Last Week Today Episode 147 Show Notes for Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Requiem for Canada’s Latest Budget & its "Non-Fiscal" Components, Things Exploding in Canada, Israel Responds to Iran, What the Globalists Truly Fear, Nanobots & How the Gov't Can Do Anything!
Requiem for Canada’s Latest Budget & its "Non-Fiscal" Components
Canada’s latest budget dropped on April 16th, 2024. At the time it seemed like a big deal and was covered in most of the big legacy outlets.
Almost a week later, most outlets have published their platitudes, but are only now beginning to parse the details of the legislation. What they’re seeing isn’t always clear.
For example, as outlined in the April 21st, 2024 Financial Post article, “Will millennials and gen Z get a boost from Ottawa's budget? Jury is still out,” no one is really sure if the budget will benefit any specific demographic group, but the title of the piece is catchy and serves as a useful excuse to promote US based singer Taylor Swift, who sometimes performs concerts in Canada.
The April 21st, 2024 Global post, “Federal budget 2024: Canada disability benefit disappoints advocates,” is a pretty standard piece of filler journalism noting that, while some advocates liked certain components of the budget, other people don’t.
The political handlers also want you to know they’re up on the trendy topics so, as outlined in the April 21st, 2024 Canadian Press post, “Ottawa puts up $50M in federal budget to hedge against job-stealing AI,” they’ve promised to do something about it.
You have to dig deep into the post to realize that the Feds have only really increased the budget of an internal government department, the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program, and expanded its mandate for future training.
Other government departments have also received increases and the overall budget is huge, requiring new taxes to keep the deficit from ballooning.
Of more concern are the “nonfiscal” items included in the 416 page budget document.
As outlined in the April 22nd, 2024 CTV News post, “How quietly promised law changes in the 2024 federal budget could impact your day-to-day life,” those items are substantial and concerning. They include:
Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act.
These changes would allow the Federal Minister of Health to issue an order exempting persons or products (like big-pharma vaccines, for example) from “certain requirements” under the law. The exemptions could include bypassing Health Canada regulatory requirements relating to the rollout of medical products, technologies or packaging.
The changes would also "prevent unintended and harmful uses of therapeutic products," by tamping down the youth marketing rules for the "addictive" therapies related to smoking cessation plus increase regulations in other areas, such as health products and nutraceuticals.
As noted previously in this publication and in other outlets, such as the April 3rd, 2024 Maple Ridge News post, “MPs in Maple Ridge to publicize ‘threats’ to natural health products,” the slowly increasing Federal regulations for local businesses, when combined with the numerous exemptions being provided to foreign based multinational conglomerates, are closing small, family owned local health care businesses and limiting consumers to health care products produced by big-pharma.
Amendments to the Canada Education Savings Act.
The budget proposes an automatic enrolment in the Canada Learning Bond (CLB) for eligible children whose families do not open a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP).
While this may or may not improve the chances for children to receive a proper, post secondary education, the proposal, if implemented, will bolster the governments failing debt bond offerings on the open markets. Canada’s debt is increasing and Canada’s debt bonds need all the help they can get.
The proposal will also benefit beleaguered Canadian universities, who’ve been going through tough times lately, and encourage future enrollment in the dying institutions.
As noted in the April 17th, 2024 Professionals in International Education post, “Universities welcome budget to prevent Canadian “brain drain”” the Trudeau government is actively supporting post secondary educational institutions and “Canadian universities have welcomed prime minister Justin Trudeau’s new federal budget.” They’re hoping the new proposals will make up for an earlier decision to cut back foreign student enrollment.
Amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code.
The budget proposes to create new categories of auto theft, involving the use of violence or links to organized crime; possession or distribution of an electronic or digital device for the purposes of committing auto theft and laundering proceeds of crime for the benefit of a criminal organization.
It’s not clear from the budget whether this new category of “electronic or digital devices” will eventually include items like virtual private networks (VPNs), encryption algorithms, crypto-currencies or any other application or device also suitable for obtaining other forms of non-governmental approved information, media, knowledge or any open market products outside of government control.
Proposed Alterations to Canada's Telecommunications Act and Canada’s Bank Act.
These changes are officially designed to establish a framework for consumer-driven banking" with new tools to help Canadians better keep track of bills, track budgets and collect and compare information from a wide variety of financial sources.
It sounds good, but the proposals also allow the Federal government to release information collected by consumers to others, including financial institution and other government departments, and allows the feds to bypass certain privacy laws.
The aggregations of financial data into large government controlled databases is a pre-requisite for the imposition of government controlled central bank digital currencies (CBDC), a program the Canadian government keeps exploring, while insisting that its not interested in rolling CBDCs out.
It also give Ottawa the power to dictate to financial institutions how to label government payments deposited in bank accounts, which seems kind of odd, unless you recognize that the Trudeau Liberals wants the public to recognize that at least some of the money they collect in taxes, is eventually returned to them.
