Incompetent politicians always blame previous governments. Ignorant taxpayers do as well
Ford government admits they can't do what they promised
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Incompetent politicians always blame previous governments. Ignorant taxpayers do as well
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clueless LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They INVENTED the "blame the previous govt excuse"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals used that excuse till it WORE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fully FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER Mike Harris was GONE- they will still using the blame Harris game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOIE-berals have just demonstrted that they have run out of ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only excuse they can offer is "its the fault of the other guy"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harris DID NOT FORCE LIE-berals to run us into debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Ford has hired third party auditors to PROVE that Wynne-bag LIE-berals told SERIOUS LIES about their alleged balanced budgets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But we should NOT be surprised at the scale an scope of LIE-beral Fake News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have only to recall what a hash they made of investigating the Walkerton water disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals were FRANTIC in their efforts to help their civil service union Hog allies HIDE juts how much drunken HOG stupidity took palce in Walkeron in the time leading up to SEVEN DEAD and over a hundred seriously ill- with some of them looking at kidney dialysis for the REST of their SHORTENED LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And how is it that drunken, incompetent, UNQUALIFIED moron Stan Kabel - the alcoholic at the heart of the disaster- was able to move on TO YET ANOTHER WELL PAID UNION HOG JOB????????????????????
Kabel did not even suffer the loss of any pension money during the enforced job switch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Federal minister says Saskatchewan and Ontario 'playing political games' after provinces skip trade meeting
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Well............OF COURSE IT IS A POLITICAL GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals want to be elected in spite of their costly, divisive, bigoted, and entirely FAILED POLICIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Ford and Moe are crazy enough to think they can SALVAGE something of our LIE-beral ravaged economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ford and Moe are brave enough to think they can get around the endless LIE-beral Fake News and disgraceful vote buying!!!!!!!!!!!!
So let the games CONTINUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But based on the play so far - we SHOULD NOT expect Our idiot Boy Justin to score many points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot By is WAY OUT OF HIS LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah- Tanya Granic Allen is a hot dog and a show boater and a publicity hound.....................
The party was right to DUMP HER onto the side lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And this resolution of hers will be discussed in all necessary detail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There be some rolling of eyes and it wil be agreed that it is an idiot subject to deal with since the Party has MUCH BIGGER FISH TO FRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like the $16 billion dollar deficit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even the Green party is admitting that clean energy cannot stand alone as true alternative to fossil fuels
Ford government's climate plan will cut jobs, not emissions, green advocates say
So essentially the Green party and the opposition are admitting that fossil fuel prices must be artificially inflated to make the appearance that alternative energy is a viable option. Also Alternative energy cannot survive without taxpayer support so the alternative energy industry jobs are kinda public employees.
Ford government's climate plan will cut jobs, not emissions, green advocates say
So essentially the Green party and the opposition are admitting that fossil fuel prices must be artificially inflated to make the appearance that alternative energy is a viable option. Also Alternative energy cannot survive without taxpayer support so the alternative energy industry jobs are kinda public employees.
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Too bad Greens, NDpers and LIE-berals are all in the same biased boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOBODY WANTS to talk about the QUICKEST WAY TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I refer of course to cutting back on gravy for civil service union Hogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The evidence has mounted very rapidly in recent years that air planes are by far the single biggest driver of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We could save our environment by simply admitting we do not have the money needed to honour the LIE-beral issued hog pension IOUs!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course it is Hog pensions that are DRIVING air travel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anecdotal evidence indicates it is govt Hogs that do most of the flying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therefore Hogs do most of the climate changing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our Hogs are caught up in a vast, economy breaking conflict of interest with their LIE-beral allies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND nobody wants to study ANY of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an interesting article that illustrates how poorly LIE-berals are handling environmental issues. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Empty skies after 9/11 set the stage for an unlikely climate change experiment.
By Patrick Cain National Online Journalist, News Global News. Sept 12, 2016.
(Some reader swill recall my previous posts- with information taken from Cdn Geographic magazine about how the 9/11 terror attack grounded 25 percent of the worlds airline fleet- and a year later the air across the planet was measurably cleaner! This article expands on that old report!)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, officials at the U.S. national air control centre couldn’t make out what was happening, at first.
