Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Mid-Week Post

 


Your mid-week animal lesson ...

 

In 2013, he openly declared his love for China. Years after, he tried replacing the US with China as Canada's major trading partner, became its apologists and now, help-mate:

Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a news conference that his government will ensure that Canadian parliamentarians planning to visit Taiwan as part of an upcoming trade mission “reflect” on the “consequences” of their visit. Trudeau’s euphemistic jab at pro-Taiwanese diplomacy was reprehensible, undermining the independence of Canada’s parliamentary associations and tacitly validating China’s threat this week to punish Canadians should the visit occur.

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Foreign students in Canada are implicated in money laundering for organized crime, says a federal agency. Students from China and Hong Kong were named by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre: “A number of suspected ‘money mules’ are international students.”

 

 

It's just money:

TV broadcasters received more than $100 million in direct federal subsidies through the pandemic, the CRTC disclosed yesterday. The cash grants were in addition to waivers on millions in mandatory licensing fees: ‘There were significant declines to ad revenues.’

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A third of Canadian tourism operators plan to sell their business or close for good, say Department of Industry researchers. Net losses due to the pandemic averaged more than $120,000 per operator: “The industry is now in the midst of an unprecedented situation.”

 

Well, it's not like Justin wants anyone coming or going to Canada, much in the same way he doesn't want us to benefit from our gas and oil.

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I had an interesting conversation the other day with an acquaintance who retired from the RCMP a few years ago. He’s been doing some contract work auditing medical expenditures. Apparently one of the things the bean counters are quite proud of is all the money they saved the system during the lockdowns.

 

And now we really understand why MAID was pushed in.

 

Also:

The federal government is deliberately imposing policies intended to make Canadians poorer, so we will use less energy.

That’s why they love inflation.

With the help of the Bank of Canada flooding the economy with printed money, the government is able to make it seem like ‘greedy’ companies are to blame for ‘raising their prices,’ when what is really happening is that the consequences of rampant overspending and economically-damaging climate policies are being felt.

Because inflation generates ‘bigger’ numbers, it makes it more difficult for many people to grasp that – in real terms – they have less and less money and are becoming poorer.

 

 

Because priorities:

New census data showing a decline of French in Canada is "extremely troubling," the prime minister said Friday, but he added that Ottawa still has a responsibility to protect linguistic minorities across the country — including in Quebec.

 

What minority needs governmental protection and favouritism?

(SEE: Quebec, special)

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Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen was warned about anti-Semitic tweets by a government-funded anti-racism consultant before the issue was reported on widely, and that Hussen should have acted earlier to cut funding.

Heritage Canada gave a $133,000 grant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre to build an anti-racism strategy for the broadcasting sector, which it launched in April.

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The first Trudeau government itself is a postcard of the politically correct: half of the ministers women, two aborigines, three members of the Sikh minority, a disabled person and an Afghan refugee.

And he cries. Trudeau always cries. He cries in the mosque, cries for gays, cries for natives, always cries.

How is it possible then that the country that symbolizes "inclusion", where laws are passed banning the cutting of cat claws in the name of animal rights, is euthanizing physically and psychiatrically disabled people, as well as those who feel lonely and a little depressed?

A moralistic country is a country in moral amnesia.

 

That's Canada for you.

 

 

We're in good hands:

The head of the RCMP has repeated her stance that she didn't deal with political pressure to make firearms details about the Nova Scotia mass shooting public, saying government officials were simply "asking" and not directing — which is a "big distinction."
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Because of course it didn't:

The federal ethics watchdog says the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he held meetings with large telecom providers while they had files before the regulator.

One of the meetings scrutinized involved CRTC head Ian Scott and senior BCE Inc. and Bell Canada executive Mirko Bibic in an Ottawa pub in December 2019.

A week before the meeting, Bell Canada filed an application to the CRTC to review and vary a telecom order issued in August 2019, and in May 2021 Scott was on the panel that issued a decision that varied the 2019 order.

The report finds Scott’s relationship with the Bell executive did not meet the definition of friendship outlined in the act and that the relationship is “exclusively professional.”

The matter was referred to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion in April this year by the public sector integrity commissioner.

 

 This Ian Scott:

Scott’s comments confirm what Rodriguez has misleadingly denied and Bill C-11 critics have maintained for months: the bill’s discoverability requirements will obviously require algorithmic manipulation in order to prioritize Canadian content. The notion that the CRTC is only tinkering with algorithms indirectly rather than directly makes little difference given the harms that the regulation can cause to Canada’s digital creators who may find the algorithmic manipulation at home has disastrous consequences abroad
 

This Marco Dion:



Let's have these guys control our social media and create a digital database that will cost too much and still not work! 

What can go wrong?



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