But Wait! There's More!

Naturally:

Cabinet’s current $78.3 billion deficit, the highest in Canadian history outside of pandemic overspending, will likely rise even higher before the budget year expires March 31, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. No new figure was mentioned: ‘It may now run a bit higher.’ 

 

Don't worry, though.

Carney is well taken care of:

While Canadians continue to struggle with rising grocery bills and as lineups for food banks get longer, Prime Minister Mark Carney flies in style, even racking up a $94,000 in-flight catering bill for a short flight.

Records recently released by National Defence show Carney’s flights drew sky-high expenses, with the priciest being a four-day Rome trip in May that cost the Canadian taxpayer $93,780.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney spent at least $300,000 on in-flight catering during his travels since taking office last March, plus at least another $472,000 when he got where he was going, records from Global Affairs Canada show.

The data comes in response to a question posed in October by Philip Lawrence, the Conservative member of Parliament from the Northumberland—Clarke riding in Ontario, east of Toronto. National Post has reached out to him for comment.

Lawrence asked: “With regard to the Prime Minister’s international travel from March 14, 2025, to the present: (a) what is the total expenditure on hotel accommodations for the Prime Minister and his entourage, broken down by trip and fiscal year; (b) what is the total cost of in-flight catering for the Prime Minister’s flights, broken down by trip and fiscal year; and (c) what are the names and addresses of the hotels where the Prime Minister has stayed, broken down by trip?”

Global Affairs listed accommodation costs for a half dozen trips between March and June last year. They included $39,415.12 in Paris, $36,288.10 in London, $48,358.50 in Washington DC, $133,372.60 in Rome/Vatican City, $141,069.33 in The Hague, and $73,789.64 in Brussels, for a total of $472,293.29.

It added that the names and addresses of the hotels where the prime minister stayed cannot be disclosed, for security reasons. In also noted that it could not disclose specific details as to the size of his entourage, which might reveal how many security personnel were assigned to protect him.

Since June, Carney has made an additional 15 international trips through the end of 2025, and four more this year to date, to Paris, Beijing, Doha, and Davos …

 

Well, thank God that he's eating well.

It must be Trump's fault.

REEEE! 

 

 

Being a Liberal means never having to say you're sorry.

Ever: 

A Liberal MP called Conservative MP Jamil Jivani a Nazi sympathizer and implied Donald Trump was Hitler in the House of Commons last week. So much for the Team Canada approach where we all work together to solve the problems emanating out of Washington.

John-Paul Danko, who represents Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, was speaking on proposed changes to the operations of the House when he went off on Jivani.

“We have the Conservative Party of Canada’s own Unity Mitford, who is attempting to freelance negotiations with the American president right now,” Danko said.

Unity Milford was a British socialite who became close to Adolf Hitler, even moving to Germany and living there at the start of the Second World War. In calling Jivani Unity Milford, Danko is calling his fellow MP a Nazi sympathizer and by extension saying Trump is Hitler.

It’s a thoughtless, idiotic comment from anyone, let alone a Member of Parliament.

 

Nazis, eh?: 

Canadians from across the country blasted the Liberal government and federal leaders for honouring in the House of Commons a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi SS division.

The more than 1,000 pages of documents released under the Access to Information law provide a glimpse at the intense anger sparked last year by the decision by all members in the Commons to give two standing ovations for Waffen SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka.

Holocaust survivors wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about friends killed by Hunka’s division, the 14th SS Galician, while families of Canadian soldiers killed fighting the Nazis during the Second World War peppered MPs with questions about why they honoured a soldier who had sworn allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Hunka, a resident of North Bay, Ont., has not commented on the Sept. 22, 2023, event in which he was introduced to the Commons as a Ukrainian-Canadian war veteran and a hero. House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota thanked Hunka for “his service.”

But news quickly emerged that Hunka had served in a Ukrainian SS unit.

The incident became an international embarrassment for Canada as Holocaust historians, Jewish groups and the Polish government pointed out that Hunka’s unit had been involved in war crimes, including massacres of women and children. The division was also used by the Nazis to crush a national uprising in Slovakia, again prompting allegations of war crimes.

