Cancon is the hospital food of the entertainment industry. It is mediocre drivel that consumes vast amounts of money and only serves the egos of those who claim it is culturally important. Slapping a maple leaf on content and pushing it on the public is what hustlers and carnival barkers do. It’s not what the government should do.
The CRTC clearly does not understand what the word modernize means. Imposing rules from the punch card era will slam the brakes on creativity and choice. It will not result in a modern system.
Requiring American companies to decide what Canadian stories to make and tell will not protect our cultural soveignty. In fact it will do the opposite. We’ll have some guy in California deciding that the story of Laura Secord will be about how she made chocolates to help fight off the Americans in 1812.
So once again, Zoolander and his cabinet of incompetents have taken something that worked, sort of, and replaced it with something that sounded good, but turned out to be expensive, useless and even counterproductive, while also being complicated, unworkable and generating more new problems than it was supposed to solve. Trudeau has created new world records in the speed with which a politician jumps on a stupid idea. If someone has a stupid idea, especially if it’s a very expensive one, he’ll be on it before anyone else in his caucus can even say “Look! Shiny!”.
Hearing what I want to hear I actually think this is working exactly as they intended. Peter states there will be multiple hearings and there are already lawsuits. Who does that benefit? Lawyers. Professional commission experts. Academic experts. Four Seasons hotels. Air Canada. It's yet another transfer of printed money (since we can't even cover our real expenses it will be borrowed) which is about all this government can do well.
As an aside, three days ago my spotify family plan went from 16.99 to 20.99. Related? Since inbthe end "we" pay why not just take the money directly out of our accounts and stop the BS? In the end that's what's happening anyhow.
All part of the big grift. There are few things an LPC bagman or fart catcher likes better than an appointment to an open ended Royal Commission with cross-country hearings and fat per diems, which is why we have so many of them. Except maybe a Senate appointment, those are pretty popular with the political sort. The word politics, of course, comes from the Greek, poly, meaning many, and the old English, ticke, meaning, blood sucking vermin.
Thank you Peter. Enjoy your vacation. Indeed, this is so predictable. It is just what we have come to expect from the Trudeau sneak of weasels: massive virtue-signalling, followed by a half-baked porcine rib cage (not even the whole carcass, with meat substitute being papier-mâchéd randomly over the bones, then covered in DEI sauce, only to end up as the standard pig with lipstick.
I’m a fan of collective nouns. I think the word for a group of LPC members of parliament should be a “wallow”. On the other hand, there’s an old joke about a group of Oxford dons on their way home from a pub crawl who spy some ladies of the evening. “Oh look, “ says one, “a flourish of strumpets.” “No,” says another, “it’s a jam of tarts.” “You’re both wrong,” says the third, “it’s an anthology of pro’s. “ But the Dean had the last word, stating emphatically, “It’s an essay of Trollope’s.” Any of those would apply equally well to Zoolander and his cabinet of incompetence.
I am sure, or more rightly surely hope that a PP government will put a bullet in this sick horse’s head and end the useless bureaucracy. I find it ironic the a PM who says we have no identity spends so much money, time and energy ‘protecting’ our identity.
Allen, I also hope that PP will deal with this. But, but, but ...
The problem with that is that pretty much everything that the Face Painter has done over the last nine years needs to be reversed. A great deal of it has now been so institutionalized that the reversal will be like the original imposition and subsequent administration: full of massive unintended consequences.
In other words, PP will have a terrifically complicated job ahead of him. As a Canadian I do wish him luck but I am terrifically nervous about the mess of pottage that he will inherit.
Somewhere in the bowels of the CPC there should be a group keeping a list of acts, regulations and orders that need to be punted into the closest garbage can. Those lists should be then passed to a planning group to make outline plans on how to get to that garbage can. Contingency planning is critical right now as the CPC is going to be hugely unpopular so they need to act fast. Acting fast should mean that much of the hurt will be forgotten by the time the next election rolls around. I personally am eagerly awaiting Jagmeet Singh going apoplectic over the government governing instead of acting like Santa Clause.
For purposes of working through what needs to be done, I suggest that simply getting a list of all legislation over the last nine years is a good starting point. Then, one can eliminate the "okay" legislation (there is no "good" legislation over that period) and then prioritize the reversal of the rest. The problem is that the Face Painter has had so many unintended consequences - in addition to the INTENDED consequences - that one has to proceed very, very carefully.
LOL. I would like to point out that none of the intended or unintended consequences are of benefit to anyone outside the LPC. Certainly, many of the unintended consequences are harmful to just about everyone outside side the LPC.
