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Canes are a bunch of jerks. So I've heard.

I am thinking the same thing - if Mueller has nothing of consequence they might as well just go hard to win in 2020 and forget all of this impeachment stuff. It's almost too late already anyway, as campaigning starts in the next few months. And you are right, it should be a cake-walk for the Dems, just like the last election was. One small bright spot in the Trump darkness:

Even the New York Times is turning on the Canadian show-pony that they were all ga-ga for only a short while ago. Yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/opinion/canada-scandal-justin-trudeau.html It’s no coincidence that she was replaced at the justice ministry by David Lametti, a member of Parliament from Montreal who even now has not ruled out saving SNC-Lavalin with a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. The rule of law is a very grand Canadian virtue until, it seems, it proves to be a barrier to Liberal electoral prospects in Quebec. It is a small country, after all.

maybe they are hoping to get coverage on ESPN 8 "the Ocho" with Cotton and Pepper doing the commentating...

and the funny thing about that move would be that they would have to hire Guy Boucher back as no one else on the coaching market speaks French....other than maybe Claude Noel...

Didn't Raybould testify under oath?

Philpott resigned as Treasury Board president Monday. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters) A few hours later, at a rally in Toronto to gin up support for a carbon tax, Trudeau made a manic entrance, grinning and high-fiving and flesh-pressing and trying to look happy, before grabbing Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in an awkward hug, and, puzzlingly, yelling, at a Liberal rally, "Are there any Liberals in the house?" Then, more empty message track. "In a democracy like ours and in a space where we value our diversity so strongly, we're allowed to have disagreements and debate, we even encourage it. This matter has generated an important discussion." Oh, and also, he's taking it all seriously. So there's that. Happily, the Commons justice committee actually is taking it seriously. Even as, at exactly the same time, Republican members of a congressional panel spent the afternoon childishly heckling former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's efforts to testify – one of them erected a giant placard reading "Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!" – the multipartisan panel in Ottawa behaved like adults. Unlike her own party leader, who is as devoted to message track and empty rhetoric as the prime minister, Conservative MP Lisa Raitt's questioning of Wilson-Raybould was serious and probative. It was in fact a public service. As was the scoop by Globe and Mail journalist Bob Fife (along with Steven Chase and Sean Fine), who detonated this crisis. The question now is whether Canadians are going to hear any real answers from their prime minister, if indeed he's capable of offering any. Actually, there are more honest moments in the pantheon of Trudeau's quotations than in any of his performances in the past few weeks. Back in 2013, former Global anchorman Tom Clark asked Trudeau about his intellectual substance. His answer: "You know, I'm not going to go around reciting Pi to the 19th decibel or you know wave my grades, or test scores to people. I'm going to simply do what it is that I have to do." Most people can't recite Pi to any decibel, let alone decimal. In another encounter with Clark a year later, this time jammed into the cabin of Clark's little airplane, he talked about the necessity of educating people (read: all of us). "I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed." To the National Post's John Ivison, he declared: "Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving." (Actually, according to Wilson-Raybould, Trudeau cares a great deal about winning, to the point where he's ready to overturn a prosecutor's decision, if that's what it takes). But it was to CTV that he was probably most candid. "At one point," he told the program W5, "people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing." Or not. On the evidence of the past few weeks, I'm thinking not. https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/trudeau-talking-points-1.5044266

Gerald Butts testifying this morning. The Liberals on the panel voted down the motion that Butts testify under oath. What rat bastards.

one demonstration of how the LEAP movement is tearing the NDP apart was demonstrated to me in spades when I was watching their leadership convention. Daniel Blaikie got up and did an impassioned speech about how the NDP stands up for labour and he was talking about the pride he felt touring aerospace industries in Winnipeg and all of the unionized staff etc etc. A good speech, I thought. Young Blaikie sat down, and the next up to the mike was some young female LEAP'er from Quebec, who blasted Blaikie for supporting "evil" aerospace industries, and how all of those companies should be put out of business to save the world from global warming. Young Blaikie's shoulders just slumped. A party that divided, just can't stand.

LOL - yes "common sense", what an odd term to be used when it comes to the LEAP people. Anyway, LEAP is driving people away from the NDP in droves. And that's a big benefit to the Liberals.

yes. The LEAP'ers seem to be in control of the NDP now, and the NDP is bleeding support because of it.

Liberal minority would work, but I'd hate to have Jagmeet and his LEAP'ers as the king-makers. We've got the Greens/LEAP here in BC propping up the NDP and it no good.

However, I have been considering the events that have shaken the federal government in recent weeks and after serious reflection, I have concluded that I must resign as a member of Cabinet. In Canada, the constitutional convention of Cabinet solidarity means, among other things, that ministers are expected to defend all Cabinet decisions. A minister must always be prepared to defend other ministers publicly, and must speak in support of the government and its policies. Given this convention and the current circumstances, it is untenable for me to continue to serve as a Cabinet minister. Unfortunately, the evidence of efforts by politicians and/or officials to pressure the former Attorney General to intervene in the criminal case involving SNC-Lavalin, and the evidence as to the content of those efforts have raised serious concerns for me. Those concerns have been augmented by the views expressed by my constituents and other Canadians. The solemn principles at stake are the independence and integrity of our justice system. It is a fundamental doctrine of the rule of law that our Attorney General should not be subjected to political pressure or interference regarding the exercise of her prosecutorial discretion in criminal cases. Sadly, I have lost confidence in how the government has dealt with this matter and in how it has responded to the issues raised. http://jphilpott.liberal.ca/news-nouvelles/statement/

Could be sooner. Philpott just pulled the plug and resigned. The wheels are coming off of the bus.

