63 Replies to “Dead Country Walking”

  1. He and his handlers have no clue. One only has to ask where the money comes from for the research to understand why they have no clue. And the sole comment at the end of the article says it all.

      1. “I can’t underthtand that peopwe thay that they’we poow. Evweybody I know ith wich, hath howidayth in the Cawibbean, and hangth out at Davoth.”

    2. They have no clue where the money comes from? Riiiiight!!!

      https://www.thegwpf.com/george-soros-makes-160-million-investments-on-oil-gas-coal/

      “His investments in fossil fuels undermines his public pledge to use his money to eliminate the oil, gas and coal industries, claiming they threaten the planet by accelerating climate change.

      The billionaire’s most recent political efforts to warn about climate change was his underwriting of the organizations behind the April 29, 2017, “People’s Climate March” that marked the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s administration. Soros donated $36 million to 18 of the march’s 55 steering committee organizations between 2000 to 2014, according to the Media Research Center.”

      Soares is buying up the energy sector thru his many long, crooked finger-companies at fire sale prices. And he is the one carrying the flame thrower!

    3. Too true. He doesn’t realize that he’s arguing that we need to transition from being rich and healthy. Just in time for the Coronavirus!

  2. The globalist are not shutting down mining. They are moving it to Asia. Trudeau is helping them. Canada is being broken.

  3. At some point in the process of “addressing climate change” the source (aka other people’s money) dries up.
    No product = no tax revenue = no transfers for Quebec
    Nothing motivates the NPC voters of the MTV like inaccessibility to their government benefits.
    But this is what they asked for, so they need to get it good and hard.

    1. Get rid of all the jobs,
      families starve to death,

      Climate Change is saved,
      ‘Long Live The Climate.’

  4. “build a research facility in Quebec that would produce the world’s first carbon-emissions-free aluminum”
    I call bullshit on Rio Tinto and Alcoa. And are there any other emissions?

    The Little Black Potato is up his own arse looking for a pile.
    Nothing he says is the truth.

    1. Like Maple Leaf. How does it plan to produce its smoked ham and bacon products.
      The CEO is a relative of Moron-o.
      More hard evidence liberalism is a mental disorder.

  5. Trudeau is so clueless he’s dangerous. We need to take whatever action available in the confines of Parliamentary procedure to get his useless arse out the seat of power.

    1. Trudeau is dangerous. We need to take action to get his useless arse out the seat of power.

      (I edited it for you)

  6. Like his father before him, the Little Potato is rapidly expanding the number of government employees. Public sector employment has grown by over three times the rate of private sector employment over the last 12 months. More than 20% of those working in Canada are in the public sector.
    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200207/t002a-eng.htm

    Once you are a government employee you are a member of a powerful public sector union and you get to vote for your employer (“give me better pay or benefits or I won’t vote for you”). And you don’t have to care what happens in the private sector. In fact, the more rules and regulations forced on the private sector the more government jobs are created.

    And when you ask Canadians where they want to work, the first choice is always the public sector. No wonder. The best pay and benefits. The best pensions. Little fear of layoffs. Little job pressure. Little real responsibility and no accountability for poor performance.

    1. I know a guy who works for CRA. He was telling me about his latest promotion and I asked, had his rise through the ranks not been remarkable? He replied,”You would be amazed how little effort it takes to be an outstanding employee in the public service.”

      1. The comment out in the private sector is that competence is not one of the criteria for CRA hires. We’ve all experienced them. Do hope your bud is an exception who has managed to do well and actually provide competent advice to beleaguered Canadians.

    1. And that’s what is chasing investment out of Canada. Trudeau is a symptom of a much bigger problem: an electorate that’s impressed by shiny baubles and nice hair. Investing in Canada is like trusting a 13 year old with your car keys and credit cards.

    2. Because Canadians, by and large, are dumber than what comes out of the south end of a northbound horse. And a lot of Canadian women, just like those in other countries, tend to elect dreamy boyfriends, not capable leaders.

      1. And a lot of Canadian women, just like those in other countries, tend to elect dreamy boyfriends, not capable leaders.

        Several years ago, the rental office for my apartment had a young lady from China working there. We were chatting one day and the subject of Prinz Dummkopf came up in the conversation. She was all excited about how “handsome” he was, while I pointed out that he’s an incompetent dolt.

        So, there you have it. Actual abilities and accomplishments count for nothing with voters who think like her.

        1. I can remember when Bill Clinton first showed up in the first Democrat primary debate. My cousin turned to his sister who spoke 5 languages and worked for the CIA and he said there’s who’s going to win the primary. ( Clinton ) . She asked how do you know and he said because the Democrat primary is female and Clinton is the best looking.

