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The federal government has long looked down its nose at Newfoundland and Labrador as an economic sink-hole, so you can understand the pride premier Danny Williams must have felt when he told the Toronto Economic Club in 2007 that his province had “turned the fiscal corner.”
Williams’ government recorded a budgetary surplus that year, allowing it to bring in the biggest tax reduction in the province’s history. Williams boasted in that year’s Throne Speech that his province was self-reliant and “master of our own house.”
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When it comes to political ethics, little is expected of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and he seldom disappoints.
For example, his conduct in the WE Charity affair.
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Contrary to myth, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s report on Trudeau last week was not an exoneration of Trudeau’s conduct, but a searing indictment of it.
Dion made it crystal clear the only reason he did not find that Trudeau had violated the Conflict of Interest Act was due to a fundamental weakness in the law it has no provisions for censuring a politician who creates the appearance of a conflict of interest by his actions.
Canadian Officials Voice Support in Celebration of Falun Dafa Day
Over 120 Canadian officials from across the country sent anniversary greetings in support of Falun Dafa on May 13, commending the faith group’s peaceful resistance against persecution in communist China since 1999, as adherents held an online event to celebrate 29 years since Falun Dafa’s introduction to the public.
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a traditional Chinese self-improvement discipline that consists of five meditative exercises along with moral teachings centred on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice was first introduced to the public on May 13, 1992, by founder Li Hongzhi in China. It attracted between 70 million and 100 million adherents within just a few years as a result of its benefits to people’s health and well-being.