He's a slow learner...…………..part and parcel of a low I.Q. I wonder if we could hire Trump to bring him up to speed on the fine art of country management!
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He's a slow learner...…………..part and parcel of a low I.Q. I wonder if we could hire Trump to bring him up to speed on the fine art of country management!
He's a slow learner...…………..part and parcel of a low I.Q. I wonder if we could hire Trump to bring him up to speed on the fine art of country management!
No..............NO.............................AND DEFINITELY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy is NOT that slow a learner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must learn to tell the difference between a SLOW LEARNER................................
who makes mistakes out of ignorance......................................
and a SOCIALIST ASSHAT like our idiot Boy...............................
who DELIBERATELY MAKES what he SIMPLY calls mistakes..................................
in order to cover up the worst of his MALEVOLENT, ANTI CDN. ANTI WHITE, ANTI WESTERN VALUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy IS DOING DELIBERATE DAMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider:::::::::::::::::::::
Here is some information taken from assorted sources such as the Govt of Canada website and represents information supplied by the Cdn Census Bureau - along with some comments of my own in brackets):::
Community: Wet'suwet'en First Nation
Band Number: 725
(The tribal group is a voluntary politically oriented association composed of a number of bands usually with a similar language and cultural background - thus we are arguing with a FRACTION of the 725 member Wet`suwet`en band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The Wet`suwet`en tribal band and is SPLINTERED - as the article below indicates - as are the various native groups who have either joined the protests or signed on to the pipeline deals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Why some Wet'suwet'en councils have signed pipeline agreements
By Amy Smart, from The Canadian Press Published Sunday, January 20, 2019 7:17AM EST Last Updated Sunday, January 20, 2019 5:22PM EST
Presented on the CTV news media web site.
SMITHERS, B.C. -- It was a difficult decision to sign a benefit sharing agreement with Coastal GasLink that would allow for a natural gas pipeline through the Wet'suwet'en territory, but a necessary one, an elected band council member says.
Joseph Skin is with the Skin Tyee band, a community of about 134 people within the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, and said many members live in "poverty" on the reserve and the agreement offered an opportunity for a better future.
Skin said he spent most of his life living in a home shared by three or four families. There was no running water in homes on the reserve until 10 or 15 years ago, he said.
(But in ancient days - natives DID LIVE in multi family dwellings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"Decisions like this never came easy, I'm not going to say it was easy, because it was very difficult," he said.
"But like I said, the people who are concerned about our decision, they should come to the reserve and live in these conditions themselves and then have to weigh in on a decision like that."
(It is economic reality that if you wish to live like white men - it is best to also get educated and to WORK like white men -thus you can buy what you need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Coastal GasLink has said it has signed agreements with all 20 elected First Nations bands along the pipeline route from northeastern B.C. to LNG Canada's $40-billion export facility on the coast in Kitimat.
A blockade and the subsequent RCMP arrests while they enforced an injunction earlier this month set off a firestorm of protests across the country. The blockade was erected to stop the company from accessing a road where it planned to start construction work.
Five Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs say the project has no authority without their consent. While elected band councils like the Skin Tyee are administrators of their reserves, the hereditary chiefs say they are in charge of the 22,000 square kilometres of traditional territory, including the land where pipeline would be built.
(SADLY there is NO MECHANISM within the archaic native political system that would allow for a resolution!! Traditionally if a native did not like choices being made by his band- he would load his canoe and paddle to the other side of the lake and start a NEW TRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Native are caught up in the 21st century REALITY - that majority rule is BEST!! It is too bad that some spoil sports are willing to wreck the deal FOR EVERYBODY!)
The hereditary chiefs have since reached a "temporary truce" with RCMP, agreeing that members will abide by the injunction allowing the company access through the end of January, so long as another anti-pipeline camp is allowed to remain intact.
The issue of who supports the project is not as simple as a division between hereditary chiefs on one side and elected councils on the other. While the five hereditary clan chiefs say they're "adamantly opposed," other hereditary leaders have expressed support, and elected council members have landed on both sides.
