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Board and CEO of the Trudeau Foundation Resign En Masse

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Board and CEO of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation step down amid Chinese donation scandal​


Not even going to attempt to figure out why.

It just makes me happy to see him embroiled in another scandal of his own making.


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Anybody else just want to punch him right in the mouth EVERY SINGLE TIME he opens it?


Sure sure, these two successful Chinese businessmen donated approximately $750,000 to a charity foundation & university because they were oh so sad about Pierre Trudeau passing away...

I'm sure it was absolutely devastating for most Chinese people when they heard the news on their state controlled radio stations 🙄


And how can you not have a direct or indirect connection at all to a foundation started in the name of your own father, who was a Prime Minister of this country, and whom you are following in his very footsteps?

The foundation shares the same last name as you, Justin...

For someone who doesn't have any connections at all, directly or indirectly, you seem to have a lot to say about it, Justin...


The university won't return that money. Universities don't refund money usually.

And they provide scholarships that help 'study social studies'? And study 'humanities' at the highest levels of Canadian institutions.

Aren't those basically high school level courses? Do these 'social studies but for adults' courses benefit the country in any tangible way?


Honestly if the foundation had squandered that money on party girls & blow I'd be genuinely more impressed.



But this scandal brings a smile to my face 😊

Keep em' coming!
 
Anybody else just want to punch him right in the mouth EVERY SINGLE TIME he opens it?


Sure sure, these two successful Chinese businessmen donated approximately $750,000 to a charity foundation & university because they were oh so sad about Pierre Trudeau passing away...

I'm sure it was absolutely devastating for most Chinese people when they heard the news on their state controlled radio stations 🙄


And how can you not have a direct or indirect connection at all to a foundation started in the name of your own father, who was a Prime Minister of this country, and whom you are following in his very footsteps?

The foundation shares the same last name as you, Justin...

For someone who doesn't have any connections at all, directly or indirectly, you seem to have a lot to say about it, Justin...


The university won't return that money. Universities don't refund money usually.

And they provide scholarships that help 'study social studies'? And study 'humanities' at the highest levels of Canadian institutions.

Aren't those basically high school level courses? Do these 'social studies but for adults' courses benefit the country in any tangible way?


Honestly if the foundation had squandered that money on party girls & blow I'd be genuinely more impressed.



But this scandal brings a smile to my face 😊

Keep em' coming!

The ONLY reason JT even won in 2015 is because of a campaign of lies lead by Canadian media looking to ensure their funding got reinstated.

He was a piss poor candidate then sure as he is the worst PM in history now. The only difference today is that after 8 years some in the media can no longer ignore the outlook for Canada under this PM.
 
The ONLY reason JT even won in 2015 is because of a campaign of lies lead by Canadian media looking to ensure their funding got reinstated.

He was a piss poor candidate then sure as he is the worst PM in history now. The only difference today is that after 8 years some in the media can no longer ignore the outlook for Canada under this PM.
He won in 2015 because of the pot vote. Every election since then where it hasn’t been a wedge issue he has won minorities.
 
Jacinda is holding the door....


Globetrotting green elites are a threat to democracyA new superclass of eco-globalists is making life miserable for the rest of us.

BRENDAN O'NEILL
CHIEF POLITICAL WRITER

6th April 2023

Globetrotting green elites are a threat to democracy

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Jacinda Ardern has been sworn into the highest political caste. She takes her place alongside the likes of John Kerry and Mark Carney as a member of the globe-trotting eco-elite. She’s been admitted to that inner circle of eco-globalists who spend their days wringing their hands over the climate apocalypse and wagging their fingers at the polluting throng.

No sooner had she bid a tearful farewell to the New Zealand parliament this week – four months after officially resigning as prime minister – than it was announced she would be joining the board of the Earthshot Prize, Prince William’s global green crusade. Anyone who thought Ardern’s ducking-out of NZ’s top job would give us a break from her smiley authoritarianism is in for a rude awakening. It’s not just the good people of New Zealand who will now have to endure the paternalist Ardern style, that oppressive hectoring always delivered with a toothy beam and caring liberal head-tilt – it’s all of us.
Ardern will bring ‘a rich infusion of new thinking to our mission’, said Prince William yesterday. She might not have had ‘enough in the tank’ to keep leading New Zealand, but it seems she’s got enough to strut the world with the other climate crusaders.

