Two in three Canadians think the amount they pay in income taxes is too high and fewer than one in four Canadians believe the federal government spends on the right priorities.
Those are some of the findings from the latest Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)/EI-Ipsos poll, released today. The poll was recently conducted among a sample of 1,020 Canadians aged 18 and over.
A new survey conducted by TD Bank Group shows that nearly 60 per cent of Canadian parents are concerned about their children’s financial future, primarily due to the impact of inflation and the prevailing economic uncertainties in the country.
According to the survey published on Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of surveyed parents (89 per cent) believe that their confidence in their children’s financial future would improve if their kids gained better financial knowledge before their teenage years.
The survey also found that 66 per cent of parents are not highly confident in their children’s current financial knowledge.
Concern is what parents do but we do not live in ordinary times.
Our government is run by sanctimonius idiots who believe destroying the wealth of our nation will bend the planet to their will.
Our education system is overrun by perverts and no longer fit for purpose.
Few can afford rent let alone dream of purchasing a home yet the political class insist mass immigration is the answer to all ills.
It isn’t, it is the ill.
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial suggested Canada should sit at the kiddies table in the NATO alliance instead of with the adults. This is because as a share of GDP our defence spending is seventh lowest among NATO’s 31 member nations. It’s also lowest among the G7, which prompted the Journal to question whether we are still willing to accept our responsibilities as a member of the G7. It concluded that if this country “doesn’t want to play that role, then the G-7 should consider a replacement.”
Trudeau is a little prick.
“Net zero” is a popular talking point among many politicians and members of the commentariat. It refers to the idea of eliminating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the production and use of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and thermal coal) by 2050 or sooner. Many believe this is necessary to stem the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere that’s been occurring since the late 1800s.
In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan successfully combatted their countries’ large fiscal deficits with policies that included cuts to the number of bureaucrats employed in their respective countries. Recent Canadian governments also used these policies to deal with fiscal deficits, as the chart shows. It tracks the number of federal civil servants against population from the late 1990s until now, with 1997=100 for both series.
Creating “good” jobs in Canada, improving its competitiveness, and now fostering the green transition and making the country’s supply chain more resilient are typical excuses that roll off the tongues of politicians when defending subsidies to hand-picked industries.
In the 2023 budget, the federal government provided $20-billion to preferred sectors and technologies and $14-billion (and counting) afterward to Volkswagen. The government later did a similar deal with Stellantis.
Everything Trudeau touches turns to shit.
The 2023 edition of the Calgary Stampede drew to a close this weekend, but not before the national media could squeeze out one more faux scandal involving a conservative politician being photographed in the vicinity of a t-shirt bearing a purportedly anti-LGBT message.
h/t Martin
Ottawa offers millions more in housing support to shelter refugees in Toronto
The federal government is injecting additional funding to help Toronto shelter a surge of newly arrived asylum seekers.
After weeks of bickering between Ottawa and city officials over who should foot the bill, Ottawa announced Tuesday an extra $97 million in new funding to help house refugees, many of whom have been camping outside Toronto’s homeless service centre on Peter Street.
According to the city, refugees currently make up a third of Toronto’s 9,000 shelter spaces.
Prediction – 2 mos. from today – Homeless refugees declared a tourist attraction by Chow regime.
Signs posted on the gates of a Sikh temple in the shadow of Toronto’s Pearson Airport declared it a “referendum war zone.”
But inside the gurdwara’s perimeter on Sunday afternoon, the atmosphere was festive. Drums beat and children played as hundreds of people formed a long snaking line toward the temple doors.
They were waiting to cast ballots on a provocative question: Do you want the Indian state of Punjab to become an independent country called Khalistan?
… “Economic growth does not necessarily equate to economic prosperity,” said TD economist Marc Ercolao.
On the surface Canada’s economic growth looks healthy. “Supercharged” immigration and population growth helped drive a quick recovery in activity after the pandemic, particularly in consumption and the housing market.
According to Statistics Canada, our population is growing at a record pace, rising by 1,050,110 in 2022, the first time in Canadian history the population has grown by more than 1 million people in a single year.
OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police could one day transform into a federal police agency that operates more like the FBI under an ambitious but controversial concept that has gained new traction in the nation’s capital, the Star has learned.
The idea that the RCMP should get out of the business of front-line, day-to-day policing — duties the Mounties now carry out under contracts to provinces — and shift its focus to challenges like national security, terrorism, financial crimes, cybercrime or organized crime, is not a new one.
Given the Trudeau government’s anti-democratic record to date I would not be surprised to see the RCMP formally politicized as an entity primarily concerned with criminalizing dissent.
Given CSIS is waging a civil war against Trudeau and his China Class cronies it may be Trudeau hopes to set up his own version of the Ton Ton Macoute to undermine efforts at exposing the corruption of our political and corporate class. The demonic laughter you hear in the background is Freezer of Bank Accounts Freeland cackling like a Nazi once removed.
Justin Trudeau blames ‘American right-wing’ for Muslims opposing LGBTQ curriculum: ‘Leave our kids alone!’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed the “American right-wing” for Canadian Muslims’ opposition to gender ideology and LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 education.
The video was of Trudeau speaking with the Muslim community last week at a Calgary mosque – Baitun Nur Mosque – after hundreds of protesters rallied against gender ideology in schools, chanting “Leave our kids alone.”
The frustration reached a boiling point after audio surfaced of an Edmonton Public Schools teacher berating Muslim students for skipping school in order to avoid pride events.
Background – Son of Canadian pastor gets standing ovation in EU Parliament as he slams PM Justin Trudeau for taking ‘freedom and democracy’ away from citizens
h/t Mauser
Forget “energy transition” and “just transition” to describe the transformation of our energy systems. Call it the “boondoggle transition” because that’s what it is turning into.
The $30 billion to be paid by the federal and Ontario governments to just two electric-vehicle battery companies — Volkswagen and Stellantis-LG Energy Solution — is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s expected that together the two projects will “create” 5,500 jobs (though most of the workers likely will come from other jobs) at an eye-popping ten-year cost of $5.5 million per worker. Even if you spread the earnings over 10 years, that’s $550,000 a year, nine times the average Canadian’s annual earnings of $61,000.
Canada’s environment minister hopes the next international climate summit will commit to phasing out unabated fossil fuels — oil and gas projects that don’t rely on technology to capture their emissions.
Steven Guilbeault outlined his expectations for the next COP28 while meeting with fellow international ministers from Europe, Mexico, India, Japan, China and other countries.
One of those expectations is the eventual elimination of fossil fuel projects that lack a mechanism to prevent carbon emissions from escaping into the atmosphere. Carbon capture, yet to be proven at scale, has been proposed as a way for the oil and gas industry to continue production without changing the planet’s climate.
