A former director of Canada’s spy agency says the tendency of government entities to protect and over-classify information plays well with officials who seek to avoid public controversy.
“Over time, the protective culture becomes dominant and this actually sits well with ministers and central agencies and senior officials, especially when … the practical effect is reducing the likelihood of controversy,” Richard Fadden told the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference on Jan. 31.
Quality of life, per capita income and social cohesion are being sacrificed to a third world ‘population trap’
When wokeness, the making sacred of historically-disadvantaged minorities, takes control of a society like Canada, the effects go far beyond plans to stock tampons in men’s bathrooms. There, taboo-driven mass immigration is not only resulting in cultural tensions but in economic paralysis and soaring housing costs.
You know things have gone crazy when even economists at the National Bank of Canada are sounding the alarm. They say the country has entered a “population trap” in which savings are sucked into providing infrastructure and capital for new arrivals, impairing economic growth. More than that, the immense pressure of the 1.2 million new residents the country added in 2023 is driving the cost of housing through the roof. To put this number into scale, it’s larger than the population of most Canadian cities and 8 of the country’s 13 provinces and territories.
Trudeau is Canada’s worst PM in history.
A Hamilton councillor’s recent experience witnessing a baby born in an encampment in the city demonstrates the “unacceptable” housing crisis residents face and “eye opening” situations paramedics and police officers are currently responding to, he says.
Coun. Matt Francis (Ward 5) told CBC Hamilton he was doing a ride along with police on a cold morning in late November when they were called to a medical emergency at an encampment tucked away in an industrial area in the east end.
Canadians never imagined that a man so criminally stupid, so self righteously indifferent to the genuine suffering of citizens as Justin Trudeau could ever be elected PM.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Liberal government will be appealing the decision of a federal judge who found that the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy was “unreasonable.”
“We have discussed it with the prime minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts,” she told reporters in Montreal on Jan. 23. “We respect very much Canada’s independent judiciary. However, we do not agree with this decision. And respectfully, we will be appealing it.”
WE respect our independent judiciary except for this one time. And that other time. Plus the other times.
Pay for executives working in the federal government increased over half a billion dollars in less than 10 years, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
Compensation for executives across federal departments and agencies increased from $1.38 billion in 2015 to $1.95 billion in 2022, an increase of 41 percent, according to a CTF federal commentary published Jan. 17, citing data obtained from access-to-information records.
The organization also found that, over that seven-year period, the number of federal executives increased 31 percent, from 7,138 to 9,371, while inflation, based on Statistics Canada data, increased 19.4 percent.
The public service is an LPC vote bloc cultivated at our expense.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller made the media rounds on the weekend promising to think about – maybe, perhaps, possibly – capping the number of international students Canada accepts, and pinning the blame for an “out of control” problem on others.
“Well, we’ll consider it. We’ll consider it, and we’ll continue to consider it,” Mr. Miller told CTV’s Question Period. “If provinces don’t do their jobs, we’re ready to do it.”
Canada is caught in a “population trap” and needs to significantly rein in immigration to escape it, National Bank of Canada economists said on Monday, one of several such critiques to emerge from Bay Street in recent days.
In a report, National Bank economists Stéfane Marion and Alexandra Ducharme said that “staggering” population growth is stretching the country’s absorptive capacity, notably seen in residential construction that is nowhere near sufficient to house all those newcomers.
It’s a stunning, yet entirely predictable, turnaround in public opinion.
Less than a year ago, polling by Nanos Research showed 61 per cent of Canadians thought that immigration levels should either be increased or stay the same, in keeping with a decades-old consensus that welcomes newcomers to this country.
Public opinion has inverted, according to Nanos. In December, 61 per cent of Canadians said immigration levels should be reduced, with just 34 per cent still believing that Canada should maintain or increase the number of newcomers.
I think the alleged concensus around immigration was fraying far earlier especially among urban dwellers.
The myth was propped up by the fact that until recently merely raising the topic of immigration policy was to risk being labeled a racist by the political and chattering classes.
This was done at the behest of the corporate class who to this day dictate Canada’s immigration policy to the detriment of everyone save themselves and their political minions.
