Why did Chrystia Freeland say tax hikes were needed ‘for our democracy to work’?

It’s a rare day in Canada that sees overt debate about class and power. But after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released her latest budget, that’s apparently what we got.

The triggering element wasn’t the deficit, the debt or new program spending. It was an increase in the capital-gains tax inclusion rate to 67 per cent from 50 per cent for businesses and for personal investment income above $250,000, a move that will generate $20-billion in tax revenue in the next five years.

After the budget, facing much backlash from the business community, Ms. Freeland said something I haven’t heard her say before: The tax changes were part of keeping the wheels of democracy turning.


A budget that angers the rich and does nothing to ease the burden of Canada’s impoverished.

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Trudeau has lowered your chance of finding a job by allowing his corporate cronies to hire foreign students at reduced wages over Canadians again

International students will be allowed to work 24 hours a week starting in September

OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus up to 24 hours per week starting in September.

The Liberals temporarily waved the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages.


There is no labour shortageCanada’s Much-Touted Labour Shortage Is Mostly A Mirage

And … ‘No One Wants To Work Anymore’: Employers Complaining About Labour Shortages May Simply Not Be Paying Enough

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Desperately Clinging To Power: Trudeau tries to buy time for himself tells Grit MPs not to expect any dramatic boost in public support until next year

Trudeau tells Grit MPs not to expect any dramatic boost in public support until next year

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Liberal MPs at their most recent national caucus meeting in Ottawa not to expect any significant change in public opinion polls until next year, according to some politicians who attended.

“Don’t expect us to be neck and neck in two months’ time or six months’ time, even,” said a Liberal MP when describing the gist of Trudeau’s (Papineau, Que.) message to MPs at the April 17 national caucus meeting, one day after the federal budget. “He’s [Trudeau] trying to downplay expectations. It’s like treading water when you’re drowning. [He was telling us] to not freak out while you’re drowning, that you stay calm, and you can get back to the top for a lot of the Members who are below water.”

Trudeau’s government has caused immense generational harm and there is no way he can fix it.

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FBI bypassed Trudeau government & directly told parliamentarians they were targets of Chinese hackers in 2021

A group of Canadian MPs and senators who belong to an international parliamentary alliance critical of the Chinese government say the FBI recently informed their organization that many in their ranks were targeted by hackers linked to Beijing.

They say the Canadian government never told them of this People’s Republic of China (PRC) cyberattack despite the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation passed on the information to foreign capitals in 2022.

Further evidence that Trudeau’s government is working for the ChiComs.

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Quebec Professor a Recruit of Chinese Talent Program Deemed Security Risk by CSIS

A Quebec professor is a participant of a Chinese talent recruitment program deemed by Canada’s intelligence service as a “serious threat” to Canadian research and intellectual property.

Changhui Peng, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) since 2003, joined China’s Thousand Talents Plan in 2010. His participation in the Chinese talents recruitment plan was highlighted on his online profile at the Northwest A&F University, a school in China’s Shaanxi Province, which specializes in agriculture and forestry.

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I read Stephen Marche’s NYTimes article on Trudeau and …

Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World

Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin Trudeau, one of the world’s great progressive leaders, may be heading toward that moment. In a recent interview he acknowledged that every day he considers leaving his “crazy job” as Canada’s prime minister. Increasingly, the question is not if he will leave but how soon and how deep his failure will be when he goes.

This is a blowjob not an article.

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Adam Pankratz: Mark Carney’s elitist rhetoric ignores the frustrations of the masses

Ignatieff but without the charm.

“… Run this test with any issue you please. Concerned about race-based hiring? Bigot. Don’t think children should get puberty blockers? Trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Support Israel? Supporter of genocide. Don’t want safe supply and rampant drug use in the streets? You want addicts to die. Even the most mundane issues, such as capital gains inclusion rates, can see opponents tarred as hateful for not caring about intergenerational fairness. Demonize and dismiss rather than discuss and debate is now the modus operandi of a self-appointed elect here to save us all.”

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Canadians have stopped listening so Trudeau turns to random podcasts to resuscitate hated Carbon Tax

What Trudeau’s podcast appearances say about the Liberals’ next ballot box question

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows Canadians aren’t listening.

He knows his defence against Conservative attacks over his signature climate policy isn’t working, at least not yet.

But he plans to keep trying. And while he’s at it, his office is trying something new to get the Liberal government’s message out.

Trudeau recently appeared on four podcasts as he travels the country talking up the Liberals’ latest budget, which he’s pitching as a plan to inject more economic fairness into society for those under 40 – a cohort that has kept Trudeau in power since 2015 but is increasingly turning to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.


Trudeau latest run is starting to resemble Wynne’s end in Ontario. The people have tuned him out and even the bought press are less than enthusiastic.

His advisers are so bankrupt they attempted to use some graffiti and an Alex Jones soundbite against Poilievre forgetting that Trudeau was thanked by Hamas and kisses Islamist ass.

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Premier Moe responds to Trudeau’s threat to weaponize the CRA against Saskatchewan

Premier Moe responds to Trudeau’s ‘good luck with that’ comment

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe on Wednesday that the Canada Revenue Agency is “very, very good” at getting the money it’s owed.

On Saturday, Premier Moe responded to the prime minister’s comments on the Roy Green Show, saying to Trudeau, “The CRA, I don’t think they are able to come after the province of Saskatchewan.”

In my view it was a genuine threat given Trudeau’s record of compromising Canadian institutions and laws to attack his perceived enemies, (which at this point is pretty much all of us), or shield his corrupt practices.

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David Krayden: Plastics Registry Is a Nightmare for Industry and a Farce for Canadians

Lunatic

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has decided Canada needs a plastics registry.

But what he isn’t telling you is that while it may be possible to track the production of plastics, it is well-nigh impossible to detect where these materials are sent for disposal.

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First ten armoured vehicles promised to Ukraine to be delivered by summer, Blair says

Defence Minister Bill Blair says the first ten of 50 Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) promised to Ukraine last year will be delivered to the war-torn country by this summer, but likely won’t be fully in service until the fall.

… The remarks from the defence minister come a week after a leading Ukrainian politician met with Blair and a number of Canadian lawmakers and pleaded for more armoured vehicles.

Oleksandra Ustinova, the head of Ukraine’s special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, told the minister, members of key House of Commons committees and military leaders that both time and weapons stocks are running out for her country.

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Trudeau Lied: Foreign workers issue reignites at Windsor’s NextStar plant

The issue of temporary foreign workers being used to build the NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor has bubbled up again with the Canadian Building Trades Union requesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene in the dispute and the federal Conservatives planning to raise the issue on Parliament Hill.

CBTU executive director Sean Strickland penned a letter to Trudeau earlier this month claiming an increasing number of temporary foreign workers were being used in Windsor. The federal Conservatives also announced Friday they plan to press the issue at the Government Operations’ Committee meeting this week.

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Canadian government gives generously to Canadian media … to foster independent journalism?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canadian government has proposed a new budget, including $42 million in additional funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

The increased subsides are purportedly to ensure that “Canadians across the country, including rural, remote, Indigenous, and minority language communities, have access to high-quality, independent journalism and entertainment.”

Because nothing fosters “independent journalism” like having the government pay your bills! Canadian taxpayers rejoice!

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