Elitism poses a far greater threat to democratic institutions than populism and the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week is a case in point.
From a Canadian perspective anyone who cares about democracy should worry a lot more about the WEF than the Freedom Convoy.
The government will review $66 million worth of contracts it awarded to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
Speaking during a news conference in Mexico City at the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS), Trudeau said he’s asked Public Service and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek and President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier to examine the contracts.
“I asked Minister Jaczek and Minister Fortier to do a follow-up and look closely at the numbers, and look at the circumstances that we heard about in the news,” Trudeau said in French.
It’s a very good thing that public attention and opposition inquiries are at last promising to shed light on the opaque and strangely intimate relationship between the Trudeau Liberals and McKinsey and Company, the global management consultancy that mutated into a service agency for dictators, oligarchs and corporate drug pushers. Its former boss was Dominic Barton, the longtime Trudeau confidant and Canada’s former ambassador to China.
OTTAWA — “We’re definitely going to reduce the cost of consultants.”
The leader of the Conservative party hasn’t committed himself to much but that’s a pretty definitive promise — a Pierre Poilievre government would reduce the spending on third-party consultants that Ottawa’s own estimates suggest rose to $17.7 billion in 2022.
Not buying what Ivinson is selling. Yes far too much is spent on consultants a scandal in itself but he refuses to entertain the possibility that consultants have shaped government policy to serve their own interests. Dominic Barton, McKinsey and the LPC have conspired to remake this country via mass immigration out of sheer greed.
Poilievre had better speak out about this.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a committee study of the government’s relationship with a consulting firm following reports it has been awarded 30 times more money in federal contracts under Justin Trudeau’s Liberals than Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
… “The questions it raises for us are not around the international firm,” he said, “but rather, why did the Government of Canada hand over its priorities, through contracts, to a private foreign company?”
Poilievre also questioned former McKinsey global managing director Dominic Barton’s later appointment to Canadian ambassador to China, a position he left in 2021.
“It’s time for Canadians to get answers,” Poilievre said. “We need to know what this money was for, what influence McKinsey has had in our government, and it is time for Canadian taxpayers to have answers to these questions.”
Trudeau sold control of Canada’s Immigration Policy to McKinsey to benefit the corporate class.
One of the first major pledges of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon forming government in 2015 was to bring in a large number of Syrian refugees within a short period of time.
There was both political and public will to see this happen, as Canadians watched with concern as war in Syria caused a growing refugee crisis.
There was also public will not to see that happen.
Around Christmastime, Wendle Beaton was trying to find cold medication for her adult son in Brampton, Ont.
“In my neighbourhood there’s like 20 (pharmacies) within like a two-kilometre radius because I live in the most populous part of the city,” Beaton said.
Grocery stores have become a lightning rod for consumer discontent amid inflation and lingering mistrust after a bread price-fixing scandal.
A case of sticker shock in the poultry aisle of a downtown Toronto grocery store owned by Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food retailer, caused a backlash on social media about what, and perhaps who, is behind the rise in food prices.
Business schools across the country would do well to undertake a case study on McKinsey & Co.’s remarkable success in winning contracts from the federal government since Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took power. There, they’ll find insights into how Ottawa really works.
McKinsey, the pedigreed consulting firm that has been plagued by a series of conflict-of-interest scandals spanning several countries, has been practically wedded at the hip to Mr. Trudeau’s government since the firm’s then-global managing partner, Dominic Barton, was picked to head up Ottawa’s advisory council on economic growth in 2016.
Canada is experiencing a population boom.
Figures released recently by the federal government are quite staggering: the country grew by 437,000 new residents in 2022 and projections from Ottawa indicate that roughly 1.45 million more will join them over the next three years. According to a recent story in The Globe and Mail, since 2016, Canada has grown at nearly double the average rate of its G7 peers.
In most cases, however, it isn’t newborns enhancing our population growth but adults coming to Canada through our immigration and refugee program – a fact that has consequences far and wide.
As Canadian immigration reaches the highest levels seen in its history, a Radio-Canada investigation has publish allegations that the surge may have been heavily influenced by a U.S.-founded consultancy that has collected more than $60 million from the Trudeau government.
