Opinion
Inflation Warning: StatsCan Sounds the Alarm

Inflation climbs, energy costs explode, and the government is literally on pause
Picture this: You’re on a plane. The engines are sputtering, the fuel gauge is flashing empty, and the ground is coming up fast. You look to the cockpit for some reassurance, some sign that the people in charge know what they’re doing. But instead, the pilots are gone. They’ve unbuckled their seatbelts, abandoned the controls, and are busy arguing over which one of them gets to be in charge next—because, you know, that’s the real priority right now.
They aren’t governing. They aren’t fixing the problems. They’re trying to save their own political skins while the country burns.
This morning’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report tells us exactly what’s coming. Inflation is 1.9% year-over-year, and while that number seems stable, it’s a mirage—because once you strip away the government’s temporary tax gimmicks, what’s underneath is an economy about to collapse.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Trudeau is about to make it worse.
Let’s start with energy, because that’s where the pain begins. Gasoline prices are up 8.6%, natural gas is up 4.8%, and in Manitoba, gas prices just skyrocketed by a staggering 25.9% thanks to a reintroduced gas tax. That’s before Trump’s looming 25% tariff threat, which would send fuel costs spiraling even higher. This isn’t just bad economic policy—it’s a full-blown attack on the working class. Every trucker, every factory worker, every farmer in this country is about to get walloped by higher costs.
And what is Carney’s Liberal Party’s brilliant plan? Another carbon tax hike.
That’s right. While millions of Canadians struggle to afford gas, heating, and food, Trudeau is jacking up the carbon tax—again—on April 1st. That’s not a joke, that’s not speculation, that’s a fact. On that day, the carbon tax will increase to $80 per tonne, driving up gas prices by another 17 cents per liter. Heating your home? Get ready to pay even more. Running a small business? Good luck.
And if you think you caught a break on food prices, think again. The only reason restaurant meals were down 5.1% year-over-year was because of Trudeau’s temporary GST/HST tax cut—which expires in just a few days. Once it’s gone, the illusion of affordability disappears, and food prices will snap back up. Meanwhile, the housing market is still a disaster. Mortgage interest costs jumped 10.2%, rent is up 6.3%, property taxes are rising, and Trudeau is shoving half a million more immigrants into the housing market every year, making it even worse.
And here’s where it gets really ugly. Donald Trump—the current U.S. president—has made it very clear that he’s prepared to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, with a 10% tariff on Canadian energy. What happens then?
- Canadian oil becomes more expensive to export—which means less investment, fewer jobs, and higher energy prices at home.
- Manufacturing takes a direct hit—cars, steel, lumber, and agriculture all get more expensive to sell to our biggest trading partner.
- The Canadian dollar weakens, making everything from imported food to electronics even more costly.
And what is the Trudeau government doing in response?
Nothing. No plan. No strategy. No action. Because they can’t take action. They’ve abandoned ship. They aren’t focused on inflation, trade, or economic survival. They’re focused on themselves.
Trudeau, Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould are on a campaign tour—not for the country, but for the Liberal Party. They’ve literally shut down Parliament—paused democracy itself—so they can focus on their leadership race. Instead of standing before Canadians and explaining how they’re going to stop this economic collapse, they’re off debating amongst themselves over who gets the keys to the sinking ship.
And make no mistake—this isn’t leadership. It’s self-preservation.
Oh sure, they’ll go on CBC and CTV, they’ll look into the camera, nod solemnly, and say they’re “deeply concerned” about affordability. They’ll talk about how they “have a plan” to help Canadians. But let’s be absolutely clear: They cannot execute anything. They can’t pass legislation. They can’t provide relief. They have shut down the government.
The only thing they can do right now is talk. And if they manage to fool enough people into electing them again? Then the real pain begins. More deficits. More immigration. More taxes. The same disastrous Liberal policies that got us here in the first place—only this time, there won’t be a GST holiday to hide the damage.
It’s not just a disgrace. It’s a joke—a sick, insulting joke at the expense of every hardworking Canadian trying to keep their head above water. This country is not some Liberal playground, a sandbox for political elites to bicker over power while the economy crumbles.
And yet, they want you to believe they care about affordability.
Really? Affordability? Because here’s what’s actually happening: The temporary GST break is gone, energy prices are about to skyrocket, and come April 1st, your gas bill goes up again—all thanks to yet another carbon tax hike, courtesy of Mark Carney. That’s right. The man Liberals are grooming to be their next leader is the same unelected banker who cooked up this disaster in the first place.
And now? He gets to inherit it.
