Defence minister’s office trying to ‘exert control’ over investigations: military ombudsman

 

The country’s military ombudsman has fired broadside at the Liberal government, accusing the defence minister’s office of trying to “exert control” over investigations and ignoring recommendations for change.

Gregory Lick’s blistering criticism is contained in a position paper released Tuesday and was prompted by the ongoing investigations into sexual misconduct in the military.

He is calling for the ombudsman’s office to be made entirely independent, reporting to Parliament, not the minister’s office.

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Tensions flare as top federal health official runs cover for Communist Chinese spies and refuses to turn over documents

Tensions flare as top federal health official scolded in the House for failing to turn over documents

OTTAWA — The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was publicly admonished in the House of Commons on Monday for failing to turn over unredacted documents demanded by MPs related to the firing of two scientists at Canada’s highest security lab.

In an extraordinarily rare procedural move, PHAC president Iain Stewart was escorted to the bar in the House of Commons chamber where he was reprimanded by House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota, which sparked off a series of tense exchanges between the government and opposition.

Canada’s China Class Quislings at work.

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GOLDSTEIN: Linking Israel to apartheid now ‘acceptable’ anti-Semitism

If former Green MP Jenica Atwin had tweeted the white supremacist slogan “the Jews will not replace us,” it’s a safe bet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not have welcomed her into the Liberal Party of Canada.

But because hers was the more politically acceptable tactic of describing Israel as an apartheid state, she was welcomed.

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Canada announces 3 new initiatives to welcome and support more refugees

The world is facing a refugee crisis. Across the globe, millions are displaced and longing for what most of us take for granted: a safe place to call home. As a global leader in protecting those who need it most, Canada welcomed nearly half of all refugees resettled around the world in 2020. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently called Canada “a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement.”

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PHAC head doubles down, withholds docs on suspected communist Chinese spies fired from Winnipeg germ lab

PHAC head doubles down, withholds docs on suspected communist Chinese spies fired from Winnipeg germ lab

The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada is showing no sign he’s willing to release unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists at the country’s highest security laboratory — despite the prospect of being publicly shamed in the House of Commons for his refusal to produce the information.

PHAC president Iain Stewart told the Commons health committee Friday that he is bound by law to protect national security and privacy rights.

And he said nothing in a House order demanding that he produce the documents relieves him of that obligation.

Protecting the privacy rights of suspected Communist Chinese spies? I suspect he’s protecting the misdeeds of our China class.

Imagine if it turns out Canada made a significant contribution to the development of the China plague.

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Diane Francis: What Trudeau’s spin doctors won’t tell you about vaccine dose delays

Diane Francis: What Trudeau’s spin doctors won’t tell you about vaccine dose delays

It is premature for the Trudeau propaganda machine to crow about its huge vaccination achievement, given that the country still lags developed nations in fully vaccinating its populace.

This week, the figures show that 66 per cent of Canadians have received one dose but still only 14 per cent have been fully vaccinated. This spread is unique among our peers and has been due to Public Health Canada’s unsupportable dose-delay gambit designed to ration vaccines to camouflage the fact that the Trudeau government has fumbled vaccine procurement for nearly one year.

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Conservatives threaten to boycott intelligence body established by Trudeau amid concerns over Winnipeg lab breach

OTTAWA — The Conservatives on Thursday threatened to boycott a key intelligence oversight body, marking a sharp escalation in political pressure over the government’s withholding of documents that might explain why two scientists were fired from a high-security infectious disease lab earlier this year.

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Government defying order to produce documents on fired scientists from high security lab: Speaker

Government defying order to produce documents on fired scientists from high security lab: Speaker

OTTAWA — Conservatives want to invoke a rarely used procedure to publicly rebuke the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada over his refusal to produce unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.

Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell moved a motion Wednesday calling for PHAC to be found in contempt of Parliament and its president, Iain Stewart, to be summoned before the bar of the House to be admonished by the Speaker.


The CBC headline on the same matter is designed to obfuscate on behalf of the LPCConservatives look to use rarely-invoked tactic to rebuke head of Canada’s public health agency.

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Hajdu stonewalls disclosure of Winnipeg lab files citing “national security” concerns

Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu once again refused to hand over documents related to the firing of two scientists from a federal infectious disease lab in Winnipeg.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, during a Canada-China Relations Committee meeting, Hajdu repeatedly refused to disclose information about the incident claiming that releasing the documents could harm Canada’s national security.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: The world’s love affair with Justin Trudeau ends on a sour note

… So what went wrong? Well, not much has gone right with Trudeau’s “Canada’s back” boast to the world. Canada’s peacekeeping efforts are at a 60-year low, with our meagre 2019 mission to Mali lasting all of a year. Trudeau’s 2018 India trip was a PR disaster. And in 2020, Canada failed (again) to secure a UN Security Council seat, despite Trudeau’s lavish lobbying blitz.

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Maj.-Gen. Fortin files legal challenge, claims political meddling in his dismissal from vaccine rollout

Maj.-Gen. Fortin files legal challenge, claims political meddling in his dismissal from vaccine rollout

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is challenging the federal government’s decision to publicly terminate his secondment to lead Canada’s vaccine rollout, arguing the process was unfair and tainted by politics.

Last month, the Department of National Defence issued a terse three-line statement on a Friday night saying that Fortin would be leaving his post with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and his future would be decided by the acting chief of the defence staff.

He’ll win.

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Hajdu says handing over Winnipeg lab documents has ‘national security’ implications … in other words another Liberal Party scandal

Documents related to the firing of two scientists from the high-security laboratory in Winnipeg, and the transfer of viruses to a research facility in Wuhan are too sensitive to hand over to the special committee on Canada-China relations, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Monday.

“In this particular case, the information requested has both privacy and national security implications,” Hajdu said. “Compliance with the order without proper safeguards in place would put sensitive information at the risk of public release.”

Gotta protect the China class

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Canada’s vaccine donations to COVAX to come only from its COVAX supply: Gould

Canada has contracts to buy more than 251 million doses of seven different vaccines from vaccine makers, more than three times what it needs to fully immunize every Canadian.

But the doses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday will be donated to COVAX are only those Canada was buying from the global vaccine sharing alliance itself.

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