Monday, April 13, 2026

Your Duplicitous, Tyrannical, Thieving, Inept Government and You

The natural governing party, so they say:

Floor-crosser MP Marilyn Gladu defended her move to the Liberals on Thursday evening, arguing the decision is what’s best for her riding, while also promising to vote with the party on social issues.

“This is actually the best thing for my riding, for the country and for myself,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the Liberal National Convention in Montreal.


Oh, yes - entirely for you, Marilyn.


It's called cheating and it's done by a European failed banker with no native riding and with vested interests in the United States, but none in Canada:




Deputy Defence Minister Christiane Fox in a staff email neither resigned nor apologized after being censured for cronyism. Fox said she breached an Act of Parliament to hire a friend who’d previously worked at a Good Life gym in the name of diversity. The gym employee is Black: “My efforts were focused on advancing diversity and inclusion.”

Something tells me that she would apologise if she knew that she would lose her pension for this kind of sh--.




The sobering but never mentioned fact is that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are near historic lows, only one-fifth or one-tenth the levels 500 and 600 million years ago, respectively. Preindustrial year levels were 300 ppm; a hundred years ago, they approached the extinction level of 180 ppm. No one knows, and we don’t want to, the exact level at which plants die, animals and fish cannot exist, and human life ends.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if, as it appears, the small impact by humans on CO2 levels (this includes burning fossil fuels, humans breathing, and cows flatulating) may have prevented further fatal decline (this is conjecture). We should celebrate the average annual increase of 2 ppm in the last hundred years to the current level of 430 ppm, avoiding the ultimate damage to the planet. 

The low levels reveal the false narrative of the 1992 Earth Summit zealots’ scaremongering, also revealing the real risk of low levels. The persistent and tiring tactics of Secretary General Guterres warn that humans are “burning up the planet,” which is “on fire.” He knows that in the past temperatures saw tropical verdancy and alligators in the Arctic. How did the planet ever survive?

But this dishonest and highly misleading narrative gained legs; our Prime Minister is one of the leaders of this damaging deception.

All this begs the question of why emission reductions are needed, and further, why Canada needs to be at the forefront? Canada runs at only about 1.5% of total global emissions, hardly relevant to the purported problem. 

There was no mandate asked or given to governments — federal, provincial, or municipal — to make Canada the global leader in emission reductions.

Initiated by the Trudeau federal government in 2015 when it withdrew Northern Gateway after a ten-year regulatory process, the onslaught of the energy sector began. With the guidance of his university buddy Gerald Butts, Energy East, and the Trans Mountain fiasco, capital investment is avoiding our country, with the knowledge that pipelines are only the visible head of the climate crisis dragon.

We are now saddled with one of the world’s “climate crisis” leaders, Mark Carney, who, through much of this period, was a personal advisor to the Liberal Party. BTW, his wife, Diana Fox Carney, works with Gerald Butts at the Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory agency.


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The Liberals' greatest gift to the country is brain-drain.

(Sidebar: among other things.)

There is no capital, no innovation, no research, and no willingness to keep and pay the professionals educated here.

Now here we are:

Are you a Canadian considering improving your situation after graduating by moving abroad for better, higher paying opportunities? A guest speaker at the federal Liberal party convention on Friday just suggested that, in order to defeat Canada’s brain-drain problem, our best and brightest either stay put or cough up half a million dollars, what he suggests is the cost of their taxpayer-subsidized education, before they can pursue opportunities outside of Canada.

Ironically, the special guest who made this suggestion during the Building a Stronger, More Competitive Canadian Economy panel which also featured federal ministers Mรฉlanie Joly, Rechie Valdez, and Lena Metlege Diab, is a Canadian who left Canada for better opportunities, now lives in Europe, and paid no such tax himself.

Patrick Pichette was born and educated in Montreal and left Canada for work in the U.S. accepting a role at Microsoft and then senior vice president and CFO of Google in California. He now lives in London, U.K., and is a partner at Inovia Capital. He paid no exit tax when he left Canada.

