Politicians spending as much as they want, and going further in debt, for all the parasites to get free money.
Minister takes taxpayers for a (luxury) ride
The most wasteful politician in the country may not be in Ottawa.
With the way that Ottawa big whigs incinerate your hard-earned money, that may be hard to believe.
After all, former prime minister Justin Trudeau once blew $6,000 per night on a hotel room. Governor General Mary Simon billed you more than $1,000 on some shoe shopping.
But B.C.’s finance minister might take the cake.
B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey has a bad habit of taking money from taxpayers like you and blowing it on insane luxuries.
Bailey billed B.C. taxpayers more than $6,600 for a chauffeur-driven SUV from a luxury limousine company during a four-day junket to Boston, Mass., in 2023. That’s according to records dug up by your taxfighters at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
She used that chauffeured SUV to visit the New England Aquarium, various business meetings, hotels and high-end steak and seafood restaurants.
“We don’t get to choose where we go to eat on these junkets,” Bailey said when the media started drilling her on the limo bill. “It’s not that I had the option to go to Wendy’s.”
Did you catch that? Even the minister called the trip a “junket.”
Here’s how the Oxford Dictionary defines junket: An extravagant trip or celebration, particularly one enjoyed by a government official at the public [taxpayer] expense.
Yup, that checks out.
She went a step further and said she’d do it again.
Can you imagine how out-of-touch a politician would have to be to tell you she’d stick you with another $6,600 bill from a limo service company when she gets the chance?
That $6,600 could pay for five months of groceries for a four-person family anywhere in the province. Instead, it went straight from your wallet to the minister’s luxury limo service.
And let’s be clear — the limo service doesn’t try to hide that it offers the peak of luxury.
It markets itself as a luxury service for “pop culture icons who never drive… Sure, 007 can drive, but when he’s not dodging explosions, he’s being chauffeured in absolute luxury.”
Bailey doesn’t see an issue with sticking taxpayers like you with a massive bill, so she can feel like James Bond.
Here’s the real kicker: Premier David Eby told other ministers to work with Bailey to find savings for taxpayers.
Bailey can’t even find savings by taking a taxi instead of a chauffeured SUV from a limo service!
And if Bailey can’t do the little things right, do you trust her to do the big things right?
British Columbians are spending about $100 million per week paying interest on the provincial debt. Credit rating agencies have slapped the province with credit rating downgrade after downgrade.
S&P Global (one of the big credit rating agencies) warned that the B.C. government’s “commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered.”
When the finance minister doesn’t see an issue with sticking taxpayers with a $6,600 chauffeur bill, that commitment to spending your money responsibly hasn’t just wavered — it’s evaporated altogether.
Teacher strike looming over Alberta
The Alberta Teachers’ Association is trying to squeeze even more money from tapped-out taxpayers.
And Premier Danielle Smith is getting ready to call their bluff.
With the deal that Smith has put on the table, a teacher at the top of the pay grid would make $114,800. That six-figure paycheque is the highest teacher salary in the West. It’s more money than teachers in B.C. make — despite the significantly higher cost of living west of the Rockies.
Smith said she will start mailing cheques back to parents if the teachers do go on strike.
That’s a good strategy. If you are paying the government taxes so your kids have a teacher and that teacher goes on strike, you should get your money back.
VIDEO: Carney’s Gun Confiscation a Huge BOONDOGGLE: The Franco Terrazzano Show
We’ve got a doozy of an episode for you this week shredding the Carney government’s gun ban and confiscation.
Franco interviewed the president of the Toronto Police Association, Clayton Campbell, to explain why Carney’s confiscation won’t improve public safety.
Here’s just one quote from that interview with Mr. Campbell:
“The gun buyback program is going to have zero impact on gun crime in the city of Toronto. I can’t think of one occasion where a legal gun has been used in a crime. They’re all unlawful guns in the possession of thugs and gangsters.”
You don’t want to miss this week’s episode of the Franco Terrazzano Show!
WATCH: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
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Carney’s borrowing binge will break the bank: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Ottawa wants Cape Breton to be test case for gun confiscation experiment: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Senator defends spending nearly $22K for English classes in Vancouver: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Alberta must scrap its industrial carbon tax: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
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