 2023

 

These are the people who do the least amount of work for the most gain and they have the audacity to strike:

That there were two classes of Canadians — those in the public sector and those in the private sector.

Certainly, there were exceptions, but on the whole, public sector workers, on average, were better paid, had better benefits, were less likely to lose their jobs and were more likely able to work from home.

Meanwhile, those in the private sector, on average, earned less, with fewer benefits, faced a greater risk of unemployment and were less likely to be able to work from home.

In that context, if there was ever a failure to read the room in the wake of the pandemic, it is evidenced in the possibility that 155,000 federal civil servants could be on strike by Wednesday morning if their union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, doesn’t reach an agreement with the Trudeau government.

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Using data on individual workers from January to December 2021, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Canada. It also evaluates four non-wage benefits for which data are available to quantify differences in the compensations offered by the two sectors in these provinces.

After controlling for factors like sex, age, marital status, education, tenure, size of firm, job permanence, immigrant status, industry, occupation, province, and city, the authors found that Canada’s government-sector workers (from federal, provincial, and local governments) enjoyed an 8.5% wage premium, on average, over their private-sector counterparts in 2021. When the wage difference between unionized and non-unionized workers is taken into account, the wage premium for the government sector declines to 5.5%.

Available data on non-wage benefits suggest that the government sector enjoys an advantage over the private sector. For example, 86.6% of government workers are covered by a registered pension plan compared to 22.9% of private-sector workers. Of those covered by a registered pension plan, 90.6% of government workers enjoyed a defined-benefit pension compared 39.9% of private-sector workers.

In addition, government workers retire earlier than those in the private-sector—about 2.4 years earlier on average—and were much less likely to lose their jobs: 1.0% in the public sector compared to 4.8% in the private sector. Moreover, full-time workers in the government sector lost more work time in 2021 for personal reasons (14.9 days on average) than their private-sector counterparts (9.8 days).