A Liberal, is a Liberal, is a Liberal.
The opposition is almost certain to have a field day if Trudeau becomes the first prime minister in Canada’s history to violate a federal statute — a statute on ethics and conflict of interest, no less — while in office.
This will make the use of “Right Honourable” most difficult.
If found to be in violation of Her Majesty’s laws, will he tender his resignation or will the GG be forced to demand it?
I knew he was a dim bulb but this is still surprising. That’s the thing about incompetency, you never know how deep it is. If he does get pushed out who will take over? Presumably Dion or Monsef (ok that’s a fantasy)
I think JT will have to thus be referred to as The Most Unethical Minister.
It makes sense that PM JT can violate house rules when on personal time doesnt it? His skill at boxing out his PM obligations while meeting with lobbyists who provide him with a few personal luxuries is incomparable. The helicopter use and other gifts are for JT”s family and not PM JT. He has no issues with it because it has no bearing on anything.
He isn’t going to turn around and funnell millions to this Aga guy just to help the OPEC nations shut down the oil sands and stomp Albertans with elite Qeeebec jackboots.
He is a progressive Liberal who cares. The carbon tax is a caring tax you ignorant red neck fools west of the Ontario border. You will come to love energy poverty because it saves the environment.
Now get over your baseless attacks on PM Quantum Physicist and learn to love your place in Progada.
Expect nothing to come of this, Liberals are sprayed coated with Teflon. The Ethics Commish will skim over it and find a loophole, it’ll be an honest mistake. Trudeau and his cabal know this, that’s why he has said more than once the Aga Khan is an old family friend. Maybe it will be a bit different with little Seamus, he’s not a family friend…they’ll have to draw the line, slap some underling on the wrist.
Mary Dawson looks mean, like she hasn’t had a man in 30 years. Maybe Trudeau will hug her and everything will be okay.
As I understand it, the ethics commissioner is in a conflict of interest herself! She has been granted a 6 month extension by no less than the PM himself. She is up for a contract renewal or he can appoint a new one. This stinks.
I’m aiming for Western Separation at this point. It’s the only hope we have — stop the insanity!
You know what’s great about the United States? Politicians are actually convicted of crimes and punished for them. Here in Canada a politician can swipe a $10,000 diamond, cry when caught, and not even come away from the whole episode with a criminal record. THEN GET RE-ELECTED! The whole Svend Robinson episode made it finally sink in for me that there is an elite government class in this country and they will have their privileges!
Shame us O’regan would be my guess for new PM. Maybe justin was grooming him for the position during his scheduled “personal” time.
You know what’s great about the United States? Politicians are actually convicted of crimes and punished for them. Here in Canada a politician can swipe a $10,000 diamond, cry when caught, and not even come away from the whole episode with a criminal record. THEN GET RE-ELECTED! The whole Svend Robinson episode made it finally sink in for me that there is an elite government class in this country and they will have their privileges!
“Maybe it will be a bit different with little Seamus”
Blame it on the piss tank. Personally, I prefer not vacationing with gay guys. Bad for my rep. I suspect it doesn’t bother Twinkle Toes Trudeau.
So he was given a vacation at a private island owned by someone who gets money from the Canadian taxpayers, he took an MP, the president of the Liberal party and the head of the 2020 foundation, a globalist foundation that gets money from the Canadian taxpayer – but no business was discussed. The helicopter ride is the least of the perceived ethical lapses. I have no high opinion of little potato, but does he think we are equally as stupid?
“swipe a $10,000 diamond”
Svend Robinson stole a $50,000 ring, was convicted but through the Gay Marxist provision of the Criminal Code received no criminal record.
We sure are stupid, we elected him as per our system and his rag tag lot who were the third party in the HOC. Even they didn’t expect to win.
” Politicians are actually convicted of crimes and punished for them” I don’t think so. Hillary Clinton is still walking around free as a bird. I think she will be forgiven. That is what the election was about (in part) — too many crooked politicians feathering their nests.
