The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, Third Edition, p. 220
Come the time of the biggest long week-end of the summer, the Oracle of Ottawa knows that you have really got to pay attention. You got to pay attention to your TV set, and to your old fashioned mailbox. The time before a big holiday in a democracy now run by fart catchers and spin doctors is the best time to let out the sneaky, slimey news that you hope no one will notice until you actually start acting on it!
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| HP12C - Irvin Studin doesn't know how to use this? |
Well this year is no exception! There were three Canada Day sneak outs this year. The first one was the sale of AECL to SNC Lavalin for a mere 15 million dollars! The Conservative Harper government has given away over 1.5 billion dollars of Canadian tax-payers money to a corporate ho' in Quebec for mere cents on the dollar, with the cover story that the government has no business in the nuclear reactor business! The second sneak out came in my mail box from Ottawa Hydro telling me that if I use electricity on peak hours, (and these hours now being specified by Ottawa Hydro), that that will cost me ten cents per kilowatt hour! But the Ontario McGuinty government recently spent a gizillion dollars installing smart meters to every consumer in Ontario so that "we could take advantage and pay the market rate" for electricity! All I can say is that Premier McGuinty had better call home to his old law firm in Ottawa and tell them to clean off his old desk, cause he is going to need his old job back after election time this fall!
The third attempted sneak out I caught was on Steve Paikins The Agenda on TV Ontario aired on Canada Day eve. It was the interview with Irvin Studin entitled Canada at 100 Million, How do we get there? The studious and stern looking little Irvin was going on about how important it is for Canada to grow to 100 million people by the end of this century! (4:40) He claims to have got this grandiose idea from an (unsourced) quote from Winston Churchill! (First Red Flag...) Now it all gets strange when little Irvin states that to get to 100 million people by the end of this century (89 years to go...) we should start raising our present immigration rate 10-15% starting now! (5:12) The Oracle of Ottawa's bull shit alarm went off in terminal lock-on mode! This sounds like a trial panic "Life Raft" plan for a certain nation state that has recently burned or is in the process of burning all its remaining bridges and is setting the ground work now to transfer its citizenry to a new "host". (Does anybody have any idea which nation state this is?)
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| People should mind their own business... |
Little Irvin states that we in Canada are mere provincials on the world stage (5:20) and that we could be such a "world power" if we just bulked up! Well we are already a G8 Nation! Canada is already a "world power"! We have already won the United Nation award for the best country on Earth more than once! We have more influence then we will ever need! (11:00) Then little Irvin starts getting all fascist about bring in tons of God knows what, as long as they are breathing and forcing them to live in places like Moosonee, Ontario(!) (7:00) for a period of five years! (8:00) The small constitutional problems that this would bring up are not addressed save that it could be sent to the courts! (8:48)
Facts:
At what annual growth rate would Canada have to grow to reach a population of 100 million in 2100 A.D.?
With a starting population of 35 million and 89 years to go Canada would have to grow at an annual rate of: 1.1865% per year! (Conclusion: Slam the Immigration doors shut, we just don't need any of them!)
At a growth rate of 2.00% per year, Canada will reach a population of 100 million in 54 years from now! That is Canada will have 100 million people at 2.00% annual growth in the year 2065!
At a growth rate of 3.00% per year, Canada will reach a population of 100 million in 36 years from now!
That is Canada will have 100 million people at 3.00% annual growth in the year 2047!
Conclusion:
Canada is not week in Demographics! It is only week in arithmetic! Especially the arithmetic of first generation Canadian university professors, who have claimed to have attend the London School of Economics and Oxford University as Rhodes Scholars!! (Now this would be an ideal place for the Conservative government to cut funding, transferring it to artists that can always "do the math"!!)
This is a full copy of the said interview... all times in brackets are taken from this video time signature....as referenced above...
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