Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Finally, Immigration is Aimed at Dispersing Across the Smaller Cities in Canada

 Canada Immigration News: Smaller cities attracting more immigrants.

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/smaller-urban-centres-attracting-immigrants-0317399.html

Mortgage Rates Are Rising

 Financial Post: Canada's mortgage rates are rising fast — here's how to secure the lowest rate possible.

https://financialpost.com/moneywise/canadas-mortgage-rates-are-rising-fast-heres-how-to-secure-the-lowest-rate-possible

A Housing Bubble? May Be Not a Near Term, Sharp Decrease - But is it Sustainable?

 


Another Sign of Upcoming Election: Liberals Being Untransparent Liberals With Obstruction of Committees, Parliamentary Process

 We (Canadians) will never know about WE (charity) + Liberals being anything but transparent Liberals = Hello upcoming election.

 "...Members of all three opposition parties expressed their frustration at a Liberal Party that is blatantly disregarding the will of Parliament...

...We’ve had elections over less. In fact, almost exactly 10 years ago, the country went to the polls after the opposition parties found the Harper government in contempt of Parliament for failing to disclose the full cost of spending on various programs, including the F35 fighter jet...


https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-the-liberals-contemptible-snubbing-of-parliamentary-procedure


Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Every Single Person in Ontario Has $143,000 in Debt Over Their Heads, in Addition to Mortgages, Income tax, Property Taxes, Car Loans, Credit Cards...

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-time-to-to-grow-some-backbone-canadians

Approx $143,000 in debt for every man, woman, child in Ontario...not including your mortgage, income taxes, property taxes, GST to buy anything, car loans, credit cards...

"...If borrowing projections prove accurate, Ontario and Ottawa will soon owe $2 trillion between the two of them. If there’s a difference in their approach, it may be that Ford would undoubtedly have preferred his initial drive to bring spending under control, while federal Liberals live to spend and showed no taste for restraint even before the pandemic arrived. So while Ford may, in private moments, feel a bit sheepish about his situation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is all but certain to trumpet his spend-a-thon as a point of pride when he seeks re-election..."

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Algorithms and Immigration to Canada? Never Ceases To Amaze Me the Bounds the Liberals Will Go

The Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizeship needs an algorithm to help immigrants identify where in Canada is best for them? "... In fact, more than half of all immigrants and recent immigrants to Canada currently live in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, according to Statistics Canada. However, there may be better opportunities for these immigrants elsewhere. Perhaps a film director or a tech worker may be suited to Toronto, but a petroleum engineer may not..."

No doubt there are infrastructure, employment and housing issues if most chiose to live in only the three cities of Canada. 

However, I did not realize so many buzz words around a simple, ongoing subject to make it sound more justifiable. Outcomes, algorithm, successes, research project, geomatch, predictions, localities, Stanford University.

Is it ni6t good enough that Canada exceeds all countries in accepting refugees and immigrants for a country of its size? Is it not good enough refugees and immigrants are cherry picking Canada having entered other countries and should be making claims there ? Is it not good enough Canada refugees with expensive luggage are literally walking across an illegal border crossing, dumping cell phones and tablets for identification and circumstance purposes, are accepted by our authorities with open arms and a shelter set up on site ? 

The question is, how much are the Liberals allocating for this out of the outrageous +$400B deficit? 

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/new-tool-could-help-immigrants-decide-where-to-live-in-canada-0317588.html#gs.wst6hk

Saturday, March 27, 2021

Wih Justin and Canada Being Ragdolled in the International Media, Now We Have the Russians Meddling Again in the Forgotten Arctic of Canada

 Canadians only seem to care about the Arctic when ice splits apart or a seal is hunted in the Far North.  Now we have bigger problems.  Our Prime Minister will no doubt try to deal with this using more "quiet diplomacy" with no results. 

National Post: Three Russian nuclear submarines simultaneously break through Arctic ice in 'first time' manoeuvre.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/three-russian-submarines-surface-and-break-arctic-ice-during-drills


And I Thought the Supreme Court of Canada Was More Unbiased and Impartial Than This...Silly Little Canadian Me

Lacking any scientific or data based arguments, the SCC recklessly writes these unobjective comments into their decisions ("uncontested"?):

 "[2]                              The essential factual backdrop to these appeals is uncontested. Climate change is real. It is caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities, and it poses a grave threat to humanity’s future..."

