Today in Political Corruption News

Typical, really:

The Trudeau government is claiming they weren’t aware that Joshua Boyle was under police investigation when he met with the Prime Minister.

As reported by iPolitics, “The Privy Council Office says it was not aware former Taliban captive Joshua Boyle was under police investigation before he and his family met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The information from PCO was obtained via an order paper question submitted to the House of Commons by Conservative MP Jamie Schmale. “The Privy Council Office was made aware on January 1st, 2018, that Joshua Boyle had been arrested and charged by the Ottawa Police Service for several Criminal Code offences,” it reads.”

Boyle met with Trudeau on December 18th, 2017, and was charged by Ottawa Police on December 30th. Boyle faces numerous charges, including two counts of sexual assault, eight counts of assault, and two counts of unlawful confinement.

Even before the public was made aware of the charges against Boyle, Trudeau faced serious questions about his judgement for taking the meeting, with many wondering why Trudeau would meet with someone who was once the husband of Omar Khadr’s sister Zaynab Khadr.
Trudeau had also failed to meet with previous hostages, despite his weak attempt to claim that meeting with Boyle was simply normal procedure.

I believe that is what security forces do: vet anyone who personally visits the prime minister, the only one, one might add, who could waive that process.

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Canadian-Iranian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami recently died in an Iranian prison after being jailed by the ruthless Islamist theocratic dictatorship.
 
He had apparently been arrested on espionage charges, but the regime never even officially announced his arrest, and have not given details on his death, aside from claiming that he killed himself.

That’s a doubtful claim considering the number of people who die in the custody of Iran’s regime.

He certainly would not have been the first innocent person to suffer under the dictatorship.
After his death, the Trudeau government (who are appallingly trying to strengthen ties with Iran’s regime), claimed they were outraged.

Yet, as Conservative MP Erin O’Toole noted, the Trudeau Liberals failed to back up that outrage with even symbolic measures ...

Symbolic measures are what Liberals are adept at but pointless. Why not punish Iran in some way?

But Justin is simply imitating dad, so ...

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In setting out these contrasting visions, the premier may have forgotten some inconvenient facts — such as how the Ontario Liberals had a policy of eliminating two regulatory requirements for every new one (introduced before Donald Trump introduced a similar type of policy last year in the U.S.). She also seems to have forgotten a report once commissioned by the Ontario government to set Ontario on a path to fiscal sustainability and economic growth.

In 2011, the Ontario Liberal government, led by Dalton McGuinty and with Wynne in cabinet, tasked the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services with producing a report that commonly became known as the Drummond report, named for the highly respected economist and civil servant that led the team that created it. Despite its age, the report still has a lot of relevance to what Ontario needs today. ...

The report, released the following year, included recommendations in just about every area of public service in Ontario including power infrastructure, labour relation, liability management, health and social spending. There was emphasis on accountability and value for money, which could perhaps have helped prevent some of the billion-dollar spending boondoggles that emerged later in the Ontario Liberal government’s reign. ...

Despite commissioning the report, the Liberals subsequently essentially put the recommendations deep in the storage vaults of Queen’s Park, never to be consulted again. Six years later, if a different government takes over, it should dig the report out and dust it off. It would be better late than never, and Ontarians will be better off for it.

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Go through the whole thing:

Special interests may also fly under the radar at fundraisers — particularly those hosted by lobbyists known as “bundlers,” who bring together dozens, sometimes hundreds, of guests each paying the accepted donation limit for tickets. The lobbying commissioner has launched a number of investigations into Liberal fundraisers, including two held for Justin Trudeau: a 2014 fundraiser by Clearwater Seafoods co-founder Mickey MacDonald where approximately 75 people paid about $1,000 each to attend, and an event hosted by the late chairman of Apotex Barry Sherman in 2015. That inquiry was dropped when he died.