Where is the Institution of Bilingualism Now?

With one of the few successful  initiatives that both generations of the governing Trudeaus ever were awarded with from a cultural and Canadiana point of view, sadly and shockingly examples of complete lack of understanding of basic French translation and horrid reliability on Google Translate continue in what is supposed to be a bilingual country.

Do Anglophone Canadians really lack even an ounce of effort to invest in order to communicate with their Francophone fellow citizens? After all French is an OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of Canada, NOT A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (it makes me cringe to see French offered as a "foreign language" from various educational and language centres).

Even a large corporation such as Telus (#Telus, run by a "Francois") that lacked the oversight of an outsourced firm's "handling of a Twitter account" to allow this brutal and blatant mistake and which has much more risk of public reputation and reduced revenues on the line, shows it has little regard for truly being Canadian.
http://business.financialpost.com/telecom/media/grind-yourself-go-kill-him-telus-sorry-for-badly-translated-french-tweets

"Policy-Based Evidence Making": How the Liberals Portray Circumstances to Achieve an Ideal (ie, "The Liberal Solution")

Never short on a study, or a scenario the Liberal spin machine is at it again, and this time in full view of the international Davos forum.  Shockingly, with another "damn Canada" type speech to his political and business peers (cronies), The Justin has managed to manufacture an oppressive state of being in the Great White North to the point that such an elected official would not be expected to the leader of said country (Canada) but someone comparable to the likes of Stalin, Hussein, Mussolini, Mugabe, Kim Jong-Un, Castro (oh right, Justin likes him!).  Selected quotes are below.  All of this to portray The Justin as the "feminist saviour" that will lead all gender based discrimination out of the country as he merrily skips and plays his magical flute.

In relation to this article, a simple addendum to the Canadian Business and Corporations Act woud have sufficed, but no.  Bill C-25 is now before the Senate.  While no one should be discriminated against based on being a man, woman or, I have to now use "gender" to capture all, neither should this many resources, time and pay for our legislators be allocated to bring this justice.

As mentioned in the article, this is our Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains initiative and it reminded me, from several past posts, what does an Innovation Minister (@NavdeepSBains) do anyway? No one has been able to tell me.

Hats off to Terence Corcoraon (author) for his coining of the term "policy-based evidence making".  It is bang on for this new Liberal regime.

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-the-dodgy-studies-behind-trudeaus-radical-experiment-to-socially-engineer-canadian-businesses

Select quotes that The Justin has chosen to focus on (whether he believes the "science" or "facts" or Liberal math behind them)...

"Among women who were newly appointed to the boards of Fortune 500 companies, 77 per cent of them were white. Race, religion, sexuality, socioeconomic status — these are just a few of the ways that women are even further discriminated against.”

“Too many corporations have put the pursuit of profit before the wellbeing of their workers. The gap between the rich and the poor is staggering. All the while, companies avoid taxes and boast record profits with one hand, while slashing benefits with the other. But that approach can’t and won’t cut it anymore.”

When quoting McKinsey and Peterson Institute for International Economics reports, "“narrowing the gender gap in Canada would add $150 billion to our economy by 2026” and increasing the number of women in leadership positions from zero to 30 per cent “translates into a 15-per-cent boost in profitability.”

When You Do Not Recieve The Results You Want, Then Change the Rules...And Again

Once again, appeasing and bowing to the climate change "crusaders" and enviro-mental-ists, the Liberals are looking at ways to changing the approval regimes and processes...again.  Even though the Liberals have technically "approved" certain pipelines, they can now wipe their hands clean of all party responsibilty as the approval rules down the road have alrady changed once.

In the name of "stakeholders" and "independence", the Liberals in fact have their fingers all over the pipeline approval processes (and other large infratstructure industries), meanwhile appearing squeaky clean to those who only read the nearest copy of 24 or Metro for their "news" fix (their converted).