  8. One third making the money, one third spending the taxes on that one-third, and one-third living off the one-third making it.
    One third supporting two thirds. That’s what happens when two-thirds of the votes go to progressives, aka Marxists in waiting.
    No government crisis yet this government borrows its ass off. Now they’re stoking the fires of western alienation into crisis.
    Their idea of nation building is kowtowing to UN climate change BS, our policies given over to extranational kleptocrats?
    How about a pipeline, you know like a railroad, moving product between markets? No we should show our CAGW bona fides instead?
    How could any people be that collectively stupid as to elect this clown? They haven’t got a clue, it will all pay for itself.
    How much will temperatures “drop,” and how much will emissions be reduced? Increasing prices of everything is genius?
    These collectivists pretending to be pluralists bludgeon economic activity, then behind the mask of climate change, take it all.
    That is the inevitable result of the Marxist derivative that is progressivism, that infects all Canadian political parties.
    It is a political virus more virulent and persistent than any other than has infected this nation, QC separatists but a common cold.
    For a non-existent existential threat, this foolish PM has put Canada up for grabs, now facing its own existential threat.
    Apparently that makes Canada more attractive to investment; holy crap logic to the minus one, now doing some serious damage.

    1. It continues because the voters in the MTV have yet to fully experience the fallout.
      When the paying one third is forced out of business and has no money to be taken the other two thirds will understand.
      Right now they ride the subway whilst holding their Starbucks cup like some kind of sceptre smug in the contentment that their lifestyle is not impacted by events outside of the greater metro area.
      They had no idea what was happening until that day the protesters blockaded the rail lines which interrupted their commute.

  9. 20% of workforce employed by government. I don’t know how jobs are identified for that stat.
    A casual eye test I like to use in social settings where I know the people is to count the number of people who work for government or whose job depends on government funding. My findings are scary. The number is usually over 50%. Maybe that is more a commentary about who I hang out with.

    1. Want to see something scary? Just get G to 100% of GDP and everything will be peachy. The absurdity of state management.

      “The common measurement of spending as a percentage of GDP puts the size of government at 44 per cent of the economy. Add in measures for tax expenditures (10.1 per cent) and regulation (10.5 per cent) and you end up with the size of government as 64 per cent of GDP.”

      A good explanation of why tax expenditures are included since they, like regulation, are a sunk cost to the national economy.

      Maybe leaving people alone to pursue their dreams rather than government deciding for them is the better way?

      https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/size-of-government-in-canada/#:~:text=The%20common%20measurement%20of%20spending,64%20per%20cent%20of%20GDP.

    2. Absolutely Ct!
      I have drawn this conclusion from the same eye tests.
      Similar eye tests tell me there are almost no true conservatives in Canada. Say in any social setting that government needs to be downsized and watch the reaction. Blank stares.
      An inspector from the BC Securities Commission once told me that he was quasi-government. I told him, ‘No, you are government’ and unwisely reminded him of Reagan’s 9 scariest words.
      Would CBC employees call themselves government employees? I’d guess no.
      And so on.
      Your 50% is a fair estimate.

    3. You’re probably not including private sector companies that receive government contracts either.

  10. Dead country walking is exactly right. It’s bad now and going to get worse:
    https://www.corporatemapping.ca/conference/
    Alberta must bail out quickly. Large parts of BC are already being given over to Aboriginals. I believe only Quebec and Ontario can hang in there economically, and Quebec is likely to choose to go it alone. Good bye Canada.

  11. Justin resonates with the stupidest adults in Canada. All 5,980,000 of them who re-elected him.

    But never go think a PM from the Conservative (in name only) Party of Canada would do do any better.
    They’re #LibCons too.

    1. “never go think a PM from the Conservative (in name only) Party of Canada would do do any better”

      Well, ray cray-cray, if you think that a CPC leader could get away with working on the environment with the NDP/Bloc without losing all of the CPC’s support in Alberta and Saskatchewan you’re the idiot your writings make you out to be.

      1. Two words: Paris Agreement. Let’s be honest the CPC not only worked with, but gave a hearty second to the Left’s climate hoax when they agreed to the Paris Agreement. The CPC now just argues about the distribution of graft flowing from so called carbon reduction.

      2. “you’re the idiot your writings make you out to be.”

        Folks like Oz were all #TrudeauMustGo gang AND would vote for any party polling in the lead to eject Blackie. Any party.
        Folks like Oz have 0 principles however think they’re better than the rest of us.
        Folks like Oz have no problems being a “conservative” poseur. However if folks like Oz only knew what the #LibCons CPC stood for (see the Liberal Party of Canada platform aka the CPC platform) they’d have a real rude awakening.

        Next time don’t be like Oz; at a minimum research all political platforms and make your choice. Don’t be like Oz; don’t be a sheeple lured by the fake conservative siren.

        Fake conservatives like Oz or Manny_Ottawa insult PPC real conservatives.
        I refuse to lower myself to Oz level.

    2. When choosing between a chicken sandwich and a dogshit sandwich with broken glass, one doesn’t ask “How was the chicken cooked?”.

