Your middle-of-the-week size differential ...
When one's priorities are remaining in power and humiliating the electorate into funding an undeserved pension, it all makes sense:
The high percentage opposing increased immigration is not purely a function of the pandemic and its economic aftermath. An EKOS poll from April 2019 found that 40 per cent of those surveyed thought that Canada was admitting too many immigrants. Why, then, given its potential unpopularity is the Trudeau government doubling down aggressively on increasing immigration, apart from ideological conviction?
The answer may lie in the twin, related facts, that new immigrants tend to be reliable Liberal voters, and, on the flip side, that those who identified themselves as Liberal supporters are much more supportive of immigration than self-identified Conservatives. According to the same EKOS poll, only 15 per cent of Liberals thought Canada was admitting too many members of visible minorities as new immigrants, while a whopping 69 per cent of Conservatives thought so.
This sets up a self-fulfilling dynamic, where Liberal governments ramp up immigration and gain political support from new immigrants and their political base, thereby setting up for further immigration increases. This is a similar dynamic to the United States, where immigrants traditionally have been staunch Democrats.
January statistics showed that Canada had a 9.4% unemployment rate. Very little has changed.
Where would these future Liberal voters find employment if people who live here can't?
Also:
Hilariously, Trudeau MP Fraser replied with an excuse, saying Poilievre ‘ought to know’ that it’s unfair to compare Canada’s unemployment rate with the US unemployment rate due to different methods used to calculate them.
Of course, Poilievre had prepared for that ahead of time, and noted that Statistics Canada provides documentation of the rate using the same method, which shows Canada’s unemployment rate stands at 8.2%, compared to 6.3% in the US.
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“It is critical that Canadian domestic broadcasting companies do not have more onerous obligations than U.S.-based big tech giants,” Susan Wheeler, the vice-president of regulatory media at Rogers Communications, told the standing committee on Canadian heritage on Friday.
She has a point. But the solution is not to force American tech companies to abide by the same antiquated regulations as traditional Canadian broadcasters and cable providers. Instead, the government should level the playing field by giving all companies the freedom to make editorial decisions that are in the best interests of their shareholders and customers, rather than in the service of a protectionist impulse to feature more Canadiana, regardless of its quality.
We already know what we get when the government mandates that too much of a good must be produced domestically. The East Germans got the Trabant, which is generally considered to be one of the worst cars ever built, but was incredibly popular, because it was the only one available. And in Canada, we’ve got the CBC, a network that costs taxpayers $1.2 billion a year, which it spends on shows that no one wants to watch.
That’s around $34 a year for each and every one of us. And Mothercorp would like us to pay nearly double that — around $60 per year — for “premium” access to its streaming service, CBC Gem. The Crown corporation won’t release data showing how many Canadians are gullible enough to actually send the state broadcaster more of their hard-earned money, but I can’t imagine it’s that many, given that the CBC’s ratings have been falling for years. ...
After a year of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of substandard outcomes in dealing with the pandemic, is it not time that Canadians stood up and demanded better from their government? If the Liberals are going to waste time determining what’s on TV, the least they can do is try to improve the situation by doing away with regulations drafted in a bygone era in which our juvenile country was preoccupied with the “threat” of American cultural imperialism, rather than making everyone worse off.
But what would they do with their proposed censorship laws?:
Federal legislation expected to be tabled within weeks will see a new statutory definition of hate and could also see the reincarnation of a controversial hate speech law.
The new definition, part of legislation aimed at tackling online hate content, will be based on previous court decisions and how the Supreme Court has defined hate, said Arif Virani, parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister David Lametti.
But the government has also not ruled out introducing a form of a controversial hate speech law that was widely criticized over free speech rights. The law, Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, was repealed in 2013 after critics said it amounted to censorship.
Section 13 was “something we consulted on,” said Virani. “We heard feedback on both sides of the ledger. That’s something we’re examining.”
Section 13 was censorship and it is on its way back.
Why, it's like the Chinese-spread virus makes people desperate and stupid:
The Department of Public Works concealed a multi-million dollar heist of pandemic masks, according to internal records. Millions of surgical masks vanished from an airport warehouse at Hamilton, Ont. after the Prime Minister and local authorities announced the delivery: ‘We are not comfortable with publicly divulging the location.’
