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The fuck? If anything the NDP went further to the right in an attempt to horn in on the middle class vote. I remember Angry Tommy floating the idea of a coalition between the Liberals and the NDP when Steve Harper was still making his pile, and Tom getting his shit shoved in with a flat out "no" from Truedeaup's advisors.



And in Ottawa at least, the prevailing opinion was that the PC's were a bunch of corrupt cunts double dipping into the public purse (anyone remember Mike Duffy's travel expenses scandal?) and the only chance they had of righting the wrong was to get Pierre's sprogling (or Castro's depending on who you talk to) to bring some of that egalitarian leftie magic to the table. Which has proven to be an even bigger money grift than anything the PCs had authored.



I remember thinking at the time that Truedeaup was far too young to be getting into it. Another fifteen years I thought and then... maybe? But no, they just HAD to kick Harper to the curb. Frankly, I wouldn't have bothered pissing on either of them if they were on fire...

Tom Mulcair retired from politics in 2016, but stayed on as leader until they chose Singh in 2017. Trudeau won a big majority in 2015. Why would he suggest a merger with a party that just won a majority? Any PM would laugh at him.

Ahh but he didn't suggest a merger with a party that just won a majority, he suggested a merger with a party that had yet to win a majority. Big difference.



The liberals were counting on the NDP voters to vote Liberal under the presumption that the NDP couldn't carry it on their own, much the same as Hillary supporters were heard to chant "blue no matter who" while doing everything in their power to fuck over Bernie Sanders. Powerbrokers know they can rely on the voting public to compromise their principles and if you think it's a problem confined to the Liberal party of Canada, you would do well to take a step back and look a little more carefully at the reasons why you support DeSantis over Trump.



In the end, the Liberals assertion they could do it without Angry Tommy and they were right. I knew quite a few progs in Ottawa; they preferred Mulcair to Trudeau, but settled for what they believed was second best. And if we are to be honest here, the incumbent Harper government was corrupt as hell, maybe not to provincial Bloc Quebecois levels, but definitely running a close second. Of course history has shown that the Liberals were only too happy to say "hold my beer" on this score.



I remember hearing about the proposal of a coalition and thinking the Liberal Party were gambling on public sentiment when Trudeau rejected it. He was very wet behind the ears at the time, politically speaking, and as I indicated in my previous post I expect the refusal was not his, but one that was instructed him by other interests within his own party. In retrospect, possibly external influences as well.



Whatever you might think about his policies, Mulcair was definitively a stronger presence than Trudeau. Perhaps it was that which scared the Libs and more importantly their donor class. An easily manipulated drama teacher with a pretty face and questionable dalliances with his students makes for an easier puppet than a hawkish bearded political veteran with rhetoric and a temper.

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Tom Mulcair retired from politics in 2016, but stayed on as leader until they chose Singh in 2017. Trudeau won a big majority in 2015. Why would he suggest a merger with a party that just won a majority? Any PM would laugh at him.

Ahh but he didn't suggest a merger with a party that just won a majority, he suggested a merger with a party that had yet to win a majority. Big difference.



The liberals were counting on the NDP voters to vote Liberal under the presumption that the NDP couldn't carry it on their own, much the same as Hillary supporters were heard to chant "blue no matter who" while doing everything in their power to fuck over Bernie Sanders. Powerbrokers know they can rely on the voting public to compromise their principles and if you think it's a problem confined to the Liberal party of Canada, you would do well to take a step back and look a little more carefully at the reasons why you support DeSantis over Trump.



In the end, the Liberals assertion they could do it without Angry Tommy and they were right. I knew quite a few progs in Ottawa; they preferred Mulcair to Trudeau, but settled for what they believed was second best. And if we are to be honest here, the incumbent Harper government was corrupt as hell, maybe not to provincial Bloc Quebecois levels, but definitely running a close second. Of course history has shown that the Liberals were only too happy to say "hold my beer" on this score.



I remember hearing about the proposal of a coalition and thinking the Liberal Party were gambling on public sentiment when Trudeau rejected it. He was very wet behind the ears at the time, politically speaking, and as I indicated in my previous post I expect the refusal was not his, but one that was instructed him by other interests within his own party. In retrospect, possibly external influences as well.



Whatever you might think about his policies, Mulcair was definitively a stronger presence than Trudeau. Perhaps it was that which scared the Libs and more importantly their donor class. An easily manipulated drama teacher with a pretty face and questionable dalliances with his students makes for an easier puppet than a hawkish bearded political veteran with rhetoric and a temper.

But he knew his party was going to be spanked by Canadians in the 2015 election and he was right. Four years earlier when his party ws high in the poils he vehemently oppsosed a Lb-NDP merger.

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Ahh but he didn't suggest a merger with a party that just won a majority, he suggested a merger with a party that had yet to win a majority. Big difference.



The liberals were counting on the NDP voters to vote Liberal under the presumption that the NDP couldn't carry it on their own... Powerbrokers know they can rely on the voting public to compromise their principles... In the end, the Liberals assertion they could do it without Angry Tommy and they were right. I knew quite a few progs in Ottawa; they preferred Mulcair to Trudeau, but settled for what they believed was second best.

But he knew his party was going to be spanked by Canadians in the 2015 election and he was right.

Thank you for reiterating my point.

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But he knew his party was going to be spanked by Canadians in the 2015 election and he was right.

Thank you for reiterating my point.

Losers always want a merger.

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Thank you for reiterating my point.

Losers always want a merger.

Again, the offer was made well before the election. Furthermore, the PCs have lost every election since Trudeaup took office.



I haven't heard them cawing for a merger, have you?

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Losers always want a merger.

Again, the offer was made well before the election. Furthermore, the PCs have lost every election since Trudeaup took office.



I haven't heard them cawing for a merger, have you?

No, it was made when Trudeau's star was rising and Mulcair's trajectory was in the opposite direction.



The PC's haven't existed in twenty years. The Conservatives won the popular vote in the last two elections. They have no party in parliament to merge with.

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Again, the offer was made well before the election. Furthermore, the PCs have lost every election since Trudeaup took office.



I haven't heard them cawing for a merger, have you?

No, it was made when Trudeau's star was rising and Mulcair's trajectory was in the opposite direction.



The PC's haven't existed in twenty years. The Conservatives won the popular vote in the last two elections. They have no party in parliament to merge with.

And apparently neither do the NDP. At least not openly, it's no real secret Wellington Street takes its marching orders from the WEF at this point. That illusion of a three party system you've got going there is effectively a uniparty; you can tell by the more conservative voices ever ceding ground to the globo-homo agenda.



Perhaps that's why you don't get to hear any cries for a merger; they've already "merged" where it really counts. Which makes you wonder - if Angry Tommy really was the "loser" you seek to paint him as, would that not also imply that he was not someone the established autocracy felt they could rely upon to continue the moneygrubbing antics of successive governments in the second largest country by landmass on the planet?



What's that? You didn't really believe you lived in a real democracy now, did you? Heh... no. A country of over 30 million inhabitants and the best you can boast for representatives at the highest tier are art teachers and postal clerks. Where's the real political clout I wonder? Because it's certainly not being provided at the level you are allowed to actually vote for!  ac_biggrin

I am well aware that we have the illusion of choice in Canada. And even the illusion is starting to disappear.

Justine says Muslim parents influenced by the far right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9TnOn4xnE

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Justine says Muslim parents influenced by the far right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9TnOn4xnE

Just another way to push the blame onto Whites.



Everyone knows that Muslims have their cultural standards, and right or wrong I won't judge that, but here we have our leader, our PM, claiming it's the 'Far Right' Whites, more or less, influencing them to believe so.



There really is a (((power))) behind the scenes pulling the strings, I'm now convinced...



A power so strong, but yet only one race on Earth it still finds potentially threatening...  Hitler should've been more thorough.

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Justine says Muslim parents influenced by the far right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9TnOn4xnE

Ohh, and pray tell again who let them in in the first place?

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Justine says Muslim parents influenced by the far right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9TnOn4xnE

Just another way to push the blame onto Whites.



Everyone knows that Muslims have their cultural standards, and right or wrong I won't judge that, but here we have our leader, our PM, claiming it's the 'Far Right' Whites, more or less, influencing them to believe so.



There really is a (((power))) behind the scenes pulling the strings, I'm now convinced...



A power so strong, but yet only one race on Earth it still finds potentially threatening...  Hitler should've been more thorough.

He used to say their values were Canadian values until they said boys can't be girls. Suddenly their values are the White far right's values. Man, our prime minister is a two face sack of shit.

Will you guys ever be able to get rid of this lying thieving authoritarian?

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Will you guys ever be able to get rid of this lying thieving authoritarian?

I think his time is starting to fizzle out.  I'd be willing to bet the Conservatives will win, which is unfortunate because I'd really like to see the PPC gain power, but that will never happen because the media will smear them 24/7 as racist, bigots, and misogynists...

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Will you guys ever be able to get rid of this lying thieving authoritarian?

It's going to be difficult. The Tories won more votes than the Liberals in the last two elections, but won fewer seats. The Tories have to win a clear majority(170 or more seats) in order to form a government because they have no potential coalition partners. Trudeau's party can win fewer seats than the Conservatives and still be prime minister, because he can forma coalition with the extreme left New Democratic Party.

In an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released Tuesday, 37 per cent of Canadians said they would vote for Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party, signalling a four-point jump since February.



If a federal election were to take place tomorrow, the Liberals would fall behind with 32 per cent of votes, which is one point lower than they got four months ago, when Ipsos last conducted its poll.

https://twitter.com/canindependent/status/1680951623965712384

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https://twitter.com/canindependent/status/1680951623965712384

The Natives are restless.

Canada's climate change policy is now being driven by U.S. President Joe Biden's absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act, since the legislation isn't about reducing inflation but providing US $369 billion ($486 billion Canadian) in taxpayer subsidies to energy developers.



Not just to so-called "clean" energy companies in order to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions, but to the fossil fuel sector as well — which is pleased the IRA means the U.S. is not going to impose a national carbon tax on its fossil fuel industry, unlike Canada.



The difference is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault believe in taking a "carrot and stick" approach to reducing emissions — green energy gets the carrots, fossil fuels get the stick.



Biden's approach is carrots for everyone.



Prior to the IRA being passed last year, Canada already had a climate change plan — committing more than $200 billion of taxpayers' money to it, in addition to imposing a national carbon tax/price in 2019.



But now we're suddenly engaged in an additional, ruinously expensive bidding war with the U.S., offering tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to foreign companies.



Biden's IRA is the reason the governments of Canada and Ontario just committed $14 billion in subsidies to Volkswagen to build a $7-billion electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario and $16 billion in subsidies to Stellantis to build a $5-billion EV battery plant in Windsor, Ont.



These are mainly in the form of tax credits contingent on production levels, but so many things have to go right to make these investments work — including getting permits for controversial mining operations in northern Ontario's ring of fire to provide the raw materials for EV batteries — that the whole thing is a crap shoot.



Canada scored a win last year when it got Biden to agree Canadian-made EV vehicles will qualify for consumer tax credits in the U.S. — the absence of which would have destroyed Canada's auto sector.



But the wave of the future is Canada engaging in never-ending subsidy wars with the U.S. on this file — with an economy nine times the size of ours — putting us in the unenviable position of sleeping with an elephant.

Our carbon tax and no resource development will have no impact on global emissions and certainly will not budge the climate needle. Supplying countries like China and India with low C02 LNG will. But, Trudeau is ignoring the science.

Leftists always ignore science.

Nearly the entirety of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet will be new, or find themselves in new roles after a federal cabinet shuffle on Wednesday, CTV News has learned.

In addition four cabinet ministers that have announced they will be bowing out of federal politics before the next election, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, Justice Minister David Lametti, and Treasury Board President Mona Fortier will be leaving cabinet.

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray, Public Services and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek, and Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett have all said they won't be running again, and they will be losing their positions in cabinet as part of this shuffle.

Looking good. We got to get Justine out.

New Poll Shows Liberals Trailing Conservatives by 10 Points As Trudeau Reshuffles Cabinet
https://thedeepdive.ca/new-poll-shows-liberals-trailing-conservatives-by-10-points-as-trudeau-reshuffles-cabinet/

Abacus Data's national survey conducted from July 20 to 25, 2023, has revealed significant shifts in Canadian politics and public sentiment.

The new poll shows that federal Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau face a challenging national landscape. With only 19% believing the government deserves re-election and trailing the Conservatives by 10 points nationally, the Liberals have lost their advantage in Atlantic Canada and likely in Ontario as well. Additionally, the Prime Minister's negatives remain elevated, and cost of living, healthcare, and housing continue to be top priorities for Canadians.
https://twitter.com/DavidColetto/status/1684160017333899265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1684160017333899265%7Ctwgr%5E2f27ea2fff1acfb8cd41a7df98adb5a295405a2b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedeepdive.ca%2Fnew-poll-shows-liberals-trailing-conservatives-by-10-points-as-trudeau-reshuffles-cabinet%2F

Pierre Pollivere is finally doing better than Justine with women. It is like thirty two percent for Pollivere and twenty eight for Justine. Among non government unionized employees, Pollivere has a ten point lead.

Over the past 24 hours, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been accepting the resignations of seven of his top cabinet ministers in what is clearly a move to try and erase many of the Liberal government's policy failures.

So far the ministers that have resigned are:

David Lametti - Justice Minister and Attorney General

Omar Alghabra - Transporation Minister

Mona Fortier - President of the Treasury Board

Marco Mendicino - Public Saftey Minister

Joyce Murray - Minister of Fisheries

Helena Jaczek - Receiver General of Canada

Carolyn Bennett - Minister of Mental Health


Of the seven who are resigning, Alghabra, Murray, Jazek, and Bennett are also not going to be seeking re-election in the next Canadian federal election scheduled in September 2025.

While yes governments often shuffle cabinet before an election to give some important roles to their candidates in tough reelection efforts, Trudeau is way too far back in the polling and fundraising numbers to be cutting apart his cabinet to become election ready.

The reason I do not believe Justin Trudeau cutting loose some of the Liberal deadweights and replacing them with new (or less abused) faces will help is that fundamentally Canadians see the failures of the Liberal government as a product of Trudeau's leadership.

Nobody is foolish enough to believe Alghabra, Mendocino, or Lametti were granted any level of independence in their roles. What Justin Trudeau and his top advisors wanted is what they got, and so a cabinet shuffle will be seen as nothing more than Trudeau admitting he has failed as prime minister.

What G7 nation would make this out of touch, elitist, stunned cunt Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. Canada under Justine, that is which G7 country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dolhx-AnEI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZBrniZHtAw

The federal Liberals' new communication strategy appears to be doubling down on their signature tactic: gaslighting Canadians into thinking there's no problem and, if that fails, blaming them for thinking there's a problem at all.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempted to assert that housing isn't primarily a federal responsibility, despite several key levers fuelling the crisis being very much under federal jurisdiction — and a history of campaigning on housing affordability.

Now, newly minted Justice Minister Arif Virani is telling Canadians their concerns about crime may be all in their heads. He told Reuters: "I think that empirically it's unlikely" Canada is becoming less safe. ​​"But I think there's a sense coming out of the pandemic that people's safety is more in jeopardy."