 

What does it take to sell out your country to China, Liberals?:

In a threat environment where Chinese-language media ecosystems have been tied to intimidation, narrative control, and election interference — and where Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned for challenging Party rule — I argue this is the wrong lesson at the worst time: Ottawa is treating propaganda infrastructure like normal journalism. I point to intelligence reporting that, as The Bureau has reported, describes clandestine operations on Canadian soil, including Chinese police paying Chinese-language journalists to track dissidents and coercing targets not to cooperate with Canadian law enforcement.

And that’s why I frame the judgment as reckless: Carney widened access for a Party-state media apparatus — and expanded information-sharing with Chinese police and the RCMP — without publicly detailing safeguards, enforcement, or even acknowledging the documented threat, effectively expanding the very channels through which intimidation, manipulation, and Chinese clandestine police operations already manifest in Canada.

 

This China: 

The draconian 20 year imprisonment of Hong Kong dissident and newspaper-owner Jimmy Lai, effectively a death sentence, is a reminder that if we are going to get into bed with China we should be aware that we are soiled by association.

That is not to say that Canada will overnight become an authoritarian regime bent on jailing its dissidents (Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber would rightly give a valid, potent and alternative argument on this point.)

(Sidebar: oh, don't offer to hold their beer for them on this.) 

But if we are going to trade with China, and Prime Minister Mark Carney seems most insistent that we do, then we had better be conscious of the danger of having to disregard some of our more onerous scruples — fighting on behalf of brave rebels who are willing to speak out against the corrupt despots of the world, for instance.

Clearly, Carney is in no hurry to start lecturing the Chinese on their appalling human rights abuses, not with business at stake.

When he returned from his trade mission to Beijing last month, Carney was insistent on telling Canadians that Canada “can thrive in a new system” and that if we were ambitious we could secure enormous investment from new partners.

“And we must be pragmatic,” he said, code for there will be times when we need to hold our noses from the noisome behaviour of our new partners.

Canada’s approach to China had to be “recalibrated,” he said, it had to be narrow, specific and within guardrails as well as rooted in “value-based realism.” Human rights had to be part of broader discussions, preferably with coalition partners, he added.

Whatever all this meant, Carney summed it up perfectly when he said, “We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”

Four days later, Carney was preaching a different story at Davos. In a speech widely interpreted as aimed at U.S. President Donald Trump, the prime minister was demanding the creation of a new world order “that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights.”

Carney’s approach to China is thus a laissez faire, hands off, “no megaphone” policy. However, to the U.S., once considered an indispensable ally, Carney’s response is to shout very loudly at a world forum for middle powers to band together against the American oppressor.

The danger in such a foreign policy should be obvious. We have decided to implicitly trust a dangerous power that until a few months ago was considered the greatest threat to our democracy and way of life, while abandoning an ally because the current president cannot control his mouth or his temper. …

China’s treatment of Jimmy Lai is a testament to its cruelty and its treatment of human rights.

Three judges, handpicked by Beijing, sentenced Lai, a pro-democracy advocate who has been outspoken against Chinese oppression, to 20 years in prison on Monday.

The court in Hong Kong, once a thriving colony under British rule but now living under the repressive regime of China, found him guilty under a controversial “national security law” aimed at curbing protests.

Lai, 78, founded the Apple Daily newspaper which was a constant thorn in Beijing’s side with its repeated calls for free speech and the rule of law to be respected in Hong Kong.

The government of Canada also notes that “human rights violations committed in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are well-documented and continue to raise significant concerns” citing action against Uyghurs, Muslims, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners.

(Sidebar: Canada no longer has any moral or political standing in the world and, outside of its borders, no one cares what we think. Thanks, Liberals and their voters.) 

And it was less than a year ago that Carney, when asked for the biggest threat facing Canada, replied with one word: China.

So how does Canada respond to something like the jailing of Jimmy Lai now that we have a new pragmatic relationship with China?

On X, Anita Anand, the foreign affairs minister, said she was “disappointed” with the sentencing and called for his release.

Disappointed? It’s disappointing when your elderly mother can’t meet you for lunch, but it’s an absolute tragedy when an elderly man is imprisoned for believing in democracy.

Consider that in December, a month before Carney’s love-in with China, Anand wrote about Lai’s trial saying, “Canada condemns the politically motivated prosecution of Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law in Hong Kong and calls for his immediate release. We continue to express our concerns about deteriorating rights, freedoms and autonomy which are enshrined in Hong Kong’s Basic Law.”

