parliamentary secretary https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 parliamentary secretary https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 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/ 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 Passport Delays Are So Bad The Provincial Police are Having to Clean Up The Liberal Federal Government’s Mess 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

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.”

 

“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.”

 

]]> https://canadianriley.com/passport-delays-are-so-bad-the-provincial-police-are-having-to-clean-up-the-liberal-federal-governments-mess/feed/ 0 781 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 Canadians are Experiencing Long Delays for Passport Applications and are Paying a Premium to Expedite https://canadianriley.com/canadians-are-experiencing-long-delays-for-passport-applications-and-are-paying-a-premium-to-expedite/ https://canadianriley.com/canadians-are-experiencing-long-delays-for-passport-applications-and-are-paying-a-premium-to-expedite/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:23:25 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=689 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.

As many Canadians look to travel abroad, some passport seekers say they’ve been forced to camp outside service centers or reschedule trips because of the bureaucratic bottleneck.

Other travelers complain that Passport Canada online application status tracker is not working and no one is answering passport Canada phone number.

Service Canada announced it had hired 600 new employees to help with processing passport applications, had opened more dedicated passport intake counters in Service Canada locations, had created more processing hubs, and had introduced a new workload management system and processing technology to increase efficiency.

Service Canada continues to hire and train more employees, including the integration of up to 600 new employees over the course of the year and the reassignment of up to 600 employees to passport service delivery.

Minister Karina Gould said “We understand that this situation is difficult and stressful. … The minister has directed officials to work as hard as possible to meet the demand and to examine operations to ensure they’re doing everything they can,”

Canadians continue to have to pay Service Canada for expedited passports, despite the minister assuring this house, that this wouldn’t be the case, half the time they’re not even getting the enhanced service they’re being forced to pay for this directive first came out weeks ago. And yet it’s still not being implemented.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/canadians-are-experiencing-long-delays-for-passport-applications-and-are-paying-a-premium-to-expedite/feed/ 0 689 Borders Call on Trudeau to Drop ArriveCan App to Stop Pushing Tourists Away https://canadianriley.com/borders-call-on-trudeau-to-drop-arrivecan-app-to-stop-pushing-tourists-away/ https://canadianriley.com/borders-call-on-trudeau-to-drop-arrivecan-app-to-stop-pushing-tourists-away/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:00:22 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=648 Starting on June 20, domestic and outbound international travellers no longer have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to enter Canada. However, inbound travellers will still need to enter their health information, quarantine plan and proof of vaccination through the ArriveCAN app.

The ArriveCAN app was introduced during the pandemic to allow travellers to report their trips and vaccination status and COVID-19-related health information before arriving in Canada.

The calls to drop the app come a day after the federal government announced that it is easing a number of restrictions introduced during the pandemic. It did not announce it was eliminating the ArriveCAN app.

A group of mayors and businesses in communities along the Canada-U.S. border is calling on the federal government to end the ArriveCAN app, saying it is discouraging Americans from visiting and shopping in Canada.

Canadian and American border cities, urged that keeping the ArriveCAN app will have a “long lasting” impact on the country’s tourism sector.

What’s happening right now is Americans are showing up in the minivan with their family at the border with no knowledge of the ArriveCAN app. There’s a lineup of cars behind them. They can’t get into the country.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra gave no indication that the federal government is considering scrapping the ArriveCan app for travellers.

The arrive can app is increasingly unnecessary, and it’s hopelessly broken.

“People tried to contact the CBSA to fix the issue that CBSA told them that they didn’t offer support relating to reentering Canada.  The arrive can app is increasingly unnecessary, and it’s hopelessly broken.”

]]> https://canadianriley.com/borders-call-on-trudeau-to-drop-arrivecan-app-to-stop-pushing-tourists-away/feed/ 0 648 Liberal MP Called out by Conservative Apologized After F-Bomb to a Woman Wants End of Mandates https://canadianriley.com/liberal-mp-called-out-by-conservative-apologized-after-f-bomb-to-a-woman-wants-end-of-mandates/ https://canadianriley.com/liberal-mp-called-out-by-conservative-apologized-after-f-bomb-to-a-woman-wants-end-of-mandates/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:31:27 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=525 Conservative MP Michael Barrett calls out Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden
for F-Bomb Toward Woman Questioning Vaccine Mandates in House of Commons. Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden apologized “I responded in an unacceptable way to a message on social media. And for that I deeply regret it. I want to apologize to the person that I offended and anybody else that I let down. I realized that the past two years have been really difficult for a lot of people. But my conduct is unacceptable. We have an obligation to disagree without being disagreeable. And in that regard, I failed.”

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]]> https://canadianriley.com/liberal-mp-called-out-by-conservative-apologized-after-f-bomb-to-a-woman-wants-end-of-mandates/feed/ 0 525 Is Hockey Player Ryan Whitney’s Complaints About Toronto Airport Partly Responsible for the Removal of Federal Travel Mandates? https://canadianriley.com/is-hockey-player-ryan-whitneys-complaints-about-toronto-airport-partly-responsible-for-the-removal-of-federal-travel-mandates/ https://canadianriley.com/is-hockey-player-ryan-whitneys-complaints-about-toronto-airport-partly-responsible-for-the-removal-of-federal-travel-mandates/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:01:37 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=516 Ryan Whitney’s video and public complaints about Toronto Pearson International Airport on Twitter went viral on June 6, 2022.  One week later on June 13, 2022 the federal government announced that they will be lifting federal travel covid vaccine mandates.  Was Whitney’s complains part of the reason the mandates are being lifted?

Conservative MP Michael Barrett calls out that Trudeau is not listening to Canadians or his doctors about lifting the federal vaccine mandates”will he (Justin Trudeau) listen to hockey player Ryan Whitney and lift the mandates.  Ryan Whitney of spit and Chiclets fame to light up Twitter to make the government reacting, classic liberal big announcement little action fashion. They listened to him once, so maybe they’ll do it again. Will the Prime Minister listen to Whit and then the lift the mandates?”

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]]> https://canadianriley.com/is-hockey-player-ryan-whitneys-complaints-about-toronto-airport-partly-responsible-for-the-removal-of-federal-travel-mandates/feed/ 0 516 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals Unjustified Mandates Have Been Exposed https://canadianriley.com/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-and-the-liberals-unjustified-mandates-have-been-exposed/ https://canadianriley.com/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-and-the-liberals-unjustified-mandates-have-been-exposed/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 11 Jun 2022 01:19:20 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=402 Conservatives said at a Health Committee, the president of (PHAC) has confirmed that the Prime Minister’s continued mandates are driven by political science. He said there were no metrics to justify these mandates and no metrics that can be met to lift them and well, infectious disease experts and now PHAC are both pointing to politics as the reason for federal mandates.  Conservatives are asking when will the Prime Minister and this government drop the politics and end the mandates.

“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.”

 

]]> https://canadianriley.com/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-and-the-liberals-unjustified-mandates-have-been-exposed/feed/ 0 402 Liberals Seem to Think That They are Experts in Green Technology https://canadianriley.com/liberals-seem-to-think-that-they-are-experts-in-green-technology/ https://canadianriley.com/liberals-seem-to-think-that-they-are-experts-in-green-technology/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 05:52:26 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=286 Liberals seem to think that they are experts in green technology as spoken by Mark Gerretsen on electric vehicles. May 5, 2022.  Mark Gerretsen said in the House of Commons that the Conservatives are assuming that the entire technology is going to remain stagnant, and it’s not going to change in order to what’s going to happen and that electric vehicles are going to become easier to charge. Gerretsen said “It’s gonna become faster to charge. I’m going to tell you right now in 10 or 15 years from now, you will need charging stations other other anywhere other than in your own in your own home. You won’t need charging stations other than in your own home, and that technology is going to advance so quickly that a single charge in your home will be long enough.”

 

]]> https://canadianriley.com/liberals-seem-to-think-that-they-are-experts-in-green-technology/feed/ 0 286 Trudeau Believes that He is Above the Law https://canadianriley.com/trudeau-believes-that-he-is-above-the-law/ https://canadianriley.com/trudeau-believes-that-he-is-above-the-law/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 05:02:20 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=253 Trudeau Aga Khan Fraud : He Believes that He is Above the Law say the Conservatives. May 2, 2022

 

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