Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

The feds spent nearly $40 million in the last two years hiring outside contractors to censor documents that have been requested under the Access to Information Act, says Blacklock’s Reporter.

Records show a handful of companies were awarded millions in contracts to process paperwork.

“Each file is different based on the complexity and the volume of pages,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons.

h/t Mauser

Rising interest rates will increase borrowing costs and slow the economy. But they won’t address one of the biggest drivers of inflation: fossil fuel costs.

The chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, took the dramatic step of increasing borrowing costs by 0.75 per cent, a move Canada is expected to follow. He said the move will slow demand and help get the jobs market balance out.

“But there are many things we can’t affect,” Powell told reporters this week in Washington.

Justin’s legacy will be cemented by his decision to make Canadians suffer for his vanity.

American writer Carl Sandburg once said politicians should have three hats: one for throwing into the ring, one for talking through and another to pull rabbits from.

Chrystia Freeland, having already made clear her ambition to succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, made good use of her other two hats in a speech on inflation to a Bay Street audience on Thursday.

Chrystia Freeland is more vexing than Justin Trudeau. This is quite a milestone. We all grant that she is smarter. But we thought he had commanded that other territory as all his own.

From the evidence to date, what should be a solemn, substantive principled hearing into the invoking of the Emergencies Act by the Trudeau government is being treated by all the relevant ministers and particularly Finance Minister Freeland, as a laugh, as some comic diversion eating up the prestigious time of so-important cabinet ministers who have so many other deeper, more powerful things to think about.

She’s the girlfriend you were happy initiated the break up with you.

“Canadians need to decide for themselves whether they are getting their money’s worth when it comes to how governments are spending their tax dollars.”

Freeland says Canada’s economic reputation was at risk, prompting Emergencies Act

The risk to Canada’s economic reputation was behind the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to deter the “Freedom Convoy” blockades across the country, the deputy prime minister and finance minister repeatedly told MPs Tuesday.

But Chrystia Freeland — the highest-ranking minister yet to appear before the special committee investigating the government’s unprecedented use of emergency powers — would not share specific data that would have been available at the time the Act was invoked, which would have shown the protests were damaging the national economy.

But trade was up…. 

The economic nightmare that wasn’t? Border blockades had little effect on trade, data reveals

Despite the highly publicized blockades at Ontario’s Ambassador Bridge and Coutts crossing in Alberta, cross-border trade in Ontario and Alberta was up 16 per cent in February, compared to the same month last year, according to data from Statistics Canada.

And while some businesses were impacted by the blockades, the trade figures also raise questions about the government’s use of the Emergencies Act – a decision, in part, justified by “threats to (Canada’s) economic security” brought about by the blockades.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is finally gearing up to address our inflation predicament head-on, and not a moment too soon.

On Thursday on Bay Street, Freeland will deliver what’s being flagged as a “significant” speech on inflation, affordability and the government’s plan to guide the economy through the current turbulence to a smooth landing.

The Star has learned that she’ll have a $7-billion (or so) list in hand that spells out exactly how federal programs are ramping up to help those who are particularly exposed to the harms of inflation.

The Conservatives are calling on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to step down from his cabinet post as questions linger about who wanted the government to deploy emergency powers to end an anti-vaccine mandate protest earlier this year.

A Parliamentary committee is examining the government’s decision to make use of the Emergencies Act, which it did to end an anti-vaccine mandate protest that occupied Ottawa in January and February of this year.

Global Affairs decided it would be a good idea to send a senior representative to the Russian Embassy to celebrate Russia Day last week.

They defended the decision, despite Canada’s official position that Russia has committed genocide during its illegal invasion of Ukraine.

When all hell broke loose, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly promptly apologized, but it was too late. It was such a deplorable decision that there was no possible rationalization.

Saying “F— you” to a woman calling for the end of vaccine mandates found a Liberal MP and Olympic kayak gold medallist up the creek with no paddle or manners.