Did someone mislead a Parliamentary committee?
As most of you know, some of us have been speaking out against the decision of Canada Post to take money to distribute the racist, homophobic, Holocaust-denying Hitlerite rag, Your Ward News. I’ve written extensively about their content – here and here and here – and my brother Richard Warman is now going after them legally. Me too.
Yesterday, Judy Foote – the minister responsible for Canada Post, and the minister who hasn’t stopped Holocaust denial from landing in tens of thousands of Toronto-area mailboxes – appeared before a Parliamentary committee. She was asked about Your Ward News by former cabinet minister Steven Blaney.
Here’s Liz Thompson’s account in iPolitics:
Foote said she shared Blaney’s concerns.
She gave that answer yesterday afternoon. I find that timing interesting.
Here’s why: at 9:26 a.m. yesterday, six hours before Foote appeared before the committee – and long enough for Canada Post to have briefed her, because Canada Post was on the agenda at committee – Canada Post’s “Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary” issued a letter in which he stated that Canada Post had rendered all of the “legal opinions” on Your Ward News they were going to render. And they had decided, yet again, to do nothing.
So, I’m curious: did Canada Post deliberately withhold that information from their own minister? Or did Foote tell the committee something that was, put charitably, factually incorrect?
Confused? Me too:
- Foote says “another piece of literature” (it’s not literature, it’s hate propaganda, Judy) is still actively being reviewed by Canada Post’s crackerjack legal team – to wit, “we have asked for a legal opinion.” She’s on the case!
- Canada Post’s crackerjack legal team, however, has said in a letter that it has reviewed all that it is going to review – to wit, “it is a matter for the Courts decide, not Canada Post.” That is, they’ve washed their hands of it. They’re not reviewing anything.
So who is telling the truth? A legal review is happening, or no one is reviewing anything, legally or otherwise? Which is it?
This case gets curiouser and curiouser.
I can tell you one thing: Richard and me – and many others – are not going to let this go. We don’t give a damn who the government is.
On the menu at the State Dinner: lame duck
However much I would like to see the 22nd Amendment suspended, my guy Barack – who I have championed since 2006, unlike those dozens of young selfie-snapping PMO types who flew to D.C. yesterday! – is going to be gone soon. By this time next year, he will be giving speeches to Shriners for several gazillion dollars. Lame duck wasn’t on the menu, last night, but it may as well have been.
What matters is the next State Dinner (why do they always Capitalize That?). Who will it be with? Who will be there? And, more importantly, what will be on the menu?
Vote now, vote often!
.@JustinTrudeau‘s next #statedinner will feature:
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2016
President Trump, Prime Minister Poutine is on the line
Reddit folks use gifs to describe their first sexual experience
State dinners are nice
…but this is much more important, actually. The terrible situation at Pimicikamak needs the attention of the federal government – fully – right now.
Why hasn’t Hillary won by now?
I keep asking myself the same thing.
My wife is readying herself to go Stateside to help the cause. But, after a couple more Michigans, it may be too late.
What the sweet Hell is going on? I have a few theories of my own, but I’d love to hear from y’all. Highly-scientific poll, vote now, vote often, etc.
Why aren’t Judy Foote and Canada Post stopping this racist, homophobic, Holocaust-denying rag?
In the meantime, here’s another development.
Money (that’s what I want)
Yes, that is the Barrett Strong classic – played here by four young Brits, (whose genius muse/mentor passed away last night, RIP). It’s also the subject-matter of this problem, currently the talk of Ontario political politics.
It’s bad for the politicians – all of them – and it’s bad for democracy. The solution?
Simple. As a Jean Chretien loyalist, I am happy to remind everyone about this. It’ll work.
The War Room it is
The people have spoken! (And thank you.)
The rejigged web site shall be branded thusly:
THE WAR ROOM
www.warrenkinsella.com
(That won’t be the font, but you get the basic idea.)
And, to those many, many folks who expressed interest in writing, thank you – we will be back to you soon, once the redesign is further along.