Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Mid-Week Post

Merry birthday, Mr. Shatner!


 

If Justin doesn't make this rigged inquiry go away, the Chinese are going to get rather testy:

The Commons yesterday by a vote of 177 to 147 rejected a Conservative motion for a full committee investigation of alleged election fraud by Chinese Communist agents. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a last-minute concession agreed to have his chief of staff Katie Telford take MPs questions: “I think we take this a step at a time.”

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What was voted on:

MOTION of Conservative MP Michael Cooper (St. Albert-Edmonton), seconded by Conservative MP Terry Dowdall (Simcoe-Grey, Ont.) “that given reports of foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes by or on behalf of the Communist regime in Beijing,” the Commons ethics committee be empowered and instructed to study all aspects of foreign interference in relation to the 2019 and 2021 general elections, and that:

a) Katie Telford, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, be ordered to appear before the committee as a witness, for three hours on her own, under oath, no later than Friday, April 14;

b) the following individuals be invited to appear as witnesses before the committee on dates and times to be fixed by the Chair of the Committee, but no later than Friday, May 19:

• Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland;

• Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair;

• Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino;

• Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director David Vigneault;

• Privy Council Clerk Janice Charette;

• Morris Rosenberg, former CEO. Trudeau Foundation;

• John MacBain, former chair. Trudeau Foundation;

• Élise Comtois, former executive director, Trudeau Foundation;

• Liberal, Conservative, Bloc Québécois and NDP 2019 and 2021 national campaign directors;

• John McCallum, former Canadian ambassador to China;

• Jennifer May, current Canadian ambassador to China.

• James Judd, author of a 2019 Critical Election Incident Protocol report;

• All members of 2019 and 2021 election interference fask forces.

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How people voted:

ABOULTAIF, Ziad (Conservative, Edmonton-Manning) YEA

AITCHISON, Scott (Conservative, Parry Sound-Muskoka) YEA

ALBAS, Dan (Conservative, Central Okanagan-Similkameen) YEA

ALDAG, John (Liberal, Cloverdale-Langley City) NAY

ALGHABRA, Omar (Liberal, Mississauga Centre) NAY

ALI, Shafqat (Liberal, Brampton Centre) NAY

ALLISON, Dean (Conservative, Niagara West) YEA

ANAND, Anita (Liberal, Oakville) NAY

ANANDASANGAREE, Gary (Scarborough-Rouge Park) NAY

ANGUS, Charlie (New Democrat, Timmins-James Bay) NAY

ARNOLD, Mel (Conservative, North Okanagan-Shuswap) YEA

ARSENEAULT, René (Liberal, Madawaska-Restdigouche) NAY

ARYA, Chandra (Liberal, Nepean) NAY

ASHTON, Niki (New Democrat, Churchill-Keewatinook Aski) NAY

ATWIN, Jenica (Liberal, Fredericton) NAY

 

BACHRACH, Taylor (New Democrat, Skeena-Bulkley Valley) NAY

BADAWEY, Vance (Liberal, Niagara Centre) NAY

BAINS, Parm (Liberal, Steveston-Richmond East) NAY

BAKER, Yvan (Liberal, Etobicoke Centre) NAY

BALDINELLI, Tony (Conservative, Niagara Falls) YEA

BARLOW, John (Conservative, Foothills) YEA

BARRETT, Michael (Conservative, Leeds-Grenville) YEA

BARRON, Lisa (New Democrat, Nanimo-Ladysmith) NAY

BARSALOU-DUVAL, Xavier (Bloc, Pierre-Boucher) YEA

BATTISTE, Jaimie (Liberal, Sydney-Victoria) NAY

BEAULIEU, Mario (Bloc, La Pointe-de-I’le) YEA

BEECH, Terry (Liberal, Burnaby-North) NAY

BENDAYAN, Rachel (Liberal, Outremont) NAY

BENNETT, Carolyn (Liberal, Toronto-St. Paul’s) NAY

BERGERON, Stéphane (Bloc, Montarville) YEA

BERTHOLD, Luc (Conservative, Megantic-L’Erable) YEA

BERUBE, Sylvie (Bloc, Abitibi-Baie James) YEA

BIBEAU, Marie-Claude (Liberal, Compton-Stanstead) NAY

BITTLE, Chris (Liberal, St. Catharines) NAY

BLAIKIE, Daniel (New Democrat, Elmwood-Transcona) NAY

BLAIR, Bill (Liberal, Scarborough Southwest) NAY

BLANCHET, Yves-François (Bloc, Beloeil-Chambly) YEA

BLANCHETTE-JONCAS, Maxime (Bloc, Rimouski) YEA

BLANEY, Rachel (New Democrat, North Island-Powell River) NAY

BLOCK, Kelly (Conservative, Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek) YEA

BLOIS, Kody (Liberal, Kings-Hants) NAY

BOISSONNAULT, Randy (Liberal, Edmonton Centre) NAY

BOULERICE, Alexandre (New Democrat, Rosemont) NAY

BRADFORD, Valerie (Liberal, Kitchener South-Hespeler) NAY

BRAGDON, Richard (Conservative, Tobique-Mactaquac) YEA

BRASSARD, John (Conservative, Barrie-Innisfil) YEA

BRIERE, Elisabeth (Liberal, Sherbrooke) NAY

BROCK, Larry (Conservative, Brantford-Brant) YEA

BRUNELLE-DUCEPPE, Alexis (Bloc, Lac-St. Jean) YEA

 

