But don't take my word for it:
It has been two months since the Prime Minister’s Office announced branding guru Max Valiquette would become executive director of communications, bringing with him his expertise in “understanding millennials and generation Z.” Early in the new year, the PMO also added broadcaster, strategist and pundit Supriya Dwivedi as a senior adviser. In a Toronto Star op-ed, Dwivedi said she signed on in hopes of tackling online misinformation that’s being algorithmically forced down our throats by “giant, for-profit, foreign companies.”
The headline: “It’s him, not you — and he knows it.”Aha, interesting. Some humility! Let’s dive in.
No, let's not.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that he stayed with friends “like many Canadian families” did over the holidays during his Christmas vacation to Jamaica that was a $84,000 gift from family friends.
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The majority suddenly saw a dangerous precedent. They, too, might find their requests for approval disclosed.Revealing such detail, said Liberal Iqra Khalid, would threaten transparency.She actually said that.Khalid also said MPs’ dealings with the commission have “solicitor-client privilege.” The commissioner, by law, is prohibited from revealing any details.A regular person might wonder why there’s any secrecy at all.Maybe there should be a registry of all questions taken to the ethics boss.The mere act of going to the commissioner, after all, implies a problem with a gift or a trip.But in the end, all the non-Conservative MPs were quick to smother a threat to their own padded privileges.
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The problem is that Justin Trudeau is a raging cunt who would rather project his colossal fuck ups on Canadians than accept responsibility for them himself. #TrudeauMustGo #cdnpoli https://t.co/MWE8zpqYKJ
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) January 23, 2024
What she said.
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But you can't campaign in Kansas, Justin. You have to campaign in Canada and run on your record:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that he has assigned two cabinet ministers to lead a new "Team Canada" engagement to ensure Canada and his government are prepared for all possible outcomes from this fall's United States presidential election.
This record:
In 2023, the average Canadian family paid 46 percent of its annual income in taxes—including income taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, carbon taxes, and more, says Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute think tank.“And that’s before any of the increases that we’re going to see in 2024,” he told The Epoch Times.A slew of tax hikes are coming through, including at the federal level a rise in Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Employment Insurance (EI) contributions and in the carbon tax, alcohol tax, and more. On the municipal level, many major cities are seeing big property tax hikes.
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The Trudeau government’s record of consecutive budget deficits is pockmarked with unbridled spending on bureaucracy, and new and expanding government programs. Since Trudeau took the reins of government, annual spending has ballooned 75 per cent (projected to be $453 billion in 2023-24). The federal debt has more than doubled to $1.2 trillion (2022-23) and is projected to rise further to $2.4 trillion within five years. The Trudeau years epitomize big government: the federal public service has grown 40 per cent (now totaling 357,247) and operational spending has increased 32 per cent.Ottawa is washed in a sea of red ink. With interest costs on the national debt reaching more than $52 billion annually, the billion dollars a week Canadians now spend to service the debt is taking away from the government’s ability to support the increasing demands for improved health care, housing, and social programs.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't believe in slashing federal spending to please business groups or opposition Conservatives, raising questions about how his Liberal government would meet its own goal to cap annual budget deficits in the coming years.
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Pay for executives working in the federal government increased over half a billion dollars in less than 10 years, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).Compensation for executives across federal departments and agencies increased from $1.38 billion in 2015 to $1.95 billion in 2022, an increase of 41 percent, according to a CTF federal commentary published Jan. 17, citing data obtained from access-to-information records.The organization also found that, over that seven-year period, the number of federal executives increased 31 percent, from 7,138 to 9,371, while inflation, based on Statistics Canada data, increased 19.4 percent.
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MPs are reaching deeper into your pockets and stuffing more money into their own.
— Franco Terrazzano (@franco_nomics) January 22, 2024
They’re giving themselves another raise — their fifth since the beginning of 2020
This raise is an extra $8,100 - $16,200
MPs will be paid $202,700
Trudeau will collect $405,400 after the raise pic.twitter.com/l5DE1l8Ww8
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The Budget Officer is completing a first-ever independent review of newsroom subsidies. The analysis follows the doubling of payroll rebates to $29,750 a year for employees of cabinet-approved newsrooms: “I am requesting specific data.”
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Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne yesterday ordered all federally registered companies to disclose names and addresses of major shareholders. A publicly accessible database of beneficial owners is still a year away, he added: “We had some bad actors who used Canadian corporations in the way that I think Canadians would find very disturbing.”
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What DO the little people think, I wonder?:
Presenting on the middle class will be: Kevin Milligan, a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia; Frances Donald, chief economist at Manulife Financial; and Armine Yalnizyan, an economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers will speak to the cabinet. The government source did not specify what aspects of the middle class these presentations would focus on, but the government first campaigned on its commitment to middle class prosperity in 2015. Each budget since then has included some focus on the middle class—and the common government refrain “and those working hard to join it.”
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More than $11 million has been paid to families of Canadians who suffered death or injury as a result of Covid vaccines, say managers of a federal compensation fund. The new figures follow Health Minister Mark Holland’s boast that Canada was a world leader in pandemic lifesaving: “Thanks to vaccines and to other measures we saved literally hundreds of thousands of lives.”
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The Commons health committee by a 6 to 5 vote has rejected public disclosure of a contract to a failed Québec vaccine supplier. Conservative MP Rick Perkins (South Shore-St. Margarets, N.S.) said piecemeal records show cabinet lied about why it paid $150 million to a factory in the Minister of Public Work’s riding: “It is voting for a cover-up.”
Also - Kansas:
Now the Chinese will have to interfere extra hard!
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