From the Most Corrupt Government Ever Re-Elected

Who put these guys in charge?:

A recent access to information and privacy request has revealed tens of thousands of dollars in lavish gourmet items from Justin Trudeau’s private Challenger jet.

Covering just the first two months of 2018, these invoices include $23,000 in catering, $412 for “hot towels” and $285 for Belgian waffles. The overall bill is considerably large, as there are 176 pages of invoices describing luxury food items purchased on the jet.

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Both Liberal and Conservative-appointed Senators have expressed concern over the Trudeau government's opacity in federal spending and budgets. Spending disclosures were ended after the government suspended Parliament on August 18, according to Blacklock's Reporter.

“It’s not being transparent,” Senator Elizabeth Marshall said. “We cannot get current, up to date financial information. Why is the government refusing to provide current financial information?”

The Department of Finance has not issued a report on borrowing and spending since August 6, as was ordered of the Department of Finance by MPs.

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The Department of Natural Resources says it has neither a detailed plan nor budget to plant two billion trees promised by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in 2019. Data show the program even if successful would account for about a third of trees planted by forestry companies and provinces: “Mother Nature will plant millions of trees on her own.”

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The House of Commons operations committee voted 6-5 yesterday to order The Public Health Agency to disclose the number of masks, gowns, and other medical supplies that were thrown away before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The Liberals are frustrated with this opposition move, Liberal MP Steven MacKinnon said. “My duty as a parliamentary secretary, as an MP with the government, is to denounce this fishing expedition.  It’s like we’re looking for problems where they don’t exist.” MacKinnon added that he failed to understand the motive, saying “Why?”

The motion, which was presented by the NDP, states that "The committee send for all briefing notes, memos and emails from senior officials prepared for the Minister of Health, the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada, the chief medical health officer and the Minister of Public Works between 2010 and Monday, August 31, 2020 regarding the management, stockpiling, disposal and replenishment of medical equipment and supplies in the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile” by December 1.

Without civil servants and unfettered spending, where would this country be?:

The RCMP for two years withheld in-house research showing fewer than half of Canadians surveyed consider Commissioner Brenda Lucki to be effective. Federal agencies including the Mounties are required by law to disclose polling financed by taxpayers: “They award lower marks when it comes to the calibre of its leadership.”

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A law against thieving by public employees was quietly repealed by Parliament though prosecutors used it dozens of times over a ten-year period, according to Access To Information records. The Department of Justice said the law was slated for repeal because it was “obsolete”.

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A media start-up that complained of the corrosive influence of federal money in Canadian newsrooms has won a sole-sourced Department of Public Works contract worth more than a quarter million. David Skok, former Toronto Star editor who launched the business website The Logic Inc. two years ago, declined an interview: “I founded The Logic on the belief that journalistic independence comes from financial independence.”

 

(Sidebar: so that corrosive money determines the start-up. Way to hood-wink.)

 

 

Of course he did: 

The federal ethics watchdog has cleared former finance minister Bill Morneau of failing to disclose a gift from WE Charity — but he remains under investigation for failing to recuse himself from cabinet talks.

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion accepts Morneau “genuinely believed” he had paid for the entire cost of two trips he and his family took in 2017 to view WE’s humanitarian projects in Ecuador and Kenya.

This WE charity:

WE Charity is expecting to net $25-million from the sale of its real estate holdings and other assets as it winds down its Canadian operations and sets up a new endowment, documents released by the charity indicate.