The destruction of the country is in process:
Government House Leader Karina Gould said Tuesday she's confident the NDP supply-and-confidence agreement that keeps the Liberal government in power will hold until its expected end date in June 2025.
That agreement, first signed in March 2022, allows the government to carry on without fear of falling on a confidence vote. If the two parties abide by the deal, there would be no federal election until next summer at the earliest.
Canada's fixed-date election law dictates that a vote will happen in October of next year — but the prime minister could call one earlier than that if he wanted.
"I'm fairly confident that agreement is a good agreement, it's a strong agreement and we'll get to the end of June," Gould told reporters at the cabinet retreat in Halifax, where ministers have gathered to craft their strategy for the year ahead.
"We signed the agreement until the end of June — that's something that has been signed and agreed to, so I'm going to be working on that premise," she said.
(Sidebar: this Karina Gould.)
And why would the government tell the elderly that they need to stay in those houses with "too many rooms"?:
Parliament should pay Canadians over 65 to stay in their homes, say cabinet advisors. A National Seniors Council expert panel did not estimate the cost of its proposed Age At Home Benefit but said it should not be income tested: “The federal government should think about the economic cost of inaction.”
One of Canada’s most heavily-subsidized weeklies yesterday did not comment after publishing an article critical of Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to abolish subsidies. The Hill Times did not disclose its own six-figure funding or the fact the reporter who wrote the story had worked as a $750-a day federal consultant: ‘He is challenging poor, underpaid local journalists.’
Business groups are raising concerns about Ottawa’s decision to restrict the number of temporary foreign workers coming to Canada, warning that certain industries that are struggling to find workers could be adversely affected.
On Monday, Ottawa announced that employers will not be able to bring in foreign workers through the low-wage stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) in regions where the unemployment rate is six per cent or higher from Sept. 26 onwards.
The low-wage stream includes cleaners, hotel attendants, food servers and administrative assistants and the move is expected to affect the retail, restaurant and hospitality sectors the most.
The government will make exceptions for food security sectors, such as agriculture, food processing and fish processing, as well as construction and healthcare.
Some business groups, though, are worried that sectors such as tourism and the restaurant industry, which are still facing labour shortages, could be dealt another blow by the move.
“We agree that the unemployment rate has been growing,” said Diana Palmerin-Velasco, a senior director at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, a group that represents 200,000 businesses. “The issue is that those statistics do not look the same across the country. For sure, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are very likely to be saturated, but that doesn’t mean it is the same in Sudbury or Thunder Bay.”
She reiterated the need for the government to engage with employers and hear their concerns.
Dan Kelly, who heads the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), which represents more than 97,000 small businesses, said the announcement was worrisome and would take a toll on small businesses. He added that the move seemed political.
“The government is in a difficult position,” he said. “They are having to satisfy the politics of this with the economic realities and those are two things often difficult to square.”
On Monday, Trudeau said that “severe labour shortages” in the aftermath of the pandemic led the government to expand the temporary foreign workers program to help businesses through a tough time.
What a f---ing liar.
Justin locked down the country and destroyed businesses.
Canadians weren't allowed out of their homes but foreign workers could take their places and then stay in the country just in time for the next election.
Also:
Cabinet this fall for the first time will detail the true number of foreigners let into the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday. It follows a May 21 report by the Senate social affairs committee that complained actual counts were misrepresented in Parliament: “We are meeting the moment.”
And:
The decision to reform the TFWP is long overdue. Businesses will now be encouraged to invest in productivity improvements, but it is crucial to monitor how these changes will impact the entire food supply chain, including the food service sector. The road ahead will not be without challenges.
Unfortunately, as a country we have become blasé about government incompetence. We have reached the point that we shrug it off as just Ottawa being Ottawa, whether it’s the unintentional honours done to a Waffen SS veteran, the obvious lack of due diligence in public appointments such as those this year to the Senate and the Canadian Human Rights Commission or the chilling possibility that a recent immigrant believed to have ISIS links who had acquired citizenship was apprehended while — allegedly — preparing to launch a mass casualty attack in this country.
