U.S. bridge company advertisement asks Trump to reject Canadian-funded span
Ad claims Canadian bridge contract will cost the U.S. jobs and trade
· CBC News · Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:00 PM ET
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Art Rowe
I may be thick, BUT if Canada
is funding this bridge, why cannot we buy the steel from whomever we
wish? Why would 'buy American' apply to something being funded and
purchased by Canadians?
Seems one failure in court isn't enough, now they have to go crying to the president.
However there is a good chance he will jump on this band wagon too.
Seems one failure in court isn't enough, now they have to go crying to the president.
However there is a good chance he will jump on this band wagon too.
Mark Gregory
@Art Rowe In this age of Trump why are you asking reasonable questions?
David Amos
@Mark Gregory Methinks you and I may on the same wavelength this evening N'esy Pas?
Edward Ruberto
This is actually funny
really. So this American Company loses in court and now there is a
so-called President who is pushing this "Buy American" Policy and he
thinks he can get his way. Reminds me of kids who ask one of their
parents if they can have candy and one says no so they go to the other
hoping they will say yes...lol.. Only in America...
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David Amos
David Amos
@Edward Ruberto "This is actually funny really."
Methinks some folks are beginning to enjoy the circus as much as I am N'esy Pas?
Methinks some folks are beginning to enjoy the circus as much as I am N'esy Pas?
Ross Gravelle
No doubt the family that owns
the old bridge will win with President Trump, forget the court system
that Canada won the court case with. Perhaps we should wait until the
next President takes power, that is only 2.5 years away
Ed Betterley
@Ross Gravelle Don't be too sure of that.
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David Amos
David Amos
@Ed Betterley I concur
Peter Williams
When you dig into this story
there's a billionaire owner of the current Ambassador bridge who makes a
ludicrous sum of money off of this crossing.
In fact, it's the only "privately owned border crossing" between the two countries. The man/family have a monopoly, and they aren't investing enough in the current crossing to keep up with traffic.
To be fair to them, this is the partial reality of having to buy out homes that basically surround the US side of the bridge and inhibit expansion - but whenever someone kicks and screams to keep their monopoly? Please. Compete, or be gobbled up, like any other business.
These guys are afraid to compete
In fact, it's the only "privately owned border crossing" between the two countries. The man/family have a monopoly, and they aren't investing enough in the current crossing to keep up with traffic.
To be fair to them, this is the partial reality of having to buy out homes that basically surround the US side of the bridge and inhibit expansion - but whenever someone kicks and screams to keep their monopoly? Please. Compete, or be gobbled up, like any other business.
These guys are afraid to compete
George Halbert McKinney
@Gary Norton " the government sold it to him."
Can you document that a bit?
Wikipedia says:
The bridge is owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel Moroun through the Detroit International Bridge Company in the United States[4] and the Canadian Transit Company in Canada.[5] In 1979, when the previous owners of the bridge put it on the New York Stock Exchange and shares were traded, Moroun was able to buy shares, eventually acquiring the bridge.[6][7] The bridge carries 60 to 70 percent of commercial truck traffic in the region.[8][9] Moroun also owns the Ammex Detroit Duty Free Stores at both the bridge and the tunnel.[10]
Can you document that a bit?
Wikipedia says:
The bridge is owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel Moroun through the Detroit International Bridge Company in the United States[4] and the Canadian Transit Company in Canada.[5] In 1979, when the previous owners of the bridge put it on the New York Stock Exchange and shares were traded, Moroun was able to buy shares, eventually acquiring the bridge.[6][7] The bridge carries 60 to 70 percent of commercial truck traffic in the region.[8][9] Moroun also owns the Ammex Detroit Duty Free Stores at both the bridge and the tunnel.[10]
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David Amos
David Amos
@George Halbert McKinney Methinks you just did N'esy Pas?
Rudy Baker
Maybe we should use steel produced in America, use American workers to build the bridge, and then Canada can pay for it all.
Omg, this lunacy has to stop.
Omg, this lunacy has to stop.
Chris Lambart
@Rudy Baker
The is exactly the scenario the US wants with the border wall. American materials, American workers, and Mexico pays.
