The Belligerent Obnoxious "Team Canada" Approach; A 51st State As A Formality.

The geniuses ruling this sinking ship are manufacturing a crisis before our eyes. Of all available options regarding the U.S., they're choosing the worst possible option: Trade war.  A trade war we can't win.

It doesn't matter if tariffs could or would hurt the U.S. economy, it can withstand a hit. It's the most dynamic and diversified economy on earth with a highly skilled entrepreneurial class. The United States is a master economy of which we serve.

Think Rome. Washington is Rome. Ottawa is Pompeii. A playground.

We're none of those things. The people chosen to play on "Team Canada' are plumbers. Not skilled players. 

They're the C-grade students who believe they deserve an A. They refuse to listen to what Trump is asking (border security) and inventing a problem assuming the tariffs are inevitable. The tariffs are the tactic to achieve it.

How daft does one have to be to not see this?

A little wise and sane reading of the room could have prevented this potential stand off. But nope. Just like how they ignore Canadians, they're ignoring the Americans. Because "Trump" and "We're not American".

They're reading what they want to read into it. They're making this political to try and score cheap "nationalism" points in hopes of looking like they're saving Canada from Trump. It's juvenile.

The 'Team Canada' approach risks dividing an already divided and fragmented country further. Who in their right mind could possibly rally around the same people who divided us? Justin Trudeau made this bed and he must be forced to lie in it.

This is a government that has no moral authority to govern or speak on behalf of Canadians. It thinks Trump will be a rallying point for them. He's not. That's how spectacularly out of touch they are. Some of us - millions - loathe Trudeau and the Liberals way more than Trump. Their economic game of chicken is going to blow up in everyone's faces.

The Liberal party should be pulverized into dust.

What the Americans wanted was win-win. Strong border. 

What Canada is doing is lose-lose. 

10 years of this insular 'Team Canada' approach. 

An election is needed yesterday.

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All this ties into the 51st state. Trump's constant mocking of Trudeau, while hilarious and deserved, may not be working.

Even an egoist like Trump must be surprised at the level of Trudeau's self-absorption.

The idea of Canada as a state is nothing new. We used to joke about it in hight school. In the 1980s. Everyone knew we were an "indepedentish' anchor of the U.S. empire. The country and its leaders understood this and acted accordingly. We were quiet, stable and peaceful. Sure there were challenges but nothing like today.

Alex Jones used to talk about the North American Union in his early days. It was a specialty of various "conspiracy theorists' in the 1990s. Again, their warnings were more prescient than we care to admit.

Canada, a nation that still doesn't know itself, always reacts with defensiveness whenever its bigger brother mocks it. Part of the tariff reaction is due to the country's inferiority complex towards the U.S.

The cold hard reality is Canada is a branch plant economy and society. It's already a satellite of the American empire. Its sovereignty is still tied to the UK, under the influence of China and forever linked intricately to the United States.

Act like a colony, expect to be treated as one.

Canadians don't realize they don't have a Charter of inalienable rights. They have a Charter of privileges that can be retracted at any point by the government backed by the judiciary. It's a Spreadsheet of Rights. It's useless. We also no longer have the rule of law. Or property rights.

All this was revealed during the unethical and authoritarian Covid response. Canadians concerned with how the government behaved began to look at things harder. They looked under the hood. And they didn't like what they saw. No wonder they feel it's hopeless and are willing to support a North American Union. 

The choice isn't between Trump and Canada. That's a foolish false equivalence.

What Canadians need to understand is WE did this to ourselves. Trump is just a shark that smells blood.

Canada is a sexy piece of meat roaming naively in the Serengeti as predators stalk it lustfully.

Alas, we're not a people that fought for our country. We have no idea how rights work because we were handed off a jewel as a business expense. We're like Lilliputians living on a beach in French Polynesia living it up.

Until one day it's all threatened not knowing how to defend it.

The Americans fought a Revolutionary War. They invented their own system of governance. Checks and balances is an American idea. They penned the world's first great Constitution guaranteeing inalienable rights. They soon fought a bloody and violent Civil War to preserve it.

America is a country.

Canada is a colony.

Quite frankly, to me, if statehood or protectorate were to happen, it would be just a formality.

Just like how this country came into being. 

Whimp, wimp, whimper.

Poo-tee-weet?

77 Days Of Despotic Rule

*Unedited. One draft. Apologies. 

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Joe Rogan recently called Trudeau a fuckhead and cocksucker to tens of millions of listeners. He never speaks this way. 

He speaks for millions.

Justin Trudeau is a spoiled, petulant, little illiberal narcissistic wannabe tinpot despotic shithead.

That's precisely what he is.

Trudeau doesn't speak for Canadians. He speaks for Justin.

He's addicted to power because he has nothing else. A deeply superficial and remarkably mediocre mind and soul.

And now he rules a colony.

See, with all available options to do right by a country, Justin did as expected and chose the worst possible choice. 

Rather than resign like a man and call an election like a patriot, he chose to step aside like a wimp and prorogue Parliament like a coward.

He keeps reminding us he's a fighter.

A fighter that runs from his opponent in a ring he means.

He's no fighter. He's a self-absorbed ass.

But let's not be too harsh on this stale and sickening individual. He had help. Notably Montreal private school shmuck Gerald Butts and Chief Katie Telford. Imagine a country being run by a cynical operative named Katie.

