24 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. “It’s only when the tide goes out that you find out who’s been swimming naked”

  2. No wonder Trudeau has been doling out money to all his friends and supporters. No doubt they’ll be picking up bankruptcy assets.

  3. Quick, someone get Dan Kelly from the CFIB on the line to tell us again about how great it was to be so enthusiastic about vax passports and demonizing a big chunk of the population.
    Maybe these same people just don’t want to support the places that made them out to be dirty and dangerous.

    1. CFIB is a joke. They send out survey after survey, then somewhere down the road they make an announcement that this, or that, is bad or something, then they cash the checks from the membership and go back to sleep. They do nothing. Fight for businesses, my butt. Just another layer of bureaucracy.

    2. Indeed. I can’t give a crap about the thousands of restaurants that gleefully excluded those of us who stood up for our medical autonomy.
      This is a long overdue housecleaning.
      They took Blackies Filthy Lucre and had 2 years to plan for paying it back. Too bad so sad!
      Don’t feel sorry for staff losing jobs, there’s still lots of vacancies in the Fast Food/Crap industry

  5. I don’t recall hearing too much push back from the majority of businesses who were forced to restrict access or close outright during the “pandemic”. The few who resisted got squashed and the rest kept their heads down like good citizens of the world and collected Trudeau bucks. Now it’s time to pay the money back all while inflation sky rocketed due to the uncontrolled spending and free money handed out. I personally have way less money to eat out now, more worried about the cost of groceries and a lot of other discretionary spending has stopped too.
    Maybe the next time a “pandemic” arises the majority of people and businesses will tell government and health agencies to take a hike and carry on business as usual. I don’t hold out much hope for this but it’s nice to dream once in awhile.

    1. Won’t work. There are two elements to propaganda: humiliation and faux compassion.

      The humiliation is intended to make you believe something so farcical and unbelievably stupid that you either cooperate or silence yourself. For example: “The masks will stop you from getting sick”. If people stopped to think about it, why would putting a piece of cloth over your face stop an airborne disease? You need to breathe to live, right? So, the air is still moving, and you’ll still get sick. But it was believable ‘enough’ and simple ‘enough’ that thousands latched onto it, with the punishment of being ostracized if you didn’t. The “keep six feet apart” was not based on any science, but rather human body metrics. Most people’s armspan is six feet, give or take a couple inches. It won’t stop an airborne disease at all, but it will isolate people from their social needs. None of this was true, but to quote Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, “Repeat a lie long enough, and it becomes the truth” (funny how Christia Freeland made similar comments early on during the plandemic).

      The other part of false compassion is to deliberately designed to demonize and humiliate opposition. “To keep your grandma healthy, you must keep your distance from her.” In other words, ” You come close to Grandma, you will kill her.” What a psychological weapon of fear! The statement already assumes you are sick, or an unwitting carrier of the disease. Want to hug your grandmother? You horrible monster! You want her to die so you can take her wealth (turning off the snark).

      Both parts weaponise our social needs to manipulate us. First is the need for acceptance and companionship, by making resistance into a socially unacceptable position. The other part is to denigrate those who know the truth by denying their knowledge and intelligence. Why else would Google partner with the Canadian government in preventing the spread of “misinformation”? The only misinformation there was during the “plandemic” was that our government had “our best interests” in mind.

      Those were the weapons against businesses and indiviuals, plus the legality of their work and standing being threatened. A business cannot operate legally without being registered with the government. If they lose that incorporation number, they can be forcibly closed down, and all their assets seized. To quote David Mamet in a recent interview with UnHerd, “Cowardice is contagious… so is courage, but a little bit less”. It’s always seems easier to cooperate than to go against the flow.

      So how do we change ourselves? That is the question that Canadians need to answer BEFORE any meaningful resistance or change to government can occur.

      As for the bankruptcies, the answer is simple: we must stop doing business the government knows about. What they don’t know about, they cannot tax. What they cannot tax, they cannot control. However, that approach is a lot riskier, because it involves trust, personal responsibility when things go wrong and personal risk.

      At the end of the day, we must start viewing current incarnation of the government as a threat, not a helper, who will smother us to death with their false compassion while we are enslaved to it whims; it will smile and look helpful while it kills us.

  7. Remember when Freeland said that their deficit spending or “fiscal firepower” would lead to our economy coming roaring back post pandemic?

    I remember.

  8. I would expect Trudeau will come up with a new tax to be imposed on those businesses still remaining, to give money to the businesses which have failed.

    You know, to help lower costs.

  9. So, an explosion in the number of dog grooming businesses is not sustainable? Who would ever have guessed that?

  12. I don’t know why I think it is appropriate for this thread, but R. Regan once summarized government “economics”

    1. If it moves, tax it.
    2. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
    3. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

  14. But Trudeau said Canada was borrowing money so that Canadians wouldn’t have to.
    How is it possible for businesses to go fail?

  15. Found a more detailed article that includes this bankruptcy graph other data. Spoiler alert – it gets worse:

      1. It’s true enough but it’s missing at least half the story. Two other things are contributing. the first is that the rise of Amazon is destroying new retail business formation. And it has been doing so for some time. The second is that barring labour immigration into Canada started destroying the Canadian hospitality industry three years ago. Neither has ever recovered.

  16. I give small businesses credit for being able to hold off the inevitable for this long. The mandates blocked their customers from their businesses, pitted their employees against each other, encouraged the workforce to sit at home, and dangled the return to normal just out of reach for over two years. The government pretended to step in and be the hero and handed out money to prolong the pain but that bribe money has consequences. It’s brought us to debt levels in government that we never could have imagined, and a climb in interest rates that eats the tiny margins that are left.
    Government and corporate interests enriched themselves with no accountability or concern for the general good. They have become the monsters that will eat our lunch while we go without. Sadly, there weren’t enough people to resist when it started, it could have been a different outcome.

  17. My guess is that the main victims are restaurants getting squeezed between the marginal consumer who can no longer afford to eat out and the ongoing debts incurred during the lockdowns.

  18. well, see, the thing is, first we had the viral pandemic(?)
    now we gots the liberal pandemic(!!?#$?!#!)

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