(Natives are struggling to catch up to the democratic ideal of one person - one vote and all being equal - with the majority getting its way!! But LIE-berals have been persuading natives for 50 years that natives are MORE EQUAL than other Cdns!!!!! LIE-berals have been feeding natives those nonsense promises for decades now and tempers are boiling over as Our idiot Boy Justin has made MORE PROMISES - and kept less of them than any other leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The native rail blockades ARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW and we NEED TO ASK if a MINORITY WITHIN A MINORITY has the right to disrupt the ENTIRE COUNTRY for the most selfish of PERSONAL reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Former Wet'suwet'en elected Chief Ray Morris of the Nee Tahi Buhn band said his council signed a deal with Coastal GasLink based on the advice an elder gave when Enbridge was proposing a pipeline through the territory. That elder died at 96 in 2013.
"He was with us when Enbridge first came around and he said, 'You can't beat this big company. Get the best deal you can for us.' And that's what we did," said Morris, who was the elected chief for 24 years before being unseated in an election last month.
(That now deceased elder HAD A GOOD EYE for details!! Traditional white law dictates that LAND MAY BE EXPROPRIATED - AFTER BEING PAID FOR AT FAIR MARKET VALUE - plus LEGAL EXPENSES and any other legitimate costs -by govt for the good of the community!! Thus expropriating some Wet`sunet`en land to build a pipeline that will AID thousands of Cdns while MILDLY INCONVENIENCING a few biassed RADICAL dozens DOES FIT the general legal definition of land expropriation FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Signing an agreement means funding for things like education and elder care, he said.
"We're no different than any other human, we have the same needs as you do."
(OF COURSE - so why is the RABID MINORITY OBJECTING?? Unless - as I have suggested - the radicals ARE RABID BLACKMAILERS??????????????????)
Morris said even though band members share lineage with the hereditary clan chiefs, that doesn't mean they are under the same authority.
"We're independent of the Office of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs," he said. "We've been independent for many years."
(As I have said - there IS NO NATIVE AUTHORITY capable of enforcing a group choice - and many natives are REFUSING to recognize ANY white law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(So here are some number about Aboriginal Groups and First Nations)::::::::
(Vancouver Sun writer Scott Brown reports that Wet`sunet`en natives claim
22,000 sq km of B.C. land - so settle that claim by 725 people and we get a land claim of just over 30.35 km per person for the 725 member band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Wikipedia tells us the Province of British Columbia has a total area of 944,735 square Km and Stats Canada tells us there are 200,000 people of First Nations and Metis - all with land claims in British Columbia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Thus if EACH native and Metis person received title to 30.35 sq km of land - the total amount of land needed would be 6,069,000 sq km!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(But Wikipedia says B.C. has a total land area of 944,735 km - meaning the province would need to GROW BY 6.42 TIMES LARGER than it now is in order to accommodate ALL the land claims - thus some native DISAPPOINTMENT is INEVITABLE regarding land claims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In the latest news - as of February 28, 2020, a NEW GROUP of natives called Wet`suwet`en Matriarchs have been granted a seat at the table in talks with the govt!! The SPLINTERED groups are now SPLITTING FURTHER - along GENDER LINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
( And all this land shortage is WITHOUT DEDUCTING FOR LANDS currently owned and being lived on by white people!! The INSANE TRUTH is that we could deport every single Non native from B.C. and give the ENTIRE province back - AND NATIVES WOULD STILL BE FIGHTING OVER LAND RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!)
(YES - we could give the province back and natives would STILL BE FACED with the IMMEDIATE PROBLEM - that natives have NO traditional method of reconciling such disputes and that natives SCORN the white democratic process - THAT DOES OFFER A DISPUTE RECONCILIATION METHOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals ARE DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOUR if they think they can TALK THEIR WAY into some calm and sensible resolution to the pipeline crisis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(But then Our idiot Boy WANTS to kill the Cdn oil patch for ideological reasons and does not care what political or economic mess he leaves in his wake - thus he deplores the public relations beating he is taking but does not mind the fossil fuel road block!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Will he welcome a probe into his foreign minister's conflict of interest?
John Ivison: Canada’s foreign minister owes the Bank of China $1.2 million. That means he’s vulnerable
John Ivison: Canada’s foreign minister owes the Bank of China $1.2 million. That means he’s vulnerable
http://www.cjme.com/2020/06/11/guelph-police-defend-decision-not-to-publicize-ontario-mps-arrest/
GUELPH, Ont. — Police in southwestern Ontario say they didn't inform the public about assault charges against a member of Parliament because the force didn't believe he posed a significant risk to the public.
Marwan Tabbara, who represents the riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler in Parliament, was arrested on April 10 and charged with assault, break and enter and harassment, but the Guelph Police Service did not make that information public.
