Truly an awful amalgamation of people:
Defence Minister Bill Blair yesterday testified his department does not “shovel taxpayer dollars” to consultants. However Blair said he opposed a blanket ban on inside contracting as recommended by MPs: “We don’t shovel taxpayer dollars to anyone.”**
The Trudeau government rubberstamped more than one million pay raises to federal bureaucrats since 2020, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The federal government gave 319,067 bureaucrats a raise in 2023. The government has consistently declined to disclose how much annual pay raises cost taxpayers.
“Taxpayers deserve to know how much all these raises are costing us,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “It’s wrong for the government to hand out a million raises while taxpayers lost their jobs or struggled to afford ground beef and rent.”
The cost of the federal payroll hit $67 billion last year, a record high, representing a 68 per cent increase since 2016.
Meanwhile, the size of the bureaucracy spiked by about 40 per cent since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office, with more than 98,000 new employees being added to the federal payroll.
In 2020, the federal government issued 373,134 pay raises to bureaucrats, followed by 266,646 in 2021 and 162,263 in 2022.
All told, the feds rubberstamped 1,121,110 pay raises since the beginning of 2020.
“What extra value have taxpayers received from the million raises Trudeau has given bureaucrats?” Terrazzano said. “You shouldn’t get a raise just because you show up to work twice a week with your shoes tied.”
The raises come on top of lavish bonuses for federal bureaucrats. The government rubberstamped $406 million in bonuses in 2023 alone.
Bureaucrats working in federal departments and agencies took home $210 million in bonuses last year, while bureaucrats working in federal Crown corporations took $195 million in bonuses.
The government dished out more than $1.5 billion in bonuses to employees in federal departments since 2015, despite the fact that “less than 50 per cent of [performance] targets are consistently met within the same year,” according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
The average compensation for each full-time federal employee is $125,300 when pay, pension, paid time off, shift premiums and other benefits are considered, according to the PBO.
Meanwhile, the average annual salary among all full-time workers was less than $70,000 in 2023, according to data from Statistics Canada.
Government employees also receive an “8.5 per cent wage premium, on average, over their private-sector counterparts,” according to a report from the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan think tank.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, the largest union representing federal bureaucrats, is currently fighting against a government order asking employees return to the office three days per week.
Well, "journalist", that makes it all better:
New federal taxes on capital gains are still cheaper than rates in California, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday. Freeland introduced an expected Notice Of Ways And Means Motion to raise billions more in taxes on the sale of businesses, stocks, vacation homes and other equity: “That’s a lot of additional money.”
We're number negative one!
You know that the Liberals are desperate when they start finding things to tax.
In a normal country, this would sink a government.
Never under-estimate how much Canadians love being taxed:
The House of Commons voted Tuesday to approve the Liberal government’s capital gains tax changes despite the Conservatives opposing the measure.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voted in person along with his government for the tax changes, which will increase the inclusion rate for taxable capital gains. They are now set to take effect June 25.
The NDP and Bloc Quebecois also voted in favour of the measure.
The opposition Conservatives had not previously stated their position on the changes in the weeks since the proposal was first introduced in the latest federal budget in April.
The Liberals forced their hand when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled a stand-alone motion Monday to put the tax adjustment in place.
The government say the changes will help pay for investments in health care, housing and clean technology and will improve “tax fairness” in Canada.
But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday called the measure a “job-killing tax on health care, homes, farms and small business.”
Let's work a little math into the equation.
As of 2020, only 302,050 Canadians had an annual income of $250,000 or more.
That is out of a population of 40,769,890 inhabitants, or about 0.740% of the entire current population.
(Sidebar: keep in mind that the fertility rate in Canada is low and the population is buoyed by illegal and unvetted immigrants who have no reason to become Canadian but to live in Canada however briefly. Also keep in mind that the unemployment rate is currently at 6.2% and that the unvetted migrants do not present with any skills the country needs and are currently getting taxpayer-funded assistance.)
In order to get the touted $19 billion over five years, the 0.740% would have to sell everything they own.
For example, a home valued at $300,000, taxed at 50%, would be $150,000.
This is supposed to pay for social programs?
It still wouldn't be enough.
This is nothing more than a measure to squeeze money out of what remains of the middle-class and create class warfare where it shouldn't exist.
Rather communist, if you ask me.
Why don't we tax the Trudeau Foundation or Jag's wealth, or Chrystia's home that she got her parents to co-sign?
Would that help?
Was it something he said and did?:
Local leaders booed Justin Trudeau after he claimed the carbon tax gives Canadians more than it takes away.
On June 7, the Prime Minister met with local representatives at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Annual Conference and Trade Show in Calgary. During the conference, Trudeau spoke on stage with Halifax Mayor Mike Savage and responded to questions from the audience of mayors, councillors and municipal representatives from across Canada.
