From the Most Corrupt and Stunningly Stupid Government Ever Re-Elected

When people think of Canada, they think of these guys:

Minister for Infrastructure Catherine McKenna announced on Friday that the Trudeau Liberals will be dedicating $400 million over the next five years to building cycling paths and trails.

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WE Charity is raising a roadblock to their co-founders testifying before a parliamentary committee looking into last summer’s controversial proposed federal student volunteer program.

On Thursday, the charity said the standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics has not met their request to allow standing for a lawyer for Craig and Marc Kielburger as he accompanies the brothers during an expected Monday appearance.

The committee is looking into the federal plan to have WE manage a $900-million student-services program. The arrangement was cancelled amid conflict-of-interest allegations centred on the close ties Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family had to the organization.

In a rare move, the committee has issued a summons for the brothers to testify.

WE says the most recent correspondence of the committee chair suggests a “limited” ability for lawyer William McDowell to engage in the proceedings.

 

Drag the little sh--- by their ears and make them testify.

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said a record 56 percent increase in the debt ceiling is necessary, but would not detail what cabinet will do with the money. “We are being extremely transparent,” Freeland told the Commons finance committee.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a jab at Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre during question period on Wednesday for losing his finance critic post last month. 

During an exchange between the two, Trudeau implied that he sympathized with Poilievre for being among the many Canadians who lost their jobs during the pandemic. 

 

Oh, that's so funny, Justin! Lumping in Pierre Poilievre with the other Canadians who lost their jobs because of you!

Say, why did you leave that private school?

But this sort of crappiness and idiocy runs in the family:

Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau privately feared the severe 1981 recession would spell destruction of the Liberal Party, according to declassified records. Cabinet ministers were urged to combat public protests by planting pro-Liberal statements in the press: ‘In the Prime Minister’s view the mood of Liberal Party members which was developing across the country was potentially very destructive.’

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Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau proposed to introduce a permanent federal lottery “in support of the Liberal party” but vowed to keep planning low-key, say declassified records. The secret 1980 plan was stymied by an agreement signed by a previous Conservative cabinet: “There did not seem to be a reason for the federal government to avoid acting in this area as a trade-off.”

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Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau gave his own cabinet scant minutes to hurriedly review the National Energy Program the very day it was introduced in Parliament, say declassified secret records obtained by Blacklock’s. Cabinet members complained they could not “get an adequate grasp of the details” of the landmark tax plan: “Ministers were generally surprised.”

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The feminist movement is “easily manipulated,” the federal cabinet concluded at a confidential 1981 meeting. Declassified records show ministers schemed to co-opt women’s groups to avert public criticism of cabinet: “There was a need for a well-planned counteroffensive to prevent the situation from snowballing.”