In a release on Thursday, police cited a section of the Police Services Act that says chiefs of police — and their designates — have the right to release information to the public if they believe the accused person poses a risk to the public and making the information available would reduce that risk.
They say the police service's media relations unit was not informed of Tabbara's arrest. News of the charges against the two-term MP didn't come out until last week, when Tabbara said he would be taking a "step back" from the Liberal caucus.
The Prime Minister's Office said it only learned about the charges last Friday morning and was "looking into the matter." Police say they won't be releasing any more information about the charges against Tabbara. His next court appearance is scheduled for June 19.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2020.
GUELPH, Ont. — Police in southwestern Ontario say they didn't inform the public about assault charges against a member of Parliament because the force didn't believe he posed a significant risk to the public.
Marwan Tabbara, who represents the riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler in Parliament, was arrested on April 10 and charged with assault, break and enter and harassment, but the Guelph Police Service did not make that information public.
In a release on Thursday, police cited a section of the Police Services Act that says chiefs of police — and their designates — have the right to release information to the public if they believe the accused person poses a risk to the public and making the information available would reduce that risk.
They say the police service's media relations unit was not informed of Tabbara's arrest. News of the charges against the two-term MP didn't come out until last week, when Tabbara said he would be taking a "step back" from the Liberal caucus.
The Prime Minister's Office said it only learned about the charges last Friday morning and was "looking into the matter." Police say they won't be releasing any more information about the charges against Tabbara. His next court appearance is scheduled for June 19.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2020.
I've been under the impression a defendant's name can be withheld from the public until such time as he is found guilty in court. I doubt if that holds true where the defendant is considered to be dangerous. Public safely should be paramount.
Man, when Cambridge was a Conservative town (Hespeler is part of Cambridge btw, not K-W) they didn't have MP's going around assaulting people and breaking and entering or harassing anyone.
Tabbara should be punted immediately and have his pay 100% clawed back from April 10th.
The freebie trip to Aga Khan’s island.
The costume drama in India.
The determined effort to rescue SNC-Lavalin at the cost of his own credibility.
The fumbling away of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott.
The groping allegations.
The blackface embarrassment.
The weird admiration for China’s autocracy.
The extra plane for his canoe while campaigning against climate change.
The Admiral Mark Norman affair.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can’t seem to help himself. Given an open road with clear sailing ahead, he roars off in search of the nearest pothole. You can almost hear the kids in the back seat: “Dad! Watch out for the pothole!” But nope … bang! There goes another axle.
He’s done it again and again. Canadians handed him a nice majority on a wave of personal popularity that seemed to augur a smooth route to a couple of easy Liberal mandates. Instead he’s been disappearing into potholes like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter.
It’s like he just can’t resist, and his advisers can’t get to him fast enough to prevent the damage. A week ago the prime minister made one of his near-daily COVID-related spending announcements. It’s hard to hand out money and hurt yourself as a politician, but he seems determined to try. His government, he declared, will give more than $900 million in help to student volunteers this summer. Eligible students will get up to $5,000, depending on the amount of time they work.
Huzzah! Another example of Liberal devotion to helping struggling Canadians. But here’s the rub: the program will be farmed out to an organization known as WE Charity, an operation with strong Liberal ties. WE will take in $19.5 million in fees for its work, but the government had no choice, the prime minister asserted: according to the federal bureaucrats, WE alone had the skills and operations to administer the program. No one else could possibly handle the job.
Which seemed a bit weird... The government’s overall COVID-19 spending as of mid-June amounted to about $170 billion, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Somehow, the government had managed to deliver all this money via the civil service, which is the usual means of collecting and handing out funds. Yet, for some reason, when it comes to an extra $900 million for volunteers, no organization but WE could possibly do the job. What’s more, WE is known to be a favourite charity of the prime minister and his wife, who have enthusiastically promoted it with personal appearances, speeches and podcasts. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau is an ambassador for the group. She came down with COVID-19 while appearing in London on its behalf.
Any on-the-ball disaster-avoidance team would have moved in right away to save the prime minister from getting in deeper. But Trudeau loves his potholes. As has been his custom, he refused to backtrack, insisting there was absolutely nothing untoward about the arrangement. WE and WE alone “has the scale and the ability” to deliver the program, he maintained.
