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Sep 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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The English language leaders’ debate starts at 9:00pm here in Gatineau. People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier was not invited. PPC has organized a #letmaxspeak rally outside venue. Just started.
A combination of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine passport signs throughout the crowd. I’m bad at crowd counting but I’d estimate a couple of hundred people here. Image
PPC candidate for Gatineau @MSPPCGatineau is emceeing. He begins by thanking police for their efforts.
Crowd starts chanting “Let Maxime speak.”
Ottawa Centre PPC candidate Regina Watteel thanks crowd for their “courage” in showing up. Says PPC has law and constitution on its side.
A small group of demonstrators with Unifor flags are here. Unifor is the union with a mission of opposing the Conservatives. Not sure if these members are from the journalist division. Image

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Nov 4, 2023
It's policy time! UCP members are now voting on 30 policy resolutions to become part of the party's official policy.
First up: "Defend Alberta's economy and autonomy by opposing all attempts by the Federal government to impose net zero by 2035."

Resolution passes pretty nearly unanimously. (Chair saw "two or three" no votes).
Next up, a resolution to "protect an individual's right to free expression."

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Jun 7, 2023
THREAD: The Conservatives and the PPC are having it out about the World Economic Forum right now, so some fact checking (and context) is important.
Portage–Lisgar Conservative candidate Branden Leslie is chirping PPC leader Maxime Bernier for having attended Davos.
In response, Bernier called him a "liar" and said he didn't attend the WEF Annual Meeting, but rather visited Davos, the town, at Stephen Harper's request to meet with other foreign ministers.
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May 23, 2023
BREAKING: "Eminent Canadian" and Trudeau family friend David Johnston advises against public inquiry into Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
Johnston's report has five conclusions:

- Foreign governments are interfering in Canadian elections
- "In full context," leaked materials were "misconstrued in some media reporting"
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- A "further public process" is required, but formal inquiry isn't necessary. Instead, advises further public hearings as a "second phase" of Johnston's mandate.
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Feb 17, 2023
BREAKING: Public Order Emergency Commission finds the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act was appropriate.
Commissioner Paul Rouleau writes that he reached this conclusion "with reluctance." He further says that some of the federal government's emergency measures were not appropriate.
Rouleau finds that the asset freezing provisions in the emergency orders were appropriate and effective, though he thought there should have been a mechanism to have your accounts unfrozen after complying with the emergency orders.
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Jan 17, 2023
First up on this morning’s agenda in Davos: a press conference about the metaverse and the World Economic Forum’s Global Collaboration Village with Klaus Schwab, Microsoft’s Brad Smith, and Accenture’s Julie Sweet.
Microsoft’s Smith says the vision is a “village without borders.” Schwab says the Global Collaboration Village is a “true global village in a virtual space.”
Smith says the project will bring the World Economic Forum to more people in the world.
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Jan 16, 2023
This year, business leaders reportedly had to pay $250,000 to attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Per the WEF, politicians get in for free. In many countries, cash-for-access events are illegal. Yet that seems to be the entire premise of this meeting.
The World Economic Forum says its mandate is bring the private and public sectors together to "shape global, regional and industry agendas." It's not an intergovernmental organization, though world leaders arguably treat it as one.
It's important to ask what participants – the WEF's invited guests to its annual meetings in Davos – get out of it. For NGO leaders, it's an audience with business leaders (potential donors) and policy-makers. For corporate executives, it's face-time with politicians.
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