Say What…?

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I love the color of Mark’s suit.

Say What?

22 Billion dollars to Ukraine from Canada. No checks, no balances, no audits, no accountability. Going going, gone to a Ukrainian system with massive corruption. See ya Uke. “Its been a hoot.”

Ottawa launching Stellantis dispute resolution process over Brampton cuts | Globalnews.ca

“My next job Mr. Speaker will be in directing traffic in France. Oui!”

Billions to Stellantis to progress the Liberal EV agenda. No checks, no balances, no audits, no accountability. Going, going, gone. Joly never read the contract. Stellantis moves to the US…”see ya Joly. Its been a hoot. Thanks for the money and thanks for the memories.”

ArriveCan app. Millions to progress Liberal agenda.  No checks, no balances, no audits, no accountability. Going, going gone. “See ya basement program dwellers. Its been a hoot. Code ya later.”

And on and on it goes. No oversight. No accountability. Obfuscation. It is the Liberal way. All of this makes the Liberal ADSCAM scandal look like child’s play.

 

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Canada is looked upon internationally as not being a serious country. A gullible government. Laughable.

Say it ain’t so.

Say What?

Tanker ban on the west coast. No tankers and no pipeline. A fools game. Why?

They, the enviro – mentalists, always refer to the Exxon Valdez as to what can happen is a tanker loses its load. Well the Exxon Valdez  occurred 36 years ago. It was cleaned up and it occurred in Alaskan waters, not in BC waters. The US continues to send oil tankers down the west coast from Alaska. What is the BC government of the Indigenous people going to do about that? Nothing.

Exxon Valdez oil spill | Response, Animals, & Facts | Britannica

Furthermore, the massive oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few years back was successfully plugged and the mess cleaned up in a matter of months, not years. If the Indigenous people refuse to allow the oil tankers in BC waters then they can be content not to be funded and subsidized for their lifestyle by us the taxpayer. We can no longer afford this.

There have been no spills since 1989. The US takes steps to ensure an oil spill does not occur with ships with double hulls, pilots, tug consorts etc.  Coincidentally, there have been many spills in BC coastal waters. But they have been due to diesel barge mishaps with tugs in tow. There have been three massive spills from these fuel barges over the past 40 years. Fuel delivered to…wait for it…ta da…First Nation’s communities! BC and the indigenous’ stand on this issue is hypocrisy on steroids.

As Diesel Spill Spreads, So Do Fears About Canada's Slow Response - Inside Climate News

 

And the pipeline MOU? It is a Memorandum of Understanding. Nothing more, nothing less. It does not commit to anything. It is just an agreement that the Feds will do this if the province of Alberta does that. No commitment whatsoever. Meanwhile, as the interested parties play their political games in the House of Clowns and the BC Legislature, the project years fall away inside the Major Projects Office in Calgary and nothing is accomplished. The pipeline? It ain’t going to happen.

Would you invest in a country with endless bureaucracy, red tape and regulations? Not me, and therein lies the problem. Over regulation. Just like the EU. Did you know that there are 250 EU regulations on growing straight cucumbers? No? I bent you didn’t. Well there are and Canada, under the Liberals and NDP are going down that path.

ILLUSTRATION - A small EU flag sticking in a crooked cucumber, 11.04.2017. EEC Regulation No ...

Canada is doomed, economically, and we only have ourselves to blame. By that I mean our government. Third World status here we come.

“Oh, no Canada.”

Seen the roads lately? Terrible. No repairs.

Say it ain’t so.

We are doomed individually.

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Our Two Faced Prime Mortician

To oversee the death of Canada.

In protest I will fly this flag at my home until competence and integrity returns to this country.

Ww1 Canadian FlagAnd our national anthem:

Two faced PM. He says one thing to one person / group and another completely opposite thing to another.

“Alberta and the Federal Government are working with Alberta on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to address the proposed pipeline to the west coast. To be announced with great fanfare Thursday (today). See, see, my government is working hard on this file.”

Yes…but:

In the House of Clowns yesterday and CBC report at minute 2:28.

It is an MOU, which mean nothing. Our PM appeases Alberta (temporarily) that he understand Alberta’s requirement for a pipeline to the coast.  He is onboard with this requirement but he states categorically  that he is sensitive to the concerns of the Province of BC and the indigenous people – with their needs.

The MOU in Carney’s words create “necessary conditions but not sufficient conditions.” What does that mean except more Liberal obfuscation and non committal? He has told the BC premier that the project will have to have BC’s and indigenous approval before he is willing to sign off on it. Liberal political speak for: “It aint going to happen.” And our PM can tell Alberta: “Well, we support it Danielle, but you have to have the approval of the BC premier and indigenous groups to proceed.”

