https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-a-trudeau-puzzler-from-the-cbc
Friday, December 31, 2021
Thursday, December 30, 2021
NDPLiberals Look For More and More Ways to Diminish and Recklessly Facilitating Granting of 401,000 Permanent Residencies: This Time, Medical Exam Exemptions...During a Pandemic
Really? Up to five years ago? "...the have completed a medical exam within the last five years and were found to pose no risk to public health or safety, or complied with a requirement to report to health authorities for monitoring..."
Canada Immigration News: Canada extends medical exam exemption for some immigrants.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
If The NDPLiberals Truly Wanted to Cool Canada's Housing Market, They Would Do One Thing That Would Impact Canadians And Foreigners
Canada's hot housing market is a DEMAND problem (not a supply problem). Anyone in the world is allowed to purchase property in Canada. No amount of new houses will stop this. As such, it is very strange to see this NDPLiberal government that is all about inclusiveness, diversity and immigration now speaks of "foreigner" as the bad guy (for Canada's Housing). Must be recent polling numbers on how to win a majority.
If the NDPLiberals were truly serious about housing, rather than tackle the supply problem and build a fairy tale amount of new houses, condos, etc. they would tackle the DEMAND side. Replace the "one year" mandatory period to live in a house in order to claim as a primary residence for tax free status with a mandatory 10 year period (or similar, longer term period) that matches reality of how long a primary residence is used for living purposes (rather than flipping or speculation purposes). Even replace with a declining scale (one year is taxed like a normal capital gain sliding to zero after say 10 years). This would stop speculation and flipping for everyone.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Is Canada's Level of Economic Stature in the World Really What MP Chrystia Freeland Wanta You to Believe?
"...Specifically, many might not realize the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts Canada is, at best, expected to achieve real per capita GDP growth of only 0.7 per cent per year during 2020-2030, placing us dead last among advanced countries.
The reason behind Canada’s showing is that our labour productivity and utilization are so poor that they are predicted to rank near the bottom versus our peers over the next 10 years and, even worse, finish in last place in the three decades beyond that. Think about that and then ask yourself if any of this was addressed this week in Finance Minister Chrystia Freelands’s fiscal update?
If the federal government is truly trying to build back better, why is this shockingly poor ranking in productivity and utilization not being explored and addressed? How is the climate-change-dominated agenda going to fix this? What about households who have gone all in on leveraged real estate speculation? We’re now the fourth-highest indebted in the world at 108 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), according to BIS data. How susceptible are we to higher interest rates and how will this impact our currency as other central banks such as the United States Federal Reserve undertake their own policy changes?..."
Monday, December 20, 2021
Overvalued Markets? Here is What's Really Happening
Day trading: A COVID-19 replacement for sports betting that hasn’t gone away.
Short-dated options: A trading boom in securities that have only slightly better odds than a lottery ticket.
Bitcoin: Total euphoria despite being impossible to value and worse for the environment than a 1972 Oldsmobile.
Cannabis stocks: Big valuations (and hopes) on small revenues.
Electric vehicles: A company that’s never sold a car (Rivian Automotive Inc.) is worth more than Daimler AG, Ford Motor Co. or General Motors Co.
Special purpose acquisition companies: Still booming despite being the most abusive financial product ever invented.
Meme stocks: GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. levitating at levels far above fundamental value.
Initial public offerings: Only 25 per cent of companies going public are profitable. It’s been this low once before during the dotcom era of the late 1990s.
Venture capital: Big money pouring into a tiny corner of the capital markets. Even staid, dividend-paying companies are putting up hundreds of millions of dollars to create their own venture funds.
https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/its-hard-not-to-dance-when-everyone-else-is-having-a-great-time-but-investors-beware
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021
NDPLiberals Addiction To Spending: There Is No Such Thing As Bad Times
"...Reporting on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s economic update, Bloomberg included this information: “Without new spending, the government projects a near balanced budget by 2026.” It actually made me laugh. I’m sure whoever wrote it wasn’t intending to be funny, but I thought: “Sure, and if all the other teams quit the NHL, the Leafs will win the Stanley Cup.”
Could Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals go five years without new spending promises? If they make it ’til Monday it would be a surprise. I’ve got as much chance of being elected queen of Sweden as this government has of kicking its addiction to billion-dollar expenditures..."
