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Who'd have guess the Federal Finance Minister under Trudeau would be a gigantic hypocrite?

So we have a multimillionaire finance minister who won't say where all his tens of millions are invested, or whether he's sold his millions of shares in his daddy's company, making tax changes which would greatly benefit -- his dad's company, and a PM who, like his finance minister, makes copious use of family trusts to hide his income from the tax man while earnestly and hypocritically talking about how he's punishing the 'rich' (meaning doctors, farmers, etc) with more taxes on behalf of the middle class. Neither will tell us what they own, so we have no way of knowing how much they will personally stand to benefit from tax changes they are making Does Morneau have discussions with his in-laws the McCain family before making tax changes to decide what would benefit them most? Does he design those tax changes to benefit his daddy's company in order to make himself richer? We don't know. We're not supposed to ask. Unfortunately this Globe and Mail story is under lock but a few quotes are revealing. Finance Minister Bill Morneau has not placed his substantial personal holdings into a blind trust as Justin Trudeau did for his family fortune – a move that the Prime Minister holds up as the gold standard for avoiding conflicts of interest in federal politics. ... And neither the Ethics Commissioner's office nor Mr. Morneau's office will say whether the Finance Minister sold shares in Morneau Shepell, the pension and human-resources management firm founded by his father. ... Opposition MPs and tax experts have said that Morneau Shepell would be one of the main beneficiaries of the move by the Finance Minister to increase taxes on passive investment in private corporations. Disclosure documents that the Finance Minister filed with the federal Ethics Commissioner's office say he is a potential beneficiary of the Nancy McCain 2013 Family Trust. He also appears to be a beneficiary of another trust, called the Morneau McCain Family Trust. Those records also show that Mr. Morneau is sole owner of 2070689 Ontario Ltd., a Toronto-based holding company, which also owns much of an Alberta-based investment holding company in Calgary, 1193536 Alberta Ltd. Ms. McCain, his spouse, is president of the Toronto company and a director of the Alberta firm.

True...the Liberals in Canada have been far more corrupt for far longer than anything Trump has done in politics and governing. That's why there was a no confidence vote in late 2005 and the Liberals were turfed in 2006. Most corrupt party in North America.

1. I use to be a great Habs fan for many years when I was growing up in Montreal. But when I left Quebec I started to lose interest in the team. Reason being that all the old players like Cournoyer, Mahovolich and Dryden besides many others that I use to enjoy watching from the sixties and seventies are all gone now. I really enjoyed games between Montreal and Boston. They were great hockey days for me. 2. Yes, but other than Quebec, none have dared tried to declare themselves unilingual English. The feds would be on their backs like flies on crap if they dared try. Only Quebec was allowed to get away with calling itself unilingual french speaking only. Quebec is the pampered pooch in Canada for the feds, and they must be treated with kid gloves. 3. When I see what is happening today in Canada with the hundreds of different languages and cultures and traditions coming to Canada these days I won't count on English being the main language in Canada in another few more decades. Hardly any of these new third world people immigrating to Canada need to speak English anymore. They can pretty much live in Canada these days without learning English, and many carry on like they did back home without knowing English. As the Caucasian people die off there can only be one end result. Imagine another few decades added to that. Never say never. This is Canada, don't you know. We aim to please the rest of the world at our expense. Just saying. 4. Politics in Quebec has always been crooked. And all was well in Ottawa until the francos took that place over. Now Ottawa is just as crooked as Quebec is. They pretty much run and rule Canada now. Whenever Ottawa puts on some display event, like Canada Day as an example, they will always start off in french only. What does that tell you? It is probably very hard now for an English speaking person to get a job with the feds in Ottawa. Unfortunately for me there are just too many white people whom I have no use for because they are the ones that seem to not give a dam as to what is happening in Canada these days. When 80% of Canada's new immigrants are coming from the third world, which has been going on for decades now, even a white dummy should be able to figure it out that eventually white people will become the minority in their own country. Sure, I am a neo-Nazi and you must be a Jewish supremacist, eh? Sure? I am suppose to sit back and say nothing about the changing makeup of this country. No doubt your loyalty most likely belongs to Israel. My loyalty belongs to Canada. So, why should I not show my displeasure of what is going on in Canada? I do not want to watch my grandchildren having to assimilate into another foreign culture that will be of no use or good for them. Maybe you are looking forward to the day when Canada starts looking more like the color of caramel but not me. White people founded and worked hard and built up this great white nation. Now that nation is in jeopardy thanks in part to people like you who could careless. I am proud to be a patriotic pro-white activist proud boy. You don't like it, well tough boobies for you. Screw Walt Disney. They are one of the many outfits out there that are behind the push to make Canada and the rest of the white world look like caramel. I never did like zero. Ten will work fine for me.

Agreed...this is garden variety Liberal Party of Canada behaviour and quite expected. He could be fined a whopping $100 CAD !

Singh is no JFK in circumstance or purpose. Kennedy already had 14 years in the U.S. House/Senate, was a decorated war hero, and came from a very wealthy family with considerable party influence. Singh didn't have to win primaries in many provinces. JFK's "faith speech" was delivered to a gathering of Houston area ministers, and he used the resulting campaign collateral to further his gains in the polls, but he still faced organized opposition from Catholic bishops for issues that remain to this day (e.g. abortion). Singh faces no such opposition. Singh will not be able to do this in Canada (different system), but the good news for him is that he will not be shot in Dallas either.

Those who live on salaries paid by someone else and those who have inherited or married enough money not to know what a paycheque is have no idea of the level of risk and work involved in "small" business. That also excludes the MDs who are nothing but contract employees of the state for the most part. A small biz guy is LUCKY to net a hundred Gs after sticking his neck out for years and busting his arse daily. With something like 95% failure rate, it is hardly the free ride that the feds are claiming are taking a ride on the back of taxpayers. Now, GOVERNMENT employees, who have no risk, no function, no contribution but enjoy massive paycheques well up into the quarter million range (yes, MANY management and professional government jobs are right up there) and enjoy benefits the private sector could never afford are clearly NOT in the line of fire for the Libs. Suggesting the highest risk working people in the land - the ones who create most of the wealth - are getting some undue benefit is disgusting in the extreme.

They certainly ridiculed Stockwell Day for his religious beliefs.

Allow me to make you see this on another perspective. Québec and the ROC have a very different vision of the roles and players around the religions. For the ROC, it's all about the individuals. One individiual has the right to choose and practice its religion and the religion is seen as a sacred protected cloud under the individual's fundamental rights. For Québec, the individual's spirituality and the religious organizations are seen as 2 totally seperated entities and the religious organizations are NOT protected by one individual's religious rights. The diffirence is major. Québec and the ROC both have one point in common. One individual has the right to choose its religion and practice it in its privacy, public place and cult locations. However, for Québec, that right is limited to the individual. The religion itself does not have the same legitimated right. So if a religion tells you what to wear, what to do and what to eat, those orders are NOT considered as an absolute individual religious rights. Québec doesn't give a shit what your religious organization tells you to do. We consider that you must be intelligent enough to draw the line between what are the choices of the society and the orders from your religion. We know that some people are not able to understand and respect that difference. That's why we require a more explicit secularism than most of the people in the ROC does. When I see a guy like Singh, not capable to remove its ostentatious symbols like its turban and its kirpan (a weapon) if he becomes a PM, it gives me the signal that he will most likely take the wrong decisions if he is confronted in a situation where his religious beleifs are in contradiction with his position of PM for all canadians. He owns his spirituality but, he does not own his religion. He must be capable to take a distance from it. That is the very least I expect from my PM. No way I can trust him if he can't remove his weapon while un function. Whether it is lock sealed into a case or not. That's why we do not mind if a man wears a kirpan when serving burgers in a fast food chain, but we do not accept it if he is a judge, a teacher, a policeman... a PM. Religious practices are not absolute sacred rights of your spirituality. They are orders from religious organizations. They are protected only if you are the only one that is concerned by them. When you occupy a role of autority, every one are concerned. If Singh eventually takes the decision to get rid of his ostentacious symbols while in function, his religious beleifs will become totally irrelevent for me. I know he will be able to draw the line between the choices of our society and his own personal religious beleifs. He would then become credible and he would have the same chances of anyone else to win my political support.

There was a crooked man .. and this is from Panama... looks like their reputation is spreading. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/06/a-little-crooked-house-trudeau-morneau-bmo-kpmg-inc/ There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.