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From the most corrupt and money-grubbing government ever re-elected:
When questioned at a parliamentary ethics committee, the minister responsible for the Canada Student Service Grant could not say how much of the $30 million advanced by the government to the WE organization had been repaid since the charity organization pulled out of the deal to run the federal program.
“We can share that … $30 million has been released to the organization through the contribution agreement. I was not aware of how much money has been returned,” Bardish Chagger, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Youth, said Tuesday to House of Commons ethics committee members
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This is thirty million dollars, not thirty, Baggish.
Can't you count or don't you want to?
More:
Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart was in the hot seat for the latest ethics committee meeting probing the government’s now-cancelled decision to have WE Charity manage the federal program.
Shugart said the internal issues within WE Charity — such as their finances in the wake of COVID-19, resignations among their board of directors and a governance structure that the organization itself has described as "more complicated than it needs to be" — were not considered.
"Those issues, with respect to the WE Charity Foundation, were not raised in the subsequent briefing and to my knowledge, they were not flagged as material for the examination of the ability of WE to deliver the program," Shugart said.
Instead, Shugart said the due diligence Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had requested focused on "the ability of the organization to deliver the program" as it relates to issues such as Canada's official languages, the regional reach of the organization, and its ability to contact Canadians who are "typically harder to access," such as "disadvantaged" people.
He went on to say that, had he known then what he knows now about WE Charity, a further probe of the organization's finances and governance structure may have been a good call.
It's your job to inquire about all transactions, stupid.
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The prime minister’s office and the finance minister’s both office refuse to say if Chief of Staff Katie Telford’s husband ever communicated with them since he became senior vice-president at a major private mortgage company that is now running the government’s commercial rent subsidy program.
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The WE Charity says it has so far repaid the bulk of the money it received for the now-cancelled agreement with the government to run a student volunteer program.
The group has returned $22 million out of the $30 million handed out by the government when that deal was signed, and is waiting on the government to accept the remaining $8 million, a spokesperson for the WE Charity said in a statement.
“When WE Charity and ESDC signed the Canada Student Service Grant contribution agreement, WE Charity received a transfer of funds into a protected account to pay eligible expenses. WE Charity never accessed those funds,” the organization said.
“WE Charity has repeatedly communicated to ESDC the desire to return the remaining funds as soon as the government is able to accept the transfer.”
It's like they didn't even need that money!
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This must be embarrassing:
Dodgy Minister accidentally admits she directed staff to follow up on Kielburger proposal after secret meeting with WE. pic.twitter.com/VUlkITezrD
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) August 12, 2020
And where is Justin in all of this?
The public servant, not private citizen, has been keeping a lower-than-usual profile save to remind everyone how much faith he has in Bill Morneau but would just like to have Mark Carney handy just in case.
Also - a list, though hardly comprehensive, of the Liberals' contempt for their willing subjects.
What is Blanchet's motivation?:
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Katie Telford, the prime minister’s chief of staff, must resign.
If they do not, he vows to try to force an election this fall.
Blanchet’s remarks on Wednesday came as the House of Commons is set to return for one of its four scheduled summer sittings amid the coronavirus pandemic, which also comes as the government is engulfed in controversy over the WE Charity scandal.
Does he need $omething $pecial to avoid thi$? Is he wary of what the NDP might do? Does he know that the Tories are rudderless at the moment?
Would a fellow Quebecker actually take aim at the Trudeau dynasty and their legacy of grift?
Proof-positive that Mary Dawson is not fit to hold any office:
Mary Dawson, retired ethics commissioner, yesterday described the Prime Minister as a man with a good heart who doesn’t mean to breach the Conflict Of Interest Act. Testifying at the Commons ethics committee, Dawson said she opposed harsh penalties for any MP found to break the law: “There are different levels of badness.”
Stupid b!#ch, this @$$hole attempted to justify suing disabled veterans.
On your scale of badness, where would that rate?
No, Franky, transparency would be not hiding being in hock to China. Being moral would be not having any dealings with China. You're just a scumbag:
Foreign Minister Françoise-Philippe Champagne has refinanced $1.2 million in Bank of China mortgages with the National Bank of Montréal. Champagne in a federal filing said his debts to the People’s Republic bank were paid in full by August 10: “I feel very transparent.”
The Public Health Agency that failed to stockpile pandemic supplies had poor management of information technology systems, says an internal audit. “IT is central to almost every aspect of Health Canada and Public Health Agency business,” wrote auditors.
Also:
The Trudeau government dished out nearly $150 million in taxpayer dollars on COVID-19 test kits that did not work, the Department of Health admitted yesterday.
According to Blacklock's Reporter, the Department of Health, the "Spartan Cube," funded by the government and designed by Spartan Bioscience Inc., "successfully detected positive samples only 47 percent of the time using samples tested in three different provinces."
The test kits were given the $149 million green light on March 27. By May 1, the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg reported that the kits were testing poorly.
"This device will no longer be authorized for sale," said staff in a memo. "No distribution is allowed. The Cube is authorized for research use only."
The company was given high praise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at his daily press conferences, telling reporters on March 20 that Spartan was among the "many businesses" that stepped up during the pandemic's starting phases.
Industry Minister Navdeep Bains also praised the company's potential, with the government hoping that the biomedical company would be able to design tests that would be used nation wide.
Why would the Canadian government help Chinese dissidents?:
The Chinese attack on democratic freedoms in Hong Kong is not just an issue of foreign affairs but one that directly endangers every Canadian citizen as well, according to Hong Kong democracy advocates.
The special parliamentary committee on Canada-China relations heard Tuesday firsthand accounts from four activists of being beaten, abused, threatened and targeted by Chinese actors for their advocacy of democracy in Hong Kong amid an increasingly aggressive global power campaign by Beijing.
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Hong Kong democracy activists and human rights groups warned Canadian MPs that time was running out to help people in the territory as China uses new national security legislation to clamp down on human rights in the city.
MPs heard the testimony just one day after the arrest of Jimmy Lai, owner of the Apple Daily Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper.
Have the two Michaels been freed yet?
Also:
It has been more than six-hundred days since China snatched our fellow countrymen, Michael Korvig and Michael Spavor. A few weeks ago, China charged these two Canadians with "espionage and subversion of the State" without any concrete evidence.
Ironically, just three years ago, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang exalted Sino-Canadian relations by calling it the "golden age" of bilateral engagement. So what went wrong?
The short answer is that China is a bully who has never taken Canada seriously under the leadership of Justin Trudeau. The fact is that Canada’s international image and influence have steadily declined for the past five years.
It's just money:
A Winnipeg MP is looking to convert the Canada Emergency Response Benefit into a permanent fixture.
Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan tabled a motion in the House of Commons to convert CERB into a permanent guaranteed liveable basic income.
“COVID-19 has demonstrated that we do have the resources. We must ensure all individuals in Canada can thrive in dignity and that means making investments to ensure basic human rights for all,” she said.
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The federal government on Tuesday sought to clarify requirements under its $80-billion wage subsidy, amid criticism that the program is overly complicated for businesses to apply for.
Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced the creation of a new calculator aimed at helping small business owners determine their eligibility for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program, which pays a portion of wage costs for businesses struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of other private accounts have released their own calculators in recent days to assist business owners with the application process.
It doesn't matter how many people are waiting for heart operations. First thing is first:
A class-action lawsuit could be brought against the New Brunswick government for allegedly limiting abortion access in the province.
A Red Deer doctor died Monday after being attacked inside an examination room at a walk-in clinic in the central Alberta city.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has picked his nurse-maid vice-presidential candidate:
Phony Kamala Harris NEVER stood a chance! pic.twitter.com/BOsu9w3bxN
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) August 11, 2020
Offering some gentle advice for Miss Harris is former vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. Out the gate, the familiar vitriol and the denial of it.
Liberals/leftists are spite, hateful, ignorant, arrogant, insecure and will probably try to off themselves when Trump wins in November.
Weak, insecure people with paranoia complexes do things like that.
A young boy is dead following a shooting that took place in Wilson, North Carolina on Sunday.
A man allegedly ran up to the five-year-old while he was playing and fatally shot him in the head.
Cannon Hinnant was reportedly playing on the street outside of his father's house when their 25-year-old neighbour Darius N. Sessoms ran at the child, pulled out a handgun and shot him according to The Blaze.
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