The facts disagree with him. According to a report by Statistics Canada last week, "Police-reported crime in Canada, as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI), increased for the second consecutive year, up four per cent in 2022. The Violent CSI rose in 2022, reaching its highest point since 2007."

In Manitoba, the CSI rose by a staggering 14 per cent in one year.

Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Quebec saw increases of six per cent.

Technically, Justine is right that housing is not a federal responsibility, but the whole housing fiasco is due to the Liberals' immigration policy. Last year alone, nearly 1,00,000 people were admitted into Canada. This year, the number will be higher. There is no way that Canada can build enough new dwellings for all these people. The result is unaffordable house prices, unaffordable rents and an increasing number of people living on the streets. Immigration is good but it must be at a level that will not play havoc with the Canadian housing market.

I am going to post something really sickening that I read. Pierre Trudeau won a big majority after he separated from Margaret.

I would not be surprised at all if True Dope lost the popular vote and the dippers propped him up again
Urban white Canadians hate freedom and prosperity. For others only. Not themselves.

The declining political fortunes of the federal Liberal party — the latest polls suggest they trail the Conservatives by as much as 10 points — is good news. It suggests progressive fantasies about government spending, regulatory initiatives, social engineering and climate policy have finally run into the brick wall of reality. Slamming into a wall is of course painful, so the Liberals are doing their best to carry on denying reality. Their effort to do so is unlikely to continue fooling Canadians, however.

Under the guise of increasing affordability, the Liberals have pumped money into Canadians' bank accounts with numerous programs and handouts in recent years. But the financial relief the money was supposed to provide has proved to be a mirage. Far from increasing prosperity, bigger government has left the Canadian economy in a growth crisis. All that's left to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars in excess spending is more debt, higher interest payments and a decline in affordability resulting from high inflation. Home ownership is out of reach for large segments of the population and the general consumer price level is today nine per cent higher than it would have been if inflation had continued at its pre-2021 pace.

A defining initiative of the current Liberal government is its economy-altering climate program, which it claims is a win-win for the economy and the environment. The program includes an annually escalating carbon tax, inefficient regulation, bans on single-use plastics, over $120 billion in spending since 2015, plus billions more this year in subsidies for plants to build batteries for electric vehicles. This top-down economic management supposedly reduces global warming and increases prosperity by supporting strategically important industries. But the plastic bans have aggravated consumers; Canadians reject the Liberals' claims about the carbon tax enriching most households (with two-thirds saying in a recent poll it is a bad time to increase the tax); and torching billions of dollars on batteries is unlikely to improve the equanimity of Canadians struggling with rising costs of living.

On the issue of crime, too, the Liberals deny reality. Arif Virani, the new justice minister said on his appointment that "I think that empirically it's unlikely" Canada is becoming less safe from crime. But that is wrong. Statistics Canada's Violent Crime Severity Index fell by nearly 30 per cent from 2006 to 2014, while the Conservatives were in power, but under the Liberals this progress has been reversed, with a 38 per cent increase in violent crime from 2014 to 2022. After reaching a low in 2014, non-violent crime has also risen under the Liberals, although not by as much.

The decline of the Liberals, if it persists until the next election, is likely to make Canada's economic stagnation and government mismanagement less embarrassing. That is, as long as the beneficiaries of the Liberal decline continue to be the Conservatives and not the NDP. Under newly elected mayor Olivia Chow, Toronto, a city not known for its wise political choices, is getting a taste of how the NDP deals with unaffordability and crime: by doing nothing to solve these problems while instead wasting $8.6 million to rename Dundas Street — because a street named after a Scot who died over 200 years ago offends the sensitivities of a handful of complainers.

Quote from: Shen Li on August 10, 2023, 07:36:07 PMI would not be surprised at all if True Dope lost the popular vote and the dippers propped him up again
Urban white Canadians hate freedom and prosperity. For others only. Not themselves.

Not this little white duck. The minute I determined the lockdowns were going to become an ongoing thing, I sold up and was on the next plane south.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_O8xhVOhHQ


"...when Black Friday comes, I'll collect everything I'm owed
And before my friends find out I'll be on the road..."

Have you ever read a fairy tale to a child? The ones where heroes scale towers or wave magic wands to change the world? Well, it seems like Trudeau's Minister of Environment, Steven Guilbeault, took those tales a bit too literally.

His recent bid to eliminate fossil fuels from Canada's electrical grid by 2035 is less of a responsible plan and more of an ill-conceived daydream. And for Canada's ratepayers, farmers, and businesses, this daydream will be nothing but a nightmare.

Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, an avid cyclist who says she does not own a car, was fined C$273 ($200) for speeding in her home province of Alberta, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Freeland was caught driving 132 km/hr (82 mph) between the towns of Grande Prairie and Peace River.

Freeland is a legislator who represents a parliamentary constituency in central Toronto, Canada's largest city, and is often photographed on her bike.

"A fact that still shocks my dad is that I don't actually own a car," she told reporters last month.

"I walk, I take the subway. My kids walk and ride their bikes and take the subway – it's actually healthier for our family," she said.

Sure you do. :crampe:

Disagree with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax and former environment minister Catherine McKenna will accuse you of being an "arsonist."

Object to their plan to bring in almost 1.5 million immigrants between now and 2025, contributing to Canada's housing crisis, and Immigration Minister Marc Miller will suggest you're among "a segment of folks that have blamed immigrants for taking houses, taking jobs, you name it."

Express anger about Beijing's dictators interfering in our democracy and Trudeau will reply that "one of the things we've seen, unfortunately, over the past years is a rise in anti-Asian racism linked to the pandemic and concerns being raised or arisen around people's loyalties."

This despite the fact numerous leaders and organizations representing Canadians of Chinese origin have repeatedly called for a public inquiry into foreign interference, while Trudeau continues to rag the puck on calling one.

Criticize Trudeau's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end protests against his government and Trudeau will liken you to supporting "people who wave swastikas," as if it would be impossible to protest federal pandemic policies for legitimate reasons.

Voice, as a Muslim parent, concern about gender identity classes in public schools and the PM will say you're being influenced by "the American right-wing" spreading "misinformation and disinformation" as if no one could have genuine concerns about the issue.

Canada is divided because the leader of our country routinely portrays Canadians who disagree with him not just as wrong, but evil.

Quote from: Herman on August 23, 2023, 02:13:59 AMCanada is divided because the leader of our country routinely portrays Canadians who disagree with him not just as wrong, but evil.

Yes. It's only half the story though.

The other half is the people buying into the lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1XKo9gLCA

Life in Canada after eight years of Justine taking a hammer to working folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHvvsOBbWA

Justine does not know how much a two litre carton of milk costs, but he says he is making life cheaper by charging Canadians more for necessities of life. WHat an idiotic piece of shit.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/terrazzano-more-proof-carbon-taxes-make-life-more-expensive/ar-AA1fOQ0l?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=35feddf5d83c42b488b94dbb200be0a6&ei=12
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau  claims  he's "making life more affordable" but his own government agencies continue to prove his carbon tax makes life more expensive.   

"Nova Scotians saw prices at the pump increase by 14% in July compared with June," Statistics Canada  reported . "The introduction of the federal carbon levy in the province and higher wholesale prices contributed to higher gasoline prices." 

It's not just Statistics Canada. Canada Revenue Agency  shows  the carbon tax currently increases the price of gasoline by 14¢ per litre, the price of diesel and home heating oil by 17¢ per litre and the price of natural gas by 12¢ per cubic metre.   

"If the charge were to be removed from the three main fuel components of the consumer price index (gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil) it would reduce the inflation rate by 0.4 percentage points," the Bank of Canada  wrote  in a note to Parliament's finance committee. 

In other words, life would be more affordable if Trudeau scrapped the carbon tax.   

The Parliamentary Budget Officer is the federal government's non-partisan, independent budget watchdog. The PBO also notes the carbon tax makes Canadians poorer. 

"Most households will see a net loss, paying more in fuel charges and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive and lower personal income taxes they pay,"  according  to the PBO.   

The carbon tax will cost the average family between  $347 and $710  this year, even after the rebates are factored in, according to the PBO.   

Trudeau's carbon tax bill is only getting bigger. The carbon tax will increase the price of gas by 37¢ per litre in 2030, according to the CRA.   

Trudeau also imposed a second carbon tax through fuel regulations. The second carbon tax doesn't come with rebates and it's layered on top of Trudeau's original tax.   

Analysis  from the Department of the Environment shows the second carbon tax will "disproportionately impact lower and middle-income households," including Canadians "currently experiencing energy poverty," "single mothers" and "seniors living on fixed incomes." 

Independent government regulators in Atlantic Canada estimate the second carbon tax initially costs between 4¢ and 8¢ per litre of gas.   

By 2030, when the fuel regulations are fully implemented, Trudeau's two carbon taxes will increase the price of gas by about 55¢ per litre and cost the average family more than $2,000 every year. 

While Ottawa has made life more expensive with yearly carbon tax hikes,  other countries  provided gas tax relief.   

The United Kingdom announced billions of dollars of fuel tax relief. Australia cut its gas tax in half. South Korea cut its gas tax by 30%. Germany temporarily cut its fuel tax by 30¢ per litre of gas. The Netherlands cut its gas tax by 17¢ per litre. 

India  cut its gas tax to "keep inflation low, thus helping the poor and middle classes." 

While Canadians are now paying two carbon taxes, more than 75% of countries don't pay a national carbon tax, according to the  World Bank .   

Trudeau knows the carbon tax makes life more expensive. After all, the objective of his carbon tax is to increase the price of gasoline, diesel and heating fuel.   

Trudeau wants Canadians to think he's trying to make life affordable. In reality, Trudeau is failing to do the one thing that would immediately make life more affordable — scrap his carbon taxes. 

Canadians had higher incomes than Americans when Obama was in the White House and Stephen Harper was in 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Man, has Justine ever destroyed this country.


https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/gunter-canadian-cities-on-low-end-of-employment-income-scale/ar-AA1fOUtj?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=12d66ea23e9d416cae2887700215e636&ei=32
This week, Vancouver's Fraser Institute put out tables showing the median employment income in the 141 largest cities in North America.

San Jose, California, the home of Silicon Valley, has the best-paid population with a median income of nearly $74,000 a year (in Canadian dollars). New York City is eighth at $56,700. And Chicago is 22nd at $50,700.

Our top performer, Ottawa, clocks in at just $45,500, more than a third lower than San Jose. Ottawa is smack dab in the middle of Ohio rust-belt cities Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Canada's runner-up is Edmonton (54th), another government town full of well-paid civil servants. Oil hub Calgary, which is third in Canada, is just 72nd on the continent. Very middling.

Government pays extremely well in both countries. Washington, D.C. is third overall with a median annual income of just over $64,000.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Toronto (127), Vancouver (131) and Montreal (134) had incomes just over half that of the chart toppers.

Curiously, as Fraser points out, the largest Canadian cities have among the worst-paid populations in our country. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver together represent about a third of Canada's population, yet are all in the bottom 10% continent-wide.


Canada's 14 largest cities are clustered near the bottom of the list.

The highest-ranked Canadian city is Ottawa because bureaucrats have higher incomes on average than private-sector workers. Still, our nation's capital was only 53rd best on the continent.

San Jose, California, the home of Silicon Valley, has the best-paid population with a median income of nearly $74,000 a year (in Canadian dollars). New York City is eighth at $56,700. And Chicago is 22nd at $50,700.

Our top performer, Ottawa, clocks in at just $45,500, more than a third lower than San Jose. Ottawa is smack dab in the middle of Ohio rust-belt cities Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Canada's runner-up is Edmonton (54th), another government town full of well-paid civil servants. Oil hub Calgary, which is third in Canada, is just 72nd on the continent. Very middling.

Government pays extremely well in both countries. Washington, D.C. is third overall with a median annual income of just over $64,000.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Toronto (127), Vancouver (131) and Montreal (134) had incomes just over half that of the chart toppers.

Curiously, as Fraser points out, the largest Canadian cities have among the worst-paid populations in our country. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver together represent about a third of Canada's population, yet are all in the bottom 10% continent-wide.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., the largest cities also tend to be the richest centres.

These calculations recall work done three years ago by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe, which showed that only Alberta among the provinces had per-capita Gross Domestic Product equivalent to the upper third of American states. Even Ontario and Quebec had per-capita GDPs closer to Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky.

These dismal numbers are not solely the result of eight years of Trudeau government economic policy. But since coming to power in 2015, the Liberals have made things much, much worse with their higher taxes (particularly carbon taxes), their massive increase (+40%) in the size of the federal civil service, their lack of attention to our falling innovation, productivity and investment numbers, our declining standard of living and, now, our soaring housing prices and general inflation.

Incompetent and negligent are not too strong to describe the Trudeau government's handling of the Canadian economy.

Take, for instance, its self-defeating immigration and housing policies.

Third, that's where Justin Trudeau's Liberals rank among voters born after 1979. Those are the shock numbers from the latest poll by Abacus Data that doesn't offer any good news for Trudeau.

The truth is, Trudeau's Liberals don't lead in any age group just like they don't lead in any part of the country.

This is why Poilievre leading strongly among voters between the ages of 18 and 44 is so important, it's these voters who put Trudeau into office in the first place and now, eight years on, this same group is having second thoughts.

Young people leaving Trudeau's Liberals would have been unthinkable even two years ago. In the last Abacus poll showing age breakdowns before the 2021 election, Trudeau's Liberals were polling at 43% among those aged 18-29 and competitive in every other age group.

The Conservatives have long held a lead over Trudeau and the Liberals among male voters but struggled to bring women into the fold. Now, in poll after poll, women are more likely to say they will vote Conservative than Liberal.

The latest Abacus numbers have 35% of women saying they will vote blue compared to 26% for the red team and 22% for the orange team. Among men, 41% say they will vote Conservative, 25% Liberal and 16% NDP.

These are shocking numbers for Trudeau's Liberals and should send shockwaves through the entire apparatus. It's one poll, voters are fickle, things could swing back but this is the strongest poll in Poilievre's favour in a string of polls showing momentum for the Conservative leader.

Abacus also found 56% of Canadians think Trudeau shouldn't run again, just 27% think he should and 17% don't know. Among those who voted Liberal in the last election, one in four say Trudeau should go.

Meanwhile, perceptions of Poilievre are improving and according to Abacus, those new ads are working.

Summer isn't often a time for a significant political shift, in fact, governing parties often do better during the summer recess with the daily glare of Question Period creating bad headlines for them.

This summer, there has been a marked shift that started in June and continues now. If this shift holds, get ready for big changes in Canadian politics.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/trudeaus-liberals-at-third-among-younger-voters-must-sting

This is now a trend. Will Trudeau resign. Stay tuned.

Even the reliably liberal Toronto Star ran a column headlined "This is what happens when Justin Trudeau neglects issues that really matter to Canadians."

Trudeau has proven he can ride out scandals such as Blackface, ethics violations, alleged groping and condescension toward Aboriginals wanting nothing more than clean drinking water on the reserve.

Unless you are Aboriginal, none of those scandals impact you where you live. No amount of Conservative bluster about the prime minister's lack of moral character has had an impact on the Liberals' base.

Polling in Atlantic Canada shows that in just two months the Liberals dropped from 50% support to 32%. Now that's a drop!

What caused it? A carbon tax.

Does Trudeau have enough ego to want to go out on top, explaining that he has served long enough, recent personal events make it time to spend more time with family, etc.?

