It’s always good for Americans to look north, and see what the secular left is doing in a country where they are the majority. Previously, I blogged about how Canada is expanding their program to kill poor people, people who disagree with the government, people with disabilities, etc. Today I wanted to look at carbon taxes and drug legalization. Let’s start with drug legalization.

Here’s an article from Daily Wire about Canada:

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 59 in British Columbia after the Canadian province decriminalized several hard drugs.

Deaths from illegal drugs are now higher than homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural disease combined, British Columbia’s Public Safety and Solicitor General Ministry said Monday in a press release.

From January to May this year, 1,018 British Columbians died from drug overdoses, a 2.9% increase over that period last year. At least 12,264 British Columbians have died from illegal drugs since April, 2016, according to the ministry.

In January, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to decriminalize fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and morphine.

The British Columbia government promised at the time to “treat addiction as a health issue, not a criminal justice one.”

What is very interesting is that this lady said that the reason why they did this is because they want to help the people who take drugs to not be afraid or ashamed:

“Decriminalizing people who use drugs breaks down the fear and shame associated with substance use and ensures they feel safer reaching out for life-saving supports,” Jennifer Whiteside, the British Columbia minister for mental health and addictions, said of the plan at the time.

The root cause of the policy is the desire to “don’t judge”, so that the evil people can feel as good the good people. The important thing being to help people feel good regardless of what they choose to do. Unfortunately, the no-drugs people have to do all the work to give the yes-drugs people free drugs. And they have to pay for their health care, because Canada has single payer health care.

I had a quick look at the biography of the “minister for mental health and addictions”, to see if she had any credentials in law, law enforcement, mental health, or addiction.

Nope:

Jennifer holds a degree in history from Simon Fraser University.

This is a common problem in Canada, where the Liberal Party of Canada frequently appoints “diversity” candidates to important positions, even though those candidates have no earned degrees or private sector experience related to those positions. So, take the finance minister: she has no degrees or achievements in finance. Take the climate change minister: she has no degrees or achievements in climate science – or any scientific field. It doesn’t matter if the person doesn’t know how to achieve results in the real world. It matters if they are a “good” person (a secular leftist) and if they say “good things” (secular leftist talking points).

Well, speaking of Climate Barbie, their climate change minister, what about the carbon taxes?

Even with a small drop in wholesale prices for gasoline on the markets today, he says to look for pump prices to jump to $1.49 on average in most places.

The federal carbon tax is to increase to 14 cents per litre of gasoline from its current level of 11 cents per litre. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it will cost the average household between $402 and $847 in 2023, even after the rebates.

Keep in mind that these are not “per gallon” prices. Canadians are going to pay $1.49 per litre. There are 3.79 litres in a gallon. So their price per gallon of gas is actually 3.79 x $1.49 = $5.65 a gallon. That’s nearly twice what I’m paying for gas.

And it gets worse.

The Toronto Sun notes:

According to the PBO, by 2030 when the carbon tax is fully implemented, the total cost to households after rebates will be significant. In Newfoundland and Labrador middle income households will pay $680 more annually after rebates, $929 in Saskatchewan, $1,028 in Manitoba, $1,118 in PEI, $1,127 in Nova Scotia, $1,269 in Ontario and $1,460 in Alberta.

Households with higher incomes will pay as much as $9,000 a year in carbon tax outcomes.

Is anyone surprised that Canada is going downhill at this precipitous pace? The prime minister is just a part-time drama teacher and ski instructor, who has nice hair and a famous last name. He doesn’t know  how anything in the real world works. And Canadians pay for his stupidity, because they elected an imbecile.

I heard there was some news on Thursday night about the IRS investigation of bribery allegations against Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. And there was also news about whether Joe Biden was in the room while Hunter Biden was conducting his business deals. I’m trying to stay on top of this, so that I can know enough to discuss the details with people who ask me what it’s all about.

Here’s an article by Margot Cleveland in The Federalist.

She says:

The Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office hid an FBI report that the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million bribes, documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee reveal. That revelation eclipses the catalog of other claims of misconduct and political favoritism levied by two IRS whistleblowers, as detailed in the transcripts the House committee released Thursday — and suggests the bribery claims were never investigated.

The information about the bribes was never provided to IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, “nor to any of the IRS agents acting under his supervision, nor to the FBI agents working with the IRS investigators.” Even though they were the ones who would be expected to investigate it.

More:

Further, Shapley’s investigative team was precisely the group to investigate the allegations contained in the FD-1023, as his group is “known as the International Tax and Financial Crimes group,” and consists of “12 elite agents who were selected based on their experience and performance in the area of complex high-dollar international tax investigations.”

The FBI did their part to protect Hunter Biden by labeling the bribery charges against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden as “disinformation”:

The scandal is not limited to Delaware, however. A related scandal connects to another whistleblower who claims that in “August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQs’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

Every indication suggests it was the FD-1023 that the FBI HQ’s team falsely labeled disinformation, which raises the specter that individuals in the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office were colluding with FBI HQ to protect the Biden family. It is now up to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s whistleblower to close the circle.

So, Margot thinks that the reason why the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office didn’t pass the bribery charges on for investigation, is because they were colluding with the FBI to protect the Biden family.

Another interesting story about Biden corruption came out on Thursday. Do you remember how Joe Biden claims that he didn’t know anything about his son’s business deals? That he never talked to him about it?

Well, consider this from the Washington Free Beacon.

Photographs on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop place him at his father’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence on the day he invoked President Joe Biden’s name in a text message, threatening his Chinese business partner to come down on him with their full weight if the business partner did not fulfill his “commitment.”

In that message, sent on July 30, 2017, to an official, Henry Zhao, working with a Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy—linked to Chinese military intelligence—Hunter Biden said he was sitting next to his father and that “we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”

The message became public on Thursday, when Congress made public testimony from an IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, who obtained the message during his investigation of Hunter Biden’s various tax crimes. Hours after the message was sent, Hunter Biden was pictured at his father’s home sitting behind the wheel of the president’s beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray with family members.

[…]If Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message as it suggests, it would be a fatal blow to the president’s repeated claims that he never discussed overseas business deals with his son, and the photographs of Hunter Biden at what appears to be a family gathering at the Delaware home is the strongest indication that he was in close proximity to his father when he threatened the Chinese businessman.

It’s very interesting, now that we know about these things, to think about all the pious Christians who told us that voting for a President isn’t about voting for specific policies or Supreme Court judges. It’s really about voting for a good moral and spiritual leader. That’s what we were told by the pious #evangelicalsForBiden. Now we’re finding out what sort of morality they were wanting us to vote for. Just look at the underage girls on Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s what they support as a “return to civility”.