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Canada Day, 2022 Edition

Ottawa Police fined a protester $1,130 for writing “FREE TAMARA” in chalk

Just curious, were these members of the Ottawa Police Force actually Canadians or imported from Justin Trudeau’s paternal homeland of Cuba? Asking for a friend.

Trudeau’s Red Square

Where Ottawa’s finest engaged in mostly peaceful policing earlier today.

Looks like the George Floyd treatment is now standard procedure.

Never Attribute To Stupidity What Can Adequately Be Explained By Malice

You are a witness to the “Great Reset” unfolding in real time. They don’t want you to drive, and they don’t want you to fly.

Related! Liberals buying more chairs for passport offices in attempt to alleviate wait line meltdown

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

April 29, 2020: The ArriveCAN mobile app was launched by Trudeau’s government.

November 21, 2020: The ArriveCAN app becomes mandatory.

June 29, 2022: The RCMP admits to remotely turning on phone cameras & microphones of criminal suspects.

In a normal democracy, this might make sense to most people but in Trudeau’s dictatorship, also known as Canuckistan, anyone who disagrees with any views of Dear Leader can immediately be deemed as a hater, bigot, white supremacist, transphobe, and/or criminal.

Pause for a moment, fellow Canadians, to realize that your government is forcing you to install a piece of software on your phone in order to enter or leave your country and the elite police force of that same government has openly admitted to surreptitiously using phones as spying devices on Canadians, their speech, and their activities.

The dystopian future has arrived.

Government Makes More Garbage

Literally

Gunter- Feds admit their plastics ban will actually increase waste

In the Environment department’s own “regulatory impact assessment,” federal researchers claimed, “the proposed regulations would prevent approximately 1.6 million tonnes of plastics from entering the waste stream over the analytical period.” That’s 2023 to 2032. But the ban “would also add about 3.2 million tonnes of other materials to the waste stream from the use of substitutes.”

A mountain of losses

Predictably, the federal government’s nationalization of the Trans Mountain pipeline has created a money losing boondoggle. Perhaps it should be renamed the Springfield Monorail.

The latest analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released Wednesday shows the net present value of the pipeline is negative $600 million. 

The financial analysis takes into account new developments, such as budget overruns that peg the current cost of the expansion at $21.4 billion: a 70 per cent increase from an earlier estimate of $12.6 billion.

The new PBO report also reflects the fact that the pipeline’s projected completion date has been pushed back to the third quarter of 2023.

“Once we take into consideration the purchase price, the cost of expansion and the stream of revenues over a 40 year period,” PBO Yves Giroux told CTV News, “the pipeline will not be generating, overall, a profit.”

Luck of the Irish

The Fraser Institute- The Accumulated Debt and Economic Performance of Industrialized Countries during COVID

From 2019 to 2021, Canada had the second-highest increase in its gross debt-to-GDP ratio out of 33 countries covered by the IMF, behind only Japan.

Despite leading our peers—save for Japan—in the accumulation of debt, Canada did not out-perform our peer group in economic growth during the pandemic. Canada had the 11th lowest real GDP growth (5.2%) in 2020 and the 12th lowest real GDP growth (4.6%) in 2021.

It is telling that the United States, which also had a marked increase in its gross debt relative to the size of the economy, markedly out-performed Canada on both measures in 2020 and 2021. Moreover, Ireland, which reduced its gross debt-to-GDP ratio, also outperformed Canada on both measures and, in fact, led the group of 33 industrialized countries in the growth of real GDP in 2020 and 2021.

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