Your middle-of-the-week scoff ...
Don't demand answers. Call a vote of no-confidence. Filibuster. Overthrow:
Opposition parties say the fact the government allowed half of foreign nationals red-flagged as security risks into the country between 2014 and 2019 is shocking and erodes Canadians’ trust in the immigration system.
The Canadian government is a dictatorial one.
What else would go out of its way to hide the truth from its citizens?:
The House committee on access to information, privacy and ethics, which has been studying the system since October of last year, published a 99-page report on Tuesday outlining proposed changes to the regime’s law and policy. Liberal MPs on the committee responded with a dissenting opinion.The report recommends bringing ministers’ offices under federal access law, fulfilling a promise made and later abandoned by the federal Liberals in 2015. Other proposals would limit time extensions on access requests to 60 days, give the Information Commissioner of Canada the power to impose fines and review cabinet confidences, and establish the automatic release of historical documents after 25 years.The report also calls on the government to tie senior public servants’ bonuses to their access performance and change the funding mechanism for the Information Commissioner’s office. It says that all released access requests should be published in full in a searchable database.
Civil servants in the Natural Resources Department recommended the use of “limitation language” to answer the written Commons questions from Conservative and NDP MPs, internal e-mails show.The revelation prompted Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to issue a rebuke Tuesday over the failure to fully answer written questions, saying more and more MPs were complaining about the quality of replies.He said all MPs, regardless of which party they are from, have a right to expect full and factual responses to requests for information from the government.MPs deserved accurate answers “regardless of their name, reputation or political affiliation,” Mr. Rota said. “Written questions and the responses to them are central parts of the process of accountability,” he added.MPs often table written questions to get information from the government, which has to respond within 45 days. But this week Tory MPs expressed dismay after internal e-mails, obtained through access to information, suggested politically neutral public servants had used evasive tactics when replying to their questions.
Shugart was appointed to the Senate after retiring from his job as the most senior bureaucrat in the federal government. In his maiden speech on Tuesday, he emphasized the need for the Senate to show restraint, “an idea, a discipline, that has proven essential in our constitutional and institutional development.”He said the Liberals’ restructuring of the Senate by trying to eliminate partisan groups can give senators a feeling that they have more power than they have a right to. Trudeau eliminated the Liberal Senate caucus in 2014, and many senators now sit as independents or part of new caucuses not tied to political parties in the House of Commons.“The further we get from a party-based Senate, the more entrenched will be the idea of independence and freedom of action,” Shugart said. “We could find ourselves with many senators effectively setting themselves up as a de facto opposition to the government.”
There are A LOT of things one can pin on Justin:
Unaffordable housing is a new problem in Canada. Housing affordability was constant and reasonable during the entire Harper era. It took roughly 40 per cent of the average family income to pay monthly housing costs on an average single detached home. Now it takes 70 per cent — a record high and record increase. Eight years ago, the average home in Canada was a reasonable $454,976. Today, it is $729,000. Based on rising house prices and rising rates, a buyer purchasing a typical home today is facing monthly mortgage payments of $3,298, eight years ago it was $1,418, according to housing analyst Ben Rabidoux.
Trudeau has presided over a 132 per cent increase in the average mortgage payment. In Toronto, it now takes 25 years for a family with an average income to save for a down payment on the average house. You used to be able to pay down an entire mortgage in that time.
As the nearby graph of housing affordability over the past few decades shows, these increases are new, drastic, unprecedented and curiously timed to when Trudeau took office. Clearly, this is not a decades-old problem, as Mason claims.
Now onto Mason’s second error: that Canada’s housing bubble is just part of a global trend. This, too, is false. Yes, housing has become more expensive elsewhere. But Canada’s housing prices are higher, and shortages worse, than almost any other country on earth.
Vancouver and Toronto are now the third and 10th most unaffordable cities in the world. Worse than New York, London, and Singapore — even though the latter is the second most densely populated country in the world, with 2,000 times more people per square kilometre than Canada.
“The standard home in Canada now costs twice as much as in the U.S.,” according to an article in Fortune magazine. Based on supply and demand, Canadian homes should be far cheaper than American ones, as they have 10 times the people to house on a much smaller land mass.
We have the fewest houses per capita in the G7 — even though we have the most land to build on. In fact, we have fewer houses per capita today than we did eight years ago, as our population has outgrown home building. So why do we have so much land with so few houses?
