Your mid-week element of surprise ...
The 3M Company won millions in pandemic subsidies after hiring a Liberal lobbyist who boasted of “navigating the government and getting things done,” according to internal emails. Kevin Bosch, former deputy director of the Liberal Research Bureau, yesterday did not comment: “Resolve an issue that Kevin Bosch urgently raised.
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Small businesses flooded MPs and federal agencies with complaints of red tape in answering a call to produce pandemic supplies, internal records show. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked contractors nationwide to “help out during this critical time.”
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The office of the minister of Innovation was keen but was powerless to grant an exemption. The matter was referred to the office of the minister of Health, Patty Hajdu, where a staff member promised to get an accelerated response from the Public Health Agency. A spokesperson in Hajdu’s office said it was not involved in the subsequent decision.
Two days later, in mid-December, the Public Health Agency of Canada replied, saying it was of the opinion that Singh’s entry to Canada was permissible but he would not be exempt from quarantine – effectively blocking his visit.
This is not an agency that has covered itself in glory of late. Blacklock’s Reporter reported on Tuesday that PHAC turned down an offer by Honeywell International to devote an entire production line at its Mexican factory to supply Canada with N95 masks. “Right now, N95 masks are not a top priority,” said a PHAC official last March. In the fall, the federal government invested hundreds of millions of dollars to refit a plant owned by Honeywell rival, 3M, so it could supply N95 masks.
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The Issues Manager for Trudeau's Procurement Minister, Anita Anand, contacted other Liberal press secretaries for their opinion on how to finesse the government's “unattractive delivery numbers” for PPE and masks.
Also - yes, idiots, but you voted for it and - if given the opportunity (not that there would be), you would do so again:
Roughly 63 per cent of Canadians, or just shy of two-thirds, said that governments should have put the hammer down sooner with stricter measures including travel bans, curfews and lockdowns, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus.
Canadians expected their government - that fat, bloated, corrupt, stupid and well-compensated mass of emotional retardation - to look after them and they are shocked! to discover how inept and antipathetic they all were.
I would not expect this government to know how to handle money that is not theirs:
A total 440,000 Canadians who claimed $2,000 pandemic cheques were flagged for investigation, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said yesterday. Cabinet has not yet detailed the scope of outright fraud under the program: “We can’t.”
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The Liberals announced in November’s economic statement that they planned to make foreign-based services collect and remit the Goods and Services Tax or Harmonized Sales Tax, depending on the province.
The fall economic statement estimated that the government would reap revenues of over $1.2 billion over five years starting this year from the measure, which is sometimes labelled a “Netflix tax.” The levy would also apply to other digital services such as Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video or the Spotify audio streaming service.
(Sidebar: how adorable it is that the Liberals think these companies will remain in the Canadian market and get taxed up the wazoo.)
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has shuffled the Conservative caucus roles and moved Pierre Poilievre out of the high profile role of finance critic.
It marks the first shuffle O’Toole has carried out since being elected the party’s leader last August.
Poilievre now becomes the party’s the critic for jobs and industry, a newly created role, with Ed Fast taking over as finance critic.
He was Sloaned!
Way to hold China to account!:
World Health Organization officials declared Tuesday their mission to Wuhan to seek the origins of the coronavirus was inconclusive. In Beijing, the outcome was treated as something certain: vindication and triumph.
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A letter sent to MPs by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has described China’s extensive foreign interference program in Canada, saying Beijing was using a host of covert methods to silence dissent and steal commercial secrets and sensitive technology.
Yes, but this was known, especially in 2013 when Justin declared his undying love for China, the same China that backs North Korea.
One presidential adviser at the National Unification Advisory Council said the U.S. could accept that North Korea has a limited number of nuclear weapons and try to contain a further expansion, and that would enable the U.S. to sell more weapons to South Korea. In other words, recognizing North Korea as a nuclear power will benefit the U.S. It is incomprehensible why the government persists in these fantasies. Nobody can be stupid enough actually to believe them, so what are they for?
A North Korean defector who escaped the repressive state twice is running as a conservative candidate in local elections in Manchester.
The British Conservative Party said Park Ji-hyun (52) will be the first-ever North Korean defector to run in an election other than South Korea. She is a candidate for the Holyrood ward in Bury, Greater Manchester.
"I couldn't speak a word of English when I came to the U.K. 13 years ago," she told the Chosun Ilbo last week. "The U.K. was a land that gave me a new life filled with opportunities and challenges."
After gaining asylum in Britain in 2008, Park worked as an activist for North Korean women and children's rights. She testified before a hearing in the U.K. Parliament in June 2019 and gave a harrowing account of the abuses suffered by North Koreans like herself.
She told MPs that North Korean defectors are not recognized as refugees in China and women in particular often become targets of human trafficking. Park won the Asian Women of Achievement Award in 2018 and Amnesty International's Brave Award last year.
In Canada, she would be Trudeaued and Sloaned.
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