> this level of bold mess making can only mean she's been promised a position elsewhere. nah it's that the pmo has finally gotten *that bad*. she says she intents on running again as an mp so there probably isn't something lined up quite yet.   seems to be true sadly. ministers used to be trusted to run their ministries. even under the iron curtain of harpergov this was the case in canada. under trudeau most of them are nothing more than spokespeople selected for their identity and presentation on tv. canada's prime minister's office has continued to centralize power within itself for generations but trudeau's is the worst of them all. there are stories about ministers summoned to the pm's building for a press event and can't get in because they're not on security's list. canada's own ministers don't have any sort of regular access to the prime minister so what are they? chopped liver?   > they don't have the infrastructure or staff. or the will. organized crime is yet another one of canada's untouchable cartels. just as bell & friends can't be messed with despite significant and wide-ranging public support to address telecoms pricing, neither can organized crime. when rico came into force in the us a bunch of former real estate players in new york moved to toronto, for reasons. the bronfmans, former kingmakers in canadian government, made their money bootlegging with al capone. for less extreme corruption, any effort to reduce corruption within the government would be ugly. that ugly look would taint the government of the day. so despite multiple police and intelligence reports on the infiltration of the public service there is no serious effort to root them out. blank passports can go missing and fraudulent passports can be destroyed instead of used for evidence, all to the benefit of organized crime. whistleblowers get destroyed by management and then management gets off scot-free as management appears too close to politicians.
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