Your pre-autumn spin-of-the-week ...
For some reason, Justin's hubris and complete inability to do anything right now grates on people, not like it should have in 2013:
Cabinet yesterday expressed shock and surprise over the loss of a must-win Liberal byelection in the Prime Minister’s hometown. Justin Trudeau and 15 cabinet ministers personally canvassed in the Montréal riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun: “We need people to understand.”
I think people understand that things are now too expensive and that their frat-boy prime minister would rather blame everyone else for these predictable failures:
It’s not me, it’s you! If you’re wondering why the Liberals lost this week’s byelection in the supposedly safe seat of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, just ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:“We need people to be more engaged. We need people to understand what’s at stake in this upcoming election. Obviously, it would have been nicer to win and hold Verdun, but there’s more work to do and we’re going to stay focused on doing it.”
Actually, people fully understand what’s at stake in the upcoming election. The LaSalle byelection was about Trudeau, the St. Paul’s byelection was about Trudeau, and the general election will be about Trudeau. Voters don’t want four more years, or even two more years of him. It’s been fun, please exit the ride now sir, your time is up.Trudeau’s hubris helped sink his party in LaSalle even before the race began. He hand-picked his candidate, Laura Palestini, big-footing aspiring party nominees who were already working the riding, and who loudly complained about it. Then 52 Liberal staffers refused to volunteer because of the Liberals’ position on the Israel-Hamas War, and worse yet, sent a letter to Trudeau about it. Next, Trudeau’s national campaign director quit and a Quebec MP publicly called for him to step down.None of these things help win votes. And none of these things happen if a leader has the respect of his party.Meanwhile, the Bloc Québécois benefitted from the rise of Parti Québécois fortunes in the province. They also mined the newfound clout the Bloc has in Ottawa since NDP leader Jagmeet Singh ripped up the party’s Supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals. Bloc leader Yves François Blanchet promised to deliver for Quebec by holding the Liberals to ransom — and now he has one more foot soldier to do it.
The votes weren't for confidence in the NDP or the Bloc but a repudiation of Justin:
Just as with Toronto-St. Paul’s, the loss in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun was particularly scary to Liberal insiders because of where it happened. Even in some of the Liberals’ most dire opinion polls of the last 12 months, the party was usually slated to continue winning seats in Montreal. As with Toronto, the Quebec metropolis has represented the country’s most reliable base of Liberal support ever since the Trudeau government took power in 2015.
These same dolts will prop up the Liberals once more when the non-confidence motion comes around:
Poilievre promised he would bring such a motion at the first chance he had, after the NDP ended its supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals earlier this month.It now appears that chance will come on Sept. 24.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh confronted a gaggle of protesters on Tuesday after one of them was heard to call him a “corrupted bastard.”Accompanied by a staffer, Singh was walking towards the West Block of Parliament, tailed by two men recording him from cell phones.“Are you voting non-confidence today?” asks one. “Corrupted bastard,” says another.The latter comment prompts Singh to stop and turn around, saying, “You want to say something?”“Who said that? You got something to say?” adds the NDP Leader as he approaches the pair.One of the men, dressed in a light-blue shirt and a bandanna, replies, “I didn’t say corrupted bastard … somebody behind me said that.”Singh then turns his attention to a man in a Toronto Maples Leaf hat and wearing a T-shirt reading, “Unmuzzled Unmasked Unvaccinated Unafraid.”Stooping slightly to meet the man’s eyeline, Singh asks, “Was it you?”“No,” replies the man, who has busied himself with his smartphone.“You sure?” says Singh, prompting an, “If it was me I would admit it, buddy.”The party leader then takes a step forward towards the man, asking again, “Was it you or not?” yielding the reply, “If it was me I’d admit it.” The man in the Maple Leafs hat then offers, “It was the gentleman behind me, I guess.”After unsuccessfully asking the man to point “the gentleman” out, Singh then lifts a finger to the man’s face saying, “You’re a coward; you’re not going to say it to my face.”