Possibly. Nobody likes to lose.

A recent Abacus Data poll found that 56 per cent of Canadians thought Trudeau should step down and allow a new Liberal leader to take his place. In June, another Abacus survey found that an incredible 81 per cent of respondents wanted "a change in government."

In the world's other Westminster democracies, this is usually the point where a leader either resigns voluntarily or is forced out by a caucus desperate to retain their party's hold on power.

It is looking dire for Justine. The prog leaning Abacus polling firm has Pollivere's Conservatives with a fourteen point lead over the Liberals. The Conservatives are in big majority territory now.

https://abacusdata.ca/conservatives-open-up-a-14-point-lead-over-the-liberals-as-poilievres-personal-rating-turns-positive/
If an election were held today, 40% of committed voters would vote Conservatives with the Liberals at 26%, the NDP at 19% and the Greens at 4%. The BQ is at 30% in Quebec.


This is after an Angus Reid poll had the Conservatives with a twelve point lead. This is a trend not a poll or two. Canadians are sick and tired of Justine and we want him gone.

Justine was in India for a G20 summit. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. While Justine was snubbed by Modi, Joe Biden had a bilateral meeting and Australian PM Anthony Albanese had one on the schedule. Modi also held official meetings with the leaders of Italy , Japan , the United Kingdom , Mauritius and Bangladesh.

The Indian pm does not take Justine seriously. He is a smart guy.

This is one of the reasons why Pollivere is soaring in the polls.

PM's green plans will raise cost of housing

While the Trudeau government is readying a new plan to increase affordable housing, it's a good time to look at what its green energy plans will do to the cost of housing for Canadians.

In a new study for the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute, Guelph University economist Ross McKitrick says they will increase the price of a new home by an average of 8% across Canada, or by $55,000 by 2030.

McKitrick estimates the costs will be highest in B.C. at $78,093 followed in descending order by Ontario ($71,818); Quebec ($38,070); Alberta ($35,499); Nova Scotia ($30,677); P.E.I ($28,369); Manitoba ($26,894); Saskatchewan ($26,436); Newfoundland and Labrador ($22,966) and New Brunswick ($22,144).

In "Wrong Move at the Wrong Time: Economic Impacts of the New Federal Building Energy Efficiency Mandates", McKitrick estimates this will reduce Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions by just 0.9% and lower Canada's GDP by 1.8% by 2030.

McKitrick says the main reason for the higher costs is a proposal in the Trudeau government's Building Energy Efficiency components of its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan that requires energy consumption in new residential buildings to be reduced to 65% below 2019 levels by 2030.

"These are very high costs to impose on Canadians at a time when the economy is struggling and housing is already unaffordable for so many people," McKitrick said.

These increased costs don't just apply to new homes.

The C.D. Howe Institute reported last year that it would cost up to $18,000 to retrofit existing homes.

That study by Charles DeLand and Alexander Vanderhoof, "Only Hot Air? The Implications of Replacing Oil and Gas in Canadian Homes", concluded that "even in an extreme scenario where no new emitting buildings came on the market after 2022, emissions only fall by about 26% to 2030, still not enough to meet government targets (of 42%)."

That said, the cost of lowering residential housing emissions drives home the reality that carbon pricing raises the cost of almost everything.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-pms-green-plans-will-raise-cost-of-housing

Justin Trudeau has announced a GST holiday to encourage home building. In provinces that have an HST, it has the potential to save 13 percent on construction costs.

Do you know what his plan is to reduce grocery costs? Threaten an excess profits tax on companies like Loblaws if they do not lower food prices. How will grocwery retailers respond to Jagmeet Singh's beloeved excess profits tax? They will raise the price of food for Canadians. :crazy:

A simple way to lower food costs and encourage building is give a carbon tax and clean fuels tax holiday. Watch food prices drop as transportaiton and growing costs are lowered and passed on to families.

Even this seemingly Liberal Supporter admits the Liberals are slipping drastically in the polls:

Quote from: JOE on September 18, 2023, 02:18:17 AMEven this seemingly Liberal Supporter admits the Liberals are slipping drastically in the polls:

Hi Jo Jo :jawdrop:

It turns out that unrestrained eugenics is not the only thing out of the Third Reich that Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party of Canada has found cause to celebrate.

After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address to the Canadian Parliament on Friday, Liberal House Speaker Anthony Rota lavished praise on a 98-year-old who had served with Heinrich Himmler's Waffen-SS in World War II. Trudeau and his socialist ally Jagmeet Singh, head of the NDP, joined Rota and their respective parties in honoring the Nazi veteran with two standing ovations just days ahead of Yom Kippur.

House Speaker Rota, a parliamentary member of Trudeau's Liberal Party, invited Yaroslav Hunka to Parliament, introducing him Friday as a war hero "who fought [for] the Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today."

The Western Standard reported that among those cheering on Hunka was Ya'ara Saks, a Liberal member of Parliament who previously accused the peaceful trucker convoy protesters of being Nazis, claiming that "honk honk" "is an acronym for 'heil Hitler.'"

Trudeau, who similarly cheered on the Nazi veteran, previously accused Conservative politicians who supported the trucker convoy of standing with "people who wave swastikas" whilst his own government discussed possibly using German Leopard 2 tanks on unarmed protesters.

This year, the Trudeau government is on track to spend almost $500 billion (equivalent to almost 18% of Canada's Gross Domestic Product), with $447 billion for programs and services and the remainder for interest payments on the federal debt, which now stands at $1.9 trillion — more than double the level a decade ago.

Federal spending has climbed significantly over time, with a dramatic jump under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's administration. Back in 2015-16, annual spending was running at $295 billion. Total federal expenditures have therefore risen by two-thirds in just eight years, comfortably outpacing the growth of Canada's population and economy.

On the other side of the fiscal ledger, Ottawa expects to receive $457 billion in revenues in 2023-24, which is 56% more than it collected in 2015-16.

Where does all this money come from?

Surprisingly, the national government relies heavily on a single revenue source — personal income tax (PIT). Indeed, depending on the year, 45% to 50% of all federal revenues come from the PIT.

As the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and other prominent organizations have argued, Canada's tax system has become creaky, inefficient and needlessly complicated. Tax compliance costs continue to escalate. To fashion a tax system suited for a 21st-century economy, policymakers must re-tool and simplify our cumbersome and growth-inhibiting income tax system.

If a future federal government decides to pursue broad tax reform, it should commit to reducing the role of income tax in providing revenues. When provincial taxes are added to those levied by Ottawa, top combined marginal tax rates exceed 50% in seven provinces; these top rates apply at income thresholds well below those in peer jurisdictions including the United States and the United Kingdom. In Canada, the income tax burden is excessive for skilled workers, managers, professionals, innovators, top researchers and entrepreneurs — in other words, the people we need to drive wealth creation, fuel business growth and build a more productive economy. Today, a growing number of talented individuals with these kinds of qualifications and experience are either leaving Canada or contemplating doing so, due in part to uncompetitive income taxes.

A reformed tax system should lower income tax rates for most households and reduce the role of tax preferences, loopholes and special rules that often serve to increase complexity. Most economists agree that lower tax rates and a broader tax base would be positive for economic growth in Canada. But the tax system also must provide the revenues needed to fund the government sector, which is why it's important to keep spending in check and avoid the helter-skelter expansion of government programs seen under Trudeau's watch.

That anyone would still vote LP amazes me.

Quote from: DKG on September 27, 2023, 02:17:20 PMThis year, the Trudeau government is on track to spend almost $500 billion (equivalent to almost 18% of Canada's Gross Domestic Product), with $447 billion for programs and services and the remainder for interest payments on the federal debt, which now stands at $1.9 trillion — more than double the level a decade ago.

Next administration that comes in is gonna have ta cut.

...even if it's the Liberal Party.

They can't keep on spending like that.
Unfortunately the Party will have to come to an end.
And it'll be a rude shock for some who have become beholden and too dependent on the Government teat.

Imagine that if it's a Conservative administration, particularly a Majority guv, will take out the axe.

If like-minded socialist countries like France, Sweden and Norway are cutting the welfare state & pensions for their own citizens, Canada can't be too far behind. All 3 of them raised the retirement ages for pensions recently.

Post 2025 election Canada might be a grim place for many.

Trudeau is looking to slash $1 billion from the budget of the Department of National Defense. This government has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars that have caused inflation and reduced living standards, yet the only cuts to spending they will make are to the one federal department that has not seen any largesse.

Not toention Tru-dump has sent what little usable equipment and ammo they have to Ukraine so they need to invest to restore the Canadian armed forces to it's previous levels but instead of that he is cutting them.  No consider that Canada has never met the NATI 2% OF GDP standard.  Not in decades.

Quote from: Oerdin on October 08, 2023, 12:19:38 PMNot toention Tru-dump has sent what little usable equipment and ammo they have to Ukraine so they need to invest to restore the Canadian armed forces to it's previous levels but instead of that he is cutting them.  No consider that Canada has never met the NATI 2% OF GDP standard.  Not in decades.

I want Canada to withdraw from NATO. We are part of Norad, that is enough.

A.I. Art is getting interesting

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The Parliamentary Budget Officer recently asked how long it will take for the federal government to see a return on the $28.2 billion of production subsidies to EV battery-makers Stellantis and Volkswagen. The answer — about four times longer than government originally claimed.

Trudeau said the "full economic impact of the project will be equal to the value of government investment in less than five years." But according to the PBO, it will take 20 years, not five years, to merely recover the money the government "invested" on behalf of Canadians. There's no actual profit to be had at that point.

Facebook in Canada thanks to Justin Trudeau.

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I wish someone would develop a rogue AI that would zap through the net and shut down all this censorship crap.

Where the hell is Max Headroom when we need him.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on October 12, 2023, 10:53:59 PMI wish someone would develop a rogue AI that would zap through the net and shut down all this censorship crap.

Where the hell is Max Headroom when we need him.

Max is with us in spirit.

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute has found that more than half of Canadians think Justin Trudeau should step down as the leader of the Liberal Party before the next federal election. Even among Liberal voters, almost half of respondents said he should turn the party leadership over to a fresh face, although there was no clear consensus on whom that should be.

The poll, conducted online this month among 1,878 Canadian adults, found that 57 per cent thought Trudeau should step down before the next election, scheduled for 2025. Just 28 per cent thought he should stay on, while 15 per cent were unsure.

For four years or so, the RCMP had wanted to investigate allegations that Trudeau and his circle obstructed justice.  That is, that they allegedly tried to get former attorney general Jody Wilson Raybould to stop a prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a big Liberal Party donor, for corruption.

Eleven people in and around Trudeau's PMO did that, we now know, at least 44 times in 2018.  Each time, Wilson Raybould refused — and she ultimately was driven out of government, and the Liberal Party, for refusing to do what would almost certainly be obstruction of justice.

And, now, we have learned that the RCMP wanted to investigate whether crimes had been committed.  But they couldn't — because Trudeau and his cabinet refused to cooperate.

In 2021, as the Mounties were nearing the end of a months-long probe into obstruction of justice in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, they hit a roadblock: Trudeau et al. wouldn't give them access to cabinet documents about what went on. The RCMP commissioner personally made the request, no less, and was rebuffed.

Documents finally released this week — while war was raging in Israel and Gaza — revealed that the RCMP had "pushed as hard as possible," and "exhausted all avenues" to get the evidence they needed to justify a possible prosecution.  But, in true Tricky Dick Nixon fashion, the Trudeau cabal said no.

Trudeau's Liberal Party voted down a bill Wednesday that would have barred the state from euthanizing mentally ill Canadians. There is little now standing in the way of those with mental disorders, including the depressed whose suicidal ideation is likely a symptom, having the state put them down starting March 17, 2024.

Conservative MP Ed Fast's private members bill C-314 would have amended Canada's Criminal Code to "provide that a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition for which a person could receive medical assistance in dying."

Fast stressed in the preamble to his bill that vulnerable citizens should receive suicide prevention counseling rather than be exterminated by the state, adding that "Canada's medical assistance in dying regime risks normalizing assisted dying as a solution for those suffering from a mental disorder."

Seeking to preserve this "solution," Trudeau and most of his fellow Liberals who last month unwittingly applauded a veteran Waffen-SS Nazi joined the Bloc Quebecois in defeating the bill in a vote of 167 to 150.

Trudeau's numbers are in free fall everywhere, but no more noticeably than the usually reliable Atlantic provinces. The government suspended the carbon tax on home heating oil. That is the only part of the country where the majority of homes are heated that way. Trudeau says his govenment is listening to the people, but his ideological regime is only listening to pollsters.

Look at this poll. A seventeen point lead for Pierre Pollivere and the CPC. This is the biggest lead the Tories have had yet. If these numbers hold for another two months, there will be an internal revolt within the Liberal Party to replace Trudeau.

Pallas Federal Poll: CPC 43, LPC 26, NDP 16, Bloc 7, Green 3

(TORONTO, 26 October 2023) – The federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre have a sixteen-point lead over the governing Liberals, a Pallas Data poll has found.

Pallas surveyed 1484 Canadian adults 18 or older eligible to vote through Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) technology from 21-22 October 2023. The margin of error is +/- 2.5% at the 95% confidence level.

Among decided and leaning voters, the Conservatives have 43% support, while the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau have 26%. The NDP led by Jagmeet Singh has 16%, while the Greens with Elizabeth May at the helm have 3%. The Bloc Quebecois led by Yves-Francois Blanchet has 7%, but 29% in Quebec.

"The governing Liberals are in serious trouble and would get routed if an election were held today," said Dr. Joseph Angolano, Founder and CEO of Pallas Data. "The Conservatives led by Pierre Poilevre lead in every region of the country and would cruise to a majority victory."

The Conservatives find themselves in a three-way statistical tie in Quebec but lead by significant numbers in every other region of the country. In vote-rich Ontario, the Conservatives lead the Liberals by nine points, while they are ahead of the Liberals by eight points in the former Liberal stronghold of Atlantic Canada.

"It is not enough for the Liberals to say 'Don't worry, the election isn't until 2025' and hope that Poilievre self-destructs between now and then," continued Angolano. "The Conservative leader is showing far too much discipline at this point in time for that to happen."

"The Liberals need to do something to turn the tide because this hole may be too big to dig themselves out of," added Angolano.
https://pallas-data.ca/2023/10/26/pallas-federal-poll-cpc-43-lpc-26-ndp-16-bloc-7-green-3/

Quote from: DKG on October 28, 2023, 12:04:02 PMLook at this poll. A seventeen point lead for Pierre Pollivere and the CPC. This is the biggest lead the Tories have had yet. If these numbers hold for another two months, there will be an internal revolt within the Liberal Party to replace Trudeau.

Pallas Federal Poll: CPC 43, LPC 26, NDP 16, Bloc 7, Green 3

(TORONTO, 26 October 2023) – The federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre have a sixteen-point lead over the governing Liberals, a Pallas Data poll has found.

Pallas surveyed 1484 Canadian adults 18 or older eligible to vote through Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) technology from 21-22 October 2023. The margin of error is +/- 2.5% at the 95% confidence level.

Among decided and leaning voters, the Conservatives have 43% support, while the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau have 26%. The NDP led by Jagmeet Singh has 16%, while the Greens with Elizabeth May at the helm have 3%. The Bloc Quebecois led by Yves-Francois Blanchet has 7%, but 29% in Quebec.

