MAKICHUK: Canada's 'Maserati Marxist' and other outrages to piss you off on Christmas

Merry Christmas, we are all being screwed over, so might as well hit the liquor store

The man who destroyed Canada — Justin Trudeau. CBC screengrab

So there he was, head of the federal NDP party.

Driving up to the Hill, to finally do some business (they are out more than they are in session, these lazy MP swines).

Jagmeet Singh — the man who represents the working man throughout Canada, and, I guess the world.

Arriving in his spanking new Maserati SUV, his bespoke suit (like James Bond & Savile Row), and … and shiny Rolex watch.

The latter go for about $10,000 CDN.

Hardly anything, a Canadian working man can afford. LOL!

Where did it all go wrong, Lord. Where did it all go wrong.

The arrival, as it is known, caused much mirth in the House, with the Opposition labelling him (and rightly so), “The Maserati Marxist!”

Talk about your Woody Allen “sham of a mockery of two shams.”

Can’t image Jack Layton doing anything so stupid. My God.

Ben Mulroney recently discussed this on his evening CORUS radio show, adding a funny story.

It seems Jean Chretien, known for the famous Shawinigan handshake, was very aware of public perception of his MPs.

So then, he ordered a gaggle of brand new minivans! No way was he going to see his party pull up in big, long and black limousines. Not gonna happen.

And guess what, it worked! Transportation would not be an issue during Big Jean’s reign.

So, here we go. You may begin projectile vomiting now:

The ArriveCan app was developed to collect health information related to the COVID-19 response. However, the app also included the digitization of customs and immigration declarations, which had previously been paper-based.

Auditor General Karen Hogan estimates that the project cost $59.5 million CDN. The report notes that the final cost is difficult to determine due to poor financial record-keeping by the CBSA.

The two owners of the IT firm made up to $2.7 million for doing nothing more than hiring the team that helped build ArriveCan.

“I think the $9 million we charged was value for money. (The team) never missed a deadline and they completed all their tasks and deliverables,” GC Strategies managing partner Kristian Firth told a Parliamentary committee.

Though he couldn’t say exactly how much he and partner Darren Anthony — the firm’s only two employees — made, he said they would have charged Ottawa the industry standard commission, which is 15 to 30 per cent.

No charges have ever been laid over the ballooning costs to taxpayers. And whenever they are asked about it, they scurry and hide, like rats.

Now we go to Ontario, where the federal and Ontario governments have promised to give Stellantis-LG Energy Solutions and Volkswagen $28.2 billion to subsidize new electric vehicle battery plants.

Well, guess what, electric vehicle sales have plummeted — the world isn’t really ready for them no matter what the Green Grinches in the PMO say — and Donald Trump is president elect.

Trump has promised to smash the electric car industry into pieces.

Also, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, it’s going to take them 20 years to break even, far more than the government’s guess of 3.3 years.

If this estimate anywhere near accurate, it would make these subsidies a catastrophically bad investment. Repeat, “catastrophically bad.”

Still standing? There’s more.

In June the Auditor General of Canada found that Justin Trudeau turned Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) into a “green” slush fund for Liberal insiders.

This follows a secret recording of a senior civil servant who slammed the “outright incompetence” of the Trudeau government, calling the SDTC’s actions “a sponsorship-scandal level kind of giveaway.”

According to Conservative sources, the Auditor General found that the SDTC had “awarded funding to projects that were ineligible, [and where] conflicts of interest existed.”

In total, $123 million worth of contracts were found to have been given inappropriately, with $59 million being given to projects that never should have been awarded any money at all.

On top of this, the AG discovered that conflicts of interests were connected to approval decisions. As a consequence of this, nearly $76 million of funding was awarded to projects where there was a connection to the Liberal’s friends appointed to roles within SDTC.

In fact, the AG discovered that long-established conflict of interest policies were not followed in 90 cases. In one instance, Trudeau’s handpicked SDTC chair siphoned off $217,000 to her own company.

The AG made it clear that the blame for this scandal lies directly at the feet of Trudeau’s Industry Minister, Francois-Phillipe Champagne, who “did not sufficiently monitor” the contracts that were being awarded to Liberal insiders. Champagne utterly failed in his duty to protect the Canadian taxpayer.

And while the RCMP are “investigating it,” don’t count on anything happening folks. The Mounties always find “nothing,” and the whole thing gets buried.

The Yellow Stripes are either the most incompetent police force on earth, or … maybe they just don’t wanna go there? LOL!

Let’s face it, they never lay charges — except against patriotic Canadian protesters. The RCMP are useless.

The last time they did, was against against former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney over the Airbus scandal, and he struck back like a viper — he hit the Mounties so hard, they caved like little girls.

When it comes to Trudeau scandals, it really is a buffet of choices — the scandal du jour.

From foreign interference — where Trudeau had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a public inquiry — to the WE Charity mess, to SNC-Lavalin, to cash for access, to the Aga Khan affair and more.

It really is unending.

As Toronto Sun columnist Laurie Goldstein has written, the Liberal response is always the same.

Deny, deny, deny and stall, stall, stall.

What was once a great country, is now shit.

Mr. Trudeau also helped foster the era of routine leniency for politicians guilty of misconduct.

According to the Financial Post, the most recent and unsettling case study involves former Liberal employment minister, Randy Boissonnault.

Boissonnault co-founded a medical supply business that secured government contracts while he was still in office — an indisputable conflict of interest.

Despite being caught red-handed, Boissonnault went on to mislead various parliamentary committees and media outlets about his continued involvement with the company — which falsely, like him, claimed Indigenous status.

Nothing more than a crook in Liberal clothing.

Fortunately for Boissonnault, and despite his highly unlawful conduct, his status as a Trudeau insider allowed him to hold onto his cushy six-figure cabinet gig, at least until public protests became inexorable.

If a similar scenario happened in the private sector, it is almost certain that it would have ended up with a nice stay in the Crowbar Hotel.

And so my friends, Merry Christmas, get thee to the nearest liquor store to save a few pennies in Trudeau’s GST holiday.

And let’s all hope Canadian voters give Justin & Co. a nice, long, holiday. One which they very much deserve.