If we must trade with China, we should be under no illusions that there will be a cost — not just abandoning the megaphone but abandoning people such as Jimmy Lai.

In less than two months we have gone from strongly condemning his trial to merely being disappointed at his two decade sentence.

At Davos, Carney said Canada was not “powerless” — “The power of the less powerful starts with honesty.”

Fine, let’s start with honesty: What values is the prime minister willing to sacrifice as part of his devil’s bargain with China?

 

One's mistake is thinking that Carney has values.

He doesn't.

Nor do his voters.

 

 

Truly awful, but truly Canadian: 

Three members of a family died in an alleged murder-suicide early Wednesday morning in Kitigan Zibi Algonquin First Nation, police say.

Two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, were shot by their father, who then took his own life, Kitigan Zibi police director Paul McDougall said.

Local police received a call from a relative at 2:04 a.m. Wednesday alerting them to the incident, he said.

Police found the father dead at the scene, McDougall said. The two children were taken to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

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The case of six Ontario men charged with trying to lure girls under the age of 18 for sex is raising the ire of justice critics and frustrating cops after all six of the accused men were released from custody on the promise that they’ll return to court.

“It is deeply concerning to continue seeing individuals charged with serious and heinous crimes released into the public,” Bowmanville-Oshawa North MP Jamil Jivani said Tuesday in a written statement.

“Canadians expect a justice system that prioritizes public safety, and this case once again highlights the urgent need for serious bail reform in Canada.”

 

It won't happen.

Ever. 

 

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week valentine  💕💖💗💘 ...

A shooting in Tumbler Ridge:

Several people are dead following a terrifying mass shooting Tuesday afternoon at a high school in Tumbler Ridge.

An emergency alert was issued around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday after police were notified of an active shooter situation at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

The alert also described a suspect as a woman in a dress with brown hair.

(Sidebar: oh, I think we can see where this is going.)

Police descended on the school to search for the suspect. Inside the building, police “located several victims.”

“An individual believed to be the shooter was also found deceased with what appears to be a self-inflicted injury,” said police.

In total, six people — not including the suspect — were found dead inside the school.

Two other victims have been airlifted to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries.

Another victim died while en route to hospital.

Police also found two people dead in a nearby residence, believed to be connected to the school shooting.

“Officers are conducting further searches of additional homes and properties to determine whether anyone else may be injured or otherwise linked to today’s events,” said police on Tuesday evening.

A total of 25 other individuals are “being assessed and triaged at the local medical centre for non-life-threatening injuries,” said police.

In the initial alert, police had asked the public to “stay inside and shelter in place, lock your doors and refrain from leaving your home or business.” ….

 

More to come.

It was never about a virus:

Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus, a veteran investigator in the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit, was convicted of Discreditable Conduct under Ontario’s Police Services Act on March 25, 2025. 

Incredibly, the internal Tribunal Officer found that Detective Grus should have asked for permission before initiating an investigation into an unusual cluster of infant deaths – due to the “political and societal ramifications” of her inquiries, and because she was investigating “public officials”.

The written decision eliminates the right and duty of Canadian police officers to conduct investigations without political interference – or to investigate public officials or politicians without prior permission from above.

If allowed to stand, the Grus decision will undermine public confidence in the independence of police investigations, and cause serving police officers to look the other way when they suspect wrongdoing by ‘public officials’ or see possible crimes that have ‘political ramifications.’

In Canada, the patient is the expense:

Canada’s health-care system is facing a worsening crisis, with half of Canadians reporting they either don’t have a family doctor or struggle to see the one they have, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute.

The survey highlights a decade-long decline in access.

In 2015, 40% of Canadians reported difficulty seeing a family doctor; that number has risen to 50% in 2025.

Meanwhile, those able to secure an appointment within a day or two have dropped from 24% to just 15% over the same period.

One-in-eight Canadians say they’ve been searching for a family doctor for more than a year — or have given up entirely.

The shortage of accessible primary care is not just a provincial staffing issue.

While most provinces have increased the number of family doctors per capita since 2015, Alberta and Ontario lag behind, and the aging population with more complex health needs has made timely access increasingly difficult.

It is said that the first Trudeau laughed when it was spotted that there were no property rights in the Charter:

An Indigenous group on British Columbia’s central coast is claiming ownership of private lands in a case that relies on a groundbreaking court decision from last summer that opened the door to Aboriginal claims on private property.

