12-year old who objected to being vaccinated cannot be forced to take a Covid shot, an Ontario family court judge has ruled. “The ‘facts’ are changing.”
#cdnpoli
#VaccineMandates
are “extreme measures that could have real divisive impacts” in Canada. “There are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get vaccinated.”
—
@JustinTrudeau
, January 14, 2021.
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: Feds paid cash advance to China for pandemic
#vaccines
. PM
@JustinTrudeau
mislead House May 12: “That is simply not true. We signed 7 vaccine contracts w/ vaccine makers from around the world and not one of them was from China.”
#cdnpoli
Commons by unanimous 320 to 0 vote orders audit of contracts to
@McKinsey
, global consulting firm formerly led by friend of
@FinanceCanada
Minister.
#cdnpoli
Cabinet is demanding MPs take oath of secrecy as condition of seeing terms of $5 billion contracts with vaccine manufacturers.
“It sounds like they’re trying to protect the government and not the taxpayers.”
#cdnpoli
@KellyMcCauleyMP
@AHousefather
205,000 mail-in ballots in last federal election not counted,
@ElectionsCan_E
has disclosed. Number of ballot kits late, cancelled or marked lost in the mail was greater than margin of victory. “We are deeply sorry.”
#cdnpoli
#elxn44
DOCUMENTS: Finance Minister
@cafreeland
makes frequent use of gov’t-issue car & chauffeur in Toronto. Expense account records contradict Freeland’s claim Friday that she avoided car travel and attended meetings on foot or by public transit.
#cdnpoli
Men and boys aged 12 to 29 should no longer take
#Moderna
, says National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
@GovCanHealth
cites 1,376 reports of myocarditis, typically men aged 27. …
#cdnpoli
Cabinet claims that
#FreedomConvoy
political protesters were largely foreign funded were false. “Our records show 88% of donated funds originated in Canada and 86% of donors were from Canada,” president of
@gofundme
tells Commons committee.
#cdnpoli
Chief public health officer has refused to appear for questioning at Commons ethics committee. MPs asked
@CPHO_Canada
to explain data scoop on 33 million cellphone users.
@GovCanHealth
#cdnpoli
Access to Information records show
@FinanceCanada
Minister
@cafreeland
billed thousands for limousines and taxis in Toronto despite claims she relied on a bicycle and public transit.
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: Six out of ten provinces either cut ICU beds or failed to increase number during pandemic despite billions more in federal transfers, according to
@GovCanHealth
:
PEI, NB, NFLD, NS, QC, BC.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#nbpoli
#peipoli
#nfld
“Immunization is not mandatory in Canada,” says
@GovCanHealth
1996 ‘National Report On Immunization’.
“It cannot be made mandatory because of the Canadian Constitution.” Department refuses comment.
#cdnpoli
#MandatoryVaccination
“The dept did not spend any funding to plant trees directly.”
—
@JonathanWNV
, Minister
@NRCan
Feds spent $3.1 million on tree planting campaign without planting any trees, records show. Costs incl. $2,099,901 on staff salaries.
@GregMcLeanYYC
#cdnpoli
Minister used misleading data in defending cabinet’s
#electriccar
mandate,
@environmentca
records show. Department acknowledges banning sale of gas vehicles will cost billions for drivers and “disproportionately impact” working poor.
#cdnpoli
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: Ottawa is a “sick” city that runs on “goddamned incest”: “They’re all married to one another. They’re shacked up with one another. Their wives are on the payroll of the CBC. It’s just awful.”
RIP 1939 - 2024
#cdnpoli
#cdnmedia
“That this man just popped up and was lauded as a war hero in the House — and that not a single person in the PMO, PCO, or Global Affairs thought to confirm a few details in advance, is not credible.” — Vivian Bercovici, ex-Canadian ambassador to Israel
#CBC
faces mandatory disclosure of salaries under Broadcasting Act amendments proposed
@SenateCA
. CBC paid $30.4 million in pandemic bonuses while petitioning for more subsidies.
“I do have a concern about transparency.” —
@PercyDowne
#cdnpoli
@PresidentCBCRC
$327,000/year chief science advisor has not published annual report in 2-years despite requirement to account for “state of fed gov’t science.” Dr Mona Nemer’s billings include… 1/2
#cdnpoli
Environment Minister’s office says it cannot find thank you notes from
#carbontax
supporters named “Bob”and “Jill”. Steven Guilbeault cited letters in Question Period as evidence of popularity of the tax.
#cdnpoli
#ATI
Incorrect.
@Safety_Canada
Minister stated at least 11 times cabinet was acting on police advice.
“We invoked the Act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement.”
—
@marcomendicino
, April 26
SEE THREAD
Husband of Liberal MP
@lisahepfner
must repay pandemic relief cheques improperly claimed under
#CERB
. Michael Aitkens is
@CBCNews
cameraman. The couple owned rental property in Hamilton and St. Catharines, Ont.
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: Chauffeur Daniel Labelle billed 28 days of meals & expenses in driving the finance minister, almost all in Toronto.
