They are in need of some serious turfing:
Commons scrutiny of the purchase of a luxury Manhattan penthouse for New York Consul Tom Clark follows audits showing Department of Foreign Affairs’ real estate holdings jumped 25 percent since 2017. Auditors faulted the department for poor management: “Property infrastructure is subject to public scrutiny.”**
A new luxury Manhattan penthouse for New York Consul Tom Clark cost taxpayers four times the expense of renovating the apartment used by his predecessors, records show. Clark is testify next week at the Commons government operations committee over the multi-million dollar purchase that outraged MPs: “How did that purchase come to pass?”
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Federal office buildings were 40 percent empty even before the pandemic sent 240,000 employees to work from home, says a briefing note to Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Cabinet has proposed selling half its office buildings nationwide but expects it will take decades: “Infrastructure is the second largest expense to the Government of Canada after salary expenses,”
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Cabinet mismanaged a housing crisis in the one jurisdiction where it has complete oversight, First Nations reserves, says a federal audit. Housing Minister Sean Fraser has promised to solve the housing crisis for the entire nation by 2031: “Demands of housing far exceeds the funds available.”
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New Democrats yesterday warned cabinet to take no action against Teamsters in a threatened national rail shutdown. A 2022 dispute with Teamsters lasted 60 hours after New Democrats similarly vowed they would never support back-to-work legislation: “Maintain a neutral stance.”
Cabinet is investigating ways to federalize firefighting, says Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan. A Canadian version of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is being considered, he said: “Down the road, yes, I do see a federal response capability.”
I'll just leave this right here:
Ken Hodges, the veteran forester who years ago warned Parks Canada about the potential for a catastrophic wildfire in Jasper, is now worried about wildfire hitting hard in Banff and Canmore.
Hodges, retired in Canmore, was pained by what he sees as government inaction in the lead up to the Jasper wildfire. “When it burned up I was really frustrated. I felt so bad and so sorry for the people who did lose their houses and their livelihoods.
“It really bothered me. Was there anything that could have been done to stop it? They could have tried. Would it have made a difference? Maybe.”
Hodges, for 35 years a forester for the British Columbia government, worked with industry on site plans to grow, harvest and protect forests in the Prince George region.
The forests around Banff and Canmore do not have a pine beetle infestation to the massive extent Jasper does, but when I asked Hodges if he is worried about wildfire in the two mountain towns, he said, “Absolutely.”
Government logging, prescribed burns and clearing of deadfall has been carried out on public land around Canmore, but nothing is being done on some large tracts of private land around town, Hodges said. “That creates a major issue.”
You can see aged, dense and dying pine forest on both sides of the Banff highway, Hodges said. “I see a lot of risk.”
Quebec Premier Francois Legault is announcing a six-month freeze on certain temporary foreign worker applications in Montreal.
The premier says the moratorium will apply to new applications and renewals, but nurses, teachers, construction workers, food transformation workers and those making at least $57,000 a year will be exempt.
Naturally.
Don't train or keep professionals in this country.
Let the slave labour roll on in!:
Hiring people under the temporary foreign workers program is so popular that even Liberal MPs are doing it. While online outrage focuses on companies like Tim Hortons filling their stores with out-of-country, low-wage workers, Sukh Dhaliwal has taken advantage of the program.
In addition to being an MP, Dhaliwal is also the owner of a land surveying company in British Columbia.
“Dhaliwal & Associates Land Surveying was founded in 1997 by Sukh Dhaliwal, MP. In addition to being a practicing BC Land Surveyor, Mr. Dhaliwal is also registered as a Professional Engineer with the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia and he is the sitting Member of Parliament for the constituency of Surrey-Newton,” reads the firm’s website.
On the federal government’s website, Dhaliwal’s firm was approved for hiring “legal administrative assistants” through the temporary foreign workers program in late 2023. Were there really none available in Surrey, a city with a population of close to 600,000 in an area with a population of more than three million and growing?
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Prof. Obokata is the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and a professor of international human-rights law at the the University of York in Britain.
The recently released final report cements Prof. Obokata’s initial impressions, which he first expressed last year after visiting Ottawa, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver on a fact-finding tour.
“The special rapporteur retains the view that the temporary foreign worker program serves as a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, as it institutionalizes asymmetries of power that favour employers and prevent workers from exercising their rights,” states the final report, which is dated July 22 and was recently posted online.
