Likewise , it is embarrassing. In high school we went to the legislature for our lesson on parliament . Apparently we disgraced our school by heckling the hecklers, but I think in private the teachers were proud of us .
The Post-Election Thread
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Trudeau is betting his entire government on the fight against climate change
What a way to open parliament plagiarizing a 16 year old girl's speech
What a way to open parliament plagiarizing a 16 year old girl's speech
Considering that Que is in a supply squeeze to heat their homes this winter, buddy's comments work just fine for me.
... If only tater tot spoke in black face or maybe dressed-up like Greta.
That would have earned him my vote
Canada posts largest job loss since 2009
Mike Martins
Canada’s job market unexpectedly weakened for a second-straight month, registering the biggest drop in employment since 2009 and casting doubt on the resiliency of the domestic outlook.
The economy lost 71,200 jobs in November, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa, following a decline of 1,800 in the prior month. That pares the total number of jobs added this year to around 285,100.
The report missed the median economist forecast for a gain of 10,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate increased to 5.9 per cent in the month, from 5.5 per cent in October, the biggest one-month jump since 2009.
The decrease in employment was broad-based among both the goods-producing and service-producing sectors.
“Canada’s jobs report is disappointing, showing job losses for the second month in a row,” said Julia Pollak, labour economist at ZipRecruiter, an online employment marketplace.
“But observers should remember that the numbers are highly volatile and that this is still the strongest year for job growth in Canada in 17 years.”
The Canadian currency depreciated on the report, dropping 0.6 per cent to $1.3249 against its U.S. counterpart at 8:40 a.m. Toronto time.
Mike Martins
Canada’s job market unexpectedly weakened for a second-straight month, registering the biggest drop in employment since 2009 and casting doubt on the resiliency of the domestic outlook.
The economy lost 71,200 jobs in November, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa, following a decline of 1,800 in the prior month. That pares the total number of jobs added this year to around 285,100.
The report missed the median economist forecast for a gain of 10,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate increased to 5.9 per cent in the month, from 5.5 per cent in October, the biggest one-month jump since 2009.
The decrease in employment was broad-based among both the goods-producing and service-producing sectors.
“Canada’s jobs report is disappointing, showing job losses for the second month in a row,” said Julia Pollak, labour economist at ZipRecruiter, an online employment marketplace.
“But observers should remember that the numbers are highly volatile and that this is still the strongest year for job growth in Canada in 17 years.”
The Canadian currency depreciated on the report, dropping 0.6 per cent to $1.3249 against its U.S. counterpart at 8:40 a.m. Toronto time.
THE WORST OF IT IS that we are moving into Christmas shopping season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fact that WE LOST JOBS INSTEAD OF GAINING THEM...................................
must be blamed DIRECTLY on LIE-berals and their civil service union HOG ALLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In my biz - I have noticed a DIRECT CONNECTION between elections and falling sales!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I have noted a DIRECT CONNECTION between civil service union HOG strikes - and falling sales!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREEDY GRAVY GRABBING GOVT is behind VIRTUALLY ALL our job woes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you LIE-berals and HOGS for screwing us over so thoroughly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the claim that 2018 was the strongest years for Cdn job growth in 17 years.....................
that`s nice.............FOR HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As I have noted before - Our idiot Boy is FULLY COMMITTED to the OLD third world dictator trick.......................
OF BUYING SUPPORT by hiring civil service union HOGS - and BUYING their loyalty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which is why Ontari-owe is the most indebted province on the planet.............................
and why Our idiot Boy and his federal LIE-beral losers are ON RECORD as the most wasteful govt in non war time history!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could more U.S.-Canada trade trouble be on the way? Trump says he 'may have to do something' after NATO summit
Freeland was surprisingly speechless in the article to defend Trudeau
Freeland was surprisingly speechless in the article to defend Trudeau
Well really......................what would you expect her to say??????????
The indefensible is.....................just that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if Our idiot Boy behaves like an idiot..................
is ANYBODY really surprised???????????????????
'That’s no joke': Taking aim at Trudeau, Trump's campaign chief compares U.S. job numbers to Canadian losses
LILLEY: Throne speech shows Trudeau learned nothing in election
Brian Lilley
Published:
December 5, 2019
Updated:
December 5, 2019 7:53 PM EST
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Governor General Julie Payette look to the gallery as they wait to deliver the Throne Speech in the Senate chamber on Dec. 5, 2019 in Ottawa. (FRED CHARTRAND/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
It was, in some ways, a throne speech from out of this world, at least when it comes to how the Governor General views things.
Astronaut turned vice-regal Julie Payette added a line to the Trudeau government’s throne speech that government sources say was all hers.
“We know that we are inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship,” Payette said.
Normally throne speeches are the government’s priorities laid out in broad strokes, a chance to peek into the brain of the government of the day. This being a minority government you would expect the Liberals to lay out ways they would find common ground with the opposition.
The throne speech even mentioned that the election results show that Canadians “want their Parliamentarians to work together on the issues that matter most to them.”
Story continues below
Yet, did the government temper any of the ideas they ran on in the election? No, despite the fact that this government has the weakest mandate and lowest share of the vote of any government in Canadian history.
Did they adopt any ideas from any of the opposition parties to show that they are willing to work together? No, simply a mention of the NDP’s promise to fight money laundering and the Conservative idea of making parental benefits tax free without committing to acting on either idea.
The Liberals will continue their push on a climate change agenda that will see the carbon tax go up. There was no explicit promise to raise the tax but they doubled down on lowering emissions faster than previously promised by going to net zero emissions by 2050.
“This goal is ambitious, but necessary — for both environmental protection and economic growth,” the speech said.
On health care, the speech ignored the call earlier this week by a united group of premiers looking for increased funding and greater cooperation. Instead, they are offering more national standards, read that as more federal meddling in provincial health systems, without any new funding.
There was also the promise of a national pharmacare program and a nod to exploring a national dental care plan without a single detail or even the promise of new money. Maybe the PM missed that the premiers said on Monday that they don’t want to join a national pharmacare program when the federal government still isn’t paying their full share for the existing health system.
The speech also invoked the 30th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre to announce that they would ban “military-style assault rifles.” The Liberals have never defined what a “military-style assault rifle” is.
Liberal throne speech pledges to work with opposition parties
Liberal MP Anthony Rota upsets Geoff Regan to become Speaker in minority Parliament
Nor has Trudeau ever explained why he wants to ban these rifles and spend $600 million or more to buy them back when the problem of gun violence in Canada comes from smuggled handguns. On handguns, the speech said cities will be allowed to put their own bans in place.
It was funny that on the heels of Trudeau making international headlines and angering the American administration for mocking Donald Trump at a NATO summit, the final section of the speech was, “Positioning Canada for success in an uncertain world.”
The only thing we know for certain is that Trudeau continues to embarrass Canada on the world stage.
I’ve given Trudeau credit for striking a new tone since the election, for seeming a bit humbled, for listening while speaking to premiers and others. It seemed Trudeau was willing to work with others and adapt, to learn from the election results.
This speech says otherwise and if this is Trudeau’s path forward, then the change I’ve noted may have been nothing but an act.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ech-shows-trudeau-learned-nothing-in-election
Brian Lilley
Published:
December 5, 2019
Updated:
December 5, 2019 7:53 PM EST
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Governor General Julie Payette look to the gallery as they wait to deliver the Throne Speech in the Senate chamber on Dec. 5, 2019 in Ottawa. (FRED CHARTRAND/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
It was, in some ways, a throne speech from out of this world, at least when it comes to how the Governor General views things.
Astronaut turned vice-regal Julie Payette added a line to the Trudeau government’s throne speech that government sources say was all hers.
“We know that we are inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship,” Payette said.
Normally throne speeches are the government’s priorities laid out in broad strokes, a chance to peek into the brain of the government of the day. This being a minority government you would expect the Liberals to lay out ways they would find common ground with the opposition.
The throne speech even mentioned that the election results show that Canadians “want their Parliamentarians to work together on the issues that matter most to them.”
Story continues below
Yet, did the government temper any of the ideas they ran on in the election? No, despite the fact that this government has the weakest mandate and lowest share of the vote of any government in Canadian history.
Did they adopt any ideas from any of the opposition parties to show that they are willing to work together? No, simply a mention of the NDP’s promise to fight money laundering and the Conservative idea of making parental benefits tax free without committing to acting on either idea.
The Liberals will continue their push on a climate change agenda that will see the carbon tax go up. There was no explicit promise to raise the tax but they doubled down on lowering emissions faster than previously promised by going to net zero emissions by 2050.
“This goal is ambitious, but necessary — for both environmental protection and economic growth,” the speech said.
On health care, the speech ignored the call earlier this week by a united group of premiers looking for increased funding and greater cooperation. Instead, they are offering more national standards, read that as more federal meddling in provincial health systems, without any new funding.
There was also the promise of a national pharmacare program and a nod to exploring a national dental care plan without a single detail or even the promise of new money. Maybe the PM missed that the premiers said on Monday that they don’t want to join a national pharmacare program when the federal government still isn’t paying their full share for the existing health system.
The speech also invoked the 30th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre to announce that they would ban “military-style assault rifles.” The Liberals have never defined what a “military-style assault rifle” is.
Liberal throne speech pledges to work with opposition parties
Liberal MP Anthony Rota upsets Geoff Regan to become Speaker in minority Parliament
Nor has Trudeau ever explained why he wants to ban these rifles and spend $600 million or more to buy them back when the problem of gun violence in Canada comes from smuggled handguns. On handguns, the speech said cities will be allowed to put their own bans in place.
It was funny that on the heels of Trudeau making international headlines and angering the American administration for mocking Donald Trump at a NATO summit, the final section of the speech was, “Positioning Canada for success in an uncertain world.”
The only thing we know for certain is that Trudeau continues to embarrass Canada on the world stage.
I’ve given Trudeau credit for striking a new tone since the election, for seeming a bit humbled, for listening while speaking to premiers and others. It seemed Trudeau was willing to work with others and adapt, to learn from the election results.
This speech says otherwise and if this is Trudeau’s path forward, then the change I’ve noted may have been nothing but an act.
Andrew MacDougall: We are 'on board the same planetary spaceship.' That's why, apparently, parliament should implement the entire Liberal platform
Justin Trudeau has made a virtue of scarcity since October’s demotion to minority government.
A few discourteous words in Donald Trump’s direction aside, the prime minister has largely kept quiet since his latest “victory,” creating a vacuum into which the issue of Andrew Scheer’s control over the Conservative movement has now been sucked.
Alas, nothing lasts forever, and the business of administering the federation has kicked back into gear with the government’s throne speech. Just how does the prime minister plan to pull the country together, absent any cogs from a restive West? One day after having her nearly 40-year old plane requisitioned from Italy to replace the prime minister’s nearly 40-year old plane, which had broken down in England after being pressed into service because of a crash involving Trudeau’s nearly 40-year old primary plane in Trenton, a jet-lagged Governor General Julie Payette delivered some textual healing on Trudeau’s behalf.
“We are,” the former astronaut said, “inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship” and, for that reason, apparently, the 43rd Parliament should get on with implementing the entire Liberal platform. All of it.
Trudeau met with the opposition leaders before his office put digits to keyboard but, other than a comma or perhaps a period, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of their influence on Liberal thinking.
Not that Trudeau has completely ignored the West. “Today’s regional economic concerns are both justified and important,” Payette told parliamentarians. “The government will work with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous groups, stakeholders, industry, and Canadians to find solutions,” she added. The 112 words of explanatory bafflegab that follow, however, show this government still doesn’t have a scooby about how to get on with doing just that.
Indeed, the government will keep going green but will work “just as hard” to “get Canadian resources to new markets, and offer unwavering support to the hardworking women and men in Canada’s natural resources sectors, many of whom have faced tough times recently”. So that’s that, then. I can hear Jason Kenney downing tools already.
Nor has the government changed its tone; it’s still so earnest and cloying it makes Tracy Flick sound like Howard Beale. The degree to which this prime minister slings focus-grouped confections around is a hangover from his first government that he could really do without. The Liberals will “deliver a better Canada for all Canadians”? Franchement.
But with an election around every corner in a minority Parliament, Trudeau knows he must always be selling, even if, as the throne speech repeats 10 different ways, Parliament needs to work together to do “what is right for the common good.”
The real test of the government’s program ought to be whether it improves the country. Knowing the vast majority of the country doesn’t want another election, and that Trudeau won the last one in the only way that matters, the opposition must tread carefully in opposing the throne speech for opposition’s sake.
Which isn’t to say they can’t put a spanner in the works or try to add to it. Would Trudeau really threaten another election if, for example, the opposition pushed to include a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin scandal, as Scheer has suggested? Would he do the same if the NDP tried to beef up the pharmacare offer?
Here, the Liberal door swings open, if only a little bit. “The mandate of this recent election is a starting point, not the final word,” Payette read out. Dental care is even flagged as “worth exploring.” Is that the price for Jagmeet Singh’s support?
Whatever deals get done, the Liberals are insisting that everyone play nicely. “You can raise the bar on what politics is like in this country,” the speech implores. But will the opposition listen?
nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/macdougall-liberals-to-opposition-play-nice-and-implement-our-platform/wcm/da1a34c5-734a-445b-88c6-95641866d3e4
A few discourteous words in Donald Trump’s direction aside, the prime minister has largely kept quiet since his latest “victory,” creating a vacuum into which the issue of Andrew Scheer’s control over the Conservative movement has now been sucked.
Alas, nothing lasts forever, and the business of administering the federation has kicked back into gear with the government’s throne speech. Just how does the prime minister plan to pull the country together, absent any cogs from a restive West? One day after having her nearly 40-year old plane requisitioned from Italy to replace the prime minister’s nearly 40-year old plane, which had broken down in England after being pressed into service because of a crash involving Trudeau’s nearly 40-year old primary plane in Trenton, a jet-lagged Governor General Julie Payette delivered some textual healing on Trudeau’s behalf.
“We are,” the former astronaut said, “inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship” and, for that reason, apparently, the 43rd Parliament should get on with implementing the entire Liberal platform. All of it.
Trudeau met with the opposition leaders before his office put digits to keyboard but, other than a comma or perhaps a period, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of their influence on Liberal thinking.
Trudeau met with the opposition leaders before his office put digits to keyboard but, other than a comma or perhaps a period, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of their influence on Liberal thinking.
To no one’s surprise, there will be a “middle-class” tax cut. There will be more action on climate change. There will be a “walk” along “the road of reconciliation” with Indigenous Peoples. Illegal guns will be made illegaller. If you loved the Grit platform, you’ll love it even more in speech form.Not that Trudeau has completely ignored the West. “Today’s regional economic concerns are both justified and important,” Payette told parliamentarians. “The government will work with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous groups, stakeholders, industry, and Canadians to find solutions,” she added. The 112 words of explanatory bafflegab that follow, however, show this government still doesn’t have a scooby about how to get on with doing just that.
Indeed, the government will keep going green but will work “just as hard” to “get Canadian resources to new markets, and offer unwavering support to the hardworking women and men in Canada’s natural resources sectors, many of whom have faced tough times recently”. So that’s that, then. I can hear Jason Kenney downing tools already.
Nor has the government changed its tone; it’s still so earnest and cloying it makes Tracy Flick sound like Howard Beale. The degree to which this prime minister slings focus-grouped confections around is a hangover from his first government that he could really do without. The Liberals will “deliver a better Canada for all Canadians”? Franchement.
But with an election around every corner in a minority Parliament, Trudeau knows he must always be selling, even if, as the throne speech repeats 10 different ways, Parliament needs to work together to do “what is right for the common good.”
The real test of the government’s program ought to be whether it improves the country. Knowing the vast majority of the country doesn’t want another election, and that Trudeau won the last one in the only way that matters, the opposition must tread carefully in opposing the throne speech for opposition’s sake.
Which isn’t to say they can’t put a spanner in the works or try to add to it. Would Trudeau really threaten another election if, for example, the opposition pushed to include a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin scandal, as Scheer has suggested? Would he do the same if the NDP tried to beef up the pharmacare offer?
Here, the Liberal door swings open, if only a little bit. “The mandate of this recent election is a starting point, not the final word,” Payette read out. Dental care is even flagged as “worth exploring.” Is that the price for Jagmeet Singh’s support?
Whatever deals get done, the Liberals are insisting that everyone play nicely. “You can raise the bar on what politics is like in this country,” the speech implores. But will the opposition listen?
nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/macdougall-liberals-to-opposition-play-nice-and-implement-our-platform/wcm/da1a34c5-734a-445b-88c6-95641866d3e4
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Andrew MacDougall: We are 'on board the same planetary spaceship.' That's why, apparently, parliament should implement the entire Liberal platform
Justin Trudeau has made a virtue of scarcity since October’s demotion to minority government.
A few discourteous words in Donald Trump’s direction aside, the prime minister has largely kept quiet since his latest “victory,” creating a vacuum into which the issue of Andrew Scheer’s control over the Conservative movement has now been sucked.
