Category: nannystate

That’ll Show ’em!

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When you react to self-imposed sanctions by instituting self-imposed sanctions, what did anyone think was going to happen? Patronizing Mary Brown’s Chicken in order to stick it to those American chains just got more expensive. If anything, this lunacy just points out how brittle the Canadian economy really is.

The fryers, which cost up to $27,000 each are made of steel and shipped from the U.S. Because Canada’s counter-tariffs include cooking appliances made of steel, Cluck Clucks believes it will now pay 25 per cent more for each new purchase.

He adds that Canada doesn’t manufacture deep fryers, so he can’t solve the problem by switching to a domestic supplier.

Narrative Collapse

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Wasn’t everyone in these countries supposed to be dead by now?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers found a noticeable spike in excess deaths in Sweden during the initial waves of the pandemic during the spring and winter of 2020, when Covid-19 was able to spread more freely than in neighbouring nations. But while excess mortality fell in the three other countries in 2020, it rose compared to Sweden in 2021 and 2022. “The four countries have a comparable number of excess deaths when you account for the fact that population sizes differ,” says Forthun. What lockdowns did affect, in part, was the timing of when spikes in excess deaths occurred.

 

The Ship Is Sinking

Gradually Then Suddenly Great Moments In Socialism It's Probably Nothing nannystate 16 Comments

A 60% jump in debt is probably an underestimate, but every province is likely in the same boat. With voters currently in the mood for a pandemic style spending spree and with few mainstream politicians willing to say no, any election is now a matter of choosing which party will get us to bankruptcy the fastest.

British Columbia, Canada’s third most populous province, expects debts to surge by nearly 60% over the next three years…

The fiscal plan sees provincial debt rising to C$209 billion by March 2028 — about 57% higher than today and nearly double the level of a year ago. Ministers argue that the spending is to play catch up on core services like health — more than a third of expenses — neglected after a previous center-right government focused on balancing the books.

“recall how many of the slam-dunk COVID-related assumptions of 2020 turned out to be completely wrong”

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David Clinton- How the Government-Communications Industry Threatens Free Speech

Well they’re obviously not the same thing. But it’s fair to suggest that whenever citizen expression is suppressed, government speech is amplified. Which does make it that much more important for us to understand exactly what government is currently saying and how they’re saying it.

Suicide Nation

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 39 Comments

Not surprisingly, the Canadian Labour Congress is proposing national bankruptcy as a way to deal with Trump. That should only take about a week to play out.

Cutting off U.S. access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted.

Naturally, it includes a plea for another pandemic style spending spree:

The federal government has taken a first step by considering income supports for affected workers—an approach that helped stabilize our economy during the pandemic.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Batteries!

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Leftists like to rant about the alleged “negative externalities” of the free market, but never seem to be concerned when central planning results in the same thing.

EV batteries are larger and heavier than those in regular cars and are made up of several hundred individual lithium-ion cells, all of which need dismantling. They contain hazardous materials, and have an inconvenient tendency to explode if disassembled incorrectly.

“Currently, globally, it’s very hard to get detailed figures for what percentage of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the value everyone quotes is about 5%,” says Dr Anderson. “In some parts of the world it’s considerably less.”

 

Mischievous Prosecution

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Three years and millions of dollars later, it is now clear that the process was the actual punishment.

’Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King was sentenced to three months of house arrest in an Ottawa court this morning.

It comes on top of nine months he spent in custody both before and during his trial.

King’s lawyer had this to say about the eager beavers on the prosecution side:

The 10-year sentence sought by the Crown would have made King “a political prisoner”, she said. “They would be sentencing Mr. King for the sum total of everything that was done by every individual in the Freedom Convoy.”

Heading For The Exits

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When even the CBC admits it, things must be even worse that anyone could imagine.

… business investment dropped off in 2015 when oil prices plunged and have remained stubbornly low ever since.

Economists warn that has weakened the Canadian economy and gives Canada less cushion to weather a trade war.

“GDP per capita has declined for eight of the past nine quarters, and business investment has been stagnant. Both cyclically and structurally, Canada’s economy is not well positioned to absorb a shock of this scale,” wrote Royal Bank’s chief economist Frances Donald and deputy chief economist Nathan Janzen.

Juvenile Nation

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Why are so many Canadians acting like twelve year olds in a high school art class? Are most Canadians just this incapable of critical thought?

…the bagels are made by taking white and red dough, and intertwining them in a colourful, wood-oven-baked treat that she says is a fitting metaphor for Montreal, Quebec and Canada.

Canadian pilot Michael Jones made news headlines after he flew… for two hours near the U.S. border, taking a meticulous path to draw a Maple Leaf in the southwestern Ontario sky.

Kicking Horse Coffee is offering cafes a “Proudly serving Canadianos” window display as a symbol of their participation in the patriotic movement.

I’ll bet that’s got Trump quaking in his boots.

Related, from Kate: Is this the end of Trump?

No Jack Daniels For You!

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Predictably, Doug Ford has decided that the best way to deal with Trump’s decision to make Canadian products more expensive than they need to be for Americans is to deny Ontarians access to American liquor products completely. It’s none of the government’s business where you buy your liquor, but hey, in an “emergency” no measure is off the table.

American alcohol will disappear from liquor store shelves in Ontario and B.C. as the provinces add their own ammunition to a federal plan aimed at getting the U.S. to back down from tariffs.

Michelle Wasylyshen, president and CEO of Ontario Craft Wineries, said she saw Ford’s move as a particularly helpful way to ensure Canada’s retaliatory measures pack a punch.

The legally sanctioned obliteration of competitors might be viewed as helpful to a particular business, but it’s not so helpful to consumers who face vastly fewer choices.

