Category: Shiny Pony

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

This is a really good explainer.

Threadrolled here.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag

Tyrants have always found the Magna Carta to be reckless…

Pierre Poilievre is by no means the first person to raise concerns about RCMP covering up of Trudeau/Liberal scandals.  And it’s not like there is a lack of evidence to take to trial.

But hey, we did get an apology….

Related:  Isee everyone got the talking points…

Math Is Not Our Thing

Dan Knight- “They Never Asked What It Would Cost”: Budget Watchdog Testifies Liberal Government Never Calculated Impact of Immigration Surge

In a stunning moment of honesty before Parliament, Canada’s own budget watchdog just confirmed what every sane person already suspected: the federal government under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney has never even bothered to ask what this out-of-control immigration surge is actually costing the country.

The Libranos: Chew On This

Western Standard;

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.

The Part I Like Best

About pot legalization is the way they had all the enforcement ducks in a row when they rolled it out and onto our streets.

Devices used to track marijuana-impaired drivers are so unpredictable several police forces are waiting for “improved technology,” says a Department of Public Safety report. The disclosure follows warnings by legislators that identifying cannabis users behind the wheel would be difficult: “Given that drug testing has not sufficiently evolved, in your own words, why is your government legalizing?”

Great Success!

Blacklock’s- Predict Middle Class Doomed

Canadians should expect to become poorer over the next five years, says a Privy Council report. The forecast was drawn from interviews with “experts across the Government of Canada” who said economic outlooks for families were so stark they predicted a national mental health crisis. “Downward social mobility is the norm,” said the report Disruptions On The Horizon. Collapse of the middle class was rated among the “top 10 most likely disruptions” over the next three to five years. Another likely event was “people cannot afford to live on their own,” it said.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

Sam Cooper;

According to The Bureau’s analysis of prior CSIS reporting, comments by Chiang—a former police officer in the Markham area—reflect a longstanding pattern of election interference by the People’s Republic of China in Canada, including the use of Chinese-language media in Toronto, operating under consular influence, to amplify pro-Beijing narratives and promote candidates perceived as sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party.

Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole suggested Saturday that the riding of Markham–Unionville, where Paul Chiang unseated incumbent Conservative Bob Saroya in 2021, was among several successfully targeted by Beijing’s interference operations—part of what he says weakened key Conservative campaigns and ultimately contributed to his resignation as party leader.

Chiang, the sitting Member of Parliament and a candidate for re-election, was quoted in Ming Pao suggesting individuals could “claim the one-million-dollar bounty” placed by Hong Kong authorities on Conservative candidate Joe Tay—by bringing Tay to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. According to reporting, Chiang also remarked that Tay’s criminal charge under Hong Kong’s national security law would cause a “great controversy” if Tay were elected to Parliament, before issuing his bounty comment to laughter among the gathered Chinese journalists.

Chiang issued a brief apology after the remarks surfaced on Thursday. But the backlash has only intensified, with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accusing Chiang of echoing Chinese Communist Party repression—and Mark Carney of turning a blind eye.

“Liberal MP and candidate Paul Chiang’s heinous call to turn over a Canadian citizen to the authoritarian regime in Beijing in return for a Chinese Communist Party bounty is no accident—it reflects the Liberals’ long-standing mockery and neglect of national security for their own partisan gain,” Poilievre said Saturday.

“Carney is weak and compromised by money his company owes Beijing. His silence on these deplorable comments says it all. Carney must fire Paul Chiang as a candidate.”

Veteran democracy activist Cheuk Kwan, co-chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, surfaced Chiang’s remarks Friday and called for the MP to resign.

“This is shocking. Mr. Chiang openly encouraged people to assist in China interference and transnational repression,” Kwan said. “Rather than protecting Canadians, he betrayed them and jeopardized their safety.”

Kwan noted that the bounty on Tay was issued by the Hong Kong Police Force under its new national security laws, because Tay runs a YouTube channel in Canada that is critical of governance imposed from Beijing.

I’m old enough to remember the Chinese police station story that quietly died away.

Lilley: Carney is, for far, standing by Chiang’s call to hand over a Canadian citizen to China.

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