Katie is the new Karen.

But the biggest piece of shit of them all is Jagmeet Singh (with Charlie Angus rivalling him). If not for this sharply dressed dullard, Canada wouldn't be in this mess. He has propped up the Poptart Pooper for two bloody years. And for what? For a stupid fucken dental plan that isn't free? People are leaving the dental offices thinking it was free only to find out they have the fork over the bulk of the cost. This dude gets up in front of cameras railing at the Liberals while propping them up. No principles. No honour. No shame. No nothing. 

Idiots all around. No. Scratch. Stupid people rule us. And stupid people are dangerous.

Singh and Trudeau pose a greater threat to Canada than Trump ever could. 

Maybe Singh's turban is too tightly wound it's squeezing out any sense that's left in his hare-brained mind.

Together, they ooze misguided arrogance having navigated a country into uncharted waters. They probably don't see what they've done.

Why would they? They clearly shut themselves off from outside opinions and dissenting views. They've insulated themselves within a bubble wrap of illiberal authoritarianism. They're digesting disinformation and spewing it right back out.

Oh, how they sing with glee for having made their little spiels on American shows. But don't you dare call Canada a 51st state! When they act like little colonials it's ok.

These scheming little nitwits have pushed Canada into a place no Commonwealth nation has gone. And still I have to hear blathering buffoons blister out the usual misplaced Canadian boastful idiocy claiming Canada is the 'best democracy in the world'. 

Really, huh?

What part? The illegal use of the Emergency Act? The complete disregard and rupture of the rule of law in the SNC case and other matters? The proroguing of Parliament for what amounts to biding time for the Liberal party? A completely inappropriate misapplication of what proroguing is meant to be. Of course, do not expect the courts to side with the people when challenged.

It's Canada. We have a Charter. Not a Constitution. We have no checks and balances. Ours is a system predicated on honour. No honour, no functional democracy. And what do we have? Dishonor. And with it goes an open and transparent democracy.

Just like that. All it took was for a shnook like Justin Trudeau to mess up Canada real good.

Canadians wanted an election. But Justin refused because he knew he was going to be obliterated. The Liberal brand has turned to mush and shit.

It's a marvel it has any supporters. 

Parliament was shut down in October because the Liberals refused to hand over STDC documents to the RCMP for investigation. 

Canada has been plunged into political chaos as a result. 

Justin Trudeau defied Parliament. READ THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

He's our Oliver Cromwell.

Tyrants can and do exist within a free democracy.

On what planet do we live to believe Justin has the moral authority to govern? 

Alas, congratulations Canada. We're the best country in the world. Why would anyone hurt the best country in the world? 

Now we're stuck until May before an election comes. Do you know how much damage Justin can do until then? 

I know he's somewhat constrained but since when does he follow the rules? Justin is a deeply wounded narcissists. And when narcissists are hurt they lash out at everyone around them. Canada in this case.

He's appointing unelected morons like the boozy Rachel Notley to a Canada-USA Council. Why? Why an NDP flunky who can barely think with any moral or intellectual clarity?

The last thin you want is an NDPer talking to the new U.S. administration. 

Have you seen the nominees in confirmation hearings? Hegseth and Bondi strike me as people you don't mess with. Horman is another. Bhattacharya at NIH is another.

This is Marshall Matt Dillon level stuff.

America isn't fucking around anymore. Canada thinks it's still fuck around time.

Flappy headed resource students tend to think it's always party time in Whistler.

These people have o business negotiating a lemon stand deal let alone the United States in all its new found Manifest Destiny grandiosity. Trump is intellectual and political chaos. He's nothing and everything at the same time. Principles aren't his guide. RAW POWER POLITICS is.

And Canada can't match this or him.

You think Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford, Francois Legault and Rachel Norley are going to serve Canada well?

They're 4th line plumbers.

I told a friend, after listening to their recent chest thumping stupidity that these idiots are actually going to do it. They're actually going to turn this into an unnecessary trade war. That's why they're all over left-wing liberal media. Which is the wrong move. If they really want traction go on conservative radio and shows. That's why the real audience is. They were preaching and chirping to the choir. It may stoke their fragile egos and shallow minds wanting to look cool, but it was irrelevant. You want to make an impact? Go on Rogan and Tucker. Trump wants border security. Canada responds in typical faux-nationalists thin skinned unwise and irresponsible trash talking. Its options are limited. It has little leverage. They fail to read the room. 

To which the friend responded, 'Oh, they're reading the room. It's just that they're the only ones in it."

Perfect.

They listen to the voices in their heads.

And like their approach to governance was to ignore Canadians they're ignoring America's concerns.

All they know how to do is be belligerent and divisive smart asses.

All they had to do was 'Ok, Mr. President. We understand. But here are our concerns. Let's talk. Let's wheel and deal'.

Instead, they put it in their heads this was a chance to play politics. Let's pretend Trump is threatening tariffs for its sake and that it's inevitable. That way, we can position ourselves as Canadian patriots defending ourselves against America! Win! 

The play here is to make 'anti-Americanism' part of the value system and apply it to foreign policy. 'We're not Americans' will be an insufferable colonial response to important demands and questions. 

Malibu Melanie Joly once said, 'Our job is to be best friends with Americans'. My how things shift, eh?

