Canada’s small businesses have a big impact on our economy. As of 2021, there were 1.21 million employer businesses in the country. Of that number, nearly 98 per cent were small businesses. Over eight million Canadians, or roughly 68 per cent of the total private sector labour force, were employed by a small business.1 To top it off, they generated nearly 38 per cent of private sector GDP in 2019.
So, why is someone assigned to target Canada’s greatest monetary resource? Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Wilkinson is on track to destroy our industry and make Canada poorer with his C-59 ‘Greenwashing Act’.
Canada’s small businesses have a big impact on our economy. As of 2021, there were 1.21 million employer businesses in the country. Of that number, nearly 98 per cent were small businesses. Over eight million Canadians, or roughly 68 per cent of the total private sector labour force, were employed by a small business.1 To top it off, they generated nearly 38 per cent of private sector GDP in 2019.
If governments and individuals continue to cancel and block each other when we have differences, is there any hope for science, freedom or truth in the future? Is anyone actually paying attention to how this IS holding back progress, or is it just about power?
Alberta’s been on a roll. In July, Moody’s upgraded Alberta’s outlook from stable to positive and affirmed its AA2 credit rating. The respected research firm cited the province’s balanced budget, debt repayment legislation and spending constraints for its decision.
The Green Line vision – by its name tied to ‘Climate Change’ – was conceptualized in 2016 with lots of justification and talk about Calgary expanding by hundreds of thousands of people, and how this new line transporting people to all life’s events would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and road congestion.
The current federal government decree is for all new passenger vehicles to have net-zero emissions by 2035 – that’s only 11 years away. Rather than liquid or gaseous fuel, electric vehicles (EVs) run on electricity and must get that electricity from somewhere.
Housing has now become the PM’s latest expertise. He has declared ‘their plan’ to solve the housing crisis. With no background in the housing industry, his Party has outlined steps they intend to take to accomplish ‘his plan’ to build more homes.
The precarity of our supply chains was one of the unsettling realities revealed by the pandemic. All it took was a strain on a single link to cause shortages throughout the system. In some cases, it was an annoying inconvenience. In other cases, it was much more serious, including shortages of baby formula, computer chips and the contrast dye used for X-rays, ultrasounds, CT and MRI scans.
Attendees to yet another COP28 gathering of ‘the rich, the famous and the confused’ under the guise of saving the world from alleged manmade global warming, met in oil-rich Dubai to talk about a ‘phase out’ or ‘phase down’ of hydrocarbon energy.
