OTTAWA—Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has a remarkably tricky job.
As Ottawa’s point-person on the troublesome file of online regulation, his role has tripped up everyone who has held the position since Justin Trudeau’s Liberals came to power. Previous ministers have been demoted for policy blunders, or ridiculed for their media gaffes.
Place your bets.
Inflation is down, officially, but consumers will be forgiven for not celebrating.
While Canada’s consumer price index fell from 3.4% in May to 2.8% in June, the cost of groceries was 9.1% above where it had been a year earlier.
True, the rate of inflation on groceries was 10.4% in January, so 9.1% today is better. But excuse me if I’m not all that grateful, given that essential groceries such as eggs, pasta, butter and meat are as much as 40% above where they were this time last year.
A new economic report from TD says Canada is falling behind the standard-of-living curve compared to its peers.
According to the report published last week, Canada has been lagging behind the U.S. and other advanced economies in terms of standard of living performance (or real GDP per capita), despite recent years of “headline growth.”
“Economic growth does not necessarily equate to economic prosperity,” TD economist Marc Ercolao wrote
I don’t understand how anyone could have misinterpreted Justin’s Trudeau’s cornerstone policy of “Mass Immigration Good”. It’s clearly working as now there’s a smaller piece of the pie for everyone! Journalists and Bankers just don’t understand economics.
Below are just a few of Justin’s positive initiatves deliberately overlooked by Canada’s hostile press.
He’s ruining the resource industry and destroying livliehoods across the entire economic spectrum as a personal sacrifice!
He’s imposing onerous taxes that he assures us will change the weather in China.
He’s making it mandatory that everyone drives Electric Vehicles while ensuring Canada lacks the energy infrastructure to support them. Well actually Justin and his friends will have EV’s just not the rest of us but that’s OK cause we’ll sing songs of praise while crammed like cattle on the BIG Electric Bus!
He’s managed Canada’s international stature to “Pariah” status as we are now considered a deadbeat laughing stock and security risk by our former closest allies.
He’s made life better for Canada’s China Class by subcontracting security and policing to the CCP in the name of efficiency.
He’s made it clear that Canada stands for the sexual mutilation of children and the on demand surrender of your kids to perverts of all stripes.
He’s made Canada the world’s biggest DEI experiment by destroying our nation’s heritage and values in the name of diversity & multiculturalism all while importing the 3rd World with all its prejudices, hate for western values & conflicts.
He’s making good on his promise of equality for all by ensuring most Canadians can’t afford food and shelter.
And remember it was Justin Trudeau who gave us 10 Dollar Butter!
h/t Mauser
Weren’t those kids supposed to be outside playing and asking for ice cream truck money?
Take a look at their fascist Prime Minister! Winsome lad Justin Trudeau was over in Vilnius making propaganda videos for his oppressed citizens as if he were a front line playa or something! Just like other dictators (can’t think who would spring immediately to mind…) used to do.
In 2014, as Beijing was ramping up Operation Fox Hunt, a sprawling campaign to go after corrupt politicians and economic criminals hiding overseas, a representative of the Chinese government approached William Majcher.
A retired former undercover officer with the RCMP, Mr. Majcher had been living in Hong Kong for seven years, working as a corporate investigator and advising banks on money laundering. According to Mr. Majcher, he was invited to meet someone “very close to senior state security,” who asked him whether he would be able to help track down money stolen by corrupt officials.
A retired RCMP officer has been charged with foreign interference, the Mounties said in a news release Friday.
William Majcher, 60, “allegedly used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People’s Republic of China,” the RCMP in Montreal said in the news release.
The release alleged that Majcher “contributed to the Chinese government’s efforts to identify and intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law.”
Less than a quarter (23 per cent) of Canadians think the federal government is properly spending money on the most important issues facing the country, according to new survey data from Ipsos.
The survey, conducted on behalf of the Montreal Economic Institute, also found 64 per cent of people think the government is doing an ineffective job allocating funds to address important problems, while 13 per cent said they don’t know or preferred not to answer.
More than half of Canadians (55 per cent) said the government spends too much money, while 27 per cent think it is an acceptable level, according to the poll. Only nine per cent of Canadians said government spending is too low, while another nine per cent said they don’t know or preferred not to answer.
Justin Trudeau has some advice for Justin Trudeau.
Mr. Trudeau, in 2023, leads a federal government that has overseen a surge in the country’s reliance on low-wage temporary foreign workers. The federal Liberals stoked this increase: they loosened the rules early last year. According to the latest data, reported by The Globe last week, Ottawa has approved the hiring of almost 80,000 low-wage foreign workers in the year after the rules were eased. That’s triple the level of the 12 months before the change.
The Mr. Trudeau of 2014 would not be happy. Amid debate at the time over rising reliance on foreign workers, Mr. Trudeau’s position on the opposition benches was clear. “The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is broken,” he declared. He argued that it “drives down wages” and called for the program to be “scaled back dramatically.”
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland crowed on Wednesday about Canada’s inflation rate dropping to 2.8% in June.
“Canada’s plan to bring down inflation is working,” she wrote on Twitter alongside a graphic showing the country’s inflation rate leading the G7 and being its lowest since March 2021.
They never take credit for causing the inflation to begin with.
Two in three Canadians think the amount they pay in income taxes is too high and fewer than one in four Canadians believe the federal government spends on the right priorities.
Those are some of the findings from the latest Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)/EI-Ipsos poll, released today. The poll was recently conducted among a sample of 1,020 Canadians aged 18 and over.
A new survey conducted by TD Bank Group shows that nearly 60 per cent of Canadian parents are concerned about their children’s financial future, primarily due to the impact of inflation and the prevailing economic uncertainties in the country.
According to the survey published on Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of surveyed parents (89 per cent) believe that their confidence in their children’s financial future would improve if their kids gained better financial knowledge before their teenage years.
The survey also found that 66 per cent of parents are not highly confident in their children’s current financial knowledge.
Concern is what parents do but we do not live in ordinary times.
Our government is run by sanctimonius idiots who believe destroying the wealth of our nation will bend the planet to their will.
Our education system is overrun by perverts and no longer fit for purpose.
Few can afford rent let alone dream of purchasing a home yet the political class insist mass immigration is the answer to all ills.
It isn’t, it is the ill.
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial suggested Canada should sit at the kiddies table in the NATO alliance instead of with the adults. This is because as a share of GDP our defence spending is seventh lowest among NATO’s 31 member nations. It’s also lowest among the G7, which prompted the Journal to question whether we are still willing to accept our responsibilities as a member of the G7. It concluded that if this country “doesn’t want to play that role, then the G-7 should consider a replacement.”
Trudeau is a little prick.
“Net zero” is a popular talking point among many politicians and members of the commentariat. It refers to the idea of eliminating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the production and use of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and thermal coal) by 2050 or sooner. Many believe this is necessary to stem the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere that’s been occurring since the late 1800s.
In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan successfully combatted their countries’ large fiscal deficits with policies that included cuts to the number of bureaucrats employed in their respective countries. Recent Canadian governments also used these policies to deal with fiscal deficits, as the chart shows. It tracks the number of federal civil servants against population from the late 1990s until now, with 1997=100 for both series.
Creating “good” jobs in Canada, improving its competitiveness, and now fostering the green transition and making the country’s supply chain more resilient are typical excuses that roll off the tongues of politicians when defending subsidies to hand-picked industries.
In the 2023 budget, the federal government provided $20-billion to preferred sectors and technologies and $14-billion (and counting) afterward to Volkswagen. The government later did a similar deal with Stellantis.
Everything Trudeau touches turns to shit.