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Jus Soli and Birth Tourism: Half the Non-Resident Births Were Birth Tourism. The Pandemic Numbers Suggests So
Birth Tourism in Canada: with pandemic restricted travel, the magnitude is now somewhat known:
From the National Post Comment (emailed form, no link available) - "ONE VERY SMALL CHEER FOR COVID-19, SORT OF
It's possible that Omicron panic and the holiday season will wash over this interesting news item, so we're inserting it here while it's still warm from the oven. The author and ex-civil servant Andrew Griffith, Canada's closest observer of the contested phenomenon of “birth tourism,” has a new paper in Policy Options today. Birth tourism occurs when non-citizens come to Canada specifically for the purpose of giving birth on Canadian soil (at their own expense) and thereby gaining precious Canadian citizenship for their children.
Birth tourism is something that is obviously happening — the Richmond Hospital in British Columbia seems to be partly organized around facilitating it — but its prevalence has been hard to measure with confidence because some people turning up in the “non-resident self-pay” column in hospital statistics might be Canadian citizens or guest workers. To pin down the amount of genuine birth tourism, it would be helpful if, say, there was a whole year in which mere visitors were largely excluded from Canada, but Canadian citizens, international students and temporary workers were still coming and going.
If something weird like that were ever to happen, the decline in the “non-resident self-pay” births would give us a pretty good idea of how large the ordinary background rate of birth tourism was …
In other words, thanks, SARS-CoV-2! The 2020-21 counts of hospital births from the Canadian Institute of Health Information are now available (CIHI follows fiscal years starting April 1), and Griffith has had at them. The background numbers on things like visitor visas and temporary foreign worker applications show that the pandemic made Griffith's natural experiment almost perfect. With potential birth tourists largely shut out of the country, but citizens and workers free to come and go, the number of non-resident self-funded childbirths in Canadian hospitals nosedived from a peak of 5,968 in 2019-20, to just 2,433 in 2020-21. At the Richmond Hospital, the count went from 502 to 68; dramatic declines are also seen in other hospitals that typically have heavy non-resident caseloads.
Griffith used to say he thought that half the non-resident births were birth tourism. The pandemic numbers suggest that this was, if anything, an underestimate. But it's in the right neighbourhood. We can now say with some confidence that in normal times, roughly one per cent of all childbirths in Canada are foreign visitors exploiting our “jus soli” citizenship (i.e., if you're born here, citizenship is automatic and unconditional). The overall number of non-resident self-funded births was growing fast before COVID-19.
Of course, birth tourists aren't spongers, since they're paying out of pocket, but the happy children born under Canada's sun represent permanent obligations for the Canadian welfare state and its consular establishment. There has been more argument than serious inquiry into the birth tourism phenomenon up until now because no one was certain of its size. That can change now, but will it?
— Colby Cosh
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
How Will Canada/Canadians Pay For $1.2 Trillion in Debt
"...Last year’s deficit was an eye-popping $354.2 billion; this year, thanks to higher than anticipated revenue, $144.5 billion. At some point, the piper will want to be paid, and the money will have to come from somewhere.
Stopping spending is not enough. Economic growth is not enough. Even additional oil and gas revenues are not enough. Unlike the prime minister, most Canadians know from bitter experience that the budget will not balance itself. Which leaves one thing: tax hikes. Not if, but when, for whom, and by how much?.."
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
BQ's Blanchet's Subtlety Shines Through in Liberal Government's First Confidence Vote (That Has Had Five Months Off...Before Going On Christmas Break)
Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet had signalled immediately after the throne speech that his party would support what he called “24 pages of completely empty words.”
Monday, December 13, 2021
What Happened to Canada's Military Might?
"...Long-serving prime minister W.L. Mackenzie King managed the English-French differences of perception of war aims much more successfully than Robert Borden had in the First Word War, and Canada ended the war with the third largest navy and fourth largest air force in the world, and was an undisputed co-founder of the United Nations and four years later of NATO.
For about 20 years after the Second World War, Canada was a somewhat self-confident country, a political junior partner of Britain and a commercial branch plant of the United States, “a middle power,” as John Diefenbaker told the United Nations in 1960. The Québec problem preoccupied the country for the balance of the 20th century. Since then we have become somewhat aimless and unconvincing in our nationalism, and under the present government and its “Ministry of Global Affairs,” an apparent adherent to a fantasy of a post-national world..."