If that's their game plan, then Canadians are more retarded than we ever thought  It's the exact wrong response. They strictly perceive Trump to be a bully. To them, the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to him. But what if you misread the person? Trump uses high pressure tactics to get what he wants. The 25% tariff thing is a high pressure tactic to get border security. That's it. That's the deal he wants. Nothing complicated here. 

Instead we get a face palm festival. Their push back will unleash the bully in him. He comes with a Beretta they fight back waving spears around. They invented the exact wrong move. 

It's not unreasonable to believe or predict that, true to style, they’re going to make a stupid move, virtue-signal about it like their career depends on it, all the while making things exponentially worse for everyone they claim to “represent”

On a related note, marketing and salesmanship is largely foreign to Canadians, iI think. not only are these parts of entrepreneurship misunderstood, they’re vilified as being slimy skills. Because we've been trained to think business is bad. It's a default view in Quebec. People are trained by the culture to feel dirty about engaging in simple, legitimate commerce. also, this whole area is one many people never develop in no small part because of how much government funding’s funnelled into every last 'essential' initiative.

Bif Loman is going up against a wolf of Wall Street. Good luck with that. 

I'll leave the 51st state angle out of this already too long rant for another post.

It's kinda ironic that for a guy who calls Canada a 'post-nation state' and is in knee deep in Chinese influence suspicion, that Trudeau is all in on 'Team Canada', no? Recall Mark Carney, who's an order of magnitude worse than Justin, considers himself a 'European'. Expand this to a global citizen. A new Soviet Man.

And so I must end this rant.

We have no one but ourselves to blame ultimately.

We believed no one could be this bad.

They can and are.

I don't know how this plays out and I still have much more to say but all I can say is 'Buckle up, Buckaroos'.

Scott the Dick and Karen the Twat are in charge. 

Carney's Comical Circus Of Cynical Politics

Bring in the Carnies! 

Interlope Mark Carney is a fraud. He's playing everyone. He views himself as a European before he does a Canadian? Who wouldn't want to these days Trudeau decimated the morale of a colony that badly. 

Beware a man who recites Marcus Aurelius to himself in the moaning as he claimed when he was the head taco at the Bank of England. Hard to believe, but Carney's ego may surpass Trudeau's. Carbon tax Carney's a "climate change" zealot and grifter of the highest order. 

He's so bad at this he's already made some boneheaded errors.

First, after giving permits for journalists to attend his announcement, speaking in front of a carefully selected bunch of diverse mannequins, speech, goons blocked them from getting in. 

That's a huge red flag. Denying the press access is precisely how I'd expect an illiberal like Carney to behave. Recall, he congratulated Esby - a communist - for winning B.C. but said nothing to Scott Moe and his victory in Saskatchewan.

He shows his colours and a leopard doesn't change his spots.

Second, he stole his logo from a company called Met Credit. Another red flag: Lack of original thought. But he doesn't need that because he has an agenda to continue laid out by Justin and his father before him.

Third, he announced in what looks like a gymnasium. The great millionaire banister who rides in a limo like a big shot....packs in a gym. Could you imagine any American leader speaking in such a venue? We're not a serious colony. 

Fourth, this is a guy that's being installed by the Liberal party and who could very well become the first unelected PM since john Turner. The Canadian political system needs an enema and major overhaul.

Fifth, in his mind-numbingly boring and blah, blah, speech, he said he was going to be "completely focused" on the economy to 'get it back on track.'

Gonna need a flame thrower here! WHO PULLED IT OFF TRACK? Right, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland. Who has been advising the government from behind the scenes? Right, that would be Carney. Him and his endless stream of conflicts of interest. Look up the Telstar scam. America gets Musk's Starlink, we get....more corruption and second-rate services. Carney is going to be nothing he claims to be. It should be painfully obvious to see. 

So many players in this Canadian Fiasco. Telford, Butts, Justin, Chrystia. Imagine dividing a country like I've never seen. Now that's dedication and talent. 

Oh, but he was so charming and funny on The Daily Show! Let's see you in an unscripted setting like Rogan, Mark. Of course,they would never do that. Too icky for them. This is a Liberal establishment that doesn't read anything outside the MSNBC/CNN hive. And it shows to embarrassing heights. 

Why are he and Justin doing the U.S. rounds but not Canadian? Obviously there's some scheming going on. Anyway I hope to get to writing on Justin and what I think of him in one last post as well as what I think of 'Team Canada' and their juvenile, noxious and stupid strategy on how the flapping heads are gonna deal with Trump. Woo Team Canada! For now, we have to watch Malibu Melanie Joly make an ass of herself showing how much lack of talent and intelligence exists in this retarded party. 

Do yourselves a favor, Read up on this guy. He's a tedious, uninspiring technocrat who speaks kooky Marxist gibberish. 

Are Canadians clueless and dimwitted enough to fall for this transparently amateurish act? Carney doesn't offer anything but a continuity of more of the same. 

His vibe is off. Way off.

And full of shit.

In a party of shit. 

Maybe we deserve shit.

As one person put it, this country needs an enema. 

The Passing Of Peaceful And Stable Kingdom

Canada has fallen.

There's no "there, there" anymore as it languishes in a pond scum of one scandal after another. A country that does an awful lot of talking bur takes no action. 

I can no longer keep up with the corruption and scandals it's that out of control. I'm not even sure how to rationalize any of it.

The Trudeau Liberals, obviously, are a spent force. They no longer hold the moral authority to speak on behalf of Canadians. 