The opposition may think they will have a field day, but the only reporting Canadians will hear from the media is that the opposition are mean spirited, and that anyone who rides this issue is trying to play partisan politics. It will go away, as did the elbowing of a female MP.
The longer Justin’s ascension to his rightful place of the Canadian Throne is in progresses, the more he speaks in public settings with cameras and video capturing his thoughts and actions, the more I see this man as one lacking in common sense, astoundingly lacking of judgement and has a moral compass tied to one of the windmills in Pincher Creek.
Justin seems to be the product of a tremendous amount of coaching. It appears he has trouble with personal thoughts and seems to parrot a lot of talking points given to him by his handlers. His thoughts translating to his mouth seem void of substantive conviction and depth of character.
To have not sought the advise of the Ethics Commissioner in advance to a “private vacation” and meeting with a registered lobbyist, not only on his own part but on the advise of his professional paid staff who would have had to have known the extensive planning of this mystery trip, as to clear any hurdles of the appearance of wrongdoing is bordering on extreme negligence or a calculated deception. Which is worse?
And to know this Government has been handed the keys to the last standing Progressive Movement Government in the Western World is a delight to behold. Wonder if there parachutes instead of backpacks on that plane to nowhere?
We sure can’t expect the water carriers in the media to do the job.
If this was the CPC, this would be like the Duffy fiasco, 24/7 on how the PM took an unethical helo ride, “He should resign!!!!!!” Blather blather blather, from Terry Milewski, and the rest of the rabid hyenas of the media.
Spud? ……………crickets…………………
mulroney did the same thing. but he is just another side of the Laurentide mafia coin.
The damage is done; the tone of comments on the CBC stories shows that a lot of Canadians believe he’s either incompetent, unethical, or both. That’s a shift in CBC comment censorship as well as a change in audience reaction. People who voted LIB are throwing him under the bus.
More and more people are noting the fact that JT lives an extravagant rock-star lifestyle with a huge ‘carbon footprint’, yet expects ordinary Canadians to use less fossil fuels.
Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, ………………………where’s Rona & the Progressive Convertibles? I haven’t heard much of a peep. No news conferences, no Ethics Commish conflict of interest issues on it, no mud slinging or fuddle duddles in the HoC, nada. Even the Rebel is quite quiet on this.
WTF???
Remember when the Trudeau Media was trying to link Harper to Duffy. Were they calling for Harper’s resignation?
Will they call for Trudeaus’s resignation
What seems to be getting overlooked in this fiasco, the real question that most seem to be missing is, what was the Liberal party president and O’Regan, a neophyte MP, doing on a ‘family’ vacation with the Prime Minister. The site of the ‘vacation’ and the helicopter flight are a side show to the reasons these others were accompanying the Prime Minister to a ‘family’ vacation on an island owned by a recipient of taxpayer funds.
Is anyone really expecting criticism of the media darling and star candidate ? The only news worth broadcasting is how bad Trump is or how Harper did it and is responsible. After all there is more consultations and hugs and selfies coming !
This will make the use of “Right Honourable” most difficult.
Yes. “Left Deceptive” would be more appropriate.
Spud is a chip off the old block. Story has it that his old man took his ‘man’ on the honeymoon. Little wonder Maggie went over the wall.
Soapy must be ok with it.
Trudeau’s Liberals just got struck by the first shot in Canada’s carbon-tax rebellion
Terence Corcoran | January 16, 2017
“…how is it justified for you to ask me to pay a carbon tax when I only have $65 left in my paycheque every two weeks to feed my family.”
After the audience broke out into 10 seconds of applause and shouts of support for the woman, Trudeau bobbed and weaved, riding the technicality that electricity is a local matter and that, in fact, it was the government of Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne that was responsible for Ontario’s soaring hydro bills, the product of the province’s billion-dollar carbon-fighting boondoggles.
It’s not my carbon tax, said Trudeau, backing away from the problem. “We haven’t brought in any carbon tax yet, ma’am,” he said. “It doesn’t start kicking in for another few years.” That’s technically true, but politically disingenuous.
