Trudeau exploiting the pandemic to impose 'The Great Reset'

[Cindy]

Your prime minister is showing true leadership. He's grinding earth rapers into the same ground that they draw their dirty oil from.

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Ya, That will save us  

[Anonymous]

Your prime minister is showing true leadership. He's grinding earth rapers into the same ground that they draw their dirty oil from.

Go to hell.

[Anonymous]

Liberal hypocrisy knows no bounds



Hilariously, given their own record, the Liberals are furious with Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre for suggesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a hidden agenda to re-engineer Canada into a greenenergy dependent, more socialist country.



Seriously. The Liberals, who were forever accusing former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper of having a "hidden agenda" to outlaw abortions, ban gay marriage and force women back into the kitchen, are now beside themselves Poilievre has turned the tables on them.



As a result, there's been much Liberal and media pearl clutching over Poilievre suggesting calls by Trudeau for a "Great Reset" of society post-pandemic is code for restructuring Canada to conform to his political ideas.



Poilievre has suggested it would be better for Trudeau to totally focus on the here and now — the pandemic which has killed almost 12,000 Canadians. It's also sent millions onto the unemployment rolls because of government-ordered lockdowns.



This as opposed to Trudeau using the pandemic as a launching point for an imagined re-engineering of the country in his image.



Poilievre has been accused of feeding rightwing conspiracies for even referring to the term the "Great Reset" — because internet conspiracy theorists describe it as a secret plot by global elites to re-order the world.



Trudeau isn't doing anything in secret. He's talked about a "Great Reset" post-pandemic before.



So has the Bank of Canada.



So has the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and business elites, normally held in the luxurious ski resort of Davos in the Swiss Alps, who have made the "Great Reset Initiative" the theme of their next conference.



Katie Telford, Trudeau's chief of staff, led the Liberal festival of indignation against Poilievre, tweeting:



"When Poilievre pumps up the 'Great Reset' theory ... he knows exactly what he's doing. He's sending a message to those way over on the far right who traffic in hateful, baseless theories about global conspiracies."



She was quoting a Toronto Star editorial headlined: "Pierre Poilievre is flirting with the far right by pushing 'Great Reset' conspiracy theory."



A Global News headline accused Poilievre of: "'Playing with fire':



How politicians can perpetuate baseless conspiracy theories."



Now do the Liberals accusing Harper of having a hidden agenda. We'll wait.

[sasquatch]

The CBC/Trudeau's media lapdogs tried to put out a hit piece against Jason Kenney's UCP, and it completely backfired on them.



The CBC were fuming mad that Jason Kenney was asking these civil servants for proof that what they were reccommending would work, and the CBC is flabbergasted by that, and then whined that the "proof" was "hard to find".

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A source with direct knowledge of the daily planning meetings said the premier wants evidence-based thresholds for mandatory restrictions that are effectively impossible to meet, especially in an ever-changing pandemic.



As of Wednesday, no thresholds have been designated publicly.



The source said Kenney's attitude was that he wasn't going to close down anything that affected the economy unless he was provided with specific evidence about how it would curtail the spread of COVID-19.



"This is like nothing we have ever seen before. So [it is] very, very difficult to get specific evidence to implement specific restrictions," said the source who, like the others interviewed by CBC News, spoke on condition of confidentiality for fear of losing their job.

CBC News also interviewed a source close to Hinshaw who said she has indicated that, eight months into the pandemic, politicians are still often demanding a level of evidence that is effectively impossible to provide before they will act on restrictive recommendations.

Basically in summary:

Public servants: We want you to impose these draconian measures right now on those filthy peasants!



Jason Kenney:Ok, then show me the evidence as to what you're proposing will even work



Public servants:RREEEEEEEE!



Those ivory tower dipshits can fuck right off.

[Anonymous]

Very good sasquatch..

 

I got a skewed version of events from Global Calgary.

