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07.11.2020 / 00:23

Minister of Veteran Affairs condemns Whole Foods’ ban on poppies

Minister of Veteran Affairs Lawrence MacAulay on Friday condemned Whole Foods’ move to ban its Canadian workers from wearing poppies, which is a symbol of remembrance of fallen soldiers, saying “this is absolutely unacceptable.” Conservative MP of Carleton, Pierre Poilievre, has called on the federal government to join Canadians in boycotting American-owned Whole Foods after their poppy ban.

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Coronavirus: Conservative MP and Liberal finance minister exchange on government’s COVID-19 economic response

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre criticized Friday the federal government’s COVID-19 economic support over the latest jobs numbers saying that Canada has the highest unemployment rate among the G7 countries, while Finance Minister Chrystia Freelnad defended her government’s response and said that conservatives would’ve cut help and funds for Canadians if they were elected in 2019.

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Investigation into Trudeau’s chief of staff dismissed by ethics commissioner

Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff and her husband.Ethics commissioner Mario Dion says the allegations are “speculative” and do not provide “a factual basis to support the belief that a contravention” of the Conflict of Interest Act may have occurred.Consequently, Dion says he’s informed Conservative MPs Pierre Poilievre and Michael Barrett that their request for an investigation does not meet the requirements of the act.

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The Tories and NDP aren’t calling for an election over WE Charity. Here’s why

WE Charity scandal continues to engulf the government following one of the most tumultuous weeks in federal politics since the declaration of the coronavirus pandemic.Opposition parties are still pushing for answers about why the Liberals gave the deal to run a student service grant to a controversial group with close financial ties to the families of both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former finance minister Bill Morneau.But even as they do so, neither the Conservatives nor the NDP have pushed to topple the government.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, NDP MP Matthew Green and Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said now is simply not the right time.“One of the considerations that hasn’t been talked

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Conservatives seek investigation into Canada’s outsourced $84M rent subsidy program

coronavirus pandemic, which was awarded to a company where the spouse of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, holds a senior vice-president position.Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said he would be submitting a request to the lobbying commissioner for an investigation on Monday.“So often when governments make programs unnecessarily complicated, it’s not out of incompetence, it’s because somebody stands to benefit from all of the complexity,” he said. What is the WE Charity scandal and who are the Kielburger brothers? “We want to know how that decision happened.

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Pierre Poilievre criticizes federal government’s handling of rent subsidy program

Conservative MP finance critic Pierre Poilievre criticized the federal government’s handling of the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program, after learning it had paid a firm that employs Robert Silver, the husband of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford, to administer the program.

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Trudeau, Poilievre engage in heated exchange regarding dollar amount paid out to Trudeau family by WE Charity

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre grilled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday during a virtual House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) regarding the WE Charity affair, asking him for a total dollar amount that the Trudeau family was paid by the charity for previous speaking engagements.

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Criminal probe needed over WE contract, Trudeau family speaking fees: Tories

Conservative Party wants police to investigate the Liberal government’s decision to award a $900-million contract to WE Charity for a federal student grant program following news that members of the prime minister’s immediate family were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees by the WE organization in recent years.

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Fiscal Snapshot: Conservative MP says Morneau could not ‘utter’ $343 billion deficit

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday, in response to the government’s economic and fiscal snapshot, criticized Finance Minister Bill Morneau saying he could “not bring himself to utter” the size of the debt or the country’s deficit, saying that Canada’s debt had reached $1.06 trillion and its projecting a deficit of $343 billion.

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Tories won’t try to force election over WE Charity controversy: Poilievre

MP Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives aren’t looking to force an election over the Liberal government’s $900-million deal with WE Charity, which was called off on Friday.“We don’t have to,” the Conservative finance critic told reporters. Opposition parties put forward demands ahead of federal economic update “We already got what we asked for, which was for the government to cancel the program and redirect the funds through the professional public service and make it open and transparent for all organizations.”WE Charity had been tapped to administrate a youth volunteer grant program launched in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Conservative finance critic says coronavirus programs amount to ‘freakonomics’

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre took aim at the Liberals’ coronavirus stimulus programs on Sunday, saying that while his party supports compensating Canadians amid the pandemic, the measures are not working as intended.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Conservative MP calls for changes to benefits for businesses

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said on Sunday that the Canadian government should change its benefits for businesses, stressing that as provinces lift restrictions, businesses that reopen should not have to risk losing the benefits they were receiving due to the impact of COVID-19 because they start receiving revenue again.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Conservative MP says Trudeau should apologize to Canada’s top doctor, not Derek Sloan

When asked about comments made by Conservative MP Derek Sloan, who called for chief medical officer Dr. Theresa Tam’s firing and whether Sloan should apologize, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said on Sunday that it’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who should apologize to Tam.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Tories push for more federal help for restaurant, tourism sectors

The Conservatives are calling on the government to come up with a plan specifically to help the nation’s restaurant, hospitality and tourism sectors cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in Ottawa on Monday, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre criticized the Trudeau government, saying it’s “been a month” since some businesses have been forced to close as part of COVID-19 containment strategies without financial support from the federal government.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Freeland grilled on ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence regarding early COVID-19 warnings

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre grilled Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland on Saturday during a special sitting of the House of Commons on when the Prime Minister and members of cabinet had seen, and who among them had seen, “Five Eyes” intelligence indicating the true extent of the dangers posed to Canada and the world by the COVID-19 virus.

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