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B00Mer

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Cutting wages is not good. Especially when the cost of living keeps increasing and our dollar keeps dropping. Unless you want to make Canada Mexico Lite.

You know what I love about Mexico? Choice!!

The choice to go to the local Scotiabank, HBC or Tim Hortons (in Mexico)



The choice to go to the local El Polo Loco, Churches Chicken, Walmart, HomeDepot, AutoZone (every America Chain you desire)



The choice to buy a European car and when finished grab a water across the street at the local 7/11



Oh and yes they do have Socialized Medical care.

The Super highways.. wow.. and Canada can't fukking link BC to Alberta..


 
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I've had Chinese comment on how Canadian cities appear primitive in comparison to some Chinese ones. Just visit Hong Kong and it's light years ahead of Canada, but that's because they have a real free market.
 

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I've had Chinese comment on how Canadian cities appear primitive in comparison to some Chinese ones. Just visit Hong Kong and it's light years ahead of Canada, but that's because they have a real free market.

exactly.. not just China, and Mexico, many European cities and Australia have more choice and better infrastructure than Canada.

If it wasn't for the Oil and Gas Canada would be a 3rd world tundra, maskek, mashland. :lol:

...and our best highway in Canada is the 401..

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1380437
 

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Economic and regulatory changes affecting Canadian manufacturing in the last quarter of the 20th century further intensified in the 21st century. By the 2000s, the manufacturing sector had declined significantly....


Typical Trumpite. Too stupid to know the difference between “manufacturing output” and “manufacturing jobs” nor do they understand the concept of relativity or GDP percentage. I’ve posted a couple of links that are clearly over your head. The second link (from RBC) explains beautifully why Trumps trade policies are idiotic although, like I said, it’s probably not something you can grasp. I suspect you’ll possibly read them and respond with something idiotic. You should try and surprise me.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/manufacturing-production

http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/other-reports/Manufacturing Trends-Feb2017.pdf
 

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Typical Trumpite. Too stupid to know the difference between “manufacturing output” and “manufacturing jobs” nor do they understand the concept of relativity or GDP percentage. I’ve posted a couple of links that are clearly over your head. The second link (from RBC) explains beautifully why Trumps trade policies are idiotic although, like I said, it’s probably not something you can grasp. I suspect you’ll possibly read them and respond with something idiotic. You should try and surprise me.
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/manufacturing-production
http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/other-reports/Manufacturing Trends-Feb2017.pdf

Just like a typical Dipper, to stupid to see Canada is primary a resource based economy, right down to our petro dollar that goes up as oil rises and falls when oils prices fall.

You really should go on a diet.. Fatso.
 

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I suspect you’ll possibly read them and respond with something idiotic.
Just like a typical Dipper, to stupid to see Canada is primary a resource based economy, right down to our petro dollar that goes up as oil rises and falls when oils prices fall.
You really should go on a diet.. Fatso.

Nailed it

https://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/7884/canada-is-a-natural-resource-based-economy-right/

Since Wikipedia is probably more your speed....Scroll down to “key industries”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada

It must hurt getting schooled by a bottle sorter. On second thought, you’re far too stupid to even realize you’re getting schooled
 
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I've had Chinese comment on how Canadian cities appear primitive in comparison to some Chinese ones. Just visit Hong Kong and it's light years ahead of Canada, but that's because they have a real free market.
A mere 20% poverty rate
 

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Just like a typical Dipper, to stupid to see Canada is primary a resource based economy, right down to our petro dollar that goes up as oil rises and falls when oils prices fall.
You really should go on a diet.. Fatso.
Our $$$ is weak because of bad decisions made in Ottawa. Mostly to try and protect menial manufacturing jobs in Ontariowe and Quebec.
 

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Economic and regulatory changes affecting Canadian manufacturing in the last quarter of the 20th century further intensified in the 21st century. By the 2000s, the manufacturing sector had declined significantly. Between 2004 and 2008, about one in seven (or 322,000) manufacturing jobs had disappeared. This trend is not unique to Canada: the majority of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries are experiencing a similar decline. Contributing factors include production moving to countries such as China, an aging population (leading to an increased demand for services over manufactured goods) and tariff reduction.

With the exception of the production of transportation equipment (excluding automobiles), oil and coal products, and computers and electronics, all other segments of manufacturing have experienced a downturn. The textile industry, historically one of the largest manufacturing employers in the country, is one of the hardest sectors hit. For example, between 2004 and 2011, jobs at textile mills decreased by over 60 per cent. The automotive sectors, as well as lumber and paper industries, are also in rapid decline, particularly after the 2008 recession.

In response to these changes, Canadian manufacturers are increasingly focused on production for domestic markets as globalized manufacturing and distribution networks undermine production for export. Central Canada continues to dominate the bulk of manufacturing output, with Ontario representing approximately 46 per cent and Québec approximately 24 per cent of total manufacturing sales. Many consumer goods industries are concentrated in these two provinces, which have well over half the country's population.​

source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/manufacturing

Seriously, can you bottle washers get any more obtuse.

10% of the GDP ($350 billion) is nothing compared to the mining, and oil industry at $33.2 trillion. Canada is primarily a resource based country.

Also, our manufacturing base is, we import parts from China, assemble them in Canada, and sell them to Walmart as Canadian Made.




About 22 percent of the Cdn work force is unionized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And VIRTUALLY ALL OF THEM work for GOVT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There are exceptions of course............................................


such as auto workers.....................


many of whom are being disposed of as we speak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There are other unions that represent retail workers and hotel workers and etc...........................................


except that online sales are killing a lot of conventional retail jobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Just look at Sears and Zellers and Target to name a few!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ad of course hotel worker jobs are being eroded by AirBnB deals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or we could point to Bombardier.............................that got that BILLION DOLLAR LIE-beral grant..............................


even as it SCREWED Toronto Transit Commission on street cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If it is a union................................


and it is thriving.....................................................


then it is staffed with GOVT HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








Its time to talk of the `D`s`-those fine tools Hogs use to delay, deny, delude, defuse, disengage and delete anything they don’t approve of! Hogs have sneered at the recent post -in which an Italian cop was FILMED stumbling down stairs to his time clock and punching in for work and then going back to bed-he didn’t even put on his uniform-just briefs and `T` shirt!

Our Hogs call it irrelevant-stating that it occurred in Italy. And of course they DISENGAGE by IGNORING the other part of that post that explains about a TORONTO School Board employee who would punch in for work, then pick up the company van and spend the day in a judo school learning high kicks and throws-ON COMPANY TIME!

There is a reason Italy is bankrupt and there is a reason Canada is sliding down the same civil service Hog Fat GREASED ROAD! And here is another Italian story-with a nice Cdn twist! I have made some comments of my own and placed them in brackets):

Italian Riviera council workers head to beach or go kayaking instead of work. Employees for the council would clock on for work and then head to the beach or even back to bed

By Nick Squires, Rome. 6:33PM BST 23 Oct 2015. Telegraph News.

A town on the Italian Riviera has been swept up in a scandal over absenteeism after it emerged that council employees were clocking on for work and then heading to the beach, to the shops or even back to bed.

A months-long covert investigation by police found that up to 75 per cent of council employees in San Remo, which is famed for its annual music festival and lies just across the border from Monaco and Nice, failed to show up for work.

Employees were secretly filmed punching their own cards and those of friends, and then skipping work for the day. One man regularly turned up for work, swiped his magnetic card, and then headed off to work at a flower shop run by his wife.

One man clocked on for work but then regularly spent the day rowing a skiff off the coast, enjoying the sunshine and views of the Riviera. He bunked off work at least 80 times in a period of a few months.

The staff members were secretly filmed by cameras installed by the Italian tax police, the Guardia di Finanza. A team of 150 officers raided the council’s offices on Thursday. They arrested 35 people, including a local police officer, and are investigating dozens more on charges of fraud and embezzlement.

Of 271 employees who were placed under surveillance, 72 per cent, or 195 people, were found to have been skiving off work. They worked in departments responsible for the town’s nursery schools, its registry office, the town police, public works and finance.

Council workers had shown “contempt for their jobs at a time when not having a job for many Italians is a cause for desperation”, said Alessia Ceccardi, a local prosecutor.

The investigation began in 2013 after Maurizio Zoccarato, the then mayor, told authorities that he suspected some of his employees were bunking off work.

(I say: that`s REALLY FUNNY! Up to Seventy five percent of the workforce was MISSING on any given day and the Mayor SUSPECTS there might be a problem? One has to ask if the mayor can tell the difference between a Hog sleeping on the job and one who has died of old age on the job-one could not get any hints from the volume of work produced by two such employees?)

"The Guardia di Finanza uncovered a heinous system," said Maria Paola Marrali, another prosecutor involved in the case. "How was it possible that a situation this serious was not noticed?"

The investigation had brought to an end "malpractice that had been going on for years", she said.

(Oh RIGHT-the practice is ended! Anybody remember Stan Kabel? The drunken moron at the heart of the Ontari-owe Walkerton water scandal? Things were so bad at the Walkerton Water Dept civil service Hog barn that city councillors RAIDED the Hog work room and cleaned out all the beer and wine and whiskey from the communal employee fridge! And then ORDERED all the Hog drunks to JOIN Alcoholics Anonymous-or be FIRED!)

(SO drunken Stan was forced to do HIS drinking only in the evening-and naturally he often showed up for work badly hung over and in need of sleep and aspirin and etc-and he neglected to maintain town drinking water facilities until people started getting SICK from the filthy untreated water! At that point he started falsifying his records-but being an IMBECILE he got caught eventually- AFTER7 people DIED and hundreds of others were sickened! I hope the Italians are more on the ball than their Walkerton Hog cousins!)

(The absolutely most shameless part of the Walkerton MESS was that Stan Kabel was NOT QUALIFIED and NOT EDUCATED to handle the drinking water system! He got the job thanks to his FATHER after his Dad retired. Kabel senior DID happen to be qualified and Walkerton council apparently hired unlicenced Stan as he was CHEAPER than a qualified person! No wonder Ontari-owe Hogs made such MASSIVE efforts to TRY to shift blame to Mike Harris govt!)

Alberto Biancheri, the mayor of San Remo, who was not caught up in the investigation, said: “We will take a hard line against those who are shown to have behaved improperly. Sadly we now find ourselves with offices that are devoid of any employees. The council is in danger of grinding to a halt.”

(I say: Italian mayors have a great sense of humour don’t they! Seventy five percent of their workforce goes to the beach on any given day instead of working and the mayor is worried that town business may not be done in a timely manner now that Hogs have been fired? The guy has a second career available as a comic!)

From thetelegraphnews

(And-no need to worry about Stan Kabel-Working Family Hogs are like cats-they always land on their feet! Stan no longer works for Walkerton Water Dept- for obvious reasons-if you KILL tax payers and sicken hundreds of others with your sloppy work you will be FIRED- so now he works at another area municipality in another cosy little Hog job-INSTALLING TRAFFIC SIGNALS-and I hope he knows just as much about electricity as he does about clean water? Maybe his traffic light career will come to a shocking end quite suddenly? His dirty water errors made other people sick but if he screws up with major electricity lines he might fry himself? The Walkerton story might have a happy ending yet-with Stan finally GETTING what he deserves? Ohhh-FRIED BACON!)
 

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A mere 20% poverty rate




HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


OH HOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Why dont you go live in CHINA since you like it so much ?????????????????????????????


I bet we could get a Crowd funding deal going to PAY YOUR WAY over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Just so long as YOU PROMISE NEVER TO COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Your LIE-beral LIES are ABSURD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








Here is an article providing us with the LATEST LIE-beral EXCUSES for why our booming economy is not what it seems!! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Trade shock, harsh winter and Doug Ford blamed for pausing the Canadian economy.

By Don Pittis

Published: April 25, 2019

The destructive impact of climate change could soon be large enough to throw the national economy into recession, or spark the next financial crisis.

(Oh yes- LIE-berals much prefer to discuss POSSIBLE FUTURE issues rather than current hard facts!! Such as the tens of billions in LOST revenue from LIE-berals deliberately blocking the sale of Alberta oil to a world that would rather purchase from friendly Cdns rather than from nasty Russians and Iranians who will only use THEIR oil revenue to buy GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Exporting more Alberta oil DOES NOT mean an increase in pollution- it simply enables people to buy from less violent militant sources!! Selling Cdn oil promotes peace by cutting the Russian and Iranian military budgets!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(And how sad there are a LOT of people who are hoping that Russians or Iranians or North Koreans will hurt the west!! Anti Yankee and anti western sentiment is STRONG for many of our new immigrants!! Hey come for our money and NOT for our values!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Opinion: How climate change could trigger the next financial crisis.

(Why don’t LIE-berals wish to discuss the KNOWN REALITY of how much it HURTS to hit the debt wall?? We all recall how LIE-beral Chretien hit the debt wall and downloaded all sorts of costs onto the provinces!! We KNOW that our lakes and rivers are filling up with sewage because LIE-berals REFUSE to waste “their” gravy on new treatment plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

1 in 10 first-time homebuyers in Canada expect a $100,000 gift…

(Yes- such a wonderful gift- that comes with the usual LIE-beral STRINGS that render the gift all but inaccessible to most!! A thing that cannot be used is NOT A GIFT!! It is merely the usual LIE-beral BAIT AND SWITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Battles over trade have hurt economies around the world as uncertainty leads businesses to delay new investment.

(And 40 percent of all Cdns live in the most deeply indebted sub national entity on the planet- also known as Ontari-owe!! We are being CRIPPLED by LIE-beral greed and costly vote buying!! Business uncertainty is based on how likely it is that debt crippled tax payers LACK the capacity to support any new business initiatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


(LIE-berals have decided it is easier to blame outside forces and influences for problems CREATED IN CANADA!! LIE-berals follow faithfully in the foot steps of Soviet Socialist propaganda meisters!! The proper Socialist KNOWS that Socialism NEVER FAILS- it is only betrayed by outsiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(It is for this reason that Socialist nitwit NDPer Bob Rae could double the Ontari-owe debt- and then BLAME BANKERS for not letting him borrow the money he needed to make us rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(It is for the same reason- that infallible Socialist dogma that permits Our idiot Boy Justin to impose a bigger and more costly version of the Bob Rae madness- and then tell us that the economy is having difficulties because we have not fully embraced the LIE-beral mouldy green economy- that is actually GENERATING most of the problems we face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(LIE-berals think we are displaying “RACIST” tendencies if we discuss economic numbers from places like Spain - once a world leader in Green Projects- that are now in disgrace!! Spanish economists claim that for every costly subsidized green job that is created- 2.5 ordinary jobs are DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!)

(LIE-berals see nothing wrong with using their Human Rights Kangaroo Courts to SILENCE any critic of any LIE-beral policy!! And they think it is suitable for our CBC/Communist Broadcasting Corp to use a twisted and distorted definition of “fair use policy” to CENSOR political views LIE-berals do not want to hear!!!!!!!)

When the Bank of Canada released the text of its latest report yesterday, the loonie fell off a cliff — and no wonder.

