Canada’s federal government has announced it will ban the sale of Internal Combustion Engine vehicles beginning in 2030. That’s less than eight years from today. What if they do?
Canadians bought 1.5 million new motor vehicles in 2020. It was a down year during the pandemic. Who’s going to make 1.5 million new Electric Vehicles for sale in Canada in 2030? Who’s going to buy them? Those are market-making questions.
A far more important question is how are they going to power these EVs?
After Justin Trudeau’s dreadful online censorship bills thankfully died because Trudeau called an election in the Fall of 2021, they’re back and they’re worse than before. The Trudeau government has reintroduced its latest online censorship legislation – Bills C-11 and C-18.
The Trudeau government is planning to hit Canadians with a big new tax on their trucks and sport utility vehicles.
The proposed tax would cost an extra $1,000 on a Ford F-150, and a Ram 3500 heavy-duty pickup truck would get hit with a $4,000 tax.
Years ago, American political philosopher Harvey Mansfield made a troubling observation that I cited in these pages five years ago. In case you’ve forgotten, events conspire to remind you that, and I quote a paraphrase not the original, “it may be possible to impose perfect justice, but … people may not be in a mood to live together when you are finished.” For instance, in the Canadian military.
If you were a young straight male would you bank on a future in the armed forces? I don’t believe going woke is going to fix their recruitment shortfall. Why would anyone sign on to an organization opposed to their personal values and that holds their very existence in contempt as the root cause of whatever mental illness its woke members care to declare.
Had I been in charge of titling last week’s federal budget, it would have been called something like “Circling the toilet bowl of socialism.” We’re not quite in the bowl yet, but with this budget, we’re circling it. The Liberals instead called their budget “A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable,” a far less accurate description, for their policies are exactly the opposite of what they should be if they really want to grow the economy. As a matter of basic economics, to encourage economic growth, taxes must be low, simple, predictable, and broadly applied, in order to minimize distortions and provide certainty. The Liberals have broken all the rules of sensible taxation by making taxes higher, more distortionary, more arbitrary, and less certain.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took questions at a press conference on Monday he said that his government’s immigration policies have been a key contributor to Canada’s housing crisis.
“Population growth in this country hasn’t been matched by an equivalent growth in housing supply,” said Trudeau, in British Columbia.
At a press conference in Victoria, British Columbia on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the right of Canadians to protest, saying he encourages people to express their disagreements with the government.
Trudeau made the comment in response to a question from reporters following an announcement highlighting the Liberal government’s 2022 budget spending on electric vehicles and infrastructure.
The radical left in Canada is being exposed, and the mainstream media is ignoring it.
When the Freedom Convoy protesters were in Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the cabinet and the mainstream media told Canadians that the protesters were funded by Russians, dark money, Donald Trump supporters and foreigners. Canadians were told protesters committed violence, rapes, threats of rape, attempted arson and other crimes. The Freedom Convoy was marked as a national security threat and accused of terrorism and insurrection.
All of this has been proved false. All of the supposed evidence to support the invocation of the Emergencies Act and give Trudeau extraordinary wartime powers was a lie.
There’s a moment in the TV show Community where the character Jeff Winger is exasperated with his study group’s attempt to interfere in their friend’s life.
Predictably, the interference doesn’t work and Jeff explode: “I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ so, I will SHOUT IT THROUGH CUPPED HANDS!”
Taxpayers are shouting through cupped hands: CARBON TAXES COST MORE THAN THE REBATES WE GET BACK!
Lack of comprehension of a fundamental in Canadian governance has for decades eluded our citizenship. In terms of what political science refers to as “Classical Liberalism,” our country simply does not meet the standard.
Year after year, decade after decade, democratic governance in Canada has been under a process of erosion. The signs are obvious and apparent. Yet, because honest media reporting declines within the process, general society has difficulty recognising the transformation.
Do you know what a tax on banks and insurance companies is?
First, it’s not primarily a tax on rich investors, many of them foreign. So if you’re hoping the increased taxes on financial institutions, announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in Thursday’s budget will be primarily a way to squeeze fat cats for their “fair share” of government revenue, you’d be wrong.
A pastor who fled communism has detailed the abuse he said he suffered while jailed for 51 days for preaching to the Canadian Freedom Convoy.
Artur Pawlowski, 49, told Fox News that he’d been kept in a metal cage, made to sleep on a concrete floor, deprived of his Bible and forced to endure repeated strip searches during his time at the grim Calgary Remand Centre.
He also claims there was a price on his head, and alleges that the door to his cell would be left open after members of the Canadian government tried to have him attacked.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other global leaders, especially in Europe, are touting wind and solar power to end Europe’s dependency on Russia for 45% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil.
They claim it’s the solution to global energy security threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The federal government seemed to go out of its way Wednesday to not make a big deal out of the announcement the Bay du Nord offshore oil megaproject had cleared what may be its biggest hurdle: environmental assessment approval.
The imposition of sanctions on Russia is being cited as an excuse for another massive assault on the remaining tatters of the privacy of the people of the entire politically organized world. Officially, we are all urged to acquiesce to public revelations of every conceivable connection we may have to assets of any kind that may be connected to Russian oligarchs, but this is the pretext for a thickening of the gigantic cloud of self-righteous officious smugness that has turned routine banking into the financial equivalent of compulsively frequent colonoscopies. In fact, the Russians have little to do with the insatiable ambition of all governments to intrude into our personal lives in ways that governments have no right to do. No reputable authority can contend that what a bank is required to learn about our financial transactions is required for governments to discharge their basic duties to assure a well-running civil society.