The is exactly the scenario the US wants with the border wall. American materials, American workers, and Mexico pays.
David Amos
@Chris Lambart Methinks
everybody knows thats The Donald's biggest pipe dream which nobody
believes particularly his back stabbing frenemies within the GOP N'esy
Pas?
James Deschenes
The Moroun family have been
spewing garbage for decades trying to stop any improvements that
threaten their business at the detriment to everyone else.
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David Amos
David Amos
@James Deschenes YUP
Jack Hill
With international trade predicted to decline, perhaps we don't need an American or Canadian bridge at all.
David Amos
@Jack Hill YUP
Andrew Hebda (NS)
They just don't want the
competition (and that after the sweetheart deal negotiated with the
previous government.- check out the details)
Either you have a free market system, with at least the pretense of competition, or you don't.
Either you have a free market system, with at least the pretense of competition, or you don't.
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David Amos
David Amos
@Andrew Hebda (NS) YUP
Jason Marshall
The greed of the family that owns the Ambassador bridge is really beyond the pale.
It is not like they were not given opportunities to be involved early on. However they focused on their monopoly and greed and this is the end result.
Sadly, in this pathetic le trump era, there may actually be people who listen.
It is not like they were not given opportunities to be involved early on. However they focused on their monopoly and greed and this is the end result.
Sadly, in this pathetic le trump era, there may actually be people who listen.
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David Amos
David Amos
@Jason Marshall YUP
Dave Singh
yep, the ad seems to be aimed at the simple minded, they stand a good chance.
David Amos
@Dave Singh NOPE
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-fine-sunglasses-pei-1.4718338
Throwing shade: Trudeau fined $100 over gift of sunglasses
It's not the first time the PM has been penalized by the ethics commissioner
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Clint Allen
On its own, not a big deal.
However, combined with his 4 other ethics violations pertaining to him accepting all expenses paid vacations from a man who's foundation receives millions from the government shows a pattern of unethical behaviour.
However, combined with his 4 other ethics violations pertaining to him accepting all expenses paid vacations from a man who's foundation receives millions from the government shows a pattern of unethical behaviour.
David Amos
@Clint Allen "shows a pattern of unethical behaviour"
Methinks folks should Google the following words and ask their MP to ask Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" why should the onus be upon me to defend his reputation with Trump and NATO etc?
Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-letter-trudeau-nato-1.4719198
Methinks folks should Google the following words and ask their MP to ask Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" why should the onus be upon me to defend his reputation with Trump and NATO etc?
Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-letter-trudeau-nato-1.4719198
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David Amos
@Gordon MacFarlane Methinks
it is a rather telling thing how you skip over my comments and bury them
as if they were cow pie and horse biscuits N'esy Pas?
Pam Sutton
And Trudeau called for Bev Oda’s resignation over a $16 on.
David Amos
@Pam Sutton "And Trudeau called for Bev Oda’s resignation over a $16 on."
Methinks some folks are beginning to enjoy the circus as much as I am N'esy Pas?
Methinks some folks are beginning to enjoy the circus as much as I am N'esy Pas?
John Myro
Ethics are for suckers
Signed
Justin Trudeau and his Base
Signed
Justin Trudeau and his Base
David Amos
@John Myro "Ethics are for suckers"
Methinks bureaucratic lawyers called "Ethics Commissioners" on the federal and provincial levels affirm that fact on a daily basis no matter what colour of coat the questionable politician wears N'esy Pas?
Methinks bureaucratic lawyers called "Ethics Commissioners" on the federal and provincial levels affirm that fact on a daily basis no matter what colour of coat the questionable politician wears N'esy Pas?
Michael durant
Get rid of this guy, just get rid of him!
David Amos
@David Spring "Oh please. Scheer is Harper 2.0 and not an option. Next."
I agree. However who is an ethical option?
Methinks we would be best served by a very slim minority mandate no matter the colour of the coat of the next PM wears. Perhaps we should put it to a vote within this CBC comment thread, that is if my reply stands the test of time N'esy Pas?
So Survey Says?
I agree. However who is an ethical option?
