Countries don’t measure their unemployment rates the same way. It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, and the Star’s fact-checker is letting O’Toole get away with lying with statistics.
No, PHAC didn’t dismantle GPHIN. Its reporting structure is a mess but it is still active, and it did note the first instances of COVID and made the alert – the problem was the alert not going anywhere useful. The review panel on GPHIN noted this if you actually read the report.
To paraphrase: “I talked to economists who said it’s not a problem, but I can’t judge that to be a false statement on O’Toole’s part.”
The rest of the quote from Trudeau was that he was thinking about the affordability measures for those families, so you’re giving the truncated quote a pass out of context from the broader message?
In no way were the pre-pandemic deficits “huge” by any stretch of the imagination.
You can’t build biomanufacturing capacity overnight. It takes years. Pharmaceutical companies refused to locate production in Canada. The US was ahead of most everyone else because they have both biomanufacturing capacity that we don’t, and economic leverage.
Context matters.
Why is it the job of the prime minister to meet with the CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies?
Also, how often did previous prime ministers meet with them?
Since when does correlation equal causation?
His framing is misleading, but we’re going going to judge it a stretch rather than a falsehood.
Such great fact-checking.
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In the #HoC for Friday #QP.
Bergen leads off by video, concerned that Bill C-10 is an attack on free speech.
Guilbeault, hewing to talking points, reads that this is about making web giants pay for Canadian artists, while they want suggested playlist to have more Cdn artists.
Bergen lies and says the Bill is about people only saying Liberal-approved things online.
Guilbeault suggests she actually read the bill to say users are not regulated. #QP
Deltell worries that immigration files take longer for Quebec than elsewhere, not respecting Quebec’s targets.
Schiefke recites that Canada is moving quickly to meet targets because they have increased resources. #QP
In the #HoC for the final #QP of 2020.
Carol Hughes is in the big chair.
Gérard Deltell leads off to deliver a Bloc demand for unconditional health transfers.
Darren Fisher reads some talking points about the transfers since the start of the pandemic.
Tracy Gray blames the Canadian government and not the UK for delays to the Canada-UK trade deal.
Ng says they are looking for timely passage of the bill but also working with the UK about mitigation of the bill doesn’t pass in time. #QP
Gray has a very selective memory when it comes to the shenanigans and incompetence coming out of the UK on this trade deal. #QP
Invoked new legislative powers how? The federal government can’t simply demand the provinces do anything.
You can’t invent federal levers out of thin air! thestar.com/politics/feder…
Further to this, I’m not sure how useful more robust federal models would have been. We’re a big country with lots of separate outbreaks, and one federal model isn’t all that helpful – especially because healthcare delivery is provincial jurisdiction.
And even if they had more robust models, what was Hajdu supposed to do with that information? Federal health delivery is only for the Canadian Forces, First Nations and Inuit, and that’s not even under her department any longer.
Seeing a lot of “Why should the victim resign?” in my reply feed re: JWR not resigning per Shawcross Doctrine if she really was inappropriately pressured. Apparently it’s time for some remedial civics. 1/n
1) Ministers serve at the pleasure of the prime minister. He or she can appoint, shuffle, or dismiss them at will. Nobody “deserves” a Cabinet set. 2/n
2) Cabinet operates on the principle of solidarity. You stand and fall as a group, not as individuals. That’s also why there’s cabinet confidence - so that disagreements get aired behind closed doors, but you stand united in public. 3/n