How Most Canadians Used to Handle a Cold

About a fifty years ago, "How Most Canadians Handle a Cold," was the caption to an add for Beyer aspirin. But, wow, how the country has changed. Today, frightened by models devised by mathematicians entirely divorced from reality -- people who would approximate a donkey by a sphere, a triangle or whatever made the mathematics work -- Canada's leaders have trashed the economy to minimize the risk of what appears to be not much more than a cold.

What’s amazing is that neither the modelers nor the politicians nor their medical advisors have yet been dunked in a pond.

What we have done is shutter something like one third of the economy because of a virus that has, supposedly (i.e., based on extremely dodgy statistics), killed about six thousand Canadians of whom, all but 1200 were elderly care-home residents who received a death sentence from the medical establishment that decreed that sick old people with Covid19 should be moved out of hospital into a care home. The result? Patients with Covid19 transferred to care homes infected, and thus cause the death of, multiple other care-home residents.

The twelve hundred Canadian deaths of non-care home residents attributed thus far to Covid19 is less than a third of Canada’s yearly death toll from suicide, one sixth of the annual rate of death due to diabetes (i.e., excess sugar consumption in a diet of which almost one-third of calories come from sugar), and one tenth of the rate of death due to accidents.

But apparently, to suppress a virus that has thus far killed fewer than the seasonal flu, we in Canada opted to wreck the economy, and gave our Communist dictatorship-admiring, Castro-loving, jet-setting environmentalist, Prime Minister Dress Up freedom to piss away about a third of the GDP paying people not to work.

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Covid-19: Nobel Laureate Sees Light at the End of the Tunnel

If you are already tired of social distancing, compulsive hand washing, and empty grocery store shelves, here's an encouraging item from the Lost Angeles Times:

Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2020: Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted. Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and the rest of the world. While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don’t support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place. Read more

The turning point in an epidemic occurs when the number of new cases reported each day turns down. Canadian Government stats, suggest that this may have happened in Canada late last week:

Figure 3. New reported COVID-19 cases (n=1,041Footnote1) in Canada by date of symptom onset.

Note: The shaded area represents a period of time (lag time) where it is expected that cases have occurred but have not yet been reported nationally.

But today, March 24, British Columbia announced 145 new cases, so maybe the worst is yet to come. 

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... when one deals with deep uncertainty, both governance and precaution require us to hedge for the worst. While risk-taking is a business that is left to individuals, collective safety and systemic risk are the business of the state. Failing that mandate of prudence by gambling with the lives of citizens is a professional wrongdoing that extends beyond academic mistake; it is a violation of the ethics of governing. The obvious policy left now is a lockdown, with overactive testing and contact tracing: follow the evidence from China and South Korea rather than thousands of error-prone computer codes. So we have wasted weeks, and ones that matter with a multiplicative threat.

New York Post: Coronavirus may have already infected half of UK, study says

If the New York Post is correct in reporting that half the UK population has already been infected with Covid-19, while only 422 deaths have resulted, we can infer that the death rate from this virus is in the order of 0.0006%, give or take the odd zero. If that's the case, then maybe I need not worry that so many of the people where I live seem to have no comprehension of the meaning of the term "social distancing."

Sussex ex Royal Sour Grapes

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have caved to pressure from the British throne and abandoned their "Sussex Royal" brand. That seems only reasonable since they apparently wish to have nothing to do with the British Royal Family business. Perhaps Prince Harry will drop the Prince too, which would have the advantage of making him eligible for citizenship in Canada where he and Meghan are presently residing. 

Meantime, though, there is a certain sourness in the tone of an announcement on the "Sussex Royal" website concerning the planned change in branding:

While there is not any jurisdiction by The Monarchy or Cabinet Office over the use of the word ‘Royal’ overseas, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use ‘Sussex Royal’ or any iteration of the word ‘Royal’ in any territory (either within the UK or otherwise) when the transition occurs Spring 2020.

Bizarrely, the statement also includes the following:

As agreed and set out in January, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will retain their “HRH” prefix, thereby formally remaining known as His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex and Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer actively use their HRH titles as they will no longer be working members of the family as of Spring 2020.

Um, so they are to be known as His and Her Royal Highness, while not actively using the His and Her Royal Highness appellations, which is only sensible since, in Canada where they presently reside, foreign titles are not recognized. [There is no exception in the case of Canada's Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II either, since the Queen is, by a 1953 Act of the Parliament of Canada, Queen of Canada, and hence the only person with a legally recognized Canadian title.]

