Gary Vargo

Retired Municipal Government employee, now just farming. Rider, Leafs & Jays fan. Enjoy camping, golfing, good times and good friends.

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

A championship remembered. A banner revealed💚

[Gary Vargo @GaryVargo3]

@RussHerold12 Very proud of Dane, and happy for him. He’s an awesome young man.

[Russ Herold @RussHerold12]

Congrats Dane

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

We are officially back home 🏟️!!

📍: Mosaic Stadium
⌚️: 5:00pm CST⁣
🎫: https://t.co/TDlAjnLMM5
📻: @620ckrm⁣
📺: TSN⁣ / CBSN
🌎: https://t.co/cmzEJy27mZ

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

Leading the charge to start the season!

FULL POSITION CHART | https://t.co/oAquNfFJC4

[Gary Vargo @GaryVargo3]

@Kotyjo Well stated John, especially your last comment, “no Liberal can get rich on that scheme”. That seems to be the basis of most of their decisions. Which one of them can get richer this time.

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

It's on us make sure we continue to raise the bar and continue to try and find ways to get better because that's what this fanbase deserves.

Hear more from Trevor Harris as he addressed the media earlier today.

📺 https://t.co/snkaBxYjxB

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

BC chief Ron Giesbrecht (who looks white because he’s of German descent) was paid $914,219 (tax-free) in 2014, which is the last year his income was disclosed.

[MRS Carol Skelton @SKnana]

Quite a statement from a Federal Minister………

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

NDP MLA Joan Phillip is married to a chief who made $914,219 tax free in 2014 (the last year his income was reported).

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Canada Dental Care Plan will go billions over budget for years to come, says @GovCanHealth. Patient fees will cost taxpayers $18 billion over 5 years, a third more than cabinet’s original estimate of $13 billion.
https://t.co/Eq8lwxX9rg
#cdnpoli @SenateCA @gignacclement

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

Police can't get into former Calgary mayor @JyotiGondek's seized phone, and she's not giving up the passcode.

Investigators are now asking a court to extend their warrant while they try to crack it, as an RCMP-led probe into alleged municipal corruption, obstruction of justice and fabricating evidence continues. No charges have been laid — Calgary Herald

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

Green is the colour! Don't forget to wear your greens every friday before home games!

The tradition starts before kickoff!

🎫 https://t.co/bAjyfAa64w

[G.M. Forbes @gmforbes35]

He doesn't give a fuck.

His wife is one of the 13 VP's at ALTO who just got a massive bonus, an average of over $153,000, for literally doing nothing.

[Gary Vargo @GaryVargo3]

@Denny2point0 Yup, the media is nobody’s friend.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

DOCUMENTS: Start-up defence contractor lands private meeting with @MarkJCarney after lobbyist's sister is appointed @NationalDefence deputy. No comment @PrivyCouncilCa. 
https://t.co/h1cedcLxOM #cdnpoli @JamesBezan @DominionDynamic

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

IT IS NOT LOST ON ME

That two Liberal MPs who were NOT born in Canada

used their new majority powers to TURN OFF all recording of the parliamentary commitees they chair

almost immediately.

One was edcuated in an Islamic republic, and one a communist dictatorship.

[Gary Vargo @GaryVargo3]

@TammyLeeS75 Here too.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him.

We lost more than half our household income overnight.
Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem.

Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435.

To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus.
To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money.

Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate.

So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier.

It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink.

Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit.

My GST rebate went up.
By six dollars.
Not sixty.
Not six hundred.
Six.

Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought:

"Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔

What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it.

People working two jobs.
People trying to raise families.
Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher.
People doing everything right and still falling behind.

So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question.

Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it?

Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money.

A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance.

The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more!

I'm not proud to qualify for this.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate.
👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches.

I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it.

The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country.

Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success.

It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong.

What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars.

Six dollars!
That's not economic leadership.
That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this:

If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this?

At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!

[Gary Vargo @GaryVargo3]

@ChristopherZe19 You should be. You basically stole that! That’s a great find.