Mid-Week Post

 

The snakiest day of the year!

 

Isn't there anyone here who works for Canada?:

The Commission on Foreign Interference yesterday said Chinese Communist Party operatives may have helped elect a handful of MPs in the last two national campaigns. While misconduct would not have skewed the overall results, “we must remain vigilant because the threat of foreign interference is real,” said Justice Marie-Josée Hogue.

 

The China WAS controlling our elections and no one did anything about it!

You were covering for your former boss' kid, you termagant. 

That takes priority over Canada, evidently.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim of “explosive” top secret evidence linking the Conservative Party to foreign agents was dismissed yesterday by the Commission on Foreign Interference. The Commission made a scant, two-paragraph reference to the claim in its 860-page report: “The Prime Minister spoke.”

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The scapegoat:

Defence Minister Bill Blair “dropped the ball” in a police investigation of Chinese contacts with the Liberal Party, the Commission on Foreign Interference said yesterday. A report cited legitimate suspicions over unusual inactivity in Blair’s office as public safety minister in 2021: “Concerns are legitimate and understandable.”

 

Also:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting the terms of a briefing from Canada's spy agency regarding foreign interference because it won't enable him to act on the information, his office says.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said in December that it was looking to share "some information to the leader of the Official Opposition through a threat reduction measure."

But a spokesperson for Poilievre said Tuesday that the Conservative leader wouldn't be able to act upon the information he received from the CSIS briefing.

 

Which is precisely why he won't get a clearance. 

The liars and the enablers of those liars hold several veils of secrecy over the public and no one seems to mind.

 

 

The Liberals plan on torching everything down and salting the earth where everything once stood.

But don't take my word for it:

Slightly more than half of respondents (51 per cent) said they were not confident that a new Liberal leader would actually eliminate the consumer carbon tax. Only 36 per cent said they believed it. 

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday he is open to working with the Liberal government to pass relief measures for workers if U.S. President Donald Trump moves ahead with devastating tariffs on Canadian goods.

Singh has said for weeks he and his MPs will vote to bring down the government and send Canadians to an election at the earliest opportunity when Parliament reconvenes after prorogation in March.

Singh said that commitment still stands — but he opened the door to propping up the Liberals long enough to pass relief legislation.

 

If you let the Liberals do that, Jag, there will be no money for your pension, the only thing you DO care about.

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To think that they voted for this:

The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent.

But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.

Fourteen per cent of Canadians in that age demographic are living in “poverty-level conditions,” according to the “Ageing in Canada” survey released today by the National Institute on Ageing and Environics Institute for Survey Research.

 

The Impact Assessment Act was introduced to stall and then completely stop natural resource development.

Try threatening Trump with no resources:

There has never been a shortage of extractable fuels in Canada, nor has there been a lack of demand for it on the world stage. Why is Canada, rich in natural gas, oil, and critical minerals, failing to meet the global demand for energy?

It is surely not for lack of demand, with oil and gas predicted to make up 46 per cent of the world’s energy supply in 2050.

And in recent years, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have reached out to Canada begging (or requesting) natural gas only to be rebuffed or met with disappointment. Infamously, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s asserted that there was no “business case” for supplying LNG to the EU.

By stifling the energy industry with more layers of regulation like the IAA, we are denying energy security and a better standard of living to both ourselves and our friends. Even before the stricter regulations of the IAA were introduced by the government in 2019, the deliberate delays and outright hostility to energy development in Canada were evident.

Between 2011 and 2022, there were 18 proposals for LNG export facilities. Only one, the LNG Canada project near Kitimat, has made meaningful progress. Even so, it took seven years for LNG Canada to get through all necessary approvals and its final investment decision. 

There have been far more cancellations and failures tarnishing Canada’s record. In 2017, Petronas cancelled the massive $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project. Then in 2020, a year after the IAA received Royal assent, Warren Buffet himself chose to abandon a $9 billion LNG project in Quebec.

In 2021, Chevron and Woodside Energy, both shareholders in LNG Canada’s export facility at Kitimat, pulled their funding and redirected it to other projects, but not before identifying regulatory uncertainty as the culprit.

Compare that to the United States, where seven LNG export facilities were built in the same timeframe, five more began construction, and fifteen more were approved. Germany built its first floating LNG terminal in just one year, during 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that severely curbed the imports of Russian gas.

Canada’s falling so far behind, despite our vast wealth and nearly two dozen proposals for LNG facilities, is the result of the choices made by the government when it comes to regulating the energy sector, and the resource sector more broadly.

 

 

Former prime minister Stephen Harper did not defund the CBC when he had the chance:

The CBC engaged in a “blatant lack of balance” in covering a dispute between Catholics and LGBTQ advocates, a network ombudsman said yesterday. The censure for breach of the CBC’s own code of conduct followed a 2023 story that “could reasonably lead one to perceive some degree of bias.”

 

Quebec - the spoiled child of the country and whose very existence, whittled down to the language, is politically and economically propped up - declares that the shibboleth of political multiculturalism just doesn't fit in with the province:

The minister responsible for immigration has justified the presentation of new legislation on the integration of immigrants by saying he wants to promote a common Quebec culture and less “ghettoization” of new arrivals.

Jean-François Roberge, the minister of immigration, francization and integration, said the legislation he will table Thursday will act as a counterweight to the Canadian concept of multiculturalism, which he said remains a bad fit because it fails to clearly define a common culture with principles Quebec believes in.

 

Balkanisation was brought in by your favourite son, Pierre Trudeau, Quebec.

How did that work out for you?

Suck it. 

Also - is this the Trump Effect?:

As radical anti-Israel rallies continue to be a feature of Canadian downtowns even in the wake of a Gazan ceasefire, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre proposed on Monday to begin deporting non-citizens participating in hate activities.

 

Yes, please. 

No one asked for this:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially set a provincial election in motion Tuesday for Feb. 27, more than a year before the next fixed election date.