What institution has been strengthened under Trudeau? One could say, in fact, which one hasn't been crushed to dust?

Our military is in complete disarray focused on the banal inanity of woke ideology. We don't have equipment but we have time to rewrite songs and history. 

Marxists continue their march and control of institutions. 

Canada has about 21 500 full time soldiers and 22 500 part time. The U.S. army 1.4 million. We should be at 10% of that at around 100 000. 

Chicago PD has 11 000 active duty police officers. NYPD 34 000. 

A country that can't defend itself is not a respected one. Worse, we've become a belligerent country within NATO despite not meeting its fiscal obligations. We're essentially, along with being a branch planet economy of the American empire, a protectorate of its military.

The U.S. military protects a daycare centre.

If there was ever a time to invade and annex Canada, now would be the time.Who's going to stop the U.S.?  It can't defend itself internally or externally. It has let China embed itself in our elections. It continues to fecklessly ignore Iranian interference as well.  It does nothing about criminal entities operating at will. 

This is how colonies act. 

Canada functions on a native and immature level unbecoming of an industrialized country. I've written in the past about how Canada should be put under some kind of trusteeship. Unfortunately, we can't rely or trust the CAF to do it. We don't deserve to be in the G7 or Five Eyes. 

There have been many scandals. Many ethics violations. Several gaslighting examples of a government incapable of accountability and humility. Chinese interference is bad enough and Trudeau's handling of it has been disastrous for the dignity of a country. But nothing prepared me for this piece of epic gaslighting from the Privy Council of Canada. 

“On October 14th, because of a significant and ongoing threat to public safety, the RCMP and officials took the extraordinary step of making public accusations of serious criminal activity in Canada perpetrated by agents of the Government of India.

The Government of Canada has not stated, nor is it aware of evidence, linking Prime Minister Modi, Minister Jaishankar, or NSA Doval to the serious criminal activity within Canada.

Any suggestion to the contrary is both speculative and inaccurate.”

That's nice. Wait. Come again?

The PMO's message is probably the most damning revelation yet with this government. They start a diplomatic war against India accusing it of extrajudicial murder of a terrorist - who may or may not have been a Canadian citizen - to cover their asses detracting from China by announcing it to the world in Parliament, media and international conferences Then, just as FIC is about to kickoff with the hogue commission (Canada is long on commissions and short on actual indictments and prosecutions) with the Hogue inquiry apparently and allegedly forced the RCMP to make an announcement based on falsehoods that is then used by Trudeau to reiterate his claim not based on evidence but intelligence as per his own words. 

As if that's not enough, he even has the galling audacity to call the whistleblower a "criminal" (technically they did break the law but that's why we have whistle blower protection to protect against a vengeful and vindictive government like this one) who consistently puts out wrong information despite the PMO's statement! 

With the world probably looking on in disbelief - the Privy Council then decides it's a good idea to cynically and contemptuously gaslight Canadians saying it's all fake news as revealed above. In effect, the Canadian government not only likely compromised the RCMP while unethically and irresponsibly accusing a fellow Commonwealth country - and the world's largest democracy to boot - closely aligned with the USA and UK in their stance against China thus idiotically isolating this colony - they used disinformation to spread disinformation in a retardedly amateurish way to deceive Canadians - some of whom may or may not be retarded themselves depending if they swallow this second-rate attempt at using geopolitics to save whatever's left of the tattered reputation of a defunct government with absolutely no moral authority to govern. 

A more pathetic, inept, and corrupt government I've yet seen all under the control of a narcissistic buffoon ravaged by his own shallow hubris and sheer reckless arrogance. Did I miss anything? The fact this government is even allowed in the building shows the complete lack of courage of not only MPs and others who enable this corruption but reflects poorly on the Canadian people who are tolerating the erosion of the rule of law and due process while gawking with blank stares at the dissolution of democratic institutions. 

Right before their eyes. 

And still they obliviously chew on the hay....

Quebec Is The Face Of Godless Secularism

If secularism for its own sake had a face it would be Quebec. 

Quebec isn't just being irresponsible by expanding assisted suicide this way but morally bankrupt too. It has become  a Godless secular-socialist society under the guise of rational compassion. When in realist it's just eugenics by other means.

What more. It asked Canada to amend the criminal code to suit its ghoulish and foolish plan. Quebec practices secularism for its own sake. Secularism without God's guidance ends up in a cul-de-sac of irrationalism. It deceives and deludes. 

Canada, for its part, in refusing to defend citizens reveals its own lack of moral certitude and justice. It won't permit the rest of the provinces to essentially legalize murder but will allow Quebec to do it. Lucky Quebec.

Watch video here.

In under 10 years, I've watched this country descend into a place that is deeply dark. It has no moral or ethical compass anchoring it anymore. It's been cut adrift becoming arguably the most permissive nation in the west. More so than Ireland, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and the UK. Few countries go as far as Canada when it comes to abortion, MAIDS, safe-supply and other enabling  programs up until the Covid restrictions where it was among the most restrictive in the world despite having a higher Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR) measured by Johns Hopkins than Sweden (which avoided hysterical NPIs) and the United States.

Canada prevented inter-provincial travelling, banned domestic travel while demonizing a portion of the population and enforced curfews in Quebec. Not a record to be proud of at all.

