None of these people should have money in their pockets:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added another 10,525 bureaucrats to the taxpayer payroll last year. Since becoming prime minister, Trudeau has added more than 108,000 new federal bureaucrats.
That’s a 42% increase in the federal bureaucracy in less than a decade.
Ask yourself, are you getting 42% better services from the federal government? Unless your paycheque comes from taxpayers, the answer is a big fat NO.
While Trudeau’s bureaucracy grew by 42%, Canada’s population grew by 14%.
That means there would be 72,491 fewer federal paper pushers had Trudeau kept growth in the bureaucracy in line with population growth.
It’s not just the size of the bureaucracy that’s ballooning — the cost is too.
The total cost of the federal payroll hit $67 billion last year, a record high. That’s a 68% increase over 2016.
Trudeau gave federal bureaucrats more than one million pay raises in the last four years alone.
Since taking office, Trudeau also rubberstamped about $1.4 billion in taxpayer-funded bonuses to bureaucrats working in federal departments.
The bonuses were paid out despite the Parliamentary Budget Officer finding “less than 50% of [performance] targets are consistently met.”
Then there’s the bonuses at failing Crown corporations.
CBC dished out $15 million in bonuses last year, while their President and CEO Catherine Tait whined about “chronic underfunding” and begged the government for more taxpayer cash. The CBC takes more than $1 billion from taxpayers every year.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation dished out $102 million in bonuses over the last four years, while Canadians couldn’t afford to buy a home. The bonuses rained down, despite the CMHC repeatedly claiming it’s “driven by one goal: housing affordability for all.”
The Bank of Canada dished out more than $60 million in bonuses over the last three years, even though it failed to do its one and only job: keep inflation low and around two per cent.
The average annual compensation for a full-time federal bureaucrat is $125,300, when pay, pension and perks are accounted for, according to the PBO.
There are now more than 110,000 federal bureaucrats taking home a six-figure base salary — an increase of 154% since Trudeau took power.
Meanwhile, data from Statistics Canada suggests the average annual salary among all full-time workers in Canada was less than $70,000 in 2023.
Canadian elections have long rested on what many experts say is an undemocratic foundation: opaque nomination races in which political parties select their candidates for general contests in a process mystifying to most Canadians.
Party bosses enjoy an unshakable grip. Money flows, often unaccounted for. Rules tend to be lax, with no impartial judge in sight.
“After Tammany Hall, the U.S. went through a series of reforms that resulted in the modern primary system,” said Michael Chong, a high-ranking lawmaker from the Conservative Party. “But our system is largely based on a 19th-century system.”
Though the machinations behind nominations have long been an open secret among insiders, they have recently come under a harsh spotlight with Canada’s continuing sweeping investigation into foreign meddling in its political system.
Nominations have been singled out as glaring weaknesses in the country’s democratic system that some foreigners — primarily China and India — are increasingly exploiting to back certain candidates and oppose others.
Lawmakers from Canada’s major parties passed a bill last month to help fend off and prosecute foreign meddling, including with the creation of a registry of foreign agents.
It's a government-sponsored program so, of course, it was mismanaged.
Didn't anyone do the math on this?:
The federal daycare program was first announced in 2021, when the government proposed spending up to $27.2 billion over five years to create 250,000 daycare spaces and to lower rates to $10 a day by 2026. The goal of the policy is to make child care more accessible, especially for low-income families, and to allow more women to enter the workforce.
According to government estimates, the program has created up to 40,000 child care spots as of April 2024, and has achieved its $10-a-day fee reduction target in more than half of all provinces. The federal government also says that in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia child care fees have been reduced by at least 50 percent.
“With Budget 2024, we’re creating more child care spaces, hiring more early childhood educators, giving them more training, and working with provinces like Ontario to make sure families get the care they deserve,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement in May. “Affordable, quality child care–that’s what fairness looks like.”
“Unfortunately, while cost savings are being offered to families, the cost burden on operators like the YMCA has grown,” wrote the YMCA in a 2024 pre-budget submission to the Ontario government.
The workforce crisis has resulted in child care programs being forced to close, limit enrolment, or change hours of operation due to difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff, according to a 2022 joint letter to the Ontario Ministry of Education from the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
Ms. Hannen asked the auditor general to find out whether licensed spaces have increased or shrunk because of the federal program, and if the government has plans to address staffing shortages that have prevented centres from running at full capacity.
Also - virtue-signalling can be expensive:
Auditors have revealed that a federal "Equality Fund" established with a $300 million taxpayer grant quickly lost 10% of its value due to poor investments.
Blacklock's Reporter says the fund was intended to aid women in developing countries.
“Poor market conditions impacted the early returns on gender lens investments, though the Fund has since rebounded,” noted a Department of Foreign Affairs audit. “Progress was uneven,” it added.
The Equality Fund was designed to address “the funding shortfall for women’s rights and feminist organizations in developing countries,” the auditors wrote. “It was meant to provide a sustainable, predictable, and flexible source of funding that would enable women’s rights and feminist organizations to advance gender equality and empower women and girls.”
However, fund managers spent $5 million on start-up costs and lost a tenth of the remaining amount in bad investments. “The Equality Fund investment portfolio has an unrealized loss of 10%,” according to Formative Evaluation. “Performance has since improved.”
“Most of this funding served as an endowment-style fund that was meant to provide a long-term, sustainable source of revenue to fuel grant-making activities in perpetuity,” the auditors wrote. Taxpayers’ $300 million was intended as “seed capital” to be “invested with a 100% gender lens.”
The Equality Fund did not disclose where it invested its money. Income from the $300 million was supposed to finance Third World programs for the next 15 years.
Start looking into the pockets of the Liberals' friends.
(SEE: rat, ship, sinking):
Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan yesterday abruptly quit cabinet. O’Regan is the third Liberal MP to confirm he won’t seek re-election in Newfoundland and Labrador where a provincial Liberal government has campaigned against the federal carbon tax: “Nerves are rubbed raw.”
And yet Newfoundland voted Liberal.
Interesting.
In essence, the admiral was saying: “If you want to be a freeloader, don’t think you’re a sovereign country. If you want to be truly sovereign and exercise jurisdiction over your own territory, then you have to be prepared to bear the burden for doing that.”
And now, one more reason why Justin does not want Trump to resume office next year:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies could be thrown into chaos if former president Donald Trump wins the U.S. election on Nov. 5 and makes good on two things he promised in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.
First, Trump would end the multi-billion-dollar U.S. government subsidy program for green energy, which he described as the “green new scam” contained in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and transfer the remaining funds to infrastructure projects such as building roads, bridges and dams.
Second, Trump said he would end U.S. EV mandates on “Day One” of his presidency.
“We will end the ridiculous and actually incredible waste of taxpayer dollars that is fuelling the inflation crisis,” Trump said.
“They (Biden and the Democrats) spent trillions of dollars on things having to do with the green new scam. It’s a scam. And that’s caused tremendous inflationary pressures in addition to the cost of energy and all of the trillions of dollars that are sitting there not yet spent.
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