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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ontario MP @MarkGerretsen #YGK continues to solidify his Parliamentary reputation for being a champion of truth telling and integrity.

He is the embodiment of QUOTE:
"There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity." (Paul BOURGET)

#cdnpoli
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GERRETSEN devolves into what can only be described as an (unscripted) rant.

28 September 2020
🔗LINK [PROC Meeting No.1]
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Reading from a prepared script - and even so struggling supposedly with his own words - GERRETSEN launches into bitter partisan criticism. His conduct visibly wears upon patience of Committee Chair.

6 October 2020
🔗 LINK [PROC Meeting No. 2]
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18 Oct
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 WITHOUT ANY EXAGGERATION, reaction to a Tweet by @MarkGerretsen has been (very) strong and overwhelming negative.

For someone who infrequently visits Twitter and who usually confines himself largely to #LPC talking points, he generally garners a dozen or so comments ... Image
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 this Tweet has already collected «724» comments. Reviewing several hundred, I counted eight (8) neutral or supportive.

Frame 1 presents a sampling in a collage of Quote Tweets and Frame 2, Comments. Many could not be used here due to their 'strong wording'. The reader Image
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 can make their own judgement. Suffice it to say, CDNs want Members of Parliament with emotional maturity. A modicum of humility is also seen as desirable.

Original Tweet
MP @MarkGerretsen Kingston and the Islands #YGK

🔗LINK (Twitter):
#cdnpoli #YGK Image
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7 Oct
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 Utilizing (Liberal interpretations of) #HoC procedure, @MarkGerretsen #YGK ultimately crassly marched in step with his Liberal #LPC colleagues blocking any 'pre-study' of #WECharity links to Prorogation.

@Emmanuel_Rach @ipoliticsca #cdnpoli
ipolitics.ca/2020/10/06/mot…
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 GERRETSEN read from a statement [11:21:18 - 11:35:53] delineating @liberal_party argument against the Motion by @karen_vecchio.

Following his reading, GERRETSEN interjected upon @ToddDohertyMP with (supposed) Point of Order [11:51:28]. Taking umbrage at remarks of DOHERTY,
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 GERRETSEN denied his statement had been prepared by PMO.

To that point, GERRETSEN had an obvious prolonged struggle with the syntax and choice of (his own) words [11:35:01].

* The reader can make their own decision. A video link is provided in the last frame of this Thread
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4 Oct
☞ WHILE #FirstNations still don't have clean drinking water;
☞ WITH nothing meaningful to stem the tide of #Veteran suicides;
☞ IN THE MIDST of an apocalyptic snowballing national debt threatening to bury our next generation

AND YET, ...

#cdnpoli
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
... a pledge by @JustinTrudeau of yet another humanitarian aid giveaway, ostensibly for #COVID19 🚧 BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, #UNSC🌐bid may be over, this is meant to bolster @Bill_Morneau's (taxpayer-funded) candidacy to head up #OECD. ImageImageImage
Liberals would have CDNs come to believe THIS not-so-subtle 'circled' statement.

Countless $Billions have been shovelled out the door of 2020, all amidst the fog and chaos of #COVID19 #pandemic - AND ALL WHILE, @PBO_DPB requests have been rebuffed.

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2 Oct
1/8
 A Liberal MP has garnered some unexpected national media attention over his "anguished committee speech" (@hollyanndoan via @mindingottawa).

AND,his defensiveness quickly boiled over, unravelling into a (cringeworthy) rant by the MP Kingston and the Islands.

#cdnpoli #YGK
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 To the (undoubted) chagrin of @MarkGerretsen and his @liberal_party colleagues, this story doesn't lend itself readily to vetting.

When @CPC_HQ @karen_vecchio introduced a Motion pursuant to Standing Orders requiring an explanation by the government for the Prorogation ...
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29 Sep
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WHAT DOES @MarkGerretsen MP Kingston and the Islands #YGK THINK ABOUT #ThroneSpeech?

Read it for yourself.

But, what are others saying? ...

Ref: openparliament.ca/debates/2020/9…
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☞ "There was no reset. It was all just more of the same, and the same in these times is clearly not enough." #RexMURPHY @nationalpost

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☞ "In design, then, the speech rather resembled a mullet: Business in front, party in the back." @acoyne @globeandmail

"... The government that failed at so basic a state responsibility as safeguarding public health is eager to take on new challenges."
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The deployment of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives team (CBRNE) as a result of ricin letter (White House) investigation, underscores the seriousness of the situation - as if underscoring was even necessary.

#ricin #cdnpoli
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Contemporaneously 2 tweets, separate accounts: @ElizabethMay and @EmmMacfarlane.

One closes with a theatric flourish, a histrionic plea for divine intervention.

One utilizes an imperative (command), an incitement to riot.

BOTH, foolhardy and imprudent - descriptors that may
actually be too kind - AS EACH AUTHOR seems heedless (but not entirely thoughtless) to the possible consequences of what actions such words could precipitate.

⚠️ Such words merely wink at some passersby; for others however, such words may burrow away into fragile psyches.
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