Both Canada and Quebec want to be trailblazers and be followed. Instead, they're cautionary tales for other countries. We're not a paragon of enlightenment. We're a pariah of defunct morals.

Canadians buy into the justifications for such provisions. Not much for abstract thought, Canadians trick themselves into believing ours is a compassionate and empathetic society and culture.

Not where I sit.

Not in the last four years it has.

Canada should repent, reform and...

Find God. Again. Only He can guided the aimless back on a path to fulfilment, dignity and love.

What Trump Said And The Manufacturing Of Disinformation

"She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, we’ll send tens of thousands of troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”

Gist: Send her to fight and see if she likes it. 

China now is building a couple of massive plants where they’re going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars to us? No. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath, for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars.

Gist: Bloodbath for the automative industry in the United States.

“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group.  But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.  You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did.  You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”

Gist: Both sides had good and bad people. 

These are among the most popular misquotes. There are dozens more like this where "media" misrepresented his comment. He's guilty of being a poor speaker. 

Reading comprehension and full context matters.

Who are the spreaders of misinformation?

Gaslight Science: Canada's Establishment Experts Call For An Inquiry

So here I am minding my business and I come across this Tweet on X by Globe & Mail health writer Andre Picard calling for an inquiry into the Covid response.

I had to unsquint my eyes to make sure I was reading right.

Oh yes, they did.

The same group of experts who helped to ferment a moral panic promulgating dubious measures culminating into a frayed civil order  and who largely not changed their stance want an inquiry. 

What's galling about this is that there's already an inquiry. It's called the National Citizen's Inquiry (NCI) that has been ignored by the media and the likes of Picard. It has collected hours of invaluable testimonies and data showing the negative trade offs of the very measures the expert class pushed. I've been listening to NCI. It's quite the unnerving inquiry.

Alas, it's a 'wrong think' inquiry. What these people want is an inquiry made up of science-cronies. Brought to you by Pfizer. 

If you're skeptical and worry that this will be an exercise  conformation bias I agree with you.

Why?

Well, Picard himself argued that life for the unvaccinated had to be made impossible. He wasn't alone. This was the prevailing view among The Experts TM. He earned an Order of Canada for his tireless work in promoting divisive science. 

Joe Vipond is also calling for the inquiry. There isn't a bigger salesman for masking than this doctor. /Looks into his Twitte account. Yup. Still at it in 2024.

And then there's our dear old friend the cocky David Fisman. Canada's version of the loathsome Peter Hotez and most hated epidemiologist among the sane and rational. I've written about this guy in the past. Let's recall this is the same fella who called for the closures of schools in Ontario. Turned out he was getting paid to promote this position by the teacher's union. As if that conflict of interest wasn't bad enough it's worth noting - and Fisman likely knew this - that by April of 2020 we knew according to science and data that kids weren't vectors and that there was no danger in keeping schools open according to many studies from not just Europe (including Turkey)but even local studies from Barcelona, New York and North Carolina. Yet, Canada along with the United States went ahead with it anyway at a tremendous cost.

Think this inquiry will look conduct a cost-benefit analysis here? Of course not. Luckily, people interested in truth and science already have. So we don't need them.

It doesn't end there for Fisman. During the height of the mandates, the government was under pressure to end them. The Trucker's protest (a protest that enraged the expert - though they were curiously silence when BLM protested - social justice over public health was one slogan) challenged the government to rescind blatantly unethical mandates rooted in politics and not science. We knew at that point from that the government admitted their decisions were politically motivated and that Theresa Tam at PHAC didn't request for mandates that included the only domestic travel ban for citizens violating mobility rights in the Western world. The protest was the largest in Canadian history.

Think of how much of a pernicious impact the mandates were having that a normally obedient, docile and apathetic Canadian population were galvanized into such an act. It was an event that could and should have been wholly avoidable with a touch of courage and real leadership. Not a single voice from the expert class with the mic in the "media" spoke out or even lent a voice of reason. 

Instead, it was more divisive rhetoric and vitriol directed at fellow Canadians. A program of dehumanizing people meant that society was in permanent state of paranoia and fear.

Enter Fisman with his shill cape. Armed with a garbage in, garbage out model he published a 'study' that claimed the unvaccinated posed a threat to the vaccinated. With that 'Hate Science' was born. And buffoons likes former Olympian Adam van Koeverden (Mr. Canoehead) got up in the House of Commons and read Fisman's report. 

No one ever apologized for such a grotesque display of overt animosity to Canadians. It's worth noting van Koeverden had been in an online altercation with a woman eventually leading him to tell her "fuck you'.

Who else could make the list of esteemed panelists? 

Perhaps Timothy Caulfield? Every time he Tweets an snti-vaxxer or pharma skeptic is born. Potty mouthed Angela Rasmussen? Isaac Bogoch, Colin Furness, Don Vinh, Eric Feigl-Ding, Eric Topol, Rachel Walensky, Mandy Cohen, Bonnie Henry and so on can fill up the chairs nicely.  

Quite the roster to tell us we didn't lockdown and mask early and hard enough. That disinformation was challenging their authority and that as a consequence censorship is necessary. That communication could have been better. Despite all they asked for was given. That Sweden was wrong. That 'targeted mandates' are the way to go. That more curfews were needed. That we didn't put enough social distancing stickers on the floor. That we didn't limit enough items to be purchased. That we didn't perform as well as Pavlovian Dogs. 

