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Oh shut up..... I've been pointing out mismanagement, incompetence, corruption and the uselessness of the Dept of Fisheries and Oceans for decades and you know it. I've even pointed out why economists look at the state of fisheries and communities that depend on them the way miners look at canaries. Why is the right only now getting woke to this? From where I'm sitting one of the main reasons things are so bad is because conservatives have been comatose for so long.

What crime occurred? Resume embellishment?

I hate to say it but the way our government departments function is totally our fault. Having worked within, I can say that most public servants follow the rules before them and the real unfortunate thing is the rules are set because of public demand. Demand for transparency led to more rules and checks and balances and therefore added time and effort for every task. Demand for accountability also led to more processes and procedures and therefore more personnel to do that work and that led to extra time and effort. Demand for dental care will require a huge requirement for personnel, office space, procedures and processes and audit trails and...transparency and accountability and all that will entail. The public demand for pharma care will be, well, you know the drill. Setting up a department ti manage such a huge undertaking will not be easy or cheap. The fact of the matter is, if you demand something and they cave in and give it to you, it cannot be cheap and certainly not be easy. The more you want from government at any level is going to cost you and increase bureaucracy. There is no other way. So really, are departments broken or, are they so burdened with demanded rules and requirement and appeasements that they can barely breath? It is easy to criticize but, if you or anyone has a better, more efficient, more open, cheaper way, please step forward.

Well I'm trying to help you out, after all I did give you a cryptic clue.

And he wasn't shot. And he wasn't pushed off a cliff. And he wasn't drowned. And he wasn't crushed by a steamroller. We could keep doing this process-of-elimination style, or you could take the shortcut and listen to the medical examiners you believe when it's convenient. They identified the cause of death: homicide, cardiopulmonary arrest, asphyxia. There's no mystery here, man. They know how he died, and who did it to him.

Biden taught there, and brought tremendous prestige. Henry Kissinger did the same, as a Georgetown professor. Plenty of congressmen lecture and teach after serving in office. I don’t see what is wrong with it.

11 weeks ago: “I never quit” Now: Kevin McCarthy resigning from Congress after being ousted as House speaker https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/kevin-mccarthy-retiring-congress-after-ousted-house-speaker/story?id=105425178 ?

Is there a fully functioning department in the Federal government ? Why is everything in such disrepair ?...where is the funding that these departments should have? And how do we fix it all of that with our current level of debt ? and why has the left not noticed this situation.... Ya i know lots of questions, on the left things must appear to be normal, so normal we are asking for new social programs like dental and pharma care, that will cost billions more...yes they are good programs nice to have programs, but apparently we can not fund the ones we already have...and yet these new programs are still being pushed, every Canadian knows that the liberals have doubled our national debt in the last 8 plus years...and rarely is that a concern from the left WHY ? it is like they shrug their shoulders and say fu*k it , debt does not matter. Well apparently it does, atleast according to the BOC, what do they know... left does not care and the right wants them fired...some where in the middle is the truth... For those that lived through Mr. Chretien years of cuts... I would think no one would be stupid enough to go through that again....and yet here we are, looking into the abyss, without seeing the bottom this time....maybe we should just spend it all triple the national debt live life to the fullest, let our kids , kids worry about debt, and financial ratings, and what our dollar is worth on the world market...For a nation that once had the world by the balls, today we can't even get off the bench...Nobody worth a pinch of political salt is willing to run for PM, it is not worth the price you have they have to pay, and this country is so ungrateful it is laughable... I mean really some times it is embarrassing to be Canadian and how we allowed this nation to slip to the position we are in now...In the last 20 years what have we as a nation really accomplished either globally or here at home...that is note worthy.... Don't ask what your country can do for you, but rather what can you do for your country, John F Kennedy once said...of course he was not talking to generations who for some reason can not even decide what gender they want to be today, or come to a consensus on the whole global climate change issue, Why our education system knows what is best for our children over their parents... ‘Profound malaise’ lingers in Canada’s diplomatic service, Senate committee finds (msn.com)

Hunter Biden has agreed to testify publicly before Congress. The GOP has refused, threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress if he refuses to testify in private. This demonstrates the sheer depravity of Republicans in Washington. The man agreed to testify. Why should the American public stand for this insistence that Biden testify in secret? What would that serve, apart from allowing Republicans to selectively edit and release his testimony… the same guys who plan to release “evidence” of January 6 with blurred faces?

WOW. “Hair sniffer.” You’re going choose “convicted rapist”, and somehow you think we’ll raise an eyebrow over “hair sniffer”?

I hear the Liberals are having a management problem. To fix this they will be creating a new Ministry of Ministries. Oversight will performed by the Ministry of Ministries oversight committee. Which in turn will be regulated by the Ministry of Ministries special dependency division. Who in turn will report to an expert body of acclaimed experts proficient in the field of expertise and expertism. Requirement will be mandated for all staff involved in the Ministry and related bodies that they.. 1. Must attend classes to become well versed in Liberal math. 2. Be able to demonstrate this knowledge by skilled use of a 3D abacus.

The NDP, the Conservatives and their former leader Erin O’Toole were granted intervenor standing, meaning they won’t be able to ask questions of any witnesses. So once again the libs move to cover up their actions. I don't know if they were complicit in helping the chinese give them money for their candidates, but they sure go out of their way to make it look like that's the case.

I think the public should have an interest in how our government departments work, I also think it is the chain of commands reasonability to weed out the good idea fairy tales that some how grow and take a life of their own...In order to do that senior public officials should be checking in with those that actually use the system or process to see if these changes actually work...then report back up the chain with a educated reason why it would or would not work...Thats how it should work... How it works today is elected government officials make the rules that drive policy regardless of how it effects the end product or service, take a look at sexual harassments in the CF, instead of looking at it as a national problem, they focused on DND and started laying the hammer down...thinking that it was just a DND problem and ignoring the rest of the country or departments...months later RCMP would be having the say issue but with a much different approach...no hammer... In reality it is the senior public service workers that should be sitting down with ministers and their staff and advising them on how the department works and what is there arcs of fire....that does not happen, sometimes ministers are only there for a short period or the ministers think they know better and start making their own rules and policies...again it is the senior public service person to weed out the chaff...but in todays world most are looking after their own ass instead of the departments.. Most of the time political ideas do not mix well with department running's, much like the procurement process, i think it it's current form it is designed to stall or make it so hard to get things done people actually give up on it all...Add in each elements chain of command also has effects on getting things done...like the Tac vest fiasco, that was start shortly after we got on the ground in Afghanistan, today this project is still on going troops have down and completed 3 separate trails...products were picked but no contracts signed...24 years later...in the mean time soldiers buy their kit to suit their needs...this has been an ongoing theme in the CF...

Because it makes them feel happy and in good health for exemple, a lot of documentation on internet on that.

Somewhat foolish to attribute that strictly to govt. ALL large companies do the same, endless layers of policy and procedure supposedly to serve you better but actually to protect their own asses. They will ALL line up shoulder to shoulder claiming how they followed procedure to a T no matter how wrong and harmful it was to the incident at hand. And no political party is can "fix' it. All they can ever do is replace the ones at the top and fire the ones at the bottom which solves nothing; the Mandarins remain eternal. The smallest change takes generations. We're currently running under policies from the Mulroney/Martin (run more like a business/ cost efficient) schemes of 'deny benefits first - bury them in paper so they'll give up and go away - minimize staffing, all the while dealing with population and demand growth - huge bloated salaries to keep managers close to business pay - and a disgruntled staff faced with the same inflationary and salary stagnation that's hit the rest of us. Add to that the prevalent and loudly voiced opinion of many that a 'civil service' job is not as valuable or worthy as one in the private sector.

?Like I said. You believe the MEs when it's convenient and then simply dismiss their expert analysis when it doesn't tell you what you wan to hear. You seem to apply that model of "thinking" to just about everything; what's convenient is true, what's inconvenient is not.

It doesn’t matter what actually happened. Stupid revolutionaries with a shallow knowledge of history are rewriting it. Our universities and institutions are riddled with such idiocy, which is weakening Canada and its meritocracy in ways that may be irreversible as such ideology is legislated and enforced by politicized courts and media. There are too many apologists looking the other way and claiming there’s nothing to see here. Canada has declined because of it, obviously.

Gaza could easily have negotiated those problems away close to 2 decades ago. They decided that they would rather go with hate and violence and never make peace. Either they will get their heads out of their asses and build a life for themselves or they will continue to live in filth and violence until someday someone has enough and decides to end them entirely. They're going to have to make that choice.

1. The oursourcers LOVE bureaucracy. Because it's easy for them. Please produce this diversity report ok outsourcer ? No problem... there's no chance of failure in just pushing paper around vs. providing a service to an actual citizen who might complain. 2. People need to learn that demanding all of these things doesn't improve their service experience and costs $$$. 3. I also worked in the PS for a short time and concur. Most people want things to work well... it's the management culture that is irredeemable unfortunately. 4. There is no way to prescribe excellence. If it happens, then you have found a four-leaf clover. Protect it, nurture it, try to make another one.

1. 2. The answer is evolutionary but revolutionary: explain to the public that moving forward things will be a lot faster but there will be more failure than you're used to. Then use partners to build an entirely new model alongside the current bureaucracy. At a certain point, the new model will start to exceed and will surge in popularity. Then move people from the old model to the new one. I also worked for the federal government and was appalled at the degree to which they do things to avoid getting in trouble. The cure, though, is worse than the disease. Would you spend an entire day waiting in line for Tylenol to fix a small headache or just deal with it? The Government chooses the former path.

There was a period when it looked like the "End of History" to use the title of a famous essay. The approach of strong defense coupled with open markets and an equitable society worked like gangbusters for awhile then slowly was eroded. Trump's anti China policies are being built on by Biden. The new approach may be to pull back, fix NATO problems such as Turkey's rogue tendencies... Encourage reform in the Americas and North South trade there rather than China. And encourage consumer economies by investing in education, higher end jobs, higher wages...

Exactly. We after Devon Archer trusted Republicans went on FOX and claimed that he said literally the opposite of what he actually said. Because it's not a crime to lie and they know full well that their credulous sheep will believe absolutely anything without so much as a fact check.

I'm aware that it was likely caused by a rocket misfire. Not sure how that is relevant to the casualty count. And that's a wildly generous interpretation of the suggestion that it's NBD if those kids are killed. A very small percentage of Palestinians are Hamas, but it doesn't much matter how you bucket the dead. By anyone's count, including the IDF, the non-combatant deaths are several times higher than combatants. They are killing civilians at about 3x the rate the US killed in Iraq during the "shock and awe" bombing and invasion. They really do not seem to be bothered about who they kill. It's going to backfire in every way.

of course. You can't throw a brick without hitting a perogie. Da - ve haf yoo surrounded comrade!!! Well given the histories there's a bit of confusion. My family was referred to as "russian" because Ukraine was under russian control when they fled. But they would likely call themselves Ukrainian today. And a lot of those ukranians actually had german blood - they had come to ukraine during the time of katherine the great which SHE was looking desperately for farmers. So it gets a little messed up. Being a 'Russian Mennonite' basically means your forefathers were kicked out of every respectable country in Europe at one time or another, and most of them were really Ukrainian.

They literally do pay people for war crimes. If you're a Palestinian and you strap explosives to your body and kill a bunch of Israelis, they'll give your family a pension: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund The Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund are two funds operated by the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Foundation for the Care of the Families of Martyrs pays monthly cash stipends to the families of Palestinians killed, injured, or imprisoned while carrying out violence against Israel.[1] The Prisoners Fund makes disbursements to Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails. In 2016, the PA paid out about NIS 1.1 billion (US$303 million) in stipends and other benefits.[2]

Why would you get what HE can afford? Wouldnt' you get what YOU can afford? Why you always trying to take Nationalists money robo?

I don't care if they sit over Christmas, I was away from home for more than a few. However, PP better be there with the rest of them.

lol trying to bully to get what he wants done. he looks like a spoiled child not getting his way more then a man whos trying to prove he would be a competent Prime minister. however mps sit far to few days.. so i won't cry to see them have to work thru christmas for once 123 days is a joke

Ya, he may have stretched the truth but he did nothing illegal or corrupt. Give me an effing break, like no other public figure has ever made a bundle doing speaking engagements or from book sales after they left office. Talking about grasping at straws.

Hunter hasn't ignored the subpoena, he just wants his testimony to be public. If he stalls and doesn't answer questions, it will be out there for all to see. If he testifies in secret, the committee can just spin it the way they want. It is the committee that is afraid of transparency, not Biden. The real question you should be asking is, what is the committee afraid of?

Reasonable deduction based on nothing. You make shit up.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-11-28/hunter-biden-offers-to-testify-publicly-before-congress-setting-up-a-potential-high-stakes-face-off https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/hunter-biden-agrees-testify-house-oversight-committee-rcna126962 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hunter-biden-offers-testify-publicly-house-republicans-probe-2023-11-28/ Pretty rich from someone like Jim Jordan who himself ignored a congressional subpoena along with four other Republicans.

Dude, if I'm stupid, you must be mentally disabled. Those are stones you shouldn't be throwing, especially from the glassiest of glass houses.? None of your nonsense here matters. You can baselessly speculate about pressure all you want. The fact remains that they are credible because of a record of credibility. And should be viewed as such until that credibility is broken. That does not "cast doubt" on the hospital incident. Within hours of the explosion they issued what is clearly a rough number at 500. The very next day they updated it to count at 471. Sorry they were 6% off in their initial count in the middle of a war zone. But that's pretty damn close. And if your speculation were correct, they would have revised the number upward. Again, their counts from past conflicts have been reliable once third party evaluators had opportunity to make a count. Wow, you just rationalized and justified the wanton murder of children. Children. Congrats on being a piece of crap.

Finally, a couple of intelligent questions. WE don't need corporate lobbyists, as a nation. Corporate lobbyists do not exist as a service to the country. They exist as a way of deep pockets buying off politicians. Look at how rich that Nazi bitcch Pelosi has gotten, since the companies with business before the House have handed her enough insider trading deals for her to be a multi billionaire, even on a Speaker's salary. Private citizen Donald Trump paid off Hitlary KKKlinton with campaign donations to keep her off his back and away from his company. And because Congress won't enforce the laws against trying to buy off elected officials, corporate lobbyists are going to be with us forever. (Personally, I'd change the laws so that they would be more strictly enforced with harsher penalties, just to watch those lobbying firms have to shut down, and those lobbyists have to look for real jobs.) Entertained? That brings us to tax law. A business taking someone out to dinner, drinks, maybe a hooker if it's in Nevada, all those expenses come under the heading of "ENTERTAINMENT." Different set of standards than the average tax filer who is is taxed too much and cannot afford the accountants to help write off those expenses.

I said the result of unsustainable free market capitalism. But for what it's worth communist economies are just as bad. It's that idi0tic word "sustainable" that leads me to believe you have no idea what you're talking about. That was one of Obama's favorite adjectives and he was likely the dumbest president in history. A river is unsustainable. Rain is unsustainable. The oceans are unsustainable. Capitalism is a force of nature, just like the nature elements that left wingers are stupid enough to think humans are able to somehow control. Capitalism is unsustainable because the concept doesn't apply. It's like suggesting a hound dog can learn to play the violin. Capitalism, (and for that matter, macro and microeconomics) are the modern science of human behavior. It's no accident that the most brilliant book on Economics of all time is titled "Human Action" by Ludwig Von Mises. https://mises.org/library/human-action-0 If the colleges included that text in their economics studies curriculum, they wouldn't be vomiting so many dumbasses like AOC, who don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.

Except you don't "know" any of ^this. Duh All you've presented is PURE PARTISAN SPECULATION.

That makes a good case for NA ramping up oil production, instead of hamstringing it.

It makes sense, though. Biden is a career piece of sh*t, so you have to know that he had bullshit side hustles like this going at all times. lol

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck. Pretty clear taxme wants a new Fuhrer where the army and civil service pledge loyalty to the great leader instead of a constitution or country. You too? Your mindless admiration of Putin and other despots makes me wonder. Give me a break, the Republican moral police is busy banning books, women's and gay rights and otherwise controlling personal behaviours.

NATO is more united than ever before and gaining new members. Putin and the dictators have done that. The division is coming from within, Trump is cozying up with Putin cause he likes authoritarians and fascists. The next election is the turning point. If Trump wins, so does Putin and the dictators cause Trump wants the personal PAYOFF.

Biden hardly ever plays golf. On the other hand, Trump is well known for cheating at golf. https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/ https://www.foxsports.com.au/golf/he-cheats-at-the-highest-level-trump-claims-golf-tournament-win-despite-not-playing-half-of-it/news-story/d0f8fc46e570cee4083ec9cee54111d9

I don't think so. Have you ever seen a football team (or whatever) leading comfortably in a game, and then lose a couple of key players to injury. Extenuating circumstances can quickly turn the tide of a contest. The lesser team can win. I think that's very much what happened in 2016. Extenuating circumstances really added up. The Russian social media campaign, the hack and leak. Comey's October surprise was probably the backbreaker. A comfortable lead became a dead heat and tipped the other way by the smallest of margins. But, to be fair, on paper Trump shouldn't have even been remotely viable. A reality TV star with no political experience, no governing experience, a spotty business record and TONS of character baggage? I don't think that's anyone's idea of a superior candidate. It should never have been close enough to tilt under any circumstance. He was certainly overperforming. It was Hillary's race to lose, and, with the help of some extenuating circumstances, she lost it.