{"id":5644,"date":"2020-07-31T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2020-08-01T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:30:27","slug":"joke-of-the-day-should-we-ask-the-usa-to-prepare-a-caesar-act-for-mr-trudeaus-family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/joke-of-the-day-should-we-ask-the-usa-to-prepare-a-caesar-act-for-mr-trudeaus-family-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the day: Should we ask the USA to prepare a \u201cCaesar Act\u201d for Mr. Trudeau\u2019s family and friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse-1024x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5645\" width=\"462\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse-1024x472.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse-1200x553.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TofuAltessse.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 85vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First, here is a serious article about the finances of Canada before the pandemic: <a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/opinion\/economic-recovery-requires-ottawa-to-change-direction\">https:\/\/financialpost.com\/opinion\/economic-recovery-requires-ottawa-to-change-direction<\/a> . Food for thought, even for Bambi who voted for this government the first time (like most of her voting life). However, she did not do so the second time. Contrary to many Canadian human beings, Bambi does learn from history sometimes ?. She is saying so without even thinking if the other alternatives to Mr. Trudeau would be better or not. Perhaps the same. Perhaps worse (although hard to believe). It all comes down to the personal responsibility of each politician (or citizen in life), regardless of his\/her party, to be decent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the following post is meant for Bambi\u2019s pure pleasure. It is mainly made of jokes to have fun on this sunny last day of the month of July that she usually likes particularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the story: For some entertainment (even is she has never watched any Netflix movie in her life yet, even during this pandemic), Bambi took the time to carefully listen to our PM and his Chief staff, Ms. Katie Telford, when they testified before the House of Commons finance committee. Of course, she equipped herself with a fresh coffee and a piece of cake before ?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cpac\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"c7IuAB5UmF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/house-portal\/\">House Portal<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;House Portal&#8221; &#8212; CPAC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/house-portal\/embed\/#?secret=c7IuAB5UmF\" data-secret=\"c7IuAB5UmF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, it was amazing to observe all the hard work of\neveryone involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi found herself interested in the human side of our MPs. The pandemic has allowed us to see the humanity in official meetings (e.g., dogs barking, cats or kids jumping, etc.). We did not see any pet, make no mistake. This is too serious. However, we could see that some MPs had guitars in their offices. Others had pictures of their kids, etc. Mr. Trudeau seems to have status of knights on horses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being said, Bambi appreciated the GREAT\nquestions. Perhaps the BEST ones came from Mr. Pierre Poili\u00e8vre. The more she\nobserves him, the more she finds him competent. Well, too bad he is neither our\nPM nor the Leader of his party ?.\nAs a PM, he would be perhaps competent and he is perfectly bilingual, Bambi fantasized\nwhilst listening to his spicy interactions with Mr. Trudeau. Seriously now,\nBambi appreciates his clear AND short questions. He even makes the job easier on\nthe PM by literally telling him what is expected in the answer, simply yes or\nno ?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Bambi liked the questions and comments of ALL the other members from ALL parties, including the Liberal Party (of course biased toward Mr. Trudeau\u2026 and we are not just talking about \u201cunconscious bias\u201d here ?). For instance, there were good questions and comments from Mr. Fortier, Mr. Angus, Mr. Cooper, Ms. May (who asked one and only but great question). Bambi cannot recall the names of every person. She just remembers that the Chair\u2019s name may be Mr. Wayne Easter (Liberal party, one must say, which seems odd to her but perhaps this is how it is usually done). Anyhow, he seemed fair to Bambi with regard to time management. He seems to be a pleasant politician too. He was even funny at times despite the seriousness of this exercise of democracy and justice. Bambi enjoyed the teasing moments with Mr. Poilievre. The latter can be funny too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point, something odd happened (or not too funny\ngiven the touchy moment): Mr. Easter went offline. Power outage at his end\n(thunderstorm, it seems). Bambi could not help not to joke in her mind saying: Too\nbad this Chair is not located in Lebanon, he would have had a UPS for his computer\nor a generator ?\n(seriously, this is how Lebanese families have done it during and post-civil\nwar). Anyhow, the Vice-Chair took over and did a good job, not wasting more\ntime (Mr. Trudeau stayed for perhaps about 90 minutes only). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite all the great DIRECT questions, Mr. Trudeau was as vague as ever. He wants us to believe him that he did not know at which hotel his spouse stayed in London in March, 2020. His own mother was with her. Didn\u2019t he have any conversation about the trip with her neither? Come on (both were at a <em>WE Day<\/em> in London when the pandemic was beginning to tour the world. For the record, Canada was still in denial back then, especially at its airports). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, assuming the Trudeau family truly does not have the\ntime to communicate, our PM knew he was coming to a committee inquiring about\ndollar figures and dates. Yet, he did not do his math homework ahead of the exam.