Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Was It Something He Said?

In this case, yes:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was booted from the House of Commons on Tuesday after calling Justin Trudeau a “wacko prime minister.”

Speaker of the House Greg Fergus took the step Tuesday during question period, kicking Poilievre out for using language he said was “not considered parliamentary.”

The Conservative leader blamed Trudeau for allowing British Columbia to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs, a step B.C. is now seeking to roll back.

Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby announced he is asking the federal government to modify its Criminal Code exemption for simple drug possession so police can intervene in cases of public drug use.

“Even the B.C. NDP are distancing themselves from his decriminalization of crack, heroin, meth and other hard drugs,” Poilievre said.

“When will we put an end to this wacko policy by this wacko prime minister?” Poilievre said.

 

Justin is a wacko and Pierre is not the only one to have noticed it.

How “parliamentary “ is it to tell someone to "get the f—- out of the way", elbow a woman in the chest, call someone "a piece of sh—", alienate an entire population, make enemies of foreign governments and applaud a Nazi?

Justin can't handle the truth.

 


 

 


Your Deceitful, Wasteful, Spiteful, Idiot Government and You

All of the warning signs were there but no wanted to heed them:

Parliament’s Procurement Ombudsman testifies today on favouritism in federal contracting to McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm formerly led by a friend of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. The investigation ordered by the Commons government operations committee found “a strong perception of favouritism” in McKinsey contracts: “I knew Chrystia Freeland when she worked at the Financial Times.”



Now, now.

In Canada, everyone will have a chance to be fleeced:

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Canadian families with modest incomes face the highest marginal effective tax rates, with those earning between $30,000 and $60,000 hit hardest, according to a newly released report.
Marginal effective tax rate (METR) measures the personal income taxes paid both federally and provincially as well as the reductions in government benefits linked to income. 
Households earning $30,000 to $60,000 face marginal effective tax rates near or above 50 per cent, said the report published by the Fraser Institute.

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More than a tenth of pensioners in their 60s remain in the workforce by necessity, Statistics Canada said yesterday. New data follow a recommendation that cabinet rewrite Income Tax Act credits to recognize hundreds of thousands of Canadians who work past 65: “Those working by necessity represented 351,000 individuals.”
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Why stay?:

A new report lends insight into Canadians who leave the country, estimated to number around four million in 2016, or about 11 per cent of the population according to Statistics Canada.

Canada has trouble retaining new citizens, with onward migration showing an increase by 31 per cent between 2017 and 2019, according to the report published by McGill Institute for the Study of Canada on Monday.

The number of naturalized Canadians deciding to leave Canada within “four to seven years of arrival” is partly due to the lack of affordability, it says.

“Canada’s inflexible and unrealistic pathways towards recognizing foreign degrees … prevent immigrants from finding jobs in their chosen fields and building their careers in their new country,” the report adds.

About half of Canadians acquired their citizenship through their Canadian parents, while one-third were born on Canadian soil. The remaining 15 per cent of Canadians living abroad were born as foreigners and became naturalized citizens. Their reasons for leaving the country include travel, jobs and study opportunities.

The average age of Canadians living abroad, at 46.2, is slightly more than the national average, according to StatsCan. The largest group is between 45 and 54 years old.

 

Canada is a nothing country.

Justin (who is desperately appealing to the Americans) said so himself.

Political multiculturalism, brought in by his father, has ensured Liberal voters blocks but not loyalty.

Certainly no financial reason to remain.

 

 

The most "transparent" government in the country's history:

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s department promises to do better after it was caught concealing legislative briefing notes from the Senate. One senator was told the routine documents would not be released until after the next election: “I would say fundamentally this is unacceptable.”

 

Also:

Federal subsidies for the electric vehicle industry are now up to $52.5 billion, triple the $16 billion annual GDP of the entire Canadian auto industry. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday would not say how much his cabinet was willing to pay per job in the sector: “How much is the government paying for each of those jobs?”

 


Marc Miller is a complete waste of skin:

Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s office yesterday did not comment after Miller told a U.S. radio interviewer Canada was “open country” for foreigners. Illegal immigration was a minor issue since Canada was surrounded by oceans, the United States and “a block of ice to the north,” he said.


Also:

Canadian companies ramped up their recruitment of temporary foreign workers last year, even as the labour market softened and the unemployment rate drifted higher.



