If the federal government wants to make good on the $78 billion in promises Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced during last year’s election, taxing the rich to pay for them won’t work, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Divorced from reality: Federal oil and gas emissions plan will hurt Canadians
The federal government’s plan to require a 42% reduction in emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector by 2030 is based on assumptions divorced from reality and will ultimately hurt Canadians.
Setting aggressive targets to cap and reduce the sector’s pollution – while no other major producing nation does the same – is misleading about the future and sends the wrong message to our allies and the world.
GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s climate emperors have no clothes
With the United Nations issuing yet another report Monday warning global greenhouse gas emissions must peak and begin to decline by 2025 to avert catastrophic warming, it’s time for our climate emperors to admit they have no clothes.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney calls Ottawa’s greenhouse gas targets ‘nuts’; pledges to fight them
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling Ottawa’s federal emissions plan that was tabled in the House of Commons last week “nuts,” and is pledging to fight it “with everything we’ve got.”
The federal government says the country’s oil patch is capable of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 42 per cent below 2019 levels by 2030.
Kenney told his weekly phone-in radio show on Saturday that the plan would require a production cut, which he says would only shift energy production from Canada to places such as “Putin’s Russia and the OPEC dictatorships.”
Calling federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault a “former Greenpeace radical,” he also characterized the plan as “a full-frontal attack on the 800,000 people who work in the energy sector.”
Radical Wokism: Remaking Canada As A Non-Democratic Nation
When moving toward a destination, travellers look for signs along the way. So it should be when contemplating the political future of Canada. How little this practice occurs within Canadian media is nothing short of a national travesty.
Myriad signs exist in terms of our country’s transition away from democratic governance. Mainstream media are so successful in obscuring the signs, one would believe they are being paid by government to do so.
Trudeau’s Two-Faced Climate Plan
This past week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver to unveil details about Canada’s Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act to address Canada’s climate emergency, which the Trudeau government declared an “emergency” three years ago.
FUREY: The Trudeau Liberals remain obsessed with censoring Internet
One year ago there was a lot of noise about the federal Liberal government looking for ways to regulate Internet content and effectively give themselves the power to censor people’s social media posts.
What was then known as Bill C-10 was seen as a backdoor way to bring in creeping censorship by giving the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the powers to regular what they termed user-generated content posted online, in the same way the regulatory body currently has domain over the radio and TV realm.
Federal budget could see more money for economy destroying climate programs says extremist Guilbeault
With the federal budget slated to be unveiled on Thursday, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says we could see more climate-related elements in the budget.
Speaking to Evan Solomon on CTV’s Question Period, he said it’s “fair” to say that new programs to fight climate change could be in the budget.
“I’m not the finance minister. I don’t know what will be in the budget, but it is possible that that there will be new elements announced in the budget,” Guilbeault said.
FERNANDO: Young Canadians Could Power Conservatives To Victory
Amid times of crisis and change, the ideals and values that will guide a nation in the future are defined by how the next generation interprets and responds to circumstances.
For some time, Canada has been heading down the path of expanded centralization and government power, a trend that reached a new height (or low) during the pandemic.
Yet, human nature being what it is, those who lead a seemingly dominant trend often end up overreaching, causing a backlash that leads to a countertrend and reversal.
And it now appears this is what we are seeing in Canada.
FUREY: The Trudeau Liberals remain obsessed with censoring Internet
“Social media companies need to do more to prevent propaganda, and to counter any form of disinformation,” Joly said at an event at the University of Toronto’s Munk School two weeks ago. The problem is “not only happening in Russia, it’s happening on new virtual battlegrounds, which are our social media companies,” she added.
GOLDSTEIN: The real costs of Trudeau’s carbon tax
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax, which rose by 25% to $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions on Friday, doesn’t just increase the cost of gasoline.
The tax, which came into effect in 2019 at $20 per tonne and increases annually on April 1, applies to 22 types of fossil fuel energy.
That’s why the cost of almost everything goes up when the carbon tax increases, because almost all goods and services use fossil fuel energy.
Texts, emails show what Ottawa police told convoy organizers ahead of protest
Text messages between one of the convoy protest organizers and an Ottawa police officer show how police told protesters where to park, which one expert calls an agreement gone awry.
Convoy protest organizer Chad Eros filed an affidavit with the Ontario Superior Court as a respondent to the proposed class-action lawsuit responsible for halting the honking downtown. In that affidavit, text messages and emails revealed how organizers communicated with police days before thousands of people and hundreds of vehicles began to paralyze downtown streets.
On Jan. 25, three days before the most eager first convoy protesters arrived with large trucks to block city streets, Ottawa police Const. Isabelle Cyr-Pidcock texted Eros instructing him to send her an itinerary of the protesters.
h/t Mauser
CHARLEBOIS: A beef with greed
… When it comes to price fixing, the United States doesn’t fool around. When Congress and the White House have concerns, they act on them. In Canada, not so much.
The bread price-fixing scandal, which came to light in 2017 when Loblaw admitted having participated in an alleged industry-wide operation, opened the door to some public criticism. In 2017, Loblaw’s Ghalen Weston strategically threw everyone in the industry under the bus when admitting Loblaw’s involvement in a 14-year-long bread price-fixing scheme. By admitting guilt and supporting the investigation, Loblaw received immunity from the Competition Bureau.
If you’re going to be a criminal in Canada be a white collar criminal. The Government may even buy you new freezers.
The Liberal plan to smother the energy industry
The Liberals are either governing in a fantasy universe or they are being deliberately reckless. How else do you explain that, in the same week our European allies were preparing to ration energy, being held hostage as they are by a murderous tyrant wreaking havoc in Ukraine, our government announced a dramatic acceleration of its plan to hobble the oil and gas industry?
Trudeau cabinet “penetrated” by World Economic Forum: Aussie senator
Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antic has blasted the World Economic Forum (WEF) for influencing world governments, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet.
Antic, who is a member of the conservative faction of the Liberal Party, accused the WEF and founder Klaus Schwab of being “steeped in authoritarianism and Marxist ideology.”