@cafreeland
yesterday denied using chauffeured car but did not explain charges by driver.
#cdnpoli
EMAILS: Farm Credit Canada told employees to secretly record names of customers who supported
#FreedomConvoy
tho
@FCCagriculture
publicly denied blacklisting clients.
“If you become aware of a customer’s involvement report it immediately.”
—
@perreaultsoph
#cdnfoi
#ATI
REPORT: Canadians oppose internet voting, says
@ElectionsCanada
:
“A majority agree that voting over the internet should not be an option in federal elections.”
#cdnpoli
Commons votes 174 to 146 to impose closure on internet regulation bill. Worse than anything attempted by Harper gov’t says Greens’
@ElizabethMay
: “I cannot think of a time that a motion this egregious was put forward in that era.”
@pablorodriguez
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: Unnamed Canadian delegate at last UN Climate Conference booked $1,822-a night Dubai hotel suite. Delegation led by
@environmentca
Minister
@s_guilbeault
cost $1,353,307.
#cdnpoli
AUDIT: Routine irregularities uncovered in hiring of consultants in Foreign Affairs Minister
@melaniejoly
’s department.
“In the last 5 years the department signed more than 8,000 consulting service contracts totaling $567 million”
@GAC_Corporate
#cdnpoli
“This is but the tip of the iceberg.”
— Cheuk Kwan,
@TADCtoronto
Trade Minister
@mary_ng
will not comment on her association with group a parliamentary witness named as Communist Party front.
#cdnpoli
PM promises to avoid direct dealings with federal lobbyist after wife appointed as “national volunteer.”
@CMHA_NTL
last year received $1,946,003 in federal grants and additional $2.4 million for local chapters.
@EthicsCanada
#cdnpoli
Immigration Minister allowed 807,000 foreign students to work unlimited hours without any research on impacts, records show.
@MarcMillerVM
said foreigners were not "taking jobs away from other people" but never asked department to find out.
#cdnpoli
.
@PresidentCBCRC
ran up $119,309 in expenses same time the network complained of “immense pressure” on finances, Access To Information records show. Charges included business class junkets to Prague and Hollywood.
#cdnpoli
#cdnfoi
#ATI
#CBC
TESTIMONY: “There are elected officials at all levels whether it’s municipal, prov or fed who’re being paid by foreign govts and who’re not necessarily acting in the interests of Canada.”
— Michel Juneau-Katsuya, ex-chief, Asia-Pacific desk,
@csiscanada
Special rapporteur
@GGDavidJohnston
refuses to testify at Commons public accounts committee over his work at
@fdnPETF
Trudeau Foundation. MPs threaten a summons.
#cdnpoli
Gov’t refuses to say how much it lost on failed $200 million venture to build vaccine factory in Health Minister’s riding. “Financial details & information pertaining to the relationship between Canada & the supplier are considered confidential.”
#cdnpoli
Cabinet relied on
#CBC
stories in invoking
#EmergenciesAct
,
@MinJusticeEn
testifies. “CBC reported I believe on 14th of Feb or 13th of Feb there was foreign funding…various pieces of info we had explained the various measures that we took.”
#cdnpoli
President of
@CanBorder
Erin O’Gorman says she cannot account for disappearance of federal documents used in sweetheart contracting under $59.5 million
#ArriveCan
program.
#cdnpoli
Ex-
#CBC
president who left the broadcaster 5-years ago is awarded retroactive 10.3% pay increase on $428,000 annual salary. Cabinet records show $44,000 raise was recommended by PM
@JustinTrudeau
.
#cdnpoli
@CBC
@PresidentCBCRC
New $2 billion “green” Crown corporation will be permitted to buy, sell and swap shares in other companies without public scrutiny.
@FinanceCanada
Minister
@cafreeland
yesterday wrote confidentiality order into federal regulations.
#cdnpoli
Chair of federal foundation acknowledges she voted to award her own company $217,000 grant at taxpayers’ expense. Annette Verschuren
@SDTC_TDDC
testified at ethics committee she did not consider it a “conflict of interest”.
@BetOnMePodcast
#cdnpoli
Chair of Trudeau Foundation testifies he didn’t know a portion of $125 million taxpayer endowment to
@fdnPETF
was used to buy shares in Chinese corporations. Edward Johnson says he was unaware of stock purchases until a board member objected.
#cdnpoli
House affairs committee today expected to send recommendation for public inquiry to Commons.
Cons, Bloc & NDP yesterday pledged enough votes, 172 against Liberals’ 158, to force independent inquiry into alleged Chinese election interference.
#cdnpoli
98% of public service execs earned bonuses while Finance Minister warned Canadians to brace for recession:
2021: $107.8 million
2022: $190.7 million
#cdnpoli
@TBS_Canada
.
@GovCanHealth
paying “influencers” to say nice things in social media aft Dept faulted for
#pandemic
mismanagement. Minor celebrities will “build the dept’s credibility” and must not “tarnish Health Canada’s or the Gov’t of Canada’s reputation.”
