The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 107

The International News Weekly Canada
August 16, 2019 | Toronto
03
Wow!!! A GREAT turnout this weekend at Bolton Midnight Madness!!
Bolton was packed with joyful residents and the streets were filled with lots of food, music and games for everyone! BIA also
known as Business Improvement Area of downtown Bolton, had their very own booth. They gave back to Bolton residents with many
awesome prizes. Bolton’s very own Regional Councilor, Annette Groves won one of the many prizes!!! Jotvinder Sodhi, Verona Teskey
congratulate Tony Rosa Councilor& Annete Groves Regional Councilor for organizing such a wonderful event!!
Director of BIA Bolton and community advocate;
Jotvinder Sodhi along with Verona Teskey and
Shirley Hoppler giving Regional Councilor, Annette
Groves a prize.
Bolton Resident receiving prize
Streets of Bolton filled with residents enjoying the Midnight
Madness in Downtown Bolton.
Ethics boss Dion’s professional lifetime
spent trying to make government work
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA : Mario Dion’s
appointment as ethics
commissioner in 2017 was
slammed by opposition
MPs as “just ragingly incompetent
and frustrating
and cynical.”
How can we trust you,
they thundered. We weren’t
consulted before you were
hired. Your history in the
civil service is checkered.
“Are you tough, are you
fair, are you a dog with a
bone?” NDP MP Nathan
Cullen asked Dion at a hastily-convened
committee to
review the appointment.
While opposition parties
may not have trusted
the appointment, they certainly
didn’t hesitate this
week to trust the damning
report Dion has now released
on Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau.
In a withering review
released Wednesday, Dion
concluded the prime minister
broke ethics law when
he pressured Jody Wilson-
Raybould, who was attorney
general at the time, to
halt the criminal prosecution
of Montreal firm SNC-
Lavalin. The firm is facing
bribery charges related to
its overseas work.
Dion is not granting interviews
at this time, his office
said, noting the report
speaks for itself.
Speak it does. Sixtythree
pages ripping apart
the way Trudeau and his
team went to bat for the engineering
giant in a bid to
Peel Regional Police Issue Warning
Over Debit Card Fraud In Taxi Cabs
Region of Peel– Investigators
from the Peel Regional
Police Fraud Bureau
have arrested and charged
three men in relation to debit
card fraud in taxis.
Fraud Bureau Officers
have investigated several
cases of debit card fraud
targeting taxi riders in the
GTA. The victims reported
providing their debit card
for payment, which is then
switched with a previously
compromised and maxed
out debit card from the
same bank belonging to another
victim. The victims
only realized their card was
switched and belonged to
someone else once they exited
the taxi. All taxis involved
in the incidents were flagged
down and not dispatched.
On Friday, August 9,
2019, Mohsin Chaudhary,
a 24 year-old man, was
charged with six counts of
Fraud Under $5,000.00, seven
counts of Possess Credit
Card Data and seven counts
of Possession of Property
Obtained by Crime.
Muhammad Khan, a 20
year-old man, was charged
with Fraud under $5,000
and Possession of Property
Obtained by Crime. ShaisEjaz,
a 22 year-old man, was
charged with Fraud Under
$5,000. All three men will appear
at the Ontario Court of
Justice in Brampton to answer
to the charges.
Investigators suggest
that users of taxi cabs always
keep their debit card
in their possession and note
down the taxi number and
company.
Anyone with information
is asked to contact the
Fraud Bureau at (905) 453–
2121, ext. 3335.
protect it from prosecution
and in turn potential financial
and political fallout.
Trudeau has said he
disagrees with some of the
findings, but accepts responsibility.
It’s a response
that may or may not resonate
with the 62-year-old
Dion, who described his
view of the relationship between
his office and elected
officials in a speech at York
University last year.
“Public officials and
ethics commissioners are
not adversaries,” he said.
“They must work together
to uphold the highest
standards of integrity
in support of the effective
functioning of democracy
in Canada.”
Dion joined the civil
service in the 1980s in the
Justice department, moving
up to a succession of top
jobs in three arms-length
government agencies: the
Ottawa: Canada's ethics
watchdog slammed Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau
on Wednesday, concluding
in the lead-up October elections
that he broke rules by
arm-twisting his attorney
general to settle a criminal
case against engineering giant
SNC-Lavalin.
The scandal, revealed
earlier this year, tarnished
the prime minister's golden
boy image, cost two ministers
and two senior officials
their jobs and plunged his
Liberals into a dead heat
Parole Board, the Commissioner
of Public Integrity
and the Immigration and
Refugee Board.
Those appointments
came from both Liberal and
Conservative governments,
a fact he took pains to point
out when his appointment
to the ethics job was questioned.
The Liberals had
promised to consult before
filling the post, but instead
just informed the other parties
that Dion was going to
be the one. That, coupled
with an auditor general’s
report finding “gross mismanagement”
in the handling
of two files under
Dion’s watch as the Commissioner
of Public Integrity,
saw some MPs question
whether he was the right fit
for the ethics post.
There were also concerns
he wouldn’t follow
through with investigations
already underway
with the opposition Conservatives
in the polls.
Independent parliamentary
ethics commissioner
Mario Dion said Trudeau
and his officials had wrongly
sought to "exert influence
over the attorney general in
her decision whether to intervene
in a matter relating
to a criminal prosecution."
Trudeau must pay a
small fine of up to Can$500
(US$375) for contravening
Canada's conflict of interest
act, but with only two
months before national
when he took over. He was
non-committal about them
when asked, saying he
wanted to review the work
himself. He later said he
would continue them all.
That response may
have reflected his earliest
education: he was trained
as a lawyer in Quebec,
where codified laws guide
decision making, not past
decisions as in the common
law system. So, he told the
York University audience
in 2018, he tends to focus
first on what the law says,
not how it was applied in
the past.
“I believe that rigour on
the part of my office is very
important,” he said.
“We expect rigour from
public office holders and
members in meeting their
obligations, and we exercise
rigour in reviewing
how they are meeting their
obligations.”
Canada's Trudeau rebuked
on ethics ahead of election
elections the political costs
could be much steeper.
Trudeau had steadfastly
denied accusations that his
inner circle sought to shield
SNC-Lavalin from a corruption
trial.
The Montreal-based
firm was charged in 2015
with allegedly paying
bribes to secure contracts
in Libya.
Attorney general Jody
Wilson-Raybould refused to
ask prosecutors to settle the
case, and the trial is set to
proceed.