Wonder if liberals 'walk' in Canada like they do here?

Canada’s 'Obama' 

Ultra-Liberal Justin Trudeau feminist, defender of minority rights, champion of Islam, advocate for transparency, inclusivity, and decency, is accused of trying to squash a corruption and fraud investigation. If he wasn't vanilla he could be Barry's twin... notably when it comes to criminality.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing his first major scandal since taking office

Grace Panetta

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is embroiled in his first major scandal since taking office. 

His former Justice Minister and attorney general accused him in a recent hearing of improperly pressuring his officials to drop a major investigation into an influential construction company. 

Officials said that Trudeau tried to block them from bringing bribery and fraud charges against SNC-Lavalin because of its economic importance.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing scrutiny after former Justice Minister and member of parliament Jody Wilson-Raybould publicly accused him of trying a squash a corruption and fraud investigation into an influential Canadian construction company. 

Wilson-Raybould accused Trudeau and his aides of improperly pressuring her to seek a financial settlement with SNC-Lavalin, The Globe and Mail first reported in early February. The construction and engineering giant holds multiple contracts with the Canadian government and employees approximately 9,000 Canadians. 

In her Wednesday testimony before the House of Commons' Justice Committee, Wilson-Raybould said the government pressured the Justice Department to settle with SNC-Lavalin after prosecutors charged the company in 2015 with bribing the Libyan government during the reign of dictator Muammar al-Ghadaffi. 

If found guilty of the charges, the company could be banned from doing business with the Canadian government for a decade, potentially leaving the 3,400 Quebec residents employed by SNC-Lavalin out of a job. One of Quebec's pension funds is also one of the largest shareholders in SNC-Lavalin, owning a 20% stake in the company, the Wall Street Journal reported. Trudeau is embroiled in his first major scandal since taking office. 

Wilson-Raybould and other officials said the possible economic implications of the indictment were fair considerations. François Legault, Quebec's current premier, recommended a financial settlement over concerns that the indictment would push the company to leave Canada altogether, according to the Journal.

But some Justice officials suggested that Trudeau also had political motivations to interfere with prosecutorial proceedings in order to save jobs in Quebec, a province that will be crucial for the Trudeau and his Liberal Party to carry in order to maintain control over the government in this October's federal elections. 

Wilson-Raybould testified that she "experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion" over the course of several meetings and conversations with Trudeau himself and his advisors, including top aide Michael Wernick. 

Both Trudeau and Wernick have forcefully denied putting political pressure to drop the charges on Wilson-Raybould, who resigned from her position in Trudeau's cabinet after she was moved to a lower-level role in the veterans affairs' department amid the fallout of the scandal. 

"I and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally, therefore I completely disagree with the characterization of these events," Trudeau said of Wilson-Raybould's testimony on Wednesday, according to the New York Times.

Wernick also disputed Wilson-Raybould's testimony that he also applied pressure on her to drop the charges, but said that he communicated to her that "a lot of her colleagues and the prime minister were quite anxious about what they were hearing and reading in the business press about the future of the company." 

While Canada's ethics commissioner is investigating the matter to formally determine whether Trudeau improperly interfered in the probe, the scandal may already be hurting his electoral prospects. 

A recent Ipsos poll found Trudeau's approval rating declining, and the Conservative party pulling ahead of the Liberals on the generic ballot. 

Pollster Darrell Bricker told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the scandal "hits at what gives the Liberal Party its appeal: the prime minister," and could be devastating if Trudeau doesn't re-claim control over the narrative soon.

Wonder if liberals 'walk' in Canada like they do here?

AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP

Forget about the 'List' for the moment and think about this.  The vast majority of Democrats are opposed to gun retailers reporting illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun. You read that right. They already broke the law once by entering the country illegally now they want to buy a gun... WHY?  So if a gun retailer doesn't report them how difficult do you think it is obtaining a gun elsewhere? It's abundantly clear to me these assholes prefer dead Americans on the streets than any harm comes to their precious illegals. The astounding part... this is the Democratic platform going into 2020. 

