Your Horrible Government and You

Robber-barons:

Ask Canadians today about sovereignty and they’re unlikely to say it’s a high priority. Housing, food prices, health, and public safety top the list. People are fleeing wildfires and battling drug addiction. There are so many concerns crying for attention, “sovereignty” doesn’t really rate.

But it should, because the erosion of our sovereignty by foreign powers, notably the Chinese communist government, contributes to many of those problems. On housing: Chinese money laundering inflated Canadian property values for decades and helped push home ownership out of reach for today’s buyers. On drug addiction: China is the main source country of fentanyl found in Canada, paving the way for thousands of overdose deaths. On the economy: China has targeted a host of Canadian industries for control, from lobsters to lithium.

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Sympathetic judges are set to get Justin off of the proverbial hook:

It is taking longer than expected to find someone to lead a public inquiry into foreign interference because the government is in talks with sitting judges, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Tuesday, which means following specific protocols of engagement.

 

 

From banning blacks to mimicking them:

Some Canadians welcomed their new neighbours while others complained to the federal government. “We view with alarm the continuous and rapid influx of Negro settlers,” the Alberta chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire wrote to the minister of the interior in Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberal government.

In response, Laurier’s cabinet passed an order-in-council prohibiting Black immigration to Canada for one year. Its rationale? The “race is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada.” The order, however, did not need enforcement because the Liberal government had already run newspaper ads and sent speakers to Oklahoma to tell Blacks that they would not be happy in the cold Canadian climate. Laurier rescinded the order after losing the 1911 election, knowing that Robert Borden’s newly elected Conservative government would repeal it.

 

 

It's called election fraud:

Voting in the wrong riding during the 2021 federal election netted a former adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office a hefty fine.

Ayesha Chughtai, who previously served as a regional adviser for the PMO, was handed a $1,500 penalty by the Commissioner of Canada Elections for voting in the riding of Calgary Skyview — a riding she doesn’t live in — even though earlier attempts to cast a ballot in the riding were stopped by the riding’s returning officer.

 

 

Gee, why wouldn't people want international students here?:

A growing genre of videos on YouTube and TikTok is angering some Canadians who say international students are being encouraged to abuse food banks in order to get “free groceries.”

A number of recent videos, with titles like “How to get free food in Canada” and “Free food in Canada for students,” have been shared on social media and elicited a mixed response at a time of soaring costs and high inflation.

 

Let's blame them for the lack of central planning!

 

Why would anyone want to be lured from a great job with great benefits in the US to move to Canada and be treated like garbage?:

Canada has launched an ambitious program to recruit highly skilled immigrants from all over the world — including from the United States, where our sclerotic immigration system makes it difficult for foreign tech workers to obtain work visas.

Last month, Canada offered a three-year work permit to anyone holding a U.S. H-1B visa, the most common entry permit for immigrants working in the tech sector. The program, aimed partly at workers laid off in Silicon Valley’s recent downturn, drew 10,000 applicants in its first 48 hours — “a strong indication of just how competitive Canada is on the global stage,” a spokesman for the country’s immigration ministry said.

 

Canada is nowhere for anyone to live.

To wit:

“Five out of six Ukrainians offered Canadian visas have chosen to go elsewhere – fewer than 150,000 out of 650,000 Ukrainians who received a visa have arrived in Canada since the programme started....” @globeandmail

— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) August 20, 2023

So much for your "solution", Justin.

 

Justin Trudeau Is A Sh-- of a Person

But don't take my word for it:

The Prime Minister’s snap 2021 election call disrupted a crucial Covid relief program, says a federal audit. Justin Trudeau left no one to approve payments for mercy flights carrying essential food and medicine to 140 remote hamlets: “That did not happen.”

How do we tolerate this guy, Canada?

We Don't Have to Trade With China

But people have their rea$on$:

Canada’s most recent setback involves China (yet again), this time a direct hit to the tourism industry. In August, China released its updated list of countries that are “approved” as international travel destinations for Chinese tour groups. Canada was conspicuously omitted from the list. It’s terrible news for an industry that was devastated by the pandemic and had hoped to regain its footing. China has been a major source of tourism to Canada; now that’s all in jeopardy.

