Monday, March 01, 2021

From the Most Corrupt Government Ever Re-Elected

The corruption will end with an ousting or when the money runs out.

I say the latter:

A prominent donor to WE Charity has alleged that the charity was “duplicitous” in its relationships with donors and has failed to provide a proper accounting of its use of donor funds in Kenya.

Reed Cowan, a U.S. television journalist who estimates that he has mobilized millions of dollars for WE Charity, told a House of Commons committee that the charity had misled donors by promising sponsorship of the same Kenyan school to different groups without their knowledge.

Mr. Cowan said he has repeatedly asked the charity for a full accounting of all funds raised by him and his team of donors. “As of this date, I have not been provided that accounting,” he told the committee on Friday.

The journalist, a former member of an advisory board to the charity’s Kenyan affiliate, is the first independent donor to testify to a parliamentary committee since the scandal that erupted last year over a federal contract awarded to the charity to run a $912-million student volunteer program. The contract was later cancelled.

Mr. Cowan, often overcome by emotion as he spoke, said he spent years raising funds for WE Charity’s schools in honour of his four-year-old son, Wesley, who died in an accident in 2006. The charity promised that schools would be built and named for his son, he said.

“I want to know why his legacy feels robbed,” Mr. Cowan said. “I feel burned. I don’t know who the bad guys are.”

In a statement on Friday, the charity apologized to Mr. Cowan for removing a plaque from one of the classrooms that he had funded. But it denied that it had “double-funded” the schools, and it said it is seeking records to fulfill his request for a financial accounting.

 

Yes, about that:

Cowan pledged to help build schools in Kenya through WE Charity after the death of his four-year-old son in an accident. He told the committee that he ultimately raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, which he said prompted celebrities and corporations to follow his giving.

The effort brought him solace, but Cowan testified that he grew suspicious after reading a Bloomberg Businessweek investigation published in December that included allegations from former staff that donor plaques on projects in Kenya were frequently swapped — allegations that WE denied at the time.

Cowan later learned that a plaque on a schoolhouse commemorating his son, Wesley, was missing. He told the panel that he then found a video showing the charity dedicating the same schoolhouse to another donor just 13 days before his own visit. It was the same ceremony, the same staff, the same songs — just a different plaque.

WE said Friday that he was mistaken. “There was only one opening ceremony for the schoolhouse and it was for Mr. Cowan,” it said, adding that “WE’s schoolhouses in Kenya are built to the same specifications and look similar to one another, so we understand Mr. Cowan’s confusion.”

 

Of course! That makes perfect sense!

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We Charity’s former chief lobbyist says she had no idea of Bill Morneau’s personal dealings with the group that prompted his abrupt resignation as finance minister. “That just makes absolutely no sense,” one Conservative MP told the Commons ethics committee: “This could be perceived as an attempted bribe.”

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From corruption to outright ineptitude and contempt:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made inaccurate claims in boasting of cabinet’s pandemic response, according to internal emails. “Oh dear,” wrote one political aide. Staff in the Department of Public Works suggested they “try and talk around it” in case anyone noticed: “Maybe we can say — “

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Rebel News obtained documents showing that Dr. Tam had by signing an agreement with the WHO agreed to keep secret information discussed by the WHO, that she was privy to, which contradicted health advice they were putting out. This, in effect, also meant Dr. Tam would have to promote WHO health advice as Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, as disagreeing with it would inevitably require her to reveal why the WHO’s recommendations were wrong.

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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. was awarded a $150 million federal contract for pandemic field hospitals nobody asked for, according to records. The Department of Public Works five months after signing the sole-sourced contract had not bothered to fix any delivery dates for the mobile health units: “A public call for tenders was not issued due to the urgency.”

 

 

And run-of-the-mill financial incompetence:

Federal agencies continue to make late payments to small contractors despite policies promising prompt settlement of accounts, says Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic. A review found cases where contractors waited months to be paid what they were owed: “We had men in tears here talking about this problem.”

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During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is moving past the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and moving forward with “clean energy” projects with the US. 

“I think it’s fairly clear that the US administration has made its decision on that, and we’re much more interested in ensuring that we’re moving forward in ways that are good for both of our countries,” Trudeau said.

 

When one understands that Justin always wanted to tank the Canadian economy, his unwillingness to challenge whoever is pulling Biden's strings these days all makes sense.

Don't blame him if the economy is in the tank. It's someone else's fault.

There is a reason why Justin is mocked on the world stage.



(Merci beaucoup)



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