In essence, the Federal Liberals have created a huge omnibus bill with a lot of non-budgetary legislative changes that none of the MP’s really have the time nor the inclination to understand or discuss.
The Trudeau Liberals are hoping the budget bill will pass without anyone commenting on these non-fiscal measures.
This is something that Canadian citizen’s shouldn’t allow. There are even methodologies citizen’s can use to insure that measures presented to parliament receive the appropriate “due diligence.”
A good place to start learning about the available options is “The Myth is Canada,” a compilation of some “very import facts” about Canada’s origins and what activists need to know to effectively advocate for change.
Start at the community level, or at the level of your specific MP. and move forward from there.
Also in the News this Week
More on the Budget
There’s obviously a lot more going on here than we’re really supposed to know about.
The official party line of the budget, as outlined in publications such as the April 16th, 2024 Canadian Press post, “‘Generational fairness’ the theme as Liberals unveil $535B budget,” is pretty obvious.
The Fed’s want to transfer huge amounts of money from affluent retirees and entrepreneurs, “by raising taxes on those who have already capitalized on Canada’s economic strengths” to a younger, poorer generation currently leaning towards the opposition Conservatives.
But the Liberals want to keep a cut off the top to fund the ongoing budget.
As outlined in the April 16th, 2024 RBC budget analysis, “Federal Budget 2024: Lack of spending restraint offset by revenue surprise and tax hikes,” the only real revenue surprise in the current budget was caused by the proposed new tax hikes.
More tax hikes are coming and even the existing hikes are enough to turn the voters against the Trudeau government.
It’s not just the carbon tax. International bond holders are expecting their return on investment in Canadian debt bonds.
Things Exploding in Canada
In other news this week, weird catastrophes are seemingly popping up at random throughout the country.
For example, a train has gone up in flames while rolling through London, Ontario.
The April 22nd, 2024 Global News post, “Train ride to hell? CPKC's rail cars catch fire, blazing trail to London, Ont,” provides an overview.
Two days previous, the local RCMP in Happy Valley-Goose Bay NL, issued a press release saying the the fires in the town and the nearby Canadian Forces Base are now under control and there is no risk of further explosions.
Are these infrastructure failures, tests for future states of emergency, or external sabotage of critical infrastructure.
Are these latest explosions examples of silent weapons being used in quiet wars the people know nothing about?
Who knows.
For more on the NL fires, check out the April 20th, 2024 CBC News on YouTube post, “Labrador fires under control with no risk of explosion, officials say.”
Israel Responds to Iran
Also in the news this week, Israel has attacked Iran in a tit for tat response to Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israeli soil two weeks ago.
But the response seemed structured, restrained and designed specifically not to harm or offend anyone.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, attacks designed to encourage people to either leave the territory on die in place as a preliminary to Israeli occupation forces moving in to take control of the territory continue.
As outlined in the April 23rd, 2024 Al Jazeera post, “Israel’s war on Gaza live: Death toll climbs after 200 days of attacks,”
At least 34,183 Palestinians have been killed and 77,143 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive in Gaza.
Was the attack on Iran simply Kabuki theatre? Maybe… Only time will tell.
Here’s the CNBC on YouTube post, “Israel launches strike on Iran: Here's what to know,” for more on the Iranian strike.
What the Globalists Truly Fear
Here’s a quick reminder that Freedom Forum doesn’t just highlight our own work.
Over the last month or so, we’ve been cross-posting stories from our substack recommended list to main Freedom Forum Substack page.
Stories have been posted on Freedom Forum from the Corbett Report, The Bureau, The Vigilant Fox, Honest Media and others on a variety of topics.
The reason for posting these stories from independent new media sources has everything to do with the April 21st, 2024 Corbett Report post, “This Is What the Globalists REALLY Fear.”
The Corbett post notes that the globalists aren’t afraid of our protests.
They're instead afraid that we're forming national protest movements and coordinating days of action around topics that most people have never seen on TV or read about in the legacy media.
The new media should give itself a pat on the back. We’re winning, we’re getting our messages out and people are beginning to listen.
Let’s keep up the good work.
Two Videos about “Nanobots” and How the Gov’t Can do Anything.
And finally tonight, we have two short videos evocative of the current state secrecy and relations with our government.
The first, the April 22nd, 2024 Mongo_Mind_Productions on Bitchute post, “More on the Nanobots that Criminal Pfizer Admits are in the Quackccines,” is an interesting 2013 TedTalk on mRNA technology, which has more recently been mostly denied by more recent commentators.
The second, the August 25th, 2009, Tim Hawkins Comedy on YouTube post, “Tim Hawkins The Government Can.” is a lyrical and humorous song about what goes on in the minds of our government employees.
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