Canada's Quagmire of Permitting Large Projects...Yes, Even the Envirinmentally Friendly Ones

"..When it comes to climate, the federal Liberals spend too much time thinking up new taxes and too little time actually working toward change. They’re all too happy to reach into Canadians’ pockets in the name of reducing carbon emissions, but strangely hostile to projects that could genuinelzy transform the way we create and consume energy.

The logic is simple: if we want to cut carbon emissions, we need viable alternatives. Yet Canada is about to lose a promising tidal power venture — one that’s already received millions in government grants in addition to investing $30 million of its own funds — because the feds either can’t or won’t get their act together issuing permits..." 

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/in-trudeaus-canada-even-green-energy-projects-cant-get-permits

After Sll Thst Talk From Navdeep Bains, Where us Canada's Innovation? An " Investment" or " Subsidy" for Volkswagen

 "...Incredibly, neither the gatekeeper-slaying federal Tories (who at least used to position themselves as against corporate welfare while in opposition before abandoning any such pretense once in office) nor the federal NDP (whose former leader David Lewis coined the term “corporate welfare bums”) bothered to raise the Volkswagen deal in Question Period on Thursday after the scale of largesse had been leaked to the media. If even politicians like Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh — who in their respective ways never stop telling us how they’re fighting for the little guy — can’t muster the outrage to speak out against such a massive raid of the public treasury, who will?.."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/aaron-wudrick-13b-for-volkswagen-shows-trudeau-has-no-confidence-in-canadian-innovation

Liberals' Incentives For New Volkswagen Plant: Whaaaaaaat!?!? How much is that per worker?

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/canada-matched-us-subsidies-to-win-volkswagen-battery-plant

Let's say 2,000 workers (aggressive for a town like St Thomas) = $216,667 per worker annually for 30 years. Basically an auto union of government employees. 

"...The minister said the plant will cost about $7 billion to build, will have a footprint equal to 350 football fields, and will create thousands of jobs in the region around St. Thomas, the southern Ontario city where it will be located, about two hours northeast of Detroit...."

Canada's Federal Strikes = Lower Growth and Higher Inflation

 Scotiabank Says Federal Strike Is Poised to Hit Canada’s Growth  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/scotiabank-says-federal-strike-is-poised-to-hit-canada-s-growth

Ethics and the NDPLiberals

 Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint.

Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was found to have breached conflict-of-interest rules in 2018 for approving a lucrative fishing licence for a family member while he was fisheries minister.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberal-cabinet-ministers-sister-in-law-resigns-as-federal-interim-ethics-commissioner

Our Ever " Not Knowing" Prime Minister

 Trudeau again "not knowing"

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-admits-dozens-visits-jamaican-villa

"Trudeau also confirmed on Wednesday that he was not aware of the reportedly large donation the Green family made to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2021, a scholarship named after Peter Green’s late wife, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green, who died of breast cancer in the 1990s.

“As I have said, I have had no engagement direct or indirect with the Trudeau foundation in close to 10 years. So that includes not knowing about what donations they are taking, what decisions they’re making or what my brother is doing on the foundation,” he said."

When you Look Up Convenient in the Dictionary

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ethics-commissioner-resignation-halts-investigations

Ontario Schools to Focus On...Education

 "...Though it was left unsaid, the clear subtext is that schools have become obsessed with critical race theory, radical gender ideology and climate alarmism, and have dropped the ball when it comes to educating our children. Yet it’s amazing how this managed to go over the heads of so many..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/educators-shocked-doug-ford-wants-students-to-learn-to-read-and-do-math

When will "activists", "demonstrators" and "advocacy" groups be called for what they are - nuisances, vandals, mobs, terrorists, criminals, destroyers of public property(ies). Oh right, we have a soft on crime approach now while the media is wrapped up by the governing NDPLiberals. What was I thinking?

 https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/environment-demonstrator-detained-after-pink-paint-splashed-on-pmo-office-doors

Why Have Violent Crimes All of a Sudden Increased? Let us Count the Ways

 Reduced mandatory sentences for serious crimes based on appeasing certain racial groups; unmatched supports in a world recognizing and encouraging prolific mental health issues; loss of border control; record amounts of legal and illegal entrants to Canada with no justification of targets; significantly reducing qualifying scores for permanent residents (skills, ofgicial languages capabilities, assets, qualifying time spent in Canada, employment status, legal status from background checks) to meet these most aggressive immigration targets at all costs; government induced inflationary policies, and you have...