But what, then, are we supposed to call this troubled and somewhat troublesome pair? Mr. and Mrs. Battenberg (the original name of the British Royal family)? Sounds good. A very suitable family name for recent immigrants to Canada. Should fit in well with the existing mix of odds and ends of European humanity who make up most of the Canadian population.

But how then will plain Mr. and Mrs. B  make a living? For now that seems to remain an open to question, but Harry could perhaps earn a bit, as  an advocate for a baldness cure. Meantime, taking advantage of the family name, Mrs. B's charming face could perhaps grace advertisements for a commercial variant of the Battenburg cake, invented to celebrate the wedding of Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, who married Prince Henry of Battenberg, from whom the present Royal family derived its name (now Anglicized to Mountbatten).

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Climate Panic: Economics, Ignorance and Mental Illness

Speaking at the One Young World conference in London on Wednesday, BP chief executive Bob Dudley said:

“unless you put a price on something, you can’t control how it’s consumed.” He then called for a “united effort to put a price on carbon. “One of the things we talk most about doesn’t have a price,” he said. “There’s got to be a united effort to put a price on carbon, so when you click a switch on the wall for electricity you’re going to pay a higher price.” “Getting a price on carbon,” he said, will “change the (emissions) situation more than ... four-year outlooks from politicians.” The outgoing BP boss noted that while emissions were stagnating in Europe and North America, other parts of the world were falling behind in addressing the climate crisis. “There are big coal-fired power plants opening in other parts of the world” he said “and that’s the epicenter of the problem.”

But carbon taxes are seriously harmful if applied only on a local basis. They handicap local industry by promoting the transfer of carbon-intensive industries to jurisdictions without a carbon tax.

The solution?

A countervailing import tariff on goods and services from jurisdictions without a carbon tax.

In Canada, where the re-elected Liberal Government plans the introduction of a carbon tax, the countervailing duty is absent, which is one reason that Canadian oil and gas companies are moving south of the Canada:US border — to avoid the million dollars in carbon tax on the diesel fuel consumed in drilling a gas or oil well.

The same incentive to off-shore or out-source to carbon-tax-free jurisdictions will undermine the Canadian steel, lumber, mining and manufacturing industries, which are precisely the industries where Canada has comparative advantage relative to her trading partners.

But apparently such simplistic logic is beyond the grasp of our rulers, let alone the majority of the public for whom Climate Panic seems more closely akin to neurotic illness than an environmental  problem requiring a rational solution (cf, E. Michael Jones: The Religion of Greta Thunberg).

Trudeau: Dead Man Walking?

October 22, 2019: Under Justin Trudeau's leadership, the Liberal Party of Canada won more seats than any other party in yesterday's general election, but not a majority in the House of Commons. Moreover, with only 33% of the votes cast, the Liberals received the support of fewer Canadians, a mere four million, than the main opposition Conservative Party.

Given the Trudeau government's four-year record of scandal and incompetence, the election thus confirmed our assessment that few Canadians believed they had anyone to vote for who possessed both the ability and integrity worthy of national leadership.

The outcome of the election should be a shake-up in the leadership of the three national parties, Liberal, Conservative and NDP. For Trudeau, the push may come sooner rather than later if the murmurs of an alleged sex-scandal past have substance.

As a replacement for Trudeau, Jody Wilson-Reybould — the Attorney General and Justice Minister that Trudeau fired from the cabinet and booted from the Liberal Party for the heinous offense of doing her job — seems an obvious choice for the Liberals.

However, since Wilson-Reybould was returned from Vancouver Granville as an independent, the Tories might be wise to beat the Liberals to the punch and invite Wilson-Reybould to be their leader, as a replacement for their damp rag, globalist negative-impact leader, Andrew Scheer.

Meantime, in Germany, another globalist, Angela Merkel, has just admitted that her insame plan for a multi-culti Germany has "utterly" failed. 

What Trudeau, with his commitment to the genocide of the Canadian nation, i.e., the creation of a post-national Canada, and Frau Merkel will never acknowledge is that a common culture is the pre-requisite of social harmony. Invite people who require rigid adherence to wildly different customs and beliefs to come and pursue their lifestyle in your country and look forward to big trouble.

So are we ruled by really stupid people? Or are they traitors committed to the globalist cause and thus intent on the destruction of the nations they lead?