And what exactly is William’s ‘mission’? It’s to encourage ‘sustainability’. To reward the eco-virtuous of the world who have devoted themselves to such things as ‘the restoration and protection of nature’, ‘air cleanliness’ and ‘waste-free living’. The Earthshot Prize was founded by Will and Sir David Attenborough – he of ‘[humans] are a plague on the Earth’ fame – and every year it gives a million quid to five people or organisations who are endeavouring to achieve one or more of the above. Expect more speeches from Earthshot’s St Jacinda about the ‘climate catastrophe’ and the global belt-tightening that will be required to deal with it.
The world is overrun with former politicians, bankers and bureaucrats who have been elevated to the level of oceangoing climate saviours, zealots devoted to protecting Gaia’s honour from the pox of industry and growth. Kerry is the best known. He was secretary of state under Obama and is now America’s special climate envoy. It’s a positively imperial position. His borderline religious conviction that he must save the planet from the grubby grip of modernity has emboldened him to lecture the nations of the world about their filthy industrial habits. Witness his haughty decree that he would examine the likely impact of a new coalmine being built in the UK and then deliver his verdict on whether it’s the right thing to do. Or his imperious proposal to Australia that it ‘phase down’ coalmining. It’s neocolonialism behind a Greenpeace sticker.
https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the-legal-witch-hunting-of-trump/
Then there’s Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and now the UN’s special envoy on climate action and finance. And Inger Andersen, a one-time high-up at the World Bank, now executive director of the UN Environment Programme. And now Ardern has joined their number, thrown her lot in with the eco-globalist caste. Earthshot will no doubt be a piddling first step on her journey to greater global clout. There’s already a petition to make her the next UN secretary-general. God help us.
Eco-globalism is not just a retirement home for old politicians and bankers. It isn’t just a cushy job for influential folk who’ve passed their sell-by date. No, the new green nobility has real power. And they know it. Glimpse the religious fervour in the comments Kerry made at Davos in January, where he said ‘it’s pretty extraordinary that we select group of human beings… are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet’. It’s ‘almost extra-terrestrial to think about’, he said. Saviour complex much?

This wasn’t just Kerry being weird. His assumption that he enjoys the most extraordinary power a human being can enjoy – the power to save the world – echoes the views of another climate crusader: Al Gore. Gore once talked about what a ‘privilege’ it was to be one of a ‘relatively small group of people [who] could control the destiny of all generations to come’. This is the god delusion of the superclass of eco-aristocrats. They really do see themselves as the enlightened ones who must rescue humanity from itself, save Earth from the hubris of our species. Their delusions of borderline divinity, of having a deity-like responsibility to save every human being from the consequences of the sins of industry, should chill us all.
It is supremely anti-democratic. When a class of people can position themselves as the representatives not of mere nations or of trifling ideologies but of the planet itself, of every person alive today and every person yet to be born, then they become tyrants. They can breezily dispense with the norms of democracy as they set about the rather more important existential task of rescuing this celestial body from humanity’s fumes. Nationhood, an electorate’s wishes, people’s need and desire for jobs and abundant energy and greater wealth – none of that matters to the ‘select group of people’ whose mission is nothing less than thwarting Armageddon. Hence Kerry and Co feel they can arrogantly instruct nations to ditch fossil fuels and embrace the religion of Net Zero. In the new feudalism, nations are the commoners, the green superclass the lords.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/11/charles-the-identitarian/
The authoritarian impulse of eco-hysteria is becoming clearer by the day. This is why they’re so keen to replace that flat, tired phrase ‘climate change’ with the more shrill ‘climate emergency’. Because in an emergency, special powers are often required to ensure that the greater good of existential security is taking precedence over the lesser good of people’s freedom and desires. Ardern knows the game: she declared a ‘climate emergency’ in New Zealand in December 2020.
Ardernist authoritarianism lends itself beautifully – or terrifyingly – to the mission of the eco-globalists. This is a leader who enforced one of the most ruthless lockdowns of the Covid era, even preventing New Zealand’s own citizens from returning home at certain points in the pandemic. And this is a leader who recently called for a global crackdown on ‘dangerous’ ideas, including climate-change scepticism. Ardern has all the necessary qualities to be an eco-globalist, to become one of that select few who believe they control the destiny of every generation to come – authoritarianism disguised as social concern, an outsized sense of moral virtue, a saviour complex, and a tyrannical disregard for dissenting speech.

