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Great article with a summation on issues. Noticeably missing are points on reduction of sentences to criminal for gun crimes, the backdoor changes to restrictions on firearms, the drinking water issue on reserves and issues around veterans. It is nice to see the press start taking shots at Special Socks chin.


https://niagaraindependent.ca/is-the-trudeau-government-the-worst-canadian-government-ever/



To Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not want an election, yet to his Liberal campaign team he confides “it looks like” there will be a Spring vote.

Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez suggests the Liberals need a renewed mandate because Conservatives are “playing politics all the time in the House.” Rodriguez bemoans, “It’s delay, delay, delay and eventually that delay becomes obstruction.” And Canadian mainstream media repeats the Liberals’ battle cry suggesting an election is necessary so that the Government can efficiently deliver its much needed pandemic relief.

The political posturing by PM Trudeau and his senior cabinet ministers – from Rodriguez to Melanie Joly to John Wilkinson – prompted the MPs on the Procedure and House Affairs Committee to unanimously pass a motion against a snap election call. The Committee urged the PM “to promise” he would not call a federal election during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week CBC, Global, the Toronto Star and others have all highlighted the PM’s election musings. In answer to this media echo chamber, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre tweeted out, “State media, who in my opinion are PMO mouthpieces, are out beating the drum for an early election today. With the worst joblessness, deficit & vaccine rates in the G7, we should be talking about Trudeau’s resignation, not a promotion.”

Though most of the national press corps serve to promote the Liberal agenda, there are a few vocal critics of this Trudeau Government, and perhaps the most poignant in his observations is Rex Murphy. In a recent National Post column, Murphy asserted: “This is the worst Canadian government ever.” He observed, “The country is in an economic coma. The House of Commons is a movie set. We are shamed in the international community. And the list goes on…”

Murphy states, “It’s a mess. It’s a shambles. It’s an embarrassment. It is the worst ever by any reasonable measurement.” Indeed, this is a harsh assessment and it raises an interesting question. Is this current Government’s record that bad — that it could be described as “the worse Canadian government ever?”

Rex Murphy highlights in his column the daily revelations about the government’s mishandling of the country’s vaccination procurement. Argumentatively, Canada’s vaccine shortage is perhaps the Trudeau Government’s greatest scandal (next week’s column will review the details of this debacle). In looking beyond these current headlines, to address Murphy’s assertion, herein is an attempt to catalogue the more egregious missteps of the Trudeau Government.

First there are the ethical breaches of Justin Trudeau, who has the notorious distinction for being found three times in violation of Canada’s ethics laws while Prime Minister. 1) The PM’s family and friends vacation on Aga Khan’s private island – a clear conflict with Khan’s organization being the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian federal grants. 2) The PM and PMO staff members obstructed justice for the benefit of SNC Lavalin in pressuring Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. 3) The WE Charity scandal that had $912 million sole-sourced to the Kielburger brothers, who had personal connections with PM Trudeau and handsomely paid his wife, mother, and brother for guest appearances at their youth events.

Canadians are well aware of Justin Trudeau’s celebrated history of questionable ethical behaviour: the “Mr. Dress Up” family excursion to pose in front of India’s landmarks, the “Kokanee Grope” incident when the female news reporter and Justin experienced their encounter differently, and the infamous blackface episodes that were captured in yearbook photos and in a school club video.

The Trudeau Government has had an on-going series of dubious dealings with SNC Lavalin, a Quebec engineering firm with strong Liberal ties. This company:

was facing charges regarding bribes to Libyan officials and, as mentioned above, coopted the PMO to pressure the Justice Minister in order to avoid trial;
made numerous illegal donations to the federal liberal party for a period of 5 years ending in 2009;
has received 142 government contracts worth $25 million between January 2019 and June 2020 – this after being found guilty of bribery and suspended from entering into federal contracts; and,
was awarded a $150 million untendered sole-sourced contract in April 2020 to design and deliver COVID-19 field hospitals – with “no fixed delivery date” for the project.


The Trudeau Government has awarded many highly questionable contracts through the pandemic crises. Just a few by way of example:

Frank Baylis, a former Liberal MP, was sole-sourced a lucrative $422,946 “research contract” and another $237 million contract to make 10,000 pandemic ventilators – even though Health Canada had not approved its products;
the Government has refused to release to MPs any details of $5.8 billion worth of federal contracts awarded during the pandemic response; and,
there remains more than $25 billion dollars in roughly 20,000 infrastructure projects that are unaccounted for by Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna.


On issues of justice, this Trudeau Government appears to have no regard for the law of the land as the PM and/or PMO have consistently been caught in the middle of scandalous behaviour. Consider:

the PMO obstruction of justice scandal involving SNC Lavalin resulted in the uncomely departures of three senior Liberal MPs: Jody Wilson-Raybould, President of the Treasury Board MP Philpott and Parliamentary Secretary MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes;
Vice Admiral Mark Norman accepted an undisclosed sum in an out of court settlement after being wrongfully accused by a senior cabinet minister of leaking cabinet documents relating to a shipbuilding deal;
the judicial appointment process is being repeatedly brought into question due to the PMO vetting process and reports that judges are being selected from Liberal donor lists – including a recent appointment who appears on Justice Minister David Lametti’s donor list; and,
the PMO-directed $10.5 million payment to Omar Khadr.


Through the years, Trudeau’s PMO has done a remarkable job of hiding wayward Liberal MPs’ misconduct – in some cases keeping it from the public for months. In no particular order, the rogues’ gallery includes MPs Raj Grewal, Marwan Tabbara, Scott Brison, Kent Hehr, Darshan Kang, and Hunter Tootoo. The latest PMO maneuvering involved a quick cabinet shuffle and Minister Navdeep Bains resigning “to spend more time with his family” – all the while worrying that a potential RCMP investigation into a shady multimillion dollar Brampton land purchase would become public. All of these embarrassing MP wrongdoings were masterfully dealt with, so much so that today they are forgotten.