China’s move raises an uncomfortable question for Canada: What is the economic price of being principled?

Of course, political spats have resulted in economic pain in the past. Canada has experienced all manner of trade disputes with its largest trading partner, the United States, over everything from softwood lumber to steel to agriculture. But while these quarrels have been serious and at times economically painful, they’ve never threatened a complete breakdown in political and economic ties. They’re more akin to teenage siblings on the couch, fighting over the remote control.

What we’re seeing increasingly with China is different. It is no longer just about a trade dispute, which is typically triggered by an industry seeking a protectionist advantage. What we are seeing now is geopolitical discord increasingly splitting the global economy roughly in two: those within China’s sphere of economic influence and control, and those in the sphere of the United States.

And rather than protectionism, it is now about principles. China is clearly unhappy with Canada’s principled stand on a number of fronts. From the disputes over tech giant Huawei and the detention of the two Michaels, to more recent accusations of interference in Canadian elections, to even basic critiques of human rights violations – China seems to be running out of goodwill toward Canada.

Unfortunately, it is likely to get worse before it gets better. Growing tensions between China and the U.S. – and by extension Canada and all other Western democracies – seems to be moving in a troubling direction. Any actual military aggressions around Taiwan could easily pull us into an even larger principled stand against China. And that would spell even more economic sanctions and pain.

The question facing Canada is daunting. Do we actively engage in diplomacy and polite chatting with China in an effort to diffuse their irritation? Or do we even bother? Arguments could be made either way, but the balance of reason seems to be tilting toward the latter. Is the effort of diplomacy even worth it at this point? And does cozying up too closely to China now represent a political liability with our other economic partners, particularly the U.S.?

 

Now, about all of this -  China is a communist, Third World dictatorship that has gone so far (among so many other things) kidnapping our citizens to get what it wants (the kidnapping was met with weakness and required American help to secure the release of the two men in question, but I digress ...) and interfering in Canadian elections. Furthermore, more Americans and Britons visit Canada than Chinese do. China also has agents intimidating Chinese expatriates on Canadian soil.

What is it that Canada should be doing to appease the paper dragon and keep the trade of poorly-made products flowing?

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The “rent-a-womb” industry pipelines children born of surrogates in the United States to parents in China, a researcher said. Babies born this way automatically gain U.S. birthright citizenship.

Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry, has been burgeoning in the United States for about a decade, particularly in California, where laws regulating commercial surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are permissive, said Emma Waters, a research associate for the Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.

Surrogacy, a practice where a woman carries a pregnancy and gives birth to a baby for another person or couple, is completely banned in China.

Therefore Chinese couples use services offered by American fertility clinics that create for them embryos potentially having the biological makeup of the Chinese nationals, and birth the baby in the United States, Ms. Waters said in an interview on Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” program on Aug. 11.

With birthright citizenship laws in the United States, that child, who may be 100 percent Chinese national in their biology and genetic makeup, actually gains and maintains the full rights of U.S. citizenship, Ms. Waters explained.

When that child turns 21, even the parents can apply for a green card and eventually get citizenship, “which is a much faster and cheaper process than if they were to apply for citizenship through some of the traditional methods,” she added.

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The fall in Chinese birthrates might be the biggest story of the 21st century.

Unfortunately, the data — or lack thereof — has been found wanting. A must-read analysis by Liyan Qi for the Wall Street Journal points out that China’s National Bureau of Statistics “stopped releasing annual data on total fertility rate in 2017”.

Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste

In a real country, the leader would offer whatever resources and personnel needed to deal with a disaster, both man-made and natural.

He would stay out of the way.

He would not grandstand or make speeches. He would have the good grace not to.