He is leaving this nation building project to be resolved by the Premier of Alberta and not the Feds – just what our PM wants. In accordance with the Canadian constitution, it is the fed’s responsibility to sort out cross provincial nation building projects. Our government has relinquished the responsibility to Alberta so our PM  say – with the MOU in place – see, see, we fully support Alberta but the province will have to get BC on side, which under the current climate is never going to happen. “Not my fault Danielle!”

And this:

In September 2025 Carney, at the United Nations, formally recognized the State of Palestine.

HAMAS is dancing in the streets.

Oh no, it’s our Prime Mortician, Snidely Whiplash, again – out to destroy Canada.

 

Trudeau One started the decline with his multi-culturalism, diversity schtick. Trudeau Two continued the destruction of Canada with his gender based policies and anti resource management initiatives and Snidely will facilitate the end of Canada and finish us off as the economic devastation train comes barreling down on all of us. Carney and his incompetent Liberals will oversee the destruction of this once great nation.

Civil service with guns, Canadian Coast Guard is now part of defence. Carney wants to have 300,000 civil servants to take a one week military training course. That way he can claim that Canada is meeting NATO targets. More liberal obfuscation. What could go wrong?

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Canadian Veterans Day Images

Recent decisions by courts and even the federal Veterans Affairs Minister to uphold poppy-wearing bans in certain courtrooms, despite widespread public backlash. Pinsky called the reasoning “legally baseless” and “morally disconnected,” while Koop warned of a growing trend of courts ruling based on implausible hypotheticals rather than facts.

Nation building projects: Joke is on us. This was set up by Carney to assist in getting nation building projects fast tracked though the approval process. Paying some woman $750,000 a year to do this. No staff, no office as yet but more bureaucracy – just what Canada needs. All of these so called nation building projects have been on the mill long before Carny became PM.

If Carney was serious he would get rid of the regulations that are strangling investment in Canada but he won’t do that. Instead he sets up another bureaucracy to stickhandle projects through the “economy destroying” regulations that the Liberals set up themselves! OBFUSCATION on steroids. Incompetence!

CLEANING HOUSE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announce efforts to reform his country’s energy sector amid a massive corruption.
Meanwhile Canada just approved another billion for Ukraine and 600 Million to promote LGBTQRSTU in Africa. Meanwhile at home:
Food bank in Canada closes its doors to int'l students
4 million food bank visits a year! Insane
“But our economy is strong. Canada strong.” So says Snidely. “First in the G7 to go off the economic cliff because we are number one in the G7 economically, don’t ya know.”
Marching Off a Cliff
Hey, they all go to the same tailor as Carney.
Caucus unrest treated as a calamity when it involves the Conservatives, while Liberals get a pass

Budget 2025: A “Responsible Plan” With Numbers No Auditor Would Trust

If you ever wanted to see Ottawa pull a stunt that would get a private-sector CFO fired, hauled into an audit, and walking out in handcuffs, this is it: Budget 2025. And the best part? Thanks to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, we now have the receipts.

Meet the IMF economist with a major influence on Mark Carney’s big-spending ways budget.

Georgieva, a graduate of the Karl Marx Institute of Economics, is even quoted generously in the two-page foreword section of the federal budget. She came first in her class. Here she is with Canada’s finance minister “Squeaky” Champagne.

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Whereas Mark Carney, An Oxford grad in economics came 31st in a class of 30

But Muslim values are Canadian values – so say our PM. Video: Jewish Students at a Toronto University Barricade Themselves Against Islamist Rioters Trying to Lynch Them

Kristallnacht comes to Canada.

Ontario school posts Islamic dance video as Easter limited to basket craft

 

 

Army base Gagetown is now serving halal chicken in its cafeteria. I wonder what the Colonel says about that? Well it is finger licking good…SIR!

Canadians….WAKE UP

Oh yeah. Rumor has it that Minister Melanie Joly, Canada’s Valley Girl, will get the Ambassador to France job. She denies it. Says she has important work to do for Canada’s auto sector. This from the minister that failed to read the Stellantis (GM) government billion dollar subsidization contract, according to a Blackrock reporter. Stellantis closed shop and is moving operations to the US. Money? Gone. No comeback. Lost!

Code for… Liberal obfuscation as she will be gone! Count on it and please Melanie, go. As soon as possible.