Methinks we would be best served by a very slim minority mandate no matter the colour of the coat of the next PM wears. Perhaps we should put it to a vote within this CBC comment thread, that is if my reply stands the test of time N'esy Pas?
So Survey Says?
Pat Mosiuk
A pair of sunglasses here, trips to the Bahamas there... I'm sensing a trend. The apitamy of unethical.
Mark Tynthof
@Dale Sullivan And $90,000
was peanuts for Nigel Wright, Harper's Chef of Staff who stood to profit
billions in lucrative government deals with Harper for his Onex
companies, e.g. the F-35s for Lockheed Martin and mines in Chile for
Barrick Gold.
And conveniently, hushing up Duffy about all this won Harper and 74 other Con MPs their Parliament seats.
And conveniently, hushing up Duffy about all this won Harper and 74 other Con MPs their Parliament seats.
David Amos
@Mark Tynthof Methinks it was peanuts for the questionable lawyer Nigel Wright but it cost Harper his mandate N'esy Pas?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/testy-exchanges-between-mike-duffy-s-lawyer-and-nigel-wright-1.3190683
https://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/09/07/stephen-harper-insists-nigel-wright-was-alone-to-blame-in-duffy-affair.html
"In an interview Monday night with CBC’s The National, Stephen Harper maintained Nigel Wright was the only member of his inner circle who betrayed him throughout the Mike Duffy affair.
“There’s no person on my staff that I believe deceived me or acted unethically or irresponsibly,” the Conservative leader said. “Other than Mr. Wright.”
Harper admitted he was angry upon learning about the secret plan by which Wright, who was his chief of staff at the time, wrote a personal $90,000 cheque to cover the embattled senator’s disputed expenses. But he insisted Monday night he didn’t know about the plan until news broke.
“Of course I’m upset. Of course I was upset about it,” he told the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge. “I went through a period where I was very angry, but you’ve just got to let that anger go. You have to move on.”
Testimony last month in Duffy’s ongoing trial revealed Wright’s successor, Ray Novak, and the prime minister’s lawyer at the time, Ben Perrin, had direct knowledge of the secret payment.
In the CBC interview, Mansbridge questions whether Harper had ever directly asked anyone in the Prime Minister’s Office why they hadn’t informed him about the secret plan — and Harper turns the question back on him, alluding to recent scandals at the CBC."
Wendy Wickens
Has anyone ever seen such a
self absorbed PM so full of privilege he thinks he deserves to be PM
over more qualified individuals? I lost my interest in the Liberal Party
the day they didn't chose a woman for leader and instead chose a man
saying he represents women instead just because his daddy was a former
PM. The people have chosen poorly. Please fix our country next year
because it's 2019!
Claire Blackstone
@Wendy Wickens
His daddy had highly questionable relationships with women. He was no feminist.
His daddy had highly questionable relationships with women. He was no feminist.
David Amos
@Claire Blackstone Oh So True
William T Fowler
Morneau got fined $200 for not declaring....wait for it.....a villa in France.
David Amos
@William T Fowler Methinks if
folks wish to ask their MP about about the ethics of Minister Morneau
and his boss Mr Prime Minster Trudeau "The Younger" and their dealings
with questionable Yankees now headed by their latest boss many call
"The Donald" they should Google the following words ASAP N'esy Pas?
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Jeff Nicholls
So Trudeau gets two pair of
sunglass's worth over a $1000.00 dollars for free and ends up paying a
$100.00 fine. Why bother even having an Ethics Commissioner, the fine
should be in the thousands to set an example so it dos'nt happen again .
Chris Johnson
@Jeff Nicholls
Still chump change
Still chump change
David Amos
@Chris Johnson True but who is the chump?
Steve Miller
Good.....now let's use this as an excuse get rid of this "mess" of a person while we can !
David Amos
@Steve Miller Methinks you
believe that Harper 2.0 will save democracy for us merely because he
worries about the price of swing sets on the last day to ask the Prime
Minister serious questions on the floor of the House of Commons? I trust
that a lot of political people and Harper 2.0 in particular know why I
sued the Queen in 2015 while running for a seat in Parliament again
N'esy Pas?
