Your mid-week chuckle ...
There is no corruption like Liberal corruption:
The Commons ethics committee yesterday by a 6-5 vote ordered the Trudeau family’s talent agent to surrender twelve years of records detailing corporate sponsorship fees paid to the Prime Minister and his wife. Liberal MPs had filibustered against disclosure since July 22, and hinted at a legal challenge: “It is unfortunate.”
(Sidebar: no one forgot this scandal yet, did they?)
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RESET: Trudeau says COVID is his big "chance" to impose his "reimagined" society. Is he trying to shut down Finance Committee to cover up just the WE scandal or also to block scrutiny of the "reset".
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 18, 2020
Click here to sign my petition: https://t.co/H3QGeErzMphttps://t.co/FmWiJQ7B33
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UPDATE: Mr. Liberal House Leader: you claim you're ready to hand over WE scandal doc. I took you at your word & moved a Finance Committee motion tonight for that to happen. Liberal cmte members blocked it.
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 17, 2020
And then the Liberal chair suspended the meeting. https://t.co/V6NC3N9G2c
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If you ever find yourself wondering why it seems that virtually every important, difficult task that needs doing in the federal government ends up getting dumped onto poor, overworked Chrystia Freeland, pay no heed to the whispers from a few months ago, when it was suggested that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, worried that he might be replaced, chose to load up Freeland with so much work that she couldn’t possibly challenge him for the top job. There really is a more mundane explanation: Trudeau doesn’t exactly have a world-beating group of all-stars in his cabinet, so the rare competent ones have to carry more than their fair share of the burden.
Consider the latest flub by Maryam Monsef, Trudeau’s minister of … uhh … hang on, let me Google this … women and gender equality and rural economic development, portfolios she was deep-sixed into after she made a complete hash of the government’s commitment to electoral reform, with an entirely forgettable (indeed, forgotten) stop at international development along the way. Monsef, perhaps most famous for her fatuous and mocking display of a mathematical formula for vote weighting, for which she eventually apologized, was participating in a parliamentary session Monday via video conference when she, her microphone very much turned on, began musing to someone off camera about how much money she makes. ...
Monsef’s hot-mic gaffe is particularly amusing because the matter at hand had been an NDP motion calling for a new tax on Canadians with fortunes over $20 million (side note: it’s useful to know that the NDP is fine with Canadians whose fortunes range as high as $19,999,999.99). The cringe-factor of Monsef voting against a wealth tax while spitballing, wrongly, about her own paycheque is, even by 2020 standards, fairly high. NDP Twitter meme creators: enjoy!
She wasn't installed because she is clever.
Also:
While the prime minister hailed the diversity in his caucus, even naming Caesar-Chavannes as his parliamentary secretary, she was not encouraged to speak on his behalf in the Commons, or make appearances in his stead, unless it was the opening of the National Museum of African American History in Washington or the inauguration of the Republic of Ghana’s new president.
When she took the parliamentary secretary job, Caesar-Chavannes told Trudeau she didn’t want to be a token. Yet it is clear that is exactly what he had in mind for her, as with so many other members of his caucus who ticked electoral boxes.
She complained to senior staff that to be an effective parliamentary secretary she needed to be on the same page as the prime minister, and asked for a 15-minute meeting once a month – a request that was ignored. ...
As the SNC Lavalin affair unravelled, Caesar-Chavannes became ever more disillusioned and told the Prime Minister’s Office that she did not intend to run again. Coincidentally, she planned to make her decision public on the same day that Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet. Trudeau called to say he couldn’t have two powerful women of colour announcing they were leaving at the same time and asked her to delay.
But, then again, you played the game, too. so ...
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We recently requested information about the infiltration of Chinese front groups such as the Confucius Institute into Canadian schools, and Global Affairs wrote us back to say they're taking a full year beyond the statutory 30 days to release the information ...
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The criticisms are in a new report released Tuesday in which Caroline Maynard takes the Mounties to task for failing to address long-standing failings in the handling of access-to-information requests.
That includes a growing backlog of thousands of unanswered requests for information from Canadians, as well problems with processing and responding to such requests properly.
(Sidebar: and what a sterling job the RCMP has done here.)
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Cabinet spent $2,446,026 in its four-year campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, records show. It was the equivalent of nearly $23,000 for every vote Canada received in its failed bid: “There can be an unhealthy quest to get a Security Council seat at any expense.”
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Cabinet yesterday introduced a bill banning third-party use of personal information without consent under threat of steep fines. Federal agencies are exempt, though in-house research shows Canadians are wary of government data collection: “Most Canadians, 81%, are at least somewhat concerned about government.”
Because priorities:
Federal agencies that fail to speak French should have to pay cash fines, says Language Commissioner Raymond Théberge. Cabinet has repeatedly rejected the proposal to levy penalties under the 1969 Official Languages Act: “I know it sounds odd to talk about linguistic police.”