But Canada and the US cannot be considered real countries with these morons running things into the ground:

Kids in Maui were burned alive. So far, this is how Biden responded:

- went on 2 vacations
- said “no comment”
- fell asleep at an event honoring victims
- compared a small house fire to thousands losing everything
- cracked jokes about his corvette and the ground being hot
-… https://t.co/EYd3aoiWIx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 22, 2023

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The moron (who believes that Facebook, like protesting for social change, is harmful to democracy, quite unlike stomping grandmothers with horses, freezing bank accounts and letting Chinese agents oppress dissidents on Canadian soil) is still blaming Facebook for withholding news links no one wants while they run from disasters possibly caused by arson:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at Facebook parent company Meta on Monday, saying the company’s move to remove news from its website is “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety.”

The Liberal government and Meta have been in a standoff this summer since the government passed C-18, legislation that requires companies like Facebook and Google to strike revenue-sharing deals with news publishers. Postmedia, the owner of the National Post, supports the legislation.

 

Oh, Justin:

 

 

Also - in case we wondered where Climate Barbie has been this whole time:

“Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution?” posted McKenna, now chair of UN Net Zero. “You want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed, and their communities obliterated? So, what are you going to do? You are the arsonists.”

 

This Catherine McKenna:

Trudeau Minister Catherine McKenna has accepted that she needs to "do a better job of explaining" where billions of taxpayer dollars went.

McKenna is the Liberal Infrastructure Minister. Under her watch, $187.8 billion was pledged towards infrastructure over the course of 12 years. Auditors, however, can not find where a significant amount of this money went.

 

 

Yes, Barbie. Now - about that: 

Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox.

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Amid hundreds of wildfires in recent months, Royal Canadian Mounted Police have arrested arsonists in Nova Scotia, Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta.

One Alberta resident, John Cook, was charged with 10 counts of arson after setting a string of wildfires in and around Cold Lake, a hamlet near Edmonton, local reports say. In addition to damaging vehicles and structures, Cook was charged with setting a fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cherry Grove.

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Critics have also blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for repeatedly invoking climate change, saying that the warming conditions do not relieve the country of its duty to conduct certain preventative measures to manage its dense forests, such as forest thinning, brush removal, and small, controlled burns.

More than 400 wildfires are currently burning in Canada, including more than 239 that are deemed to be “out of control,” Canadian Federal Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair told reporters Wednesday. So far, the fires have torched 9.4 million acres in Canada — and are burning at a rate of roughly 15 times the 10-year average.

And Now For Something Completely Uplifting

Watch as a man breathes life into a puppy:

The Man Revives Tiny Puppy by Performing CPR

It's so amazing! He should be proud of himself! The trust that mama dog showed when he was reviving its baby said everything. 🙏🙏

Credit: Newsflare pic.twitter.com/DJApdrxsR9

— Epoch Life (@LifeEpoch) August 16, 2023

 

Horrible Creature

Evil exists:

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital was found guilty Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.

Following 22 days of deliberation, the jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted 33-year-old Lucy Letby of killing the babies in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between 2015 and 2016.

 

Your Wasteful, Corrupt Government and You

It's not like they are wasting their time or money, or might even end up in prison for being fascists or anything:

The Liberals appear to be losing the narrative war on the economy, and struggling to counter a growing wave of negativity. This is being led not only by the opposition parties but increasingly by elite opinion, which is always an important driver of Liberal sensibilities.

While critics can pick at the veracity of his assertions, there’s no denying Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre threads a pretty solid storyline around how an overreaching government has stoked consumer prices and driven up interest rates, making life unaffordable for Canadians. It’s that simple.

In comparison, Liberal economic messaging can sound wonky, off-kilter, behind the curve and often incoherent. This applies across the board — in the way Liberals talk about everything from inflation and climate change to immigration.

Take immigration. Federal efforts to ramp up international migration have had the unintended secondary effect of aggravating Canada’s housing affordability crisis and driving interest rates higher than they need to be, which in turn acts as a drag on housing investment just when we need supply the most.

(Sidebar: to wit.)

Yet, the Liberals contend that Canada should maintain elevated levels of international migration now in order to find workers to build homes for all these new migrants to live. There’s an incongruity that grates.

 

The Liberals aren't simply mistaken or guilty of mis-phrasing. They are outright wrong.