Roger Armbruster
I wonder if picking on an
issue like the gift of sun glasses is meant to make indiscretions of
this type look trivial, when the public is more concerned about the
lavish changes at taxpayer's expense that are being used to make
improvements to the PM's residences and, in the eyes of many Canadians,
support an extravagant lifestyle that nobody in the middle class could
afford.
David Amos
@John Oaktree "The PM's residences that would become Andrew Scheer's should be become PM."
Methinks if Harper 2.0 were to win the next mandate I wager that he would complain of the fancy swing set then N'esy Pas?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-pushes-back-against-scheer-s-swing-prop-1.4714585
Methinks if Harper 2.0 were to win the next mandate I wager that he would complain of the fancy swing set then N'esy Pas?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-pushes-back-against-scheer-s-swing-prop-1.4714585
Ernie Zimmerman
Just resign already. Enough is enough trudeau needs to go.
Richard Riel
@Ernie Zimmerman And butts and Bronfman and KPMG, nice package.
David Amos
@Richard Riel RE KPMG etc Methinks you may enjoy Googling the following words N'esy Pas?
Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes - 2017-02631 Amos
Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes - 2017-02631 Amos
Minh Ng
You would not see this report in CBC, just came out minutes ago from National Post:
Why an 18-year-old groping allegation against Justin Trudeau is not a #MeToo moment
The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau does not recall any 'negative interactions' during his visit to a music festival in Creston, B.C., in 2000
Why an 18-year-old groping allegation against Justin Trudeau is not a #MeToo moment
The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau does not recall any 'negative interactions' during his visit to a music festival in Creston, B.C., in 2000
Carolyn Debnam
@Minh Ng .. Warren
Kinsella, a consultant, political commentator, former Liberal operative
and frequent critic of Trudeau, posted the UNSIGNED , unsourceeditorial
on Twitter..
The editorial has also re-emerged in a charged political environment. Though it first appeared in Frank in April, Kinsella’s tweet had it making the rounds on social media and in political circles in the days before Trudeau was to shake hands with U.S. president Donald Trump on Canadian soil for the first time...Polituical much??
No legal complaint made, no names , ..just Dirty Politics
The editorial has also re-emerged in a charged political environment. Though it first appeared in Frank in April, Kinsella’s tweet had it making the rounds on social media and in political circles in the days before Trudeau was to shake hands with U.S. president Donald Trump on Canadian soil for the first time...Polituical much??
No legal complaint made, no names , ..just Dirty Politics
David Amos
@Minh Ng Methinks a lot of
political people have known about that issue for quite some time Perhaps
you should try reading the blogs and Twitter in lieu of the corporate
media N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Carolyn Debnam True
Paul Miodowski
Were his eyebrows a gift? wonder what Sophie has scammed besides her multiple tax payer funded nannies .....
Clint Allen
@Paul Miodowski
There is absolutely no evidence at this time that his eyebrows were a gift , or at least a gift that wasn’t reported .
There is absolutely no evidence at this time that his eyebrows were a gift , or at least a gift that wasn’t reported .
David Amos
@Clint Allen "There is
absolutely no evidence at this time that his eyebrows were a gift , or
at least a gift that wasn’t reported ."
True However
Methinks those odd eyebrows have definitely contributed to Global warming because of all the tweets and blogs and computers that got fired up worldwide over them just like they do over Trump's hairdo. Their vanity cause Trump and Trudeau The Younger to have the same Achilles Heel N'esy Pas?
True However
Methinks those odd eyebrows have definitely contributed to Global warming because of all the tweets and blogs and computers that got fired up worldwide over them just like they do over Trump's hairdo. Their vanity cause Trump and Trudeau The Younger to have the same Achilles Heel N'esy Pas?
Chris Johnson
Oh c'mon, again?! That's five. Five more than all the previous PM's combined.
David Amos
@Chris Johnson Methinks those
are the reported ones I bet you never saw any of mine and the Ethics
Commissioner's much delayed response N'esy Pas?
Tony Schut
Something irregular going on here ... humm.
