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Hoid

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Fed just cut rates by half a point in response to corona virus emergency.

Bank of Canada will probably be cutting rates tomorrow
 

Hoid

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Stock markets going down hard on high volume

what more can the fed do?


free money?
 

captain morgan

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could be. That is what is causing the rest of the markets to drop. Then again it could do with Musk's private space ship having a little internal problem.


Like his cars


 

spilledthebeer

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How many more resource 'wake-up calls' will our prime minister snooze through?

Leaders are supposed to lead. Then there’s Canada. The deputy prime minister said over the weekend that Teck Resource’s decision to pull the plug on a giant mega-project should be a “wake-up call” for Canadians. Apparently, the call was for the rest of us, not for the Liberal government who created the mess in the first place.



And to correct the record, this was not simply one “wake-up call” but followed dozens more since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took over in 2015. At least $150 billion in capital has left Canada, and as many as 200,000 jobs, because the Liberals have made it impossible to build infrastructure or resource projects or wealth here. (But SNC lavalin Fiasco was all about the 3000 jobs in Quebec that where never in any real danger?)

This is also not the last “wake-up call” either. More catastrophes await following this year’s calamities. The next victims, beset by government paralysis and Indigenous or eco-radical sabotage, will likely be: the $12-billion TMX pipeline; the $40-billion Kitimat LNG plant and $6.7-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline.


Undaunted by this or by dreadful polls, the prime minister accepts no responsibility or blame and his only solution is to launch a listening tour in order to ask Canadians what to do, and to give a speech at the world’s biggest mining conference, held in Toronto each year.

The speech, an advanced version of which is already online, will simply add to the carnage with its word salad message that “environmental policy is not just good for the planet, but it’s also good for business,” whatever that means.

Then there’s the tour which is, in itself, passing the buck and an admission of half a decade of failure. “In the coming year, we want to hear from you on how to innovate and transform our economy to keep good jobs here and create new ones … We will be launching pathways soon so that industries, citizens, Indigenous peoples can inform Canada’s clean transition,” Trudeau is to say in a speech. The tour won’t get underway until April, said sources. Translation? The meetings will simply stall and defuse tensions and will spend a couple of years asking Canadians what to do because the government doesn’t know what to do. Never did.



Leadership is about knowledge and judgment. It’s about adhering to the organizing principles of the nation, weighing all strategic options, adopting best practices, and adhering to the national interest. The “national interest” is not about clinging to power by making micro-alliances with as many noisy, vested interests as possible. That’s what this regime has done and is why it shares power with socialists, greens, secessionists, American eco-NGOs, 632 First Nations, certain regions, and any hereditary chieftain no matter how questionable their influence or authority is.

The tipping point, in terms of living standards, has been reached now that no one is preventing radicals from illegally crippling the economy in solidarity with hereditary chiefs who claim sovereignty over Ottawa, the province, the 20 First Nations, and the rule of law. Ironically, no one is protecting these projects that will build the economy, bring dignity and jobs to the First Nations, and replace the use of dirty coal in Asia.



Since 2015, the Liberals have overtaxed, targeted Canada’s engine of economic growth (resources), untethered First Nations leaders from constraints involving the charter of rights or laws, and allowed foreign and domestic environmental radicals to run riot or be embedded in federal positions.

Trudeau has claimed Canadians want draconian climate change remediation, but that’s not true. For instance, a December poll showed 76 per cent believe the country needs to be doing more on the issue of climate change, but 64 per cent believe Canada should capitalize on the global need for fossil fuels. That’s not a mandate. That’s support for a vague notion compared to huge support for a concrete policy of resource development.



Now we must put up with a listening tour by a clueless regime, elected to lead in the national interest, but unable to do so because, apparently, none of us saw the “wake-up call” coming.