How do unvetted migrants with no capital or ties to the country magically translate into saviors who will build the bridges and houses we apparently cannot build, have the babies we won't have, or pay the taxes we won't pay?

Can they fix these problems sleeping on the streets where the Liberals left them?

 

 

But that was the whole plan:

Did the Canadian lockdowns violate the rights of citizens? A recent decision by an Alberta judge in the case of Ingram v. Alberta (Chief Medical Officer of Health) answered “yes” to this question.

Justice Barbara Romaine of the Court of King’s Bench ruled that Alberta’s COVID orders violated civil rights because it was the government, led by former premier Jason Kenney, that ordered the lockdowns — rather than the unelected chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw. The draconian lockdown measures therefore violated the Public Health Act.

 

That silly creature was part of the effort to destroy the lives of Albertans.

She's not innocent. 

Also - Justin's uncle is set to make his wayward nephew look good in a few days:

The government’s response to the Rouleau commission and the suite of recommendations about policing and the Emergencies Act is expected to be released in the coming days.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially promised to respond within six months, a deadline that expired on Thursday, but a government source, who spoke on background because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed a response “in the coming days.”

After months of study and six weeks of public hearings that ended with Trudeau’s testimony, Justice Paul Rouleau delivered a report in February with more than 56 recommendations focusing on the police response to the convoy protests, as well as changes to the Emergencies Act itself.

When the report was released, Trudeau pledged to have the government give a comprehensive response.

“We will take seriously what the Commissioner concludes and what he proposes. Responsible leadership means that we are all striving to do the very best for Canadians in words and in deeds.”

 

Like trample grandmothers with horses.

 

 

This Mark Holland:

The winding road of this unserious, yet corrosive, conspiracy theory began in March when Liberal House leader Mark Holland claimed that Pierre Poilievre had refused a national security briefing on foreign interference.

In fact, no such briefing was ever offered and Holland apologized the next day, though Poilievre had said he would refuse such a briefing because it would limit his ability to talk about China’s election meddling. Despite Holland correcting the record, the belief that Poilievre refused the briefing has persisted on social media.

 

Compare him to the Mark Holland who is pretending to distance himself from his much-hated colleagues:

Holland says governments "viscerally" understand that Canadians are done with political excuses for the state of health care and want to see results.

He says he believes those public demands will ensure accountability, and Ottawa "shouldn't walk around with a stick."

Holland said after his appearance that his provincial and territorial counterparts are pulling in the same direction, and that's why he doesn't want to start talking about how they'll be penalized if they don't meet the deal's conditions.

 

No one is buying it, Mark. 

 

Putting the energy sector in the hands of these sycophants for China is insane, to say the least:

We shouldn’t be cozying up to China while we are in the midst of trying to find out the exact extent of that country’s efforts to undermine our democratic institutions. The fact that they failed doesn’t make it any less serious.

Canada ought to be considering what firm and robust message it should be sending to the Chinese, but instead Guilbeault is off to meet his friend Huang Runqiu, China’s environment minister, first in Beijing and probably later in Dubai for COP28 (that’s a lot of jet fuel).

“Our collaboration was one of the keys to the success of COP15,” said Guilbeault of Runqiu, in his interview with the National Observer.

Well, that’s nice. What a pity Guilbeault couldn’t have given Runqiu a call a few years ago to see if he could push Chinese leader Xi Jinping into releasing the Two Michaels.

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Federal subsidies for electric car makers yesterday reached $32 billion, twice the annual output of the entire Canadian auto sector. “It’s pretty remarkable,” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in awarding another subsidy to Ford Motor Company: “I think it is a big accomplishment.”

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Canada must double or triple its electricity output to meet 2050 climate targets, says a Newfoundland and Labrador submission to the Senate energy committee. Meeting targets is “likely not possible” without more federal subsidies, it said: “That is the equivalent of four Churchill Falls.

 

 

Oh, of course she didn't!:

The Department of Finance hired a friend of Minister Chrystia Freeland as a senior advisor, records show. Freeland said she played no role in the appointment: ‘I want to avoid any appearance of preferential treatment or any opportunity to further the private interest of a friend.’ 

