Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Your Incompetent, Petty, Money-Grubbing, Unaccountable, Craven, Mincing Government and You

Who put these idiots in charge?

Who?:

According to the respected international recruitment and relocation consultancy Henley & Partners, Canada’s passport is only the 31st most respected passport in the world.

And that’s not because we replaced our old passports — featuring images of the Fathers of Confederation, Terry Fox, the Famous Five suffragettes, Vimy Ridge and the RCMP Musical Ride — with ones containing pictures resembling those on placemats given to children at family restaurants, along with crayons, so they can amuse themselves until their chicken fingers arrive.

We’ve dropped from the Top 20 since the Liberals came to office in 2015 and now rank behind Brunei, Malta, Monaco, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia and only marginally above Croatia, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

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Canada offered “planning” support but did not actively participate in U.S. and U.K. retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday. 

Speaking to reporters Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called ongoing Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea “unacceptable” and “extremely grave” and said Canada participated in the planning of the strikes. 
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He also said Canada doesn’t have military assets in the region, so it could not directly participate in the strikes. 
“We don’t have the particular assets in the region,” Trudeau said. “We did not offer operational resources for the strikes, which were very targeted and conceived to prevent the Houthis from continuing their attacks against seaways.” 
In a statement, Andrée-Anne Poulin, a Department of National Defence spokesperson, confirmed that no Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) equipment was used during the strikes and that Canada’s direct contribution to the mission was three military members.

Why - it's like we're not important anymore.

It's like only those who have the will and means to get the job done matter.

 

 

 The House of Bourbon comes to mind:

 MPs could be meeting as soon as Wednesday to discuss Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s holiday vacation to Jamaica that was a $84,000 gift from family friends.

Michael Barrett, a Conservative MP and ethics critic, said in a video posted on X that the parliamentary committee on ethics is being recalled this week because “it’s extremely important” that MPs find out if Trudeau has misled Canadians or the ethics commissioner.


Justin has been through this before and so have we.

He doesn't even have to think about it because the verdict will always be one in which he is never held to account.

He, like his WEF friends, are the elite who dine well while others go without.

Call me when his pension is withheld for things like this.



If seniors, who remember how bad things were under Justin's dad, would vote for Justin now, then they don't deserve their pensions:

You have to wonder how low Justin Trudeau’s support would be if it weren’t for seniors. Right now, that’s the best performing demographic for voter support that Trudeau’s Liberals can count on and he’s not even winning them.

The latest poll from Abacus Data shows Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives with a 17-point lead over Trudeau’s Liberals. The Conservatives lead among every demographic group and in every region except Quebec, while the Liberals don’t have a lead anywhere to be found.

 

Where is that Chinese electoral interference when you need it? 

Not even the guttural member of Shawinigan will weigh in.

Indeed, what will Justin do when Trump reclaims the presidency next year?

Just ask the people under his thumb:

But probably the survey’s most surprising result was that younger Canadians were disproportionately likely to favour Trump over Biden. So much so, in fact, that young Canadian voters emerged as more pro-Trump even than young voters in the U.S. 

More than one-third (36 per cent) of Canadian women between the ages of 18-44 were in the Trump camp — a rate way higher than the 21 per cent of over-44 women who backed Trump. 
And young Canadian men emerged as the single most pro-Trump demographic in the poll. The survey saw a majority (52 per cent) of under-44 Canadian men vote Trump over Biden. 
This was higher even than the Trump support found within respondents who identified as Conservatives; those Canadians only picked Trump over Biden in 50 per cent of case.  
According to the most recent U.S. polls, Canadian young people seem to like Trump even more than their U.S. equivalents. A YouGov poll from last week found Trump polling in the mid-30s for under-44 voters.  
The Spark Advocacy results would seem to jibe with a growing body of evidence that young Canadians are stampeding towards the Conservatives. 
 
It must be all of that not having a job or a house or food thing that's been going around.


Being a Liberal means never having to answer for your incompetence and corruption:

The Commons industry committee meets today by request of Opposition MPs to consider hearings into mobile phone rates. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne promised lower prices 10 months ago when he approved one of the biggest telecom takeovers in Canadian history: “What I’m telling you, everything is on the table.”
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The Commons industry committee yesterday adjourned without calling Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne to answer for claims he would cut cellphone prices. Rogers Communications has announced prices on some plans will rise by up to $108 a year effective January 17: “This is like going around in circles.”

 

 

Speaking of corruption:

 MPs investigating the $54 million ArriveCan project tomorrow will question an Ottawa insider who reportedly boasted he “rubbed shoulders with every assistant deputy minister in town.” The Commons government operations committee to date has been unable to find who approved sweetheart contracts that paid millions to federal consultants: “It should be evident to everyone in this room as well as Canadians there is systemic corruption within this government.”

