As Trudeau Continues to Make More and More Gaffes, the Hardest Working MP Currently....Pierre Poilievre

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=575525086470133&notif_id=1594650099335645&notif_t=watch_follower_video&ref=notif

Liberal Unaccountability - Let Us Count the Ways

It is no secret the handouts being doled out by the Liberals have provided much needed financial resources to a broad base of Canadians.  However, it is clear that the focus has been on younger (potenially future Liberal) voters with so many dollars thrown at them, for such a demographic that lacks financial obligations, has existing shelter and resources.  Meanwhile, seniors are still waiting on their $300 cheque, the demographic that has paid an entire career's worth of taxes and beyond into their retirements!

This blatant favouritism I cannot believe more Canadians are not discussing this.  With Sophie as "an Ambassador" and Justin admittedly having done work for WE previously, the conflicts around this are endless.

"...“When the Federal Government ‘outsources’ the delivery of a grant program it effectively does an end run around transparency and Parliament as NGO’s are not subject to the same federal ATIP information requirements . This is deeply concerning,” Conservative MP Dan Albas tweeted.

“$900 Million. Journalists cannot use ATIP. MPs cannot review this spending at committee. The Auditor General will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details. So much is wrong here,” he added on social media Friday.."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-says-charity-with-ties-to-him-and-his-wife-only-one-that-could-run-covid-19-student-volunteer-grant-program/wcm/ffefc862-60ba-4085-aeb2-4eddb8fcc547/

Logical Liberal Heads Must Prevail: Chinese Gold Producer Bidding for TMAC Resources, Allowing Shandong To Run Amok, Unobserved, in Canada's North

https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/ottawa-to-scrutinize-chinese-acquisition-of-gold-miner-as-huawei-case-reaches-crucial-stage#comments-area

Although below the threshold for automatic review, given the recent comments by China after yesterday's Meng court decision, surely this transaction will be scrutinized to a very high degree.  If not, the (state-owned) Chinese gold producer, Shandong Gold, will be able to run amok and do as it wishes in the remote north with regards to enviornment, security, 5G networks/communications and crossing Canadian borders. 

Over 300 Dead Due to Terrorist Attacks On Christians in Sri Lanka: How Much More Bland Could Our Prime Minister's Comments Be?

After the "Sikh Terrorism" debaucle, Justin and the Liberals have learned  to avoid mention of accusers and linking (obvious) terrorism to geographic/ethnic groups (ahem, voters). 

Now the Liberals Are Acting on the Illegal/Irregular Border Crossers...?

...however, how coincident is it that with six months to the election, these will never ever pass.  In other words...that is just what it is...WORDS, no action.  Everyone can see the Liberal playbook now, it is time they changed it.

Where is MP and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship ("citizenship" being last in his title) Ahmed Hussen?

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-in-two-years-liberals-go-from-welcometocanada-to-deportations-without-hearings?video_autoplay=true#comments-area

"Tuesday Night Massacre": Will This Be A Moment Remembered in Canadian Politics, Not For Its Idiocy, But The Downfall Yet To Occur?

After the unsuprising ousting of both Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot, the Trudeau brand again becomes tarnished.  In a self claiming "Feminist" status, Trudeau and the Liberal Party do not realize the mistake they have made - two responsible women (yes at a time of  #MeToo and gender equality, a platform that dictated the near 50/50 split of males and females for Ministers) have stood independently up to the rest of their party for very valid principles and values that all Canadians should be concerned about, yet Trudeau pulls a Trump and gives them a "You're fired!". 

Budget Day for Canada: Let's See What Tricks The Liberals Have Up Their Sleeve to Deflect Attention from SNC, Shipbuilding scandals

With no timeline to pay back Canada's billions of debt, no doubt the Liberals will take today's occasion to promise everything to all Canadians and run up more deficits.  The question is only how much and how patronizing will this budget be.

Is "Sunny Ways" Governing Over For Justin?

After the resignation yesterday of Gerald Butts, Trudeau's trusted and sacrificial right hand man,  there is no shortage of negative federal Liberal news. 

