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Liberal Leadership Launch…

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We are one day away from Trump being inaugurated, the country may be thrown into 25% tariffs, in the hundreds of Executive Orders that Trump will be signing on his first days back in office as the 47th President of the United Statesā¦
And itās hard to not notice that the Left Leaners are more focused on Premier Smith, not signing a retaliatory declaration on the United States – working to protect the economy and job base of Albertansā¦instead of continuing on with the actual issues that need be resolved:
- Border Security;
- Reducing Drug Trafficking.
This is what got us here in the first placeā¦but legacy media only seemingly want to fade Justin Trudeau and the Liberal decade of failure, into the background.
If we had a government that wasnāt currently Prorogued, or that caused this through reckless policies in the first placeā¦because of the Liberal Party collapsing due to a non-confidence vote being imminentā¦the Premiers of every province wouldnāt have had to try and uniteā¦wouldnāt have had to try and put 26% (the largest portion) of the Alberta GDP, up as a lamb to be slaughtered.
āTEAM CANADAā, they screechā¦
āSmith has committed Treasonā, they relentā¦
And in certain circlesā¦this rage fest, is seemingly getting traction.
A part of this is all due to the Liberal Friendly, Legacy Mediaā¦some even due to censorship, where we full well know that through Bill C-63 – The Online Harms Act, throwing you in jail for mean tweets, or having you strapped with an ankle monitor if somebody even believes you are going to shit-post online.
Mark Carneyā¦first to throw his official launch into the melee.
Parachutes into Albertaā¦where apparently, him and George āThe Porch Pirateā Chahal, Thelma and Louised a City of Calgary vehicle, and headed into Redmonton for their Launch Event:
Whereā¦they did invite legacy and alternate media to the eventā¦
And then, through the protection of Edmonton Police Servicesā¦selected a few friends to be allowed into the eventā¦while trespassing others off of the property.
Isnāt Edmonton rife enough with Crime that their Police should be focused on, over playing private security, for a Liberal Party Launchā¦kicking out invited guests?
And thenā¦letās hop into how incredibly moronic Team Carney isā¦in botching not only one Logo, but also breaching copyright laws on a secondā¦in 2 days.
Instead of just using the Liberal Party Logoā¦
Or, are we just supposed to forget that heās running for Liberal Leadership?
Rightfully, Mark is being ruthlessly mocked online for his Copy Right infringements and lack of creativityā¦
Freelandā¦not doing a whole lot better.
Thinking that if she changed her social media profile picture to be more Liberal Red, sheād come off more appealingā¦and ended up with this:
Dear Lordā¦this is Nightmare Fuel!
Even more so knowing that she could be the next Prime Minister of Canada, given her absolutely horrific track-record as an MP and deputy PM.
Where itās only now, that he job is on the lineā¦that she has taken to Axing the Tax, that everybody knows, does not give 8/10 Canadians more back than they contribute:
Both her and Mark have made statements about thisā¦
But they both seemingly allude to the idea, just like the previous last ditch efforts to keep the tax in place but make it more popular by rebranding it, around a year agoā¦
Itās a bullshit taxā¦
That will never actually achieve anything close to fixing the weatherā¦
Because planetary temperatures and regional weather are completely dynamicā¦and are controlled by that large ball of fire in the sky, we refer to as, āThe Sunā.
Itās hard to believe that there are still some people out there who donāt recognize that when the sun is up, the temperature outside is WARMER and at night time, itās COOLERā¦but yet want to blame Soccer Momās in their SUVs for heating up the planet.
We could talk about the other no-name failures that havenāt got the traction to even compete in this spud raceā¦
Frank BaylisĀ – Liberal Supporter who got the contract for ventilators that were never approved for use in Canada, that were bought for thousands and sold of as scrap metal.
Chandra AryaĀ – who claims to be fluent in French and English, while cannot speak a word in French and can barely communicate in Englishā¦
Karina GouldĀ – who announce her intent to run, in a Tweet on Xā¦and then blocked commentsā¦
But, reallyā¦why bother?
Their leadership run is as much of a catastrophe as their rein over Canada, for the last decade.
Itās so terrible, youād almost think that they are deliberately sabotaging their own chances at winningā¦where at least 24 Liberal MPs have already decided that theyāre going to take some time off of politics, āto spend more time with their familiesā.
Business
Do Minimum Wage Laws Accomplish Anything?