Cancon is the hospital food of the entertainment industry. It is mediocre drivel that consumes vast amounts of money and only serves the egos of those who claim it is culturally important. Slapping a maple leaf on content and pushing it on the public is what hustlers and carnival barkers do. It’s not what the government should do.
The CRTC clearly does not understand what the word modernize means. Imposing rules from the punch card era will slam the brakes on creativity and choice. It will not result in a modern system.
Requiring American companies to decide what Canadian stories to make and tell will not protect our cultural soveignty. In fact it will do the opposite. We’ll have some guy in California deciding that the story of Laura Secord will be about how she made chocolates to help fight off the Americans in 1812.
So once again, Zoolander and his cabinet of incompetents have taken something that worked, sort of, and replaced it with something that sounded good, but turned out to be expensive, useless and even counterproductive, while also being complicated, unworkable and generating more new problems than it was supposed to solve. Trudeau has created new world records in the speed with which a politician jumps on a stupid idea. If someone has a stupid idea, especially if it’s a very expensive one, he’ll be on it before anyone else in his caucus can even say “Look! Shiny!”.
Hearing what I want to hear I actually think this is working exactly as they intended. Peter states there will be multiple hearings and there are already lawsuits. Who does that benefit? Lawyers. Professional commission experts. Academic experts. Four Seasons hotels. Air Canada. It's yet another transfer of printed money (since we can't even cover our real expenses it will be borrowed) which is about all this government can do well.
As an aside, three days ago my spotify family plan went from 16.99 to 20.99. Related? Since inbthe end "we" pay why not just take the money directly out of our accounts and stop the BS? In the end that's what's happening anyhow.
All part of the big grift. There are few things an LPC bagman or fart catcher likes better than an appointment to an open ended Royal Commission with cross-country hearings and fat per diems, which is why we have so many of them. Except maybe a Senate appointment, those are pretty popular with the political sort. The word politics, of course, comes from the Greek, poly, meaning many, and the old English, ticke, meaning, blood sucking vermin.
Thank you Peter. Enjoy your vacation. Indeed, this is so predictable. It is just what we have come to expect from the Trudeau sneak of weasels: massive virtue-signalling, followed by a half-baked porcine rib cage (not even the whole carcass, with meat substitute being papier-mâchéd randomly over the bones, then covered in DEI sauce, only to end up as the standard pig with lipstick.
I liked “sneak of weasels”, and covered in DEI sauce was also a lovely turn of phrase.
Thanks. Sneak really is one of the names for a group of weasels, and I find it a perfect fit for the Trudeau cabal.
I’m a fan of collective nouns. I think the word for a group of LPC members of parliament should be a “wallow”. On the other hand, there’s an old joke about a group of Oxford dons on their way home from a pub crawl who spy some ladies of the evening. “Oh look, “ says one, “a flourish of strumpets.” “No,” says another, “it’s a jam of tarts.” “You’re both wrong,” says the third, “it’s an anthology of pro’s. “ But the Dean had the last word, stating emphatically, “It’s an essay of Trollope’s.” Any of those would apply equally well to Zoolander and his cabinet of incompetence.
Love it!
I am sure, or more rightly surely hope that a PP government will put a bullet in this sick horse’s head and end the useless bureaucracy. I find it ironic the a PM who says we have no identity spends so much money, time and energy ‘protecting’ our identity.
Allen, I also hope that PP will deal with this. But, but, but ...
The problem with that is that pretty much everything that the Face Painter has done over the last nine years needs to be reversed. A great deal of it has now been so institutionalized that the reversal will be like the original imposition and subsequent administration: full of massive unintended consequences.
In other words, PP will have a terrifically complicated job ahead of him. As a Canadian I do wish him luck but I am terrifically nervous about the mess of pottage that he will inherit.
Somewhere in the bowels of the CPC there should be a group keeping a list of acts, regulations and orders that need to be punted into the closest garbage can. Those lists should be then passed to a planning group to make outline plans on how to get to that garbage can. Contingency planning is critical right now as the CPC is going to be hugely unpopular so they need to act fast. Acting fast should mean that much of the hurt will be forgotten by the time the next election rolls around. I personally am eagerly awaiting Jagmeet Singh going apoplectic over the government governing instead of acting like Santa Clause.
Allen, I agree that planning is important.
For purposes of working through what needs to be done, I suggest that simply getting a list of all legislation over the last nine years is a good starting point. Then, one can eliminate the "okay" legislation (there is no "good" legislation over that period) and then prioritize the reversal of the rest. The problem is that the Face Painter has had so many unintended consequences - in addition to the INTENDED consequences - that one has to proceed very, very carefully.
LOL. I would like to point out that none of the intended or unintended consequences are of benefit to anyone outside the LPC. Certainly, many of the unintended consequences are harmful to just about everyone outside side the LPC.