"The governing Liberals are in serious trouble and would get routed if an election were held today," said Dr. Joseph Angolano, Founder and CEO of Pallas Data. "The Conservatives led by Pierre Poilevre lead in every region of the country and would cruise to a majority victory."

The Conservatives find themselves in a three-way statistical tie in Quebec but lead by significant numbers in every other region of the country. In vote-rich Ontario, the Conservatives lead the Liberals by nine points, while they are ahead of the Liberals by eight points in the former Liberal stronghold of Atlantic Canada.

"It is not enough for the Liberals to say 'Don't worry, the election isn't until 2025' and hope that Poilievre self-destructs between now and then," continued Angolano. "The Conservative leader is showing far too much discipline at this point in time for that to happen."

"The Liberals need to do something to turn the tide because this hole may be too big to dig themselves out of," added Angolano.
https://pallas-data.ca/2023/10/26/pallas-federal-poll-cpc-43-lpc-26-ndp-16-bloc-7-green-3/

Right on. So far it looks like that goofy gimmic to buy votes in the Maritimes by exempting home heating ol from the carbon tax aint working. There aint that many houses left that still use home heating oil anyway. Why not exempt natural gas which heats most homes in this country. What an asshole.

Justine says there will absolutely not be more carbon tax exemptions.

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Quote from: DKG on October 28, 2023, 10:48:43 AMTrudeau's numbers are in free fall everywhere, but no more noticeably than the usually reliable Atlantic provinces. The government suspended the carbon tax on home heating oil. That is the only part of the country where the majority of homes are heated that way. Trudeau says his govenment is listening to the people, but his ideological regime is only listening to pollsters.

If you Cons win, I will congratulate you stead of being a poor sport. Whomever wins IS our Prime Minister. So none of this, "He's not my Prime Minister!" bullshit.

Change, even if it's not the kind you like, is inevitable.

We don't always get our way in real life.

That being said, I'm strongly thinking of just sitting out this election cuz the choices are rather poor.

A Liberal stalwart and a former prime minister's chief of staff is calling on the party to find a new leader to replace Justin Trudeau.

In a blunt and at times stinging opinon piece for National Newswatch published Wednesday , Senator Percy Downe wrote that the party should replace Prime Minister Trudeau as Liberal leader before the next election.

Downe also told the Hill Times in an interview published Wednesday that he believes that Trudeau could make the decision by February whether to stay on for the next election or step down before then.

That month will be the 40th anniversary of when Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, went for his famous "walk in the snow" in which he decided he would not run again for prime minister in February 1984.

The political fight is heating up over Liberal plans to pause the carbon price on home heating oil.

In Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pushing for the NDP to vote against the Liberal carbon pricing policy with a motion set to head to a vote on Monday to pause the price on all forms of home heating.

n an address to his caucus Wednesday morning, Poilievre pointed to the NDP governments in B.C. and Manitoba calling the carbon price pause for heating oil unfair. While the pause would apply across the country, Atlantic Canadians disproportionately use heating oil while Canadians in other regions tend to use other sources.

Both the Alberta and Saskatchewan NDP oppositions are calling on a broader pause for the carbon price instead of it just being for home heating oil, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week.
"So, the question becomes, what will Jagmeet Singh do?" Poilievre asked in his caucus address.

Jagmeet will not pull the pin.

What were Trudeau's advisors thinking. A break on the carbon tax only on home heating oil which only benefits people in one part of the country. Did he/they not see how unpopular this would be everywhere in Canada except the Martime provinces. Did he/they not see how this would be another policy damaging to national unity.

Trudeau's plan to pause his carbon tax goes off the rails

This can't be what Justin Trudeau thought would happen when he announced his pause on the carbon tax just over a week ago.

There is no way his plan was to make a move that would split his own party, see premiers across the country denounce his move as unfair and the opposition Conservatives put him in a no-win situation with a vote on Monday.

That is where Trudeau is at though.

While Trudeau says his carbon tax pause is national, it is really all about shoring up support in Atlantic Canada where Liberal fortunes were fading fast. Sure, some people in other parts of the country who heat with oil will get the three-year pause on the carbon tax, but the fact that this was about Atlantic Canada was driven home by Trudeau making the announcement in front of his Atlantic caucus.

"Perhaps they need to elect more Liberals on the Prairies," Trudeau cabinet minister Gudie Hutchings told CTV's Power Play when asked why one region should get a break when others don't.

Lest anyone think this is a Liberal-Conservative fight happening here, the opposition NDP in Alberta and Saskatchewan have joined with their conservative-leaning governments to call for fairness across Canada. Manitoba's newly-elected NDP Premier Wab Kinew is also calling Trudeau's plans unfair.

"I hope to be able to bring in some benefits here in Manitoba that will help you save money on your home heating bill," Kinew said this week.

So, premiers across the country, along with opposition leaders in those provinces, are calling on Trudeau to expand his tax break to all Canadians and now he faces a vote on that issue in the House of Commons on Monday. That motion calls on "the government to extend that pause to all forms of home heating."

Imagine being a Liberal MP in suburban Ontario, where the Conservatives are threatening to take your seat already, and having to explain why you voted against a tax break for your own residents.

The vote Monday is technically not a confidence vote, though the government could make it one. That wouldn't make sense though because the NDP have already said they will support the Conservative motion and there is no way the Liberals want an election right now on this issue.

Still, it will put the government in an awkward position, a vote chastising them on one of their key policies. Again, that couldn't have been part of Trudeau's plan when he rushed out this decision.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/trudeaus-plan-for-his-carbon-tax-pause-is-off-the-rails

Don't worry DKG, I'm sure Trudeau's time and that of the Liberals is running out.

You conz will git your day in the sun no doubt.

After that ya won't have anything to complain about.

Ball will be in your court.

Joe calls his lower abdominal cavity his "court" and daydreams of having Thiel's balls up in it...

He's right on one thing though (and this is presuming he is being sarcastic about people having nothing to complain about once the libs are ousted). There'll still be plenty to complain about after a change in parties, Canadian politics is more openly corrupt than that which you are operating under in Bawwstrayya.

Remember Klaus Schwab's boast about the level of control he exercises over their governance, consider how much bipartisan support there was in Oz for things like lockdowns and the thinly veiled vaccine mandates. The average voter cannot reasonably expect a choice when all their parties are captured, no matter what side of the political divide they pull the lever for at the ballot box.

Quote from: Adolf Oliver Bush on November 04, 2023, 09:04:31 PMHe's right on one thing though (and this is presuming he is being sarcastic about people having nothing to complain about once the libs are ousted). There'll still be plenty to complain about after a change in parties, Canadian politics is more openly corrupt than that which you are operating under in Bawwstrayya.

Remember Klaus Schwab's boast about the level of control he exercises over their governance, consider how much bipartisan support there was in Oz for things like lockdowns and the thinly veiled vaccine mandates. The average voter cannot reasonably expect a choice when all their parties are captured, no matter what side of the political divide they pull the lever for at the ballot box.

It'll be a rude awakening for those so heavily dependent on the welfare state in Canada. The Liberals and their NDP coalition have promised their supporters too much. Free this. Free that. Even free dental care.

so....what happens when the Conservatives get back in?
I predict there'll be a lotta cuts cuz they'll say, "We can't afford this, we can't afford that, etc.'

Even the socialist countries like Norway, Sweden and France are cutting back. So I don't see how we can escape that since the Trudeau and the Liberals racked up and continue to rack up so much debt. Even socialism has to be paid for.

Quote from: Frood on November 04, 2023, 07:39:18 PMJoe calls his lower abdominal cavity his "court" and daydreams of having Thiel's balls up in it...

That aint news.

Quote from: DKG on November 04, 2023, 04:33:49 PMWhat were Trudeau's advisors thinking. A break on the carbon tax only on home heating oil which only benefits people in one part of the country. Did he/they not see how unpopular this would be everywhere in Canada except the Martime provinces. Did he/they not see how this would be another policy damaging to national unity.

Trudeau's plan to pause his carbon tax goes off the rails

This can't be what Justin Trudeau thought would happen when he announced his pause on the carbon tax just over a week ago.

There is no way his plan was to make a move that would split his own party, see premiers across the country denounce his move as unfair and the opposition Conservatives put him in a no-win situation with a vote on Monday.

That is where Trudeau is at though.

While Trudeau says his carbon tax pause is national, it is really all about shoring up support in Atlantic Canada where Liberal fortunes were fading fast. Sure, some people in other parts of the country who heat with oil will get the three-year pause on the carbon tax, but the fact that this was about Atlantic Canada was driven home by Trudeau making the announcement in front of his Atlantic caucus.

"Perhaps they need to elect more Liberals on the Prairies," Trudeau cabinet minister Gudie Hutchings told CTV's Power Play when asked why one region should get a break when others don't.

Lest anyone think this is a Liberal-Conservative fight happening here, the opposition NDP in Alberta and Saskatchewan have joined with their conservative-leaning governments to call for fairness across Canada. Manitoba's newly-elected NDP Premier Wab Kinew is also calling Trudeau's plans unfair.

"I hope to be able to bring in some benefits here in Manitoba that will help you save money on your home heating bill," Kinew said this week.

So, premiers across the country, along with opposition leaders in those provinces, are calling on Trudeau to expand his tax break to all Canadians and now he faces a vote on that issue in the House of Commons on Monday. That motion calls on "the government to extend that pause to all forms of home heating."

Imagine being a Liberal MP in suburban Ontario, where the Conservatives are threatening to take your seat already, and having to explain why you voted against a tax break for your own residents.

The vote Monday is technically not a confidence vote, though the government could make it one. That wouldn't make sense though because the NDP have already said they will support the Conservative motion and there is no way the Liberals want an election right now on this issue.

Still, it will put the government in an awkward position, a vote chastising them on one of their key policies. Again, that couldn't have been part of Trudeau's plan when he rushed out this decision.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/trudeaus-plan-for-his-carbon-tax-pause-is-off-the-rails

This blew up in Justine's face. Former Liberal MP's are are saying it's stupid. Provincial NDP leaders and a premier are saying it's unfair.

If the liberals were smart they would dump tru-dump then let their brain dead followers vote for his replacement who will keep all the same failed policies in place.  Tru-dump has a giant ego though so he will refuse to leave and will sink the whole party.  I think that is a good thing.

Quote from: Oerdin on November 05, 2023, 11:27:57 PMIf the liberals were smart they would dump tru-dump then let their brain dead followers vote for his replacement who will keep all the same failed policies in place.  Tru-dump has a giant ego though so he will refuse to leave and will sink the whole party.  I think that is a good thing.

He is guaranteed to lose if an election was held today.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-qyAfBR2tdU?si=H834mvSlUfiFD36c

Quote from: Oerdin on November 06, 2023, 09:21:28 AMhttps://youtube.com/shorts/-qyAfBR2tdU?si=H834mvSlUfiFD36c

His policies, particularly around climate change has made housing more expensive.

Quote from: caskur on November 01, 2023, 07:51:35 AMCanada sounds like a hell hole if your post is true.

This country has gone down hill so fast.

Quote from: Brent on November 07, 2023, 07:15:36 PMThis country has gone down hill so fast.

True dat.

Quote from: Adolf Oliver Bush on November 08, 2023, 03:54:48 AMTrue dat.

This is a very wealthy country. We can turn it around and we will when PP is PM.

I hope so but it seems a majority of your population has been brainwashed to destroy their own country.

You taken a look out your window lately mate?

Sad, isn't it. We have a lot of deprogramming to do.

Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked Justine on Tuesday for condemning Israel's assault on Hamas.

At a press conference, Trudeau demanded Israel "stop" its military operations against Hamas in Gaza, suggesting the Israel Defense Forces are guilty of collective punishment against Palestinians.

"The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is heart-wrenching, especially the suffering we see in and around Al-Shifa Hospital," Trudea said.

"I have been clear that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians. Even wars have rules. All innocent life is equal in worth, Israeli and Palestinian. I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint," he continued. "The world is watching on TV, on social media; we're hearing the testimonies of doctors, family members, survivors, kids who've lost their parents. The world is witnessing this— the killing of women, children, of babies. This has to stop."

Netanyahu publicly responded to Trudeau's statement by reminding the world of the truth and why Trudeau's criticisms should be directed at Hamas — not Israel.

"It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust," Netanyahu said.

"While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way," he explained. "Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint.

"It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime — targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians. The forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism," Netanyahu said.

 Almost two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half want him to resign before the next election, a new survey suggests.

While affordability, housing and public debt are higher on the reasons people want Trudeau to go, one in five people surveyed said they want him to resign simply because they are "just tired of him."

The Leger poll for The Canadian Press suggests widespread dissatisfaction with the Liberal government on everything from housing affordability and inflation to health care, government spending and climate change.

Nationally, 30 per cent of respondents said they were satisfied with Trudeau's government, while 63 per cent said they were not.

Quote from: Herman on November 16, 2023, 01:39:33 AMBenjamin Netanyahu rebuked Justine on Tuesday for condemning Israel's assault on Hamas.

At a press conference, Trudeau demanded Israel "stop" its military operations against Hamas in Gaza, suggesting the Israel Defense Forces are guilty of collective punishment against Palestinians.

"The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is heart-wrenching, especially the suffering we see in and around Al-Shifa Hospital," Trudea said.

"I have been clear that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians. Even wars have rules. All innocent life is equal in worth, Israeli and Palestinian. I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint," he continued. "The world is watching on TV, on social media; we're hearing the testimonies of doctors, family members, survivors, kids who've lost their parents. The world is witnessing this— the killing of women, children, of babies. This has to stop."

Netanyahu publicly responded to Trudeau's statement by reminding the world of the truth and why Trudeau's criticisms should be directed at Hamas — not Israel.

"It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust," Netanyahu said.

"While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way," he explained. "Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint.

"It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime — targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians. The forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism," Netanyahu said.

Who the hell does he think he is that he can tell another Western democracy how they should defend their men, women, and children. Israel has been exercising restrant. The truth is, Israel could have completely blitzed and bombed all of Gaza into submission in the first three days.

The fact that there are people in the West who still are not capable of understanding that the responsibility for every single civilian casualty in this entire war from beginning to end lies with one group, and one group only. And that is Hamas.

The legacy of Justin Trudeau will be lower living standards, lower productivity, low private sector investment levels, national disunity, corruption, and creeping authoritarianism.

Trudeau Liberals economic update will make the bad even uglier

In the federal government's 2023 fall economic statement, to be presented by Chrystia Freeland in the House of Commons on Tuesday, we will undoubtedly be told of the Liberals' efficacious fiscal management and the wonderful economic results their policies have produced. But Canadians are suffering an economic crisis of unaffordability, the worst decade of growth since the Great Depression, a public sector rapidly rising in cost and notable for its inefficiency, a multitude of regulatory initiatives impoverishing consumers and the businesses who serve them, and haphazard taxation and threats of taxation to top it all off.

Whatever mumbo-jumbo the Liberals put in their economic statement is therefore unlikely to be believed by anyone except their most intransigent supporters. They are not bad people, most of them, but grasping economic reality is not among their specialties. Among those impervious to reality is the prime minister. On Friday, Justin Trudeau made the patently crackpot declaration that his government has "always exercised fiscal restraint." In fact, they never have. When the Liberals were elected in 2015, the budget was balanced; they promptly threw it into deficit and even before the pandemic began, overspent the fiscal plan they inherited by $127 billion over four and a half years.