And is Merkel's admission that multiculturalism has "utterly failed" an acknowledgement of stupidity? 

Not likely.  Merkel, who is on the way out, is using what remains of her credibility to suppress the rising tide of self-defensive German nationalism.

Trudeau seems to be making his own attempt to cover up his globalist allegiance, stating in his post-election victory speech: "In every decision we make as your government, we will always put this country and its people first."

Yeah, we'll believe that when:

(a) we see the cut that most Canadians want in Canada's planned immigration rate, which at one percent of total population per year, is the World's highest per capita rate; and

(b) we see a curb to the power of banks to create the money which grotesquely inflates urban house prices and has already led Canadian families into the heaviest indebtedness in the World.

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A Vote For Anti-Free Speech NDPer, Singh, Is a Vote for Continued Rule By the Ethics Violating Hypocrite and Black-Face Dress-up Guy, Justin Trudeau

During this weeks "Leaders Debate" Jagmeet Singh took advantage of the freedom of speech allowed under the constitution to all Canadians to declare that the civil, intelligent and indeed distinguished Maxime Bernier, former Minister of External Affairs and now leader of the People's Party of Canada, should have been denied the right to participate in the debate.

The same scoundrel has now made it clear that he's angling for a cabinet post in a minority Liberal Government. So be warned, Canadian citizens, a vote for Singh and the NDP is a vote for the continued government of the two-faced corruptionist, Justin, Black-Face Trudeau.

Canadian Election — The Party Leaders: Four Progs and a Rational Conservative (aka Raaacist). Part 2. Conservative party Leader, Andrew Scheer

To some it may seem surprising to rank the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada among the progs, but the reality is that Conservatives are generally more broadminded and open to new ideas than liberals, who, obsessed by their own virtue, are much inclined to authoritarianism and the resort to hate speech — as in branding opponents RAAAAACISTs, Nazis and white supremacists.

Indeed, until 2003, Canada's Conservatives called themselves the Progressive Conservative Party, and going back to the day of John A. MacDonald, the man who created Canada, conservatives at one point called themselves Liberal Conservatives. In that era, it was John A.'s Conservative government that granted the vote to first nations people over the objection of Liberals, who once in power, revoked the legislation.  Indeed it was only due to the strength of Liberal opposition that MacDonald abandoned a plan to grant women the vote. 

So yes, a Scheer-led Conservative Party would almost certainly be more liberal than the Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau, a staunch admirer of Alt-Left, i.e., Communist, dictatorship from that of Fidel Castro's Cuba, to Mao's bloody revolutionary government of China.

But Liberals and Conservatives are barely ideological in their commitments at all. Rather, both are parties of main chancers seeking to "seize the centre ground," to quote that champion of opportunists, Britain's Tony Blair, the destroyer of Iraq. 

So in what way is Scheer, the only possible alternative, preferable to Trudeau as Prime Minister? 

Four reasons immediately come to mind:

First, though no orator, Scheer can, unlike Trudeau, make a speech without repeatedly gasping for breath while his brain catches up with his mouth.

Second, Scheer displays no paraphiliac inclination to dressing up in ways embarrassing to Canadians and irritating to the people so emulated. 

Third, although a carbon tax appears the best solution to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the serious harm that that may cause, Scheer is right to oppose this costly measure as a national policy. 

The chief consequence of the Liberal Government's Carbon tax policy will be to put Canadian industry at a disadvantage versus industry of countries without a carbon tax, in particular, the industry of our greatest trading partner by far, the US. Canada should push for a global carbon tax regime that punishes non-compliant countries with countervailing tariffs, not hobble our energy and energy-intensive industries with a unilaterally imposed carbon tax. 

Fourth, Scheer's plan to promote Canadian R and D leading to technology that reduces carbon emissions, is very interesting. It may be possible, for example, to develop economically viable means of converting tar-sands bitumen, in situ, to hydrogen gas, while leaving the carbon in the ground. Hydrogen could then be used for carbon-free thermal power generation. Moreover, hydrogen, with three times the energy density of kerosene, has in liquified form, interesting potential as an aviation fuel that could massively increase aircraft payloads. 

And one could go on. But as we wrote before, Trudeau's leadership was a desperate gamble after the liberals had experienced three leadership duds in a row. He was promoted to the leadership solely on the basis of his name and good looks. Now we know where a name and good looks wedded to flakey, authoritarian bullshit takes one, and it's time now for change and Scheer's is the face of change.

