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MPs at health committee tell
#DrTam
Canadians don't trust her & won't take
@GovCanHealth
advice on faith: "We're never doing this again. We don't trust you"
#cdnpoli
@MPRandyHoback
388
1K
3K
DOCUMENTS show
@MarcoMendicino
backdated documents in an apparent bid to mislead a federal judge. No comment from Minister's office over 2020
@CitImmCanada
files: "Things are on fire here"
#cdnpoli
@DavidLametti
@PrivyCouncilCA
#cdnfoi
461
2K
3K
Will name names,
@csiscanada
ex-spy testifies at committee; says he has blacklist of fed ridings that became "hunting grounds" for Chinese Communist agents.
#cdnpoli
@MikeBarrettON
@ReneVillemure
93
1K
3K
DOCUMENTS:
@GovCanHealth
quietly paid $682K to Twitter influencers 'not required to reveal they are gov't paid because that would be embarrassing.'
#cdnpoli
@mferreriptbokaw
272
2K
3K
The story unravels! CSIS director contradicts
@BillBlair
testimony that it withheld secret warnings of Chinese harassment of MPs. 100% untrue, says
@csiscanada
chief: "The info was meant to be seen."
#cdnpoli
@Cooper4SAE
#CSIS
153
1K
2K
DOCUMENT:
@EnvironmentCa
says it has no actual data that
@S_Guilbeault
plastics ban actually reduces plastic pollution, which was the point.
#cdnpoli
264
877
2K
Judge who upheld
#FreedomConvoy
rights was Liberal appointee & ex
@JusticeCanadaEn
counsel, says he was "leaning" to the view cabinet was right until he read the evidence.
#cdnpoli
@CaFreeland
@cancivlib
@CDNConstFound
110
702
2K
Budget Officer says gov't is "broken" with little cabinet scrutiny. "There needs to be a crack of the whip, big time," he said: "Hold the gov't to account. I cannot do this just by myself."
#cdnpoli
@JustinTrudeau
@PrivyCouncilCA
83
856
2K
Feds
@GovCanHealth
in a "horrible precedent" demand MPs take an oath of secrecy as a condition of seeing vax contracts to determine if taxpayers were ripped off: "What's next?"
#cdnpoli
@AHousefather
@KellyMcCauleyMP
273
1K
2K
Prosecutors drop charge against
#FreedomConvoy
pastor who challenged quarantine rules that shuttered churches but allowed liquor & pot shops to stay open: "What are we afraid of?"
#cdnpoli
72
442
2K
DOCUMENTS: Feds commissioned secret research into a national digital ID scheme, met sharp pushback by Canadians over privacy rights: 'This may be difficult to achieve.'
#cdnpoli
@JustinTrudeau
@PrivyCouncilCA
@PrivacyPrivee
109
824
2K
Liberal-appointed judge keeps Twitter account praising cabinet & endorsing criticism of Conservative politician. Rules state: "All partisan activity must cease upon appointment."
#cdnpoli
@FedCourt_Can_en
@DavidLametti
@CarreauCarreau
163
787
2K
DOCUMENTS
@Safety_Canada
Feb 7th confirm
#FreedomConvoy
was not a national security threat, contradicting
@MarcoMendicino
testimony; feds withheld
#cdnfoi
briefing note from Blacklock’s until
@OurCommons
was in recess. …
#cdnpoli
87
658
2K
Attorney General
@DavidLametti
loses key court ruling; judge says
@JusticeCanadaEn
cannot block internal emails contradicting feds'
#FreedomConvoy
story.
#cdnpoli
@FedCourt_CAN_en
72
569
2K
DOCUMENTS:
@Safety_Canada
on 1st day of
#FreedomConvoy
issued fake bulletin that truckers ransacked offices. 100% disinformation.
#cdnpoli
#cdnfoi
#ATI
49
804
1K
Minister Freeland, asked by an inquiry lawyer, "What was going on?", spoke for 13 minutes flat, mentioning Russia, the Depression, electric cars and the pronoun "I" 21 times.
@POECommission
@cafreeland
#cdnpoli
#POECommission
154
559
1K
DOCUMENTS: Canada has so many
#PolarBears
they're a nuisance, says federal report contradicting
@CathMckenna
claims
#ClimateChange
threatened the species.
#cdnpoli
@environmentca
159
612
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@AnitaAnandMP
reports feds budgeted $199M to enforce vax mandate on some 5,000 unvaccinated gov't employees incl. undisclosed costs for "legal services."
