Her testimony was riveting, her aura of integrity palpable. One could only come away from the testimony of Jody Wilson-Raybould into the SNC-Lavalin scandal drawing at least two conclusions: politics really is a dirty game, and it is one that a person of principle cannot easily navigate while holding on
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Cowichan Conversations: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wins Burnaby South by-election, clearing key hurdle ahead of federal campaign
Jagmeet Singh will soon take his place as leader in the House of Commons. This is where the puck hits the sidewalk. With Trudeau on the ropes over the SNC Lavalin controversy, and Read more…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam poll: Trudeau’s Liberals are losing, change is winning
Angus Reid Group has a sounding of public opinion to share, this morning – and for the #LavScam Liberals, it’s bad. A visual representation of the horserace numbers: I spoke to another pollster yesterday. I asked him if Trudeau was being hurt by #LavScam. His response? “Buddy, Trudeau is going
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam echoes: in yesterday walks today
THEN: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Donald Trump told James Comey, “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” NOW: “A lot of [your] colleagues and the Prime Minister are quite anxious,” the Clerk of
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: My Saturation Point
I have realized there is a lower point than disillusionment with mainstream Canadian media. I call it my bullshit saturation point. Canada’s news media has decided that it wants to be the main influencer/decider of the 2019 election. For the last few weeks, a common thread has emerged in mainstream
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: first Butts, now Telford
…and the Clerk of the Privy Council applying raw muscle, too. I’m sure it’s all nothing. Here. Oh, and all the rich white people from Toronto didn’t like how the Indian girl had opinions about what should happen to her own people. How dare she! Here. Useful #LavScam timeline by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Following The Trail Home
Letter-writers in today’s Star ask questions that demand to be answered. The first makes a point that occurred to me early on when SNC-Lavalin averred that bribery and fraud charges were the result of rogue employees, an oft-used disclaimer by those seeking to evade criminal responsibility: Re PM loses top
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: Canada’s top bureaucrat assassinates his reputation – and Trudeau’s, too
A must-read Tom Brodbeck column here. Key bits: “The most mind-boggling thing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick said Thursday didn’t occur during his testimony at the House of Commons justice committee. Granted, the federal government’s top bureaucrat said some pretty shocking things there, including his bizarre comments about how Canada
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For What It’s Worth
I would like to use this post to comment on one of the questions swirling around the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, one that came up yet again on last night’s At Issue panel: Why did Wilson-Raybould wait until she was was moved to Veterans Affairs to resign from cabinet? The
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam Globe stunner: what JWR told cabinet
…and, as she almost certainly expected, they’re leaking it. They’re waiving the privilege all on their own. And thereby helping her to get her story out. Man, she is smart. They’re playing checkers – and she always plays chess. Story here. Former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould told federal cabinet ministers she
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear Puglaas
Dear Puglaas: That’s the name you use on Twitter, and the name you got when you were born: Puglaas. In the Kwak’wala language, it means “woman born to noble people.” And noble – in the traditional sense of the word – you certainly are. Daughter of a fearless British Columbia
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Dissecting Justin
The first cut, they say, is the deepest. And now, for something completely different: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Personal Cost Of Politics
Despite our love for politics as a blood sport, there is a human side and human cost to politics. I have seen both, and have experienced both for the better and the worse. Today is the where the worse comes into play. I was lucky to have met Gerald Butts
Continue readingIn-Sights: Curious deal in BC’s pay-to-play economy
In early 2014, BC Hydro awarded SNC-Lavalin a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Sounds as if the Trudeau Liberals are listening to their Natural Governing Party lizard brain, finally
Amid all the hoo-ha emanating from the nation’s capital over the partial holiday weekend, the bit that didn’t seem to fit was the dispiriting news – for many Albertans, anyway – that the federal cabinet won’t make a decision until summer at least on whether the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Breaking News: Gerald Butts Resigns!
For those who claim the SNC-Lavalin affair is much ado abut nothing, this is certainly an interesting development: OTTAWA—Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary and long-time friend, has resigned amid allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office interfered to prevent a criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. In a statement, Butts unequivocally denies
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The ‘Evolving’ Story Of Justin And Jody
Evolving is one of those words I have never particularly cared for. It can, and should, of course, most be used when pertaining to the growth and change over time of various forms of life. Too often, however, it is used as a weasel word, one that is employed to
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