The Canada Infrastructure Bank is refusing to disclose bonuses paid to executives despite a unanimous vote by MPs on a House of Commons committee calling for the amounts to be revealed.
Members of Parliament on the standing committee on transport, infrastructure and communities, including Liberal MPs, voted 11-0 on March 23 in support of a motion requesting that the bank “file all documents detailing the bonus policies and payment of bonuses to executives and the board of directors since the bank’s inception.”
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The Liberal government created the CIB in 2017 as a Crown corporation with a $35-billion budget and a mandate to support projects that are in the public interest and that attract outside investment from large institutional investors, such as pension funds.
The exchange between the transport committee and the CIB is one of several continuing battles between the minority Parliament and the government over motions to turn over documents. In one case, the Liberal government is taking the House of Commons Speaker to court in an effort to prevent the release of uncensored documents that MPs requested in relation to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory.
h/t Chris, who has more;
2. In contempt of Parliament… Federal bureaucrats are refusing to follow ANOTHER law.
The federal Finance Department is asserting that it has the power to freeze a law passed by Parliament that gives more generous tax treatment to small businesses…The legislation received royal assent on June 29. But, in a news release issued the next day, Finance stated that the new rules won’t come into effect until Jan. 1.
The department’s stance that it can delay the onset of the new tax rules is unusual. It also defies federal law, which says bills go into effect when given royal assent unless otherwise specified, according to experts in legislative process and parliamentary procedure.
Links are here.
Benito Trudeau doesn’t need no stinkin parliament. He’s busy making global warming scams run on time.
Benito Trudeau should stay off balconies. Causecau’s last speech. The moment the crowd turned. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRWiz1PhKU
Read both articles in Tips, thanks Chris.
We can’t even ask the Americans to liberate us anymore.
The sock monkey is starting to resemble that Jimmy Stuart guy.
No not the one that starred in those movies.
The one that ruled under the premise that God put them in charge and Parliament had no business holding the purse strings.
When does Parliament’s name get changed to National People’s Congress?
Well, what do you expect from a Crown Corporation set up by Infrastructure Barbie? They already lost $20 Billion and haven’t been made to answer for it so why should they tell anyone what their bonuses are?
This is what i talked about yesterday about hidden debts of government. The whole system is an unaccountable hog trough. Some Crown Corps have 300-500m in debts. Hydro one last number i saw was 400 M
You can not fix Canada by voting. You can change nothing as Quebec has the veto. And the PM is the elected Queenie Thing. Wave his hand. So let it be written so let it be done. The Westminster Parliaments are very undemocratic and a sham democracy. He owns the appointed Senate, he owns the Judiciary. The fake constitution was written to protect the government power, not the Citizen. Break it up.
#TheRomanianswereright
Leftists ALWAYS talk talk talk about “transparency” …but then HIDE their rotten, evil, deeds from the public. The only thing I believe from the left … is when they promise to RAISE taxes.
#NurembergDerangementSyndrome
It used to be hard to believe that there were still people in the world, who thought civil servants had good intentions. I got over that after a few decades of banging my head against the wall trying to convince people that government was not the solution, but the problem itself.
People will believe what they choose to believe. After that, nothing can move them from the path they have chosen.
It comes down to the most basic rule of the human condition: “I have never been wrong, I will never be wrong”. You telling someone they are in error (or ever have been), is an attack on every molecule of their being.
Politicians work in an environment that prefers the path of least resistance and is susceptible to corruption. It’s why character is the most important quality when determining who is best suited to sit as a representative in a legislative assembly.
But politicians are driven to get elected and re-elected. So their goals will be determined on how it helps them keep their seat.
Bureaucrats are driven by head counts and budgets. They care less about serving the public that pays and more about preserving and protecting the bureaucracy. Anything that looks and sounds like a reduction in staff or budget will be seen as an existential threat to bureaucrats.
Combine a seriously compromised politician surrounded by yes men and political parasites and career bureaucrats obsessed with building an empire and you have a recipe for systemic abuse and misappropriation of tax dollars.
This is made inevitable if a government was founded on preserving government and not the protection of its citizens rights.
Tell them that while they voted in good faith, the ones that they voted for did not act in good faith.
Here’s an old quote – sorry, don’t know the source: “People will forgive you for failing to do what you should. They will not forgive you for failing to what you claim to be doing.”
Maybe, once upon a time, that held true. It looks now, like the people can be bought.
Kevin…. “It is usually futile to try and talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance”. T Sowell. That covers most Canadians.
That certainly covers Gerry Butts and his global warming nonsense.
Ahhh. yes. LIBERALS (isn’t it always..? well, no Actually, its the entire system and those who populate it.)