NDPLiberals' Incompetence At The Border
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-auditor-general-lays-bare-federal-incompetence-at-the-border
"...You might think it would have been much easier to keep track of arrivals in Canada after hotel quarantine became mandatory in February, but not so much. “(PHAC) had records to verify hotel stays for only 25 per cent of incoming air travellers,” Hogan found.
PHAC did refer more scofflaws to the constabulary in 2021 than in 2020, Hogan reported. Unfortunately, she also found that PHAC “did not know the outcome for 59 per cent of priority referrals.”
"Listen to First Nations, Not the Mob": National Post View
Canadians can be forgiven for getting the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests so wrong.
Reading much of the media coverage of the renewed protests and blockades looking to disrupt construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia, it would be easy to conclude that this is about First Nations people trying to defend their land against a brutal colonial government. That’s what many activists, academics and left-wing politicians would have you believe.
The truth is far more complex, and unless Canadians can avoid falling into the trap of viewing Canada’s Indigenous peoples as a monolithic group and trying to portray complex issues through simplistic narratives, economic development and reconciliation will continue to elude us.
In a letter published in the National Post on Tuesday, a group of Wet’suwet’en people lamented that their “traditions and way of life are being misrepresented and dishonoured by a small group of protesters, many of whom are neither Gidimt’en nor Wet’suwet’en, but nonetheless claim to be acting in our name to protest natural gas development.”
These protesters, and their supporters, have used intimidation tactics to silence their opponents, which has served to “overshadow the voices of the Gidimt’en and Wet’suwet’en,” and left many of the actual stakeholders “afraid to speak up because of bullying and alienation by aggressive and confrontational people on social media.”
Indeed, even referring to the protesters as “land defenders,” as some media outlets have chosen to do, is biased and misleading, because they often don’t represent the majority of the communities for which they claim to speak. The fact is that the elected council of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, along with the 19 other First Nations along the route, signed an agreement in support of the pipeline, which promises to bring economic benefits to their communities.
It is the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who have been opposed to the project. As Melissa Mbarki, an Indigenous policy analyst with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), explained in these pages, “The elected chief and council and the majority of their community members agreed to this pipeline,” but somewhere “in the Wet’suwet’en band structure, a divide occurred.”
This divide has been exploited by environmental groups and protesters to frame the issue as one of land rights, rather than economic opportunity. As B.C. MLA Ellis Ross wrote, also in the Post, “by saying yes to natural gas development, my northern British Columbia community was able to lift itself out of poverty.”
Other First Nations are looking for similar opportunities, but are being subverted by a small minority of people who are trying to over-rule infrastructure projects that have obtained all the necessary approvals from governments and landowners.
Writing in the Globe and Mail this week, JP Gladu, the executive director of the Indigenous Resource Network, questioned “why our communities need 100 per cent support for any project to be deemed credible. We are not a monolith; of course as in any culture, we too have disagreements. Why are we held to an unreasonable and quite frankly unattainable standard when our current federal system can see a government make decisions on behalf of our entire country with often sub 50 per cent support?”
The only possible answer is that we have given into mob rule. And by doing so, we are doing a disservice to Indigenous people.
“We were not invited to the table in the past. We fought for over 160 years to take back that seat and now we are pushing for equity ownership in the projects that extract resources from, or run through, our territories,” wrote Chris Sankey, a former elected councillor for the Lax Kw’ Alaams Band and a senior fellow at MLI, in Thursday’s Post. “Yet the protesters threaten to take all of that away. They are hindering our ability to move our communities out of poverty.”
Rather than giving credence to the sensationalized rhetoric espoused by radical extremists, it is incumbent upon media, governments and the general public to ensure that the voices of the majority of Indigenous people don’t get drowned out by a vocal minority, and to recognize that only through civil dialogue can we come to agreements over the big issues this country faces.
An open letter signed by hundreds of academics, including familiar left-wing voices such as Naomi Klein, characterizes Canadian law as “a weapon against Indigenous jurisdiction” and “a tool for Indigenous genocide.” The signatories try to undermine the rule of law by claiming that the “provincial government’s authorization of permits for construction of Coastal GasLink arises from a racist anthropology of discovery and claims to underlying title to lands that have never been the province’s to grant,” and therefore the court’s injunction was based on “false presumptions.”