LINK: http://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-how-many-more-resource-wake-up-calls-will-our-prime-minister-snooze-through






HEY RON............................BETTER SIT DOWN FIRST IF YOU READ THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And it is proof positive that all Cdns SHOULD HOWL WITH HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Whenever a LIE-beral gets annoyed at the nickname!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








Here is a fascinating article illustrating JAW DROPPING LIE-beral HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE DEALING!! With some comments of my own in brackets):

How green is natural gas? The case for and against Quebec's Énergie Saguenay project

Promoters face tough questions over claims the $14B pipeline and LNG plant will cut greenhouse gas emissions

By Glenn Wanamaker · CBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

LNG tankers could soon be sharing the waters of the Saguenay Fjord with the kayaks, cruise ships and cargo ships that navigate through the protected marine park. (Julia Page/CBC)

(ISNT THAT FASCINATING?? And how is it that this proposed gas project is NOT FRONT PAGE NEWS - being discussed by everybody?? And NOTE that it was reported by CBC News in autumn 2019 even as LIE-berals and radical natives sought NEW WAYS to oppose the Northern Gateway gas pipeline!!!!!!!)

(Perhaps Alberta natural gas is somehow CLEANSED of fossil fuel taint by passing through Quebecois hands??????????????????????)

Énergie Saguenay, a proposed $14-billion pipeline and LNG terminal, is the largest private investment project in recent Quebec history. But do Saguenéens want it? CBC Quebec travelled through the region to find out what's at stake. Here is the first in a series.

(For more detail read: https://www.naturalgasintel.com/art...-proposed-quebec-lng-export-facility-advances

The wrenching debate over fossil fuels and climate change is lapping up against the shores of the magnificent Saguenay Fjord in the heart of Quebec.

Here, just upstream from the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park — a protected area for the endangered beluga whale — two major, intertwined projects are in the planning and evaluation stages.

(Is it not IRONIC - the LIE-berals who DEPLORE ships on the west coast will IGNORE ships on the east coast!! How HYPOCRITICAL can LIE-berals get??????????????)

Gazoduc is to deliver Alberta natural gas through an as-yet unbuilt, 782-kilometre pipeline extending from northern Ontario through Quebec's Abitibi and Lac-Saint-Jean regions.

(Oh Canada - the place where pipeline dreams go to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

If the project gets approval, it would be an important boost for an industry struggling to get its product to market.

Gazoduq's pipeline extension, in yellow, would begin near the Ontario border and cross the Abitibi and upper Mauricie regions, ending at the Port of Saguenay. (Joan Dymianiw/CBC)

The gas that comes down that pipeline would be transformed by GNL Québec at a liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in the Port of Saguenay.

Its promoters say it would be among the greenest LNG plants in the world. Tanker ships would carry the LNG from the marine terminal, down the Saguenay Fjord and on to markets in Europe and Asia.

At a combined estimated cost of $14 billion, the pipeline and LNG plant would form Quebec's largest privately funded industrial project in decades.

(LIE-berals HAVE JUST CHEERED the withdrawal of the $20 billion dollar Teck mine project in Alberta - so WHY NO RESOUNDING LIE-beral NO when this project was proposed?? Oh -right ITS IN THE LIE-beral vote rich Quebec heartland and no LIE-beral denies Quebec ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(When the James Bay Hydro Project was built - with the generator house in Labrador - and the electricity lines conveniently running through Quebec - it was QUEBEC that got the lions share of revenue - at the EXPENSE of Labrador and Newfoundland - thanks to LIE-beral Chretien!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(And now we have LIE-berals caught out again - trying to BOTH SHUT DOWN Gas shipments to the west coast while apparently COMFORTABLE with making Alberta gas ACCEPTABLE by letting Quebec profit from it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

The projects would create at least 10,000 jobs during the construction phase and about 1,100 permanent direct and indirect jobs once in operation, stimulating economic diversification.

(Yes - an the Teck Mine that LIE-berals SCORNED was an even BIGGER AND MORE PROFITABLE PROJECT - oh well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But standing in the way are profound concerns about increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with many demanding action in the face of the global climate crisis.

(There is also the issue of MAJOR POLITICAL FALLOUT - if the Quebec project gets a green light while western projects are KILLED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Anti-pipeline protesters make their point at the climate march on Sept. 27 in Montreal. Protests took place across the province, including in Saguenay, where the natural gas liquefaction plant would be built. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)

Saguenay Mayor Josée Néron can feel the conflict.

Her city is still plagued by high unemployment, even while the province enjoys its lowest overall unemployment rate in more than 40 years.

(Uh huh - and the recent rail blockades against the Northern Gateway natural gas pipe have resulted in severe shortages of natural gas for Quebecers - no doubt having a reliable pipeline filled with good Alberta gas would be a comfort?????????)
An LNG plant offering good, well-paying jobs would help retain young people and stimulate the creation of spin-off projects.

