One national political activity is truly non-partisan — the singular lust of governments at all levels to screw Canadians on taxation.
The federal Liberals are raising the capital gains tax. City governments have hit citizens with whopping property tax increases (7.8 per cent in Calgary).
The provincial UCP government promised immediate tax relief in an election campaign, and then wiggled out of it when safely elected, using arguments that are now shown to be bogus.
There are more unemployed people in Toronto than in all of Quebec.
When that stat was passed my way the other day, I was dismissive and thought it was someone on social media making things up.
Turns out it is 100% accurate and the reasons behind it are disturbing.
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.
#SelloutSingh says Justin Trudeau is undermining our democracy by not acting on foreign interference — and tonight he will vote confidence eight times in Trudeau’s government.
Stay tuned to watch him vote over and over again to keep the Liberals in power. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/66X8woDZOD
— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) June 13, 2024
If you ever studied philosophy you’ll be familiar with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The philosopher described people who’ve spent their lives chained in a cave, facing a blank wall. All they know of reality is from shadows projected on the wall created by objects passing in front of a fire behind them.
When it comes to the most alarming type of foreign interference in our politics, Canadians are being put in the same position as those prisoners in Plato’s cave. We’re not allowed to get a direct look at the reality of what’s going on. After all, you know, national security!
After years of denying the negative impact of the carbon tax on the economy, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has released data confirming the tax is a net cost for the economy, contradicting previous claims of revenue neutrality and job creation.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the figures show the carbon tax will cut economic production by $20 billion to $30 billion annually, equivalent to $1,200 per family in extra annual costs, as noted by Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Guilbeault attempted to downplay the findings.
In the face of global adversaries like Russia and China bent on hegemony and conquest, Canada’s hands-off approach to defence and security is no longer tenable. While the country itself has seemingly not woken up to this realization, its NATO and Western allies certainly have.
It’s been quite the melodrama.
For two weeks, the inferred conclusions of “treason” on Parliament Hill derived from an 84-page-report that none of us is allowed to read have only heaped fuel on a garbage fire that began with the leaked revelations of intelligence agency whistleblowers going back to November 2022.
The stinking reek of it all should not be expected to subside any time soon. All the parties in the House now seem content with having the matter kicked over to Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s Foreign Interference Commission. In the short term, if any legislative good comes of the international spectacle Canada’s political class has been making of itself, it will be in the outcome of Bill C-70, the Countering Foreign Interference Act, which completed third reading in the House of Commons on Thursday.
Trudeau is a witting accomplice.
The Trudeau government’s own data even says the carbon tax is going to cost us big time.
Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada that the Trudeau government kept secret for years details the hit to the Canadian economy.
The data was only released Thursday after its existence was revealed by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
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… 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.
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.
The unmitigated, though not unexpected, duplicity of Hamas is exposing just how incredibly naive Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been with his ill-thought-out policy toward Israel and its ongoing war with the terrorist organization.
In fact, the imperious trinity of Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minster Mélanie Joly have allowed themselves to be willing dupes of Hamas.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out in clear detail how Hamas’s double-dealing was extending the war in Gaza.
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.
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…”
The third time it happened, I started getting curious. I’d be in the grocery store or on a walk in Vaughan, my suburb just north of Toronto, and bump into an acquaintance. “Hey Danielle, we’re moving to Florida next year. My husband just can’t handle this country anymore.” One by one, millennial families with young kids seemed to be emptying out of my neighbourhood.
OTTAWA — The federal carbon tax will have a negative economic impact on Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP) of $25 billion, or approximately one per cent, in 2030 according to the government’s own internal data it released on Thursday.
Those numbers, which were shared with the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) last month on the condition they remain confidential, were published as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was about to deliver a speech to call on the government to disclose them publicly.
🇨🇦🌦️Video : Pierre Poilievre calls for Steven Guilbeault to resign or be fired by the Prime Minister for lying to Canadians about the costs of the carbon tax, then covering it up.
Do you agree with Pierre? pic.twitter.com/BcxmQJv1Yf
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) June 13, 2024
This morning, Liberals were forced to release their own economic report showing what we all knew – that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of everything and Canadian families are losing $1800 a year.
It's time for this Environment Minister to resign for misleading Canadians. pic.twitter.com/8dINU2HQL8
— Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) June 13, 2024
