Saturday Night Special

 
Despite an all-night filibuster, the Tories end up with no account of how much the carbon tax will cost Canadians from the most "transparent" government in Canadian history:

After a 12-hour filibuster that lasted through the night, the Conservatives ended their voting marathon on Friday morning, announcing they’d used “every tool” they have to force the Liberals to reveal the cost of their federal carbon tax.

But the procedural tactic seems to have brought the Liberals no closer to releasing the documents the Conservatives are demanding. In fact, its only tangible effect has been to delay House of Commons debate on several pieces of legislation, including the Liberals’ cannabis legalization bill, which the Conservatives oppose.

Shortly after exhausted MPs streamed out of the House of Commons around 10 a.m. on Friday, Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said he felt he’d made his point, despite the fact that the government hasn’t coughed up any new documents.

Well, no, because the Liberals will keep lying and obfuscating, but thanks for trying, Pierre.



Also:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, though, and his increasingly moody band of climate warriors, seems to be digging in his heels in defiance over the issue. The public will not appreciate learning that there is data out there from a 2015 document that they could be reading, but the Liberals are blocking its release.

This will only further suspicions about the tax. It’ll also help provincial leaders who want to free themselves from the yoke of Trudeau’s federally mandated carbon tax. Like Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford, which brings us to death knell number two.

On Friday, Ford announced that his first priority is to eliminate the Liberals’ cap-and-trade carbon-pricing scheme. He plans to do it right away, when he reconvenes the legislature in a few weeks for a special summer session.

And:

Liberal MP Omar Alghabra is making a fool of himself on Twitter as the House of Commons goes through marathon votes, and is showing the truly disgusting and disgraceful divisiveness of his party.

He’s accusing the Conservatives of being Islamophobic for – wait for it – having marathon votes in the House of Commons to get the Liberals to reveal the cost of the carbon tax to Canadians.

Yet, because the vote is happening on Eid, an important religious day for Muslims, he’s trying to demonize the Conservatives.

But here’s where it gets more absurd: The timing of the votes was decided by – you guessed it – the Liberals. It was the Liberal House Leader who scheduled the timing of the vote.

(Sidebar: this Omar Alghabra.)


I'll wait for a Tory - any Tory - to hold this Israel-hating piece of crap to account but I shant hold my breath.




In Justin's eyes, terrorists are a protected class:

Global News Investigative Journalist Stewart Bell shared the disturbing info on Twitter – linking to a New York Times podcast discussing the fate of ISIS fighters:

“For Canadians, another deeply disturbing @rcallimachi podcast about a Toronto-area ISIS member, in which he expresses no remorse & a continued attachment to violent extremist ideology. And yet has not been arrested.” ...

Not even window-dressing from the most "transparent" government in the country's history.




Instead of "penning a letter", why don't you confront the pu$$y, Andy?:

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to table a plan to immediately stop "queue jumping" by the ongoing influx of illegal border crossers.

Last week, Scheer and his Public Safety critic, Pierre Paul-Hus, visited Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., where the vast majority of irregular migrants have arrived this year after crossing the Canada-U.S. border through the now well-worn path at Roxham Road.

Scheer says he went to the site to witness first-hand the "epicentre of the crisis at our borders."

In his letter, Scheer says he also met this week with other immigrants and refugees who say friends and family who've applied to enter Canada through the regular channels are now waiting longer for their files to be processed "due to those jumping the line illegally."

He calls on Trudeau to table a plan to immediately stop what he calls "the queue-jumping and public safety crisis at our borders."

"Canadians are concerned, both about the safety issues this crisis has caused and with the unreasonable delays for those seeking to move to Canada who have followed the rules and now must wait longer," he wrote to Trudeau on Friday.

 
Justin can't run away forever, not even from allegations that he groped a reporter from a "lesser" newspaper, but I digress..




Oh, dear:

Michael Wernick, the clerk of the Privy Council and Canada’s most senior public servant, was at the Public Accounts committee on Tuesday to answer MPs’ questions about the opening chapter of the auditor general’s spring report.

Michael Ferguson, Fraser’s successor, prefaced the regular value-for-money audits with a chapter decrying the “incomprehensible failure” behind the Phoenix pay system debacle and other perceived systemic shortcomings in government.

He concluded there is an imbalance between political perspectives in government, necessarily short-term, and longer term public service perspective. The political side has become dominant over the past decades, as implementation of policy has been subverted to message and image management.

“The culture has created an obedient public service that fears mistakes and risks. Its ability to convey hard truths is eroded, as is the willingness to hear hard truths,” he concluded.

Precedent suggested the clerk would thank the auditor for punching his public servants in the face and promise they would mend their bureaucratic ways.

But he did not — setting up the most heated institutional tilt this country’s seen since the last prime minister started chirping at the chief justice.

Wernick called Ferguson’s opening chapter “an opinion piece” and said he took issue with its “sweeping generalizations.”

“It’s not supported by the evidence and does not provide any particular guidance on what to do to move forward,” he told the committee.

Far from being broken, he said the Canadian public service is “world class” and citizens should have confidence in its ability to deliver the government’s agenda.

Well, the system is clearly not "world-class" if the system is broken, hence the audit.

I'm sure Mr. Wernick would argue that the Titanic didn't sink because of a large iceberg but was just hidden in fog because the ship was unsinkable.


Also - another example of a system broken by elitist activists who answer to no one:

Societies governing the legal profession have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at a Christian university in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

In a pair of keenly anticipated decisions Friday, the high court said law societies in Ontario and British Columbia were entitled to ensure equal access to the bar, support diversity and prevent harm to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students.

The cases pitted two significant societal values — freedom of religion and promotion of equality — against one another.

Trinity Western University, a private post-secondary institution in Langley, B.C., was founded on evangelical Christian principles and requires students to adhere to a covenant allowing sexual intimacy only between a married man and woman.

Law societies overseeing the profession in Ontario and British Columbia say they would not license graduates from Trinity Western because the covenant amounts to discrimination against LGBTQ people.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario had upheld the rejection, while B.C.’s top court sided with the university.

In each case, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favour of the respective law society.

 
Canadians have to accept that nine people can determine what private institutions codes of conduct can be or they can fight it.

But Canadians don't fight, so ...




Emotionally and financially exhausted from having an apartheid system, Canadians let their opinions be known:

Sen. Lynn Beyak is applauding an online survey that suggests a majority of Canadians believe the government apologizes too much for residential schools and that Indigenous people should integrate more even if it means losing their culture.

The controversial senator was ousted from the Conservative caucus in January after she posted letters on her website supporting her defence of residential schools — but that hasn't silenced her on the subject.

She issued a press release Friday welcoming the results of an online survey from the Angus Reid Institute.

"It's refreshing to read an unbiased article and poll that truly reflects what Canadians believe will help our whole country move forward and prosper," Beyak wrote.

There is no money for what veterans need, or the military for that matter:

Canada has boosted the number of used Australian fighter jets it is purchasing to 25, but the deal still hinges on approval from the U.S. government.

No one ever says Italy:

Italy has suddenly become the latest battle front in Canada’s trade wars, with the country’s new agriculture minister declaring Thursday that his country will not ratify the Canada-European Union free trade accord, potentially threatening the 28-country deal.

“We will not ratify the free-trade treaty with Canada,” Gian Marco Centinaio told La Stampa newspaper. “Doubts about this deal are common among many of my European colleagues.”

The Germans have their work cut out for them:

A SUSPECTED Islamic extremist arrested in Cologne had succeeded in making ricin and was planning a “biological weapon attack” in Germany, prosecutors said yesterday (Thursday).

Sief Allah Hammami, a 29-year-old Tunisian, was held on Wednesday, along with his German wife, after police found large quantities of the deadly toxin in his apartment.

It is believed to be the first time Islamic extremists in Europe have succeeded in manufacturing ricin, which is one of deadliest biological agents known to man.

Pope Francis calls out abortion for the eugenics tool that it is:

Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them.

