Yes, Justin, cocaine:
Music break:
Monday, March 06, 2023
It's Just Money
We can print more of it, right?:
Statistics Canada yesterday detailed new food inflation figures documenting a dramatic rise in basic groceries from pre-pandemic levels. Data were based on actual checkout prices nationwide: “More are borrowing money to cover their day to day expenses.”
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The Department of Immigration yesterday budgeted for war in Ukraine to continue into 2024. Managers set aside millions to cover free hotel bookings for unsponsored refugees who land in Canada with no place to stay: “There is no limit to the number of people who will be welcomed.”**
The Senate human rights committee outspent all other committees combined last year with a detailed study of Islamophobia. Hearings resume this week after the panel heard from 135 witnesses in five cities: “How does the Senate human rights committee define the term Islamophobia?”
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Conventional TV is on a “downward trajectory” that will see networks fight over an ever-dwindling pool of revenue, says a CRTC report. All television programming with the exception of sports is now a money loser, it said: “Each year a larger share of ad spending in Canada is flowing to the internet.”
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Federal spending on consultants will jump 13 percent this year, says a Budget Office report. “It has shown consistent growth year over year,” wrote analysts: “More than half of spending on professional and special services is consistently comprised of five departments alone.”
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It's not playing catch-up; it's making sure that you never fly in Canada again:
Canadian travellers are facing increased airport fees after the pandemic grounded revenues and led to more debt for airports across the country.
COVID-19 disrupted the airport sector's "relatively stable" and resilient business model, as Canadian airports have added around $3.2 billion in combined debt, DBRS Morningstar said in an analysis note on Monday.
Unlike American airports, which received significant financial aid during the height of the pandemic, Canadian government subsidies mostly targeted airlines rather than airport authorities, according to the credit rating agency.
The latter only benefited from "modest" support, such as Transport Canada’s Airport Critical Infrastructure Program, launched in May 2021, which provides $571.2 million over five years.
"The Canadian government has not demonstrated a willingness, or perceived a material need, to provide significant financial support to Canadian airports," the agency stated.
During the pandemic, Toronto Pearson International Airport twice increased its airport improvement fee by $5 to $35 for departing passengers. That followed losses of $383 million and $350 million in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
That fee similarly rose at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport from $30 to $35 in 2021. The Regina Airport Authority plans to hike airport improvement fees by $10 per departing passenger to $30 on April 1.
Airports' operating costs and capital expenditures are also on the rise due to inflation, per the agency. Tariff increases have become "necessary" as airports look to restart capital projects at higher costs after many were paused during the pandemic.
Remember that while one was under global house arrest, no flights from China were restricted from coming into Canada.
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Good thing about that warranty, huh?:
A senior defence official says Canadian taxpayers are on the hook when it comes to fixing at least two of the Royal Canadian Navy's new Arctic patrol vessels.
Defence Department deputy minister Bill Matthews says that is because the one-year warranty on those two ships has expired.
The federal government is planning to buy eight Arctic patrol vessels from Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding, including six for the Navy and two for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Three of the ships are finished, though Matthews told a parliamentary committee today that it will be up to Irving to fix the problems in the third ship and all others as they are still under warranty.
While a technical investigation into the ships was only recently completed, preliminary reports have identified issues with the ships' engine cooling and drinking water systems.
The Canadian Press reported last week that Ottawa is also on the hook for repairs to the Royal Canadian Air Force's Cyclone helicopters, one of which crashed off the coast of Greece in 2020.
Six Armed Forces members died in the crash.
It Was Never About a Virus
We should know that by now:
— Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 🐭 (@DavidWi85543919) March 6, 2023
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The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a meeting on March 3 to advance negotiations on the global governance of pandemic responses. While the event flew under the radar in Canada, Republican politicians in the United States have taken a position against the treaty, expressing concern about its implications on their country’s sovereignty in policy-making.
