It's been a while, but just another Liberal conflict/ethics challenge

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/mary-ng-under-ethics-probe-over-contract-to-firm-co-founded-by-liberal-strategist-2

How Can a Country of 37 Million Passport Holders/Citizens Have This Much Renewal in Two Years - 5.3 Million?

 The situation is bad, but these numbers (4.2 million?) do not make sense for a country of 37 million passport holders/citizens 

"...During the first pandemic year in 2020, Service Canada issued approximately 360,000 passports and that number went up in 2021 with about 1.2 million passports issued. But that number has increased substantially in the first few months of 2022, as Canadians travel again, to the point where Service Canada is expected to receive 4.2 million passport demands this year...."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal-government-did-not-anticipate-massive-surge-in-passport-applications

How US Politics Runs Canadian (Liberal) Politics: Abortion and Guns

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/breaking-liberals-table-bill-to-freeze-the-purchase-transfer-or-importation-of-handguns-in-canada

Is 5G/Huawei Really Banned in Canada? The Political Magic of Major Announcements Just Before a Long Weekend

 "...It would appear that the dire warnings about Huawei that U.S. intelligence agencies were relaying directly to Ottawa 12 years ago, during the days of the Barack Obama White House, will finally be taken seriously by Canada and given force and effect, in Champagne’s timeline, by 2027.

Meanwhile, we’ve all been waiting for the Trudeau government’s new “framework” for a China policy, or the results of a promised China-policy “reset,” for well more than three years now. This strange delay may be related to the lengths Trudeau and his ministers will go to avoid saying anything or doing anything that will upset Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-theres-no-huawei-ban-until-we-get-it-in-writing

Why Canada Has Highest Gas Prices - Taxes and Carbon Taxes

 "...All told, a Canadian driver can expect to pay between 30 and 50 cents in taxes for every litre of gasoline. It’s part of why – even as record-breaking fuel prices similarly sweep the United States – Americans are still filling up their tanks for far less than what Canadians pay. On Thursday, the absolute lowest price for a litre of 87 octane in Surrey, B.C. was $2.26, according to GasBuddy.com. Only a few metres away in Washington State, gas could be had for the equivalent of US$4.56 per gallon, or C$1.54 per litre. Alberta – whose low provincial fuel taxes already gives them the cheapest gas in the country – was one of the first to mandate tax relief in response to high fuel prices. On April 1, Alberta announced that it would be foregoing a 13 cent per litre provincial tax until at least July. The decision left a huge hole in Alberta revenues (the tax holiday saves Albertans roughly $100 million per month) but it’s been more than offset by the tidal wave of new revenue being brought in as a result of the ongoing oil boom. Alberta is still on track to post the first balanced budget by any provincial government since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-maybe-canada-could-stop-charging-the-hemispheres-highest-fuel-taxes

Bank Regulator Adding to Cracks in Housing Market: Going After HELOC/Combined Line of Credit Mortgages

 The Globe and Mail: Canada's banking regulator to tighten mortgage-HELOC rules to curb rising homeowner debt.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-mortgage-heloc-loan-changes-interest-rates/

With an Out of Control Housing Demand Issue, Unemployment 50% Higher Than USA, a Looming Recession, Record Inflation, an Overtaxed Healthcare System the NDPLiberals to Approve Record 423,000 (at least) Permanent Residents Each year. Here's the Breakdown

 "...Over the next three years, economic class immigration will comprise 57% of Canada’s annual immigration target. This will account for over 240,000 new permanent residents arriving each year, with a projected target of 267,750 skilled workers arriving by 2024.

About 25% of new permanent residents will be selected through family class sponsorship, those who are being sponsored by a relative in Canada who is already a permanent resident or citizen. Over 100,000 will be arriving each year.

The remaining 18% of new permanent residents will be made up of refugees and humanitarian class immigrants. The plan targets just under 85,000 people in 2022 and with a gradual decrease in numbers into 2024..."

Canada Immigration News: How many immigrants will Canada welcome over the coming years?.

https://www.cicnews.com/2022/05/how-many-immigrants-will-canada-welcome-over-the-coming-years-0525506.html

With Ever Increasing Carbon Taxes, How is Canada Not the Worst in the World for Inflation?

