Your end-of-November slice of inane wisdom ...
It's Wednesday. It must be another day of corruption for the Liberals:
Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion says he’s received thousands of pages of wholly unredacted government documents related to the WE Charity scandal as he investigates the matter for conflicts of interest.
Dion made his remarks on Tuesday to the House of Commons finance committee, which has been trying to get access to a similar trove of unredacted WE documents. But the committee also heard from Privy Council Clerk Ian Shugart, who told them the government has the right to withhold certain information from MPs whether they like it or not.
Also:
The chief clerk of the federal public service last night refused to say how many We Charity records have been withheld from MPs. The Commons finance committee has sought to censure federal agencies for concealing documents: “What you’re indicating to us is disturbing.”
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MP Michael Cooper’s research shows more money went to consultants than to businesses seeking relief. @Cooper4SAE https://t.co/b1Hpv61rBM
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 24, 2020
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That might be news to the Bank of Canada.
In an August 20, 2020 document, the Bank of Canada Deputy Governor issued a paper titled “The Great Reset,” with the subheading of “Supporting the transition to a greener, smarter economy.”
The paper goes on to say “COVID-19 is a shock and an opportunity,” and “Pivot to a greener, smarter economy?”
Interestingly, Trudeau’s PMO also may be surprised to hear Trudeau call it a conspiracy, since they put out a statement on his behalf in which he mentions it repeatedly.
Oops.
Trudeau, thy name is contempt:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians won’t be front of the line when COVID-19 vaccines become available, because the first doses will be made outside of our borders.
“One of the things to remember is Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines,” Trudeau said outside Rideau Cottage Tuesday. “Countries like the United States, Germany and the U.K. do have domestic pharmaceutical facilities which is why they’re obviously going to prioritize helping their citizens first.”
(Sidebar: let's not question why we don't produce our own medicines, whatever we do.)
Canadians are getting the government they begged for good and hard. Their blind trust in a snowboard instructor and total douchebag has been repaid with what can be construed as a callous attempt to cash in on the coronavirus vaccine at their expense.
You deserve it, Canada.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has hired retired General Rick Hillier, former Chief of Defense Staff for the Canadian Armed Forces, to chair his province's coronavirus vaccine task force, the Toronto Star reports.
“This is a military operation in the sense that the moment the vaccine hits our warehouses we want it deployed where it is most needed,” a government official reportedly told the Star.
Or, rather, it's just a military operation.
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I think it's utterly selfish for anyone with gripping chest pain to seek medical attention at a hospital when there has been little influx of critically ill coronavirus patients. Such a thing would make the world think that Canada does not have a caring, attentive and efficient healthcare system that has been the boast of only Canada for decades:
“Our analysis shows that fewer people sought care for significant concerns like cardiac events and trauma, as well as for common concerns like abdominal pain, colds and flu,” the CIHI noted.
Different provinces went into lockdown and announced service restrictions in mid-March to curb the spread of the coronavirus, leading to fewer visits.
A fear of exposure to COVID-19 coupled with a sense of social responsibility to stay home amid heightened public awareness during the first wave also contributed to the lower occupancy in emergency wards, health care workers say.
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A third of a million foreigners entered Canada after cabinet invoked the Quarantine Act, records show. Foreign visitors included 18,000 China passport holders: “I think staying home this year is probably the right thing to do.”
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Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough yesterday said auditors will have to “follow up” with Canadians who claimed to be jobless in applying for $2,000 pandemic relief cheques. The program went 240 percent over-budget. Qualtrough’s department earlier claimed checks were done upfront to confirm applications were legitimate: “It was not abandoning any checks and balances at the get-go.”
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Claims for paid sick leave under the Employment Insurance Act increased forty-nine percent even before the pandemic, according to a Department of Employment audit. Staff could not explain the jump in claims, “more than five times the predicted increase.”