As I scroll down the National Post phone app this morning, there are no less than six headlines about he SNC Lavalin affair and how the Liberals have botched the responses, messaging and strategy behind what actually was said between Wilson-Raybould and members of the governing Liberals.

The article that broke this consecutive string was another Liberal related articel titled, "This Photograph (and others) of Harjit Sajjan cost Canadians $161,000".   

How many more gaffes can this government perform before even the most apathetic Canadian voter casts his/her vote elsewhere come October, 2019?

Sunny Ways? Did it ever start?

The "Minister Of Imaginantion" is Trying to Justify His 3.5 Years In Office Today...and Possibly Deflect from Other SNC-Lavalin/Justice Minister News

Stop the press! "Minister of Imagination", the least visible Minister of the top portfolios under this government is actually doing something. Maybe we will discover what he does all day. After almost 3.5 years at his post, we will have a 100 page report. (I do not understand how he is going to get 100 pages out of this, maybe a picture book)

"...Next week, he will release a 100-page government report called Building a Nation of Innovators that mostly serves as a collection of the various policies, programs, plans and funding mechanisms the government has undertaken under the auspices of innovation..."

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/navdeep-bains-interview-innovation?fbclid=IwAR1J9LHQD3mX7mHIQwqI23JmGe7eYcwi55A9h5dUlGP5EaHnaYLJ1gfnI44

And from the House of Commons today, wherefore art thou Justin?

Where's the Peanut? Justin Shuffling the Minster Roles Post Brison's "Retirement"; The Worst Offenders Needed Replacing Are Still There

We will find out soon enough through the Davie shipbuilding scandal that will take place in the courts why MP Scott Brison had suddenly retired. 

And what of some glaring incompetence in the Minister ranks - Minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi?

"...Finally, it’s worth noting who did not move or change: Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.

The Liberal government has met with the scorn of many Albertans for failing to do more as the oil industry continues to struggle and gasp. Trudeau appointed Sohi in the hopes a minister from Alberta might help send a signal that Albertans were being listened to, but Sohi’s home province has had little effect on the frustration of Alberta voters. At the end of the day, the Liberals have very few seats at the table in Alberta, and moving a minister would pull their only Alberta presence in cabinet — it seems wasn’t worth it..."

https://globalnews.ca/news/4846876/trudeau-mini-cabinet-shuffle-2019-election/

Infrastructure Promises, Promises: Remember the Campaign and the Setting Up of an Infrastructure Bank? Well, Nothing Done Yet

$35.5 billion tied up and nothing to show for it.  Much like the Liberals track record thus far. 

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/what-has-trudeaus-infrastructure-bank-achieved-a-recycled-loan-and-millions-in-expenses

Gender Equality? More of Trudeau in Hot Water AND Foot in Mouth Disease

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-menace-of-the-man-camp-sorting-out-trudeaus-latest-alberta-problem

Bank of Canada Rates Unchanged: Thank The Liberals For Bungling Canada's Energy Industry and its Contribution to Economic Growth That May be “Materially Weaker”

In the USA, the unemployment rate is closer to 4%, and is not complacent about it.  Here in Canada we are supposed to jump for joy at 6%.  The impacts of pipelines lacking is finally resulting in the rose colour coming off economists' and BoC's glasses.

What's that I hear? I think I hear a sigh of relief from real estate agents and mortgage brokers.

https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/bank-of-canada-holds-interest-rate-at-1-75-per-cent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/falling-car-sales-are-latest-sign-of-rate-hikes-hitting-canada?srnd=premium-canada

This Liberal Government Says It Is For Veterans, Yet Also Does Not Have Enough to Pay What They Are Asking For - Here is What the "Progress" on Bill C-12 Says...

https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Language=E&billId=8166461&View=8

Editd excerpt: "Bill C-12 amends the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act to, among other things...
• increase the percentage in the formula used to calculate the earnings loss benefit;
• specify when a disability award becomes payable and clarify the formula used to calculate the amount of a disability award; 
• increase the amounts of a disability award; and
• increase the amount of a death benefit."