Myers has been pissing me off lately with the penalties. But he's not the only one.

Justin Trudeau, imposter Paul Wells 5 hrs ago Conservatives would win 2019 federal election if it were held today: Poll Trudeau promised a new approach to politics. Now he’s mired in scandal Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not necessarily represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. © Used with permission of / © Rogers Media Inc. 2019. Prime Minister Trudeau in his Centre Block office in Ottawa on Dec. 8, 2016. (Adam Scotti/PMO) The story a few Liberals were telling privately, in the early hours after Jody Wilson-Raybould delivered her extraordinary testimony to the Commons justice committee about the endless procession of men who tried to make her cancel a criminal trial for SNC-Lavalin, was that she just didn’t get it. The former attorney general is a nice enough sort, the story went, but she doesn’t really understand the way the world works. The whole point of amending the Criminal Code to provide for deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) was to make that option—a sort of negotiated fine in lieu of a trial for fraud and bribery—available to SNC-Lavalin. And if the option was available, why not use it? Jobs were at stake. Elections were at stake. Elections, plural, for Pete’s sake. First an election in Quebec last autumn, then a federal election this autumn. So you could drag SNC through the mud of a court trial, long after the individual executives who actually did any frauding and bribing had fled the company, for what? To visit punishments upon everyone else in the company? To maybe scare it out of Montreal for good? To endanger the jobs of thousands of fine upstanding Quebecers and other Canadians? On the eve of elections? Plural? READ MORE: Trudeau and senior Liberals kept linking SNC-Lavalin prosecution to elections All of this was just so obvious to everyone who leaned on Wilson-Raybould, it was said privately. What the heck was she missing? Why didn’t she get it? If it’s any comfort to the former attorney general, at least she can rest assured that she’s not the only person who didn’t get that blindingly obvious fix-the-Criminal-Code-to-suit-SNC-Lavalin-and-save-jobs-and-Liberal-hides connection. Because also out of the loop were the people of Canada. And if we were out of the loop, it’s because Justin Trudeau and his apparently inexhaustible supply of yes-men worked hard to keep us uninformed. No part of the plan to save SNC-Lavalin was presented to the people of Canada, while it was being deployed, as a plan to save SNC-Lavalin. Who had called for the thing? Small businesses and NGOs, a Justice Department official said when the House Finance Committee inquired last autumn. The Quebec engineering giant was never mentioned in her testimony. When the government inserted the DPAs into the Criminal Code, how did it announce the move? With a single paragraph on page 202 of the 2018 federal budget document, under the catchy heading “Addressing corporate integrity.” You really had to go to page 202 to learn anything at all about the scheme. Finance Minister Bill Morneau made no mention of it in his nationally televised budget speech. And how was the DPA described on page 202, for insatiably curious or insomniac readers who might stumble across it? As a way to get tough on corporate wrongdoers. DPAs would be “an additional tool to hold corporate offenders to account,” the document said. They would “sanction criminal conduct appropriately and deter wrongdoing.” Now, a federal budget document is a bulky thing, drafted and reviewed by dozens of government employees. They found no room in its 367 pages to mention that SNC had been pleading for this tough accountability crackdown for months. At massive expense. As a handy rule of thumb, corporate offenders don’t usually plead for additional tools to hold them to account. RELATED: SNC-Lavalin’s allies in its push to avoid prosecution Long story short, the government of Canada was telling one story to itself and another to Canadians. To themselves, they said they were protecting jobs. To the rest of us, they said they were getting tough. A government that indulges in that much sustained double-talk clearly thinks it has something to hide. It’s being disingenuous. It’s being phony. And since the lot of them never stop calling themselves #TeamTrudeau on Twitter, I guess we can, without fear of contradiction, say the Prime Minister of Canada has been the phony-in-chief. If Trudeau is now saying his only priority was to save jobs, it’s because he got caught. If he refuses to say out loud what a majestic procession of Liberal minions kept telling Wilson-Raybould behind closed doors—that he was especially interested in saving Liberal jobs in back-to-back election years—it’s because that’s the kind of guy he is. He low-bridged a major change to criminal prosecutions while a large company was facing charges, depicting as a crackdown what was actually an escape hatch, because he didn’t dare simply say what he wanted. Didn’t think it would pass the smell test of the Canadian people. Didn’t think what he was doing was defensible. And he was right. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-imposter/ar-BBUlkBQ?ocid=spartanntp

So no love for Par? I thought he played really well last night. Made our PK better too.

Pan bread was really phoning it in tonight. Not sure why Columbus didn't deal him at the deadline.

Helle and Lindholm looking good tonight.

that includes #26. Someone needs to throw a grenade in his underwear.

I remember interviewing Mike Vernon for a university HR project I was working on and I asked him what city was the worst to be in on the road, and he said "Winnipeg. Nothing else comes close". Good to see nothing has changed.