]]> https://canadianriley.com/jagmeet-singh-uses-his-baby-as-a-prop-for-childcare-and-inflation-in-the-house-of-commons/feed/ 0 886 https://canadianriley.com/bill-blair-under-fire-denys-any-federal-interference-into-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-investigation/ https://canadianriley.com/bill-blair-under-fire-denys-any-federal-interference-into-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-investigation/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:12:00 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=847 Bill Blair came under fire during question period Wednesday over allegations of political interference that suggested RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was acting on the orders of the Liberals in the wake of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia in April 2020.

Facing multiple questions, Blair came to the defense of Commissioner Brenda Lucki, who is at the center of the controversy, which has generated calls for emergency parliamentary hearings.

“There was no pressure brought to bear and no interference with the operational decisions of the RCMP,” Blair told reporters on Wednesday. “I made no effort to pressure the RCMP to interfere in any way with their investigation. I gave no direction as to what information they should communicate. Those are operational decisions of the RCMP. And I respect that and I have respected that throughout.”

Candice Bergen Presses the Liberals To Tell The Truth About Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Investigation

Conservatives repeatedly were seeking the truth in the House of Commons, but Bill Blair denies any Federal interference into Nova Scotia mass shooting investigation.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/bill-blair-under-fire-denys-any-federal-interference-into-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-investigation/feed/ 0 847 https://canadianriley.com/passport-fiasco-trudeau-must-sort-out-the-passport-mess-canadians-are-camping-for-days-to-get-their-passports/ https://canadianriley.com/passport-fiasco-trudeau-must-sort-out-the-passport-mess-canadians-are-camping-for-days-to-get-their-passports/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 22 Jun 2022 05:38:34 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=792 Prime minister Trudeau has to get involved in the departments responsible for travel and documentation, Transport Canada and also Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. These two departments need new ministers who can actually do something about the chaos at airports, visa centers and passport offices. The prime minister’s focus has to be national and not international; Canadians deserve nothing less.

“Another week and more chaos at our airports and even if you want it to go anywhere getting a passport is turning into a Canadian made nightmare. “

]]> https://canadianriley.com/passport-fiasco-trudeau-must-sort-out-the-passport-mess-canadians-are-camping-for-days-to-get-their-passports/feed/ 0 792 https://canadianriley.com/passport-delays-are-so-bad-the-provincial-police-are-having-to-clean-up-the-liberal-federal-governments-mess/ https://canadianriley.com/passport-delays-are-so-bad-the-provincial-police-are-having-to-clean-up-the-liberal-federal-governments-mess/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:32:03 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=781 Passport Delays Are So Bad The Provincial Police are Having to Clean Up The Liberal Federal Government’s Mess

Don't worry, there are no issues. It's completely normal to send in police to control crowds at passport offices.https://t.co/qHtHm7gncf

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) June 21, 2022

Passport Delays Are So Bad Even the Bloc are Expressing Their Concern to the Liberals in the HOC. The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices, and they’re not just managing people’s anger. They’re answering questions on behalf of federal employees.

“The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices.”

Police Had to be Sent to Calm Citizens Waiting in Long Line Ups for Passports pic.twitter.com/KQfvb2ncyx

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 22, 2022

“At every hour in every riding, and I’m sure it’s true in all 338 ridings, citizens are desperate and they’re calling us about passports again over the weekend, a nurse had to take time off instead of going to take care of sick people and is waiting in line to have access to passports and Laval police officers had to be sent to calm the discontent of citizens.”

According to the federal government, a fraction of the passports that are normally filed in a year were filed over two years of COVID-19, so during the pandemic, passport staff were given other work. Now, Service Canada is trying to shift that workload elsewhere, hire more staff and open more access points, but has no idea when the backlogs will be resolved.

So what’s behind all of the passport delays?

According to Blacklock’s Reporter many of Service Canada’s employees are still working from home:
“Of 26,136 Service Canada’s employees that handles passport applications, a total 18,362 are working from home.”

DOCUMENTS: Of 26,136 employees @ServiceCanada_E agency that handles passport applications, a total 18,362 are working from home.

“I completely understand the frustration Canadians are facing right now.”
— Minister @karinagould https://t.co/tohWEIRBdg @PassportCan #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/9uOOtCTQO8

— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) June 15, 2022

Passport offices have been experiencing staffing shortages.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter the agency that runs passport offices suspended hundreds of staff under vaccinate mandates.