 CTV News: Canada inflation: Where we stand in the world.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-inflation-how-we-compare-to-other-g7-nations-1.5910594

What is More Woke Than Destroying a (Racist, BC) Museum? The $1 Billion Budget to Rebuild it in the Name of Wokeness

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/government-to-release-business-case-in-support-of-new-royal-b-c-museum

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-to-demolish-racist-museum-and-build-unprecedentedly-expensive-replacement

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/top-canadian-museum-to-be-immediately-gutted-in-the-name-of-decolonization

Left Wing Extremism and Violence Tolerated, if not Praised and Encouraged, While Right Wing Extremism in Any Form or Degree Villified By All Media, Politicians

 "...This is not the first time that left-wing extremists have targeted the Coastal GasLink pipeline. On Feb. 17, around 20 hooded figures cut the locks on a construction site near Houston, B.C., before threatening workers and causing millions of dollars of damage to heavy equipment. Video footage showed attackers wielding axes, hitting a truck with an employee inside and firing off flares. The RCMP said last week that it has made no arrests and has no updates on the incident.

While horrific hate crimes such as the mass shooting in Buffalo have, rightly, focused attention on the scourge of right-wing extremism, ideologically motivated violence on the far-left is often characterized as legitimate protest, perhaps because there are lingering sympathies with its goals among progressives. But it is not acceptable or justifiable..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-a-bankers-cars-get-firebombed-in-the-night-and-no-progressive-politicians-condemn-it

An actual Huawei decision? I thought the Leafs were going win a Cup first

 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-liberals-ban-huawei-after-inexcusable-delay

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/breaking-canada-to-ban-huawei-from-countrys-5g-network-sources

https://financialpost.com/telecom/canada-ban-huawei-5g

After Two Police Chiefs Have Denied Requesting Emergency Measures Act and the Military Revealed Beyond Suspicious Surveillance Activity, NDPLiberals And Mendicino Continue to Lack Credibility While the Great Big Lie of Justification For the Act's Invocation Continues to Form...Yet Canadians Choose to Ignore

 "...But a surveillance aircraft leased by the Canadian Armed Forces had indeed flown over Ottawa while the city’s downtown was blockaded by anti-mandate protesters. While there’s no evidence that the flight was anything other than a training mission, its presence in the air was a direct contravention of a directive to keep military equipment (including aircraft) away from the capital throughout the blockades. In other words, it may have been acting without “lawful authority.” The exchange illustrates a persistent contradiction in the Trudeau government. No peacetime Canadian government has ever been more obsessed by the supposed scourge of “misinformation.” At the same time, it has a recurring habit of spreading its own misinformation, or of attributing that title to things that turn out to be true..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-misinformation-obsessed-liberals-have-a-weird-habit-of-spreading-misinformation

Near Record Inflation Versus Carbon Taxes On Top of Near Record Inflation: Are Both Really Needed When it Comes to NDPLiberals Wanting to "Change Behaviours" of Canadians? Apparently, yes.

 "...However, the horrendous rise in gasoline prices is not all bad news. Or perhaps I should say, it is bad news for almost everyone, except for two classes of people. (a) Those happy folks well-insulated from the grim pinch of inflation by high incomes, and (b) those in elected office who are pushing the mad dash to killing the oil and gas industry. This latter involves all those politicians and green clerics who are determined to make gas and other fuels so expensive that poor people will be unable to afford them at all. High gas prices are what they have been dreaming of. For high gas prices will force the peasants to “go green” whether they like it or not.

And the political class is exuberant to the point of delirium, that years of blocking pipelines, harassing the oil and gas industry, demonizing fossil fuels and promoting various and mightily subsidized green energy — plus latterly Vladimir Putin’s frolics in Ukraine — have turned oil into a precious commodity, and made prices at the pump for the ordinary Canadian an investment second only to the mortgage he or she cannot get.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-a-compassionate-government-would-kill-its-carbon-tax-right-now

Using Imagery to fight Against Homophobia and Promoting Diversity, Inclusion All Endorsed Up Until Religious Imagery Involved (Hijabs), Then it Becomes a Different Fight to Take Down Said Imagery

 http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/western-university-lgbtq-poster-sparks-muslim-community-backlash/wcm/34579d40-bad2-4d6b-ad54-d3a32fae2576

"...A Western University social media post supporting the fight against homophobia included an illustration of two women in hijabs about to kiss – sparking a backlash from London’s Muslim community that forced school officials to delete it.

The image, posted on the school’s Instagram account Tuesday to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, was met with a firestorm of criticism from people who were offended by the imagery.