#cdnpoli
@MPTedFalk
265
870
1K
DOCUMENTS show Canada is still giving millions in foreign aid to China, a nuclear power with a space program & a "dictatorial gov't that abuses human rights."
#cdnpoil
@MelanieJoly
@AndrewScheer
109
928
1K
Commons committee astonished as
@LarryBrockMP
reads into the record a confidential
@CanBorder
report alleging bribes were paid in $54M
#ArriveCan
program: "I have the info right before me."
#cdnpoli
@SousaCharles
59
677
1K
DOCUMENTS: In-house
@PrivyCouncilCa
study finds public rates
#ClimateChange
plan incompetent, unfair and lacking in transparency: 'Only a small number agreed feds demonstrate competence.'
#cdnpoli
@S_Guilbeault
83
560
1K
DOCUMENTS: Wife of
@MarcoMendicino
held stock in war defence contractor at the same time
@Safety_Canada
minister pledged feds would "be out front in helping Ukraine with military aid."
#cdnpoli
@UKRCanCongress
181
846
1K
.
@FinanceCanada
won't disclose debt charges
@CaFreeland
called "handleable," say they literally do not know how many billions are spent on interest: "That is unbelievable."
#cdnpoli
@SenateCA
148
765
1K
PODCAST: How much is $50 billion in subsidies for EV battery plants?
“It’s twice the annual defence budget. More than what we spend federally on medicare in any year. Three times the entire output of Canada’s automotive industry.”
93
925
1K
#Ethics
questions loom on disclosure
@CaFreeland
hosted dinner party for federal contractors at her Toronto home: "She actually convened at her house," Dominic Barton tells MPs.
#cdnpoli
125
675
1K
Official
#RCMP
verdict says "insufficient evidence" of corruption in the
#SNCLavalin
scandal;
@RCMPgrcPolice
admits it never bothered to ask for a search warrant to get gov't files.
#cdnpoli
138
790
1K
Ethics committee by 6-4 vote rejects testimony from whistleblower who exposed insider dealing at tax-funded Sustainable Development Tech foundation: 'They voted to silence a whistleblower,' said
@MikeBarrettOn
.
@BetOnMePodcast
163
798
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MP
@AlexBoulerice
claims
#FreedomConvoy
shoved, spit on & threatened Asians on the streets of Ottawa. Problem: All those allegations were disproved by judicial inquiry.
#cdnpoli
125
500
1K
Press Gallery sends armed police, evict Blacklock's from National Press Building in ongoing reprisal over protests against media subsidies: "We will fight." UNLOCKED
#cdnpoli
@PabloRodriguez
@CdnHeritage
152
614
1K
Commons votes 320-0 for special audit of
@CaFreeland
friends at
@McKinsey
amid grumblings the Opposition wants to "give a false impression the gov't is corrupt."
#cdnpoli
126
332
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@RCMPgrcPolice
the day feds invoked Emergencies Act at 12:59pm falsely claim
#FreedomConvoy
had guns outside Parliament. They didn't. 100% false.
#cdnpoli
@CommrRCMPgrc
55
606
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@FinanceCanada
in-house research says public finds
@CaFreeland
smug, self-satisfied & disconnected from economic realities: "The self-congratulatory criticism came up again."
#cdnpoli
117
481
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@INFC_eng
admits it "misinformed" Parliament & public under
@CathMcKenna
. Budget records misrepresented millions in spending.
#cdnpoli
167
713
1K
Here come the subpoenas: Committee Chair
@KellyMcCauleyMP
will "call every witness & compel every document" to find who concealed $60M
#ArriveCan
payments.
#cdnpoli
@JyDuclos
@CanBorder
59
450
1K
Cost of silk jackets and Beef Wellington adds up as
@GGCanada
costs jump 11%, now headed for $40M annually: "Irresponsible spending by the Governor General has caused outrage."
#cdnpoli
@KellyBlockMP
140
615
1K
David Johnston, 81, testifies he didn't see "every bit of info we'd like to" before absolving
@JustinTrudeau
as blameless over China security warnings: 'You didn't have all the evidence?'
#cdnpoli
@Cooper4SAE
129
496
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@FinanceCanada
Minister
@CaFreeland
wanted
#FreedomConvoy
sympathizers with frozen accounts to be denied cash unless they reported to police, say secret cabinet minutes.
#cdnpoli
@POECommission
146
853
1K
DOCUMENTS: Feds bill mysteriously high $20,000/month upkeep at Prime Minister’s lakeside residence with charges vaguely marked for "snow removal" or "pest control."
#cdnpoli
183
707
1K
DOCUMENTS: Cabinet aides angered over number of military who opposed vax mandate & supported
#FreedomConvoy
: "How the f--k many soldiers are in the convoy????"
