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
Canadians were horrified as the carnage and bloodshed were unfolding in Israel during the unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas was unfolding. The horror turned to outrage for many when the social media account for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 3906 cheered on the attack, saying “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance!”
CUPE 3906 represents staff and faculty members at McMaster University. The university quickly released a statement distancing itself from its own union.
Behold union leadership…
President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) of Ontario Fred Hahn says he and the union stand in support of ANTIFA
pic.twitter.com/Z0EYQAccuP— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) September 22, 2023
h/t Mauser
Public sector jobs in Canada since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have grown at a rate more than three times as fast as those in the private sector, including the self-employed, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
No secret there, they tend to be concentrated in urban centres like Toronto and Ottawa traditional Liberal Party strongholds. The LPC is just shoring up the vote.
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Bonuses are for people who excel at their job, not for people who fail at their job. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is ultimately the federal government’s paymaster, needs to be reminded of that.
The Bank of Canada handed out $20 million in bonuses in 2022 even as it hiked interest rates seven times and inflation reached a 40-year high. The central bank’s overarching objective is to keep inflation around “two per cent inside a control range of one to three per cent.” But though inflation climbed fully 4.8 percentage points above its target, the Bank of Canada gave 80 per cent of its workforce a bonus of $11,200 per person on average.
A new survey conducted by TD Bank Group shows that nearly 60 per cent of Canadian parents are concerned about their children’s financial future, primarily due to the impact of inflation and the prevailing economic uncertainties in the country.
According to the survey published on Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of surveyed parents (89 per cent) believe that their confidence in their children’s financial future would improve if their kids gained better financial knowledge before their teenage years.
The survey also found that 66 per cent of parents are not highly confident in their children’s current financial knowledge.
Concern is what parents do but we do not live in ordinary times.
Our government is run by sanctimonius idiots who believe destroying the wealth of our nation will bend the planet to their will.
Our education system is overrun by perverts and no longer fit for purpose.
Few can afford rent let alone dream of purchasing a home yet the political class insist mass immigration is the answer to all ills.
It isn’t, it is the ill.
It used to be common for opposition politicians to ask at election time: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” In other words, had the current government improved voters’ lives during its tenure?
Well, it might be a good time to ask of the Trudeau government: “Are you being better served by the federal government than you were eight years ago?”
OTTAWA — Another 21,000 federal workers hired since last year has brought the total added to the federal public service since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected to 98,268, according to information published online by the Treasury Board of Canada.
The federal public service, now at 357,247 employees, is nearly 40 per cent larger than it was in 2015, when the Liberals took power, when it counted 257,034 employees.
Trudeau is creating a vote bloc.
The public service is not keeping pace with Canadians’ needs in a digital world, says the woman who used to lead it.
“The public service is still working in what I would describe as kind of analog ways and the world has moved on,” former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette, told Rosemary Barton Live in an interview airing Sunday.
“You can make a dinner reservation, you can book a cruise, you can move money in and out of your bank account, transfer between the two of us — it’s remarkable the things you can do in a digital world and the public service, and our service delivery infrastructure has not kept up with that.”
The federal public servant strikes reminded Canadians that public-sector employees have a pretty good deal. On an apples-to apples comparison, their pay is higher on average than in the private sector. Their jobs are secure even in a recession. And they benefit from rich, inflation-indexed pensions. They may also get more vacation and paid-leave days compared to the private sector.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) walkout that essentially ended Monday had been brewing since last fall, when PSAC president Chris Aylward declared : “The government can’t expect workers who have been getting us through the pandemic to shoulder the costs of Canada’s recovery.”
Shoulder the costs of Canada’s recovery? Aylward’s PSAC members not only were paid full salary during the pandemic but also thereby added two more years to their generous pension benefits. What about all the private-sector workers who either lost their jobs or were forced to work part-time for lower wages and fewer or no benefits? Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey shows that all of the country’s 206,000 job losses during the pandemic were private-sector workers, while public-sector employment increased by 305,000.
It’s just as well that striking federal public servants didn’t use trucks to block roads, interfere with critical infrastructure, and cause Canadians major and lasting inconvenience if not harm. Someone might have said something. For instance, “seize their bank accounts.”
Just kidding. Not about blocking roads, etc. Those things really happened. But the only drawback if PSAC had used trucks is that it would have made the contrast that much more awkward. Or would it? These people don’t embarrass easily.
It should have been clear from the outset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were never going to let the government workers strike drag on for weeks, especially when the problem could be solved using their preferred solution — spending other people’s money.
After 12 days of job action that saw federal services grind to an even more sluggish pace than usual, around 120,000 civil servants returned to work on Monday following a tentative agreement reached between the Canadian government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) over the weekend, which covers four bargaining units under the Treasury Board’s purview.
Tentative agreement reached for 120,000 public servants
… In a statement on its website, PSAC said the tentative agreement includes wage increases of 12.6 per cent compounded over four years, and a one-time, pensionable lump sum payment of $2,500.
It includes language on remote work that gives members “additional protection” from “arbitrary decisions,” and it requires managers to assess requests individually instead of by group, and give responses in writing to allow members and PSAC to “hold the employer accountable to equitable and fair decision-making,” PSAC said.
Trudeau and his civil servants are vile thieves. I will vote for the party that vows to slice and dice the public service unions.
It is outrageous, absolutely and utterly outrageous that PSAC workers are still being paid by the federal government while they are on strike.
A strike is the very definition of not working. In order to put pressure on the employers, workers withhold their services. And people who are not doing their jobs are not supposed to get paid.
