What is More Outrageous: Millionaires Receiving a $14,000 Provincial Government Rebate for an Overpriced Car or Tesla Suing Ontario Over The Cancelled $14,000 Rebate?

https://business.financialpost.com/transportation/tesla-files-lawsuit-against-ontario-government-over-electric-vehicle-rebate-program

A New National Statutory Holiday? The Liberals Clearly Expecting 260,000 Federal Government Employees Votes in October 2019

The timing of this announcement is strategic of course.  The federal Liberals waited until the last year of its term to roll this one "call to action" out.  Coming off the first "Truth" statutory holiday (maybe in September next year), a month later we will be in the October 2019 election. 

As such, how do you think the 260,000 federal government employees are going to vote? Or are going to be sucked into voting Liberal by the culture and water cooler chats that permeate those hallowed halls of government services.  Good times to be a federal governement employee right now (and a teacher, fire man/woman, police man/woman, transit employee...).

This sad and unfortunate occasion could have been observed and recognized in other ways (the same goes for Victoria city council's actions).  Having a holiday is not a very good solution.  Sadly Remembrance Day for example, thanks to such a statutory holiday in B.C. (not here in Ontario) is barely holding on to its significance. If it wasn't for the Whistler ski season opening another two weeks later than that, Remembrance Day in B.C. would sadly be a meaningless, barely observed holiday. Does the government honestly think a statutory holiday is a solution whereby the nation will be marking the "...“painful legacy” of Canada’s residential schools" on their way out of town for an extended break?

Meanwhile, and as a result, Canadian (and international) economists must be adjusting Canada's GDP downward on top of trade wars, increased minimum wages, higher interest rates and a government owned pipeline that will never come to fruition.

Latest Jobs Numbers in Canada: Remember That Bank of Canada Interest Rate Hike? Get Ready For a Plateau of Interest Rakes...or a Decrease...That's How Bad Things May Be

At the time of its July 11, 2018 overnight rate hike to 1.5% it almost seemed The Bank of Canada was giving itself a tool in order to decrease rates in the future as NAFTA uncertainty was ongoing, oil was rising.  Now we have unattractive jobs numbers, a 5.8% unemployment rate that reporters and economists would like us to jump and down for (meanwhile in the big bad USA...~4.0%) and a Saudi political spat probably resulting in oil supply impacts to the refineries in Eastern Canada if it lasts beyond three months.

Not only is Trudeau silent on the whole affair, but no support from USA or UK proving how childish and needless this human rights hounding of a contry that will likely not change.  With no economic benefits to score, only possible poll results to gain, Canadians now face the brunt of needlessly poking a holder of Canadian equities (130 points drop on the TSX the Monday after it was announced) that has claimed to be selling everything Canadian and likely will cut off oil supplies (yes Canada - oil from Saudi Arabia and such countries comes to Canada and flows down the St. Lawrence!).

"...Across the provinces, Ontario gained 60,600 jobs — all in part-time work — and the unemployment rate dropped 0.5 percentage points to 5.4 per cent for its lowest reading since July 2000..."

https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/newsalert-canada-adds-54100-jobs-in-july-unemployment-rate-falls-to-5-8-2

Justin's Reckless "Welcome to Canada" Tweet and Resulting $85M Has Pushed Canadians' Opinions To The Brink

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/influx-of-irregular-refugees-has-reached-crisis-level-for-most-canadians-poll-suggests?video_autoplay=true

"The majority of Canadians believe irregular migration into the country has reached a crisis point, according to a new poll, suggesting immigration and refugees will be a major wedge issue in the 2019 election."

"According to the RCMP, 11,420 asylum seekers have entered Canada between official border crossings from Jan. 1 to July 15, 2018. Last year, there were 20,953 irregular crossings in total, up from just 2,486 in 2016. The vast majority have entered at an unofficial crossing point in Quebec."

Hello @honahmedhussen, @justintrudeau

More Evidence of Like Father, Like Son: A Trudeau Screwing Up Canada's Energy Industry...Again

As posted much earlier on this forum, Trudeau 1.0 i) alienated Western Canada, ii) pissed off the USA, iii) mocked the Queen, and iv) increased government debt insatiably.  Trudeau 2.0 - only one of these things is not like the other...yet

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-trans-mountain-will-prove-ottawa-cant-run-an-oil-company-again

A Week After the Danforth Shootings, Our Prime Minister Feels It Is Time To Return to Work...And Will Be in Toronto

An end to the "personal" days.  He must have felt the Danforth shootings has now blown over. 