Canadian Election — The Party Leaders: Four Progs and a Rational Conservative (aka Raaacist). Part 1. Liberal Party Leader, Justin Trudeau

Conrad Black: There is no reason to doubt Trudeau’s sincerity in being a globalist — a person happy to share Canada’s wealth with less fortunate countries and their emigrants, eager to be their representative on the United Nations Security Council, who believes in the post-nationalist state he speaks of, and illustrates his strongly held universalist beliefs by renaming what was the department of external affairs, and then of foreign affairs, to be the department of global affairs. Symbolism is insubstantial, but indicative. That is the problem, in a phrase, of this regime: it is full of symbols indicative of well-meaning policies that are failing. It is a government of no ideas but an irritating and oppressive attention to the Sisyphean (and undesirable) goal of reducing all mankind to one inclusive sex, one supra-nationality, no religion but a unanimity of trite good intentions, to make a country that has been relatively indistinct to the world anyway, become completely indistinct, on the theory that this is the future. Unemployment is low because of the roaring boom generated by the giant ogre to the south, but Canada’s own job creation and capital formation are following the prime minister’s love of globalism by going, people and money, to places where talent and effort are better rewarded. Those who accuse the prime minister and his government of having no direction are unjust. But those who fear it is the wrong direction are not. Source

Meantime, as Justin Trudeau jacks up the immigration rate, Canada's fertility rate continues on its downward trajectory. Falling below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per female in the final year of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's reign, it has now fallen by another 25% as lgbtq2-advocate Justin Trudeau's first term in office comes to its end.

Soon Canada will truly be, as Justin Trudeau describes it: a post-national state — the nation having been genocided by the state.

In this, Canada is following the example of Sweden, a state much admired by Canadian liberals, where the destruction of Sweden as an ethnic and cultural entity may now have passed the point of no return.

Sheri Berman, a professor of Political Science at Columbia University: who has studied and written extensively on Swedish society since the 1980s, says that Nordic country is currently experiencing a societal transformation the likes of which the world has never seen before. During a recent appearance at the Gothenburg Book Fair, Berman told reporters from Svenska Dagbladet, “Today, your society looks dramatically different. It is a completely different country. The demographic change that Sweden has undergone in recent years is quite incredible.” “To think that this kind of change could happen without any problems is unhistorical. It is a demographic experiment of historical dimensions,” Berman added. For Berman, the utter destruction of Swedish cultural and ethnic homogeneity could very well threaten democracy as a sizeable portion of native Swedes will inevitably struggle to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity. It’s clear that this already beginning to take place in Swedish society today. “There is no question that the more homogeneous a society is, the easier it will be. The groups are fewer and the gaps are closer, and it is easier to create a sense of social solidarity,” she said. Source

And

Some Justin Trudeau quotes: On the death of Fidel Castro, Communist dictator of Cuba: Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation. While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”. I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel On Communist China's cool dictatorship: There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go green, we need to start, you know, investing in solar. There is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about: having a dictatorship where you can do whatever you wanted, that I find quite interesting.

Save-the-Planet Justin's Election Campaign Transport: Trudeau`s other plane carries his costumes and the canoe.

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If Justin Were a Conservative

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The Suicide of the Europeans

Paul Joseph Watson reports:

During a speech at Budapest’s 3rd Demographic Summit, Orbán warned that the biggest problem Europe faced was demographic suicide: Why is this the case? It’s most certainly not because of some sickness of Christian civilization – after all, the number of Christians are rising all around the world. This is a sickness of Europe in general. The Prime Minister said that the solution was not to import vast numbers of migrants, asserting: We must never accept population exchange.  According to Orbán, the remedy should be to ensure that families were financially rewarded for having children, not punished: We win only if we can build a system where those who bear children live significantly better than if they hadn’t started a family. Orbán emphasized that the west was doomed if the current model of atomization and demographic decline isn’t halted. Without families and children, the national community will disappear, and if a nation disappears, something irreplaceable will disappear from the world. As we previously highlighted, as part an effort to boost the country’s population without having to rely on mass migration, Hungary will hand out €30,600 to married couples who have three or more children. A married couple receives the €30,600 as a loan from the government upon getting married. The loan then has to be repaid until the couple has three children. At this point, the debt is completely forgiven. Source

None of this applies to Canada or Canadians, of course, where our glorious leader, Justin Trudeau, has already declared Canada to be a "post-national" state with "no core identity" and no "mainstream". 