Yet, Pichette thinks today’s young Canadians should stay put, or cough up $500,000 if they want to leave.

Pointing to himself and then the crowd, Pichette says , “We as Canadians, have subsidized my education to the tune of… half a million,” he told the captive audience, warming up to the idea Ottawa should restrict basic freedoms.

You see, the Americans’ TN visa program for Canadians and Mexicans created under NAFTA is simply too affordable and accessible. Pichette recounted his own experience using the program:

“In Canada, the minute you have your degree, if it’s a professional degree, there’s something in the Canada… it’s called the TN program. So, Microsoft, I finished from University of Waterloo with my computer degree, Microsoft phones me, offers me a job, 300 grand a year, right, all I have to do is show up at the border, apply for a TN visa, right, and I get this three-year, like no questions asked, it costs 30 bucks,” he told the crowd without an ounce of shame.

Pichette laid out the cost of the brain drain of Canada’s talent and gave his recommendation for a cure:

“30,000 TN go to the U.S. every year. You want to save yourself five, ten billion dollars. Shut the TN program. Keep them in Canada, or make them pay their half a million so that if they leave, I’m OK with that,” said the European.

Pichette then suggested that these students, our best and brightest, were a drain on our economy: “You want to go to the U.S.? Give me back my money. Like my dad, my mom — you all work every day to offer them their education. You can’t let five billion or ten billion a year of your hard-earned cash (go) so that Microsoft can get smarter,” he said, seemingly without a lick of self-awareness.

In reality, it is the economy that is a drain on our best and brightest. Seventy percent of our emigrants are highly educated. Emigration hit near-record levels in 2025, up three per cent from the year before, when 120,000, more than half of these emigrants were prime aged workers and highly skilled.

Why do our best and brightest leave? They leave for better paid jobs, more opportunities and lower taxes for themselves and for their companies if they are entrepreneurs. And now, due to inflation and expensive housing, they have even more reason to want to leave.

Yet here’s Pichette, who is now a European, also suggesting to a Canadian audience that we bring in outside to talent to this economy. And attract them with what, exactly? It’s absurd.

This isn’t just a Pichette problem. The Liberals appear to refuse to understand what makes a great economy for workers a businesses to thrive. All they know is that they want to govern as many aspects of it as possible, pick winners, and unload the tax burden of the massive bureaucracy onto Canadians, the smartest of which understand this clearly, and choose to leave.

Threatening young people with a massive exit tax or shutting down mobility pathways won’t fix Canada’s problems. It will only confirm why so many feel they have no choice but to leave.


Would barbed wire be cheaper and easier?

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Speaking of tyranny:

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It’s easy to see why the Carney government wants to overturn the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal condemning the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) during the trucker convoy demonstrations in February 2022.

The appeal court’s Jan. 16 ruling – upholding the 2024 judgment of Justice Richard Mosley that the government’s actions were unconstitutional and unlawful– is a devastating indictment of what the Liberal government did, reflecting many of the arguments made by the protesters.

The feds, having lost twice in court on this issue, are now appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada, saying they must have “the tools needed to protect the safety and security of Canadians in the face of threats to public order and national security.”

(In 2023, Justice Paul Rouleau, head of the public inquiry into the government’s use of the EA, concluded it was justified, but added he did so with reluctance, because the factual basis for its use was not “overwhelming,” and, “reasonable and informed people could reach a different conclusion.”)

The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to hear the government’s appeal.

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Bottom line, police can now enter your property without a warrant if their purpose is to investigate a crime, even one in which you may be the suspect, as long as they say after the fact that they weren’t entering the property for the purpose of a warrantless search. One can expect at least some police to abuse this power by snooping around private properties in cases where they ought to have a warrant. Perhaps your car happens to be the same make and model as a reported drunk driver, even though you’ve been home all night. They can now bang on your door and start asking you questions, invading your privacy by seeing who you happen to have over that night. Even worse, perhaps you say the wrong thing, and get arrested. You can’t get your privacy back once it’s been breached, and it’s hard to undo the impact of criminal charges even if they’re later dropped. This is why we have warrants in the first place.



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