Chrystia Freeland Wants Access to Your Savings
In a recent interview with BNN, the Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland pondered the idea of trying to gain access to “hoarded” cash that people had been saving during COVID.
Deloitte Canada has said that savings by Canadians could reach as high as $200 billion by the end of the year, likely due to fears of how long the economic slump could last.
Freeland in the BNN interview said that, “If people have ideas on how the government can act to help unlock that ‘pre-loaded stimulus,’ I’m very interested,” implying the Liberal federal government may be open to anything from tax incentives to get Canadians spending all the way to directly taxing Canadians’ savings.
Manitoba reverses ban on drive-in church services
Manitoba is loosening the rules on some of its COVID-19 measures, including a ban on attending drive-in church services.
As well, school supplies and seasonal holiday decorations are being reclassified as essential and will soon be available for in-store purchase.
Maxime Bernier will try to regain his seat in Beauce, Que.
The leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, has announced he will be running in the next federal election in Beauce, Que., the riding he held from 2006 to 2019.
In a fundraising letter announcing his bid to regain a seat in the House of Commons, Bernier said he has considered “all of (his) options,” and has decided to return to his political home turf of Beauce.
Schiff Refuses To Disclose Why He Withheld Details Of Swalwell’s Relationship With A Chinese Spy From Intel Committee
When asked whether Swalwell’s position on the House Intelligence Committee would be tainted or compromised by his relationship with Christine Fang, a suspected spy for communist China, Swalwell’s office did not reply as of press time. According to a new report by Axios, Fang leveraged her position and connections in California’s Bay Area for years to gather intelligence on Democrat politicians and government officials.
Gov. Newsom to spend $80 million on stupid Covid billboards; touts ‘creative, colorful images’
The tone-deaf Democrat leader, who has already expressed his own hypocrisy by ignoring state stay-at-home orders he issued, came under fire for reportedly planning to spend $80 million on a public health campaign which will include 1,000 billboards that many Californians under coronavirus lockdowns will never even see.
Black Lives Matter Responds to Obama for Criticizing ‘Defund the Police’
“What I want to hear from former President Barack Obama if he’s going to use his vast platform for these conversations, what I want to hear from President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, is: what are you going to do?” Garza asked in an interview for Politico’s Women Rule Capstone event. “And that’s what we haven’t heard amid all this hoopla about ‘defund the police.’”
