"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
The Trudeau government spent $30K in taxpayers money giving out free tickets to a Broadway Play ...Come From Away ... Not only were tickets given to foreign diplomats – including reps from the United Nations, Qatar, and Kuwait – but wealthy bankers were also given tickets at taxpayers expense...
... the opposition grilled Freeland [who] had no good answers:
As an aside, unlike Spenser Fernando, I DO have a problem with the theme of the musical. It strikes me as cringe-worthy self-regard for Canadians to present a play in America, telling Americans how wonderfulwe were in their time of tragically obvious need [and, our government promoting the show, at taxpayers' expense, just compounds the problem]. Now, if Americans had created such a play to thank Canadians, that would have been something else.
Graeme Gordon recently penned two very compelling articles that shed light on "fake news" and how it's being misrepresented and incestuously abused by the Liberals and the MSM:
On Thursday the Public Policy Forum (PPF) released its government-commissioned report, “The Shattered Mirror”, which depicted today’s world as a “post-truth” dystopian nightmare.
... the report–GASP!–asks the reader to “imagine a world without news: how atomized and dysfunctional it would be.” Of course the premise is absurd in the information age, where information is more accessible than ever before ...
... The report uses this fake premise of fake news influencing large majorities of the populace as a major reason why the government should step in to fund the legacy media.
... Justin Trudeau should learn from Oscar Wilde’s sole novel’s protagonist. Dorian Gray appears publicly to be an honourable man of eternal youth, but underlying superficial appearances he is dissolute, lazy, narcissistic, and corrupt.
... Trudeau still has three more years, possibly many more, to determine his self-portrait–the true picture beneath all the selfies and perfectly-edited photos courtesy of his 24/7 personal photographer. He’d best heed the importance of being earnest and frugal.
To call this a policy inconsistency is to overtax understatement. It is
logically irreconcilable. Should Bombardier find swift favour with the
new Liberal government, there will be far more at stake than the writing
of the cheque.
If you needed reminding, the most absurd phrase in the English language is: "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau". New immigrants shouldn't have much difficulty learning it.
... Speaking in his best, ‘I’m reading you a bedtime story’ cadence, Trudeau said that Canada is stronger than ISIS. ...
Troubling worldview indeed, delivered as smug, sanctimonious, delusional platitudes befitting a junior high school valedictorian. And he's blindly rehashing his daddy's famous "reason over passion" motto (and deeply held lib/left belief).
They claim to be doing it to save the planet but it won't alter the climate an iota. Their actions only hamper Canadian production and all the benefits that derive from it. Global oil production won't decrease, it is steadily increasing; Canada's share of that production (which is already small) will just get even smaller and so will our entire economy. In the name of phony global salvation, Canadians are being screwed, by our own know-nothing "leaders" and activists:
We've seen this anti-oil, anti-western story before under Pierre
Trudeau, and it doesn't end well for anyone. If Quebec Liberals like
Justin Trudeau and Denis Coderre block Energy East, not only will it
mean economic devastation, but it will be a great cause of national
disunity -- possibly even rekindling western separatism.
... Coderre’s stance represents more than a casual alliance between Not in
My Backyard, NIMBY, and Not on Planet Earth, NOPE. It represents part of
a much larger UN-based Green Agenda to delegitimize national
governments from above and below....
... if everybody gets to have a say on everything, nothing ever gets done.
Thus the Act Local crowd really only wants everybody to have a say on
things they want to stop.
More from Ezra on the Liberals' hypocritical war on western oil (and on no one else's):
Personally, I'm all for rekindling western separatism.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sideswipes at Stephen Harper and
Canadian resources at Davos on Wednesday were not merely unworthy, they
were dumb. ...
... The last thing they [our resource industry] need is their prime minister making lame puns overseas at their expense, or implying their livelihoods are infra dig. ...
Economist and Post columnist Stephen Gordon, stirred by the prime
minister’s words, this week let loose a trio of tweets, with commendable
panache, on essentially this very point. With twitterian terseness he
texted: “It takes resourcefulness to extract resources”; “Extracting
crude from the oil sands requires an insanely elevated level of
engineering skills. It’s not like picking $$ from trees”; “Trudeau is
buying into the Jed Clampett trope: resource extraction is something any
dimwitted yob could do.”
One hopes that those dumb enough to vote for (or, in the media, to boost and cover for) now PM Selfie are suffering heavy duty buyer's remorse.
On Bill Maher's Real Time, Christia Freeland, one of our prize new Liberal cabinet ministers, plays the cultural and moral relativism cards to defend Islam. Maher says "... people like you are the problem".
Good grief! What a moron - an all too typically liberal moron.
Maher couldn't have been more right. But he could have been a lot more brutal about it, like he would have been were he debating a conservative.
The only "resolve" we can expect from Liberals will be to withdraw our CF-18s from the fight, take in 25,000 unscreened Syrian refugees before Christmas and give away the farm at the Paris Climate Lollapalooza.
A
hostage situation at the Bataclan concert hall came to an end on Friday night
when French police raided the building, according to French television, who
quoted the police as saying at least 100 people had been killed there.
Dozens
more died in apparently coordinated attacks outside the country’s main sports
stadium and at least five other popular locations in the city.
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C. S. Lewis
