Getting the government Montreal and Toronto voted for:
The federal Conservatives say the public safety minister has lost credibility over his comments about the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, and they’re calling for him to resign.
Marco Mendicino has been under scrutiny since he told a House of Commons special committee that police asked for the government to invoke the Emergencies Act as the “Freedom Convoy” gripped downtown Ottawa in February.
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The Ambassador Bridge blockade ended the night before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act meaning it wasn’t needed, nor did the blockades cause major economic issues.
Cross-border trade in February 2022 during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ontario and Alberta went up 16% compared to February 2021, based on Statistics Canada data reported by Global News.
The most serious criminal charges were laid in Coutts, Alberta, where police arrested a dozen people Feb. 14 on allegations ranging from weapons offences to conspiracy to murder.
That was the same day Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, meaning the charges were made through normal police investigation procedures, unrelated to the act.
Freedom Convoy protesters did not attempt to set fire to an Ottawa apartment building after locking residents inside, contrary to government claims.
Despite reports of illegal guns in the cabs of some truckers protesting in Ottawa, no gun charges have been laid to date.
Despite claims by Mendicino women were threatened with sexual assault by protesters, no sexual assault charges have been laid to date.
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Public Safety Minister @marcomendicino's office is now claiming he was misunderstood when he said police advised the Liberal government to use the Emergencies Act
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa 🇷🇴 (@cosminDZS) June 8, 2022
Here's a clip of him saying exactly that about a dozen times in the House of Commons
What's there to misunderstand? pic.twitter.com/Taf71NEC8v
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On what real grounds were Canadian civil liberties amputated? Was there ever any real threat to the Canadian government? Did the police ever ask for the Emergencies Act to be invoked? Is Mendicino telling the country the truth? Under the new firearms legislation, will truck drivers be required to undergo background checks before they can equip their rigs with horns?
While we’re at it, why did NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh vote for this extravagant attack on the rights and freedoms of the Canadian people? Is the NDP caucus fully behind its glib and sublimely bespoke leader? If so, why?
The demand for a full and transparent inquiry into the Emergencies Act should not be allowed to slacken for the slightest moment.
What Mr. Van Koeverden's erstwhile supporters fail to realise isn't so much his unparliamentary language but his arrogance in assuming he could be as dismissive and vulgar to one of his constituents and expect her to like it:
Clearly @vankayak doesn’t give a shit about Canadians and what his liberal government is doing. Disgusting behaviour from an MP!!!! @StephanieKusie https://t.co/7SlgmY1Ifp pic.twitter.com/FujQZq7EOv
— Warbington (@warbington21) June 12, 2022
Keep in mind that these are the same people "triggered" by the sight of Canadian flags and the occasional honking of a truck.
Money does grow on trees, right?:
Canada’s vice-regal racked up a nearly $100,000 catering bill on board a government aircraft during a recent week-long trip to the Middle East.
An order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Michael Barrett shows Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and her 29 fellow passengers using $93,117.89 in catering services aboard an RCAF CC-150 Polaris during her March 16 to March 24 trip to Expo 2020 in Dubai.
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Millions’ worth of Covid ventilators purchased through a former Liberal MP’s company were immediately warehoused as medical surplus, records show. The ventilators cost the equivalent of $23,700 apiece: “We needed an advance.”
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Parliament must spend billions more on the military if Canada is to meet its NATO commitments, the Budget Office said yesterday. A large gap remained even when counting as military expenses the Coast Guard budget and employee pensions: “Canada would need to spend an additional $18.2 billion in 2022.”
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Millions of Canadians are drawing down savings or borrowing money to meet household expenses, Statistics Canada said yesterday. New data came as the Commons agriculture committee opened hearings on food prices and supply: “27 percent reported they had to borrow money from friends or relatives, take on debt or use credit to meet day to day expenses.”
(Sidebar: oh, just blame it on that thing in Ukraine. It's not like we should be making our own fertiliser or anything, right?)
At least they saved themselves:
Ambassador Reid Sirrs and staff failed Canada in Kabul, say MPs. “The risks were known,” said a Commons committee report that expressed puzzlement over diplomats’ failure to help fellow Canadians and Afghan allies escape the Taliban before saving themselves: “The way Canada left Afghanistan in August was a betrayal.”
Just like someone else we know:
6. Like all insecure Canadians, Trudeau cares more about what foreigners think than what we think. Especially someone cool like a former pro hockey player, now a viral journalist. That video tipped the scales. And the bumbling transport minister @OmarAlghabra just made it worse.7. But the acute reason the mandates are being dropped TOMORROW is that Trudeau just violated the law himself. He was in the U.S. again, on another vacation, and he came back with Covid. Hang on -- that's illegal. You can't enter Canada if you have Covid. Trudeau just did.8. He's broken the laws before -- when he came back, from another jaunt last year, he left quarantine when he got bored. Again, illegal for you or me. But he's above the law ...
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