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Your apology is not accepted. Resign:
A municipal councillor from West Nipissing in Ontario has issued an apology to community members who were affected by a mandatory vaccination policy that lasted a year.At a council meeting on Jan. 3, immediately after the council rescinded the municipality’s mandatory vaccination policy, Councillor Anne Tessier said she wanted to apologize for the policy and proceeded to read a statement. An excerpt of her speech surfaced on social media on March 2, while the original full-length council meeting was posted on the council’s YouTube channel.“I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this policy caused a lot of unnecessary harm and animosity within our workforce and community,” Tessier said.“I believe that this possible policy was mistakenly adopted 12 months ago. The general population knows that today, that the COVID vaccine doesn’t stop the spread of the virus. Twelve months ago, the municipal council was well aware that the spread did not correlate with vaccination status prior to this policy being adopted.”Despite a constituent having presented public health Ontario data to the council showing that by January 2022, “there were equally or more cases reported per capita in vaccinated people versus unvaccinated people,” she said, the outcome of the council’s vote “resulted in the implementation of this punitive policy.”“With all my heart, I extend my apologies to those who were affected negatively by this policy and I hope that as a municipality and a community, we can move forward,” Tessier said.
We Don't Have to Trade With China
For some very obvious reasons:
Federal campaign monitors “were seeing implications that foreign interference could be occurring” in the 2021 election but kept suspicions to themselves, the House affairs committee was told yesterday. MPs expressed astonishment that no one was told: “What prevents you from taking pre-emptive action?”
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Sen. Yuen Pau Woo’s claim that people of Chinese descent in Canada face “contemporary forms of exclusion and discrimination” is divisive and deflects from the Beijing regime’s true tactics, says a former ambassador.“Senator say (sic) many Canadians hold stereotypical views of Chinese,” former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney wrote on Twitter on Feb. 16.“The Senator is setting up a straw man argument that is dangerously divisive and that makes it harder to speak clearly about PRC [People’s Republic of China] tactics.”
The Chinese didn't make these discoveries; they stole them:
The world's second-largest economy is leading the US in researching 37 out of 44 critical and emerging technologies across the defense, space, energy, and biotechnology sectors — including research of advanced aircraft engines, drones, and electric batteries — the ASPI said in its Thursday report. The US State Department partly funded the study.
The Liberal government is taking the House of Commons Speaker to court, in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of uncensored documents to members of Parliament that offer insight into the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory. ...
For months, opposition MPs have been seeking unredacted records from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), that explain why Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. The two scientists lost their security clearances, and the RCMP was called into investigate, in July, 2019. They were dismissed in January.
More than 250 pages of records have been withheld in their entirety and hundreds of others have been partly censored before being provided to MPs. They also relate to the March, 2019 transfer of deadly virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that was overseen by Dr. Qiu.
After a decade in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s shadow, Li Keqiang is taking his final bow as the country's premier, marking a shift away from the skilled technocrats who have helped steer the world’s second-biggest economy in favor of officials known mainly for their unquestioned loyalty to China’s most powerful leader in recent history.
