— Musings —07.30.2020 07:46 PM
Today’s tawdry Trudeau testimony, tweeted
“I am very happy to be here to talk about the pandemic for as long as possible. Also, what do you think about the cool horse behind me?” pic.twitter.com/xvnSokY28G
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Wayne Easter: “I would like to hear quite a bit more about the pandemic, Prime Minister. Please use your entire 90 minutes to do so.” pic.twitter.com/Rp3VLLntzc
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Close-up of the blaming of bureaucrats for the scandal. pic.twitter.com/g4ufpp7z3l
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Actual footage of the Prime Minister revealing what he knew about WE and the Kielburgers. pic.twitter.com/OVD2eGOz7Y
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
“WE Charity received no preferential treatment,” he said, as hundreds of dormant lie detector machines spontaneously blinked awake, across North America. pic.twitter.com/e8NlXoSixk
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
#CPC sedates Pierre to the point where he actually falls asleep. pic.twitter.com/RLymAoF8Ts
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
I think Pierre has a more impressive backdrop than Justin or Wayne. pic.twitter.com/E8zsEmVYRR
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
The Prime Minister’s cool horse statue may have been given to him by Craig and Marc, but he doesn’t remember, doesn’t know Craig and Marc, doesn’t know what day it is, and in fact doesn’t know where the horse came from. Also, the public service did it. pic.twitter.com/sXAPA54iaM
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Opposition strategist folks may be understanding by now why I suggested focusing so much on Trudeau was a total waste of time. He’s a performer, he’s performing.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Watching this, I occasionally wonder how Canada’s 300,000 public servants feel about the Prime Minister of Canada throwing them under the proverbial bus, over and over and over, for this #WEscandal.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Yep, you did. pic.twitter.com/QWmcDGYADI
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Long ago, @JustinTrudeau said that he saw his role as a figurehead, quote unquote. He’s cheerfully providing evidence of that, this afternoon. When he says he didn’t know a lot of what was going on, I actually believe him. He should’ve, but he didn’t. He never does. #cdnpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
“Please accept this as my application for a spot, any spot, in your cabinet.” pic.twitter.com/lLh6dAiX2u
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Wayne Easter, his Internet service reconnected, starts waving to all Canadians to show his happiness. pic.twitter.com/KT5fs3K2U2
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
K. https://t.co/UqNtdbWme9 pic.twitter.com/pQcDl7XZ6v
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
He has “deep respect” for the public service that he has repeatedly blamed for this seamy, sordid scandal. Gotcha. #cdnpoki
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
No, he looks like he came here to rag the puck, which he has done, and which his inquisitors let him do. https://t.co/lhsDe7Bd7L
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
Admit it: you guys like doing Twitter and TV with me.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 30, 2020
I am going to rob a bank tomorrow afternoon. Before I leave the house, I will call the police and bank security to alert them to the exact bank and the exact time. Upon entering said bank, I will don an awesome Justin Trudeau wig…. proceed to commit robbery in broad daylight…. and walk away free as a bird… because no one will believe it’s happening.
I wonder if anyone will ever read all those books on the shelves behind him.
He read the books on quantum physics.
Good for him. Maybe he should be a quantum physics professor and stop wasting everyone’s time with the fake PM act.
This Prime Minister has sunk his own government: first he scores a goal by saying this: he slowed down the decision making process because of the perception of his family’s connections to WE. That normally would work in his favour. He GETS IT so he temporarily applies the brakes.
But then the PM does the exact opposite before cabinet gives the go ahead: he doesn’t tell cabinet about alleged WE payments to his mother, brother and wife and then Mr. PerceptionSensitiveTM doesn’t recuse himself and the PS Finance Minister also does not recuse himself. They’re playing the Canadian people for gullible suckers and it won’t wash one bit. Sink these not so clever bozos ASAP.
The prime minister didn’t look well at all. He seemed so uncomfortable and he looked really tired. His face was so red and swollen. When he said there was no conflict of interest when members of his family appeared at WE events and were paid, I wanted to ask him what he considers a conflict of interest.
The testimony is moot because it left a contradiction in place.
Was the “push back” the same as the multiple “requests “ made to an Attorney General for a deferred prosecution agreement for SNC?
Someone found a Readers Digest Word Power article on the word “binary”.