If spending an extra $127 billion on federal programs was reckless, Trudeau found it not enough, and has since outspent his own fiscal plans by even more astonishing margins. In Budget 2018, the Liberals projected federal spending (including interest payments and excluding a $3.0 billion "adjustment for risk") of $383.2 billion in 2022-23. Actual spending for the year, last month's release of the Public Accounts revealed, was $483.1 billion, so even with the pandemic over, annual spending is now inflated $100 billion above the Liberals' 2018 plan. And the fall update may well push spending even higher.

Canadians have experienced first-hand the miserable outcomes the Liberals' spending and general mismanagement have produced; a Statistics Canada report last week puts some numbers behind the experiences. A federal statistics agency's research report is unlikely to be too political, but the story the data tell is a bloodbath for anyone trying to defend the Liberals' economic record. "Declines in gross domestic product per capita portend lower living standards," the title of one section reads. A line chart plots GDP per capita growth against the long-term trend.

From Q3-2015 to Q2-2023, real GDP per capita in Canada increased a paltry 1.6 per cent, far behind the 8.2 per cent trend line growth. The pandemic cannot be blamed: in the same period, the United States has seen 12.5 per cent growth. Nor can the pandemic explain why Canada real GDP per capita declined 2.0 per cent in the four quarters ended Q2-2023.

Canada too can reverse its decline before it becomes an honorary member of the Third World, but it will require undoing everything the Trudeau government has done since 2015 and that it continues to do now. Whatever is in the Liberals' fall economic update, it will do no good.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/matthew-lau-trudeau-liberals-economic-update-will-make-the-bad-even-uglier/ar-AA1kdPOq?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=fe8663c1a15c43359396be4a04be0cba&ei=28

Quote from: DKG on November 18, 2023, 03:32:12 PMWho the hell does he think he is that he can tell another Western democracy how they should defend their men, women, and children. Israel has been exercising restrant.

...and that's because Biden/the US has told Israel to do so.

QuoteThe truth is, Israel could have completely blitzed and bombed all of Gaza into submission in the first three days.

And Netenyahu would do precisely that if the United States didn't put a leash/collar on Israel. While I think Israel has the right to strike back and defend itself, Netenyahu is a butcher and his use of force is excessive. N just used this War as an excuse to wipe out Gaza

Quote from: Herman on November 16, 2023, 01:39:33 AMBenjamin Netanyahu rebuked Justine on Tuesday for condemning Israel's assault on Hamas.

At a press conference, Trudeau demanded Israel "stop" its military operations against Hamas in Gaza, suggesting the Israel Defense Forces are guilty of collective punishment against Palestinians.

"The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is heart-wrenching, especially the suffering we see in and around Al-Shifa Hospital," Trudea said.

"I have been clear that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians. Even wars have rules. All innocent life is equal in worth, Israeli and Palestinian. I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint," he continued. "The world is watching on TV, on social media; we're hearing the testimonies of doctors, family members, survivors, kids who've lost their parents. The world is witnessing this— the killing of women, children, of babies. This has to stop."

Netanyahu publicly responded to Trudeau's statement by reminding the world of the truth and why Trudeau's criticisms should be directed at Hamas — not Israel.

"It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust," Netanyahu said.

"While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way," he explained. "Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint.

"It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime — targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians. The forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism," Netanyahu said.

Fuck Justine Truedope

If I were Netenyahu I would outright tell that fag boi to go fuck himself right there on live TV

Them fukin jews should nuke trudope. Hopefully they do it when trudope is visiting josephines hometown so it'll be a twofer!

Quote from: JOE on November 21, 2023, 11:52:47 AM...and that's because Biden/the US has told Israel to do so.

And Netenyahu would do precisely that if the United States didn't put a leash/collar on Israel. While I think Israel has the right to strike back and defend itself, Netenyahu is a butcher and his use of force is excessive. N just used this War as an excuse to wipe out Gaza

Biden wants a ceasefire. Biden indirectly financed the Hamas attacks and then tells Israel to not take down the murdering regime.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on November 21, 2023, 12:00:22 PMFuck Justine Truedope

If I were Netenyahu I would outright tell that fag boi to go fuck himself right there on live TV

He kind of did do that.

Ceasefire when the objective is reached

what is Israel to do ? Endure attack after attack because they have to allow this terrorist regime to remain because some kids might die?

Kids died in dresden when we carpet bombed them in WWII and kids died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when we nuked them into oblivion

Kids die in war. It's an unavoidable fact of war. Especially when your enemy is the type of low life scum who is willing to put those kids in harms way as human shields on purpose.

Israel has every right to defend itself and has to do it NOW. All the way to completion. And if more kids die in the process it's terrible but their blood is on the hands of HAMAS leadership

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on November 21, 2023, 02:26:45 PMCeasefire when the objective is reached

what is Israel to do ? Endure attack after attack because they have to allow this terrorist regime to remain because some kids might die?

Kids died in dresden when we carpet bombed them in WWII and kids died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when we nuked them into oblivion

Kids die in war. It's an unavoidable fact of war. Especially when your enemy is the type of low life scum who is willing to put those kids in harms way as human shields on purpose.

Israel has every right to defend itself and has to do it NOW. All the way to completion. And if more kids die in the process it's terrible but their blood is on the hands of HAMAS leadership

Civilians died when the States invaded Iraq too. There will be a ceasfire, but only after Hamas is brought to heel.

Poor little Justine's green agenda is falling apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw3yZbFaQrM&t=12s

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Quote from: DKG on November 18, 2023, 03:32:12 PMWho the hell does he think he is that he can tell another Western democracy how they should defend their men, women, and children.

A shitheel and a cunt who is accustomed to treating his own country's men, women and children as though they are of no consequence, that's who. And he does feel that way about the Canadian population - hell, he threw some of his longest standing associates under the bus when he locked Canada down to appease his masters at the WEF. Don't tell me he has any love for the people of Canada.

He expects the same level of overt dispassion from Netenyahu when it comes to Israel. Especially now that his (Truedeaup's) political currency is such that he's getting booed out of place after place.

Quote from: DKG on November 18, 2023, 03:32:12 PMIsrael has been exercising restrant. The truth is, Israel could have completely blitzed and bombed all of Gaza into submission in the first three days.

True. Though the ability to do just that has been tempered by how Israel would be received if they had done just that. Hamas really put them in a no-win situation; either be slagged off for responding in such fashion or be considered weak for not responding at all.

Once that much is understood, the logical outcome becomes abundantly clear. Israel can and will move head in whatever manner they see fit. So what if it makes them pariahs among "the goyim". A good many of those had already been dismissed as "Jew hating nazis" anyway and with so many jumping to defend the descendants of those palestinians who were allied with the actual nazis in WW2, I wouldn't pretend to be taking their screams for a ceasefire seriously either.

But then I also don't pretend I need to be funding the war effort either. On either side. I've determined there is a far more pressing conflaguration on my own doorstep, and it's being waged by the very same pricks who are demanding I join some mob to tell the middle east how to behave.

Fuck that. My idea of holding the line is to hold my own elected officials toes to the fire for how they treat me and mine.

I know a lot, maybe most charities are bullshit. But, this cash grab is because Justine is wasting our money, running up the debt, and not making us any better off.

Trudeau tries to loot charitable sector to fund his high-spending government
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/diane-francis-trudeau-tries-loot-183741227.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

The profligate Trudeau government is proposing a tax reform to ensure fair tax contributions from all, but in reality it's nothing more than a stealth tax hike designed to fill government coffers at the expense of Canadian charities. The tax grab is coming by way of proposed changes to the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and the country's donors and charity fundraisers are upset.

This year's budget estimated that the changes will net the government a windfall of about $625 million in 2024-25 and $745 million by 2027-28. Clearly, this isn't about ensuring tax fairness. It's a revenue grab by a government with runaway expenses.

Since Trudeau came to power, federal government employment has jumped by 31 per cent, increasing by 80,000 employees. (The Canadian population increased by only 8.5 per cent over that period.) Federal spending has also increased — jumping from $280.4 billion in the 2014-15 fiscal year to this year's projected expenses of $496.9 billion. Next year, the government expects to spend $151 billion more than it did in 2014-15.

"And under Freeland's current plan, the spending will move higher in the years to come. Her budget projects spending will ring in at $555.7 billion in 2027-28," according to the CBC. "Total program expenses as a share of the economy — a figure that includes all government spending other than public debt charges — is at its highest point in three decades. In 2014-15, program spending was 12.8 per cent of gross domestic product. It's over 16 per cent now."

All this spending has been financed with increasingly higher taxes and debt. The Trudeau government has never posted a budget surplus and debts total $1.2 trillion.

This attempt to divert money away from non-profits that are reliant on the public's generosity will only serve to further hurt Canadian society.

This was written by Jock Finalayson, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. It appeared in the Toronto Sun.

Trudeau gov't clearly misstates its economic record

"Denominator blindness" refers to situations where people fail to put what seem to be big numbers into proper context. The affliction is especially common among governments seeking to justify their spending and other policy decisions. In Canada, denominator blindness has become a central feature of the narratives peddled by many politicians.

For example, the Trudeau government's recent economic update, which includes a forward by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland where she notes that the International Monetary Fund expects Canada to have "the strongest economic growth in the G7 next year." She also insists her government is fostering economic growth that "creates middle-class jobs, raises incomes, and makes middle-class communities more prosperous."
Both claims lack context and misstate the government's economic record.

Prosperity is measured using both a numerator, typically the amount of output the economy produces in a year, and a denominator, the size of the population. A larger population means the economic pie must be divided into more slices to estimate how much "output" is available to the average resident. With a rapidly expanding population, the economy must generate a lot more output merely to stop the individual pie slices from shrinking.

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Minister Freeland is correct that Canada's economy has been growing, both since the worst of the COVID shock in late 2020/early-2021 and over the period when the Trudeau government has been in power. But she ignores the bigger picture, which shows two important things.

First, since 2015 Canada has posted some of the weakest economic growth numbers, measured on a per-person basis, in half a century. The pattern of feeble economic growth was evident before the onset of COVID.

Second, Canada is among the few advanced economies where output or gross domestic product (GDP) per person in 2023 has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels. In part, this reflects surging population growth, which affects the denominator that helps determine whether economic growth is producing gains in average incomes and living standards. In Canada's case, modest economic growth combined with a skyrocketing population has resulted in a multi-year decline in per-person income and erosion of overall prosperity. Adjusted for inflation, GDP per person is still two per cent lower than in 2019.


Denominator blindness also characterizes recent attempts by the federal, Ontario and Quebec governments to explain why they're allocating up to $50 billion in subsidies and tax incentives to lure a handful of electric vehicle battery manufacturers to Canada. The politicians making these decisions point to the several thousand jobs the EV manufacturing facilities will support once they are fully operational. But they won't discuss how this fits within the larger job market.

Total employment in Canada is 20.1 million, with almost 1.8 million jobs in manufacturing. The vast sums being thrown at EV battery manufacturers will have essentially no impact on the aggregate job numbers and barely make a ripple, even in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, not all the promised EV jobs will be "new" positions — many workers attracted to the EV industry will likely be drawn from other businesses, worsening skill shortages that are plaguing Canadian manufacturers.

Perhaps aspiring politicians should be required to study the basic arithmetic of fractions before they run for office.

There are two culprits: rampant immigration and the economic cluelessness of the Trudeau government.

When immigration is factored in, Canada's per capita GDP will fall by more than 2% this year. That's right, the Canadian economy (and with it the national standard of living) is shrinking.

In simple terms, we are allowing in more newcomers every year than our economy and job markets can absorb, so while our economy is expanding a little on the surface, every year there is less and less wealth to go around.

Canada is building enough new housing units (houses, condos, townhouses and apartments) to accommodate just under 300,000 newcomers a year. Meanwhile, we are admitting closer to 500,000. This does not include TFW's which put the number of people admitted and in need of housing, education, and health care closer to one million per annum.

If you have 40% more customers for a product — any product — than you have products, what happens to the price? It goes way, way up. This applies to housing every bit as much as it does to cars, groceries and handbags.

Moreover, the housing affordability crisis is unlikely to get better anytime soon, because the Trudeau government is neither encouraging home building fast enough nor willing to cut back immigration levels until the housing market catches up.

Also, the Liberals' record-high spending and massive expansion of the federal civil service have led to the inflation that has caused the Bank of Canada to jack up interest rates to the highest levels in more than 20 years.

That not only makes it more expensive to buy a home, but according to Marc Desormeaux, principal economist at Desjardins, high interest rates led to a decline in residential housing investment of more than 12% last year.

It costs so much to borrow the money needed to develop new homes that construction may well decline until rates come down, at precisely the time the Trudeau government is set to ramp up immigration still further.

You take out illegal immigration and the US takes a third of the immigrants that we do. We cannot keep this up and stay a first world country.

For Liberal strategist Warren calls the working agreement between Trudeau and Singh the axis of weasels. :crampe:

Sounds like you guys need the chanks to develop "Super Aids"!

Justine should have resigned a few months ago.

Truedeaup should pull his sweaty lower lip over his fucking head and swallow. Only one small problem... the WEF faithful in all three major parties will simply mint another puppet as equally treasonous as he.

Trudeau government has also developed a habit of reacting to almost every criticism or setback as an example of "misinformation and disinformation." In just the last year, Liberal MPs have uttered the word "misinformation" in the House of Commons or in Parliamentary committees no less than 278 times.

The whole system since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015 has been designed to maximize the number of people admitted into the country, whether they technically qualify as refugees or asylum seekers.

While Roxham Road may have closed, the flow of illegal immigrants has remained the same or even increased.

There are no more news photos and videos of immigrant families hauling rolling suitcases through the snow into southern Quebec.

Instead, the problem has moved to Canada's airports, where federal Liberal policies and a handful of activist court rulings have granted anyone arriving in Canada years and years of appeals before they can be expelled. If they are ever expelled. Increasingly, Liberal-appointed refugee appeal judges rarely encounter an asylum claim they wouldn't grant.

Immigration is out of control in this control. Justine is to blame.

Canada has added more than 1 million people and counting in 2023, it's unsustainable
The Trudeau Liberals have allowed the immigration file to get out of hand
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-canada-has-added-more-than-1-million-people-and-counting-in-2023-its-unsustainable

The quarterly population estimate released by Statistics Canada should be sobering for Canada's political class.

We are on track to add between 1.2 and 1.5 million new people by the end of this year.

But as we add this massive number of people, we aren't keeping up with the required housing, infrastructure or health-care resources to match the population.

Just last week, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced housing starts were down 22% across the country in November — but Montreal was down 30% while Toronto and Vancouver were down 39% each. Nothing like solving the housing crisis by bringing in far more people while building fewer homes for people to live in.

Most of the growth in the last quarter wasn't even permanent residents with just 107,972 people coming in that category. Instead, the bulk of the growth, some 73% of the total, came from 312,578 temporary workers and students arriving in that time frame.

This is not a sustainable system and needs to be fixed.

Consider that so far this year, our population has essentially added another Ottawa-Gatineau region to our country with none of the infrastructure that goes with that million-plus population. By the end of the year that increase in population will be equal to another Calgary but, again, with none of the infrastructure.

