Catalano Travelers: The Canadian Ruling Elite

When I survey the current roster of those who have been empowered to govern Canada, it is hard to avoid the onset of severe depression. None are serious people, none even remotely competent, all are driven by the ideological drivel of the day, and they are to a man and woman decoupled from the ordinary folk who make — or made — this country run.

Moreover, beginning with the prime minister and descending to the least member of cabinet, these are people who seem to have no idea what real work and economic survival consist of. Passing legislation on climate change, health policies, agriculture, energy, and supply-and-manufacturing sectors that almost inevitably tend to harm the prospects of the actual people affected while the legislators themselves are protected from the ravages of their virtue comprises the trademark of the parasitic class, which disqualifies the present bunch from serving in their official capacity. (It is only fair to mention parenthetically an astronaut and a hockey goaltender, but neither now serves in cabinet, and neither was especially distinguished.)

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High Inflation Makes Trudeau’s Spending Habits Harder to Justify

Justin Trudeau can take solace from the fact that inflation probably won’t get much worse than June’s reading of 8.1%. The Canadian leader’s political problems, however, are just beginning.

Statistics Canada said Wednesday that annual consumer price gains hit their highest since January 1983, a week after the Bank of Canada surprised markets by hiking interest rates by a full percentage point to beat down inflationary pressures.

Those back-to-back signals make clear that the overheating economy no longer needs the large budget deficits that have characterized Trudeau’s reign as prime minister.

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Support For Vaccine Passports Has Collapsed

Canadians have shifted their views dramatically when it comes to vaccine passports.

According to a new Angus Reid survey, just 25% of Canadians want vaccine passports to continue.

To get a sense of the shift, 70% supported them in September of 2021.

Support for mask mandates has also dropped dramatically.

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John Ivison: Report of a drone sent to Russia points to holes in Ottawa’s export ban

The Canadian government may have dropped the ball when it comes to its export ban on military equipment to Russia.

Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported last week that Italian authorities had seized a U.S.-made, Russia-bound drone shipment. Containers with drones, or drone components, were intercepted at the southern port of Gioia Tauro. They were officially bound for Qatar but investigators suspect their final destination would have been Russia, which is desperate to get its hands on superior American drone guidance and control systems for its war in Ukraine.

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Canadian Convoys to Rally in Support Dutch of Farmers

They made Justin cry.

Canadian farmers and activists are launching convoy protests across the country on July 23 to stand in solidarity with Dutch farmers who have been protesting against their government’s climate change policy since June.

Protests are set to take place simultaneously in several provinces, including Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, several social media posts show.

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Trudeau blames Russia for exposing him as the lying hypocrite that he is

Trudeau: Russia is trying to ‘divide’ western allies over turbine issue

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing behind Canada’s decision to send repaired Russian turbines back to Germany — despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s assertion that the move violated sanctions.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trudeau said the decision to return the turbine was “difficult” but “right.”

“Russia will not succeed in either weaponizing its energy or dividing our allies amongst ourselves. We are focused on being there to support Ukraine,” he said.


Junior made his choice, a bad one as usual and it still won’t help his German Globalist buddies a bit.

Germany worries about gas rationing as supply from Russia halted

Germans are fretting about the coming winter freeze even while Europe sweats in record temperatures, amid uncertainty over whether a complete stopping of Russian gas deliveries would force energy rationing on private households as well as industry.

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‘Tamara Lich is an enemy of the state’

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial on her bail breach charge – an unprecedented situation in Canadian legal history. Other organizers and people involved in the Freedom Convoy are either out on bail or not facing charges at all, so why is Tamara Lich the one who seems to be facing the harshest punishment and why is the state throwing the proverbial kitchen sink at this case?

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Canadians’ Federal Debt Per Person Grew by 35 Percent Under Trudeau Government: Study

Every Canadian’s share of federal debt has spiked by more than $12,000, or an increase of 35.3 percent, since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to office in 2015, a recent Fraser Institute study shows.

The study compared the debt legacies of every Canadian prime minister since Confederation, looking at how much the federal debt increased or decreased during their time in office. It found that the Trudeau government has accumulated the third-highest debt among all prime ministers since World War II—just behind his father Pierre Trudeau, who saw the federal debt increase by 58.8 percent per person during his second tenure from 1980 to 1984, and Brian Mulroney, with 42.5 percent between 1984 and 1993.

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Ottawa’s turbine return may weaken West’s unity against Russia: Rick Hillier

A former Canadian chief of defence staff is warning Ottawa’s decision to return turbines to Russia’s Gazprom could be the start of western economic pressure easing on Moscow.

“This decision to send the turbines back … may be seen as the straw that broke the camel’s back, and we may start to see a relenting of pressure from NATO, from the West in general,” Retired Gen. Rick Hillier said, speaking to reporters Tuesday during a virtual news conference.

“Instead of going upwards and onwards with more and more sanctions, this might be the straw that causes it to turn downwards.”

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ArriveCan needs to go – now

The federal government’s ArriveCan app is stranding travellers abroad and getting elderly Canadians getting fined because they aren’t tech-savvy. Justin Trudeau and Omar Alghabra claimed it was a Covid app, but it’s gradually morphing into a permanent requirement to enter your own country, True North’s Andrew Lawton says. Also, do Canadians want a fall election?

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