Was it something your bio-labs circulated?:
The Lunar New Year is the biggest and most celebrated holiday in China each year. Each year Chinese people make billions of trips across the country to visit their families during that holiday period.However, data recently released by China’s Ministry of Transport indicate that trips during this year’s Lunar New Year—which spans 40 days—had dropped by 924 million compared to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year with no travel restrictions.The Lunar New Year travel period starts 14 days ahead of Lunar New Year’s Eve usually in late January or early February and lasts for about 40 days.On Feb. 17, the Chinese Ministry of Transport released the travel data spanning 40 days before and after the 2023 Lunar New Year, the first new year holiday with no travel restrictions since the initial outbreak of COVID-19.Trips via public transportation by rail, road, water, and plane plunged 46.5 percent to 1.595 billion in the period.The same period in 2019 saw 2.980 billion trips via public transportation, according to that year’s official data.The ministry claimed that this year’s total trips during that period were 4.733 billion, which included 1.595 billion via public transportation and 3.138 billion in “passenger vehicle traffic via highway.” However, “passenger vehicle traffic via highway,” a new sub-category added in 2023, was not included in prior years.In the newly released official data, the regime claimed that the “passenger vehicle traffic via highway” in 2023 was 17.2 percent higher than that of 2019 during the Lunar New Year travel period.This means, according to the claim, the highway passenger vehicle traffic in 2019 was about 2.677 billion.According to those numbers, the total travel volume in 2023’s Lunar holiday period was 4.733 billion (1.595 billion via public transportation + 3.138 billion in highway passenger vehicle traffic).Meanwhile, the total travel volume in 2019’s Lunar holiday period was 5.657 billion (2.980 billion via public transportation + 2.677 billion in highway passenger vehicle traffic).Based on the two official data sources, China saw a decline of 924 million passengers in total travel volume in 2023 compared to 2019 during the same holiday period.
Making It All Go Away
Justin needs this latest scandal to disappear lest his Chinese financiers get rather angry.
Some quick background:
Trudeau was still a child when his prime minister father Pierre Trudeau was introducing him to intimates of Mao Zedong. Within months of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a teenaged Justin was with his family on a VIP trip to China during which his father made great pains to avoid criticizing the actions of Beijing’s leadership.Article content
Through it all, the elder Trudeau was explicit about framing the People’s Republic as a friend of Canada whose methods were not to be criticized.“His attitude was, Canadian society is a great society. But that doesn’t give it a right to impose its values on any other society,” was how Justin’s younger brother Alexandre explained his father’s China policy in 2007.Another time, Pierre Trudeau told his boys “outsiders simply cannot know what is best for China, or how it needs to travel down its chosen path.”It’s part of why – when Justin Trudeau made his first official prime ministerial visit to China in 2016 – he raised eyebrows by treating the event like a family reunion.Trudeau’s predecessors had typically treated their Chinese visits as procedural affairs to secure trade ties – with an occasional oblique reference towards the country’s human rights abuses. But on his first press conference on Chinese soil, Trudeau reminisced about first coming to China as a “young boy” before presenting his seven-year-old daughter Ella-Grace to the assembled media.
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As early as the 1990s, a joint report by the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was leaked to the media, warning about Beijing’s operatives and criminal gangs becoming entrenched in various Canadian sectors, but the authorities dismissed those concerns. Decades later, drug operations and money laundering became the subject of a B.C. public inquiry.Back in 2010, long before the recent intelligence leaks concerning some federal and provincial elected officials alleged to be working with China, then CSIS-head Richard Fadden had warned about such issues. But he was condemned by a House of Commons committee for saying that some elected representatives were under the control of a foreign government. He was dragged before committee meetings in an effort to force him to retract his statements and resign.The most recent leaks tell of an elaborate network of infiltration operations in Canada by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to subvert Canada’s elections and engineer the outcome to one desired by Beijing, while influencing politicians to act in CCP’s favour.
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I would say a lot of people making near-max donations to Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding association from outside of Quebec - and particularly from British Columbia - before and during the 2015 election is not ordinary at all. See a pattern?
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) March 2, 2023
It’s rather extraordinary, actually. https://t.co/CNP0mrcTNt pic.twitter.com/5kIXIxQfoL
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Morris Rosenberg was president of the Trudeau Foundation from 2014 to 2018, which is when the charity was given $200,000 by Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the Chinese government, and another wealthy Chinese businessman.
The charity set up to honour the legacy of the former prime minister announced Wednesday it is returning the donation after the Globe and Mail alleged it was linked to a Chinese government plot to influence Justin Trudeau after he became Liberal leader.Citing an unnamed national security source, the newspaper reported Zhang was instructed by Beijing to donate $1 million in honour of the elder Trudeau in 2014, two years before the $200,000 donation to the Trudeau Foundation was made.Rosenberg, who says talks about the donation were already underway when he assumed his role, recalls at the time that Canada had a more positive, hopeful and trusting relationship with China.