However, GNL Québec faces a challenge, Néron said.

"People are in the streets are talking about the environment," she said. "You have to reassure the population that you're a company that has the environment as its number one concern, and you're not afraid to make a commitment before you start to build your plant."

Pat Fiore, GNL Québec's president, says the company is committed to two things: building a plant that will be carbon-neutral, and replacing coal or oil in export markets.

(WE KNOW that natural gas burns cleaner than coal or oil thus replacing the dirty fuel is better for us ALL!! There is also the issue that many people would prefer to buy their gas from friendly Canada - rather than from Russians who use their gas revenue to buy weapons to threaten their neighbours with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"The whole genesis of this project is to minimize the impacts in Canada, in Quebec and displace more polluting fuels elsewhere in the world," Fiore said in an interview.

(It sounds like a NOBLE GOAL - but the guy FORGOT to mention the boost LIE-berals would get from bringing good jobs to Quebec!! Too bad LIE-berals CANNOT EXPLAIN why the same good jobs are not suitable for Alberta!!!!!!!!!!!)

To meet those commitments, the company commissioned biologist and research scientist Claude Villeneuve, the chair of the eco-advisory council at l'Université du Québec in Chicoutimi, to advise it on what to do about CO2 emissions.

"I don't recommend anything," Villeneuve said. "They are responsible for their intent to become carbon-neutral. If they are serious, they will do it. If they are just lip-servicing, they will not."

"Prof. Villeneuve and his team have done an amazing job," said Fiore. "He's helped us open the window to look at new paths that we haven't thought about — the use of the CO2 itself, the potential for renewable natural gas."

"We're going to [send] all that to our designers. We think it will be a multi-pronged solution. It's a cumulative of all these things that we're going to do that are going to get us good results."

To date, though, some residents along the length of the proposed pipeline path and on both sides of the Fjord aren't buying Fiore's sales pitch.

Adrien Guibert-Betez, an organizer of the opposition group Coalition Fjord, doesn't think there is anything the promoter can do to make the project acceptable.

"All the scientists all over the world said that we have to cut our greenhouse gases, and by that, we have to stop the utilization of gas and petrol and coal. So at the foundation itself, the project is not a good project."

(So we are witnessing a battle between delusional dreamers and people who need heat for their houses and who also need STEADY WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Guibert-Betez's coalition has been mobilizing residents along the Saguenay Fjord who question whether a company should contribute to the production of natural gas at all, regardless of its environmental commitments.
UQAC student Adrien Guibert-Betez of Coalition Fjord says any project that increases greenhouse gas emissions is unacceptable. (Julia Page/CBC)

(Maybe the kid should shut up till after he is out of school and dealing with the real world - and with his STUDENT LOANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

In June, a group of 160 Quebec scientists signed an open letter calling on the federal and Quebec governments to reject the projects because they are "incompatible with the idea of energy transition."

(OH!! Would these be the same scientists who signed a recent petition that became a LAUGHING STOCK IN CANADA - AFTER Rebel Media exposed the NONSENSE CREDENTIALS of the pseudo - scientists????????????????)

"It is essential to reduce the number of infrastructures linked to fossil fuels and not build more," they wrote, in order to meet the 2050 goal of carbon neutrality.

(Simplistic efforts to reduce the fuel supply WILL NOT SUCCEED in a democratic country where the MAJORITY consider fossil fuel to be a NECESSITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Radicals are QUICK to count the amount of green house gases the new plant would emit- but THEY IGNORE the question of how big a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would result if natural gas was burned instead of coal and oil!!!!!!!!!!)
 

Hoid

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Fed just cut rates by half a point in response to corona virus emergency.

Bank of Canada will probably be cutting rates tomorrow
Canada just cut rates by half as point, as predicted (although CBC is calling it a surprise move for some reason)

What it means is that we are finally folding the tents on the whole "everything is fine" fantasy that has kept us from relaxing rates for about 2 years now as America cut rates 8 times (?)

the idea that Canada can move independently of America in terms of interest rates flies in the face of the logic that our economy is completely reliant on the American economy and the simple fact that I can go down there and borrow money if its too expensive to do so up here.