Mark Carney is another one who should never helm this country's economy:
Foster notes that “Carney has been a prime pusher of ‘net-zero,’ the notion that climate-related human emissions must be entirely eradicated, buried or offset by 2050 if the world is to avoid climate Armageddon.”
A central aspect of the “net-zero” agenda is the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. Clearly then, his agenda poses a threat to Alberta’s economy and prosperity. Despite the fact that Carney grew up in Edmonton, he doesn’t demonstrate much concern for this province.
Carney’s emphasis on fighting climate change leads Foster to quote the famous American writer H. L. Mencken as saying that: “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule.”
That statement applies in this context because the “Carney-backed agenda is not predicated on working through democratic institutions but on circumventing them.”
More particularly, “Carney’s plan is to control the global economy by seizing the commanding heights of finance, not by nationalization but by exerting non-democratic pressure to divest from, and stop funding, fossil fuels. The private sector is to become a partner in imposing its own bondage. This will be do-it-yourself totalitarianism.”
Indeed, in a country dominated by policies designed to alleviate climate change, citizens will have less choices (consider the current war against single-use plastics,) less transportation (e.g., no more gasoline cars,) less meat (cattle release carbon emissions, after all), and less conveniences in general, but more poverty (due to deindustrialization.)
As Foster notes, Carney’s ideology embraces what libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of constructivist rationalism: “the belief that the largely spontaneous institutions of the market order should be rejected in favour of more deliberately planned arrangements.”
That is, give the government enough power, and central planners can arrange society — by force — into something much better than the supposed anarchy of a free society.
Um, tyranny.
Justin has doubled the national debt:
Pop the champagne! It’s now official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has doubled the federal debt. It took nearly two dozen prime ministers and a century and a half for the federal government to rack up $616 billion in debt, which is where the total stood before Trudeau’s first year in office. But less than a decade later, on Aug. 30 of this year, the debt has officially doubled to $1.232 trillion. That’s according to calculations done by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation based on annual debt increases outlined in the government’s latest budget.
The Trudeau government’s debt binge has had, and will continue to have, a material impact on Canadians’ lives.
We all want to leave our kids and grandkids a bright financial future. But a baby born today is already on the hook for about $30,000 in federal government debt. That debt may never fully be paid back: Canada’s federal debt has never been zero, though at times it has been very low. But even if it’s entirely rolled over and not a penny of it paid back, the debt will generate continuing interest payments, which means higher taxes for future generations unless future governments cut spending and run surpluses.
In this regard, the future looks bleak. New data from the Parliamentary Budget Officer doesn’t see a balanced federal budget until 2040. That would mean another $296 billion added to the debt between now and then — even assuming the government introduces no new spending and the economy grows for 16 years straight.
The federal government’s debt interest charges already cost taxpayers more than $1 billion every week. The government now wastes more money servicing the debt than it sends to the provinces in health transfers. Paying debt interest takes every penny collected from the GST.
The economy has regressed from the wallet outward.
YAY!
But consider the voters blocks:
This low-wage labor comes at a high cost for those Canadians trying to enter the labor market, however. Employers use TFWP as a business model, pricing out unskilled domestic workers. What does this look like in practice? Your local restaurant hires foreigners, leaving your teenaged kid without summer work, without employment experience, and eventually, living in your basement. It is also bad for the foreign workers. I know from experience that, in many cases, they are effectively paid below minimum wage, because they are forbidden from taking breaks, they work unreasonably long hours, and they live in employer-owned accommodations while rent is deducted from pay. This is tantamount to indentured servitude. A recent United Nations report exaggerated when it included the TFWP among modern examples of slavery, but only somewhat.
I wouldn't say somewhat.
We don't have to trade with China:
The federal agency that investigates election infractions found insufficient evidence to support suggestions Beijing wielded undue influence against the Conservatives in the Vancouver area during the 2021 general election.
Rather, no one wants the evidence found.
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MPs are vulnerable to electronic surveillance by foreign agents, the chair of the Commons national defence committee said yesterday. Testifying at the Commission on Foreign Interference, Liberal MP John McKay (Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont.) said Chinese hacking of his own cellphone may have exposed contacts he built up through nine terms in Parliament: “Maybe I am just being paranoid.”
