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For a party that claims it has nothing to hide, it sure is doing a lot of thwarting:

The federal opposition parties have failed in their bid to use a rare summer committee hearing to press for an investigation that would force top officials and the foreign affairs minister to explain the Liberal government’s China policy in detail.

Conservative critic Leona Alleslev says such an investigation would have shed light on Liberal efforts to end Canada’s deepening diplomatic row with China, which has prompted two former diplomats to accuse the government of improper arm-twisting.

David Mulroney and Guy Saint-Jacques told The Globe and Mail newspaper last week there was a partisan undertone to a request from a civil servant that each connect with Global Affairs Canada for briefings before speaking publicly about the government’s handling of the China file.

The House of Commons foreign affairs committee met today to discuss an opposition request to look into the allegations.

The Liberals hold a majority on the committee, so at least one of their number would have had to vote with the opposition for an inquiry to go ahead. None did.

Insecure little Justin talks smack behind people's backs like the cheerleader b!#ch queen he always wanted to be in high school:

I’ve been saying for sometime now that campaigning against Doug Ford is a major part of the Liberal re-election strategy. And it’s not just to win seats in Ontario, but anywhere they think they can run against Ford’s unpopularity, real or perceived.

The tactic isn’t so much about winning over Conservative voters who might be turned off by Ford. In fact, I think all the Ford bashing could galvanize Conservative support.

This is a tactic aimed at trying to get as many progressive and left-wing voters inside the Liberal tent as possible. The Conservative vote is pretty solid. Several polls have shown that those planning to back Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives are the least likely to change their minds between now and October 21.

Making Ford the bogeyman is all about scaring NDP and Green voters into backing the Liberals.

If that tactic works, the problem isn't necessarily that Justin is persuasive enough but that the voters are stupid.

I mean, this is the moron who told everyone that budgets balance themselves.


Also - well, obviously:

“Justin Trudeau promised us that he’d be different, but what we got was a prime minister that says the right thing in public, and does another behind closed doors,” Turtle said to CTV News.

“When Indigenous communities want to work with Trudeau—on issues from clean water to community safety—we get a condescending Prime Minister that’s willing to pose at ceremonies, but not willing to take action to make people’s lives better. Like millions of others, I’m tired of being let down,” Turtle continued to say.

But you left yourself susceptible to this sort of trickery just like the other communities who don't care about the issues but can't wait to be flattered.

(SEE: hands, shake; babies, kiss; parades, attend; costumes, wear)




Today in "not inspiring confidence" news:

The Canadian Forces’ mission to Latvia has been dogged with complaints of harassment and unprofessional behaviour, prompting the military to send an investigator to the country to get to the bottom of the problems.

The investigation, launched last year, focused on the behaviour of staff in the civil-military co-operation or J9 section of Canada’s Task Force Latvia and was the result of a complaint alleging harassment and unprofessional conduct.

The probe discovered that some staff openly mocked the senior leadership in Canada, circulated negative cartoons about the military’s gender advisor assigned to the mission, and conducted a “whisper campaign” against an incoming commanding officer.

There was a “culture of withholding information” and “members of the J9 section were habituated to unprofessional comments in the presence of junior officers and NCMs (non-commissioned members),” according to a March 2018 report by Lt. Col. Jeremy Fountain, who was sent to Latvia to investigate and interview staff members. Postmedia obtained the report under the Access to Information Act.

Might one suggest that a military should worry about, you know, military things instead of how diverse the transgender gunless battalion is during sensitivity training?

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How does a guy even hack into a system and get access to private information? Launching an investigation now seems more like closing the barn door after the horse has run off and really very much like an election ploy:

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday that the federal government is looking into the Captial One Financial data breach, which affected about six million Canadians.

“I’ve already spoken with the head of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. I’ve asked him to start an investigation into this issue,” Morneau said.


“We’re going to continue to protect the privacy of Canadians. It’s something we’ve both focused on both in Canada and internationally,” he added.

“It’s an ongoing and important challenge.”

Way to take a stand, Ralphie!:

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canadians will have to wait until after this fall’s federal election to find out whether Chinese tech giant Huawei can provide equipment for the country’s next-generation 5G wireless network.

Subsidies? Because no one was smart enough to fight Trump on the tariffs on aluminum in the first place?:

The federal government has now spent nearly $200 million to subsidize steel and aluminum companies using a fund originally designed to spur cutting-edge innovation, drawing criticism from policy experts for what they call a misuse of funds.

Ottawa has funnelled $194.9 million into various steel and aluminum producers and manufacturers through the so-called Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), created under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017.

The most recent expenditures, announced late last week, include $20 million for an expansion of Gerdau Ameristeel’s Ontario facilities, and $16 million for Tenaris Algoma Tubes to upgrade its operations in Sault Ste. Marie and Calgary. Ottawa has promised as much as $2 billion in support to steel and aluminum companies — $250 million of which will come from the SIF — as a way to cushion any financial damages incurred by companies as a result of retaliatory tariffs levelled by Ottawa against U.S. President Donald Trump in July 2018. Those tariffs have since been dropped.

Ontario premier Doug Ford makes good on his promise to allocate proper funding for students with autism:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is now doing what it should have done in the first place on the issue of public funding for treating autistic children.

Children, Community and Social Services Minister Todd Smith said Monday the Progressive Conservative government will scrap its original plan and consult with experts to develop a new one by spring.

Its budget will be $600 million annually, double the original funding, based on the needs of autistic children.

In the interim, the existing funding model will be maintained.

Scratch a liberal, find a racist every single time:

Nice. And you are having a conversation about who is racist? Wow. https://t.co/nWtMkdsPgL

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 30, 2019