Keeping it Real…

Governments, by necessity, must multi-task: but the current NDP provincial government has bungled some of it terribly.

They took the province from an $6 Billion surplus in 2022 when Premier David Eby took office to a projected $13.3 Billion deficit this year; ran up BC’s debt to $116.5 Billion this year, projected to grow to $189 Billion over the next few years; caused the costly downgrade of BC’s international credit rating; destroyed Vancouver’s Granville Street core by importing hundreds of homeless, mentally ill and druggies to live there; threatened the whole future of property ownership across the province by adopting DRIPA; and, worsened the province’s already debilitated health care system, with increased Emergency room closures, longer surgery waiting lists and even delaying funding for five long-term care projects AND the planned Burnaby Hospital expansion.

Those are no laughing matters.

Yet, in the midst of all of that, the BC government has taken up comedy!

Monday, Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth announced the NDP government was cancelling the agreement it had since 2024 with the Cross Fraser Partnership for replacement of the 65-year old Massey Tunnel.

Cancelled … now? Surely, a joke!!! Plans to replace the existing tunnel with a 10-lane bridge were first announced in 2013 !!!

The NDP government cancelled the previous Liberal government’s contract in 2017, after $100 million had already been spent on that project.

No one was laughing then.

In 2021, the NDP approved the tunnel idea instead and hired the consortium, which it has now fired … and will instead call new tenders (not kidding!) for several separate segments of the tunnel project.

““Moving to a revised procurement model creates more opportunities for Canadian and local contractors to participate while ensuring this nation-building project is delivered in the most fiscally responsible way possible,” Farnworth explained.

Critics believe breaking the huge project up into many individual pieces will add to the total cost.

But according to the government, the tunnel will still be finished on time, by 2030, for the original budgeted cost of $4.1 Billion.

They’re joking!!

Estimates are the real cost of the tunnel, with new tenders, will be around $9 Billion … or maybe more.

(The Liberals’ bridge project, which would have been completed by now, was estimated at $2.3 Billion to $3.5 Billion.)

No one is laughing now!

Yet, even the Premier … not known for humour … tried his hand this week at stand-up comedy.

““The number one goal here is protecting taxpayer dollars by bundling this project up into smaller parcels,” Eby told reporters. (Doesn’t “bundling” mean joining together, not separating up?)

“We’re able to have more local companies bid, which brings increased competition, which brings a better price for taxpayers… We are full speed ahead and we’re going to ensure the best price for taxpayers in British Columbia,” the Premier added as his punchline.

Huh? Breaking a huge project down into many contracts will cost less?

Never heard that joke before!

They’ll get a price now than they estimated in 2024?

Laughing yet?

All this now because they care for the taxpayers?

If they really did care for the taxpayers and our dollars … that bridge would have been built and and its 10 lanes would already be carrying cars, buses, trucks, bicycles and even pedestrians .. at BILLIONS less cost … not to mention avoid the environmental/ecological disruption/damage to the river bottom that an 8-lane wide concrete tube will cause.

Are they joking?

It’s an act Eby and his NDP ministers had better not take on the road around BC … because they’ll find no one is laughing.

Harv Oberfeld

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This week, the Pinizzoto children, Domenic and Dani, along with their mom, Marisa, will bury their dad, Marc Pinizzoto.

Toronto Police Constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot and murdered last week while doing his duty as a member of the Toronto Police Force.

An 18-year veteran of the force, he was only 43 years old.

Pinizzoto was the 413th police officer killed on the job in Canada since 1960 … but his death was different … very different.

Most police fatalities have occurred attending domestic disputes, as a result of traffic mishaps, dealing with mentally ill miscreants or confronting desperate robbers, drug dealers, gangsters.

However, evidence is mounting that Constable Pinizotto was shot by an alleged gun-for-hire, who police were trying to arrest for a terrorist shooting attack on the US Consulate in Toronto last March.

A terrorist? Working for a foreign power? Operating in Canada?

In fact, the accused is also a suspect, along with another man still being sought, in “several shootings” at Toronto-area synagogues as well.

The alleged shooter is now recovering in hospital from several wounds suffered after Constable Pinizzoto was fatally wounded and his partner fired back.

The investigation is ongoing, but what is being revealed … even in the early stages … should shock Canadians!

“In May, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed documents alleging that an an Iraqi national was behind the consulate shooting and had inspired similar attacks around the world,” the Globe and Mail reported Friday.

“The Iraqi national, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, set up an online terrorist organization with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, U.S. prosecutors allege in court documents.” (You can read the full article here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-us-consulate-shooting-march-toronto-police-charge-man/)

“As part of the probe, the FBI says it obtained a March 20 audio recording in which Mr. Al-Saadi boasted that his “people” were responsible for attacks in Canada against “the consulate and the Knesset,” the Globe reported.

“In an affidavit filed in court, FBI special agent Kathryn McDonald said she believes Mr. Al-Saadi was referring to the March 10 consulate attack in Toronto, and that his use of the word “Knesset” refers to an attack on a synagogue, rather than the Israeli parliament.”

Nor is Iran’s IRGC the only foreign terrorist group now reportedly at work or having active supporters in Canada.

“Hamas memos show Canadian-funded charities worked with terror group, NGO says”, read the headline in The National Post in May.

“According to a report by an Israeli NGO, Hamas’s own internal memos show it has been working in tandem with Canadian government‑funded charities and non‑governmental organizations. The documents, which the Israeli army says it seized during its Gaza counteroffensive, detail how the terror organization allegedly infiltrated and exploited international NGOs operating in the Strip.”

One of the organizations was awarded $6.5 million in 2014, almost $10 million in 2019 and $210,000 in 2020 by Global Affairs Canada. (Read the details here: https://nationalpost.com/news/hamas-memos-show-canadian-funded-charities-worked-with-terror-group-ngo-says)

In March, Global News reported that that RCMP and CSIS were investigating  a Vancouver company accused of ties to Hezbollah. The US has already sanctioned the firm: Canada has not. (Details: https://globalnews.ca/news/11745676/rcmp-csis-reviewing-vancouver-company-hezbollah/)

Canada had better wake up!!!

The evidence is growing that shows Iran, the IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah are now operating here, or have active Jihadist supporters in Canada, sowing discord in society, stirring up anti-Semitism on campuses and increasingly carrying out violence in our communities.

And although their current focus is on destroying Israel, true Jihadists have much more lofty goals; strict Islamic regimentation; Sharia law; restricting women’s participation in society; abolition of homosexuality; and, subjugation, conversion or death of infidels .. especially Western world Christians and Jews.

Seems to me the Jihadists are already here:

“The year 2026 is already on track to be the most violent year for the Jewish community in recent memory, ” B’nai Brith Canada reported in May.

The Jewish fraternal group reported more than 6,800 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2025.

“These brazen attacks on Jewish Canadians are a sign of a crisis of antisemitism that has spiralled out of control,” said Simon Wolle, B’nai Brith Canada’s Chief Executive Officer. “Violence such as this, which has escalated from targeting synagogues to targeting Jewish people directly, does not occur in a vacuum. It is what happens when governments fail to act despite mounting evidence that antisemitism is becoming more normalized and dangerous.”

The investigation, charges, trial(s) of those involved in the shooting murder of Constable Pinizzoto may expose WHO overseas is organizing and financing many of organized Jihad-supporting “protests” and increasing violence in Canada … and HOW they’re stage-managing the growing discord.

That may not be enough to console the Pinizzoto family; but exposing the Jihadists operating in Canada will help protect our Canadian family.

Harv Oberfeld

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