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Liberal Minority Government 2021 - ????

That article is from over two years and two gun bans ago. I'm sure Nanaimo is much safer now.

Of course it is ;)


Nanaimo's crime severity among Canada's 10 worst, but situation improving​


Nanaimo’s crime rate has dropped, but the city's crime severity index is still in Canada’s top 10.

According to Statistics Canada data released last month, Nanaimo’s crime severity index fell two per cent in 2023 compared to 2022 and the city's crime rate overall went down nine per cent.

The crime rate, which excludes traffic offences, is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 population. Nanaimo in 2023 tallied 10,200 crimes.

Crime severity indexes are drawn from criminal code incidents reported by police departments across the country. They are meant as a representation of the seriousness of crimes committed, with violent crimes and child sex abuse cases, for example, ranking higher on the scale.

But in spite of lowered crime incident and severity figures, StatsCan still pegged Nanaimo as Canada’s sixth-worst municipality for crime severity after Kamloops, with the country's highest crime severity index of 165.3, followed by Chilliwack at 156.2; Red Deer, Alta., 146.3, and Lethbridge, Alta. and Winnipeg, which tied at 129.1. Nanaimo is followed by Kelowna with a CSI of 118.6, Regina at 111.6, Abbotsford-Mission, 107.6 and Edmonton, 105.

 
So I guess JT now wants to move thousands of immigrants out of Que and Ont too BC, Alberta, NB and NS.

The NS Premier:

Incase the link doesn't work:

Nova Scotians are caring, compassionate people, but we will not be taken advantage of by the federal government.

The reality is that our population is growing from immigration, migration and retention. Our immigration growth is strategic - focused on filling shortages in healthcare and trades. We have to stick to this focused plan, aimed to fill strategic vacancies and we ask that the federal government respect our plan.

It is simply unacceptable for the Trudeau government to try to force thousands of asylum seekers on our Province at this time. Nova Scotia simply does not have the capacity to accept thousands of asylum seekers. We cannot let the failure of federal policies derail our plan and we have communicated to Trudeau’s cabinet that any attempt to ship asylum seekers to Nova Scotia will be challenged.

We are calling on the Trudeau government to drop the idea, listen to Nova Scotians and let us focus on our strategic and sustainable plan that is attracting the professionals our province needs.

Not sue what he can do to stop it. But here is hoping the sitting Gov falls before they can do more damage to Canada.

And


With politicians like this, who needs enemies ?
 
All the interviews I have seen of Liberal MPs/Cabinet Ministers commenting during/after Nanaimo meeting, indicates that they have no clue the circumstances of the taxpayers who are their employers.
 
Interesting stats from Angus Reid ....
The who-has-moved-left-or-right-more question isn't meaningfully answered by simply asking people what they observe, because there are no independent reference points. I am confident that the perception of conservatives moving right is as wrong here as it is in the US - if you're a progressive rapidly moving left but you flatter yourself you're a centrist and you're unaware of your own velocity, it just looks like conservatives are moving right. Frame of reference matters.

The independent reference points are specific policies and issues. For example, conservatives have moved left on same-sex marriage and improved respect of rights for all persons - not all, but not none. Drill down into issues of the past few decades and mostly the same phenomenon will be observed: progressive-initiated changes are implemented with resistance from conservatives; conservatives hopefully manage to work out some of the kinks over time (there are always going to be some); but, gradually, the change is almost always accepted to some degree. Progressives and conservatives are both moving left, but at different velocities. It's the progressives who are moving with more speed.

Obviously the true "centre of mass" must move left. But after a while, we should expect the gap to widen enough that the population of true centrists is much smaller than either the mass of progressives or mass of conservatives, each clustered around some "average". We're already past that point, which is why centrism has little traction. I doubt there are any satisfactory solutions which involve one group imposing its values on the other.

[Add: rather than "left" and "right" we could just substitute "the general direction progressives want to move", and "the general direction progressives do not want to move".]
 
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel says that Mark Carney has a whopping big conflict of interest:

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(*This article was first published in The Western Standard)

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be appointing uber-elitist and longtime carbon tax supporter Mark Carney as his key economic policy czar. Mr. Trudeau structured Mr. Carney's appointment—with his myriad of board appointments, private interests, and investments—so that it would not be subject to any conflict of interest rules for public office holders.

Today, the reason for this may have become more apparent.

The Logic just reported that the multinational, mega-investment company that Mr. Carney chairs, Brookfield, had recently started talks with the federal government and Canadian pension funds to back a new multi-billion dollar fund that the company is raising. Worse, the report stated that Brookfield was seeking $10 billion tax dollars from the Liberal government for said fund.
The brazenness of this move is stunning, even if measured by the already low bar of Mr. Trudeau's wobbly ethical standards.

There should be no way in hell that Mr. Carney—who, as Chair of Brookfield, would have a direct personal interest in a new Brookfield run multi-billion dollar fund—should be acting as the Prime Minister's key economic adviser while his company is reportedly trying to get its grubby hands on the pension savings of Canadian families and seniors or $10 billion out of their wallets.