The election had been set for June 2026, but Ford said he needs a new mandate to deal with four years of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States.

Ford has said Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods would hit Ontario and its auto sector hard, and the provincial government would need to spend tens of billions of dollars to protect jobs and the economy.

 

Bluster, Doug.

That's all you have. 

Now, I was under the impression that with a name like "Captain America", one would embrace all that the character is meant to stand for and not try to burnish the image of anyone or anything else.

At the very least, just shut up and promote the movie, not one's politics.

But no:

Either out of his own volition or because he got a talking to from Disney higher ups, Captain America: Brave New World star Anthony Mackie has attempted to offer a particularly patriotic clarification to his previous criticism regarding the Star-Spangled Avenger and what he “represents” as a character.

As previously reported, the star of the next Marvel Cinematic Universe entry recently found himself making headlines following his appearance at January 27th Brave New World press event – the first of the film’s pre-release media tour – in Rome, Italy.

Per a video shared by Italian entertainment news website The Redheads Diaries, in reply to being asked by an attendee as to just what Captain America ‘represented’ to him personally, Mackie asserted, “For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don’t think the term, you know, ‘America’, should be one of those representations.”

“It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity,” he explained. “Someone who is trustworthy and dependable.”

(Sidebar: everyone loves a hero who is generic and never stands out!) 

Unfortunately, Mackie did not follow this train of thought any further, as after sharing his opinion he immediately pivoted to a non sequitur discussion about how his upcoming outing as the MCU’s second Captain America was “kind of like an aspect of a dream coming true.” ...

Unsurprisingly, Mackie’s read of Captain America’s character was met with a wave of backlash from fans, who took issue with the actor seemingly implying that the hero’s patriotic theme automatically led him to be an enforcer for a specific political ideology or ideologue despite it being a long-established fact that he is “loyal to nothing except the dream”.

 

Perhaps a dream of chorus girls but still a dream: 

Damn You, Global Warming!

Ruining Seolnal ... :

Unprecedented heavy snowfall is expected across South Korea during the Lunar New Year holiday, a rare phenomenon as the holiday usually occurs after the coldest part of winter in early January. This year’s snowfall could make it the snowiest Lunar New Year in 30 years, according to weather officials.

The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) forecasts up to 25 centimeters (10 inches) of snow in the Seoul metropolitan area on Jan. 27 and 28. Significant accumulation is also expected in other regions: Gangwon Province is forecast to receive 10 to 30 centimeters, the Chungcheong region 5 to 20 centimeters, the Jeolla region 5 to 30 centimeters, Gyeongsang Province 1 to 15 centimeters, and Jeju Island 3 to 30 centimeters. The heaviest snowfall is anticipated on Jan. 28, as cold air from the north interacts with the warmer waters of the West Sea (Yellow Sea), creating large snow clouds.

 

 

Greenland's Resources Can Benefit the World or Only China

Why else would China express interest in Denmark's rock?:

Jagged grey peaks suddenly appear before us, as the motorboat navigates choppy coastal waters and dramatic fjords at Greenland's southern tip.

"Those very high pointy mountains, it's basically a gold belt," gestures Eldur Olafsson, the chief executive of mining company Amaroq Minerals.

After sailing for two hours we stepped ashore at a remote valley beneath Nalunaq mountain, where the firm is drilling for gold.

It's also scouring the surrounding mountain range and valleys, hunting for other valuable minerals, having snapped up exploration licences spanning over 10,000 sq km (3,861 sq miles).

"We're looking for copper, nickel, and rare earths," says the Icelandic boss. "This is uncharted, and still has the potential to have multiple big deposits."

The base camp is a cluster of mobile buildings and bright orange accommodation tents housing more than 100 staff, including Greenlanders, Australians, and British former coal miners. From there a road climbs up the valley, and we drive by car into the gold mine, following a dark tunnel upwards inside the mountain.

"See here!" says Mr Olafsson pointing to a seam of white quartz and a thin dark line. "Gold, gold, gold. All the way over. Isn't that extraordinary?"

The mine, which Amaroq bought in 2015, had operated for most of the preceding decade, but closed due to then falling gold prices, and high operating costs.

Amaroq is confident that the mine will now be profitable. And it plans to ramp up production this year, where it has built a brand new processing plant to crush the ore and refine the precious metal into gold bars.

"We can either walk off site every month with a suitcase of gold, versus a 30,000 tonne ship [carrying the ore]," explains Mr Olafsson.

He says that Greenland presents an unrivalled opportunity because its huge mineral reserves are largely untouched.

"It can be the supplier of all the minerals the Western world will need for decades," adds Mr Olafsson. "And that is a very unique position."

 

 

Girls Who Killed Homeless Man Are Given Probation

Because Canada:

Two girls who pleaded guilty in the alleged fatal swarming of a homeless man in Toronto will not face further time in custody and have instead been sentenced to probation.

One of the girls pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee, while the other pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

The girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter will serve two years of probation and participate in a community-based program, while the girl who pleaded guilty to the assault charges will serve a year of probation. Both face additional conditions while under probation.

The Liberals Have Destroyed the CAF

Change my mind:

The Canadian Armed Forces are thousands short of minimum strength for regular, fully trained soldiers, sailors and air crew, according to figures in a Department of National Defence briefing note. It said a program to bolster enlistment by targeting immigrants enrolled fewer than 120 volunteers: “People are at the core of everything the Canadian Armed Forces does.”

 

Shop for Israel!

Alexandre Boulerice would hate it:

The New Democrats’ lone MP east of Ontario has sponsored a petition to boycott all trade with Israel. Québec MP Alexandre Boulerice (centre) earlier described Israel as a “boot crushing a human face.”

 

Jew-hating much, Alexandre?

 

Canada Can't Fight Trump's Tariffs and the Liberals Know It

 Jingoism is easy when you reflexively hate Americans:

The federal government is planning a stimulus package to help businesses and Canadians if U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods, but the scale of the relief will depend on the scope of the tariffs, sources tell CTV News.

