the proletariat ARE the voters
I'll phrase it differently - voters in select parts of the country have to give a crap.Federal Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules over contract to friend, commissioner rules
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I'll phrase it differently - voters in select parts of the country have to give a crap.
Liberal proletariat and members Vs reality.the proletariat ARE the voters
This one isn't, as are most in the rural areas. Toronto seems to be a different matter.
The prevailing belief among those here who are good people but identify as Liberals is that the Conservatives are evil. It is played on by the media and the Liberal campaigns here.
They are literally supporting a guy who's accepted bribes, attempted to usurp the justice system for his friends, may have sold some canadian interests to china and is pretending he knows nothing of china's involvement in the last election despite having been briefed on it, has borrowed more money than all previous gov'ts combined and then some and is driving people into poverty with inflation and interest rates that he knows he's created but still continues to cause through excessive spending, crippling a generation of kids who'll have to live with the repercussions of that.
If they think that's "good" - i'd like to know exactly what the hell their definition of 'evil' is! What exactly are the conservatives going to do that is more evil than that? Refuse to say zie and zir in the house?
Trade minister Mary Ng hopes public sees her 'sincerity' since admitting ethics error
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Stephanie Taylor
Published Feb 10, 2023 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she hopes Canadians will see the “sincerity” in her efforts to make amends after breaking federal ethics rules, while sidestepping demands that she resign or refund taxpayers.
Ng testified on Friday before a parliamentary committee that is probing the details of a contract that her office awarded to the firm of one of her friends.
Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion ruled in December that the minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to recuse herself from the decision to hire the public relations company Pomp and Circumstance, which was co-founded by longtime Liberal strategist Amanda Alvaro.
Under the act, public office holders are prohibited from making decisions that put them in a conflict, including any activities that could advance the interests of friends or family.
Dion found that the relationship between Alvaro and Ng constituted a friendship, with the pair having known each other for nearly 20 years.
Following the report’s release, the minister apologized in the House of Commons. She repeated that apology to members of the House ethics committee on Friday.
“I made a mistake,” Ng said.
During the minister’s testimony, the Opposition Conservatives repeatedly pressed Ng on whether she would repay the money spent on the spring 2020 contract in question, valued at just under $17,000.
“Do you think that your resignation is warranted in this case?” questioned Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett.
“I think that, in this case, I’ve already said that I have made an error,” the minister replied.
Ng said it was not the dollar amount of the contract or the work itself that was the problem, but it was her decision not to recuse herself from the decision-making process that was at issue.
“It was my mistake not to recuse,” she told MPs. “It was not the work itself. I apologize for this.”
In later testimony, she added: “No one stole.”
Liberal MPs on the committee focused on how, in spring 2020, federal ministers like Ng — whose portfolio includes small business — were dealing with a massive influx of media requests as the federal government grappled with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to dole out economic supports.
The committee heard from Ng that no staff in her office raised concerns about contracting Alvaro’s firm for its communications help. Alvaro testified that a potential conflict of interest also did not cross her mind.
The minister said she has since taken steps to avoid repeating her error, including plans for her office personnel to receive training from the ethics commissioner.
Ng said she knows she must “work even harder” in light of her ethics violation and hopes Canadians will see her “sincerity.”
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Stephanie Taylor
Published Feb 10, 2023 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she hopes Canadians will see the “sincerity” in her efforts to make amends after breaking federal ethics rules, while sidestepping demands that she resign or refund taxpayers.
Ng testified on Friday before a parliamentary committee that is probing the details of a contract that her office awarded to the firm of one of her friends.
Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion ruled in December that the minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to recuse herself from the decision to hire the public relations company Pomp and Circumstance, which was co-founded by longtime Liberal strategist Amanda Alvaro.
Under the act, public office holders are prohibited from making decisions that put them in a conflict, including any activities that could advance the interests of friends or family.
Dion found that the relationship between Alvaro and Ng constituted a friendship, with the pair having known each other for nearly 20 years.
Following the report’s release, the minister apologized in the House of Commons. She repeated that apology to members of the House ethics committee on Friday.
“I made a mistake,” Ng said.
During the minister’s testimony, the Opposition Conservatives repeatedly pressed Ng on whether she would repay the money spent on the spring 2020 contract in question, valued at just under $17,000.
“Do you think that your resignation is warranted in this case?” questioned Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett.
“I think that, in this case, I’ve already said that I have made an error,” the minister replied.
Ng said it was not the dollar amount of the contract or the work itself that was the problem, but it was her decision not to recuse herself from the decision-making process that was at issue.
“It was my mistake not to recuse,” she told MPs. “It was not the work itself. I apologize for this.”
In later testimony, she added: “No one stole.”
