Showing posts with label Fantino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantino. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Two Creepy Cops, Same Day
Look who is gracing the CBC web site this morning. Why it's those two creepy cops, Harper's own Julian Fantino and Toronto Police stalwart, James "Give'em the full clip" Forcillo.
Forcillo has been arrested for breaching his bail conditions.
Fantino is celebrated for cutting the ribbon on his new business - a marijuana shop. That's right, Julian the guy who equated legalizing pot with "legalizing murder" has seen the light and the light is green.
The two of them, they're just creepy.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Another MacKay-Fantino Love Child?
They could've stuck with the ships Paul Martin had on the books when he left office, but nooooo.
The ships, three of them, were to replace the navy's 45-year old supply ships only they were to be supply ships and more. That deal was scrapped by the Tories.
Now we're told to expect an announcement that the navy will get two, possibly three, replacement ships but they won't measure up to what was promised.
What followed, (after Martin's plan was scrapped) according to the series of internal briefings, was a drastic scaling back of the navy’s design concept, overseen by senior civilian defence and political officials.
The $2.6 billion program relaunched in 2010 is expected to deliver two — maybe three — ships.
But with the program delayed until 2018 and accounting for inflation — currently running at seven per cent in the shipbuilding industry — it will likely cost taxpayers more than if the government had stuck with the original plan.
The new proposal will see the joint ships carry fewer helicopters, drastically less cargo, no space for a joint mission headquarters or a full-fledged hospital, as mandated in the original concept.
The Harper government has assigned the task of building the ships to Seaspan Shipyards in Vancouver and is expected to select from two specific designs sometime this year.
Unlike the troubled F-35 fighter proposal where capabilities such as stealth were hardly questioned, the briefings on the joint support ships suggest civilians played a large role after 2008 deciding what the military could live without in the new vessels.
...The initial concept was for a joint ship that could act as floating supply base for the navy, carrying vast amounts of army equipment to trouble spots, and act as offshore command post and hospital for humanitarian missions. It was well-researched and thought out by the navy.
...The ships, as they are envisioned now, almost entirely give up the sealift role.
The ships, three of them, were to replace the navy's 45-year old supply ships only they were to be supply ships and more. That deal was scrapped by the Tories.
Now we're told to expect an announcement that the navy will get two, possibly three, replacement ships but they won't measure up to what was promised.
What followed, (after Martin's plan was scrapped) according to the series of internal briefings, was a drastic scaling back of the navy’s design concept, overseen by senior civilian defence and political officials.
The $2.6 billion program relaunched in 2010 is expected to deliver two — maybe three — ships.
But with the program delayed until 2018 and accounting for inflation — currently running at seven per cent in the shipbuilding industry — it will likely cost taxpayers more than if the government had stuck with the original plan.
The new proposal will see the joint ships carry fewer helicopters, drastically less cargo, no space for a joint mission headquarters or a full-fledged hospital, as mandated in the original concept.
The Harper government has assigned the task of building the ships to Seaspan Shipyards in Vancouver and is expected to select from two specific designs sometime this year.
Unlike the troubled F-35 fighter proposal where capabilities such as stealth were hardly questioned, the briefings on the joint support ships suggest civilians played a large role after 2008 deciding what the military could live without in the new vessels.
...The initial concept was for a joint ship that could act as floating supply base for the navy, carrying vast amounts of army equipment to trouble spots, and act as offshore command post and hospital for humanitarian missions. It was well-researched and thought out by the navy.
...The ships, as they are envisioned now, almost entirely give up the sealift role.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Fantino's Foot-In-Mouthitis Flares Again
Harper loose cannon Julian Fantino is at it again. Now safely distanced from the F-35 fiasco, Fantino has been unleashed on the International Cooperation portfolio.
His diplomatic prowess was demonstrated in La Presse where Fantino announced Canadian aid to Haiti was being frozen. It turns out that nobody notified the Haitians or, for that matter, Canada's ambassador to Port-au-Prince either.
Haitian ambassador to Canada Frantz Liautaud said the first he heard of Mr. Fantino’s freeze on aid to Haiti was through this morning’s news. He’s already contacted the Canadian International Development Agency, the government aid organization that Mr. Fantino oversees, seeking clarification.
...He said he called Canada’s ambassador to Port-au-Prince, who didn’t know about it either. “He also learned about it from the press,” Mr. Liautaud said.
In his interview with La Presse, Mr. Fantino said Haitians have to take charge of their own problems, and was quoted in French saying Haitian aid is “on ice at the moment.”
“Are we going to take care of their problems forever? They also have to take charge of themselves,” he was quoted as saying by La Presse.
Yep, Fantino is all class. How this joker ever got beyond beat cop is a complete mystery.
His diplomatic prowess was demonstrated in La Presse where Fantino announced Canadian aid to Haiti was being frozen. It turns out that nobody notified the Haitians or, for that matter, Canada's ambassador to Port-au-Prince either.
Haitian ambassador to Canada Frantz Liautaud said the first he heard of Mr. Fantino’s freeze on aid to Haiti was through this morning’s news. He’s already contacted the Canadian International Development Agency, the government aid organization that Mr. Fantino oversees, seeking clarification.
...He said he called Canada’s ambassador to Port-au-Prince, who didn’t know about it either. “He also learned about it from the press,” Mr. Liautaud said.
In his interview with La Presse, Mr. Fantino said Haitians have to take charge of their own problems, and was quoted in French saying Haitian aid is “on ice at the moment.”
“Are we going to take care of their problems forever? They also have to take charge of themselves,” he was quoted as saying by La Presse.
Yep, Fantino is all class. How this joker ever got beyond beat cop is a complete mystery.
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