Francis spoke off-the-cuff to a meeting of an Italian family association. The Vatican didn't immediately provide a transcript of his remarks, but the ANSA news agency and the SIR agency of the Italian bishops' conference quoted him as denouncing the pre-natal tests that can result in parents choosing to terminate a pregnancy if the fetus is malformed or suffering other problems.

"Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves," the agencies quoted Francis as saying.

The pope urged families to accept children "as God gives them to us."

Extremely disappointed by the agreement Trump signed with Kim Jong-Un, North Korean defectors and South Korean detractors of the agreement speak out:

Some North Korea defectors are feeling betrayed by U.S. President Donald Trump for his praise of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Singapore, rather than confronting him about widespread human rights violations committed by the repressive government in Pyongyang.

At the U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore on Tuesday President Trump called the North Korean leader a “terrific person” and “a great leader,” and that he cares greatly about the welfare of his people.
“He loves his people, not that I’m surprised by that, but he loves his people,” said Trump during an interview in Singapore with VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren.

Trump’s embrace of Kim in pursuit of denuclearization has left North Korean defectors and human rights advocates like Jung Gwang-il feeling abandoned.

Jung was among a group of defectors that met with the president in the White House after his State of the Union address, in which Trump called the Kim government a “depraved” and “cruel dictatorship.” Jung said Trump led the group to believe that he would confront the leadership in Pyongyang about the widespread abuses in the country. Now he feels let down.

“I was really disappointed. We trusted this big country, the United States, and we have been working on the North Korean human rights issue together until now, but now I am not sure if we can work together in the future,” said Jung, who is also a human rights activist with a group called No Chain.

More than 40 percent of North Korea's population of 24 million is undernourished and live in poverty according to the United Nations. The totalitarian state also restricts travel, prohibits outside information, strictly controls the media, and brutally suppresses dissent by imprisoning over 100,000 people in political prison camps, and possibly subjecting them to torture, rape, murder, according to a 2014 U.N. report that recommended the leadership in North Korea be prosecuted for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

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What happened between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un at Singapore last Tuesday was a sheer comedy. Kim. Jong Un was the landslide victor, and Trump looked as if he were brainwashed by Kim Jong Un. The South Korean rightists became complete losers while the leftists were collateral winners.

 International politics around the Korean Peninsula will be a game in which China will orbit 'Kim Jong Un + South Korean leftists' with the blessing of the U.S. endorsement. 

 Trump said "The Korea-U.S. joint military drill is a provocative act against North Korea" siding with the North's age long claim by 100 percent." "The CVID was not a central issue in this debate," he said. The reduction and withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea was initially said to have been out of discussion, but later he confessed he hoped to see the eventual withdrawal someday. 

 If the CVID was out of the question, then why would he have been making such a fuss about the talk with Kim Juing Un till now? Trump's all those sticks along with the carrots to North Korea hitherto have then meant nothing but a kind of stalking for the yearning of "Let's be in love".

Oh, this must be embarrassing:

Israel's foreign ministry reportedly raised questions in a recent classified report about President Trump's upbeat assessment of his Tuesday summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 

Axios reported Thursday that the Israeli report makes a point of noting that a brief document signed by Trump and Kim fails to commit the North to "full, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization," which has long been Washington's position.

Instead, the agreement calls for "complete denuclearization." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters on Wednesday, however, that the agreement still commits the North to the total nuclear disarmament demanded by the U.S.

The report from the Israeli foreign ministry also raised questions about Trump's decision to suspend joint military drills with South Korea after his meeting with Kim. 

The announcement marked a dramatic reversal from the United States's past rejection of China's "freeze-for-freeze" proposal, which called for an end to the military exercises in exchange for a cease to the North's weapons tests.

"Regardless of the smiles in the summit many in Japan, South Korea and the U.S. Congress doubt that North Korea is sincere in its intentions," the Israeli report stated, according to Axios, which said it obtained a copy of the report. "Our assessment is that regardless of President Trump's statements about quick changes that are expected in North Korean policy, the road to real and substantive change, if it ever happens, will be long and slow."

Slow? Perhaps non-existent.

 

(Kamsahamnida)