WE really need to get rid of this guy

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Payette was given severance of roughly $200,000 when she resigned from the Montreal Science Centre in 2016 following complaints about her treatment of employees, say multiple sources. In 2017, Payette left the Canadian Olympic Committee after two internal investigations into her treatment of staff including verbal harassment, sources said.
Multiple sources have told CBC News they were stunned by Trudeau's decision to appoint Payette in 2017. They have questioned the prime minister's judgment.
"A number of us were blown away when she got appointed," said a former board member at the Canada Lands Company (CLC), the self-financing Crown corporation that owns and operates the Montreal Science Centre. Payette was vice president of CLC and chief operating officer of the Montreal Science Centre from 2013 to 2016.
"This is a Crown corporation owned by the government," said the former board member. "You would have thought they'd call to check out her credentials."

I don't know what happened to CBC lately but their reporting seems less biased, is it because O'Toole promises to defund them down to radio broadcasts?

Erin O'Toole won the Tory leadership promising to 'defund CBC,' but will it work in a general election?

Anyway this is a good article

PMO failed to check with key former employers before Payette's appointment as Governor General: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his officials never conducted checks with Julie Payette's former employers at the Montreal Science Centre and the Canadian Olympic Committee that might have raised red flags about her behaviour with co-workers and subordinates before her appointment as Governor General, sources tell CBC News.

Multiple sources have told CBC News they were stunned by Trudeau's decision to appoint Payette in 2017. They have questioned the prime minister's judgment.

"A number of us were blown away when she got appointed," said a former board member at the Canada Lands Company (CLC), the self-financing Crown corporation that owns and operates the Montreal Science Centre. Payette was vice president of CLC and chief operating officer of the Montreal Science Centre from 2013 to 2016.

"This is a Crown corporation owned by the government," said the former board member. "You would have thought they'd call to check out her credentials."

Payette and her Rideau Hall office are now at the centre of an unprecedented third-party investigation launched by the Privy Council Office. In July, a CBC News report quoted a dozen confidential public servants and former employees who claim the Governor General belittled, berated and publicly humiliated Rideau Hall staff.

Payette received severance in 2016: sources
Payette was given severance of roughly $200,000 when she resigned from the Montreal Science Centre in 2016 following complaints about her treatment of employees, say multiple sources. In 2017, Payette left the Canadian Olympic Committee after two internal investigations into her treatment of staff, sources said.

CBC News spoke to 15 confidential sources who worked with Payette, including current and former employees and board members at the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Montreal Science Centre, the Canada Lands Company and the Canadian Space Agency. They spoke on the condition they not be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly, could lose their jobs, still work in the industry or, in some cases, continue to interact with Rideau Hall.

The Prime Minister's Office would not say if it was aware of the complaints made against Payette at these institutions.

"The Governor General is recommended on a broad range of factors and done with the appropriate due diligence," said press secretary Alex Wellstead in a statement to CBC News. "Any questions about previous roles should be directed to the organizations in question."

A spokesperson for the Governor General's office issued a statement to CBC News calling Payette an "outstanding Canadian" and "a trailblazer for women" and pushed back against the reports of workplace harassment.

"Over the course of her career, no formal complaint has ever been filed against her, nor has she ever resigned from a board of director position, including at the Canadian Olympic Committee, where she finished her term," said the statement from Payette's press secretary, Ashlee Smith.

"She has served on more than a dozen boards over the years in an exemplary manner," the statement said.

Payette accused of berating staffer at 2016 Olympics
In April of 2016 — the year Payette left the Montreal Science Centre — she was appointed to the board of the Canadian Olympic Committee. That same year, two employees of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) complained to the committee about Payette's treatment of staff, triggering internal HR investigations.......Much more
 

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The only trick Trudeau has up his sleeve is immigration to dilute debt but that just induces inflation which raids our savings and real assets.

Who are you kidding, trudie believes that it is meet and right that 'the people' own all (your) assets.

Real (tangible) assets in Canukistan will be worthless in the near future
 

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Who are you kidding, trudie believes that it is meet and right that 'the people' own all (your) assets.

Real (tangible) assets in Canukistan will be worthless in the near future


Tangible assets retain their own intrinsic value against fiat exchange. They will be the only thing of any real value when this is all over. Forget the bank, dig a hole in the back 40...and make sure you hide the scent from the liberal hounds.
 