There’s one more quality: hypocrisy. We need ‘waste-free living’, says William’s Earthshot crusade. A bit rich coming from a literal future king whose family’s air miles in recent years would be enough to get them to the Moon and back and then complete three loops of the Earth’s equator. John Kerry has his own private jet and once flew it to Martha’s Vineyard for Obama’s 60th birthday bash. And Ardern once took a flight that cost NZ taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars because she wanted to ‘minimise time away from her infant daughter’. These are the people telling the rest of us to drive less, fly less, farm less, eat less meat, use less coal, use less gas and generally be less of a pest to poor Mother Earth. The gall. Peasants’ revolt, anyone?

Brendan O’Neill is spiked’s chief political writer and host
 
At least if he starts preaching here, we can heckle without being arrested. He'll have no stature, special treatment, security paid by us. He'll just be another loud mouthed eco terrorist. Keep him away from Greta though. She's still a minor.
 
He won in 2015 because of the pot vote. Every election since then where it hasn’t been a wedge issue he has won minorities.
I think a lot of it also had to do with the image of the young 2-year-old Syrian refugee that washed up on the Turkish beach (and paraded around for as few photo shoots). Very heartbreaking and Canadians seemed to love Trudeaus promise to immediately 'save' 30,000 refugees.
 
I am going to offer some sad insight into Canadian mentality.

Canada, has truly been an excellent place to live since at least the second world war. Maybe longer. Jobs have for the most part been available, shelter is usually available, clean water for most, heat, food (even if its lower quality), protection from the elements and some protection from crime.

All in all, this creates a nice and safe "bubble" for most Canadians to live. This in my mind created a "life is wonderful" general feeling for most. As humans who lived in a reasonably safe and secure environment, we get a "lets do good" for others mind set over time.

So I think Canadians want to do good for everyone. Let the suffering immigrate her, help the poor, help the suffering, etc.

However, I think we as a society developed a naive mindset.

So in 2015, that pic of that dead refugee on a shore tore the heart strings of Canadians (ahem, children every day are being killed, tortured, enslaved, kidnapped, exploited sexually, etc) but this was a visual effect.

Enter Trudeau. Hey guys, we have it soooo good, lets help these poor people, no excuses already, unlike bad Harper (so foolish do-good Canadians go along with it)

I swear seeing Trudeau carry on these last 8 years has been sickening. Using words like hate, racism, misogyny, bigots, transphobia, islamphobia, etc as buzz words and make it a big NO NO to question or even challenge them in any way. So do-good Canadians play along for not wanting to feel shamed.

We need to be logical and reasonable. Not emotional driven hyperbole.
 
And as usual, it's everyone else's fault. It's all about those toxic bastards creating political turmoil.


Trudeau criticizes 'political polarization' after CEO, board of Trudeau Foundation resigns​

Posted April 11 2023 01:21pm
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on Tuesday about the resignation of the CEO and board of the Trudeau Foundation, criticizing what he called "toxicity" and "political polarization" in the country, but said he was certain the organization would be able to continue its work in the years to come. A statement said the resignations had come after the "political climate" surrounding a donation the organization had received in 2016 put "a great deal of pressure" on its management and volunteer board of directors. A recent media report detailed a $200,000 donation with alleged ties to Beijing.
 