Yet by putting WE in charge, the Liberals can bypass the usual modes of accountability. The opposition parties can’t ask questions. Non-governmental organizations like WE aren’t subject to the same access to information requirements as government agencies. Members of Parliament “cannot review this spending at committee,” noted Conservative MP Dan Albas. “The auditor general will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details.”
WE is run by Marc and Craig Kielburger, who have built a do-gooder empire on their networking skills that puts Greta Thunberg to shame. They’ve been at it since they were kids and, 25 years later, know how to rub shoulders with the rich and famous to extract cash for their charitable enterprises. Last August, Finance Minister Bill Morneau appeared with Craig Kielburger to announce that Ottawa would give $3 million to the WE Are Social Entrepreneurs program.
Yet by putting WE in charge, the Liberals can bypass the usual modes of accountability. The opposition parties can’t ask questions. Non-governmental organizations like WE aren’t subject to the same access to information requirements as government agencies. Members of Parliament “cannot review this spending at committee,” noted Conservative MP Dan Albas. “The auditor general will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details.”
At this point, alarms should have been blaring in the Prime Minister’s Office, but no. And things got worse. Volunteer Canada, another national volunteer group, said it was approached to work with WE, but rejected the offer because of qualms about the deal. Paula Speevak, its CEO, pointed out the obvious: “When people volunteer, they don’t get paid an hourly rate.” But the Liberal plan would give “grants” to volunteers based on the hours worked. What’s more, the Liberal pay scale, the equivalent of $10 an hour, is less than the minimum wage. In effect, the government is violating minimum wage laws to hire students at discount rates, and calling it “grants” for “volunteering.”
Trudeau wouldn’t be Trudeau if he’d been willing to acknowledge the problems at this point, so deeper into the mire he went. As Postmedia reported Tuesday, WE has been getting a steady stream of comfy deals from Ottawa since Trudeau took office. Five federal contracts since 2017, four in the last 15 months alone. The amounts weren’t high, which conveniently allowed them to be granted without being put out for bidding. “Those are the contracts that tend to be given to someone who ran your campaign, someone who was involved with you at the party level,” said NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus.
You wouldn’t catch the Kielburgers tripping into potholes like the ones the prime minister is so prone to. And there’s no way to tell whether Trudeau is yet prepared to climb out of this one. He has a summer free from Parliament, a Tory party without a leader, billions to hand out and a high rating in the polls.
LINK: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-trudeau-drives-straight-into-another-pothole-with-the-we-controversyto-another-pothole-with-the-we-controversy
The costume drama in India.
The determined effort to rescue SNC-Lavalin at the cost of his own credibility.
The fumbling away of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott.
The groping allegations.
The blackface embarrassment.
The weird admiration for China’s autocracy.
The extra plane for his canoe while campaigning against climate change.
The Admiral Mark Norman affair.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can’t seem to help himself. Given an open road with clear sailing ahead, he roars off in search of the nearest pothole. You can almost hear the kids in the back seat: “Dad! Watch out for the pothole!” But nope … bang! There goes another axle.
He’s done it again and again. Canadians handed him a nice majority on a wave of personal popularity that seemed to augur a smooth route to a couple of easy Liberal mandates. Instead he’s been disappearing into potholes like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter.
It’s like he just can’t resist, and his advisers can’t get to him fast enough to prevent the damage. A week ago the prime minister made one of his near-daily COVID-related spending announcements. It’s hard to hand out money and hurt yourself as a politician, but he seems determined to try. His government, he declared, will give more than $900 million in help to student volunteers this summer. Eligible students will get up to $5,000, depending on the amount of time they work.
Huzzah! Another example of Liberal devotion to helping struggling Canadians. But here’s the rub: the program will be farmed out to an organization known as WE Charity, an operation with strong Liberal ties. WE will take in $19.5 million in fees for its work, but the government had no choice, the prime minister asserted: according to the federal bureaucrats, WE alone had the skills and operations to administer the program. No one else could possibly handle the job.
Which seemed a bit weird... The government’s overall COVID-19 spending as of mid-June amounted to about $170 billion, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Somehow, the government had managed to deliver all this money via the civil service, which is the usual means of collecting and handing out funds. Yet, for some reason, when it comes to an extra $900 million for volunteers, no organization but WE could possibly do the job. What’s more, WE is known to be a favourite charity of the prime minister and his wife, who have enthusiastically promoted it with personal appearances, speeches and podcasts. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau is an ambassador for the group. She came down with COVID-19 while appearing in London on its behalf.
