Looking these days like the loneliest man in Ottawa;
One week after losing his right-hand man Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top political aide — chief of staff Katie Telford — faces allegations she intentionally inflicted mental suffering on an ex-ambassador. […] On Monday, her lawyer will petition the Ontario Court of Justice to amend the lawsuit to have Telford and four senior officials of Global Affairs Canada added as defendants.
Huh.
More: “with friends like these”…
Bumped with this update: Mark Norman’s defence team targets Trudeau, Butts with subpoenas
It isn’t very shocking that Telford is cut from the same cloth as Butts, she’s probably worse, an angry feminist.
It ‘s a good indicator of the Liberals mentality on Israel that they thought Bercovici was too “pro-Israel”, but they have no problem at all with anyone who is anti-Israel, even violently so. When any Muslim leader or Imam calls for the death of all Jews, you don’t hear much from the Liberals.
Let us hope Bercovici is successful in her lawsuit.
This added to the Shiny team leak to the Mop & Pail, non-Bald Butts resigns before we know why, Bald Butts is sent out to defend his boss and in doing so slags half of the country as Truck murderers and claims he is very worried our elections could be influenced. I’d say they likely will be influenced by the electors getting a view of the machinations of Shiny HQ.
Conspiracy theory conjecture: WhoWowWay spy ware is paying off already. Is it possible they decided to share some of what they’ve gathered to shed some light on Shiny’s approach to the ‘rule of law’? Retribution for locking up one of their nobility in her Vancouver palace? Is Raybould keeping quiet to protect herself more than the Gov’t?
The poor wee wanker the 1st 75 times he had sex, he was alone and scared in a closet.
So the Liberal Party of Canada, the same people who turned away the MS St. Loius, while Liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King was prime minister, have a problem with Israel and Jews?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Stay a dependable Liberal voting block Jewish people. It’s working for you.
Not in the least surprising that she was treated that way by the anti-Sematic, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Liberals.
Some interesting stuff here, on a Buffalo website cause guess why:
https://buffalochronicle.com/2019/02/19/scheer-wants-bmo-and-treasury-official-questioned-in-snc-lavalin-probe/
”Sources close to the Conservative opposition leader have told The Chronicle, on the condition of anonymity, that Scheer has reason to suspect that Brison’s resignation on January 10th was part of a wider effort to shield the government and Bank of Montreal executives from wide-ranging improprieties related to the former Kinder Morgan pipeline and its subsequent acquisition.
The Bank of Montreal has been using intermediary business service providers to ‘effectively bribe’ the elected officials of Indian Act-governments in British Columbia in exchange for pipeline approvals, the longtime government relations executive alleges. That practice has been a source of outrage among indigenous people in the Province.
Worried that the practice violates the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the United States, (a conviction under that law would result in criminal prosecutions and trade sanctions against BMO), banking executives hurriedly lobbied Finance Minister Bill Morneau in late May, and were able to quickly secure a transaction that would effectively nationalize the pipeline, while offering favorable terms of indemnification to the investors involved in the project.“
How much Indian tax have we paid over the years?.. Heard Trudeau said to pay attention to what Michael(Smollett)Bald Butts said.. Threat to us anti-liberal commentors on SocialMedia?.. Roundups to begin, from Heir Trudeau?.. Wouldn’t surprise me.
last little while it has been over 12 billion a year and rising.
What surprises me is that these jokers are the worst liars in the world…and politicians and bureaucrats get so much practice. They’ve barely attained a middle school level of fibbing savvy. The privy council guy still thinks a hissy fit makes an obvious lie more believable. What’s next : Liberal politicians and bureaucrats will threaten to hold their breath or run away if they don’t get what they get what they want.
It’s the timeline of events that’s killing them. The SNC lobbying for a new law, the public prosecutor denying SNC, more SNC lobbying, the PMO and Privy Clerk trying to get the AG to pressure the public prosecutor to give in to SNC, a campaign of continual badgering of the AG to wear the her down, then as a last resort they fire the AG and replace her with someone more compliant. These dots are easy to connect.
These lame excuses for meddling in the justice system to help out white collar criminals from the old boys club in Quebec are not convincing to anyone other than die hard Liberals, Quebecers and the CBC. For Liberal bodyguards it would be whole different story if it was Harper helping Encana evade criminal charges after intense lobbying by Gwyn Morgan. I doubt there’d be much media concern for any energy jobs lost if an Alberta oil company was as corrupt as SNC.
Like I posted earlier, wouldn’t doubt that Telford’s a big BDS proponent.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/welcome-to-canadas-house-of-cards/ar-BBTUZf4?ocid=ASUDHP
Here’s a fun read that nails juthtin, from Macleans of all places.
