- (Sorry. I just HAD to get a Drag Race reference in there.)
So Justin Trudeau had the arrogant audacity to think that he is SO far above the RULES (Or, when it comes to the Ethics Commissioner, Conservatives like to mislead Canadians by saying they are LAWS that are being broken) that he accepted a gift from the Premier of Prince Edward Island and didn’t fill out the proper paperwork on time!!!
Throwing shade: Trudeau fined $100 over the gift of sunglasses
(We all remember where we were the day this story broke.)
The gift, according to the prime minister’s public declaration, was two pairs of leather-covered sunglasses made by Fellow Earthlings eyewear, based in the rural P.E.I. community of Guernsey Cove.
That’s right. TWO pairs of sunglasses were gifted to the PM, who then thought not only would he accept them, BUT he would screw over us little people by not even reporting it within 30 days! (The perfect plan! To do…something.)
Yes, of course. Rules are rules. However, I can’t help but wonder what kind of gifts were received by previous Prime Ministers that didn’t cause a political “scandal” at the time. Why is that? Because there hasn’t been a political party as f*cking petty as today’s CONVOY Party of Canada. (Yes. I know I’m being petty, but I’m not a political party.)
This must have been what the CPC’s oppo-research gremlins were spending their time on, and then floated the story around to the press.
Trudeau wore the sunglasses made by PEI company Fellow Earthlings eyewear during a trip to Vietnam. The manufacturers were thrilled! They had asked Premier Wade MacLauchlan if he would give the glasses to Prime Minister Trudeau and his wife, Sophie.
‘A big deal for us’: Trudeau sports P.E.I.-made sunglasses
“We just couldn’t be more excited to have the most famous Canadian I can think of wearing a pair of the Fellow Earthlings Canadians,” said Sydney Seggie, who owns the company with her husband Chris Seggie.
“It’s a big deal for us, for sure.”
Just a nice story all around. Right?
Well, no. This clerical error had to be brought to the attention of the Ethics Commissioner and reported on in the news. Then splashed all over the headlines that Trudeau was fined $100 for not disclosing this gift.
So dumb. So f*cking petty. But score one for the Cons! Anything to keep that faux-outrage machine chugging along. All because the glasses cost *GASP* OVER $200! Reportedly between $300 and $500. What with all the #JustinFlation Trudeau has caused around the ENTIRE PLANET, soon that won’t be enough to cover the cost of one of those Starbucks Pooopuchinos!
POOPUCHINO PSA: THIS NEW INGREDIENT IN STARBUCKS COFFEE IS MAKING PEOPLE POOP THEIR PANTS/VOMIT
Then there’s the fact that prolific Twitter blocker and part-time Canadian, Michelle Rempel Garner, must have known about the rules around accepting gifts, but that didn’t stop her from taking donations from a GUN LOBBY.
Conservatives are such sticklers when it comes to ethics violations and all. Right?
3 – Here is Michelle Rempel accepting gifts from the gun lobby (so American of her). It was "good" that she returned these gifts after this video came to light
You can always depend on Michelle to do the right thing after getting caught. pic.twitter.com/jdXs0ntfVf— Tsiehta ⚛️💉💉💉😷🏳️🌈 (@Tsiehta) November 4, 2021
(Perfect YOUR look with a pretty pink pistol case!)
So one was a gift from the Premier of PEI, the other was FROM AN ACTUAL F*CKING LOBBYIST organization! Something that should have been a HUGE story but, like all things with Conservatives, it barely made a blip and is quickly buried.
But Rempel Garner accepting gifts from a gun lobbyist group shows that she and the rest of the Cons don’t f*cking care about any of it.
While Conservatives were tweeting OUTRAGE about the PM’s Aga Khan vacation with their leader (4 leaders ago now?), Rona Ambrose was vacationing on a BILLIONAIRE’S freaking yacht! They don’t care about the helicopter ride Trudeau took on “BILLION DOLLAR ISLAND!” Heck.
Rona Ambrose was on a billionaire’s yacht while Tories blasted Trudeau over a Caribbean holiday.
“The Conservatives confirm their interim leader took a Caribbean vacation on a billionaire’s yacht around the time members of her caucus were criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for vacationing on a private island owned by the Aga Khan.”
Justin Trudeau knew what he did was against the law. All he had to do was say no, but he couldn’t resist the billionaire lifestyle. https://t.co/sQ3WcxzEL0
— Rona Ambrose (@RonaAmbrose) January 12, 2017
But she was open about it, folks! “Far more” honest about it. So I guess Prime Minister was ‘secretly’ vacationing, according to the Cons? If you’ll remember, the actual issue was that the PM rode in a helicopter (approved by his security detail, one would assume) that the Aga Khan owned. Since it was an aircraft, it was considered a ‘gift.’ The EC said the vacation could ‘reasonably be seen’ as trying to influence the PM, but the private helicopter was technically the issue.
But this. The scandal that nobody gives a damn about was in the news because the gift from a Premier to the Prime Minister cost over $200 and wasn’t reported on time.
How. F*cking. Petty.
This is what the Conservative Party of Canada focuses on. Not any real solutions. They have their oppo-research gremlins digging and scouring over every detail to find GOTCHA moments.
A party of trolls that will do and say anything to gain power. Offering nothing but SLOGANS, SLOGANS SLOGANS, and silly scandals.
Before I end this, I want to ask: Have we all forgotten #PierresEmails? We’re just going to let that one slide, are we? It’s just that. Well, had that been the Prime Minister, the Cons would be holding inquiries and demanding resignations while trying to shut down another charity for no reason. I guess # PeePee’s email scandal was just another blip.
Oh well!
Jason Pugh
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