As controllers watched the second plane crash into the World Trade Center complex just after 9 a.m., however, it became clear that the first one hadn’t been a spectacular accident, but something much more sinister. Planes were becoming fuel-filled missiles. How many? Nobody knew.
Officials at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration did the only thing they could think of to try to control the situation: ordering every aircraft in U.S. airspace, about 4,000 of them, to land somewhere, anywhere, immediately.
Canadian officials followed. Airports in Atlantic Canada quickly filled with thousands of bewildered people who had been flying west across the Atlantic from Europe, but found themselves stranded in Goose Bay, Labrador or Stephenville, Nfld.
Within a few hours, the skies across the continent were empty except for military aircraft. Here’s what it looked like: Civilian air traffic wouldn’t resume for three days.
Thousands of jet aircraft leave contrails over North America every day, especially over the U.S. eastern seaboard and the Midwest. Contrails are created when water vapour in hot air blasted out of jet engines freezes in the intense cold of high altitudes.
Do all those jet trails change weather patterns? It’s hard to tell, normally. But with the once-busy skies silent and empty, the scene was set for a giant experiment.
“I remember walking to and from my office (in the days after the attacks) and thinking how incredibly clear the skies were,” Andrew Carleton, a geographer at Pennsylvania State University, later wrote.
About a year after the attacks, Carleton, David Travis, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin, and another colleague argued in a paper that thin clouds created by contrails reduce the range of temperatures. By contributing to cloud cover during the day, they reflect solar energy that would otherwise have reached the earth’s surface. At night, they trap warmth that would otherwise have escaped.
The effect during the three days that flights were grounded was strongest in populated regions where air traffic was normally densest. The increase in range came to about two degrees Celsius.
(IN other words- it isnt just the carbon monoxide and other gases that engines produce that we must worry about! The water vapour being generated is also a SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT! And the latest jet engines have the ironic quality of being both more fuel efficient and more environmentally unsound since the new engines spit out larger lumps of carbon that water droplets coalesce around more easily than the smaller lumps from older engines! The new more fuel efficient engines actually accelerate the production of contrails! And the new Airbus 380`s actually fly few thousand ft higher where the air is even colder and condensation is further facilitated!)
Other studies have tended to back up the research. In 2011, British scientists wrote that an air raid in May 1944 involving over 1,400 aircraft measurably lowered daytime temperatures in England. In that case, the situation was the reverse of 9/11 – large-scale air travel was unknown, and dense concentrations of large planes were rare.
In 2004, NASA scientist Patrick Minnis wrote that “increased cirrus coverage, attributable to air traffic, could account for nearly all of the warming observed over the United States for nearly 20 years starting in 1975.”
Minnis also argued that a steady increase in cloud cover over the United States, about one per cent a decade, was due to increasing air travel. He also found that increases in cloud cover were more pronounced in populated areas, and stronger in winter, when contrails are bigger.
The warming effect happened because the high-altitude clouds that contrails created tended to trap warm air, Minnis wrote. On balance, though contrails can both warm and cool, there is more of a warming effect.
A Penn State study compared regions of the United States where contrails tended to form more strongly with areas where they didn’t. The more contrail-heavy the area, the less the variation between daytime highs and nighttime lows tended to be.
In a 2005 paper, physicist Robert Noland of Imperial College London suggested that restricting airliners to 31,000 feet, and 24,000 feet in winter, could reduce the formation of contrails. Though lower-flying planes would be less fuel-efficient, Noland argued that the increased fuel consumption would be more than made up for by less contrail-linked clouds as a cause of global warming.
(So we now have solid proof that airplane contrails are contributing to global warming and are a major source of air pollution - just as the old articles from Cdn Geographic magazine claimed. Therefore the LIE-beral carbon crap and trade tax will do NOTHING to clean the air- nor save us from global warming! As I and many others have repeatedly pointed out- LIE-beral crap and trade just cleans wallets and leaves the dirt in the air!)
(The carbon crap and trade tax is nothing more than a LIE-beral gravy grabbing scam that will ensure that civil service union Hogs can continue to spew their major masses of carbon from their gas guzzling toys and will continue to fly to places like Florida- at vast environmental cost- for those vitally important rounds of golf! And we have yet to discuss the environmental degradation brought on by heavy use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers at those golf courses- which all to often run into the nearest body of water after a rain storm- with MORE ugly environmental results!)
