Happy Canada Day. Lucky we are, one of the richest lands on earth. Resources galore, lots of water, miles of space, a plentiful breadbasket. Collectively, we're rich, loaded, able to give huge amounts of aid to others less fortunate than ourselves.
But todays Ipsos poll tells us that 70 % of us feel that Canada is broken. Dead end jobs, lack of housing, expensive food, high taxation, people feel hopeless and fear for their future. 60% have given up on ever hoping to own their own home. Addiction and homelessness are rampant, worst since the great depression 90 years ago. Hard times, the worst some of us have ever seen. It's sad, seeing our youth feel that they don't have hope for a future here in the richest land on earth. Who is responsible for this mess? Currently the cast includes mames like Trudeau, Freeland, Eby, Singh, Osborne, Johns. But that's now, those names will change. We had a different cast a couple years ago and we'll have a different cast again a couple years in the future. They will all be replaced eventually, as they probably should be. Meanwhile the jet travel and caviar and perrier, at public expense, will continue to flow.
But we will still have the same system. The same bureaucrats will still be sitting in the same corrupt offices admininistering the same corrupt practices and wasting the same public funds as always.
The system must change. Big time. Our system of government, taxation, and bureaucracy is not sustainable and results in our government failing to meet the basic needs of our citizens.
Two aspects of our system that are outdated , no longer work, and urgently require reform are the Senate and the Office of the Governor General. Many feel they should be abolished. There's no dispute about the enormous cost of supporting these institutions, yet all previous administrations have told us that changing the rules would be too difficult, would require the agreement of two thirds of the nation in order to alter the constitution. No one wants to interfere with the feeding order at the trough, no one wants to risk their own pensions.
70% of Canadians feel Canada is broken. Maybe it's about time for some big changes.
Happy Canada Day. Lucky we are, one of the richest lands on earth. Resources galore, lots of water, miles of space, a plentiful breadbasket. Collectively, we're rich, loaded, able to give huge amounts of aid to others less fortunate than ourselves.
But todays Ipsos poll tells us that 70 % of us feel that Canada is broken. Dead end jobs, lack of housing, expensive food, high taxation, people feel hopeless and fear for their future. 60% have given up on ever hoping to own their own home. Addiction and homelessness are rampant, worst since the great depression 90 years ago. Hard times, the worst some of us have ever seen. It's sad, seeing our youth feel that they don't have hope for a future here in the richest land on earth. Who is responsible for this mess? Currently the cast includes mames like Trudeau, Freeland, Eby, Singh, Osborne, Johns. But that's now, those names will change. We had a different cast a couple years ago and we'll have a different cast again a couple years in the future. They will all be replaced eventually, as they probably should be. Meanwhile the jet travel and caviar and perrier, at public expense, will continue to flow.
But we will still have the same system. The same bureaucrats will still be sitting in the same corrupt offices admininistering the same corrupt practices and wasting the same public funds as always.
The system must change. Big time. Our system of government, taxation, and bureaucracy is not sustainable and results in our government failing to meet the basic needs of our citizens.
Two aspects of our system that are outdated , no longer work, and urgently require reform are the Senate and the Office of the Governor General. Many feel they should be abolished. There's no dispute about the enormous cost of supporting these institutions, yet all previous administrations have told us that changing the rules would be too difficult, would require the agreement of two thirds of the nation in order to alter the constitution. No one wants to interfere with the feeding order at the trough, no one wants to risk their own pensions.
70% of Canadians feel Canada is broken. Maybe it's about time for some big changes. We gotta start somewhere, why not at the top?
The Trudeau government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiring hundreds of bureaucrats to police what you say and read online.
Under the guise of protecting you from online harms, Trudeau is planning to increase his already bloated bureaucracy to crack down on free expression.
We have all the details on how much Trudeau’s censorship will cost you.
Here’s a question for the class.
If you’re worried about crime, do you call the police or a bureaucrat?
If you answered a bureaucrat, then you probably work in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.
This week, the Parliamentary Budget Officer – the federal government’s independent, non-partisan budget watchdog – released a report showing Trudeau’s online harms bill will cost you $201 million over the first five years of its existence.
In other words, Trudeau’s online hall monitors are coming for hundreds of millions of your tax dollars.
And that’s likely just the tip of the taxpayer iceberg.
The online harms bill will create an entirely new wing of the federal bureaucracy, staffed with 330 full-time “workers.”
To put things in perspective, Trudeau’s new army of online censors will be about one-third larger than the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the agency responsible for keeping Canadians safe in the air and on the road.