The Trudeau Liberals have allowed the immigration file to get out of hand, helping to fuel the housing crisis, while their policies, like the Impact Assessment Act, stop or delay needed projects from going ahead. At a time when we need to be building, the Trudeau Liberals have fought highways, housing projects, power plants and more.

You can't add that many people without adding the infrastructure or cracks will begin to show in the system. We already have seen the impact of immigration on housing prices in key areas like Toronto and Vancouver but we are seeing an increased strain on our health system as well with people unable to access care.

The mismanagement of this file brought about something I never thought I'd see — the Liberals broke the trust Canadians had in our system. For years there was a general consensus supporting high immigration levels based on a well-managed and fair system.

As we've seen with recent polling, Canadians are questioning the system now.

Unless the government gets a handle on this file, expect the questioning to turn hostile and support to fade away.

In total, 386,698 people signed the petition calling for Trudeau to be removed from office.

"We the citizens of Canada have lost confidence in Justin Trudeau and the Liberal/NDP coalition," the online petition reads.

"We call on the house for a vote of no confidence. We ask for an election 45 days after the vote if won."

The petition – launched by Melissa Outwater from Peterborough, Ont., and sponsored by Peterborough-Kawartha Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri – stated that the government isn't acting in the best interests of Canadians.

"The policies of this government aren't aligning with the crisis Canada is facing: housing costs, infringement of civil liberties, highest inflation in history, unbalanced immigration policies, taxation to the point of poverty, weakening of our economy by importing natural resources that Canada already has and under-utilizes," the petition states.

Despite being promoted heavily on social media as an "important" document and something "all Canadians must sign" the petition actually carries no weight. Having received as many signatures as it has, the government is required to present an official response to the House of Commons withing 45 sitting days but that's about it.

Remember during the 2015 federal election when Justin Trudeau positioned himself as the champion of the middle class? He was going to make the "rich" pay a little more tax so the middle class could get some relief.

By 2018, the Liberals' third year, over 80% of middle-class families were paying an average of $840 more per year in federal taxes. And that was before the carbon tax.

If you still believe Justin Trudeau is good for your taxes, 2024 is going to provide you with a rude awakening. According to Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), higher payroll, carbon and alcohol taxes could add between $700 and $1,300 to the tax bill of the average family.

Even at the lower end of these increases, the cumulative effect of Liberal tax increases since 2015 has been about $2,500 per year per family. In other words, you'd be $200 a month richer if the Liberals hadn't been the government for the past eight years.

And that doesn't include the impact of inflation the Trudeau government has caused. Or the effects of their immigration flood on housing prices and per capita GDP. Or the future costs of their net-zero electricity grid and electric vehicle mandate.

The cost of the Liberals' "green" fantasies alone will be nearly $2 trillion over the next 25 years, which will have to be paid for by higher taxes or higher prices, or both.

Far from defending the middle class, the Liberals are choking the life out of it.

This coming year, the federal government is raising the mandatory Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance contributions by $347 per worker. In total, the CTF reports, a worker earning just over $73,000 annually will pay $5,100 for CPP and EI, whether they ever use EI or not.

Employers will pay more than $5,500 per employee in payroll taxes. (The Liberals have been just as hard on small businesses as they have been on the middle class.)

The carbon tax is going up – again – in 2024, this time from 14¢ a litre for gasoline to 17I¢. t's also going up on propane and natural gas (but not, of course, on the home heating oil used by Liberal voters in Atlantic Canada).

Higher carbon taxes will ding the average household between $400 and $900 this year, even after the Liberals' vaunted rebates.

And if you're thinking of drowning your tax sorrows in booze, remember that alcohol taxes rise by 4.7% on April 1.

Now consider that inflation, which reached a high of 8.1% in June of 2022, has eaten a chunk of about $4,000 out of your income in the past two years as the price of groceries, gasoline, utilities and everything else has risen sharply.

Inflation is a Liberal creation, in large part, caused by their out-of-control spending, which has added hundreds of billions to the national debt and sent interest rates soaring as they borrowed more and more to finance their spending.

Higher interest rates caused by Liberal mismanagement have eaten away at middle class incomes, too, with higher mortgage payments, rents and consumer loans.

Even the astronomical cost of housing is mostly due to Liberal policies, particularly on immigration. If the government insists on letting a million new people a year into the country, while housing for around only 300,000 is being built, the effects on housing prices is predictable.

Liberal mismanagement has robbed Canadians of thousands of disposable dollars and their "green" agenda on electric vehicles and renewable energy will only compound the steal.

Quote from: DKG on January 01, 2024, 02:50:27 PMRemember during the 2015 federal election when Justin Trudeau positioned himself as the champion of the middle class? He was going to make the "rich" pay a little more tax so the middle class could get some relief.

By 2018, the Liberals' third year, over 80% of middle-class families were paying an average of $840 more per year in federal taxes. And that was before the carbon tax.

If you still believe Justin Trudeau is good for your taxes, 2024 is going to provide you with a rude awakening. According to Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), higher payroll, carbon and alcohol taxes could add between $700 and $1,300 to the tax bill of the average family.

Even at the lower end of these increases, the cumulative effect of Liberal tax increases since 2015 has been about $2,500 per year per family. In other words, you'd be $200 a month richer if the Liberals hadn't been the government for the past eight years.

And that doesn't include the impact of inflation the Trudeau government has caused. Or the effects of their immigration flood on housing prices and per capita GDP. Or the future costs of their net-zero electricity grid and electric vehicle mandate.

The cost of the Liberals' "green" fantasies alone will be nearly $2 trillion over the next 25 years, which will have to be paid for by higher taxes or higher prices, or both.

Far from defending the middle class, the Liberals are choking the life out of it.

This coming year, the federal government is raising the mandatory Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance contributions by $347 per worker. In total, the CTF reports, a worker earning just over $73,000 annually will pay $5,100 for CPP and EI, whether they ever use EI or not.

Employers will pay more than $5,500 per employee in payroll taxes. (The Liberals have been just as hard on small businesses as they have been on the middle class.)

The carbon tax is going up – again – in 2024, this time from 14¢ a litre for gasoline to 17I¢. t's also going up on propane and natural gas (but not, of course, on the home heating oil used by Liberal voters in Atlantic Canada).

Higher carbon taxes will ding the average household between $400 and $900 this year, even after the Liberals' vaunted rebates.

And if you're thinking of drowning your tax sorrows in booze, remember that alcohol taxes rise by 4.7% on April 1.

Now consider that inflation, which reached a high of 8.1% in June of 2022, has eaten a chunk of about $4,000 out of your income in the past two years as the price of groceries, gasoline, utilities and everything else has risen sharply.

Inflation is a Liberal creation, in large part, caused by their out-of-control spending, which has added hundreds of billions to the national debt and sent interest rates soaring as they borrowed more and more to finance their spending.

Higher interest rates caused by Liberal mismanagement have eaten away at middle class incomes, too, with higher mortgage payments, rents and consumer loans.

Even the astronomical cost of housing is mostly due to Liberal policies, particularly on immigration. If the government insists on letting a million new people a year into the country, while housing for around only 300,000 is being built, the effects on housing prices is predictable.

Liberal mismanagement has robbed Canadians of thousands of disposable dollars and their "green" agenda on electric vehicles and renewable energy will only compound the steal.

Oh for Christ sake. How are young folks like my boy and his old lady supposed to make ends meet. I know, they will ask me for money.

The Liberals first sold us the carbon tax as the only measure needed to reduce GHGs, arguing it was a market-based mechanism that would motivate consumers and businesses to make their own sensible decisions to reduce fossil fuel usage. We were also told by former environment minister Catherine McKenna the carbon tax would never exceed $50 a tonne, which we now know was just one of many Liberal bald-faced lies as the tax is slated to increase to at least $170/tonne by 2030.

Despite dishonest claims the carbon tax was the only measure needed, we have subsequently seen the so-called Clean Fuel Standard, the absurdly red-tape intensive Impact Assessment Act (which the Supreme Court has now overthrown), and Guilbeault's recent emissions cap.

Interestingly, other parts of the economy emit similar amounts of GHGs as the oil and gas sector, but those industries are not subject to an emissions cap. Could it be because those industries are located in regions that tend to vote Liberal, unlike Alberta and Saskatchewan? Perish the thought!

Throughout all of the climate policy overkill, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have remained steadfast in opposing foolish federal government initiatives based on facts, science and constitutional law. All Canadians should know that Alberta in particular is a disproportionately significant contributor to the rest of Canada in many ways — equalization payments, contributions to programs such as CPP and Employment Insurance as well as personal and corporate taxation and royalty revenue from the oil and gas industry.

It was truly ironic that, in the context of the federal budget earlier this year, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland boasted that government revenues had come in higher than forecast. Yet the key source for this excess revenue was the oil and gas sector the Liberals are working hard to kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtytIVTXmbw

Canadian citizens need to re-arm.

I am concerned for Canada's future.

We have an environment hostile to entrepreneurs, energy providers, and innovation, unlike the Western world has ever seen.

We have legalized disorder in our streets, the trial balloon of socialized 'Universal Basic Income,' veritable puppy mills of foreign students using up declining precious resources. Two entire generations are at risk of never owning homes, and the Liberal government is offering suicide in place of timely healthcare.

Every day, these problems fester like an open wound. Every day, our federal Liberal government, and even risk-averse Conservatives, offer band-aid solutions to problems of too many people, too few services, and far too much red tape.

It's not hyperbolic to suggest that without a major course-correction, and soon, Canada may find itself on the outside looking in at the Developed World.

Behind the scenes, the Bank of Canada has been quietly researching ways to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency for years. Now we know that they're one step closer to their goal. The Bank of Canada has staked their claim on the trademark for the term "Digital Dollar".

We must reject a Central Bank Digital Currency. Trudeau and his Liberal WEF agent government have proven that they will push the Bank of Canada to work against the well being of Canadians.

Justin Trudeau accepted an $84,000 luxury vacation from a wealthy Trudeau-foundation donor.

He told Canadians he was paying for it. He lied.

Did he also lie to the ethics commissioner about who was paying? Could be third strike for Trudeau. No other pm has had a single strike.

Those bastards in the Trudeau government knew two years ago that insanely high immigration levels were destroying public health care and causing a scarcity of affordable housing.

QuoteThe Trudeau government was warned that their rapid push for higher and higher immigration numbers was having a negative impact on housing and health care across the country. A presentation to the government in 2022 warned of the problems but rather than rethinking or adjusting their policy they pushed ahead.

he numbers the Liberals have been admitting, in particular temporary residents, mostly in the student sector, are not sustainable. Our population grew by one million people between Jan. 1 and Oct. 1, according to Statistics Canada's quarterly population estimate.

When StatsCan released the October number three weeks ago, the population had already grown from 40,528,396 to 40,720,342. According to StatsCan's real time population clock, we've added another 67,000 people in the last three weeks.

This is the unsustainable level bureaucrats were warning the government about in 2022.

"In Canada, population growth has exceeded the growth in available housing units," one of the documents obtained by CP stated.

"As the federal authority charged with managing immigration, IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) policy-makers must understand the misalignment between population growth and housing supply, and how permanent and temporary immigration shapes population growth."

Over the past several months, StatsCan has been warning the government in their monthly jobs report that population growth was outstripping job creation.

None of that seems to matter to the Trudeau Liberals.

CP reporter Nojoud Al Mallees, who wrote the original story, asked Freeland if tempering demand for housing by lowering immigration numbers was part of the solution.

"I think it's important for us as Canadians to recognize the really positive role that immigration plays for our country," Freeland said.

The closest she came to admitting that there was any problem was when she blamed post-secondary institutions for taking in close to 900,000 students this year without proper housing for them. These schools aren't home builders, and they aren't in charge of who gets admitted to the country. That would be the federal government, currently controlled by the Trudeau Liberals.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the problem with the Liberal plan is that it doesn't take the impact of the influx into account.

"Obviously, you need to build homes if you are going to bring in people," Poilievre said noting that last year fewer homes were built across Canada than in 1972 when the population was just about half of what it is today.

"Common sense Conservatives will get back to an approach of immigration that invites a number of people that we can house, employ and care for in our health care system," Poilievre said.

That sounds like a better policy than the one Trudeau continues to push despite the harm it is causing. Is it any wonder that Poilievre and the Conservatives are leading in the polls?

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/trudeau-ignored-warnings-on-immigration-now-you-pay-the-price

Don't blame premiers for the sorry state of public health care and homelessness. This makes my blood boil. We have a government that is deliberately making life harder for Canadians.

QuoteTwo years ago, the federal immigration department received advice from its own public servants that large increases to immigration would adversely impact housing affordability, health care and other government services.

As reported by The Canadian Press through documents obtained from access-to-information requests, the department was warned that:

"Population growth has exceeded the growth in available housing units.

"As the federal authority charged with managing immigration ... policy-makers must understand the misalignment between population growth and housing supply and how permanent and temporary immigration shapes population growth.

"Rapid increases put pressure on health care and affordable housing. Settlement and resettlement service providers are expressing short-term strain due to labour market conditions, increased levels and the Afghanistan and Ukraine initiatives."

According to current immigration minister Marc Miller, Canada is hosting 900,000 international students this year, compared to 352,000 in 2015.

He told CTV's Question Period in an interview to be aired Sunday that Ottawa is now considering a cap on international students because, "It's really a system that has gotten out of control."

Meanwhile, Canada admitted 220,00 temporary foreign workers in 2022, an increase of 68% over 2021 according to a Globe and Mail analysis of federal data.

The cumulative result of these policies, as Statistics Canada reported in December, is that, "Canada's population was estimated at 40,528,396 on Oct. 1, 2023, an increase of 430,635 people (+1.1%) from July 1 ... the highest population growth rate in any quarter since the second quarter of 1957 (+1.2%), when Canada's population grew by 198,000 people."

So, once again, the Liberals are now frantically trying to fix a problem they exacerbated through their own policies, because they ignored the advice of their own experts.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-liberals-ignored-warnings-about-high-immigration

This was in Postmedia.

I am appalled at Canada's decline in the last decade. I can't think of any other developed nation where the overall quality of life for the working class has fallen so much and so fast too.

QuoteAccording to the respected international recruitment and relocation consultancy Henley & Partners, Canada's passport is only the 31st most respected passport in the world.

We've dropped from the Top 20 since the Liberals came to office in 2015 and now rank behind Brunei, Malta, Monaco, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia and only marginally above Croatia, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

The most-respected passports are from France, Germany, Italy and Spain, followed by the Netherlands and Singapore. Those countries' passports will get their bearers into 192 or more countries without a separate visa.

Ours will get Canadians into 188 — the same as the Americans.

A Canadian passport is still desirable and useful. It's just that dropping to the bottom of the G7 (and near the bottom of the OECD) is a far cry from the Liberals' boastful promises when they returned to power eight years ago.

Recall the night he was elected, Trudeau announced the long, dark days of Stephen Harper's approach to foreign affairs were over. No longer would Canada involve itself in making war alongside allied countries in the Anglosphere. Nor would we confront authoritarian, human rights-abusing regimes like China.

"To this country's friends all around the world, many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world," Trudeau said on election night, "Well, I have a simple message for you ... We're back!"