Tell me again that these people are not delusional bullies:
Calgary transgender activist Victoria Bucholtz made a spectacle at a public meeting she was in with Alberta Independent MLA Jennifer Johnson (Lacombe-Ponoka) after she refused to recognize transgender women as women.
But they aren't.
With the help of a teacher in York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), her parents were kept in the dark about her use of “they/them” pronouns and a new masculinized name in the classroom. Only in June 2022 did her parents learn what was quietly going on in school. When they objected and asked school leaders to include them in conversations about their daughter, the school called the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which investigated the family.In December 2023, Julie detransitioned after realizing she’d been swept up in a social fad that overlooked her underlying mental health issues. Now, her family is raising the alarm about the power schools have to keep parents in the dark.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that family assets weren’t evenly distributed after the death of Yat Hei Law, the mother of Ginny Lam and William Law. Under the will, about $2.9 million was left to the son, $170,000 to daughter ...
It's called communism.
If Kamala had truly become a prosecutor to protect women and girls, she was doing a poor job of it. A 10% increase in rapes was bad enough, but the numbers were even worse in context.
In 2010, when Kamala first ran for attorney general, there had been 8,325 rapes in the state. By 2016, when Kamala was fighting to take Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat, there were 13,695 rapes.
This was not a 10% increase, but a shocking 64% increase.
Kamala, who claimed to be crusading for women, had presided over the single largest increase in sexual assaults on women in the state in a generation. The 34.87 per 100,000 statewide rape statistic people put Kamala’s California well above the national average of 29.6.
Why was California so bad for women under Attorney General Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris did not become a prosecutor to protect women, but to protect criminals. The 64% increase in rapes on her watch was a symptom of that larger problem. Alongside notorious Soros DAs like George Gascon, she led a rebrand of soft on crime policies as ‘smart on crime’. This would also become the title of her book arguing for keeping many criminals out of prison.
Among other things, ‘Smart on Crime’ meant cutting quick and easy plea deals while working as the DA in San Francisco to maintain the appearance of the high conviction rates that she would cite when running for attorney general. The plea deals that her office later cut statewide, including for her political ally Mayor Bob ‘Filthy’ Filner, cooked statistics by raising conviction rates and lowering prison populations to create the illusion that pro-crime policies worked.
By the time Attorney General Kamala Harris was ready to move on from the Senate, arrest rates had fallen to their lowest point since 1969 while violent crime soared. Even as violent crime rates increased, arrests continue to fall with catastrophic results for public safety in the state.
Did Kamala actually have any special feeling for women who had been sexually assaulted?
Proposition 57, one of the pro-crime propositions that ended public safety in the state backed by key donors who would prove crucial to her political career, offered a painfully stark choice.
The pro-crime proposition granted early release for criminals convicted of a crime not officially listed as a “violent felony.” That included not only many violent criminals, but also some rapists who committed different kinds of sexual assaults including ‘rape with a foreign object’.
Attorney General Harris had become notorious for abusing her position to write heavily distorted summaries for pro-crime propositions. And Proposition 57 was no different. The debate over Prop 57 provided Kamala the opportunity to stand with her pro-crime backers or with women.
And now for something completely interesting:
“We know that inbreeding reduces genetic diversity in a population, which can be detrimental to their ability to survive if it occurs over a longer term.”
Unlike modern humans, who are more connected, the results from analyzing Thorin “supports the notion that social organization of Neanderthals was different to early modern humans,” said Sikora.
There is evidence of early modern humans in Siberia “forming so-called mating networks to avoid issues with inbreeding, while living in small communities,” said another researcher from the University of Copenhagen Tharsika Vimala.
But that behaviour was not found among Neanderthals.
“This is some of the evidence that we were looking for and needed to figure out how likely this hypothesis of them going extinct because of their isolated lifestyle is,” said Vimala, adding that more genomic data is needed to “paint a better picture of their history.”
The same people who had music, roasted their food and had funerary rites.
But I digress ...
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