Wise Words

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Some serious self-reflection is in order, according to Jordan Peterson, before Canada embarks, panic-stricken, on the path to economic and cultural suicide. I hope enough people are listening.

Such behaviour is, sadly, a Canadian norm, particularly wherever the country is left-leaning; particularly wherever everyone believes axiomatically that we have all the virtues of our democratic compatriots to the south, and then some; particularly wherever everyone is inclined to point self-righteously to the wonders of our now-dreadful and even oft-murderous “free” health-care system and its associated highly dysfunctional, expensive and increasingly unsustainable social safety net…

That combined attitude of essentially socialist sentiment and moral superiority was exemplified above all, perhaps, by former Prime Minister Trudeau — … [the père] who dallied so self-aggrandizingly with the Chinese Reds and the dictatorial communist Fidel Castro and rubbed the Americans’ noses in it, moralizing intellectually and oh-so-fashionably all the while.

A Nation Of Ostriches

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If given the choice, most Canadians would happily leave their heads stuck in the sand rather than meet the challenges of living and prospering in an industrial economy. Why does it take the musings of a foreign head of state to get us to wake up and think critically?

I may only be a cancelled bitumen pipeline, but after a cursory look at the modern state of the Canadian economy, it does strike me that your economic productivity sucks right now.

Per-capita GDP is in freefall. Each passing year, the average Canadian worker works the same number of hours as before, but they produce less. The problem is a lack of investment in per-worker productivity. If you hand a construction worker a shovel instead of a front-end loader, they’re simply not going to get as much done — and both your GDP and your people’s living standards will suffer in the long run.

Team Players

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Basically, we’ll pretend to be on Team Canada if you fork over enough protection money. After all, you want to avoid “conflict”, don’t you?

First Nations also need to be partners in protecting and growing the economy in the face of Trump’s potentially devastating tariffs, the leadership council stressed.

“There can’t be a ’Team Canada’ [approach] if you don’t have a strong contingent of First Nations leadership sitting at that table with you,” Casimer said.

To avoid conflict and to craft a unified response, First Nations must have a voice at the table when decisions are being made that affect their lands and resources, she said, noting the council hasn’t been approached to be part of the tariff strategy.

 

Sparky Car Glut

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The burden won’t be limited to the cost of unloading the current stock of EVs to consumers who don’t want them. There will be additional losses for dealers and automakers who built production and sales infrastructure to comply with mandates that are now disappearing across the board. Maybe it’s just that Canadian politicians pride themselves in policy failure. Otherwise, why are there so many failures, so often?

“There is no pathway to 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales in the next 10 years with the support [currently] being provided to Canadians,” Kingston said. “Dictating what vehicles Canadians can and can’t buy, without providing them with the supports necessary to switch to electric is a made-in-Canada policy failure.”

Baggage Train

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Now that Mark Carney is going to spend the next several weeks pretending that the last nine years never happened, now’s a good a time as any to dig into his past. In a nutshell, you don’t want that for Prime Minister.

Carney draws inspiration from, among others, Marx, Engels and Lenin, but the agenda he promotes differs from Marxism in two key respects. First, the private sector is not to be expropriated but made a “partner” in reshaping the economy and society. Second, it does not make a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better, but worse. Carney’s Brave New World will be one of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and more poverty: “Assets will be stranded, used gasoline powered cars will be unsaleable, inefficient properties will be unrentable,” he promises.

Let Cooler Heads Prevail

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Before Canada gets caught up in an unwinnable race to implement self-imposed sanctions in response to the implementation of self-imposed sanctions by the United States, Terrance Corcoran has an alternative strategy.

Ottawa is reportedly gearing up tariff strategies, including one that would apply to every U.S. product Canada imports, from Florida orange juice to Pittsburgh steel.

All of which is a perversion of the economic principles of free trade, made even more perverse by the fact that these protectionist tariff plans mean that Canada would be adopting Trump’s economically irrational scheme to impose tariffs that would drive up U.S. consumer prices and raise costs for U.S. industry — all in the absurd belief that because Canada exports more to the U.S. than it imports there is a trade “imbalance” that needs to be fixed.

The Best Health Care System In The World

Canada’s Bolsheviks nannystate Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 38 Comments

This is not even a case of “the doctor will kill you now”. It’s more like, “Please wait here quietly until you die“. The only “lesson” that needs to be learned here is that single payer healthcare needs to be ditched, and the sooner, the better.

Manitoba’s health minister, Uzoma Asagwara, says the death of a patient who waited eight hours for care in the emergency room at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) is a “devastating loss” that the health care system needs to learn from.

Up Or Down?

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A frequent topic for discussion these days is the direction of interest rates. It’s not surprising, given that the rate of interest is pretty much central to determining where the economy is headed. In a recent Substack post, I offer my own thoughts on where things are headed. In a nutshell, it’s not looking good, given the inescapable nature of our fiat currency system.

…irredeemable fiat currencies have no means of extinguishing debt. Past bonds can only be “rolled” by issuing new bonds which must at least be sufficient to at least cover the interest and principal of the previous bond. However, the new bond carries an interest charge on its own. The burden of past debt is simply shifted to newer IOUs. Because no final payment, in aggregate, is ever possible, interest and principal can only compound and grow exponentially. The process can be slowed down, but it cannot be stopped or reversed.

This creates what can be termed a “doom loop” of rising debt. The typical retort is that borrowers can always “inflate” their way out of that debt by progressively gutting the value of the fiat currency in question. In reality, this reduction of value offers no escape. While each unit of currency might command less value, the fact that they originate as part of a perpetual bond ensures that you owe exponentially more of them.

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