CALKINS, Blaine (Conservative, Red Deer-Lacombe) YEA

CANNINGS, Richard (New Democrat, South Okanagan) NAY

CAPUTO, Frank (Conservative, Kamloops-Thompson) YEA

CARRIE, Colin (Conservative, Oshawa) YEA

CASEY, Sean (Liberal, Charlottetown) NAY

CHABOT, Louise (Bloc, Therese-De Blainville) YEA

CHAGGER, Bardish (Liberal, Waterloo) NAY

CHAHAL, George (Liberal, Calgary Skyview) NAY

CHAMBERS, Adam (Conservative, Simcoe North) YEA

CHAMPAGNE, François-Philippe (Liberal, St. Maurice) NAY

CHAMPOUX, Martin (Bloc, Drummond) YEA

CHATEL, Sophie (Liberal, Pontiac) NAY

CHEN, Shaun (Liberal, Scarborough North) NAY

CHIANG, Paul (Liberal, Markham-Unionville) NAY

CHONG, Michael (Conservative, Wellington-Halton Hills) YEA

COLLINS, Chad (Liberal, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek) NAY

COLLINS, Laurel (New Democrat, Victoria) NAY

COOPER, Michael (Conservative, St. Albert-Edmonton) YEA

CORMIER, Serge (Liberal, Acadie-Bathurst) NAY

COTEAU, Michael (Liberal, Don Valley East) NAY

 

DABRUSIN, Julie (Liberal, Toronto-Danforth) NAY

DALTON, Marc (Conservative, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge) YEA

DAMOFF, Pam (Liberal, Oakville North-Burlington) NAY

DANCHO, Raquel (Conservative, Kildonan-St. Paul) YEA

DAVIDSON, Scot (Conservative, York-Simcoe) YEA

DAVIES, Don (New Democrat, Vancouver Kingsway) NAY

DeBELLEFEUILLE, Claude (Bloc, Salaberry-Suroit) YEA

DELTELL, Gérard (Conservative, Louis-St. Laurent) YEA

D’ENTREMONT, Chris (Conservative, West Nova) YEA

DESBIENS, Caroline (Bloc, Beauport) YEA

DESILETS, Luc (Bloc, Riviere-des-Mille-Iles) YEA

DESJARLAIS, Blake (New Democrat, Edmonton Griesbach) NAY

DHALIWAL, Sukh (Liberal, Surrey-Newton) NAY

DHILLON, Anju (Liberal, Dorval-Lachine) NAY

DIAB, Lena (Liberal, Halifax West) NAY

DOHERTY, Todd (Conservative, Prince George) YEA

DONG, Han (Liberal, Don Valley North) NAY

DOWDALL, Terry (Conservative, Simcoe-Grey) YEA

DREESHEN, Earl (Conservative, Red Deer-Mountain View) YEA

DROUIN, Francis (Liberal, Glengarry-Prescott) NAY

DUBOURG, Emmanuel (Liberal, Bourassa) NAY

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves (Liberal, Québec City) NAY

DUNCAN, Eric (Conservative, Stormont-Dundas) YEA

DZEROWICZ, Julie (Conservative, Davenport) NAY

 

EHSASSI, Ali (Liberal, Willowdale) NAY

EL-KHOURY, Faycal (Liberal, Laval-Les Iles) NAY

ELLIS, Stephen (Conservative, Cumberland-Colchester) YEA

EPP, Dave (Conservative, Chatham-Kent) YEA

ERSKINE-SMITH, Nathaniel (Liberal, Beaches-East York) NAY

 

FALK, Rosemarie (Conservative, Battlefords-Lloydminster) YEA

FALK, Ted (Conservative, Provencher) YEA

FAST, Ed (Conservative, Abbotsford) YEA

FERGUS, Greg (Liberal, Hull-Aylmer) NAY

FERRERI, Michelle (Conservative, Peterborough-Kawartha) YEA

FILLMORE, Andy (Liberal, Halifax) NAY

FINDLAY, Kerry-Lynne (Conservative, S. Surry-White Rock) YEA

FISHER, Darren (Liberal, Dartmouth-Cole Harbour) NAY

FONSECA, Peter (Liberal, Mississauga East-Cooksville) NAY

FORTIER, Mona (Liberal, Ottawa-Vanier) NAY

FORTIN, Rhéal (Bloc, Riviere-du-Nord) YEA

FRAGISTKATOS, Peter (Liberal, London North Centre) NAY

FRASER, Sean (Liberal, Central Nova) NAY

FREELAND, Chrystia (Liberal, University-Rosedale) NAY

FRY, Hedy (Liberal, Vancouver Centre) NAY

 

GAHEER, Iqwinder (Liberal, Mississauga-Malton) NAY

GALLANT, Cheryl (Conservative, Renfrew-Nipissing) YEA

GARRISON, Randall (New Democrat, Esquimalt-Saanich) NAY

GAUDREAU, Marie-Helene (Bloc, Laurentides-Labelle) YEA

GENEREUX, Bernard (Conservative, Montgomery-L’Islet) YEA

GENUIS, Garnett (Conservative, Sherwood  Park) YEA

GERRETSEN, Mark (Liberal, Kingston & Islands) NAY

GILL, Marilene (Bloc, Manicouagan) YEA

GLADU, Marilyn (Conservative, Sarnia-Lambton) YEA

GODIN, Joel (Conservative, Portneuf-Jacques Cartiere) YEA

GOODRIDGE, Laila (Conservative, Fort McMurray) YEA

GOULD, Karina (Liberal, Burlington) NAY

GOURDE, Jacques (Conservative, Levis-Lotbiniere) YEA

GRAY, Tracy (Conservative, Kelowna-Lake Country) YEA

GREEN, Matthew (New Democrat, Hamilton Centre) NAY

GUILBEAULT, Steven (Liberal, Laurier-Ste. Marie) NAY

 