No wall, abolish ICE, kill newborn babies and protect illegals attempting to buy a gun. All I can say from a political standpoint. 

Thank You, God

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) threatened her moderate colleagues during a Thursday Democratic caucus meeting, telling the lawmakers she plans to provide progressive activists searching for primary targets with a list of Democrats who work across the aisle.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the meeting by chastising the two dozen moderates who voted on Tuesday in favor of a Republican amendment to a gun control bill that requires gun retailers to report illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun.

“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, two people who were present told the Washington Post.

Ocasio-Cortez, who routinely wields her massive social media following to pressure her establishment colleagues into supporting her agenda, sought to add force to Pelosi’s call for unity by threatening to expose to the ire of progressive activists any Democrats willing to compromise with Republicans.

Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told the Post that any Democrats who cooperate with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”

“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The rift between the establishment and the younger, more progressive wing of the party was brought into sharp relief this week moments before the House passed legislation that would require a federal criminal background check for all gun purchases, including private transactions. While the bill’s passage represented a significant victory for the Democratic majority, the inclusion of a provision that will facilitate deportations at the hands of ICE agents incensed progressives, many of whom have called for the agency to be abolished.

AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP

Meanwhile as the Trump investigation drags on...

Bill De Blasio’s wife can’t account for $850m given to mental health project

Bill DeBlasio’s wife Chirlane McCray cannot explain where $850million given to the mental health program she champions has gone, according to reports. 

In the three years, it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s achievements – and data that has been collected shows it lagging well behind targets. 

Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1billion over five years. 

Chirlane McCray, wife of New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, champions the ThriveNYC mental health program, but organizers cannot explain where its $850million budget has gone

The data comes from a Politico report that shows those running the scheme have largely failed to measure its impact or keep track of spending. 

Thrive said it has developed a list of 417 metrics to measure how effective the program is moving forward, but asked to assess its impact so far, Politico said the data was piecemeal and showed a largely failing picture.

For example, 29 hospitals had agreed to screen almost 78,000 new mothers for post-natal depression each year as part of the scheme. 

But over the course of two years between 2016 and 2018, the hospital screened a little over 28,000 patients and just 570 were offered help, a fraction of the 12,000 to 15,000 who were estimated to need care.

The data also showed almost 190,000 Narcan kits were handed out to hospitals where opioid use is common, but there is no evidence of how many were used. 

The site said it had tried and failed to acquire a line-item budget from Thrive, and the two budget breakdowns it had seen showed wildly different numbers. 

The shocking figures were revealed as DeBlasio himself mothballed a program which spent $800million with the aim of improving the city’s 100 worst schools, which largely failed

One, from City Hall, showed $594million in spending, but a second, from the Independent Budget Office, showed $816milion.

Speaking to the Post, Queens Councilman Robert Holden told the New York Post: ‘I like the fact that money is going toward mental health, but when they say we’re seeing a benefit in all areas, I take exception to that, because I don’t see it everywhere. I’m not sure anybody does.’ 

Meanwhile, DeBlasio announced earlier this week that he is mothballing his failed Renewal school program after spending $773million.

The aim of the scheme was to improve 100 of New York’s worst schools, but after three years of trying, just 25 of them improved enough to make it off the list.

Meanwhile, the same number either closed or were merged with other schools while under the initiative. 

Meanwhile as the Trump investigation drags on...

Food for thought

Food for thought

The Capper

Michael Cohen: "I fear Trump won't peacefully give up the White House if he loses the 2020 election."

Rush Limbaugh:

"They gave him like two minutes to wrap up and he went through every media, Democrat talking point. We have to stop separating children at the border. Every lie these people believe, Cohen addressed it. There’s no doubt in my mind they have got something on this guy. They have put the fear of God in him about him and his family. But when he said this, that he really fears that there will not be a peaceful transition of power if Trump loses in 2020, what the hell does he think the last two years have been?"

The Capper