mps https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 mps https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 MPs Meet with James Topp and Other Key Freedom Movement Figures https://canadianriley.com/mps-meet-with-james-topp-and-other-key-freedom-movement-figures/ https://canadianriley.com/mps-meet-with-james-topp-and-other-key-freedom-movement-figures/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:57:48 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=806 Dean Allison introduces James Topp and his journey to Ottawa in the House of Commons. Later he and other MPs including Leslyn Lewis, Cheryl Gallant, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Jeremy Patzer Ryan Williams, Alex Ruff, and other Conservative MPs met with James Topp and other key Freedom Movement figures including Tom Marazzo and Danny Bulford today in a Parliamentary building in Ottawa.

Conservative MPs that attended the meeting: Marilyn Gladu, Arnold Viersen, Dean Allison, James Bezan, Melissa Lantsman, Dan Muys, Ted Falk, Leslyn Lewis, Alex Ruff, Jeremy Patzer, Jamie Schmale, Martin Shields, John Barlow, Ryan Williams, Warren Steinley, Damien Kurek, Gerald Soroka, Scott Davidson, Chris Warkentin, Corey Tochor, Tako van Popta, Cheryl Gallant and
Kerry-Lynn Findlay.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/mps-meet-with-james-topp-and-other-key-freedom-movement-figures/feed/ 0 806 Are Passport Delays a Result of Staff Still Working from Home and Staff Shortages Due to Vaccine Mandates? https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/ https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:54:59 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=748 Unprecedented demand for Canadian passports has led to delays in processing times, putting eager travelers in limbo ahead of the summer travel season.

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.”

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.

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.”

“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.

“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.”

]]> https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/feed/ 0 748 MPs Rush Bill C-11 With Hundreds of Amendments to Streaming Bill in a Day but Senate Not in a Rush https://canadianriley.com/mps-rush-bill-c-11-with-hundreds-of-amendments-to-streaming-bill-in-a-day-but-senate-not-in-a-rush/ https://canadianriley.com/mps-rush-bill-c-11-with-hundreds-of-amendments-to-streaming-bill-in-a-day-but-senate-not-in-a-rush/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:45:34 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=562 MPs Rush Bill C-11 With Hundreds of Amendments to Streaming Bill in a Day but Senate Not in a Rush

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.

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.

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.”

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