Check It Out: Don’t be fooled on April Fools
By Joan Janzen
As April Fools Day is just around the corner, a few people shared their favourite pranks. A teacher who taught one of two Grade 5 classes in her school recalled an April 1st morning. All of her students went to her teammate’s room, and all of his students came into her room, entering the classrooms as if all was normal. “It was hilarious, and we were so proud of them,” their teacher said.
Another teacher, who was noticeably pregnant, filled an empty mayonnaise tub with vanilla pudding and proceeded to eat it during class. She thought it was the perfect prank until one of her students threw up.
Yet another teacher left a chocolate-covered raisin on his desk. During class, he yelled, “Bug!” grabbed a book, smashed the chocolate raisin, and then ate it. “I do it every year,” he said. The kids love it!”
Last of all, a son recalled, “My dad asked my mom to marry him on April Fools Day. She always said the joke was on him because she said yes!”
As Canadians flip their calendars to April 1, it might feel like they’re being bombarded with pranks from all sides, from within our own country. A carbon tax hike that’s supposedly cancelled, but not really cancelled because it’s still costing you money as you’ll get hit with it even when it’s hidden. And as Leighton Grey observed on Bridge City News, “The fact that we have to hope for an election is part of the problem isn’t it?”
Brian Lilley from the Toronto Sun was also interviewed on Bridge City News and said, “Mark Carney is saying we need the industrial carbon tax if we want to sell our oil and gas into Europe, which isn’t true.” Is it another prank on Canadians?
When Brian was asked how the Liberal party differs now that it is under new leadership, he replied: “All of a sudden, they’re worried about these industries that they wanted to forget ever existed. I don’t think there’s any difference. It’s the same group with the same policies that brought us to this position where immigration doesn’t work, housing doesn’t work, nothing works in the country, and we gotta fix it.” Does it sound like an April Fools prank to you?
David Freiheit, former Montreal litigator, informed his online audience he recently discovered Mark Carney is the godfather to the son of Chrystia Freeland. That’s the same Chrystia Freeland who was opposing him in the Liberal leadership race. “It’s a tightly knit group, and Canadians aren’t in it,” David said. If only it was an April Fool’s prank.
Franco Terrazzano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) made the following report: on April 1, MPs will receive a pay raise ranging from $6,700 all the way up to $13,400. This will be their sixth pay raise since the beginning of 2020. “So much for we’re all in this together,” he added. But that’s not all …
Remember when Justin Trudeau waved goodbye on camera? The CTF reported that he is taking two taxpayer-funded pensions along with him, which amount to $8.4 million until he reaches 90. Did someone say ‘April Fools’? I’m afraid not.
The National Citizens Coalition’s (NCC) newsletter commented on Mark Carney’s recent encounter with a CBC journalist. “When pressed on his failure to fully disclose his corporate ties from his banking days, his global consulting days, and his net zero days he snapped dismissing it as irrelevant noise and told the CBC to look inside itself for daring to ask him about his millions of dollars in conflicts and refused to come clean,” the NCC newsletter observed. And Carney wasn’t joking either.
Dan MacTeague was interviewed on Bridge City News. He is president of Canadians for Affordable Energy and spent 40 years serving in various capacities in the Liberal Party, but noted the Liberal party isn’t what it used to be.
Dan said, “They never really did a cost-benefit analysis on the second carbon tax. With the help of Professor Ross McKitrick, an economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis, Dan said their analysis showed that for every dollar of benefit obtained from the second carbon tax, it also cost consumers $6 at the end of the day.” Sounds like a prank, right?
An observation in the Epoch Times observed: “Net-zero policies have been Carney’s focus and will likely stay his government’s priority.”
Dan MacTeague continued his comments and didn’t pull any punches, saying, “I’ve said this right from the outset - this is the man behind the levers of the government during the past five years. If you like what’s happened in Canada the past five years, OK. But if you know there’s a problem, then you must vote accordingly and make sure these people are not returned to power any time soon. This election is about how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves by making some really awful political choices. It’s time for Canadians collectively to smarten up.”
April 1 may be designated as a day for pranks; however Dan MacTeague is determined he won’t be fooled. “Mark Carney is no fool, but he has a lot of people who are willing to be duped and I’m not one of them,” he concluded.
A wise man once said, “The truth will set you free.” So have fun on April Fools Day, but in real-life scenarios, I hope you don’t fall for any pranks.