From 2019... but the song seems to be repeating itself ;)


Justin Trudeau’s Spectacular Self-Destruction​


Canada’s prime minister was once seen as messianic. Now he’s become just another conventional politician fighting for reelection while plagued by scandals and blamed for unfulfilled promises.​

By Charlie Mitchell

On Oct. 3, 2000, Justin Trudeau delivered a eulogy for his father, Pierre Trudeau, a former Canadian prime minister, at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. Suppressing tears, a boyish Trudeau finished with three words—“Je t’aime, papa”—and a million hearts melted.

It was not just in living rooms across Canada that he made an impression. In Ottawa, political operatives saw a star rising. Chief among them was the Liberal Party strategist Gerald Butts, a former classmate of Trudeau’s at McGill University and the man credited with helping to guide Trudeau from political son to prime minister and international sensation.

Trudeau’s performance in Canada’s 2015 election was unprecedented. He took the Liberal Party from a distant third to a handsome majority, gaining 148 seats nationwide. With powerful statements on gender equality, the climate, and refugees—not to mention uncommonly good looks—he drew admirers from far and wide.

But in Trudeau, Canadians were not voting so much for a leader or a party but a new political brand. “After four years in power, that image does not fit with reality anymore,” said Stéphanie Chouinard, an assistant professor of politics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Today, the Canadian prime minister’s approval ratings have fallen below Donald Trump’s.

With three pictures of him wearing black- or brownface—at a high school talent show in his teens, while working as a river guide a couple of years later, and at the elite Vancouver private school where he taught in his late 20s—roiling an already tight election campaign, one of the world’s most recognizable leaders is in danger of being turfed out of office after a single term on Oct. 21.

The collapse of Trudeau’s popularity might surprise international audiences, particularly those forced to contend with Trump or British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. What they miss is the gap between Trudeau’s words and his deeds. In the minds of many Canadians, that gap has widened considerably over the past year. “The promises were so huge that I wonder if they didn’t set themselves up for failure,” said Chouinard of Trudeau’s team. “The reality of governing hit them quite hard.”

In 2010, Canada failed to win a nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the first time. Although Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper was reelected shortly afterward, pundits blamed his anti-environment and anti-Muslim rhetoric for the defeat. For the first time in national memory, Canada was the target of protests overseas—for instance, when anti-oil demonstrators berated Harper before he addressed the U.K. Parliament in 2013—and it did not sit well with Canadians.

Quietly, a scion of the Trudeau family was rising through the ranks of the Liberal Party, having won the working-class Montreal constituency of Papineau in 2008. Entertaining and apparently worldly, Trudeau earned about $1 million in public speaking fees between 2006 and 2012—which is legal but drew scorn from other elected officials.

In 2013, he won the Liberal Party’s leadership race in a landslide, collecting 79 percent of members’ votes. His nearest rival, the environmentally conscious Vancouver politician Joyce Murray, picked up just 12 percent. And two years later, he fought his first federal election. It was then that the Trudeau brand delivered. Canadians wanted change. At home, that looked like a new, more compassionate genre of politics. Internationally, it looked like “Canada’s back.” Compared with Harper—famously photographed sending his son off to school with a handshake—Trudeau was electrifying.

“He ignited the imagination of first-time voters, occasional voters, and young voters,” said Shachi Kurl, the executive director of the Angus Reid Institute, a nonprofit polling organization. Young and empathetic, Trudeau made bold promises, from legalizing marijuana (which he delivered on) to electoral reform (which he did not). Raised by a sitting prime minister, he had significant name recognition. He was a social media savant and images of the photogenic Trudeau with animals and sports equipment littered the feeds of his bulging Instagram following.

In Trudeau, Canadians saw a “desire to do politics differently, to reach across the aisle,” said Kate Harrison, a conservative strategist and vice president at the political consultancy Summa Strategies. After his election, Trudeau appeared in the pages of Vogue and on the cover of Rolling Stone. Appearing to idolize Barack Obama, Trudeau amplified his “bromance” with the U.S. president.

