More taxes!:
On the path to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, the Liberal government will impose new standards for fuel this coming July 1.Consumers are unlikely to notice an immediate difference at the pump, but there will be an incremental impact over the next few years.Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) estimates that its new Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), when fully implemented in 2030, will have increased the price of gasoline by up to 17 cents per litre and diesel 16 cents per litre.On top of the federal carbon tax, which will add between 37 cents and 40 cents to a litre of gasoline by 2030 based on various estimates, this means consumers could end up paying close to 60 cents more per litre by 2030.The CFR is replacing the Renewable Fuels Regulations and seeks to gradually reduce the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel used in Canada by 15 percent below 2016 levels by 2030.
(Sidebar: that sort of thing can't possibly hurt major industries, can it?)
Canadians rate cabinet’s climate program incompetent, unfair and lacking in transparency, says in-house Privy Council research. The Access To Information document did not identify Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault by name but found widespread distrust of his policies: “Few Canadians strongly agreed, and only a small minority somewhat agreed, that the federal government demonstrated competence, fairness, openness and care when it comes to climate change.”**
It's just money:
Canadians share “fairly negative views” about foreign aid with a quarter nationwide favouring funding cuts, says in-house research by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Spending on aid abroad costs $6.4 billion a year excluding extraordinary funding for pandemic relief or Ukraine’s war effort: “More than half of Canadians say a lot of international aid from Canada ends up in the pockets of corrupt politicians in the developing world.”
(Sidebar: we are going to pull out of that ethnic conflict, right?)
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The House of Commons passed the Liberal government’s budget bill today, which seeks to roll out vast new incentives for clean energy and expanding dental care subsidies — despite a Conservative attempt to hold it up.
The bill passed 177 to 146 with the support of Liberals and New Democrats, while the Tories and Bloc Quebecois voted against it.
The bill includes a new anti-flipping tax for residential properties, a doubling of tradespeople’s tools deduction and an enhancement to the Canada workers benefit, a refundable tax credit to help low income workers.
None of which will ever be delivered.
Thanks, Tories.
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The Department of Health issued hundreds of “corrections” to subsidized news media, records show. Subsidized newsrooms are obliged to grant federal agencies a “rebuttal opportunity” as a condition of accepting federal aid: “Lots of people think there are factual errors in the newspaper that are just things they don’t like.”
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Why, it's like no one trusts us:
There are no plans to invite Canada to a security pact between Australia, the UK, and the United States focused on defence technology cooperation, says U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.The trilateral security pact, AUKUS, was formed in 2021 and has been seen as a way to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.While its current primary, or “pillar one” focus is to help Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines, its “pillar two” focus includes collaboration on many technologies, including electronic warfare, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies.The pact is focused so much right now on the submarines that there are no specific plans to expand it beyond that or include Canada in it, Kirby said on CTV’s Question Period on June 11. AUKUS currently includes the United States and the UK because they have nuclear-powered submarine experience, he said.“It’s not an alliance; it’s not some sort of club,” he said, adding that people are looking at it the wrong way.Nonetheless, the commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command has expressed his concerns over Canada’s absence from the pact.
Also - apparently, 332 people weren't enough:
"I think there is a larger underlying issue about the space which is given to separatists, to extremists, to people who advocate violence," S. Jaishankar told reporters in New Delhi while commenting about the tableau in a parade.
"I think it is not good for relationships, not good for Canada," he said.
Canada's High Commissioner for India also condemned the incident at a parade by Sikh activists in the Canadian city of Brampton. Video circulated in recent days on the internet showed a tableau from the parade featuring Gandhi wearing a blood-stained white saree with her hands up as turban-clad men pointed guns at her. A poster behind the scene read: "Revenge".
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I would invoke Occam's Razor, but - you know - the Narrative:
As Canadian wildfire smoke chokes large swaths of the U.S. northeast, there have been a not-insignificant number of voices suggesting that the fires causing it may not be an accident.Alberta Premier Danielle Smith hinted in a recent radio interview that arsonists were behind the province’s unprecedented fire season. “We are bringing in arson investigators from outside the province,” she said, adding that Alberta has “almost 175 fires with no known cause at the moment.”Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, pointed to several recent arrests of wildfire arsonists, adding that the “lying woke media and politicians keep repeating that global warming is the cause.”And several social media posts have gone viral with satellite video showing nearly a dozen Quebec wildfires erupting on June 1 at virtually the same time, with the implication that it is evidence of human coordination. ...Arson is always a feature of any particularly aggressive wildfire season, and Canadian enviro-extremists have certainly never shied away from large-scale property damage. But the balance of the evidence suggests that most of these fires are likely being sparked by their usual cause: Lightning.That’s almost certainly what prompted a string of simultaneous wildfire ignitions on June 1, sparking the out-of-control fires that are now choking the likes of New York City.“Lightning likely sparked many of the hundreds of fires burning across Canada,” reads a recent analysis by meteorologists at Fox Weather.Article content
The viral satellite video showing the simultaneous June 1 fires does indeed coincide with data showing that the affected areas had all just been battered by lightning storms.By the time the fires exploded into view, the storms had all drifted south, leading to satellite images wherein plumes of smoke seem to erupt under blue skies.
