This is nuts at the best of times. But yes, during a global food shortage when we’re about to see record starvation in the third world, the Liberals want to punish Canadian farmers for growing too much food.
The Western Producer- Feds target cereals as major emitter
Ag Canada says cutting such emissions is critical because the federal government wants to reduce fertilizer related emissions 30 percent by 2030.
We must destroy the village to save the village.
Trudeau channels his inner Xi.
Michael Geist- Criticism of government’s online harms plans is stunning and helps explain why @pablorodriguez blocked access to submissions for months.
The Rest of the Online Harms Consultation Story: Canadian Heritage Forced to Release Hundreds of Public Submissions Under Access to Information Law
For months, the results of the government’s online harms consultation was shrouded in secrecy as the Canadian Heritage refused to disclose the hundreds of submissions it received. I launched a page that featured publicly available submissions (links reposted below), including 25 submissions from organizations and companies as well as six individual expert submissions.
The criticism of the government’s plans were even more widespread than previously revealed. Indeed, reviewing the submissions uncovers very few supportive comments of the government’s online harms from either organizations or the hundreds of individual submissions.
The most notable submission came from Twitter (its must read submission is here), which warned that the proactive monitoring of content envisioned by the government.
“sacrifices freedom of expression to the creation of a government run system of surveillance of anyone who uses Twitter. Even the most basic procedural fairness requirements you might expect from a government-run system such as notice or warning are absent from this proposal. The requirement to ‘share’ information at the request of Crown is also deeply troubling.”
“The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the Digital Safety Commissioner to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments (China, North Korea, and Iran for example) under the false guise of ‘online safety’ impeding peoples’ rights to access information online.”
Our Dear Leader is burning jet fuel all over the country, to explain how wonderful he is. However some of the peasants are not impressed. Perhaps they need their bank accounts frozen. Trudeau gets vulgar goodbye.
Like issuing bonds in another countries currency.
Finance Canada- Today, the Government of Canada announced its plan to issue a US-dollar global bond later this week.
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BlacklocksReporter on John Gormley this morning. Interview starts at the 4:10 mark.
A number of civil liberties groups are pushing the federal government to allow them to call witnesses and compel sworn testimony during the inquiry into the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. According to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, an inquiry that doesn’t involve the major players testifying under oath would be meaningless.
You really are off into the farthest corners of la la land.
Globe and Mail- What a tangled Web the Trudeau government is weaving
It was such a lovely idea, the internet. A borderless, bodiless refuge for free expression, beyond the censor’s reach; a place of infinite capacity and zero cost, where anyone who wanted to express themselves could, in whatever medium, at whatever scale; where a book or a song or a film could be distributed with equal ease, to one person or billions; where artists had the world for an audience, and audiences could choose from among all the world’s creators. Who wouldn’t want such a thing?
Governments, that’s who. The Trudeau government, in particular, seems to see the internet not as an opportunity, a chance to stand down the immense regulatory army that has hitherto stood watch over the Canadian media, but as a challenge.
It is possible to support Ukraine without supporting Nazis. Conservatives should be making the most of this on both practical and moral grounds. Here’s your opportunity to shoehorn Singh away from Trudeau and force an election. That’s the practical side. The moral arguments should be obvious.
Ottawa Citizen- Canada failed when it trained Ukrainian troops linked to the far right, says Nazi hunter
A top Nazi hunter and Holocaust scholar says Canada failed when it allowed Ukrainian military personnel connected to far-right groups to receive training as recently as 17 months ago.
Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel said in an interview with this newspaper that Canada failed to properly monitor its own military training program. “The Canadian government didn’t do its due diligence,” he said. “It’s the responsibility of the Canadian defence ministry to know exactly who they are training.”
“There is no question that there are neo-Nazis in different forms in Ukraine, whether they are in the Azov regiment or other organizations,” he added.
Looking back a few weeks… Also this
If Trudeau can make hay with imaginary Nazis, you can make hay with real ones.
Government of Canada- Be Part of the National Action Plan on Combatting Hate
Jonathan Kay– Take a look at the comments. Our govt is doing a national survey of it’s endless anti-hate programs & agitprop. But as soon as u say u disagree with this, the survey cuts u off, even tho it says you’re only “40% complete.” The whole thing is engineered to get the result they want.
Sims- Trudeau is planning a tax on trucks
The tax bill would range from $1,000 for light-duty pickups to $4,000 for the super-duty trucks that tow horse trailers and construction equipment.
KAY: Putin will turn his eyes towards Canada’s Arctic next
Last spring, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Canada and other Western Arctic stakeholders — the US, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland — that all the resources beneath the ice melting in the Arctic Sea belong to the Russian government. “It has been absolutely clear for everyone for a long time that this is our territory, this is our land,” Lavrov stated at a Moscow press conference. It would be stupid at this point to delude ourselves into believing he is blowing smoke regarding the Arctic as we assumed, for too long, was the case with Ukraine. We should assume he means what he says.
SIMS- The carbon tax is a no rebate rip-off
The PBO released a report showing the majority of Canadian families will pay more in the carbon tax than they will get back in rebates within the next eight years.
“Household carbon costs will exceed the Climate Action Incentive payments households receive,” writes Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux. “Most households in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will see a net loss resulting from federal carbon pricing. That is, the costs they face — including the federal carbon levy, higher GST and lower incomes — will exceed the Climate Action Incentive rebate they receive.”
Man who invoked Emergencies Act to criminalize peaceful protest claims he supports right to protest. pic.twitter.com/EJGYQ3jHoA
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) April 11, 2022
As the soaring cost of the pandemic response continues to bite, expect a lot more of these “one time” levies, and not just on banks and insurers. If the Trudeau/Singh alliance can get away with this, the search for milch cows will undoubtedly broaden in the near future.
Jack Mintz, the President’s Fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said the new provision does single out the financial services industry and rolls back to an earlier and complicated era when corporate income was taxed depending on its source.
“Many sectors of the economy benefited from the federal government bailing out the economy. Investors and workers too. Somehow only the banks and life insurance companies are subject to a special tax,” he said.
Lilley- Interest payments on national debt among largest line items in Trudeau’s budget
With the federal government spending roughly $1 million every 60 seconds and continuing to spend more than it takes in, the $1.2 trillion national debt is expected to grow to $1.3 trillion over the next five years.
One trillion dollars is one million, million dollars or 1,000 billion dollars.
While the media was praising Dear Leader’s budget, little attention was given to the Ottawa arson case.
DZSURDZSA: How the Liberals and NDP pushed the arson hoax about the Freedom Convoy
There wouldn’t be any standards at all. Its budget day in Canada.
Financial Post- Those ‘working hard to join’ the middle class betrayed by Liberal budget contradictions
Gee, why would they have such a poor image?
Blacklocks Reporter- RCMP Applications Plummet
Holly Doan- Applications to the RCMP declined 47%, Commons committee is told.