[Thiel]

President Trump, and prime minister Boris Johnson's answer to COVID-19 was fast tracking vaccines. Justin Trudeau's response is destroy the free enterprise system and create a socialist state that has failed in every country that has foolsihly tried it.

[Anonymous]

Five economists said the deficit would likely be higher than projected in July, with two putting it in a range from $ 370 billion to $425 billion.



Canada's pandemic response has created the highest deficit-to-GDP ratio amid major industrialized countries for the year, according to an IMF report.

[Anonymous]

Trudeau is transforming Canada into a permanent, deficit-ridden, nanny state, not in Parliament — but at the bottom of the stairs to his house.



Indeed, as Freeland noted in a single sentence that perfectly sums up the economic philosophy of the Trudeau government, since it came to power: "The risk of providing too little support now outweighs that of providing too much."



In other words, the way to fight the COVID-19 recession is to spend taxpayers' money, and the way to recover from the COVID19 recession is to spend more taxpayers' money.

[Anonymous]

Trudeau has this country on a dangerous, unsustainable past that encroaches on provincial responsibilities.



By Lorne Gunter of Sun News Media



Not a Great Reset at all

Is Trudeau pushing Canada into a unitary state, instead of a federation?



The most obvious aspect of Monday's federal fiscal update is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clearly doesn't understand economics any better than when he was a precocious, trustfund baby in sophomore poli sci at McGill.



He seems, truly, to believe money is created through some magical process it is unnecessary to understand or respect.



And the supply of money — at least the supply available to government — is endless



His government can spend unlimited amounts on child care, pharmacare, pandemic income supports, pandemic business supports, fanciful climate projects, gender equality, income equality, reconciliation, infrastructure and on and on down the "progressive" wish list, with no adverse consequences on anyone or anything.



The nearly $400 billion already planned to be spent on COVID-related initiatives and the $100 billion more to come over the next three years will all be just unicorns and rainbows, in Trudeau's mind.



He and his cabinet seem to believe that level of public spending won't raise taxes or create labour shortages or intrude on provincial jurisdictions or raise interest rates until they squeeze out homebuyers and small businesses from credit markets or raise government interest payments until they consume so much of the federal budget that services have to be cut.



Or cause everyone's taxes to skyrocket, not just the "rich."



No, no, no, Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland seem to think their grandiose programs are so well- intentioned, nothing could ever go wrong.



That is basically the mentality — the juvenile, unrealistic, leftist mentality — behind the Liberals' Great Reset.



The massive spending they have already undertaken, plus the massive amount more that they plan, is a house of cards built on shifting sands. In a windstorm.



The deficit alone this year (at least $ 380 billion) is greater than all of Ottawa's operational spending in any budget before 2020.



It is only sustainable so long as, over time, interest rates don't rise, inflation doesn't increase, there are no fiscal crises and the middle class doesn't mind paying massive new taxes.



As long as not even one of those things happen, you know, federal finances will be fine.



In her fiscal update on Monday, Freeland said this level of debt/deficit was sustainable because interest rates are so low.



It truly doesn't seem to have dawned on her or the prime minister or the rest of the cabinet — who among them have very little realworld experience — that interest rates might, at some time, go up.



If interest rates rise by only as much as three percentage points, federal debt-servicing costs could double. That would force the federal government either er to raise taxes painfully ully just to continue ue providing existing ng services or to o make deep cuts to program spendding.



Future banks will not be keen to lend money to the feds just to pay the interest on money they borrowed to ease the blow of the pandemic.



Even before Monday's fiscal update, the Liberals had spent more per capita than any other developed nation on pandemic relief. Now they have doubled down.



Trudeau also seems to want to make Canada into a unitary state, instead of a federation.



He wants to dictate national daycare policy, national pharmacare and national seniors care in a country where the Constitution clearly gives all those jurisdictions to the provinces. Alone.



Such an intrusion might be welcome by many voters wh who o think, for inst instance, only a na national standard on seniors care would prevent a repeat e of thousa sands of COVID dea deaths.



