Canada now has (as of this writing) 9,025 deaths.
The same government that went out of its way not to give medical workers the personal protective equipment they needed will not "seamlessly" hand over welfare from printed money it can't afford to waste:
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough made assurances on Wednesday that the federal government would smoothly funnel millions of Canadians from its key COVID-19 financial aid program into employment insurance, as a major end-of-month deadline looms.
Qualtrough said people currently tapping into the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) would be transitioned into EI “seamlessly and without benefit disruption.” She reiterated claims that the EI program is prepared to handle an influx in recipients, who will need to be transitioned from CERB at the end of August.
Qualtrough is in charge of the department whose public servants concluded they were not capable of delivering the program and who, according to the government, recommended that WE Charity was the only group capable of delivering it.
She told the ethics committee that she did not know until the proposal was scheduled to come before cabinet on May 5 that it was WE Charity that was being recommended to run the program.
She also said she did not know the distinctions between the WE Charity’s various entities that were being named to administer the program and added that while she believes both Trudeau and Morneau should have recused themselves from the talks, she accepts their apologies for not doing so.
Yep. Seamlessly.
Let's not forget this:
Cabinet could have “picked better words” to discourage cheats under a $60 billion pandemic relief program, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said yesterday. A draft bill to jail scofflaws would not be retroactive, she said: “I hear you.”
Also:
A deepening rift between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his finance minister about coronavirus spending is also fuelled by disagreements over the scope and scale of proposed green initiatives, three sources familiar with the matter said.
Quebec is special:
Quebec health authorities say 19 people died from COVID-19 in a Montreal-area seniors residence last spring, but 10 of the deaths are only being reported today because of a delay in transmitting data.
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Nineteen-year-old Florence Lachapelle was among hundreds of Quebecers who tried their hand at planting seeds and harvesting produce this summer, replacing migrant workers who were unable to leave their countries because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And while Lachapelle spent long days working the fields on François D’Aoust’s farm in Havelock, Que., too few other Quebecers took up the call to help the province’s struggling agricultural industry.
Despite a recruiting drive by the provincial government in April, the lack of labour this season has forced farmers to cut production or leave food rotting in the fields.
As Quebec well knows, there are always carrots and sticks to apply to its little CERB-collectors and illegal migrants.
From the most opaque and greedy government ever re-elected:
A Québec firm awarded an untendered ten-year federal contract to supply pandemic masks says it is “proud to be working with the Government of Canada”, but would not disclose who owns the company. AMD Medicom Inc. of Montréal was awarded a $382 million contract to supply Canadian-made masks though it had no factory in Canada: “We have nothing further to add on this topic.”
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A company owned by former Québec Liberal MP Frank Baylis has received almost $700,000 in federal funding this year including contracts for a pandemic ventilator “not approved in any jurisdiction”, according to Department of Health records. MPs yesterday questioned the arrangement: “Friends are doing just fine.”
(Sidebar: do you remember this guy?)
More coronavirus cases could overwhelm the healthcare system that is reputedly the envy of the world but really only to leftists, repeat the original bleaters:
Canada is planning for a fall peak in coronavirus cases, followed by a number of smaller waves, in a possible worst-case scenario for the COVID-19 pandemic this fall, officials said at a briefing Friday.
Ahem:
Doctors are sounding alarm bells over what they see as a growing trend of people with serious and life-threatening illnesses avoiding hospitals during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The panic caused by the mouthpieces of this pandemic is paralleled with some rather appalling treatment from the "front-line" workers and nurses (some, but perhaps not all, of whom see this only as a job and not a vocation, hence their sh---y treatment of patients - I know whereof I speak on this). Cap this off with some patients from hell and that veneer of "compassionate universal healthcare' comes off like a Chinese hubcap.
I believe that parents should have been questioning the entirety of the education system instead of expecting the same over-fed teachers to look after their kids while the former are at work.
People have to resume their normal lives. I appreciate that people are concerned with infections but the more I read on this matter, the more I get the sense that teachers expect to return with few restrictions on their curricula and even fewer parents questioned the quality of the education they saw their children receive.
The military still notes problems in the warehousing of the elderly:
The Canadian Armed Forces says minor problems remain in some Ontario long-term care homes they were deployed to earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.
But critics say this does not mean the homes have a clean bill of health.
The military’s concerns outlined in a report dated Aug. 4 and released Friday include worker skills and standards of practice in the seven nursing homes.
The reports attributes many of the problems to inexperienced staff who were quickly pressed into service in the homes during the pandemic.
Ontario called in the military to seven homes that struggled to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks starting in April.
Weeks later, the Forces said they observed cockroach infestations, aggressive feeding that caused choking, bleeding infections, and residents crying for help for hours.
But the liquor stores were still open, so ...
The lawsuit was filed July 6 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto by Aylmer, Ont.-based Vaccine Choice Canada and seven individuals. The legal action is a challenge under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the country's pandemic response measures, including compulsory face masks, the closure of businesses and the enforcement of physical distancing.
The plaintiffs are suing the governments of Canada and Ontario, the City of Toronto, senior politicians, a number of local Ontario health authorities, health officials and the CBC over their response to the pandemic.
The suit states that the closure of businesses to prevent the spread of the virus was "extreme, unwarranted and unjustified," that self-isolation measures imposed on individuals were "not scientific, nor medically based nor proven" and that the mandatory wearing of face coverings in some public spaces imposes "physical and psychological harm."
The lawsuit alleges that the measures violate Sections 2 (right of association), 7 (life, liberty and security of the person), 8 (unlawful search and seizure), 9 (arbitrary detention of enforcement officers) and 15 (equality before and under the law) of the charter.
"The measures ... are further not in accordance with the tenets of fundamental justice in their overbreadth, nor are they justified under S.1 of the charter in that they are demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society," the lawsuit states.
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