Check It Out: So many choices, so many decisions

BY JOAN JANZEN
joanjanzen@yahoo.com

Wife: “Did I get fat during quarantine?”

Husband: “You weren’t really skinny to begin with!” Time of death: 11:00 p.m. Cause: Covid.

In this funny illustration, the wife had a choice, and made a bad decision. While everyone is watching to see how the WE scenario plays out, more decisions are being made, some of which Canadians may be unaware.

The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation is spending $250,000 to study proposals for a home equity tax, which would take chunks of proceeds away from families who sell their homes. Proceeds from the sale of a primary residence have always been exempt from federal taxes, and Canadians would like it to remain that way. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has an on line petition you can sign, regarding this decision.

Another decision was made by the federal government to force all new proposals for new mines, power plants, pipelines or railways to include plans to hit “net-zero” emissions by 2050, in order to get approved. This will only serve to increase global emissions, while it kills our energy sector, which is perfectly capable of protecting our environment.

The third decision was a $6.8 million contract awarded to a company in China, by our federal government. This contract enables the Chinese company to supply security equipment for 170 Canadian embassies, consulates and high commissions around the world. Do you think China would ever allow a Canadian company to install security equipment in any Chinese embassy? That is a decision China would not make. Do you think there’s a Canadian company capable of supplying this service? Yes, there’s likely many Canadian companies that could qualify.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has unearthed news that Toronto’s mayor wants to build a $4 billion park in the air above the downtown railway yards using taxpayer money. If you think this is reckless spending, the Taxpayers Federation has a petition available for you to sign regarding this mayor’s decision.

The final decision I’ll list, was discovered by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. They discovered bureaucrats paid a photographer $11,100 to supply photographs for their Healthy Canadians Instagram account. Evidently they couldn’t find free photos of vegetables, people wearing helmets and enjoying outdoor activities.

In order to have a little fun with this “bad decision”, the Taxpayers Federation is asking Canadians to take some pictures of people holding houseplants, people eating vegetables or enjoying the outdoors, and e-mail them to Health Canada to their address: info@hc-sc.gc.ca

Let them know they can use your photos, instead of paying for them with taxpayer dollars.

Those are just a few decisions which are quietly being made behind the scenes; choices and decisions that aren’t caused by Covid.

You can contact me at joanjanzen@yahoo.com