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"We're seeing more and more of these fires because of climate change"? Data doesn't support this claim. There's a clear downward sloping trend in the number of fires according to data from Natural Resources Canada. https://t.co/EqptUfJ96a https://t.co/sbkDoA4gZe pic.twitter.com/ZxvsoqAOux
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) June 8, 2023
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In fact, as average atmospheric temperatures have risen from 1970 to 2017, Canadian forest fires have declined sharply in number and show little obvious trend in areas burnt.
Crucially, Tymstra’s study also finds that wildfire management policy in Canada comes up short. “A major barrier in Canada… is the inadequate funding to support the vision of an innovative and integrated approach to wildfire management. Mitigation funding has followed wildfire disasters but not at the same level to mitigate flood and earthquake disasters. Despite the increasing occurrence of wildfire disasters in Canada, funding to support wildfire prevention, mitigation and preparedness have not kept pace with the increasing need to mitigate the impacts from wildfires, and be better prepared when they do arrive.”
More specifically, Tymstra et al. find that Canada has failed to fund the proactive management of forest fires sufficiently and is not poised to do better moving forward. “Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression (sic) and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not.” But clearly, a lack of fire suppression is also a problem: “Wildfire suppression contributes to a wildfire problem but paradoxically it is wildfire use that will help to solve this problem.
“The wildfire management toolbox must include wildfire use to manage wildfires at the landscape scale because it is not feasible to effectively use prescribed burns and/or fuel management treatments alone to restore expansive wildfire-dependent ecosystems.”
We could also ask about burned churches, but, you know ...
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Migrants walk into Canada and stay because they can.
They will not be deported, nor will taxpayers ever stop sweetening the residential pot:
Lovepreet Singh is among a group of about 16 students who say their future in Canada is at risk after it was discovered that an agent allegedly gave them fake offer letters to a Canadian school.
"The deportation got delayed, but it's not cancelled yet," Singh told CBC Toronto on Tuesday.
And these scammers are going nowhere.
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Yes, now, about this national anthem business:
No they don't, @CTVNews liars. But way to draw conclusions for 38,000,000 people based on a poll of 1,500 who decided to respond to this stupid question in the first place.
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) June 13, 2023
"Market research firm Leger surveyed 1,525 people between June 7 and 11, asking whether they support the… https://t.co/54LPiUI1rf
Also:
During a three-day visit to Manitoba intended to “improve the lives of residents of the province,” Gov. Gen. Mary Simon refused to weigh in on whether it was “right or wrong” for protest mobs to pull down statues of “colonial” figures.
“I think it’s really important for Indigenous people to express themselves in whichever form they want, but it’s also very important for us to recognize that the effects of colonization and residential schools have had such a devastating impact on the cultures and identity of Indigenous people,” the 75-year-old viceroy told reporters during a Monday stopover at the Manitoba legislature, which two years prior had seen protest mobs pull down statues of two Canadian monarchs; Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II.
She added: “So in a way, I can’t say whether it’s right or wrong.”
Of course you can't, Marie-Antoinette.
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Turning Canada into North Korea:
The Liberal government could pull its advertising from Google and Facebook if the tech giants follow through and block news content on their platforms in response to the Online News Act, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez indicated Wednesday evening.
It's not a matter of whether one likes or dislikes Facebook and Twitter.
It's whether or not one wants an Argentinian creep to feed one news items.
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"Pass the bill!" demands awful, petulant, self-important liar:
A battle appears to be brewing between senators and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, as he tries to see the Liberals' controversial gun legislation passed swiftly into law.
On Thursday, his office sent a letter to leaders of the different Senate groups and the chair of a committee, saying the minister is "eager" answer senators' questions about Bill C-21 "given the urgency of passing legislation to protect Canadians."
The letter comes with less than a month left before the House of Commons and Senate plan to break for summer, with the Liberals branding the legislation as a priority bill that it wants passed into law within weeks.
The bill seeks to turn a national handgun freeze into law, combat homemade guns and ban what it calls "assault-style" weapons — measures Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in what critics say is a misplaced effort to combat gun violence.
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