The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation is seeking a court declaration that almost 650 hectares of fee simple lands around Kingcome Inlet are rather “Indian settlement lands” that should never have been pre-empted by settlers more than a century ago. (Fee simple lands have long been known in Canadian law as the highest form of private land ownership.)

Most of the land is in the hands of two owners: Major lumber producer Interfor Corp., and the non-profit Nature Trust of British Columbia.

Until last summer, Indigenous land claim settlements and court actions steered clear of privately owned property. But in a 863-page ruling made on Aug. 7, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young recognized “Indian settlements lands” granted prior to Confederation, and declared that Aboriginal title is a senior interest in land above fee simple titles, which derive from Crown grants.

It's just jobs:

Canada’s top budget watchdog is sounding the alarm over soaring youth unemployment, warning that postsecondary students shut out of early work experience risk lower lifetime earnings and weaker attachment to the labour force.

Blacklock's Reporter says Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques told the Senate national finance committee that failing to land a first job — especially one tied to a student’s field of study — can have lasting economic consequences.

While stressing it is not his office’s role to weigh in on government policy, Jacques said academic research consistently shows how early career setbacks can echo for decades.

“If you are not able to find that first job or find a first job related to your studies, chances are your attachment to the labour force writ large over your lifetime and certainly your lifetime earnings will be lower,” Jacques testified.

Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey, released January 9, put unemployment among student-age jobseekers at 13.3%, roughly double the national rate of 6.8%.

For Canadians aged 15 to 24, joblessness climbed even higher in several provinces, hitting 14.5% in Alberta, 15% in Saskatchewan, 15.6% in Ontario and a staggering 19.1% in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ontario Sen. Andrew Cardozo said the data points to a worsening crisis.

“From what I am seeing, we have a growing youth unemployment crisis,” he told the committee.

It's called waste:

In November 2025, just a few months ago, Dairy Farmers of Ontario disposed of 4.9 per cent of the province’s milk supply. The figure comes from Milk Producer magazine, an industry publication read largely by dairy farmers themselves. Most Ontarians will never see it, and that is precisely the problem.

That 4.9 per cent represents roughly 10.2 million litres of milk poured away in a single month. At retail prices, this amounts to approximately $18 million in lost value. The butterfat contained in that milk alone was worth roughly $10 million at retail. All of it was destroyed quietly, without public scrutiny, at a time when food banks across the province are reporting record demand and dairy products remain among the most expensive staples in the grocery cart.

Even this figure likely understates the true scale of the issue. Ontario is one of the very few provinces that reports milk disposal in any form. Most provinces provide no systematic disclosure at all. And even in Ontario, the terminology used is revealing. The industry avoids words such as “dumping,” “discardment,” or “waste.” Instead, it refers to the practice as “skimming,” a technical euphemism that makes a deeply uncomfortable reality sound routine and inconsequential. The outcome, however, is unchanged.

When questioned, dairy boards often argue that milk disposal is inevitable. Demand fluctuates, processing capacity is constrained, and surplus milk, they claim, cannot be used. Some level of loss, therefore, is presented as unavoidable. This narrative has been repeated for decades and has largely gone unchallenged.

It is deeply flawed.

Milk dumping is not an act of nature. It is the predictable result of policy design. Canada’s dairy sector operates under supply management, characterized by rigid production controls and some of the most expensive quotas in the world. For dairy farmers, quota is their most valuable asset, often worth millions of dollars. Unlike most other agricultural commodities, production cannot adjust gradually to short-term changes in demand. When the system overshoots, excess supply has nowhere to go.

Ironically, this is where supply management should demonstrate its greatest strength. Unlike the United States, Canada exercises centralized control over dairy production. In theory, this should allow policymakers to optimize resource use, smooth volatility, and significantly reduce waste at the farm level. In practice, the system has normalized the destruction of perfectly edible food while prices remain high for consumers.

Dumping millions of litres of milk while food prices stay elevated is not a technical necessity. It is a policy choice—one that contributes to tighter supply and helps keep dairy prices artificially high, penalizing consumers both at the grocery store and in restaurants.

