Trudeau 'welcomes' ethics probe of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case
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PMO, Morneau won't say if Katie Telford's husband communicated with them since joining private mortgage company
Whom approved this one? Is it the next one to inquire about?
Whoopsie again (?): http://www.rebelnews.com/quebec_liberal_former_mp_frank_baylis_ventilator_contract
A former Quebec Liberal MP was awarded a Health Canada contract for ventilators not approved in any jurisdiction to date, and the feds won't disclose the amount of the payment. Frank Baylis, head of Baylis Medical Company, was elected to represent the riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard for the Liberals in the 2015 federal election. However, Baylis did not run for reelection in 2019.
A Health Ministry memo obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter about the June 15, 2020 contract award for the delivery of 10,000 ventilators by October 21 says it was meant “to help with Covid-19”. Corporate filings for Baylis Medical Company reflect an address form identical to the former MP’s home and the internal briefing documents obtained by Blacklock’s do not disclose the amount paid to Baylis for the delivery of the unapproved ventilators.
Baylis served two years on the Commons industry committee. The Conflict Of Interest Act states no former MP “shall act in such a manner as to take improper advantage of his or her previous public office”. The Act also mandates a one-year cooling off period that restricts all ex-legislators from entering into any contract with a federal agency with “which he or she had direct and significant dealings” for one year after leaving office.
Baylis served on the Commons Ethics Committee so he is not unfamiliar with the Conflict of Interest Act that now governs his new contact with Health Canada, but he wasn’t exactly a stickler for the rules in his time on the committee.
Whoopsie again (?): http://www.rebelnews.com/quebec_liberal_former_mp_frank_baylis_ventilator_contract
A former Quebec Liberal MP was awarded a Health Canada contract for ventilators not approved in any jurisdiction to date, and the feds won't disclose the amount of the payment. Frank Baylis, head of Baylis Medical Company, was elected to represent the riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard for the Liberals in the 2015 federal election. However, Baylis did not run for reelection in 2019.
A Health Ministry memo obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter about the June 15, 2020 contract award for the delivery of 10,000 ventilators by October 21 says it was meant “to help with Covid-19”. Corporate filings for Baylis Medical Company reflect an address form identical to the former MP’s home and the internal briefing documents obtained by Blacklock’s do not disclose the amount paid to Baylis for the delivery of the unapproved ventilators.
Baylis served two years on the Commons industry committee. The Conflict Of Interest Act states no former MP “shall act in such a manner as to take improper advantage of his or her previous public office”. The Act also mandates a one-year cooling off period that restricts all ex-legislators from entering into any contract with a federal agency with “which he or she had direct and significant dealings” for one year after leaving office.
Baylis served on the Commons Ethics Committee so he is not unfamiliar with the Conflict of Interest Act that now governs his new contact with Health Canada, but he wasn’t exactly a stickler for the rules in his time on the committee.
WE Charity, etc....now registered to lobby Gov't as of a few days ago: http://globalnews.ca/news/7272978/we-charity-registered-to-lobby/
Some of the lobbying leading up to WE Charity, etc...registering to lobby Gov't: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...eau/wcm/d7897538-a264-4c55-a767-4fd73f9a3ff8/
I had thought the good ship WE Inc. was finally on an even Kiel (I know, weak) or, to modify the nautical metaphor, whatever bilge had to be pumped out had duly been hosed, but I was wrong.
It’s but a few columns back I argued that the Kielburgers didn’t register as lobbyists because, with all their wide acquaintance with the Trudeaus, the Morneaus, Seamus O’Regan and Katie Telford (the prime minister’s chief of staff), including their most visible and frequent bonding at WE Day spectaculars and the like, hiring lobbyists would be just useless redundancy.
If I understand the curious idiom, for them to hire lobbyists to pay for attempting access, it would be like paying for milk when you have your own cow.
That they were de facto — and any other kind of facto you care to name — “lobbying” was incontestable. Their people were on Parliament Hill every day it looks like. I bet they could first-name the security guards and helped freshmen members to find their offices. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of them showed up with sleeping bags.
They were sending in proposals directly to ministers and the cabinet. They parked a finance minister in one of their Kenyan super spas, gratis. (It was originally a WEbie freebie, recall.)
