Your Wasteful, Corrupt Government and You

It's not like they are wasting their time or money, or might even end up in prison for being fascists or anything:

The Liberals appear to be losing the narrative war on the economy, and struggling to counter a growing wave of negativity. This is being led not only by the opposition parties but increasingly by elite opinion, which is always an important driver of Liberal sensibilities.

While critics can pick at the veracity of his assertions, there’s no denying Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre threads a pretty solid storyline around how an overreaching government has stoked consumer prices and driven up interest rates, making life unaffordable for Canadians. It’s that simple.

In comparison, Liberal economic messaging can sound wonky, off-kilter, behind the curve and often incoherent. This applies across the board — in the way Liberals talk about everything from inflation and climate change to immigration.

Take immigration. Federal efforts to ramp up international migration have had the unintended secondary effect of aggravating Canada’s housing affordability crisis and driving interest rates higher than they need to be, which in turn acts as a drag on housing investment just when we need supply the most.

(Sidebar: to wit.)

Yet, the Liberals contend that Canada should maintain elevated levels of international migration now in order to find workers to build homes for all these new migrants to live. There’s an incongruity that grates.

 

The Liberals aren't simply mistaken or guilty of mis-phrasing. They are outright wrong.

How do unvetted migrants with no capital or ties to the country magically translate into saviors who will build the bridges and houses we apparently cannot build, have the babies we won't have, or pay the taxes we won't pay?

Can they fix these problems sleeping on the streets where the Liberals left them?

 

 

But that was the whole plan:

Did the Canadian lockdowns violate the rights of citizens? A recent decision by an Alberta judge in the case of Ingram v. Alberta (Chief Medical Officer of Health) answered “yes” to this question.

Justice Barbara Romaine of the Court of King’s Bench ruled that Alberta’s COVID orders violated civil rights because it was the government, led by former premier Jason Kenney, that ordered the lockdowns — rather than the unelected chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw. The draconian lockdown measures therefore violated the Public Health Act.

 

That silly creature was part of the effort to destroy the lives of Albertans.

She's not innocent. 

Also - Justin's uncle is set to make his wayward nephew look good in a few days:

The government’s response to the Rouleau commission and the suite of recommendations about policing and the Emergencies Act is expected to be released in the coming days.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially promised to respond within six months, a deadline that expired on Thursday, but a government source, who spoke on background because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed a response “in the coming days.”

After months of study and six weeks of public hearings that ended with Trudeau’s testimony, Justice Paul Rouleau delivered a report in February with more than 56 recommendations focusing on the police response to the convoy protests, as well as changes to the Emergencies Act itself.

When the report was released, Trudeau pledged to have the government give a comprehensive response.

“We will take seriously what the Commissioner concludes and what he proposes. Responsible leadership means that we are all striving to do the very best for Canadians in words and in deeds.”

 

Like trample grandmothers with horses.

 

 

This Mark Holland:

The winding road of this unserious, yet corrosive, conspiracy theory began in March when Liberal House leader Mark Holland claimed that Pierre Poilievre had refused a national security briefing on foreign interference.

In fact, no such briefing was ever offered and Holland apologized the next day, though Poilievre had said he would refuse such a briefing because it would limit his ability to talk about China’s election meddling. Despite Holland correcting the record, the belief that Poilievre refused the briefing has persisted on social media.

 

Compare him to the Mark Holland who is pretending to distance himself from his much-hated colleagues:

Holland says governments "viscerally" understand that Canadians are done with political excuses for the state of health care and want to see results.

He says he believes those public demands will ensure accountability, and Ottawa "shouldn't walk around with a stick."

Holland said after his appearance that his provincial and territorial counterparts are pulling in the same direction, and that's why he doesn't want to start talking about how they'll be penalized if they don't meet the deal's conditions.

 

No one is buying it, Mark. 

 

Putting the energy sector in the hands of these sycophants for China is insane, to say the least:

We shouldn’t be cozying up to China while we are in the midst of trying to find out the exact extent of that country’s efforts to undermine our democratic institutions. The fact that they failed doesn’t make it any less serious.

Canada ought to be considering what firm and robust message it should be sending to the Chinese, but instead Guilbeault is off to meet his friend Huang Runqiu, China’s environment minister, first in Beijing and probably later in Dubai for COP28 (that’s a lot of jet fuel).

“Our collaboration was one of the keys to the success of COP15,” said Guilbeault of Runqiu, in his interview with the National Observer.

Well, that’s nice. What a pity Guilbeault couldn’t have given Runqiu a call a few years ago to see if he could push Chinese leader Xi Jinping into releasing the Two Michaels.

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Federal subsidies for electric car makers yesterday reached $32 billion, twice the annual output of the entire Canadian auto sector. “It’s pretty remarkable,” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in awarding another subsidy to Ford Motor Company: “I think it is a big accomplishment.”

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Canada must double or triple its electricity output to meet 2050 climate targets, says a Newfoundland and Labrador submission to the Senate energy committee. Meeting targets is “likely not possible” without more federal subsidies, it said: “That is the equivalent of four Churchill Falls.

 

 

Oh, of course she didn't!:

The Department of Finance hired a friend of Minister Chrystia Freeland as a senior advisor, records show. Freeland said she played no role in the appointment: ‘I want to avoid any appearance of preferential treatment or any opportunity to further the private interest of a friend.’ 

Snitches are not appreciated, or some such thing:

The Canada Revenue Agency asked accountants if they’d report small businesses that don’t pay their taxes, records show. “Very few were interested,” said in-house research: “Some felt it would be unlikely that Canadians would report on one another.”