Third ethics strike for Trudeau

[Anonymous]

WE seems like a charity for the LIberal party.

WE charity is an extension of the Liberal party. It is a corrupt slush fund on par with the Clinton Foundation.



By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media



GRITS LOST & ADRIFT

Trudeau gov't flounders amid WE scandal



They told us for weeks that it was all the idea of the public service, and then found out that WE actually pitched ministers Chagger, Ng and Morneau.



They claimed WE would be paid $19.5 million for administering the $912-million contract. Turns out that it was $43.5 million up for grabs. Finally it turns out they didn't even sign the contract with WE Charity but another group.



The other major problem revealed Wednesday by Global News is that the government did not give the $912-million contract to 'WE Charity' as they have said daily since announcing this on June 25, but instead to the 'WE Charity Foundation.' What's the difference? WE Charity Foundation is essentially the equivalent of a shell company — a separate legal entity from WE Charity, just like WE Charity is separate from ME to WE — the Kielburger brothers' private company.



What the Trudeau Liberals did with this contract is commit nearly $1 billion to an unknown group acting as if it were WE.



The PM has agreed to testify before the finance committee on this file at a to-be-determined date.



Given how badly Trudeau's ministers have handled this file and their appearances so far, I'm not sure Trudeau testifying is a good idea fro the government.



If the Liberals are thinking it can't get any worse, they should think again.



WE paid for your travel, that has the apparent perception of attempting to buy political influence. You didn't think that was a problem. New Democrat MP Charlie Angus

[Anonymous]

What a corrupt fake charity. It is no wonder it is the corrupt Trudeau Liberals' favourite charity.



By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media



Charity denies selling user data



Researcher Vivian Krause told members of the House of Commons finance committee that there are concerns about WE Charity's corporate relations.



Krause told MPs that WE Charity's U.S. tax returns in 2019 showed $118 million in donations, including major gifts from wellknown brands such as Allstate, with $32 million, and Microsoft, with a $10-million gift.



She didn't express concern over WE getting donations from large corporations, but rather what the corporations got in return.



"As I watched some of WE Charity's videos, I was surprised to notice these corporate logos pop up," she said. "KPMG T-shirts,



Royal Bank T-shirts, the DHL delivery trucks and so on."



One job ad in particular jumped out. "Looking through the job ads, I found that WE Charity has advertised to hire people to work alongside Allstate Financial and that WE Charity says very clearly in its job ad that its program with Allstate 'plays a vital role in Allstate's success,'" she said. Krause also raised the spectre of WE selling personal data collected from their millions of fans and supporters.



"WE says, as part of the literature for Track Your Impact, that they have almost 4 million people in their movement. If that's the case, that's a gold mine of consumer data about a highly desirable market segment: Children. Millennials," Krause said.



"Do they share it with their corporate partners?

[Anonymous]

I read this opinion online this morning.



It looks suspiciously like Trudeau inappropriately used his influence as PM to award a bizarre, taxpayer-funded, $912-million, sole-sourced contract, with a potential $43.5 million administrative fee, to help out a troubled charity, run by his friends, Craig and Marc Kielburger.



A charity allied with Trudeau's family, with Trudeau a frequent and vocal supporter of it, while the WE organization paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees though a for-profit subsidiary within its Byzantine organizational structure, to Trudeau's mother and brother. Plus the travel expenses of his wife as a WE ambassador.



As more and more disturbing facts have come out about this now-cancelled contract — uncovered mainly by media rather than the openness and transparency Trudeau pledged in winning the 2015 federal election, one thing remains unchanged.



That is that what got Trudeau into his latest conflict-of-interest controversy is what got him into the Lavscam and Aga Khan messes, his lack of political ethics.



Which means it's reasonable to believe if he wins the next election — having survived the last one in which the Aga Khan and Lavscam scandals were known — he'll do it again.

[Anonymous]

Trudeau is the most corrupt leader I have ever seen of any developed country.

[Anonymous]

The WE scandal has rocked the Trudeau government to its core.



-A Liberal-friendly charity.

-Free luxury vacations.

