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It’s Just Money

There is plenty to printed or taxed:

Tax write-offs cost more than $3.3 billion last year, an increase of millions over 2019, according to an internal Canada Revenue Agency audit. The report disclosed the Agency typically “stockpiled” unrecoverable taxes for write-downs: “An uncollectible amount can be written off at any time.”

A bill to expand carbon tax exemptions for farmers is crucial as cabinet hikes rates every year until 2030, the Commons agriculture committee was told yesterday. “Farmers are struggling now,” said Conservative MP Philip Lawrence (Northumberland-Peterborough South, Ont.), sponsor of the bill.

To be filed under “Justin Trudeau Is An Arrogant Piece of Crap“:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday would not set any date for a federal budget, the first since 2019. Trudeau told reporters pandemic management was a greater priority: “Of all the money invested in helping Canadians get through this pandemic, eight or nine of every ten dollars has come from the federal government.”

by Osumashi•March 10, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy, Justin Trudeau Air Head, Politics, taxes

Norman Bethune Wasn’t a Good Doctor Nor Is He a Hero

But don’t take my word for it.

Blacklock’s Reporter, an Ottawa-based news site focused on government business, reports that Parks Canada will use Mandarin-language services at Bethune Memorial House in Gravenhurst, Ontario as part of a bid to “move visitors, volunteers and partners to act as proud ambassadors of Bethune’s values, achievements and humanitarian ideals” and “introduce Parks Canada to a broader audience, in particular of Chinese descent.” Noting that Bethune’s birthplace is one of Canada’s least-visited national historic sites, it hopes to have it recognized by 2027 as “a place of inspiration.” …

He remained relatively obscure in Canada until former prime minister Pierre Trudeau — who had a soft spot for strongmen like Mao and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro — visited China in 1973. The government bought the Bethune house the same year, turning it over to Parks Canada as a national historic site. Bethune has since become the sort of figure who — like James Naismith or the Mad Trapper of Rat River — gets immortalized in official Canadiana as evidence we do indeed have a fascinating past filled with interesting people.

(Sidebar: quelle surprise.)

by Osumashi•March 10, 2021March 10, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada, Distorting history, Politics

Jody Wilson-Raybould to Write a Book on SNC-Lavalin Affair

How blacked out will it be?:

Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is set to publish a political memoir that’s promising to shed new light on her final controversial days in the Trudeau government.

HarperCollins Canada says it has acquired the rights to the former Liberal justice minister’s book, titled “‘Indian’ in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power.”

by Osumashi•March 10, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau Air Head, Politics, scandals

I have no idea who this person is. I had to look her up and I probably shouldn’t be wasting my time on her but she is exemplary of the other Meghan Markles out there for whom victimhood, not character or ability, is some sort of currency. It only makes one sound utterly morally tone-deaf.

Unless this half-calorie starlet has forded a freezing cold river in the middle of the night in order not to starve to death in a veritable concentration camp state or defied a dictatorship, I really don’t care:

“From my experience of my short 19 years, only now entering the workforce, have I realized, damn, it’s harder to be a woman,” Ramakrishnan told Yahoo Canada. “I don’t regret it, I love being a woman, but damn is it hard.”

Last year Ramakrishnan became a Global Ambassador for Plan International Canada. More recently, she was on TIME magazine’s 2021 TIME100 Next list of the next 100 most influential people in the world, with co-creator of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling, saying Ramakrishnan “has an activist’s heart and wants to use her platform to help others.”

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021•0•Canada, Celebrity Idiots, Hong Kong, North Korea

Say What?

Indeed:

Xinhua News Agency, the propaganda arm of China’s Communist Party, is out of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery after 57 years. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa did not comment: “There is no perfect democracy, only democracy that fits best.”

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021March 8, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Censorship in Canada, China, Foreign Influence in Canadian Politics, Politics

Canadians Get the Government They Deserve

They sure do:

Support for the federal Liberals looks to be on the rise as new shipments of the highly coveted COVID-19 vaccine arrive, according to a new poll.

Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News found that should an federal election be held, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberals would receive 35 per cent of the popular vote — up two percentage points from last month — while the Conservatives would receive 28 per cent, down from 30 per cent.

Canada has had a miserable time coping with COVID-19, according to new research that seeks to take the broadest possible measure of the country’s pandemic response, accounting for everything from mortality rates to economic malaise.

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Can a civilization commit suicide?, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Politics, Stupid

Ethics Committee to Summon Kielburger Brothers to Testify

This should be under oath with penalties for perjury:

Members of the House of Commons ethics committee have unanimously voted to summon WE Charity co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger to testify.