This should make you happy STB Because specialists jumped to another Union for less benefits the whole deal should be scrapped, so Ford is watering down the gravy 
Ford government move to bail on binding arbitration with doctors 'affront to the law,' OMA says
Ford government move to bail on binding arbitration with doctors 'affront to the law,' OMA says
This should make you happy STB Because specialists jumped to another Union for less benefits the whole deal should be scrapped, so Ford is watering down the gravy
Ford government move to bail on binding arbitration with doctors 'affront to the law,' OMA says
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Maybe we better first have a look at the sort of SCAM that OMA had set up with Wyyne-bag LIE-berals BEFORE we condemn Ford!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating the LIE-beral threat to your health. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Doctors quit 'toxic' OMA, tired of being Liberal tools. Dr. Kulvinder Gill and Dr. Mark D'Souza, Special to the Toronto Sun. First posted: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 07:21 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 07:30 AM EDT
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely. A few years ago, we both became involved in medical politics to advocate for quality care for our patients in the face of growing healthcare cuts.
(LIE-beral style health care is a threat to your health- they CUT 7.5 percent out of health budget- so they could give MORE to teachers- in spite of student enrollment going down and number of health care users INCREASING! Then LIE-berals got into a dog fight with doctors because doctors rejected a contract offer that would have seen them WAIT FIVE YEARS before getting back to the deal they had before the 7.5 percent LIE-beral cut! And LIE-berals think doctors are pig headed and unreasonable! If grossly spoiled- but always loyal to LIE-berals- teachers had been offered such a deal the screams would have been deafening!)
It dawned on many physicians that poor representation by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) enabled the provincial government’s systematic dismantling of our healthcare system.
In March of this year, we were both elected as chairs of the two largest OMA districts, representing nearly 20,000 physicians in District 5 (GTA, Dufferin, Muskoka, Simcoe) and District 11 (Toronto).
We had hoped to make the OMA into a member-driven organization that was transparent and accountable to frontline physicians. Instead, the OMA’s increasingly toxic environment has driven us to submit our resignations today.
The OMA is a 137-year-old bureaucracy with an administrative staff of over 300.
It is accountable to no one and is a tool for the Ontario Liberal government, which ensures the organization’s survival through mandatory, legislated membership dues of nearly $70 million annually.
(LIE-beral thoughts on managing unions are highly TOXIC! For instance, federal LIE-berals have issued legal changes that will DO AWAY with secret ballots for union certification! No more privately held opinions- you must expose yourself to potential retaliation for the good of unions- if you disagree with the majority! So much for democracy in union halls or in Canada generally- thanks to LIE-berals!)
In recent months, the OMA was essentially passive in its resistance to three government bills that adversely impact patient care – 41, 84, and 87 – while we have been vocal advocates, trying to be the voice of our members who truly feel oppressed.
Bill 41 has led to the loss of patient privacy, wasteful expansion of healthcare bureaucracy at the expense of frontline care, and provincial medical standards being determined by government bureaucrats, instead of medical experts. Bill 84 has led to the loss of physicians’ conscience rights and Bill 87 to the loss of physicians’ rights to privacy, presumption of innocence, natural justice and due process, through regulatory college changes.
(AS but one example of bureaucrats deciding on medical treatment INSTEAD of doctors- one has only to read of the treatment denied to an Ontari-owe man after portions of his legs were amputated due to Diabetes. The guy was expecting to have enough of his legs saved that he would be able to go back to work and thus to be able to continue his life-paying his bills and being independent! The choice- by bureaucrats- removal of treatment IN SPITE of doctors orders- would have thrown him into a relapse and would have eventually mandated MORE amputation- and more costs- so that he would then be unable to work as a mechanic again and would then require him to access Ontari-owe disability pension- for the rest of his life- in order to survive!)
There is enormous pressure within the OMA to toe the party line. Those who speak out, particularly when citing their elected titles, are targeted by OMA leadership and staff who maintain a “don’t rock the boat” mentality.
Until this year, individual OMA chairs controlled communications to their respective districts, yet our messages that often expressed opinions counter to OMA central were blocked.