-Almost one billion dollars sole-sourced to a shady holding company.

-Trudeau's family members taking payments.



The leader of the BQ has called on Trudeau to resign. We could be in for another election. Trudeau would like to strike while the Tories are leaderless.

[Anonymous]

The average Canadian would notice if a $41 room service charge was missing from a hotel bill.  Bill Morneau says he racked up 41 THOUSAND dollars in accommodation/travel without noticing.



BTW: This man runs the nation's finances.

[Anonymous]

Trudeau believes he's special



During his blackface scandal last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the "layers of privilege" he grew up with blinded him to the fact that donning blackface was racist.



We'd argue Trudeau's latest conflict-of-interest scandal in the WE Charity controversy — the third one he's being investigated for by the ethics commissioner — stems from the same problem.



That is, that Trudeau, who grew up as the son of a former prime minister, is an elitist who believes he is privileged, and thus entitled to ignore the standards of ethicalpolitical conduct that apply to lesser mortals.



In the Aga Khan vacations scandal, Trudeau said he was sorry after then ethics commissioner Mary Dawson found he had broken four sections of the Conflict of Interest Act, and that he would consult the commissioner on future vacation plans.



But he publicly refused to acknowledge her key finding.



Instead, he insisted he was a close, personal friend of the Aga Khan, noting he disagreed with Dawson's finding to the contrary, which meant Trudeau couldn't claim an exemption under the conflict law for accepting gifts from friends.



In the SNC-Lavalin scandal, where current ethics commissioner Mario Dion ruled he improperly used his political influence to try to have a criminal charge against the company dropped, Trudeau refused to apologize.



He said he wouldn't apologize for trying to protect Canadian jobs.



In his latest conflict of interest controversy, Trudeau belatedly apologized for advocating for, participating in and approving his government's awarding of a $912 million solesource contract to the WE charity organization, to which he and his family have personal and financial ties.



The ethics commissioner's investigation into this issue has just started.



But regardless of the outcome, what is the value of an apology from a prime minister who has already broken the conflict law twice, who says he accepts responsibility for his actions, while failing to demonstrate the most basic form of taking responsibility, by admitting he accepts that what he did was wrong?



The most logical explanation of Trudeau's conduct, as it was in his previous conflict scandals, is that his "layers of privilege" lead him to believe he doesn't have to follow the rules because, after all, the rules are for little people.

[cc]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7221350/we-charity-trudeau-testimony-meeting/?utm_source=NewsletterNational&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2020">Trudeau and chief of staff to testify on WE controversy Thursday



Trudeau and his chief of staff Katie Telford have agreed to speak with the committee as part of a parliamentary probe into the Liberal government's aborted deal with the WE deal.



WE backed out of the program in early July, citing the controversy over the Liberals' handing the organization a sole-sourced deal despite its ties to Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.



Several members of Trudeau's family have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars between them for appearances at WE events, most notably his mother Margaret.

[Anonymous]

Third time Trudeau has been investigated for ethics violations.

[Anonymous]

WE demand answers.



1 Who contacted whom about WE Charity running a government program for youth during the pandemic and when? At first, the government claimed that it was the civil service that picked WE. Marc Kielburger claimed the Trudeau's office contacted him and then quickly changed his tune when that got Trudeau in hot water. WE submitted proposals to the government as early as April 9. Let's get to the bottom of this.



2 Which cabinet ministers did WE meet before getting this contract, and when did those meetings happen? Minister Bardish Chagger has insisted it was the civil service who dreamt up this $912 million program but failed to tell the committee last week that she met with Craig Kielburger on April 17, five days before the program was announced. Bill Morneau had a phone call. Who else did they talk to?



3 Was there ever a quid pro quo with the PM on hiring his family? WE's funding shot up dramatically after Justin Trudeau became prime minister, from $500,000 over 3 years to $5 million over four. At the same time, WE began hiring the PM's mother to speak at WE Day events to the tune of $312,000 over 4 years or on average $78,000 per year. Did WE do this to keep grants and contracts flowing? Was there ever any discussion of this with Trudeau?