Artificially propping up the French language since 1867:
A first-ever bill to mandate bilingualism in the federally regulated private sector yesterday was signed into law. Bill C-13 An Act To Amend The Official Languages Act will “reverse the decline of French,” said Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor: “It’s a good day for official languages.”
You don't have to deny emergency medical care; one simply has to deny citizenship by making birth tourism illegal as it is a form of fraud:
Should Canada deny care to ”birth tourists,” pregnant women who visit Canada with the sole purpose of delivering their babies here, thereby obtaining automatic Canadian citizenship for their newborns?
It’s a provocative, and, some say, dangerous suggestion. However, a leading expert in preterm and multiple births is arguing that Canadian hospitals and doctors should have “absolutely zero tolerance” for birth tourism, a phenomenon that is rising once again now that COVID travel restrictions have been dropped.
It’s a “sorry state of affairs” that women in Canada face wait times of 18 months or longer for treatment for pelvic pain, uncontrolled bleeding and other women’s health issues, Dr. Jon Barrett, professor and chief of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at McMaster University wrote in an editorial in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.
“The thought that even ONE patient seeking birth tourism would potentially take either an obstetrical spot out of our allocated hospital quota, or even worse, a spot on the gynaecologic waiting list, should be enough to unite all in a position that anything that in any way facilitates this practice should be frowned upon,” Barrett wrote.
“These are non-Canadians getting access to health care, which we haven’t got enough of for our own Canadians,” he said in an interview.
When planned low-risk births go wrong, and babies end up spending weeks in intensive care, hospitals can be left with hundreds of thousands in unpaid bills. One Calgary study found that almost $700,000 was owed to Alberta Health Services over the 16-month study period.
The women themselves are also at risk, Barrett said, of being “fleeced” by unscrupulous brokers and agencies charging hefty sums upfront for birth tourism packages that include help arranging tourist visas, flights, “maternity” or “baby hotels” and pre-and post-partum care.
Despite an explosive claim in a government report that shovel-wielding “denialists” attempted to dig up alleged remains on the grounds of a former residential school, the RCMP says it has received no reports of such.
“Denialists entered the site without permission,” special interlocutor for unmarked graves Kimberly Murray said in her June 2023 interim report, referring to the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
“Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to ‘see for themselves’ if children are buried there.”
However, the Kamloops RCMP says it has not intercepted any unauthorized shovel-bearing grave-diggers on the former residential school grounds or received reports of any such trespassers.
“At this time, there is no indication that these events have been reported to the Tk’emlúps Rural RCMP Detachment,” the RCMP told True North on Monday.
Also - where is that monument for victims of communism, Justin?:
A survivor-led steering committee announced today that a tribute to survivors and victims of residential schools will be built on the west side of Parliament Hill.
Ottawa appointed the committee in April 2022 to select a site for a national residential schools monument in keeping with one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said at a ceremony this morning that the monument is a "significant" step towards reconciliation
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How much money do you need for your wardrobe, anyway, Mary?
Naturally the Taiwanese don't trust the Chinese communist government:
Taiwan's government says China will try to interfere in key elections in January by illicitly funding Beijing-friendly candidates using communications apps or group tours, according to three internal security reports reviewed by Reuters.
President Tsai Ing-wen's government has repeatedly warned of China's attempts to influence public opinion on the democratically governed island, which Beijing claims as its own territory despite Taipei's strong objections.
I'll just leave this right here:
Taleeb… why are you delivering awards with Han Dong to the leader of a “voting alliance” with a registered clubhouse address *in China?*
— Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur (@RealAndyLeeShow) June 21, 2023
Call me as a witness if you have the guts. https://t.co/LKaoaUalse pic.twitter.com/fUq7npSoqF
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Liberals on the House affairs committee yesterday grilled a reporter they blamed for the caucus resignation of MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.). MPs demanded unwritten details of a Global News story on Dong’s confidential contacts with Chinese envoys: “I stand by the story.”
The story made things hard for Liberals who are used to never answering questions about bribes influence global affairs.
Also:
Parliament must mandate disclosure of universities’ dealings with Huawei Technologies and other Chinese partners, the Commons science committee was told yesterday. “We need to stop these terrible deals,” testified one witness. “End them now.”
And now, as it is the first official day of summer, a bit of mood music:
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