tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4966882611527632704..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Did Canada Drop the Ball on Covid-19?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65081642669274609882020-04-13T10:39:08.920-07:002020-04-13T10:39:08.920-07:00My sense of it is that the federal and most provin...My sense of it is that the federal and most provincial governments were simply overwhelmed, deer caught in the headlights. That's a bad spot to be in - for everybody - if your leaders aren't really strong leaders. I think they were afraid of making the bold calls the pandemic required. Trudeau has many times shown a tendency to hesitate. He's unsure of himself and, yes, his priority was and probably remains the economy.<br /><br />My understanding is also that it was Horgan who twisted the PM's arm to shut the borders. When the virus hit Canada I waited week on week for the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act. Nothing. Then JT decided to canvass the premiers as though he needed their vote of approval, which he did not get. The Emergencies Act is not a piece of consensus legislation, anything but.<br /><br />I doubt anyone will bother asking but why, during their "bromance" did Justin not get a copy of Obama's pandemic playbook? We could have used the American approach to craft something along the same lines for the federal and provincial governments.<br /><br />Thanks for the link, Toby. Yes, we've known since 2004 that pandemics were one of the major threat scenarios in the former Liberal government's security review. You identify the threat but then there's no essential follow-up.<br />Does that sound familiar when a government declares a climate breakdown state of emergency one day and greenlights a massive new bitumen pipeline the very next?The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54196552636335241102020-04-13T09:11:57.079-07:002020-04-13T09:11:57.079-07:00"COVID-19 a 'failure of early warning'..."COVID-19 a 'failure of early warning' says intelligence expert"<br /><br />https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/297075/COVID-19-a-failure-of-early-warning-says-intelligence-expert<br /><br />A pandemic was on the list of security threats and those in charge ignored Covid-19. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19654823600959928942020-04-13T06:47:04.163-07:002020-04-13T06:47:04.163-07:00.. the extreme levels of partisan 'virtue sign..... the extreme levels of partisan 'virtue signalling' disgust me. Hell.. any virtue signalling & flag hugging faux patriotism. Blended in are extreme levels of 'contraryism' .. One of the main pillars of 'conservatism' (which is actually just one of the 'pret a porter' partisan business suits & de rigeur camouflage of holier than thou neoliberal egotists) These fuckwit political posture constantly.. instead of actually performing their elected or unelected jobs as OUR Public Servants ! Meanwhile they're busy playing partisan pattycake with each other.. and photo op'ing their pasty pale asses off. They must haul out their hefty political playbooks daily.. and make sure they snivelled out the right talking point, remembered what religious holiday it is, dressed casual for their daily 5 minutes of actual 'work' .. and then jump on Twitter and Facebook.. to 'read the polls'.. and then via secret burner cel phones, stir that into the virtue & value porridge they barf up and serve the faithful MediaWankers to water cannon the population with..<br /><br />Our public servant wanks blather now about 'Performance Based' funding in Education.. and the decision makers such as Kenney's loutlings or Doug Ford's coven.. will be the Judges of such ? Holy Hell ! Let me point to who actually needs a strict diet of 'Performance Based' natural consequences.. That's right baby.. Great Idea.. so let's test it on Elected and Unelected Public Servants who belong to Political Parties<br /><br />What has Andrew Scheer done for Canadians lately.. or if ever ? Scott Brison getting a taxpayer Pension ? Alykan Velshi .. what his latest cronyism job.. ? Pierre Poilievre or Ms Remple-Garner.. Rona ? Gerald Butts ? Matt Wolf ? Christy Clark (that eminent 'Liberal'..) or Rich Coleman ? Anyone check what trough he's wallowing in lately ? Ken Boessenkool? Tony Clement ? James Moore ? John Baird ?<br /><br />Monday Monday .. can't trust that day.. (Mommas & the Poppas) .. so figured I'd come out.. with my words blazing.. the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1958628463049758202020-04-12T19:03:53.988-07:002020-04-12T19:03:53.988-07:00"Did Canada Drop the Ball on Covid-19?" ..."Did Canada Drop the Ball on Covid-19?" <br /><br />Yes. One would think that after SARS our managerial classes would have ensured that we would have resources and trained personnel awaiting. It's not that they haven't been warned; there are experts in the field and they have spoken up. The failures with the pandemic are similar to the failure to make the changes required by climate change; again, we have been warned. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-85766601038652541582020-04-12T17:20:25.862-07:002020-04-12T17:20:25.862-07:00The government balked at closing our borders.
I s...The government balked at closing our borders.<br /><br />I still believe that BC premier John Horgan twisted Trudeau's arms to close the US border.<br />The cutting edge of the import of the virus has been through the pacific north west.<br /><br />Justin Trudeau failed Canada and it's small comfort to realize we probably would have been worse off if Scheer's Tories were in power.<br /><br />Actually, I think we would have been well and truly screwed with Scheer at the helm.<br />Don't like Trudeau, never have , but he is trying to make amends for his mistakes.<br /><br />The really right wing are back peddling to save their 'souls'.<br />Kenny is sending a token handful of face masks to BC to appease his pipeline ambitions( fuck, he never stops)<br />Ford pretends he is concerned with health when he has called for reduction of funding to healthcare; the list goes on.<br /><br />Caught with their pants down politicians of all stripes are having problems with COVID19.<br /><br />They all have one thing in common in that they put the economy in whatever terms they see it ; first.<br /><br />There are still few calls for change.<br /><br />The battle at 'we are #1' the US and it's affiliates! is all about going back to the status quo.<br /><br />That will be the battle of the future?<br /><br />TB<br /> <br />Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.com