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Remember stock and the sea doo? And how he was raked across the coals by the media, and yet trudeau jumps out at people half dressed and the media thinks it is cute.

Actually, that was more like the PM deliberately obstructing journalists from asking pertinent questions by blocking questions to Morneau. Morneau seems like a nice guy actually, but he'll either resign or not run in the next election. The media seems to waking up a bit these days, to the Liberal arrogance, lies and broken promises. ETA: I'm okay with stopping 'income sprinkling' if there is no proof that the relative is working or putting in time for the corporation.

I wonder how long it will be before Trudeau throws Morneau under the bus... the shiny pony is not so shiny these days.

We need Harper back. Now everyone knows Harper was a alright leadr, not perfect but solid.

And I disagree. I never saw Harper even mention his religion in any respect in any way. I don't think that was an accident for a very observant and devout Christian. He obviously did feel the need to downplay it due to the relentlessly hostile attention he received for being a devout Christian. Had his religious beliefs required him to wear some sort of ostentatious clothing I have no doubt the Left would have collectively ridiculed him and it at every opportunity.

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.

They are a cartel of contractors with little accountability for performance and no competitive marketplace to control costs. Nothing at all like a business. In fairness to the government: I believe is was PSCs (Personal Service Companies) that was their target, but they instead drew the circle around actual business out of total ignorance.

A lot can happen in two years , many people still go for good looks and good hair rather than good governance. Talking about Morneau, if he still holds over 2 million in shares in Sheppell and Morneau that are not in a blind trust, then he’s also been getting dividends worth over $146,000 a month.

Both trudeaus and liberalism has shown us all has to how to destroy a great WASP country and it's culture and traditions, and work to replace it with a third world and gay agenda looking country. Decency, morality and honesty have been replaced by immorality, indecency and lies galore. I am afraid to say it but Canada's iceberg has tipped over and trudeau has two more years to totally sink Canada's iceberg for good. Aw well.

This point from the article has never been answered for me:

Imagine Stephen Harper as PM, wearing a giant cross on a chain around his neck.

Or Morneau will simply resign. With his millions, as if he needs the aggravation of being embarrassed publicly by Trudeau. Trudeau to journalist: "Here's your chance to ask the Prime Minister a question." Could he be more arrogant?

As party leader, Singh is aspiring to become Prime Minister. Supposing he did make it to the top job. He would not be allowed to enter Québec`s National Assembly while wearing a kirpan. Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada unable to enter the National Assembly because of wearing a religious symbol. http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/sikhs-wearing-kirpans-denied-entry-to-national-assembly-1.597619

Exactly, as they did with Stockwell Day although he was more open about his beliefs. The media would never ridicule any religion other than Christianity, they dare not do it. The vitriol and speculation/innuendo/fearmongering about Harper's religious beliefs always amazed me because, as you say, he never discussed it and never brought forward legislation limiting women's choice, or any similar legislation. This is allready happening in Ontario as the unions try to smear Patrick Brown and the PCs with similar fear mongering even tho Brown has said he and the party support women's choice. It doesn't matter what they say, the left knows how to throw mud and make it stick, big money talks.

I didn't say anything about agreeing or disagreeing. My posts over the past several days have highlighted the fact that things are being done quietly while we blather on about the colour of someone's hair, etc. Whether done by executive order or not, they're being done. I didn't say about the method of passing these changes. It's my understanding that president Obama used EO's in a likewise manner. Re taxes, they (Trump and republicans) developed the plans and are about to vote them in. The ground work is done, and no reason to expect they will not pass. It's not as controversial or difficult a health care. Note I didn't say these changes are good or bad changes, quite simply I don't know about the details. I provided the info without judgement. My point is not about the info itself. Think about what Chomsky is saying in those links.

Under de-regulation, most of what Trump has done has been executive orders. That can be as easily undone by the next administration as he undid Obama's orders. As for tax reform, you realize what you linked to is just a proposal, with virtually no chance of becoming law, right? Of the little legislation that was passed, it wasn't exactly the kind of common sense de-regulation on "main street" businesses that people hope for when they speak of deregulation. Rather, he relaxed financial reporting rules for megacorporations dealing with foreign governments, relaxed rules trying to keep at least some semblance of reality in school curricula, allowed states to harass people who lose their jobs with repeated drug testing even if they are actively looking for work, empowered ISPs to violate principles of net neutrality, effectively allowing them to censor the internet for their own profit, and relaxed their requirements to safeguard customer data. I don't know about you, but that's not exactly the kind of de-regulation I'm looking for.

Yep, as Trump himself said, he could shoot someone and his supporters wouldn't care. To be fair, this isn't exactly some new discovery. The strategy of keeping your subjects fighting amongst themselves or scapegoating specific groups has been used by rulers for millenia. You can see it in the quotes of Nazi leaders. You can see it in the historical accounts of how monarchs pitted nobles against each other, or the aristocracy against the merchants. You can see it in how Roman politicians did things. Well, the problem with this is that collective punishment is not exactly just. There are plenty of intelligent people out there who don't fall for partisan bs and are willing to think about issues rationally. And there are also plenty of people who have no say and who can't fairly be blamed for the governments we have. French revolution type events rarely result in lasting prosperity, and even if the "elites" have a bad time in the process, the "common folk" as always suffer worst. So it's not exactly something to cheer on. Personally, I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that democracy as we currently envision it isn't really a viable form of government for the 21st century. People are no biologically different than they were thousands of years ago, and yet today Ug the Caveman is expected to be exposed to hundreds of different information streams, most of which contain 99% bullshit and lies, and use his rational mind to filter from that an accurate picture of reality, and then use that judgement to select an individual (from among those who are specifically trained in the art of generating the bullshit and lies) to represent their viewpoint. It's an absurd system. As someone or other said, democracy is the worst system of government except for all the others. Those other systems of governments are still worse, but surely something better must be possible. I don't know what the answer is but hopefully it gets figured out in the next few decades.

We have been had. Its the citizens that are supposed to keep the government honest, but we have bought their little left vs right charade hook line and sinker. No matter what any government does now we will just be partisan hacks like the guy that started this thread and most of the other people here. Died in the wool partisans (both liberal and conservative) would still stand by their parties and leaders even if they got caught red handed in high def video ass raping a small child. They would say "ya but so and so is worse"... or "the source of the ass raping video is not credible). Its pretty awesome if you think about. Philosophers have been trying to figure out how to game democracy for hundreds of years... they finally figured out all they had to do was trump up fake enemies and turn us against each other by convincing us that ideology and the retarded culture war are whats important. We get exactly the kind of government we deserve, and to be honest its great to see us starting to get punished for our stupidity. Sometimes pain is the only way to learn. Last laugh will be on them though... because once corrupt career politicians and their financial and industrial elite buddies have finished stealing everything, they will get dragged from their estates and cut into little pieces.

What a whopper and I don`t mean a burger… Trudeau is claiming that consultations of past months were all about today’s announcement of honouring his election promise to cut small business income tax… Pinocchio knows.. and today Trudeau has banned Morneau from answering questions at the Finance press conference. Good move on JT`s part I suppose, can`t let the plebes know anymore. So I`m wondering how long before Morneau will have to step down.

White people really are their own worse enemy. The majority of those bleeding heart guilt ridden wimpy white liberals have no idea of what loyalty to one's own race actually means. They have been dumb downed for decades now into believing that they are and always will be the problem so hence I must support my extinction as a white person to make up for all my past so-called white sins. I once watched on the internet this one religion that had it's minister and his flock get down on their knees in front of a bunch of black people and begged them for forgiveness for past white man's sins done to them. It was sick and sad to look at. This is what white people have become now. They grovel instead of standing on their own two feet and stand up for who they are. The white people of today have nothing to be sorry for because they were not around at the time and did not commit all of the things that went on two hundred years ago. Just because one says that one is proud of who they are does not have to mean that they are a racist. Racist has become an overplayed word. It is only used to shut old whitey down, and many old whitey's keeps falling for it all the time. Trudeau should be fired for what he did by inviting the rest of the world to come on over to Canada and walk right on in. Apparently, 66% of all those criminal illegals that entered Canada illegally are here to stay. New liberal voters for sure. Some of those illegals flew to America with the intentions of heading for Canada. And then they call people like me racist or Nazi for pointing this out. Incredible.

They certainly ridiculed Stockwell Day for his religious beliefs.