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/18781/index.do

Your Transparent, Sunny Ways Liberals at Work: Defying Summons to Committees on WE Charity and Military Scandals

 The Liberals seem to have forgot all the redacted documents and Prorogation that led to....nothing and no answers. 

"...The Conservatives' motion is aimed at getting three members of the prime minister's staff before the ethics committee to provide more information on the WE Charity affair.

They also want the former chief of staff to the defence minister, who now works for another minister, to appear at the defence committee to shed more light on sexual misconduct issues in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett accused the Liberals of trying to hide the truth..."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/liberals-will-tell-staffers-to-disobey-house-of-commons-summons-rodriguez-1.5361553

Friday, March 26, 2021

It's Making Some Sense Now: With Liberals' Political Eye on Hongkong Events Where Already There Are 300,000 Canadian Ex Pats and an Election Upcoming, Immigration At All Costs for 401,000 Entrants Are Likely Coming From....?

 https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-record-flight-of-capital-43-6-billion-from-hong-kong-to-canada-as-china-cracks-down

At Least Quebec Has a Date for a Balanced Budget Although Delayed to 2028; Meanwhile in Justin's Finance Department...

 http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/quebec-2021-22-budget-forecasts-12-3b-deficit-1.1582499

Yet Another Foundation of Canada, Its Freedom and its Democracy That Canadians Likely Do Not Know: POGG

 "...The legal crusade against the Liberals’ greenhouse gas pricing “backstop” came to a dead end early Thursday. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that Ottawa can, without violating the Constitution, require provinces to impose carbon taxes at a particular level and collect federal levies in ones that don’t. This required lawyers for the federal government to convince the court that they have a right to invoke what the pros call “POGG”: the residual “peace, order, and good government” power assigned to the Dominion in the old British North America Act.

The result is a slightly funny spectacle. POGG has been explicitly invoked only a handful of times in Canadian history. From fairly early days, the danger that POGG presents to provincial sovereignty has been evident to judges. One accepted avenue for the use of POGG is in matters of inherent “national concern,” a phrase we are stuck with mostly because it appeared in some early, lousy precedents..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-the-feds-play-the-pogg-card-on-carbon-tax

What the Dissenting Supreme Court of Canada Judges Have to Say (and thr Media Will Not Highlight) About Stepping into Provincial Taxation

 "...The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the federal carbon tax law is constitutional, but it was a split decision with a strong dissent that argued the federal law “is a model of federalism that rejects our Constitution and rewrites the rules of Confederation.”

The majority decision, written by Chief Justice Richard Wagner, found the law is constitutional because reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a matter of national concern, and the law is focused on that narrow purpose.

But two justices, Russell Brown and Malcolm Rowe, argued the carbon tax law tramples on provincial rights and opens the door to further intrusions. A third justice, Suzanne Côté, dissented partially by arguing Ottawa has the right to pass such a law but this one gives the federal cabinet too much power..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/the-dissenting-view-why-two-scc-justices-say-the-federal-carbon-tax-rewrites-the-rules-of-confederation

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Feds Allowed to Step Into Provincial Boundaries For Tax Purposes - What Next, a FEDERAL Land Transfter Tax on Top of Municipal and Provincial Land Transfer Tax? Housing is Also a "Concern"

Great, Feds allowed to step into provincial boundaries for tax purposes.  What next, a FEDERAL land transfter tax on top of municipal and provincial land transfer tax? 

Insert "land transfer taxes" in place of "carbon pricing".

"...The court thus accepts that Parliament can constitutionally establish a “floor” of carbon pricing across Canada because of the national concern doctrine, under which the federal government can exercise jurisdictional power not explicitly granted to it in the Constitution Act of 1867..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/supreme-court-of-canada-rules-that-federal-carbon-tax-law-is-constitutional

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Running: How Your Body Changes Theough the Decades

 Canadian Running Magazine: The runner's body: how it changes as we age.

https://runningmagazine.ca/health-nutrition/the-runners-body-how-it-changes-as-we-age/

Ontaro's Sunshine List: Thank Teachers for 96% Of the Inceease

 Elementary and secondary school teachers with a decade’s worth of experience saw their yearly pay cross the $100,000 threshold in Sept. 2019. 