#cdnpoli
MEMO: Finance Minister grossly inflated estimates of
#FreedomConvoy
impact on the economy, internal
@Transport_gc
documents show. Cited “extreme case” that did not reflect actual data.
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS:
#WeCharity
spent $19,752 hosting Sophie Grégoire Trudeau at event in Britain one month before cabinet began negotiating terms of $43.5 million grant.
@JustinTrudeau
#cdnpoli
Federal accountants knew of irregularities in $60 million
#ArriveCan
but were too frightened to speak out, union tells MPs.
“Career suicide” — Dany Richard, president, Association of Canadian Financial Officers
@acfoacaf
#cdnpoli
.
@FinanceCanada
Minister
@cafreeland
in Feb 13 videoconference with bankers said she “couldn’t agree more” with recommendation that cabinet deploy armed soldiers against
#FreedomConvoy
. “It’s a threat to democracy.”
#cdnpoli
Bankers replied… 1/2
Auditors uncover irregularities in spending by Canada’s embassy in Dakar, Senegal. Audit period coincided with PM
@JustinTrudeau
’s Senegalese tour in failed bid to win a seat on UN Security Council.
@GAC_Corporate
@CanEmbSenegal
DOCUMENTS: Canadian exports of thermal coal have tripled since 2015 from 2.4 to 8.2 million tonnes.
“Ending coal power emissions is one of the single most important steps the world must take in the fight against climate change.”
—
@s_guilbeault
PM
@JustinTrudeau
in 2010 radio interview described
@GGDavidJohnston
as a frequent dinner companion with whom he had “great conversations.” Johnston on Tuesday dismissed his “so-called friendship” with Trudeau as insignificant.
#cdnpoli
Failed vaccine factory in
@PSPC_SPAC
Minister
@jyduclos
’ riding received $323 million, double the subsidies originally claimed.
“I am not able to disclose further details,” CEO of Medicago tells Commons committee.
#cdnpoli
There appears some confusion
@CBCNews
over inaccurate, irresponsible
#FreedomConvoy
coverage so we unlocked a story for all to read. We stand by every word, 100% UNLOCKED
#cdnpoli
@LizT1
DOCUMENTS: Public Health Agency last year gave $1,453,000 in bonuses to 68 execs and 10 employees, equivalent of $18,600 each, as auditors and Commons committees uncovered Covid mismanagement.
@GovCanHealth
@KellyMcCauleyMP
#cdnpoli
RECORDS: Minister
@s_guilbeault
, director of communications, chief of staff, exec assistant &
@environmentca
managers billed $710,913 in travel expenses in past year. “We have to be careful when we travel”: Commons committee.
@gerarddeltell
@vankayak
Conservative and Bloc Québécois members of Commons public accounts committee serve notice they seek to review 10 years’ worth of Trudeau Foundation tax returns.
@CanRevAgency
@DiLebouthillier
#cdnpoli
Sale of new $22,000 ventilators as scrap metal for $6 apiece is inexplicable, says MP.
@GovCanHealth
said it had no records on the purchase of devices it licensed.
“Was it incompetence or corruption?”
@markhollandlib
@cherylgallant
#cdnpoli
Feds
@GovCanHealth
paid Twitter “influencers” $682,166 since 2021. Tweeters collected talent fees to post support for federal programs without disclosing they were paid.
Names of “influencers” here:
#cdnpoli
Facebook begins suspending links to Canadian news stories in protest over Bill C-18.
“It is like 1984. You have a Prime Minister passing a law to make news articles disappear from the internet.”
#cdnpoli
DOCUMENTS: Public Health Agency spent $43.3 million on security guards to make 600,000 “door knocks” to ensure travellers were complying with Quarantine Act.
@GovCanHealth
#cdnpoli
REPORT:
#ElectricVehicle
subsidies to date will cost taxpayers up to $50 billion including debt financing charges, says
@PBO_DPB
. Figure is triple the value of annual production of Canadian auto sector.
#cdnpoli
Minister claims he protested human rights atrocities while attending climate conference in China. Dep’t
@environmentca
issued no such statement and
@s_guilbeault
office would not release text or recording in which he mentioned "human rights".
#cdnpoli
Pandemic ventilators purchased from ex-Liberal MP
@frankbaylis
’ company for $237.4 million but never used have been donated to Ukraine as war surplus.
#cdnpoli
MPs question how an SS member escaped scrutiny prior to being honoured on Parliament Hill.
“Only one office in the country is responsible for vetting visitors to this place, the Prime Minister’s Office.”
—
@marty_morantz
#cdnpoli
@HoCSpeaker
Foreign Minister yesterday dismissed criticism of slow Canadian response to war in Israel. “I am a busy woman,”
@melaniejoly
told reporters.
There are “so many issues happening in the world.”
#cdnpoli
@GAC_Corporate
DOCUMENTS: Federal managers paid $669,650 to consultants for tips on how to save money on consultants. “This is about smarter not smaller government,” said
@TBS_Canada
President
@AnitaAnandMP
.
#cdnpoli