Canada’s Corrupt Political Class – Page 57

Canadian politics is a sad affair: Under pressure to disavow Trump-supporting members, Conservatives slam Liberals for ‘American-style’ attacks says Red Star

When Canadians hear about Trump-style politics coming to the country, many collectively shudder.

But within a day of them recoiling in shock while watching thousands of pro-Donald Trump rioters storm the Capitol in Washington D.C., news outlets were reporting on a photo of the deputy leader of the Conservative party, Candice Bergen, wearing a camouflage Make America Great Again hat.

In the days that followed, more Conservative faux pas, ostensibly involving the far-right, began receiving attention.

Never crossed our minds frankly… Don’t call me Canada’s Donald Trump, Erin O’Toole says

Erin O’Toole wants you to know that he’s not Canada’s version of Donald Trump and that his Conservative Party is nothing like Trump’s bitterly divided Republicans.

O’Toole’s assurances come after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals launched a new effort to brand O’Toole and the Conservatives as “Trump North.”

Warped beyond reason by the weaponized lies of diversity, multiculturalism and mass immigration Canada is lost to identity politics.

Show me the difference between the Conservative party and the Liberals. Each accuses the other of their identical sins.

It’s reached the point where only whites, heterosexuals and Christians remain fair game for discrimination by our hatefully woke media and corrupt political class.

I sure as hell won’t be voting CPC or LPC.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Virtue Signalling Class

Resignation of Canadian Minister Navdeep Bains saves Liberal Party from embarrassment on corruption charges

New Delhi: The resignation of Navdeep Bains, Canada’s Minister of Science, Innovation, and Industry has surprised many across the world. Experts observing Canadian politics underscore the fact that the development is not as simple as it looks. Rather, it should be seen as an attempt by the ruling Liberal Party to save itself from frequent embarrassments on corruption charges and the toil to cover those cases up.

Earlier this week, Canadian Minister Navdeep Bains publicly declared to resign from his post and quit politics on personal grounds – to give more time to his family.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2021January 16, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

WTF?? MacDougall: Erin O’Toole needs to get the Trumpists out of the Canadian Conservative movement

With the federal cabinet now rebuilt and the prime minister eyeing a potential election, we can now consider what is to be done about the fanatics and racists who make up the modern Conservative Party of Canada.

Apologies, I slipped into Liberal character there for a second, previewing what will surely be Justin Trudeau’s preferred line of attack. And while I’m hopeful that an election in the midst of a global pandemic will focus on high-minded questions of public policy, the Liberal predilection for poking the alt-right and social conservative bears (and the media’s appetite to cover it) will win out, as surely as Donald Trump avoids responsibility.

Not that I care. The Conservative party was dead to me already. Liberal or Conservative? Same crap different pile.

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2021January 15, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Conservative Party, WTF?

Canadian action on Chinese forced labour more style than substance, critics say

Trade lawyers and human-rights advocates say the actions Canada announced to combat forced labour in China this week are more style than substance.

And one of Canada’s most prominent activists on the issue is calling on Ottawa to follow the United States in a full ban of cotton and tomato products from China’s Xinjiang region.

Earlier this week, the Canadian government announced a “comprehensive approach” to “defending the rights of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities” in China’s Xinjiang province. The area in the northwest of the country has come under increasing international scrutiny for mass detentions, forced labour and alleged genocide carried out against people who are not part of China’s dominant Han ethnic group.

Style over substance… That’s Canada’s China Class at work. They will sell you out in a Beijing minute to line their pockets.

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2021January 15, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Huawei CFO Meng’s family granted federal travel exemption to visit Canada

OTTAWA — Immigration Canada has granted the husband and two children of detained Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou COVID-19 travel exemptions to visit her in Vancouver.

Meng’s lawyers stated in court Tuesday that her husband Liu Xiaozong and two children applied for the exemption to travel from China at the end of 2020. Liu arrived in October and was followed by the children in December. They remain in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2021January 14, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Senior bureaucrat overseeing border and travel health accepted Air Canada junket to Jamaica

A senior public servant at the Public Health Agency of Canada accepted an all-expenses-paid holiday to Jamaica courtesy of Air Canada Vacations in November, even as her agency has been advising Canadians since March to avoid non-essential travel to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Dominique Baker, the acting manager at the agency’s Office of Border and Travel Health, flew with a friend to the upscale, all-inclusive Royalton Blue Waters resort in Montego Bay in mid-November.

Ms. Baker, who bills herself as a social, fashion and travel influencer on her off-work hours, posted a video a few hours after she arrived in Jamaica, calling the hotel suite with its own infinity pool “mind-blowing – whoa.”

No one in government gets fired.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2021January 7, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canada’s China Class at work… Tax payers subsidizing Communist regime

China still owes Canada $371 million in decades-old debt

China still owes Canada $371 million in loans it incurred decades ago, and is not expected to repay them in full until 2045.

