Meet Canada's Communist Senator

 

But this commie is actually a member of the Conservative Party, if you can imagine such a thing!

Don't let that grandfatherly demeanor fool you; this man is a hard-core pinko. Hugh Segal has been pushing for a "guaranteed annual income" for all. That's right, not for working, just for being Canadian!

In Canada such heresy is still occasionally tolerated.

Perhaps that's because when you look at the big picture you realize that it's probably cheaper in the long run than the road we're travelling now.

It costs society a lot of money to keep poor people poor.

Canadians have never had it so good!

That's according to Postmedia commentator Andrew Coyne.

Let's see now... the cost of housing relative to income has never been so out of whack...

The prospects for university graduates have never been as poor...

Those graduates are carrying debt burdens as never before...

We have more middle-aged men working at minimum wage than ever before...

We have more university graduates working at the mall than ever in our history...

But Andy Coyne has the stats to prove you've never had it so good!

NEWS FLASH!!! Rich people live longer!

Who knew?

Common sense just screams out that all those poor folks massed on their couches of complacency awaiting their next government cheque would live way longer. After all, talk about a life of no worries!

Meanwhile, those poor rich folks have to negotiate a never-ending gauntlet of lying lawyers, crooked investment advisers, random stock market fluctuations, odious government tax grabs, and the masses of poor people scheming to steal their stuff.

It can't be easy!

But apparently all that stress makes the rich folks live longer!

That news comes from research done by Statistics Canada.

No wonder the Harper gang has been working so hard to make those "social scientists" shut up!

If the poor folks catch wind of this they might get even pissier...

Why my cats eat but children go hungry

We have two cats here at Falling Downs. We don't see mice in the house. These girls earn their keep.


Chloe is the old girl. She's been with me for well over ten years. The new cat is the sole survivor of a litter of barn cats from a couple of years ago. One of the dogs ate all her siblings. We gave her a promotion to house cat, a tip of the hat to her survival skills.

Not hard to feed the cats. Pick up a box of Meow Mix and a couple tins of the canned stuff at the grocery once a week. I figure it's a bit under two bucks a day.

When the UN made a splash today by commenting on the fact that hunger and malnutrition are a fact of life for hundreds of thousands of Canadians, a lot of our leadership types were quick to take offence.

Whether the hungry people are in Somalia or in Toronto or on a reservation in Northern Ontario, there is one and only one reason for people going hungry.

They can't afford food.

And contrary to what Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said today, that doesn't reflect poorly on the UN.

It reflects poorly on Canada.

Harper gang furious after UN scolding

The smug and well-fed twats on Parliament Hill are shaking their heads in contemptuous disbelief today.

None other than UN special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter has drawn attention to the fact that there are almost a million Canadians at risk of going hungry.

That’s no doubt led to a lot of tut-tutting as the Honourable Members tuck into subsidized meals at one of the House of Commons’ subsidized restaurants.

According to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, “the United Nations is wasting time and money and undermining its own reputation by sending someone to investigate one of the wealthiest countries in the world while people are starving in developing nations.”

I guess that’s the point, Mr. Kenney. It’s not that people haven’t tried before to draw your attention to the desperation faced by many Canadians who live in chronic poverty.

At least a million people in Canada live in conditions not much different than the folks starving in those “developing nations”, Mr. Kenney.

And they’re starving for the same reason; they can’t afford food.