The sources also say that the aid could reach pandemic-level relief, but the response will be contingent on how big Trump’s tariffs are. Specific programs also have yet to be designed, according to sources.

In late November, Trump threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico on day one of his second term. While the commander-in-chief didn’t follow through on that threat, Trump has ordered a study into alleged unfair trade practices by April 1 but said during a signing ceremony for a flurry of executive orders last week that he’s considering levying tariffs as soon as Feb. 1.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s Feb. 1 date “still holds.”

 

Now, where is this money coming from? 

I can't help but thinking that if we had a real economist run this country, Trump would not be so free with his threats.

Hand-picked Judge Finds Justin Not Guilty of Treason

To wit:

Foreign Interference Inquiry - Justice Hogue practiced at the same law firm as Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien.

I wish Justice Hogue well on this assignment, but for transparency all Canadians should be aware that:
1. Justice Hogue was employed and then a Partner of Heenan… https://t.co/vsnTdthkvV pic.twitter.com/NrzRrQ1G42

— Andrew Haynes (@AndrewJWHaynes) September 7, 2023

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The federal government needs to significantly bolster its defences against the growing threat of foreign interference by China, India and other hostile actors before the imminent federal election, but there are no “traitors” in Parliament, according to the foreign interference inquiry.

 

Indeed: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to defend his party's fundraising methods in the House of Commons Tuesday after media reports emerged revealing he attended a fundraiser with a Chinese businessman who went on to donate $200,000 to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

"The prime minister was the star attraction at this exclusive cash for access event with Chinese billionaires," said Tory MP Blaine Calkins during Tuesday's question period.

"Zhang Bin is a political advisor to the Chinese government, and after attending the event, he and his partner ... donated $1 million ... including $50,000 to build a statue of the former prime minister.

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In September, Mr. Chong appeared on Capitol Hill before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a bipartisan committee of U.S. senators, members of the House of Representatives and executive-branch emissaries. “Foreign interference is a serious, national security threat to Canada. It threatens our economy, long-term growth, social cohesion, our Parliament and our elections. It requires a suite of measures to combat, including closer co-operation among allied democracies,” he told the commission. 

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A member of Canada’s Parliament testified on Tuesday that high school students from China were transported by bus to vote for him in a party election that is at the center of a federal inquiry into interference in Canadian elections by China and other foreign countries.

Testifying during a public hearing in Ottawa, the Parliament member, Han Dong, a Chinese-Canadian politician formerly from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, said that he had met and sought the support of the students from a private high school in 2019, but that he did not know who had chartered or paid for the bus on the day of the election.

A Canadian intelligence report disclosed during the hearing said there were indications that a “known proxy agent” of the Chinese Consulate had provided the students “with falsified documents to allow them to vote” even though they did not reside in Mr. Dong’s electoral district.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says several current and former Conservative parliamentarians are either engaged in or targets of foreign interference as he lambasted the federal Conservative leader for refusing to get top-level security clearance.

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Hogue also issued a simultaneous order to seal their affidavits from the public for 99 years, after commission materials are deposited at the National Archives of Canada when the inquiry ends.

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Was there foreign interference targeting the 2019 and 2021 general elections?

Yes. I have no difficulty concluding that there was.

 

And yet no one was actually guilty of propping up a government that received a low popular vote.

How interesting.

 

The full report here.

 

Some People Are "Special", Redux

How it started:

Millions paid to a British Columbia First Nation to recover suspected children’s graves at an Indian Residential School were instead budgeted for publicists and consultants, documents show. The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations attempted to conceal the financial records under the Access To Information Act: “We are not seeking to intervene in this matter but are trying to understand.”

How it's going:

A First Nation that announced its discovery of children’s graves at a Residential School has sought tens of millions in federal grants including the cost of building a national shrine at Kamloops, B.C. The requests followed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2021 pledge to “make amends” though no human remains have been recovered to date: “The department is ready to flow funds.”

 

South Korean President Indicted

Things are getting murkier:

South Korean prosecutors indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday over charge of insurrection, after Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung convened a meeting with senior prosecutors on the same day.

Prosecutors said they indicted Yoon as "concerns about destruction of evidence remain unresolved."

With the arrest warrant set to expire on Monday, the prosecution had to choose between releasing President Yoon or indicting him with arrest to keep him in custody. Although the prosecution received the case from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials on Thursday, it didn't have a chance to question him. Indicting him means the trial begins without any further prosecutorial investigation.

The prosecution discussed the matter with the chief and deputy chief prosecutors from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and district prosecutors' office Sunday morning.

Park Se-hyun, a chief prosecutor at the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office who also headed the special investigation headquarters for the Dec. 3 martial law attempt, told reporters following the meeting that Prosecutor General Shim "will make the final decision."

The prosecution was believed to be considering an indictment against Yoon on charges of leading an insurrection, with Yoon to be arrested and held for up to six months, upon the court's approval.

Although Yoon was under arrest under a separate warrant already, he refused to appear for questioning six times, except for the first day's interrogation, during which he remained silent.

While detained prior to his formal arrest, Yoon attended the Constitutional Court's hearings, footage of which was released by the court and aired nationwide by local broadcasters.

The court’s consecutive rejections on Friday and Saturday left the prosecution with little choice but to indict him sooner than expected.

On Saturday night, the Seoul Central District Court rejected the prosecution's request to extend the detention period until Feb. 6, saying that the extension was neither necessary nor justifiable.

This not only complicates the prosecution's plan to conduct a face-to-face interrogation of Yoon by visiting the Seoul Detention Center during the Lunar New Year holiday, but also puts pressure on them to proceed with the trial based on the evidence gathered so far, with no possibility of further physical investigation.

Other key military commanders involved in the case have already been indicted.

Given the indictment of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, a key figure believed to have colluded with Yoon in the Dec. 3 incident, the same charges and evidence will apply to Yoon's indictment.

