Canada

Trudeau Showered With Gifts From King Of Jordan As Foreign Aid Buys Real Estate

An article published this week by National Post focuses on gifts sent to PM Justin Trudeau from foreign dignitaries:

“Jordan’s King Abdullah II has been the most generous of foreign officials, presenting ten gifts to Trudeau ranging from a handmade leather saddle to sculptural plant vessels to jars of honey.”

What a sweet deal. Over the past 10 years Justin Trudeau has authorized a shipment of $800 million in foreign aid to the Kingdom of Jordan. After which the Pandora Papers revealed that the King of Jordan is funneling large parts of that Canadian aid into a worldwide portfolio of luxury real estate.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Jordan, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Canadians Are Watching Their Savings Evaporate

Any society that wants to achieve durable, long-term success must incentivize saving.

Savings represent both the ability of a society to be productive and generate excess value, and confidence in a better future.

Smart societies thus seek to reward those who save, because those savings are the investment that drives a society forward.

By contrast, foolish and broken societies punish those who save.

They reward irresponsibility and incentivize debt – often by making it nearly impossible for many to hold onto their standard of living without it. They devalue the national currency, destroy confidence in the future, and push a kind of thinking that is increasingly short-term and destructive in the long-run. They bail-out those who fail at the expense of those who succeed, and concentrate economic power in the hands of the state and those affiliated with it.

What type of society do we have today?

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

Canada’s Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Doctor Refusing to Surrender Medical Records of Covid ‘Vaccine’ Exempt Patients

In an exclusive interview for RAIR Foundation USA, Dr. O’Connor, a general practitioner for 30 years, who has most recently been specializing in mental health and addiction disorders for the past 13 years, explains why she is refusing to comply with the College and a court order to release confidential medical files.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Privacy Concerns, vaccine controversy

Canadian patients fighting for psilocybin access sue federal government

Eight Canadians have filed a Charter challenge against the Government of Canada and the Minister of Health regarding patient access to psilocybin and psilocybin therapy.

The plaintiffs, which include seven patients and one health-care practitioner, are arguing that the current modes of accessing psilocybin are insufficient and a violation of Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs, Health care, Mental Health

Tax the rich: Canada imposes new levy on luxury cars, yachts and private jets

Calls to ‘tax the rich’ often fall on deaf ears – but Canada appears to be listening. The country is set to impose a new ‘luxury tax’ on the sale and importation of high-value cars, planes and boats.

Coming into effect on 1 September 2022, the Select Luxury Items Tax Act is billed as part of the Government of Canada’s commitment to a fairer tax system.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Virtue Signaling", Canada, taxes

Liberal ‘Plan’ To Balance The Budget Is Based On A Fantasy

In the 2015 federal election campaign, the Liberals said they would run “small” deficits for three years, before returning to a balanced budget.

That promise was broken almost immediately, with the deficits far exceeding what the Liberals had promised, and with no plan whatsoever to return to balance.

Then, the Liberals responded to the covid-19 pandemic by pushing for draconian lockdowns, while extending support programs long-beyond the initial crisis.

The result was the largest budget deficit in Canadian history, and long-term projections of red ink as far as the eye can see.

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

More than half of Trudeau’s cabinet have zero business experience

After months of dismissing the country’s inflation crisis as a “global phenomenon,” the Trudeau government finally acknowledged the fact that Canadians were struggling with the costs of everyday goods and services. In June, the government unveiled an “affordability plan” to combat inflation – $8.9 billion of government programs.

While finance minister Chrystia Freeland touted the government’s plan as a means of putting “more money in the pockets of Canadians at a time when they need it most,” many economists pleaded with the government to stop spending, arguing that the burden of lowering inflation is falling on the private sector as the government continues to spend at record levels.

Now with a looming recession, many Canadians are looking to their leaders to steer Canada out of its current economic situation. Is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gender-balanced cabinet capable of handling a recession? We intend to find out.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

True North’s coverage of the final Conservative Leadership Debate

We’ll be LIVE for the Conservative Party of Canada’s final leadership debate!

