{"id":99321,"date":"2025-11-29T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99321"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:56:26","slug":"there-comes-a-point-where-government-waste-stops-looking-like-incompetence-and-starts-looking-like-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/there-comes-a-point-where-government-waste-stops-looking-like-incompetence-and-starts-looking-like-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"“There comes a point where government waste stops looking like incompetence and starts looking like treason”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadians must be literally the most passive and forgiving people on Earth. It’s the only thing that can account for how we are governed by incompetents or idiots, yet keep re-electing them despite all the clear signs of failure and opportunistic crony looting of the public purse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There comes a point where government waste stops looking like incompetence and starts looking like treason<\/strong>. Canada has long passed that point. What we are witnessing now is not mere mismanagement or bureaucratic drift \u2014 it is the systemic looting of a nation by the people meant to serve it. Billions vanish with no oversight, no accountability, and no shame. The numbers have grown so grotesque that one struggles not to call this what it is: organized theft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Take Stellantis. Ottawa handed the automaker $15 billion \u2014 the largest corporate subsidy in Canadian history \u2014 and the industry minister didn’t even read<\/a> the contract before approving it<\/strong>. This, despite Stellantis shifting<\/a> Jeep production to the U.S., delaying its employment targets at the Windsor battery plant, and refusing to appear<\/a> before Parliamentary Committee hearings. Honda received a major subsidy without full Treasury Board review. Volkswagen hid its cost estimates<\/a>. Northvolt was showered with subsidies and then slipped into insolvency<\/a>. Each scandal blurs into the next until you realize the pattern is not incompetence but a business model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the LNG project in British Columbia. The main industrial partner is an American firm<\/a>. The terminal will be built overseas<\/a>, floated to Nisga’a land, and subsidised<\/a> by Canadian taxpayers. In other words: Canadians take the risk while the profits flow abroad and the jobs go to Korea or Japan.<\/p>\n

Or consider Telesat. They received<\/a> $2.14 billion to connect rural Canadians to high-speed internet \u2014 with no obligation to connect a single home, no penalties for failure, no clawbacks if the project collapses, and no enforced timelines<\/strong>. Three years later, the network still does not exist. Meanwhile, Starlink already worked, already served rural communities, could have done it for half the cost, and offered immediate deployment \u2014 but was rejected because Elon Musk is “polarizing”.<\/p>\n

ArriveCAN? $54 million<\/strong><\/a> spent on an app<\/a> worth $80,000<\/strong><\/a>, much of it funnelled to GC Strategies, a boutique firm that admitted it didn’t actually build anything. Then the Sustainable Development Fund<\/strong> \u2014 the so-called green slush fund \u2014 where $400 million<\/strong> flowed into Liberal-friendly firms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The State tells us its creed is “responsible governance”. Yet almost every act defies that claim. What we have instead is a system run by well-dressed operators who treat the public purse as their own. Canada is now a nation run by criminals, for criminals<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadians must be literally the most passive and forgiving people on Earth. It’s the only thing that can account for how we are governed by incompetents or idiots, yet keep re-electing them despite all the clear signs of failure and opportunistic crony looting of the public purse: There comes a point where government waste stops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,84],"tags":[111,1456,645,343,727,194,711,793],"class_list":["post-99321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-government","tag-cars","tag-competence","tag-corporatewelfare","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-fraud","tag-infrastructure","tag-subsidies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pPX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99323,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions\/99323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}