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/terence-corcoran-trudeaus-liberals-just-got-struck-by-the-first-shot-in-canadas-carbon-tax-rebellion
I hope you’re right but I doubt it. I think Canadians are generally stupid. We’re pretty based around here but the rest are freaking morons.
Anyone expecting Dumb Juthtin to be held to account on this issue or any other issue is dreaming… nothing will come of this just like nothing came of Juthtin’s unhinged behaviour regarding “elbowgate” (imagine the Media reaction if that had been PM Harper)… or Dumb Juthtin excepting bribes from the commie Chinamen, member that? The media sure don’t. Juthtins arrogance is warranted, he knows he can do what he pleases when he pleases and the Media will have his back. Juthtin is here to stay no matter what, he is untouchable just like his crazy Father. Juthtin is the last of the Globalist puppet leaders, the Globalists and their Media will protect the nit-wit at all costs. I say enjoy the show, it is hilarious to have a frisbee coach play acting as PM, I know the idiot keeps me laughing…. Everyone should look on the bright side, the commie Chinaman are building a statue of Dumb Juthtins Father, just what Trudopia needs. I look forward to the inevitable statue of Fidel Castro and 12 years from now a statue of Dumb Juthtin himself… good times!
Sorry, thats supposed to read “accepting”… as in “Juthtin accepting bribes”… apologies, its been a long day.
…of course they are. In any quasi-democracy where ballots are counted to select ‘leaders’, the stupids will decide the outcome of elections.
George Carlin was right when he said: “Consider how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that. ..Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
The group that wins elections is the one that can motivate the stupids to go vote for them. In the last Cdn election, the LIBs were far smarter at mobilizing and motivating the stupids, because they realized that almost all the stupids were addicted to their cell phones and linked with social media. The LIBs used that to motivate the stupids with a “StopHarper” campaign that quickly fed itself like a brushfire. Meanwhile the CPC was using clumsy ads on broadcast TV and robo-calls to landlines. The CPC didn’t have a chance and they’re still stumbling around in the dark saying “WTF”.
The stupids are also fickle. They can quickly turn on their heroes and throw them under the bus.
This TrudoTax isn’t some political abstract to the stupids like ‘electoral reform’. That tax will dig into their pockets and take a big bite from the disposable income they spend on cell phone minutes, lotto, smokes, booze, drugs, lattes, yoga, organic food, etc… and now they’re getting pissed off about it.
Everyone is talking about the ethics, the money, the legality of it all, but that is a distraction from the fact Justin is very close friend with one of the top imams of the world.
Just like Obama his relationship with islam is very strange… Justin Trudeau is often seen in mosque, even some that have ties to terrorists, and he is often with muslims,
he celebrated his victory by dancing with muslims to Indian music wearing Indian clothes. Then a couple days later named our defense top guy; a turban wearing Indian.
Who cares how much the airplane ride cost, or if it was ethical to go vacation there, what I want to know is why our leader is so in love with islam???
and if his closest friends are muslims, how the hell will Trudeau ever say no to more muslim immigrants and refugees?
Obama was a sort of trojan horse for islam, it seems Trudeau is as well.
That is what we should focus on; why is Justin so in love with islam? and is that good for the average Canadian?
PS: I intentionally do not use capital letters for islam, muslim and related words.
Crucify the arrogant turd as much as possible but, more importantly to me, why is Canada giving a billionaire millions of dollars?
Oh, it’s going to his foundation, you say. Well, he still gets to use that money himself. Oh, he does good works, you say. Easy to do good works with free money, and he gets the credit.
Stop giving billionaires Canadians’ money.
Oh, and if it was just a family vacation, why was a liberal MP and the president of the liberal party also there?
Now that’s a question that needs to be asked for sure! Like this cross country trek by Trudeau and his entourage, it’s more about and for the Liberal party than about the people. It’s a celebrity tour, sunny ways and hugs. Should be fun when he hits Alberta, let the stammers begin.