What The Liberals Did To Canada

[Goddess]

Mark Gerritson, and YOU because you re-posted it so obviously agree with him, is blaming food inflation on Mellissa Lantzman.

Either he is being disingenuous or he is purposely trying to deflect from the impact that he himself has had with 11 years of poor fiscal policy and ballooning deficits.

Which do you seriously think has had a greater impact on food inflation in Canada?

I suspect you're going to say it's Mellissa Lantzman.  Because a Liberal told you so.

You're like the person with a magnifying glass, intently studying a tiny pebble while a boulder comes crashing down a mountain behind them.

[Goddess]

This is why you should watch committee meetings.  

Did you know - refugees in Canada, even after they are REJECTED - get free nursing home and old age home rent?

It costs taxpayers 3/4 of a billion dollars every year - and going up.

That's on top of regular health care and all the extended health care they get that Canadians do NOT, at a cost of another $700 million per year.

This is only healthcare.

They also get free housing costs, free food, the child benefits, and an income of $82,000 per year.

 

Edited February 20 by Goddess

[I am Groot]

5 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

I will gladly claim it if it is mine but when it has someone elses name on it...it is illegal to claim it as your own.

Could very well be but..if you are going to diss grocery stores and food retailers...using former lobbyists for those groups is dubious at best

The NDP is dissing food stores and retailers. The Conservatives are dissing the government and its taxes and regulations.

Edited February 20 by I am Groot

[Goddess]

1 minute ago, I am Groot said:

The NDP is dissing foot stores and retailers. The Conservatives are dissing the government and its taxes and regulations.

And the Liberals are blaming it on Mellissa Lantzman 🤣

[Goddess]

4 minutes ago, Goddess said:

This is why you should watch committee meetings.  

Did you know - refugees in Canada, even after they are REJECTED - get free nursing home and old age home rent?

It costs taxpayers 3/4 of a billion dollars every year - and going up.

That's on top of regular health care and all the extended health care they get that Canadians do NOT, at a cost of another $700 million per year.

This is only healthcare.

They also get free housing costs, free food, the child benefits, and an income of $82,000 per year.

 

At this point, we might as well stop all foreign aid money, as it appears the world's needy are all HERE.

[Goddess]

[Goddess]

IIt's funny watching Canadian legacy media wake from their stupor and wonder what happened "out of nowhere."

Here's a quick list to help them gain a better understanding:

2016-Ongoing: Phoenix Pay System New federal payroll system. Costs quadrupled mysteriously. More costs to fix the quadrupled costs. Actual cost unknown because spending wasn't tracked.

2018: Chrysler Bailout Liberals wrote off a $2.6 billion loan to Chrysler for unknown reasons. No recovery of funds.

2020: WE Charity Contract $912 million student grant program contract awarded to WE Charity. Contract cancelled when Trudeau's family were found to be receiving payouts from WE. $30 million in initial costs unrecovered.

2020-2021: COVID-19 Relief Overpayments and Suspicious Benefits $27.4 billion in suspicious payments through programs like CERB and CEBA. $4.6 billion in overpayments, $1.6 billion to ineligible individuals, $6.1 million to prisoners, and $1.2 million to deceased people. $3.5 billion to ineligible CEBA recipients. Insider payments (corruption) and migrant housing accounted for another $1 billion.

2020-2021: Liberal Ventilators $237 million on 10,000 ventilators ($23,700 per ventilator) purchased from Frank Baylis, a Liberal MP.

2020-2021: Unaccounted Pandemic Spending $600 billion in unaccounted pandemic spending in 2020-21.

2021-2023: ArriveCAN App $59.5 million paid to Liberal insiders GC Strategies on an app hobbyists recreated over a weekend. Estimated real world development cost: $50,000. GC Strategies received $65 million across 106 contracts from 2015-2024 and produced nothing.

2015-2023: McKinsey & Company Contracts $209 million awarded to the Liberal insider corporation (Liberal ambassador to China, Dominic Barton was also managing director of McKinsey). Nothing of value was ever produced from this "partnership."

2015-2023: Infrastructure Projects Under Catherine McKenna $187 billion spent on 20,000 projects. Money was untracked and disappeared. No projects completed.

2018-2024: Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion $29 billion disappeared under Liberal management.

2021-2024: Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) $400 million misused through conflicts of interest (186 instances), with funds going to Liberal insiders' companies. Conservatives called it the "Green Slush Fund."

2023-2024: Firearms Buyback Program $67 million in costs. No guns recovered.

2023-2024: Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Plants $270 million lost on one plant as part of a $30 billion commitment.

2024: Cricket Protein Plant $42 million lost on one facility.

$61.9 billion deficit, $21.9 billion higher than projected. Interest costs $53.7 billion.

$300 million on passport redesign.

Plus billions funneled into Canada's perpetually failing state-funded media.