Liberal MPs on the committee focused on how, in spring 2020, federal ministers like Ng — whose portfolio includes small business — were dealing with a massive influx of media requests as the federal government grappled with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to dole out economic supports.
The committee heard from Ng that no staff in her office raised concerns about contracting Alvaro’s firm for its communications help. Alvaro testified that a potential conflict of interest also did not cross her mind.
The minister said she has since taken steps to avoid repeating her error, including plans for her office personnel to receive training from the ethics commissioner.
Ng said she knows she must “work even harder” in light of her ethics violation and hopes Canadians will see her “sincerity.”
Trade minister Mary Ng hopes public sees her 'sincerity' since admitting ethics error
OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she hopes Canadians will see the “sincerity” in her efforts to make amends after breaking federal…
Federal ethics commissioners are misogynisticly racist tools of the right wing extremists don’t you know? Follow the Science!!
Federal ethics commissioners are misogynisticly racist tools of the right wing extremists don’t you know? Follow the Science!!
Good times…
….& He’s out. Health Reasons. Drop the Mike! Been a slice….Later Gators…
OTTAWA — The Ethics Commissioner is calling on the Prime Minister to make all ministers and parliamentary secretaries receive ethics training after noticing a concerning “succession of mistakes” from senior government officials who keep breaking ethics laws.
“Over the last five years and on several occasions, I have observed senior officials being unaware of their obligations and mistakenly making assumptions,” commissioner Mario Dion said in a statement Tuesday.
“Offers to provide training and educational sessions on a variety of topics have been offered to all federal parties and to regulatees, yet we continue to see a succession of mistakes that are largely attributable to the inability to recognize the need to seek consultation,” he added.
His statement came on the same day Dion announced he would be leaving his post two years before the end of his mandate, citing “persistent health issues.”
It also came the same day he tabled a second report this year finding that Liberal MP and the prime minister’s own parliamentary secretary Greg Fergus broke ethics laws when he wrote a letter to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) pushing the quasi-judicial board to give a small television company mandatory carriage in Quebec.
Ethics commissioner calls for mandatory ethics training for all senior Liberals after new breach — National Post
The Fergus report is the second in three months where commissioner Mario Dion found a Liberal MP in breach of ethics laws
In his report, Dion couldn’t help but note that as a veteran MP and parliamentary secretary, Fergus should have known he couldn’t try to influence the CRTC’s decision one way or another.
The Fergus report is the second in three months where Dion found a Liberal MP in breach of ethics laws.
In December, he published a report lambasting International Trade Minister Mary Ng for personally getting involved in handing out two contracts to a communications firm owned by her “close friend” and former Liberal staffer Amanda Alvaro.
It's sad that we have elected politicians who require ethics training. Most people can identify right and wrong without a course.
Fire Trudeau's minister Mary Ng for using your money to reward friend
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Feb 14, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
It’s more than two months since Trudeau cabinet minister Mary Ng was found to have broken the ethics rules. To be honest, I wasn’t all that worked up about the story, one Liberal giving a contract to another Liberal isn’t that shocking.
To a degree, politicians should have leeway to award sensitive contracts to firms aligned with their views. Why would you give a contract for political or communications advice to someone who opposes you?
Then I looked into the reason Ng was in hot water, looked beyond the headlines, and realized why there is such a stench.
Amanda Alavaro, as pictured in her LinkedIn account
Amanda Alavaro, as pictured in her LinkedIn account PHOTO BY http://linkedin.com/in/amandaalvaro /Toronto Sun
Ng didn’t just award a pair of contracts to her close friend, Liberal strategist and CBC talking head Amanda Alvaro; in one contract, she basically paid a best buddy nearly $20,000 to have Zoom chats with her during the pandemic.
Ng and Alvaro have known each other for years and worked in the McGuinty government at Queen’s Park in Ontario together nearly 20 years ago. They’ve been friends ever since, and presumably spent a lot of time together talking politics – most of it not paid by taxpayers.
Documents tabled with the House of Commons ethics committee last week look like the kind of material that Ng’s political staffers are paid to produce. Examples of how to answer questions and tweets about a government program to support small businesses during COVID, and how to explain the government program to Canadian small business owners.
Any information on the nature of the program would have come from the federal bureaucracy and been passed on to Alvaro and her company. Ng herself had four communications staffers, all well paid, who work on the political side of things, while her department has as many as 100 bureaucrats working on communications issues.
Not only should this work have been done by either the political staff or the bureaucrats, the bill charged to taxpayers is pricey.
Let’s call this what it looks like, Ng used taxpayer money to throw some work to her friend during the pandemic.
When Ng appeared before the ethics committee last Friday, Conservative MP Michael Barrett politely but firmly interrogated her on the contracts. He pushed to find out if there were presentations, slide decks or more documentation than what was in the public record and the answer was no, there was nothing beyond a pair of video conference calls over Zoom.
