https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-promises-full-review-of-funding-for-anti-racism-program-after-laith-marouf-scandal
Musings, opinions and views on various topics, issues, news and sometimes taking the other side of the argument
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Interesting Article although a very short punch line on Danielle Smith
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-how-decades-of-liberal-indifference-created-danielle-smith
Liberal Incompetent Wokeness Has Now Spread to the Highest Pinnacle of Canada's Legal System, the supreme Court, With the Appointment of O'Bonsawin
"...Nothing in particular qualifies O’Bonsawin for the Supreme Court. She had a seemingly ordinary career as in-house counsel, first at Canada Post and then as general counsel at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. I’m sure she did some good work there, but it is not exactly the type of job that prepares one for the highest court in the land.
She has been an Ontario Superior Court judge for five years and claims that she has “developed significant knowledge and expertise in our three areas of work: criminal, family and civil litigation.” So, presumably, does any other Superior Court judge, to say nothing of those on the Court of Appeal..."
Monday, August 29, 2022
Germany's Scholz "Catfished" by Trudeau Over Hydrogen Versus Canada's Natural Gas Reserves
"...Scholz came to Canada seeking access to Canada’s formidable resources. In the end, he was catfished and had to make due with an export deal centering an inferior fuel that Germany never asked for, and which Canada might not even be able to provide..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-sorry-trudeau-the-case-for-lng-is-clear-now-get-out-of-the-way
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Inflation Just Does Not Come From Cheap Money, Stimulus, and Pent up Demand, But Unions and ESG Are Guilty As Well
"...Canada’s largest private-sector union is trying to capitalize on a shortage of workers and high inflation to win bigger wage increases and grow its membership.
Unifor, which represents 315,000 workers in more than 20 sectors, has about 400 collective agreements to be concluded this year. It wants to attract new members in growing industries like warehousing and electric vehicles, according to the union’s new president.
Unifor secured a 25 per cent wage increase over four years for some classifications of casino workers, after an eight-day strike. Cleaning service providers won a 19 per cent pay hike over the same period.
Payne and other labor leaders, who see the inflation crisis as an opportunity to grow their membership and expand union coverage. Canada’s unionization rate is currently about 27 per cent , compared to 10 per cent in the US and 24 per cent in the UK...."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-19/top-canadian-union-boss-pushes-for-inflation-beating-pay-hikes
Is Canada's Immigration System Really All that Diverse And Inclusive? Ask One in Three of 430,000
143,000 from one country does not sound all that "diverse"
"...India is the leading source country for permanent residents, accounting for almost one-third of landings in 2021..."
https://www.cicnews.com/2022/08/discover-your-options-for-immigration-to-canada-from-india-0829994.html
Friday, August 19, 2022
How Many Are Legally Allowed Into Canada Next Year? Add 76,000 Refugees To Canada's 420,000 Permanent Residents Next Year
It's going to be a lot more difficult if virn and raised in Canaca trying to get a job at a bank
"...The bank pointed to growing targets for resettling refugees, with Canada looking to accept just over 76,000 refugees this year and the U.S. aiming to accept 125,000 refugees. Canada had accepted as many as 30,000 resettled refugees in 2019..."
https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/bmo-looks-to-tap-newcomer-talent-pool-with-refugee-immigrant-recruitment-program
The Expense of Unions and "Negotiating Power", None Other Than By Obtario'd Teachers
What is wrong with being an ongoing employee with annual raises, performance reviews, benefits and a few extra bucks in your picket from no union dues? ? Rather than a snarly contract negotiation every few years?
