The Emperor Has No Clothes – doesn’t begin to properly explain how absolutely clueless Keir Starmer is.
Faint Hope
So Canadians rewarded Carney with a majority government so that he can try to backfill a hole previously created by his own party? Note that this is merely a discussion forum as opposed to the implementation of any actual business plans. The mind boggles.
A recent report from RBC says that last year was Canada’s first to attract more than $100 billion in foreign direct investment since 2015.
More than $1 trillion in foreign investment exited the Canadian economy between 2015 and 2024, what the report calls the “largest capital exodus in Canadian history.”
The Canadian Investment Drought
Shocked, I tell you! Shocked! But I’m sure a Liberal majority will make it all better.
Small-business exit rates hit 5.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, while the entry rate fell to 4.8 per cent in the fourth quarter. The ratio between business starts and closures is among the worst since the COVID-19 pandemic, CFIB said in a report.
Alarming The Warming
Now that Carney has a majority, expect his government to start taking these fools seriously again.
“It feels to me like this (climate) has been somewhat deprioritized. And that’s why we’re going to, as an industry, keep it at the top of the table,” Rowan Saunders, the CEO of the country’s fourth-largest property and casualty insurer Definity, said in an interview.
“We’re at a point now in Canada where we can have what used to be a year’s worth of severe weather losses happening in a single day. And we don’t have the level of public investment commensurate to that reality right now,” said David Leibl, vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at Winnipeg-based insurer Wawanesa. “We need to close that gap.”
But What If I Catch Their Whiteness?
On efforts to “decolonise” folk singing; on claims of being oppressed by a rapidly shrinking minority; and on rap, the ‘N’ word, and dumb academia:
Having covered quite a few of these “decolonisation” efforts, which generally rely on a fig-leaf of widening access and removing barriers, it’s remarkable just how rarely any meaningful obstacle to access is actually mentioned. Typically, the humdrum is depicted as gruelling and somehow agonising, and motes are inflated to the size of boulders.
We were told, for instance, that racial minorities are being “deterred” from visiting the British countryside “due to deep-rooted, complex barriers.” Barriers such as the fact that rock-climbing instructors are usually white. And apparently this unremarkable state of affairs, in a white-majority country, is something that needs fixing.
Though it occurs to me that if a person with brown skin were being deterred from trying rock climbing by the fact that the instructor is likely to be white, then it seems somewhat unlikely that said person is interested in rock climbing to any significant extent. And a person deterred by such things may also want to reflect on their own racial assumptions. But we’re not supposed to mention those, at least not in an unflattering light.
Sparky Car Confusion
Does the government want Canadians to buy more EVs or not? The way to encourage people to adopt a particular technology is to allow them to source it as cheaply as possible. But the ultimate goal in this case seems to be nearly the opposite: Canadians are supposed to buy EVs at whatever price Canadian automakers and their unions demand, and in similar quantities to a much lower price point. Good luck with that.
Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has also voiced opposition to the plan to ship cars in kits to Ontario, but the federal government has revealed little about how its plan for China to ship 49,000 electric vehicles to Canada at a 6.1 per cent duty rate will work, including who will choose which models are sent.
Germany is a Failed State
After the destruction of World War 2, the people of West Germany came together, worked really hard, and built an industrial powerhouse. But in recent decades, Leftist politicians have completely destroyed the country.
Germany is the Perfect Country . . . for Lazy People!
Is it not ironic how we’re constantly told that America is Bad and Europe is Fantastic. Given that the nose-ring laden, blue haired speakers have never been good with “math”, it’s not very surprising that such statements are not based on . . . facts!
No Amount of Mocking Will Ever Suffice
This is done perfectly.
The MMIWG2LGBTQQIA+ is NOT inclusive ENOUGH pic.twitter.com/Oi6wWGRH1L
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) April 10, 2026
Comedic Governance
When I first saw the headline, I thought maybe my provincial government was finally seeing the bigger picture. But again I was disappointed. We’re still at the “definition” stage of micromanagement.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says his government is working on the definition of a grocery store as it considers where to apply a tax cut on food.