I imagine the Liberal's newly appointed economic manager imagined the conversation on this subject would go something like this:

Brookfield Mark Carney: Oh hey, Mark, mind giving my investment firm ten billion dollars?

Liberal-Economic-Advisor Mark Carney: Sure, Mark, sounds dandy! Cheque's in the mail!

Unfortunately, this hypothetical conversation probably isn't that far-fetched. The Liberals, and all their assorted fart-catching, self-enriching policy benders don't give two flying fudgcicles about Canadian's pensions, taxdollars, or them being able to afford much of anything as long as their corporate and self interest is fulfilled.

To underscore this point, in less than a week since Mr. Trudeau appointed Mr. Carney as his economic advisor, the Brookfield fundraising issue isn't the first story that's raised eyebrows about Mr. Carney's capacity to function in his new role without being bound by any conflict of interest rules. Photos taken over the summer of Mr. Carney rubbing shoulders with his very close friendand Telsat CEO Dan Goldberg, whose company got billions of dollars from the Liberals earlier this week, began circulating on social media shortly after the announcement was made.

While the Liberals may not have a clear line of sight on whose interest they're supposed to be looking out for, Brookfield, on the other hand, does. As a publicly traded for-profit company, its executives are focused on making money for Brookfield's shareholders. Where the problem lies is that as one of Brookfield’s top executives, that would be Mr. Carney’s primary interest, too. So, there is no way he should be anywhere close to formally influencing the Prime Minister on economic policy without significant guardrails. In fact, he should probably consider registering under Canada's Lobbying Act instead.

That the Liberals didn't think, at the very least, about the optics of this situation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cares more about securing the interests of wealthy, globally well-connected corporate executives than fixing the federal budget to bring down inflation and make life easier for those not invited to swish cocktail parties. And that Brookfield seems blind to the corporate reputational risk that Mr. Carney’s Liberal appointment carries should be a source of concern for those who hold an interest in their company.

It's also an indictment of Mr. Carney’s character. His acceptance of Mr. Trudeau's guardrail-free offer demonstrates that he's unable to see the inherent wrongness of someone who helms a publicly traded investment firm and formally advises the Prime Minister on economic policy without being either registered as a lobbyist or subjecting himself to the ethics rules public office holders must adhere to. He’s probably even convinced himself that he’s actually helping the public in acting this way. These are not the hallmarks of someone who should be entrusted with making decisions for the public.

Nonetheless, the primary concern of the enormous potential for conflict of interest with Mr. Carney's appointment should rest with you, dear reader. That Mr. Carney's company is reportedly entering into talks with the federal government to potentially touch your pension in some undisclosed way should raise every red flag imaginable. That they're reportedly seeking $10 billion of your tax dollars should rub salt into that wound.

Canada's Conservatives have been fighting this problem since the news of his appointment broke last week, and rest assured, we will continue to do so.

And if you're reading this, Mark, shame on you for your shamelessness. But trust me, we'll make damn sure Brookfield's shareholder’s mitts are kept off of (what's left of) grandma's pension and out of the wallets of already struggling Canadians.

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Ooops, you know that book of Liberal ethical guidelines that seemed to have gone missing? Looks like Mark Carney just tripped over it.
 
And the Good Grey Globe's editorial board says that Canada needs an election soon:

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Why Canada needs a federal election sooner rather than later​

THE EDITORIAL BOARD
PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO

The Trudeau Liberals have now lost a second safe seat in a by-election in three months, although “safe” may be putting it mildly.

Toronto-St. Paul’s, which went Conservative on June 24, and LaSalle-Émard-Verdun in Montreal, which went to the Bloc Québécois on Monday, have long been reliable ecosystems for a party that believes its absence from government is somehow unnatural.

In recent general elections, the Liberal candidate in each riding outpaced their rivals by thousands of votes, sometimes winning twice as many the second-place finisher, or even three times.

When the Liberals lost either riding, it was during waves of enthusiasm for another party – Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives in 1984 and 1988 in Toronto-St-Paul’s; Jack Layton’s NDP in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun in 2011 – combined with an electorate that had grown tired of Grit rule.

Given this summer’s telltale by-election losses, and the polling that consistently has the Liberals in the neighbourhood of 20 points back of the Conservatives, it’s fairly obvious that a similar wave is cresting in Canada.

And yet the next election is not slated for another year, leaving Canadians in the hands of a government that to a majority of them resembles the walking dead.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said that he has no intention of stepping down as Liberal leader, and that he is eager to take on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in an election.

He should indulge that eagerness. Canadians should not have to wait another year before having their say. There should be an election this fall, and it would be best if it was triggered by the Liberals themselves.

It is hard to see what this government could pull out of its hat that would reverse its fortunes over the next six to 12 months. The public’s self-evident fatigue with the Liberals means that any new policies will likely be met with indifference by a majority of minds that are already made up.