I would expect this to be the first of many rate cuts and that we are going to see negative rates at some point in the not too distant future which will create a redo on the entire concept of debt and debt repayment.

A future where just about nobody can afford to buy a house is really only feasible in a future where nobody wants to anyway.
 

spilledthebeer

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Canada just cut rates by half as point, as predicted (although CBC is calling it a surprise move for some reason)

What it means is that we are finally folding the tents on the whole "everything is fine" fantasy that has kept us from relaxing rates for about 2 years now as America cut rates 8 times (?)

the idea that Canada can move independently of America in terms of interest rates flies in the face of the logic that our economy is completely reliant on the American economy and the simple fact that I can go down there and borrow money if its too expensive to do so up here.

I would expect this to be the first of many rate cuts and that we are going to see negative rates at some point in the not too distant future which will create a redo on the entire concept of debt and debt repayment.

A future where just about nobody can afford to buy a house is really only feasible in a future where nobody wants to anyway.












Congratulations hemerHOID - for giving up on your failed connection to sanity and reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No more need for you to PRETEND any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Just babble out your nonsense and let the drool fly where it may!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Here is an article illustrating how LIE-berals and their civil service union HOG allies are bleeding us dry!! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Rental Rates In Many Canadian Cities Are Tripling Income Growth
Canada has a shortage of rental apartments, but developers are catching on.

By Daniel Tencer Huffington Post

Published February 17, 2020

An aerial view of apartment buildings in London, Ont. The city has seen some of the fastest rental rate growth in Canada over the past year.

(I suspect that a comprehensive study of WHO OWNS our rental stock would be VERY REVEALING - of just how much civil service union HOG money is tieed up in real estate at this time!! Huge numbers of condos are now part of the UNTAXED AND PAID UNDER THE TABLE AIRBnB that is gutting conventional hotels and motels and depriving govt of gravy - HOGS get the breaks and we get the BILLS!!)

(One has only think of Toronto a couple of summers back when 11 Parkdale SLUMS went on a rent strike and it turned out the buildings belonged to Alberta Municipal HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

MONTREAL ― Many of Canada’s mid-sized cities caught the soaring rental rates bug in January, even as rent hikes cooled off in the largest metro areas, new data from rental site Padmapper shows.

Statistics Canada’s data shows wages were 3.8 per cent higher, on average, in January of this year than a year earlier ― quite a strong showing for this day and age. But rent inflation outstripped that in 14 of 24 cities covered by Padmapper, in some cases tripling or nearly quadrupling wage growth.

One-bedroom rental rates have risen by about 15 per cent over the past year in a number of Ontario cities, including Ottawa, the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Kingston and London. St. Catharines and Windsor have both seen rental rates rise by more than 10 per cent.

(So much for LIE-beral 2 percent inflation targets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Other cities that saw major rent hikes included Halifax, Saskatoon and Victoria.

(No doubt mucht of this rent increase cost is fueled by the repair bills needed to prevent older buildings from turning into TCHC style housing SLUMS!! The city of Toronto is the biggest slum lord in Canada!! And any regular watcher of Toronto news CANNOT IGNORE the number of high rise apartment fires - all directly attributable to such things as aged faulty wiring, leaking plumbing and worn out heating systems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(LIE-berals blanch and change the subject whenever the COST of repairing the ROTTING stock of Toronto not so “affordable” rental housing is raised - and with good reason - the cost is going to be BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

The numbers suggest “a hot market that will most likely continue to grow as we enter into the spring months,” Padmapper said in a report issued Monday.

After several years of strong growth, rental rates in Canada’s largest cities are taking a breather. One-bedrooms in Toronto were flat in January, with two-bedrooms up 4.6 per cent.

(The reality is that jobs are leaving the inner city due to sky rocketing property taxes on biz - which responds by either moving outside the city or closing down completely- thus killing jobs and reducing need for rental housing in central Toronto while rental demand in the suburbs SOARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Amid a bumpy real estate correction in Vancouver, one-bedrooms rose 3.4 per cent while two-bedrooms dropped 8.8 per cent. One-bedroom rents were flat in Montreal, while two-bedroom rents rose 7.3 per cent.

(The DIRTY LITTLE SECRET is that much of our stock of rental housing is OWNED BY HOGS!! Yes- the same people going to WAR with Ford govt over gravy - are using their gravy to buy real estate and then GOUGE US ON RENT!!!!!)