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Police on Tuesday made their way to a BBQ premises in Etobicoke, Ontario, which had ignored COVID-19 lockdown rules to remain open for dine-in customers. However, when they got there and saw that crowds of people had shown up to eat, cops decided they didn’t have the resources to shut the service down safely.
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The Canada Revenue Agency yesterday acknowledged “suspicious activity” in claims for $2,000 pandemic relief cheques, including applications by people who were clearly ineligible. MPs and the Department of Employment said they relied on the Agency to verify claims upfront: “That is a simple principle that an average person understands.”
A lackey whose mortgages were held by Chinese banks and was too humiliated to thank Taiwan for its invaluable assistance warns that "tough talk" would only hinder the Liberals' efforts to do nothing about two Canadian citizens being held hostage by China:
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne warned Monday that tough talk about China could hurt efforts to gain the release of two arbitrarily detained Canadians.
Testifying before the House of Commons Canada-China relations committee, Champagne urged MPs to keep the fate of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in mind when they spout off about the perils and perfidy of China's Communist regime.
Also - we don't have to trade with China:
The city council has approved a preliminary bid from a Chinese float glass manufacturer to build a huge plant there, something many citizens are opposed to. Float glass is commonly used in commercial construction.
To encourage the factory bid the city purchased land just outside the city’s industrial park and the province issued a special ‘municipal zoning order’ (MZO) , to rezone the land specifically for the glass plant. Locals have been angered by this provincial government move and that of the city mayor which they claim circumvents normal planning and public input into the decision
It is both the idea of the huge Xinyi Canada (pron: sheen yee) glass plant and the manner in which the council approved it that have raised the ire of locals.
How about only Canadian companies work in Canada?
Hhhmm?
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Former ambassador John McCallum last night said he had “not received a penny” from the People’s Republic of China, but added he is a paid consultant for Chinese companies. McCallum was fired as ambassador in 2019 after remarking it would be “great for Canada” if it didn’t have to extradite a Huawei Technologies executive wanted on U.S. bank fraud charges: “Right now I cannot divulge names of clients.”
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China censors Canadian curriculums at international schools ...
Why, it's like Canada doesn't even matter to its Chinese bosses.
No, none of this sounds suspicious at all:
Dominion Voting's founder and chief investor, John Poulos, is a donor to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Someone looking to fraudulently improve Joe Biden’s margins relative to Donald Trump is likely to be focused on covering their tracks by keeping Joe Biden’s share of the update at a reasonable value. 95% might seem plausible, but 99.9% at this scale becomes prima facie implausible to any honest observer. One effective way of achieving the desired goal of decreasing Donald Trump’s lead at this point would have been to suppress the Trump vote while artificially inflating the non-two-party vote in an attempt to disguise just how Biden-favoring this update actually was. Indeed, this is precisely the reason this report uses ratios -- because they are a metric virtually never used for any practical purpose in discussing election results, someone committing fraud is far less likely to consider how unusual a ratio might look.
(Merci)
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A professor of mathematics at Williams College, in a sworn affidavit, flagged nearly 100,000 ballots in Pennsylvania after analyzing election data and phone interviews.
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Dominion Voting Systems committed to attending an oversight hearing in Pennsylvania but backed out at the last moment, lawmakers in the Keystone State said Friday.
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Thousands of people registered and voted in Georgia using addresses of postal facilities or businesses, but making it look like they were residential addresses, according to a former Trump campaign official whose team analyzed the states’ voter data.
When one considers the emotional retardation of the more censorious of our compatriots, it gives one a sense that a stiff wind would blow them and they would never be seen again:
After Vice News reported on the internal strife ripping through Penguin Random House Canada, Mikhaela Peterson, the psychology professor’s daughter, took a page from her father and coined two new rules for the publishing house to use to improve operations.
“How to improve business in 2 steps: Step 1: identify crying adults. Step 2: fire,” tweeted Mikhaela Peterson on Tuesday evening.
(Sidebar: seriously, buy this book.)