Interest rates were unchanged, but more important, governor Stephen Poloz had downgraded growth from 1.7 per cent to 1.2 per cent. Exports were down. So was investment. The housing bounce back was delayed.

(Investors around the world have studied the Cdn LIE-beral tax ponzi scheme in detail - and do NOT LIKE where we are heading financially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But an odd thing happened. Once Poloz began to talk to reporters, the Canadian dollar began to recover.

(The stock market has all the charm and grace of an skilled GRIFTER running a Three Card Monte game against Shills and gullible Rubes who have never heard the words “Grifter” or “con artist”!!!!!!!

While all those negative economic indicators were true, Canada's chief central banker and his senior deputy, Carolyn Wilkins, began to paint a more subtle and much more positive picture.

(Oh yes- LIE-beral propaganda will smooth troubled waters and make life easier- FOR LIE-berals!! Too bad reality is getting ready to BITE LIE-beral ASSES!!!!!!)

For indebted Canadians hoping for an endless holiday from higher borrowing costs, the news was both good and bad.

(Most Cdns - of all ages are more worried about the HUGE inflation generating capacity of the carbon crap and trade SCAM!! Interest rate hikes are an occasional thing- bit carbon crap is set for YEARLY INCREASES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"If our forecast is right, which I firmly believe it is, what that means is interest rates are more likely to go up than down," said Poloz.

(Poloz gets PAID TO BE RIGHT!! He THINKS interest rate may go up- but HE KNOWS carbon crap costs WILL go up!!!!! And he will continue to think he is right- up until LIE-berals lose an election- at which point he will be wrong- but nobody will care because he will be FIRED and gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Of course, the more subtle story told by the central bankers was not universally good.

(NO!! We are currently exploring hitherto un-imagined levels of debt and insolvency!! The last time our infrastructure was in such a parlous state was...........
NEVER!! Never before have we let so much of the machinery we depend on for our lives reach such a rotten state!! LIE-berals have neglected everything for so long that we now need EMERGENCY REPAIRS to pretty much everything from the roof over our head to the pipes that drain our sewage!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Doug Ford tells Ontario teachers to ‘get with the times’.

(Ford is well aware of the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of pension PROMISES that LIE-berals issued to our civil service union HOGS in exchange for their votes! Too bad we do not have the money and cannot pay the HOGS as INSANE LIE-berals promised! Wynne-bag LIE-berals tried to gouge the money from us with electricity costs and carbon crap SCAMS- and it got them thrown out of office!! The pension demands made by HOGS will NOT FLY with ordinary Cdns and Ford KNOWS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

The predominant reason for their lowered expectations for the economy since the last report in January was what the bank called a "shock" caused by a sharp increase in uncertainty over trade at the end of last year, which has played a malicious trick on the global economy.

(In related news- international bankers and bond rating services made it CLEAR - in early 2018 - that if Ontari-owe elected another Wynne-bag LIE-beral govt then we would hit the debt wall and be PUNISHED for our LIE-beral waste and stupidity!! The election of Ford SAVED US from the debt wall and teachers find it OFFENSIVE to have to admit this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Trade battles between the U.S. and China, the U.S. and Europe and the U.S. and Canada knocked the stuffing out of not just global trade, but new business investment. And the effects go far beyond Canada.

(Canada is a branch plant economy as a result of LIE-berals throwing money at international corporations to build branch plants here- too bad the gravy has run out and so have the jobs!! The closing of General Motors Oshawa plant - whose workers set records for highest quality work -illustrates the problem!! People doing great work are getting FIRED for POLITICAL REASONS!!!!!!!)

(And as GM slunk away- Our idiot Boy Justin WROTE OFF $2.8 billion dollars in UNCOLLECTIBLE LOANS to GM and Chrysler!! And that BILLION DOLLAR LIE-beral GRANT to Bombardier is looking really STUPID now that Bombardier is selling assets in a desperate bid to stay allive- even as it continues to SCREW Toronto Transit over the street car MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"Forty-seven countries have experienced a slowdown very similar to our own," Poloz told reporters. "That's not a coincidence. That's 47 countries that rely on international trade in order to do business."