“Who was in attendance?” Barrett asked.
“They were done virtually because it was in the pandemic, so, myself and Ms. Alvaro,” Ng replied.
“One on one?” Barrett asked.
“There may have been other people on the screen, but I was working with Ms. Alvaro,” Ng said.
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These sessions, Barrett said, cost taxpayers about $2,000 an hour for the minister to chat on Zoom with a best friend discussing things that political staff should have covered or that a real friend would have offered as free advice.
This is what stinks about this whole ordeal, Ng giving her friend of more than 20 years, a sole-sourced government contract for work that should have been done by the minister’s staff.
The Ethics Commissioner has already ruled that Ng violated Canada’s ethics act by not recusing herself from the decision to hire her friend. That’s bad enough, that her friend made as much as she did when it appears the work could have been done in-house without the bill being paid by taxpayers, who at the time were having hours cut, being laid off or seeing their businesses forced closed.
For her part, Ng maintained that she needed help with a new program during the pandemic.
In a normal government, Ng would step down. In the ethics challenged Trudeau government, she just might be promoted.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Feb 14, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
It’s more than two months since Trudeau cabinet minister Mary Ng was found to have broken the ethics rules. To be honest, I wasn’t all that worked up about the story, one Liberal giving a contract to another Liberal isn’t that shocking.
To a degree, politicians should have leeway to award sensitive contracts to firms aligned with their views. Why would you give a contract for political or communications advice to someone who opposes you?
Then I looked into the reason Ng was in hot water, looked beyond the headlines, and realized why there is such a stench.
Amanda Alavaro, as pictured in her LinkedIn account
Amanda Alavaro, as pictured in her LinkedIn account PHOTO BY http://linkedin.com/in/amandaalvaro /Toronto Sun
Ng didn’t just award a pair of contracts to her close friend, Liberal strategist and CBC talking head Amanda Alvaro; in one contract, she basically paid a best buddy nearly $20,000 to have Zoom chats with her during the pandemic.
Ng and Alvaro have known each other for years and worked in the McGuinty government at Queen’s Park in Ontario together nearly 20 years ago. They’ve been friends ever since, and presumably spent a lot of time together talking politics – most of it not paid by taxpayers.
Documents tabled with the House of Commons ethics committee last week look like the kind of material that Ng’s political staffers are paid to produce. Examples of how to answer questions and tweets about a government program to support small businesses during COVID, and how to explain the government program to Canadian small business owners.
Any information on the nature of the program would have come from the federal bureaucracy and been passed on to Alvaro and her company. Ng herself had four communications staffers, all well paid, who work on the political side of things, while her department has as many as 100 bureaucrats working on communications issues.
Not only should this work have been done by either the political staff or the bureaucrats, the bill charged to taxpayers is pricey.
Let’s call this what it looks like, Ng used taxpayer money to throw some work to her friend during the pandemic.
When Ng appeared before the ethics committee last Friday, Conservative MP Michael Barrett politely but firmly interrogated her on the contracts. He pushed to find out if there were presentations, slide decks or more documentation than what was in the public record and the answer was no, there was nothing beyond a pair of video conference calls over Zoom.
“Who was in attendance?” Barrett asked.
“They were done virtually because it was in the pandemic, so, myself and Ms. Alvaro,” Ng replied.
“One on one?” Barrett asked.
“There may have been other people on the screen, but I was working with Ms. Alvaro,” Ng said.
Article content
These sessions, Barrett said, cost taxpayers about $2,000 an hour for the minister to chat on Zoom with a best friend discussing things that political staff should have covered or that a real friend would have offered as free advice.
This is what stinks about this whole ordeal, Ng giving her friend of more than 20 years, a sole-sourced government contract for work that should have been done by the minister’s staff.
The Ethics Commissioner has already ruled that Ng violated Canada’s ethics act by not recusing herself from the decision to hire her friend. That’s bad enough, that her friend made as much as she did when it appears the work could have been done in-house without the bill being paid by taxpayers, who at the time were having hours cut, being laid off or seeing their businesses forced closed.
For her part, Ng maintained that she needed help with a new program during the pandemic.
In a normal government, Ng would step down. In the ethics challenged Trudeau government, she just might be promoted.
LILLEY: Fire Trudeau's minister Mary Ng for using your money to reward friend
There is a reason people are calling for Trudeau's trade minister to resign over a flimsy contract to her best friend using taxpayer money.
Well, she looks hot enough not to need money to "reward a friend."
Don't see a lot of blonde Southeast Asians.
Or is that Brian Lilley? I'm a bit confused.
Don't see a lot of blonde Southeast Asians.
Or is that Brian Lilley? I'm a bit confused.