A majority of Canadians aren’t confident in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ability to deal with inflation.
According to a Maru Public Opinion poll commissioned by Yahoo News, 55% of Canadians said they don’t believe Trudeau has a “solid plan” to weather the country through economic troubles.
It’s important to note that Canadians’ frustration with government didn’t start with the pandemic. Housing prices in much of the country were already a problem, in large part due to municipal obstructionism. Timely health care was a perennial gripe, featuring long wait times and federal-provincial finger-pointing over who should foot the bill.
Our military is starved of both jets and ships. Many rural Indigenous reserves remain without potable water. Money laundering is rampant. And the Trudeau government had developed a well-earned reputation for being really good at announcing things, but not so good at delivering them.
Canadian airports continue to be plagued with delays amid staffing shortages and remaining federal Covid mandates and restrictions.
The governor of the Bank of Canada showed immense incompetence and arrogance, dismissing Pierre Poilievre’s warnings about higher interest rates – warnings which proved prescient.
The last few months have seen story after story of a federal government breaking down on the services it is supposed to provide Canadians. One senior bureaucrat speaking to National Post compared it to a body rotting from the inside, and there doesn’t seem to be a real fix in sight.
The delivery of the Canadian navy’s new supply ships will be delayed another two years and taxpayers will be hit with more costs, federal officials confirmed Thursday.
The first Joint Supply Ship won’t be delivered until 2025 and the second won’t arrive until 2027, said Simon Page, assistant deputy minister for defence and marine procurement at Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Having passed the House with Liberal, NDP, and Bloc support, the last chance to stop the draconian censorship legislation is for Senators to hear the voices of Canadians and stop the bill.
In a press release sent out yesterday, the Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable (the Roundtable), comprised of representatives from airlines, hotels, airports and travel organizations, said it is “calling on the federal government to provide urgent relief at the border by alleviating pressures currently facing travelers at Canada’s airports before June 15, 2022.”
“Trudeau foolishly completely ignores how taking guns away from his people makes his country weak and vulnerable to being invaded and easily taken over by another stronger country,” the Georgia Republican wrote in the second post of a six-part Twitter thread on her official account. (Her personal account was permanently banned by Twitter over COVID misinformation.)
Why was Marjorie Taylor Greene banned from Twitter?
Greene’s personal account has been permanently suspended so the offending tweet is no longer viewable. However, several screenshots and quotes are floating around online showing the offending tweet.
Greene has been quoted by several sources as saying that there were, “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.”
These are difficult times for most Canadian families.
The exorbitant price of gasoline is having an impact on the price of the grocery basket, which was already on the rise.
In addition, there is the explosion in the cost of rent and energy, which is contributing to the impoverishment of the middle class and those who are already below the poverty line.
Since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015, federal spending has increased by 82 per cent from $248.7 billion under Stephen Harper to $452.3 billion in the current fiscal year.
During that period, inflation has been just 18.7 per cent. Population growth has been 6.5 per cent, meaning federal spending under Trudeau has far outstripped both the rising cost of living and the increase in population.
Revenues have outstripped inflation and population growth, too – by 46 per cent – but not nearly as much as spending has increased.
Former MPP Conservative Party leadership candidate Roman Baber recently appear on the CBC with Rosemary Barton, host of “Rosemary Barton Live,” where he proved how little the Canadian legacy media is willing and able to speak about the negative effects of lockdowns and other restrictions placed on Canadians over the last two years.
On the offset, it should be said that Baber did a great job of discussing the issue of the failures of restrive COVID-19 policies in a way that would be appealing to those who may have thought lockdowns were effective, but the most interesting part of the interview is Barton’s reaction to the discussion.
The economist Thomas Sowell once said that inflation is just a way to take people’s money without having to openly raise taxes. But you don’t have to tell that to Annette Murray and her husband Tom McGregor.
The Vancouver couple, aged 64 and 59, live on disability pensions adding up to $37,000 a year. Or they used to. With higher prices for food and medical supplies, the two are now relying on their savings to make ends meet.
Justin Trudeau is making your neighbourhood less safe and using racist tropes to justify it. pic.twitter.com/1nMaD3pirM
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) May 19, 2022
Federal authorities are acknowledging that Canada is facing a shortage of formulas for babies with food allergies and some health conditions.
Health Canada says in a Thursday advisory that supplies of allergy-friendly formulas aren’t meeting demand in some provinces.
The statement comes amid widespread formula shortages south of the border after the shutdown of a large U.S. manufacturing plant, which also ships hypoallergenic formula to Canada.