Lost in this heated rhetoric are the voices of many members of the Wet’suwet’en and other First Nations, who have been lamenting the fact that their rights to speak freely and to forge a better economic future for themselves and their children are increasingly being stymied by outside protesters and environmental interest groups.
Do Protesters Even Listen to the People They Think They Are Trying To Help or Just Using as a Guise For Their Own Disobedient Agenda? National Post's Opinion on the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation
We are members of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, together with extended family members from other Wet’suwet’en house groups and communities, both on- and off-reserve. Our clan territories include the area where the Coastal GasLink pipeline crosses the river we call Wedzin Kwa. We are deeply hurt and angered by the conduct and statements of some of our community members and others who claim to be defending our lands and laws against the pipeline.
Our concerns are not about the pipeline itself. Some of us support it, some of us do not and some are neutral. Our issue is that our traditions and way of life are being misrepresented and dishonoured by a small group of protesters, many of whom are neither Gidimt’en nor Wet’suwet’en, but nonetheless claim to be acting in our name to protest natural gas development. On Nov. 20 and 21, we convened a virtual meeting to discuss these issues and the recent RCMP raid that was carried out on our ancestral lands.
The first thing to understand is that the collective rights of the Wet’suwet’en people to use the land and resources within Wet’suwet’en territory have for hundreds of years been managed through a system of five family based clans led by a hierarchy of leaders who hold hereditary names that have existed since time immemorial. These names are connected to specific areas within our territorial lands, called “nowh yintah,” and have been handed down for generations in a complex governing system we call “Bahlats,” or “the feast hall.”
The names and the powers of those who hold them are conferred on the basis of merit and recognition and, in our Wet’suwet’en law, follow hereditary lines. Traditionally, leaders are groomed for many years by those holding higher rank in the feast hall before progressing to greater responsibilities. Proper conduct and “wiggus” (respect) are among the many valuable lessons passed on during the grooming.
This process and the conduct of other business in our traditional system is governed by strict laws and protocols that the leaders are expected to uphold. It is very sad that so many Wet’suwet’en women who supported the pipeline were stripped of their hereditary titles to which they were entitled and the names were passed on to those who oppose the pipeline. Unfortunately, the hereditary system has been disrupted due to disagreements over the pipeline. We hope we can move past this and come together in unity and peace. After all, whether hereditary or elected, the care and concern for the collective is central to everyone involved, even though they take different approaches.
The second important thing to understand is that our internal laws are based on a foundational principle of respect that we call “wiggus.” This basically means respect for all things: respect for ourselves and for each other, respect for other people, respect for the feast system, respect for our territorial land and clan boundaries, and respect for all the resources of the land. We reserve the highest levels of respect for our matriarchs, the wise older women who hold a special place in our affairs, as well as for the integrity of lands and resources that are held by other clans.
We regret to say that nearly everything the so-called Wet’suwet’en land defenders and their supporters have been doing is in direct conflict with these traditional laws and protocols. Their main public spokesperson holds a minor name and is very new to our feast hall. She cannot claim expert knowledge about our culture, yintah and feast hall. She is new to our nation and is not in any way a matriarch, as some have claimed. Nor has she, her supporters or any supporting head chief ever consulted any of us about what they are doing and saying on our behalf.
This rift originally stems from an internal dispute that took place in the feast hall and, although we do not wish to discuss clan business publicly, we will say that our matriarchs have been disrespected, bullied, marginalized and mistreated by those who are enabling the spokesperson’s influence on nowh yintah.
The protesters have also taken it upon themselves to invite violent people into our territories. We are not violent people. We settle our issues with dialogue and respect. We do not need “warriors” from other First Nations or non-Wet’suwet’en protesters to protect us or speak for us, especially when so many Gidimt’en and so many Wet’suwet’en do not support them. This adversarial approach places our community members at risk, and increases the risk to Wet’suwet’en women, including those who are hereditary chiefs. Remember, we live along the “Highway of Tears.”
Many are also afraid to speak up because of bullying and alienation by aggressive and confrontational people on social media, who do not know the facts. While we understand that many strive to support our perceived struggles through social media, the fact is that many of them have no idea about the history, culture and dynamics at play here, and are doing a grave disservice to many grassroots Gidimt’en, whose ancestors have thrived on nowh yintah since time immemorial.