(Sidebar: oh, that makes it all better!)
To wit:
The last time the House of Commons pushed the Trudeau government to release details on questionable dealings with China, they went to court.
(Sidebar: this.)
In June 2021, when the House demanded documents related to the Winnipeg Lab and Chinese scientists escorted out, the Trudeau government not only refused to release the information, but they also went to court to stop its release.
(Sidebar: this.)
That should tell you everything you need to know about how the push to get more information on the release of information on China’s election interference will go this week. ...
As early as Monday, a report could be filed with the House of Commons showing that the Procedure and House Affairs Committee has voted for a public inquiry to be called into Chinese election interference. That vote, which took place last week, went down in a 6-5 split with all six opposition MPs voting for an inquiry and all five Liberal MPs voting against.
This proposed inquiry (rigged, no doubt) is hardly the stuff of Aga Khan or the SNC-Lavalin or the WE scandals.
This proves what many have suspected all along: that Justin is merely the puppet-head of this Vichy state and that China could do what it liked with regards to Canada.
(Sidebar: but don't take my word for it.)
He has his top fops on the case:
Of all the dumbass own-goals I've watched politicians score over the years. . . The famously dense Mark Gerretsen cites a $1 million Chinese prezzie for the Trudeau Foundation in 2014 as evidence the Conservatives were dirty - because Harper was the PM at the time. https://t.co/yVqlCzT9Z4
— Terry Glavin 格立文 (@TerryGlavin) March 2, 2023
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At PROC, Liberal MP Greg Fergus asked the head of CSIS...
— Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) March 2, 2023
“Is it possible in your opinion that unverified, or unconfirmed leaks from secret sources, that may or may not come from officials sources, could in itself represent a form of foreign interference?” #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/KW12Auw2gk
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**This is the guy who just got nailed by the ethics committee for being a true corrupt liberal. I have no time for this and I am furious that my tax dollars pay his salary
— Alex Blanchard (@Alexblanchard67) March 2, 2023
LOOK WHO YOU ARE HANGING OUT WITH: https://t.co/O48pSi5np5 https://t.co/tvSbpO5fCN
— CHEN ZHOU (@chenzhou63) March 2, 2023
But these are mere speed bumps for the proverbial bus.
Justin cannot afford to have a keen eye on what appear to be very rigged elections and Chinese influence.
This is why he will throw everything at the House to make this all go away.
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Mid-Week Post
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| A merry Saint David's Day to you all! |
Justin is definitely going to need some help with this one:
Guess what I found? Who was present at the donation signing when a million dollars was given by Niu Gensheng to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation?
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) February 28, 2023
The man who wrote the report on foreign election interference and found that our election wasn’t compromised.
Morris Rosenberg. pic.twitter.com/bjMOxM8yno
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The Chinese donors who funded the Trudeau Foundation also wanted a statue of chairman Mao Zedong - the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control - erected in Montreal.
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) March 1, 2023
“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together.”https://t.co/mzxhX1k7Tj
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“If Canada does not start to take this matter much more seriously and engage in effective measures to bring it under control and ensure that the Chinese regime is complying with the norms of the international rules-based order in its relations with Canada, this could impact on our alliance with the Five Eyes,” he said, citing potential concerns around “elite capture.”
But none of this is an issue, says Justin's friend.
This must be a relief for the Chinese to hear:
China’s embassy in Ottawa is denying reports of attempted election interference in Canada, saying the claims are “baseless and defamatory” and harm diplomatic relations. ...
“China has always been firmly against any attempts to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs,” reads a statement the embassy emailed to The Canadian Press.
“We are not interested in meddling with Canada’s internal affairs, nor have we ever tried to do so.”