With the election of Trump in 2016, the battle for progress became life and death. Trudeau’s relative inexperience as a statesman was no match for his willfully uninformed U.S. counterpart. But just as international adoration for Trudeau was reaching fever pitch, Canadians were beginning to lose faith. To them, it seemed Trudeau was burying himself under the standards he had set for himself.Just as international adoration for Trudeau was reaching fever pitch, Canadians were beginning to lose faith.

Legalizing cannabis had excited millennials, but that same constituency saw his decision to ditch plans for a more proportional electoral system as a betrayal. His purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for about $3.4 billion—to carry oil from Alberta to British Colombia and from there to international markets—enraged environmentalists and indigenous communities whose reservations dot the pipeline’s route. Although Trudeau pledged in 2015 that he would not act without consent from indigenous communities, the Federal Court of Appeal has accepted multiple appeals from First Nations groups on the grounds that they were not adequately consulted about the pipeline. To date, six petitions are outstanding.

Today, even pro-oil Albertans are annoyed because the pipeline is yet to be properly used as the federal government and indigenous groups slug it out in the courts. Last year, Trudeau provoked mockery on a visit to India, where he walked around in traditional garments, holding his hands together in prayer. What was billed as a vital bilateral exchange descended into a piece of sitcom-worthy political theater.

It spoke to a propensity toward style over substance, driven by Trudeau’s outspoken foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist. While she drew fans by denouncing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record last August, Ottawa continued to sell armored vehicles to Riyadh behind the scenes. Even after the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Trudeau did not cancel the $11.3 billion deal. Freeland said Canada is reviewing the agreement in the wake of Khashoggi’s violent death, but she has not moved to suspend any existing export permits, despite frequent calls to do so by fellow legislators and human rights groups.

When the SNC-Lavalin scandal struck, Trudeau had no political capital left to fight it. Although Trudeau insisted he was protecting jobs, his handling of the affair disappointed many who had voted for a different kind of politics in 2015. Wilson-Raybould and another cabinet minister, Jane Philpott, were booted from the Liberal caucus. Trudeau’s oldest and closest advisor, Butts, was forced to step down.

The firm was accused of paying bribes worth $36 million to Libyan officials in exchange for lucrative construction contracts, as well as defrauding the Libyan government of property and money worth $98 million. In 2008, SNC-Lavalin reportedly spent nearly $1.5 million bringing Muammar al-Qaddafi’s son Saadi to Canada for a visit, even blowing $22,600 on sex workers for the princeli

Although Trudeau insisted he was protecting jobs, his handling of the affair disappointed many who had voted for a different kind of politics in 2015. Wilson-Raybould and another cabinet minister, Jane Philpott, were booted from the Liberal caucus. Trudeau’s oldest and closest advisor, Butts, was forced to step down.

In August, the independent ethics commissioner Mario Dion said the prime minister had violated ethics laws, while the Globe and Mail newspaper reported in September that Trudeau has blocked a police investigation into possible obstruction of justice by refusing to lift cabinet confidentiality for witnesses.
Trudeau insists that only the Privy Council clerk, Ian Shugart, can lift the waiver, which would allow Wilson-Raybould and others to speak freely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. So far, Shugart—who reports to Trudeau—has offered only a limited waiver. However, consensus among legal experts is that the prime minister also has the power to waive it himself. His behavior hasn’t helped according to polls.

Suddenly, just 31 percent of Canadians approved of Trudeau’s leadership, down from more than 60 percent in 2016. Having vowed to be the most transparent leader in decades, Canadians started to see him as dishonest.

With Trudeau unpopular—and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer equally so—the parties embarked on an ugly campaign in early September. With the Greens and the poorly funded New Democratic Party far behind, this election is a two-horse race.

Sensing an opportunity, the Liberals started to turn the screw on Scheer, digging up an old video of him denouncing same-sex marriage in 2005. They discovered shady connections between Conservative candidates and members of the far-right. They would convince Canadians that the nation was under threat from a Conservative Party intent on rolling back the progress made.