Where is Justin? Another Multi-person Attack, This Time With a Gun, And Another Round of Unreleased Information About the Attacker

https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/toronto-danforth-shooting#comments-area

As Toronto has grown exponentially through never ending developments of condo and housing, transit expansions, growing employers, more attractions and Canadians and non-Canadians from visa recipients, permanent residents and refugee claims (like my Uber driver this week) moving to Canada's largest city, these types of horrific and sad events are unfortunately on the rise.

Toronto, it is time to stop having our heads in the sands as a "nice Canadian town" and take a hard look at all municipal, provincial and federals laws including: i) gun laws, more importantly, ii) enforcement of those gun laws, and iii) Canada's porous borders lacking full security.

Although John Tory and Premier Doug Ford have made announcements, we are still awaiting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's acknowledgement.  Maybe he is having a "me day" on this Monday.

According to his Twitter account, he is focused on the child care benefit (after screwing it up after taking office), Special Olympics athletes and Tim Horton's day (it is good they are receiving the attention on this) and a group called #monsheong (which is unclear what it is - a predominantly Asian youth group? However, it appears The Justin visited an Asian seniors home. No further description on Twitter page). 

Who Is A More Irresponsible "Tweeter" - Trump or Trudeau? Just Look at Canada's Illegal Border Crossers' Crisis

"...U.S. President Donald Trump is an irrepressible and irresponsible tweeter, but so is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

In January 2017, Trump imposed a “travel ban” on seven Muslim countries, but Trudeau then sent out a holier-than-thou tweet that is costing Canadians hundreds of millions of dollars and creating a permanent burden.

On January 28, 2017 at 4.20 pm, Trudeau tweeted: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada..."

"...Before the tweet, border officials prevented 315 people a month from illegally crossing the border. Post-tweet in 2017, about 18,149 illegally crossed the border, then claimed asylum as refugees — even after entering illegally — and were allowed to stay, get welfare, education, housing, healthcare and work permits. By May 2018, the number of refugee cases pending has jumped to 54,906 from 18,348 in December 2016. That’s the population of Grande Prairie, Alberta or Granby, Quebec..."


https://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/trudeaus-holier-than-thou-tweet-causes-migrant-crisis-now-he-needs-to-fix-what-he-started?video_autoplay=true

To The Finish - Ontario LIberals Are Still Out of Touch With Ontarians. The Liberals' Record Below...

I have tried to find a concise excerpt that would set the tone and give some sense to the magnitude of the gaffes, arrgonace, incompetence, values bending, financial absuridty and recklessness this provincial governnent has exuded over the years.  However, that was impossible.  Here is MOST of the article with all credit due to Financial Post author, Kelly McParland

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-the-liberals-dont-know-why-wynne-is-unpopular-maybe-i-can-help-with-that#comments-area

"...Wynne ran as an upgrade from her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty. She didn’t like the scandals, the gas plant closings, the dirty little deals. She’d bring transparency and openness. She promised to be better, and didn’t deliver — not even close. She blatantly sold access to herself and her top cabinet members to the highest bidders, treating the payments as “donations.” When exposed she refused to back down until public pressure forced it on her. No one pays big bucks to politicians unless they expect something in return, and Wynne’s blatant use of her office to fill party coffers only exacerbated the cynicism and distrust that had grown up during the McGuinty years.

She pandered shamelessly to public-sector unions, especially the teachers’ unions that poured tens of millions of dollars into campaigns to keep her in office. To retain their support she used public funds to finance generous contracts, including millions of dollars quietly handed over to help the unions pay their negotiating costs. Her education minister didn’t ask for receipts, and — when caught — responded with a hauteur that came to be a government characteristic. “We know what the food costs. We know what 100 pizzas costs. You don’t need to see every bill when you’re doing an estimate of costs,” said Liz Sandals. They handed over the money despite learning the secondary school teachers had a $65 million reserve fund to pay bargaining costs. Did that sway Wynne’s ministers? Not a chance: Deputy Premier Deb Matthews admitted she was unaware of the fund, and wasn’t all that interested: “I don’t know if that fund exists. I don’t know what it’s for. I’m not going to comment on OSSTF finances,” she said.

Wynne’s government treated critics with disdain. When Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk ruled that Liberals were breaking their own rules by using government advertisements to promote the party, Wynne took away her veto power. When both Lysyk and the Financial Accountability Office challenged the government’s budget math — suggesting they were off by billions of dollars — the premier ignored them. When Lysyk revealed a $2 billion hydro project had cost twice as much as expected, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli suggested Lysyk was too dim to understand the complex issue — despite having spent 10 years at Manitoba Hydro. Such condescending behaviour by a non-Liberal would have had gender-sensitive Liberal “progressives” demanding resignations, but Chiarelli was a Liberal so the government let it go.

