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MY Canada does not include the leadership of Justin Trudeau
With the tumultuous 2020 Canadian political scene unfolding like a daytime soap opera, who needs Netflix?
Truly, let us examine the Cirque de Government de Canada that we have had the horror of witnessing. But first we must set the stage:
Prior to the start of 2020, we have witnessed the debacle that is now known as S.N.C. Lavalin, the international scandal with roots in corruption-graft and greed world wide that seems to operate in Canada without fear of legal action against their business practises. Not only did Prime Minister hide his connections to the company, but he dismissed highly competent and highly placed associates who questioned his motives.
We also have as part of the package, a publicly acknowledged vacation to a private island whose interests in Trudeau connections include his family foundation and our Prime Ministers alleged embracing of the Islam faith.
Question Period? Question Period?
Ah, we must mean the seemingly difficult task of responding to a query from the Official Opposition which usually was met with a programmed response along the following line:
“The government of Canada prides itself on being transparent on issues that affect Canadians. We have approved (sic) more pipelines than the Harper Government. We are a government of law and order (although we will not allow any federal police force to stop illegal and rampant demonstrations). We value our oil and gas industry and are working hard to support …..(you get the idea).”
Black face? Let’s talk about black face…no, better not.
Sexual assault allegations against Justin Trudeau…oops.
Can we forget the Greta Thumberg appearance in Alberta and oil jurisdictions? It is amazing how she just appeared at the right time to help turn the federal election and focus attention on how dirty Alberta oil really is. We have to remember the connection between a former Trudeau associate and Thumberg as well.
Political Bias in reporting? Since the Liberal regime has gained power, the power of free speech and free press has been decreased. Add to the fire, federal funding for friendly media outlets that does not include True North and Rebel News.
Protests over the pipelines in BC, Alberta and Ontario-ah, that was a great couple of months.
Assisted suicide…Abortion funding worldwide…W.H.O. funding….Chinese contracts for Canadian oil exploration…
Ah, now that sets us up for 2020…Trouble, trouble, trouble.
Canada is BACK folks, we are BACK!
Back in trouble as the Liberal government continues to press its brand of socialism-fueled by the mis-labeled and mishandled global pandemic, our China friendly Prime Minister has ballooned our deficit to $300 Billion (estimated), our unemployment rate to 20 + %, our business failure rate to a similar number all while opening the coffers with debt funded relief programs for nearly everyone except seniors and veterans (nothing new here).
We cannot forget our federal health minister with ties to China…very suspicious…
This year we also said goodbye to the mythical seat on the UN that Trudeau campaigned for so expensively…And it was due to not enough campaign time and money, nothing to do with His reputation globally.
Fueled by fear and a complete lack of political and economic sense, the reigning government has hobbled democracy with shutting parliament down until September, has stopped any meaningful debate on the future of our country, has stopped any efforts to remove Mr. Trudeau from office legally and turned Canada in to the country most likely to become a 3rd world entity by the year 2025!
One very significant issue ignored by main stream media is the private prosecution bill put forth by Norman Travesy and the future of both our free trade agreement and freedom of Trudeau IF and WHEN he is found guilty of corruption, there is plenty of drama folks. July 27 cannot come too soon.
If we add the new WE scandal over student grant financing and the third ethics investigation into the government of Justin Trudeau, a dreadful pattern has emerged.
I say all of this to simply state a fact.
If Canadians have any sense, any morality, any ability to look in to the future, we CANNOT, CANNOT be saddled with a leader who is a pathological liar, narcissistic by nature, irresponsible and undisciplined in any situation other than dealing with school crossing duties!
The time has come for a real leader to step up and take Canada back into a position of respect, into a position of leadership, and a position where we look after our interests first. We need to clean the swamp as another notable leader has.
We need to:
Stop funding abortion around the world.
Stop funding W.H.O.
Stop any global initiatives that weaken our country.
Stand up for seniors, veterans and small business.
Remove corruption from the government, top down!
It is time to remove Mr. Trudeau from office, Official Opposition.
It is time.
This is no time for weakness, but rather bold action and confident leadership.