#cdnpoli
@AnitaAnandMP
@MarcoMendicino
@DanielMinden
@alexanderecohen
85
518
1K
Cabinet's "inclusion" advisor
@AmiraElghawaby
called Queen a racist symbol who should be deposed, dismissed
#CanadaDay
as "Judeo-Christian storytelling."
#cdnpoli
370
629
1K
Ombudsman
@OPO_Canada
reveals 30 whistleblowers called his office with allegations of sweetheart contracting in public service, says it's just getting worse.
#cdnpoli
49
644
1K
Cabinet quietly OKs order for
@CaFreeland
to borrow and spend $77B more than originally forecast by March 31: "You're simply saying, 'Gimme a blank cheque and then trust me.'"
#cdnpoli
194
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More than 800 Canadian depositors have been "de-banked" at banks' discretion for undisclosed reasons having nothing to do with criminality,
#cdnfoi
records show.
#cdnpoli
#FreedomConvoy
102
711
1K
.
@CaFreeland
is wrong again, says Budget Office: This year's deficit went up, not down, and is running 16% higher than
@FinanceCanada
predicted: "Has the government lost control?"
#cdnpoli
115
554
1K
Police warn
@JustinTrudeau
"handgun freeze" won't work, fear it will boost black market and make firearms tracing more difficult: "Those wanting to acquire guns will find alternatives"
#cdnpoli
@EdmontonPolice
152
479
1K
Nt'l security advisor
@Jody_Thomas
says she missed secret memo warning China agents were targeting Conservative MP because she was on vacation: "You want Canadians to believe that?"
#cdnpoli
@Cooper4SAE
312
508
1K
Loud protests erupt after
@CaFreeland
asks Senators to pass a $9B budget bill they hadn't read: "This is not the first time."
#cdnpoli
@FinanceCanada
@SenateCA
91
587
1K
“If cabinet invoked this as a political hit job, and then lied about the rationale, the implications of that are really dark.”
PODCAST: A third chief disputes
@Safety_Canada
Minister’s claim that he acted on police advice in invoking
#EmergenciesAct
.
102
550
1K
.
@JustinTrudeau
in 2010 interview described David Johnston as frequent dinner companion with whom he had "great conversations." Asked Tuesday, PM said: "I saw him a few times as a kid."
#cdnpoli
90
536
1K
.
@PierrePoilievre
says feds are straight out buying news coverage with expanded $724M bailout that doubled payroll rebates to $29,750 per reporter: '
@JustinTrudeau
is trying to buy off the rest.'
#cdnpoli
48
526
1K
Records show
#CBC
in 7 years rolled up $156M in raises & bonuses while pleading hardship due to disastrous fall in ad revenue: 'We simply can't keep cutting'
#cdnpoli
@PresidentCBCRC
@PabloRodriguez
71
592
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@GovCanHealth
conceals losses on failed $200M deal to build vax factory in Minister's riding;
#Medicago
tells MPs it already spent the money.
#cdnpoli
@JYDuclos
@DrSDEllisCC
106
723
1K
Confused testimony sees
@S_Guilbeault
claim 8 in 10 profit from
#CarbonTax
rebates. 100% untrue, say Budget Office data confirming “most households will see a net loss.”
#disinformation
#cdnpoli
126
567
1K
Staff for
@MarcoMendicino
hide
#FreedomConvoy
records from parliamentary committee with "massive" redactions: "Look at the documents we received here from
@Safety_Canada
"
#cdnpoli
@RhealFortin
@LarryBrockMP
88
578
1K
“It’s got public inquiry written all over it.”
PODCAST: Ex-spy tells astonished MPs that
#CSIS
has 30 years’ worth of records on federal ridings that are “hunting grounds” for Chinese Communist agents.
Blacklock’s &
@richardsyrett
@sauga960am
.
36
573
1K
DOCUMENTS: First-term New Democrat MP
@LoriIdlout
is a federal contractor whose company pulled in $454K since her election.
#cdnpoli
@TheJagmeetSingh
174
690
1K
DATA withheld months by
@FinanceCanada
contradict
@CaFreeland
claim she avoided car travel, show thousands spent on Toronto limos & taxis: 'Ask what we did today to fight climate change.'
#cdnpoli
#cdnfoi
112
517
1K
DOCUMENTS:
#SNCLavalin
wins $150M pandemic contract despite citations for fraud, bribery, bid-rigging & illegal campaign contributions: "We look like a banana republic"
#cdnpoli
@CharlieAngusNDP
@AnitaOakville
@TaylorBachrach
116
718
1K
Chauffeur
@FinanceCanada
named Mr. Labelle drives
@CaFreeland
. He billed 28 days in expenses, mainly in Toronto where Freeland claims she never uses chauffeur. Freeland calls this "blatant misinformation."
#cdnpoli
@juliedabrusin
63
519
1K
DOCUMENTS: Immigration Minister
@MarcMillerVM
faked claim over job impacts on Canadians after dropping 800,000 foreign students into the full-time workforce: "Info you're seeking doesn't exist."
#cdnpoli
@CitImmCanada
109
592
1K
Interestingly, this is from the PM's Facebook page. This is literally an approved message. Nobody in the office said, "Wow, this is a bad idea."
#cdnpoli
@CanadianPM
377
346
998
138
330
1K
DOCUMENTS show
@GGCanada
burned through 25,000 litres of jet fuel to fly to Finland for a
#ClimateChange
speech. People must "act now" to save the planet, she said.
#cdnpoli
@DanAlbas
118
535
1K
Budget Office confirms
@CaFreeland
missed deficit target by 16% with billions and billions more in overspending: "I don't know if they have lost control."
#cdnpoli
@FinanceCanada
@PBO_DPB
111
603
1K
The Budget Office for the second time in two years dispels gov't myth that Canadians make money on the
#CarbonTax
: "Most households will see a net loss."
#cdnpoli
@JasragSHallan
@PBO_DPB
44
566
1K
Brother of
@JustinTrudeau
is summoned to testify Wednesday over disclosures Trudeau Foundation falsified
@CanRevAgency
filings to conceal China donors, a breach of federal law.
#cdnpoli
73
468
1K
“Are you kidding? You know names of legislators, even city councillors, on the People’s Republic payroll? You have to name names.”
PODCAST: Ex-CSIS officer tells MPs there are now Canadian elected officials “being paid by foreign governments.”
#cdnpoli
84
564
1K
No, seriously.
@cathmckenna
claims "privacy" in refusing to tell auditors the addresses of all 53,000 mysteriously-funded public works projects.
#cdnpoli
@taylorbachrach
@PierrePoilievre
@yzgiroux
@INFC_eng
237
586
921
DOCUMENTS:
@EnvironmentCa
data show
@S_Guilbeault
claim that gasoline car ban "will help Canadians with the cost of living" is 100% untrue. Net costs to drivers run to billions.
#cdnpoli
@BCheadle
#disinformation
#FactCheck
67
544
1K
Sweetheart
#ArriveCan
contracting wasn't my fault,
@AnitaAnandMP
tells reporters, says contracts "did not cross my desk" when she was
@PSPC_spac
in charge of contracting.
#cdnpoli
324
464
1K
“Oh THAT memo! Didn’t go to my office, went to Gerry’s office and he didn’t send it on. Guess he caught his tie in the fax machine that day. The idiot defence.”
PODCAST: Minister
@BillBlair
says he didn’t receive warning from spy agency.
#cdnpoli
106
406
1K
Taxpayers out $173M on scheme to build vax plant in Health Minister's Quebec riding. Recovering cash "is not the main focus," said Industry Minister
@FP_Champagne
.
#cdnpoli
@L_Bouchard
184
625
1K
Debt's no problem, "absolutely handleable,"
@CaFreeland
tells Commons finance committee, but won't discuss actual figures on interest charges headed to $50B/year.
#cdnpoli
@adamchamb
@FinanceCanada
172
506
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@CaFreeland
quietly awards
#EV
battery makers $2B, ten-year tax holiday without notice or public hearings: "There are no other stakeholders to consult."
#cdnpoli
@YzGiroux
@FinanceCanada
171
726
1K
DOCUMENTS: "Tough times" Jamaican holiday for
@JustinTrudeau
cost taxpayers $163K, followed PM's remarks that Christmas was "difficult for many Canadians" due to inflation.
#cdnpoli
@LucBerthold
62
541
1K
MPs order unprecedented 10-year audit of every penny ever paid to
#ArriveCan
contractor with insider
@CanBorder
dealings: 'If there is something crooked we have to identify it.'
#cdnpoli
@JulieVignolaBL
51
372
1K
DOCUMENTS:
@OmarAlghabra
was told three months ago
@Catsa_Gc
was disastrously short staffed resulting in airport lineups.
@Transport_gc
#cdnpoli
@MelissaLantsman
122
403
995
#CarbonTax
thank-you notes to
@S_Guilbeault
have vanished. "No records were found," Minister's office says when asked for copies of fan mail Guilbeault claimed to receive.