      Had Scheer won the last election and he’d be taking action to get projects approved and rolling – any kind of action – the media would be hounding him like he was the reincarnation of H!tler himself (e.g. see how Trump is treated), and Canadians would be wailing to be rid of him like we saw with Harper. Yet that would still be better than what we have now. Steak wasn’t on the menu and Canadians decided to go with Item 2.

  12. Well, Trudeau has certainly managed to cool the environment for investors.
    I was previously receiving correspondence from a Nigerian prince regarding investment in Canada, but recently he appears to have lost interest, probably thinking that Nigeria offers more opportunities, stability, security, and rule of law.

    1. Of course not, but, then, the country didn’t learn anything from when PET was in charge, either. We’re still paying for that catastrophe.

  15. Justin compared the debate on climate change to the one over “free trade” in the 1980s and 1990s.

    Guess what? It’s been a generation and it’s safe to say that in the western world only a few thousand rich people benefitted from “free trade” in any meaningful way.

  16. One tidbit from this says a lot. Trudeau has announced that battery powered mining equipment will be given an accelerated depreciation allowance. This will drive us to net zero much faster. One of the problems being, of course, that there are simply so many tidbits of such stupidity from this government.
    To grasp the scale of stupid, imagine a Komatsu 930 haul truck running on battery power. First off, any operation would have to double their fleet. Maybe triple it, depending on the charge capacity. If you had a fleet of 150 of these trucks, you’d have to double up to the tune of $5 million per truck. Then you’d have to build an electrical substation big enough to provide 150 of them with a 12 hour charge, in the span of 12 hours. This is a BIG substation. Probably big enough to power Red Deer. The cost of these trucks would also likely be much more than the current $5M, and you would have to have a much bigger truck just to accommodate the power pack. This power pack would also have a much shorter usable life span than the large diesel it supplants. By the time the diesel has reached the half-way point of its service life, the battery pack unit will have lost a considerable amount of usable range. This means that, in order to be competitive with the diesel, over the life span of the rig, you’d actually have to build in considerably more than a 12 hour charge at the onset.

    1. Peter Sellers at least had some talent for what he was doing.

  18. Why is no one yelling back “Fuck off, moron!”??? Why is everyone silent??????????????????????

  19. There is no escaping the logic.
    If we chose to stay in a Confederation run by the controllers of that Clown,we are the fools.
    64% is a more accurate estimation of those using tax dollars to rule and regulate us.
    The debt should have made that plain.
    Even the first link,from Stats Canada, mocks its self they list all the persons employed in compliance with government as being private enterprise,then Healthcare and so on.
    The most pernicious theft of taxpayer monies is routed through Non Government Agencies,fully funded by Government.
    But not government spending,Oh No,and these funds are not subject to the rules of government spending..
    Great Gig if you can get it.
    Ditto Charities,funny how most of them reward their Administrators far better than they serve the “Cause”, they list as their reason for being.
    But very lucrative,..Canada gave to the Clinton Foundation..
    And we give to the Trudeau Foundation every year..
    We are way beyond stupid.
    And how about those Presstitutes,I bet they are not listed as government employees.
    Is there any private enterprise left in Confederation?

  20. 100% agree with those that say Trudy is a symptom of ignorant (polite way of saying stupid) and lazy canadians/parasites.

    Canada is circling the drain.

    2. I worked in mining exploration for close on 20 years in this country. I’m a retired Geologist. I’ve attended the PDA events in the past and rubbed elbows with real mining people…I was one. Some of the ones that I actually worked with are still in the game.
      Those were not “mining people” of any consequence, that Menzoid spoke with. The real ones are upstairs in the Royal York in the suites. I doubt Menzoid would be admitted.
      As for Sock Buoy, never heard a more contrived “act” like his. The level of discourse is High School level. So earnest a delivery. Our pseudo PM, an Empty Suit. If he was of any consequence, he’d be upstairs in the suites, where the real mining people are.

      1. The only meaning of “mine” of significance to Prinz Dummkopf is as a possessive term. (“That U. N. theat ought to be mine!”)

  22. The first response to Wilson shows just how stupid liberals are.
    We are rapidly on our way to be much worse than Venezuela.
    When it happens, we will get it good and we will get it hard.

  23. The problem with all of the guesstimates above is that there is a difficulty in establishing who exactly works for the government. Another way of looking at this equation is that in a “working” society, the society would naturally progress to increased wealth across the board. However in a dysfunctional society the wealth created is illusionary since it is founded on government borrowed debt incurred because more people are taking from the bucket more than is put in. Since WWII we have been duped into thinking that we can keep taking money out of the pot without replacing it. The successive governments that have allowed this reasoning to go unchecked are to blame and as voters we are to blame for voting for the charlatans that sold it to us.

  25. “…battling climate change is best way to attract investment”

    Well, scheer-the-steer and most of his MPs supported turdo la doo on the Paris climate accord BS. So it must be true!

  26. Who was the raging moron who decided it was a good idea to invite Mr. Socks to a mining conference?

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