Check It Out: It’s time to clean house!
By Joan Janzen
Can you imagine what your house would look like if you neglected to clean it for a decade? If you allowed dirty laundry, dishes and junk to pile up, everyone would likely agree it’s time to do some housecleaning. After experiencing the past decade, ordinary Canadians have been voicing their opinions online. They are all saying it’s way past time to clean up Canada.
Franco Terrazzano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) was the first to say it: “We gotta get our house in order; it’s getting outrageous! Interest charges on the federal debt are costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars every single week. It’s long past time to get this under control.”
Saskatchewan’s Quick Dick McDick echoed the sentiment saying, “Our tolerance level for trafficking illegal substances and harbouring terrorists in our country should be absolutely zero. We need to clean some of this up! Why did it take a threat for Canada to realize it?”
Kris Simms from CTF spoke about Inter-provincial trade barriers: “This has been going on for so long; now all of a sudden they’re saying we should fix this. We need to stop insane things like Bill C69 so we’re not strangling ourselves. These are just common sense things that should transcend party affiliation. I hope this is a wake up call and we’re going to fix these problems.”
Canadian podcaster Tanner Hnidey asked, “Why are you (gov’t) suddenly telling us to ‘buy Canadian’ after crushing Canadian industry for the last ten years? We’ve seen you send billions of dollars to foreign nations while our veterans starve at home. We’ve listened to you criticize our oil sands, while buying crude from Saudi Arabia. You don’t even believe Canada should have borders. If you really wanted us to buy Canadian, you’d abolish absurd regulations, lower insane taxes and invite business to set up shop in this country by promoting economics.”
It’s obvious Canadians are passionate about their country. Quick Dick said: “I don’t think we as Canadians have any business whatsoever talking smack about the states while we sit here with a non-functioning government watching a whole bunch of elites have a leadership race of a party that got our country hijacked. Maybe we should start cleaning up Canada before we talk about the states.”
If you’re wondering what there is to clean up, Franco Terrazzano gave a few suggestions. Our Governor General who approved proroguing parliament received a raise bringing her salary to $387,000, which helps to explain why the cost of bureaucracy in Canada has gone up 73% and 100,000 bureaucrats have been added since Trudeau has been in power.
“The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation claims it has won its objective of affordable housing for all. Meanwhile, houses are unaffordable, yet the CMHC has rubber-stamped more than $100 million in bonuses since the beginning of 2020,” Franco explained. As of April 1st, we’re facing a 19% carbon tax increase, while we watched 670 billion dollars in natural resource projects stalled or cancelled since 2015.
The CTF received a thousand pages of access to information requests from Global Affairs Canada, which was quite revealing. Here are just a few ways your tax dollars have been spent: $8,800 for a sex toy show in Germany, $12,500 for seniors in other countries to speak about their sex lives to a live audience, and $8,100 to organize DJ workshops in Turkey and Georgia. But there’s much more.
$7.2 million was spent on a gender-responsive systems approach to universal healthcare in the Philippines, $12.5 million on vacant land in West Africa, and $41 million on properties in Afghanistan that were abandoned to the Taliban. While Franco was reading the extensive list, he said he had to stop because the more he read, the more upset he got.
“If we actually built a pipeline here in Canada, then we could reduce our reliance on trade with the US and reduce our reliance on importing oil from Saudi Arabia. It sounds so obvious, but things aren’t obvious in Ottawa. Common sense isn’t obvious in Ottawa!” Franco concluded.
Speaking of common sense, Quick Dick had some to share: “We’ve spent way too much time being progressive instead of making economic progress and it’s way past time to change.”
Canada’s Jordan Peterson said, “This is an opportunity to shed idiocy that is making us poor, weak and irrelevant on the international stage.” He added it’s also an opportunity to increase cross-border trade, get out of our own way on the energy front, rekindle national pride, seek international markets that would make us truly independent, strengthen commitment to the military, and stop despising our own history. “Which would make the next 100 years Canada’s triumph instead of its falsely green and socialist demise.”
As Canadians we can only hope spring cleaning is just around the corner.