The short timeline until the election that must be called by Oct. 20, 2025, also means that any new government program or fiscal planning whose provisions extend beyond that date has to be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. A five-year deficit projection that reached to fiscal 2030 in a Liberal budget next spring, for instance, would verge on hilarious.

Voters, through their stated intentions to pollsters and especially through their by-election ballots, have made it clear that the Trudeau government has a weak grip on power. The Liberals’ efforts to resuscitate themselves, while certainly their prerogative as long as Parliament lasts, are so unlikely to succeed that they are indeed something a zombie government, shuffling toward their doom.

It would be better for voters, and for the country as a whole, for the Trudeau government to use the fall to prepare a mini-budget and put it to the House as a confidence motion by the end of October. If the government survived, fair enough: it would have a reinvigorated mandate to continue into 2025.

If the Liberals fell, then voters would have the opportunity to elect a government with fresh mandate – and also to examine their own intentions.

An election would be an opportunity for Canadians take the real measure of the Conservatives. Mr. Poilievre has had it easy, surfing the dissatisfactions of Canadians, posting snarky social media messages and keeping his broader plans to himself.

A vigorous election campaign would give Canadians the chance to see if there is more to him and his party than rhyming slogans and alliterative nicknames for his opponents.

Most of all, an election would give the country a direction. Canada is a Group of Seven nation that is adrift, caught between a tired left-of-centre government party that can’t convince voters it deserves to continue, and a surging right-of-centre opposition party that is chomping at the bit to take over but hasn’t yet presented a governing agenda.

The country is meanwhile beset by low productivity, a falling standard of living, worsening climate change, an immigration system in need of repair, rising public debt, a lack of affordable housing and a struggling health care system.

Canadians deserve clarity on how those issues will be addressed, something only an election can provide. Another year of uncertainty and drift should not be in the cards.

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I agree, especially, with this:

"If the Liberals fell, then voters would have the opportunity to elect a government with fresh mandate – and also to examine their own intentions.

An election would be an opportunity for Canadians take the real measure of the Conservatives. Mr. Poilievre has had it easy, surfing the dissatisfactions of Canadians, posting snarky social media messages and keeping his broader plans to himself.

A vigorous election campaign would give Canadians the chance to see if there is more to him and his party than rhyming slogans and alliterative nicknames for his opponents.

Most of all, an election would give the country a direction. Canada is a Group of Seven nation that is adrift, caught between a tired left-of-centre government party that can’t convince voters it deserves to continue, and a surging right-of-centre opposition party that is chomping at the bit to take over but hasn’t yet presented a governing agenda."
 
Just a reminder that while the Globe and Mail editorializes that "Most of all, an election would give the country a direction. Canada is a Group of Seven nation that is adrift, caught between a tired left-of-centre government party that can’t convince voters it deserves to continue, and a surging right-of-centre opposition party that is chomping at the bit to take over but hasn’t yet presented a governing agenda," the fact is that this Policy Declaration, dated just over a year ago, 9 Sep 2023, is one of the CPC's governing documents.

Perhaps it's not a full blown platform or election manifesto but it's a darned sight more than what one finds on the Liberal Party's website.
 
Trudeau's Liberal government survived it's first non-confidence vote today following the dissolution of the Lib/NDP's formal Supply and Confidence Agreement. The Bloc and NDP both propped up the Liberals....

....but...

Bloc leader Blanchet has said that he will work with the CPC to bring down the government unless Trudeau passes two Bloc private member bills by October 29th..
 
Trudeau's Liberal government survived it's first non-confidence vote today following the dissolution of the Lib/NDP's formal Supply and Confidence Agreement. The Bloc and NDP both propped up the Liberals....

....but...

Bloc leader Blanchet has said that he will work with the CPC to bring down the government unless Trudeau passes two Bloc private member bills by October 29th..

That’s tricky; Trudeau doesn’t have the power to ensure they pass swiftly through the Senate.
 
That’s tricky; Trudeau doesn’t have the power to ensure they pass swiftly through the Senate.
The NDP can still ensure that the confidence of the house is maintained. Probably with their own ask again.

Governing by hostage taking.
 
Trudeau's Liberal government survived it's first non-confidence vote today following the dissolution of the Lib/NDP's formal Supply and Confidence Agreement. The Bloc and NDP both propped up the Liberals....

Did anyon expect any different?
 
That’s tricky; Trudeau doesn’t have the power to ensure they pass swiftly through the Senate.
You're kidding aren't you?

There have been 84 independent (Ha Ha) appointments to the Senate made on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Total Senate 105.
 
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You're kidding aren't you?

There have been 84 independent (Ha Ha) appointments to the Senate made on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Total Senate 105.
I am not kidding. Read my words again- he appointed them, yes, but they have the protection of senate tenure. He cannot ensure any particular result. He also cannot compel the Senate to move swiftly if it’s not so inclined. While the Senate rarely outright rejects something from HoC, it might languish in committee for quite a while, and/or face significant amendment.
 
Holy shit Brihard.... you don't think the 84 independent Trudeau appointments of the 105 member senate aren't going to go his way?
 
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