Why, It's Like No One Trusts the Government

As no one should:

Canadians in internal federal polling say they resent police treatment of the Freedom Convoy. Even opponents of the protest said freezing bank accounts would never have been necessary if cabinet had done its job: “It was felt use of the Act represented significant overreach by the federal government.”

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Two more provinces are telling Ottawa they don’t want provincial police resources to be used for a proposed gun buyback program set to collect “assault style” firearms this fall.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba have followed Alberta’s lead and informed the federal government they won’t use local resources to enforce a federal initiative they don’t support.

Is it because the government is greedy, wasteful and antipathetic to the Canadian population?

In a word, yes:

Parliament should take over regulation of payday lenders from the provinces, says the Consumers Council of Canada. The submission to the Commons finance committee comes ahead of a review of federal usury law for the first time since 1978: “Companies will find workarounds and loopholes to continue to charge excessively high rates.”

 

What can go wrong with this money-grubbing scheme? Why, it's like the government is running out of money and will get it from anywhere.

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Farmers, you are the reason why urban-dwellers eat. Make them understand that as only you can:

Research out of the University of Guelph revealed that Canadian farmers’ mental health worsened during the pandemic at a higher rate than the general population, with one in four saying they felt life was not worth living as a result.

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If you make $65,000 this year, then the federal government is taking nearly $4,500 directly from your pay through CPP and EI taxes. Every employer must also cough up an extra $4,800. That’s more than $9,200 that a working mom could’ve used to buy formula, ground beef or pay for dental bills, but instead her and her employer have to fork it over to the feds.

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Lax merger laws in Canada underestimate the harm to competition caused by mergers and overestimate their benefits, a new report says.

Gaps in Canada’s merger laws have failed to prevent the kind of acquisitions that allow big firms to “extinguish competitive threats and entrench their dominance,” according to the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Canada has fallen “way behind” other jurisdictions such as the United States, said Keldon Bester, a fellow with the centre and the author of the report.

 

It's not like anyone wants to invest in Canada, anyway.