And this is just what's documented. Who knows how much money was laundered and embezzled into offshore accounts over the last 11 years.

During his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau's personal net worth grew from $7 million to upwards of $400 million on a $400,000 per year salary.

Canada might be poorer than Alabama but Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party definitely aren't.

 

This is why the Liberals in the last election could not run on their record and had to run on "The Americans are going to invade us and only WE can save you!!!  Everybody poop your pants!!!!!  Americans are our enemy!!!!"

Edited February 20 by Goddess

[ExFlyer]

1 hour ago, Goddess said:

And they are not grocery chain lobbyists.

So blaming Mellissa Lantzman for food inflation in Canada is stupid.

 

1 hour ago, I am Groot said:

The NDP is dissing foot stores and retailers. The Conservatives are dissing the government and its taxes and regulations.

 

1 hour ago, Goddess said:

Y'all sure spend a lot of time and effort to try and discredit me LOL

Time and time again you try

Yet, you get nowhere so, kudos for me to get so far under your skin that you go to those lengths.  HA HA HA

But hey....keep on keeping on

[Shady]

Nice.  Now we get to pay for his care.  Thanks libtards.

 

[ironstone]

5 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

My image is only to demonstrate that PP has 2 lobbyists from the companies he is dissing at every opportunity 

I think that pales in comparison to the current leader who has more conflicts of interest than any Prime Minister in Canadian history.

[ExFlyer]

39 minutes ago, ironstone said:

I think that pales in comparison to the current leader who has more conflicts of interest than any Prime Minister in Canadian history.

Perhaps but there is a huge difference....Carney is PM and is waaaaay over PP in the polls.

And, your opinion of the conflicts of interest are just that...opinions. No conflicts that would trigger any investigation seem to exist.

Edited February 20 by ExFlyer

[ironstone]

34 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

Perhaps but there is a huge difference....Carney is PM and is waaaaay over PP in the polls.

And, your opinion of the conflicts of interest are just that...opinions. No conflicts that would trigger any investigation seem to exist.

You keep treating Canadian politics like a sporting event with your team way ahead on the board. The rest of us are more focused on the state of the country over the last 10 plus years, and it isn't good. 

It's not just my opinion that Carney has numerous conflicts of interest, they do exist. He has met with Brookfield executives on several occasions so that doesn't say much for the blind trust does it? The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner doesn't seem to be on the ball in keeping an eye on Carney and who he meets with. The media isn't really interested in how Carney is going to benefit financially from his policy initiatives.

[I am Groot]

2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Y'all sure spend a lot of time and effort to try and discredit me LOL

I gather you haven't realized that you can't be discredited when you don't HAVE any credit.

[ExFlyer]

22 minutes ago, ironstone said:

You keep treating Canadian politics like a sporting event with your team way ahead on the board. The rest of us are more focused on the state of the country over the last 10 plus years, and it isn't good. 

It's not just my opinion that Carney has numerous conflicts of interest, they do exist. He has met with Brookfield executives on several occasions so that doesn't say much for the blind trust does it? The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner doesn't seem to be on the ball in keeping an eye on Carney and who he meets with. The media isn't really interested in how Carney is going to benefit financially from his policy initiatives.

Are you implying politics is not a sporting event??? Politics has winners and losers just like a sporting event . Well, if that is what your opinion is...OK then

OK, it is your opinion and some others but, as I said, if there were, there does not seem to be any of any interest to begin any type of investigation. Accusations can be made by anyone but to prove them is another thing.

What some of you forget is that Brookfield is one of the worlds largest asset management companies and of course they are going to meet with world leaders. They do very big business in many many countries in the world and have high level meetings with those countries regularly.

Again...your opinion of the commissioner is just that..an opinion. You have no proof of your accusation.

If the media has no evidence, they are not going to run with it because they cannot afford to make unjustifiable claims for liability reasons but you can and don't have to prove anything 

So, if and when you have proof...lets talk then

 

Edited February 20 by ExFlyer

[ExFlyer]

7 minutes ago, I am Groot said:

I gather you haven't realized that you can't be discredited when you don't HAVE any credit.

HA HA HA ...good try LOL

Thing is,... I have enough credibility to get some of you here to do whatever you can to argue with me and go into hissy fits trying to upmanship with me.

If I have so little credibility why do you keep arguing with me? Why is it so important that I agree with you? Why do you try so hard to change my opinion?

Oh and a graph showing whatever between Canada and Alabama??? What is it??? 

[ironstone]

2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Again...your opinion of the commissioner is just that..an opinion. You have no proof of your accusation.

Federal Cabinet office hiding details that will show PM Carney’s initial ethics screens were loophole-filled, unethical smokescreens

 

PM Carney’s so-called “ethics” screen (which only applies to 103 additional companies that are within or connected to the Brookfield conglomerate of companies) is a loophole-filled, unethical smokescreen that allows him to participate in, and hide that he is participating in, almost every decision that affects the companies in which he is invested.