And why haven't governments and unions either figured out how to begin negotiations much earlier than August each time or agreed to longer term contracts to avoid this Olympic cycle.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/randall-denley-labour-disputes-threaten-another-school-year-in-ontario-as-parents-students-seek-normalcy
Thursday, August 18, 2022
What is Canada's Ministry of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Doing About Known and Blatant Labour Shortages in Certain Sectors? Based on its Chronic and Abysmal Record of Aging Population and "Lacking Skills" Workforce, Probably Nothing
"...Canada’s mining industry is expected to see a shortage of about 80,000 to 120,000 workers by 2030, according to the non-profit Mining Industry Human Resources Council. Industry insiders such as Gratton believe the sector needs to hire workers from different backgrounds, including more women, and rebrand itself to be able to attract younger workers..."
https://financialpost.com/commodities/mining/we-have-to-do-better-why-canadas-main-mining-lobby-wants-its-members-to-get-serious-about-workplace-culture
By the Numbers: Canada's Bilingualism, Official and Non-Official Languages Use
http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/proportion-of-quebecers-who-speak-french-at-home-on-the-decline-statscan/wcm/37890199-3078-415b-a5ac-d2862601f11e
Monday, August 15, 2022
Indegeneous Rights: Sir John A. And Cinservatives versus Pierre Trudeau and Liberals
"...On the eve of the North-West Rebellion of 1885, Macdonald proposed to extend voting rights to Indigenous people — a measure that Canada wouldn’t adopt until 1960. “I hope to see some day the Indian race represented by one of themselves on the floor of the House of Commons,” he wrote to Peter Jones, a Mississauga Ojibwa chief and a personal friend of the prime minister’s. Liberal MP David Mills ridiculed the policy, arguing that it would allow Indians to “go from a scalping party to the polls.” Ultimately, Macdonald was able to enfranchise some Indigenous-Canadians, a right that was later taken away by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.
Under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the Liberals opened new residential schools, while pushing a white paper that threatened to eliminate Indian status. Why aren’t Canadians tearing down and cancelling his statues and removing his name from streets and buildings?..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-sankey-why-as-an-indigenous-canadian-i-will-be-voting-conservative-in-the-next-election
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Trouble Ahead for Our Uninted Two Party NDPLiberals Government?
"...Not quite six months after the Liberal/NDP deal was first announced, Singh’s decree highlights the fact that the NDP have derived shockingly little out of a deal that has effectively handed a majority government to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Officially known as the Supply and Confidence Agreement, the March 22 arrangement saw Singh pledge that his 25-member caucus would prop up the Liberals until at least 2025 in exchange for roughly $15 billion in spending promises. But the Liberals have yet to make progress on the core promise of the agreement:..."
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-the-ndp-sold-out-to-trudeau-and-all-they-got-was-some-free-dental-care
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
O Canada - Sanctions? What Sanctions?
O Canada. Foreign Affairs sending Canadian officials to the Russian embassy for a Russia day event. Allowing repair and delivery of a turbine for Russia’s pipeline. Now this. Sanctions? What sanctions?
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/russian-players-to-compete-in-canadas-tennis-open-unvaccinated-djokovic-will-not
Monday, August 8, 2022
The People and Calculations Behind Canada's CPI (Inflation) Data
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/meet-the-number-crunching-price-nerds-responsible-for-calculating-canadas-scary-inflation-rate
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Has the Election Campaign Started This Early for the NDPLiberals: The Most Outrageous Thing I'll Read All Day - Freeland Wants to Export Energy to Europe?
The most outrageous thing I'll read all day. After cancelling and deliberately chasing away proposals, investment, and construction of pipelines and LNG plants (nevermind the lack of refineries we have in Canada), she can really say this with a straight face?
Maybe she's thinking of bottling Canada's wind and sunshine to send over there
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said her government has a “political responsibility” to help move Europe off Russian energy dependence.
https://www.bnn.ca/1.1801144.1659562060
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Canada's Immigration System and its Paradoxical Ways of "Diversity, Inclusion, Equity" (DIE)
"...In a corporate plan for an anti-racist “systems change,” Canada’s immigration ministry says it isn’t fair to treat people equally regardless of background. Instead, people should be treated according to their level of innate privilege.
In other words, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has embraced critical race theory — or diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as it’s called in practice — with a plan called Anti-Racism Strategy 2.0. It openly signals a shift to the ideological left..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-some-are-more-equal-than-others-according-to-canadas-immigration-ministry