Slush Funds For All
Well, slush money for Montreal at least. It’s anyone’s guess why a port currently at 72% capacity really needs to expand, but we can dream, can’t we?
Nathalie Pilon, the chair of the Port of Montreal’s board of directors, said the expansion is needed, despite a recent decline in overall cargo traffic she attributed in part to U.S. tariffs. She said the port is at around 72 per cent capacity now, and that problems arise when 85 per cent is attained.
You’d think that having a four lane highway across the country might be a priority too, but roads to the Arctic seem to be the all the rage now. Mexico’s got a better road network than Canada at this juncture.
The prime minister said construction on another project, the Mackenzie Valley Highway in the Northwest Territories, would begin this summer
New Nation, Same As The Old Nation
It’s pretty much a slam dunk that Carney will have a majority after the April 13th by-elections, considering that two of the seats are in very safe Liberal territory. If so, how long will it be until he reverses course on his Conservative Lite approach to governance? Consumer carbon taxes, anyone? How about “Investments” in EVs and high speed rail?
If the Liberals win two of the three byelections, they will hold 173 seats, or 174 seats if they win all three byelections, which would let them pass legislation without needing to rely on the Speaker or on any other parties to support them.
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Pakistani grooming gangs have needs, too.
🚨BREAKING: The British government are paying money to pakistani grooming gang rapists for legal fees.
This is literally INSANE. pic.twitter.com/xfur6ao4VP
— God Save Great Britain (@GSGB01) April 7, 2026
Circling The Drain
Cushion the blow? That sounds like the Feds will hand out free Squishmallows at the gas pumps. Could’ve had some pipelines, but it’s getting a bit late even for that. An end to the industrial carbon tax would help, but I’m not holding my breath.
Oil prices have surged since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, averaging more than $1.80 per litre across Canada today, compared with about $1.32 a year ago.
Carney says his government wants to help “cushion the blow” for Canadians.
Being Real, She Says
Readers will note Mrs Newsom’s assumptions of accidental criminality – among occupants of San Quentin, a maximum-security prison – and her obliviousness regarding how much effort is required – how many accidents – to actually end up in a prison of any kind.
On progressives and crime, and the boggling wrongness of Mrs Gavin Newsom.
Have You Tried, Er, Paying Your Bills?
North America Treaty Organization
When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.
Very much related.
Selling Coal To Newcastle
Could’ve had a pipeline, but this is Canada after all.
As Nova Scotians complained about high electricity costs in February, we were burning natural gas from the other side of the world.
The Greek-flagged liquified natural gas tanker Maran Gas Hector arrived in Saint John, N.B., at the end of February after a 25,000-kilometre journey from Australia.
Circling The Drain
Nine years to fully end door to door mail delivery? There’s obviously no sense of urgency despite the mounting losses. And no obvious outrage among taxpayers. That’s Canada for you.
Joël Lightbound, minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, said last fall that the process to eliminate most door-to-door service would take about nine years, with most of it expected to be completed in the first four.
Canada Post lost $841 million before tax in 2024.
The Aftermath of the NDP Oppression Olympics
This card is probably fake, but there were indeed victim cards at the recent NDP Convention.
Viva Frei shares his thoughts about the convention and the recent history of the NDP.
Bonus: There is “video” of Lyle Culpepper making an “appearance” at the NDP Convention.
If It Wasn’t For Fake Victims, There’d Be No Need for Victim Cards
Someone on X pointed out something I didn’t think of with my post this morning:
One of the funniest things about this is that they gave a bunch of professional victims literal victim cards and they then spend all their time arguing over who got to play their victim card and when. Brilliant. https://t.co/i6pD5Zth7y
— Dr Alan Bleaching. RBLP GradDipHlthS DPhil(x) (@alanbleaching) March 30, 2026
In a nutshell, this is precisely what is wrong with Canada (and all of “blue” America). When a society reaches a point, where the key to getting ahead changes from meritocracy to permanent victimhood, that society is doomed.
I do take pride in the fact that many years ago, I coined the acronym “PVS”, which stands for Permanent Victim Syndrome. Nowadays, I tend to think that PVS & TDS are both real.