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What will Ottawa Ruin Next?



What will Ottawa Ruin Next?
In reviewing the record of the federasts in Ottawa the question is what will they ruin next? Capable of providing virtually any amount of reliable and efficient energy, Canada's exploration, production and transportation of oil and natural gas has been restricted. Wherever possible. Why?  Reasons for the employment of fear will be reviewed below, but even weirder, is that in a time of food shortages, Ottawa's bureaucratic classes suddenly set out to reduce food production. With marching instructions for PM Trudeau, not from the people but from the World Economic Forum headed by the political dreamer Klaus Schwab. Indeed, an acquaintance of mine, David Morrison, some five years ago was appointed as special advisor to Trudeau. In the late 1990s, Morrison spent five years as "Director and Member of the Executive Board, World Economic Forum".

Canada's exploration, production and transportation of oil and natural gas has been restricted,

Both intrusions employ fear and superstition. On the attacks on oil and gas, the boogeyman has been carbon dioxide.  Then more recently in growing food, suddenly nitrogen is a threat. The former is a gas that is essential to life on our unusually hospitable planet. The latter is an element in the soil that is needed by plants and requires annual replacement. Indeed, farmers have been practicing crop rotation since around 900 AD. While not understanding the chemistry, they got it right. In Holland the mania of invented fear wants to shut down some 3,000 farms. While insulting chemistry, legions of bureaucrats get it wrong, not directly to do harm but as a result of the compulsion to control people.  Which inevitably causes harm. A voluntary economy provides what is needed and does not force behavior. The struggle between control freaks and ordinary folk has become increasingly intense with each side thinking that the other is crazy. Who is right is straightforward. Freedom and prosperity go together as hardship and poverty goes with authoritarian experiments. Documented back to the destruction of the magnificence of Rome. At one time, the mainstream political parties would campaign on a platform of policies that were appealing to the electorate. But, as admirable as this was, it placed political power in the hands of the people. Which in the self-assumed mandate of power for power's sake is verboten.

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Perhaps an involuntary Ponzi Scheme?

Video clips from question period in the House are fascinating with the articulate Pierre Poilievre as leader of the opposition. His well-argued points cover inflation and shortages—both due to deliberate policies. And Trudeau's scripted responses adamantly stay on the dire need to end "global warming". That while painful now is needed to reduce atmospheric CO2. Carbon taxes will increase cost but will result in greater benefits to society. The tout includes that sometime in the future taxpayers will get more money out of carbon taxes than they put in. Perhaps an involuntary Ponzi Scheme? That's only if you believe that CO2 causes "global warming", which is a promotion used to increase taxes and regulations. What's more, the audacity has been almost godlike. The boast is that they can set the temperature of the nearest planet to 277K, plus or minus half a degree. The big concern is the temp rising by 2 degrees above an arbitrary benchmark in the 1850s. Greater urgency is conveyed by having to limit the rise to 1.5 degrees. Records over millions of years show that natural warming trends lead increases in CO2. In so many words, heating "causes" C02. Not the other way around.

Ottawa's socialist health care system is failing

This controlling promotion has been bad enough, but Ottawa's socialist health care system is failing. Too many patients and too few general practitioners. After 30 years, my doctor is retiring and it has been next to impossible to find another. Unless one joins a special clinic charging almost $4,000 annually. Even walk-in clinics are overloaded such that patients with minor ailments are in five-hour line ups at hospital emergency departments. Recently I had to go to emergency with a sciatica attack and a guy sitting next to me needed a prescription for gout. Until about 25 years ago, a competent GP would build a practice and at retirement sell it to a younger doctor. Then, and it seemed sudden, there was no market for an established practice. Doctors were not allowed to make an economical return on their years of study and on building a practice. A 2022 study by the Fraser Institute ranked Canada's Health-care Spending as first in a list of 30 countries (cue the cheers in Ottawa). But in services provided such as doctors, per 1,000 people, is close to the bottom at 28th. In hospital beds it is a lowly 23rd.


After decades of forcing an impractical healthcare system, Ottawa is chatting up universal daycare as well as dental care

Lots of taxpayer's money being spent and lots of propaganda on how wonderful our health care is, but almost last in delivery. What with expensive clinics and going to the States, Canada has a three-tiered health system. And the bureaucrats are determined to end alternative and practical medical systems. And after decades of forcing an impractical healthcare system, Ottawa is chatting up universal daycare as well as dental care. Doubtless that such schemes will be as relatively costly, with the usual low-ranking on the quality of results. However, incompetent and costly schemes forced upon the public can be described as in-your-face and in-your-wallet intrusion that is now becoming "too much", inspiring a popular reform movement. One that can defeat the control freaks with their impractical intrusions.  End the ruination of healthcare and allow voluntary initiative providing what the public needs and deserves. Let the top dollars already being spent provide top-rated service.

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Bob Hoye -- Bio and Archives

Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s.  Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.


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