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-violent-crime-wave

The Last Canada Wide Public Employee Shutdown

 "...No one was hurt in the fracas, but there were more displays of anger in the days that followed. Strikers snarled traffic in downtown Ottawa and Hull, closed the Portage Bridge for 90 minutes and disrupted transit services by picketing Transitway stations.

Back to work legislation was passed late on Oct. 1, 1991, effectively ending the strike and suspending the collective bargaining process. The Treasury Board held firm on its proposal to freeze public servants’ wages in 1991 and kept the 1992 increase to three per cent.

Many striking workers returned on Oct. 3 having gained little and feeling bitter towards both the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government. The workers lost three weeks’ wages, not a small thing for the clerks and secretaries who earned $24,000 a year at the time. The strike cost the union about $16 million, which then had to borrow money from other unions and banks.  Union members got a $60-a-year dues increase to rebuild PSAC’s strike fund. Hundreds of PSAC members who crossed picket lines were suspended by their union...."

https://ottawacitizen.com/feature/what-happens-if-155000-federal-public-service-workers-go-on-strike

Even Canadian Union, Both Public Sector and Private, Are Turning Backs on NDPLiberal Lunacy And Are Leaning Cnservatuve

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conservative-favourite-party-of-unionized-canadians

 "...After decades of being one of the most reliable voting blocs for left-wing parties, Canadian union members appear to be leaning Conservative for the first time anyone can remember. A recent poll by Abacus Data found that the Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre is now the leading choice for unionized workers.  Among members of private sector unions, 36 per cent declared their intent to vote Tory against the 34 per cent who still supported the Liberals.  More surprising still, the Conservative showing was even better among public sector workers; 34 per cent supported the Conservatives, while the NDP and Liberal total stood at 26 per cent each..."

If at First You Don't Suceed with Parliamentary Budget Office, Try Again With a "Broader" Sense of Parameters

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberal-mp-asks-for-second-look-at-carbon-tax-report

At first when you don't get the answer you want from an independent body (Parliamentary Budget Office), ask them to do it again, with "a broader perspective, arguing the PBO wasn’t factoring in the cost of climate inaction."

"...the economic impact of the tax would drive down wages and raise costs.  “We estimate that most households will see a net loss, paying more in the federal fuel charge and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive,” Giroux wrote...."

What is Roxham Rd Costing Canadian Taxpayers? On Housing and Healthcare, an Even $1.0 Billion At Least

https://nationalpost.com/news/budget-canada-1-billion-asylum-claimants

 "...The illegal border crossing at Quebec’s Roxham Road may be closed, but the Liberal government’s recent budget indicates it expects to spend dramatically more on temporary housing and health-care for asylum-seekers and refugees over the next year.

The $1 billion for short-term accommodation and temporary health-care coverage for asylum-seekers and refugees listed in the budget, released March 28, is significantly more than what the federal government has transferred to provinces in recent years for those provisions..."

NDPLiberals' Woke Budget and Opposite Marketing Spin

 "...Identity-based hiring for the coast guard, tens of millions for Black employees in the public service and mandatory diversity reporting at Canadian banks were some of this year’s identity-politics-infused budget measures.

Instead of diversity, marketing for this year’s budget has focused on infrastructure, jobs and the idea of “balance” — despite the whopping $493 billion in total spending, $59.5 billion in new spending, a $43 billion deficit, and $34.5 billion to be spent on interest (rising to $50.3 billion in 2027)..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-chrystia-freelands-budget-is-woke-by-stealth

Canada's Soft on Crime From the Liberal Leftists to Alleviate and Appease Certain Groups Has Lead to Lawlessness on TTC, Mass Murders, Probations, etc

"...Yet it needs to be said, because too many judges, politicians and left-wing voters have leaned so far into the soft-on-crime, defund-the-police rhetoric, they fail to see that the lack of deterrence in our justice system is contributing to a culture of lawlessness on our streets.... 

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/progressive-criminal-justice-policies-have-made-canada-less-safe

Dividends: In Canada, It is Emergy, Banks and Telecomms

 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/carrick-on-money/article-rob-carrick-these-dividend-stocks-beat-inflation-two-ways/

Sunny Ways: When Constantly in Trouble With the Ethics Commissioner, Pay the Next One Less

 Sunny ways.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/new-ethics-commissioner-salary-cut

"...During his tenure, he found five senior Liberals in violation of ethics laws, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, cabinet ministers Dominic LeBlanc and Mary Ng, former minister Bill Morneau and parliamentary secretary Greg Fergus.

In an interview during his last week in office, Dion lambasted the government for failing to take ethics seriously.

“The public has to believe that ethics are taken seriously, and they have yet to have any big evidence of that since 2018,” Dion told the Post..."