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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

3 months

We are absolutely headed for a notwithstanding clause debate over criminal sentencing legislation in the next decade. And, if done right, it will be the most popular use of the Clause ever.

Toronto Sun

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3 months

Pig-farm serial killer Robert Pickton can apply for day parole on Thursday Via @HunterTOSun

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

There’s something about this tweet that’s been bugging me all day, and it’s not the author. What follows will be a slight exercise of the blue collar chip on my shoulder. 1/11

Gerald Butts

@gmbutts

3 years

Does this breakfast come with a defibrillator on the side?

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

A church in Red Deer can’t get Canada Summer Jobs funding if the pastor mentions abortion. But UNRWA can have scores of employees participate in, aid and abet terrorist activities and get $25 Million from the 🇨🇦 government. Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your values.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

*cracks knuckles* Okay, we’re gonna deal with this one. First, you cannot ask law-abiding citizens, who are not engaged in risky behaviour to compensate for a responsibility that belongs to law enforcement. 1/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

It might be the only reward they get. They earned it. But your derision? They didn’t earn that. 11/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

So, no, that meal doesn’t come with a defibrillator. Any more than condescending elitism comes with a cravate. But thousands of workers eat it every Friday morning. After a week of nights making your chocolates or your HVAC system. 10/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

11 months

The first time the House of Commons voted in favour of inquiry was April (only the Liberals dissented). Only the Liberals in Cabinet can call an Inquiry. It’s July now. The idea that anyone else is holding up an inquiry requires you to ignore…literally all the facts.

National Post

@nationalpost

11 months

Trudeau accuses Conservatives of blocking consensus on foreign interference inquiry

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

that’s why I hate that tweet. It’s not the “you don’t understand inflation”, it’s the eye-rolling derision directed at the meal itself. Do a week of nights on the factory floor, know that you have a weekend to reset your entire sleep schedule, and then look down on that meal.7/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

For most of us, even me (and remember, I couldn’t actually eat it, allergies suck), it was one of the only restaurant meals we could afford and the only real sense of community we got. 8/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

We are a G7 country that, in three provinces now (Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario) can no longer claim satisfactory control of its own border. Convince me this isn’t a federal emergency, I’ll wait…

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Will say it again. In the next decade, we will see a ruthless set of criminal justice reforms. It will have the Notwithstanding Clause on it. It will piss off all the right elites. And it will be stupidly popular. Because you should leave your 🔑 by the front door. 7/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

Because it was a filling meal, and wherever you went, it was usually inexpensive. You could get a plate like this usually for less than $10. Never more than $12. The places that served it range from a Denny’s to community staple greasy spoons and 50s theme diners. 5/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

That shatters any notion of the social contract between the law abiding and law enforcement. A huge societal problem. Second, think about this from an insurance perspective. A law enforcement representative is now suggesting you make it easier to steal your car. 2/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

Why did it matter that it was cheap? Everyone at that table made between $11 and $17 an hour (it was 2010). That meal was an hour’s wages. I bet you for most people now doing that Friday ritual, it’s more expensive than that and climbing. 6/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

More than half of my coworkers were temps, many of them we didn’t know would be there at the end of our next Friday night shift. That’s still true in way too many workplaces. Some of them we had worked with for months. 9/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

This meal looks like what we all ate on those Friday mornings (not me, because of the egg allergy). But look down the table you would see plates like this. It was everyone else. Why? 4/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

8 months

This is in no way a Speaker’s job. The Speaker’s only job is to empower the House to exercise its constitutional duties, which include legislative branch holding the executive to account. That’s it.

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

8 months

#Opinion He’ll have to rein in Pierre Poilievre — and that’s just the start of Greg Fergus’s new job #cdnpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

I used to work the line at a factory on one week turnarounds . That means nights one week, days the next and afternoons were the final week of the cycle. The final night shift of the week started at 11pm Thursday and would end at 7am Friday 2/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

“Go. For the love of God, man, go. There is no service you can provide, there is no explanation you can give that can save the absolute mess that you have found yourself in.”