The multitude of outside voices on social media has also served to overshadow the voices of the Gidimt’en and Wet’suwet’en. It has left a majority of Gidimt’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en clan members and Wet’suwet’en voices overlooked, marginalized and disrespected. We are hopeful that those on social media will consider these points and allow all Gidimt’en and Wet’suwet’en to work through these issues in a peaceful and respectful manner that does not put anyone in danger.
It is very unfortunate that the conflict has escalated the way it has. Even though we strongly disagree with the militant actions of those claiming to act and speak on our behalf, we seek a peaceful resolution, and we sincerely hope that nobody gets hurt or killed.
There are other issues with these protests. Their campsites are environmentally disgraceful and the road that they excavated did not just block pipeline workers, it also blocked our members who use it to access territory and resources to which they are entitled.
We also very much understand climate change and the importance of caring for our communities and future generations, but we do not support the conduct of those who are harming the Canadian economy and encouraging supporters to “shut down Canada” during this time of pandemic and crises throughout British Columbia. This is not our way.
Then, there is the money. In our culture, money that is raised in the clan’s name is accounted for through the feast system. However, we have received no accounting for the many thousands dollars in donations that are being collected by protesters in our name.
Worst of all, and what causes us to come forward at this time, is that the protesters who claim to respect Wet’suwet’en law showed no respect whatsoever for two of our leading matriarchs who died in recent weeks, or for their families. It is a basic rule in our culture that non-essential activities must cease during a period of mourning; however, protests and public activities carried on as if nothing had happened.
The daughter of one of the late matriarchs stated that, “While we brought mom home on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, a concert was held at Bovill Square in Smithers by an acquaintance who assists with activities at Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Two of the protesting head chiefs also marched down Main Street in Smithers on the same day.”
The grieving families are devastated by this cruel and shameful misconduct toward their own people and feel marginalized from their ancestral lands, language and oral histories.
Clan chiefs are responsible to their clan members, but their current governance model makes it impossible for hereditary chiefs to fulfill their cultural responsibilities. To make things worse, these hereditary chiefs and some others are secretly negotiating agreements about our rights and title with the federal and provincial governments, according to a memorandum of understanding that was signed to end last year’s protests over the pipeline. All of these circumstances leave us questioning how we can move beyond the conflict and take a more unified approach for the good of all Wet’suwet’en.
We want the protesters to cease their blockades and for them to stop misleading people and making false claims about our laws. This letter arises from the voices and concerns of a number of Wet’suwet’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en matriarchs, Gidimt’en clan members and members of other clans. We have the right to share our thoughts and concerns about our territory without backlash from those within our nation, but also from non-Wet’suwet’en people who have little or no understanding of our culture, our history, our internal dynamics or our ancestral ways.
We ask the media to respect our privacy and security while we grieve for our late matriarchs. Due to COVID-19 and our responsibility to observe a mourning period for our deceased community members and female hereditary chiefs, we will not be granting further interviews at this time.
National Post
Sunday, December 12, 2021
CFL: On Grey Cup Weekend, What Is The Elephant In The Room In Order to Have Full Stadiums?
Winning is usually the best way. But drilling down further and addressing the elephant in the room, Toronto does not have the same demographic breakdown as say smaller cities in the west. A much higher population and higher competition for sports dollars? Yes to both, absolutely. However, it is often asked in a GTA of up to say 4.0 million people - how can a stadium of 25,000 still have empty seats? That would assume all 4.0 million are Canadians in the GTA, having grown up with CFL. In reality, in Toronto there is a much, much higher proportion of international students, (un)permanent residents, visa workers, express entry, provincial nominee programs, Canadian Experience Class immigrants and about 97 other entry programs to Canada (in addition to Canadians drawn from other parts of the country), etc. The NBA and MLB are an easy draw for this large group of Toronto, as the size of the city offers seeing their long dreamed about teams from the USA playing here, without much regard for highly valuing any Canadian talent/Canadiana. Bluntly and frankly, this group of non-CFL fans or have not heard of the CFL, are probably working and living with similar circumstanced people and will never be introduced or allow themselves to appreciate Canadian talent, rules, or being in an outdoor stadium in November. That code will have to be cracked in Toronto. And when it is...
Saturday, December 11, 2021
The Result From 5G, Kovrig/Spavor, Political Boycott of Olympics...Canada Housing?
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/china-envoy-says-kovrig-spavor-confessed-to-crimes-warns-against-rejecting-huawei
It's finally been said and in print. Yes Virginia, China does have that influence over money leaving China and Hong Kong.
