Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Your Idiot Government and You

Justin didn't destroy Canada all by himself.

He had help:

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Despite industry transition plans that advocates fear will eventually phase out Canada’s oil and gas industry, government projections show the sector is short tens of thousands of workers.

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The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment.

Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint.

Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was found to have breached conflict-of-interest rules in 2018 for approving a lucrative fishing licence for a family member while he was fisheries minister.

A statement from the office of the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner says Richard will stay on as a lawyer while the search for a new leader continues.

A spokeswoman says neither the office nor Richard will respond to further questions on the subject.

 

Conveniently ending any probes into the Liberals' various doings.

 

 

And why would you go to this hell-hole in the first place?:

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is working with “like-minded countries” to help citizens who remain in Sudan flee the country as an armed conflict there escalates.

Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in just 10 days after power-sharing negotiations between the country’s armed forces and its paramilitary troops rapidly deteriorated.
Joly says Global Affairs Canada is trying to contact all Canadians in Sudan who have registered with the government, and anyone who hasn’t yet done so is urged to get in touch immediately.
Almost 1,600 Canadians were formally registered in Sudan as of Saturday, but experts believe the number of Canadians in the country is likely much higher.

 

 

What debate?:

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told a parliamentary committee on April 20 that the debate on the need to reduce vehicle emissions “is over” as the federal government looks to implement a number of incentives to encourage Canadians to purchase electric vehicles.
These emissions:

The economic cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly five times higher than previously thought, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday.

The minister told attendees at a climate change conference in Ottawa that the government used updated scientific knowledge and economic models to revise the way it evaluates how much climate change is costing Canadians.

The new numbers have been in development for months but come after a recent report from the parliamentary budget officer on the economic costs of the carbon price. That report did not specifically equate the cost of the price on carbon to the costs of climate change itself.

“The updates to the social cost of carbon simply show that every tonne of greenhouse gas is costing the economy more,” Guilbeault said at the Net Zero Leadership Summit.

The social cost of carbon estimates the financial impact that every tonne of emissions has on everything from food production and human health to disaster repair bills and even property values.

The idea is that growing emissions contribute more to global warming, and every increase in global average temperatures can increase the number and severity of extreme weather events.

More than seven years ago an analysis estimated that by 2020 the cost would be about $54 a tonne in 2020. Guilbeault said the updated model suggests that figure was actually closer to $247.

He said this year it’s even higher, at $261 per tonne of emissions, and by 2030 it will rise to $294.



If Justin loses the love of the public sector, (those working-class heroes who work from home, have better pay, more money and an excess of whining) why, who will sue those working-class truckers?:

Barely one-third of 120,000 striking federal public servants cast a ballot on the biggest work stoppage in government history during a vote riddled with “major irregularities” that raise “significant concern” for the federal labour board.

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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that the federal government's offer to striking public sector workers is a fair one that wouldn't burden the treasury with unnecessarily high wage costs at a time of economic uncertainty.

 

Damn Disney Plus ... 

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Allow me to say quite clearly that if government services were provided quickly, painlessly and with a smile, I would happily pay more for them. The unavoidable and sad fact remains, however, that in many ways this current government shut down is merely a more co-ordinated manifestation of the government’s incompetence in recent years in providing Canadians with basic services.

Cast your minds back, if you will, to our COVID emergency in 2020. The government flooded the country with COVID cheques as the provinces went into lockdown. This was the right thing to do. It would also have been right to follow up on any suggestion that some of the money didn’t go to the right people.



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