Canada’s Corrupt Political Class – Page 53

Why does Canada’s foreign aid policy keep stumbling?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s last overseas trip before the pandemic struck was to Africa.

His first stop was Ethiopia, the top recipient of Canadian aid in the world. There he praised Nobel Peace Prize winner President Abiy Ahmed, citing his “leadership,” the reforms he had brought forward and the way the PM saw the president “pulling Ethiopians together.”

This month, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau had to call his Ethiopian counterpart to express “Canada’s deep concern regarding credible reports of human rights violations and abuses” in the Tigray region.

Why does Canada’s foreign aid policy keep stumbling? Because it’s a bad idea.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2021March 19, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rex Murphy: This isn’t just ‘a political scandal.’ It’s a WE scandal

‘This is a political scandal for the government, not for WE Charity.’ — Marc Kielburger at Monday’s House of Commons ethics committee hearing.

So, Marc, it’s a scandal you say, but just for the government, not for WE. I presume you mean the present government led by Justin Trudeau. A scandal for the Liberal government.

GUNTER: Is Justin Trudeau the lost Kielburger triplet?

Is it possible our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is in reality the lost Kielburger triplet?

From time to time on Monday, during the Commons Ethics committee testimony of WE Charity pitchmen, Marc and Craig Kielburger, I’ll admit I wondered whether maybe Craig Kielburger and Justin Trudeau were the same person.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2021March 17, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Kielburgers torpedo relationship with Liberals — ‘We never prorogued Parliament’

It was maybe an hour or so into the Kielburger brothers’ testimony on Monday when Nathaniel Erskine-Smith finally cut to the heart of the matter. The Liberal MP, in his mild and polite way, absolutely skewered the Kielburgers over the heartbreaking story shared by U.S. journalist Reed Cowan. Cowan had donated to WE Charity, and helped raise a sum reportedly running into the millions. Cowan was told by WE that the funds had gone to the construction of a school in Kenya, and that a plaque honouring Cowan’s late son Wesley had been put up in his honour. The problem is that the plaque was later taken down and replaced by another plaque, honouring another donor, which Cowan discovered on a subsequent visit.

It’s difficult to like the Kielbugger boys.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2021March 16, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Charlatans

Kielburgers resort to pathetic “Think Of The Children” deflection

WE Charity founders accuse MPs of trying them in ‘court of public opinion’

Craig and Marc Kielburger say a parliamentary committee’s study into WE Charity is nothing short of a political trial, accusing MPs of trying to score points at the expense of children around the world.

The brothers delivered the indictment of the House of Commons ethics committee this afternoon as they defended WE’s operations and structure as well as the since-cancelled agreement to have it manage a federal student-grant program.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2021March 15, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rogers signs deal to buy Shaw in transaction valued at $26B

Rogers Communications has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at $26 billion, including debt, which would create Canada’s No. 2 cellular operator — but is likely to face stiff regulatory scrutiny.

Under the plan, Rogers will pay $40.50 in cash for each of Shaw’s issued and outstanding class A and class B shares. Shaw’s class B shares closed at $23.90 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday.

As part of the transaction, the companies said Rogers will invest $2.5 billion in 5G networks over the next five years across Western Canada.

Is this really a good idea? In Crony Capitalism Canada it is!

Rogers fines 91-year-old woman unable to return equipment due to lockdown

The family of a 91-year-old woman is outraged Rogers had demanded she pay hundreds of dollars for failing to return phone and internet equipment while her long-term care home was under lockdown.

The family cancelled those services for Joan Davis in early May after noticing her dementia was worsening and she was struggling to use them.

They kept basic cable to help her pass the time. Her daughter, Lori Davis, says Rogers told the family a technician would pick up the equipment, but never showed.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2021March 15, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rex Murphy: The Kielburgers have conditions for Parliament? Who the hell do they think they are?

As a single marker to the hollowness of my days, only partially accounted for by the COVID quarantines and the endless relays of its dreary and confusing morbidity statistics, allow me to tell you I have been watching some old video clips of past WE Days of brand Kielburger.

Wee liars…

WE Charity still sitting on $40M in Toronto real estate that was to be sold for endowment fund

Six months after WE Charity announced it would sell off its Canadian assets to create an endowment fund for its humanitarian programs abroad, more than $40 million in Toronto real estate remains with the charity organization.

by Blazingcatfur•March 13, 2021March 13, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Just 17% Of Canadians Support Canada’s Highest Quotas In Immigration History

“A Nanos Research Group poll, reported by Bloomberg News, found that only 17% of respondents think the country should accept more immigrants in 2021 than it did in 2020.

The result is a shunning of majority opinion by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As Cultural Action Party has pointed out, within the world of public polls in Canada, a curious state-of-affairs exists.