Alas, nothing lasts forever, and the business of administering the federation has kicked back into gear with the government’s throne speech. Just how does the prime minister plan to pull the country together, absent any cogs from a restive West? One day after having her nearly 40-year old plane requisitioned from Italy to replace the prime minister’s nearly 40-year old plane, which had broken down in England after being pressed into service because of a crash involving Trudeau’s nearly 40-year old primary plane in Trenton, a jet-lagged Governor General Julie Payette delivered some textual healing on Trudeau’s behalf.
“We are,” the former astronaut said, “inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship” and, for that reason, apparently, the 43rd Parliament should get on with implementing the entire Liberal platform. All of it.
Trudeau met with the opposition leaders before his office put digits to keyboard but, other than a comma or perhaps a period, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of their influence on Liberal thinking.Trudeau met with the opposition leaders before his office put digits to keyboard but, other than a comma or perhaps a period, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of their influence on Liberal thinking.To no one’s surprise, there will be a “middle-class” tax cut. There will be more action on climate change. There will be a “walk” along “the road of reconciliation” with Indigenous Peoples. Illegal guns will be made illegaller. If you loved the Grit platform, you’ll love it even more in speech form.
Not that Trudeau has completely ignored the West. “Today’s regional economic concerns are both justified and important,” Payette told parliamentarians. “The government will work with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous groups, stakeholders, industry, and Canadians to find solutions,” she added. The 112 words of explanatory bafflegab that follow, however, show this government still doesn’t have a scooby about how to get on with doing just that.
Indeed, the government will keep going green but will work “just as hard” to “get Canadian resources to new markets, and offer unwavering support to the hardworking women and men in Canada’s natural resources sectors, many of whom have faced tough times recently”. So that’s that, then. I can hear Jason Kenney downing tools already.
Nor has the government changed its tone; it’s still so earnest and cloying it makes Tracy Flick sound like Howard Beale. The degree to which this prime minister slings focus-grouped confections around is a hangover from his first government that he could really do without. The Liberals will “deliver a better Canada for all Canadians”? Franchement.
But with an election around every corner in a minority Parliament, Trudeau knows he must always be selling, even if, as the throne speech repeats 10 different ways, Parliament needs to work together to do “what is right for the common good.”
The real test of the government’s program ought to be whether it improves the country. Knowing the vast majority of the country doesn’t want another election, and that Trudeau won the last one in the only way that matters, the opposition must tread carefully in opposing the throne speech for opposition’s sake.
Which isn’t to say they can’t put a spanner in the works or try to add to it. Would Trudeau really threaten another election if, for example, the opposition pushed to include a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin scandal, as Scheer has suggested? Would he do the same if the NDP tried to beef up the pharmacare offer?
Here, the Liberal door swings open, if only a little bit. “The mandate of this recent election is a starting point, not the final word,” Payette read out. Dental care is even flagged as “worth exploring.” Is that the price for Jagmeet Singh’s support?
Whatever deals get done, the Liberals are insisting that everyone play nicely. “You can raise the bar on what politics is like in this country,” the speech implores. But will the opposition listen?
nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/macdougall-liberals-to-opposition-play-nice-and-implement-our-platform/wcm/da1a34c5-734a-445b-88c6-95641866d3e4
Yeah that LIE-beral space time continuum thingy was FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I did watch Julie Payette - in her capacity as Governor General............................
reading the Throne Speech - and it STRUCK ME............................
that she was STRUGGLING MIGHTILY NOT TO BURST OUT LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the CRAP she was required to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is of course the PROBLEM with pushing people who have had success in the REAL WORLD.........................
into a political position in a govt dominated by LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which is probably why Payette has been keeping such a LOW PROFILE as G.G.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it would explain why former PRAVDA/ CBC News Grand Poohbah and LIFE LONG HOG Adrienne Clarkson..........................
REVELED IN HER TIME AS G.G.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Payette thinks she is a Cdn citizen and acts accordingly...........................
as a former CBC talking head - Clarkson thought she was HOG ROYALTY.................................
that had been elevated to British Royal status thanks to her appointment as G.G.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As pundits of the day suggested- Clarkson was CONFUSED about her duties..........................
she was SUPPOSED to represent the Queen..............................
NOT BECOME A QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came away from it thinking that she overacted, smiled at inappropriate times and generally felt one of the pages could have done a better job.