The problem began in BC in 1986 (Expo) when CCP discovered how easy it was to launder money. That money was “cleaned” through the real estate market in BC. It was called the Vancouver model, today, the Canada model. In the past 40+ years billions have been filtered across Canada, a result of drugs, drugs cartels and money laundering which buys what it wants. Sometimes that included politicians. The BC Cullen Commission 2021 was like the Hogue Commission a feeble attempt to highlight corruption. While immigration is a problem, it is not the crux nor is it the beginning. This has been a systematic destruction on several levels of how Canada should work, should process the laws that exist and has failed on several fronts. Primarily policing and justice and finally, immigration. Canada is a free for all. And yet, with all this innate unaddressed corruption, blame the boomers. Therein is my pet peeve! The perfect scapegoats. Don’t ever wonder how that government was re-elected when there are 11 CCP affiliated MPs sitting back in parliament. There is the truth no one touches. The rot is deep and Canada may never recover. I fully agree with each province having their own police.
Go listen to Shawn Ryan’s interview with Katarina Szulc , see shares how the Port of Vancouver is the hot spot for drugs now, despite the border is secure fallacy
Port police were virtually removed from Vancouver in the 1990s under Chretian…and that’s where it all started. That is an open port. That is the access to drug markets world wide. Never believe the BS that this is over blown, it’s not. How do I know this? Was married to an undercover VPD drug cop for decades. He said the drugs were uncontrolled decades ago.
Cretin did it on purpose, evil man. I think he thought it was revenge on "les Anglos", and also because his personal/familial fortunes stood to gain hugely (his daughter is married to a Desmarais, a Power Corp heir; they having profited from Chinese patronage since the early 70s).
No I did not. Another psych op you bought into. Research that. For instance, the west have boomers, they did not vote liberal. Start there. Division is a primary tool used for those who do not see through it.
I'm a boomer in a prairie city. Sadly, I am the only one out of many many I know who are in my age group who did not vote for the hockey foul elbowing Lib. I think it's because we grew up on CBC when it wasn't as blatantly partisan.
My point is boomers did not create this mess. It has been created over decades. They, like many others, would be unaware that this level of corruption even exists. They did not raise house prices, crime did. Blame belongs squarely in policing, justice, politicians. Further, the biggest transfer of wealth in history will go from boomers to their offspring. Anyone complained about that?
Good column again, Dan Knight. How about listening to one who says it like it is, you are nicer than I will be, I am a Canadian born senior whose father died fighting for this country, which has gone to pure crap since 2015, but the decay started sooner. Woke ideology, raising "snowflakes" instead of children who respect the discipline of Mom and Dad, respect the idea of WORKING for a living, and absolutely abhor anything to do with PRIDE. I do not give a damn what anyone does in their private lives, nor should they in mine! Get OUT of our lives., leave our children and grandchildren alone, grow a set of balls, stop the handouts to every single homeless person? why are they? guess the rules were too tough, no to homeless encampments, get off your ass and get a damn job and by so doing, earn yourself some self respect. At 84 I have earned the right to speak my mind. Thanks for listening to my rant. And that was only the start of it!
We need a strong culture like the Greatest Generation (my grandparents) had. Part of creating this culture is following some dictums by anarchists and libertarians. Anarchists: mutual aid (basically helping out our neighbors in our communities). Libertarians: DIY (Do It Yourself). If we engage fully in these ideas we need less of big government and can build strong resilient communities.
But we’re talking about a government that preached for ten years the budget would balance itself. Now they have a banker who tried that in the UK and trashed their economy to the point most don’t think it will ever recover, coming to Canada
It’s like the fix was in omitting Pierre Poillievre CPC. I am so angry at the Liberal party voting for Mark Carney as leader! I knew he mishandled the UK.
Trudeau spent us poor and now it’s even worse as Carney has neglected to release a budget!!!
HOW will we recover from multi trillions in debt? No homes built and thousands of unvetted immigrants?!!
