A Canadian veteran's point of view on political, social and economic issues and life in general. Episode 183: Bonuses, Blunders, and Bureaucratic Blunders. All these people getting paid during the height of our pandemic and our borderline recession. I tell you, what a poop show. All that and more come to the Christy Canuck Podcast.
00:01:58.240I miss that little dog because she was just quite that special little animal.
00:02:03.420So for those of you out there who have pets and they're suffering and they have a disease or they're sick or the humane thing to do is to give them a way out.
00:02:15.240So on that note, my apologies for not showing up Saturday, ladies and gentlemen, but had a family emergency per se.
00:02:22.040Anyway, as I was saying, episode 183 of bureaucratic blunders and bonuses.
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00:02:38.620So in the news past couple of weeks, we have come across some interesting tidbits of information from independent media and as well as mainstream media, too.
00:02:49.420So I'll be sharing some facts and figures there shortly.
00:02:53.000But the past couple of weeks has been tough on everybody.
00:02:55.080We're seeing a lot of Dutch farmers still holding the line.
00:03:00.220And our beloved, excuse me, puppet boy of the prime minister, Mr. Sockboy, Mr. Puppet, Mr. WDF aficionado, Justin Trudeau, is contemplating and taking another 30% of nitrogen out of Canadian farms, just like Mr. Ruta out of Holland is doing the same thing to his farmers.
00:03:17.500All in the name of the environment there, ladies and gentlemen.
00:03:20.180Now, I work in the agriculture industry.
00:03:22.960I, for one, know for a fact that regardless of what I do when it's feeding cattle or looking after cattle, you need nitrogen to grow things, right?
00:03:44.840And you're not going to solve the world's problem by cutting farming down by 30%.
00:03:49.880Now, regardless of how you personally feel about the Great Reset or conspiracy theories as we see them, okay?
00:03:59.300You have to realize, too, that farming is an asset, regardless if you like the lifestyle or not, regardless if you enjoy the lifestyle or not.
00:04:08.440I, myself, I have a lot of respect for farmers.
00:04:12.060Part of my youth, I worked in a dairy farm.
00:04:15.680So I understand what it takes to get the work done, to make sure that there's food in the table, that the lights are on.
00:04:21.300It's a basic work ethic that we're all should have been taught at a young age.
00:04:26.220However, we're seeing more and more people in our generation, Generation X, and the generation just a bit lower who do not embrace that because there's so much of this socialist bullshit going around that makes me want to puke.
00:04:42.240But it's getting scary, ladies and gentlemen.
00:04:45.820When you see these individuals, they go on national television, and they will just be so ignorant towards the farming industry, too, okay?
00:04:54.280There are people out there that actually believe you can just go to the grocery store and get all the meat and eggs you want, and they tend to fail to realize that those eggs come from a chicken farm, and the milk comes from a dairy farm.
00:05:06.940And when they have their kebabs, when they drive their beamers to a great big barbecue, that the meat comes from something called a cow or a steer, whatever your breed is, okay?
00:05:20.760And there's beef cattle for that purpose.
00:05:23.640And every aspect of chicken farming, dairy farming, pig farming, beef farming has to be done by individuals that have invested time and effort and money and labor, tons of fucking labor.
00:05:36.940To make sure that meat gets to your table in a timely manner, okay?
00:05:42.160Now, with all this environmental hoopla and stuff in regards to we have to cut the nitrogen down, have to cut this down, how about we punish the polluters?
00:06:00.120How about we punish those individuals that put super high toxins into the sky, right?
00:06:06.940I could say China and India are guilty of that, too.
00:06:11.560But, you know, if we say that in front of our beloved prime minister, he'll sit there and have you censored and say, oh, no, he loves that beloved dictatorship.
00:07:02.680So I guess there are lockdowns on guns and sales and banning this and banning that really isn't working now, is it?
00:07:11.420And yet the experts were told this years ago, too, even prior to the Nova Scotia fiasco.
00:07:17.380And there's more and more information on Brenda Luckey telling the powers that be what was going on when they really had no idea what the hell was going on.
00:07:40.360Yes, you can see a picture of Dr. Dina Henshaw, Alberta's health minister and CBC and a few other people at the Bank of Canada giving themselves little perks and bonuses over the past two years.
00:07:56.640Shortly from the Calgary Herald, and they reported how Ms. Henshaw received roughly $227,000 extra a year based on her efforts in regards to the pandemic, even though she was more or less an administrator telling people what to do and encouraging the powers that be to, you know, give guys a hard time.
00:08:23.820You know, people like Artie Poloski and the owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe.
00:08:29.480But, you know, we'll get back to that shortly.
00:08:32.280But I'll explain the buffooneries to you there shortly.
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00:08:46.960Yeah, so here's an article from the Calgary Herald in regards to Ms. Henshaw's compensation.