HEIMPEL: Mr. Johnston, it's time to go

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Also, the fact that the Port of Montreal is now understood outside of just law enforcement circles to be the beating heart of this operation is such a black eye for the RCMP, CBSA and the federal government that it’s almost not worth getting into. But, holy hell, folks… 6/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

At the end of that last shift, the lines would go out for breakfast together. Your production crew was probably 6-10 people. You usually worked with the same people, though temp agencies screwed this up a bit 3/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

That’s a sure fire way to make driving more expensive for everyone. But also, it shifts the cost of criminality to consumers. Which is sure to be popular. All this advice does is encourage me to buy stock in door bell cameras and bollard manufacturers. 3/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

There’s a sizeable portion of TruAnon Twitter today that is more comfortable with you believing last night’s statement from the PRC Embassy in Ottawa, than believing Michael Chong’s statement in the House of Commons. Really think about that one.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

I was once a Chief of Staff. If my officials ever showed up to a Committee meeting this woefully unprepared, the department would not have enjoyed our morning meeting the next day. Canadians deserve answers. The Liberals either don’t have them, or don’t want you to know.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Pierre Poilievre, if he wins the next election is now entirely justified in calling a public inquiry into this. And his base will want one. Which means the Tories would pick the judge, set the Terms of Reference, etc. That could be David Johnston’s legacy.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Folks, Section 33 (Notwithstanding Clause) is a part of the constitution. In fact, without it, you wouldn’t have the Charter of Rights because the provinces wouldn’t have signed off. So, yes, it is absolutely constitutional to use.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

The front page of my @globeandmail this morning. Canadians deserve real answers.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Let’s be clear here. You get the pandemic you pay for. If you pay for lockdowns, you get lockdowns. We paid for lockdowns. $350 Billion in federal deficit, most of it went to CERB and CEWS. Which, to buy time in the first wave (and maybe even the second) was right 1/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

This is like the fourth specific event, inside the larger foreign interference scandal, that would have cause a Ministerial resignation in any other parliamentary democracy in the world. In Canada, we won’t even expel the offending “diplomat”.

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

1 year

Breaking: Conservative MP Michael Chong tells Commons today he has confirmed the "serious grave details in the Globe report" that he was targeted by China and that the Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei was involved.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Considers it profitable to advertise during Leafs games. That is the best example I can think of to demonstrate how Canadians think about auto theft right now. A nation of people with retractable metal posts in their driveways. Wow… 5/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Remember. This government: - defied an order of the House - cause a senior public servant to be dragged before the Bar - sued the Speaker of the House - called an election All to keep these documents from becoming public

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

11 months

So, @CPC_HQ , @NDP and @BlocQuebecois have voted to hold a public inquiry…three times. The opposition doesn’t have a “full buy-in” problem when it comes to what it believes the government should do next.

Trudeau says 'full buy-in' from opposition needed before launching new foreign interference probe

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government won't be announcing any next steps on probing foreign interference until the Liberals get 'full buy-in' from the opposition parties, to avoid...

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

8 months

If you’re going to lecture people nonstop about disinformation. You have to stop generating disinformation.

Matt Gurney

@mattgurney

8 months

You might have seen the government and its supporters telling everyone that our embassy in Israel was "operational" over the weekend. That seemed like a weird choice of words. I thought they were trying to bullshit Canadians. I was right. I can prove it.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Speaking of bollards. Listening to the Leafs the other night and I hear @Bonsie1951 read copy for a company that installs bollards. They do other security stuff, too. But think of car theft from a market perspective. A company that installs bollards, … 4/7

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

My son stood on his own today for the first time. And learned to say “Dada”. This is an instant contender for the best day of my life.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Translation: “We have gotten tired of stalling, so now we’re going to pay this person to stall for us.”

Ryan Tumilty

@RyanTumilty

1 year

PM arrives announces he will soon appoint a special rapporteur to make recommendations on combatting interference and protecting democracy

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

I had to check, but this was - wait for it - an actual conservative policy idea. In a race that has seen far too few of them. Would be nice to see a little more of this and a little less juvenile name calling.

