Opinion
Oh For Truck’s Sake – a KinderMorgan Story
By Cory G. Litzenberger, CPA, CMA, CFP, C.Mgr – President & Founder of CGL Strategic Business & Tax Advisors (CGLtax.ca)
Say you have a 1953 F-100 pickup truck. It has a 110 horsepower V8 that still works fine. You’ve done regular maintenance and repairs, and you have fixed it repeatedly to keep it on the road, but the job it performs just isn’t enough anymore to meet the demand of your customers.
The old truck isn’t what it used to be. You can’t accelerate as fast, can’t get to where you want to go as quickly, it costs more to run, and the towing capacity isn’t what you need to be at full efficiency.
To most people, the truck is a classic, and many would see it as something worth saving and restoring. Now, you aren’t willing to part with it just yet either, but you know that in order to keep your business running you can’t continue with only this old truck.
As a result, the time has come for an upgrade, so you can continue operations. The new model has an engine with over 400 horsepower, better fuel efficiency, new technology, more safety features, and can easily meet the needs of your business and the needs of your customers for many years to come.
There is only one catch.
You can’t easily get the truck.
The Canadian government is requiring you to have permits, licenses, and approvals before getting the truck.
Then once you get them, the BC government is saying that you shouldn’t have been approved to get the truck.
While you patiently file all papers and deal with all legal proceedings, there are now protestors and politicians blocking any route you try to prevent you from getting the truck.
Meanwhile, you keep using your old truck and see your competitors starting to get new trucks in other jurisdictions and start shipping to your customers while you still patiently wait for your own new truck.
But now the time has come to do something.
If you don’t get your new truck soon, you will have no choice but to go get your new truck somewhere else or you could lose a lot of business.
You aren’t asking for money, you’re just tired of being patient. Your business depends on it, and the delays preventing you from getting the truck are threatening your business.
All you want is for the protestors to move and the governments to stop changing their minds, so you can have the truck.
So what does the government decide to do to help you?
Instead of removing the protestors and sticking to the approvals already granted, they will buy your old truck and bring in their own new truck to compete against you instead.
Say goodbye to something that has been working for you for 65 years, and say hello to your new competitor.
So instead of helping your business, they are telling you to leave it behind and go somewhere else.
Now at least you’ll have the money to put towards that new truck you want, except now you not only have to do it elsewhere, you now have another competitor also getting a new truck, and still has the old one that you were going to use to help pay for the new one.
If this were you, would you ever want to come back to Canada?
Personally, I would enjoy my new truck somewhere else and never look back.
$3.97 BILLION Cut From Veterans Affairs. Cannabis Benefits Slashed. Hypocrisy in Full Bloom.
They’re quietly dismantling the only lifeline veterans have left. The federal government just carved $3.97 billion out of Veterans Affairs Canada’s budget.
That’s not trimming fat, that’s cutting into the bone and burning the body.
And as if that weren’t disgusting enough, they’re also slashing medical cannabis reimbursements for veterans from $8.50 down to $6.00 per gram.
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The same medicine that’s keeping thousands of veterans alive through PTSD, chronic pain, and TBI recovery gutted by bureaucrats who’ve never had to bury a friend who lost the battle at home.
I testified in Canada’s first veteran suicide study and I warned them. I sat in front of Parliament and told them this would happen. I told them this LAST WEEK. I told them veterans were being failed by their own government ignored, delayed, and dismissed until they broke.
The study exposed it the chronic failure of the liberal veteran system. Suicide rates among veterans were higher than the national average. VAC systems were drowning in paperwork and apathy. Those who found stability through medical cannabis were finally regaining their lives.
So what did this government do with that data?
They buried it then cut the funding anyway.
This isn’t mismanagement. It’s betrayal with a signature and a smile while they wear a poppy and pretend to smile for photo ops. Jill McKnight and Mark Carney need to be held accountable for this. Canadians will DIE. Make no mistake.
This week, cannabis providers like MyMedi.ca confirmed what Ottawa buried in bureaucratic language:
“The Federal Government released its potential new budget, which includes a proposed policy change reducing the Veterans Affairs Canada reimbursement rate for medical cannabis from $8.50 per gram to $6.00 per gram.”
That’s a 30% cut to a life-saving medicine. It forces veterans to downgrade their treatment or pay out of pocket, the empty pockets that is. Standing in food bank lines and now having to find medicine on the black market to be able to function.
To justify it, the Liberals cited “declining market prices.” Let’s get one thing straight, recreational weed is not medical cannabis.
Medical cannabis is pharmaceutical-grade regulated for purity, potency, and consistency. It’s prescribed by doctors, not dealers. It’s the difference between numbing your pain and healing from it. Cutting that is like telling a diabetic to use cheaper insulin or less of it because the government found a “better price.”
It’s criminal, make no mistake.