 

 

The CBC should not even exist:

CBC News says it published an inaccurate “fact check” of Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. The Crown broadcaster had sought recognition as a Facebook fact checker in the last federal election: “CBC’s video has been edited to remove inaccurate mortgage comparisons and clarify information.”

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The CBC last year cut spending on Indigenous language services that account for less than one half of one percent of its budget, Access To Information records show. CEO Catherine Tait had cited “fantastically exciting” Indigenous shows as justification for ongoing subsidies: “Should we be defunded we would no longer be reaching all of those Canadians.”


Also:

Cabinet is using media bailout money to “leverage news coverage in its favour,” says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. His remarks coincided with release of a federal briefing note indicating media subsidies will continue indefinitely “through this time of disruption.”


Canadian winters perfectly illustrate why "green" technology is a pointless venture:

For the fourth time in as many days, and the second time in 17 hours, Canada’s most energy-rich province again found itself in an electrical crisis, short of energy.
The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared its fourth “grid alert” at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 15, less than 10 hours after the end of the third alert.

 

 

Good luck finding someone to help you:

The federal government has begun searching for vendors interested in managing their impending firearms confiscation program just weeks after the Trudeau Liberals’ gun legislation became law and nearly four years after their contentious ban on so-called “assault weapons.” 

Last month, an Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) was issued by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) on behalf of Public Safety Canada, seeking to pre-qualify suppliers interested in administering the federal Firearms Buyback Program (FBP), responsible for collecting and eventually destroying over 1,500 firearm models banned under the federal government’s May 1 2020 order-in-council.
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“The primary intent of the FBP is to remove the number of newly prohibited firearms from circulation in Canada by offering fair compensation to businesses and individuals impacted by the prohibition,” read an explainer attached to the ITQ, which closes for submissions on Friday. 
The government’s firearms confiscation program, according to the terms spelled out within the ITQ, will “acquire collection, verification, validation, transportation, and destruction services for prohibited Assault Style Firearms” on behalf of Public Safety Canada. 
“The estimated volume of these firearms held by businesses is within the range of 10,000 to 15,000, and the volume held by individuals is within the range of 125,000 to 200,000,” the ITQ read.
“These estimates could vary as the number of affected non-restricted firearms is unknown.”
With the stroke of a pen, the May 2020 order-in-council instantly reclassified around 1,500 popular firearms to prohibited status, including so-called “military-style” or “assault” firearms.
Initially meant to come into force in April 2022, amnesty for current gun owners was extended until Oct. 23, 2023, and extended again until 2025.

 

 

Chrystia Freeland is a fat Nazi cow.

Change my mind:

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday had no comment after police handcuffed a reporter who attempted to question the Minister. Freeland is a former newspaper executive who said any reporter could ask her any question “without fear of retaliation.”

 

Your smirk said it all, fatty. 



No one wants drugs, legal or otherwise:

A majority of Canadians, 81 percent nationwide, have some type of prescription drug insurance typically through work, new Statistics Canada figures showed yesterday. The latest data follow in-house Privy Council research indicating voters are indifferent to pharmacare as promised by Liberals and New Democrats: “Few felt this to be a significant issue.”

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Cabinet’s “safe supply” drug policy has had minimal impacts despite costing more than $820 million, says a health department report. Researchers said while supervised consumption sites saved some lives “opioid-related deaths have remained higher than pre-pandemic levels.”

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Last summer, a joint report “Fentanyl Tablet: Prescribed Safer Supply Protocols,” was developed in collaboration with the provincial government, the British Columbia Centre on Substance Abuse, and a non-profit group called PHS Community Services Society.
The document outlines a strategy on how the government can provide a “safe” supply of fentanyl to adults and minors under B.C.’s Access to Prescribed Safer Supply policy.

What kind of scumbag thought of the above?

Probably the same sort who would victimise children.



The people of Toronto voted to be gouged:

Hidden in the budget documents released this week is a $7,600 raise on the mayor’s annual salary of more than $200,000.

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A fault line between the Toronto mayor's office and local Liberal MPs is opening up over a proposed increase to property taxes linked to a perceived shortfall in federal funding support.

Her office, in turn, is accusing Ottawa of dragging its feet when it comes to getting funds out the door and argue local MPs need to fight harder for their city. 
At issue is the city's forecast that the cost to house asylum-seekers will rise to at least $250 million in 2024 — and its request for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to pick up the tab.

 

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