From the Most Corrupt and Inept Government Ever Re-Elected

Canadians get the governments they vote for:

The Department of Public Works yesterday would not say if it has taken any promised rush deliveries from a Québec company awarded an exclusive ten-year contract to supply pandemic masks. Public Works Minister Anita Anand had justified the sole-sourced contract on a promise Canadian-made masks would be on their way to doctors and nurses “toward the end of July”.

Why isn't this Quebec company rushing to produce ostensibly Canadian-made masks that are sorely needed and were sorely needed when the Liberal government shut down an entire country in March of this year?

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The Commons finance committee meeting behind closed doors has voted to grant immunity to witnesses at We Charity hearings. MPs adopted a New Democrat motion to ensure “there will be no consequences or retribution” for whistleblowers: “There have been a number of We Charity employees who have indicated they want to testify.”

I suspect some Liberal back-benchers may be in the group.

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(Sidebar: the article below was translated with an online translator. As of this writing, the contents therein have not appeared in English-language publications or news agencies.)

Having no presence in Quebec, the charitable group WE Charity had entrusted the national public relations firm with the mandate to implement the famous Canadian scholarship for student volunteering (BCBE) in the Belle Province before the storm policy provoked by the close ties between the federal Liberals and the organization in question aborted the project.

According to information obtained by La Presse , the National firm also had the mandate to implement the controversial program, which had an envelope of up to $ 900 million, in Francophone communities in the rest of the country, WE Charity (UNIS in French) being an essentially unilingual Anglophone organization. UNIS gave National this mandate on May 29 - just one week after the federal cabinet decided to award it a non-competitive contract to manage the scholarship program.

Almost a month later, on June 25, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government was handing over the management of the program to WE Charity. But the charity decided to abandon the project on July 3 amid revelations that members of the Prime Minister's family had received nearly $ 350,000 in fees from WE Charity for speeches. during events organized by the organization. At the same time, it was also revealed that the daughter of Finance Minister Bill Morneau worked for the organization.

These revelations undermine one of the main arguments put forward by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, some of his ministers and officials from the Department of Finance, namely that WE Charity was the only national organization with the size and competence to lead. a national program of nearly $ 1 billion, say the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois.

“This confirms all the apprehensions we had about this organization. When the Prime Minister tells us that it was the only body capable of doing the job, well, it was not. He could not even serve francophones. He had to go through a public relations firm, ”declared the political lieutenant of the Conservative Party in Quebec, MP Alain Rayes.

(Paws up)

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(Sidebar: this public sector.)

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But it's alright when the government does it:

 

Conservatives are asking the Privacy Commissioner to investigate if the online platform used by WE Charity to process applications to the Canada Student Grant Program violated federal privacy laws by potentially storing their data abroad.

No one asked me if I wanted my money to go to people who were warned about this explosive material and did  nothing about it for years:

Canada will provide $5 million to Lebanon following a pair of explosions on Tuesday that destroyed a large portion of Beirut and left at least 100 dead, the country’s foreign affairs minster says.

In a tweet Wednesday evening, Francois-Philippe Champagne said Canada is “providing an initial $5 million in humanitarian assist for the people of Lebanon.”

Did you get that mortgage sorted out, Franky?

Let one wager on McNeil's new position. Chinese company?:

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is leaving politics, saying he stayed on longer than he'd planned in order to lead the province through the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Liberal premier said Thursday that after 17 years in provincial politics, he decided it's time for a change, and he's ready for a rest.

"I'm not leaving because I don't like the job. I love the job as a matter of fact, and I've had tremendous support," he said during a news conference.

"Many people are surprised today that I work with, and I'm sure many Nova Scotians are surprised." He said he concluded that a change in leadership is "the right thing for the province."