The little-known debt comes from loans to Beijing through the Canada Account, a federal fund providing credit for export-related transactions, usually to foreign governments and corporations to secure the purchase of Canadian goods, such as commercial planes.

The account is used to support transactions deemed too risky for Export Development Canada’s corporate account, but which are still in the national interest, as determined by the federal minister of International Trade.

This is so Canadian. Crony capitalists reap the profit of sales to the Communist Chinese slave state but it’s lowly tax payers who assume all the financial risk.

by Blazingcatfur•January 5, 2021January 5, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Conrad Black: Canada racist? Nonsense

In the absence of anything more original to write at year-end, the politics of this country are discouraging; I lamented as recently as last week the failure of any visible and audible political leader in the country to offer even a slightly uplifting version of what the late president George Bush Sr. used to call ”the vision thing.” Political discourse in this country appears to be confined entirely to climate change, gender issues, native concerns, and the apparently invincible, bone-crushing advance of the juggernaut of political correctness. The entire citizenry seems to have been mobilized to hunt down, root out, pulverize, and incinerate any trace of the ghastly and abominable, ubiquitous bugbear, “systemic racism.” It is an “existential” threat. The phrase means that the social and political system in this case of Canada is rotten throughout, because of its inherent racist prejudices. In practice, many people who bandy this conceptually and acoustically irritating phrase about have no idea what they mean and if asked to think about it, most would say that they believe there has been a good deal of official racism and racially discriminating attitudes and practices in Canadian history, and that to a substantial extent, it lingers yet. This is utter nonsense.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

CEOs raked in hefty dividends as their companies accepted Covid wage subsidy, Financial Post analysis finds

The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in which their firms accepted the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), according to an analysis of share ownership stakes by the Financial Post.

Earlier this month, a Post investigation revealed that at least 68 companies that received more than $1 billion in CEWS — a subsidy designed to help companies that have seen their revenue drop significantly cover payroll costs and keep employees in their jobs — paid out more than $5 billion in dividends over the past two quarters.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Canada’s China Class: Tories Call out Trudeau Liberal Party for Failing to Decide on Huawei, Counter CCP Interference

Tories called out Ottawa for failing to decide whether Huawei should be banned from participating in Canada’s 5G network, and developing a plan to combat Beijing’s growing foreign interference on Canadian soil.

Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Chong issued a statement Monday criticizing the Liberal government for not responding to a motion passed in Parliament on Nov. 18 that requires the government to “make a decision on Huawei’s involvement in Canada’s 5G network and to introduce a robust plan to counter China’s foreign interference operations here in Canada, both within 30 days.”

Canada’s China class has earned a lucrative living selling Canada out to the CCP. They won’t give that up easily.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

#WeScandal – Kielburgers had hand out for tax dollars as usual with Covid wage subsidy

The Canadian government has released a database of businesses which have received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) with WE Charity being listed among the beneficiaries of the program.

The CEWS was implemented by the Canadian government in April to help struggling businesses which have faced declining revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Pandemic election integrity at stake with millions of mail-in-ballots expected: Elections Canada docs

Dozens of Elections Canada employees have been working all summer to figure out how it would collect and count millions of the mail-in ballots it expects to have to process if — or when — Canada holds a general election during a time of pandemic.

At stake: the very integrity of a Canadian general election could depend on how well a mail-in-ballot system would work.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Diane Francis: Pandering to the panda is why Trudeau’s China policy has failed

Dominic Barton’s appointment as Canadian ambassador to China last year was inappropriate because he, and the firm he worked at for much of his life, McKinsey & Company, have been unabashed fanboys of the People’s Republic of China for years.

Pandering to the panda is why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy toward China has failed. Billions of dollars worth of contract breaches by China remain unaddressed, two innocent Canadian businessmen remain political hostages and the Chinese government’s rhetoric toward Canada has become toxic.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•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

Trudeau Backs Barton as Questions Raised on McKinsey Role

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed his support for Dominic Barton on Tuesday when he was asked about whether the ambassador to Beijing knew anything about the opioid sales boost advice that McKinsey & Co provided Purdue Pharma during his leadership tenure.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Trudeau was asked about Barton’s role in, and whether he had knowledge of McKinsey’s work in boosting the sales of drug oxycontin, which pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma made when he was with the consulting firm.

by Blazingcatfur•December 17, 2020December 17, 2020•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Federal prosecutors strive to shut out public from CSIS-China case

A top foreign affairs official says China’s history of lashing out means that “sensitive matters” in a long-running espionage case before Canada’s courts should be kept away from public discussion.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to seal documents and close coming courtroom hearings in the criminal case of Qing Quentin Huang, an Ontario shipbuilder who was charged in 2013 with violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly trying to communicate Canadian naval secrets to China.

by Blazingcatfur•December 17, 2020December 17, 2020•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class