That led to a whopping 55 per increase in the number of school board employees on the Sunshine List, rising from 28,000 in 2019 to nearly 44,000 in 2020 – teachers, the government says represent 97 per cent of that hike.

CTV Toronto: Ontario's 2020 Sunshine List revealed. Here are the people who got paid the most.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-s-2020-sunshine-list-revealed-here-are-the-people-who-got-paid-the-most-1.5354551

Who is "New Canadian Media" and Why Are They Bragging About Perks and Privileges

 "...NCM is delighted to now join the prestigious Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), the nation’s only association that represents journalists across the country. With this collaboration, we are excited to open the gateway to a wealth of new opportunities, perks and privileges. ..."

https://newcanadianmedia.ca/ncm-caj-campaign/


Saturday, March 20, 2021

730 Days of No Federal Budget: Imagibe a Household or a Corporation Behaving As Such - There Would be Repercussions

 "...This week marked the two-year anniversary of the last time the federal government tabled a budget. It’s now the longest that we’ve ever gone — more than 730 days and counting – without one. It’s no surprise therefore that the opposition parties have criticized the Trudeau government for its delay and obfuscation...."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sean-speer-is-trudeau-gambling-on-turning-a-minority-budget-into-a-majority-government

Once Again Rex Says It Best: Can Justin Trudeau Ever Say Anything Good About Canada

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-can-justin-trudeau-ever-say-anything-good-about-canada

Justin is from one of this households that led this country in such "system of colonialism, of discrimination, of systemic racism", so that makes him?...

"...There are many institutions that we have in this country (this would be Canada), including that big building right across the street from us (that would be the Canadian Parliament) that has and is built around a system of colonialism, of discrimination, of systemic racism in all of our institutions..."

Again Justin paints Canada in the inferior, apologetic light yet at the same time increases Immigration as he knkws: i) millions would love to live in such a "racist" and terrible country like Canada and ii) it means more Liberal votes.

The hypocrisy of Justin continues....

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Nickel: Canada's Once Leading Position Taken Over by Brazil, Now the Chinese For "Clean" EV Battery Production ?

 Bloomberg: The King of Nickel Is Betting Big on a Green Future in Batteries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-14/the-king-of-nickel-is-betting-big-on-a-green-future-in-batteries

National Post: Canada Has The Monarchy to Thank for Stable Government, Liberty and Justice

Far from perfect but based on the last few centuries...

"...it can be hard to take stock of just how lucky we are, as Canadians, and how well served Canada is by its institutions and system of government. The credit for this country’s legacy of stable government, freedom, democracy, justice and the rule of law rests chiefly with the Crown, but we rarely hear this acknowledged by our politicians or the chattering classes.

...Republicans like to argue that hereditary rule is an outdated concept, and often make it sound as though we are always at the mercy of a foreign monarch. However, although the Queen does reside across the Atlantic, she is not a foreign Queen. She is the Queen of Canada. And neither she nor her forebearers have ruled anything for well over a century. They are figureheads. But they are figureheads who are tightly woven into the fabric of our constitution and our history. And it would behoove us to recognize just how much we’ve gained from that history.

...Canada has a constitution that is “similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom.” From this, we inherited the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, and the tradition of a sovereign who always defers to the wishes of the people’s elected representatives, but is there nonetheless as a final defence against heinous abuses of government power.

...We gained the concept of the rule of law, which holds that no one is above the law — not even a prime minister or a king. We have benefited from a system of courts and a common law that serves as the basis of our legal system outside Quebec, and which protected Canadians’ basic human rights — including the right to free speech, freedom of religion and due process — well before they were codified in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

...None of this was inevitable. To see how history could have played out differently, just look at South America, where the Spanish did not pass on values like democracy and the rule of law. As a result, many countries have suffered from weak civil institutions, have been oppressed by brutal dictatorships and transfers of power have often come about through bloody coups, rather than peaceful elections.

...But getting rid of the monarchy would entail sweeping constitutional reforms that would require tremendous effort and huge expense, with very little benefit. It would also necessitate a historic agreement between Canada’s increasingly disparate regions and nationalities that could very easily tear the country apart.

Far better to stick with a system that has proven remarkably stable and successful for over 150 years, and a Queen who has served us extremely well for nearly 70. Long may she reign..."


