Your Corrupt Government and You

To think, no one will be able to criticise these oligarchs ever again:

When the Liberal government was workshopping its COVID-19 economic recovery slogan, Canadians rejected one option on the basis that it seemingly slandered Alberta, according to research done for the Privy Council Office.

First reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, an Ottawa online news outlet, the government polled Canadians in four jurisdictions on four potential catchphrases that would encapsulate the federal pandemic recovery plan.

The research, done by The Strategic Counsel, asked participants which phrase described “what the goals of Canada’s economic recovery could be and (were) asked to discuss the one that best summarized their preferred approach”

The winner, eventually, was “build back better,” a phrase already in vogue in the United States and the United Kingdom. ...

The Strategic Counsel was paid roughly $808,000 between June 2019 and September 2020 for its monthly focus groups, on average, 12 per month, and with a break during the 2019 federal election, said the Privy Council Office.

“The Privy Council Office regularly undertakes public opinion research to ensure that the Government of Canada has an informed understanding of Canadians’ views as they relate to the most important issues facing the country,” the PCO said in a statement.

 

You mean, mundane things to opine on? 

**

Data Sciences Inc., a firm owned by a close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was contracted by the Ontario Liberal Party and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars via taxpayer funds over a period of five years.

Data Sciences is owned by Tom Pitfield, one of Trudeau’s friends since childhood. The firm’s former president, Azam Ishmael, has been national director of the federal Liberal Party since 2017. He also held various positions with the federal and Ontario Liberal parties on voter identification and digital platforms.

 

(Sidebar: like fathers, like sons.) 

**

I'll leave this here:

While warning Canadians of the looming dangers of climate change, federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s family has been holding stock in one of Canada’s largest gas companies, says Blacklock’s Reporter.

Wilkinson admitted Monday his wife Tara own shares in Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.

 

And now this:

Cabinet would have to impose a $261 per tonne carbon tax, the equivalent of an extra 62¢ per litre of gasoline, to meet its climate change targets, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has promised there will be no further increases in fuel charges: “No, we do not intend to accelerate the price.”

**

The federal Competition Bureau in affidavits accuses a Canadian company of charging the jobless an eight percent commission to process Canada Emergency Response Benefit cheques. Lawyers for Canada Tax Reviews Inc. of Thornhill, Ont. yesterday did not comment: “We will apply for you.”