In addition, it contains transitional provisions that provide, among other things, that the Minister of Veterans Affairs must pay, to a person who received a disability award or a death benefit under that Act before April 1, 2017, an amount that represents the increase in the amount of the disability award or the death benefit, as the case may be."

Bill C-69 Link to Document

Here is the Summary section...

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-69/third-reading#itemSUMMARY

USMCA: Is it Really Fun To Stay In This USMCA? Details Of the Dairy Industry Now Emerging and the Farmers Don't Like It!

"The pact, which also includes Mexico, will give the U.S. greater access to Canada’s protected dairy market, eliminate the nation’s new milk-pricing system and restrict the sector’s ability to export. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to compensate farmers to cushion the blow, industry groups say past experience has shown that aid packages amount to a “pittance,” and the government won’t be able to cover the financial hit the industry is poised to take."


https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/dairy-farmers-doubtful-trudeaus-aid-pledge-will-help-as-industry-faces-1-billion-in-yearly-losses

More Anti-USA Liberal Shenanigans: No Invite to the USA For An Ottawa Hosted Summit

Apparently, this is what "like-minded countries" looks like. 

https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/u-s-not-invited-to-canadas-save-the-wto-summit-of-13-like-minded-countries

It is clear the Liberals' strategy heading into the 2019 election is to stir up the anti-American sentiments.  They have nothing else of substance, so stoop to new lows.


http://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/canada/201810/04/01-5199017-le-canada-exclut-les-etats-unis-dun-sommet-sur-lomc.php

As If The Trans Mountain PIpeline Could Not Become Worse - It Becomes More Vague: Liberals Throw Out Any and All Timelines On the Project The Liberals Purchased (With Our Tax Dollars)

With all the legal, enviromental and initial financial resoruces in hand (up until the recent Supreme Court decision to which it should never have been escalated and at least backing from the previous owner) this Liberal government chooses to forego appealing any Supreme Court decisions surrounding the Trans Canada pipeline and after three years of governing, NOW wants to sit down and "consult" with those parties that have claimed they were not consulted properly. 

This is not a case of speaking with a few dissidents.  No, in fact, "the government will re-initiate consultations with all 117 indigenous groups impacted by the project". 

"The minister was asked during the press conference on how he can hold consultations when it looks like the government has already decided to build the pipeline expansion, which it bought from Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. earlier this year for C$4.5 billion ($3.5 billion). He said the government wouldn’t cap the length of indigenous consultation, and approach it with an “open mind and good faith". 

Having spent C$4.5B in taxes, the Liberals are in no way motivated to see this initiative through.

This leaves cannabis legalization as the only thing the Liberal government has accomplished in its term.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/canada-won-t-appeal-pipeline-ruling-relaunches-consultation

Bill C-45: As Cannabis Legalization is Two Weeks Away, Here is Some Light Reading On the "Future" of Sunny Ways in Canada...

Just in time for Canadians to be stoned and amenable to the Liberal election campaign over the next year...

http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-45/royal-assent

New LNG Pipeline: Let the "Have Not Been Consulted" Playbook Begin...Again

Although NAFTA (or now, USMCA...saying it to that infamous 70s tune) was an important and attention grabbing deal that had to be completed in some way, the Liberals have not pounded their chest on this one?

Why?

Is it because: the Liberals are masters of delaying (into the next election, like Trans Mountain), ii) the passive-aggressive tactics the Liberals use allow them to say words and appear "pro-pipeline" or in this case "pro-LNG"; however, there actions are sabotage appeasing also the protesters (at least letting the protesters think they have won...for now), or iii) the ad hoc and erratic "consultation process" has not been determined on this huge economic opportunity (waiting to see how the protest movement and environmental extremists are going to spin this one and mobilize). 

Who knows.  The fact that this has not been given the attention or been the lightning rod as much as Trans Mountain leads me to believe this is as far as LNG is going to go. 

I hope I am wrong.

https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/update-3-massive-canada-lng-project-gets-green-light-as-asia-demand-for-fuel-booms