There are realistic alternatives that could substantially reduce milk dumping without dismantling supply management. Allowing limited raw-milk sales for informed consumers, with clear risk disclosure, would create a modest outlet for surplus milk. More flexible quota-adjustment mechanisms could replace blunt monthly cuts that often miss real demand conditions. Expanded processing capacity for butter, cheese, and milk powder could absorb temporary surpluses. Temporary, non-subsidized export channels for dairy ingredients could be activated when excess emerges. Improved real-time demand forecasting, using retail and food-service data, could help prevent overproduction before it occurs.

 None of these measures require abandoning supply management. They require modernizing it.

Canadians are frequently told that supply management exists to ensure stability, fairness, and predictability for both farmers and consumers. That social license erodes every time food is destroyed under government-sanctioned quotas while households struggle to afford basic groceries and food banks run short of donations.

If Canada is serious about food affordability, sustainability, and food security, it must stop treating milk dumping as inevitable. It is not. It is a choice—and one that deserves far more public scrutiny than it has received so far.

Canadians will support a system because it is a system and will not drift away from it.

They will not even try visualising its waste or potential.

It's better to let things flow than to change them.

Also - if there is nothing wrong with it, why not tell the public?:

The Canadian government has quietly cleared the way for unlabeled genetically modified pork to enter the nation’s food supply.

The move is raising fresh alarm about transparency, food safety, and the growing push toward engineered “meat” products.

Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has declared that “pork” from gene-edited pigs engineered to resist porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is considered “safe” for human consumption.

According to regulators, the genetic alteration removes a small portion of a gene linked to PRRSV.

Health Canada claimed foods produced from the modified animals are “as safe and nutritious for people to eat as pork currently available in Canada.”

Entitled to Entitlements and Nothing Is Ever Their Fault

 Naturally:

Prime Minister Mark Carney spent at least $300,000 on in-flight catering during his travels since taking office last March, plus at least another $472,000 when he got where he was going, records from Global Affairs Canada show.

The data comes in response to a question posed in October by Philip Lawrence, the Conservative member of Parliament from the Northumberland—Clarke riding in Ontario, east of Toronto. National Post has reached out to him for comment.

Lawrence asked: “With regard to the Prime Minister’s international travel from March 14, 2025, to the present: (a) what is the total expenditure on hotel accommodations for the Prime Minister and his entourage, broken down by trip and fiscal year; (b) what is the total cost of in-flight catering for the Prime Minister’s flights, broken down by trip and fiscal year; and (c) what are the names and addresses of the hotels where the Prime Minister has stayed, broken down by trip?”

Global Affairs listed accommodation costs for a half dozen trips between March and June last year. They included $39,415.12 in Paris, $36,288.10 in London, $48,358.50 in Washington DC, $133,372.60 in Rome/Vatican City, $141,069.33 in The Hague, and $73,789.64 in Brussels, for a total of $472,293.29.

It added that the names and addresses of the hotels where the prime minister stayed cannot be disclosed, for security reasons. In also noted that it could not disclose specific details as to the size of his entourage, which might reveal how many security personnel were assigned to protect him.

Since June, Carney has made an additional 15 international trips through the end of 2025, and four more this year to date, to Paris, Beijing, Doha, and Davos, Switzerland.

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Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney answered a House of Commons question about grocery inflation by replying that the whole issue was the fault of the Conservatives.

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It’s certainly nothing new in Canadian politics for an incumbent government to reflexively blame a perceived failure on the actions of the opposition. But the rhetoric usually peters out after a decade of said opposition party having been out of power.

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Nevertheless, in the 46th Parliament, it’s not uncommon for the Carney government to attribute national failure to Conservative influence.

Who has been in power for the past ten years?

You Can Always Send Them Back

Not at all sorry.

Be legal or don't bother being here:

Some 100,000 illegal immigrants and refugee claimants in Canada are awaiting security screening, the chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board said yesterday. MPs earlier expressed unease with months-long delays in conducting background checks: “We don’t know if they are safe to be in the country because we are waiting for a security screening?”

That's Not All They Can't Do

Like, being honest and not corrupt:

RCMP in an internal report admit mismanaging crime labs in three provinces. Service was so slow investigators were hiring private labs for testing despite the higher cost, wrote auditors: “Only 50 percent of surveyed clients were satisfied.”

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Just two days after seven Toronto cops and one retired officer were criminally charged by York Regional Police, the Toronto Sun has learned two more officers have been suspended with pay by the service under Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act.

