Liberal Minority Government 2021 - ????

[Brad Sallows]

There is a real risk the idiot children who want to go cold turkey on fossil fuels are going to severely fuck something up.

 

[Lumber]

Say again Lumber.

Yea, no, you definitely win this one. #facepalm

I'm really surprised though and doubtful of the line "Germany managed to build a terminal in 10 months because the need was so great" and the implication that Canada could have done the same. I highly doubt both of those claims. For the first one, they may have BUILT the terminal in 10 months, but how long did it take to get all the approvals and environmental assessments done? Were these in the works before hand, or did they only ever even come into he existence after the war started? And for the second claim, same thing, we may have been able to physically BUILD a terminal in 10 months, but we have no existential threat that would allow us to bypass all the red tape required to actually get approval, and it would draw out the process by years. The CPC claims (or at least insinuates) that they could come in and get all these LNG projects built in no time and create jobs for Canadians and increase our LNG export market. However, while I hope this would be the case if they came into power, I think in reality they would find that current Canadian federal bureaucracy would prevent them from getting the vast majority of their projects done at all, let along quickly, on time, and on budget.

 

[ArmyRick]

Heres another one calling out Trudeau's "progression" and "feminism"

Your welcome, be sure NOT to vote Liberal next election

 

[Jarnhamar]

Move over International Trade Minister Mary Ng and your $17,000 contract to your friend.

Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen must like being in the spotlight. Last year he gave $133,000 to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to build an anti-racism strategy for the broadcasting sector. The 2-person organization was run by an anti-semite with racist comments on social media.

His latest "nothing to see here" is 14x contracts between January 2021 and September 2022 worth $93,050 to Munch More Media, a food focus PR firm he hired to do communications work (whom appartently lack qualifications and experience in politics). This time it's his close advisor and policy director's sister who is getting the Liberal cake. Hussen claims the ethics commissioner said it's okay (but that office apparently won't confirm that).

At least the Woman and Gender Equality and Youth Minister Marci Len, who also hired this company giving them $10,000 worth of constituency funds in 2x contracts, "didn't know about the relationship". If you believe it


Munch More Media allegedly deleted their Social Media accounts and their webpage just says "coming soon". That doesn't seem suspicious.

 

[Brad Sallows]

If the press were super-aggressive looking for such things, I wonder how many roaches would be scurrying out of the light.

 

[Quirky]

Diversity and Inclusion Minister

Woman and Gender Equality and Youth Minister

Two useless ministers.

 

[Halifax Tar]

If the press were super-aggressive looking for such things, I wonder how many roaches would be scurrying out of the light.

Funny how certain happening get a voracious reaction from the MSM and certain happenings don't.

 

[YZT580]

depends on the colour: red or blue

 

[RangerRay]

Paul Wells on the kerfuffle at Minister Hussen’s office

Similarly, the various rules against sending government money to your dearest friends and immediate family are, as you know, designed for badpeople and therefore don’t apply to the Liberal Party of Canada. I can’t overstate how strongly this conviction is held by Liberals. That’s how Mary Ng could be caught definitely, beyond a doubt, ensuring every Canadian was putting money in Amanda Alvaro’s pocket, and know without fear of contradiction that her future as a member in good standing and mysterious utility of the Government of Canada was ensured.

Rules are for bad people

Ahmed Hussen and the "Our Side Exemption"

paulwells.substack.com

 

[Lumber]

Two useless ministers.

Ministers, or ministries?

 

[ArmyRick]

Sense of entitlement and deciding they are above accountability

 

[Jarnhamar]

The $80,000 $54,000,000 App you had to use or risk a fine up to $5000.

ArriveCan contracting appears ‘illogical’ and ‘inefficient,’ Trudeau says​

GCStrageties subcontracts to 11 other companies. Then those 11 companies contract out to IT people.

During a press conference on Monday, Trudeau was asked why the government didn’t skip the middle man and contract directly with the companies that hired the IT teams.

“That’s exactly the question that I just asked of the public service,” Trudeau replied.

“Obviously, this is a practice that seems highly illogical and inefficient.”

