The Resignation Thread
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Not that it was any surprise, but this cabinet pick checks two eminently crucial boxes for Gropinator. First she's not a man so she fits the gender bias at the expense of basing the choice primarily on credentials. And second, she completely despises pipelines and the Alberta oilsands.
B.C. MP joins Liberal leadership race, pushes for end to 'stone age' pipeline projects
The oilsands is “an important industry and one of the things that’s important about it is that it provides the wealth to transition out of the Stone Age, to transition to an era where we have energy efficiency and green energy,” she told a news conference here.
Asked if she viewed the oilsands as a “Stone Age” industry, she replied: “We need to shift away from carbon resources that are creating harm in the atmosphere and creating risk and threat to the future, to our kids and their kids.”
What does Murray think of Transmountain Pipeline?? Well geez, lets see....
“Those pipelines would be a massive multi-billion-dolllar investment (in) an infrastructure that is locking us into a business model that is obsolete,” she said.
Yep...perfect fit for Trudeau's cabinet.
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OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An absolutely fine and upstanding selection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unless you want something resembling HONESTY in govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you want reasonably honest govt then you must wait till after the October election selection process and winnowing out of LIE-beral assholes is completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Philpott earthquake
By Paul Wells
Maclean's Magazine
With Jane Philpott’s resignation from the cabinet, Justin Trudeau’s government is now in a crisis that ranks with the coalition challenge to Stephen Harper in 2008 and Jean Chrétien’s dismissal of Paul Martin in 2002.
That probably understates matters, actually: Those two previous shocks were about ambition; they engaged matters of principle almost by accident. This one is a direct challenge to a government by two (and counting?) ministers with no perceptible ambitions beyond their former posts—though buckle up, because they’ll both be accused of scheming—on the gravest grounds of ethics.
Perhaps the most important words in Philpott’s resignation letter are her mention of “constitutional obligations.” The implication, the implicit accusation, is that while she knows where hers are located, the Prime Minister of Canada can’t find his. I’m pretty sure another prime ministerial news conference on space exploration isn’t going to cut it this time.
I have more to say about this, boy do I. But while I have you, a word about the day’s events at Queen’s Park. It will seem like an odd detour. It really isn’t.
Today the government of Ontario fired the deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, weeks after he blew the whistle on the manifestly improper appointment of Doug Ford’s personal friend Ron Taverner as OPP commissioner. The government’s explanation was that Brad Blair’s firing was decided by the deputy minister of community safety, Mario Di Tommaso, which gives it the aura of respectability. Because it’s all arms-length, right? A public servant decided that this was something that had to happen, so it’s not actually a government pulling the trap door on the one man who stood in the way of abject cronyism at the highest intersection of government and law enforcement.
Except here’s the thing. That deputy minister, Di Tommaso, is an old friend of both Ford’s and Taverner’s. He was appointed deputy minister eight weeks before Taverner’s appointment was announced. And when he was appointed, Ford’s biggest admirer in the Queen’s Park press gallery wrote a column applauding the appointment, quoting… Ron Taverner about how great it was that Mario Di Tommaso would be in a position of influence.
I’m gonna get back to my day job in federal politics, but what happened today in Ontario politics is, itself, a scandal. Taken together, the big stories in Toronto and Ottawa pose serious questions about this country’s cultural commitment to the rule of law. If “but my opponents!” becomes the constant excuse for every transgression against what Chrystia Freeland likes to call “the rules-based international order,” then we are not better governed than Poland.
Right. Philpott. She just demoted the hell out of Gerald Butts, who’s supposed to show up at the justice committee on Wednesday with some emails suggesting Jody Wilson-Raybould isn’t Nelson Mandela. At this point, Butts could show up with an actual hat, and an actual rabbit in the hat, and it wouldn’t distract from the questions Wilson-Raybould and Philpott have raised.
Second: I suspect this post will be to some extent stale-dated by tonight, because every cabinet minister, and every Liberal member of Parliament, has a decision to make right now. Today. We are about to find out who is serious, and who merely plays serious on Instagram. The time for “Poor Jody couldn’t take the heat” and “but Andrew Scheer!” is over. That second question will be settled by Canadian voters in October, and I think it’s entirely possible, as one possibility among many, that Scheer’s Conservatives won’t be persuasive to enough voters.
But as I started writing in December, a country gets into trouble when it turns every question into an electoral question. The party stripe of the government is not the only interesting question. Here’s another: is the government we have, the Prime Minister we have, so deep in moral denial that they can never find their way back?
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-philpott-earthquake/
Apparently the latest cover of the magazine has a photo of the little potato with the caption 'The Imposter'.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The latest McLean`s Magazine cover DOES CALL Our idiot Boy "The Imposter"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for LIE-berals being able to find their way back into the light..............................
Yeah..............the PARTY will continue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But of course a WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE currently IN the party will have to be PUT OUT of the party first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The LIE-beral brand has been smeared in TOXIC bigotry and Mouldy Green LIES and SCANDALS of many sorts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In your deluded, brainwashed mind, maybe. In reality however, modern human civilization would be rendered obsolete without oil and gas.
Well hold on a second. Just the other day you were crowing about how Trudeau is doing something because he spent $4.5 billion on a pipeline. How is that "doing something" to you when you totally agree with this broad's assessment about pipelines.
Since Trudeau has indicated he's such an ardent proponent of TMX, I can't help but wonder how he can justify bringing on a team member who has overtly demonstrated such disobedient opposition to his pet project that he spent 4.5 billion of our tax dollars on, and has committed (at least he says he has) to spending at least another 5-8 billion on the pipeline expansion. After JWR just finished tearing him a new a**hole, I would have thought he would be looking for more "team players" in his new cabinet appointments.
Of course, I guess it's also possible that his supposed enthusiasm for TMX is all a big f*cking lie. It certainly wouldn't be out of character for him to talk out both sides of his mouth to try and play both sides. It also wouldn't be out of character for him to rely on those "teammates" around him to do the dirty work required to accomplish his idealistic goals because of his pathetic cowardice to take personal responsibility for the political outcome on himself. Immoral, untrustworthy, and weakness are such disappointing, repulsive traits in a so-called leader.
Simple. It's called spending $4.5 billion on nothing.
Here's a thought. Why don't you pick a position and stick with it. One minute you're crowing about Groper buying a pipeline, the next minute you're totally agreeing with some idiot's assessment that pipelines are an antiquated economic model.
But let's pretend her idiotic, emotionally relativistic assessment is correct, then no matter how you slice it, Groper STILL wasted $4.5 billion.
I also love the sub-moronic mentality about oil and coal being "old technology" and how stupid it is to use this "old technology" for a 21st century world. Newsflash: Wind power is 5000 yr old technology. So if oil and coal power are stupid, then wind is absolutely f*cking moronic.
When Trudeau hands the pipeline to FNs Hoid will say it the best thing to happen to FNs since getting their first rifle to hunt.
Says the FN-hating douchenozzle who agreed with every negative assessment of JWR (and some unkind names) AFTER she refused to blow Groper.
The white natty narrative is now that I was happy to see Trudeau buy a ****ing pipeline for all the cry babies in Alberta.