\nNot very impressive, to say the least. Mr. Blanchet had a funnier way to describe\nthis testimony on <em>ICI RDI<\/em>. He referred to it as \u201ca <em>tasteless tofu<\/em>\u201d\n?. OK, except for a date him and his\nChief Staff seems to agree on (May, 8), we did not get much information from\nMr. Trudeau. However, this May 8 date does not make any sense with the other\ndates about this program (contradictions). Who launches a program before\napproving it? Very weird all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One more thing about Mr. Trudeau, he wants Bambi and her fellow human Canadians to believe that he did not know the Kielberger brothers (the <em>WE charity Bosses<\/em>). He has never seen them in person (only on stages of WE days), he insisted. OK maybe this  one is part of the truth, even if Bambi found an old picture online taken in a school (see further below. It is followed by a video of him calling those two brothers \u201cour friends\u201d in front of thousands of youth (1:44 minutes from the start )\u2026but this does not mean anything. Perhaps he meant it as an Arab guy calling a pure stranger encountered on the street \u201chabibi\u201d (= my love or lover) ?. Sometimes, strangers may get mad at each other (e.g., traffic or other). Then, they call each other \u201chabibi\u201d with a friendly tap on the shoulder (pre-pandemic times, for sure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, Mr. Trudeau seemed to want us to believe\nthat he saw the conflict of interest and \u201c<em>tried to push back<\/em>\u201d but it was\nlike the fault of the public servants. \u201c<em>They picked the WE Charity. It was a\nbinary choice: WE or nothing\u201d<\/em>. Wow. Very logical ?. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi is sure that he did not mean it that way but\u2026 still, he seemed ungrateful to the HARD\/devoted work of our public servants. He said so instead of taking responsibility for his third violation of the same Conflict of Interest Act (Mr. Poili\u00e8vre challenged him well on this with some sarcastic humour even ?). He apologized but this time no tear was shed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Mr. Trudeau ends up resigning (as the <em>Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em> is asking and as they should, him and Mr. Morneau), perhaps he can aim for a career in psychology ?. Indeed, he kept using terms like \u201c<em>perception<\/em>\u201d (of corruption or cronyism?) and \u201c<em>appearance of favouritism<\/em>\u201d. Of course, all this without providing us with evidence-based data (numbers, dates, content) to correct this misconception. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, pandemic or not, it is hard to understand all the relationships of <em>WE Charity<\/em> with our government and many of our industries (now breaking ties with it). Did the <em>WE group<\/em> contribute to build Mr. Trudeau\u2019s \u201ccool\u201d image over the years, making him more appealing to younger ones (<a href=\"https:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2020\/07\/03\/timeline-trudeaus-ties-to-we-are-as-old-as-his-political-career\/\">https:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2020\/07\/03\/timeline-trudeaus-ties-to-we-are-as-old-as-his-political-career\/<\/a>)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does Mr. Trudeau feel the need to help them because they helped him. What are friends for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could both Mr. Morneau and Mr. Trudeau be so careless\nwith public funds by choosing an apparently bankrupt (or shell to use a term\nused the MPs) stakeholder to manage the program? Does that make any sense? Is\nthis fair to taxpayers and to youth (so dear to Mr. Trudeau\u2019s heart)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, Bambi is still confused: what is the real final value of the program? $912 millions? Just $550 millions? Or $300 millions? Too bad this was not addressed, unless Bambi missed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Angus (<em>NDP<\/em> Party) seems to be offended by\nthe less than minimum wage payment to student volunteers\u2026 but since when we pay\nvolunteers? All this does not make sense to Bambi\u2019s mind, in all honesty. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being said, bravo and thank you to Ms. Telford\nfor her courage and efforts of telling the truth. Despite being limited in what\nshe wanted to say (or could say?), she has been much clearer, and more\ncollaborative than Mr. Trudeau\u2019s \u201c<em>tasteless tofu<\/em>\u201d (luckily Bambi is a\nmeat lover ?).\nSeriously, Ms. Telford also seems to be a hard worker. Not easy to do her job\nin a pandemic and now with another ethical saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the committee, we learned that Mr. Poili\u00e8vre\u2019s\nmotion to get to the bottom of the needed information passed. This happened\ndespite the Liberal MPs vote against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post by linking it to its title, you may wonder what is the <em>Caesar Act<\/em>? This is a US legislation that imposes sanctions on Mr. Assad\u2019s extended family members and friends (wife, cousins, now 18-year-old son, friends in Syria and eventually in Lebanon, companies, etc.), supposedly to protect Syrian civilians from corruption (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/syria-caesar-act-designations\/\">https:\/\/www.state.gov\/syria-caesar-act-designations\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/us-imposes-sanctions-teenage-son-syrian-leader-assad-153450051.html\">https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/us-imposes-sanctions-teenage-son-syrian-leader-assad-153450051.html<\/a>). At the end of Mr. Trudeau\u2019s testimony, Bambi had a funny thought in her mind: How about a Canadian version of<em> the Caesar Act ?<\/em>? Of course, he is not Mr. Assad and we are not Syria, thank goodness\u2026 but perhaps a Canadian Cesar Act can help the House Finance Committee get to the bottom of this story and stop the conflict of interest ?. Obviously, as per this post&#8217;s title, that was a joke, hoping you have a deer\u2019s sense of humour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5646\" width=\"496\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/KielbergerTrudeau.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 85vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Prime Minister Trudeau urges 16,000 youths to &#039;change the world&#039;\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvv5JlWS23Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, here is a serious article about the finances of Canada before the pandemic: https:\/\/financialpost.com\/opinion\/economic-recovery-requires-ottawa-to-change-direction . 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