Category: Basic Dictatorship

He Admires His Basic Dictatorship

Juno News;

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to let the Canada Revenue Agency automatically file millions of Canadians’ tax returns is facing backlash from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which says the month-long consultation preceding the rollout was a “sham” designed to rubber-stamp a power grab by bureaucrats.

The CRA’s consultation ran for only one month, from September 9 to October 9, ending just a day before Carney’s announcement on Friday. The consultation sought online feedback from individuals and organizations about expanding “automatic tax filing” services.

The government says the program, starting in 2026, will help up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians receive benefits they’re missing, such as the GST/HST credit and Canada Child Benefit.

Critics, however, say Ottawa’s timeline shows the outcome was pre-determined.

“Carney plans to give CRA more power with automatic tax filing,” said Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Federal Director Franco Terrazzano. “Trusting the taxman to do your return is like trusting your dog to protect your burger. CRA acting as both tax filer and tax collector is a serious conflict of interest.”

Terrazzano mocked the idea that meaningful input was possible within hours of the consultation closing. “There’s no way bureaucrats pulled an all-nighter reading through thousands of submissions before sending Carney out to make an announcement the next morning,” he said. “Asking Canadians for their opinion and then ignoring them isn’t a good look. This was a sham consultation.”

The federation argues the plan will give unprecedented control to the same agency responsible for collecting taxes. “The CRA can barely answer the phone, so Carney shouldn’t be giving those bureaucrats more busy work,” Terrazzano said. “The CRA is a bloated mess, and Carney should be cutting the cost of bureaucracy, not scheming up ways to give it more power over taxpayers.”

Related bloated mess.

The Epitome of Hypocrisy

Liberal hypocrisy never fails to amaze me. Apparently the Woke mind NOW believes your home is your sanctuary from law enforcement, but not from criminals.

FYI, US law enforcement do not require a warrant when in hot pursuit.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

Lifesite explains;

A new Canadian bill introduced by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has raised privacy concerns as it appears that, should it become law, it would give officials the power to ban anyone deemed a dissident from accessing the internet.

Bill C-8, which is now in its second reading in the House of Commons, was introduced in June by Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and has a provision in which the federal government could stop “any specified person” from accessing the internet.

All that would be needed is the O.K. from Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly for an individual to be denied internet service.

The bill is titled “An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts,” and it contains a clause that mandates all internet providers to pull internet services from anyone whom the government demands.

The bill would allow the industry minister to “prohibit a telecommunications service provider from providing any service to any specified person,” all without a warrant. The only recourse a banned person would have is after the order is given. They would have to get a federal court to look at the ban order for a judicial review.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

Gord Magill is posting live from the court room on the Lich/Barber sentencing.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag

I can only assume Andrew is talking about the Liberal’s refusal to accept a court ruling….

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It was 55 years ago this month that Pierre Elliot Trudeau invoked martial law in Canada to deal with the kidnapping of Pierre Laporte. Laporte was later murdered by the terrorist group the FLQ. Several  members of the FLQ got only 2 years for their part in the kiddnapping and murder, some got more, while others were flown to Cuba. They would have gotten much more prison time had they been charged with mischief instead of kidnapping and murder…

Cold Canuck Hands

Youtube: Audio recordings of the Public Safety Minister talking about the “buyback” confiscation program:

▶️ launches Tuesday with pilot project in Cape Breton
▶️ money pot “capped” at $742M, after it’s exhausted you get nothing
▶️ admits if he had to start over they’d scrap it but it was a campaign promise
▶️ blames pressure from Quebec (electorate, caucus, Provost?)
▶️ implies it won’t be enforced?
▶️ admits gun owners will not get fair compensation
▶️ offers to pay constituent the difference lol
▶️ offers to pay bail for constituent if he practises non compliance and gets arrested

New Governor

While the brainwashed masses in the deranged dominion are distracted by the firing of Jimmy Kimmel…

National Post- Carney invites the Supreme Court to rewrite the Constitution — at democracy’s peril

The Charter’s notwithstanding clause exists to keep judges from usurping elected legislators. The feds want to take that away

National Post- Ottawa and the provinces prepare to battle in constitutional combat over notwithstanding clause

With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow.

They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum

Brian Lilley;

In a submission to the Supreme Court, the federal government is asking the court to neuter part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case before the court is a challenge to Quebec’s Bill 21, the law on secularism in the province.

The province has of course used the notwithstanding clause for the bill as they have done several times over the decades with other laws. The notwithstanding clause is also known as section 33 of the Charter, it was a key of the package that got the Charter and the constitutional changes of 1982 passed.

Now, the federal government under Mark Carney is going to ask the courts to limit, in some ways remove this power from elected legislatures while reserving this power for judges.

“The constitutional limits of the s. 33 power preclude it from being used to distort or annihilate the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Charter, or to reduce them to des peaux de chagrin, that is, to shrivel them beyond recognition, if not transform them into mere legal fictions,” reads the submission.

Section 1 of the Charter allows judges to override Charter rights with no checks and balances, no recourse for citizens. Section 33 allows legislatures to override rights in a limited way and the citizens can vote out governments that they find abusive.

None of the people you will hear from on this issue ,who support the Carney government’s move, will ever ask that judges have their ability to override rights curtailed in anyway.

Expect several provinces, if not all, to oppose this attempt to change the Charter via judicial decree.

It’s Not Hypocrisy It’s Hierarchy

Shawn Rickard- In 2021/2022 unvaccinated Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW’s) received exemptions from Trudeau’s tyrannical Vaccine Travel Mandates, permitting them to freely board a plane and leave the country while 5-6 million unvaccinated Canadian citizens and PR’s were illegally stripped of their charter/human rights and banned from boarding all forms of federally regulated transportation (including domestic & international flights, trains, buses and ships). Canadians were literally held hostage in their own country while TFW’s got preferential treatment over citizens. We will be exposing this in Federal Court.

Government of Canada- Question Period Note: Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program (including travel issues)

The travel exemptions allowing unvaccinated temporary foreign workers to leave Canada on commercial flights will provide the short-term workforce support necessary to maintain our high-standard levels of trade, commerce, and food security.

Corporate Canada’s Useful Idiot in Ottawa…

Might I suggest Mark J Carney take some advise about temporary foreign workers from his old boss?  He might learn a thing or two

“Evidence began to accumulate that many temporary foreign workers were being hired for entry-level jobs that unemployed or underemployed Canadians might be doing, in sectors from fast-food to retail, sometimes even in regions of high unemployment. Jason Kenney, then minister of immigration, pointed out that this was surely driving down the wages of lower-income Canadians – and despite the demands of some employers, lower market wages should not be an objective of government policy.” – Globe & Mail, Aug 28th 2016

 

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Insane Asylum

Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…

By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…

The Coyne Affair

 

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

That’s a good question, because, does anyone remember the Coutts Nine? Does anyone even know who or what the Coutts Nine are? We should, given that they were arrested along with four other men who were charged with conspiracy to murder police at the COVID 19 mandate protest in the town of Coutts, Alberta. A protest that coincided with Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa that took place in the winter of 2022. Those four men came to be known as the Coutts Four, and while conspiracy charges were not laid against the Coutts Nine, it was implied, at the time of their arrests, by the RCMP and the government and the media, that they were involved in that plot. To that end they were all charged with mischief and weapons possession offences, and we have heard little of their fate since.

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