Three-quarters of Canadians are in favour of hefty government subsidies to Stellantis and Volkswagen, a new poll suggests.
… Only 21 per cent of respondents said they were “familiar” with the issue, while 39 per cent had not “heard about it before today” and 40 per cent had “heard about it” but were unfamiliar with the specifics.
… Using online panels based on the Lucid exchange platform, Abacus surveyed 2,000 people between June 6 and 11.
Talk about polishing a Turdeau.
OTTAWA — The federal government failed to spend billions of dollars it pledged on a host of climate change initiatives in recent years, raising questions about one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s core policy commitments and the massive funding publicly devoted to it, a Star analysis has found.
The revelation sheds light on the sometimes stark difference between what the government intends to do and what it delivers. It also highlights concerns about whether the federal bureaucracy can meet the climate crisis with the urgency it demands, as the Trudeau Liberals boast of making $200 billion in long-term “climate commitments” since they took office in 2015.
Are we done with the Canadian wildfire smoke crisis? Here in Toronto, the post-wildfire week began with a cold snap and what seemed like record-breaking rainfall that caused traffic accidents and kept people off the streets. Missing were CBC and other media reports, along with political and environmental group statements, that this local weather event is hurting the economy and creating risks that are typical of what we can expect from the ravages of fossil-fuel-driven climate change.
Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco said on June 13 that the Liberal government needs to implement more “realistic” initiatives, saying the 2019 promise of planting two billion trees can not be done without the provinces’ participation.
“They need to concentrate much more on results,” DeMarco testified at the House of Commons natural resources committee. “This is a theme of a lot of our reports: They have to be realistic with their programs.”
The whole Green-Scam is a lie.
OTTAWA—The deal to lure Volkswagen’s giant electric vehicle battery plant to Canada will cost the federal treasury $16.3 billion, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates.
In a new report released Wednesday, the PBO says that over the life of the agreement — which promises to match U.S.-style subsidies until 2033 — the cost to land the German carmaker’s “gigafactory” in St. Thomas will likely be $3 billion more than Ottawa has publicly announced.
They just lie and lie and lie …
Chrystia Freeland disputes report VW deal will cost $16.3B — $3B more than publicly announced
… But it could cost more than expected because in order to level the playing field with the U.S. — as the federal Liberals have promised — Ottawa would have to give VW tax breaks on future corporate income taxes, which it calculates at another $2.8 billion.
That’s because Canada’s income tax law “stipulates that any amount of money received by a business from a government in the form of a contribution, grant, or subsidy is included in the consideration of income if that amount has not been deducted from the capital cost of property acquired … and is therefore subject to applicable corporate income taxes,” the PBO said.
Can environmentalism ever survive party politics?
The Greens were supposed to be Europe’s new hope. At the twilight of the Trump era, their champions on both sides of the Atlantic argued that they would be the perfect antidote to the far-Right. Back then, the largest and most powerful Green Party in Europe was Germany’s, and it was said to be uniquely positioned to counter polarisation. According to liberal logic, the Greens would excite voters bored with Germany’s conventional centre-Right (CDU) and centre-Left (SDP), “stabilise” the political centre, and unite different segments of the electorate with their “hopeful message” and “outsider status”. A Green wave, it was hoped, would crush the rising populist tide.
… Though the concept seems innocuous—who wouldn’t want everything you need nearby?—plans to adopt it have lately ignited street protests, press denunciations, and social-media warfare, especially in European cities. One spark has been a move by the city of Oxford in England to impose traffic restrictions, including closing off some neighborhoods to cars during the day, to encourage more biking and walking. Protesters hit the streets in February to fight the initiative, with signs reading “NO TO 15-MINUTE CITIES” and complaints that the traffic restrictions recalled the lockdowns. Marchers also objected to the traffic cameras being installed to scan license plates to see if a car had entered a no-go area—deeming it a troubling expansion of the surveillance state.
It’s worse than thought.
Canadian government research obtained through Access to Information shows Canadians rate the cabinet’s climate program as ‘incompetent, unfair, and lacking transparency.’
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the research does not mention Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault by name but reveals widespread distrust of the government’s environmental policies.
It’s not a “climate plan”, it’s thieving thuggery.
As much as the parliamentary investigation into food inflation is more about political artifice, the Competition Bureau’s study on the food industry announced last fall is the more interesting exercise.
Since last year, the Bureau has been heavily criticized for not upholding a decent level of competition in the food industry and helping consumers cope with higher food prices. The food retail industry is essentially controlled by a handful of players: Loblaw, Empire/Sobeys, Metro, Walmart and Costco sell well over 85% of all the food we buy in Canada, and the Competition Bureau did nothing to prevent that from happening.
"Court documents reported back in 2021 unveiled emails between high-ranking industry executives, including some at Maple Leaf Foods, suggest an intention to synchronize meat prices, resembling the alleged coordination of bread prices. That’s right, meat. Because of the pandemic,… https://t.co/w0Y603yBfC
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) June 12, 2023
10 Dollar Butter is pure Cartel.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be a particularly moral creature, but he is smart. Having watched part of Canada catch fire and burn for six weeks – no doubt largely at the hands of arsonists – he swiftly blamed the situation on ‘climate change’ and proposed an extension of the carbon tax to ‘fix it’.
Smart? Hardly. Scummy? Yes. Trudeau is also using the carbon tax to fund the Ukraine war.
Canada’s forest fires provide fresh fuel for a familiar simplistic political narrative.
Around 1 p.m. on Wednesday the sky began to darken, and an orange haze descended on Manhattan. I watched in amazement from my Midtown office as Mother Nature dimmed the lights and quietly reminded Gotham City of her awesome power.
This seems like an appropriate time for a story like this to pop up since it involves both smoke clouds and climate change. You probably heard how AOC was quick to blame the clouds of smoke wafting down from the Canadian wildfires last week on climate change. As you likely expected without even needing to check, that turns out to be nonsense. But the underlying facts that prove its nonsensical nature turn out to be well rooted in science. And researching this question turns up something even more interesting, which we’ll get to in a moment.
While there have been suggestions that wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, environmental and economic professors interviewed by The Epoch Times say the number of fires has been decreasing for decades, and that the cause of the fires in many cases can be attributed to poor forest management.
“The prime minister said that climate change is causing more and more forest fires, and the record shows the opposite,” said Ross McKitrick, an environmental economics professor at the University of Guelph.
With fires raging in Canada and blanketing America’s northeast in thick orange smoke, leftists are again beating the “climate change” drum. Saner minds point to Justin Trudeau’s refusal to practice good forest management. But what if it’s neither of those things? It turns out that there’s compelling evidence suggesting that eco-terrorists set the fires to corral weary Westerners back into a climate change panic—and it won’t be the first time that’s happened.
I’m surprised climate doesn’t know stacking wood looking like a preparation of a bonfire 🔥 could burn a forest down ? pic.twitter.com/YKnkwiyUHx
— JayGenXer (@JayGenXer) June 10, 2023
Meat products could be removed from German menus in the future as the Green Party-led proposals aim to target meat consumption.
Meat could soon be off menus in German restaurants if the country’s Green Party has its way. The party revealed draconian new regulations to marginalise carnivores nationwide including a hefty new meat tax and advertising restrictions.
Former editor of the popular German tabloid Bild, Julian Reichelt, warned of outlandish new proposals being pushed by the German Ministry of the Environment this week. These proposals form part of a European trend against meat consumption. The proposals are unlikely to lift the German Green Party’s polling numbers, as the party feels the brunt of a collapse in public support.