(YES!! Forty seven countries have the SAME IDIOT LIE-beral business model and thus they all have the same economic problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's recent budget also contributed to the bank's lower outlook. While fiscal spending in Quebec, B.C. and at the federal level were all higher, a cut in projected government spending in Canada's most populated province was enough to offset all the others and more.

(Ah yes the classic LIE-beral SELECTIVE VISION!! Debt is crippling us and we cannot keep borrowing money! And yet we cannot keep our civil service HOGS at the shopping malls and restaurants and international resorts unless we KEEP ON BORROWING MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Another drag on the economy, said Poloz, was the energy sector, still struggling from low prices and poor market access. The exceptional frigid and stormy weather across most of the country also delayed exports, retail spending and other economic activity.

(Gosh- the energy sector is struggling? Would that be in part because LIE-berals are REFUSING to let Alberta export any oil to either the east or west coasts? How can you sell a product if you refuse to send it to market?? And then add in the $4.7 billion dollars that LIE-berals BORROWED so they could buy out the Kinder Morgan pipeline and kill it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But as Poloz and his group of advisers studied the gloomy data they had assembled, they were skeptical that it was really as bad as it seemed.
A half-million vacant jobs.

(Yes- to bad LIE-berals do not consider that many of those jobs are merely “fishing expeditions” by employers seeking to find out if they really have to give their employees pay raises!! Put out an ad with crap pay and lousy hours and see who responds!! If somebody desperate and with good skills applies then the boss can hire the desperate worker and FIRE a higher paid worker!! Such a policy is NOT job creation - it is job DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Despite an interruption in employment growth last month, there are other indicators that the economy is still hungry for workers. Wage growth outside the energy-producing provinces continues to rise at rates well above inflation.

(Yes the economy is hungry for SKILLED WORKERS who will be paid as if they were unskilled peasants! The contrast between what it costs to become skilled and what people can pay for skills and products is growing ever wider thanks to LIE-berals and the student debts our kids carry are crippling!! The cost of an education is so high- and the wages on offer are so low that many kids end up bankrupt or living with parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(And older workers who would benefit from retraining have the same problem!! The classic example is the $100 million dollars in re-training funds offered by LIE-beral McGinty to auto workers- but only 5 percent of the money was ever used- thanks to the insane red tape it was tied up in!! LIE-berals have PERFECTED the art of bait and switch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

On housing, the unwinding of overcharged markets in Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto is big enough to show up in the national statistics, though in most other cities, the real estate market remains healthy.

(And LIE-berals are picking the pockets of older people by meddling with the housing market!! A lot of older folks often MUST SELL as they cannot afford to keep living where they are! Consider all the GM workers with mortgages who will be selling out soon unless GM rehires them!! Or consider all the folks on fixed incomes who are scrambling to find a cheaper place to live as LIE-beral meddling erodes incomes while living expenses SOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Poloz expects what he calls the "froth" to come out of those two markets as soon as this spring, as Canada's expanding population puts the housing market back on track.

On the carbon-pricing front, the new charge will have a small effect on inflation this year: about a tenth of a percentage point that will drop by half next year. The bank's calculations show the effect on economic growth will be negligible because the rebates mean the money will still be spent — just on different things.

(Yes- as an example- food companies will swallow much of the increased shipping cost- and that translates into FROZEN WAGES for workers as living costs RISE!! And there will be reduced corporate dividends to stock holders thanks to reduced corporate profits- putting MORE PRESSURE on those with fixed incomes!!!!!!!)

While the damage to the fossil fuel-based energy sector due to reduced investment and poor transportation links will continue to bite energy-producing provinces, the recent sharp increase in oil prices mean things will be much better than they were.

