There Is Always Corruption to Fall Back On

And how!:

WE Charity, which has close ties to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family — and which will receive millions of dollars to administer a federal student volunteer grant program — has received a series of exclusively sole-source contracts from the federal government over the last three years, government records show. Sole-source contracts are government contracts that are handed directly to a chosen supplier, without the opportunity for others to provide competing bids for the government business.

The federal Liberal government announced last week that it had outsourced a student-grant program worth over $900 million to WE Charity, which will receive at least $19.5 million in fees for the work. Trudeau, whose family has worked closely with the WE organization for many years, defended the contract, saying the WE Charity was the “only one… capable of networking and organizing and delivering this program on the scale that we needed it…” But records show this was not the first time the charity received an exclusive contract from the Trudeau government, although it is by far the largest.

According to the government’s online database of government contracts, WE Charity has received five federal contracts worth a total of $120,000 since March 2017. Four of the five contracts have been in the last 15 months, with the most recent — and largest, until now, at $40,000 — dated January 2020. ...

“We know the Prime Minister is not afraid of influencing decisions to benefit his friends. At this point, the Prime Minister is beyond the benefit of the doubt and must come clean about his involvement in awarding this $900 million contract to WE,” said Michael Barrett, the Conservative ethics critic, in an email to the Post on Monday. “The Liberals must immediately release the contract for this partnership and tell Canadians why their own government officials are unable to administer this program.”

Conacher said he plans on filing a complaint to the federal Ethics Commissioner, arguing that Trudeau put himself in conflict of interest simply by announcing that WE Charity would administer the CSSG.

This conflict of interest:

A co-founder of WE Charity claimed in a June 12 conference call that the Prime Minister’s Office contacted the organization directly in April to help implement a federal student volunteer grant program worth over $900 million. WE Charity is set to collect at least $19.5 million in fees to administer the program, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has faced questions over his and his family’s close links to WE Charity and how the contract was awarded.

That's all very well and good but this isn't the first time that Justin has broken the rules and voters let him get away with it.

You know, because beer and Netflix.


Also:

In the words of Winston Churchill, or someone who sounds a lot like him: Never has so much loot been thrown out the window by so few to so many.

Bill Morneau, nominally the minister of finance, didn’t even show up under the Tent of Commons while Mr. Trudeau shovelled out the billions. 

Canada’s auditor general, definitely the most overworked, under-resourced human being in all of Canada, cannot even begin to keep up with the spending, never mind do a proper accounting of it. ...

Some might see Trudeau’s past patronage and attendance at WE Days as perhaps showing too close an alignment for him, might see his passing over of such a fat and vague program to the WE boys as unseemly. When it is noted that his wife is very close to WE, and that Margaret Trudeau has also graced their platforms, this impression grows even stronger.

There is also the uncomfortable consideration that, once again, the auditor general — the most overworked human being in all of Canada — will not have the capacity, now or later, to look into, scrutinize and assess the distribution of $900 million of Canadian taxpayers’ money.

And:

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is granting municipalities a twenty-year waiver to keep dumping raw sewage in fish habitat. The regulatory notice follows a 2019 promise to “keep our waters safe, clean and well-managed”.

But ... but ... carbon taxes!