While Canadian farmers across the fertile middle provinces of wheat and agricultural abundance face the reality of isolation and an absence of first responders due to the expansive geography, the overbearing government spurred by beleaguered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, continues to forward the narrative that all disputes and violent incidents will be settled by clashing pitchforks, instead of utilizing the reliable eloquence of trusted firearms. This troubling trajectory of legislative bullying extends through Parliament aggressively hindering fundamental rights and now threatens consumerism, as a bureaucratic funding scandal unfolds.
The fundamental goal of Trudeau and insufferable minions is to tax any profitable business model, and if that process fails, the government will simply implement widespread bans in cloning the New Zealand totalitarian model of stifling the free market. The density and mass of government swells as a result. Smokers are now the target of politicians salivating for a quick and dirty infusion of capital to mask various transgressions and fiduciary shortcomings in the policy process.
From firearms to tobacco with recreational marijuana intermixed in between, the much-maligned administration and deservedly so in justifying the various detrimental monikers and unrelenting criticism originating from critics and public watchdogs, is about to magically alleviate budget shortfalls on a provincial level, as private citizens and big tobacco are being used within the nation’s legal system to facilitate a contrived and reprehensibly diabolical solution to ideological incompetency. Word has it that Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man are on defcon-1, and the Christopher Buckley literary think tank is planning a sequel to the satirical irreverent novel and cult movie hit of “Thank You for Smoking”, as the biggest challenge faced by the casting team is to emulate the insidious tendencies of Trudeau. The cinematic professionals have considered scouring the musical dinner theater circuit of performers to portray the aloof, smug, and snarky persona of Candian political nepotism embracing the extremes of idealism.
Reports out of multiple news outlets outline that apparently settlement paperwork was filed by a court appointed mediator which stipulates that three major tobacco consortiums, Philip Morris International, JT-Macdonald Corporation, and Imperial Canada Limited, are on the hook for $23.53 billion to government organs and victims. Apparently, provinces and territories will receive nearly $18 billion, victims will net $4 billion, and the trio of big will contribute $1 billion to be allocated towards education and public awareness campaigns.
The hefty settlement culminates a sinuous journey through the provincial legal system which embarked in 2015 with a Quebec judge ruling that $100 thousand smokers were entitled to damages and compensation from the aforementioned companies. The corporations appealed but were denied credit protection in a 2019 landmark decision.
While the breakdown of the settlement indicates an egregious torrent of capital flowing into public and tribal coffers, the blatant discrepancy in funds directed towards the victims is simply another tragic example of the insatiable lust by government to ignore efficiency and emphasize growth over reason. The field of Organizational Dynamics introduces the idea that bureaucracy functions as a biological organism, and in the case of seizing a lucrative sum from three privately-traded-public-organization the most appropriate metaphor for the Canadian government is the collection of demagogues resembles a highly functioning anthill. The chilling reality of a callous and absolute ominous force annihilates hope, as once stifling legislation is enacted or legal precedent is set, simply undoing the damage borders on the impossible and improbable.
While Trudeau and minions will not shoot for the moon and target the Canadian distillery industry headlined by the Crown Royal empire, the government clearly suffers from a pathological condition in striving to impose heavy regulations on big tobacco and firearms to alleviate financial and funding issues, a nefarious campaign that leaves citizens vulnerable to the pratfalls of anti-free market exploitation. Combined with the Parliament embracing the DEI movement, Canada is one degree of separation away from joining the European Union on an economic and cultural level.