(But- LIE-berals invested $4.7 BILLION DOLLARS into the energy sector when they purchased that pipeline? Are LIE-berals telling us the money was WASTED?? And how do “poor transportation links” relate to LIE-beral refusal to allow Alberta to export oil??????????????????????)

And, of course, winter is finally over.

(Yes- over till next year! What excuse will LIE-berals offer when it comes back?)

All that does not mean the Canadian or global economy is entirely out of the woods. Failure to resolve trade disputes could mean the downturn would continue to inflict pain. On the other hand, a successful resolution of trade disputes could cause the opposite effect: that strange central banking concept of "the upside risk."

(There will be NO resolution to trade disputes until we deal with national security problems that LIE-berals are deliberately making! And until we deal with crippling debt that LIE-berals consider NECESSARY for buying votes so they can cling to power at any price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But barring further shocks, Poloz said the Canadian economy would not just recover soon, but is recovering now: The depths of the economic dip were the last three months of 2018 and the first three months of this year.

(Yes- Poloz woudl like us to BELIEVE that as we run up to the October election that will make or break Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"We're into the positive frame already," he said.

The slower pace of rate hikes by central banks around the world have already had their effect, raising stock markets and commodity prices.

(Oh that`s wonderful! Lower rates mean people on fixed incomes will be hard pressed by LIE-beral carbon crap and trade SCAMS!! Fixed incomes and soaring living costs generate large numbers of ANTI LIE-beral voters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(And higher commodity prices generate even more inflation that hurts ordinary people who DO NOT get to ride the govt gravy train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"Right now, we believe that this setting of interest rates will give the outlook," said Poloz. "Growth picks up in the second quarter and picks up for real in the third quarter."

(Yeah- cover YOUR ASS and the hell with others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But like the rest of us, the experts at the Bank of Canada will be watching the economic statistics as they roll in to see if their wishes have come true.

(Uh huh- LIE-berals are praying for a Fairy God Mother to save them from voter WRATH!!)

(What it comes down to is that LIE-berals DON’T HAVE A CLUE.......
Other than to TELL LIES AND HALF TRUTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
 

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Congratulations Boomer. There’s somebody on Can Con more idiotic than you


Our dollar is weak because Our idiot Boy Justin and his loser LIE-berals CHOSE to IGNORE the influence that massive debt has on things like our dollar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Back in mid- October/2015 I predicted that if elected-Justin Trudope would perform a magic trick and make all our jobs and money disappear and lo and behold-I was correct!


We have here a nice report from Fraser Institute explaining how well Our Brainless Boy is doing with his trick.



And I have added some comments of my own in brackets):

What middle class tax cut? In reality, people will be paying more under the federal Liberals’ tax changes.

(Yes-PAYING MORE-without taking the series of THIRTY BILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS OUR Boy is planning to run-that WILL have to be paid for eventually!)

By Charles Lammam, Ben Eisen and Milagros Palacios

First posted: Saturday, July 09, 2016 07:16 PM EDT. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Postmedia Network files)

On the campaign trail, the Liberals promised to cut taxes for middle-class Canadians to ensure that “middle-class Canadians have money in their pockets to save, invest and grow the economy.”

Once elected, the Liberals did reduce the income tax rate on the second-lowest federal tax bracket from 22% to 20.5%. On its own, this tax relief would be welcome, especially since the average Canadian family currently pays more than 40% of its annual income in taxes.

However, since assuming power, the Liberals have also implemented or announced a host of tax hikes that will more than wipe out the benefits of the income tax cut. Far from leaving more “money in their pockets,” the federal government will actually reduce the take-home pay of middle-income Canadians.

(Apparently LIE-berals think that ALL their supporters are on the Sunshine List and thus earning well ABOVE middle class pay? Or maybe LIE-berals are CORRECT and ALL their supporters are above middle class pay rates thanks to their endless ENTITLEMENTS?)