But as the passport example (and a host of others) show, the opposite is true. Canada's international reputation has been shredded by the inept foreign policy of the Trudeau government. As bad as Trudeau has been on housing policy, affordability, taxes, the economy and austere environmental regulations, he's been just as bad or worse on foreign affairs.

Turns out the world hasn't been eager for his preachy, sanctimonious, woke prescriptions to international problems.

He promises big on the environment (big enough to scare away hundreds of billions of dollars in investment), but delivers few, if any enviro improvements.

And he is either hectoring the Chinese communists or rolling over and begging them to scratch his belly.

Is it any wonder respect for our passport has fallen?

Justin Trudeau can't stop violating ethics rules. And the Liberal-NDP cover-up coalition is now scrambling to protect themselves, again. They opted for smoke, mirrors, and deception instead of telling the truth about Trudeau's gifted $84,000 luxurious Jamaican vacation.

But this is nothing new for this Liberal government.

And now, the NDP has chosen to stand side-by-side with their morally bankrupt coalition partners and block the release of documents that would provide answers to Canadians. I used to be a NDP voter. I hate them now as much as they hate the blue collar working class.

Besides accumulating a lot of debt that future generations will have to pay off, Justin Trudeau's spending spree has lowered Canadians disposable income.

QuoteThat a government cannot spend away the country's problems is a clear lesson of history. The Trudeau government evidently has not learned this — it has spent, spent and spent more and the country's problems have gotten worse.

In 2014-15, before the Liberals took office, federal program spending was 12.8% of Gross Domestic Product (the value of final goods and services produced in Canada). In 2023-24, it is projected at 15.7%. And relative to 2014-15, annual program spending is $89 billion higher than if it had tracked with overall economic growth.

This extra spending has not solved most problems. Consider health care. The Fraser Institute's survey of health-care specialists found a median wait time of 27.7 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment in 2023 — a 51% increase versus 18.3 weeks in 2015. Relative to peer countries, Canada is a big health-care spender but with poor results, and is far below average on key metrics such as physicians and hospital beds per capita.

Another big spending area is climate change. The Liberals boast of pouring more than $120 billion into climate programs, but even with an annually increasing carbon tax and onerous regulation on top of that spending, the government is on track to miss its 2030 climate targets. Given the high cost of its climate policies relative to environmental benefits, that's not a bad thing. Ottawa's climate targets are wildly unrealistic, and achieving them would mean devastating the economy further.

Speaking of devastating the economy, when the Trudeau government spends, it claims it will support economic growth, increase affordability or otherwise deliver financial benefits. Eight years in, these benefits have not materialized. As of the third quarter of 2023, after five consecutive quarters of declining real GDP per capita, Canada's cumulative growth in the past eight years is a paltry 1.6% versus 14.7% in the United States. One way to think about this gap: if Canada's real GDP per capita growth tracked with the U.S. since the Liberals took office, Canadian living standards would be about 12.8% higher than they are today.

Finally, the Trudeau government has significantly ramped up child-care spending, but the effect of the national child-care program has been to severely distort and in many cases destroy the child-care sector by applying a discriminatory funding model that pushes child-care entrepreneurs out of the market and discourages private investment. The federal program is composed of separate agreements with the provinces, but with the child-care sector suffering crisis and widespread shortages from coast to coast, it's reasonable to conclude Ottawa's plan is fatally flawed.

Wherever you look, the pattern is the same — federal spending is up, but outcomes are worse. The government creates problems and does not solve them when it spends money like water.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstories/lau-trudeau-cranks-up-spending-but-canadians-are-worse-off/ar-AA1n4ZNb

When politicians as diverse as Quebec Premier Francois Legault and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow are singing from the same hymn book, voters across the country should sit up and take note.

Legault sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, asking him to slow down the number of asylum seekers allowed into the country.

His province, he said, was "close to the breaking point."

In a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, Legault said nearly 60,000 new asylum seekers were registered in Quebec in the first 11 months of 2023, which put "very significant" pressure on services.

"Asylum seekers have trouble finding a place to live, which contributes to accentuating the housing crisis," he said. "Many end up in homeless shelters, which are overflowing."

Chow is locked in a similar showdown with the feds. She's threatening that a planned 10.5% property tax hike in that city could balloon to a whopping 16.5% if Ottawa doesn't pony up an extra $250 million to help pay for settlement costs for the huge number of asylum seekers showing up there.

Last summer, hundreds of newcomers camped out on sidewalks because the city was unable to provide shelter space for them. Churches eventually stepped in and provided emergency beds. That kind of bandage solution is not sustainable.

This is on top of large numbers of international students, many of whom do little studying and often take jobs and settle in large urban centres.

The strain is already being seen on health-care systems and housing. Hospitals across the country are bursting at the seams. Premiers are scrambling to build new homes. You can expect similar strains on education and social services soon. We'll need more schools and more community supports.

The Trudeau government is courting disaster with its sloppy immigration policies. It must listen to the provinces and cities across the country — and pay its fair share, which is all of it since they let them in.

A Federal Court has ruled the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act unreasonable and unconstitutional.

Trudeau weaponized his government with unconstitutional power to freeze the bank accounts of his political opponents.

That is unacceptable. A government that violates the Charter rights of Canadians is dangerous.

Jagmeet Singh supported Trudeau's abuse of power. Singh and Trudeau should both resign now.

QuoteA Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday that the Liberal government unconstitutionally and unjustifiably invoked the Emergencies Act in response to ongoing Freedom Convoy blockades in early 2022.

So what does that mean for the government?

Are there any legal consequences to Mosley's decision?
Lots! But likely not in the immediate.

The immediate political impact is far greater for Justin Trudeau and his government, says Université Laval constitutional law professor Patrick Taillon.

"On a political and symbolic level, the impact is enormous. This changes the equation in the lead up to the next federal election," he said.

"On a partisan level, this is far more advantageous for (Conservative leader) Pierre Poilievre than for Justin Trudeau. The fact that a court, with all of its authority, says that it reflected, wrote a 190 page ruling and found that the Trudeau government illegally violated the Charter will have a lot of weight. It will put the government on the defensive."

The main legal consequence is that the ruling now sets a clearer — and possibly higher — bar for future governments to invoke the Act, according to experts.

What about people affected by Emergency Act measures, can they sue or something?
Quite possibly! But if so, they'll have to do it fast.

West, Taillon and Baron agreed that the ruling could offer some opportunity to individuals impacted by the powers of the Act (like those who had their bank accounts frozen during the Convoy protests) to launch a civil lawsuit against authorities.

But they'll have to overcome a number of significant hurdles, the most significant likely being Ontario's two-year statute of limitations for most civil cases. If their bank accounts were frozen in February 2022 and it's now late January 2024...

"Nobody knows for sure what the implications are going to be," Baron said. "It certainly can't hurt that you now have a judicial precedent and a judicial declaration that the government acted unlawfully. That would be something like circumstantial evidence of negligent behavior that could ground a civil claim."

"But I would be lying if I said anybody knows for sure," she added.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/trudeau-s-use-of-the-emergencies-act-was-ruled-unconstitutional-what-happens-now/ar-BB1hcWxS?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=fa212e1a9407476bbc86d8fa9fa68763&ei=23

They will just pretend it is no big deal.  They need to be in prison.

Quote from: Brent on January 24, 2024, 07:38:42 PMJagmeet Singh supported Trudeau's abuse of power. Singh and Trudeau should both resign now.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/trudeau-s-use-of-the-emergencies-act-was-ruled-unconstitutional-what-happens-now/ar-BB1hcWxS?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=fa212e1a9407476bbc86d8fa9fa68763&ei=23

The main consequence for Trudeau is further erosion of his low approval ratings. As for Jagmeet Singh, I hope voters remember he supported the draconian measures in the Emergencies Act as much as Trudeau himself.

Quote from: Brent on January 23, 2024, 07:07:27 PMA Federal Court has ruled the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act unreasonable and unconstitutional.

Trudeau weaponized his government with unconstitutional power to freeze the bank accounts of his political opponents.

That is unacceptable. A government that violates the Charter rights of Canadians is dangerous.

The big probem is, they do what they do and get what they want without consequences. Is he going to prison? Nope. Same with our gubmints. They pass things like a gun registration that makes me a felon, knowing it will get overturned. In the end, nothing happens to them. Revolution and executions are the only answer.

Quote from: Lokmar on January 24, 2024, 09:06:40 PMThe big probem is, they do what they do and get what they want without consequences. Is he going to prison? Nope. Same with our gubmints. They pass things like a gun registration that makes me a felon, knowing it will get overturned. In the end, nothing happens to them. Revolution and executions are the only answer.

His party won't even force a leadership review over it.

There are no words


NDP MP Daniel Blaikie today in Ethics committee argues against a motion for the govt/PMO to submit documents on Trudeau's Jamaica trip. Says that it's already evident that PMO is doing a bad job, so no need to reveal internal documents as it could undermine confidence in PMO.
https://twitter.com/nchartieret/status/1747684421279318490?s=46&t=O9d9MROaSmZpWhmN23l9TQ&fbclid=IwAR2PwqtAg_CY64j-Tt_bE5L2vX7_hrxj_fKmsi7jIFDJL7g46b4bmRPlrQg

As of Jan. 21, poll aggregator 338 Canada projects the Conservatives would win 198 seats, the Liberals 81, the NDP 25, the Bloc 32, the Greens two and the PPC zero. In other words, a sea of blue.

Justine is considering a 'rebrand' of the carbon tax as Canadians are 'confused.'

Canadians aint confused. I think they understand the liberal carbon tax punishes them for their lifestyles while having a minimal impact on reducing emissions.
The carbon tax doesn't need it a rebrand. It needs to be scrapped.

(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/425713839_10159338343651364_6791490950316511251_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p843x403&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=gxqANRj7w2MAX-diHKW&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=00_AfCRlq0Wm4vTKClUZylD0136iBLHT8q4mbK8-zh8CfP-AA&oe=65C6B2AE)Keep up the good work of wrecking Canada Justine.

Justine says he's pissed off about the layoffs and Bell Media, well I'm pissed off at Justin Trudeau – and everyone who cares about Canadian media should be as well.

While Justine likes to say he values journalists and media companies, he's enacted many policies that continue to harm the industry.

As former Labour Minister Lisa Raitt has pointed out, job cuts of this magnitude would require a company like Bell to give 16 weeks notice unless it received a waiver from the government. Bell briefed the government ahead of time and that the company had been blunt with government for some time about problems they were facing.

The ham-fisted approach to C-18 saw Facebook leave the news industry in Canada, the only place the company has done so. This hurts all media companies but especially the younger news media companies that relied on Facebook and Instagram to spread their content.

Canada's Auditor General revealed that the wasteful ArriveCan app, which originally was estimated to cost $80,000, exploded to at least $60 MILLION.

Millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted by Trudeau government officials who rigged the contracting process for their friends.

This is corruption at the highest level.

The ArriveScam app was a massive failure. Canadians didn't want it, didn't need it and it didn't even work.

It caused thousands of travellers to be locked up, quarantined, and harassed for no reason.

The Liberals voted against an investigation and the NDP tried to help them cover it up.

We still do not know how bad this story is. But we do know that Liberal insiders got rich and millions in taxpayer dollars were wasted on making a useless app that nobody asked for.

Trudeau's Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault said he doesn't want to finance anymore road construction. His government brings in 1.5 million people a year destroying health care and education and now he wants to make sure we do not have enough roads to get all the people around that they let in.

Trudeau's radical carbon tax minister doesn't understand that most Canadians can't live like Chrystia Freeland in downtown Toronto with a taxpayer-funded chauffeur.

Canadians need to be able to drive to work. They need to get their kids to school. They need to drive to get groceries.

Canadians, especially in rural areas, depend on roads to travel through life. We need roads.

Trudeau should be lynched. But then again, Cucknadians voted for the cawksuckers that make up his power base!

Quote from: Lokmar on February 20, 2024, 08:37:25 PMTrudeau should be lynched. But then again, Cucknadians voted for the cawksuckers that make up his power base!

He won about thirty two percent of the vote in the last election.

Justine granted access to Beijing and its military into Canada's top level infectious disease lab.

The result?

Dangerous pathogens and intellectual property transferred from Canada to the Wuhan lab.

This is terrifying. The Justine government must cooperate with all forthcoming investigations into this horrific scandal.

Justine fought tooth and nail to cover this up, including defying four parliamentary orders and taking the House of Commons Speaker to court. This is a MASSIVE national security failure.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe.

The Beijing scientists intentionally shared top level infectious disease information and transfered dangerous pathogens to the PRC and its military.

These actions potentially endangered not only the health of Canadians but also that of the entire world.

Quote from: Herman on March 01, 2024, 02:04:06 AMJustine granted access to Beijing and its military into Canada's top level infectious disease lab.

The result?

Dangerous pathogens and intellectual property transferred from Canada to the Wuhan lab.

This is terrifying. The Justine government must cooperate with all forthcoming investigations into this horrific scandal.

Justine fought tooth and nail to cover this up, including defying four parliamentary orders and taking the House of Commons Speaker to court. This is a MASSIVE national security failure.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe.

The Beijing scientists intentionally shared top level infectious disease information and transfered dangerous pathogens to the PRC and its military.

These actions potentially endangered not only the health of Canadians but also that of the entire world.

Our leaders are not derelict, they are actively trying to destroy us.

Quote from: Herman on March 01, 2024, 02:04:06 AMJustine granted access to Beijing and its military into Canada's top level infectious disease lab.

The result?

Dangerous pathogens and intellectual property transferred from Canada to the Wuhan lab.

This is terrifying. The Justine government must cooperate with all forthcoming investigations into this horrific scandal.

Justine fought tooth and nail to cover this up, including defying four parliamentary orders and taking the House of Commons Speaker to court. This is a MASSIVE national security failure.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe.

The Beijing scientists intentionally shared top level infectious disease information and transfered dangerous pathogens to the PRC and its military.

These actions potentially endangered not only the health of Canadians but also that of the entire world.

The CBC, CTV, and Global have barely menttioned it.

Trudeau was in the Ukrainian capital last weekend. While there he pledged $3 billion dollars he doesn't have to the Ukrainian despot.

Disgusting. Don't know what can still compel someone to vote for this government or the 4th party that's propping them up. We need an election like yesterday.

Liberal, NDP MPs block proposed examination of national-security breaches at Winnipeg infectious-disease facility
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberal-ndp-kill-proposed-examination-of-national-security-breaches-at/

First, Trudeau covered up a massive national security breach. Beijing military scientists were given unfettered access to Canada's highest-security infectious disease lab and two scientists working at the lab transferred dangerous pathogens and intellectual property to the lab in Wuhan.

The Winnipeg Lab documents reveal that these scientists collaborated with branches of the Beijing's People's Liberation Army that have biological weapons capacity!

Justin Trudeau defied 4 orders of Parliament and even took the Speaker to court to keep the Winnipeg Lab documents hidden.

Now the Liberal and NDP MPs are obstructing a parliamentary committee from investigating. They voted to shut down an emergency committee meeting that was supposed to look into the security breaches.

Quote from: Brent on March 06, 2024, 06:57:41 PMFirst, Trudeau covered up a massive national security breach. Beijing military scientists were given unfettered access to Canada's highest-security infectious disease lab and two scientists working at the lab transferred dangerous pathogens and intellectual property to the lab in Wuhan.

