PAGING SCOTT MOE: Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
h/t Lev
They Wouldn’t Do That…
Liberal Spyware
Hey kids we’ve got a cool new app to help keep you safe! Don’t worry it’s perfectly secure and totally safe and we will like totally respect your privacy.
Details? You don’t need No Stinkin’ Details
VANCOUVER—Governments across Canada have been withholding COVID-19 data in an exercise of “paternalistic” information-hoarding likely meant to regulate public reaction to the pandemic, says an access-to-information advocate.
Sean Holman, an access to information expert and journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said uproar in British Columbia Friday over revelations the provincial government was only releasing a fraction of its COVID-19 data to the public is just one example of such secrecy.
A One Dose Summer!
Are we having fun yet?
The Winnipeg School Division says its playgrounds are now off-limits for those who don’t attend school during the day.
The division says the move is being made because of increased use by community members during school hours.
“WSD recognizes that outdoor play is one of the few pleasures families have at this time, however, WSD schools have unfortunately been experiencing people congregating at the school playgrounds both during and after school hours,” said a statement from the division.
Update: one dose summer holidays are starting early for some.
North South Africa
From Trudeau’s Lips to Premier’s Ears
To your back yard. It’s tickle down tyranny.
The “One Dose Summer”
Hits Toronto
Translation: Cancel everything.
Might be time to buy more shares in U-Haul
Meanwhile… What’s Ceder Point? Glad you asked.
Update: Don’t look at Michigan.
Low Budget Hans Gruber
Is having problems with the whole debate concept.
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He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
The COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) from the Oxford University suggests that the stringency of lockdown measures in Canada ranks nearly as high as those of communist China and Cuba.
Canada has kept on strict lockdown measures as many industrialized countries are in the midst of reopening their economy. Canada’s poor position today is largely explained by the failed vaccine rollout.
The Trudeau government wasted “a lot of time” by trying to secure doses from an unreliable pharmaceutical company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, CanSino Biologics. The CanSino vaccine later turned out to be a dud, and Canada never received a single dose.
Read that last paragraph again.
Let Them Eat Taser
Leper Island: “Public health officials in Toronto say they won’t fully shut down a federal quarantine hotel for international travellers where more than a dozen staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (h/t Daivd Murrell)
He Admires His Basic Dictatorship
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Blacklocks (paywalled) – Gov’t Will Regulate YouTube
The Commons heritage committee has voted to regulate YouTube under federal law. The Department of Heritage said YouTube management, not individual users, will be liable for complying with the Broadcasting Act: “The only reason the government is doing this is to stretch the justification of regulating public airwaves into a justification for regulating private viewing.”
They’ve done this because the head of the CRTC, Ian Scott, CEO, demanded the right to regulate all forms of transmission. Thing is, they can do it when radio spectrum must be controlled as there is a limited supply and to use it requires a large, fixed, transmitter. Not so for Netflix, Youtube, etc. We’ll see how the battle goes. There will be three sides, Netflix/Youtube etc., the governmnet and Canadians.
This coming along with a movement by the government to take their money; but that will probably end up in symbolic payments as long as they do the government’s censoring.
Sounds about right.
And The Vaccine Will Manufacture Itself
Via Chris, in the comments;
About that 4-month delay for second vaccine doses Trudeau has imposed on Canadians. Turns out that was maybe not such a great idea….
“The number of active COVID-19 cases in CHSLDs (long-term care facilities) has quadrupled since the beginning of April, from 30 to 125 in Quebec. Concerned about this increase, experts plead for CHSLDs, intermediate resources and seniors’ residences to receive their second dose of vaccine without delay. “The second dose must be given in settings where the elders live in the community. It’s urgent , ”says Dr. Réjean Hébert, spokesperson for the Collectif Action COVID-19.”
(link in French, use Google Translate)
Saskatchewan: Supply crunch delays 9,000 appointments
Tightening The Noose
When I am Weaker than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
And they’ll do it to “protect” you.
It’s Probably Nothing
h/t Ezra
It’s Not Hypocrisy It’s Hierarchy
Guess where you are.
Health Minister dodges questions about banning India flights. 33 flights carrying infected passengers arrived in Canada from Delhi so far in April.
Ottawa drops specific COVID-19 screening for travellers from Brazil as variant spread throughout British Columbia.
Trudeau says he supports restricting interprovincial travel when necessary to stem spread of COVID-19.
Note these headlines are all from…today.
The Great Reset
Pay no attention to the bobblehead behind your monitor.
Chinada
Via @EzraLevant – This is pretty incredible. This is a Canadian Senator appointed by Justin Trudeau. But he is tweeting, in Chinese, a threat to Canada and the two Canadian hostages held by the Chinese Communist Party.
Defining Insanity
What’s notable about this news item is the way in which the story is presented as if this is a new phenomenon, or that a more sensible outcome might have been expected. It’s not just a matter of articulating the correct “goals”. Without price signals and the ability of investors to assess financial risk, “infrastructure” programs funded by the state will inevitably degrade into a fog of financial chaos. You’re just doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
“The Liberal government’s $188-billion infrastructure spending plans continue to lag behind schedule, with government departments failing to provide adequate public reporting on the sprawling program, a new report says.
Auditor General Karen Hogan on Thursday released one of the most thorough reports to date on the progress of the Investing in Canada Plan, which found that “funds were not being spent as quickly as planned,” and that “objectives might not be met” after the full 12-year life of the program.”
Ironically, the one upside for taxpayers is precisely that the funds are not being spent as quickly as planned, and we may be better off if we actually don’t meet any of the objectives.