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Parliamentary budget officer rebukes Trudeau government over spending secrecy

While the government says most of the money is intended for COVID-19 relief, the PBO suggested Parliament was hamstrung in its ability to oversee government spending because of the Liberals’ secrecy.

“While the sum of these measures is significant, the amount of information that is publicly available to track this spending is lacking, thus making it more challenging for parliamentarians to perform their critical role in overseeing government spending and holding it to account,” reads the report. 

The budget office went on to note that the Liberals have yet to provide a complete list of COVID-19 measures announced so far, or updated estimates on how much those measures will cost.

“This lack of data is not a result of it not being available,” the PBO report added. “The Department of Finance had been providing biweekly updates to the standing committee on finance, but stopped when Parliament was prorogued in August.”

Source : The Canadian Press Nov 4, 2020

There’s one simple reason why private companies and public bodies can keep violating citizens privacy: the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, in charge of overseeing privacy laws in Canada, has no enforcement power to punish them.

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has no power to penalize anyone for proven privacy violations.

Privacy laws are useless if they can’t be enforced. 

Source: OpenMedia

Conservative Senate Leader Don Plett voiced support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election during debate in the Red Chamber Wednesday.

Plett, a past president of the Conservative Party, said he’s hoping Republican senators are re-elected to a majority position in the U.S. Senate when all the votes are in next Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Another senator, former Conservative Lynn Beyak — who was booted from that caucus in 2018 after she made controversial comments about the residential school system — sent $300 to Trump’s party in May.

She provided a non-existent New York address and postal code when making her donation.

News source: CBC News

Delivery of portrait commission to Trump Hotel

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

Meanwhile back on earth, Nestlé takes what should be a shared public resource and packages it in single-serve bottles that the company sells for outrageous profits. These plastic bottles then clog and pollute our landfills, lakes and oceans.

tus·sle/ˈtəsəl

1. a vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically in order to obtain or achieve something.

With the uncertainty of the times, many are seeking out counselling to guide future career directions.

“We all have a tall order here, one that has been 21 years in the making, so we all need to work to calm the current tensions, bring the perpetrators of these actions to justice and act wherever possible with patience and understanding of each other,” 

Sipeknek’katik Chief Mike Sack ,Regarding West Pubnico Facility Fire and Arrests