Find it odd that Telford’s name doesn’t come up much. Maybe Buttsplug wanted it that way
Two points:
1. Francis Underwood in the original House of Cards was a lot smarter than Turdeau. 🙂
2. Why is Turdeau not waiving privilege and allowing JWR to speak freely? In my opinion it’s obvious, he has things to hide.
The ex-ambassador is obviously an assassin.
Yep – this Wilson-Raybould mess is also tied up with the Admiral Norman mess. The AG didn’t click her heels when Trudeau gave an order.
A little off topic here but could there be any relationship to the Butts resignation and the gas-plant scandal, the ORANG scandal and a number of other improprieties that occurred in Ontario when Butts was an advisor to the Ontario Liberal Party? Just wondering.
Well I don’t buy the Liberals bribing people to accept pipelines. They’ve been doing the opposite, so I wonder where Andy 2% is going with this.
Personally, i think the ship approval thing is the most serious from a legal and corrupt standpoint. But we are seeing three different stories all involving the Butts-Trudeau tag team bullying.
I’m with you on the pipeline drivel, as Butts was a TIDES foundation/WWF recipient $.
The Norman case, and SNC-Lavalin all didn’t have the requisite LIEberal baksheesh/payola to the correct political players.
The requisite corruption of justice was required to make payment to the LIEberal establishment players.
Hence the departure of Scott Brison for the Norman case, and Butts et al. on the SNC-Lavalin hatchet job.
The farcical excuse that jobs were at stake rings hollow, as compared to Alberta oil jobs.
If there is no “blood in the water” for the money sharks you simply don’t get to play.
The whole damn lot stinks to high heaven, and no amount snivel serpent hissing is going to make it all go away.
“Scumbaggery” and rank hypocrisy are not a political ‘virtues’.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Well, let us hope that at least one of these three tangled webs of crime and corruption gets serious legs and finishes off the grade nine level prime minister, and that Telford also gets nailed.
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If the nut cases weren’t thinking of doing some crazy stuff, the comments of Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick has probably just put ideas in their heads.
Trudeau, Butts with subpoenas – now just watch as ‘hard’ drives fail….no backups….just saying….
The only hard drive Trudeau has left is the one Gerald gave him last night
Terry,you actually figure he could after all the stress?! If so, Gerald’s a healthier stud than I ever would have imagined!
Oh,wait.Of course, vinagra or one a’ them other flesh firmer-uppers.
MAGA Trudeau.
https://youtu.be/3Dy1C95p00E
https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2019-02/212098_5_.png
““I conveyed to her that a lot of her colleagues and the prime minister were quite anxious about what they were hearing”
Colleagues?
This would suggest there where other Cabinet members that had a stake in this plan.
Speculation on which ones would suffer politically (aka lose their seat after one term) if SNC did not get a DPA.
Thinking any of them in Ottawa and Montreal.
This is one of those times you just want to put your feet up, crack open a beer, as watch things happen.
As I understand the PM’s logic, the way to encourage ethical and legal behavior by Canadian firms is to engage in unethical and illegal behavior at the top levels of the Canadian public service. It’s a strange way to lead by example.
Clipe, thanks for the Friday night fun with that MAGA video. I’ve sent it to all my friends – those who admire and those who detest Mr. Trump. If those who detest him can’t laugh, then screw ’em.
I’d sure like to know how they get those great (and subtle) expressions throughout.
Lots of great comments (questions, really, in many cases) above.
What’s mystifying to me (aside from how a news report like the one referenced by Exurban appears at the The Buffalo Chronicle; heck, I’m so old and stupid that I’m still stuck on who got the missing $40 million from the sponsorship scandal) is how the main protagonists, including SNC-Lavalin itself, are still trying to defend the need for a DPA on the basis of the “economic interest of the country”. (Another aside: speaking of the “economic interest of the country”, where are the pipelines? — a point that has been amply made above, and which every sentient Canadian fully understands).
Has this crowd gone full Nancy (“We have to pass the bill [ACA] to see what’s in it”) Pelosi? Apparently, the CCC amendment on DPAs involved a one page add-on to Mr. Morneau’s 2018 omnibus budget implementation bill (the practise of which the Liberals also promised they would end): we’re talking four or five months ago, nothing like taking a walk into the mists of history…
Did people, such as, you know, the Clerk of the Privy Council, read the thing before it was submitted to Parliament? JW-R’s “colleagues and the prime minister” didn’t, obviously: it precludes, apparently, justifications for DPAs on the basis of “economic interest of the country”.
The media’s been on this point for over a week; heck, even Andrew Coyne’s columns are starting to make sense to me again.
