Paul Wells and Maclean’s have got the first interview with Jane Philpott – former Minister of Health, former Treasury Board President, former Minister of Indigenous Services – and it is incredible. From the very first time I met Jane, and spoke at her riding association many years ago, I believed
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Warren Kinsella: The Committee to Re-Elect the Prime Minister: how to intimidate MPs, and how to get a newspaper to go along
THREAD. A member of the Team Trudeau campaign secretly follows around two former cabinet ministers on budget day, and takes photos of them when they meet with others. Without consent, without approval. And then he gives the photos to a reporter friendly with Team Trudeau. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Globe: Trudeau, PMO staff hire outside lawyers in case RCMP probes #LavScam
Wow. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior officials in his office have retained outside legal counsel in case of an RCMP investigation into allegations of political interference in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group. Mr. Trudeau’s communications director, Cameron Ahmad, told The Globe and Mail on Friday that Treasury Board
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Podcasting With Canadia Cast (And Overcoming Sound Issues And A Level 5 Man Cold)
This was me today, a level 5 man cold – and I still made it on to co-host Canadia Cast with Kevin, only to be foiled by a few audio issues. It was a fun and freewheeling conversation about trolls, the dangers of social media, arguing on Twitter, bullies, SNC-Lavalin.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: March 14 edition
The Liberal majority on the “Justice” Committee again voted to prevent Jody Wilson-Raybould from speaking. It didn’t go over well. None of it has gone over well. •Toronto Sun Campaign Research poll: “As for Trudeau himself, Yufest says he now stands at just 29% approval compared to 58% who think
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Charlie And The Hypocrisy Factory
I have just about had my fill of NDP concern troll, and massive hypocrite Charlie Angus. Charlie has turned into the Appalachian carnival barker of Canadian politics. Charlie loves to bully people on Twitter. He seems to forget however, that these people who he calls trolls, are taxpayers and voters
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Jody Wilson-Raybould, The Media Created Seinfeld Scandal, And When There Is No There There (Plus Podcasts!)
Some thoughts and political potshots. It is getting to the point where commenting about Jody Wilson-Raybould on Social Media is getting too toxic. The subject itself is so very divisive that having a negative opinion of Jody Wilson-Raybould makes you a racist, and a misogynist. I have long held the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Abacus Data #LavScam shorter version: #CPC up, @JustinTrudeau down
Our friends at Campaign Research are out with a national omnibus today, too, I believe. I suspect they are going to show the same thing (if not worse). Poll, methodology, etc. here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your Saturday #LavScam roundup: Trudeau’s coddling of “ordinary evil”
National Observer: “…the most depressing spectacle of the entire affair is watching Justin Trudeau, a man who clearly aspires to greatness, debase himself and this nation, by begging, pushing, imploring Canada’s attorney general to let this company off the hook. Then effectively firing her when she wouldn’t comply, and allowing
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: the Imposter has a bad, bad press conference
The Imposter’s non-apology apology didn’t go so well. A summary of the commentariat, below: John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail: “At Thursday morning’s news conference, an unrepentant Justin Trudeau described the political crisis that has consumed his government as a failure to communicate. It was not. This crisis is about his
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Justin Trudeau Has No Need To Apologize
Sometimes I think that Justin Trudeau is too decent and too nice to be the leader of a big country with so many little people, and so many dirty old men. But at least he didn't apologize this morning for this grotesque scandal. For he has nothing to apologize for.As I said on
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The #LavScam questions Trudeau wouldn’t answer
Me on Your Morning on CTV. I look super old. Too many 5 a.m. wake-ups to do #LavScam commentary!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam shocker: the prosecutors react to Trudeau
An hour after the “Prime Minister” speaks, this. This is simply extraordinary. In all my years of lawyering, and trying to teach law, I have never seen something like this. It is the clearest indication, yet, what the Canadian justice system thinks about Justin Trudeau’s repeated efforts to obstruct justice.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: My Second Podcast Appearance – The View Up Here (And Of Course Some Thoughts On SNC Fakegate)
//percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=711695&episodeId=11232575 I sat down for a wide ranging chat with Canada Glen (@canadianglen) about the United We Roll convoy and the SNC Lavalin story, it is actually quite fair, and the deep analysis into these stories that I wish corporate media would have done. The way Canadian mainstream media has
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: the New York Times calls it “a spreading mess” and “a major blow”
I’ll be on CTV Your Morning today around 7, after Trudeau speaks this morning, and also doing the radio tying over on the mighty Newstalk 1010. This is the sort of thing I’ll be talking about: it didn’t go well, yesterday. At all. Editorial board of the New York Times:
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Gerald Butts Blew the Fake Scandal Out of the Water
Gerald Butts looks like such a gentle, soft spoken man, it's hard to imagine he's the son of a coal miner from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.And during his testimony before the justice committee today he never once lost his temper, or raised his voice.But what he did do very effectively
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your March 5 #LavScam roundup
Above: a Trudeau supporter physically attacks a protestor at Justin Trudeau’s rally in Toronto last night. Where – I’m not making this up! – they played Michael Jackson songs – on the same night ‘Leaving Neverland’ was airing. And the great reviews keep rolling in! Globe Ipsos poll: “Most Canadians
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam obligatory Bohemian Rhapsody reference
Another one bites the dust?
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Philpott Resignation Doesn’t Make The Fake Scandal Any Less Fake
The resignation of Jane Philpott is a big political blow to the Liberal government.And a sad day for me, since she was the cabinet minister I most admired. I'll never forget this story about the death of her young child Emily in the Niger Republic. And for that and other reasons, she'll
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jane Philpott resigns from cabinet over SNC Lavalin Debacle
We may well be seeing just the tip of a melting iceberg. Jane Philpott has been highly regarded across party lines. Her message could not be more clear and obvious. The PM’s handling of the Read more…
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