Your Inept, Craven and Wasteful Government and You

They are all out for their pensions.

Screw the taxpayer:

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem yesterday said Canada’s economic future is uncertain and warned there “will always be new shocks.” His remarks followed repeated failed forecasts that downplayed inflation risks: “It’s not like we got everything right.”

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Canada’s dismal economic productivity is a crisis, and the Trudeau government’s “solution” of creating a new federal working group to investigate its cause, announced recently by Treasury Board President Anita Anand, is a joke. That is the view, not just of Conservative MPs and libertarian columnists, but also of an iPolitics article Anand herself posted on social media to share the news she was creating this working group.

The article, which cites Carleton University economics professor Vivek Dehejia, suggests Canada’s crisis-level productivity is rooted in unfavourable economic structures that limit competition and discourage investment, including by means of federal monopolies. “We know the causes of this problem,” Dehejia said. “As for (the government’s) proposed solution to create a working group to investigate it, I find that quite laughable. I actually find it quite sad that they feel the need to create a working group on something that I teach my first-year students.” So there you have it: the federal working group isn’t just a joke, it’s a sad joke.

A spokesperson for Anand says the working group will be made up of “public and private sector representatives, academics, and union members,” which makes it even more laughable. Asking civil servants and unions how to increase economic productivity is like asking the Toronto Maple Leafs how to win a playoff series. On the other hand, at least the Leafs have done that once in the past 20 years — which is a higher success rate than the public sector and labour unions have enjoyed in increasing economic productivity.

 

Another waste of time and money.

Should there be another government, ban these f---ing inquiries and "working groups". 

He can always rely on the degenerate vote:

In 2021, 85 Catholic churches were burned down or vandalized — mostly provable arsons. Even as he was condemning the arsons, Prime Minister Trudeau called them “understandable.”  That official nod to anti-Catholic sentiment gave Catholics across Canada a bad feeling, at the same time the official media set it aside as a slip of the tongue.

But now it’s 2024, and this time it’s more than a nod. 

The prime minister has appointed one of the leaders of the Canadian anti-Catholic movement to the Senate. Kristopher Wells, whose policies about schools are controversial with parents (to say the least) has been attacking Catholic education for years. In his words, “institutional Churches have no place in the classrooms of the nation.” 

 

(Sidebar: well, neither do groomers, but here we are.)