OK, Ms Wilson-Raybould.
You want to talk *toxic*?
Do you think Glen Assoun, the N.S. innocent man you as Attorney-General left mouldering in prison for months and months on end, found it *toxic* while you awaited advice from (guess what folks?) a retired Supreme Court judge?
The very kind of person from whom you claimed it was highly improper for anyone to suggest you seek advice regarding another criminal law matter, SNC-Lavalin?
(At all embarrassed that SNC ended up getting off more lightly than if you’d done a deferred prosecution agreement?)
And speaking of embarrassment, does that affect you at all while reflecting on the fact that Mr. Assoun was indeed set free as an innocent man within weeks of Mr. Lametti being appointed to succeed you as A-G? @puglass#cdnpoli@Carolyn_Bennett cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
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On the @brianlilley@yelich_ivana scandal, there’s a lot of confusion on here about what is and is not a conflict of interest. A COI arises when a person who’s under a duty places themselves in a position where they have a personal interest that conflicts with that duty.
A COI can be ‘waived’ if the person makes disclosure of the conflict and the parties affected consent to the person carrying on with performance of their duty. In the journalistic context, it’s sensible that such consent be express on the part of the employer and implied on the
part of willing readers. Thus we commonly see, for example, business reporters disclose that they own shares in companies they’re writing about. One personally once heard the respected Mr. Paikin giving a talk on Ontario politics disclose that his spouse works for one of the
Remember, Ontario. We have federal carbon pricing in Ontario because of one person and one person only. His name is Doug Ford. Under Kathleen Wynne, we had a cap-and-trade system, working with Québec and California, that meant the feds left the Province alone. Doug threw that out
thereby bringing the federal regime down on us. At the same time, he demolished wind turbines, tore out EV charging stations, established his unconstitutional gas pump sticker circus, and launched his loser of a challenge to the federal legislation (for $30,000,000).
And his abolition of cap-and-trade cost Ontario’s government an estimated $3 billion (according to his own Financial Accountability Office) and imposed higher costs on Ontario households than does federal carbon pricing. fao-on.org/en/blog/public…
As evident on here and elsewhere, the 🇨🇦Canadian gunnie community nurtures a culture of bullying and grievance. It’s not enough for our gunnies to disagree strenuously with gun control advocates, which they’re perfectly entitled to do.
Instead many work actively to bully their opponents into silence. Perhaps the best example of that is the ill-fated campaign by the so-called Canadian Coalition for “Firearm Rights” to organize mass complaints of professional misconduct against physician advocates of gun control.
Now that @erinotoole has completed the defenestration of @DerekSloanCPC, it's time for him to come clean on his relations with Canada's NRA-style gun lobbies.
Is he still with them, as he proclaimed loudly during his leadership campaign?👇🏻
Here's Mr. O'Toole meeting with one of those groups, the Canadian Coalition for "Firearm Rights", less than a year ago: 1. He maintains he's the only person in the leadership race who's spoken against the Liberals' Bill C71.
2. He says he'll repeal the Firearms Act and replace it with something drafted by gun owners, gun manufacturers, police and 'members of the public' (appointed by @CPC_HQ no doubt). 3. He promises to 'educate' Canadians who have no contact
with what he calls 'gun culture'...