Mid-Week Post

Your before-the-school-year begins post ...

 

I think we know the cause:

The federal government will establish a working group to examine low economic productivity and a stagnating standard of living, Treasury Board President Anita Anand has announced.

Anand said she was immediately striking the working group, but details were scarce on its composition, timetables, and objectives. The working group will have the expertise to evaluate productivity issues in the private and public sectors and have representatives from across the country, she said Aug. 27, speaking from the margins of the Liberal cabinet retreat in Halifax. Unions will also be engaged.

“We know that Canada has strong economic markers, a triple-A credit rating, the lowest net debt to GDP ratio in the G7, historically low unemployment,” said Anand. “At the same time, we know that there is more work to do on GDP per capita, or productivity.”

Ottawa has been using the net debt-to-GDP ratio measure to tout the strength of the Canadian economy. Canada ranks first in the G7 with 14.6 percent, while the U.S. is at 100.7 percent and the UK at 99.6 percent, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.

When calculating gross government debt as a percentage of GDP, however, Canada falls behind both the UK and Germany. It also ranks 16th from the bottom among world countries.

GDP per capita is typically used to measure the standard of living. IMF data shows Canada was in a virtual tie with the U.S. from 2008 to 2013, reaching approximately US$53,000. After 2013 there was decoupling, with per-person GDP falling and stagnating in Canada while the U.S. mostly kept its upward trajectory.

Canada’s current GDP per capita stands at US$54,870 whereas the U.S. is at $85,370. Euro area member countries followed a similar trajectory as Canada, with its average per-person GDP currently at US$45,830.

 

 

It was never about a virus and we all know it:

Canada was “not as prepared as it could have been” for the pandemic, says a Public Health Agency report. The first-ever admission of failure followed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s boast that Canada was among the best prepared nations on earth: “The Public Health Agency was not as prepared as it could have been.”

 

It was not a matter of preparation (something Canada refuses point-blank to do); it was a deliberate act to destroy an economy and demoralise a population.

That is why a convoy showed up at Parliament Hill. What choice did anyone have?

Also - is that why people were beaten and an elderly woman trampled with a horse?:

Supporters of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest outside Parliament included current and former Mounties, says a newly-disclosed RCMP memo. The document said then-Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to find Convoy sympathizers within the force: “Past and current members participated in or potentially supported the protests.”

 

 

It's just money:

A parliamentary battle is brewing between the House of Commons and Auditor General Karen Hogan, who has so far refused to comply with an order demanding she hand over documents relating to her scathing audit of the so-called “green slush fund.”

Parliament’s halls may be sleepy during the quiet summer months, but drama has been building between the House of Commons, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and, to a lesser degree, the RCMP over a motion adopted by MPs nearly three months ago.

 

It's all a matter of transparency.

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A Kenyan phone company that received millions from Canadian taxpayers lost more money again last year, new financial records show. A federal agency bought $43.4 million worth of shares in M-Kopa Holdings Ltd. of Nairobi in the name of international development: ‘These are good quality jobs in East Africa.’

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The Department of Foreign Affairs’ New York realtor yesterday testified an existing Park Avenue diplomatic residence was a wonderful penthouse that remains “move-in ready.” The department had cited a need for renovations as justification for buying a new $8.8 million Central Park condo for Consul Tom Clark: “It’s just very interesting to me that this residence was not good enough.”

 

 

Do you know who understands English medical terms? Canadians:

In September, Dr. Grunfeld and ACCES Employment, a Toronto not-for-profit agency that helps newcomers find jobs, will launch Health English Language Pro, or HELP. The program will pair Canadian physician volunteers with internationally trained MDs looking for work in the health sector, whether as doctors or other professionals. An eight-week pilot phase involving four pairs wrapped up in the spring.

“It’s a really unique niche,” Dr. Grunfeld said. “I’m thinking of it as something valuable for the volunteer, just like it’s valuable for the newcomer. I’m thinking of it as a partnership.”

 

So, what does this do for Canadian medical students who are squeezed out of the country? 

But we already know who killed 332 people, why they did it and how Canada failed to stop it, avenge it or prevent anything like it ever happening again.

It's time to stop wasting time and money with pointless virtue-signalling:

Nearly two decades after a second public inquiry found that Sikh extremists living in Canada orchestrated the bombing of Air India, a Liberal MP is sponsoring a petition calling on his government to order a “fresh inquiry.”

 

If the Canadian government really cared, it would deport en masse supporters of the mythical state of Khalistan.

October 7th will be here sooner than one thinks:

The Israel Defense Forces launched a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in the Jenin and Tulkarem areas of northern Samaria overnight Tuesday, involving hundreds of troops and air support.

Nine Palestinians were killed, according to the IDF — three armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces in Jenin in an aerial strike, two armed terrorists in clashes with Judea and Samaria Border Guard forces and another four in a drone strike in the Far’a camp in Tubas.