An American, who resides in America - is now in the PMO dictating Canada’s political affairs.
You can’t make this shit up.
Elbows Up! Joke is on 🫵🏻
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Muchos argumentan que la mayoría de los países que permiten la reelección indefinida de su jefe de Gobierno son “democracias parlamentarias”, y resulta interesante que presenten ese sistema como superior.
El simple hecho de agregarle la palabra “democracia” como adjetivo no lo convierte automáticamente en un sistema más democrático. De hecho, una de sus principales características es que el pueblo no elige directamente a su jefe de Gobierno; llámese Primer Ministro, como en el Reino Unido; Presidente, como en España; o Canciller, como en Alemania. Es el partido político, o la coalición de partidos, quien lo designa.
Ese mismo partido puede removerlo y sustituirlo por otra persona, incluso por alguien que la población apenas conozca o por quien jamás haya votado directamente.
Ese sistema puede funcionar bien o mal. Puede ser sumamente exitoso o no. Ese sería otro debate. Pero, por definición, no es más democrático que la elección directa del jefe de Gobierno por parte del pueblo, entendiendo la democracia en su sentido esencial: el poder del pueblo.
En segundo lugar, algunos alegan que la reelección indefinida viola la Constitución salvadoreña. Sin embargo, la Constitución fue reformada por una supermayoría legislativa, otorgada democráticamente por el pueblo salvadoreño en las urnas.
Además, nuestras elecciones han sido observadas por miles de representantes internacionales. Ningún organismo multilateral, ni un solo país del mundo, ni de izquierda ni de derecha, ha declarado que no hayan sido elecciones libres, transparentes y democráticas.
Al final, cada pueblo elige su propio camino.
Existen países con monarquías hereditarias, y nosotros no tendríamos por qué molestarnos por ello. Son sus países y ese es el sistema que han decidido tener. En otros hay emperadores, príncipes, sultanes, emires, presidentes, primeros ministros, etc.
Y prácticamente todos los países han modificado sus constituciones. En muchos casos, esos cambios ocurrieron mediante guerras, golpes de Estado o procesos violentos; no por medio de una fiesta cívica en las urnas, como lo hicimos los salvadoreños.
Todos tendrán su opinión. Al final, serán los resultados los que determinarán si los salvadoreños elegimos un buen camino y, sobre todo, si elegimos uno mejor que el que llevábamos antes.
Dios los bendiga y ojalá también encuentren su camino.
Farm Credit Canada's CEO admires Fidel Castro, threw a $44,000 cocktail party during a spending freeze 💸
@FCCagriculture Canada CEO Justine Hendricks, a lifelong Ottawa bureaucrat with no agricultural background, praised Fidel Castro as a role model, racked up massive expenses and even managed to fail to make payments on her corporate credit card, all while earning more than $450,000 a year.
Farm Credit Canada describes itself as being 100% invested in Canadian agriculture and food. Its job is to help Canadian farmers succeed through financing, business advice, and support through good times and bad. It is the farmers' federal bank. Canadian farmers depend on it. Canadian taxpayers fund it.
Which makes the conduct of its CEO, Justine Hendricks, all the more astonishing.
During an internal "Ask Me Anything" session, staff asked Hendricks a simple question: who has been your biggest role model? She told them they might be surprised by her answer.
They were.
"Believe it or not, it's Fidel Castro," she said. "I've admired his courage."
She went on to praise Castro for sticking to his values, spoke admiringly about how Communist Cuba prioritized food and health care, and praised the country's resilience despite decades of hardship. These weren't anonymous rumours. A transcript of the meeting was leaked and later confirmed by Farm Credit Canada itself after being tabled in Parliament.
The head of a Canadian Crown corporation that exists to serve farmers chose a Communist dictator as her personal role model. According to Human Rights Watch, Cuba continues to imprison political opponents, suppress free expression, tortures detainees, and maintains hundreds of political prisoners.
Food shortages, medicine shortages, and rolling blackouts remain commonplace. Millions of Cubans have fled. That is the regime Justine Hendricks said she admired for its courage.
But that's only the beginning.
Access to Information records obtained by Blacklock's Reporter show Hendricks quadrupled the expenses of her predecessor.
In less than three years, she billed more than $422,000 in travel and hospitality expenses — business-class flights to Europe and Asia, luxury hotels, repeated filet mignon dinners, an unexplained bar tab for olives and popcorn, a $543 Uber ride from Edmonton to Calgary, an "Elbows Up" T-shirt billed to taxpayers, a clothes steamer so she could freshen up before filming, a hockey jersey for speaking engagements, and nine days of airport parking while flying business class to Singapore.
Her corporate Visa card was suspended. Not because it was lost or stolen — because she failed to make the minimum payment. Internal emails show Farm Credit bookkeepers scrambling to understand why the CEO's government-issued credit card had gone delinquent. Late fees and interest charges piled up. Missing receipts. Incomplete expense claims. Charges that managers warned might not survive an audit.