HAJDU, Patricia (Liberal, Thunder Bay-Superior North) NAY

HALLAN, Jasraj Singh (Conservative, Calgary Forest Lawn) YEA

HANLEY, Brendan (Liberal, Yukon) NAY

HARDIE, Ken (Liberal, Fleetwood-Port Kells) NAY

HEPFNER, Lisa (Liberal, Hamilton Mountain) NAY

HOBACK, Randy (Conservative, Prince Albert) YEA

HOLLAND, Mark (Liberal, Ajax) NAY

HOUSEFATHER, Anthony (Liberal, Mount Royal) NAY

HUGHES, Carol (New Democrat, Algoma-Manitoulin) NAY

HUSSEN, Ahmed (Liberal, York South-Weston) NAY

HUTCHINGS, Gudie (Liberal, Long Range Mountains) NAY

 

IACONO, Angelo (Liberal, Alfred-Pellan) NAY

IDLOUT, Lori (New Democrat, Nunavut) NAY

IEN, Marci (Liberal, Toronto Centre) NAY

 

JACZEK, Helena (Liberal, Markham-Stouffville) NAY

JENEROUX, Matt (Conservative, Edmonton Riverbend) YEA

JOHNS, Gord (New Democrat, Courtenay-Alberni) NAY

JOLY, Mélanie (Liberal, Ahuntsic-Cartierville) NAY

JOWHARI, Majid (Liberal, Richmond Hill) NAY

JULIAN, Peter (New Democrat, New Westminster-Burnaby) NAY

 

KAYABAGA, Arielle (Liberal, London West) NAY

KELLOWAY, Mike (Liberal, Cape Breton-Canso) NAY

KELLY, Pat (Conservative, Calgary Rocky Ridge) YEA

KHALID, Iqra (Liberal, Mississauga-Erin Mills) NAY

KHERA, Kamal (Liberal, Brampton West) NAY

KITCHEN, Robert (Conservative, Souris-Moose Mountain) YEA

KMIEC, Tom (Conservative, Calgary Shepard) YEA

KOUTRAKIS, Annie (Liberal, Vimy) NAY

KRAM, Michael (Conservative, Regina-Wascana) YEA

KRAMP-NEUMAN, Shelby (Conservative, Hastings-Lennox) YEA

KUREK, Damien (Conservative, Battle River-Crowfoot) YEA

KUSIE, Stephanie (Conservative, Calgary Midnapore) YEA

KUSMIERCZYK, Irek (Liberal, Windsor-Tecumseh) NAY

KWAN, Jenny (New Democrat, Vancouver East) NAY

 

LAKE, Mike (Conservative, Edmonton-Wetaskiwin) YEA

LALONDE, Marie-France (Liberal, Orléans) NAY

LAMBROPOULOS, Emmanuella (Liberal, St. Laurent) NAY

LAMOUREUX, Kevin (Liberal, Winnipeg North) NAY

LANTSMAN, Melissa (Conservative, Thornhill) YEA

LAPOINTE, Viviane (Liberal, Sudbury) NAY

LAROUCHE, Andréanne (Bloc, Shefford) YEA

LATTANZIO, Patricia (Liberal, St. Léonard) NAY

LAUZON, Stéphane (Liberal, Argenteuil-La Petite Nation) NAY

LAWRENCE, Philip (Conservative, Northumberland) YEA

LeBLANC, Dominic (Liberal, Beaséjour) NAY

LEBOUTHILLIER, Diane (Liberal, Gaspésie) NAY

LEHOUX, Richard (Conservative, Beauce) YEA

LEMIRE, Sébastien (Bloc, Abitibi-Témiscamingue) YEA

LEWIS, Chris (Conservative, Essex) YEA

LEWIS, Leslyn (Conservative, Haldimand-Norfolk) YEA

LIEPERT, Ron (Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill) YEA

LIGHTBOUND, Joel (Liberal, Louis-Hebert) NAY

LLOYD, Dane (Conservative, Sturgeon River-Parkland) YEA

LOBB, Ben (Conservative, Huron-Bruce) YEA

LONG, Wayne (Liberal, Saint John-Rothesay) NAY

LONGFIELD, Lloyd (Liberal, Guelph) NAY

LOUIS, Tim (Liberal, Kitchener-Conestoga) NAY

 

MacAULAY, Lawrence (Liberal, Cardigan) NAY

MacDONALD, Heath (Liberal, Malpeque) NAY

MacGREGOR, Alistair (New Democrat, Cowichan-Malahat) NAY

MacKINNON, Steven (Liberal, Gatineau) NAY

MAGUIRE, Larry (Brandon-Souris) YEA

MALONEY, James (Liberal, Etobicoke-Lakeshore) NAY

MARTEL, Richard (Conservative, Chicoutimi-LeFjord) YEA

MARTINEZ, Soraya (Liberal, Hochelaga) NAY

MASSE, Brian (New Democdrat, Windsor West) NAY

MATHYSSEN, Lindsay (New Democrat, London-Fanshawe) NAY

MAY, Bryan (Liberal, Cambridge) NAY

MAY, Elizabeth (Green, Saanich-Gulf Islands) YEA

MAZIER, Dan (Conservative, Dauphin-Swan River) YEA

McCAULEY, Kelly (Conservative, Edmonton West) YEA

McDONALD, Ken (Liberal, Avalon) NAY

McKAY, John (Liberal, Scarborough-Guildwood) NAY

McKINNON, Ron (Liberal, Couquitlam-Port Coquitlam) NAY

McLEAN, Greg (Conservative, Calgary Centre) YEA

McLEOD, Michael (Liberal, Northwest Territories) NAY

McPHERSON, Heather (New Democrat, Edmonton Strathcona) NAY

MELILLO, Eric (Conservative, Kenora) YEA

MENDES, Alexandra (Liberal, Brossard-St. Lambert) NAY

MENDICINO, Marco (Liberal, Eglinton-Lawrence) NAY

MIAO, Wilson, (Liberal, Richmond Centre) NAY

MICHAUD, Kristina (Bloc, Avignon-La Mitis) YEA

MILLER, Marc (Liberal, Ville-Marie) NAY

MOORE, Rob (Conservative, Fundy Royal) YEA

MORANTZ, Marty (Conservative, Charleswood-St. James) YEA

MORRICE, Mike (Green, Kitchener Centre) YEA

MORRISON, Rob (Conservative, Kootenay-Columbia) YEA

MORRISSEY, Robert (Liberal, Egmont) NAY

MOTZ, Glen (Conservative, Medicine Hat-Cardston) YEA

MURRAY, Joyce (Liberal, Vancouver Quadra) NAY

MUYS, Dan (Conservative, Flamborough-Glanbrook) YEA

 

NAQVI, Yasir (Liberal, Ottawa Centre) NAY

NATER, John (Conservative, Perth-Wellington) YEA

NG, Mary (Liberal, Markham-Thornhill) NAY

NOORMOHAMED, Taleeb (Liberal, Vancouver Granville) NAY

NORMANDIN, Christine (Bloc, Saint-Jean) YEA

 

O’CONNELL, Jennifer (Liberal, Pickering-Uxbridge) NAY

OLIPHANT, Robert (Liberal, Don Valley West) NAY

O’REGAN, Seamus (Liberal, St. John’s South-Mount Pearl) NAY

O’TOOLE, Erin (Conservative, Durham) YEA

 

PATZER, Jeremy (Conservative, Cypress Hills-Grasslands) YEA

PAUL-HUS, Pierre (Conservative, Charlesbourg) YEA

PAUZE, Monique (Bloc, Repentigny) YEA

PERKINS, Rick (Conservative, South Shore-St. Margarets) YEA

PERRON, Yves (Bloc, Berthier-Maskinongé) YEA

PETITPAS TAYLOR, Ginette (Liberal, Moncton) NAY

PLAMONDON, Louis (Bloc, Bécancour-Nicolet) YEA

POWLOWSKI, Marcus (Liberal, Thunder Bay-Rainy River) NAY

 

QUALTROUGH, Carla (Liberal, Delta) NAY

 

RAYES, Alain (Independent, Richmond-Arthabaska) YEA

REDEKOPP, Brad (Conservative, Saskatoon West) YEA

REID, Scott (Conservative, Lanark-Frontenac) YEA

REMPEL GARNER, Michelle (Calgary Nose Hill) YEA

RICHARDS, Blake (Conservative, Banff-Airdrie) YEA

ROBERTS, Anna (Conservative, King-Vaughan) YEA

ROBILLARD, Yves (Liberal, Marc-Aurele-Fortin) NAY

RODRIGUEZ, Pablo (Liberal, Honoré-Mercier) NAY

ROGERS, Churence (Liberal, Bonavista-Burin) NAY

ROMANADO, Sherry (Liberal, Longueuil-Charles LeMoyne) NAY

ROOD, Lianne (Conservative, Lambton-Kent) YEA

RUFF, Alex (Conservative, Bruce-Grey) YEA

 

SAHOTA, Ruby (Liberal, Brampton North) NAY

SAJJAN, Harjit (Liberal, Vancouver South) NAY

SAKS, Ya’ara (Liberal, York Centre) NAY

SAMSON, Darrell (Liberal, Sackville-Preston) NAY

SARAI, Randeep (Liberal, Surrey Centre) NAY

SAVARD-TREMBLAY, Simon-Pierre (Bloc, St. Hyacinthe) YEA

SCARPALEGGIA, Francis (Liberal, Lac St. Louis) NAY

SCHEER, Andrew (Conservative, Regina-Qu’Appelle) YEA

SCHIEFKE, Peter (Liberal, Vaudreuil-Soulanges) NAY

SCHMALE, Jamie (Conservative, Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes) YEA

SEEBACK, Kyle (Conservative, Dufferin-Caledon) YEA

SERRE, Marc (Liberal, Nickel Belt) NAY

SGRO, Judy (Liberal, Humber River-Black Creek) NAY

SHANAHAN, Brenda (Liberal, Chateauguay-Lacolle) NAY

SHEEHAN, Terry (Liberal, Sault Ste Marie) NAY

SHIELDS, Martin (Conservative, Bow River) YEA

SHIPLEY, Doug (Conservative, Barrie-Springwater) YEA

SIDHU, Maninder (Liberal, Brampton East) NAY

SIDHU, Sonia (Liberal, Brampton South) NAY

SIMARD, Mario (Bloc, Jonquiere) YEA

SINCLAIR-DESGAGNE, Nathalie (Bloc, Terrebonne) YEA

SINGH, Jagmeet (New Democrat, Burnaby South) NAY

SMALL, Clifford (Conservative, Coast of Bays-Central) YEA

SORBARA, Francesco (Liberal, Vaughan-Woodbridge) NAY

SOROKA, Gerald (Conservative, Yellowhead) YEA

SOUSA, Charles (Liberal, Mississauga-Lakeshore) NAY

STEINLEY, Warren (Conservative, Regina-Lewvan) YEA

STE-MARIE, Gabriel (Bloc, Joliette) YEA

STEWART, Jake (Conservative, Maramichi-Grand Lake) YEA

ST-ONGE, Pascale (Liberal, Brome-Missisquoi) NAY

STRAHL, Mark (Conservative, Chilliwack-Hope) YEA

STUBBS, Shannon (Conservative, Lakeland) YEA

SUDDS, Jenna (Liberal, Kanata-Carleton)  NAY

 

TASSI, Filomena (Liberal, Hamilton West-Ancaster) NAY

TAYLOR ROY, Leah (Liberal, Aurora-Oak Ridges) NAY

THERIAULT, Luc (Bloc, Montcalm) YEA

THERRIEN, Alain (Bloc, La Prairie) YEA

THOMAS, Rachael (Conservative, Lethbridge) YEA

THOMPSON, Joanne (Liberal, St. John’s East) NAY

TOCHOR, Corey (Conservative, Saskatoon-University) YEA

TOLMIE, Fraser (Conservative, Moose Jaw-Lake Centre) YEA

TRUDEAU, Justin (Liberal, Papineau) NAY

TRUDEL, Denis (Bloc, Longueuil-St. Hubert) YEA

TURNBULL, Ryan (Liberal, Whitby) NAY

 

UPPAL, Tim (Conservative, Edmonton Mill Woods) YEA

 

VALDEZ, Rechie (Liberal, Mississauga-Streetsville) NAY

VAN BYNEN, Tony (Liberal, Newmarket-Aurora) NAY

VAN KOEVERDEN, Adam (Liberal, Milton) NAY

VAN POPTA, Tako (Conservative, Langley-Aldergrove) YEA

VANDAL, Dan (Liberal, St. Boniface-St. Vital) NAY

VANDENBELD, Anita (Liberal, Ottawa West-Nepean) NAY

VECCHIO, Karen (Conservative, Elgin-Middlesex) YEA

VIDAL, Gary (Conservative, Desnethé-Missinippi) YEA

VIEN, Dominique (Conservative, Bellechasse-Les Ethcmins) YEA

VIERSEN, Arnold (Conservative, Peace River-Westlock) YEA

VIGNOLA, Julie (Bloc, Beauport-Limoilou) YEA

VILLEMURE, René (Bloc, Trois-Rivière) YEA

VIRANI, Arif (Liberal, Parkdale-High Park) NAY

VIS, Brad (Conservative, Mission-Matsqui) YEA

VUONG, Kevin (Independent, Spadina-Fort York) YEA

 

WAGANTALL, Cathay (Conservative, Yorkton-Melville) YEA

WARKENTIN, Chris (Conservative, Grande Prairie-Mackenzie) YEA

WAUGH, Kevin (Conservative, Saskatoon-Grasswood) YEA

WEBBER, Len (Conservative, Calgary Confederation) YEA

WEILER, Patrick (Liberal, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast) NAY

WILKINSON, Jonathan (Liberal, North Vancouver) NAY

WILLIAMS, Ryan (Conservative, Bay of Quinte) YEA

WILLIAMSON, John (Conservative, New Brunswick SW) YEA

 

YIP, Jean (Liberal, Scarborough-Agincourt) NAY

 

ZAHID, Salma (Liberal, Scarborough Centre) NAY

ZARRILLO, Bonita (New Democrat, Port Moody-Coquitlam) NAY

ZIMMER, Bob (Conservative, Prince George-Peace River) YEA

ZUBERI, Sameer (Liberal, Pierrefonds-Dollard) NAY

 

 None of this should go away.

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Informed Canadians will have little trouble remembering how fixated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was with the foreign money donated through crowdfunding sources to the Freedom Convoy.

But for those who don’t recall, here’s a brief refresher. The PM was so obsessed about donations from Americans helping to fund the truckers’ protest on Parliament Hill last winter that he actually brought it up with U.S. President Joe Biden last February. It remains unclear what he expected the president to do. Freeze his citizen’s bank accounts, perhaps?

Despite Trudeau’s obsession with foreign funding, it turns out the majority of donations, 86 per cent through GoFundMe and 60 per cent through Give Send Go, were actually Canadian.

GoFundMe froze the funds after police reports the protests had become an “occupation.” GiveSendGo was subsequently used to raise donations, but then its website was hacked, revealing the names and email addresses of those who contributed to the protests, leading to small business owners and even government employees being cancelled, fired, threatened and harassed.

More than 200 bank accounts were frozen under the Trudeau government’s Emergencies Act for supporting a cause the Prime Minister disagreed with. Regardless of what the Emergencies Act Inquiry found and which side of this issue you fall on, all Canadians should be alarmed that such draconian actions were taken by the prime minister against his own citizens.

(Sidebar: this -  A federal blacklist of Freedom Convoy sympathizers was emailed to foreign banks with offices from Wall Street to Beijing, records show. The RCMP placed no restrictions on distribution of the blacklist: “Information was shared.”)

Which brings us to the stark contrast between Trudeau’s concern over individual U.S. citizens supporting a cause he disagrees with and his years of inaction and apathy towards foreign money being used to influence the most important cornerstone of our democracy — our free and fair elections.

Last week, Trudeau announced the appointment of former Governor General David Johnston as the special rapporteur to determine whether a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s last two federal elections is warranted. It’s too bad that the focus is only on the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, where it’s alleged that at least 11 candidates were targeted by operatives of the Chinese government working to help Trudeau win those elections. ...

The Liberal MP suspected of having received help from China winning his Toronto seat is defending his voting record and denying Beijing boosted his electoral chances.

Han Dong says while he may have missed votes on the Uyghur genocide in China, he has cast other votes critical of the government in Beijing.

(Sidebar: this Han Dong.)

A Global News story last month reported that CSIS warned the Prime Minister’s Office before the 2019 election that Dong received assistance from the Chinese consulate when he successfully ran for the Liberal party’s nomination in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North.

According to Global’s reporting, the consulate bused in seniors and Chinese international students to vote for Dong in the nomination race that was contested by other Liberal candidates.

Since Dong was elected in 2019, the House of Commons has had two votes connected to the Uyghur genocide and in both cases Dong was not present. In a vote this year, Dong was present for votes on other motions immediately before and immediately after the genocide vote. ...

No foreign money should be allowed to be accepted by any organizations involved in our elections. It appears as though Trudeau is only offended about foreign money involving itself in Canadian politics when that money is used by his adversaries. If foreign funding is intended to help him win elections, he looks the other way. Here’s hoping David Johnston will recommend a public inquiry so Trudeau can no longer get away with such hypocrisy.


This same douchebag who will be thrown under the bus as a reward for his loyalty to Justin:

Liberal MP Han Dong, who is at the centre of Chinese influence allegations, privately advised a senior Chinese diplomat in February 2021 that Beijing should hold off freeing Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, according to two separate national security sources.

Both sources said Dong allegedly suggested to Han Tao, China’s consul general in Toronto, that if Beijing released the “Two Michaels,” whom China accused of espionage, the Opposition Conservatives would benefit.

At the time, the two Canadians had been in Chinese custody for over two years. However, it was widely perceived that they were jailed in retribution for Canada’s detention of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive facing extradition to the United States.

Dong also allegedly recommended that Beijing show some progress in the Kovrig and Spavor cases, the two sources said. Such a move would help the ruling Liberal Party, which was facing an uproar over China’s inhumane treatment of Kovrig and Spavor.

Dong, who represents the Toronto-area riding of Don Valley North, was the one to initiate the discussion with the consul general, the two sources said, adding that Dong stipulated at the outset that it was both a personal and a work-related conversation.

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Rather, Doug Ford is embarrassed that one of his MPPs is mired in this scandal:

Canada’s spy agency gave Doug Ford’s chief of staff a briefing on MPP Vincent Ke over allegations of foreign election interference, but the premier says CSIS was “very secretive” and provided little detail.

Ford told reporters Tuesday that the meeting last fall with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — which he did not attend but was later briefed on — was short on information about Ke, who left the Progressive Conservative caucus following unproven accusations of ties to Beijing.

Ke denies the allegations made in what he calls a “false and defamatory” Global News report March 10 that suggested he was part of an alleged effort by the Chinese government to interfere with the 2019 federal election.

“With CSIS, everything’s a big secret,” Ford said at union training facility in Vaughan. “They don’t give you a proper briefing, in my opinion. They will say a few comments and, ‘We can’t tell you,’” the premier added, expressing frustration.

“They’re in charge of national security, so let them continue on with their investigation. We’ll co-operate in any way we can and let them do their job.”

 

I'm sure you will, Mr. Ford.

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Oops:

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China still gets to do what it wants with its North American vassal state:

Beijing’s espionage and interference are now the single greatest threat to Canada’s democratic way of life. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is intent on gaining control of Canadian critical minerals an

d is actively running influence campaigns over resource development. Balloons and election interference are merely the latest episode in a long list of hostile hybrid-warfare efforts perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s staunch refusal to convene a public inquiry is actively jeopardizing Canada’s security and its bilateral relationship with its most important strategic ally. Beijing’s corruption of Canadian business and politics poses a national security problem to the United States, in part because the U.S. shares intelligence with Canada.

Recent unclassified versions of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s (CSIS) annual report repeatedly warned about the state capture of Canadian political, business, financial, educational and societal elites and institutions.

Beijing invests heavily to make influential opinion leaders beholden to the PRC, who are then induced to repeat and lend credibility to the CCP’s political disinformation. I know of Canadian academics who have been offered thousands of dollars to co-publish articles with scholars from China. Others have received lucrative trips, all expenses paid by the regime in Beijing.

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“Beijing’s espionage and interference are now the single greatest threat to Canada’s democratic way of life,” Leuprecht told the House Canada–China committee on March 20.
“The PRC is intent on gaining control of Canadian critical minerals and is actively running influence campaigns over resource development. Balloons and election interference are merely the latest episode in a long list of hostile hybrid warfare efforts perpetrated by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] against Canada.”
The Chinese balloon was believed to have been launched from China’s southernmost province of Hainan and was first identified on Jan. 28, over the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and entered Canadian airspace over the Yukon and the Northwest Territories on Jan. 30. It re-entered U.S. territory the next day and subsequently travelled across the country until it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.
Leuprecht said that the Chinese balloon and other flying objects detected subsequently were “effectively a test of the NORAD’s response system to objects in our airspace.” When Liberal MP Robert Oliphant questioned him about the proof, Leuprecht pointed to previous testimonies heard by the House national defence committee.
NORAD Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier told MPs on the national defence committee on Feb. 17 that he believed the balloon could be China’s attempt to test the capability of the binational aerospace defence alliance.
“This could be one of the options, especially as it relates to the high-altitude surveillance balloon,” he said.
Leuprecht also made reference to a commentary he published in the Globe and Mail, in which he noted that if Beijing is really challenging NORAD, it indicates that the regime is seeking to bring geopolitical competition to the Western Hemisphere, and showing that it could do so without resorting to “overt military means.”
“China may be signalling that two can play at the game of moving into each other’s neighbourhoods,” he wrote. “Yet Beijing may be going a step further: As more balloons are detected and intercepted, it may be demonstrating its ability to violate North American sovereignty, and to do so repeatedly, with relative impunity.”
When asked by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis whether its allies see Canada as a vulnerable segment in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which contributes to its being left out of the trilateral security pact AUKUS, Leuprecht said he will provide the committee with a U.S.-sourced intelligence assessment that “expresses precisely this concern about Canada as a national security problem to the United States.”