Saturday, March 13, 2021

Liberals Return to Conservative Methods In Selectig a Governor General, But Who is This "Diverse" Panel?


"...The approach is much like one used by the previous Conservative government but dropped by the Liberals when it was their turn to pick a governor general..."

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

Janice Charette, a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom now filling in as clerk of the Privy Council  

Inuit leader Natan Obed

Universite de Montreal rector Daniel Jutras

Former secretary to the governor general Judith LaRocque

Interim Canada Post chair Suromitra Sanatani

Friday, March 12, 2021

CFL-LCF and XFL In Talks Regarding Benefits: The Rock Has 300M Followers, I'm Sure Whatever He Promotes Would Help the CFL-LCF

Marketing, scouting, agents, analysis of proposed rule tweaks, combines I'm sure all could benefit from The Rock as a marketing machine. 

Going forward will the Canadian rules be changed ? I doubt it but then again 100 years ago there was no such thing as a forward pass. 

The main  benefit lies in the CFLand XFL play each other some how after each respective playoff finals. To start, an exhibition series then a more meaningful game in future. Time of season and rules will all have to be assessed. 

Sportsnet.ca: CFL, XFL could form a relationship that provides benefits for both.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/cfl/article/cfl-xfl-form-relationship-provides-benefits/

Where Does the Liberals' 401,000 Immigration Target Come From? Its All About Breaking Records, Not Logic

 "...To make up for the shortage, Canada’s immigration minister, Marco Mendicino, announced that Canada would welcome 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021. Should Canada achieve this goal, it will be tied for the highest level of immigration in the country’s history— the current record stands at 401,000 immigrant arrivals in 1913..."

Canada Immigration News: Canada welcomed nearly 25,000 immigrants in January 2021— most since last February.

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/canada-welcomed-nearly-25000-immigrants-in-january-2021-most-since-last-february-0317422.html

Thursday, March 11, 2021

How Many Enter Canada To Live and Work Annually (Legally): Do Canadians Even Know? The Answer is 1.0 Million and Growing During Pandemic, Record Unemployment

https://www.cicnews.com/2020/11/4-highlights-from-canadas-2020-annual-report-to-parliament-on-immigration-1116223.html#gs.kw8td3

And here are the numbers - regardless of a pandemic or 8.9% unemployment rate in Canada

And here are the numbers - regardless of a pandemic or 8.9% unemployment rate in Canada

"...Canada welcomed over 1 million newcomers in 2019

Canada welcomed over 1 million immigrants and study and work permit holders combined in 2019. Over 341,000 newcomers arrived as permanent residents. Over 400,000 obtained study permits. An additional 400,000 obtained work permits.

This serves as a reminder that most of Canada’s newcomers do not arrive as permanent residents, but rather on a temporary basis.

However, Canada’s permanent resident admissions will now play catch up thanks to the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan...."

Covid 19 Virus: A year later and still no one is discussing or questioning a Breach of Security From a Lab in Winnipeg his story (reported strangely by the CBC)

 

A year later and still no one is discussing or questioning this story (and it was reported strangely by the CBC)

"..."We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military."..."


And Said With a Straight Face, Immigration Minister "Defends" Chinese Entity For Viss Screening

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadas-immigration-minister-defends-outsourcing-visa-office-to-company-run-by-beijing-police

Some Progress Made and Billions Spent But Another Broken Promise From the Liberals on Dronking Water Advisories

 "...But making promises you know you can’t keep, in order to win an election is a serious business, with dangerous consequences.  

One poll before the last election suggested only 22 per cent of Canadians trusted the Liberals to keep their promises and none of the parties got over 30 per cent. 

Such widespread cynicism creates a trust deficit that generates the conditions for populism and anti-establishment politics. This particular broken promise is less high profile than whoppers like the abolition of first-past-the-post elections but it is no less egregious..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-liberals-hastily-made-election-promises-could-have-dangerous-consequences

Kielburgers Have the Gall to Demand Conditions Before Testifying in Front of Ethics Committee

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/kielburgers-appearance-before-ethics-committee-probing-we-uncertain-as-brothers-demand-conditions

To Those that Want to Strip Canada of Another of its Instituions and British Roots...

 "...I don’t think Canada’s British origins are anything to be ashamed of. The permanent political, ethical and cultural ideals that motivate and bind most of us are products of Britain, no matter how few Canadians can be personally described that way. We have drawn from the British well of ideals continually, not having bricked it up in 1776, which is one reason we have, to take an obvious example, the British invention called “socialized medicine.”

I have never heard any Canadian suggest that this is an imperialist relic of which we ought to be ashamed, and whose abandonment is a moral imperative. Republicans prefer to heckle the Queen’s family and dwell on various crimes committed in the past by our monarchs’ various British ministers.

But are we to believe that getting rid of the Queen, perhaps by some extraconstitutional subterfuge, would actually cleanse Canada of the inexcusable taint of Britishness?

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-canadas-anti-monarchists-want-a-revolution-and-they-should-admit-it


Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Liberals And Budegt in Same Sentence is a Joke: Another Year, and no Budget

 http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/two-years-and-counting-feds-not-planning-for-march-budget-1.1574048

"...The federal government last tabled a budget on March 19, 2019. Mounting concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic then forced Ottawa to shelve delivering its budget as scheduled in 2020...."

With Near 10% Unemployment Canadians Finding It More Difficult to Find Employment As Canada Surpasses USA As Top Destination for International Workers

 https://financialpost.com/executive/posthaste-move-over-america-canada-is-now-the-most-desirable-destination-for-international-workers

The Ever Increasing Complexity of Filing Canadian Taxes: It Was Not Always Like This

 https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/it-was-a-very-simple-thing-this-tax-return-from-1953-shows-just-how-complex-our-tax-system-has-become

Kielbergers Summoned to House if Commons But Will Canadians Find the Truth After Liberals' Cover Up, Prorogation and Now Heavy Legal Presence Dueing Testimony?

 It won't be as revealing as a Meagan interview with Oprah

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/mps-vote-to-issue-summons-for-kielburger-brothers-to-testify-at-ethics-committee


Surprisingly Covid Has Not Led to Any Birth Booms: Are People/Couples Being More Sensible Feom the Negative Circumstances of Lockdowns, Reduced Outside Workd Contact, Unemployment, Mental Health

 https://nationalpost.com/news/the-baby-bust-is-here-birth-rates-are-falling-despite-our-close-quarters

Saturday, March 6, 2021

More Border Control Bungling and Covid: Peel Region No Longer Handling Enforcement at Pearson Airport, Now Up To thr Mighty Public Health Agency of Canada

 This week, Peel Police said enforcement matters have been turned over to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the body responsible for the protocols that require international travellers to take the COVID test and to quarantine at a hotel after arriving at the airport.


However, PHAC has yet to confirm its own enforcement plan, and may not have the ability to issue fines or stop those who simply bypass all protocols and walk out of the airport.


This week, Peel Police said enforcement matters have been turned over to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the body responsible for the protocols that require international travellers to take the COVID test and to quarantine at a hotel after arriving at the airport.


However, PHAC has yet to confirm its own enforcement plan, and may not have the ability to issue fines or stop those who simply bypass all protocols and walk out of the airport.

Friday, March 5, 2021

Dividend Taxation Explained

 The Globe and Mail: Rob Carrick: Delving into some finer points on how dividends are taxed.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-rob-carrick-delving-into-some-finer-points-on-how-dividends-are-taxed/

Canada: The Land That Imported Its Own Real Estate Inflation...and That Time Forgot

 BNN Bloomberg: Strong migration levels pricing local residents out of their own market: CMHC analyst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTdH-GeLlyU

Even More Tough for Candians to Find Tech Jobs in Canada: PNP Programs

 Canada Immigration News: Canadian immigration for tech workers: Express Entry, PNPs, and work permits.

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/tech-workers-have-multiple-pathways-to-immigrate-to-canada-0317260.html

"...Canada offers multiple immigration and work permit programs for highly-skilled tech workers.


Tech workers, with their education and experience, do well in many of Canada’s leading broad economic immigration pathways, both at the federal and provincial or territorial levels.


These multilayers of government have developed innovative and specific programs to attract and retain tech workers, such as the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), and a host of provincial programs, such as the Alberta Opportunity Stream (AOS). Let’s have a look at some more of these programs across Canada...."

Another Day, Another Liberal Minister Controversey: Sajjan Cancels All Meetings Witj Ombudsman Regatding Allegations of Vance's Conducts Yet Continuee to Profess He Knew Nothing

 "...Walbourne testified that he found himself totally cut off in 2018 after he informed Sajjan about serious allegations of sexual misconduct against Vance, Canada’s top soldier and the minister’s friend.

His calendar shows in the aftermath of that meeting, Sajjan cancelled all seven meetings that had been scheduled. In total Sajjan cancelled 17 of the 24 scheduled meetings he had with Walbourne from November 2016 to September 2018

...The Liberal MPs on the defence committee tried to put the blame on Walbourne, suggesting he should have gone immediately to military police or conducted his own investigation.

http://nationalpost.com/news/national/defence-watch/defence-minister-sajjan-cancelled-the-majority-of-his-meetings-with-military-ombudsman-committee-told/wcm/7621943a-0bc1-49ca-97c4-859e53b0ea80

Thursday, March 4, 2021

IRCC Derermining Who is "a good likelihood of becoming Canadian in the future" Under Spousal Programs

 "...These are individuals who have ties of marriage with a Canadian in Canada, who obviously have strong links with Canada and a good likelihood of becoming Canadian in the future...'

Canada Immigration News: Canada accepts spousal or common-law sponsorship applications from out-of-status foreign nationals.

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/canada-accepts-spousal-or-common-law-sponsorship-applications-from-out-of-status-foreign-nationals-0317365.html

Election? What Election? Liberals Ramp Up Immigration Numbers for 2021 as "only 17 per cent favoured more immigration"

 "...The answer may lie in the twin, related facts, that new immigrants tend to be reliable Liberal voters, and, on the flip side, that those who identified themselves as Liberal supporters are much more supportive of immigration..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-by-increasing-immigration-trudeau-has-a-laid-trap-for-the-conservatives

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

The Independent CPPIB's Machin Resignation Comes After Chrystia Freeland's Comments; It Must Be So Simple To Just Replace the Head of the Most Important $500B Fund For Canadians

 A non-Canadian resident is unable to pay for a trip somewhere in the world to do whatever business he is able to do, legally? Interesting to see that even non-residents are beholden and shackled by our provincial health cares systems and the Liberal government's ineptitude of rolling out vaccines nevermind disclosing details of the vaccine contracts. Did anyone else know that? Where is that written down? Even more stunning is the Liberals' thinking that the reigns of the most important pool of capital necessary to all Canadians can simply be replaced as easily as a cashier at a grocery store. So much for continuity - Canadians may not know it, the fund has performed well...under Machin.

Terence Corcoran: The official version of the Mark Machin takedown just doesn’t add up | Financial Post

"...The story broke in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday. According to “people familiar with the matter,” Machin “told contacts” that he had arrived in Dubai earlier in February with his unnamed “partner” and “used local connections” to secure doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech version of the vaccine.

Despite the fact that the CPPIB is technically independent from the federal government and is officially overseen by an independent board of directors, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her press secretary instantly issued damning comments. Katherine Cuplinskas, the press secretary, said that, “While the CPPIB is an independent organization, this is very troubling.”

Press secretaries do not issue personal comments. They are told what to say as the representative of the minister. “The federal government has been clear with Canadians that now is not the time to travel abroad,” Cuplinskas continued. “We were not made aware of this travel...”

Machin is not a Canadian. 

Canadian Interest Rates - Watch Out!

 "...The typical mortgage rate is closely tied to the yield on five-year government bonds, as most home loans carry a five-year duration. Yields on a Canadian government five-year bond have more than doubled over the course of the last month, rising to 0.83 per cent in a surge that has not been seen since 2010.

That upward rate momentum has prompted a pair of Canadian lenders - TD Canada Trust and Bank of Nova Scotia - to hike their five-year fixed rates, according to mortgage-tracker RateSpy.com. The posted five-year fixed rates at the Big Six Canadian lenders range between 4.59 and 4.79 per cent, with TD advertising the lowest lending rate of the group...."

http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/mortgage-market-not-ready-for-swift-100-bp-increase-cibc-s-tal-1.1570570

You Can't Print That - Torstar Seeks Online Gambling License To Pay For News of the Future (Yup, They Said It)

I never thought I'd see the day group that owns the pro-union, anti-corporation, anti-wealth, far left Toronto Star rag actually proposes such an idea. Even scarier, it actually has some real momentum and everyone is blind to the concept. 