So yes, here in Canada, we citizens? nationals? ah yes, residents, are simply replaceable units of economic production with no fundamental right to our own posterity but liable to replacement by an endless stream of people from elsewhere. 

Likewise, all the Euro nations, other than Hungary, apparently. 

Indeed, here in Canada folks are so enamored of their lack of "core identity" that advocacy of a population policy recognizing the eternal right of existence to the Indian nations, the Innuit, the Québécois, and the largely European English Canada, all subsumed within the greater Canadian nation, means certain death to the aspiring political leader.

When it comes to survival, however, white bears, certainly matter more to Canadians than white people: No way should we endanger their posterity.


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Racist Hungarians Think Their Country Is For Hungarians

Zero Hedge, reports:

Faced with a declining birth rate and an unwilling to fill population shortfalls with immigrants like some of its European neighbors, Hungary has rolled out a seven-point "Family Protection Action Plan" which showers boatloads of cash, loan assistance and tax breaks to couples who agree to crank out lots of Hungarian children. Read more

But there's no risk any such ideas catching on here in Canada.

So long as the liberal duo of Trudeau and Scheer are firmly in control, anyone mentioning that reproductively challenged* Canadians are replacing themselves with people from elsewhere will be relentlessly castigated as a racist, fascist, Nazi, anti-Semite to be despised by all and sundry as a no-good hateful person.

No, Canadians are firm in their commitment to the idea that men and women are essentially indistinguishable and that a woman's purpose in life is to do a man's job and show that she can do it better than a man, which it must be admitted is often not difficult, and if any man thinks having babies and raising children is important they can damn well impregnate themselves and raise babies without female intervention.

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* In 1984, Canada's fertility rate fell below the replacement rate of 2.12 children per woman for the first time ever, thanks to the Trudeau Government's non-enforcement of anti-abortion laws, its legislation of no-fault divorce and the liberal climate of the times.

Since 1984 Canada's fertility rate has continued to decline, and is now 25% below the replacement rate. Canada's population continues to grow through immigration, which Trudeau the younger intends to accelerate to a yearly rate of almost one percent of the existing population. Canada, is thus, like all Western nations, with the exception of Hungary, in the process of replacing its population with people from elsewhere: mainly people of an alien race, religion and culture. Combined with a commitment to multiculturalism, this is a policy of European racial and cultural self-genocide.

Canadian Economics: Lies by the Government Paid for by the Public

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is an agency for the deception of the public at public expense. Almost any snatch of a CBC news broadcast or public policy discussion will, on examination, be found to encapsulate a lie.

A meme currently being foisted on the public by the CBC is that trade protectionism hurts the public by raising prices. The inference being that higher prices due to trade protectionism hurt every Canadian.

That is the lie.

The purpose of trade protectionism is to raise wages of people who will produce the goods that would otherwise be imported from collapsible factories in Bangladesh, Chinese electronics assembly plants with anti-suicide nets, etc. So yes, tariffs raise prices but they also raise incomes of working people. So trade protectionism makes many working people better off at the expense mainly of those in the FIRE and globalized sectors of the economy. Protectionism would also allow Canada to rebuild some of its battered manufacturing sector that was undermined by NAFTA and devastated by free trade with the sweat-shop economies.

Yes protectionism results in retaliatory measures, but what do low-wage economies buy from Canada? Not much. Seventy-seven point four percent of Canadian exports go to the US and Mexico which are largely free of protectionist tariffs against Canadian goods. The rest consists in those incredibly cheap  shoes and shirts, and omputers and car parts that Canadians used to make for one another but now buy in large quantities from exploiters of sweated Asian labor.

In fact, a protected US Market to which Canadians have free access by virtue of the NAFTA agreement would provide huge opportunities for Canadian manufacturing.

Justin Trudeau: The Worst Canadian Prime Minister Since Pierrre Elliot Trudeau?

Stepping down as Prime Minister in December 2003, Jean Chrétien said he would, like British Prime Minister William Gladstone, come back at the age of 84 — which would be in 2018.

Although, presumably said in jest, Chétien's promise has gained plausibility with the passage of time.

Since Chrétien made way for his long-time Finance Minister, Paul Martin, Canada`s liberals have been beset by failure.