Plandemic spending: The US was much more transparent when it came to taxpayers’ money

BY MICHAEL THOMAS

How does a government spend over $40,000,000 an hour from March to December of 2020 and counting, yet refuse to be transparent when asked on whom and how much money was spent?

Justin Trudeau once assured Canadians that if he got into office, he would be honest and transparent. Has his regime lived up to that promise? Let us find out.

Around $240 billion was handed out during the first eight months of the plandemic, and even though the government has revealed estimates of the net fiscal impact, for the more than 100 programs it has launched since the plandemic began, it has not been forthcoming when it comes to Individuals, companies nor groups that have received this money.

Back in 2020, before Trudeau’s famous speech on how he paid mainstream media to give him a pass, CBC had this to say about the lack of transparency in his government, “Some departments have fought CBC’s attempts to get that information tooth and nail — even though some publicly traded companies have voluntarily disclosed the same information through their TSX filings.”

It is important to note here that this quote was in connection to the government denying them (CBC) ‘ the financial data on how this Pandemic money was spent.

Again, back then the House of Commons committees that normally would probe government spending were distracted twice: first by a move to prorogue Parliament in August of that year, and then by Liberal filibusters.

When Chrystia Freeland was questioned by the opposition concerning the Plandemic spending spree, here is what she said. “Now is the time for us to focus on what we can do going forward to save Canadian lives and to preserve the Canadian economy. There will be a time for post-mortems, but while the plane is flying, one does not try to change the engine.”

It has been over three years since, and Canadians are still wondering if this plane Freeland talked about is still flying, because that engine desperately needs changing ASAP.

The last time Canadians tried changing that malfunctioning engine they were lied to by mainstream media, beaten up by special police, their bank accounts were frozen, and both pilot and co-pilot Justin and Freeland called a case of national emergency. Canadians are now asking, when is it a good time to change this broken, expired, and overpriced engine, Captain Freeland?

Export Development Canada refused to hand over the information through the Access to Information Act, holding on to a clause in the Export Development Act, which says that “All information obtained by the Corporation in relation to its customers is privileged.”

The hypocrisy of this government in the face of Canadians is like bad breath. They invoke clauses to protect so-called companies that they gave the taxpayer’s money to, yet they find ways around banking privacy laws to seize and freeze citizens’ bank accounts here in Canada. Canadians, is this democratic, or totalitarian?

This same type of information is posted on the US government website for all and any US citizens to see, you can pick any state in the US, and see how much money was granted and to whom.

The big question here is, could the Liberal government be hiding something? Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page was asked why the secrecy, and he answered, “There is no reason why we should not see that level of transparency. I think there should be pressure on the government. The US was much more transparent when it came to taxpayers’ money. We can do better. I think it’s important that we highlight that type of information.”

According to the federal government, Canadians are looking at a trillion-dollar debt, yet this government which participated in getting Canadians there, is blatantly concealing the facts from its citizens about on whom their hard-earned money was spent, and how much.

Canadians deserve a lot better.