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More Al Stewart:

New Book Prologue Part 2

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…I can also see narrow avenues or streets that exit and enter the square at its corners, like rivers entering or feeding a small lake. Amazing. The Grand Place of Arras is like an interaction of time, space, and place. To me this whole scene has a synergy to it. A beautiful synergy to some folk as everything falls into place. No matter the significance or insignificance of the place or the people, the Grand Place, as they call it, is the heartbeat of this city. It is here that you will find your government offices, your cobbler, fishmonger, boulangerie, patisserie, cafes, and even a cloth factory. Typically, the weekly market takes place at this location every Friday. Is it synergistic? It is—a beautiful synergy, like nature itself, where everything has its place and functionality by grand design.

And while it may seem beautiful to most, for me the whole scene is boringly beautiful.

But it wasn’t always this way.

No, it was not. And given the sad state of this place when I was last here twenty-two years ago, I cannot believe how much it has changed over a brief period. It seems like only yesterday that I was walking among the ruins of this place. It was a dreadful, terrible domicile of death. Arras is a dichotomy to me in that while the scene before me now is amazing—peaceful, restive, and reflective—I did everything in my power to shield my consciousness from the terror and horror that this place represents. Up until this point in time, Arras, and its vicinity to the plains and the hills and the outlying farms—did not exist.

“Dad…dad…DAD!”

Hmmm? Hmmm? I turned away from the window toward the sound of a familiar voice. Ah yes, my daughter. My beautiful daughter Charlotte. She has come to fetch me, no doubt. Just in time to pull me out of my funk.

I smiled at her, knowingly and lovingly.

“It is that time, sweetie?”

“Yes, dad. We must go. The dedication ceremony is scheduled to start in two hours. They want us there early.”

Of course they do, I thought. To form up, no doubt. The Army never changes its stripe. Early, early, early. Just in case. Hurry up, hurry up, lads. Hurry up and wait. That is the Army’s credo. To hurry up and wait. For what? To die?

I chuckled to myself.

“What’s so funny?” my daughter asked.

“Nothing sweetie. Nothing really.”

“It is going to be hot today dad. You will not need much. An umbrella perhaps, although they do not call for rain today.”

‘They? Who are they?’ I thought. ‘Ah yes, The Army brass. That is who they is.’

“I will bring a brollie sweetie. It gets stifling hot and humid around here at this time of year. You never can tell when the sky decides to fall in its thunderous fury, just like an Alberta summer blast.

More Al Stewart. For all you retired Navy types: Old Admirals

A musical metaphor for getting old and irrelevant!

Check out my books at the links at the top of the page. Good reads and would make great Christmas gifts. You would be helping out an old retired Royal Canadian Navy veteran.

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Cheers.

New Book In The Works

I have started to write another book. Have not nailed down the title yet. Just finished the prologue. Here is an excerpt:

Arras, nord pas de calais, france Banque de photographies et d’images à haute résolution - Alamy

 

I cannot believe I am here. Yet here I am, standing here, safe, and secure in my own skin, looking out from the window and comfort of my room at the Grand Place Hotel in Arras, France. I am looking out and down and across to the wide, picturesque Cobblestone Square below. I shake my head in disbelief and awe as it looks so peaceful to me: quiet, primitive, and functionally beautiful in this early morning light on this clear, cloudless midsummer’s day.

 

As I look to my left, then to my right, and then straight ahead, I am amazed at how everything falls into place here. The buildings are neat and tidy: nothing like home, that’s for sure. I would hazard a guess that the buildings are of a European, Flemish-like design, common in these parts of France. Earth tones such as brown, rusty red, and muted orange have been introduced to the facades by the tradesmen to add variety and reduce the uniform gray appearance. The buildings share a uniform style, featuring rounded corners, cornices, and high-apex crowns. They rise to a stark contrast against the blue sky with a uniformity that is extremely impressive to me. Rising in this unvarying fashion from a foundation that includes continuous arches forming a long ground-level arcade, the buildings clearly serve a purpose. Obviously, this arcade acts as a transition from the business of each of the buildings to the open square. I would think it was by design. And considering the condition this place used to be in, it is likely based on old architectural plans or blueprints of the square. It offers shade from the hot July sun or shelter from frequent summer storms in this region. Protection for the common working-class folk of the city, as well as the professional class—or bourgeoisie, as they call those folk here.

 

One after the other, these buildings stand. Their distinct architectural lines—clean and functional on all sides—are broken by the ornate and impressive-looking Hotel de Ville,[1] with its grand baroque façade and impressive bell tower. I am amazed at the intricate stonework here. The stone masons of the day, who have restored these buildings from complete ruin, are true artists in my mind. Intricate carvings and chiseling that bring the stone to life. These craftsmen are not content to just throw them up as fast as possible, like we would do at home. No, no, no, as I shake my head in disbelief. All the windows, doors, and portals; the cornices, crowns, and gables have been constructed with acute care and precision, as if they were restoring a painting by Michelangelo. This is very impressive to me.