So maybe, in some twisted way, this is justice. Maybe it’s actually a blessing that Parliament is prorogued, because it means the Liberals can’t pass any more destructive policies before they’re inevitably thrown out of office. Let Carney take the blame. Let him defend his own brainchild as Canadians get walloped with higher gas prices, higher heating costs, and higher grocery bills.
This is the Liberal legacy: crippling taxes, runaway inflation, and a government too self-absorbed to care. And they have the audacity—the absolute gall—to tell you they’re the ones who will fix it?
Enough. No more distractions. No more backroom power grabs.
Call the election. Face the people. Let Canada decide its future.
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Censorship Industrial Complex
Welcome to Britain, Where Critical WhatsApp Messages Are a Police Matter

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“It was just unfathomable to me that things had escalated to this degree,”
“We’d never used abusive or threatening language, even in private.”
You’d think that in Britain, the worst thing that could happen to you after sending a few critical WhatsApp messages would be a passive-aggressive reply or, at most, a snooty whisper campaign. What you probably wouldn’t expect is to have six police officers show up on your doorstep like they’re hunting down a cartel. But that’s precisely what happened to Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine — two parents whose great offense was asking some mildly inconvenient questions about how their daughter’s school planned to replace its retiring principal.
This is not an episode of Black Mirror. This is Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, 2025. And the parents in question—Maxie Allen, a Times Radio producer, and Rosalind Levine, 46, a mother of two—had the gall to inquire, via WhatsApp no less, whether Cowley Hill Primary School was being entirely above board in appointing a new principal.
What happened next should make everyone in Britain pause and consider just how overreaching their government has become. Because in the time it takes to send a meme about the school’s bake sale, you too could be staring down the barrel of a “malicious communications” charge.
The trouble started in May, shortly after the school’s principal retired. Instead of the usual round of polite emails, clumsy PowerPoints, and dreary Q&A sessions, there was… silence. Maxie Allen, who had once served as a school governor—so presumably knows his way around a budget meeting—asked the unthinkable: when was the recruitment process going to be opened up?
A fair question, right? Not in Borehamwood, apparently. The school responded not with answers, but with a sort of preemptive nuclear strike.
Jackie Spriggs, the chair of governors, issued a public warning about “inflammatory and defamatory” social media posts and hinted at disciplinary action for those who dared to cause “disharmony.” One imagines this word being uttered in the tone of a Bond villain stroking a white cat.
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Parents Allen and Levine were questioned by police over their WhatsApp messages. |
For the crime of “casting aspersions,” Allen and Levine were promptly banned from the school premises. That meant no parents’ evening, no Christmas concert, no chance to speak face-to-face about the specific needs of their daughter Sascha, who—just to add to the bleakness of it all—has epilepsy and is registered disabled.
So what do you do when the school shuts its doors in your face? You send emails. Lots of them. You try to get answers. And if that fails, you might—just might—vent a little on WhatsApp.
But apparently, that was enough to earn the label of harassers. Not in the figurative, overly sensitive, “Karen’s upset again” sense. No, this was the actual, legal, possibly-prison kind of harassment.
Then came January 29. Rosalind was at home sorting toys for charity—presumably a heinous act in today’s climate—when she opened the door to what can only be described as a low-budget reboot of Line of Duty. Six officers. Two cars. A van. All to arrest two middle-aged parents whose biggest vice appears to be stubborn curiosity.
“I saw six police officers standing there,” she said. “My first thought was that Sascha was dead.”
Instead, it was the prelude to an 11-hour ordeal in a police cell. Eleven hours. That’s enough time to commit actual crimes, be tried, be sentenced, and still get home in time for MasterChef.
Allen called the experience “dystopian,” and, for once, the word isn’t hyperbole. “It was just unfathomable to me that things had escalated to this degree,” he said. “We’d never used abusive or threatening language, even in private.”
Worse still, they were never even told which communications were being investigated. It’s like being detained by police for “vibes.”
One of the many delightful ironies here is that the school accused them of causing a “nuisance on school property,” despite the fact that neither of them had set foot on said property in six months.
Now, in the school’s defense—such as it is—they claim they went to the police because the sheer volume of correspondence and social media posts had become “upsetting.” Which raises an important question: when did being “upsetting” become a police matter?
What we’re witnessing is not a breakdown in communication, but a full-blown bureaucratic tantrum. Instead of engaging with concerned parents, Cowley Hill’s leadership took the nuclear option: drag them out in cuffs and let the police deal with it.
Hertfordshire Constabulary, apparently mistaking Borehamwood for Basra, decided this was a perfectly normal use of resources. “The number of officers was necessary,” said a spokesman, “to secure electronic devices and care for children at the address.”
Right. Nothing says “childcare” like watching your mom get led away in handcuffs while your toddler hides in the corner, traumatized.