It's no wonder he failed out of engineering class:

A federal inventory of vacant Crown-owned property lists fewer than 400 nationwide including many unsuitable for housing like cattle barns and boat sheds, records show. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday repeated his claim that unused federal property will create thousands of new homes: “Anyone who says we don’t need to put everything on the table right now is not listening.”

 

 

China is a great source of slave labour.

Put sanctions on it:

Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan yesterday said he will introduce a bill by year’s end to detect and block imports of slave-made goods into Canada. Cabinet has long promised legislation to ban the trade: “This year we will introduce legislation.”



Justin is good at weaponising the organs of the state against those he does not like, as any dictator would.

What will he do when he can't collect from Saskatchewan?:

“It’s our position that we paid all the tax that is owing so the threat is not a threat at all,” said Premier Moe. “(The) prime minister thinks he’s going to start sending agencies after provinces that had unanimous votes in their legislation … he may have his views. I believe he’s wrong with those views.”

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The Canada Revenue Agency is going to audit Saskatchewan for not paying carbon levies on home heating, Premier Scott Moe said Monday.

Moe said the agency has indicated it will look at Saskatchewan’s books to see how much the province owes in levies that weren’t paid to Ottawa.

“They will ask if they can look at the submissions we’ve made and for us to submit money they estimate may be owed,” he told reporters.

“We don’t believe there’s any dollars that are owed.”

The Saskatchewan Party government decided earlier this year to not remit the federal carbon price on natural gas, a move that breaks federal law.

Moe invoked the measure after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exempted users of home heating oil from having to pay the levy in a move largely seen as politically motivated to boost Liberal support in Atlantic Canada.

The Canada Revenue Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

 

Apparently, ArriveCan CAN get worse:

Customs officers warn of another ArriveCan-style fiasco with a Canada Border Services Agency plan to digitize $32 billion in yearly tariff collections. The computer system to be launched May 13 has been delayed until October: “A rushed system is deployed as a solution to a non-existent problem.”


The biggest job growth in Canada is in the public sector.

The least amount of any real work is done by the public sector:

The federal government will expect public servants back in the office three days a week beginning later this year.

A federal government source who is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter confirmed to Radio-Canada what the French-language newspaper Le Droit first reported Monday.

The source said the policy shift is due to come into effect in September, but added that could change.

It's a major alteration to the twice-a-week hybrid model that prompted some 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members to walk off the job last year in what their union called a "watershed moment" for workers' rights.

 

 

Melanie Joly can't do anything right:

Auditors have uncovered routine irregularities in the hiring of consultants in Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s department. The review followed a public outcry over billions spent on consultants government-wide, said an internal audit report: “In the last five years the department signed more than 8,000 consulting service contracts totaling $567 million.”

 

No one had a problem going to stores during the lockdowns.

Indeed, they were heroes to the people who traversed several blocks for their Cheezies while still wearing pajamas:

If the goal truly is to enhance food affordability, the boycott should encompass all major box stores, not just focus on one company. Moreover, to truly address the issue at hand, the movement should support independent grocers who compete against these large players without any substantial backing. Independent grocers often promote local foods and innovate across various food categories. Despite their contributions, these smaller entities seldom receive the recognition they deserve and are prevalent in communities nationwide. Contrary to popular belief, smaller does not inherently mean more expensive, and the boycott could have highlighted the value of supporting independently owned and operated stores.


If the protest is to have any legitimacy, it should point out inflation, how the carbon tax has driven up prices, how food control boards control prices, and the lack of competition in where one can buy food.

So there's that.



I would like term limits AND the right to impeach at will:

 I believe in term limits. I never believed in politics that winning is everything. Doing the right thing is what it’s about, and paying the price. Term limits would eliminate a lot of crap. Today I don’t know if there is leadership that’s prepared to pay the political price and take the chance.

One of the most dangerous elements in democracy is the person who wants to get re-elected. Once they’re in office they will say or do anything to win re-election, as opposed to doing the right thing. That is a much bigger danger to democracy than low turnout by the electorate.

 

Term limits would reduce the amount of time it would take for someone do destroy the country, as Justin has.

Were he granted only four years to ruin things, the damage might be reparable. 

Make these politicians fear the electorate, not the other way around.

Make them accountable.


EVs are the New ArriveCan/Ad-Scam/SNC-Lavalin/Chinese Interference ...