“Two officers have been suspended,” Toronto Police spokesperson Nadine Ramadan said Saturday. “I’m not able to share their names as they are not before the tribunal.”

Toronto Police Association President Clayton Campbell added, “We are aware two additional members have been suspended by the TPS with pay, in relation to Project South” and “unlike criminal charges, where legal support is not guaranteed, members facing internal disciplinary matters under the Community Safety and Policing Act are provided with the opportunity to access legal assistance through the TPA.”

A source close to the suspended officers said, “They are all being investigated, and there could be Police Act (now known as the Community Safety and Policing Act) charges to follow, but there have been no charges at this point.”

Are there any honest police anywhere?

From the Most "Transparent" Government In the Country's History

Proles have no need of facts!:

Parliament should stop allowing cameras in Question Period, says a spokesperson for the Government House Leader. Canada’s Commons was the first to televise proceedings 49 years ago: “Maybe we could take away the television cameras during Question Period.”

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Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department has sealed internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for 15 years, records show. The documents run to “several million pages,” it said.

Being In the Government Means Never Having to Be Good At One's Job

Case in point:

A Department of Finance executive who oversaw a 192 percent hike in the deficit yesterday apologized after laughing about his inability to calculate basic interest. “I don’t find it very funny,” one MP told Deputy Minister of Finance Nicholas Leswick.

He does.

Now, About That ...

 A good bridge makes good neighbours:

Dear President Donald J. Trump, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to say: You’re welcome for building you a $6.4-billion bridge. You can thank us later.

We appreciate the wonderful relationship our two countries have had since we burnt down the cottage that U.S. presidents used to call home, precipitating the construction of the illustrious mansion you now reside in, and are more than happy to show our gratitude by building the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting our two glorious countries, including the US$250-million (C$338-million) customs plaza on the American side.

Many of us read your Truth Social post on Monday criticizing the bridge being built between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, and saying that the U.S. “should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset.” But we don’t take it personally. After all, who among us hasn’t gone on a regrettable social media rant about our neighbours?

Addressing your point about ownership, you’ll be happy to know that the bridge will be jointly owned by Canada and Michigan — which, in case you forgot, is a northern American state that voted for you in the last election. And once the construction cost is paid off, the toll revenue will be split between Ottawa and Lansing. This is basically a license to print money, kind of like a casino, only unlike the ones you owned in Atlantic City, we’ll make sure it doesn’t go bankrupt.

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EXPOSED: Corruption in the Canada-U.S. P3 Gordie Howe Bridge Project Puts Taxpayers in Debt Forever

Industry whistleblower Bob Rai reveals concerning patterns of fraudulent activity perpetrated by Canadian politicians that put the taxpayers in multigenerational debt to foreign… pic.twitter.com/XvxJ6wcJae

— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) February 12, 2024

 

What the hell is going on here, guys?

Do You Even Read Your Own Legislation?

 No?:

A Liberal MP was visibly shocked to learn there is NO age limit at federally approved drug injection sites.

Even he didn’t know minors could legally use hard drugs under his government's policy.

If Liberal MPs are stunned, it proves how insane their agenda has become. pic.twitter.com/wy2k75dqsL

— Dan Mazier (@DanMazierMP) February 7, 2026

One More Thing ....

Our taxes dollars keep greedy trough-feeders like Mary Simon well-heeled:

Facts matter.

When most income goes to taxes, food, and basic living costs,
the standard of living collapses.

At that point, bragging about GDP, rankings, or speeches
isn’t confidence.

It’s denial.#Canada #Economy #CostOfLiving #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/gv6CdmARpr

— wealthmoose (@wealthmoose) January 26, 2026

Tory MP Refuses Pay Rise

What?:

A New Brunswick MP says he’s asked the House of Commons to freeze his salary before parliamentarians are set to get an annual pay raise in April.

Mike Dawson, the Conservative representing Miramichi—Grand Lake says “at a time when everyday Canadians are struggling to keep up with rising cost of living” he cannot in good conscience accept a wage increase.

It’s a move that Dawson is doing, so far, on his own.

In a letter provided to National Post, Dawson has asked the clerk of the House of Commons to “make the necessary arrangements with the payroll and benefits administration to ensure that this is done.”

“It is frankly distasteful that Parliamentarians are set to receive a raise while the working man and woman in this country hasn’t seen a decent raise in decades,” reads the letter.