The CIO, which initially handled Yoon’s investigation, submitted some 30,000 pages of investigation records as well as testimonies of around 10 high-level military and police officials related to the Dec. 3 incident.

The Constitutional Court, meanwhile, has conducted the fourth of eight hearings so far, and is required to either uphold or overturn Yoon’s trial before June 11.

Meanwhile, the rival main political parties remained deeply divided.

People Power Party spokesperson Shin Dong-wook criticized the prosecution’s second attempt to extend Yoon’s detention, saying “the resulting backlash will fall directly on the prosecution,” demanding that any further investigation be conducted “under due process without detention.”

Shin also demanded that the CIO be dismantled, claiming that illegal investigations and procedural violations occurred during Yoon’s arrest and detention. He warned that CIO officials, including its chief prosecutor Oh Dong-woon, should face “severe criminal responsibility.”

The opposition Democratic Party urged Yoon's indictment.

The party’s spokesperson Jo Seoung-lae said in a statement that the court had already limited the prosecution’s authority to decide on an indictment, making the reapplication “inappropriate.”

“Despite Yoon’s refusal to cooperate, there is abundant evidence proving his guilt. The prosecution, CIO and police have gathered substantial evidence while investigating and prosecuting individuals involved in the insurrection. Indicting the leader of rebellion aligns with the public’s sense of justice and the need to end the ongoing turmoil.”

 

 

Tow Truck Driver Was On His Cell Phone During Crash

Really professional:

The driver of a tow truck that smashed into a car, leaving it a crumpled wreck after it then hit a pickup truck hauling salt on Highway 400 Monday morning, has been charged with careless driving.

And OPP Const. Kerry Schmidt says even more charges might be pending.

The crash in the southbound lanes near Highway 7 was captured in video from the truck — and video posted to social media from the inside of the truck shows the driver on his cellphone.

“The driver has been charged with careless driving but there may be additional charges,” Schmidt told the Sun Thursday, adding no name, age or hometown of the driver has been released.

The driver of the car escaped serious injury, though was transported via air lift to hospital.

 

Some People Are "Special"

There simply wasn't enough money to get any answers:

Millions paid to a British Columbia First Nation to recover suspected children’s graves at an Indian Residential School were instead budgeted for publicists and consultants, documents show. The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations attempted to conceal the financial records under the Access To Information Act: “We are not seeking to intervene in this matter but are trying to understand.”

 

 

The Liberals Must Have Their Party Status Revoked For All Time

Only then can the Dominion of Canada heal:

Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould opened up a soul-searching debate in her party’s caucus after declaring Canadians “lost trust” in the Liberals during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s later years in office.

 

It's probably because of everything you said and did. 

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But there’s no evidence that Carney is going to be a tariff negotiating wizard. Negotiating tariffs was never part of his job requirements at either the Bank of Canada or Bank of England, as evidenced by the shot Carney took at the U.S., presumably because he dislikes the new president: “We are gonna stand up to the Americans,” he said, and later referred to our long-time friends and allies as now “just our neighbours,” as if all Americans are in on Trump’s tariff plans.

There’s also no evidence that Carney is particularly tied to the best interests of Canada. He left before his term with the Bank of Canada was even over, just as the media was asking tough questions about the Liberal Party trying to set him up as an alternative to Justin Trudeau in 2011. Can Canadians expect him to complete his term? How will he behave when he’s asked tough questions in the House of Commons? He doesn’t seem like someone who is used to having to answer tough questions on the spot. Carney also holds three citizenships, Canadian, British, and Irish. Where does his loyalty lie?

Like a rockstar, Carney had entered the small pub to “Eye of the Tiger.” His admirers were happily squished together, vying for a view of the man who they hoped might save their party. When Carney went to remove his jacket, one admirer shouted, “Take it off!” The crowd was so excited about being photographed with Carney that Erskine-Smith remarked, “Selfies all around.”

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Carney made it clear though how much involvement he thought government should play in the economy.

When he finally took the mic, Carney made sweeping vague promises including, “We are going to build the strongest economy that works for all Canadians.” He promised they’d be “building homes for everyone,” “fixing the housing crisis,” and “building a sustainable energy system.” “We can’t redistribute what we don’t have,” he said.

Carney then told the crowd that, after listening to Canadians through his virtual and physical consultations with them, that their problem is that they are “anxious” because of the “cost of living crisis,” “the housing crisis,” and “if they’re young, they’re worried about getting ahead,” and about the “changes that are happening in a more dangerous and divided world.” Did this insight require consultations? I guess if you don’t spend much time in Canada it might.

Anxiety is a feeling you have before something you fear might happen happens, or doesn’t happen. I’m not sure who Carney’s been listening to, but Canadians aren’t just anxious about these things, they’re already struggling through them.

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Here’s Freeland’s 5 minutes of fame - freezing Canadians bank accounts for attending a protest.

While she laughs. https://t.co/fLSsVPIJQU

— SteveNixon_2019 (@2019Stevenixon) December 16, 2024

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Transparency in federal spending “reached a new low” under ex-finance minister Chrystia Freeland, the Budget Office said yesterday. Analysts expressed anger over concealment of financial accounts that confirmed dramatic overruns in deficit spending: “Was there any political pressure?”

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Federal Liberals who argue they’ve put their vote-killing carbon tax controversy behind them, because their leading contenders for the party leadership are suggesting they’ll replace it with something else, are engaged in wishful thinking on steroids.

Equally unrealistic are claims by Liberal spin doctors and consultants, who argue Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in trouble because his entire election campaign was to be based on “axing the tax” and now the Liberals have killed it as an issue.

This, they argue, because whoever wins the race — previous fervent carbon tax supporters Mark Carney or Chrystia Freeland — will not be advocating for the carbon tax when Canadians go to the polls.

These arguments are disingenuous and ridiculous.

First, Carney and Freeland, other than in vague, general terms, have yet to explain what will replace the carbon tax.