Don Cameron
@Tony Schut
Seems like 'business as usual' to me.
Seems like 'business as usual' to me.
David Amos
@Don Cameron YUP
James Symonds
On its own, not a big deal.,
however seemingly the real reality is Trudeau apparently doesn't concern
himself with 'rules' inasmuch as he far too frequently exhibits and/or
projects a belief that he's somehow above them just like all the rest of
the 1% do!!!
Ivan Nano
@James Symonds
Wow - you and Clint Allen posts are practically word for word.
Makes one ask the obvious question if you are (or are working for) the same person.
Wow - you and Clint Allen posts are practically word for word.
Makes one ask the obvious question if you are (or are working for) the same person.
Peter Manchak
@Ivan Nano Ditto with the CONspiricy theories
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David Amos
@Ivan Nano Methinks we should
wonder about a lot of folks who comment in here on both sides of the
political fence. They appear to lack independent thought as they promote
this circus in CBC N'esy Pas?
Ben Smith
Comments here prove left wingers will defend Trudeau no matter what illegal and unethical things he's doing.
They are 100% doing the exact same as Trump supporters in the US.
Disgusting!
They are 100% doing the exact same as Trump supporters in the US.
Disgusting!
Ivan Nano
@Ben Smith
And you Ben are ready to call for the hanging noose as soon as any story appears that even mentions Trudeau.
And you Ben are ready to call for the hanging noose as soon as any story appears that even mentions Trudeau.
David Amos
@Ivan Nano True
Mike Trout
Good lord that Justin guy is rather .........slow.
ABTL 2019
ABTL 2019
Luke Armstrong
@Mike Trout
Some people never grow up Mike.
ABTL 2019!
Some people never grow up Mike.
ABTL 2019!
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David Amos
@Luke Armstrong "Some people never grow up Mike.
Methinks a lot of my political foes claim that I resemble that remark. Their problem is I am proud of their assessment of me if growing up implies that I would act like them
Trust that I am no Peter Pan but Trudeau The Younger can look a lot like Captain Hook any time he wants to much to the chagrin of peoplekind N'esy Pas?
Methinks a lot of my political foes claim that I resemble that remark. Their problem is I am proud of their assessment of me if growing up implies that I would act like them
Trust that I am no Peter Pan but Trudeau The Younger can look a lot like Captain Hook any time he wants to much to the chagrin of peoplekind N'esy Pas?
Nash Lagutin
Started with two nannies on gov payroll.
David Amos
@Nash Lagutin True
David Amos
@David Amos Methinks if my
memory serves me correctly Dominic Leblanc used to babysit Trudeau The
Younger and apparently he still does while we pay for other folks to
watch his kids Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose N'esy Pas?
Claire Blackstone
This will distract nicely from the Morneau debacle.
David Amos
@Claire Blackstone Methinks you may enjoy Googling the following words N'esy Pas?
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Justin Liedeau
You can circumvent their left censors very easily, I repeat, and repeat gain, super easy! Topple Trudeau 2019!
David Amos
@Justin Liedeau True
"POOF"
Justin Liedeau
thru the lower life form of humans that moderate the CBC.
David Amos
@Justin Liedeau However I don't believe that is the real you
John Smith
Blow a million dollars of taxpayer money for a fancy-schmancy holiday: no problem.
Receive $300 sunglasses, pay a fine of $100
Receive $300 sunglasses, pay a fine of $100
David Amos
@John Smith Methinks
everybody in the know knows that what goes on between Dion and Trudeau
is just a joke to me but at least CBC reported something about the fake
left for folks to complain about N'esy Pas?
Mary Burns
@David Amos
Fake French
Fake French
David Amos
@Mary Burns C'est Vrai
Justin Liedeau
about Trudeau
Mary Burns
@Justin Liedeau
I think the seniors' centre is running basic computer classes. Check it out.
I think the seniors' centre is running basic computer classes. Check it out.
David Amos
@Mary Burns Methinks I have seen you there N'esy Pas?
Peter Boone
We already know that the lad
is a few cents short of a dollar but of greater concern is how much work
did the ethics commissionaire staff do to collect some pocket change
from him.
David Amos
@Peter Boone Methinks we should be far more concerned about what they did not do N'esy Pas?
Chris MacKenzie
And the rest of the story is: Sunglasses are peanuts in comparison to the items we don't know about.
David Amos
@Chris MacKenzie Oh so true
Robbie Adams
Trudeau being "Shady" again???
David Amos
@Robbie Adams Methinks you can do better than that N'esy Pas?
Gordon Olafsen
All the way from the grope
accusation in the big Ski country, to gifts from the Khan with his money
donated by Canada to finance ministers who can't remember what they own
or the fish minister who awards massive contracts to his family
holdings, the laws do not apply to these liberals, only the little
people, the faceless taxpayer of Canada.
David Amos
@Gordon Olafsen" the laws do not apply to these liberals, only the little people, the faceless taxpayer of Canada."
Methinks to be fair the same can be said of the Conservatives and their supporters too N'esy Pas?
Methinks to be fair the same can be said of the Conservatives and their supporters too N'esy Pas?
alan boucain
C'mon Liberal types. Come back from the dark side. The jokes write themselves.
David Amos
@alan boucain "Even you have to admit Trudeau's a funny guy."
Methinks you are enjoying the circus as much as I N'esy Pas?
Methinks you are enjoying the circus as much as I N'esy Pas?
alan boucain
@David Amos
Well, we might say goodbye to Trudeau next election, but it'll take a long time to lose the mentality that got him elected. So we may as well have some fun with it or it could get demoralizing.
Well, we might say goodbye to Trudeau next election, but it'll take a long time to lose the mentality that got him elected. So we may as well have some fun with it or it could get demoralizing.
David Amos
@alan boucain Trust that you are preaching to the choir
Canadians should all wear sunglasses as a protest on Canada Day.
David Amos
@alan boucain Methinks most
folks can't afford the fancy sunglasses produced in PEI. So why should
we lower ourselves by wearing cheap imitations pretending to be somebody
like Trudeau "The Younger"?
Methinks our Prime Minister lost a of respect worldwide when he pranced around India in their clothes embarrassing the hell out of us while inviting a truly nasty dude along N'esy Pas?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-india-trip-included-17k-for-celebrity-chef-3-6k-for-hockey-jerseys-1.3981260
"Documents show more than $1 million was spent on the prime minister's trip to India in February. ... Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s February trip to India included payments of more than $17,000 for a Vancouver-based celebrity chef
Methinks our Prime Minister lost a of respect worldwide when he pranced around India in their clothes embarrassing the hell out of us while inviting a truly nasty dude along N'esy Pas?
alan boucain
@David Amos
Not to mention spending $17K to be accompanied by an Indian cook from Vancouver on the trip to INDIA!
Not to mention spending $17K to be accompanied by an Indian cook from Vancouver on the trip to INDIA!
David Amos
@alan boucain I don"t know about the trip to India but folks may find this interesting N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/chef-vij-hmcs-charlottetown-1.3904460
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/chef-vij-hmcs-charlottetown-1.3904460
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David Amos
@David Amos Methinks CBC let
CTV tell the tale of the high priced traveling cook while they brag that
their boss paid a small fine for a gift worth a whole lot more N'esy
Pas?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-india-trip-included-17k-for-celebrity-chef-3-6k-for-hockey-jerseys-1.3981260
"Documents show more than $1 million was spent on the prime minister's trip to India in February. ... Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s February trip to India included payments of more than $17,000 for a Vancouver-based celebrity chef
alan boucain
If Liberal types want revenge, they should start buying those same brand of sunglasses.
Luke Armstrong
@alan boucain
I hear many Canadians are having to buy dollar store sunglasses. Busted flat in Canada now.
I hear many Canadians are having to buy dollar store sunglasses. Busted flat in Canada now.
alan boucain
@Luke Armstrong
I love dollar stores! I buy my caviar there.
I love dollar stores! I buy my caviar there.
David Amos
@alan boucain To hell with
corporate dudes. Methinks I can get all the caviar I would want for free
from my fellow Maritimers fishing the sturgeon in the Saint John River
N'esy Pas?
