Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

No balanced budget until 2070? No worries. There won’t be an economy by then, anyway

I saw a most interesting headline in the National Post, the burden of which is that we, Canada, could possibly not see a balanced budget till 2070. I’m all for “long-term planning” but this seems a little extreme.

OTTAWA — The federal government could be running budget deficits until 2070 if current spending plans are not altered, according to estimates by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that have spurred warning calls over Canada’s fiscal position.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The Lying Hyprocrite said today the Montreal Canadiens showed a “lack of judgment” by drafting an 18-year-old who was fined recently for sharing sexual explicit photos of a woman without her consent.

Trudeau Gropey is the latest high-profile figure to criticize the NHL club over its decision to select Logan Mailloux for its first-round pick in Friday’s entry draft.

“As a life-long Habs fan, I am deeply disappointed by the decision,” Trudeau Blackie told a news conference today.

Whenever the Justin Trudeau Liberals can use new legislation to virtue signal, there is no apparent limit to how ruinous that ensuing legislation can be.

I could commence every column respecting federal legislation with that sentence.

Like all political parties, the Liberal Party is a coalition of ideologues and opportunists: those who enter politics to get something done, and those who are in it for something to do. It has ever been thus.

What has changed is the correspondence between the two. In previous generations, the ideologues made use of the opportunists to achieve their ends. To do things like, say, medicare, you first had to get into government. If that meant consorting with rather less high-minded types – thugs, to be blunt, but thugs skilled at getting elected – so be it. For the ideologues, the ends justified the means.

Today the relationship is the reverse.

WARNING – Andrew Coyne ahead. Go incognito.

OTTAWA — A federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says.

In a notice of motion filed Thursday in Federal Court, Rota says the House, by virtue of its parliamentary privileges, has the power to send for the “persons, papers and records” it deems necessary to its functions.