4 Since WE withdrew from the contract on July 3, have either Craig or Marc Kielburger, staff from WE, ME to WE, or any of your representatives spoken to or been in contact with the prime minister's office?



5 Why did WE, a charity most people associate with helping people in the poorest parts of the world go from $10.8 million in real estate in 2013 to $43.7 million in 2018? Does the charity really need a whole block in Toronto? Is



there a condo redevelopment plan going on here?



6 How many other MPs and cabinet ministers have taken free trips from WE/ME to WE and will you name them?



7 How much revenue did ME to WE generate last year? This is a business that makes a ton of money because it is associated with a charity. It sells the products and trips based on the premise that it is helping charity — they even use similar branding. Reports claim ME to WE earned $47 million last year, is that accurate?



8 Was the board fired or did they resign and why? This is an important question for both the Kielburgers and Michelle Douglas to answer. Douglas, the former board chair told the Globe she did not leave under normal circumstances and that there were concerning developments at the charity. What were the concerning developments?



9 There is a recording of a phone call where Marc Kielburger listens as a now-former employee describes bribing Kenyan officials and having difficulty getting them to take the money. Has WE or ME to WE or their employees or representatives ever bribed officials in another country?



10 Nine different properties in Kenya were transferred from WE's charitable operations in that country to a private company called WE Education for Children Limited. Can you tell us why you did that? Will WE provide the names of the people who control the private company now holding land purchased with charitable contributions? And finally, how much real estate does WE or ME to WE own outside of Canada?



If we can get clear answers to these questions the country will have a clearer understanding of what has been going on with this contract the past few months and this charity for the past several years.

[Anonymous]

Justin Trudeau is sorry. He is really, really sorry.



But after what Canadians witnessed yesterday, the only thing he seems sorry about is getting caught for possibly breaking the law... for the third time.



His story keeps changing. Now he says it was only the perception of a conflict he was worried about.



He admitted that his wife, mother and brother were enriched by a charity that has been given millions of taxpayers' dollars under his watch. If that's not a real conflict in Justin's world, then what is?



He now claims he pushed back on the WE program at the same time that WE was spending millions of taxpayers' dollars to ramp up a program that had not yet been approved by the Cabinet.



The WE charity had no doubt that their political soulmate, Justin Trudeau, would deliver the goods and paper over the deal after the fact.



The problem for Trudeau is his timeline does not add up, and his story is simply not credible.



Trudeau's sense of entitlement means he can justify almost anything, including corruption.



Vacationing on the dime of global elites while Prime Minister? No problem.



Exploiting a charity to get votes? So what.



And when you play fast and loose with ethics, you lose the moral authority to judge the conduct of others. Now we know that Bill Morneau's daughter is on the WE payroll, and his family accepted free vacations from the charity to the tune of $41,000.



But Morneau would have us believe he meant to repay it and forgot. That's the same Finance Minister who forgot to declare he owned a villa in France. Would you forget about $41,000 you owed or a villa in France?



Now Trudeau is asking Canadians for forgiveness. Again.



Justin Trudeau believes the laws don't apply to him, and he can simply get away with his unethical and illegal actions.

[Anonymous]

We had half a billion dollars being sent to a shell company and nobody is actually having to answer for it.



The Liberal MPs didn't even seem that interested in getting answers from the Kielburger brothers, choosing to use much of their time to praise them for their work instead of digging into how they could operate as highly influential lobbyists without registering as such.



This is incredibly insulting to the Canadians whose tax dollars pay the MPs' salaries. The base salary of each MP $178,900.00 and is paid by the taxpayers. As such, all MPs owe it to us not to let Trudeau and his ministers get away with their corruption.



First of all we need to call a public inquiry into this scandal. The Prime Minister's family received half a million dollars from a charity that he was trying to give half a billion dollars to. Members of his cabinet have deep ties with WE charity and there are many concerning questions how this, now obviously deeply unethical charity, was able to operate as essentially a youth wing of the Liberal party.



Canadians deserve answers and not the deflections that Justin Trudeau can get away with under parliamentary privilege. There must be consequences, including consequences for not telling the truth.