Mario Enrique
That is peanuts compared to the 75G for a swing, but the C bc continues to protect Trudeau at all costs.
Karin Bougie
@Mario Enrique
$7500.00 not 75 grand. lol
$7500.00 not 75 grand. lol
alan boucain
@Karin Bougie
He just wanted you to admit it.
He just wanted you to admit it.
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@alan boucain LOL
Jim conor
Don't understand what the big
deal is. Best i can figure is it's like when Harper forgot to declare
that $90,000 check from Nigel to Mike. He also forgot to declare he was
good to go.
Wayne Underhill
@Jim conor Its interesting how quickly people especially Tories forget these things.
Hypocrites.
Hypocrites.
Wayne Underhill
@Pat Ferraro No comment on Tory PM Mulroney who took bribes?
OH! I know, you can't recall.
OH! I know, you can't recall.
David Amos
@Wayne Underhill LOL
Victor Cretu
Under the Liberal government, Canada reputation going to trash.
We used to be 1st, now we are on 7th
The Top 10 most reputable countries in 2018 are:
Sweden
Finland
Switzerland
Norway
New Zealand
Australia
Canada
Japan
Denmark
Netherlands
We used to be 1st, now we are on 7th
The Top 10 most reputable countries in 2018 are:
Sweden
Finland
Switzerland
Norway
New Zealand
Australia
Canada
Japan
Denmark
Netherlands
David Amos
@Victor Cretu Who made the list Yankees?
Robert van Riezen
There have been real issues
with no consequences so now we are going to be thrown crap cases like
this to show how tough the rules are?
David Amos
@Robert van Riezen YUP
Alexandra Northe
I suppose he is entitled to
his entitlements after all. Sure this is petty, but what it reveals is a
sort of disdain for the rules, and as the Prime Minister of Canada, one
should be a stickler.
That said, the $7,500 of taxpayers money used for a swing set reveals a certain disdain for, well, the Canadian taxpayer.
Is there a trend here?
That said, the $7,500 of taxpayers money used for a swing set reveals a certain disdain for, well, the Canadian taxpayer.
Is there a trend here?
David Amos
@Alexandra Northe Dave Dingwall got paid for the bubblegum so why should anything change?
Mary Smith
I wonder how my other ethics violations he's gotten away with? .... seems to think he's above board.
David Amos
@Mary Smith I have complaints
and responses from the Ethics Commissioners going back to when Howard
Wilson had the job in 2004 Nothing was ever done.
Kevin Lacroix
Sunglasses? Really?
We cant talk or discuss Trumps letter, or the icebreakers, yet we can discuss this?
If indeed it was administrative, fine. But the fines should be raised to send a clear message, hows about starting at say $5000 or so as a minimum. Then people would pay attention to their actions and duties, including the PM.
We cant talk or discuss Trumps letter, or the icebreakers, yet we can discuss this?
If indeed it was administrative, fine. But the fines should be raised to send a clear message, hows about starting at say $5000 or so as a minimum. Then people would pay attention to their actions and duties, including the PM.
David Amos
@Kevin Lacroix Folks should
Google the following words and ask their MPs to ask Mr Prime Minister
Trudeau "The Younger" why should the onus be upon me to defend his
reputation with Trump and NATO etc?
Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-letter-trudeau-nato-1.4719198
Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-letter-trudeau-nato-1.4719198
David Amos
I wish folks would ask their
MPs over barbecues this summer about about the ethics of Minister
Morneau and his boss Mr Prime Minster Trudeau "The Younger" and their
dealings with questionable Yankees now headed by their latest boss many
call "The Donald" after they Google the following words
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Trump Cohen Morneau FATCA NAFTA TPP
Throwing shade: Trudeau fined $100 over gift of sunglasses
It's not the first time the PM has been penalized by the ethics commissioner
Trudeau paid $100 for failing to declare a gift worth more than $200 within 30 days of accepting it, according to a notice from the office of Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. It was posted online sometime this month.
"As a result of an administrative error, the proper forms were not completed and the gift was not declared within 30 days," said Trudeau's press secretary Eleanore Catenaro in an email Friday.
