Canada – Page 159 – Blazingcatfur

What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways

Supply management presents a mystery in multiple dimensions. How is it possible, on the one hand, that every political party could be so fanatically devoted to this policy, for the benefit of such a narrow slice of the economy – roughly 9,000 dairy farms, plus a couple of thousand chicken and egg producers – and at such exorbitant cost to the rest, even going so far as to pass legislation forbidding Canadian trade negotiators to make any concessions on it, no matter what they get in return?

Coyne is right for a change.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Ford praises Carney after late-night fireside chats at Muskoka cottage

It may not be the sunny ways government, but some premiers certainly seem to be feeling sunny about the future.

And that’s despite troubled trade negotiations with the United States and the worsening effects of that country’s tariffs on Canadian businesses.

Still, provincial premiers have nary seemed so cheerful about their own relationships to each other — and the federal government.

h/t Auntie Polly

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•Canada

WTF?

Once again it appears the Ottawa courthouse is determined to keep the Barber and Lich matter hidden from public scrutiny.

I've sent five emails to the Ottawa Ontario Court of Justice—including the trial coordinator, communications officer and front desk and received no response.

— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) July 23, 2025

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?

Average Canadian family spent 42.3% of income on taxes in 2024: study

The average Canadian family spent 42.3 per cent of their income on taxes in 2024, according to a new study from the Fraser Institute.

The report from the Fraser Institute showed the average Canadian family, which it estimates to have earned an income of $114,289 last year, paid about $48,306 in total taxes to the federal, provincial, and municipal governments.

“At a time when the cost of living is top of mind across the country, taxes remain the largest household expense for Canadian families,” said Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute in a news release.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•Canada

Pierre Poilievre calls on government to act as more than 150 candidates register in byelection

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to take action against the advocacy group that’s encouraged nearly 150 candidates to register as Independents in the upcoming byelection in rural Alberta’s Battle River—Crowfoot riding, where he too is running in the hopes of winning back a seat in the House of Commons.

In a letter addressed to the Government House Leader, Steven MacKinnon, Poilievre calls the ballot flooding “a blatant abuse of our democratic system.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, Conservative Party

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means Canada falls further behind in the race to attract top talent

This month, the United States Congress passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which, among other things, extended and made permanent the income tax rate reductions and revised tax brackets first brought in through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, namely a 2.6 percentage point cut to the top bracket. This should raise alarm bells for policymakers north of the border, as Canada will continue to have uncompetitive personal income tax rates compared to our American counterparts and fall even farther behind in the race to attract entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, and top talent.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Carney says he’ll only take ‘best deal for Canada’ in U.S. trade talks

Prime Minister Mark Carney says negotiations with the United States on trade and security will aim to get the “best deal for Canada.”

Carney spoke ahead of meeting with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., where he is joining the talks on how to build a stronger Canadian economy and tear down internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Poilievre, Conservative MPs criticize Crown ahead of Freedom Convoy leaders’ sentencing

Several Conservative MPs and leader Pierre Poilievre are criticizing the Crown’s approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party’s deputy leader calling it an act of “political vengeance.”

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa for more than three weeks in early 2022.

They may do more time than the ISIS Bitch, she got a whole day.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

A Chinese research vessel returns to Arctic waters — and it appears Canada is watching

The Canadian military and possibly the coast guard appear to have been keeping tabs on a Chinese research vessel as it returns to Arctic waters off Alaska for the second year in a row.

Data compiled by an independent researcher and ship tracker, Steffan Watkins, shows a Canadian air force CP-140 surveillance plane was flying in the vicinity of the Xue Long (Snow Dragon) 2 as it exited the Bering Strait on Sunday.

The aircraft, according to Watkins’s research, relocated to Anchorage, Alaska, from its base in Comox, B.C., on July 9. It has conducted four patrols since then, including the most recent one involving the vessel, which is China’s first domestically built polar research ship.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Trump thinks Canadians ‘nasty’ for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador

Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks the country is “nasty” to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said Monday.

Pete Hoekstra told a conference audience on Monday that such steps “don’t send positive signals” about Canada treating the United States well.

Hoekstra was speaking at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue, Washington.

Leave it to Ford…

#WATCH: Doug Ford urges buying Canadian-made products to impact the US economy, claiming Canada is an economic powerhouse…

Despite no economic growth in over a decade and an economy smaller than several US states.

Doug Ford is a retard. pic.twitter.com/aHI61AdA1k

— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) July 21, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Lutnick Says Trump Will Renegotiate Trade Pact With Canada, Mexico Next Year

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that President Donald Trump will renegotiate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) when the trade pact is due for review next year.

The USMCA, enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term in July 2020, replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The agreement requires that 75 percent of automobile components be made in the United States, Mexico, or Canada for a vehicle to qualify for tariff-free treatment. The trade agreement also mandates that up to 45 percent of parts and components be made by workers earning at least $16 per hour, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 21, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Jesse Kline: Give 16-year-olds the vote? Only if you want never-ending socialism

If you think politics is bad now, just wait till an army of pimple-faced teenagers who get most of their “news” from TikTok are given a say over who’s in charge.

This week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that his Labour government will introduce legislation to enfranchise 16- and 17-year-olds before the next general election in the summer of 2029.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 21, 2025•0•Canada

We’re not just outsourcing ships. We’re outsourcing opportunity

On June 10, B.C. Ferries announced it would buy four new vessels from a Chinese shipyard. Unsurprisingly, the decision was met with disappointment and frustration.

And for good reason.

Despite the massive public investment, there is little benefit for B.C. workers, local shipyards and domestic steel producers.

Canada’s shipbuilding industry has been hollowed out by decades of offshoring.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 21, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Stellantis warns of $3.7B Cdn loss for first half of 2025 due to tariffs and some big charges

Stellantis, the maker of Jeep and Ram vehicles, says its preliminary estimates show a 2.3-billion euro (nearly $3.7-billion Cdn) net loss in the first half of the year due to U.S. tariffs and some hefty charges.

The head of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) says plants like those in Windsor and Brampton, both in Ontario, can’t survive that kind of storm.

The automaker anticipates an impact of about 300 million euros (about $480 million) for net tariffs incurred, and also expects planned production losses related to implementing its response plan.

I doubt that EV Battery plant will ever be finished.