One audience member asked Trudeau about his plan to balance the budget after adding over $1 trillion to the national budget over 10 years. Trudeau responded by listing Canada’s economic accomplishments and how he supports affordability, naming the carbon tax as an example.
“(The carbon price) actually puts more money in the pockets of eight out of ten Canadian families. That’s a parliamentary budget officer who says that. It’s absolutely true,” said Trudeau.
Trudeau was then met with a chorus of boos and jeers from attendees at the FCM conference, which represents 2,100 municipalities.
Trudeau, smiling uncomfortably, responded: “Ha ha."
What's so funny, douche-tool?
What an arrogant @$$hole.
This is what happens when you don't say no to a sociopathic child and when you don't remind a civil servant that all he is is a civil servant, and an incompetent and lying one at that.
Also something Justin lied about, this:
Cabinet inflated claims of benefits under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s school lunch program, figures show. A promise to feed 400,000 schoolchildren daily will only be met if meal costs are cut to $2.78, below the minimum identified by the Breakfast Club of Canada: “We would need at least $3 to $6 per child per day.”
Always check the math.
Spare one the "won't somebody think of the children?!" spiel and tell everyone why Canadian children might be going hungry in a country with high inflation, high taxes, high unemployment and price control boards and how an inept and reckless government will efficiently take over the job parents are supposed to do?
Covid ventilators auctioned as scrap metal at $6 apiece were ordered under a Public Health Agency contract that paid millions up front, records show. The secret terms were disclosed through Access To Information: “The contract went fine.”
Then there is no need to fund it:
New data show the CBC draws just 11 percent of social media engagement nationwide, the poorest performance of any Canadian television network despite $1.4 billion in annual subsidies. The CBC has a thousand employees posting content online: ‘Five Canadian media outlets attract the most engagement.’
Also:
The Canada Revenue Agency last year paid more than a quarter million to distribute fake “news” articles written by employees, records show. Two dailies were among the newsrooms that published the Agency’s handout stories as legitimate items: “The purpose of these articles was to inform Canadians.”
And what of the electorate?
Well:
A study released last year by the immigration advocacy group Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) showed immigrants are also increasingly reluctant to stay, with the proportion who stick around to obtain full citizenship within 10 years of receiving permanent resident status plunging to 45.7 percent in 2021 from 60 percent in 2016 and 75.1 percent in 2001.
Cameron MacDonald, a 29-year-old from the Niagara Falls region of Ontario who left Canada in March for Japan, cited the high cost of living as the main reason for his move, which uprooted him from friends, family, and a job as an anti-fraud analyst with a major Canadian bank. He is now studying Japanese and looking for a job with a foreign firm, while living in Tokyo, which has a population density of 6,363 people per square kilometre compared to Toronto’s 4,427.8 per square kilometre.
“In Japan, I wake up with a smile on my face every day,” he said. “It’s like I have found a new passion—I can start a family here.
**
The average rent in Canada broke a new record in May according to a report released Thursday, rising above $2,200 a month for the first time.
The new report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation found that asking rents averaged $2,202 in May, up 9.3 per cent year-over-year and 0.6 per cent month-0ver-month.
The national average for an apartment in May was $2,146, and $2,312 rent for a condominium.
Vancouver is listed as having the highest rent in the country for a one bedroom apartment, sitting at $2,671 on average, followed by Burnaby, B.C., at $2,545, and Toronto at $2,479.
Some people are special:
Two First Nations have launched a court application against the lawyers who helped bring forward a $10-billion settlement with Canada and Ontario, saying the $510 million they’re set to be paid is too much.
They also allege the lawyers tried to shut down discussions about the fees in an April meeting, saying they would “lose confidence” in the trustees of the settlement if the sum wasn’t accepted.
“I do want to say we’re very grateful for the results that were achieved by lawyers, and we believe that the lawyers should be well-awarded for their services,” said Atikameksheng Anishnawbek Chief Craig Nootchtai.
“But we do not agree that a ($510-million) legal fee is fair and reasonable.”
The Robinson Huron Treaty settlement, reached last year, sought to remedy unpaid treaty annuities for 21 First Nations.
The First Nations said the $4-per-person annuity had not increased since 1874, which breached the treaty because resource extraction projects have used their land for generations, generating profits that far exceeded what their memberships received.
Lawyers who argued for the settlement sought $510 million in legal fees for their work, saying half of that would be used for more work on the treaty, including further litigation, and community projects.
But Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and Garden River First Nation say the First Nations have already paid millions of dollars in legal fees, with many taking out loans to do so, and are asking Ontario’s Superior Court to reconsider.
That's a lot of moulah for some - ahem - missing items.
Are we sure this is a money-savvy lot?
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Ottawa says it will give Quebec $750 million to help pay for a surge in temporary immigrants to the province, while committing to process asylum claims more quickly and better distribute would-be refugees across the country.
The US should have hit these guys with sanctions.
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