When the PM said he didn’t know Craig or Mark what a lie, the PM has done Video’s with them and been on stage with them, his family has worked for WE Charity for years…so does the PM think that everyone is so Stupid. The Taxpayers better wake up the Takers because they are the ones that Keep Voting this fake PM Trudeau! Enough is Enough!!
The public service is entitled to its entitlements so will never vote Conservative. The Liberals know throwing public servants under the bus will at worst drive some of the vote to the NDP. The public service lost its mind over Harper’s relatively minor proposal to reign in its extraordinarily generous sick leave benefits.
Doug,
There is nothing more mighty in PublicServiceHeavenTM than your average upper echelon manila envelope…
I wonder how long til the knives really start to come out. I don’t see how he can lead them into the next election.
Derek,
In short, they are stuck with him. The will try to hold the CPC to a minority and then turn to a miracle worker who can bring manna from heaven. That ain’t Freeland or anyone else in Trudeau’s Three Ring Circus and it’s definitely not Carney. Any takers? I can’t think of one who would have a decent clear shot.
Justin will be around for the next vote.
No successor in sight.
(Plus, he’s exceptionally good at retail politics.)
Douglas,
Admittedly, most of us here are biased including myself but I think Lyn hit the opposition election campaign theme right on the head when she said: “Enough is Enough!!”
Ronald, the Liberals will win the next election because they’ll say: “if you encounter tough financial times, we’ll give you the financial assistance you need.
“Those other guys (CPC), they’re not going to help you because they have no compassion.”
The compassion card sells.
It resonates with people and their fears that hardship might hit them soon.
Douglas,
True, except the CERB reimbursements have already begun. I thought they were bright enough to wait until after the election before clawing back the money. (Apparently not.)
The thing is – I think every Liberal MP realizes that they are incompetent. The only reason each and every one of them got elected was by riding on Trudeau’s famous name and nice hair.
None of them could be elected based on ability – so their only chance is to cling to Trudeau and hope the media and the public forgive him for an 87th time.
Walter,
Can’t agree with this. Sure, this is probably one of the weakest cabinets and MP bench in recent history but like in all governments, you have a few exceptional, many good MPs, a lot of mediocre members and their fair share of incompetents and imbeciles. It’s just that Team Trudeau has more of the latter category than most previous governments.
I’m disappointed in Marc Garneau. Doesn’t he have the courage to distance himself from the prime minister? He’s been very quiet.
Gilbert,
Garneau has already said publicly what no other Minister would: that no one told him about alleged WE payments to Trudeau family members. He is to be commended for that.
Full disclosure: I supported Garneau for leadership.
Garneau, a steady hand and the (eventual) likely successor to Justin Trudeau.
Douglas W: I agree he has been one of the most loyal steady Liberals to the Party. I’m not sure if he is still loyal to Trudeau. I always thought he would have been the better person for PM. I hope he gets a chance.
His testimony did not resolve any of the contentions that something wrong happened.
He said he pushed back, but did not clarify what the push back was.
Did he issue a written directive or was it a verbal suggestion? Was it to a single individual, or to several?
Was this done person to person? That would be suspect as it was implied that he had isolated himself to the Governor General estate so it if a verbal direction/suggestion was made it would have been done over the phone (call record) text ( phone record) or by video conferencing (record would exist). So was it one individual being directed or several? Would those individual(s) be allowed to speak freely or will they be subjected to some confidentiality restriction?
Somewhere, there is someone that can confirm his pushback story or this is a fabrication which will be found out. If the later, it brings a whole other scandal in play.
Most of the unanswered questions could have been resolved had Trudeau provided a “yes” or “no” as a response to the ones asked by the committee members. His conditional responses gave credibility to his critics that he is hiding something.
If he was hoping to clear this up, he didn’t really help by providing testimony that only left more questions than answers.
Joseph: Apparently Trudeau shouldn’t have been at the meeting he was in violation of the Conflict of Interest Act and should have recused himself completely. So the only pushback he could have given would have to do with Recusing himself which he didn’t do!! Trudeau said he did pushback was a cry for let me GO!! This is only the umpteenth time I have been caught doing something illegal!! PM Trudeau needs to step down he has no concerns about breaking the LAW! BUT heaven forbid if YOU did off to jail!