Snitches are not appreciated, or some such thing:

The Canada Revenue Agency asked accountants if they’d report small businesses that don’t pay their taxes, records show. “Very few were interested,” said in-house research: “Some felt it would be unlikely that Canadians would report on one another.”

It's Only A Conspiracy Theory If We Say It Is

Indeed:

While our American neighbours are transfixed with the high-drama prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next year, up here in Canada our government is considering “scenarios.” And one aspect of these scenarios, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, is the “radicalization” of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

During an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday, Joly hinted at a “game plan” in the event that the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election produces ominous results, about which Joly spoke ominously. One scenario might be a “difficult situation.” Whatever happens, there will be mayors involved, and premiers. People like that.

 

First of all, this silly cow couldn't come up with a plan to tie her shoelaces.

So there's that.

More: 

Then there was this.

Lagacé: “Explain that to the people listening to us, if Americans moved away from democracy, if they leaned more and more towards the authoritarianism that Mr. Trump seems to advocate.”

(Sidebar: oh? Is he the guy who froze bank accounts and sent horses to trample grandmothers?)

Joly: “Well, I think that in general, there is our game plan, precisely to be able to manage what could be a rather difficult situation. And well, I won’t go into detail, because I think it’s. . . we are certainly working on scenarios. But also the other aspect of the question is more about knowing how we as a democracy are able to thwart the growth of the far right in our country, because it’s happening in the United States, it’s happening in Europe.

“So one can’t be naive here, Patrick; it’s happening right now with us, there is, we know that there is certainly a radicalization of the Conservative Party.”

And there it is. This is how Team Trudeau hopes to survive the calamity of its descent in the public opinion polls owing to galloping inflation, a doubling of house prices and rent costs since the Liberals came to power in 2015, several nasty ethics scandals and a festering controversy over the electoral advantage they enjoyed in key ridings arising from Beijing’s efforts to secure the Liberals’ return to power in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

 

It's not like Justin hasn't tried scaring Canadians with Americans before.

Now, it's so obvious and pathetic. 

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It must be said:

No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.

Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social media video Friday. He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”

 

Yes, it does.

When an entire country and religious body is accused of massacring children and putting them in mass graves, I would say that the claims aren't merely hyperbolic but utter dreck.

Just A Reminder

 There do exist ways to alert the Canadian public about disasters:

What is Alert Ready?

Alert Ready is the public branding of the National Public Alerting System (NPAS) designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving alerts to Canadians through television, radio and other media and on wireless devices.

How does Alert Ready work?

The Alert Ready system was developed by federal, provincial and territorial emergency management officials, broadcasters, and wireless service providers to ensure that you receive alerts immediately and know when to take action to keep yourself and your family safe.

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The National Public Alerting System is a federal, provincial, and territorial system that enables emergency management organizations across Canada to warn the public about imminent or possible dangers such as floods, tornados, hazardous materials, fires, and other disasters. The system is also used for Amber Alerts and other urgent bulletins about child abductions when the child is thought to be in grave danger.

These potentially life-saving warnings, which are area-specific (geo-targeted), are known as emergency alerts. When an alert is issued, it is broadcast on television and radio and sent to mobile devices that are connected to an LTE (long-term evolution) network.

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Making this: 

With wildfires leading to evacuations in Yellowknife and Kelowna Friday, Meta should reverse its “unacceptable” and “reckless” decision to block news content on its platforms in Canada, Liberal government ministers said.

 

 - not only grossly inaccurate and an outright lie, but a bit of emotional extortion designed to cover the anatomies of lazy, greedy, censorial mental lightweights who desperately need to walk back on every single bad decision that they've ever made.

Who runs to their social media accounts when running from danger, anyway? 

Is CBC officially the only news source now?

 

Why not just repeal Bills C-11 and 18 then?

I think we know why.

Most Important

Despite what the Liberal government (and its stupid, self-defeating policies) would have one believe, there are provincial alert systems in place that are not dependent on Meta:

Look after one’s self.