Juno News - February 07, 2025


Global Affairs Canada caught trying to hide wasteful spending

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2 minutes

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139.72

Word count

418

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29

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A story breaking overnight and uncovered by the internet exposes one thing, that our government is lying to us. They are taxing Canadians, they re taking more and more of our hard earned money away, and they re wasting it on programs that are patently ridiculous and woke, even for this liberal government. And of course, as soon as Canadians start to notice this ridiculous waste, the government tries to back down, try to hide their scandal spending, and try to lie about what it is that they found. Well, not so fast because we are onto them.

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00:00:00.000 I just have to tell you about this unbelievable story that is breaking overnight and has been
00:00:06.680 uncovered by the many, many wonderful people on the internet that exposes one thing, that our
00:00:12.280 government is lying to us. So they're taxing Canadians, they're taxing more than ever,
00:00:18.060 taking more and more of our hard-earned money away, and they're wasting it on programs that 0.78
00:00:23.600 are patently ridiculous and woke and absurd even for this liberal government. And of course, as 0.75
00:00:31.660 soon as Canadians start to notice this ridiculous waste, the government tries to back down, try to
00:00:37.400 hide their scandal spending and try to lie about what it is that they found. Well, not so fast
00:00:43.480 because we are onto them. So here's what happened. It started when Conservative MP and from Calgary
00:00:50.060 of Majumdar, posted the following on X. This happened yesterday afternoon at around 149 Eastern
00:00:56.480 on Thursday. And he wrote this, NDP liberals have wiped Global Affairs Canada's project database
00:01:03.880 clean, hiding where your taxpayer dollars are going. What was once public is now erased. No
00:01:11.320 transparency, no accountability. Really, truly unbelievable. And so to that tweet, I asked the
00:01:18.640 following question. I said, what kind of crazy, woke nonsense are they funding and trying to 0.67
00:01:26.960 hide? Well, at 2.10 p.m. yesterday, our friends over at Canada Proud posted this story as news.
00:01:34.760 This is what they wrote. Breaking. Global Affairs Canada has suddenly wiped their entire public
00:01:41.180 database of foreign aid spending, and the data is no longer available to the public. This is a big
00:01:48.760 deal, folks. This is a big story. So two hours later, two hours after Canada Proud posted that,
00:01:55.740 two hours, two and a half hours after Shubma Jamdar posted on X, this is at 4 19 p.m. Eastern
00:02:02.500 yesterday, Development Canada, which is the Department of Global Affairs Canada's X account
00:02:09.120 dedicated to international development.
00:02:12.600 Well, this is what they posted to try to clarify the matters.
00:02:15.640 They wrote, Global Affairs Canada's project browser
00:02:19.400 is currently experiencing technical difficulties
00:02:22.680 and we are working to resolve this issue.
00:02:25.680 The claims that it was taken down on purpose are false.
00:02:30.940 Okay, convenient timing, wouldn't you say?
00:02:34.240 At a time when Elon Musk is exposing the absolute rot
00:02:38.880 and ideological radicalism of the programs over at USAID, suddenly the Canadian equivalent just
00:02:47.480 happens to have technical difficulties and their website is down. And this is when everything
00:02:53.440 starts to backfire on the Canadian government and its woke department of global affairs.