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Methinks everybody knows Gerald Butts doesn't hold a candle to me within Twitter N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-gerald-buttss-combative-use-of.html


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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gerald-butts-twitter-principal-secretary-snc-lavalin-1.5026228


 

How Gerald Butts's combative use of Twitter brought him out of the shadows

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dave-dingwall-information-morning-1.3307172

18 years later after he lost re-election, Dingwall looks back on political life
CBC News · Posted: Nov 09, 2015 7:00 AM AT

2. On Lying

Sutherland: "Is it ever OK to tell a lie?"

Dingwall: "Of course!"

9. On saying, 'I'm entitled to my entitlements'

"These guys were trying to deny me — and most important, my wife — of a pension. There are certain legal rights that you have as an individual, and when they're trying to take those things away … that's why I said what I said.

"It was an arrow which was going straight through to the prime minister of the day, to the clerk of the privy council of the day, opposition parties, anyone that wanted to listen … that I was going to get what I was entitled to. Should I have said it differently? Perhaps. But I said it."










Methinks you should read what your hero just said about what his cohorts said yesterday N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-snc-lavalin-privy-council-st-john-s-1.5029516

'Pay close heed' to words of top bureacrat on SNC-Lavalin affair, Trudeau says

"Wernick said he called Wilson-Raybould on Dec. 19, 2018, to discuss various issues — including the option of a remediation agreement.

During that call, Wernick said he spoke of the implications of prosecuting the company for employees, suppliers and communities. He said he told Wilson-Raybould that the prime minister and "a lot of her colleagues" were anxious about what they were hearing and reading in business media — articles warning that the company could close down or move if criminal proceedings went ahead."

"Wernick said Thursday he doesn't believe Wilson-Raybould is bound by solicitor-client privilege, but Trudeau said again on Friday that there are serious implications at play.

"This is something we do have to take very seriously because it's a fundamental part of our justice system and, indeed, in this case there are two ongoing court cases," he said.

Wilson-Raybould's successor, Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti, is reviewing the matter, but has offered no indication of when he could provide advice to the prime minister on privilege."










 
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Agree 100% on the omnibus bill thing.

This kind of law demonstrates the very worst aspects of "omnibus" budget implementation bills. Because it was buried so deep in the legislation it received only about half an hour of scrutiny at the very end of a 3+ hour Finance Committee meeting. The Conservative and NDP members of the committee were highly critical of the inclusion of this change as part of a budget implementation bill. They also brought up concerns that it could be used to let big corporations off with a "slap on the wrist". Of course they were overruled by the majority Liberals on the committee.

The timing of it is all highly suspect. DPA's only came into effect in Sept. 2018 and the SNC Lavalin case started being looked at in Oct. 2018.














 
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Methinks you should read what your hero just said about what his cohorts said yesterday N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-snc-lavalin-privy-council-st-john-s-1.5029516

'Pay close heed' to words of top bureacrat on SNC-Lavalin affair, Trudeau says

"Wernick said he called Wilson-Raybould on Dec. 19, 2018, to discuss various issues — including the option of a remediation agreement.

During that call, Wernick said he spoke of the implications of prosecuting the company for employees, suppliers and communities. He said he told Wilson-Raybould that the prime minister and "a lot of her colleagues" were anxious about what they were hearing and reading in business media — articles warning that the company could close down or move if criminal proceedings went ahead."

"Wernick said Thursday he doesn't believe Wilson-Raybould is bound by solicitor-client privilege, but Trudeau said again on Friday that there are serious implications at play.

"This is something we do have to take very seriously because it's a fundamental part of our justice system and, indeed, in this case there are two ongoing court cases," he said.

Wilson-Raybould's successor, Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti, is reviewing the matter, but has offered no indication of when he could provide advice to the prime minister on privilege."










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David Amos

How Gerald Butts's combative use of Twitter brought him out of the shadows

Traditional reticence of PM's ex-principal secretary melted in the glare of social media

Gerald Butts, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, takes part in a Parliament Hill meeting in 2016. After his resignation Monday, Butts tweeted, 'Thanks for the notes of encouragement ... I appreciate the love and support.' (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)



Key aides to a prime minister generally prefer to stay in the shadows, perhaps providing background information to Parliament Hill journalists, but rarely giving interviews or generating much of a public persona.

In some ways, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary Gerald Butts carried on that tradition, rarely quoted, speaking to journalists only on background.

But he was particularly outspoken on the social media site Twitter.

Butts, who resigned Monday in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin affair, garnered a reputation of being a prolific tweeter, never shy to express his opinions, or "personal views" as he referred to them.
He would promote and champion the Liberal Party and the prime minister's policy initiatives. But he would also defend the prime minister, sometimes lash out at critics, take partisan swipes at the Conservatives and engage in Twitter spats with politicians and journalists.

Even before Trudeau became prime minister in 2015, Butts was a presence on Twitter. In that year's election campaign, Butts went after one of his favourite targets, news media company Postmedia, over their articles about Trudeau's insistence that all new Liberal candidates must be pro-choice on abortion.






But after Trudeau became prime minister, Butts's criticism about the media company continued:




Sometimes in a more cheeky manner:




Butts would also tangle with journalists, as he did over a Vogue photo shoot of him and his wife Jodi Butts:





Or critiques of Trudeau's availability to the media:






In 2018, when the Liberals announced tax incentives for the news industry, some journalists expressed concerns about what they might mean for journalistic independence.




He certainly wasn't above scolding the media.




Here, he made a veiled critique of Canadian media for following stories on Russian websites raising questions about the grandfather of Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and his ties to the Nazis.





He also went after the Globe and Mail in 2016 over an editorial about questions surrounding the birthplace of Liberal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef, comparing the article to the birther movement that falsely claimed former U.S. president Barack Obama was not born in the U.S.






Which sparked its own backlash with some journalists.




Butts would also tangle with politicians. Conservative MP Erin O'Toole was a regular opponent.




So was Alberta's United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney.




Former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall, as well, got into an exchange over his survey about pipeline politics.



Butts would also get involved in Twitter skirmishes with policy analysts. In February 2016, he debated with experts over the Liberals' ant-ISIS plan.







Twitter was also a tool to launch defences of his boss. He slammed critics who ridiculed Trudeau for using the term peoplekind instead of mankind during a town hall in Edmonton.
Although Trudeau later brushed it off as a "dumb joke," Butts would take a step further, suggesting those who were so offended by the term were alt-right Nazi sympathizers.







Butts regularly employed the alt-right characterization, and he used it again to label those he felt were prejudiced against asylum seekers.








That led to this exchange with Toronto Sun editor emeritus and columnist Lorrie Goldstein:




Naturally, the federal Tories were constant target. Whether it was the previous Harper government:







Or the current Conservative party:





Indeed, the former CEO of the World Wildlife Federation's Canadian office made his political opponents' climate change policies, or the lack thereof, a consistent topic.







It may be fitting that Butts, shortly after his resignation, used the forum to post his resignation letter and thank those who offered notes of encouragement.






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