The Kielburgers had more access to the Trudeau inner circle than most ministerial aides. There had to be a time when really junior ministers, the ones on the outer rings of power, phoned Marc and Craig when they — the ministers — hoped for a chance for face time with His Cottage Highness.
As per: “Hi, Marc and Craig. Saw your guys on the Hill again, yesterday. Minister of middle-class prosperity here. Remember me? I wonder if you’d pass on to Katie that I’d like a chance to have a bit of face time with the PM. Haven’t seen him since the swearing in. Could you lend a hand and pass the word? I hear things are going well in Kenya. Love a chance to go myself. That’s it. Have a good day.”
And now, when we thought all was known, we get this news of the volley of meetings, interactions, visits and phone calls with civil servants and ministers, or proposals flying out of K Inc. into the Trudeau cabinet like confetti on a wedding day.
Read this straight sentence from a news report: “According to the Registry of Lobbyists, WE Charity has registered 65 communication reports and 38 monthly communication reports in the last six months. Subjects of the interactions include arts and culture, climate, education, employment and training, health, international development, and justice and law enforcement.”
There are not enough exclamation points to express amazement that what the world knew as a “kids charity” had such a fund of expertise, such a range and depth of advisory competence, that it could bombard so many government departments on all of these massive subject areas.
What’s that great line from one of the wildest Westerns? “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” In KielburgerLand, “Lobbyists? We don’t need no stinkin’ lobbyists!”
You know the meaning of hubris. It’s simple, when pure pride infects the judgment of the individual. The range of “services” the K’s were so complacently offering our national government suggests a rare instance of hubris itself being infected with hubris.
There’s more. Rachel Wernick, senior assistant deputy minister, Skills and Employment branch, and the chosen civil servant to wear a lot of this Trudeau flop, “had no less than had 22 registered communications with WE.” Bardish Chagger, the minister under which the program would be entered, despite earlier denials, also met with WE. WE lieutenants were legion on the Hill and met with officials in 19 (I counted them) government departments. The United Nations has less operatives.
Then Thursday, the story broke that they have now, so long after their actual epic scale lobbying, registered as lobbyists. There’s panache for you. There’s chutzpah.
The number and details of the Keilburger organization’s interpenetration with the Trudeau administration are overwhelming. As is, on the more personal plane, the Kielburger brothers’ precision overlay with Trudeau’s style and message.
I am beginning to think what I have not thought before. This charade with the Trudeaus (plural) and the Kielburgers (plural) — this so-profitable-to-all coziness, financially and politically — of both parties, may have excited a disgust in Canadians who are not partisans, to the point where they will soon say, enough is enough.
The deep tangle with the WE bunch, the amounts that were and are at play, the transparent, feeble excuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s own risible claim that he was the one who “pushed back” (?) — prime ministers don’t push back, they kill — all of these have put a deep shade on this government.
Were we not in turbulent and unique times with COVID-19, I think very many Canadians would be thinking, it really is time for this bunch of ostentatious pharisees to go.
Some of the lobbying leading up to WE Charity, etc...registering to lobby Gov't: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...eau/wcm/d7897538-a264-4c55-a767-4fd73f9a3ff8/
I had thought the good ship WE Inc. was finally on an even Kiel (I know, weak) or, to modify the nautical metaphor, whatever bilge had to be pumped out had duly been hosed, but I was wrong.
It’s but a few columns back I argued that the Kielburgers didn’t register as lobbyists because, with all their wide acquaintance with the Trudeaus, the Morneaus, Seamus O’Regan and Katie Telford (the prime minister’s chief of staff), including their most visible and frequent bonding at WE Day spectaculars and the like, hiring lobbyists would be just useless redundancy.
If I understand the curious idiom, for them to hire lobbyists to pay for attempting access, it would be like paying for milk when you have your own cow.
That they were de facto — and any other kind of facto you care to name — “lobbying” was incontestable. Their people were on Parliament Hill every day it looks like. I bet they could first-name the security guards and helped freshmen members to find their offices. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of them showed up with sleeping bags.
They were sending in proposals directly to ministers and the cabinet. They parked a finance minister in one of their Kenyan super spas, gratis. (It was originally a WEbie freebie, recall.)
The Kielburgers had more access to the Trudeau inner circle than most ministerial aides. There had to be a time when really junior ministers, the ones on the outer rings of power, phoned Marc and Craig when they — the ministers — hoped for a chance for face time with His Cottage Highness.
