I’m getting the sense that either our Liberal Ministers are full of shit or entirely inept.
They all seem to say “I didn’t know about this or that”.
Glacial_Shield_W on
This feels like something I just said, but here we go again. The options are 1. He is telling the truth, and that is insane. Or 2. He is lying, and that is insane.
CamberMacRorie on
Why even have ministers at this point. They don’t seem to actually do or o ow anything.
CaliperLee62 on
>*Former public safety minister Bill Blair pleaded ignorance Friday at the public inquiry into foreign interference, saying he had no knowledge of a 54-day delay in authorizing a warrant to surveil Liberal powerbroker Michael Chan or China’s targeting of a prominent Conservative MP in 2021.*
>*Mr. Blair, now Defence Minister, told the inquiry that he only learned the Chan warrant was held up in his office and Beijing’s conducted an influence operation against Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong after they were reported in The Globe and Mail in 2023.*
>*“It wasn’t until it was reported in the newspapers that there was some concern being expressed by an anonymous informant with respect to a delay that I became aware that concern even existed,” he said of the warrant delay, noting that in 2023 he was no longer public safety minister.*
>*Mr. Blair was recalled to the inquiry to explain why it took 54 days for his office to sign the warrant application against Mr. Chan, an influential Liberal organizer and fundraiser in the Chinese Canadian community. The inquiry also wanted to know why he never read CSIS intelligence reports, addressed to him, about China’s targeting of Mr. Chong and fellow Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in May, 2021. Beijing was gathering information on Mr. Chong and his Hong Kong relatives to gain leverage over the MP, a critic of its human-rights abuses.*
>*Mr. Blair insisted he only learned the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had delivered the surveillance warrant application to his office in mid-March after the package was presented to him to sign on May 11, 2021. It normally takes four to 10 days to approve CSIS warrants, the inquiry has heard.*
>***The inquiry also heard that his then-chief of staff Zita Astravas, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had sat on the warrant and expressed concerns to CSIS about some of the people who could be picked up in conversations with Mr. Chan through surveillance.***
This type of corruption shit is the stuff we started hearing about from people in Harpers team right before he got kicked out of office in 2015.
Just once I would like a government that isn’t full of corrupt inept losers.
atticusfinch1973 on
Since he’s now Minister of Defense, I hope it doesn’t take 54 days to respond to external threats to our borders.
Gears_and_Beers on
Couldn’t this be tested?What’s the average time for warrants through his office and what’s the average when that warrant is for good friends of your boss. If the two numbers aren’t the same perhaps it’s time for more criminal charges.
Are they not tracking basic KPIs for these processes? Shouldn’t there have been documented follow up after a week, 2 weeks, a month?
Laughing_Zero on
Bet you they’d notice very quickly if their paycheck wasn’t deposited…
ferengi-alliance on
Bullshit.
ThatAnything1480 on
He should be excused from his duties.
HanSolo5643 on
So again, we have multiple options.
1. Bill Blair is a complete idiot who doesn’t know what’s going on around him.
2. His office is such a mess that he loses things easily.
3. He knew about the CSIS warrant and chose not to sign it for 54 days because he and the people in his office and the Liberals were busy getting rid of damming evidence.
Neither of these 3 options is very good.
Belstaff on
Couldn’t see them due to the bright firelight of all those documents burning.
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I’m getting the sense that either our Liberal Ministers are full of shit or entirely inept.
They all seem to say “I didn’t know about this or that”.
This feels like something I just said, but here we go again. The options are 1. He is telling the truth, and that is insane. Or 2. He is lying, and that is insane.
Why even have ministers at this point. They don’t seem to actually do or o ow anything.
>*Former public safety minister Bill Blair pleaded ignorance Friday at the public inquiry into foreign interference, saying he had no knowledge of a 54-day delay in authorizing a warrant to surveil Liberal powerbroker Michael Chan or China’s targeting of a prominent Conservative MP in 2021.*
>*Mr. Blair, now Defence Minister, told the inquiry that he only learned the Chan warrant was held up in his office and Beijing’s conducted an influence operation against Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong after they were reported in The Globe and Mail in 2023.*
>*“It wasn’t until it was reported in the newspapers that there was some concern being expressed by an anonymous informant with respect to a delay that I became aware that concern even existed,” he said of the warrant delay, noting that in 2023 he was no longer public safety minister.*
>*Mr. Blair was recalled to the inquiry to explain why it took 54 days for his office to sign the warrant application against Mr. Chan, an influential Liberal organizer and fundraiser in the Chinese Canadian community. The inquiry also wanted to know why he never read CSIS intelligence reports, addressed to him, about China’s targeting of Mr. Chong and fellow Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in May, 2021. Beijing was gathering information on Mr. Chong and his Hong Kong relatives to gain leverage over the MP, a critic of its human-rights abuses.*
>*Mr. Blair insisted he only learned the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had delivered the surveillance warrant application to his office in mid-March after the package was presented to him to sign on May 11, 2021. It normally takes four to 10 days to approve CSIS warrants, the inquiry has heard.*
>***The inquiry also heard that his then-chief of staff Zita Astravas, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had sat on the warrant and expressed concerns to CSIS about some of the people who could be picked up in conversations with Mr. Chan through surveillance.***
[I think at this point we all know why.](https://www.thebureau.news/p/warrant-delayed-by-minister-blairs)
This type of corruption shit is the stuff we started hearing about from people in Harpers team right before he got kicked out of office in 2015.
Just once I would like a government that isn’t full of corrupt inept losers.
Since he’s now Minister of Defense, I hope it doesn’t take 54 days to respond to external threats to our borders.
Couldn’t this be tested?What’s the average time for warrants through his office and what’s the average when that warrant is for good friends of your boss. If the two numbers aren’t the same perhaps it’s time for more criminal charges.
Are they not tracking basic KPIs for these processes? Shouldn’t there have been documented follow up after a week, 2 weeks, a month?
Bet you they’d notice very quickly if their paycheck wasn’t deposited…
Bullshit.
He should be excused from his duties.
So again, we have multiple options.
1. Bill Blair is a complete idiot who doesn’t know what’s going on around him.
2. His office is such a mess that he loses things easily.
3. He knew about the CSIS warrant and chose not to sign it for 54 days because he and the people in his office and the Liberals were busy getting rid of damming evidence.
Neither of these 3 options is very good.
Couldn’t see them due to the bright firelight of all those documents burning.
Bill B-liar
Bill Blair is a liar.