The rot is baked in

If you think it's just me, tune into Kevin Klein's YouTube podcasts to find out more about what the Indigenous chiefs are up to.  Turns out councilors and chiefs in Norway House Cree Nation, for example, have just voted themselves another $100,000 each in expense money -- on top of the $100,000+ they have awarded themselves in salaries.

Yep, you read that right.  With a population 8,839 souls, the chiefs have pumped themselves up quite handsomely, thank you, and now rake in more than $200,000 each while the poor souls who live there continue to struggle in squalour.

Remember Charmaine Stick of the Onion Lake Band?  She's been trying to get an accounting of where the chiefs spend the money and they have refused to comply.  No need for an audit, we know into whose bank accounts it has been deposited.  Klein wanted to know why no Indigenous are demanding an accounting.  I'd like to know too!  So far, Charmaine is on her own.  

As I say, it's rot at the top in many files.  Just look at Arielle Karagaba, the deputy house government leader, who claimed....sit down...hydrate.....breathe.....$173,000 in personal expenses in just nine days!^%#$@!!%^%!  And there's no accountability because the Accountability Act Harper introduced was immediately repealed by Trudeau.  Guess he didn't want the same act to apply to him. 

Arielle with her buddy Carney.

$173,000!!!!!!!!  What could she have possibly squandered it on?  We'll apparently never know because it's been approved and pocketed.  And she spent all this while Parliament was not sitting and she was not doing any official business!

But give Arielle a break.  Afterall, she was born in Burundi, so may not have yet figured out that Canada is a democracy, unlike her homeland which is rife with widespread corruption, poverty, instability, authoritarianism and illiteracy.  The norm in most African countries, which is why personally we never give a cent to any country on that continent.

Remember poor old Bev Oda?  She was sacked for expensing a $16 glass of orange juice.  

Listened to interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques the other day and he has found $140 billion in new spending not revealed by Carney tucked away in the budget just released.  Jacques gave the boldest appearance before a Parliamentary committee I have ever witnessed, but it will cost him his job because the PMO is advertising for a new officer who displays, "tact and discretion".  No more facts for the public, oh no, no, no!  Sounds like Burundi.  Banana Republic anyone?

The mandate of the PBO is, "To provide economic financial analysis to Parliament to promote greater transparency and accountability" for members of Parliament and the taxpayer.  But not, of course, if any truth dribbles out.

According to Jacques, the government campaigned on maintaining a balanced fiscal anchor with a diminishing debt to GDP ratio.  But they've ditched that anchor and now it will be flat.  This is the anchor that has been in place for the past 30 years, but "The government has secretly ditched it with no consultation whatsoever."

And then there's the Palestinian flag debacle.  Toronto mayor Olivia Chow and Manitoba premier Wab Kinew are both raising it on government property.  Newly-elected Calgary mayor Jeromy Farkas has passed a motion saying the only flags that can be flown on city property are the Calgary, Alberta or Canadian banners.  At least there's one patriot in the bunch.

Coupled with the politicization and banishment of the Poppy, it's unconscionable.  Let's face it, Canada is no more.  It makes me weep.