Similar to a street busking musician enticing his passers-by with a quick handed game of "where's the peanut", both domestic and foreign investment are left bewildered as to how this country wants to manage, monetize and heaven forbid extract the resources it has been blessed with.

http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/big-moment-for-energy-sector-as-trudeau-set-to-unveil-sweeping-regulatory-reforms-within-days

Liberal Government Has No Interest in Protecting Canada

While former Prime Minister Harper visited the Canadian Arctic, some say arguably only in a symbolic and stately sense, he and his previous Conservative government had their eye on the prize. Although due to some minority government years, the Conservatives were never able to do what the military needed.  Now Canadians are saddled with billions in federal government debt and not even a valid military to show for it (and from a majority government this time).  And like paying down the deficits, not for a while.

Canada's CF-18s to fly until 2032 as new fighter jets expected to be slowly phased in: http://nationalpost.com/news/canadas-cf-18s-to-fly-until-2032-as-new-fighter-jets-expected-to-be-slowly-phased-in

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.....

Canada: What Was Once One Of The Few Countries To Survive The Financial Crisis Relatively Unscathed...Is Now Creating Its Own Bubbles To Burst

This is how the world's largest financial markets view us now.  What was once one of the few countries to survive the financial crisis relatively unscathed...now it is creating its own bubbles to burst.

This is not going to end well. Many Canadians are now set up to see catastrophic losses.

Is this "innovation" Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains (@NavdeepSBains)? 

Is this "financial innovation" Minister of Finance Bill Morneau (@Bill_Morneau)?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-22/bitcoin-marijuana-stock-crazes-take-root-in-canada-s-wild-west

A Plethora of Easy Targets Today For The Justin, The Ontario Liberals

Today, The Justin is frittering time away in Davos extolling the virtues of Canada and business opportunties, yet the Liberals cannot complete a trade deal with China, NAFTA looks like it is collapsing, but oh wait! Just in, a TPP deal has been completed, but nowhere near its envisioned form.  With only seasonal December jobs strength (from temporary Christmas shopping seasonality....ummm, "holiday seasonality") to brag about, and an all important NAFTA agreement about to be ripped up, we will see what economic strength and opportunities therein lie for the future in Canada.  I suspect if there is a decent Swiss coffee break after the Justin's speech, that will be the only way there will be a packed house.  Otherwise the crowd's attendance will dive like this author expects the Loonie to do in 2018.

Also, the federal Liberals are pushing their agenda and offending just about every religious group  out there with its "like it or lump it" approach to funding tens of thousands of summer jobs primarily aimed at students, no matter what group or cause the application comes from.  The views center around abortion choices and of course the Liberals have managed to manufacture their own language and laws around this as technically, (and with the highest degree of respect) although a woman (or jointly with a partner) can make a choice about abortion, there has been no woman's right passed with regards to this.

Meanwhile, the Provincial Ontario Liberals could not be suffering more from "on the hot seat" syndrome with all past multi-billion dollar gaffes and atrocities merely dismissed as "the days of old (McGuinty)".  Despite a recent member being found guilty, other members appearing in a Sudbury court and with their favourite colleague Kathleen Wynn also on the stand to testify, WHAT MORE WRONG CAN THIS GOVERNMENT DO?

Well...in secret recognition of that, the Liberals have rammed down Ontarians' throats a new minimum wage regime (lacking any debate, economic studies, or consultation with businesses), are rolling out aggressively generous and new prescription and dental benefits, not to mention their flirting with pensions, and always appeasing the society (cult) of Ontario Teachers as well as all union-based groups.

Sadly, as Canadian voters at large are focused not on "the greater good of the country" but "what can you do for me", these two groups are likely to be voted in again in five months and two years time respectively from today.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-an-attractive-place-to-invest-are-you-serious-prime-minister

http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/reevely-conviction-of-mcguintys-former-chief-of-staff-not-liberals-worst-loss-of-the-week/wcm/d768896d-70cc-42ef-8cdf-56e86d1ddd2c

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/six-fold-increase-in-senate-lobbying-under-trudeau-with-independents-taking-most-meetings