Your Useless and Morally Bankrupt Government and You

Their raison d'etre:

Prime Minister Mark Carney was forced to take a charter flight to Egypt for the historic signing of an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war because there were no air crews available to fly a Canadian Armed Forces jet.

The trip to Sharm-el-Sheikh was planned on short notice and the CAF members who usually crew flights on the Airbus passenger jets or smaller Challenger jets were deployed elsewhere, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

“With the summit being planned by the United States on an urgent timeline and invitations from the President being made so close to departure, overlapping existing operational needs resulted in the option of a Canadian Armed Forces airbus flight and related crews being unavailable for this transport,” the PMO said in a statement. 

How embarrassing.

All this just to soak up Trump's deal-making limelight.

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But one could try:

Barely seven months after the last federal election, it would be politically unwise for any party to topple Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government over its first budget, say Liberal MPs.

“It would be idiotic for any party to try to bring down the government at this stage,” said Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont.), in an interview with The Hill Times.

“At this stage, any party that precipitates an election is going to be punished at the voting booth. I don’t think it’s in the interests of any of the opposition parties at this stage to bring down the government.”

Arrogance and idiocy.

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The $343,000-a year president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has awarded himself an 85 percent increase in his travel and hospitality budget, records show. Pierre Tremblay in an internal memo acknowledged an “elevated risk” of exposure after cabinet promised to cut unnecessary spending: “The Commission understands the current fiscal context where departments have been asked to reduce their spending.”

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Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree confirms cabinet has yet to fulfill an April election promise to hire more police and border guards. “I’m not responsible for the hiring,” he told the Commons public safety committee.