#ATI
#cdnfoi
#cdnpoli
@MBDan7
118
424
1K
DOCUMENTS:
#CBC
approved $11,989,307 in pay hikes plus $11M in bonuses while claiming "immense pressure" in lobbying for Covid bailout.
#cdnfoi
#cdnpoli
@PresidentCBCrc
@ChuckTCBC
126
588
993
PM
@JustinTrudeau
deliberately riled up Canadians on
#vax
policy, says ex-chair of Quebec Lib caucus: "A decision was made to wedge, to divide and to stigmatize"
#cdnpolitics
#cdnpoli
@StevenMackinnon
@JoelLightbound
47
373
969
Agency that runs
#passport
offices suspended hundreds of staff under
#vax
mandates, data show: "Incompetence is reaching unprecedented heights"
#cdnpoli
@MarcDalton
@karinagould
30
420
968
Today we published internal emails disclosing the scientific director of a federal lab worried about contacts with China prior to an RCMP raid and the firing of two Chinese scientists. Canada's foreign minister responded by blocking us on Twitter.
#cdnpoli
96
556
940
DOCUMENTS: Secret memos show feds knew illegal conduct by
#China
agents was all to
@Liberal_Party
benefit and did nothing: "The Liberal Party was perceived to be friendlier."
#cdnpoli
@DLeBlancNB
58
567
1K
Industry Minister
@FP_Champagne
hides
@VWCanada
giveaways believed to run into billions, ignores committee disclosure order: "This gov't is afraid to give Canadians the number."
#cdnpoli
@BradleyVis
@IqwinderSGaheer
@ISED_CA
60
531
996
Lib MPs reject public inquiry into pandemic mismanagement, opt for closed-door review by handpicked
@GovCanHealth
consultants: "Canadians will never get the answers they deserve."
#cdnpoli
@DonDavies
106
599
1K
“Any time you have a federal department telling the Parliamentary Budget Office it’s top secret, that’s like pulling the fire alarm.”
PODCAST: Cabinet invokes confidentiality in refusing to disclose overhead cost of Canada Dental Benefit.
#cdnpoli
92
457
999
Lib MP
@FSorbara
breaks ranks with cabinet, "completely" endorses public registry of foreign agents no ifs, ands or buts: "We need that to happen."
#cdnpoli
@SenatorHousakos
54
302
995
Nt'l security advisor testifies hurtful tweets against
@JustinTrudeau
justified
#FreedomConvoy
emergency measures: "There was certainly anti-government sentiment," said Jody Thomas.
#cdnpoli
488
474
980
DOCUMENTS:
@JustinTrudeau
placed quiet call to Mayor
@JimWatonOttawa
a day before city went after
#FreedomConvoy
donors.
#cdnpoli
#ottnews
70
559
954
EMAILS show
@JustinTrudeau
misled public over pandemic response. Aides schemed to "try and talk around it" in case anyone noticed.
#cdnpoli
@AnitaOakville
@FitzMoFitz
@lesliechurch
@RoyCecely
@TDLaycock
@ELOCK096
@PSPC_SPAC
70
527
950
.
@CBCNews
retracts fact check of
@PierrePoilievre
housing video, admits news coverage was garbled and "inaccurate."
#cdnpoli
92
452
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Data
@StatCan_Eng
prove Dr Tam’s Covid plan was wrong;
@GovCanHealth
justified lockdowns & mandates on guesswork that "less than 10%" of us would get infected.
#cdnpoli
121
489
968
Feds conceal financial records "just because they can," says Budget Officer, rates Canada among worst of the G7 in transparency.
#cdnpoli
@FinanceCanada
53
508
981
Feds knew of one
#China
Communist agent who tried to enter Canada says
@MelanieJoly
, can't explain why China has 5 times as many "diplomats" here as India.
#cdnpoli
109
433
975
DOCUMENTS confirm
@GovCanHealth
gave security clearance to scientists who hid China contacts including overseas bank account and lied under
#CSIS
questioning: "Who authorized this?"
#cdnpoli
@MarkHollandLib
31
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Latest data
@EnvironmentCa
contradicts
@S_Guilbeault
claim that "our plan is working" as carbon-taxed emissions go higher & higher: "Emissions increased by 12,000,000 tonnes."
#cdnpoli
136
452
983
MPs learn $8M cost of solar-powered
@RideauHall
"barn" was buried in a $192M budget
@CCN_NCC
and never scrutinized by the Treasury Board: "Who else is looking at these budgets?"
#cdnpoli
@AnitaAnandMP
64
601
990