Do we really have to watch experts scratch their heads wondering how public trust was lost? 

Poo-tee-weet?

What are the odds dissenting voices will be heard from nurses to experts to the vaccine injured and everyone in between? 

Low I'd guess.

This is no longer about truth. It has become an obscene war of information where ethics was a casualty and pseudoscience rose to stake its claim at the table of the scientific-medical technocracy.

You can bet your bottom dollar these people see nothing wrong about how they approached things. That they were indifferent to the freezing of bank accounts or that businesses were lost. Or that people of faith couldn't attend Church or that the unvaccinated were denied life-saving transplants? 

You call this public health? Whatever that means. The whole notion of "public health" should be scrutinized and questioned now.

None of that matters and it won't be featured with an inquiry stacked with the same messengers.. 

Perhaps I'm cynical and jaded. But I wasn't impressed. At all.

How can you possibly think vaccine passports and masks make any kind of difference other than to piss people off? They're tools of control and little else.

I could be wrong. I hope I am. I wish I was. 

Alas, I've not seen an inch of humility showing that perhaps they could have done some things better with a focus on human dignity and civil liberties.

It's all part of the 'do something, do anything hysterical safetyist' culture we've become.

Elect Clowns, Expect A Clown Show

For those who have been watching the proceedings in Parliament and committees (especially the STDC scandal) over the last couple of weeks, what you've witnessed is what happens when a government loses the moral authority to govern.

It has lost all sense of its purpose spending its energy ramming through ill-thoughtout bills without much public input and consultations while trying to defend itself against an endless stream of allegations of corruption.

The antics of Liberals in committees is nothing short of astonishing and embarrassing. Here's Erskine-Smoth making an ass of himself in committee.  Poor guy. His "integrity" was questioned. So he proceeds to act with no dignity or integrity. This is not the first time we've been treated to spontaneous acts of vulgarity from Liberal MPs. Van Koeverden and Virani immediately come to mind. A Liberal supporting  civil servant named Dwivedi went on a filthy vulgar rant not so long ago. Again. Who sets the tone for this? Trudeau isn't exactly known for his calm composure. Elbowgate was a good example.

Grace under pressure ain't their strong suit let's just say.

For those not interested, seek out the committees into the STDC scandals. The shameless and infantile tactics of delay and obfuscation by people like Drouin and Khalid made a mockery of the whole thing. 

The tone of this childish behaviour comes from the top and what we have now is an aimless bare-boned Parliament slinging mud in the House of Commons. It's full out chaos.

The Opposition is doing its job. Holding the government to account. But this government is refusing to be transparent and deal with the scandals they've created. 

Canada is in a desperate need of a change of government. The longer this farce goes on, the longer the colony suffers. 

Enough already. 

Daily Derp: Be Careful Out There. It's Derpy

It's been a while. I've been wanting to comment but there's so much out there, I lost the energy to bang these out. It takes time to think things through and there's just too much. Much has happened that hasn't made into posts but such is life. I've been observing as I always do. So I'll jump right in and condense some stories into a Daily Derp. 

One topic I was hoping to cover was the Foreign Interference Commission like I did POEC but I simply didn't have the time to sit and listen to hours of testimony (and lame government excuses) for a commission that may or may not be a show trial. Who knows what's going on anymore? I've been listening in parts and hope to listen to clips at some point but for now, I've been following Steven Chase and Sam Cooper - and others.

One thing is clear is that we don't have a serious country wallowing in moronic mediocrity. 

None of it reflects well on the Liberals. Yet, there are people out there who claim to be listening and concluding that the report will be devastating to the Conservatives.  All political parties are targeted but a picture is developing where all facts point to the LPC being at the centre of all this. 

Just another level of scandals for a derelict corrupt government. I don't doubt there are conservatives in the list of names nor do I doubt they were targeted and matt have done nothing to deal with it but isn't that the point of the inquiry? Isn't this a problem across all parties? 

Now the defensive PMO and Trudeau are trying to play up the murder of some bad guy on our soil by India story again. But here's the thing. It's not the 'win' or distraction they think it is.  Is that event not an example why FIC is taking place? That a foreign government committed an extrajudicial murder on Canadian soil points directly to the very reason why there's an inquiry. That is, years and decades of Canadian irreverence - and now possibly treacherous - behaviour leads to this result.

It's a legit Keystone Cops mess. It's such a disaster I don't even think Canada is capable of fixing this. It's a mindset ingrained in the political establishment. I have no idea how this country hasn't been invaded yet. 

What's funny about all this is that Canada once considered Ernst Zundel (who ironically was part of left-wing and liberal parties) a 'national security threat because he denied the holocaust happened. Holocaust denialism was idiotically made illegal in Canada. I don't agree with it but I don't believe people should be thrown in prison for their opinions. Nevertheless, he was a 'threat' but China, Iran, India and Russia interfering in our elections is not seen as a threat given our inaction on the matter. Particularly where China and Iran are concerned who threatened Canadian citizens on our soil with no consequences. Alas, nothing makes sense here. Truckers were a 'national security threat' leading to the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act but pro-Palestinian protestors swarming Trudeau's RCMP detail are not. Criminalizing such acts set a bad precedent we don't want to necessarily mess with. 

I'll stop here. My guess is in the end, FIC will be like POEC. Hogue will say "bad boy" and give her recommendations that will be ignored. And nothing else will matter or happen.