David Clinton
All the smart people tell us that, one way or another, increasing the minimum wage will change society. Proponents claim raising pay at the low end of the economy will help low-income working families survive in hyper-expensive communities. Opponents claim that artificially increasing employment costs will either drive employers towards adopting innovative automation integrations or to shut down their businesses altogether. Either way, goes the anti-intervention narrative, there will be fewer jobs available.
Well, whatāll it be? Canadian provinces have been experimenting with minimum wage laws for many years. And since 2021, the federal government has imposed its own rate for employees of allĀ federally regulated industries. There should be plenty of good data out there by now indicating who was right.
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Historical records on provincial rates going back decades isĀ available from Statistics Canada. For this research, I used data starting in 2011. Since new rates often come into effect mid-year, I only applied a yearās latest rate to the start of the following year. 2022 itself, for simplicity, was measured by the new federal rate, with the exception of British Columbia whoās rate was $0.10 higher than the federal rate.
My goal was to look for evidence that increasing statutory wage rates impacted these areas:
- Earnings among workers in full-service restaurants
- Operating profit margins for full-service restaurants
- Total numbers of active businesses in the accommodation and food services industries
I chose to focus on the food service industry because itās particularly dependent on low-wage workers and particularly sensitive to labour costs. Outcomes here should tell us a lot about the impact such government policies are having.
Restaurant worker incomeĀ is reported as total numbers. In other words, we can see how much all of, say, Manitobaās workers combined took home in a given year. For those numbers to make sense, I adjusted them using overall provincial populations.
Income in British Columbia and PEI showed a strong correlation to increasing minimum wages. Interestingly, BC has consistently had the highest of all provincesā minimum wage while PEIās has mostly hung around the middle of the pack. Besides a weak negative correlation in Saskatchewan, there was no indication that income in other provinces either dropped or grew in sync with increases to the minimum wage.
Nation-wide, by weighting results by population numbers, we got a Pearson coefficient 0.30. That means itās unlikely that wage rate changes had any impact on take-home income.
Did increases harm restaurants? It doesnāt look like it. I usedĀ data measuring active employer businessesĀ in the accommodation and food services industries. No provinces showed any impact on business startups and exits that could be connected to minimum wage laws. Overall, Canadaās coefficient value was 0.29 – again a very weak positive relationship.
So restaurants havenāt been collapsing at epic, extinction-level rates. But do government minimums cause a reduction in theirĀ operating profit margins? Apparently not. If anything, theyāve becomeĀ moreĀ profitable!
The nation-wide coefficient between minimum wages and restaurant profitability was 0.88 – suggesting a strong correlation. But how could that be happening? Donāt labour costs make up a major chunk of food service operating expenses? Here are a few possible explanations:
- Perhaps many restaurants respond to rising costs by increasing their menu prices. This can work out well if market demand turns out to be relatively inelastic and people continue eating out despite higher prices.
- Higher wages might lead to lower employee turnover, reducing hiring and training costs.
- A higher minimum wage boosts worker incomes, leading to more disposable income in the economy. Although the flip-side is that we canāt see strong evidence of higher worker income.
- Higher wages can force unprofitable, inefficient restaurants to close, leaving stronger businesses with higher market share.
In any case, my big-picture verdict on government intervention into private sector wage rates is: thanks but donāt bother. All that effort doesnāt seem to have improved actual incomes on a population scale. At the same time, it also hasnāt driven industries with workers at the low-end of the pay scale to devastating collapse.
But Iām sure it has taken up enormous amounts of public service time and resources that could undoubtedly have been more gainfully spent elsewhere. More important, as theĀ economist Alex Tabarrok recently pointed out, minimum wage laws have been shown to reduce employment for the disabled and measurably increase both consumer prices and workplace injuries.
Business
Trudeau Liberals pledge $41.5 million for over 100 pro-2SLGBTQI+ projects

From LifeSiteNews
Leader of the Peopleās Party of Canada Maxime Bernier blasted the funding, noting how spending money while the country is in a āmajor economic crisisā shows how āLiberal nutcasesā are āwastingā taxpayer money on āwoke activists.āĀ
Prime Minister Justin Trudeauās Liberal government is using its final days to promise $41.5 million in taxpayer funds to advance 106 pro-LGBT projects āacross Canada.ā
On January 31, Lisa Hepfner, Trudeauās Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, announced ā$41.5 million for 106 projects across four different 2SLGBTQI+ funds.āĀ
Today I joined my colleague @s_guilbeault in Montreal to announce a fed investment of $41.5 million for 106 projects to advance equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities across šØš¦ Including $8m for 10 projects aimed at combatting hate and $33.5m to fund 96 projects to address key issues pic.twitter.com/eqrifcTFIg
— Lisa Hepfner (@lisahepfner) January 31, 2025
āThis funding will advance equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities across Canada and address the rise in hate,āĀ claimedĀ theĀ government in a press release.Ā
The government said the money will help ābuild and sustain resilience of 2SLGBTQI+ communities against hate and discrimination,ā with the funds coming as part ofāÆCanadaāsāÆAction Plan on Combatting Hate,āÆwhich was launched in the fall of 2024, and follows TrudeauāsĀ Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan,Ā which is in its third year of operation.
Leader of the Peopleās Party of Canada Maxime Bernier blasted the funding, noting how spending money while the country is in a āmajor economic crisisā shows how āLiberal nutcasesā are āwastingā taxpayer money on āwoke activists.āĀ
āAs Canada is on the verge of a major economic crisis, these Liberal nutcases are wasting another $41M on woke activists and mentally ill people who identify as one of the 52 genders. Unbelievable,āĀ wroteĀ Bernier on X Saturday in response toĀ Hepfnerās X postĀ about the funding.Ā
As reported by investigative bloggerĀ Pat Maloney,Ā Canada spent $108,594,964 on LGBT ideology in 2022, a number that swelled to a whoppingāÆ$665,454,357Ā in 2023.
Maloney reported that in 2024 CanadaāÆgave LGBT activists a totalāÆof $6,469,076 ā an increase from the previous three years, ināÆwhich a totalāÆof $12,548,238 was spent.Ā
Since taking office in 2015, the Trudeau government has consistentlyĀ pushed anĀ anti-life, anti-family narrative on Canadians.
In addition to supporting effectively unlimited abortion, Trudeau and his government have stood behind even the mostĀ extreme aspectsĀ of gender ideology, such as the chemical and surgical ātransitionā of minors.
TrudeauāÆannouncedāÆin early January that he plans to step down as Liberal Party leader once a new leader has been chosen, which isāÆset to take placeāÆon March 9. Parliament has been prorogued until March 24 as a result, although Trudeau could resume it at any time.Ā
Thus far, the two main candidates in the running to replace Trudeau are former central banker Mark Carney and Trudeauās former Finance MinisterāÆChrystia Freeland.Ā
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