"...Much of China’s investments in Canada has gone into energy that China craves, but too much has also gone into real estate as a way for Chinese elite to funnel money outside of the country,” said Momani.
“This latter investment could be curtailed further as a Chinese countermeasure, but which may not be a bad thing for homeowners seeing skyrocketing prices...”
Friday, December 10, 2021
Brainwashed MP Melanie Joly Believes Spavir and Kovrig Are "On Bail" Afyer Due Process in China's Courts
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/carson-jerema-melanie-joly-parrots-beijing-lie-about-the-two-michaels-being-on-bail
"...Joly, who said she spoke to the former detainees, was asked about their reaction to Canada’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She avoided the question and explained there are issues related to the case that “have not been settled yet.” When pressed by interviewer David Common, Joly elaborated that, “Of course the two Michaels are on bail according to the criminal law in China, and so we want to make sure we work that out with the Chinese government.”
This is of course the fiction that Beijing would have everyone believe — that the arrest and nearly three-year detention of Spavor and Kovrig was justified as part of the routine operations of a normally functioning justice system, and completely unrelated to the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in B.C. on an American warrant. The notion that Spavor and Kovrig are out “on bail” — words that left Joly’s lips as if she truly believed them — is part of the lie that their release in September had nothing to do with Meng’s American plea deal...."
More of Your "Transparent" Liberals: After More Than Two Years, We Will Not Know For Years to Come What Happened at the Winnipeg Microbiology Lab Ahead of Covid
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/order-to-produce-docs-on-fired-scientists-ended-with-dissolution-of-parliament-rota
More than two years later, this information and activity will now never be known, at least for years to come. For National security reasons? Meaning disguisng how bad Canada's national security really is? Your "transparent" Liberals.
"...The documents opposition parties want to see involve PHAC’s decision to fire scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from their jobs at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory last January.
Their demand for unredacted documents includes material related to the transfer, overseen by Qiu, of deadly Ebola and Henipah viruses to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in March 2019..."
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Should Accepting Refugees be Warranted out Of Circumstance and Compassion or Just an Annual, Numbered Election Goal?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/immigration-refugees-canada-1.6258067
Does this look like a family of persecuted,
scorned, tortured individusls that urgently need to leave the country?
Canada's Immigration System is Officially Broken, Overwhelmed by Virtuous and Short Sighted Election Goals: Needs to Be an Independent Body Using Data, Economic Models, Labour Forecasts, Impacts in Housing, Healthcare, Pensions
1.8 million backlog? Canada's "sacred" institution of immigration is broken. More reasons why the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and (lastly) Citizenship should be an independent body and NOT subject to a government over promising whimsical, reckless, virtuous and short sighted election goals with no knowledge of the resources needed to perform these amounts. 401,000 here, 50,000 there, 20,000 from yet another unfortunate war torn country, ongoing federal programs, ongoing provincial nominee programs, economic class entrants, student visas, temporary visas, family reunifications, parents and grand parents reunification lotteries...
1.8 million?! By the numbers
"548,195 permanent residence applications, including 112,392 refugee applications.
775,741 temporary residence applications (study permits, work permits, temporary resident visas and visitor extensions).
468,000 Canadian citizenship applications"
CBC.ca: Ongoing immigration-processing delays leave many in limbo in Canada and overseas.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/delays-across-immigration-streams-leave-many-in-limbo-in-canada-and-overseas-1.6275084
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Stop the Press! NDPLiberals Only Understand Good Times Or Will Look For Excuses to Spend
Stop the press!
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-pbo-report-reveals-soaring-government-spending-under-the-liberals
"...The estimates suggest that while the Liberals are not seeking to appropriate as much as the $459 billion they asked for in 2020/21, spending in this fiscal year is likely to be far higher than pre-pandemic levels.
The PBO said the government is seeking budgetary authorities for $379.9 billion this fiscal year to date. That is 28 percent higher in real 2021 dollars than the federal government sought a decade ago and 16 percent more than the year before COVID hit. (The Estimates do not cover costs related to the wage and rent subsidies, the Canada Child Benefit, tax expenditures or Employment Insurance, for which Parliament does not authorize annual spending.)