Once you put a tax on people to pay for something they were previously not taxed for — in this case the emission of industrial greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — Canadians as consumers and taxpayers will be on the hook for it no matter what you call it.

A cynic might argue that whatever the Liberals are saying about killing the carbon tax today, they’ve lied so many times about the issue in the past that any promises they make today should be treated with the utmost skepticism.

The biggest lie the Liberals told us was that they would freeze their carbon tax at $50 per tonne of emissions. It’s now $80 per tonne, scheduled to increase to $95 per tonne on April 1, on its way through future annual hikes to $170 per tonne on April 1, 2030.

The Liberals who make these false arguments clearly don’t understand their carbon tax is but one of 149 measures costing the public more than $200 billion the Trudeau Liberals have earmarked, ostensibly, to lower emissions.

That’s because they also don’t understand their campaign to cut emissions is primarily an economic policy intended to reshape society and much more than an environmental policy.

 

But no one will stop heating their homes or fuelling their cars.

It is theft, pure and simple.

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Oh?:

Ontario member of Parliament Chandra Arya said the Liberal party informed him he’s out of the running to be its next leader.

Arya, who was the first to announce his candidacy to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he is waiting on official communication from the Liberals and is considering his next steps.

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“This decision raises significant questions about the legitimacy of the leadership race and, by extension, the legitimacy of the next prime minister of Canada,” Arya said in a social media statement on Sunday.

Nothing about this sham is legitimate, interloper, Member of Parliament.

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Because Canada has been reduced from a have-country to a have-not country in the past nine years, it is not in a position to challenge Trump on anything.

Anything the reflexively anti-American Liberals suggest will only cost Canada.

This is why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggests doing what we ought to have done in order to at least get Trump off of our backs:

Smith sees “a growing consensus” on …. are you ready for this?

“The necessity of consulting with and securing consent from individual provinces before cutting off or placing export tariffs on key exports from those provinces.”

Smith opposes restricting or taxing Alberta oil to the U.S.

Here’s another.

The importance of building more pipelines east and west.

More border security. Let’s see the drones and the dogs and the cameras and the boots on the ground and show Trump that Canada finally means business.

Give him a win and more secure borders is a really good thing for both countries.

Your Rotten Government and You

Rotten on every level:

According to an Abacus poll released in October, 72% of Canadians want lower immigration — a statistical supermajority that includes a majority of voters in all four major political parties and all age groups. A Leger poll released this September found that 66% of white Canadians — and 61% of non-white Canadians — feel this way. ...

It’s fair to say that Canada has had what I call mass immigration, or what might more politely be called a continuous and uninterrupted high inflow of immigrants, since Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s government departed from our historic “tap on, tap off” policy in 1990. Under then Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall, high immigration regardless of domestic economic conditions became the new norm — and has only gone up, up, up in the decades since!

It's been 34 years. How did the experiment work out? From 1967 onwards, Canada’s media age consistently increased, with this trend finally stopping in 2021. This year, the median age decreased very slightly to 40.3. The Statistics Canada document that reports this figure adds the very important caveat that even this slight downward trend is temporary “since population aging is unavoidable”.

That’s all that those 34 years of mass immigration accomplished for Canada’s age structure! If the Canadian people permit our political elite to continue this experiment for another 34 years, we can expect another exceedingly marginal median age decline — at the cost of further imploding our housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and social services.

 

Also:

Mounties in Manitoba say six people from multiple countries were caught last week trying to illegally cross into Canada from the United States.

Police say the group was spotted from the air crossing the border on foot near Emerson on Jan. 14.

Officers say some were not dressed for the freezing temperatures, and an ambulance was called to ensure their safety.

The six were from Jordan, Sudan, Chad and Mauritania.

They were put under arrest and transferred to the Canada Border Services Agency.

 

This Canada Border Services Agency: 

The wheels are in motion to see an Indiana man in Canadian custody pardoned for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots according to his lawyer, but not as far as the Canada Border Services Agency is concerned.

Antony Vo, a 32-year-old Indiana man who fled to Canada to avoid a nine-month jail sentence last June is still being held at an immigration holding centre in Surrey, B.C. after his arrest in Whistler on Jan. 6. But Canadian lawyer Robert Tibbo said his client’s counsel in the U.S. all indicate that “yes, 100 per cent, he’s been pardoned.” ...

However, ahead of that hearing the CBSA sent a letter to the IRB last week stating “Vo was not on the list of individuals pardoned by the US President.”

“This has been verified with US government officials,” reads the letter supplied by Tibbo, who calls it spectacularly false.

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Of the 457,646 people in Canada's deportation pipeline, 29,730 failed to appear for their removal proceedings and cannot be located

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Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada.

Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.

In an e-mail, the Canada Border Services Agency says the planned processing centre is part of its contingency plans “in the event of an influx of asylum seekers.”

The notice from Public Services and Procurement Canada says the building must be located within a 15-kilometre radius of the official border crossing area in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., south of Montreal.

The notice follows Ottawa’s $1.3-billion announcement in December to beef up border security in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose steep tariffs unless Canada reduces the flow of migrants and drugs across the border.

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The answer is "none", you troll:

Canada has a “limited capacity” to welcome people looking to resettle, the federal immigration minister said, as the country braces for a potential influx of migrants in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s border crackdown.

As part of a series of executive orders cracking down on immigration, this week Trump suspended America’s refugee resettlement program, leaving stranded thousands in war-torn countries across the globe who were approved to come to the United States.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said the U.S. decision is “unfortunate” and Canada will continue to be there for people fleeing conflict, but there is a limit to how many it can support.

“Canada will continue to remain a humanitarian country. We have limited ability to welcome people in a proper way,” he told reporters before a Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa Friday.

 

Canada needs Trump.

We're all thinking it; let's say it out loud.

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Like Biden, Justin plans on being a petty, vindictive little sh-- before Carney takes over:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a final wave of appointments to fill the 10 vacancies in the Senate before he retires in March, Radio-Canada has learned.