Many experts say Canada saw a jump in demand for rental housing when new policies were put into place to cool off house price growth, and when interest rates rose in 2017 and 2018. Many homebuyers were forced to save more for a down payment, keeping them in rental housing longer.

(LIE-berals consider that taking action to limit money laundering by organized crime in the real estate market is a waste of their time!! LIE-berals ARE APPARENTLY HAPPY to get the extra sales tax gravy from criminal “speculators”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Additionally, faster population growth ― thanks to increased immigration levels ― has led to rental housing shortages, sometimes in unexpected places like Prince Edward Island.

(Yes - LIE-berals delight in allowing hordes of illegals to to come here - so they can be BRIBED WITH OUR CASH - to become LIE-beral supporters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Others note that Canada has built relatively little new rental housing supply in recent decades, with developers focused on more profitable condo projects. The country largely stopped subsidizing rental construction in the 1980s.

(Yes - the same DEBT WALL that loomed in front of PM Brian Mulroney and forced him into the hotly debated NAFTA deal forced govt to stop subsidizing rental units!! And LIE-beral debt loads also precluded building any more “non profit” housing - meaning no more town house complexes WITH NO INTEREST MORTGAGES supplied by “generous” govt!! Cash DOES NOT grow on trees in spite of LIE-beral DELUSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But with rental rates on the rise, developers are jumping back into apartment construction. The number of rental units under construction in Canada hit 72,000 in the fall of 2019, double the amount from five years earlier.

(We should ask how much of that rental accommodation will end up as AirBnB short term accommodation?? After all we hear much about the MESSES left behind by dead beat “professional tenants” who cannot be easily evicted thanks to LIE-beral fiddling with rental laws thus honest land lords are driven out of biz and crooked and slippery types move in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(What we are left with is the comment made long ago by Mark Twain - who told a worried investor to “Buy land, because they are not making any more of it”!! And our govt HOGS have taken that advice to heart and are planning to bleed us dry with rental costs!!!!!!!!!!!!)
 

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What a lovely article painting a pretty picture of the controversial Barbie the Builder formerly known as Climate Barbie

Out of the frying pan … How Catherine McKenna’s new gig might prove even more of a powder keg than her last

Just like crying about saving the world for her children, she is going on to say that the projects she is approving will meet her definition of appropriate to invest into because deep in her heart she is a fiscal conservative, wow!

In 18 days we will hear in the SCOC if her legacy in Carbon taxing to save the world will hold up across Canada
 

spilledthebeer

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What a lovely article painting a pretty picture of the controversial Barbie the Builder formerly known as Climate Barbie

Out of the frying pan … How Catherine McKenna’s new gig might prove even more of a powder keg than her last

Just like crying about saving the world for her children, she is going on to say that the projects she is approving will meet her definition of appropriate to invest into because deep in her heart she is a fiscal conservative, wow!

In 18 days we will hear in the SCOC if her legacy in Carbon taxing to save the world will hold up across Canada




I hate to point it out......................................


but he heat aint getting to Climate Barbie just yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


She STILL HAS HER GRAND GOVT GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And is merrily going about the business of BANKRUPTING CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Twin_Moose

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I wonder what stopped Poilievre from running for PM, against what's out there he would be the whole countries choice IMO

'They squandered the good times': Poilievre says Canada lacks 'cushion' to weather economic crises