Bu But I can guarantee you, on the Prairies, where Trudeau. is already detested for trying to shut down energy-based economies over his cultish obsession with environmentalism, adding in a major raid on provincial powers will only enflame mistrust and discontent for Ottawa.



This isn't a Great Reset, it's a fanciful "what- if" paper written by a second- year "progressive" dreamer.



It is only sustainable so long as, over time, interest rates don't rise, inflation doesn't increase, there are no fiscal crises and the middle class doesn't mind paying massive new taxes. As long as not even one of those things happen, you know, federal finances will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Forget 'Great Reset', hospitals need beds



Canadians don't need a "Great Reset" of society, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has described it, when we start to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.



We do need to address some long-standing weaknesses in our health-care system, which the pandemic has fully exposed.



One of those, reported in numerous Canadian and international studies, is a chronic shortage of hospital beds in many parts of the country, whether they're acute care, long-term care or ICUs.



How is it possible, for example, that in Ontario, with a population of almost 14.6 million people, it only takes 150 COVID19 patients in ICU beds before care of other hospital patients starts to break down, which, we're told, becomes a full-blown crisis when the number reaches 350? While it's shocking, it's not surprising. Many hospitals function at well above their recommended patient loads in normal times, with widespread variations across the provinces.



Backed-up emergency rooms, hallway medicine and long wait times were familiar problems in Canadian health care long before the start of this pandemic.



The cause is a shortage of chroniccare beds, which leads to a shortage of acute-care beds, which leads to hallway medicine and jammed emergency rooms.



Given that this has been an issue for decades, long before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, it's not useful for Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott to defend bed shortages caused by treating COVID19 patients in Ontario, by saying if you want to see a real crisis go to Alberta.



Elliott herself has said that because of COVID-19 and the strain it's putting on the hospital system, people have died waiting for so-called "elective" surgeries, unrelated to COVID-19.



In fact, "elective" surgery is a misleading term, because lengthy delays of such surgery often lead to premature deaths or added months and years of unnecessary pain.



One lesson the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us is that hospitals need to have a surplus capacity of beds in normal times, so they can cope with sudden surges in patient loads, whether it's due to a pandemic or something else.



Yes, it will cost more money, making it vital that every dollar spent on health care is invested wisely.

[Anonymous]

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fall economic statement confirmed the Liberal government's decisive move to the left.



Hugely expensive social programs, another round of gigantic stimulus spending, a green revolution, endless deficits and vulnerability to credit downgrades will be the hallmarks of her tenure, resulting in a staggering $1.4trillion debt in a few months and increasing indefinitely thereafter.

[Anonymous]

This aint good folks.



Trudeau's 'literally frightening' spending plan has some Liberals, bureaucrats very worried

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With three weeks until the government unveils its new agenda, the cracks are already beginning to show



The concerns are not just with the size of the spending package being considered but with the nature of it.



Senior business Liberals, who advocated deficit spending in 2015, say the focus should now be on economic growth, rather than the redistribution of borrowed money.



"The lack of focus on growth is problematic," said Robert Asselin, a senior vice-president at the Business Council of Canada, who was previously an advisor to prime ministers Paul Martin and Trudeau.



The new emergency benefit (CRB) of $400 a week will replace the CERB at the end of this month and will cost $22 billion over the next year. However, the Liberals have not ruled out the change being made permanent – effectively creating a guaranteed basic income.



Critics point out that in many ways CRB is much more generous than CERB, which cuts off benefits after recipients earn $1,000 in income. Under CRB, recipients don't see their benefit impacted until they earn $38,000 a year and don't see it clawed back entirely until they earn $58,800. A worker claiming CRB and working part-time is likely to earn more than a minimum wage earner working full-time. As the recovery takes hold, the concern among some economists is that a permanent CRB would be a disincentive to returning to the work-force, resulting in labour shortages.

[Anonymous]

The Trudeau Liberals are trying to turn Canada's democracy into their own basic dictatorship.



