28 Replies to “QOTD”

  1. Fingers crossed that the great unwashed will soon realize that it’s incredibly not good when Potash Corp. is struggling. Not good for anyone.
    More fingers crossed that the Globe/Star/CTV/Postmedia/CityNews/CP24s/etc. of our land finally realize that their direct competitor for eyeballs in the CDN news/entertainment content, CBC, is sweetly insulated from the financial pressures the aforementioned face.
    I take it we’ll see less and less glowing stories from left-wing news sources about the inherent need to have a healthy and vibrant CBC, knowing that job losses in their newsrooms are helped along by CBC’s subsidized presence.
    And with NOW Magazine in Toronto imminently set to lock their doors and close shop, this will resonant even greater.

  2. Add in the 400 plus unionized workers at the Goodwill thrift stores in the GTA that were abruptly thrown out of work; quite a week in Ontario. I thought the unions loved the Liberal Party and it’s ilk. Guess it is only unions slurping it up from the public trough. Who’d thought; not all unions are equal.
    Fret not, gender neutral washrooms are all the rage and will effect peace, order and good government…

  3. Postmedia journalists jobs replaced by Mohammedans.
    I dread having to read the new recipes calling for Goat Cheeses, Camels milk,
    and Red sheep eye stew..

  4. That article in the American Thinker is very good. Trudeau is “is a dandiprat version of the fatuous nonentity America elected to lead them into a condition of weakness and insolvency.” Canadians are “”An Eloi people roistering in a Morlock world”.
    Perfect! A dandiprat BTW is a silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about twopence or
    Archaic,
    a diminutive person; a dwarf, pygmy, or midget.
    a person of small or childish mind; a silly, finicky, or puerile person.
    a child.

  5. Perhaps I’m past my due date, but FFS put a tie on. Look like you are representing others, look like you mean business, and look like you give a damn.

  6. Very disappointed with the CBC , not once has their opening question to our new Prime Minister been “Who are you wearing ?” What a waste of tax dollars with nothing to show for it !!

  7. “One of the panelists named by the Liberal government to a board that will select new senators tries to recover the past lives of people she treats…”
    Because it’s 2016.
    The whole Trudeau government needs therapy! REAL therapy!

  8. JL: another good quote from the end of the Atlantic article – “To summarize, the greatest symbolic and cultural difference between our two nations today, to Canada’s manifest disadvantage, is illustrated by the emergence of Donald Trump.”
    We are getting closer though, evidenced by the emergence of Kevin O’Leary, no doubt the first in a long line of prominent Canadians who understand spending $billions that Canadians don’t have (deficits = deferred taxation), along with pie in the sky platitudes while terrorists plan attacks is not leadership. It’s selfie promotion and might sound good in a first years politics class seminar, but it’s not leadership.
    It crashes and burns with the first real tests of leadership, such as Obama’s red line bluff, Iran surrender and use of government agencies to coerce and intimidate political opposition, all bound up in false narratives. Does this sound familiar to Canada’s present situation. Einstein once said insanity is thinking doing the same thing over and over again will somehow yield different results.
    IOW failure is inevitable, though clearly quite easy for the mediocracy to suppress and distort reality for LIV consumption. The US is in bad shape and the debt piper has yet to really call as will happen here and there. After all we still are paying off Trudeau Sr’s debt accumulated during boom times unlike now, accumulating in economic slowdowns and boomers accessing pension/medical care rather than paying every increasing taxes as before.
    Canadians have seen the US train wreck that develops from utopian politicians spending OPM. That view and attitude will be imported to the Great White North imho. No doubt Canadians will eventually feel Americans’ frustration with politicians feathering their nest at the expense of working people.
    Harper’s main error was allowing himself and the party to be included in the “all politicians are liars” mentality, despite keeping the vast majority of his promises and taking strong measures to help the working poor here. We cannot be seen to be part of this mendacious mentality.
    The Conservatives must reclaim the southern ON voter as the combination of Wynne and Trudeau statism drives their standard of living down even further. Maybe they’ll figure out in the long run that government does not make them more prosperous, that must be done through their own efforts.
    Then again, maybe not. Anyway this is a time of reflection for reality bound Canadians, including the CPC. Let’s not make the same mistake of appointing a band aid leader for a quick turnaround to power; it won’t work. We needs a grass roots revolution that bypasses the mediocracy and unintelligentsia to take the message to the people, as Trump as done, while ironically co-opting the media for free advertising.
    Then again the progressive cycle may begin anew if Hillary Clinton becomes the next POTUS and the statist gravy train metastasizes (aka the Greek Grief), albeit reinforced with a cynical leader who thinks rules are for the peasants, not her, whose version of the truth is that which on any given day suits her ambitions. The first evidence of that will be, once firmly in as Dem POTUS nominee, how quickly she throws the unpopular Obama administration under the bus for her own version of hope & change.