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Tangible assets retain their own intrinsic value against fiat exchange. They will be the only thing of any real value when this is all over. Forget the bank, dig a hole in the back 40...and make sure you hide the scent from the liberal hounds.
There's no such thing as intrinsic value.
 

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....& he caves. I had erections as a young teen that lasted longer than it took Jagmeet to be bought with more Trudeau Promises this time around.
OTTAWA — The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. http://www.cjme.com/2020/10/06/libe...-to-have-prorogation-study-include-we-affair/

The Liberal and NDP members of a House of Commons committee voted on Tuesday to deny another attempt by the committee's Conservative members to get to the bottom of the WE Charity Scandal. http://thepostmillennial.com/libs-and-ndp-kill-we-scandal-investigations



The Liberal and NDP members voted unanimously to halt the study, while the Conservatives and the Bloc voted to continue it. The ongoing investigation into the WE Charity scandal has been suspended since Parliament has been dissolved. At this point, the investigation is in jeopardy due to the fact that new members have to be named and a new chair elected before they have a chance of resuming. There exists a clear possibility that the new Parliament will immediately vote to quash the investigation permanently.

 

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The Libs. are saying nothing to see here, it's been asked and answered, time to move on

Conservatives want an anti-corruption committee to probe WE Charity controversy

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives want MPs to create an anti-corruption committee to investigate the WE Charity issue.

Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett says the new forum would press for answers to lingering questions about the controversy.

In the meantime, the Conservatives plan to press the House of Commons ethics and finance committees this week to resume looking at the matter.

They say the proposed new anti-corruption committee could soon take over the probe of the Liberal government's choice of WE Charity to administer the the multimillion-dollar Canada Student Service Grant program.

Opposition MPs have been grilling the government for months over the now-abandoned program because of WE Charity's close connections to the families of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau, the recently departed finance minister.

The Liberals have consistently said it was federal public servants who recommended the grant program be administered by the youth group, but the Conservatives say there are still unanswered questions.

"Canadians deserve answers," Barrett told a news conference Monday. "We deserve accountability."

The office of Liberal House leader Pablo Rodriguez noted that Trudeau, his chief of staff, the clerk of the Privy Council and various public servants have already appeared at committee.

The government will remain focused on protecting the health and safety of the public, the office said, adding: "Canadians deserve better than the Conservatives’ partisan games.”
 

Ron in Regina

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The Libs. are saying nothing to see here, it's been asked and answered, time to move on

Conservatives want an anti-corruption committee to probe WE Charity controversy
The office of Liberal House leader Pablo Rodriguez noted that Trudeau, his chief of staff, the clerk of the Privy Council and various public servants have already appeared at committee.

The government will remain focused on protecting the health and safety of the public, the office said, adding: "Canadians deserve better than the Conservatives’ partisan games.”
Oh, so that's why they prorogued parliament for that 5 or 6 weeks...because Canadians deserve better? Yes Trudeau, his chief of staff, the clerk of the Privy Council and various public servants have already appeared at committee...and then they (the Liberals) shut it down 'cuz it wasn't going to get swept under the rug like SNC & its many other scandals....because Canadians deserve better? Right.....


 

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Oh, so that's why they prorogued parliament for that 5 or 6 weeks...because Canadians deserve better? Yes Trudeau, his chief of staff, the clerk of the Privy Council and various public servants have already appeared at committee...and then they (the Liberals) shut it down 'cuz it wasn't going to get swept under the rug like SNC & its many other scandals....because Canadians deserve better? Right.....


See my comment below .
 

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Someone is watching Ron's posts pretty close, from his post to a headline the next day Lol

He prorogued in August, but now Trudeau slams Tories for bringing back WE Charity investigations

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is focused on COVID-19 and criticized the Conservatives for trying to bring back committee investigations into the WE Charity affair — investigations that were interrupted two months ago by Trudeau’s own choice to prorogue Parliament.

“We are entirely focused on the second wave of COVID-19,” Trudeau said at a news conference Tuesday. “We will continue to stay focused on what we need to do to support Canadians facing a very difficult time right now. The Conservatives continue to want to focus on WE Charity, so be it.”

Trudeau noted that he had testified on WE Charity at committee in July, and said his government had already handed over thousands of pages of documents related to the controversy. “We’ve been open and transparent on these questions,” he said.

But the Conservatives, NDP and Bloc Québécois have all said they have concerns with redactions on the documents that were disclosed. The non-partisan House of Commons law clerk told the committee in August that the government appeared to have redacted more information than was necessary........More
 

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In other words .

Shut the f up and leave us alone .

He was hoping that he could replicate Harper's proroguing.The only difference is that Harper was trying to stave off a power grab by the Liberals, N.D.P., and Bloc in a minority government. In fairness, Harper brought some of it on himself. But in comparison to WE and SNC, Trudeau needs to be investigated thoroughly. He should have been bounced from his job over SNC and J.W.B. Like literally fired! But he was sorry, so it's okay to be a self-proclaimed feminist and intimidate women and destroy their careers as long as your the prime minister and not one of those sexists CEO's or Actors or an Ontario leader hopeful.

Trudeau didn't just break the law. He broke labor laws, he was warned by the woman he was dispatching Gerald Buttes and Michael Werner and Bill Morneau to threaten and bully.

Ask a diehard Liberal supporter and they'll tell you its fake news, but there are recordings.

But as I've said before. Trudeau and Trump supporters have plenty in common.
 

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LINK: http://www.cjme.com/2020/10/14/oppo...-liberal-filibuster-over-we-documents-demand/

Last Friday, Liberal committee members launched a four-hour filibuster to prevent a vote on Barrett's motion; it ended only when a Bloc Québécois MP got fed up and joined the Liberals in voting to adjourn the meeting.

Today's meeting will pick up where Friday's meeting left off.

"We're prepared to withstand a filibuster with no end," Barrett said in an interview. "So, until bells ring (in the Commons) next week, we have no intention of moving to adjourn the meeting and we will withhold consent for adjournment at the scheduled time."

Liberal committee member Greg Fergus said he hopes "everyone will see reason." But reason, as far as he's concerned, means dropping the obsession with the WE affair and "focusing on the issues that are really important" to Canadians in the midst of a second deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Really, it's one of these Ottawa bubble things and I'm just not certain if that's where people are at on mainstreet," Fergus said.

Four committees, including the ethics committee, had launched or were preparing to launch investigations into the affair when Trudeau prorogued Parliament in August, bringing all committee work to a halt. Opposition parties are now trying to reopen their investigations at the finance and ethics committees, demanding documents that each committee had already asked for before prorogation. But the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP are all also proposing, in separate motions, to create a special committee that could take over the investigation.

Fergus said he hopes House leaders for the various parties can reach an agreement that "everyone can live with." In the meantime, both Angus and Barrett said the Liberals' filibustering to prevent the ethics committee from demanding the documents related to speaking fees for Trudeau family members suggests the government has something to hide. "I think there has to be incredibly damaging information that Canadians haven't seen yet," said Barrett.

Indeed, Conservative MP Michael Barrett says he and his colleagues are prepared for the meeting to drag on for days, if that's what it takes to finally force an end to a filibuster by Liberal committee members who've been blocking opposition demands for more documents. At issue is a motion put forward by Barrett last week calling on Speakers' Spotlight, the agency that arranged speaking engagements for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's mother and brother at WE events, to hand over 12-years' worth of receipts for those paid appearances.

The rest at the LINK above....
 

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He was hoping that he could replicate Harper's proroguing.The only difference is that Harper was trying to stave off a power grab by the Liberals, N.D.P., and Bloc in a minority government. In fairness, Harper brought some of it on himself. But in comparison to WE and SNC, Trudeau needs to be investigated thoroughly. He should have been bounced from his job over SNC and J.W.B. Like literally fired! But he was sorry, so it's okay to be a self-proclaimed feminist and intimidate women and destroy their careers as long as your the prime minister and not one of those sexists CEO's or Actors or an Ontario leader hopeful.

Trudeau didn't just break the law. He broke labor laws, he was warned by the woman he was dispatching Gerald Buttes and Michael Werner and Bill Morneau to threaten and bully.

Ask a diehard Liberal supporter and they'll tell you its fake news, but there are recordings.

But as I've said before. Trudeau and Trump supporters have plenty in common.
Yet the story in yesterday’s news was Biden family corruption .
 