They said the post was “inappropriate” and “disrespectful” because the hijab, an Islamic veil, has religious and spiritual connotations. Wrote one person: “Shame on you Western for such an insulting mockery post to my religion.”..."

Bitcoin, Crypto Had Its Moment to Prove its Unique, Uncorrelated, Anti Inflationary Investment Thesis...and Failed

 A selloff in cryptocurrencies resumed Monday, with Bitcoin dropping back below US$30,000 with global equity markets remaining under pressure. 

https://www.bnn.ca/1.1766756.1652735520

Mistruths and Lies: No Police Force Requested Emergencies Act From NDPLiberals

 The mistruths and lies are actually coming out of this inquiry...

"...With another police chief saying they didn’t ask for the federal government’s Emergencies Act, Liberal cabinet ministers are continuing to insist the move was necessary to clear the Freedom Convoy from Ottawa’s streets.

...A parliamentary committee is weighing whether Wellington Street and other nearby streets that currently fall under the City of Ottawa’s jurisdiction should be in the hands of the federal government..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawa-police-say-they-didnt-ask-for-emergencies-act-as-liberals-defend-its-use

CRTC Overhaul: Big (NDPLiberal) Brother is and will be watching

"...“if you were starting from a blank canvass, you would probably design a regulator very differently. The world has changed.” He said the CRTC also has to “regulate more quickly” and “adapt more quickly.”

Rodriguez said in his speech “this is all new territory,” for “the government, the CRTC, for you guys, for Canadians.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/heritage-minister-promises-to-modernize-crtc-so-it-can-regulate-big-tech

Typical NDPLiberals, trying to appear holier than thou after an unfortunate event (Milgaard's death)

 Typical NDPLiberals, trying to appear holier than thou after an unfortunate event (Milgaard's death)

“I was profoundly saddened by the fact that he would not live to see this,” Lametti said.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/conviction-review-process-should-reflect-harsh-realities-of-indigenous-women-report

Must Be Spring: May Showers Bring Roxham Rd Openings and Illegal Border Crossers into Quebec

 What? How? Someone can illegally cross the border and begin working legally in health care (or elsewhere)?  This is allowed? Are they issued a  SIN card right away? 

"...many people who had crossed the border at Roxham Road found work in Quebec’s long-term-care homes during the pandemic..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/quebec-asks-feds-to-close-roxham-road-to-refugees-we-dont-have-the-capacity

Thank you NDPLiberal voters! Increasing, "behaviour changing" carbon taxes, reduced supply from cancelled pipelines (among other things) and gas prices of +$2.00/L...yay! We're all complaining, behaviour changed.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-robson-congrats-to-the-trudeau-liberals-for-making-their-dream-of-high-gas-prices-come-true

Left Wing Extremism Does Not Make Front Page News Like Anything Construed as Even Right Wing: Extremists Now Targetting Execs of the Bank Who Lend to Coastal Gas Link

 Combined with the stealth like mob that destroyed one of the Coastal Gas Link construction camps even going so far as to light a vehicle on fire with a driver in it, at the same time of Freedom Convoy - where were the "Emergencies Measures" on these incidents? 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/police-investigating-if-anti-pipeline-anarchists-burned-down-cars-of-rbc-executive-and-former-conservative-minister

Are the NDPLiberals Finally Having Their Hands Slapped For Implementing a New Set of Rules (Impact Assessment Act)To Approve Any Major Projects in Canada? If Climate Change is the Excuse - Will Anything Be Built?

 Alberta's top court said Tuesday that the federal government's environmental impact law is unconstitutional and Ottawa almost immediately announced its plan to appeal.

https://www.bnn.ca/1.1763786.1652211426

If Nothing Is Done, Another Defining Canadian Institution Will Have Fallen Like a Sir John A. Statue...and Beheaded

Unilingual Anglo Canadians may be getting their lumberjack plaid nickers in a knot but if something is not done for protection of Canada's official language then imagine a Canada losing yet another of its institutions because that's the way it is going: no bilingualism, no Queen, no Canadian spelling, no mention of Canada's historical figures, no Remembrance Day respect or observation, no May 24/Queen Victoria Day, no companies proudly named after Canada (see TC Energy, Encana now Ovintiv), a once mighty, proud and revered military, no CFL, etc.