The stopper on immigration discussion was only removed in the past year as the ruling class no doubt sensed an imminent explosion.
It’s a start that ideally will result in the will of citizens being made paramount in designing immigration policy.
Our politicians have proven they cannot be trusted to act in our best interests.
One aspect of mass immigration the MSM refuses to address is the impact on society caused by the introduction of incompatible cultures.
Our MSM won’t touch Islam’s clash with western culture despite vast numbers of marauding Hamas supporters in the streets of every major western city.
Despite decades of living under the constant threat of Islamist terrorism and the encroachment of sharia law in society.
Islam’s harmful presence has been an exercise in the tolerance of the intolerant made possible by the elite’s embrace of racist doctrines such as DEI and CRT and the dissent crushing cancel culture bludgeons of official multiculturalism and diversity.
Not all cultures are equal and that is indisputable.
No wave of immigration has cost societies across the west more than Islam.
The dollars spent on domestic policing to keep the Hamas mobs in check is likely already in the millions in Canada alone.
The kowtowing of our political class to ethnic strongmen is a shameless insult to Canada and emboldens groups to import their pet hatreds and battle it out in our streets.
But no longer.
The sacred cows too long off limits in the polite society of our (Often government subsidized) betters are being slaughtered one by one.
Pity the MSM and our mainstream political parties remain behind the curve.
Over the last several years, senior federal civil servants have repeatedly expressed their surprise at Canadians’ eroding faith in government.
Do they not get out much and speak with dissatisfied, ordinary citizens? I suppose in their vacuum-sealed social and professional worlds they encounter very few people angered by the daily intrusions of government in their personal lives.
Canada’s demographic revolution is running at a furious pace, with population growth outstripping even the boldest predictions, mostly due to immigration, with important implications for Canadian identity as much as demography, according to a new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.
Canada’s population surpassed 40 million people this summer, earlier than predicted. Statistics Canada reported recently that Canada’s population grew by more than 430,000 in the third quarter of this year, for a total of 40.5 million.
Canada faces “increased perceptions of corruption,” a new Department of Public Safety report says.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the document doesn’t identify specific cases but says “establishing a strong ethical tone at the top may be a useful tactic.
“The country has experienced a relatively consistent drop in its score over the past two decades, indicating increased perceptions of corruption,” said the report, “Methods Of Preventing Corruption: A Review And Analysis Of Select Approaches.”
The former chair of a federal green fund told MPs she didn’t do anything wrong, a day after a whistleblower alleged publicly the organization is corrupt.
“I believe the success of the projects SDTC has funded demonstrate that the board under my leadership has done a lot that is right,” Annette Verschuren told the House of Commons industry committee on Dec. 12.
She said she resigned from the board on Dec. 1 “not because I have done anything wrong” but because she believes “the organization’s work is too important to be compromised by the distraction that these allegations have caused.”
Fed appointee under @EthicsCanada probe flees hearing following allegations she had gov’t employees hunt up millions in sweetheart subsidies: “Look, we’re entrepreneurs.” https://t.co/rlstPmzO0G #cdnpoli @RickPerkinsMP @FP_Champagne @BetOnMePodcast pic.twitter.com/0702j1Jz5T
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) December 13, 2023
Someone should make sure her passport is seized ….
Sudden Goodbye
After revealing her company received $10 million in 1 year from this Liberal government, Trudeau's former Chair of his $1 Billion Green Slush Fund tried a new obstruction tactic…just walking away from committee. pic.twitter.com/iO2kYapM0V
— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) December 12, 2023
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sometimes seems to defy political gravity. He’s held office for more than eight years, through scandal and error. He survived revelations that he wore blackface three times as a young man, along with two ethics violations handed down from Canada’s ethics commissioner for conflict of interest. He has had public spats with female parliamentarians and ministers—as well as icy relations with China and India and with Presidents Trump and Biden.
EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
Whistleblower from Trudeau's $1 Billion Green Slush Fund testifies:
$150 million in taxpayer money misappropriated.
Habitual conflicts of interest violations by Liberal appointed board members.
Coordinated effort by government to coverup.
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WATCH pic.twitter.com/ppXsGNqLzK— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) December 12, 2023
