From the Most Corrupt and Inept Government Ever Re-Elected

It all says volumes about the people who put it in:

More than one in three federal public servants were granted paid time off work during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost exceeding $800 million, according to a Treasury Board document.

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MPs have subpoenaed We Charity’s chief financial officer for questioning. Victor Li ignored repeated requests to appear before the Commons ethics committee for testimony on his work for the Kielburger brothers: “I am appalled.”

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CBC pundits may have undisclosed federal contracts, says a senior network producer. The comment followed Blacklock’s report the network failed to disclose one pundit was invited to praise cabinet on TV while working as a government contractor: “Do these connections render Amanda Alvaro’s opinion less valid?”

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Because stellar planning:

Health Minister Patricia Hajdu budgeted $50 million to provide free rooms, meals and medical care to travelers at quarantine hotels, records show. New rules that took effect at midnight last night compel travelers to pay their own way in self-isolation: “I want to take a moment to thank the number of hotels.”

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COVID-19 has highlighted the fact that not only is Canada racking up new failures in the usual sore spots such as public health, but increasingly we can’t even seem to manage things that should be easy. We’re an energy superpower that can’t build a dam or a pipeline.  A champion of reconciliation where Indigenous people are poisoned by their own drinking water. A self-proclaimed “honest broker” in world affairs that can’t get its phone calls returned by foreign leaders.

If it seems like Canada is embarrassingly unable to get anything done lately, here are some of the telltale signs.

 

Because Canada.

It was once a country that worked. Now, it is a country that thinks Chinese-admiring snowboard instructors can get things done.

Oops.

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New documents released by the government detail an exchange of letters between the Privy Council Office and lawyers hired by Rideau Hall who raised concerns around the procedural fairness of the third-party review into the workplace environment at the governor general’s office.

The exchange sheds further light on how unusual the entire situation was, with Rideau Hall’s lawyers expressing concern that the perception of “political interference” in the review could taint Gov. Gen. Julie Payette’s role during a minority government — a concern strongly rejected by the Privy Council Office.

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Internal emails show cabinet-level political aides knowingly released misleading figures on medical supplies to cover chronic shortages of pandemic masks. Figures were inflated to ‘present the truth’ regardless of whether goods were defective. “Seems a bit deceiving!”  

 

(Merci)