And then, one unassuming Wednesday night, Time magazine published a photograph of Trudeau wearing brownface at an Arabian Nights-themed gala at the expensive Vancouver private school where he taught in 2001. Within hours, the world was treated to two more blackface incidents—Trudeau performing Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” at a high school talent show and a dress-up day at a whitewater rafting facility where he worked in his early 20s.

The prime minister begged for forgiveness, particularly from those who face discrimination. He acknowledged that his actions had been racist and that he had hurt those who thought he was an ally. “I am still an ally,” he reassured them.

When I spoke to voters in Toronto in the immediate aftermath, few thought he was racist. Some didn’t care. Many said he had lost their vote long ago anyway. The overwhelming sensation was resignation. For Canadians, this was the latest incongruity in Trudeau’s tenure. “The newness, freshness, shininess of the Trudeau brand is broken,” Kurl said. “And he broke it himself.”

While Canada is resource-rich G-7 member, with affordable, high-quality health care and education, many Canadians are struggling. Rising real estate costs have left a lot of people stranded, not just in Toronto and Vancouver but in smaller cities such as St. John’s, in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well. Gun violence is on the rise, while as of Sept. 3, 56 indigenous communities lacked reliable access to clean water. Most are forced to boil water before drinking, cooking, or brushing their teeth and are advised against bathing infants in tap water on reservations. Many others who voted for Trudeau are still waiting for the better outcomes they were promised.

Many who voted for Trudeau are still waiting for the better outcomes they were promised.

Undoubtedly, governing is harder than campaigning, and Trudeau has matured since his youth. In office, he has by all accounts been committed, well-briefed, and progressive. For minority Canadians, Scheer seems far more dangerous. Meanwhile, Trudeau’s successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement this year, with a protectionist Trump, was a victory. Canada is now home to more than 50,000 extra refugees, most of them Syrian, while Britain squabbles over one-fifth of that number and the U.S. government detains unaccompanied minors at its southern border.

That is why millions of Canadians still see Trudeau as their best hope, in a weak field, and why Scheer has failed to really capitalize on Trudeau’s mistakes. But today, Trudeau finds himself lagging in polls and fighting for his future as an unpopular, conventional politician—and a flawed individual.

Canada’s love affair with Justin Trudeau is over. Having overpromised and underdelivered, he has only himself to blame.

 
Liberal Party strategist Gerald Butts, a former classmate of Trudeau’s at McGill University and the man credited with helping to guide Trudeau from political son to prime minister and international sensation.
It has been stated many times, without proof and cannot be proved now, that Butts wrote Trudeau's final exams at Mcgill.
 
It has been stated many times, without proof and cannot be proved now, that Butts wrote Trudeau's final exams at Mcgill.
I’m curious as to why you and others are promoting unsubstantiated claims and rumours. You posted a bunch of defamatory stuff about his wife and now this. Unless you’d like to tell us where exactly you are getting any of that?

Stated by who and where?

Links, posts or articles maybe?

Trudeau certainly has enough to criticize without having to spread that crap. If you have sources to any of that I’m all ears.
 
I think a lot of it also had to do with the image of the young 2-year-old Syrian refugee that washed up on the Turkish beach (and paraded around for as few photo shoots). Very heartbreaking and Canadians seemed to love Trudeaus promise to immediately 'save' 30,000 refugees.
And mostly legal pot.

That was the real winner
 
I’m curious as to why you and others are promoting unsubstantiated claims and rumours. You posted a bunch of defamatory stuff about his wife and now this. Unless you’d like to tell us where exactly you are getting any of that?

Stated by who and where?

Links, posts or articles maybe?

Trudeau certainly has enough to criticize without having to spread that crap. If you have sources to any of that I’m all ears.
Then you will say those aren't good sources. So it will go no where. And will not change your mind.

I will just go with my good friend who was Sasha pot dealer (paid his university bill with the profit lol) said Justin was the dumb brother.
 
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