The reality is that most of these wrongdoings will not be mentioned in the heat of the election campaign. However short Canadians’ collective memory is, this catalogue serves as a reflection of the character of Justin Trudeau and his Government. It is a reflection of the “mess,” “shambles” and “embarrassments” Rex Murphy writes about; and, in his learned opinion, of “the worst Canadian government ever.”



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I believe that everything is on track for a fall election. I figure it will be called in a couple of months unless the pandemic does not ease.

Rex alluded to the short memories of most voters. I would add that once most people get their shots and the warmer weather arrives, Canadians will be very open to an election. The Liberals stand their best chance once pandemic anxiety eases.

Despite the announcements of more vaccines, the government's statement that 6 million people would be vaccinated by end March doesn' t look promising.

Get angry now. Voters will be over it and feeling sunny ways by the summer.



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Someone hasn't studied Canadian history ! By far the absolute worst was the R.B. Bennet Conservative government of the early thirties, He was so bad he made Mackenzie King look not just good, but great.


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Early thirties, isn't that during the great depresion caused by the stock market collapse, when gold was confiscated by the Americans and we had to follow suite here in Canada who had a population of 10 million?


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Originally Posted by downwindtracker2
Someone hasn't studied Canadian history ! By far the absolute worst was the R.B. Bennet Conservative government of the early thirties, He was so bad he made Mackenzie King look not just good, but great.

Commie alert.

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Originally Posted by downwindtracker2
Up you're with a wire scrub brush.



Holy crap, a foul mouthed canuck...in public!

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The worst Prime minister this Country has ever had is Trudeau, a full blown pos.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot, so gfy downwind dip schitt.

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How long are we gonna put up with this shyte? FFS, the Liberals dont have one fugging seat in western Canada, yet they tell us how its gonna be? GFY.

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I take that back, you'ld probably like it.


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Nobody dealt with the great depression all that well so comparisons are hardly valid. Trudeau was already tanking the Canadian economy in good times. He has run up debt, he has lied and cheated. Of course, he is a declared enemy of hunting and shooting, which should weigh heavy on a forum like this. When you add in that he is a posturing elitist prick, his government has to rate pretty high on the "bad". Plainly, though, a fair number of Canadians, mostly urban based, don't get it since he has been re-elected, albeit as a minority leader. His supporters are remarkably tolerant of graft, corruption, and incompetence. Most difficult for me to understand, some gun and hunting enthusiasts are willing to sacrifice their lifestyle to keep that sorry SOB in office. GD

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Trudeau's only solid contribution to this Country is making weed legal, but wait, he even screwed that up. That is how he was elected in the first place.
Then he has proceeded to...play the race card, divide the People over the entire Country, wipe his ass with the rule of law, alienate western Canada,, tell full blown lies to achieve his own end game, put freaks in power because of his "inclusiveness" , embarrass Canada, and finally, he has turned an entire generation of Native youth against their own Country.
Trudeau see's these points as accomplishments.

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Originally Posted by greydog
Nobody dealt with the great depression all that well so comparisons are hardly valid. Trudeau was already tanking the Canadian economy in good times. He has run up debt, he has lied and cheated. Of course, he is a declared enemy of hunting and shooting, which should weigh heavy on a forum like this. When you add in that he is a posturing elitist prick, his government has to rate pretty high on the "bad". Plainly, though, a fair number of Canadians, mostly urban based, don't get it since he has been re-elected, albeit as a minority leader. His supporters are remarkably tolerant of graft, corruption, and incompetence. Most difficult for me to understand, some gun and hunting enthusiasts are willing to sacrifice their lifestyle to keep that sorry SOB in office. GD


Well said, its hard to wrap your mind around anyone, let alone outdoors types voting for those clowns.

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When you say worst ever, you are talking about over 150 years of history. Easily the most corrupt government in the last 100 years was the Processive Conservative government of Mulroney ." I have a 50 million dollar rebate on Airbuses" How many cabinet ministers went to jail ? Tp put it mildly Trudeau has ethnically challenged. They won preaching inclusion and ethnics, But the RCMP, the military, and the federal government are much greater black marks then SNC Lavlin . But if you can get your minds out of the prisons they are in ,Trudeau will be judged on how quickly or not the economy of the Greater Toronto Area recovers after the vaccinations . Politically, rural Alberta is a write off.

The only honest Quebec politains are the separatists, and that's only because no one is offering them bribes. My opinion only.


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Canadians are the dumbest voters on the planet.... Liberals use the same formula every time and nobody catches on... namely tell everyone what they want to hear to get elected, then ignore their promises and embrace corruption, once the next election is looming they open the wallet and start throwing money around, and Canadians fall for it again... sad.

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You go with what works. They will stick with their winning strategy as they have since Confederation. I said on another thread that the Liberal party has formed the government approximately 68% of the time since 1900.


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America has the same problem with Liberals winning after our last election that many of us believe was a voter fraud /stolen election, but life goes on .


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In Canada, Conservatives only get a little over 1/3 the vote., the other 2/3 is split between center left or straight left leaning parties.. Red Tories have been extinct for 40 years.


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It's a different climate now. Voters don't concern themselves with government as much unless something goes wrong.

Many of these threads are rehashes of the same complaints.


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I'm from the US but, living in a border state, I follow Canadian politics a little closer than most. My wife and I have considered buying a second home there and up until Trudeau, I could tolerate most pols up there. Not him.

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