The CEBA loan program would not have been necessary if all businesses would have told the Gov’t to go fekk yourself and refused to close BUT they didn’t and instead “borrowed” money they KNEW had to be repaid, well 50% anyways. That was a $20,000 gift out of the taxpayers purse for businesses thank you very much. NOW all the boohooing commences because business owners aren’t paying back their debts and leaving it to the taxpayer to shoulder their default resulting rampant inflation and impending poverty. I can’t tell you how annoyed I am at the moment
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/canadas-pandemic-loan-program-faces-31-billion-in-defaults/55091
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Sheldon is on fire today. His second post is in the comments. You’ll have to open the links to see the “pledges”.
It’s not just now that the watermain fiasco in Calgary has caused Alberta NDP leader and former mayor of Calgary - Naheed Nenshi - to ramp up his vitriol. But in the aftermath, it increasingly appears the NDP ideological cheese has slid completely off the cracker of reality.
After taking a brief pause, roughly three days, following his now-well-documented incompetence and initial denial of failure surrounding water-main maintenance, while nearly doubling property taxes as mayor and funneling those revenues into ideological indulgences, Nenshi has re-entered the arena swinging wildly. Not with solutions, but with divisive haymakers, as though the Official Opposition’s role is no longer to challenge government policy…but to oppose reality, independent thought, and democratic accountability itself.
Previously, I addressed the dangers of what I call “teddy-bear terminology” - the practice of wrapping soft, comforting language like “harm reduction” around ...