Halloween Week: The Muddling

 

From the most 'transparent" government in the country's history:

After revelations that the Trudeau government-controlled agency was seeking to take the private banking info of 500,000 Canadians, Global News is reporting that under the Trudeau government, Stats Canada has already taken 15 years worth of our credit card info:

“As Statistics Canada plans to build a massive new personal information bank with the real-time financial transaction data of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, Global News has learned the agency has scooped up 15 years’ worth of credit rating information from a major international credit bureau which could include millions of Canadians.” 

“The data harvest was done without the consent or knowledge of those Canadians whose credit history was passed on Statistics Canada.”  

Stats Canada took the info in October 2017, and January 2018. The info was from Trans Union – who was ordered to “provide social insurance numbers, names, addresses, dates-of-birth and detailed credit information, including balances owed, balances overdue, and more than 30 other fields or categories of data.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending a decision by Statistics Canada to compel banks and financial institutions to release the personal transaction data of 500,000 people without their consent.

It's time for Justin to reveal every single expense he and his family have ever passed on to the Canadian taxpayer and it should be in every single publication in the country.

What's in your wallet, Justin, aside from my money?


Also:

Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson is still billing Canadian taxpayers more than $100,000 a year in office expenses, and has now claimed more than $1.1 million in such expenses since she left Rideau Hall in 2005.

If someone joins ISIS, then, yes - HE IS A TERRORIST:

The father of Jack Letts, a young British-Canadian man dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by British media, said information exists that proves his son was not a supporter of the Islamic State — but that information is sealed as part of a court case against himself and his wife.

The extraordinary claim was made by John Letts during a news conference on Parliament Hill Tuesday, prior to a meeting between Letts and senior officials at Global Affairs Canada.

Yes, about that: 

THE 20-year-old son of a leading figure in the organic food movement has become the first white British male known to be identified as having joined Isis. 

Jack Letts travelled to Syria when he was 18 after converting to Islam and telling his parents he was going to study Arabic in Kuwait. 

Letts, a keen footballer and highly regarded student, admitted to his parents that he was with Isis in Syria in September 2014.

This must be embarrassing ... for the federal government:

Global Affairs Canada discussed possible exit routes for the former resident of ISIL-controlled Raqqa. They asked the joint British-Canadian citizen’s jailers to provide him medical help, and said they were “extremely concerned” by reports he had been tortured.

“We are working diligently on your son’s file,” consular officials insisted to Letts’ U.K.-based parents.

Then earlier this year, the diplomats’ tone changed abruptly, the same officials saying their hands were tied by a lack of Canadian presence in Syria. Their ability to help the Muslim convert dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by British media was “extremely limited,” they now said.

Leave. Them. There:

Canadian infants and children being held in Syria deserve the federal government’s help to get them out before winter comes, says a group representing them here.

(Sidebar: NOT Canadian.)

The Canadians detained by Kurdish authorities in Syrian territory include nine families and more than 10 children, including some who were taken to Syria at young ages and others who were born there, said Alexandra Bain, the director of Families Against Violent Extremism.

Bain said the children are facing the outbreak of disease and a harsh winter and the Canadian government has a duty to protect its citizens. She said they live on a diet of rice and pasta and there are no diapers or milk for the infants.

Yazidi children faced harsh conditions and all Justin offered was parkas.




Not at all "random folks":

Peduto said he believed Trump should wait until all the funerals were held before coming to Pittsburgh. He suggested Trump's visit and the additional security measures entailed would distract from the "priority" of burying the dead.

Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, said, however, on ABC on Monday that the president of the United States was always welcome to visit.

And now, your Halloween playlist: