Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Mid-Week Post

 Your middle-of-the-week double-take ...


Quelle surprise:

The federal government’s key transparency provision has steadily eroded to the point where it no longer serves its intended purpose, says information commissioner Caroline Maynard.

In her annual report to Parliament tabled Tuesday, Maynard said chronic issues continue to plague the access-to-information system, with no solutions in sight.
For a $5 fee, Canadians can use the access law to request federal records, from briefing notes and reports to emails and invoices.
However, requesters have long complained the system is clumsy, slow and full of loopholes that allow government agencies to refuse to release information.
Maynard, an ombudsperson for users of the law, noted that despite calls for meaningful change, a federal review concluded with a report last December that outlined no firm commitments and proposed no legislative change.
The commissioner, who took office five years ago, said money to bolster the system has evaporated, commitments to transparency have vanished from ministerial mandate letters and it’s clear that improving transparency is not a priority for the government.


I think we can conclude that the election promise of transparency was fraudulent.

France doesn't seem to have a problem with its rapporteurs.



Jagmeet Singh pretends that he has some clout:

The NDP and Liberals struck a confidence-and-supply agreement last year that would see the NDP support the government on key votes to hold an election off until 2025 in exchange for progress on NDP priorities.
One of the conditions of that deal was that the Liberals make progress toward a universal pharmacare program by passing legislation before the end of this year.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his health critic Don Davies have since questioned the government’s commitment to pharmacare.
“We found that with this government, even if we got things in writing, it’s not a guarantee,” Singh said at a press conference Tuesday.
“We’ve got to continually fight, put pressure, push them to deliver.”


You could try that expensive stunt buy threatening to withdraw support from the Liberals.

But no.


Also:

Parliament should consider an excess profits tax on grocers, the Commons agriculture committee said yesterday. Grocers testifying at committee hearings denied profiteering on food inflation: “The Government of Canada should consider introducing a windfall profits tax on large, price-setting corporations.”


Let's discourage business and success!

Will the Liberal-friendly Weston family be affected?



Oh, I'm sure:

CSIS director David Vigneault said the spy agency deliberately sent a May, 2021, note warning about China’s targeting of a Conservative MP and his relatives to then-public safety minister Bill Blair’s office and intended for this information to reach the minister because it was considered of high importance.
The testimony from the head of CSIS appeared to be an effort to defend the spy agency as a Commons committee probes why Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong wasn’t warned of the 2021 intelligence collected by CSIS for two years.
China was targeting Mr. Chong and his family in 2021 after he spearheaded a parliamentary motion condemning human-rights atrocities by Beijing, as The Globe first reported in May.
“The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and specifically me, shared the information with the Minister of Public Safety given the very specific directive to share such information with the minister,” Mr. Vigneault told the Commons procedure and House affairs committee Tuesday. He said the information was contained in what’s called an issues-management note sent in May, 2021.
Mr. Blair told the committee last week he didn’t receive the note and said it would have been up to Mr. Vigneault to bring it to his attention.
“I have no doubt the minister did not receive it. His comments were very clear. But I think it is important for the committee to understand that we did share the information,” Mr. Vigneault said.


A game of who is to blame here.

Now, about all of this:

Privy Council President Bill Blair’s claim that federal spies withheld information on Chinese interference is false, the House affairs committee was told last night. The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said he specifically sent a memo to warn Blair that foreign agents were targeting MPs: “The information was meant to be seen by the Minister.”

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If the minister in question, Bill Blair at this time, didn’t receive or read the report, it definitely would have gone to his chief of staff, Zita Astravas. Did she fail to read the report or simply fail to brief up to the minister and to Trudeau’s office that China was threatening multiple MPs?


Oh, there's more:

David Morrison, the Prime Minister’s former national security advisor, yesterday testified he read a secret 2021 memo on intimidation of MPs by Chinese agents but concluded there “was nothing in the note that spurred me to take action.” Morrison said he read the memo with the 2021 election underway: “You didn’t twig to the fact this could be an issue?”


The apparatus in this country would have Canadians believe that things are handled largely with incompetence with a note of corruption.

And it's not hard to see why:

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They are ALL lying.

It's no wonder Justin has once again fled the scene.


Also - oh, my:



Remember who was prime minister when this went down:

(Sidebar: this sanctimonious creep and his habit of alienating and dividing people like the sh--disturbing coward that he is.)

A review of the decision to move convicted teen killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison is underway and should be completed “within a few weeks,” the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) says.

In a statement sent to Global News on Tuesday, the CSC said a three-person review committee including “external representation” has begun its work.

“Specifically, the review will examine the appropriateness of his security classification and transfer to a medium-security facility, review victims considerations and notifications, and whether the legislative and policy framework was followed in this case,” the CSC said.

“It will also look at any other relevant considerations specific to this case.”


So, when will Bernardo be released?



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