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From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
B.C. recently decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. The resulting explosion of addicts using drugs in public spaces, including parks and playgrounds, recently led the province’s NDP government to attempt to backtrack on this policy
Fuelled by the deadly manufactured opioid fentanyl, Canada’s national drug overdose rate stood at 19.3 people per 100,000 in 2022, a shockingly high number when compared to the European Union’s rate of just 1.8. But national statistics hide considerable geographic variation. British Columbia and Alberta together account for only a quarter of Canada’s population yet nearly half of all opioid deaths. B.C.’s 2022 death rate of 45.2/100,000 is more than double the national average, with Alberta close behind at 33.3/100,00.
In response to the drug crisis, Canada’s two western-most provinces have taken markedly divergent approaches, and in doing so have created a natural experiment with national implications.
B.C. has emphasized harm reduction, which seeks to eliminate the damaging effects of illicit drugs without actually removing them from the equation. The strategy focuses on creating access to clean drugs and includes such measures as “safe” injection sites, needle exchange programs, crack-pipe giveaways and even drug-dispensing vending machines. The approach goes so far as to distribute drugs like heroin and cocaine free of charge in the hope addicts will no longer be tempted by potentially tainted street drugs and may eventually seek help.
But safe-supply policies create many unexpected consequences. A National Post investigation found, for example, that government-supplied hydromorphone pills handed out to addicts in Vancouver are often re-sold on the street to other addicts. The sellers then use the money to purchase a street drug that provides a better high — namely, fentanyl.
Doubling down on safe supply, B.C. recently decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. The resulting explosion of addicts using drugs in public spaces, including parks and playgrounds, recently led the province’s NDP government to attempt to backtrack on this policy — though for now that effort has been stymied by the courts.
According to Vancouver city councillor Brian Montague, “The stats tell us that harm reduction isn’t working.” In an interview, he calls decriminalization “a disaster” and proposes a policy shift that recognizes the connection between mental illness and addiction. The province, he says, needs “massive numbers of beds in treatment facilities that deal with both addictions and long-term mental health problems (plus) access to free counselling and housing.”
In fact, Montague’s wish is coming true — one province east, in Alberta. Since the United Conservative Party was elected in 2019, Alberta has been transforming its drug addiction policy away from harm reduction and towards publicly-funded treatment and recovery efforts.
Instead of offering safe-injection sites and free drugs, Alberta is building a network of 10 therapeutic communities across the province where patients can stay for up to a year, receiving therapy and medical treatment and developing skills that will enable them to build a life outside the drug culture. All for free. The province’s first two new recovery centres opened last year in Lethbridge and Red Deer. There are currently over 29,000 addiction treatment spaces in the province.
This treatment-based strategy is in large part the work of Marshall Smith, current chief of staff to Alberta’s premier and a former addict himself, whose life story is a testament to the importance of treatment and recovery.
The sharply contrasting policies of B.C. and Alberta allow a comparison of what works and what doesn’t. A first, tentative report card on this natural experiment was produced last year in a study from Stanford University’s network on addiction policy (SNAP). Noting “a lack of policy innovation in B.C.,” where harm reduction has become the dominant policy approach, the report argues that in fact “Alberta is currently experiencing a reduction in key addiction-related harms.” But it concludes that “Canada overall, and B.C. in particular, is not yet showing the progress that the public and those impacted by drug addiction deserve.”
The report is admittedly an early analysis of these two contrasting approaches. Most of Alberta’s recovery homes are still under construction, and B.C.’s decriminalization policy is only a year old. And since the report was published, opioid death rates have inched higher in both provinces.
Still, the early returns do seem to favour Alberta’s approach. That should be regarded as good news. Society certainly has an obligation to try to help drug users. But that duty must involve more than offering addicts free drugs. Addicted people need treatment so they can kick their potentially deadly habit and go on to live healthy, meaningful lives. Dignity comes from a life of purpose and self-control, not a government-funded fix.
Susan Martinuk is a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and author of the 2021 book Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health Care Crisis. A longer version of this article recently appeared at C2CJournal.ca.
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