The Winnipeg Lab documents reveal that these scientists collaborated with branches of the Beijing's People's Liberation Army that have biological weapons capacity!

Justin Trudeau defied 4 orders of Parliament and even took the Speaker to court to keep the Winnipeg Lab documents hidden.

Now the Liberal and NDP MPs are obstructing a parliamentary committee from investigating. They voted to shut down an emergency committee meeting that was supposed to look into the security breaches.

Singh has no conscience keeping Trudeau in power.

You are paying for this.

'No joke': Ottawa to give Ukraine $4 million to fund gender-inclusive demining
The phrase 'gender-transformative mine action' proved the biggest stumbling block online, with some on X wondering if landmines themselves had a gender

A relatively minor item in an announcement from the Prime Minister's Office regarding funding for "gender-transformative mine action" in the war in Ukraine has raised eyebrows on social media.

The press release that went out Saturday makes mention of $3.02 billion in financial and military support to Ukraine in 2024, but it also outlines a number of smaller, targeted initiatives.

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One of these, listed as "Gender-inclusive demining for sustainable futures in Ukraine," has a funding budget of $4 million.

"This project from the HALO Trust aims to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Ukrainians, including women and internally displaced persons, by addressing the threat of explosive ordnance present across vast areas of the country," the item reads. "Project activities include conducting non-technical surveys and subsequent manual clearance in targeted communities; providing capacity building to key national stakeholders; and establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine."
https://nationalpost.com/news/no-joke-ottawa-to-give-ukraine-4-million-to-fund-gender-inclusive-demining

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The Trudeau government has given a 2-person consulting firm a quarter of a billion dollars in contracts including nearly $20 million for doing zero work on the ArriveScam app.

After 8 years of Trudeau, corruption, double-dipping, and incompetence are commonplace in his government.

At least $60 million was wasted on the ArriveScam app that no one wanted, it wasn't needed, and it didn't work.

The scariest aspect of the Liberals' new online harms bill (Bill C-63) is that it revives the old Section 13 hate-speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act and puts the highly biased Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in charge of policing the internet.

Activists will be allowed to complain to the CHRC about any and every internet post that offends them and the CHRC will have nearly unbridled power to order posts taken down immediately and those doing the posting be fined — up to $50,000.

This will have a chilling effect. People will refrain from posting out of fear of fines or legal bills imposed on them when trolling activists inevitably lodge complaints with the commission.

The Section 13 hate-speech provisions were repealed in 2014 because of the way activists and the commission had abused them. And back then, fewer people were online and the complaints process was not as easy as the one proposed under C-63.

On April 1st, Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are hiking taxes to make you pay more.

Trudeau and his NDP partner are planning a 23% carbon tax hike on April 1st, on their path to quadruple it on heat, gas and groceries. Plus, this Liberal-NDP costly coalition will be imposing tax hikes on beer, wine and spirits, forcing you to pay more just to enjoy a drink.

After 8 years of Justin Trudeau, the cost of everything keeps going up. Enough is enough. We will all be as broke as Joe by the time of the next election next year.

Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are


A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.

"The coming period of recession will ... accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations," reads the report, entitled Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.

"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live," it adds.

The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of "special operational information" to be distributed only within the RCMP and among "decision-makers" in the federal government.

A heavily redacted version was made public as a result of an access to information request filed by Matt Malone, an assistant professor of law at British Columbia's Thompson Rivers University, and an expert in government secrecy.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are

Quote from: Brent on March 15, 2024, 11:28:45 AMThe scariest aspect of the Liberals' new online harms bill (Bill C-63) is that it revives the old Section 13 hate-speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act and puts the highly biased Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in charge of policing the internet.

Activists will be allowed to complain to the CHRC about any and every internet post that offends them and the CHRC will have nearly unbridled power to order posts taken down immediately and those doing the posting be fined — up to $50,000.

This will have a chilling effect. People will refrain from posting out of fear of fines or legal bills imposed on them when trolling activists inevitably lodge complaints with the commission.

The Section 13 hate-speech provisions were repealed in 2014 because of the way activists and the commission had abused them. And back then, fewer people were online and the complaints process was not as easy as the one proposed under C-63.

You know them BF faggits would try to get this board shut down if it was in Cucknadia!

Quote from: Oliver the Second on March 21, 2024, 12:38:51 AM
Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are

A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.

"The coming period of recession will ... accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations," reads the report, entitled Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.

"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live," it adds.

The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of "special operational information" to be distributed only within the RCMP and among "decision-makers" in the federal government.

A heavily redacted version was made public as a result of an access to information request filed by Matt Malone, an assistant professor of law at British Columbia's Thompson Rivers University, and an expert in government secrecy.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are

Its sad and pathetic that all the crown nations are disarmed. I guess they can beat up the jackboots with dildos.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on March 21, 2024, 12:38:51 AM
Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are

A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.

"The coming period of recession will ... accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations," reads the report, entitled Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.

"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live," it adds.

The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of "special operational information" to be distributed only within the RCMP and among "decision-makers" in the federal government.

A heavily redacted version was made public as a result of an access to information request filed by Matt Malone, an assistant professor of law at British Columbia's Thompson Rivers University, and an expert in government secrecy.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are

Justine really screwed up Canada.

The NDP-Liberal coalition just voted NO to spiking the hike.

They're moving forward with their plan to hike the carbon tax by 23% on April 1st.

Quote from: Lokmar on March 21, 2024, 12:46:14 AMYou know them BF faggits would try to get this board shut down if it was in Cucknadia!

The Supreme Court will overrule Trudeau as they have had to do a lot recently.

Trudeau's controversial vacation to Jamaica last Christmas cost Canadian taxpayers far more than his trip to the same destination a year earlier.

According to the government's answer to questions posed by Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, tabled this week, Trudeau's 10-day vacation with his family to Prospect Estate near Ocho Rios cost taxpayers $230,442, a 42 per cent increase over the $162,000 cost of a similar trip over the Christmas holidays in 2022-23.

Obviously the pending increase in his carbon tax hasn't incentivized him to lower his C02 emissions.

Justine and his NDP coalition partners just voted down the Conservative non-confidence motion which would have triggered an election.

They want to save their jobs while taking more of our money by hiking the carbon tax by twenty three percent.

The Trudeau Liberal government that has become increasingly tone deaf to the day-to-day concerns and economic struggles of Canadians, and has presided over numerous financial scandals which suggest incompetence at best and corruption at worst.

All this while lecturing Canadians that whenever the Trudeau government screws up, it's somehow a learning moment for all Canadians who didn't screw up, instead of for the people who actually screwed up and who, inexplicably, kept their jobs.

Justine's party could be reduced to third place.

https://instagram.com/p/C46Vm0ON_v-

Justine is plowing ahead and hiking his carbon tax by 23% on Monday, April 1st.

Gas, groceries, and heat, all getting more expensive. These are necessities, not luxuries.

And the NDP is happy to back him up.

Justine describes life in Canada after nearly a decade of his rule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtpVihg0X6Q

ustin Trudeau will soon make more than $400,000 a year as his pay and the compensation for other federal politicians are set to increase April 1. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will also see an increase in his base pay as an MP and top up as opposition leader, the latter of which will go to $96,800, bringing him to $299,900 a year

The numbers don't lie, because after 8 years, Trudeau's government has:

Doubled rent payments, mortgage payments, and down payments.
Fuelled sky-high interest rates with inflationary deficits.
And driven a record number of Canadians to food banks every month.
Despite all this, Trudeau continues his reckless taxing and spending spree. This year alone, a staggering $46.5 BILLION will go towards servicing his growing debt.

According to the study, from 2014 to 2021 (the latest year of available data), business investment per worker in Canada (adjusted for inflation) declined by 20 per cent, from $18,363 to $14,687. Business investment—which includes spending on equipment, machinery, factories and new technologies (but excludes residential homebuilding)—is vital to helping make Canadian workers more productive, said the report.

Compared to the United States, Canada performed even worse.

"During that same time period (2014 to 2021), business investment per worker (adjusted for inflation, in Canadian dollars) increased from $23,333 to $26,751 in the U.S. Consequently, business investment per worker in Canada equaled 78.7 per cent of the rate in the U.S. in 2014 compared to only 54.9 per cent in 2021," said the Fraser Institute.

Liberal budget will kill economic growth

Having identified low productivity and innovation as Canada's "Achilles heel" when it comes to economic growth in its 2022 federal budget, the Trudeau government did almost everything possible to undermine both in its 2024 budget released on Tuesday.

Two years ago in her budget speech, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland warned that Canada is a laggard in the single most important measure that determines the standard of living for Canadians — productivity.


Her budget said that if nothing changes, Canada will have the lowest productivity — defined as annual growth in real Gross Domestic Product per capita — from now until 2060, among the 38 developed nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Low productivity means slow economic growth and, as Freehand warned in 2022: "We are falling behind when it comes to economic productivity. Productivity matters because it is what guarantees the dream of every parent — that our children will be more prosperous than we are."

Low productivity doesn't mean Canadian workers are lazy. It means they're not being given the tools they need to work smarter and more efficiently, because of a lack of business confidence and private sector investment in technological innovation in Canada.

Despite these valid concerns raised by Freeland in her 2022 budget, the major themes she unveiled in the Liberals' 2024 budget —  higher spending, higher deficits, higher debt, higher capital gains taxes  — are all sure-fire ways to reduce business confidence in the economy, which discourages private sector investment aimed at increasing productivity and innovation.

The Trudeau government — bizarrely — appears to believe that the more it intervenes in the economy, the more it attempts to pick winners and losers in the private sector, the more the Canadian economy will improve.

In fact, this is the exact opposite of what will happen, a fact the Liberals, in their desperate desire to improve their dismal polling numbers before next year's federal election, are simply ignoring as they increasingly attempt to bribe taxpayers with their own money.

In fairness to the Trudeau government, the problem of low productivity in Canada goes back decades. It's an issue it inherited rather than created.

But what is inexplicable is the Liberals' reckless and deliberate pursuit of policies they know full well will undermine the standard of living for Canadian families.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/editorial-liberal-budget-will-kill-economic-growth/ar-AA1ng8DR

Deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrote a book called Plutocrats. Trudeau's plan is to tax the capital gains of Canadian plutocrats and transfer the funds to the plutocrats running the auto industry. Make plutocrats prog allies and they are not evil anymore.

A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget.

Just shy of half the respondents to Leger's latest survey said they had a negative opinion of the federal budget, which was presented last Tuesday.

Only 21 per cent said they had a positive opinion, and one-third of respondents said they didn't know or preferred not to answer.

Leger's poll of 1,522 Canadians last weekend can't be assigned a margin of error because online surveys are not considered truly random samples.

Justine is desperate, flailing, and in total freefall. His woke policies and reckless spending are destroying our country. So, his bought and paid for media attack dogs are ready to do his dirty work.

Instead of focusing on the real issues hurting our country, they would rather launch baseless attacks against Pierre Poilievre and label common sense Canadians as "far-right extremists."

They're terrified Trudeau's time in office is coming to an end. And they're terrified their meal ticket is going to be taken away.

The Canadian Medical Association asserts the Liberals' proposed changes to capital gains taxation will put doctors' retirement savings in jeopardy,

The increase in the so-called inclusion rate would apply to capital gains above $250,000 for individuals, and all capital gains realized by corporations.

Since doctors typically incorporate their medical practices and invest for retirement inside their corporations, the association points out its members will now face a higher inclusion rate on all capital gains they earn, including on retirement investments.

Trudeau is good at making promises, but terrible at delivering on them.

Trudeau was in Oakville, Ont. promoting his government's new idea to review federal land holdings "to rapidly identify sites where new homes can be built." That new promise, though, is an old one that he's made time and again since the 2015 election campaign.

Ever since he was elected, Trudeau has claimed building more homes, and affordable homes, was a top priority for his government and instead, the opposite has happened.

The average price of a home in 2015, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, was just about $400,000. That doubled to an average price of $800,000 in early 2022 before falling back down to around $700,000 now.

Rent prices have also gone up by about 50% in that time, according to Statistics Canada.

The Trudeau government is good at announcing they will do something, but they fail on the follow-through time and again – and it's not just housing.

The dental plan with no dentists
The government has been promoting their so-called national dental plan for seniors.

"This is going to make a huge difference," Trudeau said of the program last month in Calgary.

It would make a huge difference if Trudeau could deliver, but his plan has been poorly executed with most dentists declining to take part in the program and many seniors who registered unable to find care.

On issue after issue, Trudeau fails to deliver
SAFE SUPPLY: Under the Trudeau government, certain areas of the country have either embraced or had so-called "safe supply" thrust upon them. These programs provide free drugs to addicts but too often the drugs are then sold on the street for addicts to purchase fentanyl. The resold opioid pills are creating new addicts. Despite mounting evidence of the negative impacts, the Trudeau government refuses to change course.

CRIME: The crime severity index has risen dramatically under Justin Trudeau, more worrisome is the violent crime severity index tracked by Statistics Canada, which has risen by 30% since Trudeau took office. Auto thefts, a particular scourge in the Toronto area, have risen by as much as 500% over the last several years with no tangible response from the government.

MIDDLE CLASS: Trudeau was elected promising to work for "the middle class and those working hard to join it." Trudeau even had a minister for "middle-class prosperity." He's not only gotten rid of that ministry, he's working hard to get rid of the middle class as home ownership becomes a pipe dream, wages stagnate and productivity tumbles.

HOUSING: Trudeau has promised to build 3.9 million homes over the next seven years to solve the housing crisis. This amounts to 552,857 new homes per year, or more than double what the country is currently building annually. It amounts to a new home every two minutes for seven years straight. Perhaps Trudeau will build the homes among the two billion trees he promised to plant but never delivered on?

IMMIGRATION: The Trudeau government has somehow done the unthinkable and killed off the Canadian consensus on immigration. They not only ramped up the annual intake for permanent residents from around 275,000 per year to 500,000 per year, they have also dramatically increased the number of temporary residents – foreign workers and international students – to more than 900,000 in a year. In a nine-month period, Canada added more than one million people to its population. Trudeau said recently that we are bringing in more people than we can absorb, but he isn't slowing down the rapid intake of newcomers, which is impacting housing, health-care access and other features.

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Trudeau was elected with a slogan of "Canada is back" even though we never left the international stage under the Harper years. Nearly nine years later, we have strained relations with growing economic powerhouses like India and China and we have a diminished presence and stature in Washington. Our allies in NATO and other organizations don't take Canada seriously like they used to and our voice has been reduced to a whisper.

Justine calls his Liberal Party a movement and that movement is centered around him. Well, seventy percent of Canadians want the movement centered around him gone.

In two of the latest polls, including one for the proggy Toronto Star, Justine was at 23 percent and the Conservatives at 44 percent. How the hell does Jagmeet Singh sleep at night propping up the Justine movement that most of us want gone.

I saw this in an online newspaper.

QuoteAfter 9 years of Justin Trudeau, Canadians are looking around and seeing the results of his extremist policies.

Crime and drug use are rampant in our hospitals, playgrounds, parks, and public transit.

Inflation has been out of control, causing gas, groceries, and home heating to become unaffordable.

Owning a home is now next to impossible for two generations of Canadians.

And high taxes are causing our economy to enter a death spiral.