Agency that runs #passport offices suspended hundreds of staff under #vax mandates, data show: "Incompetence is reaching unprecedented heights" https://t.co/yCt7lzdgtr #cdnpoli @MarcDalton @karinagould pic.twitter.com/3qG7qBgomd

— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) June 21, 2022

Passport Delays Are So Bad The Provincial Police are Having to Clean Up The Liberal Federal Government’s Mess

Passport Delays Are So Bad Even the Bloc are Expressing Their Concern to the Liberals in the HOC. The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices, and they’re not just managing people’s anger. They’re answering questions on behalf of federal employees.

“The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices.”

Are passport delays due to employees still working from home?
"We need to authorize the return to work to employees on site." pic.twitter.com/bE3HEwTt7s

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 22, 2022

“To get a passport, people have to bring their tent and spend the night on the sidewalk that’s happening here in Canada, a G7 country.”

Citizens spent the weekend seeing for themselves that no one from the federal government was there at work to help.

People Camping Outside Passport Offices Watched All Weekend and No Workers Came.

"Citizens spent the weekend seeing for themselves that no one from the federal government was there at work to help." pic.twitter.com/0abwa6eKMg

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 22, 2022

“Citizens I camped out all weekend in front of Service Canada offices to try to get a passport. In spite of the wind and the rain, they stayed outside all weekend trying to access this service.”

The NDP-Liberals don't care if you are paying more at the pump, grocery store, or for housing. They’re more than happy to use inflation to collect more taxes. pic.twitter.com/Zl4PFATcvU

— Candice Bergen Harris (@CandiceBergen_) June 20, 2022

Candice Bergen: We are suffering with record high inflation:

“We are suffering with record high inflation, and it’s clear these liberals have no plan to deal with it responsibly, except more of the same mismanagement that got us here in the first place out of control spending.”

Bill C-11 updates the Broadcasting Act to require streaming platforms to follow Cancon rules.  Shrouded in secrecy by force, dozens of amendments to #BillC11 were defeated or passed without reading them into the public record.

MPs have rushed through over 100 amendments to the online streaming bill to meet a deadline imposed by the government, prompting accusations of secrecy and legislative bungling.

Liberal gatekeepers and censors want to control what you see and say online.

I won't let them.

As Prime Minister, I will introduce a Free Speech Act to defend your charter right to freedom of expression on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/10SPOVzzum

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) June 15, 2022

There were heated exchanges between MPs at the heritage committee on Tuesday night as they voted on dozens of amendments to the bill, which would update the Broadcasting Act to include streaming platforms.

MPs on the committee, who sat until after midnight voting on amendments, say they were only made aware of their contents on Tuesday morning.

The heritage committee was given until Tuesday night to debate amendments to the bill after the government imposed a time-allocation motion to push it through the Commons committee stage.

Many of the amendments, including those proposed by the government, were voted on without debate, meaning that their contents were not described to members of the public watching the committee.

Conservatives Criticizes the Government for Shutting Down Debate on Bill C-11#StopCensorship pic.twitter.com/hjs68orv6f

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 17, 2022

But senators have signaled they will not be pressured to speed up consideration of the bill, claiming they have thwarted government ploys to push it through the upper house.

The online streaming bill, which the government rushed through the Commons heritage committee on Tuesday, is now subject to a pre-study by the Senate committee on transport and communications.

The Senate committee’s chair, Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos, accused the government of planning to “ram this legislation through without proper parliamentary scrutiny.”

Many feel that the real intent is to crack down on opinions Ottawa considers misinformation.  Expressions of opinions that aren’t supported by facts could soon be ordered removed from social media in Canada if the chief architects of the nation’s nascent Online Harms legislation have their way.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worried that the government’s plans would turn online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter into “agents of law enforcement, creating mandatory reporting and preservation obligations that may expand over time and significantly impact the privacy rights of Canadians.” The inclusion of CSIS in the process was, it noted, “of particular concern.”

“I understand how tired everyone is of the pandemic, of the different rules and restrictions that we have to go through but most people understand that this pandemic is not over,” Trudeau said,“Every step of the way, we will continue to be guided by the best science.”