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The budget for ongoing renovations to Parliament Hill buildings increased another $152.9 million last year, according to records. The Department of Public Works has yet to fix a final budget for the multi-billion dollar refit, the costliest in Canadian history: “I find it kind of bizarre.”
This must be embarrassing:
A group of 70 former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation employees are calling on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to investigate the taxpayer-funded broadcaster.
In a letter, the employees urged the CRTC to look into the CBC’s new branded content arm, Tandem.
After years of declining revenue and poor viewership numbers, the CBC launched Tandem in September of this year with the hopes that it would boost the broadcaster’s finances.
Less than a month after its launch, the division was put on hold for review after the CBC union criticized the initiative for its impact on the public broadcaster’s reputation.
I'm sure these things are nothing to be concerned with:
Canadian home sales dropped for the first time since April, as the real estate rush of recent months wanes.
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A new report says food bank visits in Toronto climbed this summer because of economic instability caused by COVID-19.
The Daily Bread Food Bank says food bank visits grew by 22% in June compared to the same period the year before, and then by 51% in August compared to 2019.
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The Canada Revenue Agency will not know the full scope of fraudulent Covid relief claims until applicants file their 2020 tax returns, says Assistant Commissioner Ted Gallivan. One federal estimate said ineligible claims for $2,000 Canada Emergency Response Benefit cheques totaled nearly half a billion: “The fact we don’t have a global figure doesn’t mean we aren’t working very hard.”
(Sidebar: oh, I am sure.)
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Canada Revenue Agency records suggest billions in pandemic relief was paid to ineligible claimants. The Agency yesterday did not comment on its own records indicating $2,000 Canada Emergency Response Benefit cheques for hard-pressed tax filers went to nearly 824,000 people who had not filed a return: “We need an audit, 100 percent.”
Canadians must rally to save Wilfrid Laurier from being erased from the five-dollar bill, a Québec senator last night told the Chamber. The Bank of Canada is to remove Laurier’s portrait in 2023: “It’s as if the government is shunting aside francophones.”
You lost at the Plains of Abraham. Deal with it.
If it makes one feel better, the Liberals ripped off the doctors, too:
Federal agencies were so short of pandemic supplies the army was issued date-expired personal protective equipment, the Commons defence committee learned yesterday. A total fifty-five military contracted Covid-19: “They had nothing other than what they could get their hands on from maybe Home Depot.”
Also - no, you idiot, Canada was never an example of how to deal with the coronavirus because we simply haven't dealt with it. We merely hid in our houses because a failure of a human being told us to:
America’s top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci says Canada, once an example of managing COVID-19, is wading into dangerous territory as the virus surges across the world.
“Right now, the entire planet is in trouble. If you look at almost every country, there are very few exceptions,” said Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an interview with CBC News.
Oh, shut up!
Only in Canada can this be an issue:
Christian engagement rings are not a religious symbol even if blessed by a priest, a federal labour adjudicator has ruled. The decision came in the case of a Catholic mail clerk who claimed discrimination after being ordered to remove her ring at a Canada Post sorting plant though Sikh coworkers were allowed to wear silver bangles called karas: “My conscience has led me to be steadfast.”
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| Be more worried about this Ring. |
Why, none of this sounds suspicious at all:
Dominion has for days been the target of baseless allegations of rigged vote counting, propagated first by the QAnon conspiracy movement and far-right media, and now by President Donald Trump and his chief lawyer.
Yes, about that ... :
Further to the suspect office floor sharing, Dominion Voting also showed their hand when documents surfaced showing they donated between $25,000 and $50,000 to Hillary Clinton’s personal foundation, a charity tied closely to the Tides Foundation. George Soros actually donated over $9.5M to Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
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Dominion’s lobbyist, who pitched the $100 million dollar purchase of these machines, was Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s former chief of staff. Georgia’s secretary of State Brad Raffensberger took campaign cash from the wife of a CEO of Dominion’s partner.
Also:
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said that Joe Biden isn’t the president-elect but is entitled to describe himself as such.
“The president-elect doesn’t get named as president-elect until at least he has 270 state certification of electors, or his opponent concedes. Neither of that has happened, as of now,” the high-profile lawyer told NTD News.
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A third county in Georgia discovered a memory card with uncounted votes, a majority of which were cast for President Donald Trump, according to Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer.
(Merci)
Well, someone has to safeguard the Arctic from China:
The Trump administration is rushing to issue permits, finalize major environmental regulations and even sell the rights to drill for oil in Alaskan wilderness before Inauguration Day in a push that could complicate Joe Biden’s climate and conservation agenda.
Not that he is the president or anything and a good thing, too:
“From autos to our stockpiles, we’re going to buy American,” Biden said in a speech Monday as he outlined his plans to jump-start the economy. “No government contract will be given to companies that don’t make their products here in America.”
That should alarm bells ringing in Canadian business circles who are hoping for a Canada-friendly president in Washington and the prospect of $600-billion in federal contracts, apart from $2 trillion in green infrastructure spending that the president-elect has promised — a $2.6 trillion bonanza.
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