But don't take my word for it:

First there was the $13-billion deal with Volkswagen to build a battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont. Then, after Stellantis-LG Energy Solution objected, the government more than matched that deal for a plant in Windsor, Ont. And then it added another almost $5 billion for a Northvolt battery plant in Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Que. (previously best known as the site of a PCB warehouse fire in 1988).

The announced total of these deals was $37.7 billion, though the parliamentary budget officer reported in November that the real cost would be more like $43.6 billion. And we know that when the spending actually starts, with Ottawa in charge, “Versailles’ the limit,” as you might say. And now, right on cue, there’s another $5 billion for a new Honda EV/battery operation in Alliston, Ont. ...

These days Canada’s GDP is running at almost $3 trillion a year; the $43.6 billion Ottawa is spending on just the first three big EV/battery deals is about 1.5 per cent of GDP. That’s real money with real consequences. Especially when the government backs it up with rules and prohibitions.

The prime minister, who has no background in business, is nevertheless fond of talking about “the business case” for things. There is no business case for exporting liquefied natural gas (though it’s an established thing), he told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who came asking for help just after Russia invaded Ukraine. But there is a business case, apparently, for exporting hydrogen (though it’s not yet an established thing).

Whether there’s a business case for electric vehicles is a question that most of the rest of the world currently seems to be asking. If you’re the head of a car company that has made big bets on EVs, you must be seriously worried that demand for them is falling. You may even be scaling back production because dealer lots are filling up with unsold cars.

But in Canada, there is no such self-doubt. Doubt be damned, the government powers ahead. First there’s the torrent of money it is pouring into the industry. And then there’s the banning of competing technologies: no new gasoline-powered cars after 2035, no matter how wonderfully efficient this technology, now well into its second century, has become. Plus a hard cap on oil and gas emissions, which pretty much means a hard cap on oil and gas output.

Economists would say: tax carbon at a price reflecting the damage it does and then see what happens. If there’s an energy transition, fine. If there’s no energy transition, that means the damage done by burning carbon-based fuels is less than the benefit they produce.

 But this government says: There must be a transition. We insist on a transition. And to make sure it happens we need to get businesses to stop teetering and fall off the fence into the transition. So we create the business case by forcing the issue with subsidies firms can’t say no to and rules that knock any competition out of business.


A demand means a supply will follow.

The government is creating both at the same time.

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Who did you vote for, unions?:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was told Monday by a top union leader that grave concerns remain about the hiring of foreign workers at a flagship EV battery plant in Windsor, Ont., when skilled Canadians are available to do the jobs.

In a keynote discussion with the Prime Minister at the annual conference of Canada’s Building Trades Unions in Gatineau, union leader Sean Strickland told Mr. Trudeau that the concerns that emerged last year about the hiring of hundreds of Korean and Japanese workers at the EV factory have yet to be resolved.

Mr. Strickland, CBTU executive director, appealed to Mr. Trudeau for help to ensure that skilled Canadian workers – including those with experience installing and maintaining equipment for the plant – would get priority over foreign workers for jobs, and that companies would stick to their promises to hire Canadians.

“We have grave concerns when there are projects – particularly one in Windsor – where international workers are going to work when Canadians have the skills and the training. It’s not about knowledge transfer. In this case, they have the skills and the training and are available to work,” he said.

The NextStar EV plant in Windsor is being built with up to $15-billion in subsidies from the federal and Ontario governments. It is a joint venture between global auto giant Stellantis and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution.

NextStar disclosed last year that 900 temporary foreign workers would be coming to install technical equipment at the plant and going home once the work is done.


More:

Conservative MPs are pushing Ottawa to release details of its agreement with Honda Canada to build a sprawling electric vehicle operation in southern Ontario — disclosure they say is necessary to ensure Canadians get all the jobs in the multi-billion-dollar project.

The push for transparency comes after Canada's Building Trades Union (CBTU) wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month asking him to intervene on another EV project, the NextStar plant in Windsor, Ont. that's backed by Chrysler parent company Stellantis and Korean firm LG.

The union said foreign workers are displacing Canadian labourers at the NextStar construction site while 180 local millwrights and ironworkers are unemployed and available to perform the necessary work.

"Canadian workers are now being replaced by international workers at an increasing pace, on work that was previously assigned to Canadian workers," wrote Sean Strickland, CBTU's executive director, in an April 10 letter to Trudeau.


You voted to get stabbed in the back. 

 That's on you.