Duh! How long have we been saying this? Carney is spending worse than Trudeau;he has not presented a budget and gives us all these little platitudes like he is increasing defence spending to 5% to satisfy NATO but the keywords are keeping “Canadians safe” next ? Taxes. He let in another 800,000 people so far this year with immigration; he talks like scrapping the DST Was his move intended all along that’s a lie, and then he talks of a trade war. There is no trade war. USA has had enough of Canada leaching off them. So what’s the bottom line ?carney is just a pretty face with the same Bs as the Trudeau did , directed by Rasputin Butts , a smooth talking economist with no budget, stoking fear and anger. And we’re in for trouble , plain and simple ; the election results show that Canadians as a group don’t get it yet. I am Canadian. I don’t need to remind myself of that. And TDS is a tactic leading us nowhere. Trump loves America. Does Carney love Canada? I’m secure in myself so clearly the numbers don’t lie. Carney is a “ European “. His words.
As usual, another insightful and informative post about what is truly going on in Canada. If we don’t fully wake up, we will be Britain and Australia in the blink of an eye. NOT GOOD what is happening there. Nor Germany, France Sweden Netherlands… all being destroyed by overwhelming immigration. We need a TRUMP who will end this sabotage of Canada. We also need smarter VOTERS. No more elbows people.
Well said, just a tidbit to add, money laundering into housing with banks that look the other way, but question you what your going to do with the three thousand of your money, you took out didn’t help. If someone can come and offer a third more than asking with cash what person turns that down? Even if they suspect the funds aren’t on the up and up ignorance is a handy excuse. As well there have been several surveys done concerning how materialistic some countries are and the top ones are all western countries. Who knows folks that have so much stuff, with the debt to go with it?
The problem began in BC in 1986 (Expo) when CCP discovered how easy it was to launder money. That money was “cleaned” through the real estate market in BC. It was called the Vancouver model, today, the Canada model. In the past 40+ years billions have been filtered across Canada, a result of drugs, drugs cartels and money laundering which buys what it wants. Sometimes that included politicians. The BC Cullen Commission 2021 was like the Hogue Commission a feeble attempt to highlight corruption. While immigration is a problem, it is not the crux nor is it the beginning. This has been a systematic destruction on several levels of how Canada should work, should process the laws that exist and has failed on several fronts. Primarily policing and justice and finally, immigration. Canada is a free for all. And yet, with all this innate unaddressed corruption, blame the boomers. Therein is my pet peeve! The perfect scapegoats. Don’t ever wonder how that government was re-elected when there are 11 CCP affiliated MPs sitting back in parliament. There is the truth no one touches. The rot is deep and Canada may never recover. I fully agree with each province having their own police.
Go listen to Shawn Ryan’s interview with Katarina Szulc , see shares how the Port of Vancouver is the hot spot for drugs now, despite the border is secure fallacy
Port police were virtually removed from Vancouver in the 1990s under Chretian…and that’s where it all started. That is an open port. That is the access to drug markets world wide. Never believe the BS that this is over blown, it’s not. How do I know this? Was married to an undercover VPD drug cop for decades. He said the drugs were uncontrolled decades ago.
Cretin did it on purpose, evil man. I think he thought it was revenge on "les Anglos", and also because his personal/familial fortunes stood to gain hugely (his daughter is married to a Desmarais, a Power Corp heir; they having profited from Chinese patronage since the early 70s).
You voted Elbows Up. Thats why we blame you - for voting for more of the same.
No I did not. Another psych op you bought into. Research that. For instance, the west have boomers, they did not vote liberal. Start there. Division is a primary tool used for those who do not see through it.
I'm a boomer in a prairie city. Sadly, I am the only one out of many many I know who are in my age group who did not vote for the hockey foul elbowing Lib. I think it's because we grew up on CBC when it wasn't as blatantly partisan.
My point is boomers did not create this mess. It has been created over decades. They, like many others, would be unaware that this level of corruption even exists. They did not raise house prices, crime did. Blame belongs squarely in policing, justice, politicians. Further, the biggest transfer of wealth in history will go from boomers to their offspring. Anyone complained about that?