As Democracy Watch detailed to the House Ethics Committee on October 1st during its ongoing review of the federal government ethics law, the loophole is one of a “dirty dozen” loopholes in the law.  The loophole is that as long as the decision applies generally or affects a broad group of people or entities, then PM Carney is allowed to participate in the decision even though it will affect a business he is invested in, and even though he can profit from the decision.  Almost all (99%) of decisions that the PM and Cabinet make apply generally or to a broad group of people or entities.  Click here to see the loophole in the definition of “private interest” in section 2 of the Act.

The screens also all hide the fact that the public office holder is not recusing themselves from decisions even when they have a conflict of interest.  Subsection 25(1) of the Act requires a public declaration of recusal every time an office holder recuses themselves, but former Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson created ethics screens to allow office holders to get around that requirement.  They set up a screen, claim that they are recusing themselves from all decisions, and then can hide the fact that they are not actually recusing themselves from decisions that affect their financial or other interests.

“The federal Cabinet office can try to hide from reality for the next few months, but eventually it will reveal details that will show that, because of a huge loophole in Canada’s federal government ethics law, Prime Minister Carney’s ethics screen is an unethical, loophole-filled smokescreen as it allows him to participate in almost all decisions that affect the companies he is invested in, and it hides the fact that he is participating in those decisions even though he has a financial conflict of interest and can profit from the decisions,” said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch.

https://democracywatch.ca/federal-cabinet-office-hiding-details-that-will-show-pm-carneys-initial-ethics-screens-were-loophole-filled-unethical-smokescreens/

The Ethics Commissioner did admit that he wasn't aware of everyone that Carney was meeting with.

[ExFlyer]

11 hours ago, ironstone said:

Federal Cabinet office ....

 

PM Carney’s so-called “ethics” screen (.....

As Democracy Watch detailed to the House Ethics Committee on October 1st during its ongoing review of the federal government ethics law, ....

“The federal Cabinet office can try to hide from reality for the next few months, but eventually it will reveal details that will show that, because of a huge loophole in Canada’s federal government ethics law, Prime Minister Carney’s ethics screen is an unethical, loophole-filled smokescreen as it allows him to participate in almost all decisions that affect the companies he is invested in, and it hides the fact that he is participating in those decisions even though he has a financial conflict of interest and can profit from the decisions,” said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch.

https://democracywatch.ca/federal-cabinet-office-hiding-details-that-will-show-pm-carneys-initial-ethics-screens-were-loophole-filled-unethical-smokescreens/

The Ethics Commissioner did admit that he wasn't aware of everyone that Carney was meeting with.

Thing here is that duff conacher made "accusations" that were not validated or verified by the ethics commissioner.

The commissioner indicated they were aware of the meetings but...not all that he was meeting with but...nothing became of that either.

Look, you are clearly anti Carney and would like to have something to pin on him and that is your right but...be aware he has not, in the eyes of an independent commissioner, breached any ethics rules.

We will get nowhere continuing on with this topic.

Edited February 21 by ExFlyer

[I am Groot]

16 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Thing is,... I have enough credibility to get some of you here to do whatever you can to argue with me and go into hissy fits trying to upmanship with me.

Don't let it go to your head. I even respond to Gaetan sometimes.

16 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Oh and a graph showing whatever between Canada and Alabama??? What is it??? 

It says what it is right up top. Nominal GDP per capita.

1 hour ago, ExFlyer said:

Thing here is that duff conacher made "accusations" that were not validated or verified by the ethics commissioner.

Remind me who appoints the ethics commissioner. 

[ExFlyer]

12 minutes ago, I am Groot said:

Don't let it go to your head. I even respond to Gaetan sometimes.

It says what it is right up top. Nominal GDP per capita.

Remind me who appoints the ethics commissioner. 

As I said in an earlier post...if you all are so upset with me that you feel the need to respond...I must be doing something right to be so far under your skin LOL

Alabama? Zero relevance but hey...desperation to save face makes some go to great lengths LOL

"The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner in Canada is appointed by the Governor in Council (on the advice of the Prime Minister) by commission under the Great Seal. This appointment requires consultation with the leaders of all recognized parties in the House of Commons and approval by a resolution of that House."

Edited February 21 by ExFlyer

[ironstone]

Canada’s wealth is quietly leaving — and everyday Canadians will pay the price

A global wealth migration, redefining power hubs

The Henley report notes that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will lead global inflows in 2025, attracting an estimated 14,200 new millionaires. Other major gainers include Australia, the U.S., Singapore and Switzerland — nations that have fine-tuned their tax systems and investment immigration programs to appeal to mobile wealth.

