Rate of jobs growth more than three times greater than in private sector
We often talk about Canada’s poor productivity and low per capita income growth. What we don’t discuss is productivity in the public sector. The goal of governments may be to make our lives better but is a bigger public service really giving us a higher standard of living?
If he’s lucky, the prime minister has more than two years to make a case for a fourth term. But what if voters are simply tired of him?
Seven years to the day after that sunny morning in 2015 when he and his new cabinet walked down the tree-lined drive to Rideau Hall, Justin Trudeau visited a community centre in a working-class neighbourhood of apartment towers and public housing in northeastern Toronto.
Inside a second-floor meeting room – scuffed laminate floors, fluorescent lights, two portable air conditioners and a foosball table – 34 chairs were arranged in a circle. Families and seniors from the area filled 31 of the chairs.
Following a short wait, Trudeau entered the room. After a general greeting he proceeded around the circle — meeting each person individually, leaning in, making eye contact — before taking a seat between Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Michael Coteau, the local Liberal MP.
The debate on whether the new immigration targets are too ambitious is also coinciding with heightened scrutiny regarding what — or who — is influencing government policy
OTTAWA — As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market.
But Immigration Minister Sean Fraser insists that Canada needs more newcomers to address labour shortages and demographic changes that threaten the country’s future.
The Liberal Party has sold our sovereignty to the likes of McKinsey & Company. Get angry about this.
The central bank promised low interest rates would last — then hiked them aggressively. A new report says the Bank’s messaging helped nudge borrowers toward variable-rates mortgages that many homeowners now regret.
“You can be confident that interest rates will be low for a long time.”
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem will forever wear those words, spoken in October 2020, according to a new report from TD’s chief economist.
Macklem’s message, delivered at a time when the central bank was trying to project calm and stimulate the economy with ultralow interest rates amid the disruption of the pandemic, was aimed at businesses considering new investments and “household(s) considering making a major purchase.”
So the Bank of Canada instructs the corporate class to deny workers wage increases in order to fight inflation.
The corporate class demands the immigration floodgates be opened because a huge pool of cheap labour is a sure fire way to depress wages.
The Bank of Canada raises interest rates injecting the fear of homelessness into a divided and fearful population.
The Liberal government destroys our energy base and raises its hated carbon tax to increase the cost of everything.
Everything suddenly seems to break all at once from air travel to health care to government services.
Public servants reveal that immigration policy is being set by the likes of Dominic Barton & McKinsey & Company.
Feeling manipulated yet?
Liberal minister says Canada needs more immigration, some worried about impacts on services
… Radio-Canada reported last week that two sources within Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said McKinsey & Company’s influence on immigration policy has grown in recent years.
A government response to a Conservative MP’s written question, which was tabled in the House of Commons in December, says the department has not recently awarded any contracts to the consulting firm — at least, not during the timeframe the MP asked about, which was from March 2021 until October 2022.
And during the interview Thursday, Fraser said McKinsey has had no role to play in the new immigration levels plan.
“I’m not being influenced by them,” Fraser said.
“This is something that I’ve arrived at independently.”
Fraser is a fucking liar.
Canada does not need mass immigration. The likes of Dominic Barton, McKinsey & Company and the rest of Canada’s corporate class want it so they can profit off the backs of citizens.
The Liberal Party has sold Canadians out to its crony capitalist buddies.
Who runs the Trudeau government? Is it the politician we elect or the consultants that he then hires? It’s a valid question in light of the latest scandal to hit the government, massive contracts to a Liberal-friendly firm and complaints from bureaucrats that the consultants were really running the show.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will attend the globalist World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting this month, but Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre has said a hard no to any of his MPs attending.
The WEF’s annual meeting will be held January 16-23 in Davos, Switzerland.
Are they tone deaf or just arrogant?
A prominent Quebec author and historian at the head of a Quebec activist group has initiated a private criminal prosecution against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, claiming the prime minister has encouraged illegal immigration into Canada, in violation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
h/t Osumashi
Ontario is home to seven of the 10 schools flagged by the Canadian government as having the highest rates of “non-compliance” when it comes to international students failing to show up for their registered courses, or instead applying for asylum.
The names of the so-called designated learning institutions, or DLIs — schools approved to host international students — were revealed in an internal report by the Immigration Department’s integrity risk management branch.
The list raises questions about Canada’s rapidly expanding international education industry, which has seen schools bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign students at significantly higher tuition rates than their Canadian peers, and whether it may be experiencing issues around compliance and enforcement.
This is allowed to happen, make no mistake it is a deliberate effort to undermine our society.
B.C. group under RCMP scrutiny for Beijing ties has charitable status in Canada
RICHMOND, B.C.—Across the street from a strip mall lined with restaurants and hair salons, the shield of the Wenzhou Friendship Society hangs above a gated entry.
What has gone on behind those doors is part of a Canadian national security investigation into the aggressive foreign interference tactics of the Chinese government.
The association representing Canada’s defence contractors says it’s going to take a lot more than talk to put the industry on a so-called “war footing.”
In a bluntly-worded opinion piece published online Wednesday, Christyn Cianfarani, executive director of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, said that Canada — unlike its allies — has not put in place a framework to ramp up production to meet the demand triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, Cianfarani wrote, the industry has heard “vague pleas” from the Liberal government “for companies to get with the program,” without any clear sense of which items of equipment are needed and what the long-term expectations might be.
Was it all just Liberal Bullshit or are they waiting for palms to be greased?
Elitism poses a far greater threat to democratic institutions than populism and the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week is a case in point.
From a Canadian perspective anyone who cares about democracy should worry a lot more about the WEF than the Freedom Convoy.
The government will review $66 million worth of contracts it awarded to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
Speaking during a news conference in Mexico City at the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS), Trudeau said he’s asked Public Service and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek and President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier to examine the contracts.
“I asked Minister Jaczek and Minister Fortier to do a follow-up and look closely at the numbers, and look at the circumstances that we heard about in the news,” Trudeau said in French.
It’s a very good thing that public attention and opposition inquiries are at last promising to shed light on the opaque and strangely intimate relationship between the Trudeau Liberals and McKinsey and Company, the global management consultancy that mutated into a service agency for dictators, oligarchs and corporate drug pushers. Its former boss was Dominic Barton, the longtime Trudeau confidant and Canada’s former ambassador to China.
OTTAWA — “We’re definitely going to reduce the cost of consultants.”
The leader of the Conservative party hasn’t committed himself to much but that’s a pretty definitive promise — a Pierre Poilievre government would reduce the spending on third-party consultants that Ottawa’s own estimates suggest rose to $17.7 billion in 2022.
Not buying what Ivinson is selling. Yes far too much is spent on consultants a scandal in itself but he refuses to entertain the possibility that consultants have shaped government policy to serve their own interests. Dominic Barton, McKinsey and the LPC have conspired to remake this country via mass immigration out of sheer greed.
Poilievre had better speak out about this.
