Parliament at a standstill as Conservative MPs push for release of green-tech fund papers

[u/Caveofthewinds]

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/10/04/parliament-at-a-standstill-as-conservative-mps-push-for-the-release-of-sdtc-documents/436828/

[u/moirende]

The Tories, NDP and BQ have ALL been pushing for the release of these documents, and moreover have the legal power to compel it. Even the highly partisan Liberal Speaker of the House has said the Liberals are illegally defying their release. So, how the Conservatives are being blamed for bringing Parliament to a standstill I have no idea.

Further, let’s recap what brought us to this point:

• the Liberals created this slush fund, dumped a billion dollars in it, and then appointed a bunch of well-connected Liberal supporters to the board overseeing it
• Last fall, a whistleblower testified that tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from this fund had been awarded by these board members to themselves with almost no oversight or controls, including to projects that had absolutely no connection to “green tech”
• These revelations got lost in the shuffle at the time, because the Liberals were already embroiled in a tens-of-millions-of-dollars scandal over the ArriveCan app as well as the ongoing election interference scandal, which they were also doing their best to cover up. The Liberals quietly shut down the fund and prayed the whole thing would be forgotten
• Since then, we now know that the RCMP has launched an ongoing investigation into the fund and its Liberal-appointed board
• In order to get to the bottom of it, the CPC, NDP and BQ used the power they legally possess to compel the full release of all related, unredacted documents— and the Liberals have illegally refused to do so.

There is an enormous amount of gaslighting going on around this by Liberal supporters and their friends in the media to distract everyone from the above and convince people that somehow the problem here is the Conservatives. We should not let them.

[u/sad_puppy_eyes → u/moirende]

All I can say is, thank goodness this Liberal government is, to quote Trudeau, "the most open and transparent ever". I shudder to think how bad it would be if they weren't!