Good column again, Dan Knight. How about listening to one who says it like it is, you are nicer than I will be, I am a Canadian born senior whose father died fighting for this country, which has gone to pure crap since 2015, but the decay started sooner. Woke ideology, raising "snowflakes" instead of children who respect the discipline of Mom and Dad, respect the idea of WORKING for a living, and absolutely abhor anything to do with PRIDE. I do not give a damn what anyone does in their private lives, nor should they in mine! Get OUT of our lives., leave our children and grandchildren alone, grow a set of balls, stop the handouts to every single homeless person? why are they? guess the rules were too tough, no to homeless encampments, get off your ass and get a damn job and by so doing, earn yourself some self respect. At 84 I have earned the right to speak my mind. Thanks for listening to my rant. And that was only the start of it!
Well said
Strong families alone will not save Canada.
We need a strong culture like the Greatest Generation (my grandparents) had. Part of creating this culture is following some dictums by anarchists and libertarians. Anarchists: mutual aid (basically helping out our neighbors in our communities). Libertarians: DIY (Do It Yourself). If we engage fully in these ideas we need less of big government and can build strong resilient communities.
Well that’s not a fkn surprise!!! Little supply for a crucial reason = higher prices! Thanks Turdeau/Carney :( 😫 😢 🤬
But we’re talking about a government that preached for ten years the budget would balance itself. Now they have a banker who tried that in the UK and trashed their economy to the point most don’t think it will ever recover, coming to Canada
It’s like the fix was in omitting Pierre Poillievre CPC. I am so angry at the Liberal party voting for Mark Carney as leader! I knew he mishandled the UK.
Trudeau spent us poor and now it’s even worse as Carney has neglected to release a budget!!!
HOW will we recover from multi trillions in debt? No homes built and thousands of unvetted immigrants?!!
Nope! Trudeau and Carney did us dirty in a recession with multi trillions in debt :(
No shit Sherlock ! The Liberals love their studies and reports, now let's see some action .
Duh! How long have we been saying this? Carney is spending worse than Trudeau;he has not presented a budget and gives us all these little platitudes like he is increasing defence spending to 5% to satisfy NATO but the keywords are keeping “Canadians safe” next ? Taxes. He let in another 800,000 people so far this year with immigration; he talks like scrapping the DST Was his move intended all along that’s a lie, and then he talks of a trade war. There is no trade war. USA has had enough of Canada leaching off them. So what’s the bottom line ?carney is just a pretty face with the same Bs as the Trudeau did , directed by Rasputin Butts , a smooth talking economist with no budget, stoking fear and anger. And we’re in for trouble , plain and simple ; the election results show that Canadians as a group don’t get it yet. I am Canadian. I don’t need to remind myself of that. And TDS is a tactic leading us nowhere. Trump loves America. Does Carney love Canada? I’m secure in myself so clearly the numbers don’t lie. Carney is a “ European “. His words.
You have captured the problems and offered a solution. Thank you.
Preach it !
Really, they just figured this one out. WOW.
Thank you for your honest reporting and allowing comments without subscription fees.
I’m 66, and father of two.
If I were in my 30s, wouldn’t even consider being children into this shitstorm.
The Liberals are actively destroying Canada. I wish I believed the Conservatives would do better.
We desperately need election reform. Yesterday.
Ouch! That strikes too close to home to be complacent.
Them admitting it changes nothing.
How much money was wasted to do this report??? A kid who passed grade 6 could have told you what this report found.
Obviously
As usual, another insightful and informative post about what is truly going on in Canada. If we don’t fully wake up, we will be Britain and Australia in the blink of an eye. NOT GOOD what is happening there. Nor Germany, France Sweden Netherlands… all being destroyed by overwhelming immigration. We need a TRUMP who will end this sabotage of Canada. We also need smarter VOTERS. No more elbows people.
Well said, just a tidbit to add, money laundering into housing with banks that look the other way, but question you what your going to do with the three thousand of your money, you took out didn’t help. If someone can come and offer a third more than asking with cash what person turns that down? Even if they suspect the funds aren’t on the up and up ignorance is a handy excuse. As well there have been several surveys done concerning how materialistic some countries are and the top ones are all western countries. Who knows folks that have so much stuff, with the debt to go with it?