Members of Parliament are set to receive a 4.2 per cent raise on April 1. They currently make a base salary of $209,800.

That equates to a $8,811 jump.

It’s a legislated increase that’s indexed to wage settlements in the private sector, according to the House of Commons.

That said, it’s even more for some MPs as there are additional payouts, depending on a politician’s role.

A committee chair’s salary, for example, is currently $223,900, while a cabinet minister is paid $309,700.

 

Is he daring to be principled?

 

 

Also:

The Privy Council Office (PCO) confirmed to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) that the Governor General will get a $15,800 pay raise this year — current GG Mary Simon’s fifth automatic pay raise since entering Rideau Hall in 2021. ...

This year’s raise will put Simon’s annual take-home salary at $393,800 — which the PCO said is determined by provisions in the Governor General’s Act.

According to Statistics Canada, the average annual salary for Canadians is about $75,000.

In 2025, the Governor General got a $15,200 raise, compared to the $11,200 pay bump she got in 2024.

The GG’s salary — established at $270,602 on Jan. 1, 2014 — is subject to annual raises based on a complicated formula multiplying the previous year’s salary by “the lesser of 107% and the percentage that the industrial aggregate for the first adjustment year is of the industrial aggregate for the second adjustment year.”

The salary has increased by $91,000 since 2019.

Mid-Week Post

It's the mid-weekiest!

Bribing people with their own money:

On Monday, Parliament unanimously voted to fast-track Bill C-19, the Carney government’s new package of affordability measures, which includes a 25 per cent increase to the GST rebate for five years starting in July, along with a one-time additional payment this year equal to 50 per cent of the normal payment.

The government is right to focus on the rising cost of living — a recent poll found that 67 per cent of Canadians feel as though the cost of living “is the worst I can ever remember it being” — but simply rehashing the same strategy as the Trudeau government is not the right approach.

Each quarter, millions of Canadians receive a GST rebate — which the Carney government has renamed the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit — to offset how much they pay in federal sales taxes. To qualify for the payment, one must be at least 19 years old and below a specified income level.

Due to the Carney government’s 25 per cent increase and one-time payment, a family of four could now receive up to $1,890 this year (compared to $1,100 previously), while a single individual could now receive up to $950 (compared to $540).

Despite the payment’s new name, Prime Minister Mark Carney is following the same strategy as his predecessor. In 2022, for example, the Trudeau government sought to alleviate the effects of inflation by doubling the GST payment for six months.

Then, in 2024, it temporarily suspended the GST on select items for two months, and proposed giving some Canadians one-time rebate cheques of $250 (though the government eventually abandoned this plan).

The main problem with this strategy is that these rebates are poorly targeted, meaning they provide cash assistance to many individuals who don’t need it. For example, the Trudeau government would have sent its ill-fated rebate cheques to working Canadians who earn up to $150,000 per year.

Regarding the GST payment, according to a 2021 Fraser Institute study, more than one in 10 people (1.2 million) who received the payment were between the ages of 18 and 24 and living with their parents in households with total incomes of at least $100,000. Of these individuals, more than 70 per cent were in school.

In other words, approximately $340 million in GST payments was spent on young people who work part time, go to school and live in high-income households. These are not individuals in genuine need, even if their income level makes them eligible for the GST payment.

The Carney government’s proposed increase to the GST payment will cost approximately $3 billion this year and around $1 billion annually in subsequent years, yet it does nothing to correct this targeting problem. Simply put, the government will spend millions of taxpayer dollars on individuals in higher-income households that don’t need the money.

Meanwhile, the government’s books remain in dismal shape. In the 2026-27 fiscal year, the Carney government plans to run a $65.4-billion deficit, in large part due to already sky-high spending.

Indeed. 

It's just money.

Carney DID find the money for bonuses, however:

Executives in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Privy Council Office last year awarded themselves bonuses worth nearly $28,000 each, records show. Virtually all executives won an award even as Carney appealed to other Canadians for sacrifices: “We won’t play games.”

Failing upwards:

Liberal MP Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.), 71, yesterday was named High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The appointment followed Blair’s dismissal from cabinet after a judicial inquiry found he “dropped the ball” on foreign interference.

From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department has sealed internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for 15 years, records show. The documents run to “several million pages,” it said.