You don't say:
They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence.“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe and Mail.The donation has come under new scrutiny after The Globe and Mail reported this week that its announcement followed instructions from a Chinese diplomat, who told billionaire Zhang Bin to give $1-million to the Trudeau Foundation. Mr. Zhang was promised full reimbursement by the Chinese government, a national security source told The Globe.Their conversation was captured by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which has documented a pattern of Chinese attempts to influence the Canadian political process and elections.
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CSIS also explained how Chinese diplomats conduct foreign interference operations in support of political candidates and elected officials. Tactics include undeclared cash donations to political campaigns or having business owners hire international Chinese students and “assign them to volunteer in electoral campaigns on a full-time basis.”
Sympathetic donors are also encouraged to provide campaign contributions to candidates favoured by China – donations for which they receive a tax credit from the federal government. Then, the CSIS report from Dec. 20, 2021 says, political campaigns quietly, and illegally, return part of the contribution – “the difference between the original donation and the government’s refund” – back to the donors.
Canada’s CSIS knew that the Chinese plot went all the way up to Trudeau.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation in 2014 between an unnamed commercial attaché at one of China’s consulates in Canada and billionaire Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the government in Beijing and a senior official in China’s network of state promoters around the world.
They discussed the federal election that was expected to take place in 2015, and the possibility that the Liberals would defeat Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and form the next government. The source said the diplomat instructed Mr. Zhang to donate $1-million to the Trudeau Foundation, and told him the Chinese government would reimburse him for the entire amount…
Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals swept to power in October, 2015, with a majority government. Seven months later, Mr. Zhang attended a Liberal Party fundraiser at the Toronto home of Chinese Business Chamber of Canada chair Benson Wong, where Mr. Trudeau was the guest of honour.
The Chinese get what they pay for!
You know, the Soviets had similar plans:
The minister of the environment and climate change listed a number of regulations the Liberal government will be enacting in the coming months — a cap on oil and gas emissions, reductions to methane leaks and stricter emissions regulations on refineries — as evidence that they are going to start tightening the vise on the fossil fuel industry to reduce emissions.“They are going to start doing their part,” he said. “That’s what I tell Canadians. And the reason it hasn’t happened yet is because we haven’t asked them to do it. We haven’t forced them to do it, and we’re going to force them to do it.”
“We do not see human remains with geophysics,” GeoScan Geophysics Division Manager Brian Whiting stressed during the Tseshaht announcement. “There’s no such thing as a geophysical bone detector. We’re looking for very indirect evidence: disruptions in [soil] layers, reflections from things like potentially coffins if there were any.”
The program helps children and teenagers around the world launch experiments aboard NASA rockets.
For their experiment, the students between the ages of nine and 11 focused on the EpiPen, a common medical tool found in classrooms across the country. The injection device is used to reverse the effects of life-threatening allergies.
The kids had a cosmic question: would an EpiPen still work in space?
“I thought it was brilliant,” said University of Ottawa chemist Paul Mayer, who helped analyze the group’s findings.
“The first part of doing science is asking the right questions and they asked a fantastic question.”
The students took samples of epinephrine, the active ingredient in EpiPens, and put them in tiny cubes, which were sent on board a NASA rocket and balloon.
Once the cubes returned to Earth, their contents were brought to a lab at the University of Ottawa.
There, Mayer and his team made a remarkable discovery: the epinephrine no longer worked, stunning the career chemists.
“There is an interaction with the cosmic radiation that comes when you leave the atmosphere,” he explained.
In fact, part of the sample became toxic in space.
“The epinephrine came back only 87 per cent epinephrine,” explained student Isaiah Falconer. “The other 13 per cent was converted into benzoic acid, which at that quantity was highly poisonous.”
The findings proved the children’s hypothesis and are spurring new questions about potential risks for astronauts with severe allergies. “To find out (that) scientists who have been working for years and years on this and then us elementary school kids discover it, it’s really cool,” said student Antonio Lucifero.
Imagine what an indoctrination-free education can do!
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