Canada’s Corrupt Political Class – Page 19

Don Martin: David Johnston’s reputation is but a smouldering ruin

Justin and Johnston China Class Grifters

… Sorry, but the perception prevails of them as neighbourly chums in the Laurentian Elite backed by evidence suggesting due diligence was deliberately lacking as he put together his report.

For example, Johnston didn’t reach out to former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole until last week. This was the former leader most vocal about Chinese electoral interference, yet Johnston’s report was already on its way to the printers for translation, by the time an O’Toole interview was booked.

Johnston also took great pains to probe and question the accuracy of news reports yet failed to examine the Trudeau Foundation’s role in the controversy after it received substantial money from Chinese benefactors looking to buy friends in high places.

And his conclusion that senior Liberals didn’t know about Chinese efforts to help elect a Liberal minority mandate was based on merely asking the prime minister if that was the case. Not surprisingly, Trudeau said it wasn’t.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2023May 24, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Terry Glavin: David Johnston escapes inquiry into his own China dealings

The former governor general is a poster boy for ‘elite capture’

In the uproar over revelations earlier this month that Beijing’s meddling in Canadian politics involved a secret plan to target the family of Conservative Party Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Chong, His Excellency Cong Peiwu, China’s ambassador in Ottawa, had some advice for the Trudeau government.

“China strongly urges the Canadian side to immediately stop this self-directed political farce,” Cong said, further urging Parliament to mind its manners and “not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2023May 24, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Poilievre calls on Singh to force a foreign interference inquiry

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to drop the NDP’s support for the Liberals in the House of Commons to force the government to call a public inquiry into foreign political interference.

Former governor general David Johnston, now special rapporteur on foreign interference, tabled a report Tuesday recommending the government not move forward with a public inquiry, citing the sensitive nature of the intelligence an inquiry would have to examine.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2023May 24, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Erin O’Toole blasts former Governor General David Johnston for ‘disappointing’ study of foreign interference

OTTAWA—Former Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says the federal government’s point-person on alleged foreign interference – former Governor General David Johnston – only met with him as a “box-checking exercise,” and that he doesn’t trust his study of the issue to seriously address concerns about Canadian democracy.

O’Toole, the Oshawa MP who led the Conservatives in the 2021 election, added his voice to the chorus of opposition skepticism about how the Liberal government is handling allegations of Chinese state interference, which has grown in recent months into a political firestorm fuelled by a series of intelligence leaks to the media.

"We need a full public inquiry to get to the bottom of Beijing's interference in our democracy. And that's what I will deliver when I am prime minister," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vows as he reacts to David Johnston's recommendation against holding inquiry.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/0abEXpv1pg

— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) May 23, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2023May 23, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Trudeau Flunky & Fellow China Grifter David Johnston rules out public inquiry into Communist China’s interference in Canadian politics

Former governor general David Johnston says China’s interference in Canadian politics is an “increasing threat to our democratic system” but ruled out a public inquiry on the matter, saying intelligence on Beijing’s activities is highly classified and could never be openly discussed with Canadians.

In a 55-page report tabled Tuesday, Mr. Johnston said he uncovered no proof that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ignored intelligence briefings on Chinese influence operations in the 2019 and 2021 elections, or warnings of attempts by Beijing to intimidate Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong.

“I have not found examples of ministers, the Prime Minister or their offices knowingly ignoring intelligence, advice or recommendations on foreign interference or being driven by partisan considerations in dealing with these issues,” he wrote.

The slimy bastards.

This is an unmitigated disaster. He is explaining at length why it is incumbent upon the public not to question his impartiality, rather than upon him as a public officeholder not to put the public in a position of having to wonder.

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) May 23, 2023

No public inquiry: David Johnston to instead conduct public hearings on foreign interference

Erin O’Toole says special rapporteur only met with him as report was already being translated – Review was ‘set up to fail’ by Liberals, says former Conservative leader

"A public inquiry examining the leaked materials could not be undertaken in public given the sensitivity of the intelligence," special rapporteur David Johnston says as he recommends holding public hearings instead of a formal inquiry on foreign interference. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/xYlwjNoRnD

— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) May 23, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2023May 23, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

How we got here: China’s unrelenting influence campaign, the Liberals’ mishandling and the questions that remain

Looking back, we should have known. No, strike that, we knew; everybody knew. However much China might have liberalized its economy, whatever material gains it might have made, it was always clear that the Communist Party of China was the same brutal gang of thugs it always was. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 because Mikhail Gorbachev would not approve shooting the protesters. That same year, at Tiananmen Square, China went in another direction.

Looking back we should have known that the unholy alliance of the corporate and political class were all too willing to sell Canada to the ChiComs.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2023May 22, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Personal attacks on Justin Trudeau’s fellow China Class crony David Johnston by Conservatives are ‘unseemly,’ says minister who genuinely expects us to roll over and believe the usual Bullshit

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the Conservatives’ personal attacks against former governor general David Johnston — who is set to reveal Tuesday whether he believes a public inquiry into foreign interference is necessary — are “unseemly.”