After five weeks—five weeks of real police time, in a country where burglaries are basically a form of inheritance transfer—the whole thing was quietly dropped. Insufficient evidence. No charges. Not even a slap on the wrist.
So here we are. A story about a couple who dared to question how a public school was run, and ended up locked in a cell, banned from the school play, and smeared with criminal accusations for trying to advocate for their disabled child.
This is Britain in 2025. A place where public institutions behave like paranoid cults and the police are deployed like private security firms for anyone with a bruised ego. All while the rest of the population is left wondering how many other WhatsApp groups are one message away from a dawn raid.
Because if this is what happens when you ask a few inconvenient questions, what’s next? Fingerprinting people for liking the wrong Facebook post? Tactical units sent in for sarcastic TripAdvisor reviews?
It’s a warning. Ask the wrong question, speak out of turn, and you too may get a visit from half the local police force.
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2025 Federal Election
2025 Election Interference – CCP Bounty on Conservative Candidate – Carney Says Nothing

Dan Knight
Liberal MP Paul Chiang echoes Beijing’s hit list, suggesting Joe Tay be delivered to Chinese consulate for cash—yet Mark Carney stays silent, proving the Liberal swamp is deeper than ever.
So let’s just recap, because this is almost too surreal to believe.
A sitting Liberal Member of Parliament—Paul Chiang—stood in front of a Chinese-language media outlet in January 2025 and said that if someone were to kidnap Joe Tay, a Conservative candidate and Canadian citizen, and deliver him to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, they could “claim the one-million-dollar bounty.” That wasn’t some fringe YouTuber or anonymous social media post. That was a sitting MP, elected to represent Markham—Unionville, who also happens to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion.
Let me be crystal clear here: that’s not just inappropriate. That’s not just “deplorable.” That’s language lifted directly from the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook. Joe Tay is on a real bounty list. Not fantasy. Not fiction. A real HK$1 million bounty placed on his head by the Hong Kong police for supporting democracy and speaking out against tyranny.
And what happens when a Canadian MP echoes that threat—on Canadian soil?
Nothing.
As of right now—this minute—Paul Chiang is still an MP in good standing in with the Liberals. Not suspended. Not removed from caucus. No RCMP probe. No parliamentary discipline. Nothing.
And the Carney campaign? The Liberal Party’s new face? Crickets. Absolute silence. Carbon Tax Carney, Trudeau’s old money-man turned globalist messiah, who’s spent the last month talking about “foreign interference” and demanding Pierre Poilievre get a security clearance? Not a word. Apparently, if a Conservative doesn’t submit to Ottawa’s surveillance state, it’s a national crisis. But if a Liberal MP plays mouthpiece for Beijing and jokes about abducting a political opponent? It’s just… Tuesday.
Imagine for a second that a Conservative MP had said anything remotely close to this—maybe even joked about placing a bounty on a Liberal politician funded by a foreign regime. Every major newsroom in the country would have declared martial law. CBC would be live for 72 hours straight. The RCMP would have launched a task force. But because it’s a Liberal, they issue a press release. A shrug. A “deplorable” comment, followed by a half-hearted apology and—get this—no consequences.
Now, contrast that with how they treated Ruby Dhalla. A former MP who dared to challenge the coronation of Carney. The party booted her from the leadership race, citing “financial irregularities.” That’s rich. They kicked her out—then kept the entrance fee. So her money’s good, just not her name on the ballot.
That’s the Liberal Party of Canada in 2025. A party so thoroughly compromised, so ideologically bankrupt, that they treat foreign bounties on Canadian citizens as a punchline—as long as the target is a Conservative. As long as the regime writing the check has the “right politics.”
And here’s the silver lining—because yes, even in this mess, there is one: we’re lucky this is all happening weeks out from the election. Because now, finally, Canadians get a front-row seat to the Liberal swamp in all its grotesque glory.
Paul Chiang joking about handing over a Canadian citizen to a foreign dictatorship? That’s not some isolated gaffe—it’s the mask slipping. And the silence from Mark “Bank of China” Carney? That’s the sound of a globalist technocrat who’s just as deep in the muck as the rest of them.
This is the Liberals unfiltered. Not the polished press conference CBC version—the real one. The one that looks the other way on foreign interference, cashes the CCP’s checks, and protects their own no matter how depraved the behavior.
So yes, it’s revolting. But it’s also revealing. And thankfully, it’s happening before Canadians head to the polls—because now there’s no excuse, no spin, no pretending. The Liberal Party isn’t just corrupt. It’s compromised. And the country can’t afford another minute of it.
Time to clean house. Time to drain the swamp—Chiang, Carney, and the whole rotten cartel.
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