We don't have to trade with China:

A petition supporting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s re-engagement with China is circulating in Canada’s Chinese diaspora, launched by an organization that has already submitted a policy proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office on establishing a national Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day.

The Chinese Canadian Proposals Committee, registered in Canada on August 31, 2025—several months after Carney’s spring election—proposed in October 2025 that Parliament establish a Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day “as part of a discussion on public history education,” according to a report posted on Weixin, a Chinese social media platform.

More broadly, the committee’s new “Building Consensus and Supporting Prime Minister Carney’s Promotion of Canada-China Friendly Cooperation” initiative appears to frame Carney’s China policy using language that mirrors Chinese Communist Party diplomatic terminology.

The committee says it works “together with several Chinese and other ethnic community organizations” but does not identify these partner organizations in its public statements.

The Nanjing war atrocities are central to an ongoing diplomatic dispute between China and Japan. The issue is also relevant to Beijing’s recent efforts to have Western powers criticize what it has characterized as Japan’s increasing military posture, and to a statement by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Japan would be threatened by Chinese projection of force against Taiwan.

The Weixin report, which posts the petition, says that on January 13, the Prime Minister’s Office responded that Carney had “carefully read the proposal” and forwarded it to the Minister of Culture “for further understanding and consideration.”

When you are bought, you stay that way.

When will there be a memorial day for the Tiananmen Square massacre?

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Three men and one woman who are currently attending, or are alumni of, Western University face a slew of charges alleging — among other things — that they were storing chemicals that could be made into explosives at a house just west of campus in London, Ont.

"This is usually a pretty quiet neighbourhood. Nothing too exciting happens here,” said area resident Vivette Martin, after police taped off the beige corner house at 212 Chesham Pl. last Tuesday. "Everyone’s just been very curious as to what’s going on."

All four received additional charges on Monday, including the manufacturing of a gun. ...

Check out the accused.

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The Chinese New Year celebration observed later this month is the "Year of the Horse," but you probably will not want to put any money down on either win, place or show.

Perhaps not since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had at least eight of his top generals tortured and executed on the eve of World War II have we seen another nation dismantle their top military brass in the manner just pursued by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In the closing days of January, Communist China's government announced that it was investigating their army's top general for "suspected serious violations of discipline and law." So we are clear, that top general, Zhang Youxia, was considered the highest military member of the Chinese government just below Xi. This was no casual action by China's strongman.

Like in Stalin's purge, General Zhang is not alone. The Chinese Defense Ministry said they were also investigating a number of senior staff on their Central Military Commission, China's top military body, along with General Liu Zhenli, who had been in charge of their military's Joint Staff Department.

One media outlet quoted Neil Thomas, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis: "Xi Jinping has completed one of the biggest purges of China's military leadership in the history of the People's Republic."

In Stalin's case, he so decimated his military command that when Hitler invaded three years later, German troops could see the spires of Moscow before they were turned back, in part due to the fierce Russian winter. In Xi's case, it may take years to restore his nation's military leadership.

This purge was not the only setback for Xi's effort to project global dominance. The Supreme Court of Panama just ruled that a contract held by a Hong Kong company to run the ports situated on both ends of the strategically vital Panama Canal is unconstitutional. While that decision creates a "clean sheet of paper" as to who may run those ports next, it shows the door to a company that was clearly a conduit for Chinese power and Latin American influence.

Needless to say, the Chinese government is not pleased. Its Foreign Ministry issued the expected protest about "resolutely safeguard(ing) (their) legitimate rights."

For a regime that has used its military "rights" to harass and intimidate nations throughout the Pacific Rim, for a nation that has placed military bases on artificial islands -- thereby violating the sovereign waters of nearby countries -- and for a ruthless Communist giant that has used its economic power to bully and threaten others, it must come as quite a shock that in the Year of the Horse, the track just got so very muddy.

Remember - they wanted seven years a piece of hoking horns in Ottawa:

Police in Guelph, Ont., announced on Monday that they had re-arrested a man they consider to be a high-risk offender, just hours after informing the public that he had been released from custody.

On Monday at 2:24 p.m., Guelph Police Service posted to X that Medhani Yohans, 36, had been released from custody in Guelph Provincial Court after pleading guilty to a charge of breaching his probation order.

Referring to Yohans as “a high-risk offender,” police noted: “He has a history of violence that includes two stranger sexual assaults.”

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Catherine O'Hara: