Musings, opinions and views on various topics, issues, news and sometimes taking the other side of the argument
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Biden, the "Silent Bully", is NOT Good For Canada
Line 5, lumber, dairy....Canada is facing its battles early in this new US Presidency
Although it Only Took 15 Years, Now in Power Liberals Flip Flop on Quebec's Status Despite Harper's Proposal of Same
"...In the House, Trudeau cited former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s motion in 2006 recognizing that Quebecers form a nation within a united Canada, “and that remains our position” — though more than a dozen Liberals voted against the motion 15 years ago..."
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/singh-says-quebecs-proposed-constitutional-change-important-but-symbolic
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
"Canada's Got Stupid!": An Honest View of Canada From Another Part of the World
"...In short, I was looking forward to my sons becoming more Canadian in Canada. But every week seems to bring a new episode in the unending TV series that should be called “Canada’s Got Stupid!”..."
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Of the $100 Million Government Grants to Canadian Tesla Purchasers ($300 Million to All EV Purchasers) As a Subsidy, What Difference is it Making?
The enviro protesting thugs have got their way with a windfall of tax dollars to pay well-off couples in the Beaches with cheques to buy electric vehicles. So after all he "science" and "data" how many tonnes if carbon is $300 Million of tax dollars as rebates helping the environment?
BNN: Federal rebate set to make electric cars more affordable see $100M go to Tesla buyers.
During Pandemic Times and Vaccine Shortages, Millions of Job Losses, Protesting Thuggery, Liberals Seek...Another Group to Apologize
Monday, May 24, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Your Evidence and Science Based Liberals' Immigration Plans: The Power of Votes Over the Reality of Statistics
Canada's "evidence and science" based government. The power of votes over the reality of statistics.
"Canada’s unemployment rate is high, at 8.1 per cent, compared to 6.1 per cent in the United States and 5.6 per cent in Australia. Both those countries have prudently cut back on immigration because of the recession and job losses due to the pandemic
"...according to Statistics Canada. In 2020, there was 13.5 per cent unemployment among immigrants who landed less than five years before; 11.7 per cent among those who arrived six to 10 years earlier; and 9.5 per cent among those who have been here for more than a decade..."
"Here are the facts: as of April 30, unemployment in the province was at nine per cent, which is down from a pandemic high of 13.5 per cent in May 2020, but still higher than the national average."
"...over a million immigrants in such a short time frame will only serve to drive prices even higher, which will price even more Canadians out of the market. This is especially true in large centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, which already lack affordable housing..."
"In Ontario, the waiting list to get subsidized housing is between seven and 10 years. In Montreal, 23,000 people are on a waiting list for social housing,"
"According to figures compiled by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, police intercepted 58,939 so-called irregular border crossers from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2020."
"So far, 17,709 have been accepted as refugees, 14,017 were rejected and 24,728 cases are pending. Only a few have been withdrawn"
"...in April 2018 and showed that 60 per cent of people in Toronto’s shelters were immigrants or refugees...."
https://financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-we-need-immigrants-but-not-a-flood-of-them
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Macklin: According to our Bank of Canada Governor, Households With Higher Amounts of Debt are More Prone to Exposure of Climate Risks...Seriously!?
If my neighbour racks up more debt than I, their house is more likely to be blown away by a hurricane but I will be ok?
Trudeau Fils Departs From Trudeau Pere on the Constitutional File
Although nothing has changed despite the media making a festival of the announcement (Quebec still does not have it's own passport, currency or military), French still reigns in Quebec and fir Francophones as per the agreement when the British took over New France.
However Trudeau Fils still blows away Trudeau Pere on deteriorated US relations, reckless debt and spending policies and rendering the Queen/Monarchy a mockery.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Trudeau Has Removed One of the Excuses From the Playbook: "I Didn't Know"
Tackling the situation head on, suddenly, Trudeau is now aware of complaints, investigations of his appointments that he has made. It's now official, he has burned up the "I didnt know/I was not aware" excuse.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
Will Canada Have an Economic Recovery and Reduce its Unemployment Level Meaningfully
If so, there had better be hundreds of thousands of jobs created somehow, some way to keep Canadians and +400,000 permanent residents/immigrants/temporary workers annually employed even after seeing 200,000 job losses in April alone in Canada
Canada Immigration News: Canada may raise caps on temporary immigration programs, Minister Mendicino says.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
"Safety extremism": Father De Souza Tells it Like It Is
We would never fly, drive cars, have needed medications or send a man to the moon if we avoided all risks.
"...Reasonable safety means mitigating the risks of daily life. Extreme safety means eliminating them. Which means eliminating a lot of aspects of daily life — like the fuel that powers about half of the Ontario economy, and funds thousands upon thousands of paycheques in Michigan..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-were-now-living-in-a-world-of-safety-extremism
Friday, May 14, 2021
Lockdown Summer? We can be Vaccinated all We Want (in the Case of Gibraltar, Recently Reported 109%), but What About Those on Flights, by Car, on Foot by the Thousands Coming to Canada Ďaily?
We can be vaccinated all we want (in the case of Gibraltar, recently reported 109%), but what out those on flights, by car, on foot by the thousands coming to Canada daily?
Teflon Trudeau Free on WE Scandal While Already Gone Morneau Found Guilty: Convenient
Well isn't that convenient. The one who is already gone as a result of this (Morneau) found guilty, and Teflon Trudeau is off free because “The appearance of a conflict of interest does not constitute a contravention of the act; the conflict must be real,”. What kind of an Ethics Commissioner is this?
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ethics-commissioner-clears-trudeau-in-we-charity-scandal
Thursday, May 13, 2021
"It's a Great Time to Be Old" - Jim Rogers, US Investor
The famous US investor Jim Rogers says, "it's a great time to be old", meaning that demographic will not have to pay for current governments' (and central banks') financial gaffes creating huge debts, borrowing from the future to pay for today (eventually it must be paid back, somehow, someway)
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Liberals' Fantasy Budget Intended at Locking Up Liberal Majorities For a Generation and Financial Ruin For the Next
"...There are programs with objectives that are clearly laid out. The $470 million over three years earmarked for the Apprenticeship Service, for example, is aimed at helping 55,000 apprentices in the construction industry and trades. Employers will receive $5,000 per apprentice, to help pay for salaries and training – $10,000 if the applicant is from an “under-represented” group, including women..."
Two Years Later, an Important Story is Still Smoldering Yet With Little Attention From Canadian Networks: Two Scientists in Winnipeg's Virus Lab Were Walked out the Door and Then Wuhan Happened
Has anyone watched Strange Things on Netflix?
"...The two scientists were escorted out of Canada’s only level-4 security lab in Winnipeg in July 2019, four months after the facility shipped Ebola and Henipah viruses to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. They were fired in January 2021, and were stripped of their security clearances by authorities...."
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Wattpad, "Considered" a Canadian Company, Has a Message for the Federal Governemnt: Wants More "Top Talent" From OUTSIDE Canada: Canadians Aren't Qualified?
CEO's message to the Federal government: "Bring in more people". Apparently there are not enough "top talent" qualified Canadians to do this? Even in a world of near 10% unemployment?
Monday, May 10, 2021
Liberal, Progressive Thinking in Canadian and Western World's Halls of University Education Will Not Only Come Back to Get Them, It Could Kill Them: Vaccinations May Not Be Required
In the halls of academia and the upper levels of education, the "choice" of being an anti-vaxxer is a valid one?
https://nationalpost.com/news/some-universities-say-no-to-proof-of-vaccination-requirement
Sunday, May 9, 2021
One Canadian Bank Economist Looking at Conditions as Top of Real Estate Market
Better Dwelling: Canadian Real Estate Is Past Peak Momentum, Says Big Six Bank Economist.
https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-is-past-peak-momentum-says-big-six-bank-economist/
A Crack or Two in The Hot Real Estate Market?
CTV Toronto: Plug pulled on Five Points condo project in downtown Barrie.
https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/plug-pulled-on-five-points-condo-project-in-downtown-barrie-1.5419030
And the Covid Flights Keep Coming In To Toronto's Pearson
insauga.com: Another 7 flights with 38 rows affected land with COVID-19 at Pearson Airport in Mississauga.
https://www.insauga.com/pearson-airport-in-mississauga-accepts-seven-more-flights-with-covid-19
Friday, May 7, 2021
Thursday, May 6, 2021
If It Hasn't Already, One Day Canada Will Run Out of Buyers For Its Debt at This Rate...
Ever wanted to fire the individual that looks after your financial future? Well now you can, it's called voting in the next election.
"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fiscal road map could reduce Canada’s future spending capacity by leaving debt at elevated levels for decades, according to the nation’s budget watchdog.
In a report published Wednesday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer warned that the government’s plan would see Canada’s ratio of debt-to-gross domestic product remain higher that it was before the pandemic through 2055.
“This suggests that the government has decided to effectively stabilize the federal debt ratio at a higher level, potentially exhausting its fiscal room over the medium- and long-term,” the PBO said. That will require governments in the future to consider tax increases or spending reductions to pay for new programs, it said."
Line 5: To the Good People of Sarnìa, Rember This Come Election Time This Sùmmer
Good ol' Rex and his cheeky way of expose.
