How a ballooning public sector is reshaping Canada’s economy

In the final weeks of the 2015 federal election that would sweep Justin Trudeau to power, the Liberal leader penned an open letter to Canada’s federal civil servants promising that if he were elected, government workers would be a lot better off than they were under the last guy. “I have a fundamentally different view than Stephen Harper of our public service,” he wrote. “Where he sees an adversary, I see a partner.”

By the time throngs of cheering, selfie-snapping bureaucrats mobbed Mr. Trudeau days after he was sworn in as prime minister, it was clear the dynamic between the federal government and its hundreds of thousands of employees was about to shift dramatically after years of acrimony and cuts.

The Liberals are creating a ruling class.

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Canada Has All the Symptoms of an Economy in Decline

Unemployment figures are considered by serious economists and market watchers to be a lagging indicator. But all too many of us make the mistake of believing that the unemployment rate is a leading indicator despite empirical evidence and objective reason. The lagging indicator argument makes sense, as employers do not usually lay off people until there is confirmation that their revenues and profitability are falling. This is confirmed by historical data.

Consequently, it should be of little surprise that Canadian unemployment rose to 6.1 percent in March from 5.8 percent in February, according to Statistics Canada. In July of 2022, the unemployment rate hit a cycle low of 4.9 percent, while in March 2023, the rate was 5.0 percent. A rise of 22 percent in the unemployment rate in one year is consistent with the start of a classic recession.

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Spy Agency Says Red China Interfered In Canada’s Elections To Help Justin Trudeau

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected in 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rushed to the nearest microphone to express his worry that foreign actors might disrupt his nation’s future elections.

“We have been very much focused over the past years on strengthening our democratic institutions,” Trudeau said. “We need to make sure that they are kept up to date in holding off foreign meddling and interference.”

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Ontario polls finds majority think affordability more important than Trudeau’s lunatic economy crushing climate action scam

A majority of Ontarians rank the cost of living as a more pressing concern higher than protecting the environment, according to a new poll. It also suggests that a plurality of residents are willing to dump the Trudeau government’s carbon emission pricing regime even if it means giving up the carbon rebate.

The poll comes amid renewed calls for an emergency televised meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the country’s premiers over an annual increase to the federal carbon price.

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The foreign interference inquiry has concluded. Here’s what we learned

If one thing from the public inquiry into foreign interference is clear, it’s that China attempted to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

But the evidence is hazy on whether or not it succeeded. Here’s what we learned over the past 10 days of fact-finding hearings, which ended Friday and included testimony from politicians, bureaucrats and representatives from several intelligence and security agencies …

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Young Canadians Squeezed by Housing Turn Away From Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau swept to power in 2015 with the help of younger Canadians captivated by his positive messaging and socially progressive views. That same group of voters may eventually be his undoing.

Trudeau’s chief rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, has been making huge gains with younger voters since he began attacking the prime minister forcefully on the cost of housing. In public opinion polling, the Conservatives now lead Trudeau’s Liberal Party by a 2-to-1 ratio among voters 18 to 29.

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Carbon Pricing a ‘Sin Tax on Productivity,’ Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Says

OTTAWA—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling the federal carbon tax a “sin tax on productivity,” saying it is contributing to Canada’s declining economic prospects.

“I have a friend who described to me the carbon tax; her view of it is it’s essentially a sin tax on productivity. Isn’t that what it is, when you think about it?” Ms. Smith said at the annual Canada Strong and Free Network conference in Ottawa on April 12.

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Trudeau government is funding affordable rental projects that aren’t actually affordable

When the $86-million low-interest loan for SoHo Italia apartment tower in Ottawa was announced in the summer of 2020, the federal government press release led with the line: “Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home.”

The project would provide housing for the middle class and “those working hard to join it,” said Ahmed Hussen, the cabinet minister then responsible for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., which lent the money under the largest program in the Ottawa’s national housing strategy.

The Liberals are relentless scammers.

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Justin Trudeau’s grand plan will never solve our housing crisis. Here’s why …

Justin Trudeau is not going to solve the housing crisis.

He can’t do it on his own and he can’t seem to recruit the necessary collaborators among Canadian governments to get it done.

For several weeks culminating in an ambitious set of federal housing initiatives announced Friday the prime minister and his cabinet colleagues have crossed the country announcing housing initiatives.

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CSIS director testifies Trudeau government was warned repeatedly about Chinese foreign interference

OTTAWA – CSIS director David Vigneault told an inquiry Friday that he’s been warning the Liberal government for years that Canada has been slow to respond to foreign interference and is ill-equipped to combat it.

He also confirmed that had not verbally discussed the contents of three important briefing documents directly with the prime minister and his senior staff, although he had shared similar information with them on previous occassions.

I get the feeling that Trudeau and Vigneault are scamming us.

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An Ontario renter’s ‘scary’ situation with homelessness after landlords sell property

When looking back on how the last few years have gone, Robert Quinn, 61, says he is full of gratitude and proudly pulls out his keychain.

You would not think a keychain could have so much significance, but for Quinn, it’s a constant reminder of how far he has come.

Quinn is quick to show off the tags he has collected, one for each of the agencies that helped him find housing — his ‘badges of gratitude,’ as he calls them and most importantly, two keys.

This is Trudeau’s Canada.

h/t Patti Jo

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CSIS chief defends his spies’ work after PM casts doubt on reliability of agency’s reports

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service appeared before the foreign interference inquiry Friday to defend his agency’s work, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested he sometimes doubts the reliability of CSIS reports.

‘”There’s been a lot of comments made about the intelligence in the media and in commission,” CSIS Director David Vigneault told the inquiry Friday morning.

“Intelligence is a little like a puzzle. Sometimes we have a very clear picture of the puzzle. Sometimes, through the use of raw intelligence and assessed intelligence, we are building that picture, but what is important to remember is that this is done by professional, trained intelligence analysts and professionals that are bringing this together.

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Justin Trudeau launches sweeping plan to help ‘solve’ Canada’s housing crisis. What’s in it? Bullshit.

OTTAWA—The federal government is revamping its housing efforts with a new, multi-billion dollar plan based on a bold and politically-significant premise: this is how the Trudeau Liberals will help “solve” Canada’s housing crisis.

Released Friday, the new plan capped off the government’s pre-budget rollout of new housing measures over the past two weeks, and contained a suite of spending and policy changes aimed at spurring construction and helping those who are struggling to buy homes, pay rent, and find shelter from the streets.

Garbage. Canada lacks the capacity to build the number of homes needed and until and unless they turn off the immigration tap it’s just BS.

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