Horgan blaming the federal government for collapsing healthcare when it’s literally his jurisdiction is a choice.
He can raise his own taxes to spend it on healthcare. It’s 100 percent in his powers and capabilities. #PnPCBC Horgan now cites the false 22 percent figure, and immediately says “we don’t want to quibble about the money.”
You don’t want to quibble, you just want to present a false narrative. #PnPCBC

Here’s the reason “Briane” and the other sob stories don’t exist: For their accounts to have been frozen for donating small amounts to the occupation, the RCMP and banks would need to be doing mass surveillance on the transactions going to the various funds. 1/ The measures were aimed at participants in the occupation to make it uncomfortable for them to stay. RCMP would have likely used licence plates to identify them and coordinated with banks as to the accounts to freeze. Only 76 accounts have been suspended thus far. 2/

Time to take a break from doomscrolling and watch this week’s #RuPaulsDragRace. Just kidding—I’ll still be doomscrolling throughout. And waiting for certain queens to not get read for their flat wigs and dubious taste. Oh, look—another flat wig. #RuPaulsDragRace

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.

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

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

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.

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