More Apologies From Federal Liberals: Are Any of These MPs Thinking?

Another day, another apology from a Liberal MP.  This time from the Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr and his comments about bringing in authorities whether police or military with regards to pipeline protesters.  This coming days after (the fraudulent Canadian that is somehow still a MP) Maryam Monsef's apology to not only the opposition but her fellow Liberal colleagues that served on the electoral reform committee.  The quick response from (how is she a...) MP Maryam Monsef begs the question from many sources - did she actually read the report and it's findings? More smoke and mirrors from the Liberals on an obviously what will be actually failed promise.  See earlier post.

Back to MP Jim Carr, although his warning of bringing in the authorities was an aggressive statement, when you dig beyond what the media reports, it is even more inflammatory in nature. 

Typical media reports all pipelines the same - new pipelines, existing pipelines, pipelines in development, thinking of a pipeline, pipelines under a lake, over a lake, in sensitive areas, barren waste lands, native land or not - they are all reported the same. 

Much to the disbelief of many readers of Metro or 24, the pipelines approved by the Liberals are the replacement of one EXISTING pipeline and the EXPANSION of another EXISTING pipeline.  The routes, the access needed and a lot of the work has been done already.  This is not a scene out of Avatar where the big, bad machines of development are pressing through the thickly forested utopias destroying everything in sight. 

So, although there will always be differing views on topics so environmentally and economically charged, shame on the extremist protesters for spewing untruths and fiction so offside the media cannot help themselves to cover these outrageous claims, but also shame on Jim Carr too - playing the bad cop when in fact he only has a bark, no bite.

Oh! Justin on the TV now, apologizing at the AFN conference...

Canadian Football: Canada's Vanier Cup - the Most Underrated Game

Even older than the SuperBowl, the 52nd Vanier cup proved to be yet another close affair as represented by two of Canada's most prolific football programs - University of Calgary and Universite Laval.

Thanks to Canadians' apathy to our own cultural and sporting institutions, I managed to PVR the event on SportsNet (who covers the event in a commendable way every year) and watch Canada's university game the following weekend - with no spoilers. Hats off to Tim Micallef who is the only Anglophone sportscaster in Canada that makes an effort on the French-Canadian accent when pronouncing last names. 

Lacking the cache of US style marching bands, big time scholarships and million dollar coaches at the "college"level, the Vanier Cup has managed to demonstrate some incredible finishes and suspenseful games over the last seven years at least, with just our own home-grown boys.  It has survived as its own independent event and also tucked in with the Grey Cup weekend (the McMaster-Laval match in 2011 was an insane Vanier Cup final - the most memorable football game I have ever attended). 

Although, the interest ebbs and flows in various regions of the country (highest in the Prairies and La Belle Province), the outpouring of interest and importance is none better than the die-hard regional following in Quebec City where Canadian University Football (now referred to as U Sports) is "Big League", in a city devoid of all professional sports and the size of an NHL market. 

Maryam Monsef Is An Undeserving, Insulting, Fraudulent MP...and Canadian: Long Live "First Past the Post"!

This is a must see. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/video-maryam-monsef-vs-everyone-in-question-period-as-she-attacks-mps-who-worked-on-electoral-reform

Liberals have vowed to kill the First Past the Post system (unilaterally - really?!).  Well, what's happened over the last nearly 10 years? Lost elections by the Liberals even trying such desperate, banana republic measures to form coalitions in toppling previous winning and democratically elected governments, and going so far as to proposing "changing the rules of the game" as an integral part of the party's 2015 election platform....in time for the next election! WHAAAAAAT?!?!?

Since then, the Liberals have won a (shocking and suprise) majority - and all of a sudden the foot is not on the gas pedal anymore.  The MP and "unofficial Canadian" Maryam Monsef (who must resign according to the Liberal's own interpretation of revoking citizenship based on lying or incorrect information on applications) even insulted an "all-party" committee on election reform during question period and its 400 page report that was "not good enough".

Maybe Canadians want to think really hard about this. The last election, the Liberals won 39.5% of the votes and 54% of the seats in the House of Commons.   If proportional representation or a method linked to the popular vote is actually pushed ahead by the Liberals, then Ontario's agenda will win every time. Canada - do you want this?

Long Live "First Past the Post!"

Liberal Advent Calendar

I saw a "Trudeau-scented candle" in an inept email that came my way recently,  Scented? Does it smell like b#llsh!t?  Afterward, I then started thinking what would have been a bigger seller. Immediately what came to mind - a "Justin Advent Calendar".  Every square that is opened up adds another C$1.0B to Canada's deficit levels.  Oh! And of course, the calendars would be paid for by taxpayers.  Merry Christmas.

The Justin and His Cuban, Chinese Cohorts

As posted earlier, the comparisons between "The Justin" and his Father, Pierre ("P.E.T.") are becoming more and more apparent.  Not only has The Justin played out like his Father before him acknowledging the death and honouring the life of a communist dictator, whom which he has met, 

The Justin also blatantly has held court with wealthy Chinese "businessmen" (they are called "billionaires" in the media).  Whether Chinese or Chinese-Canadian, lacking specific residency evidence, my hunch is that a good part of this group spends most of its time outside of Canada; yet has the ear of Canada's leadership and how policy and laws are conducted in this country....for Canadians.  

May I remind readers, and never are these connections made by our robotic and mundane news networks, the timing of when these cash-for-access meetings were held immediately preceded an announcement by a Chinese insurance company Anbang (as referred to by the Globe & Mail, "A massive Chinese insurance company with a murky ownership structure") purchasing a significant stake in a British Columbia senior care provider (“Retirement Concepts”), resulting in an important role in the delivery of health care in B.C.  In this country where health care is deemed to be sacred and any outside, non-governmental or foreign providers are vehemently frowned upon, I will write this again.  A Chinese insurance company has purchased a significant stake in a British Columbia senior care provider, resulting in an important role in the delivery of health care in B.C.

Due to the size of this +$1.0B investment, this is deemed to be a “foreign takeover” and as such is currently under scrutiny by the federal government’s Investment Review Division (all transactions greater than the $600-million threshold need to be considered in light of a “net benefit” test to Canada).  The decision will be up to Innovation Minister Navdeep “what does an Innovation Minister do?” Bains.  Minister Bains, who unlike other members of The Justin’s cabinet, is actually and officially Canadian…that’s right Maryam Monsef. 

Another connection the media at large have failed to outline, this Anbang purchase of Retirement Concepts comes at a time when British Columbia Premier Christy Clark is seeking both hard and soft trade-offs with regards to the recent Trans Mountain pipeline announcement by her fellow Liberal, The Justin. Hmmmmm…….