Any on-the-ball disaster-avoidance team would have moved in right away to save the prime minister from getting in deeper. But Trudeau loves his potholes. As has been his custom, he refused to backtrack, insisting there was absolutely nothing untoward about the arrangement. WE and WE alone “has the scale and the ability” to deliver the program, he maintained.
Yet by putting WE in charge, the Liberals can bypass the usual modes of accountability. The opposition parties can’t ask questions. Non-governmental organizations like WE aren’t subject to the same access to information requirements as government agencies. Members of Parliament “cannot review this spending at committee,” noted Conservative MP Dan Albas. “The auditor general will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details.”
WE is run by Marc and Craig Kielburger, who have built a do-gooder empire on their networking skills that puts Greta Thunberg to shame. They’ve been at it since they were kids and, 25 years later, know how to rub shoulders with the rich and famous to extract cash for their charitable enterprises. Last August, Finance Minister Bill Morneau appeared with Craig Kielburger to announce that Ottawa would give $3 million to the WE Are Social Entrepreneurs program.
Yet by putting WE in charge, the Liberals can bypass the usual modes of accountability. The opposition parties can’t ask questions. Non-governmental organizations like WE aren’t subject to the same access to information requirements as government agencies. Members of Parliament “cannot review this spending at committee,” noted Conservative MP Dan Albas. “The auditor general will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details.”
At this point, alarms should have been blaring in the Prime Minister’s Office, but no. And things got worse. Volunteer Canada, another national volunteer group, said it was approached to work with WE, but rejected the offer because of qualms about the deal. Paula Speevak, its CEO, pointed out the obvious: “When people volunteer, they don’t get paid an hourly rate.” But the Liberal plan would give “grants” to volunteers based on the hours worked. What’s more, the Liberal pay scale, the equivalent of $10 an hour, is less than the minimum wage. In effect, the government is violating minimum wage laws to hire students at discount rates, and calling it “grants” for “volunteering.”
Trudeau wouldn’t be Trudeau if he’d been willing to acknowledge the problems at this point, so deeper into the mire he went. As Postmedia reported Tuesday, WE has been getting a steady stream of comfy deals from Ottawa since Trudeau took office. Five federal contracts since 2017, four in the last 15 months alone. The amounts weren’t high, which conveniently allowed them to be granted without being put out for bidding. “Those are the contracts that tend to be given to someone who ran your campaign, someone who was involved with you at the party level,” said NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus.
You wouldn’t catch the Kielburgers tripping into potholes like the ones the prime minister is so prone to. And there’s no way to tell whether Trudeau is yet prepared to climb out of this one. He has a summer free from Parliament, a Tory party without a leader, billions to hand out and a high rating in the polls.
LINK: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-trudeau-drives-straight-into-another-pothole-with-the-we-controversyto-another-pothole-with-the-we-controversy
I dunno about that Ron. From what I recall, the prairies didn't elect any libs at all.
This falls squarely on the shoulders of Eastern Canada
I meant we as in Canada as a whole....but I hear you.I dunno about that Ron. From what I recall, the prairies didn't elect any libs at all.
This falls squarely on the shoulders of Eastern Canada
Delete the Yukon and NWT (they don't have enough actual seats to count) and only those weenie little areas in Ont, Que and the Maritimes are what controls the ROC.
Time to go
Time to go
Liberals would be S.O.L. if it wasn't for about 5,000 square miles surrounding Taronta!
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-government-drops-912-million-contract-with-we-charity
GATINEAU – WE Charity has pulled out of its agreement with the Trudeau government to manage a $912-million student volunteer grant contract after a week of controversy.
Now, administration of the Canada Student Service Grant — a $912 million federal program that will pay students up to $5,000 for volunteer work done over the summer — will fall back on the public service, Trudeau said.
(According to the Department of Labor, a volunteer is: an “individual who performs hours of service' for civic, charitable, or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation for services rendered")
But he warned the government wouldn’t be able to administer the program as well as WE Charity. “That was something … that the government isn’t necessarily best positioned to do.”
“There are certain things that we will not be able to do as government delivers this program. Directly reaching out to actively search and pull in volunteers was something that WE organization could do because of its extensive network and practice, as well as support and training and onboarding volunteers,” the prime minister said.
