Canada

Jack Mintz: Federal employment bloat costing taxpayers at least $10 billion annually

Buried among the many tables in Statistics Canada’s June employment report are data on public sector employment: federal, provincial and local employees hired by departments, agencies, hospitals and schools, including universities and colleges. As of June, 4.412 million workers were public employees, representing 21.5 per cent of Canada’s workforce. That is an astonishing 972,000 more (28.3 per cent) than in 2014, when 3.439 million Canadians were working for governments. And the numbers don’t include contracted services.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

BOWYER: Trudeau gets it wrong on young voters (surprise, surprise)

“If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain.”

This oft-quoted saying, frequently misattributed to Winston Churchill, actually has a complex history with no definitive source. Its essence, however, has been expressed by various thinkers over the centuries, reflecting a common perception about political leanings across age groups.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians must face a difficult truth: Our military needs to prepare for war

Canada’s plan to buy 12 new submarines, announced during the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington, may have eased the pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid criticism from Canada’s closest allies that it has become a freeloader in the alliance.

Going into the summit, Canada was the only NATO member without a clear plan to meet its commitment to spend 2 per cent of its economic output on defence. While the Trudeau government has taken important, if belated, steps toward this goal, Canada is still years away from reaching the target – the goal is by 2032, Mr. Trudeau said on Thursday – unlike the 23 NATO members that will do so in 2024.

They had best postpone hostilities. Few will volunteer to fight under Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

John Ivison: No one in Washington believes Trudeau’s empty NATO promises anymore

Justin Trudeau is so schooled in the art of denial that he now tries to deflect inescapable truths.

In Washington Thursday, at the conclusion of the NATO summit there, the prime minister unveiled what his defence minister, Bill Blair, called a “credible, verifiable path to two per cent” spending of gross domestic product on defence by 2032.

Let’s leave aside the fact that the plan is neither credible nor verifiable. Trudeau was asked if he was worried that the political problems that have dogged him this week will now hang over this country for the next eight years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

ANALYSIS: As Canada Grapples With Foreign Interference, Most Recent National Security Strategy Is 20 Years Old

The last time Canada published a national security strategy, Facebook had just launched and TV sitcom “Friends” was airing its final episode.

The year was 2004 and Paul Martin was prime minister. The world had been shaken a few years earlier by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and authorities were taking stock of the SARS outbreak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Poilievre extends lead over Trudeau as best economic manager for Canada, poll finds

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party has opened up a bigger lead among voters on the question of who would be the best economic manager, underscoring the political challenges faced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

About 30 per cent of respondents in a recent Nanos Research Group survey for Bloomberg say they trust Pierre Poilievre the most among national party leaders to support economic growth. That’s a gap of more than 10 points over Trudeau, who’s the first choice of just 19 per cent.

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Trudeau Liberals’ indifference to NATO plays right into Russia’s hands

For Americans, the good news from the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. is that President Joe Biden managed to read a stirring speech from a teleprompter without too much stammering or gargling noises. While the threat of Donald Trump’s return to the White House looms darkly over the 75-year-old transatlantic alliance — Trump isn’t NATO’s biggest fan — for the moment, at least, the United States is NATO’s bedrock power. That’s all to the good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

Poll finds Canadians prefer spending cuts to capital gains tax hike

A total of 54% of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes to reduce the deficit, according to a poll conducted by Leger on behalf of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).

CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano said the poll results are clear that the majority of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s low productivity reduces standard of living, report finds

The lack of business investment in information technologies and research and development, compared to the U.S., is lowering the productivity of Canadian workers and suppressing our standard of living, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

“The underinvestment in key technologies is showing up in Canada’s productivity numbers which are essential for improved living standards,” Steven Globerman writes in a report by the fiscally conservative think tank, titled “Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades.”

Why invest in productivity enhancing technologies when the government allows its corporate cronies to import cheap foreign labour by the shitload?

Hell Trudeau will even silence critics of the wage depressing mass immigration scam by smearing them as racist on behalf of our Captains of Industry!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Traditional Family Devalued in Canada, but Some Women Push for Revival

On her fridge door, along with numerous family pictures, Danielle Brandt has a handwritten quote by Dr. John Trainer: “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”

A proud Calgary mother of three boys (Aiden, 10, Theodore, 4, and Silas, 2), Mrs. Brandt is a homemaker. Her husband, Adam Brandt, is the breadwinner. At the core of their parenting philosophy is the belief that strong families make strong societies, Mrs. Brandt says.

I bet Trudeau denounces her as a racist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

WTF? Canada pledges Ukraine aid, as NATO spending questions dog PM

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged another $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine in a one-on-one conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C.

The funding announcement Wednesday comes amidst pressure from American politicians who are publicly critical of Canada for falling short of its defence spending commitments.

H/T Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Jewish community takes food inspection agency to court over slaughter guidelines

OTTAWA – A group of agencies that certify Kosher meat are in court today to ask for an injunction against Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidelines for the ritual slaughter of animals.

Kosher meat calls for animals to be slaughtered without first being stunned.

While the Kosher method of slaughtering animal for meat is allowed in Canada, the food inspection agency posted guidelines in 2021 outlining how abattoirs must determine if an animal is unconscious and can no longer feel pain.

I can’t see a ban on Kosher slaughter as imminent given no politician will call for the end of halal slaughter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

David Staples: Seismic shift when great numbers of Canadian men abandon left-wing political parties

Canadian men are increasingly less likely than women to support left-of-centre parties like the Liberal/NDP partnership in Ottawa and the New Democrats in Alberta.

We’re unlikely to agree on the exact reasons for this trend, but I’ll suggest we can agree it’s happening. The Trudeau/Singh movement in Ottawa has lost support of both men and women, but men in particular have turned against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the fall of 2018.

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Kelly McParland: New human rights boss shows Liberals have no idea how to vet candidates

The fish rots from the head down. That is one rank head above,

Whether it’s hiring an antisemite to design anti-racism training or feting a former Nazi in the House, this government seems unable to perform a simple Google search

It’s not an accident. It may in fact be deliberate and they just hope no one catches them.

No Islamist should ever be appointed to serve in a sensitive position.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West