"...Torstar Corp. is turning to online gambling as a potential new revenue source that the Canadian newspaper publisher intends to help support future journalistic efforts. 

...this venture could help fund future journalism efforts for The Star and other newspapers amid a period of transformation for media companies. ..."

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/torstar-plans-online-gambling-portal-to-fund-future-journalism-efforts-1.1570443

StatsCan: The Numbers Don't Lie - Liberals Have Stepped Beyond Their Duty and Are Now Buying Votes at This Rate of Stimulus and Assistance

"... The new data underscore claims that the Liberal government overshot in its efforts to cushion workers against widespread lockdowns, particularly as disposable income among the lowest-income earners increased 36 per cent.

These changes were driven by unprecedented increases in transfers to households, as the value of government COVID-19 support measures exceeded losses in wages and salaries and self-employment income.

The report prompted questions over whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been overly generous with CERB and other programs, and should have instead tapered those benefits after businesses began reopening their doors. The Liberals have sought to frame their comparably generous programs as a positive for the economy, saying in their recent fiscal update that record-high savings due to lockdowns and transfer payments would act as “pre-loaded stimulus” once restrictions are lifted..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-covid-19-benefit-programs-continue-to-outpace-wage-losses-new-statscan-data-show

Election? What Election? Elections Canada Order 250,000 Masks, Immigration Ramped up to Record Levels During Record Unemployment, Climate Change Government Bailing Out Carbon Polluting Airlines, Softness on China - How Could There Be An Election?

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/elections-canada-gives-transparency-new-meaning-orders-240000-see-through-masks-for-possible-pandemic-vote

Finally Trudeau's Covid Handouts Are Being Known For What They Are - A Deliberate Spreading of Dollars to Buy Votes for the Future and Juice the Current Polls (Especially Younger Canadians As Young As 15 Years Old)

 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-trudeaus-covid-response-shows-money-can-buy-the-affection-of-voters

"...But the data suggests that the government went far beyond merely replacing lost income. This was either done deliberately, in order to reap the political benefits, or unintentionally, which raises questions of competence.

...Transfers to households where the main income earner was younger than 35 rose from $11,584 for the whole of 2019 to $17,006 for the first three quarters of last year. “Younger people got the CERB and the student benefit, regardless of whether they needed it – $5,000 just for being young,” said Cross."

Monday, March 1, 2021

Deficits and Revenues; What Your Federal Government Takes In and How Much More It Spends

  http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/federal-deficit-hits-248-2-billion-for-first-nine-months-of-2020-21-fiscal-year-1.1569520

And More and More Covid Flights Enter Pearson With an Overwhelming Majority From Delhi, But of Course Liberal Ways Won't Do Anything About it


insauga.com: Pearson Airport in Mississauga welcome 19 international and 13 domestic flights with COVID-19.

https://www.insauga.com/32-more-flights-reported-at-pearson-airport-in-mississauga-with-covid-19-cases

What Has Happened to the Sound Quality of Music Over the Last 40 Years

 "...A couple of generations have since grown up not experiencing music as it was intended to be heard. They’ve never known music with anything but “good enough” quality. If it sounds okay coming out of the earbuds or the computer speakers, what’s the problem?.."

Global News: COMMENTARY: More hi-res audio is coming to your ears. Alan Cross asks who will pay for it.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7660261/hi-res-audio-formats/

Does Anyone Else See What The Liberals Are Doing With Permanent Residency?

 Once again, like the Liberals' CERB focus, hs focused on the younger generation and the university educated, yes the "progressive" type that have graduated from these new halls of cancel Culture and an infinite amount of leftist view points.  Yet if one of these infinite  leftist view points is in contradiction of another, well....

These are eventually your new Canadians and he ones will be securing Liberal votes for years to come. From student program to permanent residency application that includes all the health care, benefits and rights then full fledged Canadian citizenship  with the right to vote under the Liberal propaganda they have been swimming in for years. 

Canada Immigration News: Canada opening more immigration pathways to Hong Kong residents.

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/02/canada-opening-more-immigration-pathways-to-hong-kong-residents-0217232.html