[Newsbot]

Title: 2 multimillion-dollar loans to Irving company forgiven by ACOA
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2019-08-21 08:11:49
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

From BCF:

"That'll buy a lot of favourable press for the coming election.

Irving Family News Holdings

Telegraph-Journal (Saint John NB)
Times & Transcript (Moncton NB)
The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton NB)
The Tribune (Campbellton NB)
La Voix du Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
The Bugle-Observer (Woodstock NB)
Le Journal Madawaska (Edmundston NB)
L'etoile (various editions)
Edition provinciale
Edition La Cataracte (Grand Falls NB)
Edition Chaleur (Bathurst NB)
Edition Dieppe (Dieppe NB)
Edition Kent (Bouctouche NB)
Edition Peninsule (Shippagan NB)
Edition Republique (Edmundston NB)
Edition Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
Edition Shediac (Shediac NB)
Kings County Record (Sussex NB)
Miramichi Leader (Miramichi NB)"

https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2019/08/21 ... ng-family/

[PublicAnimalNo9]

$1:

Then-Liberal industry minister Allan Rock, responsible for ACOA when the funding was approved, had accepted a free family vacation at the Irving fishing camp on the Restigouche River during his time as health minister.

Seems to be a pattern with the Liberals.

[uwish]

There will be spending and program announcements right up until he calls an election. Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

[bootlegga]

uwish uwish:

There will be spending and program announcements right up until he calls an election. Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

Get over it, every government does this before every election.

Harper and the Conservatives did the same thing in 2015, with hundreds of announcements in the six months prior to the election call on August 2.

[uwish]

very true, but the Liberals seem especially spendy this time!

[N_Fiddledog]

Media companies in particular seem to be making out like bandits.

Providing they're prepared to spin in the right direction, of course.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

uwish uwish:

Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

This current batch of Liberals seem to be the most toxic we've ever had in this country. I've never seen this level of corrupt underhandedness before. Trudeau takes the cake.

-J.

[Martin15]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

uwish uwish:

Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

This current batch of Liberals seem to be the most toxic we've ever had in this country. I've never seen this level of corrupt underhandedness before. Trudeau takes the cake.

-J.

I would tend to agree.

[Freakinoldguy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

uwish uwish:

There will be spending and program announcements right up until he calls an election. Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

Get over it, every government does this before every election.

Harper and the Conservatives did the same thing in 2015, with hundreds of announcements in the six months prior to the election call on August 2.

This isn't just the normal spending spree by the incumbent gov't it's attempting to influencing an election by forgiving Canadian Taxpayer funded loans.

If Harper had done this the left would have been apoplectic and they'd still be cleaning the spittle off their screens.

It's wrong plain and simple but with the Trudeau Gov't nothing is to despicable when the end justifies the means.

[Tricks]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

bootlegga bootlegga:

uwish uwish:

There will be spending and program announcements right up until he calls an election. Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

Get over it, every government does this before every election.

Harper and the Conservatives did the same thing in 2015, with hundreds of announcements in the six months prior to the election call on August 2.

This isn't just the normal spending spree by the incumbent gov't it's attempting to influencing an election by forgiving Canadian Taxpayer funded loans.

If Harper had done this the left would have been apoplectic and they'd still be cleaning the spittle off their screens.

It's wrong plain and simple but with the Trudeau Gov't nothing is to despicable when the end justifies the means.

Harper did do it. He wrote off 300 million in student loans in 2015.

[Sunnyways]

It’s our own fault, though. Governments know we are dim enough to be bribed with our own money.

[newz]

Tricks Tricks:

Harper did do it. He wrote off 300 million in student loans in 2015.

A lib complaining about conservatives writing off students loans! Bwhahahaah!
Now I have seen everything!

[Freakinoldguy]

Tricks Tricks:

Harper did do it. He wrote off 300 million in student loans in 2015.

You've got to be shitting me. You're seriously comparing the writing off of a debt to a man who's worth over 8 billion dollars and who owns a chain of newspapers to the writing off some student loans.

$1:

Other notable Canadians include the New Brunswick-based James Irving, who runs the J.D. Irving conglomerate comprising more than two dozen companies in frozen foods, retail, shipbuilding, transportation and more, giving him a net worth of US$8.3 billion.

https://business.financialpost.com/news ... comma-club

One was an act of kindness and one was an act of desperation. But, I'm sure you already knew which was which.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

bootlegga bootlegga:

uwish uwish:

There will be spending and program announcements right up until he calls an election. Typical Liberal fashion trying to buy the vote...

Get over it, every government does this before every election.

And they keep getting away with it because from the look/sound of it, you and many others are quite willing to blow it off as business as usual. I'm not talking partisanship, I'm talking about the whole goddam defective system and our willingness to just keep letting things slide.
But that seems to be a symptom of the way society is going. We accept lower quality and standards everywhere now.

We whine about what is basically minor shit while fooling ourselves that we live in something that even resembles a democracy. Voting doth not a democracy make if there's no govt accountability. And by govt accountability I don't mean voting them out in 4 years when they've engaged in what can only be described as criminal activity, even if it failed.

Look at the whole JWR deal. Ostensibly he appointed her because of a legal background and to essentially be the nation's legal adviser. But instead of letting her do her job, he and other members of Team Groper presume to give HER legal advice, so to speak. So, was JWR appointed to the job or simply to do Groper's bidding?

I guess you are right in some respects. Considering the 4 years of Groper stepping all over his own dick despite all the party "help", this isn't the hole in the rubber raft that'll determine if he sinks or swims. I think that has already been determined.