Of course, we want Ottawa to do better. But we do not expect them to and are not surprised when they don't.
Enjoy the decline:
Credit delinquencies are on the rise as Canadians’ debt climbed to $2.5 trillion in the second quarter, says a report out today.
The latest Market Pulse from Equifax Canada shows credit card holders on average carried over a balance of $4,300, the highest level since 2007.
Outstanding balances on credit cards hit $122 billion, up almost 14 per cent from the same time last year, and the high cost of living and rising unemployment rate are contributing to an increase in missed payments, said Equifax.
Article contentOne in 23 consumers missed a payment on at least one credit product in the second quarter, up from one in 25 last year. The non-mortgage delinquency rate rose 23.4 per cent to 1.4 per cent, pushing past the peak in 2020 to levels not seen since 2011.
Albertans had the highest delinquency rate in Canada at 2.18 per cent, said another report out today from TransUnion Canada.
This province also saw the highest rise in delinquency, followed by Ontario.
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The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2024 by the Fraser Institute said health-care expenses will cost families an estimated $17,713 in 2024.
“Canadians pay a substantial amount of money for health care through a variety of taxes—even if we don’t pay directly for medical services,” said Nadeem Esmail, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and co-author of the study.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has called for gas tax cuts in Alberta after it released its Gas Tax Honesty Report (GTHR).
CTF Alberta Director Kris Sims said the province used to lead Canada in low fuel taxes, but that award now goes to Manitoba.
“The Alberta government needs to cut taxes for all Albertans like it promised to do in the election,” said Sims in a press release.
The CTF showed in the GTHR how much tax drivers are paying per litre of gas and diesel across Canada.
Albertans pay 48 cents in tax per litre of gas and 46 cents in tax per litre of diesel with federal and provincial fuel taxes combined. Manitobans pay 34 cents per litre in tax.
The federal carbon tax costs Albertans more than 17 cents per litre of gas and 21 cents per litre of diesel. That cost is set to increase every year until 2030 when the carbon tax will hit 37 cents per litre of gas and 45 cents per litre of diesel.
Filling up a minivan with gas in Alberta costs $36 in total taxes, and a pickup truck will cost about $55. Meanwhile, filling up the tanks on a big rig diesel truck costs truckers about $400 extra in taxes.
The Ontario government has cut the fuel tax by 5.5 cents per litre, and the Newfoundland and Labrador government extended its fuel tax cut for the entire year.
“Albertans used to have a big advantage because our provincial fuel tax was fully suspended for a year, but those days are gone and now we are paying the full freight,” said Sims.
“Albertans need a tax cut at the pumps, and we need the [Justin] Trudeau carbon tax scrapped.”
The Canadian government awarded billions of dollars in contracts earmarked for Indigenous enterprises without always requiring bidders to prove that they were First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, a Global News investigation has found.
A program that now helps Indigenous businesses land more than $1.6 billion in contract awards annually, the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB), used to rely largely on an honour system, said Anispiragas Piragasanathar, a spokesman representing federal departments.
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), which currently vets applicants, and the departments that preceded it going back to 1996, did not always demand status cards or other documents from vendors until 2022, according to Piragasanathar’s statement.
“In years past,” he explained, “businesses were required to sign an attestation” that they were Indigenous. They also faced the possibility of an audit, he said.
In 2022, ISC tightened the requirements by demanding documentation from new applicants, Piragasanathar said. He did not explain why.
The Trudeau government has directed billions of dollars to Indigenous businesses over the past two years, but never addressed the PSIB’s underlying problems, according to a collaborative investigation between Global News and researchers at First Nations University of Canada. (Learn more about how the investigation unfolded.)
The program has recently come under fire from federal MPs for negligent auditing practices that potentially allow non-Indigenous businesses to exploit the system at the expense of Indigenous enterprises — and their communities.
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