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What do federal ministers Patty Hajdu, Harjit Sajjan, Bill Blair and Steven Guilbeault have in common? All should be on the back benches earning a grunt’s pay, not taking car and driver to the ministerial buffet.
Everywhere you look, ministerial incompetence abounds: Blair can’t keep the border shut to variants or make quarantine operational, Guilbeault didn’t appear to know what was in his department’s internet censorship bill when he trying to defend it, Sajjan is lying about what the military ombudsman told him regarding former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance and after 15 months of pandemic hell, Hajdu is showing no mastery of fire, only a propensity to get burned.
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What do federal ministers Patty Hajdu, Harjit Sajjan, Bill Blair and Steven Guilbeault have in common? All should be on the back benches earning a gruntâs pay, not taking car and driver to the ministerial buffet.
Everywhere you look, ministerial incompetence abounds: Blair canât keep the border shut to variants or make quarantine operational, Guilbeault didnât appear to know what was in his departmentâs internet censorship bill when he trying to defend it, Sajjan is lying about what the military ombudsman told him regarding former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance and after 15 months of pandemic hell, Hajdu is showing no mastery of fire, only a propensity to get burned.
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What do federal ministers Patty Hajdu, Harjit Sajjan, Bill Blair and Steven Guilbeault have in common? All should be lingering on the back benches earning a gruntâs pay, not taking car and driver to the ministerial buffet.
Everywhere you look, ministerial incompetence abounds: Blair canât keep the border shut to variants, or make quarantine operational; Guilbeault didnât appear to know what was in his departmentâs dangerous internet censorship bill when he trying to defend it (the government has since retreated); Sajjan is lying about what the military ombudsman told him regarding former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance; and, after 15 months of pandemic hell, Hajdu is showing no mastery of fire, only a propensity to get burned.
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What do federal ministers Patty Hajdu, Harjit Sajjan, Bill Blair and Steven Guilbeault have in common? All should be lingering on the back benches earning a gruntâs pay, not taking car and driver to the ministerial buffet.
Everywhere you look, ministerial incompetence abounds: Blair canât keep the border shut to variants, or make quarantine operational; Guilbeault didnât appear to know what was in his departmentâs dangerous internet censorship bill when he trying to defend it (the government has since retreated); Sajjan is lying about what the military ombudsman told him regarding former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance; and, after 15 months of pandemic hell, Hajdu is showing no mastery of fire, only a propensity to get burned.
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Matthew Fisher, who has died aged 66, was a Canadian war correspondent from a bygone era, a globetrotting solo reporter of no fixed address who witnessed the greatest and most dire news events of the last half century, from the fall of communism through the campaigns against al-Qaeda and ISIS.
He died of liver failure after a short illness in Ottawa on Saturday, according to his brother, Tobias Fisher.
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He had a knack, something between coincidence and luck, for being in the right place at the right time, from a journalist’s perspective. He was on vacation in Los Angeles in 1989 when freeways collapsed in an earthquake, and on vacation in India in 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. He was in Washington, in a hotel near the Pentagon, when it was hit by a plane in the 9/11 terr