The move would allow him to leave a mark on Parliament for years to come, as these unelected legislators will be able to sit until the age of 75.

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Never send a "journalist" to do an economist's job:

Chrystia Freeland’s last budget as finance minister was rated by Canadians as “mediocre,” “unfocused” and “smoke and mirrors,” says in-house focus group research by the Department of Finance. Pollsters hired by the department said taxpayers, especially older Canadians, were upset by unchecked deficit spending: “Words used to describe the budget included ‘insufficient,’ ‘mediocre,’ ‘meh.'”

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Bribing Canadians with their own money will have to wait:

Cabinet’s promise of $250 pre-election cheques is dead, says Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Speaking as the Prime Minister’s “Québec lieutenant,” he said the $4.7 billion giveaway was now untimely: “We have concerns.”

 

Oh, do you?

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Between the death bed repentances of the federal Liberal leadership contenders trashing the political legacy of the Trudeau government they’re part of, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford insisting he needs a new election mandate to take on U.S. President Donald Trump on tariffs, the conclusion is inescapable.

It’s that yes, our politicians really do believe voters have the memories of goldfish and are easily manipulated by political propaganda.

(Sidebar: but it's worked SO often.)

How else to explain Liberal leadership hopefuls Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould telling us the Trudeau government policies they were vigorously defending a couple of weeks ago were in fact bad for the country and they knew it all along?

How Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature national carbon tax, far from being the Holy Grail of fighting climate change, was in fact a failed public policy in need of reform. (Freeland)

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The federal Court Challenges Program yesterday said it funded Supreme Court intervenors in support of the carbon tax in the name of “human rights.” The Program refused to say which pro-tax advocacy group received a taxpayers’ grant to speak in favour of the federal tax on fuel: “We will not be making additional information available.” 

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Canada has already been sold.

To wit:

While the next steps and recommendations are unclear until the specific findings are revealed, the report comes amid two, potentially three, major electoral processes.

Voting in the Liberal leadership race will conclude on March 9 and the new leader — and by extension, prime minister — will be announced on the same day.

The Liberal leadership vote will be the first major party leadership race since the establishment of the foreign interference commission’s inquiry and has raised questions in recent weeks about whether the process could be vulnerable to foreign interference.

The new Liberal leader will become prime minister for as long as the party remains the government, and will lead the party into the next election.

Canada’s most populous province is also heading into an election soon. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that he will meet with the lieutenant-governor on Tuesday to trigger an election campaign beginning Wednesday, for a vote on Feb. 27.

Experts have also speculated that Canada could be heading towards a spring federal election.

A federal campaign must happen no later than October.

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said he’s looking forward to seeing the recommendations in the report.

“I’m told it’s an extremely comprehensive piece of work,” McGuinty told reporters Monday. “I hope we see a way forward pointed by the commissioner and her team on how we can make progress with a very, very difficult situation and a very difficult phenomena — one which the United States of America is (also) facing, which every western democracy is facing.”

 

Ahem:

The judge overseeing Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission of Inquiry has decided two people can give evidence in secret about how the People’s Republic of China “co-opts and leverages some Chinese Canadian community associations and politicians of Chinese origin.”

Justice Marie-Josee Hogue made the decision in a written ruling dated Wednesday now posted on the commission’s website.

Her ruling, obtained by Global News, grants two witnesses — “Person B and Person C” — the right to testify by secret affidavits that will not be disclosed to the public or inquiry participants.

Hogue also issued a simultaneous order to seal their affidavits from the public for 99 years, after commission materials are deposited at the National Archives of Canada when the inquiry ends.

 

Stick around for ninety-nine years.

 

 

What Was It All For?

 On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.

This was one of the many death camps constructed and run by the Nazis in what was called "the Final Solution", a term developed at the Wannsee conference on January 20th, 1942.

The shock and horror of this camp alone (in which Saints Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, among others, were murdered) moved the world to coin the ghastly word, genocide, and fulfill the promise of an independent state of Israel.

The world promised not to forget.

That is not what happened:

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.

Among those who traveled to the site is 86-year-old Tova Friedman, who was 6 when she was among the 7,000 people liberated on Jan. 27, 1945. She believes it will the be last gathering of survivors at Auschwitz, and she came from her home in New Jersey to add her voice to those warning about rising hatred and antisemitism.

“The world has become toxic,” she told The Associated Press a day before the observances in nearby Krakow. “I realize that we’re in a crisis again, that there is so much hatred around, so much distrust, that if we don’t stop, it may get worse and worse. There may be another terrible destruction.”

Indeed.

 

How it's all going:

Canada’s government has removed a plaque inaugurating the country’s new Holocaust monument after critics blasted it for failing to mention Jewish people or antisemitism.

 

This Canada:

A panel survey commissioned by the Association of Canadian Studies and conducted by the polling firm Leger last spring found 18 per cent of Canadians between 18 and 24 years old agreed with the statement “I think the Holocaust was exaggerated.”

Among Canadians between 25 and 34 years old, 15 per cent agreed with that statement.

The survey queried 1,519 Canadians between May 17 and May 20, 2024. A margin of error cannot be assigned to panel surveys.

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Federal archivists in an Access To Information memo say they are concealing more than a million pages of records on Nazi collaborators in Canada to protect “individuals determined to be innocent” of actual war crimes. Cabinet had promised German researchers in 2009 that all Holocaust-related files would be released: “People want answers.”

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Questions are still flying — in Parliament, the media and across borders — after a man who fought for the Nazis during the Second World War was invited into the House of Commons and cheered as a hero during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's momentous visit last week. 

Yaroslav Hunka, 98, waved and nodded to the gallery as he received two standing ovations from Parliament — and Zelenskyy, who is Jewish — for defending his native Ukraine. It later emerged he'd done so as part of a notorious Nazi unit. 