As per: “Hi, Marc and Craig. Saw your guys on the Hill again, yesterday. Minister of middle-class prosperity here. Remember me? I wonder if you’d pass on to Katie that I’d like a chance to have a bit of face time with the PM. Haven’t seen him since the swearing in. Could you lend a hand and pass the word? I hear things are going well in Kenya. Love a chance to go myself. That’s it. Have a good day.”
And now, when we thought all was known, we get this news of the volley of meetings, interactions, visits and phone calls with civil servants and ministers, or proposals flying out of K Inc. into the Trudeau cabinet like confetti on a wedding day.
Read this straight sentence from a news report: “According to the Registry of Lobbyists, WE Charity has registered 65 communication reports and 38 monthly communication reports in the last six months. Subjects of the interactions include arts and culture, climate, education, employment and training, health, international development, and justice and law enforcement.”
There are not enough exclamation points to express amazement that what the world knew as a “kids charity” had such a fund of expertise, such a range and depth of advisory competence, that it could bombard so many government departments on all of these massive subject areas.
What’s that great line from one of the wildest Westerns? “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” In KielburgerLand, “Lobbyists? We don’t need no stinkin’ lobbyists!”
You know the meaning of hubris. It’s simple, when pure pride infects the judgment of the individual. The range of “services” the K’s were so complacently offering our national government suggests a rare instance of hubris itself being infected with hubris.
There’s more. Rachel Wernick, senior assistant deputy minister, Skills and Employment branch, and the chosen civil servant to wear a lot of this Trudeau flop, “had no less than had 22 registered communications with WE.” Bardish Chagger, the minister under which the program would be entered, despite earlier denials, also met with WE. WE lieutenants were legion on the Hill and met with officials in 19 (I counted them) government departments. The United Nations has less operatives.
Then Thursday, the story broke that they have now, so long after their actual epic scale lobbying, registered as lobbyists. There’s panache for you. There’s chutzpah.
The number and details of the Keilburger organization’s interpenetration with the Trudeau administration are overwhelming. As is, on the more personal plane, the Kielburger brothers’ precision overlay with Trudeau’s style and message.
I am beginning to think what I have not thought before. This charade with the Trudeaus (plural) and the Kielburgers (plural) — this so-profitable-to-all coziness, financially and politically — of both parties, may have excited a disgust in Canadians who are not partisans, to the point where they will soon say, enough is enough.
The deep tangle with the WE bunch, the amounts that were and are at play, the transparent, feeble excuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s own risible claim that he was the one who “pushed back” (?) — prime ministers don’t push back, they kill — all of these have put a deep shade on this government.
Were we not in turbulent and unique times with COVID-19, I think very many Canadians would be thinking, it really is time for this bunch of ostentatious pharisees to go.
Bill Morneau “dropped the mic” and he’s out. Just walked away from finance minister portfolio & seat as MP.
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So in the middle of a pandemic our country is now left without a finance minister. Wonderful...........absolutely sterling./s He's probably breathing a huge sigh of relief to be out of the fray. Now he can jet off to his 'estate' in Europe for some downtime. :lol:
All he was doing was getting told which of Trudeau’s friends to cut cheque’s for .
Might be a blessing in disguise. Now the financial bleeding may be interrupted for a while. Enough money has probably gone out to last until Xmas!
Chrystia Freeland is already swung in to be the newest Finance Minister, in her spare time, while still the deputy PM & doing the bulk of the workload for Trudeau. That took about 12 hours or less to dump that portfolio into her Inbox? Most of that time was overnight too. Good thing she didn’t have anything else on her plate.
Mark Carney and his Goldman Sachs buddies are the ones that opened the door for deregulation in 2007. He is a dubious choice.
There is a total disconnect between our government members and the everyday woman or man. No one trusts the government to do anything important. Serve yourself is the order of the day. For Justin Trudeau to say that he would like his daughter to be prime minister one day clearly demonstrates he is confusing democracy with privilege and right. We have a drama teacher influencing economic policy. He really doesn't know anything else.
Yep, while she's very clever, I get the distinct impression she's not very strong. She'll do anything for peace and quiet!
She's clever enough to realize that marching in lock-step with der leader has most certainly benefited her career so far, JLM. She also shares - no embraces - the far left agenda being put forward by the slimy ethically challenged pm wherein tax paying Canadians will be further burdened by policies that will benefit only those who fall within their ideologically based guidelines.