Last week, they declined requests to do so, a fact that MPs from all parties expressed concerns about on Monday.

A summons from a Commons committee has legal force, and the motion gives the brothers until Friday to appear.

The Commons ethics committee wants to hear from the Kielburger brothers as part of ongoing scrutiny of a federal agreement to have WE manage a now-cancelled student services grant program.

But the charity had noted that New Democrat MP Charlie Angus has requested that the RCMP and the Canada Revenue Agency investigate WE’s operations.

The charity said it would be unfair to subject it to what it called a partisan committee investigation at the same time.

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Politics

It’s Just Money

Cases in point:

A federal climate bureau spent more than $600 million last year, says an internal audit. Spending did not include $800,000 in annual staff time to manage newly-detailed carbon offset regulations: “Doing nothing is not an option.”

The $675 million Public Health Agency “lacked everything” despite assuring legislators it was prepared for the pandemic, a Liberal-appointed lawmaker told the Senate national finance committee. “I was told twice, not just once but twice, you had enough resources on hand to deal with the pandemic,” said Senator Éric Forest (Que.): ‘There was a huge gap between the perception and the reality.’

The Liberal government will not release a budget in March as it takes more time to assess the impact of the pandemic, meaning that more than two years will have passed since the last federal budget was released.

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, China eats weird animals disease, Economy, Green-Scam, Politics, taxes

From the Most Opaque Government Ever Re-Elected

There was apparently nothing wrong with how the Trudeau government handled the pandemic according to e-mails that the Liberals wanted no one to see:

The Department of Public Works in self-congratulatory internal emails said it was “very proud” of doing a great job on pandemic management, “a great story for us.” The messages were exchanged as Covid deaths nationwide approached 9,000: “We’re everybody’s government!”

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, China eats weird animals disease, Politics

What Could Go Wrong?

It’s like giving the keys of a jet to a drunk monkey:

Cabinet will consider subsidizing any green project, “anything really” that appears feasible, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan said yesterday. His remarks followed federal auditors’ complaints of difficulty in tracking actual costs and benefits of green subsidies: “We’re willing to look at anything really, you know, if it seems like it’s a good idea.”

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Green Energy Scams, Politics

Nothing to See Here

Police in Hamilton have dropped a criminal investigation into theft of millions of pandemic masks imported from Shanghai by the Department of Public Works. There were no leads and no suspects, the department said: “The products were not recovered.”

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Crime, Ontario

Article: “Here’s what can happen if the Kielburger brothers refuse to testify before parliament “

Make the little sh— testify:

The ethics and the procedure and House affairs committees have both requested that Craig and Marc Kielburger come forward and testify. They declined. In a March 3 statement, WE Charity referenced Feb. 28 comments by NDP MP Charlie Angus, who said he wrote to the Canada Revenue Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police requesting an investigation into the charity.

“Accordingly, WE Charity and its leadership are declining the additional requests to testify from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics and also the Procedure and House Affairs Committee,” said a WE Charity press statement.

The statement said the charity has already testified at various “highly partisan” committee meetings, and that it would continue to work with Dion’s investigation.

At this point, the committees could issue a summons, compelling the Kielburgers to attend. If they continue to refuse, according to the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, the committee can report it to the House of Commons, and the House “then may order the witness to appear” and they will be “called to the Bar” — a literal brass bar across the House of Commons — to explain themselves.

The House has the power, similar to a court, to compel someone’s presence.

“If the witness disobeys the order, the witness may be declared guilty of contempt,” the House manual says.

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Law Does Not Apply, Politics

Are China, India and Russia “Vaccine Super-Powers”?

Here:

Of the top 10 countries in the world on a doses per capita basis, six of them are using vaccines from Russia, China or India. Canada is 42nd in the world on a doses per capita basis according to Bloomberg News Service’s vaccine tracker. News reports and information from government websites show 16 of the countries ahead of Canada are using shots from one of those three countries.

While Western nations, including Canada, scramble to get doses for their citizens, the governments in Beijing, Moscow and New Delhi are shipping vaccine abroad to make new friends, even as their own national vaccination efforts lag behind the rest of the world.

This week, China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, said his country always planned to help the world.

(Sidebar: what a lying sack of crap.)

“China stated in the early stages that once vaccines were developed and deployed they will become a global public good, so we are just honouring our commitment to help people, especially in developing countries,” he said. “We know the virus knows no borders.” …

Guy Saint-Jacques, a senior fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute and a former Canadian ambassador to Beijing, said China is clearly using the vaccines to help its image.

“This is part of their efforts to burnish their reputation abroad because they know that it has been tarnished with all the mistakes they made handling the pandemic and also they want to contrast themselves with Western countries,” he said.