Category: The Libranos

Protected Class No More?

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The Food Professor has some predictions for Canadian agricultural policy in 2026. Here’s hoping that we’ll see moves to either liberalize or end our supply mismanagement system.

Even if the United States has little genuine interest in exporting more dairy to Canada – and even if Canadian consumers show limited appetite for it – President Trump now understands, far better than during his first term, that supply management is a potent political wedge.

The system protects roughly 9,400 dairy farmers who exert disproportionate influence over agricultural policy, while compensation payments continue to flow without any meaningful reduction in production or market share. For a growing number of Canadians, this arrangement increasingly resembles a closed loop rather than a public good.

Great Success!

Drain The Swamp New Governor 9 Comments

Blacklock’s- Mexican Embassy Is Fed Up

The Government of Mexico complains it is too expensive and bureaucratic to do business with Ottawa. The candid report by diplomats comes three months after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a “new era of cooperation” with Mexico.

The report was submitted to the Senate foreign affairs committee. Ottawa was so dysfunctional that Mexican diplomats had difficulty getting basic data here, it said.

Delusional Advice

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly New Governor 31 Comments

It’s probably not a good idea to “stand firm” when your feet are in quicksand.

As Canada approaches a review of its key free trade deal with the United States next year, Unifor national president Lana Payne says it’s important to stand firm for a good deal. Payne said it’s important to play hardball, and not allow tariffs to be legitimized in any form. Instead, Canada needs to hold out and let the “self-inflicted wounds” of tariffs create pressure instead.

“We’re seeing that now in the United States where their economy is suffering and worsening by the day,” Payne said in a Dec. 19 interview.

Elbows Down!

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing New Governor 21 Comments

Way down. Might as well stick a fork in us. Since GDP is just a measure of all the borrowing and spending in an economy no matter who undertakes it, it’s disturbing that our economy is contracting despite record deficits for all levels of government. The real problem is shrinking private sector manufacturing.

The Canadian economy shrank by a greater-than-expected 0.3% in October, the largest drop in almost ​three years, on weakness in both the goods and ‌services sectors, official data showed on Tuesday.

The manufacturing sector dropped by 1.5%, partly reflecting a ‌6.9% plunge in machinery output. Wood product manufacturing dropped by 7.3%…

 

Racial Injustice

More Pavilions At Folkfest Protected Class Shiny Pony 22 Comments

Odd that the writers of the story never thought to get any input from Omogbolahan Jegede’s victims.

A former university football player who sexually assaulted two women has been sentenced to just two years in prison because he is black and was feeling intense pressure around the time of the attacks, the judge said. Omogbolahan Jegede, 25, had choked one of the women almost into unconsciousness.

“It should be noted that but, for the contents of the Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA), the pre-sentence report and all the mitigating factors surrounding Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede, this sentence would have been much higher,” Justice Frank Hoskins said in his Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision on Wednesday.

Dairy Farmers Uber Alles!

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It’s no surprise that the US sees Canadian supply mismanagement as a major trade irritant; I sincerely hope they don’t back down in trade talks this time around.

Washington’s trade representative says a coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal will hinge on resolving concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.

Like clockwork, the water carriers for Big Dairy are falling in line:

Carney said Canada has been clear about its intention to protect the supply management of agricultural products. “We continue to stand by that,” he said at a news conference in Ottawa with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

I Want A New Country

Baiting The Left More Pavilions At Folkfest New Governor 15 Comments

Now you’re talking.

“People are at the breaking point. Our public servants are at the breaking point.”

Smith says Canada is a nation of immigrants and Alberta more so than anyone else but newcomers need to be able to get a good-paying job to support themselves. What does the Alberta premier want to see?

A made-in-Alberta immigration system with a “sustainable” level of immigration and much more.

“We want to have a similar program to Quebec. Quebec has an immigration program that allows them to choose on the basis of language and culture. […]

“Maybe you don’t get health care covered until you have been a taxpayer for a number of years.

