Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA—Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has gone from bad-ass to bad asset.

A former Vancouver police detective, Canadian army reservist and military liaison officer to the Afghan police, Sajjan was a star political recruit for the Liberals in 2014. A real warrior who’d done three tours in Afghanistan, he instantly upped the Liberal party’s defence credentials.

Sajjan cut a striking figure posing in combat gear, wraparound sunglasses and a desert-sand-coloured turban. After Justin Trudeau’s win in 2015, he was the “bad-ass” soldier, an instant internet meme, picked to lead the Canadian Forces whose job it is to serve Canadian interests at home and abroad.

Will the Liberal government’s costly blunders and moral lapses never end? In the past few weeks Canadians have been subjected to assaults on their health, economic wellbeing and fundamental values. Yet by skillfully and cynically exploiting the pandemic, shifting blame to the provinces, claiming undeserved credit, never admitting fault and — especially — doling out hundreds of billions of dollars to those in need but also to many who were not, the Liberals have managed, so far, to avoid harsh condemnation from the public or from a largely forgiving media. It is all very remarkable.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s chief of staff Katie Telford repeatedly did not answer multiple questions from members of the defence committee Friday about who made the decision not to tell the prime minister about a 2018 allegation against Gen. Jonathan Vance.

Telford was asked roughly 10 times by Conservative members of the committee to clarify why Trudeau appears not to have been informed about the allegation. He has said he was not “personally aware” of the allegation in 2018 and that while his office knew of an allegation, they did not know the details.

One of these days, senior Liberals and key advisers in Ottawa need to start telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what goes on in his government. At the moment, he’s being left sadly ill-informed. No one tells him anything. He seems, with surprising frequency, to end up lost in the dark when important matters pop up.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using the political cover of the COVID-19 pandemic to bypass Parliament and the Charter rights of Canadians.

With public attention focused on the pandemic, largely because of Trudeau’s failure to secure adequate and timely vaccine supplies, the PM has been shredding the promise he made in the 2015 election that brought him to power of “open and transparent government.”