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The idea to strike Hunka’s recognition from the official record of the House of Commons was proposed by Government House Leader Karina Gould on Monday.

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It's tempting to write off this collective lack of memory to the passage of time but the truth is it is a combination of things. The loss of a moral centre, the short attention spans of the incurious, cultural Marxism, and the replacement of human purpose with apathy have created a nouveau Eloi, a decidedly disinterested generation who cannot be bothered with concepts of right and wrong and even replaced those vacuums with instant gratification and the passing objects of the Two Minutes Hate until the next thing comes along.

When that thing comes along, that, too, will be forgotten.

Mid-Week Post

The mid-weekiest!

 

No one had a problem with Justin in 2013 when he declared his undying love for China, or during his many scandals, missteps, petty tyrannies, gaffes, ineptitude, or destruction of Canada.

But now that everyone might lose their pensions, he has gone too far!:

The only person more toxic to Liberals than Donald Trump right now appears to be Justin Trudeau.

Liberal MPs and leadership contenders are falling over themselves to outdo Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre in dumping on the prime minister and his past policies.

Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland started the Liberal anti-Trudeau pile-on with her resignation letter accusing the prime minister of “costly political gimmicks” and suggesting he was more concerned with party fortunes than those of Canada.

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Launching her campaign for leadership of the Liberal Party on Sunday, Freeland continued the attack saying it was the issue of fiscal responsibility that was the primary reason for her disagreement with the prime minister.

“As a party we need to recognize today that Canadians want us and need us to relentlessly focus on one thing — the economy,” said the minister, whose job for the last four years was to focus on one thing — the economy.

“Canadians want good jobs, homes they can afford and great care for their kids. They want a government that is as careful with Canada’s money as Canadians are with their own,” said the finance minister whose atmospheric spending has burdened the nation with a record deficit of $62 billion.

As for the carbon tax, Freeland, one of the most vocal supporters of the policy, is now in favour of ditching it because after 11 years as an MP she has just discovered that Liberals “need to get better at listening to Canadians.”

Ironically, Freeland even spoke of the need to focus on “bread and butter issues,” which are the things that under the Liberals some Canadians can’t afford.

Now, about this current slate of Trudeau-bashing, was it not everyone in the Liberal Party and their merry band of single-issue voters that defended his asinine government?

Oh, yes, they did.

 

 

Imagine being Trump, an adult who knows what he is talking about, who has made promises to fix the mistakes of the past four years, and cannot stand by while his northern and southern neighbours let Americans feels the consequences of lazy governance.

That is why he is putting the boots to everyone.

Instead of caterwauling at him, why not expect elected officials to do their jobs?

Strange, I know: 

Many sources confirm that Canada has serious security problems that hostile powers exploit extensively. The Canada-is-back naïveté animating the decaying Trudeau regime led to open borders and infiltration of foreign operatives inside key Canadian institutions, from the Winnipeg Lab to the Parliament of Canada.

Allies question Canada's eagerness to engage in an open diplomatic conflict with India, the world's largest democracy and fastest-growing economy while overlooking China's significantly more damaging actions despite being a formidable adversary to Western democracies today.

Possibly 40 percent of those caught or suspected of potential terror activities inside the United States entered through Canada. It is also well documented that the unguarded border is the point of entry for a significant amount of deadly illegal drugs like fentanyl, coming from China. At Canada's ports of entry, authorities have openly admitted to checking less than 1 percent of all incoming containers. The net effect is that significant illegal activity, including human trafficking, comes into the United States through Canada.

That the situation on the US southern border is worse and there is plenty of crime coming into Canada from the US are lousy excuses not to act; Ottawa must not avoid its duty to guarantee the security of Canadians as much as to help protect our neighbour and closest ally. Fixing some of the border problems would be objectively good for Canada.

In the US, President Donald Trump aims to restore order. He intends to reverse his predecessor's chaotic open-border policies to enhance the country's security.

In part, perhaps because of frustration, and mostly because bombasts and hyperbole are his nature, Trump wants Canada to help him plug the security holes Canada's cavalier attitude to security enables.

Trump has threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods unless Canada does something about the border. However, between Chrystia Freeland quitting Trudeau's cabinet and Trudeau quitting his party leadership, most references to Trump's tariff threats have omitted the border conditions, as if the threats came from nothing.

Why is that?

Tackling the border problems, even if they are not as pronounced as the border issues with Mexico, is a big enterprise. It would be complex and costly, challenging to organize, set up and implement. However, the Trudeau government has spent billions on more superfluous things than securing the national interest and maintaining better relations with our most significant trade partner. What could be more vital?

But rather than address the condition for the threat, the Liberal establishment has decided to magnify the threat, pound their chests and counterattack.

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Donald Trump will not impose new tariffs on Canada and Mexico on his first day in office — but the threat could take form within weeks.

Speaking while signing executive orders at the White House after his inauguration Monday night, Trump said he planned to impose 25 per cent tariffs on the United States’ North American neighbours by Feb. 1.

“We’re thinking in terms of 25 per cent on Mexico and Canada because they’re allowing vast numbers of people, Canada is a very bad abuser also, and fentanyl to come in,” Trump claimed.

 

Look what merely bandying about the idea of tariffs has done: pushed the Trudeau government to the brink.

Now force it off of a cliff.

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The toadying is SO cringe-worthy:

Trudeau noted outside the cabinet retreat that Trump said he wants to usher in a “golden age” for the United States, which the prime minister said will require more affordable energy, steel and aluminum, and critical minerals to fuel the American economy.

“Canada has all those resources, and we stand at the ready to work with the United States to create a booming and secure North American economy,” Trudeau said.

 

Too late, sock-boy.

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Reporter: How do you convince businesses to still invest in Canada?

Trudeau: um... (dramatic pause)... Donald Trump brings in uncertainty...... Canada is reliable because we worked through the 1st MCA over 4 years ago.....
And invest in Canada because we are a robust trading… pic.twitter.com/o1G5hvQF0T

— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) January 21, 2025

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The Liberals have utterly ruined Canada and are not finished. 