( From: http://www.pivotalsolutions.com/difference-between-employee-and-volunteer/ According to the Employment Standards Act an Employee is defined as: “(a) a person, including an officer of a corporation, who performs work for an employer for wages, (b) a person who supplies services to an employer for wages, (c) a person who receives training from a person who is an employer, or (d) a person who is a homeworker”)
Monday, the National Post reported that WE Charity — which has close ties to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family — had received only sole-source contracts from the federal government in the last three years.
Tuesday, video obtained by the National Post showed WE Charity co-founder Marc Kielburger saying that the Prime Minister’s Office had called his organization directly asking it to “help implement” the Canada Student Service Grant. WE then backtracked, claimed Kielburger “misspoke” and said that it was in fact the public service that had reached out to the organization. But critics said the co-founders initial statement was “extremely concerning” and “not credible”.
Trudeau had regularly attended or hosted “WE Day”, the organization’s annual stadium-sized rally for Canadian youth, up until 2017. His wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, is currently a “WE ambassador and ally”, hosts a podcast with the organization and attended a WE Day event with her daughter and the prime minister’s mother, Margaret Trudeau, in London in March. This week, the Globe and Mail also reported that the WE had posted offers for 450 “virtual volunteer” positions at its organization that would be compensated through the federal student grant.
(A report from the CBC Thursday said that WE had laid off ‘significant’ amounts of staff and that nearly all members of WE Charity’s Canadian and U.S. board of directors resigned just months before the organization was asked by Ottawa to administer the $912-million program)
But despite WE’s departure from the program, many questions remain unanswered in this “scandal”, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh reacted on social media. “This doesn’t clear up why and how the decision was made in the first place. It doesn’t answer how young Canadians and countless organizations across the country will get the support they need. The Prime Minister still needs to answer for this scandal,” Singh wrote on Twitter.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer also reacted by expressing his dissatisfaction towards answers provided by government to date. “Trudeau handed a massive $900M contract to a charity with close ties to his family & the Liberal Party. He claimed it was the ‘best and only organization able to deliver’. Conservatives demand an investigation and suddenly the contract is cancelled. Coincidence? I think not,” Andrew Scheer wrote on Twitter.
The news came as a blow to the Canadian Federation of Students, who is “extremely disappointed” that the federal government has “failed students once again.” “Students deserve more. The federal government needs to step up and do what they should have done all along, extend the Canada Emergency Student Benefit to international students and make it equal to the CERB … as well as stop implementing boutique programs that are costly and inefficient,” the organization, which represents over 500,000 Canadian post-secondary students, said in a statement. According to a government statement, the student grant program saw over 35,000 applications in the first week, a large majority of which identified as visible minorities.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-to-collaborate-with-ethics-watchdog-amid-probe-into-his-involvement-with-we-charity-deal-1.5010178
OTTAWA -- The federal ethics commissioner has launched an investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his government's now-cancelled decision to have WE Charity manage a $900-million federal program, which is slated to pay students and new graduates for their volunteer work this summer.
In an email sent to CTVNews.ca, Chantal Gagnon, a spokesperson from the Prime Minister’s Office, said Trudeau will work with the investigation.
"We will of course collaborate with the Commissioner and answer any questions he may have," she said.
While the charity has backed out of the management of the program following days of controversy, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said in a letter addressed to Conservative MP Michael Barrett that the Tory MP’s request for an investigation “satisfies the requirements” laid out in the Conflict of Interest Act.
Specifically, Barrett alleges that Trudeau violated a provision in the Act that "prohibits public office holders from making any decision or participating in the making of a decision that furthers their private interests or improperly furthers the private interests of another person."
He claims that Trudeau had a duty to recuse himself from any discussion or decision relating to WE Charity, given the prime minister's close ties to the organization and his wife’s involvement, and that Trudeau violated the Act when he announced that WE Charity would administer the Canada Student Service Grant. Barrett also alleges Trudeau violated another section of the Act that deals with affording preferential treatment when he said WE Charity was the "only organization" qualified to run the program -- given the existence of other national volunteer organizations.
"3 ethics investigations in 3 years!!! Justin Trudeau keeps using the power of his office to reward his friends & punish his critics," Barrett wrote in a tweet. "No wonder he's now desperately trying to distance himself from his latest scandal. Canadians deserve transparency."
Meh...whatever....the rest at the LINKS above. Throw another log on the Trudeau Ethics Violations & Scandals Bonfire. We should be use to this shit from this guy at this point I guess. It's not like it's getting debated in Parliament or anything, like what happens in a democratic country.