As I understand it, and putting aside (again) other serious and legitimate sentiments and concerns, the Department of Justice writes and/or vets the bills to be sent to Parliament, thereby translating policy decisions into legal language, consistent with various sources of law, including international law. So JW-R’s officials in the Department would have had to have signed off on the bill before it was sent up to the PCO and then brought down by the government, having been agreed by cabinet. Her officials would certainly have told her about it.
And then she was “pressured”: “F*** is this?”, or words to that effect.
Don’t get me wrong: I have no truck with the Grits, in any way, shape or form, but I think she did her job and that she looks like an honourable person, so far. Hopefully, she doesn’t get suckered into compromising her credibility any further (her two-hour wait to speak to her former “colleagues and the prime minister” at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday last was bad enough; Trudeau sez, “Our cabinet meets every Tuesday…”; really, dude? Thanks for that. I bake muffins once in a while.)
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Another aside:
The criticism of Sen. David Tkachuk is beyond ridiculous, especially from the Clerk of the Privy Council, who didn’t read the bill discussed above, and who is now panicking. If Western Canada, in some fashion, decides to leave Confederation (which I hope it won’t), it will be more with a whimper than a bang.
Other great lines I have heard in my time (re: the GST):
“We’ll bury you hard and we’ll bury you deep.” — the chorus of a song I heard one time on CBC Radio, referring to the federal Tories in 1992-1993 on the issue.
“We will replace the GST.” — former Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
It’s not literal. Grow up (not referring to anyone here).
OK, then (he says, as he’s listening to a little Alan Jackson of a morning):
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/where-snc-lavalins-push-for-deferred-prosecution-came-up-short/
Bribery of foreign officials by Canadian corporate interests, for the same purpose, namely for “economic interests of the country” has been a problem for at least 50 years (studied the Polysar case — hard on the AECL debacle, under Mr. Trudeau, Sr. (1971-1974), in biz school, in 1989 @ Ivey); heck, I even went to the attic and pulled out my class notes the other day to confirm my understanding; it’s all there, I can assure you, and I can adduce the evidence if anybody needs to see it.
As Mr. Trudeau, Jr.’s father would say, paraphrasing and adapting, “Well, welcome to the Oil-for-Food Scandal!”
Done is tough, I’m guessing. Personally, I’ve gone country to round off the rough edges of my personality; plus I’m going to bake muffins each Tuesday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-ja75bFvI&frags=pl%2Cwn
Sayin’
The loneliest man in Ottawa. Even more lonely than the Lonely Maytag Repair Man.
That civil serpent Wernick has an incredibly punchable looking face doesn’t he.
I wonder if he realizes he’s the epitome of a Libtard caricature.
Non partisan my ass.
There’s something not adding up with Butts resigning to add to the turmoil for his old time buddy and long time pal.
You have to wonder what’s really behind this.
To quote an old song by Kenny Rogers “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille”…er, ah, uh Gerry. Someone knows but we have to go through some pretty intricate webs to find out just where the truth lies. Wilson Raybould seems happy to be back in the fold after quitting Cabinet. What changed her mind?
Maybe someone here could change the lyrics to suit the drama being played out in the Liberal fold.
I’d still like to know the real reason why Brison resigned, after all, if he hadn’t resigned Jody Wilson Raybould would not have been demoted, no Cabinet shuffle….well that’s one of Justin’s excuses.
Liz J there was a parody of Rogers hit called “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave me,Loose Wheel”, but I can’t remember the lyrics which suggested a car about to have a big crash.
Ah, bless the internet! http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/kennyrogers12.shtml
“You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel
With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal
I’ve had some clunkers, some really bad junkers
But you were just a great steal
You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel”
I actually saw that happen once! I was in Santa Clara, CA, crossing over the 101 in the heart of Silicon Valley, when the car in the next lane slowed down suddenly. I looked over – and saw the front passenger tire continuing on its own! It must have rolled at least 300 yards before it started to wobble a bit (prob. needed balancing ;} ), weaved across the lane a bit, and then rolled off the road. It’s strange as hell to see!
Good one don morris!
I suggest that we start calling the PM ‘Jussie Trudeau’. You know, out of care and understanding.
I actually saw that happen once! I was in Santa Clara, CA, crossing over the 101 in the heart of Silicon Valley, when the car in the next lane slowed down suddenly. I looked over – and saw the front passenger tire continuing on its own! It must have rolled at least 300 yards before it started to wobble a bit (prob. needed balancing ;} ), weaved across the lane a bit, and then rolled off the road. It’s strange as hell to see!
They don’t want to reveal cabinet secrets in providing disclosure to Admiral Norman. But he is charged with revealing cabinet secrets. How is he supposed to defend himself? I suspect Trudeau and company are hoping the case is dismissed. Maybe charging him was one of Wilson-Raybould’s poorer ideas.
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