If there are to be consequences it will come by way of how our allies treat us moving forward. Already, we're seeing signs of Canadian being frozen out while the U.S. American intelligence apparatus is basically monitoring Canada like the tin pot banana republic colony it has become under Trudeau.

Canada is a colony of dimwitted whores open for business allowing for all sorts of criminal activity to run rampant.      

But hey. Lowest inflation in the G7 and "best country in the world".

Uh-huh.

Moving on.

As usual, not edited. I have to bang these out on first draft. Apologies for any grammatical errors. 

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Let's look at what makes Canada so splendid. Oh. Here's an example. Our judicial system and the Supreme Court of Canada. Where in the U.S., conservatives hold the balance of power (and by conservatives I mean fair-weather ones as Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts can easily swing either way so it's actually a decently balanced court), Canada is 100% liberal. Not just liberal but  woke social justice liberal. They've swallowed whole the climate change and vaccine "safe and effective" narrative. 

That's fine. So long as they're impartial right?

Nah.

Chief Justice Richard Wagner doesn't even pretend to be neutral. As I've written in the past, his public outbursts tainted any reasonable belief that the court is fair and objective. 

Chief has entertained us with his most (ahem) enlightened takes on disinformation while suggesting the government wasn't hard enough on the protesting trucker's convoy who broke no laws. In doing so, he basically admitted the Emergencies Act was acceptable with the subsequent freezing of bank accounts. To make matters all the more interesting, a Federal Court ruled the invocation of the Act was illegal. File Under: No shit. t was plainly political as were the futile and unethical Covid restrictions. Harumph.

And despite the fact that pretty much everything the government and public health officials coerced on people were proven pointless, Wagner said citizens need not bother filing any lawsuits because la, la, la he's not going to listen. If the measures had no negative impacts on people it's one thing to hold this unfortunate posture but people were harmed. Many people. It's all there in NCI to see. Including four residents of Coutts, Alberta who were basically railroaded and turned into political prisoners by a vindictive government look for its pound of flesh to make examples of. 

All this could and should have been avoided with true leadership. 

Yet, he's denying Canadians their right to be heard and present evidence contrary to the government's untenable narratives. It's worse than that, when they chose to not hear Peckford et al, he gave the government the green light to maintain the position that these measures are merely suspended and not fully rescinded and ended. In other words, if it so desires, the government can lock the country down again "because emergency" without the need to present facts or evidence. Just declarations will suffice. You must take this shot. You must wear the mask. You will social distance. You are to remain in your home.

It's all so incredible if not spectacularly stupid. 

And it was with most interest I read this piece in Harvard Law Today titled "Is a distrusted judiciary 'truly the beginning of the end'?'

Um. Yes?

I think it was Beccaria who argued once the public perceives there's no justice they lose trust in the institutions - in this case the courts - tasked to ensure justice is served.

It astonishes me how people don't see that 2020 shattered any illusions we have a fair and functional judicial system. It has steadfastly refused to listen to Canadians. In doing so, it has shown deference to the government. It will not defend Charter rights if there's no will from the public. They have dubiously argued because the measures were ended (recall suspended) it's not in the public's interest and that the matter is now moot. But how can they determine this without giving Canadians their day in court?

Forcing people against their will under the threat of loss of employment or removal of rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights and as far back as the Magna Carta and even document since (as was, for example, the case with the denial of mobility rights and idiotic vaccine passports supported by just about every influential expert in this country) will come with unintended consequences. Pretty amazing that people in positions of great power and influence aloofly disregarded a basic premise of human nature: People don't like to do things against their will. 

You don't apply a coercive one size fits all policy in a free democracy. It's bound to cause friction and you'd better damn have the evidence to back your claims up if you're going to ruin lives.

And they didn't. So for millions of Canadians, public health is a failure and the court not to be trusted for blindly backing them up. 

Let's break down the article:

"Canada may not be a superpower, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice the Hon. Richard Wagner told a Harvard Law School audience on Friday. “But I like to think we are a superpower in terms of democracy.”

Not since 2020 we are. And certainly not with all these bills from C-11, 18 to the Online Harm's bill. Canada ceased, to me, being a functional democracy and when Canadians tried and pleaded for courts to step in, they were instead mocked. 

Canada has no lessons to give on democracy. It chose to play this way.

He defined this as “good justice for all, rather than perfect justice for a few.”

His public outbursts tell a different story. 

"Access to justice is both an elusive goal and a “democratic imperative,” he said."

But access denied to people challenging the Covid measures? Italians, Irish, Negroes, Jews need not apply.

“The spread of lies and half-truths can threaten democratic institutions throughout the world,” Wagner said. “Open and transparent courts are an antidote to misinformation.”

I find this assertion troubling. Who is he to claim there's a spread of "lies"? Is he reading it in the news? If so, which news? The legacy corporate media? Where's he getting his "truth"? It's hard to find the truth if you're not going to allow for dissenting voices to present their evidence, no? Here he shows that the only truth is what the government says it is. 

Canada is very good at talking a good game and very bad at playing it out. 

“Citizens in any country governed by rule of law need to recognize themselves in the institutions, including the courts,”

I hear this claim made by liberals but not sure it's correct. This is a variation of identity politics. Wagner is making his social justice credentials known.  What should matter is people see BLIND JUSTICE in the system. Once you assign culture and race to law, you're on your way to all sorts of multiple-standards leaving you vulnerable to perception of laws being applied unevenly. 

