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Poll shows Canadians want to shrink bureaucracy
From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Author: Franco Terrazzano
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released Leger polling showing a plurality of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal government employees.
“The poll shows taxpayers know they’re paying for too many federal paper pushers and want Ottawa to shrink the bureaucracy,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “Canadians can’t afford to keep bankrolling a bloated federal bureaucracy.”
Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015, Ottawa added 108,793 new federal government employees – an increase of 42 per cent.
The Leger poll asked Canadians what they think should happen to the size of the federal bureaucracy. The results of the poll show:
- 47 per cent want to reduce number of federal employees
- 29 per cent want to maintain the number of federal employees
- Seven per cent want to increase the number of federal employees
- 17 per cent don’t know
Among those who are decided on the issue, 56 per cent of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal government employees.
When breaking the results down by political party vote intentions, the poll shows:
- 71 per cent of Conservative voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
- 51 per cent of Bloc voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
- 42 per cent of Green voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
- 36 per cent of Liberal voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
- 26 per cent of NDP voters want to reduce the number of federal employees
“Taxpayers paid for tens of thousands of extra bureaucrats, more than one million pay raises and hundreds of millions in bonuses in recent years and the government still can’t deliver good services,” Terrazzano said. “Canadians can’t afford to pay higher taxes and the government is up to its eyeballs in debt, so it’s time for Ottawa to take air out of its ballooning bureaucracy.”
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Conservatives plan non-confidence vote against Trudeau gov’t next week, setting up possible fall election
From LifeSiteNews
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre said ‘it’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election’
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) will bring a motion of non-confidence in the House of Commons as early as next week, it has now been confirmed by party leader Pierre Poilievre.
Speaking with reporters today in Ottawa, Poilievre confirmed that a confidence motion will soon be introduced.
“It’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election,” he said, adding that an election is needed because the Trudeau Liberals plan to raise the carbon tax another 300 percent in the coming years.
“Canadians can vote to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime with a common-sense Conservative government.”
CPC Branden Leslie on X today confirmed the forthcoming confidence motion as well.
“It’s official that next week, Conservatives will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the House of Commons,” he said.
“Please SHARE this post to send the NDP a message that Canadians want a carbon tax election NOW!”
The text of the non-confidence motion will read, “The House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government.”
An earlier report from the Toronto Star said sources let it be known that Trudeau’s government will let a confidence motion proceed as early as September 24. On this day, Poilievre will be allowed to have full control of the House’s agenda and introduce motions at will.
While it is traditional confidence motions are used mainly when it comes to budget, they can also be brought forth for other reasons as well. The CPC will need the support of Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP) at a minimum and the Bloc Québécois. Should the initial motion or any others pass, Trudeau will have no choice but to dissolve parliament, which would trigger a general election, most likely in November.
The confidence motion comes after Trudeau lost support from the socialist NDP to keep him in power. Singh pulled his official support for Trudeau’s Liberals two weeks ago. However, in recent days he has been mum on whether he will vote for or against the Liberals when a vote occurs.
The Trudeau Liberals have also lost two recent byelections, one in Quebec and the other in Ontario, in what were considered “safe” Liberal ridings.
The most recent loss suggests that Trudeau’s Liberal government is indeed hanging on by a thread, according to all recent polls that have shown that Poilievre’s Conservative Party is set to win big when the next federal election takes place.
The souring of voters to the Liberal Party under Trudeau comes at the same time that even some of his MPs are turning on him. Last week, LifeSiteNews reported that Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès, who serves as the assistant deputy speaker of the House of Commons, became the first in the party to publicly call for Trudeau to resign, saying directly that he is not the “right leader” for the party.
New documentary produced by the Canadian Centre For Responsible Drug Policy features a 25-year-old student who purchased thousands of diverted “safer supply” opioids.
The Centre For Responsible Drug Policy, parent organization of Break The Needle, has launched its first mini-documentary: “Government Heroin.” The film follows the story of Callum Bagnall, a 25-year-old student from London, Ontario, who purchased thousands of opioid pills diverted from government-funded “safer supply” programs. Callum recounts how rampant fraud has turned these programs into a an abject disaster, leading to new addictions and immense profits for organized crime.
The film also features Joanne, his anxious mother, as well as Dr. Janel Gracey, an addiction physician whose clinical experiences make it obvious that safer supply is causing a wave of relapses and getting teenagers hooked on “government heroin.”
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