It does not matter what the average Canadian thinks of Trump or his plans because he can do it and there is decidedly no government in place that can stop him. The Liberals certainly don't want to change that now.

Fomenting outrage over a fictional 51st state overlooks how Canada has been a vassal of China, India, and Iran for ages with little to no blowback:

The deadline...

Canada has been given until Feb 1st to make a satisfactory deal to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants across the US border to avoid a 25% tariff on Canadian goods moving into the US.

My prediction is the Liberals will make damn sure that Canada…

— Paul Mitchell (@PaulMitchell_AB) January 21, 2025

 

The Trump Effect in progress:

The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project that would have created another route for Alberta's oil to get to the Pacific Ocean.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said Tuesday that while he "really fought against" Northern Gateway's construction before it was scuttled in 2016, that was a "different time" and Canada now has "no choice" but to reconsider.

"We are staring into the abyss of uncertainty right now with climate change, the climate crisis and the American threat," Phillip said in a news conference ahead of a meeting with B.C. First Nations leaders and the provincial cabinet in Vancouver, highlighting the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump.

"I would suggest that if we don't build that kind of infrastructure, Trump will — and there will not be any consideration for the environment or the rule of law or anything along those lines.

"I think that we can do better. I think we need to do better."

 

Now, about this alleged lack of consideration for the environment:

President Donald Trump signed the country's largest wilderness preservation legislation in a decade, providing widespread protections for Joshua Tree and Death Valley national parks.

Trump's signing of the National Resources Management Act, or S.47, marked a surprisingly overwhelming bipartisan congressional effort and began with the environmental protection bill introduced by Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in January. The bill expands federally protected land, where there can be no logging, drilling, mining or road construction, and establishes 375,000 new acres of wilderness across California, Oregon, New Mexico and Utah. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 92-8 and the House with a vote of 362-63.

 

So there's that.

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Back to a time when all crimes in the US were political crimes:

 

 

Well, someone's in a bad mood:

Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault has attacked the Western Standard on social media over a recent story calling him out.

Guilbeault previously published fake news from the Associated Press via CTV about 2024 being the "hottest year ever." All while Los Angeles burned.

The Western Standard provided strong evidence from geologic history, via Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, that average global temperatures were much warmer prior to human industrialization.

Moore said, overall, Earth's temperature is actually cooling when charted through geologic time. There is a very slight recent warming — used by Guilbeault and others to provoke hysteria.

"Enough is enough," Guilbeault said on Tuesday. "The non-stop spread of misinformation is one of the greatest threats to fighting the run-away effects of a changing climate. This recent example from the Western Standard is particularly appalling."

Many of Ottawa's economic and environmental polices revolve around Guilbeault's religious attachment to climate change — Net Zero — ideology and carbon tax / rebate socialism — which has been a disaster for Canada.

He didn't appreciate being called out.

Extreme climate change, painful as it can be, is a normal part of life on earth. It's not new — but its politicization is.

Most atmospheric C02, crucial for survival, is produced by the earth.

Guilbeault has threatened to impost a de facto production cap on Alberta oil and gas to help save the planet from climate change. 

Canada produces less than 2% of global emissions. A production cap would harm the economy and further necessitate dependance on carbon tax rebates — validating Guilbeault's beliefs.

"There is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the last 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age," said Moore, who holds a PhD in Forestry from the University of British Columbia.

 

This Guilbeault:

Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie is accusing federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault of corruption related to the so-called “green slush fund.” 

On Friday, Kusie (Calgary Midnapore) said Guilbeault invested $254 million into a company he owns.

“This government is failing to comply with parliament and hand over the documents pertaining to this potentially corrupt activity,” said Kusie in a social media post.

“Canadians deserve answers and accountability from this scandal plagued Liberal government. When will they hand the documents over to the RCMP?”

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Oh, my!;

Cabinet may not “go ahead with the consumer carbon price,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said yesterday. He called the carbon tax “very unpopular.” The rate will jump an average 20 percent effective April 1 to 21¢ per litre for gasoline: “What went wrong?” 

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Are we through with this money-leeching scam?:

A federal program paid intervenors to take the federal government’s side in a 2021 Supreme Court of Canada challenge of the carbon tax, records show. The Court Challenges Program yesterday would not discuss subsidies paid to advocacy groups to argue in favour of cabinet’s fuel tax: ““It is no simple matter to tinker with the Constitution.”

 

 

Harjit Singh is out:

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan cancelled 17 meetings with the Canadian Forces ombudsman as the military watchdog became more vocal about the need for the government to help injured soldiers.

 

(Gracias for this hat tip)

 

 

Shrink until there is nothing left:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will shrink the federal public service and wants to find ways to monitor bureaucrats’ productivity, because “work isn’t getting done.”

 

Striking while the iron is hot:

Moments after U.S. President Donald Trump revealed his intention to apply steep tariffs to Canadian exports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office fired off an internal email to Progressive Conservative staffers saying the government needs an even stronger mandate to effectively battle the American president.

The internal memo, obtained by Global News, is yet another sign that Ford is set to dissolve his majority government and ask voters for another mandate, with more than a year left in his current term.

 

But is he?

We shall see.

 

 

What can go wrong?:

A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.

The online survey by the Canadian Medical Association and Abacus Data conducted last November found that 37 per cent of respondents used medical advice they found online because they couldn’t access a doctor or a medical professional for help.

Twenty-three per cent of those surveyed said following health advice they found online resulted in a bad reaction or had a negative impact on their health.

The survey of 3,727 adult Canadians can’t be assigned a margin of error because online surveys are not considered truly random samples.

The CMA says the number of Canadians turning to online sources for medical help emphasizes the lack of accessible health care across the country, as an estimated 6.5 million people – one in five Canadians – do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner they see regularly.

 

 

This never happens at my church (the real one):

President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Hudson: