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Merry Saint Valentine's Day!

Justin's experienced team of liars didn't just quash a probe into prime ministerial interference in a corruption case; it sent a clear message to every lackey in the party - if Jody Hyphenated Name can be taken out, they all can be:

The frightened rabbits on the government side were not about to investigate their masters in the Prime Minister’s Office, let alone on such an explosive question as whether they had attempted to tamper with a criminal prosecution.

But what form would the stonewall take? Would they flatly reject any such inquiry? That would presumably have been too crude. Would they hold hearings, call witnesses, but with the understanding that none of them would say anything: cabinet confidentiality, solicitor-client privilege, extensive memory loss, whatever? That, too, would have looked a little too plead-the-fifthish for comfort.

So instead the five Liberal MPs voted for an investigation — such transparency! — only with a list of witnesses that mysteriously excluded anyone who was actually involved.

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Multiple caucus sources told CBC News that Trudeau convened an extraordinary caucus meeting by telephone Tuesday evening to reassure them that nothing untoward had taken place in his office's interactions with Wilson-Raybould over the SNC-Lavalin case when she was justice minister.

But unlike the party's normal caucus meetings, this was a one-way call — with Trudeau doing the talking. Caucus members were not able to ask Trudeau questions. MPs were told to follow up with the PMO or regional offices.

 

That's transparency for you:

At the Justice Committee, Liberal Randy Boissonnault called the whole thing a “witch hunt,” revealing a totally dismissive and arrogant attitude towards what is a real and serious scandal.

@$$hole.



Further:

The committee is “not an investigative body,” said Boissonnault. “We don’t have the tools, the budget or the mechanisms to go on the type of fishing expedition or witch-hunt the Conservatives would like to see.”

It was as cynical a subversion of the public interest to narrow partisan concerns as Parliament Hill has seen since the public accounts committee descended into farce during the sponsorship scandal a decade and a half ago.

Did everyone forget that?

Of course they did:

The program, which Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s government had established after the narrow federalist victory in the Quebec sovereignty referendum of 1995, was designed to promote Canada in that province and showcase the benefits of federalism. But whatever the intentions of the federal sponsorship program were, Fraser’s report uncovered outrageous misuses of public funds in its day-to-day operations. She found that at least $100-million had been handed over to public relations and communications agencies in Quebec with close ties to the Liberal Party. Much of this money was never actually used for the purposes originally in-tended for it; instead, it had given these firms large commissions, with very little in the way of concrete results to show for it.

Herein lies the problem.

This scandal should have been the last straw for the Liberal Party, a group so obnoxious that even the thought of keeping it in standing should have been brushed aside.

But this spurning did not occur. Canadians have proven themselves to be so personally and morally lazy. The puppet Justin's antics and heavy-handed tactics have become a running joke that they are willing to tolerate. Who are Canadians to point their fingers at other countries or even their compatriots if they themselves regard corruption as a simple matter-of-course, nothing to be worked up over?

Notice how the question is clearly asked in English, then Trudeau points at someone (Gerald Butts?) and asks whether they want him to answer it in English.

Then he says under his breath, “I’m just trying to remember,” then reels off his canned lines while going into an attack on Jody Wilson-Raybould putting all the blame on her.

That's your puppet-leader, Canada.



Given that your government totally disregarded sound warnings from professionals about Huawei, I'm not going to listen to anything you say, Mr. Sixty ISIS Terrorists:

Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency says government networks have weathered a lot of cyber security “incidents” but no successful attacks in the last two years.

She was sentenced to seven years but she'll be out in two:

A woman convicted of terror charges for attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store in Toronto was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday after a judge found her mental illness played a key role in her crimes.

Of course.


Also - leave. her. there:

When the London teenager Shamima Begum fled Britain with two other schoolgirls in 2015 to join the Islamic State, it shocked a nation. Now, she wants to come home.

Begum, 19, is nine months pregnant and living in a Syrian refugee camp. She says she doesn’t regret leaving Britain but now wants to return to give birth to her child.

“Now all I want to do is come home to Britain,” she said in an extraordinary interview with the Times of London. ...

She also said that she didn’t regret going to Syria and wasn’t fazed when she saw the severed head of one of ISIS’s victims.

The relics of Saint Valentine:

One of the more impressive tokens he was gifted was the remains of Saint Valentine by Pope Gregory XVI, which had recently been uncovered during grave restorations. Sprat brought the Reliquary containing the relics to his Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, where they remained popular until the death of their popular procurer. With the death of Sprat, the relics went into storage and were not venerated until the church went through restorations in the 1950’s/1960’s. Both an altar and shrine were created and are now watched over by a statue depicting the saint holding a crocus (carved by Irene Broe).

Today the shrine is popular with couples who come to pray for St. Valentine to watch over their lives together, and to celebrate the feast day of February 14th which includes the Blessings of the Rings for those about to marry. The reliquary is placed on the high altar and venerated at the Masses.

Whoever you are and whatever you do, have a Happy Bacon Day: