I thought I’d take a moment to touch base with you. I do apologize for not doing any entries here on this blog in a while.
I’ve had the privilege of featuring seven guests on Conservative Talk Radio North since my last blog entry. One of the segments was an interview with Doctor Malthouse. That particular installment was removed by YouTube for violating the following rules: YouTube does not allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities’ medical information about COVID-19, including on methods to prevent, treat, or diagnose COVID-19 and means of transmission of COVID-19. What happened to free speech? The video is still available on Bitchute and Rumble. Here is the Rumble link: https://rumble.com/vhrqj9-conservative-talk-radio-north-interviews-a-doctor-with-some-interesting-vie.html Let me ask you the listener and viewer. Was there any” medical misinformation” in that segment? Doctor Malthouse is a certified MD. He was merely offering a well thought out and researched medical opinion. And why is YouTube allowing the World Health Organization to dictate their content? These are the sorts of actions that give rise to conspiracy theories and as I’ve already said cause many to ask what happened to free speech. Speaking of free speech. On June 22, 2021, the Liberals pushed bill C10 into law with the help of the help of the NDP and BQ. Bill C10 updates the Broadcasting Act, which is designed to promote and develop Canadian producers and creators. The mainstream media is governed by the CRTC. However, when the Broadcasting Act was first created the internet and streaming services didn’t exist. The Liberals removed section 4.1, which provided an exclusion for user-generated content. Many critics of this bill and its amendments fear it could allow the CRTC to regulate Canadians’ social media content and threaten free speech. I have seen interviews with Heritage Minister Guilbeault. He doesn’t necessarily deny that user generated content or people’s social media content will be affected by bill C10. The way I see it this government is attempting control of the internet through these changes and needs to be held accountable in the next election. The federal Conservatives have promised to repeal Bill C10 if elected. However, given their anemic performance and the fractured state of this country’s conservative movement, don’t bet on the Conservatives getting elected. Enough said. Let’s back up a bit. On May 31 Newfoundland brought down the first budget of Mr. Fury’s administration. This was a tough austerity budget. There’s no other way of looking at it. The budget deficit for 2020-21 was at or around $1.6 billion. The deficit for 2021-22 projected to be $826M. Now how do they plan to cut the deficit in half? I’ll touch on a few areas that directly affect taxpayers. I’ll also add some comments of my own. Anyone making more than $136,000 will see income tax increases. Why such a low threshold? One hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars does not go as far as many anti-poverty activists would lead you to believe. Why strive to get ahead financially if the tax bracket is so low? Upper income earners are often job creators. Mr. fury’s administration seems to want to keep Newfoundland and its citizens in “have not” status. There will be increases in tobacco taxes. As usual. Here’s an interesting change. A 20-cent-per-litre sweetened beverage tax will come into effect in April 2022. This is the first government that I recall doing this and they definitely won’t be the last. Homeowners are also being offered a rebate of as much as $2,500 to help transition their homes from oil to electricity. Why would a government that’s fretted so much about the impact of low oil prices on its offshore oil industry and provincial coffers do this? Is this to appease the green activists? As usual you have a Liberal administration trying to be all things to all people. This as I’ve mentioned was an austerity budget by a Liberal government that has lived above its means. The chickens have come home to roost. Could it be that you’re seeing the start of a Greek style financial crisis that we saw in 2009? Could this spread to other provinces and possibly Ottawa? I think we’ll have that answer sooner than later. If you recall, on January 1, 2021, my guest was Scott Hennig from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He warned of the need for governments to reign in their spending. (Please watch that segment if you haven’t already.) Moving on. The Liberals named Azam Ishmael as their campaign director on June 26. This is a clear indicator that the Liberal government is shifting to election mode. Another indicator is many Liberals are announcing future plans. On June 27 Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna announced that she will not seek re-election. This could create an opening for former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney in the Trudeau cabinet. There are well placed rumors that the Liberals are trying to recruit him. I’ll close with this. The Green Party is divided and almost dumped Annamie Paul earlier this month. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has all but disappeared since the last election and there are those in his party that didn’t like his caucus propping up the Liberal minority in parliament. The BQ could be looking at a different landscape in Quebec if the Patriot Party gets any traction there. As a result of all this the federal Liberals won’t be facing the sort of left-wing vote split, they did during the last election.Add to this a divided Conservative Party that seems anxious to stifle any true conservative elements in its ranks.In 1974, Pierre Trudeau was faced with a somewhat similar situation. He faced an angry public and a divided Conservative opposition. On July 8, 1974, he managed to win a majority. His son is looking at similar circumstances in 2021. You’ve heard me say this before and I’ll say it again. If the Conservative movement doesn’t unite and work together, we could very well be looking at a Liberal majority government before the end of 2021.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia – On March 11, 2021, the Nova Scotia government introduced Bill 4 to remove most of the rights and freedoms of Nova Scotia landowners. Nova Scotia landowners take pride in their properties and, in as much as reasonably possible, do what is necessary to keep their woodlands and grasslands healthy, along with suitable water (lakes, brooks, streams, etc.) for both the health of the land itself and the occupying wildlife. As owners, they have a vested interest in taking care to be good stewards of the land; nobody else, including the government, cares as much about the land as owners. In short, most are already concerned with and work toward biodiversity as they are aware that such practices encourage not only a healthy environment but also add significant value to their properties. Government controlled or forced land practices are a completely different thing. The BioDiversity Act places numerous entities, such as the Government of Canada, the provincial government, municipal governments, various chosen regulators, and so forth, in charge of your land, rather than allowing the tax-paying landowners decide for themselves how to use their properties.
In short, you buy the land and pay the taxes, and others control what you can do on your land or how it is to be used (Section 8). Government direction of private resources is textbook Fascism. Further, the Minister may exempt their officers from any part of the Act (Section 18). At the same time, their "conservation officers" are given the same powers as any peace officer (without any police training) (Section 20) who may "may enter upon any land without being liable for trespass" (Section 21). It appears that in this situation, should we accept this Act, that conservation officers have even more power than peace officers who require probable grounds or a warrant! Should it be deemed that the landowner has broken the Act's rules, then the Minister or any employee of the government can be authorized to act on behalf of the Minister to take whatever action felt necessary against the rightful landowner (Section 24). The Act also disallows any private prosecution of the government without the consent of the Attorney General. In other words, a landowner cannot sue the government without the government's permission! (Section 44). Such an Act sets a dangerous precedent in government control. The Atlantica Party encourages Nova Scotias to resist the passage of Bill 4. Contact your local MLA now and voice your concerns. You can find your MLA's contact information here: https://nslegislature.ca/members/profiles The Atlantica Party is Nova Scotia's newest registered political party. The Atlantica Party is Nova Scotia's only political alternative committed to fixing Nova Scotia's democracy and making Nova Scotia a have province. The Atlantica Party's Democracy Revolution is a comprehensive plan to fix Nova Scotia's democracy and empower the voter. Contributed by Jonathan Dean leader of the Atlantica Party of Nova Scotia Contributed by Jonathan Dean:
Halifax, Nova Scotia – The great malaise of our political system is the regular citizen's apathy. I have seen this for years. The reason, of course, is because citizens are not involved in any way in the political discourse of our time; they have no "skin in the game", so why bother? This is a perfectly normal reaction. If your input is not wanted, why offer it? But is our political system supposed to be so insular, running on its own in a corner with no oversight? Some people say yes. It makes things more "efficient". This is true enough, no concern for public opinion, no counter views, rubber-stamp voting in the Legislature, and no debate seems to appear more "efficient". This view also argues for the permanent closing of the Legislature, the end of presumption of innocence in the court system, and more in the name of "efficiency". I trust that most citizens do not support this. The citizens that do agree have either not thought things through to their logical conclusion, or they personally benefit from such creeping totalitarianism. Others say the political system is indeed held in check by pointing to elections. Really? First, the Premier games the election's timing to his/her benefit; second, elections are treated as a nuisance, something to be endured and gotten over with as fast as possible in a blur of partisan PR with no discussion of the issues; third elections are years apart. How does this model provide month to month accountability? It cannot and does not. Yet others argue this is the way things are supposed to work. I say an emphatically no! We need an empowered Legislature independent from the government. Without it, the government can run rampant, safely ignore citizens, pass expedient ill-conceived Legislature, overreach, expand at will, run deficits and ignore issues with no consequences. Any citizen's frustration with the government is due to an absent Legislature. However, all is not lost. The genius of our inherited political system is that it allows the people, informed by a free press, to renew our democracy from time to time. Just as we no longer live under despotic kings, we do not need to live under an unrestrained government. We need to free our House. The Legislature must be returned to complete independence from the government. Our representatives will then be free to represent the people again, inquire into government operations, and debate and vote for or against government proposals. As part of its Democracy Revolution, the Atlantica Party calls for the freedom and independence of the Nova Scotia Legislature now! Jonathan Dean is the leader of the Atlantica Party of Nova Scotia