Imagine missing a minimum payment on your personal Visa. Now imagine doing it with a taxpayer-funded corporate card while earning $458,000 a year.
Then there's the cocktail party.
In 2023, the federal government ordered Crown corporations to cut travel spending by 15%. Farm Credit employees complied — their travel spending dropped by nearly a quarter. Hendricks organized a $44,521 cocktail reception in Quebec City, featuring 19 bottles of wine, Bombay gin and more than $1,300 worth of canapés.
When employees later asked whether executive travel would finally be reduced, her answer was blunt: "No."
One rule for employees, another for the executive suite.
Hendricks has no agricultural background. Before Farm Credit Canada, she worked at Export Development Canada in sustainability. She continued living in suburban Ottawa while leading a Regina-based Crown corporation dedicated to Canadian agriculture.
Farmers understand accountability. If they make poor decisions, the bank notices. If they miss payments, there are consequences. Shouldn't the CEO of Farm Credit Canada be held to at least the same standard as the farmers she serves?
Canadian farmers deserve far better than this.
Charles Adler spent decades shitting all over the Senate. Called it utterly useless and demanded it be abolished.
Until Trudeau came to him with an appointment to the Senate that is.
He's a scumbag and a hypocrite of the highest order.
An African friend (who doesn't follow what I do) recently pitched me on an idea for a hotline to turn in all the newcomers scamming the system. It's ... not actually that hard to uplift good immigrants and shun crappy ones. We just refuse to do it.
My take is that much of the democratic world is finally pushing back against the insulated class of politicians, bureaucrats, academics and journalists who make rules for everyone else while rarely suffering the consequences when those rules fail.
They tell us what to eat, how to speak, what to believe and who respectable people are supposed to vote for. Their credentials become a substitute for judgment, common sense and real-world experience.
Canada still seems unusually loyal to this governing class. We keep rewarding people who lecture farmers, workers, business owners and taxpayers from institutions protected from the damage their policies cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls them the “no-skin-in-the-game” class. That description fits. They collect the status. The public pays the bill.
Much of the democratic world is finally pushing back against the insulated class of politicians, bureaucrats, academics and journalists who make rules for everyone else while rarely suffering the consequences when those rules fail.
GREAT news from Venezuela today as Dinorah Figuera, the president of the last democratic congress, announces a US-led negotiation process with the interim chavista dictatorship. Venezuelas institutions need rebuilding before elections can be free and fair and this is an appropriate first move towards a true transition. Moreover, it shows frustrated Venezuelans that the White House is on their side, not the dictatorship’s. Thank you, USA.
@terrynewman Yes, as are all the international criminal enterprises, street level gangsters and other bad actors, including hostile regimes, currently embedded in Canada. And right next door to the US to boot. Could there be a more welcoming place for all the miscreants of the world?
Senators when appointed are expected to be voices of second sober thoughts on government bills. The Senators are not to be voices of rage on the internet. In typical Trudeau Liberal fashion, he picked another loser. This guys viscious public attacks on Pierre are unwarranted. If a Conservative senator did this to a Liberal, Liberal heads would be exploding.
Adler called indigenous leaders "uncivilized boneheads" and "intellectually moribund" on the air of his radio station... in 1999. The remarks resurfaced when he was named to the Senate and he apologized
But ever since he switched political affiliation, there is a new set of rules, a double standard and the Liberal cheerleading media will excuse him
PM @MarkJCarney just handed day-to-day control of his office to an American political operative who worked for Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg.
Her title didn't exist until this week, and even the Globe and Mail can't fully explain how she got here. 🧵👇 (1/6)
I'd say most Canadians are not aware that ...
A. The government forcibly rations healthcare and LIMITS the number of doctors being trained.
B. We are the ONLY Western country to do this. France, Australia the UK; all of them have a private system coexisting with a public system.
Right-wing wave in Europe.
France 🇫🇷: Marine Le Pen now leading polls to be next President.
Austria 🇦🇹: the Freedom Party is leading the polls massively at almost 40%
Germany 🇩🇪: The AfD party now consistently number ONE in polls.
Norway 🇳🇴: The Libertarian FrP party leading the polls by a wide margin.
Something is changing in Europe.
One of Trudeau’s Syrians is accused of murdering a Chinese Canadian girl. People of all backgrounds were at the court to protest the crime.
Then a Muslim in a hijab threw hot coffee on them.
Every journalist saw it. And ignored it.
Send them back.
Too many Canadians still don't get just how much of Canada's real estate has been bought by foreigners who freely run criminal organizations in Canada.
The fact that no one looks into how easy it is to launder money here shows you how much it is now part of the system.
Hemos establecido un hospital de campaña en Venezuela para brindar atención médica de primer nivel. Además, contamos con un servicio de veterinaria para atender a los peluditos.
Estaremos abiertos las 24 horas para la atención de personas y de 8am a 6pm para la atención de mascotas.
Nos encontramos ubicados en la Avenida Principal de Playa Grande, atrás del Colegio Carlos Escarra, frente al restaurante Rompeolas, en La Guaira.
Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