 

Yet all the facades are similar in style and placement on every one of these buildings, except the City Hall. To me, it seems as if this building—the Hotel de Ville, or Mairie, as they call it—emits a civil authority and forms the very core of the Grand Place of Arras. In some respects, at least in my way of thinking, its structure acts as a template for the adjoining buildings to take their shape and cue for their pattern and lines, cornices, and buttresses, all the while remaining true but subordinate to the design and functionality of the imposing City Hall. It is as if the Hotel de Ville resembles a stone “Queen Bee,” controlling the dictate from which the design of the other buildings takes shape. Side by side, they expand from the core of the Hotel de Ville to form all sides of the square—or the hive. They are identical but subordinate edifices that are inanimate, very narrow, and tall, and connected at their sides. I have heard, or have read somewhere, that by design they all share the same character and are constructed in an elaborate brick-and-mortar style. I would not know about that, but to me, as they stand there, as each entity makes up the whole, they resemble soldiers on parade. Or like sentinels who are protecting their “Queen.” At all costs.

‘Queen? Bee? C’mon, Kilian. Give your head a shake.’

[1] City Hall

I have rediscovered Al Stewart. He had a number of songs out in the late 70s. His songs tell a story and are highly descriptive in nature. This one: “Year of the Cat” came out in 1976. To me it is the perfect song: great lyrics, piano, acoustic guitar, strings, electric guitar and a haunting sax. Hope you like it.

I would love to receive some comments from you all.

SJ…Out.

Meanwhile….

First Nations: the best caretakers of our environment…don’t ya know.

Cowichan First Nations illegal dumping ground…probably SACRED. But whitey will probably have to clean it up. Or wait until toxicity begins to impact the health of the natives so whitey will be held responsible and have to pay out billions of dollars for con…silly…nation…don’t ya know.

Canadian leadership is ball…ess.

Ottawa has provided nearly $22-billion in various forms of aid to Ukraine since 2022. Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.

Meanwhile, here at home:

Tents torn down at encampment in central Edmonton as court battle continues | CBC News

Record number of Canadians using food banks

Trudeau's $220K Meal Vs. Canada’s Food Bank Crisis: Shocking Contrast » Mac's Opinion

Canadian leadership lacks gonads.

Toronto Remembrance Day: One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being brought here against their will as part of the “transatlantic slave trade.”
“Oh it was sooo today.”

 

Oak Bay… started with the land acknowledgements and then a universal prayer. Could not refer to any one religion because that would go against inclusiveness. Interesting that the majority that served in WW1 and 2 were Catholic or Protestant.

So much for remembrance, dignity and respect for the fallen Canadian troops of the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions, and the Cold War.

The Liberal government plans to cut $4.23 billion from the Veterans Affairs budget over the next four years, while other departments, such as the women and gender department, received a fraction of the cuts.

Did you know that the Liberals have given out almost $1B for the advancement of foreign gender issues and policy. Meanwhile here at home:

Hundreds of volunteers counting homeless population in Metro Vancouver | CBC News

Canadian leadership is spineless. But that is okay because we Canadians hate success so keep on putting us down because we love it.

Self-Flagellation - Nici Damon

Canada has a better tax rate than the US therefore it is better to invest in Canada. So says Liberal logic. Yes but cost to invest is horrendous. Regulations R Us is Canada. Interesting that PM Snidely Whiplash and Squeaky have 90% of their investments in the US.

Drat!

Canada is going to de-carney-ize all oil imported into Canada. It will become water and be safe to drink.

“Luxury tax on airplanes and yachts has been removed by the Liberal government Phil.”

Yessssssssssssssssss Mark!

How to Combine Private Jets and Yachts for Seamless Luxury Travel - Paltino“Hey I love your Aerostar Mark. Nice yacht Francois.”

Meanwhile, reality at home:

If Canadian Unemployment Is So Low, Why All The Long Job Lines? - Better Dwelling

Look familiar? It should:

Unemployed men line up outside a Great Depression-era soup kitchen... News Photo - Getty Images

“But we will fix it. How? Tax, tax, tax and more taxes.”

Image for article: Bose Introduces New Mariah Carey-Canceling Headphones For Christmas

Halloween marketing begins in August. Day after, November 1st? Christmas and Black Friday. No one can escape the marketing blitz.

I hate it. And I hate Mariah the pariah Carey’s voice.

All I want for Christmas is you…and a thousand bucks.

A real earworm. I will never do this again…Promise.

SJ…Out