"For has it not been written in The Book of Greta: “Out of the hydrocarbons of Fort McMurray will come a great darkness, and out of the oil of Alberta alone, issues all pestilence and dread, and a great threat to the hummingbirds?
...For what have we to look at? We have two leaders, Greener than shamrocks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gov. Whitmer, who see themselves plucked by the goddess of destiny herself, as human ambulances rushing to save the Earth from global warming. Who colour their dreams with visions of every oil and gas project in the world evaporating, and a flood of solar panels and a wilderness of windmills covering the planet."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-hows-trudeau-going-to-get-out-of-this-line-5-pickle
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Real Estate Agents: When The Market Cools off "It Makes Sense" and Other Nonsensical Things They Preach
Real Estate agents have done well going back 20 years of this real estate boom. Not just from low interest rates. For years organizations like TRREB and CREB have preached and demonstrated various data points in seeming credible sources of governing bodies. However, they cannot predict anything as much as you or I. Even the head of CMHC admitted after years of detailed press release sthatbwere awaited by many news journalists to fill in their assignments for that day that they were not meant to be he crystal ball of the industry after a monumental bad outlook.
After years of preaching the fear of "get in the market before the market leaves you behind", now prices are at a plateau and to a Real Estate agent the answer is "ot makes sense". Always a positive answer for no matter what situation.
Supply: agents keep quoting "lack of supply" as the excuse for high prices. Everyone calls for it but it is not easy to roll out 50,000 homes that would put the market in balance or in a more affordable range. And with agents' commissions based on price, AGENTS WANT HIGH HOUSING PRICES, AGENTS DO NOT WANT EXTRA SUPPLY.
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Bill C-10: The Arrogance Continues With The Liberals, At Least They Are Transparent About It (But Not to All)
"...Only a PM and a bunch that carry the delusion they are all-wise and ever-right, that they alone and only they, should have rule and command over the thoughts and opinions of a whole nation, could have conceived Bill C-10. Could have put their lawyers to work composing it, then waltzed into Parliament to put it on the Order paper in the first place...."
Monday, May 3, 2021
So Much For October 26 Deadline of CMBs: BoC Still Buying, Rates That Were Exoected to be Higher at This Point, Well....
"...Rates are supposed to rise in periods of turmoil, as a form of risk management though. You don’t want people borrowing more when things are getting worse. However, when the BoC drove rates lower – that’s exactly what happened. Real estate sales hit record volumes, while mortgage rates fell to record lows. The BoC blamed borrowers for borrowing, and then announced they would end the program on Oct 26. Except, the balance of assets are still rising..."
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Canada: The Little Country That Was Once Defined By and Founded on Infrastructure/Engineering Feats (ie the Railroad), Now the Country Defined by Killing Infrastructure/Engineering Feats
As I watched an online event yesterday morning about Canada's AVRO Arrow interceptor plane project demonstrating to the world Canada's enginuity and forward thinking (albeit during cold war times), I was reminded by specific examples and exhibits of the host the monumental pace of development that occurred within a decade and a half from the planes used in the world war to the 50s.
Canada was standing on top of the world with the fastest plane in the world and proudly, shamelessly and necessarily displaying its military might. Then one "black Friday", ordered by Diefenbaker, everyone was fired from the program, the planes and technology destroyed by welding torch and the design plans, memories, prototypes were all made to disappear as if Canada had no hand in this at all. Who knew that drastic day would set the tone for generations later to quietly and slowly build a movement of cancellation of anything to do with development and progress in improving our Canadians lives so long as it impacted one molecular level of carbon, certain types of the tens of billions of trees or a migratory route for adaptive and evolutionary organisms, that may not even be home to Canada.
https://nationalpost.com/news/how-to-jump-the-queue-by-getting-your-covid-shot-in-the-u-s
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Anyone Remember the Head of CPPIB's Vaccine Queue Jumping Episode -And Fired For it? Now Canadians Doing Same in US...and Walking Back Across Border
https://nationalpost.com/news/how-to-jump-the-queue-by-getting-your-covid-shot-in-the-u-s
Bill C-10: "Liberals Shut Down Debate"?: Is the Sky Blue, Is The Pope Catholic?
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-shut-down-debate-on-bill-c-10-amendment-allowing-regulation-of-social-media-content
As Canada Nears Improving "First Vaccine Only" Data Point, Will Justin and Liberals Use Their Save-the-Day Mentality, Combined With Record Debt, $100B Slush Fund and Hosts of Benefit Programs that Have Bought Many Liberal Votes to Call an Election This Summer?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-a-pandemics-not-an-ideal-time-to-hold-an-election-but-can-trudeau-resist
Once More, Trudea uSkirting His Own Responsibilities
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-says-review-of-military-sexual-misconduct-a-response-to-system-wide-failures