The online censors will officially be known as the Digital Safety Commission (an Orwellian name if we’ve ever heard one).
And the PBO warns the taxpayer tab will rise even higher if the so-called Digital Safety Commission employs “significant external legal, IT or consulting services.”
The PBO’s analysis also leaves out another bureaucracy that will balloon under Trudeau’s online harms regime.
“The figures included in [the] PBO report would be in addition to a still-to-be-costed increase to the workload of the Canadian Human Rights Commission … tasked with policing a flood of extra-judicial ‘prosecutions’ over individual user social media posts,” according to Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who was briefed by the PBO.
The stated purpose of the bill is to protect Canadians from online harms, such as targeted harassment, hate speech or the spreading of child sex abuse imagery.
But if the government was really concerned about those issues, then there’s a simpler solution at its fingertips.
With the $201 million earmarked for the creation of Trudeau’s online censorship army, the feds could instead hire about 375 new RCMP officers.
A recent Auditor General report found 30 per cent of the jobs within the RCMP’s cybercrime investigative teams were vacant.
So let’s get this straight: the RCMP units dedicated to going after real online harms, like child abuse, are understaffed, and the bright idea from the Trudeau brain trust is to get hundreds of federal paper pushers snooping through your Facebook account.
To make matters worse, the bill raises significant civil liberties concerns for Canadians – meaning it could impact what you’re allowed to read, hear, watch or say online.
An open letter signed by 16 public interest advocacy groups warned the online harms bill risks “creating a serious chilling effect on lawful speech and debate.”
In other words, experts warn the bill will hamper the ability of Canadians to criticize the government without fear or favour.
Folks, it might be time to pick up a copy of the Odyssey, because Trudeau’s online harms bill is looking more and more like a Trojan Horse by the day.
You’re right to worry about Trudeau’s online censorship.
We asked the Canadian Constitution Foundation to break down Trudeau’s so-called online harms bill and how that can impact your free expression and ability to hold governments accountable.
Happy Canada Day. Lucky we are, one of the richest lands on earth. Resources galore, lots of water, miles of space, a plentiful breadbasket. Collectively, we're rich, loaded, able to give huge amounts of aid to others less fortunate than ourselves.
ReplyDeleteBut todays Ipsos poll tells us that 70 % of us feel that Canada is broken. Dead end jobs, lack of housing, expensive food, high taxation, people feel hopeless and fear for their future. 60% have given up on ever hoping to own their own home. Addiction and homelessness are rampant, worst since the great depression 90 years ago. Hard times, the worst some of us have ever seen. It's sad, seeing our youth feel that they don't have hope for a future here in the richest land on earth.
Who is responsible for this mess? Currently the cast includes mames like Trudeau, Freeland, Eby, Singh, Osborne, Johns. But that's now, those names will change. We had a different cast a couple years ago and we'll have a different cast again a couple years in the future. They will all be replaced eventually, as they probably should be. Meanwhile the jet travel and caviar and perrier, at public expense, will continue to flow.
But we will still have the same system. The same bureaucrats will still be sitting in the same corrupt offices admininistering the same corrupt practices and wasting the same public funds as always.
The system must change. Big time. Our system of government, taxation, and bureaucracy is not sustainable and results in our government failing to meet the basic needs of our citizens.
Two aspects of our system that are outdated , no longer work, and urgently require reform are the Senate and the Office of the Governor General. Many feel they should be abolished. There's no dispute about the enormous cost of supporting these institutions, yet all previous administrations have told us that changing the rules would be too difficult, would require the agreement of two thirds of the nation in order to alter the constitution. No one wants to interfere with the feeding order at the trough, no one wants to risk their own pensions.
70% of Canadians feel Canada is broken. Maybe it's about time for some big changes.
Happy Canada Day. Lucky we are, one of the richest lands on earth. Resources galore, lots of water, miles of space, a plentiful breadbasket. Collectively, we're rich, loaded, able to give huge amounts of aid to others less fortunate than ourselves.
ReplyDeleteBut todays Ipsos poll tells us that 70 % of us feel that Canada is broken. Dead end jobs, lack of housing, expensive food, high taxation, people feel hopeless and fear for their future. 60% have given up on ever hoping to own their own home. Addiction and homelessness are rampant, worst since the great depression 90 years ago. Hard times, the worst some of us have ever seen. It's sad, seeing our youth feel that they don't have hope for a future here in the richest land on earth.