  9. “Margaret Atwood wrote in Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Canadians exhibit a “will to lose,” a mournful conviction of the moral superiority of losing, of achieving what she calls a “satisfactory failure.” Hence, Justin Trudeau.”
    Never thought I’d agree with Atwood on anything.

  10. I thought it was the compounding of the words “dandy” and “prat”, as in the Seinfeldian “hipster-dufus”.

  11. Make that Urban Canadians and I might agree.
    In country the “Will to Lose” leaves you dead.
    But the malaise does deep, tax slavery discourages all productive people.
    Why would I expand my operation to become a full time flunky and tax gatherer of the state at the expense of my customers.
    For the self employed there really are not enough hours in the day to meet the administrative and regulator demands of the state here.
    And then I get the “privilege ” of forking over a large chunk of my income complete with a detailed self reporting every year end.
    It is not worth it.
    Even one employee now exposes you to immediate idiocy and over reach, plus Bill C45, criminal liability exposure.
    Financially it is either do it yourself or expand to more than 12 employees where you become a bureaucrat, employing tradesmen.
    Sadly the small employer, 3 to 5 employees as needed is doomed, yet that was where all the jobs were supposedly created.
    Remember government keeps telling us, they tax punitively behaviour they wish to discourage… drinking booze,smoking cigarettes and earning an honest income.

  12. Yes, you’re right, we see much more of that attitude from big city folks.
    I know whereof you speak on small businessmen and governments. I was a construction contractor for many years, almost every month I received a threatening letter from CRA warning me against doing any work “under the table”. They even included an offer that if I immediately filled out a form telling them how much I’d earned, all would be forgiven,except of course the taxes I owed.
    I never took part in the underground economy and finally called them up and told them off. I was audited, they found no problems, and the threatening letters stopped,finally.
    I was born and raised in the country, the people were self sufficient and didn’t suffer fools, as you say, it was a matter of survival.It seems the more you jam people into cities, the more the old fashioned virtues disappear.

  13. Liberals need more non English speaking cabbies driving around so that they feel better about themselves.

  14. Oh jolly good; the Liberals are on another tax-payer funded junket where they can skip their jobs and take selfies. So much more important. Is Butts theere, or is he staying home to run the show?

  15. Of course Turdeau brings in more Mohammedans. Hell, been to a health care centre lately? The health care industry is practically an Islamic employment centre as it seems to be a policy that a hijab MUST BE VISIBLE at all times, from every vantage point and in every hallway.
    Lovely thought that our health care is handed over to folks who think us filth. Should go well, eh?

  16. Second link …
    Liberals appoint hypnotherapist, singer to Senate selection panel
    Examiner Questions …Have you ever stolen , had inappropriate sexual thoughts , cheated etc. ?
    The good news … the Senate is vacant as only Jesus Christ could pass the test!

  17. “We’re going to talk about how diversity is a strength” I don’t think Europeans believe that anymore. The dipshit Trudeau does.

  18. Further confirmation of Liberals tepid support for TPP come from minister Freeland’s remarks in the TorStar link. Since it was a Conservative initiative, Jr is uninterested in giving it any priority. She claims there is a 2 year ratification period for the treaty, while I read last Oct that the US plans to fast track the process and have it signed before the fall election. Most leading Democrats oppose the treaty.
    Liberals would rather tout a trade deal with China, not in Canada’s best interest, rather than support this very worthy deal negotiated by Stephen Harper’s government.

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