When she took over from McGuinty, Wynne stressed her concern over provincial finances. “It is obviously critical that we tackle the deficit and get to the point that we are paying down debt,” she said. Then her government racked up one staggering deficit after another, adding tens of billions of dollars to a debt that had already doubled under her predecessor. Finance Minister Charles Sousa insisted the government would eventually balance the budget, eventually claiming to have done so in the year before the election, but only by using accounting tricks that shifted tens of billions of dollars in borrowing off the official tally. Sousa pledged several more years of “balance,” then reversed himself 12 months later, announcing a return to borrowing so the Liberals could finance a raft of new spending promises in the weeks before the election.

Even then he couldn’t bring himself to be honest: the government’s projected $6.7 billion annual deficit was quickly shown to be $11.7 billion, with similar miscalculations stretching into the 2020s, eventually totalling as much as $50 billion. Lysyk, required by law to review the books before an election, found the numbers so dodgy she announced they couldn’t be trusted, and accused the government of deliberately hiding documents to keep her in the dark. It was a flagrant attempt to buy votes with borrowed money, so glaring that offended voters saw through the ruse and Liberal fortunes fell further. Yet it reflected once again the government’s astonishingly low opinion of is constituents, and its assumption they were too apathetic, ignorant or disengaged to know when they were being conned.

Throughout Wynne’s five years in office, her government regularly prioritized the well-being of the party over those of the province. Hydro One was sold off to produce some quick cash for transit projects, but at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue produced by the provincial utility. The debt so relentlessly piled up by the government will impact voters for a generation to come: the $1 billion Ontario spends on interest payments every 30 days is the equivalent of a new hospital every month. When the government complains it lacks the resources to meet demands from doctors, colleges and universities, think of that monthly billion-dollar tab and what it could be doing if it wasn’t being spent on interest..."

As if A Lack of Action on A Pipeline Expansion and an Uncertain NAFTA Agreement Are Not Enough, Canadian CEOs Are Waking Up to Additional Liberal Taxes: Whose Interests Do Justin, Morneau and the Invisible Jim Carr Have?

"....The chief executive of a large Canadian company said he was at a Vancouver board of trade dinner this week.

“The level of foreign investment has never been so low and continues to fall off a cliff. There is a real, genuine, honest, non-partisan concern that Canada is so completely out of touch with the real world,” he said..."

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-the-slow-bleeding-of-corporate-canada-is-about-to-get-underway-and-only-morneau-can-stop-it

Another Year, Another Liberal "Dudget" - This Time Even More Uber Left

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/philip-cross-the-trudeau-governments-third-federal-budget-is-another-triumph-of-symbolism-over-substance

followed by the new Gender Bases Analysis Plus ("GBA+") regime whereby all government decisions must be filtered.  As if completing and concluding things in government was not slow enough.  Not to mention another layer to stop the passive-aggressive approach to pipelines in Canada. 

http://nationalpost.com/news/what-is-gba-the-federal-intersectional-doctrine-that-governs-everything-now

The Curious Timing of Ontario Conservative Leader's Allegations: As the Media Portrays All Such Stories - Guilty Until Proven Innocent

With i) an upcoming election in the summer, ii) the current Premier's approval rating at a record low for any Ontario Premier, and iii) a particular legal spat (suing for libel) between Patrick and The Kathleen stemming from her time in a Sudbury courtroom in September, 2017 actually testifying (well, giving her accounts of events) in a case that involved her other fellow members of the Ontario Liberal Party and Patrick's subsequent comments ("a sitting premier sitting in trial”), is it not a little curious that these allegations have surfaced...now? 

(Obviously the media have not learned any lessons from a school girl's hijab cutting fib that made the media's and politicians' day for a short while, but as always the media is treating these allegations as "guilty until proven innocent".)

Regardless, the Ontario Conservative Party, the only force and option against Canadian voter apathy and to stop the nonsense of this gaffe-filled and out of control spending Liberal party, is now leaderless, and the only way for a Kathleen approval rating shot ahead of the election was something as drastic as this happening.  Did she and/or her Liberal cohorts have some hand in all of this? Or passively steer some media or actual alleged victims? We will see if there is a conclusion to the statement of claim filed or it is withdrawn. 

Unfortunately, the Ontario 2018 crystal ball now looks as such: might as well hand the Ontario election over to the Liberals now rather than go through the useless and time-wasting exercises of unnecessary campaigining, nauseating media coverage, meaningless polling updates and water cooler chat (if anyone actually cares about Canadian politics anymore).  Unless there is a colossal, Argonauts type of upset against the Stampeders in last year's Grey Cup, then hello higher taxes, more out of control spending, increased power rates and electricity bills, longer list of "sunshine list members", ever increasing borrowing and deficits.....