Every November, the liberal government stands at podiums wrapped in poppies, preaching about “honouring our heroes.”
Then, when the cameras turn off, they quietly gut the budget that keeps those heroes alive.
They say they’re increasing “overall government spending” by $141 billion over the next five years. Yet they’re carving out $4 billion from the very department that’s supposed to prevent veteran suicide.
They can find billions for consultants, media subsidies, and overseas virtue projects but not to keep veterans from killing themselves. That’s not just hypocrisy. That’s moral rot and our government needs to be dismantled, held accountable and re built.
This is what corruption looks like, it’s just in polite Canadian form. There doesn’t need to be a bribe to call it corruption. Corruption is when a government pretends to care while quietly dismantling the systems that hold lives together.
Corruption is cutting medical support for veterans, then gaslighting the public with talk of “efficiency.” Corruption is using Remembrance Day for photo ops while veterans wait years for their disability claims.
Every one of these decisions sends a message – You were useful once. Now you’re expensive.
Every dollar cut equals blood on their hands and it will be your fault.
I will tell anyone who wants to join: don’t.
They will leave you to die, and step over your body to hand an immigrant your benefits the ones you fought your whole career for. This isn’t abstract. This isn’t about numbers on a spreadsheet. Every cut means, longer delays for mental health treatment. More vets turning to opioids or alcohol.
More suicides that could have been prevented. More suicides, MORE SUICIDES, MORE SUICIDES!!!
And when those suicides happen, the same politicians will stand at the next memorial and talk about “honour” while wearing crocodile tears.
Fucking liars.
Veterans aren’t asking for charity. We’re demanding the promises that were made.
If this government truly cared, they’d fund what works, not gut it. What they just did says everything. They’d protect cannabis access, streamline claims, fund the psychedelic assisted life saving therapy and actually listen to the data from the studies they commissioned.
Instead, they’re too busy protecting their image.
This isn’t about politics anymore. It’s about integrity. A country that forgets its warriors doesn’t deserve to be called free.
We fought for this land, bled for it, and came home to a system that’s now turning its back on us. No more quiet compliance. No more polite outrage.
Somewhere in this country a country that used to look and act like Canada a veteran won’t make it to morning.
A family will lose their loved one. Children will grow up without a parent. And the void they leave will never, ever be filled.
It won’t be because they were weak. Not because they didn’t try every minute of every day just to keep breathing.
It’ll be because a country that sent them to war and keeps sending kids to wars built on lies refused to bring them all the way home.
Canadians veterans are officially being left to die.
And the liberals are holding the knife.
KELSI SHEREN
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Censorship Industrial Complex
School Cannot Force Students To Use Preferred Pronouns, US Federal Court Rules
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
“Our system forbids public schools from becoming ‘enclaves of totalitarianism.’”
A federal appeals court in Ohio ruled Thursday that students cannot be forced to use preferred pronouns in school.
Defending Education (DE) filed the suit against Olentangy Local School District (OLSD) in 2023, arguing the district’s anti-harassment policy that requires students to use the “preferred pronouns” of others violates students’ First Amendment rights by “compelling students to affirm beliefs about sex and gender that are contrary to their own deeply held beliefs.” Although a lower court attempted to shoot down the challenge, the appeals court ruled in a 10-7 decision that the school cannot “wield their authority to compel speech or demand silence from citizens who disagree with the regulators’ politically controversial preferred new form of grammar.”
Because the school considers transgender students to be a protected class, students who violated the anti-harassment policy by referring to such students by their biological sex risked punishments such as suspension and expulsion, according to DE.
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“American history and tradition uphold the majority’s decision to strike down the school’s pronoun policy,” the court wrote in its opinion. “Over hundreds of years, grammar has developed in America without governmental interference. Consistent with our historical tradition and our cherished First Amendment, the pronoun debate must be won through individual persuasion, not government coercion. Our system forbids public schools from becoming ‘enclaves of totalitarianism.’”
OLSD did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“We are deeply gratified by the Sixth Circuit’s intensive analysis not only of our case but the state of student First Amendment rights in the modern era,” Nicole Neily, founder and president of DE, said in a statement. “The court’s decision – and its many concurrences – articulate the importance of free speech, the limits and perils of public schools claiming to act in loco parentis, and the critical role of persuasion – rather than coercion – in America’s public square.”
“Despite its ham-fisted attempt to moot the case, Olentangy School District was sternly reminded by the 6th circuit en banc court that it cannot force students to express a viewpoint on gender identity with which they disagree, nor extend its reach beyond the schoolhouse threshold into matters better suited to an exercise of parental authority,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at DE, said in a statement. “A resounding victory for student speech and parental rights was long overdue for families in the school district and we are thrilled the court’s ruling will benefit others seeking to vindicate their rights in the classroom and beyond.”
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