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The White House spokesperson today ruled out sending vaccines to continental partners like Canada and Mexico, saying U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to getting every American vaccinated before sharing doses with other countries.
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Efforts to boost Canada’s ability to produce vaccines are among over 100 research projects receiving new federal money.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $518 million Wednesday he says will support the work of nearly 1,000 researchers.
(Sidebar: because that wasn't needed before. Way to buy a distraction with printed money!)
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An Ontario Conservative MP has joined the chorus of voices calling for an end to COVID-19 lockdowns.
Flamborough-Glanbrook MP David Sweet says the pandemic-related restrictions are causing huge psychological and economic damage.
He says the public health measures should focus on vulnerable communities, not healthy individuals.
Also - oh, dear:
Thirty-four cases of pregnant women experiencing spontaneous miscarriages or stillbirths after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have been submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
VAERS is a passive reporting system that allows people to submit a report of an adverse event after vaccination and is run by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Research funded by the CDC has shown that fewer than 1 percent of reactions from vaccinations are being reported on VAERS.
Reports made to VAERS do not necessarily mean that a vaccine may have caused the event or reaction. Miscarriages are labeled as spontaneous abortions or abortions in the reporting system.
Many cases of spontaneous miscarriages occurred in the first trimester, or the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy, with 25 occurrences after being immunized with a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. While the four cases of stillborns occurred in either the second (weeks 13-27) or third trimester (weeks 28-40).
According to Verywell Health, an online resource on health-related issues: “Research suggests that between 10% and 20% of women with a medically confirmed pregnancy will end in miscarriage. Eighty percent of these will occur during the first trimester.”
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South Korean authorities are investigating the deaths of two people, both with pre-existing conditions, who died within days of receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.
AstraZeneca said it was aware of the investigation by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), but the safety of the vaccine has been extensively studied in clinical trials with data confirming it is generally well tolerated.
“KDCA is conducting epidemiological surveys with relevant local authorities … to confirm any link with inoculation,” KDCA Director Jeong Eun-kyeong told a briefing.
But it did not yet confirm any causal relationship to the vaccine.
A 63-year-old nursing home patient with cerebrovascular disease, developed symptoms including high fever, after being given the vaccine four days ago, Jeong said.
The man was moved to a larger hospital on Tuesday, but died after showing symptoms of blood poisoning and pneumonia, Yonhap news agency reported.
Another nursing home patient in his 50s with a cardiac disorder and diabetes died on Wednesday after suffering multiple heart attacks, having received the vaccine a day earlier, the agency said.
Looking after number one:
The Commons finance committee yesterday killed a private bill to shut down Canada Revenue Agency operations in Québec. The Bloc Québécois had sought to have the province collect all income tax within its borders and remit the federal share back to Ottawa: “I’ve never had a bill defeated at committee.”
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Canada’s federal whistleblower protection law is “nearly entirely dormant,” the International Bar Association said yesterday. Cabinet to date has ignored a 2017 recommendation from MPs to strengthen the law targeting disclosure of wrongdoing: “Whistleblowers are essential for credible law enforcement campaigns against corruption.”
Oh, they're still not listening:
He parked outside the French embassy and slept in his pickup truck, which was on the verge of being repossessed. Shortly after dawn, he checked his guns — “the only real inheritance” from his father — and crashed his truck through the security gates of Rideau Hall, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lived.
“I figured as soon as I got on the property, I would get shot down,” Hurren, 46, said in an interview with a psychiatrist hired to assess his mental state after his attack last July.
His death was to be his message of discontent with the government’s response to COVID and gun control, he said.
Cong Peiwu is an arrogant little sh--.
Prove me wrong:
China‘s ambassador to Canada says reports of genocide and forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province are the “lie of the century,” despite international bodies like the United Nations deeming the reports of such activities “numerous and credible.”
Cong Peiwu on Wednesday held a virtual press conference with political journalists from several Canadian outlets, including Global News. The event came a little over one week after the House of Commons voted to recognize China’s treatment of Uyghurs as a genocide.
“Those MPs voting in the House of Commons, most of them, I’m afraid, have never been to Xinjiang or even to China in the last years, so how can they judge the situation on the ground?” he said.
‘They simply, some of them, are doing things out of political intention and trying to secure political gains.”
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