“History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes.”
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
Like a garden gnome wearing 4″ heels.
An “outsized pace of spending” means Canada is on course to run a budget shortfall of about $47 billion for the fiscal year that ends March 31, according to estimates released Thursday by Desjardins.
The projection raises more questions about how Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will meet her pledge to keep the country’s budget shortfall at around $40 billion a year from now until 2026.
“I think it’s going to be an exercise in creative accounting,” Randall Bartlett, Desjardins’ senior director of Canadian economics, who wrote the research note, said in an interview. “They either need to cut spending or increase revenues to make this work.”
A chorus of analysts and economists is warning that without tax increases or spending reductions, deficits are likely to rise amid slow economic growth.
Garden Gnome Barbie
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
@LarryBrockMP – Once Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was declared unconstitutional, his Justice Minister & Deputy rushed in front of cameras to declare their intentions to appeal. But! They forgot to do one thing…
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Military preparedness, March 5th, 2024;
“An anonymous member of our Armed Forces leaked these photos of six-foot-high stacked boxes of tampons delivered to male washrooms on a Canadian Forces base in Ontario,” tweeted Canada Proud on Tuesday.
Military preparedness, March 7th, 2024;
Defence Minister Says Personnel Shortage a ‘Death Spiral’ for Military, Presses for Speedier Recruiting of Non-Citizens
Because diversity is our strength: Department of National Defence report also says almost half of military’s equipment is ‘unserviceable’ Or worse.
YOU get a Ski-Doo! and YOU get a Ski-Doo!
Postscript Durham
Hockey Night In Trudeaupia
Go bump it on X.
Into The Meat Grinder?
This is nuts.
Toronto Star- Under the right conditions, Canada open to sending noncombat troops to Ukraine, Defence Minister Bill Blair says
OTTAWA—Canada is open to sending a limited number of military personnel to train Ukrainian troops within Ukraine, so long as such an operation took place far from the front lines of the war with Russia in a clear, noncombat role, Defence Minister Bill Blair says.
Francisco- If Canada wants to do more they should be looking at making things like artillery shells which are in incredibly short supply.
What We Say And What We Do
One of these things is not like the other.
National Post- As all of its peer countries rearm, Canada is shrinking its already underfunded military
National Post- Canada could find itself embroiled in a hot war it isn’t expecting: Canada Undefended
Free Robert Pickton!
Robert Pickton is eligible for day-parole after killing and feeding to his pigs countless prostitutes and other victims after less than 20 years in prison.
Meanwhile you will get 25 according to this government for making mouth noises some bureaucrat finds offensive.
Dan Knight: … just when you thought it couldn’t get any more Orwellian, enter the pièce de résistance: the Digital Safety Commission of Canada.
Just Sayin’
Diversity Is Our Strength
‘Where are all the students?’ I ask the affable Mr. Dhakecha, pressing him on why there is no one at all at the college’s Vaughan campus.
The Libranos: Friends In High Places
It’s not what you owe, it’s who you owe;
The Trudeau government let more than $67 million in GST go uncollected from a start-up airlines over the past several years.
Now the red-faced government is looking to sweep the matter under the rug, claiming privacy concerns.
In November, the Federal Court in Ottawa ordered all “real properties and immovables” of Flair Airlines be seized and sold to recoup $67,174,123 in back taxes. When the story broke in January, the company tried to dismiss concerns about the payments as relating to import duties, except airplanes aren’t subject to import duties.
There is however a requirement to pay 5% GST at time of import, something Flair appears not to have done as they brought 20 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft over the past several years. The amount owed by Flair matches the GST due on the aircraft but neither the government nor Flair is willing to say much.
On Feb. 20, that writ of seizure was quietly rescinded after the government and Flair came to an agreement on paying back the money. The agreement comes after months of high-powered lobbying of several ministries and the prime minister’s office by Liberal insiders.
Another Day, Another Scam
CTV- Ottawa daycare operators say $10/day program not working
Saba Al-Odeh is the owner of Little Heroes Daycare Centre in Ottawa and says it’s been an uphill battle ever since opting into the $10-a-day program. Cheaper daycare was one of the Liberal government’s biggest promises, but now the program is struggling, with daycare operators warning of closures if things don’t change. “I don’t get a profit, we are not even breaking even,” Al-Odeh said. “The prices don’t reflect the expenses we are having at this moment.”
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Blacklocks: Costs of federal employee salaries and benefits topped $67 billion last year, a record, Budget Officer Yves Giroux said yesterday. Giroux earlier described growth in payroll expenses as “worrisome.”
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission faces intensifying credibility concerns as a Hong Kong immigrant group becomes the second diaspora group to boycott Ottawa’s examination into Chinese interference, based on concerns that several politicians “suspected of ties to Chinese Consulates” were awarded legal standing by Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue.
In addition to publishing a statement to the Commission citing “concerns over its objectivity and security integrity,” Hong Kong Canadian boycott spokesperson Ivy Li personally questioned Commissioner Hogue’s own professional links to former Liberal prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien.
In late January, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) pulled out of the inquiry, accusing Commissioner Hogue of enabling “a significant security risk” to the diaspora in Canada and their families in China.
URAP spokesman Mehmet Tohti said his group could not participate because two Toronto-area Liberal politicians — MP Han Dong and former Ontario Liberal MPP and current Markham Deputy Mayor Michael Chan — were given full standing, meaning their lawyers will be able to question other participants in the commission.
Fidel Castro is Smiling Up [from Hell] at Lil’ Justin
OMG an Historical Justin poster in a Vegas antique shop!
h/t James MacMaster
The “W” Word
Turns out, open hostility to white men isn’t great for military recruitment