Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The Dominion of Gong Show, Part Deux

A country so determined to fail that it refuses to heed the cries to see reason ...

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is “making sure” the incoming U.S. administration hears our views in support of the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.

 

(Sidebar: and there are no avalanches to remove him. God bless you, Kathy Shaidle!)

 

I'll just leave this right here: 

Canada must "phase out" Alberta's oil sands and end the country's dependence on hydrocarbons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

 

 

And where will you find this money?:

Legislators must press cabinet to roll pandemic relief programs into a permanent guaranteed income plan, members of an Anti-Poverty Caucus said yesterday. “We still have to aim for it in the budget,” said Senator Kim Pate (Ont.), a Liberal appointee: “We’re certainly well on our way.”

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The most pressing concerns for the central bank at this stage are whether a grim winter will cripple the recovery, and when to slow its multi-billion-dollar bond-purchase program, which could create asset-price bubbles if left in place too long.

 

(Sidebar: these bonds.)

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And Canada is spending in places that may not directly repair the damage that has been done by the virus. Why not get our country back on solid economic footing first before introducing policies that could impede the pace of the recovery, such as the five-fold increase in the carbon tax and the new clean-fuel standard?

 

It's just money:

Former New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.) was awarded a sole-sourced $41,000 federal contract to mediate an Indigenous pipeline dispute. Cullen has no Indigenous roots. “I grew up in Toronto,” he earlier told the Commons.



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