Ron in Regina

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Just like the Biden's scandal position Trudie insists this is passed so nothing to see here

COMMENTARY: The Liberals are being disingenuous in their push to end WE Charity investigations
The needless five-week delay caused by prorogation is hard to square with the notion of a government laser-focused on the pandemic and it’s rather hypocritical to be complaining of wasted time while simultaneously deploying filibuster tactics. Furthermore, that focus hasn’t prevented the government from devoting attention to other issues (like its plans to ban single-use plastic, for example).

And even if one accepts the premise that the government is preoccupied with the pandemic response, the work of the finance and ethics committees — or even the special anti-corruption committee proposed by the opposition — doesn’t have to interfere with that response.

Liberal members of the finance committee spent 11 hours on Thursday filibustering, moving hopeless amendments and otherwise avoiding a vote on a motion condemning heavy redactions in WE-related emails released in August. http://nationalpost.com/opinion/chr...-liberals-hideous-tricks-to-hide-we-documents

Those redactions were numerous enough that Philippe Dufresne, the independent parliamentary law clerk, and even Wayne Easter, the Liberal chair of the committee, expressed some concern. Now, however, Liberals will move heaven and earth to keep those black lines where they are — and they don’t mind how ridiculous they look doing it.

Liberal MP Han Dong went on at length about the government’s anti-racism strategy, recounting anecdotes of Asian-Canadians who’ve been subjected to racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. He argued the committee — which also deals with access to information and privacy issues — should be dealing with the impact of facial-recognition technology on people of colour rather than pursuing the WE affair, on which Trudeau, his chief of staff, Morneau, the clerk of the Privy Council and multiple other public servants have already testified. http://globalnews.ca/news/7398288/we-charity-opposition-mps-liberal-filibuster/

After several opposition MPs interrupted to question the relevance of Dong’s digression to the motion before the committee, Liberal MP Greg Fergus, chair of the parliamentary Black caucus, intervened to suggest that the interruptions themselves were evidence of unconscious bias.

The constant interruption I know it’s not the intent of my honourable colleagues, but it just reminds me of the micro-aggressions that a lot of Canadians of colour face. I don’t hear other members being interrupted,” he said, urging them to allow Dong to continue speaking.

New Democrat MP Charlie Angus countered that if Liberals want to get on with a study of facial-recognition technology or anything else, they need only let the WE documents motion come to a vote and the committee could move on.

I’m asking him not to play games, not to throw these heavily loaded insinuations down at my colleagues,” Angus said. “If he wants to talk about something, just bring this to a vote so we can get this thing done.” Angus similarly declared: “If it takes all night, if it takes all week, we will be here until the Liberals stop obstructing, stop interfering with the work of Parliament, allow us to do our jobs as parliamentarians.”

The filibuster is an important tool for opposition parties to use to hold a government to account. It’s so important and effective a tool that over the past couple of decades Liberal and Conservative governments, when in power, have watered down the ability to make it effective. As someone who spent his entire time on the Hill in the Opposition, I have great respect for this tool. http://magpiebrule.ca/2020/10/16/filibusted-tactics/

But when a government uses the filibuster, it’s a very different situation. Firstly, you only see governments in minority situations who might use it because in a majority you simply don’t need to. If you want to shut something down, you’ve got the numbers, so you do it, end of story. But in a minority government like this one and you don’t have the numbers on your side, you can see situations like these play out and in that case, governments use the filibuster for only one reason: to keep light from shining on matters of importance. If you’re a government, you don’t use a filibuster at all if you’re trying to be transparent or open; you use it to do quite the opposite.

(Four committees, including the ethics and finance committees, had launched or were preparing to launch investigations into the affair when Trudeau prorogued Parliament, bringing all committee work to a halt.)
 

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The needless five-week delay caused by prorogation is hard to square with the notion of a government laser-focused on the pandemic and it’s rather hypocritical to be complaining of wasted time while simultaneously deploying filibuster tactics. Furthermore, that focus hasn’t prevented the government from devoting attention to other issues (like its plans to ban single-use plastic, for example).

And even if one accepts the premise that the government is preoccupied with the pandemic response, the work of the finance and ethics committees — or even the special anti-corruption committee proposed by the opposition — doesn’t have to interfere with that response.

Liberal members of the finance committee spent 11 hours on Thursday filibustering, moving hopeless amendments and otherwise avoiding a vote on a motion condemning heavy redactions in WE-related emails released in August. http://nationalpost.com/opinion/chr...-liberals-hideous-tricks-to-hide-we-documents

Those redactions were numerous enough that Philippe Dufresne, the independent parliamentary law clerk, and even Wayne Easter, the Liberal chair of the committee, expressed some concern. Now, however, Liberals will move heaven and earth to keep those black lines where they are — and they don’t mind how ridiculous they look doing it.

Liberal MP Han Dong went on at length about the government’s anti-racism strategy, recounting anecdotes of Asian-Canadians who’ve been subjected to racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. He argued the committee — which also deals with access to information and privacy issues — should be dealing with the impact of facial-recognition technology on people of colour rather than pursuing the WE affair, on which Trudeau, his chief of staff, Morneau, the clerk of the Privy Council and multiple other public servants have already testified. http://globalnews.ca/news/7398288/we-charity-opposition-mps-liberal-filibuster/

After several opposition MPs interrupted to question the relevance of Dong’s digression to the motion before the committee, Liberal MP Greg Fergus, chair of the parliamentary Black caucus, intervened to suggest that the interruptions themselves were evidence of unconscious bias.

The constant interruption I know it’s not the intent of my honourable colleagues, but it just reminds me of the micro-aggressions that a lot of Canadians of colour face. I don’t hear other members being interrupted,” he said, urging them to allow Dong to continue speaking.

New Democrat MP Charlie Angus countered that if Liberals want to get on with a study of facial-recognition technology or anything else, they need only let the WE documents motion come to a vote and the committee could move on.

I’m asking him not to play games, not to throw these heavily loaded insinuations down at my colleagues,” Angus said. “If he wants to talk about something, just bring this to a vote so we can get this thing done.” Angus similarly declared: “If it takes all night, if it takes all week, we will be here until the Liberals stop obstructing, stop interfering with the work of Parliament, allow us to do our jobs as parliamentarians.”

The filibuster is an important tool for opposition parties to use to hold a government to account. It’s so important and effective a tool that over the past couple of decades Liberal and Conservative governments, when in power, have watered down the ability to make it effective. As someone who spent his entire time on the Hill in the Opposition, I have great respect for this tool. http://magpiebrule.ca/2020/10/16/filibusted-tactics/

But when a government uses the filibuster, it’s a very different situation. Firstly, you only see governments in minority situations who might use it because in a majority you simply don’t need to. If you want to shut something down, you’ve got the numbers, so you do it, end of story. But in a minority government like this one and you don’t have the numbers on your side, you can see situations like these play out and in that case, governments use the filibuster for only one reason: to keep light from shining on matters of importance. If you’re a government, you don’t use a filibuster at all if you’re trying to be transparent or open; you use it to do quite the opposite.

(Four committees, including the ethics and finance committees, had launched or were preparing to launch investigations into the affair when Trudeau prorogued Parliament, bringing all committee work to a halt.)
The most open and transparent Government ever .
 

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Chris Selley: Nobody should tolerate the Liberals' hideous tricks to hide WE documents

Veteran Canadian journalist Michael Petrou told an amazing tale on Twitter on Thursday with respect to his investigation into aid Canada provided to Libyan rebels way back in 2011. At the time, he appealed one of the redactions in documents he had received through an access-to-information request. This week, seven years later, his appeal was upheld … and the foreign affairs department refused to nix the redaction anyway.

The information in question wouldn’t have caused Harper’s government any grief in 2011, let alone Trudeau’s in 2020. This is simply opacity for its own sake.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Non-journalist Canadians are often incredulous when you tell them how much more forthcoming American officialdom is with harmless information, but it’s night and day. Communications officers in the U.S. government generally exist to communicate with the public, not to intermediate between grown-adult journalists and grown-adult civil servants and politicians who are perfectly capable of calling each other’s telephones. We could do that too, if we wanted. But governments don’t want it, and nobody cares, so it doesn’t happen.

Electoral reform remains Trudeau’s signature broken promise, if only because he broke it so flamboyantly, so insultingly, and at such great expense. But at least he felt the need to humour the proportional representation fans who fell for his grift, setting up a committee and pretending to be interested in its findings. His promise to fix access-to-information procedures and timelines, his “open by default” pledge, didn’t even get that. It got chucked behind a sofa and forgotten.