“We are entitled to our entitlements”….that in itself fully describes the Liberal Motto.
Do all for Self & Party – Tax n Fk the voters. (continually)
Anyone in this country who actually though we had a “democratic” system of govt here, have been, and continue to be part of that vast vacuous HERD (Now all fully imbued with Moderna/Pfizer garbage), that believes they are here to help.
Apparently Marx said this and is demonstrably correct:
Democracy leads to socialism.
Socialism leads to communism.
Obviously those MPs will have to be sued, like the Speaker, and it can all be sorted out after the Liberals win the next election.
They are knaves. We are fools. Ready to vote ?
Ready to vote? Are you serious? Waste of your time, if you haven’t figured that out by now. Enough don’t and they might just make it mandatory, though just to piss you off. They get really excited if you don’t file or pay taxes, too. They’ll be rounding up people soon and kicking down your door to “comply” with .gov directives. Wuflu is just the start. You won’t be able to just walk in and have a beer without a “vaccine passport” (VP card) in Kaybec, soon among other things by September this year, Expect inter-provincial travel border controls soon after. And the “vaxxed” will be insufferable to those they find out who aren’t. Cages.
You know there is another path?
I accept that politics is the art of compromise and that eventually if the public drops the “torch” speaking metaphorically, it’s inevitable that corruption will happen.
So I agree that politics may be seen as a waste of time. However, if you accept that the system has been irreparably damaged, then may I suggest helping get elected at least one MP that by their very presence in the HoC it causes the laurentian elite and their fart catchers to go into mouth foaming hyperbolic fits of derangement just for having the temerity to get elected.
They may never achieve anything you hoped with one exception. They will torment the tormentors to no end.
Joseph, “They may never achieve anything you hoped with one exception. They will torment the tormentors to no end.”
Sensible people in the US did that with Trump, and it worked. But, they stole the whole dang election to eject him from their torment. Annnnnd, he’s still tormenting them!
So, your suggestion has validity, but it’s so 2016, We need new ideas to continue tormenting our current drama queen, cuz he’s working hard to shut down Rebel and True North, and us, I’m sure he’s vexed, but he keeps at it. Fortunately, he’s not very bright, so it’s hard for him. Once he finishes cuckolding Canada for China and/or the WEF, he’ll be rewarded with the head UN job, which he so covets. Ultimately, we as peasants can only be annoying ankle biters, or fleas and mosquitoes, to snooty sniveling elites like him!
Been there done that, waste of time and effort in the end. This goes way beyond “politics” now.
Politics is the art of theft, comprise has nothing to do with it, you compromise you lose.
Pancho Villa Had A Solution. A Wall And A Blindfold.
Can I vote if I haven’t been vaccinated?
Don’t give them any ideas….
The mafia are more honorable and less corrupt than any government in Canada federal or provincial.
Forget “Reform”.
Retribution.
A pox on all their houses.
These are our employees..
Reward them accordingly.
That was a mighty nice company/country we had there,before all that help piled on.
After all their fine work?
And now they insist we are to blame for the quality of their work..Or lack there of.
This coming election,vote “Death to the State”.
Pretend you care.
Start at the top, keep firing people until you get down the guys who’s prepared to cooperate!!
Waayyy back in the day I used to volunteer to work phones for the Reform Party in downtown
Calgary. Where are we now? How far have we come? What have we accomplished? Nothing!
Nowhere! Nada!! We got nuttin and it’s been going nowhere for decades. We’re hooped
Well Kelly,reform gave us hope,fighting the god fight and united in the belief the institutions were larger than the individuals infesting them.
Ok.
Now we know better.
Having no hope,frees me of the delusion I am building any better world or better future.
That there might be a society greater than my tiny little world.
Teach your children how to count,shoot,stab and spit.
For these are the skills our current path implies.
Reform, Parson Manning, the Inchworm Harper and his Incrementalist policy, all tying back to Kenney again. Who was shat out of Harpers ass. Gave Albertans an additional 30 year sentence in the Gulag, I guess now it is a Goolag. “The West Wants In”. No We Want Out. Break Up The Canadian Penal Colony.
Pretty amazing how treacherous Preston turned out to be.
Embracing Man Made Global Warming,now that is working for smaller government…
Seems the only honest principled people in politics are the ones who do not want to be there.
Canada is breaking apart.
The Boy Wonder is openly campaigning for Western Alienation..
Prove me wrong.
Name one thing Justine and the Children’s Council would have done differently if the destruction of confederation was their clear intended goal?
Hell I am tempted to vote Liberal,just to hasten the end.
FORWARD!.