” Every Canadian federal judge is now required to take courses in systemic racism, sexual assault law, and systemic disinformation. “All of these topics are relevant to access to justice, and we have taken steps to export that expertise outside of Canada.”

This is an example of Judges are being fed a steady diet of left-wing Marxist propaganda. What in The Blazing Saddles is "systemic disinformation"? Can Wagner not see how problematic and frivolous this argument is? Alas, we all know the law associations in Canada are full blown leftists.

Wagner is over rating this 'expertise'.I'm willing to bet 1) it will be rejected in most places in the world where wokism is non-existent and 2) even in the West we're likely to see a shift away from all this empty jargon. My bet is Canada bet on the wrong horse. It has a knack for that sort of thing.

I reject this notion. Outright. It should be removed from the judiciary immediately. 

“In Canada, I am happy to say that we are going in the right direction. Out of the last 70 appointments of federal judges, 50 percent were women. We have people from visible minorities, and from the LGBTQ minority as well.”

DEI in action. A quota system in full bloom and flight. Wagner has taken the judiciary into uncharted territory based on an assumption that 'diversity' is the same as diversity of ideas. Instead, what we're going to get is an increasingly intolerant judiacry that will simply deny access to those it perceives to be guilty of promulgating "misdismalinformation.' 

Take a gander at how the internal logic of DEI actually works. 

Don't act shocked - SHOCKED - by the result in other institutions. 

DEI portends to be on level with merit and that it "equals" the playing field. 

It's not and it doesn't. 

“In Canada it is very hard, in fact nearly impossible, to determine where a judge will stand on a specific legal issue. We have no such thing as a political appointment.” 

Prior to 2020, I would have believed this. After 2020? I've become skeptical. Again, simply basing it on what's happened where Canadians were denied their rights and the courts slammed the door on them. It even went as dark as to not hear the case of an unvaccinated woman - Lewis - who was denied a transplant. I think the courts in Canada are highly politicized. It's just that the line between the executive and judiciary is basically blurred so we think we're not politicized. The entire decision to not listen to Covid lawsuits IS politics by other means. SCC rulings don't come with the same explanations for opinions. 

I don't think Wagner quite grasp the role he played in the fall of trust in public institutions. Over the years, I've read more American opinions than Canadians ones. In fact, I never read a Canadian one. SCOTUS are intellectual works of arts sometimes. I've not been impressed by the opinions of judges during Covid. They read exactly what you'd expect from an institution committed to DEI. Unoriginal, tedious and predictable. I don't think I'm taking too much of a chance in arguing Canadian law - so full of itself - will offer much to the process of democracy should it ever get back on track. We'll be outside of that track. 

They can ignore the real anger and discontent over what happened during Covid all they want but it's there.

And it's not going to go away until people are heard. 

Take that for access. 

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Maybe Parks Canada and Fema should merge. Sounds like they exchange notes.

What happened at Jasper? Well, we won't find out under the most transparent government EVAH!

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Ok. Since I went over with the SCC bit I'll close with the carbon tax.

To anyone with a modicum of sense, the tax is just that: A tax. 

Shorter PBO: Rebates don't offset net costs. 

On top of that, they're charging  GST. A  tax on top of a regressive tax that in the end doesn't result in the desired outcome. It won't because the premise that carbon is a main driver of emissions causing the opaque "climate change" is a faulty one. One that is dubious and hotly disputed by several experts some of whom are Nobel laureates. But shh. Stick to Nye, Suzuki, De Grasse-Tyson and the climate-green-grift complex. 

You heard the propaganda. 8 in 10 Canadians will get a rebate higher than what they paid in taxes? If you're over 30 and believe this crap, you really need to sit it out. It's on the same level as 95% effective, 96% consensus and 4 in 5 dentists. 

It's bull shit and you should know better.

Especially given it comes from a convicted felon who has consistently been found to be less than honest with the Canadian public. He's an activist. Nothing else.

Another claim is that it's revenue neutral. I spent many years in financial services. One thing I was good at is spotting empty jargon and that's one of them. Schemes like this are never neutral. 

Never. 

Then why do it? Same with the 8 in 10. Why take the money in the first place?

Oh. Right. It's better than doing nothing! 

Net cost considers the overall economic impact, and not just the fiscal. When just the fiscal aspect is considered, they can argue that the rebate is higher than what taxpayers pay into it. However, when you consider how a tax impacts all levels of the supply chain, you get a net loss. Not gain. It’s not rocket science. In other words, what cost, for example, $1 to transport, say, corn is now $1.25. And that finds its way into higher food prices at the end of the supply chain. That’s the economic part in simplistic terms leaving aside inflation and possible corporate pricing games.

It's stupid to think a tax doesn't impact household budgets eating into discretionary income.  it's even dumber to think a tax as a means to social engineer habits is going to have an impact on the environment. 

The story isn't good for Canadians. Imagine Quebec which levies its own 'cap and trade' tax system. I'm pretty Quebecers are even worse off than their Canadian brethren. 

We're all worse off for nothing. Pretending otherwise is:

A tax on a tax shouldn’t just be illegal, it should also be considered IMMORAL.

Snap out of it and stop contending to wealth distribution schemes that don't benefit you.