“Maybe you don’t bring your kids over to be educated in our publicly-funded education system or use our taxpayer-supported child-care system until you have a certain number of years as a taxpayer. You have to pay into the system.”

Smith says those who want to become permanent residents would then know “the number of years they’ve got to work in order to be able to receive all the entitlements of those who have been taxpayers all their lives.”

Smith says being a citizen or being on the path to citizenship as a permanent resident has privileges.

“Until somebody becomes a permanent resident and citizen we’ll treat them like tourists,” she says.

Elbows Down!

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing New Governor There Goes The Narrative 21 Comments

Since existing port facilities don’t have the capacity, I fully expect that someone will soon suggest that we access magical new export markets by shipping through Churchill. This is what Canadian exceptionalism actually amounts to: the stubborn insistence that we’re entitled to our dreams no matter how hard reality smacks us in the face.

But a recent announcement from one of Canada’s most successful natural resources exporters, saying that future exports will soon be shipped to overseas markets from a port in the state of Washington instead of Canada’s west coast, has raised fresh questions about whether some key Canadian ports even have the capacity to handle any more of those diversified goods. Any bottlenecks or other inefficiencies would only be magnified if exporters are able to hit Carney’s recent target that Canada will double non-U.S. exports over the next decade.

I Want A New Country

More Pavilions At Folkfest Saskatchewan Party The Libranos 16 Comments

Premier Moe, you need to invoke immediate long-term residency requirements to prevent Carney’s shiny new voting base from accessing provincial services (health care, chief among them) or there won’t be a province left to service.

What does it actually do?

•Ends the “first-generation limit” on citizenship by descent, introduced back in 2009 under Harper.
•Automatically grants or restores Canadian citizenship to tens of thousands of “Lost Canadians” and their descendants born abroad before the law – even if they have zero recent ties to Canada.
•Going forward, allows Canadians born abroad to pass citizenship to their kids born overseas if the parent spent at least 1,095 days (3 years cumulative) in Canada at any point before the child’s birth.
•No time limit on accumulating those days, no language/test requirements in the final version – opposition amendments for tougher checks were voted down.

Update: SDA gets results

@ABDanielleSmith

Albertans are tired of the last 10 years of the federal government’s unsustainable immigration policies putting huge burdens on our education, healthcare, and housing sectors.

It’s time we start having a hard conversation about exercising more control over immigration policy and whether the province should limit eligibility for social services only to citizens, permanent residents, and individuals with an immigration permit granted by the Alberta government.

Continue reading →

Down The Primrose Path

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Globe&Mail;

Master Warrant Officer Matthew Shawn Robar was arrested last week and charged with passing highly sensitive government secrets to what court documents refer to as a “foreign entity.”

The government has not identified the foreign entity. But a source told The Globe and Mail earlier this week that the country MWO Robar is accused of providing information to is Ukraine.[…]

In exhibits presented in military court Monday and released to media Tuesday, prosecutors allege that MWO Robar shared with the foreign entity the full name and identity of a Canadian Armed Forces member who was engaged in covert intelligence and information-collection activities. He did not have approval of senior commanders to share the operative’s identity, documents presented in court say.

Information allegedly passed to the foreign entity also gave it leverage over Canada, which was used to make threats, the documents say.

Military prosecutors also allege that MWO Robar talked to the foreign entity about possibly working for their country’s foreign intelligence agency after he came under investigation in the fall of 2024.

“Through his continued work with the foreign intelligence service, they discussed future employment opportunities as a reward for facilitating the foreign entity’s interests,” the documents allege.

More: Canadian Forces member accused of espionage was in long dispute with military over disciplinary action

Who Cares?

Art Of The Deal It's Probably Nothing New Governor 61 Comments

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after two days of talks with an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump, an American statement said.

In return, the United States agreed to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash. Potash is a key component in fertilizers, and the former Soviet state is a leading global producer.

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