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said the Liberal government has left Canadians without a "cushion" to soften potential economic fallout from the global coronavirus outbreak and impacts of rail blockades across the country.
"They spent the cupboard bare in the good times and now we face a crisis, and we have nothing left... to take on that crisis," Poilievre said Sunday during a speech outlining the Conservative Party's priorities for the upcoming federal budget.
"We now have economic problems, but we have no surplus with which to cushion ourselves against those problems."
Finance Minister Bill Morneau revealed Friday that the Trudeau government's budget would include measures to handle the "clear" threat COVID-19 poses to Canada's economy.
Morneau added that he would also boost the risk adjustment provision in the budget, which acts as a contingency plan that will ensure "we are ready and able to respond" to economic repercussions.
In response to the outbreak, the Bank of Canada dropped its key interest rate target to 1.25 per cent and said it was prepared to make further cuts if needed.
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said Thursday that, while the Canadian economy is resilient, it should prepare to be "seriously tested by COVID-19... depending on the severity and duration of its effects."
Efforts are underway to determine the economic impact of nationwide rail blockades erected in the past month in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en people opposing a natural gas pipeline on their traditional territory. Transport Minister Marc Garneau says the calculations will take six months to complete.
Critics outlined key priorities
But Poilievre slammed the Liberal government for racking up deficits and contributing to a slowdown of Canada's economic growth before those crises hit.
"In other words, they squandered the good times and have left us weak and vulnerable going into the bad times," he said.
After delivering the 2019 fiscal update in December of last year, Morneau said Canada's economy was "sound and growing," despite an increase in the country's deficit.
Poilievre was joined by Conservative finance committee members Marty Morantz, the party's national revenue critic, and Michael Cooper, deputy finance critic.
Cooper outlined the party's key priorities ahead of the budget, including the elimination of corporate welfare programs — including grants to MasterCard, BlackBerry and Loblaws — a recommendation put forward in the committee's pre-budget report.
Cooper also called for an end to what he called the Liberals' attempt to "declare war" on Canada's energy sector, referencing the cancellation of Teck Resources' proposed Frontier mine.
The party plans to use its Opposition day on Monday to debate a motion calling for the government to produce documents dating back to 2015 related to concerns of economic downturns and their "potential impact on the fiscal framework."
 

spilledthebeer

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I wonder what stopped Poilievre from running for PM, against what's out there he would be the whole countries choice IMO

'They squandered the good times': Poilievre says Canada lacks 'cushion' to weather economic crises






Poilievre is a very sharp guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


His verbal laceration of LIE-berals during parliament Question Period are a joy to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He can be found easily enough on Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And I guess Poilievre is smart enough to know the old joke: the one about the little boy who wanted


to grow up to be prime minister ...................................


but when he got older and wiser - he wanted OWN a prime minister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Poilievre seems to be true to himself and does not wish to put on a show for fakes and frauds and RED TORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There are still a number of Red Tory hypocrites infesting the party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Maybe Poilievre really does just want more time with his family.................................


and LESS TIME BEING SNIPED AT by filthy LIE-beral loving media whores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

spilledthebeer

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it means they knew what was coming.








POOR STUPID hemerHOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He has drunk the LIE-beral koolaid and now he BELIEVES what the LIE-berals tell him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He actually thinks that lower interest rates will have some REAL beneficial effect on inflation or the economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Will lower interest rates make it easier to meet the demands of Ontari-owe teacher HOGS???????????????????


NO........................ is the CORRECT ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In fact lower interest rates will make it HARDER to meet teacher HOG demands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Teacher pension funds are already running in the red and lower interest rates mean ........................


EVEN LOWER rates of return on investment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Will lower interest rates make it easier to get striking Co-op oil workers back on the job??????????????????????


NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And again - lower interest rates will hit Co-op worker pensions HARDER than before - with lower returns on investment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thus lower interest rates mean HIGHER HOG DEMANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Will lower interest rates help house sales??????????????????????


UNLIKELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Lower interest rates swiftly translate into HIGHER PRICES.............................................


and higher prices mean LIE-berals DO GET more sales tax dollars - which delights them......................................


but the number of buyers available during a recession IS NOT SO LARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So lower interest rates ONLY BENEFIT LIE-berals IN A SMALL WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Lower interest rates DO translate into EASIER SERVICING OF GOVT DEBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Lower Rates make it easier for govt to find more BORROWED GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So they can BUY more votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



In the short term gravy is easier to borrow - but investors have seen this crap before...............................


and hedge their bets - investing over SHORT TERMS and etc so they dont get stuck.........................


in the long term with LOW return on investment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Low interest rates are the solution of choice for LIE-beral ASSHATS who want to make it LOOK.......................


as if they were actually trying to help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If LIE-berals REALLY WANTED TO HELP.....................................


they would immediately put HOGS ON NOTICE............................................


that their grossly costly UNAFFORDIBLE pension plans ARE ON THE WAY OUT..................................


and there will be NO MORE HOG GRAVY GRABBING RAIDS on the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is time for HOGS to start living like ordinary Cdns so they can feel the FULL EFFECT...............................


of LIE-beral GREED AND STUPIDITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!