On multiple fronts, they are seeking to weaken democracy:



They are trying to expand government control of social media.



They want to 'register' the media – a move made in Communist States.



They are withholding documents from the Opposition and shutting down committees at a record pace.



They declared a simple request for an anti-Corruption Committee as a confidence matter, something that has never been done before.



They are demonizing law-abiding Canadian gun owners, rather than cracking down on gun crime.



Their own corrupt dealings, including connections to agents of the Chinese Communist Party, are being exposed.



They are – as authoritarian states often do – spending at record levels in an effort to 'transform' society, while risking a future crisis.



They have made much of the establishment media financially beholden to them, seeking to destroy the idea of independent media and ensure total government control over what people can and can't say.



Canadians who read the list above are seeing how dangerous this is for our country.



The Trudeau Liberals are showing that Trudeau's admiration for China's 'basic dictatorship' wasn't just a mistake, it was an expression of his true worldview, and it's a worldview that makes the Liberals a serious danger to our nation.

[Anonymous]

Why is it so great?

If feds really want reset, they should follow Taiwan's lead and learn from their mistakes



By Lorrie Goldstein of Sun News Media



The problem with "The Great Reset," as espoused by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, is not that it's a conspiracy or a blueprint for dictatorship. To the contrary, they're telling us exactly what they want to do.



The problem is The Great Reset is a campaign to get people to behave as government wants, when what we need is to get government to behave as we want — competently.



That's what rings so false about Trudeau promoting the pandemic as an opportunity to reset society by fighting climate change with higher carbon taxes.



A pandemic in which thousands of Canadians are dying and millions lost their jobs is not an opportunity to reinvent society. It's a warning about the consequences of governments failing to heed the lessons of previous epidemics and pandemics.



A case in point is the different responses and results regarding COVID19 by Canada and Taiwan.



Both countries were hit hard by the 2003 SARS outbreak, which was far less deadly and contagious than COVID-19, but an early warning of what could go wrong in modern, industrialized countries during a pandemic.



At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, experts at Johns Hopkins University predicted Taiwan would be one of the world's most vulnerable jurisdictions, given that its 23.78 million people are located 130 kilometres off the coast of mainland China with 2.71 million visitors annually from that country, which was the original epicentre of the outbreak. Despite that, Taiwan has had only seven deaths from COVID-19, 31 cases per million of population and 0.3 deaths per million.



Canada, with 37.6 million people and 571,000 visitors from China last year, has had 13,505 deaths, 12,317 cases per million and 356 deaths per million.



The difference is [size=150]Taiwan learned from its mistakes in the SARS epidemic, while Canada did not[/size] — and by that I mean federal and provincial governments of all political stripes.



They failed to heed warnings from medical experts after the SARS epidemic and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic about the lack of adequate supplies of protective equipment, poor data collection, disjointed communication between federal, provincial and municipal governments, inadequate testing and hospital overcrowding in normal times.



While our politicians and public health bureaucrats lectured us for months that restricting air travel would be racist, Taiwan began boarding planes landing from Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, to check passengers for symptoms.



That was the same day China told the World Health Organization that a new pneumonia of unknown origin was circulating in that city of 11 million people, which is a major transportation hub.



Taiwan activated its Central Epidemic Command Center, created after the SARS epidemic, invoking 124 measures. It ramped up production of masks, use of the military and set prices to prevent gouging.



As described in a March article "Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan" in the Journal of the American Medical Association by health policy Prof. Jason Wang of Stanford University and two colleagues, safety measures included: "Border control from the air and sea, case identification (using new data and technology), quarantine of suspicious cases, proactive case finding, resource allocation ... reassurance and education of the public ... fighting misinformation, negotiation with other countries and regions, formulation of policies toward schools and child care and relief to business."



Taiwan didn't need The Great Reset to return life to normal as quickly as possible. It learned from its mistakes and fixed them.



The difference is Taiwan learned from its mistakes in the SARS epidemic, while Canada did not.