00:09:11.180Oh, did she commit, you know, open heart surgery?
00:09:13.960Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Dina Henshaw, made roughly $363,633.92 in salary and $227,911.35 in cash benefits, in quotes.
00:09:29.820Last year, according to the Alberta government's Sunshine List updated last month, which discloses severance and salary for civil servants earning above a certain threshold.
00:09:39.720That ranks as the highest cash bonus as well as the highest total payout to a government of Alberta employees since the province started disclosing this information back in 2016.
00:09:50.280The compensation encompassed a year in which Henshaw was the public face of Alberta's COVID-19 response, including its vaccine rollout and implementation of public health measures.
00:10:00.600In a statement to Postmedia, Alberta Health said 107 government employees received special services compensation in 2021 for extra work during the pandemic response.
00:10:15.740So they're doing extra work to make everyone safe, and yet there's businesses being closed and people being fined.
00:10:20.280Well, to my friends out here in Alberta, you know exactly what I'm talking about, and other provinces and states alike, too, to my American viewers.
00:10:26.840They said those payments were made in accordance with criteria set by the Public Service Commission, with similar compensation paid out during previous emergencies like the 2013 Alberta floods and the 2016 Fort McMurray fire.
00:10:40.800Okay, well, the floods lasted a few days, and the fire lasted a few days.
00:10:45.460That still doesn't justify those bonuses, as far as I'm concerned.
00:10:49.260A toll to include special service compensations, the chief medical officer of health determined using a formula that manages and based on additional hours worked, said Steve Buick, press secretary for the health minister, Jason Copping.
00:11:00.760Given the scale of response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary amount of additional work was required from Alberta's top health doctor.
00:11:08.280The extra pay to Henshaw encompasses how hours worked beyond 45 hours during a week.
00:11:12.020Pay disclosures in previous years show Henshaw took home a base salary of $300,633, yeah, well, fuck, whatever, in 2020, and an additional $332,000 in 2019.
00:11:24.120She did not receive additional cash benefits in either year.
00:12:44.720She's also the same person that really didn't make us stink when a lot of people in this province were being arrested, where people were being fined.
00:12:51.140As I mentioned, Arthur Perlowski, who goes out in Calgary on his own accord, who gets volunteers to feed the homeless.
00:13:01.980It was Stop Cafe, but he was a big supporter of the trucker confoy.
00:13:05.780He was chastised quite a bit by Alberta Health in regards to keeping his restaurant and gas station and his convenience store open because his livelihood depended on it, and people in that area depended on it, too.
00:14:33.920And speaking of hush money, we also have a little thing here from Spencer Fernando, a great independent Canadian intellect who knows quite a bit about what the world is and what this country is going through.
00:14:48.640And I'll just queue it up here for you as well, too, ladies and gentlemen, right?
00:14:51.820He has a story in regards to Bank of Canada, and it's quite interesting how he puts that together in perspective, you know?
00:15:07.460Now, it seems with all the money going left and going right and going overseas, how much of that money is coming back to you and me, okay?
00:15:15.540How much of that is coming back to Canadians?
00:15:18.660How much of that is coming back to people that have worked throughout the pandemic, even people that lost their jobs and got hired again or found a better job or got another job, right?
00:15:29.120Okay, yours truly wasn't gainfully employed as much during the pandemic.
00:15:34.340I went through my savings account to keep the lights on.
00:15:37.360The pension only covers so much, ladies and gentlemen.
00:15:39.040But I had a nice little nest egg tuck away, and there's a few other lads that I knew who scrimped and saved to put their money away.
00:15:46.280And just like that, it was gone because of administration, because of lockdowns, because of masks, because of this and that and that and this and that, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:54.700The same old jibber jab everywhere you go.
00:15:57.380But it's not as lucrative as you think, right?
00:16:43.040While they're ignoring warnings from common sense people like us, and while they're repeatedly getting it wrong on inflation, it turns out the Bank of Canada was rewarding themselves for their failures.
00:16:51.800Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation revealed the extent to which the Bank of Canada used your money to better their own financial situation, even as the financial situation of Canadians worsened, in large part due to the Bank of Canada's failures.
00:17:05.420And air quotes here, the Bank of Canada gave its employees $45 million in pay raises and bonuses during the pandemic, even though it failed to hit its inflation target, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:17:16.300Why is the Bank of Canada putting itself in the back and handling out millions in bonuses and pay raises while Canadians are struggling to pay for groceries and gas, asked Franco Tedrizano, Federal Director of the CTF.
00:17:28.480If its objective is to keep inflation low, that doesn't make sense for Canada's central bank to hand out bonuses and pay raises while the cost of living soars.
00:17:36.120In 2020, the Bank of Canada gave pay raises to 1,728 employees, costing $5.3 million.
00:17:42.200In 2021, it gave pay raises to 1,857 employees, costing $5.2 million.