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In a word, no:
Despite what the mainstream media and leftist politicians would want you to believe, Canada is home to a large number of pro-life individuals.
However, in so many instances – when Canadians express their pro-life views, they’re persecuted, ridiculed and ostracized.
An NDP MP has endorsed a petition calling on the federal government to create legislation that would ban “graphic imagery” from pro-life protest signs and materials.
Petition e-2977 which was endorsed by NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen rails against “displaying extremely graphic images of allegedly aborted fetuses” in Canadian cities. The petition argues that such imagery is “triggering” to women.
The petition then calls for the government to “amend or create legislation setting out the limitations regarding what imagery and content can be used in a protest or demonstration that is subject to public viewing.”
“[And to] amend or create legislation regarding if, and how graphic imagery can be delivered to homes across the Country (i.e. putting such pamphlets in envelopes with a “Viewer Discretion” warning).”
The petition, which was opened on November 16, 2020, has so far received 744 signatures, a majority of which came from Ontario.
It's called freedom of speech.
Now that one knows the NDP are avowedly against it, can it lose its party status? It's just on life support, anyway.
Speaking of life support:
Indigenous elders work hard to tell young people that suicide should not be an option, and the medical assistance in dying (MAID) bill says the opposite, said Tyler White, chief executive officer of Siksika Health Services, which provides health services to Indigenous communities in Alberta.
"Extraordinary efforts have been made in suicide prevention in our communities," he said.
"The expansion of MAID sends a contradictory message to our peoples that some individuals should receive suicide prevention, while others suicide assistance."
I think it's adorable that you thought you mattered.
This is Canada, mack. You're good for some virtue-signalling and nothing more.
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A proposed change to the federal assisted-dying law would explicitly state that medically assisted death could not be obtained for a patient with mental health concerns, angering some psychiatrists.
However, other psychiatrists are concerned that allowing assisted death on grounds of mental illness equates to allowing them to kill their patients – something they see as very dissimilar to relieving the suffering of patients with terminal physical conditions.
The entire thing is slippery slope.
The mayor of Vancouver revealed his plan to decriminalize possession of hard drugs as British Columbia sees a shocking increase in overdose-related incidents.
“Personal possession and use of drugs is not a criminal justice issue, it is a health issue,” said Mayor Kennedy Stewart.
“It is time to end the stigma around substance use, help connect more of our neighbours to health care, and save lives.”
Should the plan pass through a federal health exemption, Vancouver will be the first city in Canada to pursue decriminalization.
Stewart’s plan has received support from BC Premier John Horgan and the province’s top health official Dr Bonnie Henry, as well as others.
The Liberals felt the same way:
The founder of Islamic Relief Worldwide brought more controversy to the charity after he referred to the persecuted Yazidi people as “devil worshippers”.
Also:
In their book The Next Jihad, Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper expose the increasing violence perpetrated against Christians by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria.
Then they came for "Charlie Brown":
In the scene, Franklin, who is the only Black character, is sitting by himself on one side of a Thanksgiving table, while most of the other kids sit together on the other side (Linus is seated at the head of the table). Some people consider the scene problematic and even racist, arguing that Franklin is separated from the rest of the characters, who are white.
First of all, this:
From this one could gather that Schulz refused to waste any time with a response to that utter nonsense.
Secondly, if one had bothered to watch the special in its entirety, one would know that Franklin was invited by Peppermint Patty to an impromptu Thanksgiving celebration, hastily put together. He was later invited to a proper Thanksgiving supper at Charlie Brown's grandmother's home. How was he separated (other than poor manners at letting himself be invited)?
Thirdly, affirmative action, self-flagellation and identity politics are nothing more than forms of tokenism and racism of lowered expectations. They are deliberate hindrances to treating citizens of all backgrounds as functioning adults with their own thoughts, aspirations and responsibilities to the greater community.
Do you know what else?
It's a damn cartoon.
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