Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

There will be more pain at the pumps.

High gas prices are expected to continue into 2023, a research group says.

Consumers can expect fuel prices to remain high in 2023 because of disruptions to Russian oil supplies and because refineries are struggling to meet demand as the world recovers from the pandemic, research group Wood Mackenzie says.

Hot on the heels of imposing the most aggressive attack on the right to keep and bear arms in Canadian history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is racing towards another set of ghastly goals.

Given the leftist bent of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate, a bill that claims for the central government the power to control information online – to the extent of censoring personal user content on social media — creeps closer to passage, as Trudeau openly and enthusiastically has anticipated.

The bill is called C-11, and, coming on the heels of Canada’s 2017 imposition of Bill C-16 — which punishes anyone in a “regulated business” (meaning, virtually, all) for not using the pronouns a visitor demands – C-11 will syphon virtually all publicly accessible information through the government filter, eliminating the choice and market control that ought to be the purview of viewers, readers, listeners, and those who post.

Food prices have soared to their highest rates in almost half a century, leaving many Canadians feeling more financial pressure at the checkout line and eating less healthy food to save money — something that could lead to serious impacts on our health.

Canada is now in the grips of a growing food insecurity crisis, with many low-income and fixed-income households faced with the difficult decision to either pay their bills or put food on the table at a time when even the price of staple items has skyrocketed.

The failure to correctly forecast income tax receipts over the past six months indicates that looking ahead five years may not be an exact science.

Federal budgets are where predictions go to die, so treat this year’s fall economic statement with the skepticism it deserves.

The fiscal update reveals that revenues were $40 billion higher than were projected in the April budget — less than six months ago. It also suggests that the budget will be back in surplus in the 2027-28 fiscal year.

The fiscal update suggests a federal budgetary surplus is on the distant horizon for the first time since the Liberals came to power seven years ago, but that picture is clouded by a potential recession and promises to spend a lot more to support Canada’s transition to a clean and green economy.

The Liberals would also need to fight another election before getting there.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled her fall economic statement Thursday — a roadmap of what’s to come from the federal government as the economy stands on the brink of a recession.

While Freeland has promised fiscal prudence in this era of sky-high inflation, the budget proposes billions of dollars in new spending to help some of the people hit hardest by rising prices — including students and low-income workers — and to launch what she called “a real, robust industrial policy” to position Canada for economic growth.

The upshot: $30.6 billion in new spending over the next six years.