Flying this blind, Canadians are relying enormously on their politicians’ honour, good intentions and backbone to stay on the straight and narrow. They should tune into the ethics or finance committee some day soon and ask themselves if that’s wise.

nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-nobody-should-tolerate-the-liberals-hideous-tricks-to-hide-we-documents

 

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I'm thinking there isn't going to be much tuning into the ethics or finance committee if the Libs (with NDP Backing?) gets their way. If you thought it was dirty before, it's gotten stankier in the Liberal sphere of filth.
Trudeau 'welcomes' ethics probe of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case? Yeah...not so much & we know how that turned out. Does Trudeau 'welcome' ethics probe (or Finance Comittee, or any other) of alleged PMO interference in the WE Shenanigans Goat Rodeo? Even less it seems: http://nationalpost.com/news/politi...ament-passes-anti-corruption-committee-motion

OTTAWA – The Liberals are threatening to send Canadians to the polls if Parliament passes an opposition motion to create an “anti-corruption” committee, calling the Conservative proposal “ultra-partisan” and “irresponsible.” On Monday, Liberal Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez expressed frustration at the Conservatives’ push for the committee, which would be composed of 15 MPs tasked with delving into the WE Charity scandal and other possible conflicts of interest involving the Liberals.

“When you’re asking the government to concentrate all their efforts on what is requested by this committee instead of fighting the pandemic, or instead of being there for Canadian households, we think that it’s extremely irresponsible,” Rodriguez said during a news conference. This Gov't can't do more than two things at once (?) like walking & chewing gum? Does it have to be either/or?

Rodriguez sent a letter to all opposition parties threatening that if the Conservative motion is passed on Tuesday, it would raise “serious questions” about whether the government has lost the confidence of the House — which could then trigger an election.

When pressed on the threat by reporters, Rodriguez was vague about whether the Liberals would push for an election. “We’ll see about that later. But a motion like this one … sends a message saying that they don’t have confidence in the government,” Rodriguez said.

But Monday’s threat of a confidence vote by Liberals did not impress the opposition.

Is he really suggesting that if the committee looks into Trudeau’s corruption that Trudeau is just going to call an election?” said Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre. “No government in Canadian history has been brought down because an opposition motion passed to set up a committee.” The Bloc Québécois supports the motion, while the NDP has not made a final decision on the matter and continues to negotiate with the Liberals (=Magic Beans).

Conservative house leader Gérard Deltell also blasted Rodriguez’s comments in a letter of his own released later on Monday. “To suggest that a motion concerning the internal affairs of the House of Commons and the organization of its committees constitutes a question of confidence is simply ridiculous,” Deltell said.

To threaten to plunge the country into a general election while Canada is in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic, all because you want to avoid some tough questions, is simply reckless and irresponsible.” Though it’s now spilled into the House of Commons, the battle over the study of the WE Charity scandal has been raging in various committees for weeks now. Lately, the Liberals have filibustered multiple parliamentary committees as they try to avoid being outvoted by the opposition parties.

Meanwhile, Liberal filibustering over a Conservative motion that protests redactions applied to thousands of pages of WE Charity documents released by the government in the summer has paralyzed the finance committee.

The health committee has also been bogged down due to Liberals fighting a Conservative motion that would order a sweeping study into the government’s handling of the pandemic — including by ordering the production of a massive trove of government documents for committee inspection.

A Liberal counter proposal would see the committee study the response, but without the document production order. "Look at Our record & Trust Us in our open & transparent rule you filthy peasants." Rodriguez has said the second wave of the pandemic makes it too dangerous for the government to comply with huge document production orders from the opposition, and that public servants have more important work to be focusing on. "We can produce 5000+ Personally Redacted Documents after Trudeau Prorogues Parliament, but to produce the same documents without all the extra black ink is way to dangerous!!" Wow...just wow.

These Doc's have already had to be gathered to be blocked out like Project Bluebook UFO Area 51 documents...so what the Hell? Put them on a USB Stick, tape it to a COVID 19 Safe Tennis Ball, and throw it across the isle in the House of Commons. Done deal. It can be placed in a zip-lock bag to sit for the weekend & Bob's your Uncle...