Thank-you for this! I appreciate that you present the facts with well rounded research and clarity.
I most enjoyed this paragraph;
"Since the next examples will also relate to climate change policy, I’m sure some of you will complain that I’m over-focused on anti-left talking points. And that’s true. But it’s because, for the past decade, we’ve had a left-leaning government in power. For better or for worse, no one else has been authorized to issue official announcements."
Thanks for providing a few examples (of many) of what you are talking about. One area where the government really goes into overdrive in misinformation is the indigenous affairs file, shall we say!
You actually lowballed the size of Ottawa's messaging machine with that simple directory search. I was looking at official reports from the Privy Council Office (the Prime Minister's bureaucratic nerve centre) just the other day. They actively boast about having close to 4,000 communications professionals on the federal payroll. That is double your estimate. It makes you wonder how much tax money funds public relations instead of public service. When a team of 4,000 staff exists solely to shape the narrative, we should absolutely expect heavy political spin in every official press release.
4K and they're still xxx at it. If we worked at companies which put in huge amounts of $$ that resulted in below average results how long would a company keep you employed?
“We need to rigorously adhere to the boundaries of the Constitution, including the need to protect the independence of the judiciary.”
Who’s gonna tell him that one of the greatest threats against the independence of the judiciairy in the past decade was a certain federal government who had the strange habit of appointing as judges people who, it turns out, were also donors to the Liberal Party? And that liberal donors were appointed in much larger proportion than donors to other Federal parties? https://nationalpost.com/feature/exclusive-data-analysis-reveals-liberals-appoint-judges-who-are-party-donors
Does the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship think that importing millions of low skill, low knowledge, young men from countries with cultures foundationally incompatible with Canada's constitutes "taking climate action to protect our planet"?
Perhaps the Minister (vainly) believes that accepting them will make them so happy in Canada that they'll generate less carbon output by flying back to their countries of origin. I seem to recall recently reading about a successful refugee claimant having (safely) traveled back to Pakistan six times while his claim was being heard.
And how many policy analysts do they have to start the framing of the messages? See if any one of them can clearly answer the "What is it you do here?" question. Get rid of every second employee who has one or the other in their title and the only noticeable impact on the GofC will be the increased severance pay and EI payouts.
This single move would get rid of a large portion of the self licking ice cream cone.
Hi David, Actually the more complete number is $17 Trillion to fight climate change which was previously global warming until people pointed out lots of places that weren't warming. We have been continually told "Climate change is global" so imagine what $17,000,000,000,000 could have done if used for research, eliminating disease etc? That mass of cash mostly ended up in China who are building coal fired power plants like rabbits breed. There is a good reason why the Trudeau crew increased the comms group.
In defense of the Jacobins and Bolsheviks that infest the state, food inflation is affected by climate change "measures" such as the consumer carbon tax which has been Carneyized to the industrial carbon tax which affects everything from propane drying grain to all transport and agricultural implement diesel consumption. Regarding the ministry of truth, the government no longer represents the public when the Eloi vote on mindless tropes like "elbows-up" while the government is busy negotiating away the property rights of the taxpaying citizens behind closed doors.
Thank-you for this! I appreciate that you present the facts with well rounded research and clarity.
I most enjoyed this paragraph;
"Since the next examples will also relate to climate change policy, I’m sure some of you will complain that I’m over-focused on anti-left talking points. And that’s true. But it’s because, for the past decade, we’ve had a left-leaning government in power. For better or for worse, no one else has been authorized to issue official announcements."
Thanks for providing a few examples (of many) of what you are talking about. One area where the government really goes into overdrive in misinformation is the indigenous affairs file, shall we say!
You actually lowballed the size of Ottawa's messaging machine with that simple directory search. I was looking at official reports from the Privy Council Office (the Prime Minister's bureaucratic nerve centre) just the other day. They actively boast about having close to 4,000 communications professionals on the federal payroll. That is double your estimate. It makes you wonder how much tax money funds public relations instead of public service. When a team of 4,000 staff exists solely to shape the narrative, we should absolutely expect heavy political spin in every official press release.
4K and they're still xxx at it. If we worked at companies which put in huge amounts of $$ that resulted in below average results how long would a company keep you employed?
“We need to rigorously adhere to the boundaries of the Constitution, including the need to protect the independence of the judiciary.”
Who’s gonna tell him that one of the greatest threats against the independence of the judiciairy in the past decade was a certain federal government who had the strange habit of appointing as judges people who, it turns out, were also donors to the Liberal Party? And that liberal donors were appointed in much larger proportion than donors to other Federal parties? https://nationalpost.com/feature/exclusive-data-analysis-reveals-liberals-appoint-judges-who-are-party-donors
Does the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship think that importing millions of low skill, low knowledge, young men from countries with cultures foundationally incompatible with Canada's constitutes "taking climate action to protect our planet"?
Perhaps the Minister (vainly) believes that accepting them will make them so happy in Canada that they'll generate less carbon output by flying back to their countries of origin. I seem to recall recently reading about a successful refugee claimant having (safely) traveled back to Pakistan six times while his claim was being heard.
And how many policy analysts do they have to start the framing of the messages? See if any one of them can clearly answer the "What is it you do here?" question. Get rid of every second employee who has one or the other in their title and the only noticeable impact on the GofC will be the increased severance pay and EI payouts.
This single move would get rid of a large portion of the self licking ice cream cone.
Hi David, Actually the more complete number is $17 Trillion to fight climate change which was previously global warming until people pointed out lots of places that weren't warming. We have been continually told "Climate change is global" so imagine what $17,000,000,000,000 could have done if used for research, eliminating disease etc? That mass of cash mostly ended up in China who are building coal fired power plants like rabbits breed. There is a good reason why the Trudeau crew increased the comms group.
$17 trillion probably refers to global spending rather than just Canadian. But, yeah, it sure is a scary number.
In defense of the Jacobins and Bolsheviks that infest the state, food inflation is affected by climate change "measures" such as the consumer carbon tax which has been Carneyized to the industrial carbon tax which affects everything from propane drying grain to all transport and agricultural implement diesel consumption. Regarding the ministry of truth, the government no longer represents the public when the Eloi vote on mindless tropes like "elbows-up" while the government is busy negotiating away the property rights of the taxpaying citizens behind closed doors.
They’re ALL lying to us. ALL the time.
I figured that out years ago.
A lie will travel around the world before the truth has its boots on.
Joseph Goebbels (Nazi propaganda chief) had said the most important thing was to get the message (lie/spin) out early/first.