Category: nannystate

The Invoice Is In The Mail

Canada’s Bolsheviks nannystate 16 Comments

It’s polls like these which demonstrate why Canada is not a serious country. Most voters would be happy to entertain national bankruptcy rather than let go of any aspect of the nanny state.

The poll of about 4,000 adults conducted from June 2 to June 8 said 59 per cent opposed selling Canada Post while 29 per cent favoured selling it. The margin narrowed when it came to privatization, with 47 per cent against the idea and 38 per cent for it, though that only related to certain parts of the crown corporation.

 

National Bankruptcy For All!

nannystate Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 27 Comments

Whether the medical system is American or Canadian, there are all sorts of medical procedures whose costs are not currently borne by the state. As is typical these days, there’s never any mention of ways in which free markets could lower these costs. Instead, the implied solution is that the magical entity known as “others” should simply assume all of the burden. In other words, let’s deal with the problems of a mostly Sovietized system by fully Sovietizing the same system. What could possibly go wrong?

A growing number of retirees, like Morton, are grappling with healthcare debt due to medical bills. Medicare, which provides health insurance coverage to more than 66 million people, covers the lion’s share of the cost of medical care, but not all.

On average, a 65-year-old who left the workforce last year may need $165,000 in savings to cover out-of-pocket healthcare expenses throughout retirement.

 

Captive Audience

Cronies nannystate 26 Comments

Opening up the Canadian telecom industry to foreign competitors is well overdue, particularly when the CEOs of our politically favored service providers start to openly take their customers for granted.

The company said the drop was due to customers signing up for base rate plans with lower prices “in response to more intense marketing and promotional price competition targeting both new and existing customers,” along with a decline in overage and roaming revenues.

“We have to change the psychology within the industry as it relates to marketing and sales. We have a wireless industry where we have to have price competition parity and I, for one, don’t understand that,” said Entwistle.

 

Groupthink Now!

Freespeechers Insufferable Twits nannystate 36 Comments

So Ottawa is worried that Canadians have a lot of different opinions. In reality, they’re worried that many of these opinions don’t conform to the dominant collectivist narratives.

The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.

Still, the document says officials at the November meeting planned to talk about how to ramp up efforts to “engage and ‘bring back’ groups veering away from democratic norms.”

Mmmmm….Pork!

Canada’s Bolsheviks nannystate 34 Comments

In the coming months, everyone should prepare themselves for a massive expansion of what constitutes a “nation building” project.

At a meeting in March with the premiers, Carney asked them to identify “nation-building projects.” Ford’s letter sets out his list of areas he wants the federal government to prioritize “that would be transformational for Canada’s economy.”

But the “nation-building” project drawing the most attention is a driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401.

 

Socialized Dentistry

entitlement generation nannystate Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 49 Comments

Carney announced this morning on social media that his government will be expanding government subsidized dental care dramatically. This is exactly how Medicare got started, with the state footing the bill for some expenses and insurance which gradually morphed into a complete prohibition on any private payments. How long will it be before cash strapped governments throttle payments to dentists, resulting in people being unable to find a dentist at all? Probably not that long.

 

Narrative Contradictions

Climate Cult nannystate Y2Kyoto 6 Comments

Who would have thought that a warmer climate could create more frequent spring frosts? It’s not as if you can expect fewer frosts in a cooler climate. But maybe that’s just my bourgeois logic at fault. If you find that people aren’t buying that argument anyway, you can always just blame Trump.

Traditionally, the plants’ buds break out in spring, emerging with colorful grapes that range from the cabernet franc’s deep blues to the soft greens of the region’s most popular grape, riesling. However, a warming world is making that happen earlier, adding to uncertainty and potential risks for farmers. If a frost comes after the buds have broken, growers can lose much of the harvest.

Political tensions, such as tariffs amid President Donald Trump’s trade wars and the administration’s rollback of environmental policies, are also looming problems.

Nothing Better To Do

47 Little Known Facts nannystate 14 Comments

It beggars belief that the federal government actually involves itself in determining the correct number of lanes for city streets, but that’s the state in which we now find ourselves. I’m reminded of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer becomes the Springfield Safety Czar and pegs the downtown speed limit at 5 miles per hour.

Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said.

Another Mass Formation?