LeBlanc, who is also the minister responsible for overseeing democratic institutions, told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday, that Johnston is a “senior statesman in public affairs and public service and the law,” and Canadians should judge him for his report, rather than being “unduly agitated by (Conservative Leader Pierre) Poilievre’s negativity.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 21, 2023May 21, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

The Horror! Pierre Poilievre has made the job of Justin Trudeau’s ‘ski buddy’ almost impossible

Long before David Johnston was given a role in Canada’s foreign-interference saga, and even before he served as governor general under a past prime minister, he had a walk-on part in a famous work of fiction.

Johnston was the real-life inspiration for the character “Davey Johnston” in Erich Segal’s tragic novel “Love Story,” which was made into one of the most wept-over films of the 1970s, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw.

So what made an over privileged frat boy become a ChiCom sympathizer?

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2023May 19, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Bill Blair significantly delayed approval of CSIS surveillance on LPC powerbroker Michael Chan as if to avoid scandal during 2021 election

Bill Blair took months to approve CSIS surveillance of Liberal powerbroker, national-security source says

… Although lawyers for CSIS and independent counsel from the Justice Department approved the warrant as did the office of CSIS director David Vigneault, the source said Mr. Blair, a former Toronto police chief, did not sign off on it until June.

The four-month delay left little time for CSIS to get the approval of a federal judge and to figure out the best ways to plant bugs in Mr. Chan’s cars, home, office, computers and mobile phones before the election campaign got under way.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered the election in August, 2021, for Sept. 20 – a ballot in which the Liberals returned to power with another minority government.

The LPC is in the bag to China.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2023May 19, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Doug Ford, Chrystia Freeland spar over whose stash of tax payer cash should be used to rescue Stellantis corporate welfare scheme

OTTAWA – Queen’s Park and Ottawa are at a standoff over funding for a multi-billion battery plant in Windsor, Ont., with the 2,500 jobs hanging in the balance as the company threatens to walk away if a deal can’t be reached.

Stellantis and its partner LG announced the battery plant in January 2022, pledging to create 2,500 new jobs in the community with the $5-billion plant. Details were kept secret at the time, but the company appears to have received $1 billion, split between the federal and provincial governments, to build the plant.

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2023May 17, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Canada is getting played by Stellantis, but we asked for it

Ottawa and Queen’s Park are getting played by Stellantis but you can’t say they didn’t ask for it. By deciding to engage in a subsidy war with the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford ensured they would be held for ransom.

Politically, they have no choice now but to pay up. Mr. Ford and Mr. Trudeau have boasted so much about attracting electric-vehicle investments, they would both lose face if Stellantis packed up its marbles. They may argue in public over who should pay most of the ransom to prevent Stellantis from cancelling plans to build a $5-billion electric-vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont. But none of that will matter in the end.

Neither Ford nor Junior will lose any sleep over this heinous waste of tax payer money.

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2023May 16, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Jack Mintz: Public-sector employment growth is badly distorting labour markets

The federal public servant strikes reminded Canadians that public-sector employees have a pretty good deal. On an apples-to apples comparison, their pay is higher on average than in the private sector. Their jobs are secure even in a recession. And they benefit from rich, inflation-indexed pensions. They may also get more vacation and paid-leave days compared to the private sector.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2023May 13, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Windsor Mayor Demands Frankie Champagne Extort Tax Payers For Bigger Stellantis & LG EV Battery Plant Bribe After VW Hit Corporate Welfare Jackpot

Windsor mayor calls out Ottawa after Stellantis accuses feds of failing on plant deal

The mayor of a southwestern Ontario city says he expects the federal government to live up to a deal that would see one of the world’s biggest automakers build an electric vehicle battery plant in the area.

Stellantis says the federal government has not delivered on an agreement with the automaker and South Korean battery-maker LG Energy Solution to build a battery plant in Windsor, Ont.

People can’t afford shelter or food and are taxed to death but the fucking Liberals can always find a reason to grease Corporate palms.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2023May 13, 2023•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

‘This is a system that’s breaking’: Toronto food bank lineups swell as grocery prices spike

On Saturday mornings, Maggie Herdman, 31, leaves her home near Jane and Eglinton at 6 a.m. to commute nearly an hour to the Fort York Food Bank. Once there, it can take up to four hours before it’s her turn to shop inside the small College Street storefront.

Before the pandemic, Herdman used to be able to relax, sit down and read as she waited inside. Now, through rain and snow, she stands by as the line snakes behind her towards Kensington Market. “I’ve gotten sick before,” said Herdman, a recipient of Ontario Works. “But I still do it.”

All of this misery lies at the feet of our ruling class. Mass immigration, supported by the Uniparty has driven shelter costs beyond the reach of many, young, old it doesn’t discriminate.

Anybody seen any trickle down from the public service strike? Didn’t they claim they were “fighting” so everyone could enjoy gold plated benefits like they have?

Who thought that Canada would become a Banana Republic governed by greed.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2023May 13, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Liberal-funded pro sexual mutilation of children charity trying to ban Fox News

Jamie Sarkonak: Egale, the Liberal-funded charity trying to ban Fox News

The rights organization that asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ban Fox News gets the majority of its money from government.

It’s an awfully lucrative funding stream for an organization that happens to call for the silencing of the federal government’s ideological opponents. While federal funding certainly isn’t a death sentence for credibility, it’s something to be mindful of — especially when that money is new, and especially when the recipient seems to align with government on many issues.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2023May 12, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Big Tranny, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class