Your Reckless, Irresponsible, Greedy, Oafish Government and You

We don't need these people:

It’s confidence time again in the House of Commons.

Conservatives will soon put forward three confidence motions after the Speaker of the House of Commons ruled that the Liberals will face four opposition days in the coming week, temporarily ending a two-month filibuster.

In a statement to the National Post, Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer confirmed that the first confidence motion will be debated on Thursday.

“Common sense Conservatives are eager to end Canadians’ suffering after nine years of Justin Trudeau and are giving Sellout Jagmeet Singh yet another opportunity to put the people before his pension and vote non-confidence to trigger a carbon tax election,” Scheer said.

The party introduced its motion last week, using NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s own words by stating “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”.

 

This Sell-Out Singh:

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh seems to be fully embracing the whole “champange socialist” persona. Here he is getting into a $200,000 SUV on Parliament Hill. Wow. pic.twitter.com/vxwZjRt9wT

— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) November 29, 2024

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Are Justin Trudeau and his government up to meeting the challenges appearing on the horizon? Increasingly, the prime minister seems to be clinging to power, which is not a position of power.

Last week, popular YouTuber JJ McCullough wondered how Trudeau was able to continue to hang on.

“The fact that our parliament cannot vote no-confidence in Trudeau, who obviously has zero public mandate to govern in this time of crisis, is a severe indictment of our democratic system,” McCullough argued.

But why blame the system? The last election produced a Liberal minority government, fair and square. Trudeau can’t survive without at least one opposition party backing him up.

Don’t hate the game, hate the player.

(Sidebar: I think there is room to hate both.)

Since Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are flying high in the polls and spoiling for an early election, that leaves the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois to save Trudeau’s bacon. ...

Maybe Singh’s gambit will pay off. But it doesn’t look like that will happen. And if it doesn’t, NDP members are going to have to start wondering whether their leader is the right person to replicate their party’s success in provincial politics at the federal level.

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It's just money:

The federal government “compromised” its emergency COVID-19 loan program because of “poor” management, non-competitive contracts that paid hundreds of millions of dollars to a single vendor and a lack of oversight that led to $3.5 billion in loans to ineligible companies, says auditor general Karen Hogan.

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Ontario is urging the federal government to amend proposed electricity regulations after an analysis by the province’s system operator concluded the rules would mean $35 billion in additional costs by 2050.

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But it's, like, good hypocrisy:

Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change yesterday said she likes to travel by air because “it makes more sense” than taking the train or attending meetings by video conference. Catherine Stewart would not discuss her carbon footprint after billing $254,089 in travel expenses her first two years on the job: “I speak about the devastating impacts of climate change.”

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The Commons yesterday heard allegations of drunkenness in the chamber. New Democrat House Leader Peter Julian (New Westminster-Burnaby, B.C.) claimed “visibly drunk” Conservatives caused a ruckus, but did not provide evidence or name names: “It is unbelievable.”

 

It wouldn't surprise me. 

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Remember - they screwed over pro-life groups for this:

There is no evidence the Canada Summer Jobs program creates jobs though it cost more than a quarter billion last year, says a federal audit. The Department of Employment that runs the program did not determine whether 50 percent wage grants created new jobs or merely subsidized existing positions: “It is like free money.”

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No, this is not cultish behaviour at all:

A Northern Ontario mayor who was fined for voting against flying a Pride flag at his town hall says he will not be bullied into paying the $5,000 penalty.

Nor will Mayor Harold McQuaker be taking LGBTQ training as he has been ordered to by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO)

And, McQuaker, insisted he won’t cave to demands that he must host a Drag Time story hour in the local library, either.

Canada may be a free country in some places. But not in Emo Township — 380 kilometres west of Thunder Bay on the Canada-U.S. border. In this township, defying LGBTQ demands can not only land you a stiff fine, but also an order to attend a re-education camp, too.

 

I argue that it is not free, and certainly not when something this inane can be an edict from a special-interest group. 

Imagine a government that works for the people (or so it says):

Saskatchewan introduced a promised legislative amendment Tuesday that would continue to see residents no longer pay the federal carbon tax for home heating.

The province says the measure is expected to save the average family about $480 next year.

The amendment would ensure the province remains the sole registered distributor of natural gas throughout 2025 and beyond.

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Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government introduced Monday its promised legislation to lower personal income taxes.

The Saskatchewan Affordability Act states it will raise personal income tax exemptions while indexing tax brackets to match inflation, saving an average family of four more than $3,400 over four years.

Finance Minister Jim Reiter told reporters an estimated 54,000 residents will not pay provincial income tax once the changes are in place. The Saskatchewan Party had proposed the measures during the October election campaign.