True North’s Andrew Lawton will be hosting tonight’s discussion, and will be joined by Harrison Faulkner, Rachel Emmanuel and Elie Cantin-Nantel.

Only three out of the five leadership candidates will be attending tonight’s debate, as both Pierre Poilievre and Leslyn Lewis declined their invitations. Will this still be a lively and worthwhile debate? Tune in tonight to find out.

Our show begins tonight at 5:30pm ET / 3:30pm MT and we’ll be streaming the debate afterwards, which begins at 6:00pm ET / 4:00pm MT.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Canada: the Country of the Long Wait

A few days ago my wife and I brought her mother, who was suffering from a serious leg infection, to the local ER. We were worried about the possibility of gangrene, which an acquaintance some years back had contracted under similar circumstances, resulting in the amputation of his leg. As expected, the ER was jam-packed, and it soon became clear that my mother-in-law would have to wait at least six and even twelve hours before she could be seen. No triage had been performed to determine rank of urgency. Meanwhile, a youngish man in a wheelchair, doubled over and clutching his chest, was bitterly complaining that he had suffered a heart attack. But he too would have to wait before being attended to — assuming he would still be alive by then.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘A new phenomenon’: Big investors eye Canada’s home market, ReMax president says

Investment firms have become the biggest new buyers of U.S. homes — a trend that could make home ownership more difficult for average families.

The idea of big investors buying single-family homes to rent them out is “just in its infancy” in Canada, but is worth watching, according to the president of one of this country’s largest real estate firms. Some advocacy groups fear families can’t compete against money managers with billions in assets.

Mmmmm … Regent Park was one of Canada’s largest social housing neighbourhoods. Now, a studio there costs more than $2,000 to rent

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Pretends Communist China Doesn’t Exist

Canada must put China ‘front and centre’ in Indo-Pacific strategy or it risks irrelevance, experts say

The federal government’s forthcoming Indo-Pacific strategy must explicitly recognize and respond to the security threat China poses to the region, experts say, otherwise Canada risks being regarded as irrelevant in a part of the world that is expected to be a centre of economic growth for decades.

The Indo-Pacific region, which stretches from North America to India’s west coast, is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population, and it accounts for 60 per cent of global gross domestic product. About 60 per cent of world maritime trade passes through its oceans, a third of that through the South China Sea, where Beijing has made sweeping territorial claims.

… Two sources with knowledge of the strategy said the first draft, which was compiled by a team from Global Affairs, made no mention of China.

The strategy should have one goal – Make Communist China a pariah state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

Pierre Poilievre Dominates With Massive Lead In Number Of Donors, Crushing Huawei Charest

With the CPC releasing Q2 financial numbers, the information regarding the CPC leadership race is quite something.

Unsurprisingly, Pierre Poilievre led with over $4 million raised.

Charest was in second with nearly $1.4 million.

Leslyn Lewis raised over $700,000.
Roman Baber raised over $500,000.

And Scott Aitchison raised just over $360,000.

But the real shock was in total donors – a number more indicative of true support in the party.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Trudeau’s Gun Confiscation Mimics Fascist Policies Of 20th Century

In the years following World War I, the Weimar Republic passed strict gun control laws in an attempt to comply with the Versailles Treaty of 1919 – laws that required the surrender of all guns to government.

“The laws remained in effect until 1928, when the German parliament relaxed gun restrictions and put into effect a strict firearm-licensing scheme. These licensing regulations foreshadowed Adolph Hitler’s rise to power.”

In her 2011 book, Professor of Criminal Justice Dyan McGuire wrote that “it is frequently argued that these laws, which resulted in the confiscation of weapons not belonging to supporters of the Nazis, rendered disfavoured groups like the Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, Poles, and their potential allies defenseless.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Justin Trudeau - Pissant