Category: Basic Dictatorship

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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Beijing’s decision is final. Chiang stays.

Update for chewy new awkwardness:

Canada’s election threat monitoring body has confirmed that national party leaders received a classified security briefing late last week, as public concerns mount over threats tied to transnational repression and a widening controversy involving Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s remarks about Conservative candidate Joe Tay.

The revelation came Monday during a public update by the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force. Allen Sutherland, a senior Privy Council Office official and SITE leader, confirmed the briefing referenced today by Prime Minister Mark Carney covered high-level threat assessments and involved security-cleared representatives from each political party. While SITE would not confirm whether Chiang’s remarks were specifically addressed, the timing suggests they may have been a factor.

The Libranos: Nice Riding You Have There

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Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Chandra Arya, a Liberal backbench MP whose short-lived bid to replace Justin Trudeau as leader was cut short by the party, says he has been dropped as the candidate for the Ottawa riding of Nepean.

The 62-year-old has represented the riding since 2015.

National campaign director Andrew Bevan informed Arya of the decision in a letter Thursday, just days before an expected election call.

The move to remove him comes almost two months after the party also told Arya it would not accept him as a candidate for the party leadership.

Arya had already been nominated, but the letter says new information obtained by the party’s “green light committee” led the campaign co-chair to recommend that his “status as a candidate” be revoked.

Bevan does not include any details about the new information.

The only unfinished business is for our Chinese-installed Governor to smear Chandra Arya as a Chinese plant.

Related: Chandra got one hell of a nice parting gift

Unlimited Power!

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It’s what we want. It’s what we need.

Rob Shaw- He wants a blank cheque to do anything he wants.”

B.C.’s David Eby proposes draconian legislation to respond to Donald Trump

Globe and Mail- Premier Eby, please practise democracy

British Columbia’s NDP government tabled legislation last week that, if enacted as is, would give it sweeping powers to pass regulations without having to bother with the tedious obligation of asking for the blessing of the provincial legislature.

It’s Good To Be King

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Alternate title: The Emperor Has No Clothes

National Post- Mark Carney’s not really supposed to be doing anything

Mark Carney may now be Canada’s 24th prime minister, but the unique circumstances of his appointment mean that he technically shouldn’t be allowed to do anything.

No appointments. No new spending or taxes. No foreign policy commitments. Nothing at all that isn’t “routine,” “non-controversial” and “reversible.”

It’s all part of the “caretaker convention,” a longstanding parliamentary tradition which holds that until a prime minister is able to “command the confidence of the House of Commons,” he’s not allowed to wield the full powers of his office.

In fact, he’s not supposed to do almost any of the things Canadians typically associate with their prime minister.

I Want A New Country

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Ross McKitrick, economist, U of Guelf: “Unlike when talking about Brookfield or semiconductors, here [Carney] is very precise in his wording so later he can insist that he never promised pipelines.”

DO IT

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Related: Dan Tappin is in Calgary reporting from behind enemy lines. And, heh, so is Andy Lee.

The Libranos: Who Let The Brown People In Here?

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Ruby Dhalla wasn’t supposed to be a problem. When she entered the Liberal leadership race, she was treated as an afterthought, an outsider with no chance of breaking through. Mark Carney was the clear favorite—not because he had some overwhelming grassroots movement behind him, but because the Liberal swamp had already crowned him as Trudeau’s successor. The decision had been made long before the race even began. But then, something happened that the elites didn’t see coming: Dhalla started gaining traction. She started signing up thousands of new members. She started climbing in the polls. And that’s when the Liberal machine kicked into overdrive to shut her down.

If you’ve been paying attention to Canadian politics, none of this should be surprising.

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.”

Your Sacrifice Will Be Forgotten

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Blacklock’s- Lockdowns Cost $60B A Year

“From 2019 to 2020 approximately 47 percent of all small and medium sized businesses, those with annual salary expenses of less than $1.5 million, experienced a drop in gross profits totaling a loss of nearly $60 billion,” wrote analysts.

The figures were the highest to date as calculated by any federal agency on the impact of the Covid recession. Private sector analysts put losses at twice as much, at least $139 billion, according to 2021 calculations by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

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