Roundup: A desperate Kenney paints yet another false picture

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In the wake of the final report of the Committee on Un-Albertan Activities, Jason Kenney and his band of flying monkeys have been spending their time putting out blatantly false readings of what was in the nothingburger of a report. And more to the point, we’ve had a number of columnists from a certain newspaper chain write more of the kind of propaganda that Kenney has been spinning. To wit:

Of course, Kenney doesn’t have much left going for him. He’s had his bullshit referendum (final results coming Tuesday), his bogus Senate “election,” his inquisition has ended, his “Fair Deal Panel” has reported its load of nonsense, and Kenney’s own numbers, meanwhile, are in the dumps and if an election were held in Alberta right now, the NDP would win by a significant margin of seats. So, of course Kenney is going to retreat to his usual tactic of lying about things to make himself look like the hero in this. But man, it’s getting hard to take any of this seriously, even though we have to because he has a legion of followers who believe all of it and he’s riled them up and made them angry about all kinds of manufactured grievances. Hard to see how any of this will end in a way that won’t be bad for everyone.

Good reads:

  • An internal government analysis showed that the majority of those who accessed the CRB were continuous or repeat users, who may be out of luck as it winds down.
  • Bill Blair says that more pandemic support, including military personnel, are on the way to Saskatchewan (after the province finally asked for it).
  • Harjit Sajjan was at the NATO summit in Brussels, where there is talk of more “lessons learned” in Afghanistan – but that requires admitting mistakes were made.
  • In advance of the Cabinet shuffle, CBC has an explainer about Cabinet.
  • The UK’s High Commissioner says that they are hoping Canada will be an ally at the upcoming climate talks in Glasgow in pressuring other countries to do more.
  • Catherine McKenna says she has doubts the world will be able to meet its Paris targets, as more countries need to dig deeper to achieve reductions.
  • Jean Chrétien remarks that Trudeau would probably be better served going to the party’s old guard for advice – but Trudeau made a point of excluding them.
  • Erin O’Toole’s campaign chair, Walied Soliman, won a $500,000 defamation suit against an alt-right commentator.
  • Stephanie Carvin contemplates what the creation of AUKUS signals for Canada, and calls for us to get our acts together when it comes to defining our foreign policy.
  • Supriya Dwivedi puts to boots to Doug Ford about signing onto child care if he’s as concerned about labour shortages as he says he is.
  • Susan Delacourt notices patterns in how Trudeau shuffles his Cabinet, whether to respond to inward or outward forces, and how successful that tends to be.
  • Chantal Hébert wonders why Erin O’Toole seems bent on making his party irrelevant, fighting losing battles, which hasn’t served either Kenney or Ford.

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