I thought I’d take a moment here near the close of April 2021 to touch base with you and talk about how this month has gone. I hope you’ve enjoyed the installments this month. I started off interviewing Yvonne Robertson. She's the federal Conservative candidate for Don Valley West in the upcoming election. My second guest was Neil Hamilton. He’s the United Kingdom Independence Party leader. It was a walk down memory lane interviewing him. I interviewed a London UK mayoral candidate named Farah London. Don’t you love those interviews I do with candidates from other countries? Isn’t it interesting to see how many of the issues we face here in Canada aren’t germane to this country? I also interviewed two Maverick Party candidates and released my installment today with the Conservative Party candidate for London West. Just to give you the heads up, I’ll be releasing more material with foreign guests in the coming days. If you haven’t viewed any of those installments of Conservative Talk Radio North yet, please make sure you do!!! Now let’s break down the April 19th federal budget in Ottawa. I apologise for waiting so long to digress this pitiful document. I’ll keep my analysis brief. I’m not an economist so I’ll deliver the broad strokes. First of all, it’s the very first budget by this present Liberal administration in more than two years. The Liberals propose spending up to $30 billion over the next five years, and $8.3 billion each year after that, with the goal of bringing child-care fees down to a $10-a-day by 2026. Here’s the hitch that I see. The proposal requires negotiation with the provinces and territories. The plan is to would split subsidies evenly with those governments. Will the provinces be in any mood or financial position to go along with this proposal? In my opinion, probably not. From everything I’ve seen over my life, any time government involves itself in such things as childcare (or any other form of care) the net result is the intended service gets more/not less expensive. One only has to look at where the cost of Medicare has gone in this country. In 2019 the healthcare accounted for 11.5% of federal spending. One shudders to think of what the percentage is now in the middle of the pandemic. The government is planning to extend many of its pandemic relief programs to help businesses and workers. The government also plans to allocate $375 million to Global Affairs Canada over the next year to fund Canada’s international COVID-19 response. All this when we have citizens in this country that need help. The budget allocates $8.75 billion over the next five years that will be spread out over 43 different programs all aimed at developing green technologies. This is way less than the environmentalists were hoping for. As I predicted in one of my podcasts late last year, there will be no significant funding for at least a decade for big environmental initiatives. The federal government also plans to allocate roughly $18 billion in new funds over the next five years for Indigenous communities. They claim this is a major theme of the 2021 budget but how big of an investment will this actually amount to given the complex issues these communities are facing. Here’s my big concern. The deficit is projected to hit $354.2 billion in the 2020-21 fiscal year. In other words, the year that just ended. The government predicts the deficit to fall to $154.7 billion this fiscal year. My issue with this prediction is the fact that more often than not the current Liberal administration is wrong when making financial predictions. Canada’s national debt currently stands at 1,129,156,351,141.40 and climbing. As I keep saying, how much longer can this country continue to rack up such huge debts and deficits? Let’s not forget that the provinces and cities are also running record deficits as well. Where are the opposition voices? Mr. Singh and the NDP have already said that they have no intentions of trying top defeat this current Liberal administration. There’s no surprise there. Mr. Singh and the NDP have been pretty much invisible since he became leader. The Conservatives have also been largely invisible and mute since Mr. O’Toole took over the leadership. I understand that the media are busy reporting on the pandemic but there are many ways of getting the Conservative Party’s message out. Conservative Talk Radio North could be a start. I will offer you my dear reader a prediction. The Liberal Party will win a majority if they take this country to the polls in 2021 under the current state of political affairs we’re faced with. Remember, you heard it on Conservative Talk Radio North first. Canada is faced not only with a fiscal deficit but also a democratic deficit as of April 2021. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Yvonne Robertson. She's the federal Conservative candidate for Don Valley West. Yvonne discussed her reasons for seeking elected office as well as the issues facing Toronto and Don Valley West.
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