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Healthcare in Canada Wasn’t Always This Way

Americans should consider their own flawed system before pontificating about Canada’s.

… Canada does indeed have a system of government-run universal healthcare, but it’s not at all what these uninformed American commenters envision. Arguably, two decades ago Canada’s health care system was better than America’s. Back then Canada had better morbidity and mortality statistics, better accessibility, and much cheaper drugs at less overall cost than America. That is why the American Left advocated that that was the system that the United States should adopt.

That was then. That ship sailed long ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada’s 1940s spy scandal can shed light on today’s foreign-interference problems

Igor “Elephant Man” Gouzenko

As the controversy over foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes continues to grip Ottawa, a look back at a similar episode in Canadian history may offer some useful perspective. It has been almost 80 years since cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko left the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a sheaf of secret documents that revealed an extensive Soviet espionage operation in Canada, while also implicating a British scientist and a highly ranked official in the U.S. State Department in spying.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage

Singh won’t break pact with Liberals despite concern PM isn’t protecting democracy

OTTAWA – Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh is not willing to break ranks with the minority Liberal government, even after criticizing the prime minister for failing to protect Canada’s democracy.

Singh says the evidence shows Justin Trudeau is willing to accept some level of foreign interference, which weakens democracy and undermines the confidence of Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Poilievre wriggles out of the Liberal trap, with a commitment to much broader tax reform

We would appear, as Woody Allen once said, to stand at a crossroads: “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness; the other to total extinction.” (“Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”)

That, at any rate, is what one would gather from the rhetoric over the government’s capital-gains tax proposal. On the one hand, according to the Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, the measure – an increase in the share of capital gains subject to tax from 50 per cent to 66 per cent, though only (for personal income tax payers) on gains in excess of $250,000 – is all that stands between us and, if not total extinction, then certainly despair and utter hopelessness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Here’s how China turns our politicians into pawns (hint: they’re letting it happen)

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians’ stunning allegation that federal politicians are helping foreign governments manipulate Canadian politics further inflamed the perception of our political leaders standing by as Chinese agents in Canada sabotage our democratic institutions.

This is about more than foreign powers rigging election outcomes.

China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party’s massive United Front Work Department, has a two-pronged strategy for turning western legislators into Beijing’s proxies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada

Tories appeal to Jewish community ahead of Toronto byelection, allege ‘betrayal’ by Trudeau

The federal Conservatives are asking the Jewish community in a Toronto riding to send Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a message about his “betrayal” by voting for the Tory candidate in an upcoming byelection.

Voters in Toronto—St. Paul’s will pick a new MP on June 24 to replace longtime Liberal cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett, who retired after more than two decades.

Trudeau has been trailing in all major polls and insiders are watching to see if that has an impact in what has been a comfortable Liberal seat since the ’90s.

It’s a very safe Liberal riding so Trudeau will say one thing to the Jews but focus on the Muslims as that’s where the votes are.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Singh says the Trudeau and Poilievre tolerate foreign interference

Are there traitors in the House? Jagmeet Singh says there are.

The NDP Leader used that word. He had read the secret, unredacted version of the report on foreign interference drafted by a committee of parliamentarians. And he referred to the activities of some MPs in the House of Commons as unethical, and in some cases against the law.

“They are indeed traitors to the country,” he told reporters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, WTF?

Ignoring Chinese spying has made Canada the weak link among Western allies

US v Canada

… This cross-border discrepancy is partly explained by serious flaws in Canada’s legal system. As an intelligence-gathering service, CSIS is best placed to identify crimes of espionage. But it has no actual law enforcement powers. It can share its findings with the RCMP, but this relationship is complicated by the fact CSIS intel is not admissible in court since the agency refuses to disclose its sources and methods.

“If defence lawyers ever get a whiff of the fact the RCMP has relied on CSIS information, they will demand to test that information in court,” warns Phil Gurski, a former strategic analyst at CSIS. For this reason, cases built on CSIS evidence are often not prosecuted. It is possible Qiu and Cheng were allowed to leave the country because the mountain of proof incriminating them was inadmissible in court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

How We Got to 41 Million

For decades, Canada has been a model of inclusive immigration. But over the last few years, the Liberals have admitted too many people, too fast. Why did no one see it coming?

When Canada’s population hit 40 million people last June, the federal government could not contain its excitement. “It’s a strong signal that Canada remains a dynamic and welcoming country, full of potential,” said Anil Arora, Canada’s chief statistician. Canada had grown more quickly than expected—by 1.1 million people over the previous 12 months, mostly due to a huge wave of international students and temporary foreign workers. And yet, despite the fanfare, this population boom wasn’t a good-news story. Because there were not enough homes for all those new people.

The Liberals did see it coming, so did their corporate cronies. Each will benefit from the deliberate harm they have visited upon Canada.

The Liberals intentionally set out to undermine Canadian society by importing votes by the millions.

Our Captains of industry squeal with delight at the pool of wage depressing cheap labour and the profits they’ll reap exploiting the shortages mass immigration creates.

Rest assured virtually none of the foreign students or temporary workers will ever be deported.

Spit in a Liberal’s face.

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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, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

FIRST READING: Millions of Canadians would rather be somewhere else

Barely a decade after British Columbia was emblazoning its licence plates with the slogan “best place on Earth,” a new poll finds that one third of the province doesn’t want to live there anymore.

And British Columbians are not alone. Among the many bad economic indicators plaguing Canada right now, one of the more prescient is that millions of Canadians would rather be somewhere else.

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

Financial crime still a ‘free-for-all’ in B.C. and Canada, expert says

Money Laundering

B.C. has taken important steps recently in the fight against money laundering, an international conference in Vancouver heard Wednesday, but successful prosecution of financial crime remains problematically rare.

A group of international experts and professionals gathered in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday for a day-long conference focused on financial crime, money laundering, corruption, misinformation and journalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

HANNAFORD: The rape of Canada’s middle class

The Liberals’ proposed capital gains tax, introduced Monday, is class warfare pure and simple, the politics of envy with all the deception that goes with it. Here’s the deal: give us your money or look out for people jumping the wall of your gated community.

Thus, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday. She was warning those who live “in gated communities behind ever-higher fences, using private healthcare and airplanes because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot…”

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

Poilievre is the sole party leader foregoing access to classified report on foreign interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the only federal party leader foregoing access to a classified national security and intelligence watchdog’s report that says the country’s intelligence services believe some parliamentarians are “semi-witting or witting” participants in foreign-interference efforts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China eats weird animals disease", "Foreign Interference", Canada