Conversely, traditional powerhouses like the United Kingdom, China, India and Canada are expected to see wealth outflows. Analysts link these exits to political polarization, heavy tax burdens and concerns over domestic policy uncertainty.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-wealth-quietly-leaving-everyday-121900240.html

Notice that? Canada loses while the US gains.

 

[eyeball]

1 hour ago, ironstone said:

Notice that? Canada loses while the US gains.

Well, we can't all be number one but at the same time Canada gained at least 12 new billionaires in 2025 and some 11,000 new millionaires in 2024.

Canada's numbers for 2025 are not all out yet but it's shaping up to be a banner year for having increased the income and wealth gap.

So...how about this idea Andrew Coyne has floated that we "Soak the Rich" properly. Coyne argues that if the goal is to tax the wealthy, abolishing the corporate income tax is more effective, provided that the tax break on dividends and capital gains is also removed. He believes taxing the income directly at the personal level is more progressive than taxing it at the corporate level.

It should also cause the sort of corporate capital to flow into Canada that could trigger a race to the top around the world.

Feel free to move to the UAE all you want as a shareholder but you'll still have to pay your taxes.

[CdnFox]

7 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Thing here is that duff conacher made "accusations" that were not validated or verified by the ethics commissioner.

 

A carney did admit to meeting with people from Brooksfield after he was told not to

So no matter how you slice it he already has the appearance of being corrupt as hell.

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, eyeball said:

Well, we can't all be number one but at the same time Canada gained at least 12 new billionaires in 2025 and some 11,000 new millionaires in 2024.

 

And? Most of them have moved their money outside of Canada now

As for Andrew's idea, it's just plain stupid. No matter how you want to juggle the numbers at the end of the day if you take more money away from rich people the rich people take their money somewhere else. And we're already seeing that with more money leaving Canada and investment than is coming here, those are our wealthy people taking their money and putting it somewhere else

We have a prime minister whose job it was to hide exactly those people's money to avoid taxation in Canada. A job he will certainly go back to when he leaves

As always you avoid basic realities in your desperate attempt to go after the rich which has never worked in the history of man

[ExFlyer]

11 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

A carney did admit to meeting with people from Brooksfield after he was told not to

So no matter how you slice it he already has the appearance of being corrupt as hell.

"In late 2025, testimony from the House of Commons ethics committee confirmed that senior executives from

Brookfield Asset Management—a firm where Prime Minister Mark Carney formerly held a senior leadership role—met with him in the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa. 

Here are the key details regarding the meetings and conflicts of interest based on the search results:

• Meeting Confirmation: Justin Beber, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Brookfield Corporation, confirmed he travelled to Ottawa in October 2025 to meet with Prime Minister Carney.
• Nature of the Meeting: Beber testified that the meeting was "on his own dime" and focused on concerns regarding the rise of antisemitism in Canada. He claimed the meeting did not involve discussion of Brookfield business interests."

Ethics Commissioner agreed...no conflict.

When was he told not to meet with one of the world leading asset management companies??? Oh, never? LOL

Appearance and facts and proof are very different LOL

Edited February 21 by ExFlyer

[I am Groot]

Canada has a productivity crisis. We've known that for some time. Now, Carney is finally going to do something about it! In true bureaucratic fashion, he's commissioning a study! Yayyy! That'll take care of the problem! Oh, and uhm, it's a fifteen year long study, soooo yeah, don't expect anything to come of this anytime soon.

We have known what drives productivity for decades, and we have spent those decades either ignoring the evidence, making minor adjustments or – in some cases – actively doing the opposite.

I say this as someone who has spent the better part of two decades studying these questions. It’s not that we lack answers or that we’ve exhausted all the policy options and come up short. It’s that we lack the political will to act on the answers we already have.

The evidence has been sitting on the shelf for years. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has produced it. The Bank of Canada has sounded the alarm, calling this a “break the glass” moment. Statistics Canada has documented it in study after study.

Our economic institutions have catalogued, repeatedly, the same structural failures: a complex tax system that punishes investment, entrepreneurship and growth; a regulatory apparatus so stifling and unpredictable that capital flows elsewhere; protected oligopolies in key sectors (telecom, airlines, banking and agriculture) that face little competitive pressure to innovate; strained trade and transport infrastructure that can’t move our goods to global markets or people efficiently within our borders; an immigration system that drifted toward low-wage temporary workers who substitute for capital, displacing the high-skilled talent that complements it; and a public sector growing in size but declining in effectiveness and productivity.

The cumulative result is a decade of economic stagnation. From 2014 to 2024, Canadian labour productivity grew at just 0.3 per cent a year on average – less than a third of the American rate. Our GDP per hour worked has fallen to 60 per cent of the U.S. level from 67 per cent – and the business investment crisis driving that gap has only deepened.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-productivity-crisis-urgent-problem-canada-economy/