Two words you’ll never read in Blacklock’s Reporter: “sources say”. Canada’s only media outlet focussed on document journalism. blacklocks.ca Tuesday, August 24, 2021… 1/4
2/4 • ACCESS TO INFORMATION #cdnfoi: Justice Department spends $15K/week fighting Residential School claim
• EMAILS: Digital Services Minister questioned feds' reliance on #China contractors for 90% of Covid supplies when #Taiwan one of world’s largest producers of #PPE
3/4 • STATISTICS CANADA: Canadians used #CERB cheques to pay off $16.6 billion in credit card debt
• COMMISSIONER OF ELECTIONS: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland faces #CPC complaint over misleading social media post tagged by Twitter
2/6 * lobbyist contacted cabinet seeking contract for his son
* lobbyist won $118 million contract for client after boasting of “getting things done”
3/6 * former aide and ex-riding president lobbied for millions in contracts
* former MP’s firm won a $237 million contract before ventilators were approved
“I am in charge of stock”: Sally Thornton, manager of @GovCanHealth $300M #pandemic medical supply stockpile. Thread. #cdnpoli
2/ @HoCCommitee on Health:
* MP Jansen: “I’m assuming you keep it in the stockpile because you need it?”
* Thornton: “We keep a minimum level…”
* MP Jansen: “What’s your minimum level of stock on masks?...”
* Thornton: “I couldn’t tell you.”
3/ Thornton: “We were not that familiar with what provinces had in their respective stockpiles”. Could not recall when @GovCanHealth began keeping electronic inventory. Thornton confirmed 3 warehouses closed incl. Regina depot that landfilled 2M N95 masks and 440K gloves. #skpoli