00:17:49.840It did not cut the pay of any employees in 2020 or 2021.
00:17:54.200Amazingly, the Bank of Canada also seemed to be reveling in their ability to war themselves despite failing, giving out bonuses for quote-unquote meeting or exceeding expectations.
00:18:03.300In addition to pay raises, the Bank of Canada gave bonuses to 1,632 employees in 2020, costing $16.2 million.
00:18:11.460In 2021, it gave bonuses to 1,752 employees, costing $18.4 million.
00:18:17.520Bank of Canada told the CTF that it hands out bonuses for successfully meeting or exceeding expectations.
00:18:22.620Okay, so we understand that, you know, you go above me on your job, you should get a pay raise, right?
00:18:30.820When I started at my job, I was getting $19.
00:18:33.300I show up on time, do a bit of extra work, now I'm making $21.
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00:20:21.680Anyway, carrying on again with episode 183, bonuses and bureaucratic blunders.
00:20:25.700So I think I've read a couple of blunders to you.
00:20:46.320They do have some great work and a special thank you out there once again to Calgary Herald and Spencer Fernando for writing such great articles in regards to exposing the buffoonery of the bureaucracy.
00:20:59.440But this comes from True North here, ladies and gentlemen, in regards to CBC getting a few extra bonuses as well.
00:21:06.700So I'll just queue this up here too for your leisures.
00:22:28.780This is also retained by Blacklock's reporter too, one of Canada's legitimate news sources too.
00:22:34.100A lot of identified executives, of course, got paid this.
00:22:37.260During this time, the CBC was forced to lay off 11 staff at its Radio Canada International Division and required a $21 million government bailout during the pandemic.
00:22:46.260In addition to its $1.5 billion annual federal grant, brought to you by the Canadian taxpayer.
00:23:22.380For lack of caring, lack of consideration?
00:23:26.360Look how they monitored and look how they covered the trucker's convoy back in January and February.
00:23:32.920Okay, look how the major mainstream outlets, especially the CBC, when they come up with stories and BS in regards, oh, it must be some kind of Russian influence.
00:23:43.420Or it must be American Republicans who have said and funded this for GoFundMe and all this crap.
00:24:17.280I didn't see anybody in the CBC in Ground Zero talking to individuals at the convoy.
00:24:22.320I didn't see anybody at the CBC talking to people that were setting fire and destroying the railheads and railway tracks across the country back in 2020.
00:24:31.640Did the CBC go out of the way to find out who was setting fire to churches last summer in retaliation to the so-called graves that were found?
00:25:31.960Where's the mainstream media on those individuals and the good they have caused and the influence they have spread around, not just the country, but around the bloody globe.
00:25:55.320We've got this issue with with certain homosexual men spreading monkey pox around.
00:26:01.100Are we going to go back to the 80s again and call the AIDS pandemic the gay disease?
00:26:07.960We're going to call monkey pox the gay disease.
00:26:10.280We're going to go back to those old days and create more division and create more prejudice and more hatred because people have a different lifestyle.
00:26:24.040People want the freedom to go out and work, to earn their money, to keep their money, to save for a rainy day or other rainy days or save for college for their kids or save for piano lessons or sports or just save in general.
00:26:39.040Well, so when they do retire, they can retire with dignity, respect and get themselves a pat on the back and say, yep, I fucking did that for 40 years.
00:26:47.040But no, we constantly have to have this directive and this constant fear monitoring, the whole build back better bullshit, bureaucratic bonus bullshit is based on what it is.
00:27:08.140To every supporter out there that constantly downloads all this socialist bullshit, and I'm seeing it on my feeds all the time too, ladies and gentlemen.
00:27:16.740I am constantly seeing these ridiculous socialist feeds.
00:29:09.320But we're getting to a point where we're constantly being pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed and fined and pushed and jailed and fined and pushed.
00:31:56.680Like I said, ladies and gentlemen, if you like and hear what you see, please click like, subscribe, and share this content all around your social media platforms.
00:32:01.580And I try to get episodes at least twice when I'm on my off cycle there.
00:32:07.240Because I usually do 10 days on and I got four days off.
00:32:11.120The past couple of days, like I said, it was rough.
00:33:36.520But what I'm seeing now is that no matter how hard you work for something, there's either somebody saying you can't or somebody saying you won't.
00:33:48.020And the powers that be just don't give a shit.
00:33:51.040Well, then it's up to us to give a shit.
00:33:52.600It's up to us to say we can and we will.
00:37:04.760And I want to thank you all again for giving me such good positive reinforcement in regards to some of the emails and comments I've been receiving.
00:37:16.320Like I say, ladies and gentlemen, do what you can to help each other in these trying times.
00:37:18.540Do a little bit extra for your neighbors, an extra for your loved ones, your kids, your wife, your husband, boyfriend, however you identify.
00:37:26.140And like I always say, humanity and merit wins the day.