Calling out Liberal rhetoric is already getting tiresome

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Trudeau preaches openness but blithely stamps out efforts to scrutinize Saudi arms deal

First of all, the spectacle of Conservative MPs alive with moral outrage, demanding openness and transparency from the Trudeau government, is so decadently rich it's almost enjoyable.


For someone like Tony Clement or Rona Ambrose, both former cabinet ministers in Stephen Harper governments, and therefore both former muzzlers of public servants and enforcers of near-total secrecy, to so neatly transform themselves into passionate advocates of democratic transparency requires a level of shamelessness that's simply beyond the ability or training of people who aren't seasoned politicians or Wall Street bankers.


Remember: When Ambrose and Clement were in office, they were enthusiastic acolytes of a prime minister whose contempt for reporters, the public's right to know and the rights of opposition MPs (not to mention his own backbenchers) will probably become his principal legacy.


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Calling out Liberal rhetoric is already getting tiresome - Politics - CBC News


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Dear Justin;

In political science, the term banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile dictatorship that abets or supports, for kickbacks and the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.

In economics, a banana republic is a country operated as a commercial enterprise for private profit, effected by a collusion between the State and favoured monopolies, in which the profit derived from the private exploitation of public resources is private property, while the debts incurred thereby are a public responsibility.

Cancelling the deal with the Saudis would not make us a banana republic. Signing the TPP will.....


Canada would be seen as a “banana republic” if it scrapped a $15-billion deal to sell armed vehicles to Saudi Arabia, Justin Trudeau says.

“People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won’t immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it,” the prime minister said in an interview in his office in Parliament’s Centre Block. “Because we’re not a banana republic.”

The prime minister’s remarks constituted his most forceful defence yet of an arms deal that promises substantial economic benefits, but has turned into a public-relations nightmare for a government that prizes itself as a human-rights champion.

The deal, reached in 2014 between the Conservative government of Stephen Harper and the Saudi regime, gives General Dynamics Land Systems Canada a 15-year contract to sell light armoured vehicles to the Saudi Arabian National Guard. That’s the unit of the Saudi security apparatus dedicated to containing internal unrest. That raises the prospect of Canadian-made vehicles, some fiercely armed with 105-mm guns, being turned some day against pro-democracy protesters by a regime that brooks no opposition and is particularly oppressive of women’s rights.

In his interview with the Star, Trudeau suggested he doesn’t much like the Saudi deal and will seek to avoid comparable agreements in the future. But he insists he’s stuck with this one.

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