From the Most "Transparent" Government In the Country's History

Going forward ... with lies!:

As noted by the Globe & Mail, “Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has backed off a pledge to freeze the carbon tax at $50 a tonne after 2022, saying a re-elected Liberal government would review the levy with provinces before deciding how to proceed. In June, Ms. McKenna said the Liberals planned not to increase the tax once it hit $50, which equates to roughly 11 cents a litre of gasoline.”

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Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said with McKenna’s latest flip-flop, “the cat’s out of the bag,” meaning the Liberals will keep raising Trudeau’s carbon tax if they’re re-elected, which Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has pledged to scrap.

In response, McKenna denied the Liberals have already decided to raise the carbon tax after 2022, which will be the subject of future negotiations with the provinces. ...

What’s inexplicable is why McKenna changed the government’s policy on carbon pricing twice in two months, re-opening the prospect Canadians could be paying far higher carbon taxes after 2022, if the Liberals win re-election.

How can we trust anything McKenna or Trudeau say about carbon taxes during the election campaign, given these two policy reversals in two months?

Remember, McKenna was captured on video in May at Christian’s Pub in St. John’s, N.L. after being “screeched in”, enthusiastically proclaiming her belief, “that if you actually say it louder, we’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.”

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Heddle Marine in Ontario had said that under the requirements of the shipyard search proposal, the only shipyard that qualified was the Chantier Davie shipyard in Quebec.

“That ‘requirement’ refers to the fact that the winning shipyard must either have a current contract or recent contract building a ship that weighs over 1,000 tonnes, and must have the ability to launch vessels that are wider than 24 metres.

No Ontario shipyard meets those specifications.

The report also notes that Justin Trudeau has made comments that seem to favour Davie, having said “We recognize that it’s an opportunity for Davie to apply to become that third shipbuilding facility because there will be a tremendous amount of work in the coming years.”

Now, the government says they are amending the search, according to the CP:

“Public Service and Procurement Canada said in a statement Monday it had “corrected” an “inconsistency” in the size of vessel that interested shipyards must be able to build to qualify for consideration as the third yard. 

Shipyards will now be required to show they can build vessels that are at least 110 metres in length and 20 metres wide, smaller than the original requirements of 130 metres in length by 24 metres wide.

The original requirement was one of several flagged by Hamilton-based Heddle Marine in a complaint to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal last week as not legitimate or reasonable — and potentially biased toward Davie.”

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A Liberal riding association says the departure of a sitting Quebec MP who announced she would not seek a second term this week was forced by the party and it wants to know why.

Eva Nassif announced in a statement Thursday she would not seek a re-election in the riding of Vimy, north of Montreal, eight days after assuring she would be nominated as the candidate.

Riding president Giuseppe Margiotta told The Canadian Press on Saturday that Nassif was pushed out as the choice in the riding located in Laval, Que without any reason given and that the entire executive in the riding was “stunned” with recent developments.

Oh, Liberals and their women!