(LIE-berals are managing the message- they do NOT want us to hear about people suffering from anti-biotic diseases picked up in poorly cleaned hospitals; do not want us to know how many people languish in hallways due to lack of bed; do not want us to know how often there are adverse drug reactions; do not want us to know how many people are sent home to quickly due to bureaucrats managing patient `flow` and bed access- people who relapse and must return to hospital for more extended recuperation and lost time and greater cost! Just because it is OUR tax money- does not give us any right to tell greedy LIE-berals how to spend it!)
Meanwhile a message from a loyal OMA official bypassed our authority and was distributed to our constituents with full use of their elected title. The OMA has since encouraged a formal communications policy that would apply only to us.
(LIE-berals speak often of free speech and democracy- but their basic assumptions and total arrogance are such that they assume you will either love them or like them- with no room for total rejection of their position on a subject! LIE-berals are so arrogant that an outright rejection of their position is simply “impossible”!)
Despite our elected legitimacy, we would essentially be muzzled. The OMA continues to make up rules as it goes along.
(Rather like how LIE-berals make up fiscal guidelines that are more about hiding their messes than about responsible accounting practice! Such as the hiding of four billion dollars in new Hydro debt by devious accounting methods! Such as selling off a part of our Hydro system to LIE-beral pals and then closing the books because LIE-berals THINK we are not entitled to know what they do with OUR money!)
Our efforts for organizational reform and independent thinking have been met with attempts at bullying and intimidation against us and other physicians from OMA leadership and staff.
A board member, and others within the OMA, submitted formal complaints against more than 40 doctors to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the regulatory body of doctors, for investigation.
These complaints may take years to process, and threaten the ability of dissenting doctors to practice medicine. Why pretend to be for freedom of speech while simultaneously fostering an atmosphere of intimidation and fear?
(LIE-berals do play hardball when it comes to ANY dissenting voice! They are apparently so afraid of public opinion that they are preparing to DAMAGE our democracy and compromise our free speech by using their Islamophobia bigotry as a club to silence ALL critics of LIE-beral policy related to national security, their mad spending messes and insane immigration issues! Human Rights Kanagraoo courts may soon be used to silence people hostile to LIE-beral foolishness- just as OMA manipulates and silences dissenting voices among doctors!)
Despite our hope for organizational renewal, we believe institutional inertia has prevented meaningful change within the OMA. The OMA is like a chameleon, changing its colours. Double standards are applied liberally.
Even some new members of the OMA board and executive are either part of the perpetuation of bullying tactics, or have turned a blind eye to them.
The OMA continues to exist to serve itself first.
(There is NOTHING NEW in this- ALL LIE-beral political boards exist first and foremost to extend LIE-beral influence- regardless of its purpose or value!
We feel we can no longer meaningfully advocate for physicians and patients within an organization so committed to suppressing dissent.
Hence our resignations.
(LIE-berals recognize and reward their LOYAL friends! Its why LIE-berals have increased the education budget 50 percent more rapidly than the health care budget- in spite of the fact that school enrollments are dropping while the number of patients seeking health care expands rapidly as our population ages!)
Daring to voice different opinions from the OMA makes you a square peg in a round hole. Until that changes, the OMA will be unable to win the respect and unity of Ontario’s physicians.
We will continue to advocate for our colleagues and patients through our grassroots efforts.
We implore the OMA to take a hard look in the mirror, and call for a fully independent, forensic review of the organization.
- Gill is the former chair of District 5 of the OMA. D'Souza is the former chair of District 11
(OH good luck with that! A full forensic review of OMA or the health care budget will ONLY OCCUR AFTER LIE-berals are removed from office!)
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OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it not remarkable that LIE-berals are trying so very hard to present Doug Ford as some sort of LIE-beral style corrupt leader????????
Is this what LIE-berals have been reduced too???????????????????????????
Claiming that the other guys are also cheats??????????????????????????????
Do LIE-berals REALLY THINK their best bet for restoring party fortunes is to paint ALL POLITICIANS AS THIEVES??????????????
How DESPERATE does a LIE-beral have to be to stand up in public and squeal: Ford is just as SLEAZY AS ANY LIE-beral????????