If Canadians want an English only world of mere health care providers, funny coloured monetary notes, a border with the US and devoid of all Caandiana to distinguish us on the world stage, they may be saddened when that day comes....soon. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/cn-rail-pressed-by-federal-transport-minister-over-its-unacceptable-english-only-board-of-directors

The Ever Expanding Roles (and Costs) of the Fedeal Government - When Will it Break (or Has it Broken Already?)

 "...Despite a two-year hiatus, the passport service is in disarray. Ottawa seems out-of-step with global standards in managing international travel. Our border remains porous, with people walking across to claim refugee status. Federal management of fisheries on both coasts is not working well. The housing situation in major cities has long been out of control.

On a broad scale, Canadian productivity lags well behind our competitors. National investments in scientific and technological innovations leak out of the country. Ottawa could not get Washington to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have proved invaluable in helping Canada meet North America and Europe’s energy needs during the current crisis.

We have botched the purchase of fighter jets. Our practical support for Ukraine lags behind our allies. We are still waiting on a decision regarding Huawei’s involvement in our 5G networks. Our major military allies have dropped us from their inner circles.

On top of that, Canada is now leaping into the fastest and greatest expansion of the role of the state since the 1960s. These are massive tasks: managing climate change, providing for a realistic energy transition, welcoming 400,000 immigrants per year, implementing a national childcare system, launching dental and pharmacare programs, rearming a vulnerable nation, transforming the Canadian medical system and ensuring technological competitiveness. Is government up to the task?..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ken-coates-is-the-public-service-up-to-managing-the-liberals-huge-expansion-of-government

Trudeau Continues Promising Entry to Canada by tbr Hundreds of Thoussnds Despite 2M Applicants Backlog: Afghans, Ukrainians, Illegal Border Crossers

 CTV News: Canada immigration backlog exceeds 2M, applicants in limbo.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-is-confronting-a-massive-immigration-backlog-this-is-what-it-looks-like-for-those-facing-delays-1.5892040

The Rise and Fall(ing) of Cathie Wood and Her ARKK Fund: In the Red Across the Board

 The violent stock selloff on Thursday means every single bet in Cathie Wood’s flagship strategy has lost money this year, with the sole exception of a money-market cash holding. 

https://www.bnn.ca/1.1762193.1651852897

Oh "fuddle duddle". The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: The prophecy of Trudeau père continues to be played out by Trudeau fils

 Oh "fuddle duddle". The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.  The prophecy of Trudeau père continues to be played out by Trudeau fils: alienated Western Canada, reckless energy policy, racked up huge government debts without any understanding of economics, invoked the Emergencies Act (although Trudeau père had more "national" and real violent  reasons to invoke the War Measures Act), pissed off at least one US leader during his term, now cursed in the House of Commons. The only thing left is to have mocked the Queen openly behind her back but Trudeau fils' lack of vetting the previous Governor General may have showed what his respect for the Crown really is. (But where is he on bilingualism and ethics?)

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/not-fuddle-duddle-conservatives-accuse-trudeau-of-swearing-in-parliament

Watch the original historic reference here https://youtu.be/YXKSGRyZtz8

Double Standard of Canadian Media

An inconvenience from a stubborn yet defiant group of truckers with horns in one city that could have been easily  stopped by extra police muscle (which it was)  turns into a "national emergency" with a  dictator like, national Act being invoked to seize financial assets, etc.

But, Montreal may Day riots, burning Catholic churches, beheading or vandalism of historical statues, stealth violent attacks on Coastal Gas Link camps and other infrastructure (pipelines), repeated ethics violations of an elected leader....no condemnation by anyone, nor any media, politician.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoff-russ-liberals-melt-over-rolling-thunder-protest-but-ignore-left-wing-vandals-in-montreal

When a Company (Chrysler) Does Not Pay Back US$2.6 Billion Government Loan, What Do You Do? Write it Off and Let Government Hand out Another C$1.4 Billion In The Next Economic Cycle (Does Amyone Remember 2009)?

To have 16,000 jobs "maintained or created across Ontario and Quebec" equates to $87,500 in taxpayer funds to Stellantis for each job. This author would appreciate having his job maintained for $87,500. 

http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/stellantis-announces-3-4-billion-investment-in-ontario-plants/wcm/5239c4d0-bf46-425a-b533-286110b1a375

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/more-than-1-billion-in-public-funds-for-auto-plant-retooling-part-of-the-drive-to-electric-vehicles

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrysler-auto-loan-canada-account-write-off-edc-bailout-taxpayer-wudrick-milke-1.4871648