The gift, according to the prime minister's public declaration, was two pairs of leather-covered sunglasses made by Fellow Earthlings eyewear, based in the rural P.E.I. community of Guernsey Cove.
They were a gift from P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan last summer and retail between $300 and $500.
The fine was first reported by the Ottawa-based website Blacklock's Reporter.
"We just couldn't be more excited to have the most famous Canadian I can think of wearing a pair of the Fellow Earthlings Canadians," Sydney Seggie told CBC at the time.
"It's a big deal for us, for sure."
It's not the first time the prime minister has been caught on the wrong side of the Conflict of Interest Act.
Dion's predecessor, Mary Dawson, ruled last year that Trudeau violated some provisions of the act when he vacationed on a private island owned by the Aga Khan during the 2016 Christmas season and took a private helicopter to get there.
She said the vacation could reasonably be seen as an effort to influence Mr. Trudeau in his capacity as prime minister.
Dawson also fined Finance Minister Bill Morneau $200 for failing to declare a corporation that owns a villa in France.
MacLauchlan's office wouldn't comment on the fine — but was happy to talk about the gift.
"Premier MacLauchlan was pleased to present the prime minister and
[his wife] Sophie Gregoire with Island-made sunglasses last June," wrote
his acting director of communications, Mary Moszynski, in an email.
U.S. bridge company advertisement asks Trump to reject Canadian-funded span
Ad claims Canadian bridge contract will cost the U.S. jobs and trade
· CBC News · Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:00 PM ET
The U.S.-owned company behind a Windsor-Detroit bridge crossing is stepping up its fight to prevent a Canadian-funded second span from being built. And they're doing it by appealing to U.S. President Donald Trump with a TV commercial.
The owners of the Ambassador Bridge — the Detroit International Bridge Company (DIBC) — say the construction of the Canadian-funded Gordie Howe International Bridge will take jobs and trade from the U.S.
Now, the DIBC is using patriotism to try and stop the project.
Patriotism play
Over a piano rendition of America the Beautiful, the commercial asks Trump to revoke the 2013 Obama-era "Buy America" waiver, which allows Canada to build a new international span to Detroit.
"There are two grand, new bridges being proposed between America and Canada. One is American-made, American-owned. It uses American-made steel — 5,000 American workers," the narrator says. "The other would be Canadian-made, Canadian-owned, Canadian workers. Who knows who would make the steel?"
Watch the U.S. DWIB's ad appealing to Trump here:
CBC News Windsor
Commercial asks Trump to kill Canadian bridge project
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'Multiple inaccuracies'
The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA), which oversees the Canadian bridge project, takes great exception to the advertisement, saying the Gordie Howe Bridge is beneficial to both countries.
"U.S. Border Services will be hiring Americans. CBSA will be hiring Canadians."
In March, the WDBA announced Parsons Inc. had been selected for the role of "owner's engineer" — a role which requires the company to act as a liaison between the bridge company and whatever firm is selected to actually build the Gordie Howe.
"Unlike other projects which are just based in one country, this is a binational project," he said, adding workers from both countries are imperative for the bridge's construction.
"What [the waiver] is also saying is it won't be offshore steel — it won't be Chinese steel."
"We have all of the permits and approvals in place to begin construction of the bridge. We've already committed to $350 million of construction activities on both sides of the border already. And we are committed to starting the actual construction of the bridge in 2018."
Potential Trump response
Stamper said the plea was necessary because of Canada's "anti-competitive" demands to tear down the current bridge.
"We are appealing to the administration directly because the administration has the ability in the presidential permitting process to side with an American company," Stamper said in a statement to CBC News.
West Windsor advocate, lawyer and school board trustee Fabio Costante is concerned Trump may act on the ad — in line with his administration's "America First" platform.
"There's a bit of fear-mongering that there's going to be no American jobs, even though that's been touted several times from the governor of Michigan and others."
He said the ad taps into a "very cynical side of politics" and finds it unfortunate that Moroun's company is resorting to these measures to derail the Gordie Howe project.
"To go reach out directly to the president and play it from the lens of American-made steel and American-made jobs is misleading."
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