Dan Knight- Interest Rates Lowered Amid Weak Economy
With no budget and no plan, the Liberals turn again to cheap credit; the same trick that fueled inflation in the first place.
They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
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.
“The biggest investment package of its kind in British history.”
‘You are amongst friends’ – Keir Starmer
BREAKING: Prime Minister Starmer thanks @POTUS for £250 billion investment in the UK: “The biggest investment package of its kind in British history.” pic.twitter.com/tYFEtc5oOR
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) September 18, 2025
@HansMahncke – This is just incredible when you recall that only a few years ago Donald Trump was a a canceled man, banned from TV, erased from social media, his videos scrubbed, and his name forbidden in polite society. And now here he is being honored at a state banquet in Windsor Castle.
The Libranos: Chew On This
Taxpayers have been billed almost $500 million just to run the Trudeau government’s Canada Dental Care Plan, with most of the money going to administration instead of patients.
Cabinet admitted in a Commons filing that as of March 31, 2025, the program’s overhead costs totaled $472.9 million, including payments to third-party administrators.
Blacklock’s Reporter said the disclosure came only after Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Riding Mountain, Man.) pressed for answers on what the program has actually cost since its inception.
Opening Day At The Circus
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
BREAKING NEWS: Another Liberal Scandal
Chrystia Freeland stood in Parliament dismissing any federal role in BC Ferries’ $1-billion deal with a Chinese state-owned shipyard.
But leaked e-mails show the truth:
1. The Canada Infrastructure Bank (a federal Crown corporation) quietly financed the purchase.
2. Liberal staff scrambled behind the scenes to manage the optics instead of protecting Canadian jobs and security.
3. Even Liberal ministers admitted they were “dismayed” but still went along with it.
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
New Governor, Smart As The Old Governor
“Mark Carney was banker genius, he gonna make the country all good with his mega brainy math stuff.”
The newly created Build Canada Homes agency will oversee plans to build 4,000 homes on six federally owned sites, as part of a $13 billion agency budget to speed up affordable home building, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
I guess there’s nothing wrong with importing people from other countries to access millions of files with confidential financial information tied to social insurance numbers before sending them home.
From Slow To No…
National Post- Here’s all the times the Liberals said they would build an oil pipeline
A curated list of ‘major projects’ released on Thursday by the Carney government conspicuously doesn’t contain one
National Post- Mark Carney’s Major Projects Office is a fraud
It doesn’t get out of the way, instead it introduces a host of new regulations to saddle infrastructure projects with
The Simpsons Monorail
Four years? I doubt if the expropriations for the right of way would be done with by then, much less the payoffs for indigenous “consultation”.
On Thursday, LeBlanc said the work over the next four years would determine the final route between Toronto and Quebec City. “Imagine the assessments, imagine the Indigenous consultations along a 1000-kilometre route,” he said.
Alto CEO Martin Imbleau has estimated the total cost of the high-speed rail project at between $60 billion and $90 billion.
Same As The Old Boss
The list of what the Liberals consider to be “infrastructure” projects continues to boggle the mind. The main criteria apparently is that they be money-losing boondoggles.
Some of the projects identified for further development include enhancements to the Port of Churchill in Manitoba, a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Québec City, a 50-gigawatt wind energy project in Nova Scotia and an Alberta-based carbon capture and storage project.
I Hear They’re Spectacular
You should go to the funeral. https://t.co/hz3Ioh3IhS
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 10, 2025
The R Word
So the mainstream financial media is finally waking up to what most of us on SDA acknowledged long ago.
The job market is exhibiting some other recessionary characteristics, too. Desjardins Economics, in a report last Thursday, said the current youth unemployment rate “is now at a level more commonly seen during a recession.”
The unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 in August was 14.5 per cent, according to Statistics Canada, compared to nine per cent in July 2022.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Demand was “…not as robust as expected”.
GM CAMI Brightdrop EV van assembly plant takes another hit
"Unifor Local 88, which represents workers at the plant, says it has been informed by GM the plant will reopen mid November with just 400 people. That's down from 1,050 and significantly less than the 600 union officials… https://t.co/1mI232xZll pic.twitter.com/KGiZOXjGS2
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 9, 2025
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Maybe, just maybe, someone in Mark Carney’s office has thought: “Wait a second, all these goods from Amazon, all the crap piled high at Canadian Tire, maybe we should tax the carbon embedded in them, so we can actually build a Canada-first, Canada-strong economy.”
Seems obvious, right? Put tariffs on dirty imports. Level the playing field. Protect Canadian workers.
Nope. Not happening. Elbows down, Ottawa doesn’t tax a single ton of Chinese carbon. Not one. Thats right Beijing carbon heavy manufacturing gets a free ride.
Melanie Joly: The world is moving toward EVs.
Also Melanie Joly: People will only buy EVs if subsidized.
Throwing Gold Bars Off The Other Side Of The Titanic
National Post- Liberal ‘austerity’? Don’t make us laugh
On Wednesday, Carney told reporters that the upcoming fall budget will be “an austerity and investment budget at the same time,” noting that, “We need to rein in spending, we need to find efficiencies … that create the room for these big investments.” The following day, his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said, “We’re going to spend less so we can invest more.”
Great Success!
Globe and Mail- Canada’s trade diversification push goes into reverse
For all the talk in Canada about the need for trade diversification, exports to non-U.S. markets declined for the second month in a row in July, a stark reminder that the push to reduce the country’s exposure to its largest, yet unreliable, trading partner will be a long process.
Elbows Way Down!
Is rising unemployment part of Canadian exceptionalism too? I’m sure this can all be fixed with zero percent interest rates in any case.
Canada’s labour market shed a net 65,500 jobs in August and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.1 per cent, according to Statistics Canada data released on Friday.
The unemployment rate is now at its highest point outside of the pandemic since May 2016, and has risen 0.5 percentage points since the start of this year.