Now let's have no more talk about these bizarre cover-ups:
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday reannounced the hiring of 1,000 new RCMP but appeared to shelve a 2021 Liberal Party promise to create a $200 million Canadian Financial Crimes Agency. Cabinet will leave it to the Mounties, he said: “We are delivering.”
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne yesterday reannounced a 2021 proposal to create a Canadian Financial Crimes Agency but set no deadline on enforcement. “We have been consulting,” he told reporters.
(Sidebar: more on that political fraud here. I would wager that this is more about tracing the average citizen's money and no actual criminals or terrorists.)
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Forty-three investigations of misconduct from bullying to forgery are confirmed by the Privy Council, Treasury Board and Department of Finance. “We need to hold ourselves to the highest standard,” said Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia.
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Valuable paintings, sculptures and other artworks have vanished from a multi-million dollar federal collection managed by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty’s department, say auditors. An internal report disclosed more than 130 works disappeared with security so lax there was “an increased risk of theft.”
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Marie-Philippe Bouchard, $562,000-a year CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, yesterday acknowledged a network claim that millions subscribe to the CBC Gem video streaming service include many who signed up for free, one-time accounts. The CBC is in Federal Court attempting to block disclosure of the number who bought $72-a year subscriptions: “How much money have you put into Gem in the last five years?”
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Despite hundreds of millions of dollars of investments since a devastating 2017 audit, the Canada Revenue Agency’s call centres are still plagued with worsening reliability and accuracy problems as agents give wrong information as often as 87 per cent of the time.
That’s according to a new report by Auditor General Karen Hogan published on Tuesday. The audit found that Canadians are waiting far too long on hold to speak to an agent and, when they get through, they often receive inaccurate general information.
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It's probably because of the fascism:
Canada’s spy agency says it never intended for new warrantless information powers proposed in the Liberals’ spring national security bill to target medical providers and believes part of the legislation needs additional “precision.”
During a background briefing, two senior Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) officials argued that changes to the agency’s powers contained in the Liberals’ Strong Borders Act (C-2) are “reasonable and modest” and noted they’ve been surprised at some of the pushback. ...
(Sidebar: to go through people's mail and medical records without a warrant? Right ...)
Bill C-2 — the first bill tabled by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government — is a contentious piece of legislation in part because it proposes new powers for the RCMP and CSIS to compel any service provider to hand over limited subscriber information without a warrant.
If C-2 passes intact, law enforcement would be able to compel any service provider — be they doctors, lawyers, therapists, clinics or banks, etc. — to say if they’ve served an individual, during what period and in which province or municipality.
The intention is to inform law enforcement if it’s worth going through the more complex process of obtaining a warrant for a production order from that service provider. It also aims to help authorities circumscribe dates and locations when seeking a warrant targeting a specific individual suspected of posing a threat to national security, the CSIS officials said.
Much of that information is already forked over voluntarily by service providers when asked, much like when police enter a shop to ask a shopkeeper if they’ve served an individual before, the officials said. The law would make it obligatory to cooperate. ...
C-2 also proposes a new law, the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA), that compels organizations that use any form of electronic services geared toward people in Canada or that operate in the country to implement tools to ensure data can be extracted and provided to authorities with a proper warrant.
No one should be fooled by this bill.
It is fascism.
There are already tools to trace any form of wrong-doing. Why not use those? Because the enemy was never a crime boss:
“A Communist system can be recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent.”
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