The latest tax increase announced is the payroll tax hike that will be used to finance the expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

Once fully implemented in 2025, the total CPP contribution rate (which is split notionally in half between employees and employers) will increase from the current rate of 9.9% to 11.9% of eligible earnings up to a maximum of $72,500.

In addition, earnings between $72,500 and $82,700 will also be subject to the CPP tax, albeit at a lower total rate of 8%.

(Yeah-the more money you make, the more likely you are to be a Hog and a LIE-beral friend and LIE-berals go easier on their ENTITLED friends!)

These changes represent a substantial tax increase that will more than wipe out the benefits of the recent income tax rate reduction for middle-income Canadians.

Consider, for example, someone with taxable income of $54,900— the current maximum earnings threshold for CPP contributions. The income tax rate reduction will reduce this person’s income tax by $144.

However, if we assume the CPP changes are fully implemented this year, that person will pay an additional $514 in CPP taxes. And this doesn’t account for the additional CPP taxes paid by the employer on his or her behalf (another $514).

(I point out that the more money taken out of the pockets of your boss, the harder it will be to get any sort of RAISE in pay in future! And what of all those people who live on commissions-sales people at all manner of retail outlets will be hurt as less people come through their doors! Ours is a service economy and the less money people have, the less services they buy and the economy slows-it seems obvious to any body but a LIE-beral that endless taxes and the gravy train are killing our economy!)

Yes, the federal government has said that additional contributions to the CPP will be tax-deductible for income tax purposes, so this worker would get some of their increased CPP contributions back by claiming a tax deduction.

But it’s clear that the net effect of these tax changes is a tax hike— not a reduction.

(And of course, that which govt gives-it can also TAKE AWAY-how long before the tax deduction fades and then disappears? And we should regard the offer of a tax reduction as simply a stupid sop to lull us that things wont get too bad! Until LIE-berals decide to really gouge us!)

Things look even worse for a Canadian with taxable income of $45,282 — the lowest income level of the tax bracket where the Liberal tax cut applies.

This person will receive no benefit from the income tax reduction but will have to pay $418 in additional CPP contributions ($836 including employer contributions).

Even for Canadians earning more, the outlook for tax relief doesn’t look good.

An individual with taxable income of $90,563 — the income level at which he or she receives the maximum amount of personal income tax relief from the Liberal income tax rate cut— will save $679 in income taxes.

But this person will pay an extra $821 in employee contributions to the CPP.

(Of course IF LIE-berals were really concerned with justice and balanced books they would IMMEDIATELY END that cosy deal that lets ALL civil service Hogs off the hook for paying the health `levy`. One employed Cdn in three works for govt and NONE of them pay that health levy! It’s a great deal for them and goes a long way towards explaining why govt is having a hard time PAYING the health care bills!)

Tax deductibility on new CPP contributions will provide this individual with some savings.

But once you factor in the $821 in employer contributions (the cost of which will be passed on to the employee through slower wage growth and/or a reduction in other benefits), even this higher-income Canadian won’t receive a tax cut on balance.

Finally, the CPP tax increase is just one of many tax increases imposed by the new federal government on middle-income Canadians.

The elimination of income splitting for couples with children, the cancellation of several widely used tax credits, and the reduction in annual TFSA contribution limits will potentially increase the tax burden for middle-income Canadians.

With all these tax hikes in mind, the net effect of recent tax changes is less money in the pockets of Canadians.

The campaigning Liberals promised to reduce the tax burden on Canada’s middle class. In office, they have failed to deliver.

(Isnt it SAD? Those stupid civil service Hogs put LIE-berals in power in exchange for promises of more gravy-but apparently sometimes LESS IS MORE! Its just the cost of doing business with LIE-berals! Just how greedy does a person have to be to drink the LIE-beral cool aid and BELIEVE? After all the FAILED promises?)

Lammam, Eisen and Palacios are analysts with the Fraser Institute www. fraser institute (dot) org