We will get a much clearer view of the government’s total spending when Chrystia Freeland tables her fall fiscal update next week. (As an aside, we should treat its projections with caution – the PBO report reveals that the last fiscal update forecast COVID recovery benefits would cost $10.3 billion this year; the reality will be closer to $18 billion.)
But it is already apparent that the Liberals have used the pandemic as an opportunity to expand the reach of government..."
Turning Backs on Canadian Veterans, "De-Funding" The Military: Your NDPLiberals
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-when-justin-trudeau-turned-his-back-on-veterans
In 2018, "...Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now.”
Let us now jump forward to December 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic. Over $500 billion have gushed with cataract force and Niagara volume from this same government. Flights to the sand and surf of Tofino, B.C., have been booked for the prime minister. Hundreds of flights, hotels and expenses have been paid for to attend climate conferences. And, just as a side note, a needless election, birthed in sheer political opportunism, wasted $600 million, a sum that could have purchased a lot of supports for wounded soldiers.
The cash has poured out of the Liberal treasury during COVID in sublime aggregates that only a prime minister who has no idea about “monetary policy” would ever authorize..."
Monday, December 6, 2021
Probably the Last Great Leader Canada Has Ever Had: Mulroney Receives Churchill Award
Thr last time Canada was respected in the world and by the US was when Mulroney and Reagan sharing the stage and singing when Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Never again have US relations and world relations peaked as such. Unwavering in free trade initiatives ans other unpopular decisions
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-brian-mulroneys-well-deserved-churchill-society-honours
Saturday, December 4, 2021
401,000 Per Year To Canada Of Not the Best and Brightest; Scores of 18.8% of Threshold Are Being Accepted
No science, no data, no evidence from "transparent" NDPLiberals supporting "401,000 permanent residents per year" but...
"... IRCC has not been inviting the highest-ranking candidates among the entire Express Entry pool, as it did prior to the pandemic, but rather it has invited the highest-ranking CEC and PNP candidates. This has caused overall CRS cut-off scores to decline as the department aimed to invite as many CEC candidates as possible to support its immigration target for this year. The most notable draw of the year came on February 13 when IRCC invited 27,332 CEC candidates to apply for permanent residence, a feat it achieved by setting the CRS cut-off score at just 75. To put this into perspective, this draw was almost six times larger than the previous record (Express Entry has existed since 2015), and the cut-off score was nearly 400 points lower than what it usually was prior to the pandemic..."
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/12/express-entry-ircc-finalizing-over-14000-cec-applications-and-under-600-fswp-applications-per-month-1219746.html
Friday, December 3, 2021
Canada's Housing Policy
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/mortgages/policymakers-should-examine-new-housing-data-before-proposing-solutions
"Nothing to See Here": Liberals Open Up a Crack of Information Hoping Chinese Canadian Scientists Walked Out of National Lab Just Before Covud Erupted (An Important Piece to the Pandemic)
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/compromise-proposed-to-allow-opposition-mps-to-see-documents-on-fired-scientists
Hello Liberal Virtuous Environmental Anti-Development Crusaders - You Are Winning! You Are Destroying Canada's Economy and Prosperity!
"...He found for the first time on record, there was an absolute contraction in our capital stock, as new investment did not cover depreciation – a calamity for a small trading economy like Canada...."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-we-are-bleeding-capital-and-that-spells-big-trouble-report-warns
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Canada's CF-18 Fighter Jet Replacement: And Then There Were Two (After Pissing Off All the Others)...
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadian-press-newsalert-boeing-officially-out-of-canadian-fighter-jet-competition
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
The Hybrid House of Commons
The Hybrid House Of Commons until June 30, 2022?
And for Canada's " most important election", no rush to get back to work after five months away and on the eve of a Christmas break
"...That chastening experience has not stopped the government from trying to do another end run around the opposition parties when it comes to avoiding scrutiny in the House of Commons – incredibly with the support of the NDP. The motion that sanctions what O’Toole called “ministers hiding in their basements on Zoom” expires on June 23, 2022. But who would bet against it being renewed, particularly given the enthusiasm of New Democrats like the party’s House leader Lindsay Mathyssen, who said a hybrid House would be more “equitable,” allowing parents with young children to participate?..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-trudeau-liberals-attempt-another-end-run-around-accountability
Political Correctness and 1984isms: Who's At the Heart Of It - Of Course, The English CBC
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jesse-kline-cbcs-18-words-you-cant-say-is-the-dumbest-thing-ive-ever-heard
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274
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