You'll never guess!:
NOW - Canada's PM Trudeau: "Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens' daily lives. It has to stop." pic.twitter.com/N5FQllLdjp
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 8, 2022
After days of hiding and his faithful laps-dogs pondering his whereabouts, China's groundhog has seen the shadow of his shaking jowls and begged for the six weeks of this popular movement to stop:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last night said the Freedom Convoy movement “has to stop.” Trudeau spoke in the Commons for the first time since dismissing truckers opposed to vaccine mandates as tin foil hats: “They don’t have the right to insult those who choose to wear a mask, to get vaccinated.”
Ever the patronising son-of-a-b!#ch, Justin - who has not lost a pay cheque, has not stopped travelling, has been able to hide in a taxpayer-funded cottage - declared that this lockdown he forced on everyone for two years has "sucked" for everyone:
Trudeau joined an emergency debate on Monday evening and warned that demonstrators were hobbling the economy and trying to undermine democracy.
The prime minister raised his voice almost to a shout at one point.
“This pandemic has sucked for all Canadians,” said Trudeau in his first public appearance since testing positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 31.
“Everyone’s tired of COVID, but these protests are not the way to get through it.”
(Sidebar: rather, not a way for you to go through it.)
Yes, about that:
Emerging data has shown a staggering amount of so-called ‘collateral damage’ due to the lockdowns. This can be predicted to adversely affect many millions of people globally with food insecurity [82-132 million more people], severe poverty [70 million more people], maternal and under age-5 mortality from interrupted healthcare [1.7 million more people], infectious diseases deaths from interrupted services [millions of people with Tuberculosis, Malaria, and HIV], school closures for children [affecting children’s future earning potential and lifespan], interrupted vaccination campaigns for millions of children, and intimate partner violence for millions of women. In high-income countries adverse effects also occur from delayed and interrupted healthcare, unemployment, loneliness, deteriorating mental health, increased opioid crisis deaths, and more.
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Canada lost 200,000 jobs — all in the private sector — raising the unemployment rate by 0.5% to 6.5% — the first increase in the jobless rate in nine months.
Ontario lost the most jobs (146,000), but declines were also significant in Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island.
The number of people who were employed but worked less than half their usual hours rose by 620,000, or 66.1%, the largest increase since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
Total hours of work fell 2.2%, after being at pre-COVID levels in November and December, 2021.
The adjusted unemployment rate, which includes people who wanted a job but did not look for one, was 8.5%.
Women aged 25 to 54 and young people 15 to 24 were hardest hit as were the food service, accommodation, culture and recreation industries.
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Since COVID-19 touched down, Ottawa has dished out $511 billion through direct subsidies, tax deferrals and low-interest loans. This debt-fueled spending binge has sent the federal debt through the $1-trillion mark. The entire federal debt is expected to balloon by nearly 90 per cent by 2027, and the feds aren’t projected to balance the budget until 2070. Taxpayers can’t afford for this to become the new normal.
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In March 2020, just as the first stay-at-home orders were hitting Canadian cities, the country’s federal debt stood at $721.4 billion. Only one year later, the Department of Finance was pegging the debt load at $1.2 trillion.
It took 153 years to get to $721.4 billion, and in one year Canada grew that total by 66 per cent. That’s enough debt to pay for Canada’s entire inflation-adjusted contribution to the Second World War. ...
This spring, Toronto photographer Ryan Bolton walked down the city’s iconic Queen Street West documenting the dozens of retail spaces vacated by businesses that could not survive the pandemic. It’s a similar scene in Vancouver, whose commercial sector has been described as “spookily quiet” after vacancy rates hit 8.4 per cent earlier this year. ...
However, COVID-19 deaths have overshadowed a dramatic rise in fatalities in other areas, often as as a direct result of pandemic measures.
Most notably, the opioid crisis has never been worse. Between April and December of 2020, 5,148 Canadians died of an overdose, a rise of 89 per cent over the same period in 2019. As Health Canada has theorized, border closures made the illicit drug supply more toxic, and social distance caused the curbing of medical services that had previously been instrumental in keeping many addicts alive.
The months-long suspension of routine medical services is also expected to yield a rise in preventable cancer deaths that will be playing out for years after the official end of lockdowns. Modelling by Statistics Canada has estimated than an extra 440 Canadians will die of colorectal cancer as a result of the more than 540,000 screenings missed during the pandemic.
A November paper in the Journal of Medical Screening similarly estimated that just six months of missed mammograms could yield up to 250 additional breast cancer deaths in Canada. In Quebec, the province’s health ministry has estimated that up to 4,000 people have gone undiagnosed with cancer as a result of a sharp dropoff in mammograms, pap smears and colorectal cancer screens.
I have yet to see where this sucks for Justin.
But this might:
"I have enough respect for my fellow Canadians not to engage in these easy absurd labels," Quebec Liberal MP @JoelLightbound says the #TruckersForFreedom protesters have legitimate concerns. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/qj5SRfZ0eA
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) February 8, 2022
When will more Liberals look out for their own necks and not China's appointed puppet?
We shall see.
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