2025 Federal Election It's Probably Nothing nannystate The Libranos 45 Comments

Back in the days of the pandemic, I ran across the analysis of Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet who argued that a mass formation was developing in Western nations whereby public discourse was dominated by a peculiar type of absurdist groupthink. Those who dared to challenge the narrative were subjected to a barrage of criticism while strange ritualistic behaviors became the order of the day. I recently applied Desmet’s analysis to the current Canadian election and came to this conclusion: Canada is in the grip of another mass formation.

The problem is that this focus of anxiety, this latest mass formation, has led to the psychological obliteration of the Liberal Party’s governance record of the last decade. The palpable disappointment and sense of betrayal among voters which previously led to Justin Trudeau’s own cabinet publicly demanding his resignation has seemingly vanished. The new object of anxiety, Donald Trump, demands every bit of the masses’ attention to the exclusion of all other considerations. What matters is not that Canadians think critically, but that they think together, even if that thinking embraces blatant contradictions.

They Want You Dead, But Will Settle For Broke Right Now

Climate Cult Drain The Swamp nannystate 23 Comments

Blacklock’s- Hikes Heating, Cooling Costs

Canadians face more than a quarter billion a year in higher costs for heating and cooling after Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s department yesterday adopted California efficiency standards for essential home appliances. Costs will be “passed on to consumers.”

New regulations under the Energy Efficiency Act apply “more stringent” California standards to fixtures and appliances like air conditioners, faucets, gas furnaces, heat pumps, light fixtures, pool pumps, showerheads and water heaters. Enforcement will be phased in by increments beginning this October to 2029.

Red Ink Spa Day

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 10 Comments

Another province opening the red ink sluice gates. Voters can sniff out a pandemic style spending spree thanks to the ongoing tariff spat. Any government that refused to deliver one, be they federal or provincial, would be trounced at the polls.

Newfoundland and Labrador has tabled a 2025-26 provincial budget that responds to uncertainty from the United States with record spending and record borrowing, while delaying its return to a balanced budget by another year.

The province anticipates a $372-million deficit this coming year to address affordability issues and tariff concerns — a figure that could rise further if the province utilizes an additional $200 million in contingency funds set aside to address Trump-related turmoil.

Drowning In Debt

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 25 Comments

Predictably, another pandemic style spending spree is already underway, this time premised on the idea that it is the role of the state to insulate everyone from losses incurred as a result of tax hikes in another nation. One thing that is clear in this election is that all levels of government, provincial and federal, will be going all-in on opening the spending floodgates. Any party that dared to argue otherwise would be pilloried by the electorate.

Ontario businesses will see select provincial taxes deferred for six months, which Premier Doug Ford says will give them about $9 billion worth of relief amid global economic turmoil in the face of U.S. tariffs.

Happy Propaganda

Little Known Facts nannystate There Goes The Narrative 22 Comments

Every once in a while we hear about some happiness report which usually concludes that Nordic nations are generally happier than everybody else. The same analysis often smuggles in a plug for a generous welfare state as an explanation. Not surprisingly, it seems that the conclusions are based on some very flimsy evidence.

But upon closer examination, it turns out that the World Happiness Report is not based on any major research effort; far from measuring how happy people are with some sophisticated mix of indicators, it simply compiles answers to a single question asked to comparatively small samples of people in each country:

“Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you feel you personally stand at this time?”

Socialized Credit

DigitalCurrency Gradually Then Suddenly nannystate 31 Comments

If anyone believes that you are “sticking it to the man” by withdrawing all the funds from your bank account in “cash”, think again. Our fiat currency system has got you coming and going. It’s not a bug; it was designed that way.

In fiat, your only real choice is this: if you wish to access credit at all, you must participate in a system where the coercive extension of credit creates an exponentially rising debt doom loop that all must shoulder the burden of.

The final collapse of fiat will occur when the burden of debt exceeds the ability of any debtor, no matter how large their balance sheet, to service it. When lost capital can no longer be replaced with fresh capital from a more creditworthy institution, one can arrive at a situation where bank notes are literally backed by nothing. A bank note backed by nothing can purchase nothing. It will not matter how many are released into the economy at that point. They will be worthless. It will be the Zimbabwe solution in spades.

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