Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week burst of sunshine ...

 

The Americans have decided that Canadian-style poverty is the way to go. 

Good luck with that.



Make no mistake about it - if Justin didn't have advisors, his shoelaces would remain untied.

He certainly is no scholar of Machiavelli or even able to read a room:

During his call with Ford, Trudeau seemed to qualify Ambassador Bridge protesters as “not very smart people” who were “barricading” the province’s economy and “harming people’s lives” at a time when Canada was trying to draw foreign investment, namely from the U.S.

Ford responded that he was “as frustrated” as the prime minister and that if he could direct the police, he would. He also told Trudeau he couldn’t direct the OPP.

“I can’t call them and say get your asses in there and kicking ass. It’s up to the OPP,” Ford is noted as saying. He later promised to be up police’s “ass with a wire brush.”

Ford also told Trudeau that tow truck companies did not want to help remove vehicles from the bridge.

That prompted a seemingly furious response from Trudeau, who accused the tow companies of “not doing their job” and fulfilling their duties, namely in Ottawa and Windsor. He also said the province may have to accept tow truck services from the U.S.


The read-out of the phone call is here:







To sum up: Justin, who denied that there was a convoy, then trivialised its participants, then ran from the groundswell of popular discontent rather than meet with even ONE of them, thus ending the protest in a day, called the discontent illegal, whined that no one was clearing HIS mess and demanded that the premier of the most populous province force the police to bust skulls while still calling its participants "not smart".

Tell me that this guy made it all on his own.

Convince me.

 

Also - the same idiot who warned everyone about who he really works for expensed his take-out to the Canadian taxpayer:

The spending began after Trudeau took power. During former prime minister Stephen Harper’s last year in office federal per-person spending was $8,063, according to the Fraser Institute. By 2018, it was $9,061 (adjusted for inflation). By the next year, per person spending reached a record $9,500.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) said in April that since March 2020 the federal government had spent or planned to spend $576 billion in new measures, but more than a third, $204.5 billion, had nothing to do with COVID.

When the Liberals were elected in 2015, the federal debt was about $616 billion, at the height of COVID it was $765 billion, and now it’s $1.13 trillion.

Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre keeps reminding the prime minister that all that throwing money around has consequences in the form of higher inflation and an impact on families.

In October, Poilievre pointed out that a record high of 1.5 million Canadians used a food bank in a single month (according to Food Banks Canada); that one-in-five Canadians were skipping meals to save money (citing a nationwide survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan) and that Canadian credit card debt was also at a record high (said a consumer survey by Equifax Canada.)

“Will the government freeze spending and taxes?” asked Poilievre during Question Period last week.

In answer, Trudeau said the “price on pollution” was putting money in people’s pockets and accused “cold-hearted Conservatives” of not caring about dental care for children or rent subsidies for low-income Canadians.

But it’s the Liberals who start to look cold-hearted when they celebrate the “price on pollution” while appearing to ignore the plight of hungry Canadians. Families having to skip meals or seeing the rising prices at grocery stores ($12 for a bag of Romaine lettuce anyone?) probably aren’t that interested in being lectured on the Liberals carbon pricing plan.


Using the "smarts" your parents bought you, tell everyone where this money is going to come from, Justin.

Think hard.

Is it the same place where Canadian parents are looking for basic medicines for their children?

Comment of the day:

 

 


Liars, liars. Pants on fire:

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The Freedom Convoy was a “movement by right wing Christians” to gain converts, claimed internal reports by an Ottawa police consultant Advanced Symbolics Inc. Documents did not disclose how much police paid for surveillance of Christian imagery at the protests: “These are really important insights.”

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Some people are special:

Police lawyers in a confidential January 28 memo cautioned Ottawa authorities to go easy on Freedom Convoy protesters in case they were Indigenous. “Any police response considers the uniqueness of Indigenous occupations,” wrote the legal department of the Ottawa Police Service: “Focus on the requirements for peacekeeping, communication, negotiation and building trust.”

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Internal government documents show the costs incurred during the Ambassador Bridge blockade earlier this year were much lower than what the federal government stated publicly.
At a press conference on Feb. 14—the day the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act—Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters that the protest blocking the Windsor, Ontario, crossing to Detroit cost the Canadian economy nearly $400 million a day.
“The blockade of the Ambassador Bridge has affected about $390 million in trade each day,” Freeland said. “This bridge supports 30 percent of all trade by road between Canada and the United States, our most important trading partner.”
“Those costs are real,” she said, while also mentioning the impact resulting from the blockades at the border crossings at Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba. “They threaten businesses big and small. And they threaten the livelihoods of Canadian workers, just as we are all working so hard to recover from the economic damage caused by COVID.” ...
A memo issued by the federal Department of Transport on Feb. 11 and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter said the claim of economic impact of “around $390 million of trade per day” represented the average amount of commercial shipments in the previous year, not the actual losses due to the blockade.
“[The Bridge] handled over $140 billion in merchandise trade in 2021, approximately $390 million each day,” said the memo, titled “Background on the Impact of a Road Blockade at the Ambassador Bridge.”
“It is estimated that the cost to the Canadian economy of a full shutdown of the Bridge would likely be in the range of $45 million per day over the first week based on current mitigation efforts put in place by shippers and available alternative options.”
The memo noted that from Feb. 7 to Feb. 10, the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge “has diverted traffic away to nearby crossings” at Sarnia, Fort Erie, and Queenston, Ontario. In addition, the estimated $45 million lost a day comes with the “scenario [assuming that] the automotive sector shuts down,” which it didn’t.
The memo also provided an “extreme case” example in which the impact could hit from $86 million a day to $161 million a day—less than half the figure cited by the federal government.
“This scenario assumes the disruption of imports and exports crossing the Ambassador Bridge leads to widespread shutdowns and production outages across the Canadian economy,” staff wrote. That scenario never occurred.

The inquiry heard from OPP Supt. Dana Earley, who was appointed critical incident commander (CIC) in charge of the Windsor operation on Feb. 9 and led it through the end.

The Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, the same day the Ambassador Bridge reopened to traffic.


This Chrystia Freeland:

 


Also - uh, yes, people ARE arrested for their views in this country, as the Emergencies Act is testament to, but I digress: 

 Facebook messages of support for the Freedom Convoy don’t justify a conviction for mischief, the Ontario Court of Justice has ruled. Canadian courts do not jail people because of their opinions, said an Ottawa judge: “He is not to be convicted because of his political views.”


And - robber barons:

The Public Health Agency levied quarantine fines on cross-border travelers at the rate of more than $61,000 a day, records show. Most travelers were fined $5,000 at a time for a total $14.9 million: “This is not a success story.”



I'll just leave these right here so one can ponder the glories of flooding a crumbled country with just anyone who wanders in:

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 [In the video, the 36-year-old mother of three] appears naked, with both of her arms and legs cut off. One of her eyes is clearly gouged out. A severed finger appears sticking out of her mouth, and another appears to be sticking out of her private parts. The Muslim soldiers videotaping their handiwork... can be heard laughing and joking in the background. Video footage similarly showed Azerbaijani soldiers overpowering and forcing down an elderly Armenian man, who cries and implores them for mercy, as they casually carve at his throat with a knife. — Video, September 13, 2022, Azerbaijan/Armenia.


What a great addition to the country! 

It will go well with the other lack of values.


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