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Canadian researchers continue to work with Huawei Technologies despite a federal ban on use of the Chinese firm’s equipment. Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin-Swan River, Man.) yesterday tabled patent filings by two universities with Huawei: “Do you continue to work with Huawei in any form?”



This is not a debate on the Earth or science.

This is Justin being the divisive douche-tool that he has always been:

To describe those who don’t agree with him, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau routinely uses labels such as “racist, fringe, extremists or misogynistic.”

But this was a whole new level of insult.

Speaking to an audience at the Mississauga Fire Service’s Garry Morden fire training centre last Thursday, Trudeau talked of being “fascinated with the idea of flat Earthers.” 

With protesters outside shouting, he explained to what looked like a stunned audience inside how “there wasn’t really any moment back in recorded history — the ancient Greeks, the ancients Babylonians, Inkas or whoever else — who actually wondered whether the world was actually flat or not. Christopher Columbus knew the Earth was round, there was no danger he was going to fall off the edge of the world. That’s not what people were worried about, as he was setting off to discover the Americas or to discover a shortcut to India.” 


(Sidebar: a show of hands - who believes that Justin actually wrote this himself? Why isn't anyone raising their hands?)


The coward said this to a Potemkin audience, too:



There are no conservatives in Canada, only ones who pretend fiscal conservatism for votes.

Canadians compromised and got the chaff, not the wheat:

Canada needs a “Conservative renaissance,” former prime minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday, but he cautioned that Pierre Poilievre should wait until an election before telling Canadians how he might run the country.

STORY CONTINUES BELOW

Harper delivered a speech that evening to a room of party faithful staged by the Canada Strong and Free Network, formerly called the Manning Centre.

His public appearance is a rare one for Harper, who exited political life after losing the 2015 election to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals after nine years in power.

Poilievre’s election as party leader last September appears to have changed that, with Harper throwing his endorsement behind Poilievre, which was the first time he had done so for a Conservative leader.

Introduced as a “statesman” of the party, Harper mounted a defence of the term “populism,” which he said is often portrayed in a negative or imprecise light by what he called the “liberal media.”


Also - quelle surprise:



It's just YOUR money:

Compensation for federal employees shortchanged by bungled payroll software has cost taxpayers more than two-thirds of a billion so far, records show. Cabinet is still calculating the total cost of the 2016 Phoenix Pay System failure: “We saw how that didn’t work.”

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The prime minister of Canada’s jet flew empty from Toronto to Waterloo on Friday to bypass the hour’s drive to catch his flight home.

This was one of the highlights of the previous 30 days of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s travel — spanning 16,000 kilometres across 17 travel days.
Of those 17 flights, 10 lasted less than one hour.
The prime minister embarked on two separate cross-country tours while the house wasn’t in session throughout February and March.
The first tour kicked off Feb. 21 — less than a week after returning from last month’s CARICOM meeting in the Bahamas — taking him to Western Canada.
The PM’s most recent tour began on Sunday, March 12, with a 22-minute flight from Ottawa to Montreal to attend private meetings.
After a Monday spent delivering remarks and attending a town hall in Montreal, the prime minister flew an hour east to Halifax, where he toured a factory and made an announcement with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston.
Wednesday saw Trudeau fly an hour east to St. John’s for an another announcement and town hall, followed by a Thursday flight to Toronto, where he attended the NAFTA Advisory council meeting and an evening town hall hosted by the International Association of Firefighters.
After spending the night in Toronto, the prime minister drove an hour west to Guelph on Friday, where he made an announcement with Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen.
At the same time Trudeau was fielding questions from reporters, the Royal Canadian Air Force crew in Toronto deadheaded the prime minister’s aircraft to Waterloo’s regional airport — a 10-minute, 65-kilometre flight — in order to take him back to Ottawa.


It's not like Justin is paying for anything.

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Despite only meeting performance goals less than 60 per cent of the time, federal public servants received just under $200 million in bonuses last year, mostly to public administration executives.



How dare one deny the special ones your property?! Do you think they just hand out holiday to anyone?!:

Some private landowners are refusing access to residential school survivors who are looking to perform ceremony or search their properties for possible unmarked graves, a Senate committee heard Tuesday.

Kimberly Murray, who was appointed by the federal government to provide it with advice on how to handle possible burial sites, told senators about her role and the main concerns she says she has heard from Indigenous communities.

"We need access to land," said Murray. "This is what keeps me awake many nights, thinking about how some things could escalate."

She said there is currently no federal law in place to protect suspected gravesites or grant communities access to land that is privately owned but is believed to be home to unmarked graves.

When residential schools were closed, Murray said, the lands they were located on were not turned back over to First Nations or other Indigenous communities — "the rightful landholders," as Murray put it.