Immigration policy should be designed solely to benefit citizens not the corporate sector or political parties as is the case in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•March 12, 2021March 12, 2021•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Say What?

Indeed:

Xinhua News Agency, the propaganda arm of China’s Communist Party, is out of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery after 57 years. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa did not comment: “There is no perfect democracy, only democracy that fits best.”

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021March 8, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Censorship in Canada, China, Foreign Influence in Canadian Politics, Politics

Ethics Committee to Summon Kielburger Brothers to Testify

This should be under oath with penalties for perjury:

Members of the House of Commons ethics committee have unanimously voted to summon WE Charity co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger to testify.

Last week, they declined requests to do so, a fact that MPs from all parties expressed concerns about on Monday.

A summons from a Commons committee has legal force, and the motion gives the brothers until Friday to appear.

The Commons ethics committee wants to hear from the Kielburger brothers as part of ongoing scrutiny of a federal agreement to have WE manage a now-cancelled student services grant program.

But the charity had noted that New Democrat MP Charlie Angus has requested that the RCMP and the Canada Revenue Agency investigate WE’s operations.

The charity said it would be unfair to subject it to what it called a partisan committee investigation at the same time.

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Politics

From the Most Opaque Government Ever Re-Elected

There was apparently nothing wrong with how the Trudeau government handled the pandemic according to e-mails that the Liberals wanted no one to see:

The Department of Public Works in self-congratulatory internal emails said it was “very proud” of doing a great job on pandemic management, “a great story for us.” The messages were exchanged as Covid deaths nationwide approached 9,000: “We’re everybody’s government!”

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, China eats weird animals disease, Politics

Article: “Here’s what can happen if the Kielburger brothers refuse to testify before parliament “

Make the little sh— testify:

The ethics and the procedure and House affairs committees have both requested that Craig and Marc Kielburger come forward and testify. They declined. In a March 3 statement, WE Charity referenced Feb. 28 comments by NDP MP Charlie Angus, who said he wrote to the Canada Revenue Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police requesting an investigation into the charity.

“Accordingly, WE Charity and its leadership are declining the additional requests to testify from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics and also the Procedure and House Affairs Committee,” said a WE Charity press statement.

The statement said the charity has already testified at various “highly partisan” committee meetings, and that it would continue to work with Dion’s investigation.

At this point, the committees could issue a summons, compelling the Kielburgers to attend. If they continue to refuse, according to the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, the committee can report it to the House of Commons, and the House “then may order the witness to appear” and they will be “called to the Bar” — a literal brass bar across the House of Commons — to explain themselves.

The House has the power, similar to a court, to compel someone’s presence.

“If the witness disobeys the order, the witness may be declared guilty of contempt,” the House manual says.

by Osumashi•March 6, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Law Does Not Apply, Politics

‘Shocked, astonished, horrified’: WE’s alleged dubious fundraising methods could have negative impact on other charities

OTTAWA – “Horrifying” stories of WE Charity’s alleged plaque-swapping and other dubious practices has prompted calls for investigations by the RCMP, the Canada Revenue Agency and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Charity experts fear that the allegations will make Canadians less likely to open their wallets to other charities, already dealing with a downturn due to the pandemic.

by Blazingcatfur•March 2, 2021March 2, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rex Murphy: Finally we might get answers to the Trudeau-WE Charity scandal

It’s good to see that some outside testimony from a former donor, and a significant one, to WE Charity, Reed Cowan, has reignited public attention to the eerie connections between the Kielburger WE apparatus, the federal Liberal government, and the Trudeau family — wife, brother, mother and the prime minister himself.

by Blazingcatfur•March 2, 2021March 2, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

WE Charity was ‘duplicitous’ in its Kenya dealings, claims prominent donor Reed Cowan

A prominent donor to WE Charity has alleged that the charity was “duplicitous” in its relationships with donors and has failed to provide a proper accounting of its use of donor funds in Kenya.

Reed Cowan, a U.S. television journalist who estimates that he has mobilized millions of dollars for WE Charity, told a House of Commons committee that the charity had misled donors by promising sponsorship of the same Kenyan school to different groups without their knowledge.

It’s no wonder the Kielburgers and the Liberal Party embraced one another, they’re philosophical and ethical twins convinced they’re doing “The Lords Work.”

I was off air today testifying before members of Canada’s Parliament about my son’s legacy feeling destroyed. My testimony begins at 13:59:30 https://t.co/hDmQBYe7S0 devastating day. .@News3LV @DatelineNBC @Oprah @JustinTrudeau @Madonna @Malala @MiaFarrow @NellyFurtado @Walgreens pic.twitter.com/Avh5FgcqBf

— Reed Cowan (@reedNews3LV) February 27, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2021February 27, 2021•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class