Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Indigenous employees were regularly sidelined by a “toxic” working environment in the office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett but their complaints fell on deaf ears, several former staffers have told CBC News.

At least one verbal complaint about the workplace environment was brought to the minister herself, while a separate verbal complaint went to her chief of staff, Sarah Welch, said former staff members. Three verbal complaints also went to officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, but they resulted in no action, according to the former staffers.

“Bennett — ultimately, the buck stops there — didn’t want to hear about it,” said one former ministerial staffer.

Not news that Liberals are toxic.

It’s imperative that Canadians distinguish between convenient political rhetoric and reality when it comes to the country’s finances, particularly as we approach a potential fall election. The Trudeau government continues to promulgate three assertions that must be clarified.

First, that the government lowered personal income taxes for the middle-class. While the Trudeau government in 2016 reduced the middle-income tax rate from 22.0 per cent to 20.5 per cent, it simultaneously eliminated a number of tax credits such as children’s fitness, public transit and income-splitting for couples with young children. By eliminating these tax credits, the government increased personal income taxes for all Canadians who previously claimed these credits.

The gap between the Biden administration and the Trudeau government this week on Cuba was wider than the straits that separate Havana from Key West.

U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States “stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights. And we call on the government of Cuba to refrain from violence in their attempt to silence the voices of the people of Cuba.”

The protests — which saw thousands of Cubans march through cities across the island — are a “clarion call for freedom,” said Biden.

In May in these pages I wrote a column titled “Will Liberal failures and lapses never end?” Now as we near mid-summer, I’m sorry, but not surprised, to have to report: Not yet. New missteps appear every couple of weeks.

I’ve been asked by the editors to write about a federal election this autumn, a subject I have already addressed in non-predictive terms in recent weeks. The government is in no danger of losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons and so there is no reason for such an election except a near certainty that it would give the Liberals back the majority that they lost in the last election.

On any given day, were you to ask Canadians which they would prefer as between (x) a plague and (y) an election, you might be surprised how many would — with astonishing speed at that — go for option x.