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The prime minister has been caught many times giving out federal money to entities close to him and his family. That story above resulted in 50 million being g

by ipaddr 4y ago

The prime minister has been caught many times giving out federal money to entities close to him and his family. That story above resulted in 50 million being given out to island friends. Just recently they gave out 1 billion for a student job program that didn't create those jobs. This foundation wecharity was paying 300,000 in speaking fees to Trudeau's wife, mother.. finance minister and other party friends. Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Nevermind the multiple times he proudly wore blackface, brownface when he was younger. Boring no.. and very little to be proud of.

abrichr 4y ago
> Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Source? All I found was this which debunks this claim: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fact-check-neither-justin-trudeau-nor-the-trudeau-foundation-have-shares-in-acuitas-therapeutics-idUSL1N2UT27X https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fa...
nickelcitymario 4y ago
Look, I'm not disagreeing with you about any of that. But if you're going to say Canadian politics are weird (which is the actual point I was addressing), you need to look at it in context of the other nations. I stand by my contention that we're boring and not-weird compared to what I see every day in the U.S., the U.K., most of Europe, Russia and the former soviet states, China (!), most of Asia, the middle East, South America... I mean I struggle to think of too many countries with politics less weird and more boring than Canada. The closest that comes to mind might be Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands... the nordic countries I suppose. I'd joke that it must be the cold that does it, but then we would have all of Russian history (and present news) to contend with. Coincidentally, I happened to hear an ad for a podcast here in Canada called... Canadian Politics Is Boring: https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ So it's not like this is an isolated opinion.

by ipaddr 4y ago

abrichr 4y ago

> Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Source? All I found was this which debunks this claim: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fact-check-neither-justin-trudeau-nor-the-trudeau-foundation-have-shares-in-acuitas-therapeutics-idUSL1N2UT27X https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fa...

nickelcitymario 4y ago

Look, I'm not disagreeing with you about any of that. But if you're going to say Canadian politics are weird (which is the actual point I was addressing), you need to look at it in context of the other nations. I stand by my contention that we're boring and not-weird compared to what I see every day in the U.S., the U.K., most of Europe, Russia and the former soviet states, China (!), most of Asia, the middle East, South America... I mean I struggle to think of too many countries with politics less weird and more boring than Canada. The closest that comes to mind might be Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands... the nordic countries I suppose. I'd joke that it must be the cold that does it, but then we would have all of Russian history (and present news) to contend with. Coincidentally, I happened to hear an ad for a podcast here in Canada called... Canadian Politics Is Boring: https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ So it's not like this is an isolated opinion.