Who is GCStrageties you ask?

Well it's 2 people, one with a BA in Architecture and one BA in Human Resources, who both work from home.

I used to think of all those dumb sounding adds where some guy is talking about how to get rich quick while they're chilling out in their mansion were full of shit. Apparently, they're just Liberal contractors.

 

[Navy_Pete]

If it was a normal RFP, the policies required to get 'fair, open and transparent' bids sometimes result in weird things like this. And if this was the winning bid, imagine how screwed up the rest were.

If someone in a Ministers office skipped actual bids and directed to some wingers, should be investigated, as there is nothing here that justifies directed bids or sole sourcing.

 

[Haggis]

If it was a normal RFP, the policies required to get 'fair, open and transparent' bids sometimes result in weird things like this. And if this was the winning bid, imagine how screwed up the rest were.

If someone in a Ministers office skipped actual bids and directed to some wingers, should be investigated, as there is nothing here that justifies directed bids or sole sourcing.

Wrong. Votes justify it perfectly.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Wrong. Votes justify it perfectly.

I'm not sure what you are getting at; this isn't porkbarreling by giving a regional company work.

If this was the result of an RFP, probably a good example of our 'fair, transparent procurement procedure that gives best value' delivering something inefficiently, which can happen with conflicting requirements.

If this was directed to a paper shell company, that sub-sub contracted the work, none of that buys votes as it's too stupid an arrangement to even announce.

 

[ModlrMike]

So $54,000,000 for an $80,000 product and the best that can be said is "illogical and inefficient"? A master of understatement!

 

[Lumber]

If it was a normal RFP, the policies required to get 'fair, open and transparent' bids sometimes result in weird things like this. And if this was the winning bid, imagine how screwed up the rest were.

If someone in a Ministers office skipped actual bids and directed to some wingers, should be investigated, as there is nothing here that justifies directed bids or sole sourcing.

Since joining the public sector, but working for a government contractor, I've been introduced to many anecdotes of similar cases.

Company A and B both bid on a government contract for services. Company B is honestly better suited and actually doing a bit of the work already through other existing contracts. Somehow, though, company A wins the bid. Company A realizes they aren't actually the best ones to do the work, plus they don't want to set up the necessary overhead to establish their own unit to do the work, so isntead they just subcontract out to company B to do the work. In the end, both companies and the government get what they want, but the taxpayer gets the short stick by having to pay a middle man.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Since joining the public sector, but working for a government contractor, I've been introduced to many anecdotes of similar cases.

Company A and B both bid on a government contract for services. Company B is honestly better suited and actually doing a bit of the work already through other existing contracts. Somehow, though, company A wins the bid. Company A realizes they aren't actually the best ones to do the work, plus they don't want to set up the necessary overhead to establish their own unit to do the work, so isntead they just subcontract out to company B to do the work. In the end, both companies and the government get what they want, but the taxpayer gets the short stick by having to pay a middle man.

The thing is, PSPC doesn't care, as long as the process is followed and it's 'fair, open and transparent'. It's also almost impossible to blacklist a company for poor performance or outright fraud, as that 'wouldn't be fair to the company'.

When the organization responsible for procurement isn't responsible for the budget, or delivery of a product that works, weird things happen. Aware of a few procurements that failed hard because PSPC insisited on some particular clauses or requirements that resulted in no successful bidders, despite DND not wanting them in there. Boggles the mind that an organization with no actual responsibility has that much authority.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Unbelievable. Cultures with a tradition of "squeeze" are looking on enviously.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Since joining the public sector, but working for a government contractor, I've been introduced to many anecdotes of similar cases.

Company A and B both bid on a government contract for services. Company B is honestly better suited and actually doing a bit of the work already through other existing contracts. Somehow, though, company A wins the bid. Company A realizes they aren't actually the best ones to do the work, plus they don't want to set up the necessary overhead to establish their own unit to do the work, so isntead they just subcontract out to company B to do the work. In the end, both companies and the government get what they want, but the taxpayer gets the short stick by having to pay a middle man.

You know how business politics work, right?