McKinsey & Co. — a multi-billion dollar global consultancy firm with five locations in Canada —only scored the occasional contract with the Canadian federal government in the years preceding the 2015 election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The answer is yes, the Banana Republic of Canada’s immigration policy is a welfare program designed to benefit the corporate class not citizens.
You would think that Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh would be up in arms at this revelation. Forget it, they’re in on the mass-immigration scam.
The wonder is that this story even saw the light of day on English CBC and didn’t remain buried on Quebec’s Radio-Canada.
Mass immigration is not a savior of the economy and immigrants age so if you believe the lie that they’ll be paying for your pension then congratulations on buying into the Ponzi scheme.
The masses of warm bodies are used to depress your wages and create shortages in housing and services that can be exploited for profit – on your back.
A federal department briefing note says that organized crime is suspected to be operating in the public sector, although the specific federal offices that are allegedly involved went unnamed.
“It is also suspected that organized crime groups are also involved in areas of the public sector,” said the memo from the Department of Public Safety, titled “Organized Crime” and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter through Access to Information.
The note estimated about 26 criminal gangs to be active “within Canadian public sector agencies or departments.”
The value of one consulting firm’s federal contracts has skyrocketed under the Trudeau government
McKinsey’s influence over Canadian immigration policy has grown in recent years without the public’s knowledge, according to two sources within IRCC. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The consulting firm McKinsey & Company has seen the amount of money it earns from federal contracts explode since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power — to the point where some suggest it may have a central role in shaping Canada’s immigration policies.
A Radio-Canada investigation also learned the private consulting firm’s influence is raising concerns within the federal public service.
According to public accounts data from Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), the Liberals spent 30 times more money on McKinsey’s services than Stephen Harper’s Conservatives did.
Imagine that, the CBC picking up on what this blog and its readers have been saying for years. Canada’s immigration policy is a welfare scam delivering masses of cheap labour to our Corporate class. But according to Junior and his puppet masters we’re racists for having the temerity to defend our own best interests.
… Immigrants not only add to the demand for housing, they also increase congestion for a wide range of public services: doctors, hospitals, schools, universities, parks, retirement homes, and roads and bridges, as well as the utilities that supply water, electricity and sewers. In theory, the supply of all these things could be expanded reasonably rapidly. In practice, expansion is slow. But the main reasons for that are, not a shortage of labour, but inadequate planning, insufficient financial resources and, as a result, construction that lags demand.
The case for keeping annual immigration at traditional or even somewhat lower levels rests on more than the effect on house prices and public services, however. Immigration also depresses the wages of low-income workers, which results in greater income-equalizing transfers and the higher taxes required to pay for them. It also reduces employers’ incentives to adopt labour-saving technology, an important source of growth in labour productivity and wages, and it allows employers to avoid the cost of operating apprenticeship programs to train skilled workers.
Why isn’t Poilievre speaking out about the immigration scam? Why not Jagmeet, he of the working people’s party?
Because they seek to please their corporate masters as Justin does. They don’t give a damn about you or your children. They don’t give a damn where the bodies come from or the damage they inflict on Canada. They just want a place at the public trough and providing wage slaves ensures the corporate class will back them.
Canada’s immigration policy is Corporate welfare no ifs ands or buts.
Canada sets immigration record in 2022 with 430,000 new permanent residents
The federal government settled 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022, blowing past the previous all-time record set in 2021.
It’s one signal that the federal government appears on track to carry out its immigration plan. Next year, the government hopes to bring in another 485,000 new permanent residents.
“Newcomers play an essential role in filling labour shortages, bringing new perspectives and talents to our communities, and enriching our society as a whole,” said Sean Fraser, the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, in a news release Tuesday.
BULLSHIT. Unless of course you happen to like virulent anti-Semitism, honor killings and Sikh-Hindu sectarian violence spilling out on our streets or the poison of identity politics.
The Bank of Canada loves it too, they told the Corporate class to keep wages down as it was their intent to fight inflation on the backs of working people.
Immigration policy in Canada is designed to meet the needs of the corporate class, it should be designed to benefit citizens FULL STOP.
Now tell me again that Canada is not a Banana Republic.