Who is responsible for this mess? Currently the cast includes mames like Trudeau, Freeland, Eby, Singh, Osborne, Johns. But that's now, those names will change. We had a different cast a couple years ago and we'll have a different cast again a couple years in the future. They will all be replaced eventually, as they probably should be. Meanwhile the jet travel and caviar and perrier, at public expense, will continue to flow.
But we will still have the same system. The same bureaucrats will still be sitting in the same corrupt offices admininistering the same corrupt practices and wasting the same public funds as always.
The system must change. Big time. Our system of government, taxation, and bureaucracy is not sustainable and results in our government failing to meet the basic needs of our citizens.
Two aspects of our system that are outdated , no longer work, and urgently require reform are the Senate and the Office of the Governor General. Many feel they should be abolished. There's no dispute about the enormous cost of supporting these institutions, yet all previous administrations have told us that changing the rules would be too difficult, would require the agreement of two thirds of the nation in order to alter the constitution. No one wants to interfere with the feeding order at the trough, no one wants to risk their own pensions.
70% of Canadians feel Canada is broken. Maybe it's about time for some big changes. We gotta start somewhere, why not at the top?
(they outlawed the guillotine)
Celebrating Canada Day: 54% of Canadians say they will celebrate Canada Day this year, 33% will not, and 13% are not sure.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is that the Conservatives have already said that they would reverse and abolish Trudeau's thought control bill on day one after elected.
ReplyDelete???
ReplyDeletefrom Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
The Trudeau government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiring hundreds of bureaucrats to police what you say and read online.
Under the guise of protecting you from online harms, Trudeau is planning to increase his already bloated bureaucracy to crack down on free expression.
We have all the details on how much Trudeau’s censorship will cost you.
Here’s a question for the class.
If you’re worried about crime, do you call the police or a bureaucrat?
If you answered a bureaucrat, then you probably work in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.
This week, the Parliamentary Budget Officer – the federal government’s independent, non-partisan budget watchdog – released a report showing Trudeau’s online harms bill will cost you $201 million over the first five years of its existence.
In other words, Trudeau’s online hall monitors are coming for hundreds of millions of your tax dollars.
And that’s likely just the tip of the taxpayer iceberg.
The online harms bill will create an entirely new wing of the federal bureaucracy, staffed with 330 full-time “workers.”
To put things in perspective, Trudeau’s new army of online censors will be about one-third larger than the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the agency responsible for keeping Canadians safe in the air and on the road.
The online censors will officially be known as the Digital Safety Commission (an Orwellian name if we’ve ever heard one).
And the PBO warns the taxpayer tab will rise even higher if the so-called Digital Safety Commission employs “significant external legal, IT or consulting services.”
The PBO’s analysis also leaves out another bureaucracy that will balloon under Trudeau’s online harms regime.
“The figures included in [the] PBO report would be in addition to a still-to-be-costed increase to the workload of the Canadian Human Rights Commission … tasked with policing a flood of extra-judicial ‘prosecutions’ over individual user social media posts,” according to Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who was briefed by the PBO.
The stated purpose of the bill is to protect Canadians from online harms, such as targeted harassment, hate speech or the spreading of child sex abuse imagery.
But if the government was really concerned about those issues, then there’s a simpler solution at its fingertips.
With the $201 million earmarked for the creation of Trudeau’s online censorship army, the feds could instead hire about 375 new RCMP officers.
A recent Auditor General report found 30 per cent of the jobs within the RCMP’s cybercrime investigative teams were vacant.
So let’s get this straight: the RCMP units dedicated to going after real online harms, like child abuse, are understaffed, and the bright idea from the Trudeau brain trust is to get hundreds of federal paper pushers snooping through your Facebook account.
To make matters worse, the bill raises significant civil liberties concerns for Canadians – meaning it could impact what you’re allowed to read, hear, watch or say online.
An open letter signed by 16 public interest advocacy groups warned the online harms bill risks “creating a serious chilling effect on lawful speech and debate.”
In other words, experts warn the bill will hamper the ability of Canadians to criticize the government without fear or favour.
Folks, it might be time to pick up a copy of the Odyssey, because Trudeau’s online harms bill is looking more and more like a Trojan Horse by the day.
VIDEO: Taxpayer Podcast: Trudeau’s online censorship regime
You’re right to worry about Trudeau’s online censorship.
We asked the Canadian Constitution Foundation to break down Trudeau’s so-called online harms bill and how that can impact your free expression and ability to hold governments accountable.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxy2NCQngYs&t