PBO defends unflattering analysis of green-regulation cost impacts against Liberal efforts to lie about their green-scam

Liar.

OTTAWA – Despite Liberal attacks, Canada’s budget watchdog is standing by his office’s analysis showing a rise in the cost of gasoline from Ottawa’s new fuel regulations, insisting that it is not his job to help promote government policies.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released on Thursday a distributional analysis of the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), showing ho w the new Liberal policy will increase the price of gas and diesel when the program is fully implemented by 2030. The PBO estimated that at the national level, in 2030, the cost of the CFR to households would range from $231 for lower-income households to $1,008 for higher-income households.

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The ugly downsides of Canada’s costly obsession with electric vehicles

Canada’s government is enchanted – obsessed even – with the idea of building batteries for electric vehicles on home soil. Already, Volkswagen is soaking up about $14-billion in public subsidies to build a battery factory in Southwestern Ontario, and Stellantis, owner of Jeep and Fiat, and LG Energy Solution are demanding equal treatment for their joint venture.

The mission to make Canada (well, Ontario) part of the global EV supply chain was inevitable and, from a purely industrial point of view, makes some sense, even though the per-employee job creation bill may emerge as the most expensive in Canadian history.

A good piece, you can’t come away without being convinced that EV’s are a ludicrous “green solution.”

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Trudeau Crony Johnston Is Expected To Let Us Know What He’s Been Told To Say About ChiCom Interference Tuesday

Special rapporteur David Johnston is expected to release his decision next Tuesday on whether the federal Liberals should hold a public inquiry on foreign interference.

The recommendation is anticipated to be included in an initial report about how the government should proceed with allegations that Canada’s last two federal elections were subject to meddling by other countries.

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Michel Maisonneuve: Redesigned passport is yet another step in Canada’s decline

The Canadian passport — once a symbol of freedom and prosperity, coveted by new Canadians and cherished by all Canadian citizens — has been stripped of every meaningful image and anecdote. Images of our heroes, our history and our national monuments have been replaced with drawings of a man raking leaves, children splashing in a pond and a squirrel eating a nut.

Not much to be proud of on those pages.

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‘We will not risk plunging our homes into darkness because of the ideological whims of others,’ says Saskatchewan premier

Rex Murphy: Scott Moe’s not buying any net-zero nonsense

Two and a half cheers for Scott Moe, premier of Saskatchewan.

In this current mad moment in Canadian politics, when the nation’s global warming synod (the high priest being the most frequent flyer in the country, Justin Trudeau) is handing out billions of dollars from an exhausted treasury to carmakers if they locate in Ontario, Moe has most sensibly held up a “hold on!” sign. Very daring, Mr. Premier.

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Trudeau government gave group suspected of hosting Chinese ‘police station’ up to $200,000 in federal funding

OTTAWA – The federal government gave up to $200,000 in funding since 2020 to a Quebec charity the RCMP suspects may be hosting a secret Chinese “police station.”

Experts on Chinese foreign interference fear that funding may have helped pro-Beijing actors grow the Chinese Communist Party’s network in Canada, while “legitimizing” the organization police suspect may be supporting efforts to intimidate or silence critics of China’s ruling regime.

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The Horror! Pierre Poilievre has made the job of Justin Trudeau’s ‘ski buddy’ almost impossible

Long before David Johnston was given a role in Canada’s foreign-interference saga, and even before he served as governor general under a past prime minister, he had a walk-on part in a famous work of fiction.

Johnston was the real-life inspiration for the character “Davey Johnston” in Erich Segal’s tragic novel “Love Story,” which was made into one of the most wept-over films of the 1970s, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw.

So what made an over privileged frat boy become a ChiCom sympathizer?

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New fuel regulations will increase price of fuel and decrease GDP: budget watchdog

New fuel regulations set to take full effect in 2030 are expected to increase the price of fuel and shrink the size of Canada’s economy, according to a new report from Canada’s budget watchdog.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a distributional analysis of the federal government’s Clean Fuel Regulations Thursday.

After its release, the report became a lightning rod for federal politicians, with the Conservatives calling the policy a financial burden on families.

The other political parties criticized the PBO because they said the analysis ignores the cost of inaction on climate change.

So the Libs and NDP are upset that the report failed to take into account whatever made up numbers were necessary to make the tax grab look good.

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Senior Conservative says foreign interference taskforce didn’t work in 2021 election

OTTAWA – A senior Conservative campaign official said the government’s system for sharing foreign interference information left him with the impression there were no major issues during the campaign.

Walied Soliman, who was co-chair of the Conservatives 2021 campaign, was also one of the party’s representatives to a special task force of Canada’s intelligence agencies.

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Bill Blair significantly delayed approval of CSIS surveillance on LPC powerbroker Michael Chan as if to avoid scandal during 2021 election

Bill Blair took months to approve CSIS surveillance of Liberal powerbroker, national-security source says

… Although lawyers for CSIS and independent counsel from the Justice Department approved the warrant as did the office of CSIS director David Vigneault, the source said Mr. Blair, a former Toronto police chief, did not sign off on it until June.

The four-month delay left little time for CSIS to get the approval of a federal judge and to figure out the best ways to plant bugs in Mr. Chan’s cars, home, office, computers and mobile phones before the election campaign got under way.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered the election in August, 2021, for Sept. 20 – a ballot in which the Liberals returned to power with another minority government.

The LPC is in the bag to China.

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Winnipeg Lab Documents – Why Did It Take so Long and What Could They Reveal?

Will the public finally be provided some details behind the mysterious firing of Chinese-Canadian scientists who were working at the country’s top biosafety lab?

The Liberal government announced on May 17 that an ad-hoc committee of selected MPs will be able to review documents pertaining to the matter, and a panel of arbiters composed of three former justices will decide what can be released to the public.

Up to now, the government has resisted revealing details about the scientists Qiu Xiangguo and Cheng Keding, who were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in 2019 amid a police probe and then fired in January 2021.

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Why were 2 scientists fired from Winnipeg lab? MPs to examine documents

A panel of members of Parliament and judges are going to review documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada’s highest-security laboratory.

On Wednesday, House of Commons leader Mark Holland revealed the names of MPs and judges who will serve as arbiters on an ad hoc committee tasked to examine both redacted and unredacted documents pertaining to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

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Jeep maker Stellantis demands billions to keep battery plant in Canada

Jeep maker Stellantis has threatened to shift a planned battery plant from Canada to the US unless it receives billions more in state subsidies offered to a rival, in the latest manoeuvre by a big manufacturer in the international battle over green incentives.

It comes as the world’s fourth biggest carmaker, which also produces Vauxhall/Opel, Fiat, Citroën, Peugeot, DS, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Abarth vehicles, leads a campaign in Europe for the UK and EU to renegotiate tariff rules in the Brexit deal.

A pox on both their houses.

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