In any other country, the well-pensioned would flee and beg for asylum:
Despite government's adamant denials to the Globe story - documents released by the Ethics Commissioner reveal that the PM and aides arranged at least 49 separate meetings & phone calls to discuss SNC-Lavalin’s legal troubles & save the company from criminal prosecution.
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The House of Commons ethics committee is being recalled to discuss whether to investigate the hiring with parliamentary funds of two companies that are also central to the Liberal Party’s digital campaign operations.
The ethics committee is expected to meet Monday after four opposition members wrote a letter Thursday to the chair, asking for a meeting to launch an investigation into possible misuse of parliamentary funding of the Liberal Caucus Research Bureau [LRB] and the office budgets of Liberal MPs.
The Globe and Mail reported Monday that NGP VAN, a U.S. database software company that runs Liberal digital voter outreach, has been paid $1-million from parliamentary funds since 2016 to exclusively handle constituency case work for party MPs.
Payments have also been received by Data Sciences, a Montreal-based company that oversees the Liberal Party’s digital operations during elections, to help Liberal MPs use NGP VAN software. In campaigns, Data Sciences works with NGP VAN on digital election activities. The Globe recently reported that both companies are working together on constituency business for Liberal MPs ...
“Data Sciences was founded by Tom Pitfield, Justin Trudeau childhood friend and senior Liberal campaign strategist … NGP VAN is the company the Liberal Party of Canada licenses to run their political database, Liberalist,” they wrote to Mr. Warkentin.
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Attorney General David Lametti in a single day appointed four Liberal Party donors as judges. The flurry of appointments Friday came three weeks after the Commons justice committee rejected an investigation of Party vetting of judges: “I am confident they will serve the people.”
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Ottawa would provide $420 million in aid to Algoma Steel so it could convert its coal-fired furnaces to “electric-arc” technology. Technology that could cut the greenhouse gasses spewed from the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., plant dramatically — by the equivalent of 900,000 gas-guzzling cars.
(Sidebar: this electric arc.)
The union for Algoma’s 2,700 workers fears the retrofit as described Monday could mean hundreds of fewer jobs, and that a small northern Ontario city will have to bear a lopsided burden for Canada’s carbon-reduction goals.**
Kristina Namiesniowski, the former Public Health Agency president abruptly reassigned following the outbreak of the pandemic, has been formally reprimanded for late ethics filings. Cabinet transferred Namiesniowski to another $273,700-a year post as associate deputy minister in the Department of Employment: “I need a break.”**
Federal agencies pumped millions worth of subsidies into a failing Covid contractor even as the company was headed for bankruptcy court, accounts show. Spartan Bioscience Inc. of Ottawa received the aid after “good meetings” with aides in the Prime Minister’s Office: “We are in good shape.”
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