For a Monday

A lot transpiring ...




The most "transparent" government in the country's history also is its most representative:

Several controversial Islamist organizations have been awarded with a new round of funding from the Trudeau government’s Canada Summer Job program ...

Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) ...

Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International ...

Islamic Circle of North America ...

AlMaghrib Institute  

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Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told Channel 4 that Jack Letts — whose father is Canadian — was to be smuggled out of Syria and brought here.

However, the federal government strongly denies the allegation.

“While we do not comment on national security operational matters, we can confirm that the claim made in the Daily Mail is categorically false,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s office said Friday in a statement to the Toronto Sun.

Letts, 23, left his Oxford home to join the Islamic State in 2014. He eventually married an Iraqi woman and the couple had a child.

According to Channel 4, the Canadian government allegedly vowed to “do everything” to get the troubled young man out of harm’s way. The plan involved smuggling Letts into Turkey and then Canada.

But the British Foreign Office allegedly torpedoed the Canadian gambit.

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According to a report by Press Progress, “Canadian corporations held a staggering $353 billion in 12 of the world’s biggest tax haven destinations in 2018. At the top of the list, Canadian corporations reported holding $90 billion in the tiny European nation of Luxembourg alone — that’s up $8.4 billion since 2017. Luxembourg is followed by Barbados ($65 billion), Bermuda ($47 billion) and the Cayman Islands ($40 billion), Statistics Canada’s data on Canadian direct investment abroad reveals.”

Keep in mind, when we talk about “corporations” here, we’re often talking about offshore holding companies set up by elites to stash their money and avoid taxes in Canada.

Are there any blue-collar Canadians who can afford to hide their wealth offshore?




Who runs Canada - its people or American anti-Canadian oil interests?:

Krause — the Vancouver-based researcher, who over the last 10 years has been following the money trail behind environmental activism in Canada — backs up every claim with tax filings and other documents.

She has traced $600 million that has flowed into Canada from U.S. foundations to restrict the development and export of oil and natural gas from Canada and provided the senate committee with an 80-page document that showed each of those grants that specifically refers to a tanker ban in B.C.’s waters.

As she stated in her compelling testimony on May 7 before the senate committee that spent thousands of hours studying Bill C-48, Krause found more than 50 grants that specifically mentioned a tanker ban or tanker traffic.

(Sidebar: the allegedly non-partisan Senate gave Justin the passage of Bill C-48 that disallows oil tankers from BC's northern coast.)

When Trudeau announced on Nov. 26, 2016, that he would approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but kill Northern Gateway pipeline — which had been approved by the National Energy Board after years of gruelling regulatory hoop jumping by Enbridge and was passed by the Harper government — he also promised a tanker ban.

The reason Trudeau gave for scrapping Northern Gateway and bringing in a tanker ban was because the tanker traffic that would have carried Alberta bitumen to Asia went through an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest.

Krause says that as far back as 1999, the creation of the Great Bear Rainforest has been significantly funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation — the family that ironically founded the U.S. oil industry and made billions doing so. More recently, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation granted $267 million to Canadian environmental groups.

“The top recipient of these funds, Tides Canada, the central proponent of the Great Bear Rainforest, has received $83 million,” Krause told the Senate committee.

Originally, the proposed Kermode bear (which is a white black bear) or Great Bear protected area was just a small part of the B.C. coast. “But now,” Krause said, “environmental and First Nations groups say that along the entire B.C. coast, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the southern border of Alaska, there can be no tankers anywhere.”

So why are these U.S. foundations doing this?

“Something is being protected here at great expense and cost, but obviously not the bear,” concluded Krause. “What is being protected is the American monopoly on access to exports of Canadian oil. The Great Bear Rainforest has become the great trade barrier, keeping our country out of global energy markets.”

To wit:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday there’s no problem with a Canada Summer Jobs grant that will fund anti-pipeline activism, arguing his government must stand up for the principle of free expression and advocacy. ...

(Sidebar: yes, he said that with a straight face.)

The summer jobs grant is normally a feel-good program that allows MPs to prioritize groups in their ridings to get funds to hire students. Dogwood spokesman Kai Nagata said the group has received summer jobs funding every year since 2010 — including when the previous Conservative government was in power, though their applications have always gone through Vancouver and Victoria ridings held by Liberal and NDP MPs.

What is Justin's answer for catering to American interests?

When he is done one of his many vacations, I'm sure he will get around to avoid that question.




Never send a Canadian to do an American's job:

A new agreement between Canada and the United States will soon allow travellers and cargo to pre-clear customs before they leave, allowing an easier movement of people and goods crossing the border.

Canadian air travellers have been able to clear customs before flying to the U.S. for decades at Canadian airports, letting them skip line-ups when they land in the United States.

The two countries have agreed to add U.S. preclearance operations at Billy Bishop airport in Toronto and Jean Lesage airport in Quebec City.

(Sidebar: I wonder who came up with that idea?) 

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A teachers’ union representative claiming responsibility for an anti-Ford sign that flew over Ford Fest said he had to hire an American company because the Canadian one he approached refused to participate.

Lawyers for Huawai CFO Meng Wanzhou want the extradition proceedings withdrawn:

Lawyers for Huawei’s chief executive officer Meng Wanzhou, who is being detained in Canada on U.S. fraud charges, on Monday urged Canada’s Minister of Justice to reconsider whether to withdraw the extradition proceedings. 

Meng, daughter of Huawei’s founder, was arrested in Vancouver in December. She has said she is innocent. 

In a statement, Meng’s Canadian lawyers said “the extradition proceedings are without merit” and that ending them would be in Canada’s “best interests.” 

The lawyers said Meng’s extradition was sought for political purposes as opposed to legitimate law enforcement reasons.

Yes, do that in an election year and let the woman shop and work for a spy company unhindered.


Also:

Cambodian rescuers combing through the rubble of a collapsed seven-story building recovered the bodies of 17 construction workers and pulled out 24 injured, as authorities questioned four Chinese who were involved with the project.

Why waste one's time? It's not like the Chinese-backed North Korea is going to halt its nuclear program: 

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday the U.S. was prepared to resume talks with North Korea “at a moment’s notice” if the North signaled it wanted discussions about denuclearization.

How could this go wrong?:

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 captured Islamic State fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and Iraq should face fair trials or be freed.

States “must assume responsibility for their nationals” and should not inflict statelessness on fighters’ children who have already suffered so much, Bachelet also told the UN Human Rights Council as it opened a three-week session in Geneva.

Let's see what this cow has to say once a major donor withdraws from the UN and she is forced to live with these child rapists.




Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Robert Friend:

Robert Friend, a decorated fighter pilot who flew 142 combat missions with the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during the Second World War, then became an expert on missile systems and directed Project Blue Book, the classified Air Force investigation into unidentified flying objects, died June 21 at a hospital in Long Beach, California. He was 99.

A week from now, people will be drinking instead of reflecting on the machinations that put together a once-great dominion.

Here's some mood music: