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6 minutes ago, scribblet said:
What will he say...blame D⁸oug Ford
I think he will say he's sorry and the reason it all happened is that there are no rules on the manner to communicate with the AG and Justice Minister. Waterworks? Maybe. He is after all an actor.
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“The mere presumption of the crime of genocide against Indigenous women and girls in your country should not and cannot leave any room for indifference from the perspective of the Inter-American community and the international community,” Almagro wrote in the letter, dated June 3 and posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday.
“Given that your country has always sided with scrutiny and international investigation in situations where human rights are violated in different countries, I am expecting to receive a favourable response to this request.”
Canadian officials confirmed to Global News they have received the letter and are evaluating it.
But they are not yet saying whether the proposal to create a panel of experts is one they are considering.
“Our government is committed to ending the ongoing national tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ and two-spirit people,” said Adam Austen, press secretary to Freeland, in an email on Wednesday.
“Canada is a strong supporter of the rules-based international order and the multilateral institutions that underpin it, very much including the OAS, of which we are proud to be an active member. We have received the letter from Secretary General Almagro and will provide a response to this request soon.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/5354323/oas-mmiwg-genocide-report-probe/
This international scrutiny by the OAS should be good for additional millions in reparation payments to victims, survivors and families of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. The question now is, should the OAS conclude genocide did occur, who will be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court?
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8 minutes ago, Army Guy said:
iwait until useless Carbon taxes get discussed …. and more of your flock will seek to vote else where....
Ontario PCs will place stickers on all gas pumps bringing attention to the fact that increase in gas prices is due to the Federal Liberals carbon tax. Or as the PM likes to say "price on pollution". That should suck some votes away from the Grits.
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34 minutes ago, GostHacked said:
Holy crap the house sessions today are insane.
When Trudeau stopped giving (non)answers to questions, he started scribbling furiously in a binder. Guess he was bored and wanted to be elsewhere.
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27 minutes ago, Owly said:
I thought you knew everything about Canada.
Another dead giveaway that you were previously a MLW member under a different moniker. You're right though. BC knows more about Canada then most Canadians.
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1 minute ago, scribblet said:
A shame he doesn't stand up for the thousands of lost Albertan jobs; besides, it was more about votes than jobs because when asked they replied there was no data to prove the loss of jobs.
In addition the Liberals insisting that the SNC Lavalin HQ would leave Canada (Quebec specifically) if found guilty in a criminal trial is a monumental lie. It's reported the company has just spent millions renovating their premises and they signed a deal to remain in Montreal until 2024. Lie upon lie from the Liberals. Why all these efforts to save this company's skin? The real motive will eventually be uncovered by the media.
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4 minutes ago, scribblet said:
So what are her political motives, given her testimony why is she still in the caucus she must have an end game.. we really need to hear from Trudeau but he and his motorcade have left the building.
He's getting out of town while the going's good.
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The Globe reports the prime minister’s office wanted SNC-Lavalin to avoid going to trial and instead get a deal that would allow the company to pay a fine but admit no criminal wrongdoing. The deal is known as a “deferred prosecution agreement,” or a “remediation agreement, and was only made legal in Canada last year.
The fix has been in for some time to shield SNC Lavelin and other Liberal friendly entities from criminal prosecution. This case exemplifies that the rule of law is in a very fragile state in Canada. Once that goes, we are done as a democracy.
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2 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
GM stock is up 6% on the news....shareholders like "cost cutting" !
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/GM-N/
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1 minute ago, Zeitgeist said:If a production facility of some kind doesn't replace this plant, as everyone hopes, there should be a massive, Canada-wide boycott of GM vehicles.
Dream on. GM is restructuring and the cost of doing business in Canada/Ontario is too high. No number of boycotts will change their plans. Expect more GM plants to close.
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Listening to NDP leader Andrea Horwath in Question Period practically begging Ford to bail out GM in Oshawa "to protect good paying jobs". She's not interested in listening to the adjustment initiatives to be taken by Ford. She basically wants the Province to buy out GM. Sorry Andrea, Ford won't fall for your socialist pleas. GM is gone in Oshawa and its guaranteed other GM plants will follow.
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10 hours ago, AsksWhy said:
Every entity "works for its own survival and growth" - that is the system we have created, but government wants to legally strip Union's of this.
Too bad General Motors in Oshawa couldn't work for its survival. Trudeau's economic policies made sure of that. Carbon tax anyone? 2,500 jobs lost as well as thousands of spinoff jobs. Which "entity" will flea Canada next?
Hey, maybe the unemployed GM workers can form a media outlet and get a subsidy from the Liberals.
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In the case of Canada Post, privatize it and be done with it. Its most profitable operation, letter processing, has been in steady decline and will eventually disappear. My guess is Unifor is taking this strike action to make themselves look relevant to the public and their membership. Typically, unions work for their own survival and growth.
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It appears StatsCan and the Liberal government did not make clear that the financial data of 500,000 Canadians is actually the data of 500,000 HOUSEHOLDS. This would easily translate into harvesting the data of a million Canadians each year, without their knowledge and consent. Why would this tidbit not be divulged to Canadians? There is a difference between individual Canadians and Canadian households.
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A child murderer, Terri-Lynne McClintic, is now back into a facility for killers.
QuoteLast month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Conservative MPs who questioned the transfer of McClintic were “ambulance-chasing politicians.”
He later doubled down on that attack after his remarks drew criticism, saying “If they’re upset, it’s probably because it stings a bit.”
Deputy Conservative House Leader Lisa Raitt responded by saying the prime minister was showing “self-righteous indignation that we would actually question him on an issue that’s as important as making sure that convicted killers of children are in appropriate institutions.”
In response to the news of McClintic’s transfer back to prison, Raitt – who is also now the Conservative justice critic, tweeted that “justice has been done.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/4643595/terri-lynne-mcclintic-tori-stafford-2/
I bet the Prime Minister wishes now he could take back those words.
So happy that POS is back where she belongs. The best news for the Stafford family and concerned Canadians.
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The journalist dubs Trudeau "the Marlboro Man".
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There is nothing Justin Trudeau cannot do. Here he is on horseback on the occasion of his apology for the killing of some members of a British Colombia indigenous tribe 150 years ago. The backdrop is stunning. Note that the apology was made in the name of all Canadians.
In the Quebec media, a journalist asks when will Trudeau apologize for the 1918 killing a group of Quebecers in Quebec City who were demonstrating against conscription into WW1. The journalist concludes that there are more votes to be garnered from indigenous voters than Quebec votes.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/05/trudeau-choisit-ses-morts
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19 hours ago, turningrite said:
Ah, but you apparently fail to understand the "progressive" catch-all mentality that castigates as racist and bigoted any/all criticism of our open-ended immigration and refugee policies. Rational economically-justified criticism isn't permitted. The progressive assumption reverts to the notion that the motivation of the critics is always grounded in horrible, awful and deplorable intent. You can't argue with these self-styled progressives as their arguments and positions are grounded in emotion rather than logic.
In the same vein as in your comment, the following applies just as well in Canada as it does in the US.
Quote“The logic that drives each turn of our revolutionary spiral is Progressive Americans’ inherently insatiable desire to exercise their superiority over those they deem inferior. With Newtonian necessity, each such exercise causes a corresponding and opposite reaction. The logic’s force comes not from the substance of the Progressives’ demands. If that were the case, acquiescing to or compromising with them could cut it short. Rather, it comes from that which moves, changes, and multiplies their demands without end. That is the Progressives’ affirmation of superior worth, to be pursued by exercising dominance: superior identity affirmed via the inferior’s humiliation. It is an inherently endless pursuit.
The logic is rooted in disdain, but not so much of any of the supposed inferiors’ features or habits. If it were, the deplored could change their status by improving. But the Progressives deplore the “deplorables” not to improve them, but to feel good about themselves. Hating people for what they are and because it feels good to hate them, is hate in its unalloyed form.”
https://americanmind.org/essays/our-revolutions-logic/
Justin's Liberal party has mastered the art of denigrating their critics by accusing them of being anti this and anti that. For example if you speak about the economic downside of raising immigration levels, you are a bigot and anti immigration. If you disagree with the carbon tax, you believe pollution should be free, if you ask questions about Statscan mining our financial information you are anti data and make decisions based on ideology rather than science. It's quite a masterful technique actually and does influence a large swatch of voters.
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14 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:
If I feel comfortable sharing this information with my bank, I certainly trust Stats Canada with it.
Good for you. Some of us don't like the idea that StatsCan can access our banking records without our knowledge and consent. Looks like quite a few of us are in that camp and the Privacy Commissioner has taken notice.
QuotePrivacy Commissioner of Canada launches investigation into StatCan over controversial data project
https://globalnews.ca/news/4615008/statcan-defends-data-projects-privacy/
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As Statistics Canada plans to build a massive new personal information bank with the real-time financial transaction data of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, Global News has learned the agency has scooped up 15 years’ worth of credit rating information from a major international credit bureau which could include millions of Canadians.
The data harvest was done without the consent or knowledge of those Canadians whose credit history was passed on Statistics Canada.
Statistics Canada, which has broad powers to compel any organization to turn over data that organization collects, directed the credit bureau TransUnion of Canada Inc., based in Burlington, Ont., to provide social insurance numbers, names, addresses, dates-of-birth and detailed credit information, including balances owed, balances overdue, and more than 30 other fields or categories of data.
The requests occurred in October 2017 and more recently in January 2018.
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By law, Statistics Canada is not obligated to inform individual Canadians whose personal information it obtains from credit bureaus nor is it required to obtain the consent of Canadians, a practice Canada’s privacy commissioner has urged the federal agency to change.
Canada’s privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien, noted in his recent annual report to Parliament that Statistics Canada is increasingly using its statutory powers to obtain detailed data about Canadians from their mobile phone companies, utility providers and credit bureaus.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4610259/statcan-canadian-personal-credit-bureau-data/
In thinking about the issues raised in the OP and in the media, it occurs to me that this data mining by the government and the bureaucracy is an opportunity for them to obtain a picture of how much money Canadians have in their savings and investments. Then, tax increases can be planned accordingly.
And another matter, Trudeau and StatsCan claim the data is made anonymous so nothing to worry about. But, the identity of the Canadians spied upon is not protected during the transfer from the financial institutions to StatsCan where presumably it is "anonymized".
As said by critics, this amounts to surveillance on unsuspecting Canadians. How soon will information on some Canadians come to Canada Revenue's attention and then flagged for audit. I don't believe that agencies and departments don't share private info, as required by the Privacy Act. We are well past the era where we can expect 100% integrity from them.
It's fitting we should discuss this on Halloween cause this should scare the hell out of concerned Canadians.
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What's that you say? You were not one of the lucky 500,000 Canadians picked by the government who will access your personal banking information without your permission. Don't worry, your turn could come next year...or the year after....or later.
QuotePrime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending a decision by Statistics Canada to compel banks and financial institutions to release the personal transaction data of 500,000 people without their consent.
Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen grilled Trudeau during question period Monday following a report by Global News that revealed Statistics Canada is asking the country’s nine largest banks for the transaction data of 500,000 randomly chosen Canadians, including everything from bill payments to cash withdrawals from ATMs to credit card payments and even account balances.
StatCan has said it has the legal authority to do so — even without informing Canadians or getting their consent — in order to build a personal information data bank to analyze things like consumer trends and spending habits.
“With a long history of government privacy breaches, Canadians are rightly worried,” Bergen said. “Why are the Liberals collecting the personal data of Canadians without telling them?”
Trudeau said his government would ensure that all personal information would be protected and the anonymized data will be used for statistical purposes only.
“High quality and timely data are critical to ensuring that government programs remain relevant and effective for Canadians,” the prime minister said.
Bergen called on Trudeau to “immediately assure Canadians that this intrusion into their lives will be stopped.”
How will knowing how much you paid Visa or your bank balance help develop federal programs? Trudeau isn't saying, except to criticize the previous Conservative government. I guess he's ignoring the fact that the Liberals are at the helm and he needs to step up with answers for concerned Canadians.
Canadians should be leery of this government intrusion into their financial affairs. It's also just one other central source of information to be hacked into by criminals and those playing around for their amusement. In addition, I do not believe that 100% of Stats Can employees are above selling said information.
Trudeau and his government, at your service.
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5 hours ago, Don Jonas said:
I hope you are well.
I take it you are asking me DJ. Yes thank you, I am well. Gee whiz, I didn't know you cared.
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59 minutes ago, Wilber said:
Climate change will make these migrations look like a visit from your relatives.
Goodbye welfare cheques, OAS, CPP etc, etc. Survival of the fittest will be the order of the day. Glad I will be checking out of this hamster wheel in not too distant future.
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"When I arrived in Armenia, I immediately thought of a great man I loved so much, a great lover of the French language who died last week, the incomparable Charles Aznavour," Trudeau said.
"In the days following his death, francophones and francophiles of the world united in mourning through his work. This momentum of solidarity was perhaps the greatest tribute that could have been made to him."
I'm francophone and I didn't mourn Aznavour's passing. And I even have one of his CDs.
Prediction: Trudeau wins a majority this Fall
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I agree with those members that think Trudeau will win. Therefore, I will be voting for Bernier as a protest vote due to the Cons having chosen Scheer as leader. Scheer has the personality of a wet noodle. He's no match for Trudeau, the Adonis of Canadian politics.