She said some landowners have refused to provide access to their properties "even to do ceremony, let alone to search the grounds."

Murray added that her office has had to write letters and meet with landowners to try and convince them otherwise.

"We have landowners that have campers on top of the burials of children, known burials," Murray said. "We don't have any law to put a stop to this."

In her testimony, Murray did not elaborate on specifics, but told senators such lands ought to be protected.

She said while provinces have various laws that protect lands for different reasons, these are often not enforced and are unlikely to provide cohesive protection for unmarked graves.

"We have a big gap federally in the legislation."



Justin trying to get rid of the Canadian military and replace it with Chinese troops.

Change my mind:

Military members learned at a virtual town hall Tuesday that a new, highly-anticipated housing benefit is coming in July. It's meant to help lower-ranking members cope with steep housing costs in dozens of additional Canadian locations.

But not everyone is getting it. The military estimates the new policy will mean roughly 7,700 military members who have been receiving a monthly housing allowance will soon be cut off. That news sparked an angry online backlash from those who say they will receive less than before.

Brig.-Gen. Virginia Tattersall, the military's director general of compensation and benefits, said that more members overall will receive the housing benefit under the new taxable benefit policy.


The armed forces is asking for too much, right, Justin?



How great it is to be the governor-general!:

Governor General Mary Simon billed more than $90,000 to visit her home town, newly-released records show. “It’s good to be home,” said Simon on her brief tour of Kangiqsualujjuaq, Que. last May: “Over the years I have exchanged stories with Canadians about favourite childhood memories.”



Xi and Putin know that North America has been neutered by installed morons.

North Korea benefits:

North Korea launched cruise missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, three days after the North carried out what it called a simulated nuclear attack on South Korea to protest its military drills with the United States.

North Korea has stepped up its weapons testing activities, saying they are in response to the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military training that it sees as an invasion rehearsal. Analysts say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un likely intends to enlarge his arsenal to win greater outside concessions, while trying to boost an image of a strong leader amid domestic economic hardships.

The 11-day South Korean-U.S. drills are to end on Thursday. But North Korea is expected to continue its weapons tests as the United States reportedly plans to send an aircraft carrier in coming days for another round of joint drills with South Korea.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected “several” cruise missile launches from the North’s eastern coastal town of Hamhung. It said the missiles flew into the waters off the North’s east coast and that South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were analyzing further details.


Also - Japan and South Korea need one another more than ever:

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday he would order officials to begin procedures that would return Japan to its "white list" of countries with fast-track trade status after a summit with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week.

Yoon announced the decision at a cabinet meeting, saying South Korea and Japan should make efforts to remove obstacles that hinder developing bilateral ties.

"I will pre-emptively order our trade minister today to begin necessary legal procedures to have Japan back on our white list," Yoon said during the meeting, which was televised live. "I'm sure Japan will respond if South Korea first starts removing the obstacles."

South Korea and Japan removed each other from their respective lists in 2019 amid a decades-old row over a 2018 South Korean court order for Japanese companies to compensate forced laborers during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula.

Tokyo criticized the ruling, saying the issue was resolved under a 1965 treaty that normalized relations, and the strained ties fanned concerns over U.S.-led efforts to bolster cooperation to counter North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

Yoon, who took office in May, has vowed to mend the bilateral ties and visited Tokyo last week as the first South Korean leader to do so in 12 years.

Yoon is pushing to resolve the wartime labor feud through a plan unveiled this month under which a public foundation, funded by South Korean companies, would pay compensation.

The plan was welcomed in Tokyo but faced a backlash from some victims and South Korean opposition lawmakers, who accused Yoon of capitulating to Tokyo and inviting Japanese troops back to the Korean peninsula.

Yoon said that some people would seek political gain by fueling "hostile nationalism and anti-Japan sentiment," without naming them, but that it was irresponsible to do so as the president.

Kishida told him at the summit that he would uphold Japan's past apologies for wartime atrocities, including a 1998 declaration focusing on colonial rule, Yoon said.



It was never about a virus:

Pfizer examined possible ways its COVID-19 vaccine causes heart inflammation, a newly disclosed document shows.

The company, in a 2022 white paper, acknowledged that its vaccine, BNT162b2, may be causing myocarditis—which is heart inflammation—and a related condition called pericarditis. Pfizer scientists claimed that the inflammation likely wasn’t the result of direct cardiotoxicity but didn’t rule out several other possible mechanisms, including that it stemmed from immune activity.

The immune system may be triggered by lipid nanoparticles that, in the messenger RNA (mRNA) shot, deliver the spike protein, the document says.

“Although the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine is optimized to reduce its detection by the innate immune system through the addition of nucleoside modifications and minimizing double-strand RNA impurity, it is possible, especially in certain individuals with genetic predisposition and underlying conditions that the immune responses to mRNA may not be sufficiently turned down and drive the activation of an innate and adaptive immune response,” the scientists wrote in the white paper.

“This may lead to the excessive activation of proinflammatory cascades which contribute to the development of myocarditis,” they wrote.

Myocarditis is a serious condition that can be deadly for some people. Many occurrences after COVID-19 vaccination have been in healthy, young people, with young males particularly at risk. The incidence is as high as 78.7 per million second doses in males aged 16 or 17, according to reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, with several dozen cases being reported after the second dose among 12- to 15-year-old and 18- to 24-year-old males.

Myocarditis also is an issue after booster vaccination, data from the United States and other countries show.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is among the entities that have said the evidence shows the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis.


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