Federal programs that allow Canadian companies to bring in foreign labour on a temporary basis have existed in various forms for decades, with numerous waves of reforms to the rules over that time. Historically, it has primarily been used in the agricultural sector to cover seasonal spikes in labour demand.
The program is now facing renewed scrutiny over the steep rise in a separate stream of the program focused on low-wage workers, which employers are using to fill positions such as fast-food counter attendants.
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault met with business leaders last week and announced federal plans to curtail the use of the low-wage program, including by applying “stricter and more rigorous oversight.” He also said Ottawa is considering rule changes that would prevent employers in certain areas and industries from using the program.
The program is meant to be an option of last resort when an employer is not able to find local workers, but experts question why the program has grown during a period of rising unemployment.
Because pyramids aren't built by highly-paid artisans and architects.
That's why.
How did these people get in?
The same way the others did - they were allowed in:
A parliamentary committee, including the governing Liberals, voted unanimously on Tuesday to investigate how a terrorism suspect with alleged ties to ISIS was able to enter Canada.
(Sidebar: a waste of time manufactured to foll the public that the government is doing something solid.)
The hearings are set to begin on Aug. 26, with former longtime Liberal cabinet minister and current High Commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom Ralph Goodale among the names on the witness list.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he plans to look into whether a man facing terrorism charges with alleged ties to ISIS should have his Canadian citizenship revoked.Miller made the comment at a government announcement in Nova Scotia, the day after a parliamentary committee voted to hear from both him and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc about how 62-year-old Ahmed Eldidi entered Canada and became a citizen.“I’m disgusted as any Canadian,” Miller said Wednesday.“I have a responsibility to get to the bottom of it, and I will,” he said.
You and your equally repugnant boss will do nothing about the droves of unvetted slave labourers coming into the country, nor will you prevent terrorists from leaking into our borders.
Neither of you are serious about anything other than lying:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be suffering from cognitive dissonance as he assumed the role of cheerleader-in-chief on Monday at an investment announcement in Ontario.Canadians need to do a better job of cheering for the country and its achievements, he said in a high-energy, effusive, almost breathless speech.“Canadians don’t do a good enough job of cheering for ourselves day in and day out,” Trudeau said, as he referenced the Olympics. “Yes, it’s about cheering our extraordinary young athletes. But it’s also about cheering for ourselves.”
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The Trudeau government has neglected the country’s military, but its immigration policies, and student visa system, represent another serious security lapse.
“As we have all observed, our current government has not been heeding national security advice and has not been vigilant on these issues over the past nine years,” said former Conservative immigration minister Chris Alexander, in an interview with blogger Brad Salzberg.
“The main challenge today is that the number of threats — from terrorist and criminal groups, as well as hostile foreign states — has grown significantly while our national security capabilities have failed to keep pace.”
Problems were illustrated last year when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused “agents of the Government of India” of murdering Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. New Delhi denied any responsibility and said that Canada had refused to extradite Nijjar, even after Interpol issued two red notices.
“He (Nijjar) had over a dozen criminal cases of murder and other terrorist activities against him in India. The details of the cases were shared with the Canadian authorities, but no action was taken except putting him on a no-fly list,” an Indian official told the Economic Times.
On Sept. 21, the Hindustan Times reported that, “Overall, there are 21 key gangsters based in Canada who are wanted by Indian agencies and their list and detailed evidence against them has been shared with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on more than one occasion in the past year.”
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In a sensational domestic terrorism case, late last month, the RCMP arrested an ISIS-inspired father-son duo who were allegedly plotting to carry out a mass casualty attack in Toronto. It was later revealed that Canadian authorities had inexplicably permitted the father to immigrate to Canada and granted him citizenship, despite allegedly appearing in an ISIS propaganda video in which he is seen dismembering a prisoner.While this grave lapse in our immigration system has understandably raised serious questions about Ottawa’s security screening process, it should come as no surprise that Canada has traditionally been a “safe haven” for terrorists and criminals who exploit the shortcomings of our country’s liberal immigration policies and go on to become citizens.
Wait - people need to be told to be patient?:
Service Canada, the federal agency that manages Employment Insurance, yesterday said it is hiring consultants to guide employees in “how to manage emotions” and “develop empathy and listening skills.” No budget was disclosed: “Recognize your triggers.”
This country is frakked.
It not only runs a labyrinthine, expensive and inefficient system, it foists that system on people who have short attention spans.
Oh, boy ...
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