Your Rotten Government and You

In a just and sensible world, none of these people would be working.

 

Let all the people freeze in the dark:

Cabinet proposed renaming inflation as “heat-flation” to persuade Canadians to associate the rising cost of living with climate change, documents show. The idea polled badly: ‘Asked whether they had heard these terms before, none had.’

 

It's the carbon tax, stupids.

 

Also:

More than half of Canadians do not support the federal government’s mandate to require all new cars sold in Canada to be electric by 2035, a recent poll finds.

 

Canadians across the country are “a lot more hesitant to ban conventional cars than their elected representatives in Ottawa are,” said Krystle Wittevrongel, research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), in a news release on Oct. 3.

 

The online poll, conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the MEI, surveyed 1,190 Canadians aged 18 and over between Sept. 18 and 22. Among the participants overall, 55 percent said they disagree with Ottawa’s decision to ban the sale of conventional vehicles by 2035 and mandate all new cars be electric or zero-emissions.

 

In all, only 40 percent nationwide agreed with the federal mandate.

 

 

Trudeau the Liar:

“And that made a whole bunch of people who heard me say, ‘last election (under) first-past-the-post,’ translate that into ‘he’s going to bring in proportional representation,’ which I was … never … going to,” he said.

Well, no. People didn’t just hear what they wanted to hear. The 2015 platform document itself promised to “convene an all-party parliamentary committee to review a wide variety of reforms, such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting and online voting.” PR supporters expected their ideas at least to get a fair hearing. They were incredibly naive to do so, but naiveté isn’t a sin. Lying to the naive is a sin.

Indeed, the most remarkable moment in the interview was when Trudeau admitted his campaign language was deliberately designed to “bring in the Fair Vote (Canada) people” — i.e., the most prominent PR-advocacy group in the country, whose members overwhelmingly vote NDP. Trudeau wanted to purloin those votes, at least partly under false pretenses. The results show that it worked.

 

Spoken like a guy who expects the Chinese to rig elections for him:

A newly released document shows federal cabinet ministers were warned in May 2022 that hostile states were targeting Canada's strategic interests, the integrity of Canadian institutions and democratic processes, and the ability of the public to exercise Charter-protected rights and freedoms.

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The Chinese Communist Party “enjoyed” a positive relationship with Ottawa until recently, Canada’s deputy foreign minister testified at the China inquiry. David Morrison explained the Party now feels misunderstood: “They are trying.” 

This China:

A coal-fired power plant in China's Sichuan province.

China now emits more CO2 than the entire developed world combined—completely cancelling out all the sacrifices you are being forced to make in the farcical pursuit of net zero. pic.twitter.com/HPsdMX9V7o

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) October 4, 2024

 

Surely not!:

Internal government research to assess public opinion in Canada about extending the provision of citizenship to illegal immigrants found a significant number of respondents opposed to the idea. 

Pollsters asked focus groups if they’d support citizenship for “out of status” or “undocumented” immigrants who have either overstayed their temporary visas or entered Canada illegally.

Participants expressed “a wide range of opinions,” according to the April 24 survey report, which was commissioned by the Privy Council and first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

While some believed there should be “a degree of flexibility” for those whose documentation had lapsed and were awaiting a new work or study permit, “a large number” did not believe they should be given citizenship, the report said. The participants said giving out-of-status workers citizenship would be unfair to those working to immigrate to Canada legally.

 

 

Learn to code:

Media subsidies buy “social cohesion,” says a report by Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s department. The report defended 100 percent payroll rebates under a program the Canadian Association of Journalists praised for saving unemployable reporters from working in hardware stores: “We are hurting emotionally.”

And:

Fewer Canadians trust news media, says in-house CRTC research.

Blacklock's Reporter says the latest data follow Statistics Canada figures showing journalists are considered less trustworthy than politicians or police.

“Fewer Canadians express trust in news media,” said the CRTC report. “Three in ten (32%) trust the information provided by news media in Canada to be accurate and impartial and are satisfied with the quality of information and analysis offered by Canadian news media (31%).”

Trust ratings had fallen since last year, wrote researchers. “Fewer express trust in news media, down four points compared to 2023, and satisfaction with the quality of news coverage, down six points,” they wrote.

Asked, “Overall how satisfied are you with the quality of content you receive for news and information?” almost half, 48%, had no opinion. Another 10% were “dissatisfied,” said the report Public Opinion Research Tracker: Wave Two.

Researchers found pensioners were most likely to rate media favourably. “Canadians 65 and older were more likely to agree they trust the information provided by news media in Canada to be accurate and impartial, are satisfied with the quality of information and depth of analysis offered by Canadian news media and with the quality of Canadian television programs available today,” said the Tracker report.

Findings were based on interviews with 2,541 people nationwide. The Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunication Commission paid $121,076 for the study by Ipsos Ltd.