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Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)
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Don Martin: ArriveCan debacle may be even worse than we know from auditor's report
It's been 22 years since a former auditor general blasted the Chretien government after it 'broke just about every rule in the book' in handing out private sector contracts in the sponsorship scandal. In his column for CTVNews.ca, Don Martin says the book has been broken anew with everything...
Not sure this should be in this thread or not but the fall out will certainly affect the LPC in one way or another.
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I’m not sure. These audits used to matter till they didn’t.
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Mitch Heimpel: The mob keeps better books than the feds kept for ArriveCan
The scathing ArriveCan report should matter. It probably won't.
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It’ll only matter come election time. Anything but a CPC majority next election will show that Canadians don’t care. The 2025 election won’t be about picking a new government, it’ll be about making sure the current one goes back to peanut gallery status for a while.
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Don Martin: ArriveCan debacle may be even worse than we know from auditor's report
It's been 22 years since a former auditor general blasted the Chretien government after it 'broke just about every rule in the book' in handing out private sector contracts in the sponsorship scandal. In his column for CTVNews.ca, Don Martin says the book has been broken anew with everything...www.ctvnews.ca
Not sure this should be in this thread or not but the fall out will certainly affect the LPC in one way or another.
Hopefully the fall out is intense enough that trudeau prorogues Parliament and calls an election, rather than face the music.
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And generally few in number compared to the 630-odd FNs out there, so hard to base broader policies on.
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Minister Leblanc is new to the portfolio and from a Liberal stronghold so this can easily be laid at the feet of Mendicino, alongside his other failures. I can see some senior bureaucrats and maybe the CBSA president being asked to update their CVs and Indeed profiles, but none of this will stick to Trudeau.Don Martin: ArriveCan debacle may be even worse than we know from auditor's report
It's been 22 years since a former auditor general blasted the Chretien government after it 'broke just about every rule in the book' in handing out private sector contracts in the sponsorship scandal. In his column for CTVNews.ca, Don Martin says the book has been broken anew with everything...
Not sure this should be in this thread or not but the fall out will certainly affect the LPC in one way or another.
Possibly. Given some of the contracting and procurement experience I have ( and to be fair it is limited compared to many) it seems to me that there were multiple failure points.
1) at the authority level. I can chalk that up to incompetence of the PS types. Something about how it was awarded though looks fishy. I’d love to know if these guys are ex civil service.
2) departmental oversight looks to be another point of failure. These would be the procurement experts that should have vetted this.
3) PSPC. This should have made its way to PSPC. How they missed this…
4) finally at the minister level. You are rolling out an important piece of tech with major ramifications. You would think he would want to know and oversee this thing.
On that last point. I think there is a common tendency for ministers to want to know as little as possible to have whatever plausible deniability they feel they need. I know of one case of that when the cpc was last in power involving the spending of billions and a minister not wanting any details at all. I don’t think this limited to any one party. Just sadly a symptom of modern politics.
Pretty sure the president of cbsa at that time is now retired.
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Haggis
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This looks like a good fit for this thread. I don't agree with this one bit, but it's indicative of how unpopular he is right now.
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Ontario brewery flooded with hateful emails, reviews, after Trudeau visit
A small Ontario brewery has received an uptick of negative reviews and emails all because it recently hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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The current president assumed her role in July 2022.
I think the contracts were in place before that.
Haggis
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The $80K version launched in April 2020. Since then another $59,420,000 has gone downrange.
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In this politically divided day and age, I wouldn’t say that’s all that significant - as comments sections of news articles and social media show, anyone can easily just “anonymously” write a hateful email or review.This looks like a good fit for this thread. I don't agree with this one bit, but it's indicative of how unpopular he is right now.
Ontario brewery flooded with hateful emails, reviews, after Trudeau visit
A small Ontario brewery has received an uptick of negative reviews and emails all because it recently hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
…and that’s assuming that those folks are actually from the community and not bots. There are so many bots.
I don't like to say The Lord's name in vain...but...
Wow. Just wow.
If this weren't government, I imagine the police would be all over this for the seemingly obvious embezzlement & fraud that's taken place...
So since April of 2020, almost $60 million dollars spent on something with absolutely zero tangible results to show for it.
And the LPC will still gaslight us and warn us that PP is the real danger to responsible fiscal management...unreal...
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Tanks! for your perspective from inside the bubble.
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Ibbitson on the Trudeau/LPC Conundrum
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Interestingly I took the GF out for Valentines Eve dinner (now the go to move, no crowds at all!) at Petite Bills and who should we be sat beside but John and his party. So as I was blatantly eves dropping their conversation of "What do the University Class mean by De-Colonization?" I was rudely interrupted by the GF with the look of "Don't you dare enter that conversation!"
Anyhoo when they got up to leave I congratulated him on his book "The Duel" and we had a brief conversation on his journalist career and its connection to my GF family.
An interesting evening overall.
Opinion: Liberals face political oblivion with Trudeau at the helm
The Prime Minister must ask himself honestly whether remaining as leader best ensures the party’s health
www.theglobeandmail.com
Interestingly I took the GF out for Valentines Eve dinner (now the go to move, no crowds at all!) at Petite Bills and who should we be sat beside but John and his party. So as I was blatantly eves dropping their conversation of "What do the University Class mean by De-Colonization?" I was rudely interrupted by the GF with the look of "Don't you dare enter that conversation!"
Anyhoo when they got up to leave I congratulated him on his book "The Duel" and we had a brief conversation on his journalist career and its connection to my GF family.
An interesting evening overall.
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Some of the spending was $2.2 in thousands of dollars for APPBOT to increase the approval of the App.
At the 12:00 mark with comparisons with other Apps.
At the 12:00 mark with comparisons with other Apps.