And of course the BIG LIE-beral argument about how Toronto Cop Taverner ended up as OPP chief is SUPPOSED to be exhibit A for desperate LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TOO BAD LIE-berals do NOT WISH to recall the public rage as the OPP "INVESTIGATION" into the Wynne-bag LIE-beral gas plant scandal went on.........and on........and on.........and on.............FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until the public began to wonder if OPP KNEW WHAT A GAS PLANT WAS???????????????????????????????
And it did not help that LIE-berals got a BIG civil service union Hog endorsement from OPP RIGHT BEFORE the 2014 election that brought Wynne-bag back to the premiers office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now we have the interim leader of OPP WHINING that he should have been confirmed as top OPP COP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is ENTITLED HE SAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I say sorry, NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are serious concerns abourt how DEEPLY OPP staffers are into the pockets of LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So Taverner is now OPP head- because he is friendly to CONSERVATIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE ONLY REAL BEEF LIE-berals have with Taverner is that he IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many people including LIE-berals will not have forgotten how civil service union Hogs blocked Mike Harris Conservatives from entering Queens Park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Toronto union cops REFUSED to clear the path!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the OPP was brought in to "whack `em and stack `em"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But apparently LIE-berals and OPP have buried the hatchet and made peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now a TEMPORARY OPP leader is whining "its not fair" that Ford bypassed him in favour of somebody Ford TRUSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Acting OPP commissioner Blair has just hired lawyer Julian Falconer to try to force a public inquiry into why Blair was passed over for promotion to full time OPP Commissioner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe Blair was passed over because he is a LIE-beral???????????????????????
Maybe Blair was passed over because he is a self important and wildly ENTITLED publicity hound?????????????????????
Maybe Blair was passed over for promoting because he ias fixated ON HIS OWN GOOD - AHEAD of the force as a whole????????
Maybe Blair was passed over because Ford either knows or suspects that Blair might have been one of the OPP officers ENDLESSLY FOOT DRAGGING on the investigation into LIE-beral scandals like the gas plant mess???????????????
Maybe there is a major question in the minds of Queens Park Conservatives about the ability of Blair to serve honestly under Ford???
Maybe Blair is just not a very good cop- compared to his replacement Taverner????????????????????????
There are any number of POLITICAL reasons why Blair would not get confirmed into the top OPP spot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, only one brewery left willing to sell buck-a-beer.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/just-one-company-left-selling-one-dollar-beer-1.4949315
Do you think that Ford's government is going to fall over it?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/just-one-company-left-selling-one-dollar-beer-1.4949315
Do you think that Ford's government is going to fall over it?
Don't f**k with Ford, we need ONE politician with BALLS in this country! Maybe we can rent him out to Ottawa one day a week and get something done over there too!
Fill the contract and them make an civilian model for Canadians. The way it stresses this is a Canadian Company means it isn't.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201812181070774616-General-Dynamics-Canada-Scrapping-Deal-Billions/
A $15 billion arms deal in 2015 saw Ottawa supply Riyadh with Terradyne Armored Vehicles' Gurkha armored cars. However, when footage of them being used to suppress Shiite protesters in the eastern Saudi city of Qatif and in the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen came to light in 2017, the government of the newly elected Trudeau began an investigation.
"The deal was that it was to be kept secret, but when Trudeau came to power a couple of years ago, details were leaked about what was going on, and then stories about these armored cars being used to attack people in Yemen and crush internal dissent and so on, it caused the Saudis a lot of problems, and really angered them, and they felt they were being betrayed," Christopher Black, an international criminal and human rights lawyer, told Radio Sputnik at the time. "Canada was taking their money but making them look bad at the same time."
https://sputniknews.com/military/201812181070774616-General-Dynamics-Canada-Scrapping-Deal-Billions/
A $15 billion arms deal in 2015 saw Ottawa supply Riyadh with Terradyne Armored Vehicles' Gurkha armored cars. However, when footage of them being used to suppress Shiite protesters in the eastern Saudi city of Qatif and in the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen came to light in 2017, the government of the newly elected Trudeau began an investigation.
"The deal was that it was to be kept secret, but when Trudeau came to power a couple of years ago, details were leaked about what was going on, and then stories about these armored cars being used to attack people in Yemen and crush internal dissent and so on, it caused the Saudis a lot of problems, and really angered them, and they felt they were being betrayed," Christopher Black, an international criminal and human rights lawyer, told Radio Sputnik at the time. "Canada was taking their money but making them look bad at the same time."