Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Shut Up, Justin IV

He's lucky that the Chinese find him useful ... for now:

Due to mediocre growth, high taxation, low productivity and over-regulation, Canada hasn’t made the cut for a while, but stays in the G7. Both Italy and Canada are smaller, in terms of nominal gross domestic product, than China and India. Canada is the world’s ninth-largest economy, according to International Monetary Fund estimates, but — at current growth rates — could be overtaken in a couple of years by South Korea, Russia and Australia.

Of course, size isn’t everything, it’s also the quality of international participation that counts, which brings me to Trudeau’s pathetic defence spending lapses. According to NATO statistics, Canada continues to ignore the NATO goal of spending the equivalent of two per cent of GDP on defence. ...

The problem is that Canada is flagging because Trudeau and his cabinet of amateurs aren’t big-league players and are principally concerned with dividing the pie into politically correct pieces rather than growing it by nurturing enterprise and initiative.

As a result, Canada loses international clout, albeit retaining a nice reputation as a peaceful social democracy sheltered by the U.S. economy and military. That’s not all bad, but it is naive. It’s a nasty world out there and Canada’s weaknesses have been, and are, handily exploited by China, among others.

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With Angela Merkel preparing to exit the international stage, the longest-serving leader of the Group of Seven is Canada’s Justin Trudeau. While he is positioning himself as the new elder statesman, no one sees him owning the role in the way the German chancellor did.

 


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Father, he is a Trudeau and Trudeaus never apologise:

Contrast that with Prime Minister Trudeau, who admonished the Catholic Church to “step up,” even though it took the horrific discovery in Kamloops for his government to pony up money to document unmarked graves at residential schools that it had promised five years ago.

Trudeau talks big and does little. In this case, the Catholic bishops were long at work but did not think it their place to draw attention to themselves.

Step up? The prime minister confuses stepping into the spotlight with actual action.

 

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Idiot!

He said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud!:

 

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We already know that masks are fairly ineffective, so ... :

But the photos didn’t really show hypocrisy; they showed a typical day in the life of Canada’s image-obsessed Liberal government, which is itself a part of a political culture that’s thoroughly meme-ified. Peace, order and good government should be replaced by peace, order and good social metrics. That seems to be the point these days, ahead of anything else.

The Liberals are particularly egregious offenders. A government that promised transparency by default has instead offered up a degree of message control and centralization that would have met with approval, if not admiration, from former prime minister Stephen Harper PMO, which was a den of control-freak bogeymen fit to ruin the peaceful slumber of any Liberal.

 

He won't be staying at a rape hotel, either, nor will he repay taxpayers for his wasteful spending



Satire but barely:

World War 3 was nearly started after G7 attendees referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau using masculine pronouns, misgendering the progressive, inclusive, genderless leader.

"Excuse me -- him?" an indignant Trudeau said after he overheard Putin referring to him using male pronouns. "How dare you! Did you just assume my gender? Wow. I mean, I thought this was the current year!"

Trudeau immediately called for an aide, instructing him to escalate hostilities with the other countries. "Benoit? Summon the Mounties."

 

(Sidebar: not these ones but whatever.)

 

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