Third ethics strike for Trudeau

[Anonymous]

I wonder if anger over the pm's latest ethics violation will last.



WE controversy takes bite out of Trudeau, Liberal popularity: Poll



OTTAWA -- Nearly half of Canadians would support an election being called if the federal watchdog finds Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act again over the WE charity affair, a new poll suggests.



Forty-nine per cent of respondents also felt that the WE controversy has hurt their opinion of Trudeau while 42 per cent said the same thing about the Liberal Party. Fewer than five per cent said it had improved their view of either.



The poll shows 33 per cent of decided voters supporting the Liberals versus 31 per cent for the Conservatives and 20 per cent for the NDP. The Bloc followed with eight per cent and the Greens at six.



"From a voter-intention perspective, it allows the Conservatives to be back in the game," Bourque said.



"Since the start of the pandemic, they were always behind the Liberals. But now they're within a couple of points and this allows them to be part of the dance now. So as soon as they get a new leader, they could basically say they want an election now."

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[Anonymous]

Will public disgust over Trudeau's latest abuse of power stick this time. I hope so.

[Thiel]

It's enough to make you gag

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[Anonymous]

It's enough to make you gag

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[Anonymous]

It's enough to make you gag

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[Anonymous]

Late last night another scandal broke. The Trudeau government is paying $84 million to a firm to run the commercial rent assistance program. That firm, MCAP, employs Rob Silver as Senior Vice President.



You'll remember Rob from his decade of Liberal punditry on CBC where he attacked Conservatives as a profession. He's also married to Trudeau's Chief of Staff, Katie Telford.



It's time to derail the Liberal gravy train.

[Anonymous]

It's one ethics violation after another with this government.



Conservatives seek investigation into Canada's outsourced $84M rent subsidy program



The Conservative Party wants to know who was responsible for outsourcing the federal government's $84 million rent subsidy program during the novel coronavirus pandemic, which was awarded to a company where the spouse of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, holds a senior vice-president position.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7259755/conservatives-investigation-canadas-outsourced-rent-subsidy/">https://globalnews.ca/news/7259755/cons ... t-subsidy/">https://globalnews.ca/news/7259755/conservatives-investigation-canadas-outsourced-rent-subsidy/

[Anonymous]

PRIVACY COMMISSIONER What investigations are underway?



ETHICS COMMISSIONER

Mario Dion has already said he has launched investigations into both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau. Despite Morneau stepping down as finance minister and MP, Dion's office has said a report will be made public.



The privacy commissioner has been asked to examine and file a report into the handling of personal data supplied by Canadians when applying for the Canada student service grant. The agreement between the government and WE stated the government would not own the data, that it was the property of WE. The terms of service of the website have clauses regarding use of the data that are unlikely to meet the requirement of the federal government.



ELECTIONS CANADA

Elections Canada has been asked to investigate the production and distribution of a campaign-style video created by WE but featuring



Justin Trudeau. The video stayed online during the last election campaign which likely means, based on precedent, that Trudeau was in violation of the Elections Act for not declaring the video a campaign expense and paying for it.



PROCUREMENT OMBUDSMAN

This office is tasked with ensuring that contracts are awarded fairly through the federal government. The office has confirmed to Postmedia that it is conducting a review of WE Charity contracts, including several sole-sourced contracts under $40,000 that were granted before this scandal.



LOBBYING COMMISSIONER

The federal lobbying commissioner is not allowed to state whether an investigation is underway. That said, given the sudden registration of 18 WE Charity employees as lobbyists and the recording of 43 different contacts with government retroactive to earlier this year, there is a very good chance that the commissioner has launched an investigation.



RCMP

The RCMP have now confirmed two distinct investigations into the Trudeau government, one for WE and one into the SNC-Lavalin affair.



HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEES

Before prorogation, the WE Charity scandal was being investigated by the finance committee, the ethics committee, the government operations committee and the official languages committee.

[Anonymous]

Justin Trudeau doesn't believe ethics rules apply to him. And why should he. Canadians keep letting him away with it.



Conservatives request ethics probe into Telford, senior adviser as PMO denies wrongdoing



Opposition calls for 2nd investigation into claims of improper lobbying



The federal Conservatives have asked Canada's ethics watchdog to launch an investigation into allegations of improper lobbying related to the government's emergency wage subsidy program.



The probe concerns possible breaches of the Conflict of Interest Act involving Michael McNair, a then-informal adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Katie Telford, Trudeau's chief of staff; and Telford's husband, Rob Silver.



Vice reported last month that Silver had contacted staff in the Prime Minister's Office and then-finance minister Bill Morneau's office to ask for changes to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). Those changes would make MCAP, the mortgage and insurance company for which Silver works, eligible for the program. Silver was ultimately not successful in changing the eligibility criteria.



"By indulging Mr. Silver's appeals, referring him back to Mr. Morneau's office, and directing Mr. Morneau's staff to speak to Mr. Silver, Mr. McNair, in our view, gave preferential treatment to Mr. Silver... based on his identity as both a friend and the spouse of his friend and immediate superior Ms. Telford," Conservative finance and ethics critics Pierre Poilievre and Michael Barrett wrote in a letter to ethics commissioner Mario Dion on Sunday.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-request-ethics-probe-into-telford-senior-adviser-1.5714396">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conser ... -1.5714396">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-request-ethics-probe-into-telford-senior-adviser-1.5714396

[Anonymous]

They made an example out of the former finance minister. :001_rolleyes:



Bill Morneau violated Elections Act ahead of 2019 election: commissioner

Former finance minister must pay $300 fine and post findings online.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-elections-commissioner-1.5718605">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mornea ... -1.5718605">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-elections-commissioner-1.5718605

[Anonymous]

They made an example out of the former finance minister. :001_rolleyes:



Bill Morneau violated Elections Act ahead of 2019 election: commissioner

Former finance minister must pay $300 fine and post findings online.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-elections-commissioner-1.5718605">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mornea ... -1.5718605">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-elections-commissioner-1.5718605

That's tip money for Bill Morneau.