2/2: In the second photo, Minister of Advanced Education Myles McDougall, the Premier, and Dr. Misheck Mwaba, President and CEO of the college.

Such a great event for such a great cause!

#calgarycentre #yyc #cdnpoli #BowValleyCollege

2/2: CPW is a non-partisan org that champions engaged women’s voices & leadership in energy, economy & policy to shape a prosperous, sustainable future. They prioritize energy & economic independence and make the connection between energy policies, strong economy & daily lives.

6/6: Mr. Carney: the sacrifice is already here: a direct result of 10 yrs of mismanagement with no regard for consequences to people today or in the future.

Sacrifice indeed. Start with disciplining yourself. Cdns are already sacrificing. They need no more.

#calgarycentre #yyc #cdnpoli #inflation

5/6: One in five visits are from people who are gainfully employed but still can't afford to feed their families.

The answer isn't more government programs. The answer is to resolve the underlying cause: which is too much inflationary government spending, and too many taxes on food inputs.

4/6: Liberals tout programs like school lunches, but that reaches only 400,000 students out of 5 million kids in public school - about one in nine.

Yet a third - 710,000 - of the 2,165,766 visits to food banks were to feed children.

That number of total visits to food banks is double 2019.

3/6: Massive money-printing deficits have bid up the cost of everything for everyone, including the necessity of food which was up another 4% last month.

Food Banks Canada now says Canada is becoming a country "where hunger is normalized".

That's just wrong.

2/6: PM Carney has now confirmed that.

Young people are already paying the price. Home ownership is an abandoned dream; youth unemployment is at recession levels; and eating is 30% more expensive than when the Liberals took office in 2015.

6/6: Worse, the call centre cost ballooned from $50 M over 10 years in 2015 to $190 M. The total cost is projected to reach $214 M over the next 2 years.

Higher costs & abysmal service, plus answers that mislead Canadians on how to fulfill their fundamental duty to file taxes. CRA is broken.

5/6: Despite this dismal performance, the Liberals will begin auto-filing taxes for 5.5 million Canadians, automatically enrolling people in benefits the CRA is regularly unable to provide accurate information about.

What could go wrong?

4/6: Non-specific questions about benefits, including eligibility, were wrong 44% of the time.

The CRA’s automated chatbot “Charlie”, meant to relieve the call centre, answered only two of six tax-related questions correctly.

3/6: Over 7.6 million calls were disconnected before callers reached an agent or automated service.

Many callers gave up: 2.4 million abandoned their calls.

Even if they reached an agent, the call centre gave incorrect information 83% of the time on general individual tax questions.

2/6: In 2024/25, only 18% of callers reached an agent within 15 minutes; the target is 65%. In June, that number plunged to 5%.

Average wait time was 30 min. Nearly 9 million calls were deflected by an automated voice telling Cdns to figure it out themselves with no option to speak to an agent.

2/2: In this exchange today, Parliamentary Secretary Kevin Lamoureux expressed a desire to collaborate on Bill C-12 and asked where it needs amending. I outlined some elements that require strengthening. I hope the govt is sincere in seeking Opposition collaboration to make this a better bill.

3/3: I also spoke about the impact on controlling the opioid crisis, and on the safety of unhoused Canadians.

You can see the entire speech on my website: gregmclean.mp.ca

#calgarycentre #yyc #cdnpoli #BillC12 #OrganizedCrime

2/3: Bill C-12 has been improved with the removal of some provisions of C-2 that would have egregiously offended privacy rights.

One area of concern for me is how it will impact on criminal activities - which is the subject of this excerpt.