Second, we need to consider better ways to deal with future conflict of interest and ethical scandals.  

Stephen Harper's Director of Public Prosecutions Act was designed to prevent repetitions of the Sponsorship Scandal and ended up being a key factor in catching JustIn Trudeau's unethical behavior in the SNC-Lavalin Scandal last year.



Like Prime Minister Harper, who changed laws in the wake of Chretien's Sponsorship Scandal, we need to learn from the scandals of Justin Trudeau, and close the loopholes he has used for the last five years to get away with corruption.

[Anonymous]

It's time to fire Bill Morneau.





1. He "forgot" to declare his luxury villa in France.



2. He "forgot" he can't give hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to his daughter's workplace.



3. He "forgot" to pay $41,000 for an exotic vacation with WE.





I will never forget this Liberal corruption.

[Anonymous]

The CBC acts as an apologist for Trudeau's serial ethics violations just like the good state owned mouthpiece of the Liberal Party that they are. SELL THE CBC!!

CBC BUSTED: Panelist who defended WE Charity was paid $40,000 by Trudeau government



CBC commentator and president of Pomp & Circumstance PR, Amanda Alvaro failed to disclose to the public broadcaster that her company received $16,950 from the Department of Foreign Affairs, which would directly conflict with the Journalistic Standards and Practices at the CBC: "it is important to mention any association, affiliation or specific interest a guest or commentator may have so the public can fully understand that person's perspective."



Additionally, Alvaro received an added $24,997 contract to provide "communications advice" to Trudeau's Minister of Women Maryam Monsef, according to Blacklock's Reporter.



To the surprise of no one, Navarro has made frequent appearances of CBC's Power & Politics, wherein she defended the Trudeau Liberals in their ongoing WE Charity scandal.

https://thepostmillennial.com/cbc-busted-panelist-who-defended-we-charity-was-paid-40000-by-trudeau-government?fbclid=IwAR0dJfjRRs6fWkNv1vmg6kskTjEZ2tw_CW5Md4BlMrtPYTWwkAoK2A927gg">https://thepostmillennial.com/cbc-buste ... AoK2A927gg">https://thepostmillennial.com/cbc-busted-panelist-who-defended-we-charity-was-paid-40000-by-trudeau-government?fbclid=IwAR0dJfjRRs6fWkNv1vmg6kskTjEZ2tw_CW5Md4BlMrtPYTWwkAoK2A927gg

[Anonymous]

The non-answers, the refusals to answer, and the timelines that don't add up.



Trudeau's story keeps changing. We heard on Thursday that the civil service told him that only WE could administer the program and that he pushed back, but never recused himself. What a surprise it is to learn that he is actually the hero of this story!



Trudeau admitted that his wife, mother, and brother were enriched by a charity that has been given millions of taxpayers' dollars under his watch. Only to a walking, talking ethics violation would this not appear to be a conflict of interest, but of course this is his government's sixth ethics violation.



In a democracy like Canada, it is essential that people see that the principle of the law applying equally to all is not merely spoken of, but also practiced in full.



The WE scandal has troubling legal implications, but the deeper problem it reveals is ideological and cultural.



The scandal is a testament not just to Justin Trudeau's obliviousness, but to the clueless arrogance of the entire leftist Canadian cultural establishment that supports Trudeau's Liberal party.



WE, the complicated charity that somehow managed to acquire nearly $50 million worth of real estate holdings in Toronto alone under several numbered companies, has been exposed as just one more tool through which Liberal politicians, activists, entertainers, and media figures have been collecting tax-funded subsidies while shaping the minds of schoolchildren according to their leftist worldview.



Trudeau reasons that what is good for Canada's rich, powerful, and politically fashionable is good for Canada as a whole, because he lacks the mental and moral capacity to distinguish between the two.



Justin Trudeau will continue to enrich himself, his family, and his friends at the expense of ordinary Canadians to the detriment of Canadian democratic institutions. He will keep behaving as though the law doesn't apply to him, and he will continue to offer empty apologies whenever he is caught.



The only way to stop the next Trudeau corruption scandal is to remove the Liberals from power.