Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Mid-Week Post

Eleven more days until Halloween ...

 

As an absolutist kleptocrat, Justin will not leave office until physically ejected from the building.

His dwindling supporters can cheer-lead all they like, but the stench overhanging the country is noticed by everyone

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his leadership of the Liberal party is not in danger, even as members of his caucus prepare to confront him Wednesday in the hopes of convincing him to step down.

He brushed off those concerns as he headed into the regular Tuesday meeting with cabinet ministers — and one by one, those ministers expressed their support for Trudeau.

"Anybody who has ever bet against Justin Trudeau is sorry they made that bet the next day," said Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault.

The cabinet meeting lasted nearly twice as long as usual. Afterward, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne described it as a "very good meeting."

Even as Trudeau and his cabinet insist it's business as usual, a number of Liberal MPs have signed onto a closely guarded letter that aims to convince him to step aside before the next election.

It's not clear how many members of Trudeau's team of MPs plan to confront him, or exactly what their message will be, but a caucus revolt could pose the most serious challenge to Trudeau's leadership to date.

Charlottetown MP Sean Casey is the only Liberal to publicly say that he has signed the letter.

Still, there is no way for the Liberal caucus to force him out, so the decision about whether to stay or go will ultimately be up to the prime minister.

 

Canada is NOT a democracy. 

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Because transparency:

At the same time, a grassroots petition describing an “existential crisis” in the Liberal party was demanding an urgent secret ballot vote — both inside the caucus room and at the party’s national executive — on whether Trudeau really should stay on in the face of months of bad polls that place his party well behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

With Parliament Hill abuzz with speculation about Trudeau’s future, entrances to West Block were jammed with reporters and staffers keen to press MPs on what will happen inside the morning’s high stakes Liberal caucus meeting.

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Liberal voters cannot distance themselves from the country they destroyed nor should they be able to:

Only 1 in 5 Canadians Want Prime Minister Trudeau to Run Again. Almost Half Want Him to Resign Immediately.

Two in three Canadians want the Prime Minister to immediately resign as Prime Minister (47%), or stay on as Prime Minister but not run in the next election (21%). Only 20% want him to run in the next eleciton and stay on as Prime Minister.

Among those currently supporting the Liberals, 9% want him to resign immediately while 26% want him to stay on as Prime Minister but not run in the next election. Just over half of current Liberal supporters want the Prime Minister to run in the next election and stay on as Prime Minister.

Among those who voted Liberal in 2021, but today do not support the party, 40% want the Prime Minister to resign immediately, 32% want him to stay on as Prime Minister but not run again while only 16% want him to stay on as Prime Minister and run again.

Among those currently open to voting Liberal (accessible Liberals), only 40% want the Prime Minister to fight the next election and stay on as Prime Minister.

 

 This is the useless, money-grubbing, money-wasting government the voters put into office:

In addition to closures, protests and large in-person meetings of child-care operators and parents, numerous webinars and other virtual meetings organized by AACE National in recent months have brought together child-care providers and parents from across Canada to raise awareness of the negative effects of the federal government’s actions. More than 1,200 parents registered for AACE’s webinar last week in which child-care providers described how the government takeover has led to revenue constraints, lack of support for special needs children, an administrative burden that diverts resources away from actual child care, exploding waitlists, staffing shortages, cost-cutting at child-care centres at the expense of quality, and limitations on flexibility as a result of government-imposed control.

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Cabinet could spend even more without risking national insolvency, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday told reporters. Her remarks followed a Budget Office warning that Freeland missed this year’s deficit target by 17 percent: “We could be spending even more.”

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Canada's auditor general will conduct a full audit of all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, the company at the centre of the ArriveCan controversy.

In a letter sent to the House of Commons on Monday, Karen Hogan confirmed that her office will look at all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, its predecessor Coredal and other companies incorporated by the two co-founders. She will also examine related subcontracts.

"We are in the process of gathering information that will allow us to properly scope and plan the audit," Hogan wrote in her letter to Speaker Greg Fergus.

The auditor general's letter came in response to a request from the House government operations committee, one of a number of parliamentary committees that have been scrutinizing GC Strategies in the wake of the ArriveCan project.

 

Yes, about that

Emails by a manager of the $59.5 million ArriveCan program have vanished, the Commons government operations committee learned yesterday. MPs sought thousands of emails and texts by Minh Doan, former chief information officer for the Canada Border Services Agency: “Something is rotten.”

 

From the government that promised transparency in 2015.

 

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