Scott Aitchison

@ScottAAitchison

2 years

Simple. Predictable. Fair. And Lower. That’s a real plan to Fix Canada’s Broken Tax Code. I’ll flatten taxes, raise the personal exemption, and get the CRA to do your taxes for you.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Objectively, a former TDSB trustee, former TO City Councillor who won a close race - that only he could have won - in a riding his Party hasn’t held in generations would make Cabinet in almost every government.

Mike Crawley

@CBCQueensPark

2 years

I asked Michael Ford about the optics of his uncle appointing him to become Ontario's new Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism. #onpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

“He is a very committed Putin activist. And the fact that he’s not being covered as such, and not being presented as such, is really a disservice to American journalism.”

Alex Ovechkin's goal chase tests our choice to keep politics out of sport

You can't take anything away from Alex Ovechkin on the ice, who has passed Gordie Howe for second on the NHL's all-time goals list. But off it, he's an unveiled supporter of Russian president...

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

7 months

If you couldn’t see this coming after Cafe Landwehr and Aroma, you weren’t paying attention. If you couldn’t see it coming after Concordia, you were lying to yourself. Institutions in this country are failing the Jewish community in real time. And they are right to be livid.

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

@UJAFederation

7 months

1/5 Today, TanenbaumCHAT was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Police are on scene and, as a precaution, all students and staff have been safely moved to another location while law enforcement investigates.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Your choice of spouse is the decision that will have the greatest impact on your happiness, wealth, and future. At random times, I think about @Melanie_Paradis and smile to myself. Did it tonight in line at a Subway. “Goddamn,” I thought. “Definitely got that one right.”

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

…under this section.” So, in order to get the warrant that revealed the information that the Prime Minister’s Office was briefed on, CSIS - by law - was required to get Bill Blair’s sign off. Just let that sink in.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

I voted for him in 2017. Then I got the chance to work with him. @MichaelChongMP is the real deal. Thoughtful, principled, conciliatory and deeply patriotic. His return to the front bench of Conservative politics has been an unmitigated positive for the Party.

Michael Chong 🇨🇦

@MichaelChongMP

2 years

1/ Upon reflection, I’ve decided not to seek the Conservative leadership. Now is not the time. For now, Canada’s foreign policy will remain my focus. #cdnpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

This is a good final group. Broad spectrum of ideas, personalities, and professional experience. No corner of the Party is unrepresented. And, impressively, six candidates met a high bar for entry. Good sign of a healthy party apparatus.

Conservative Party

@CPC_HQ

2 years

LEOC is happy to confirm that six Verified Candidates will appear on the leadership ballot. Congratulations to Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber, Patrick Brown, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis and Pierre Poilievre.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 month

Between this, the passports, and the carbon tax on your bank statement, Canadians are now living through a palliative stage branding exercise posing as a government.

Canadian Army

@CanadianArmy

1 month

Introducing the revitalized branding for the Canadian Army! Tell us in the comments what you think about it ⬇️

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Brian Mulroney: - won back to back majorities. - free trade - major tax reform - helped lead the international effort to end apartheid. Conservatives should listen every time he speaks (so should everyone Canadian, actually)

Keith Leslie

@QPnewsboy

2 years

Mulroney calls the three #CPC leadership frontrunners "outstanding people," but says the party has to ask itself "if it wants a candidate who can win a convention or a candidate who can win an election." He says they're not the same. #cdnpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Any other democracy that gets stories like the ones we’ve gotten from @RobertFife , @stevenchase and @scoopercooper in the last two weeks would have *weeks* of televised public hearings. There would be resignations. Many. We will probably get none of that. And be poorer for it.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

For your morning reading, Section 21 of the CSIS Act: “21 (1) If the Director or any employee designated by the Minister for the purpose believes, on reasonable grounds, that a warrant under this section is required to enable the Service to investigate, within or… 1/3

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

I can’t tell you how excited I am about joining @EntCanada Winning campaigns start with winning cultures, and that’s what @barbarajkfox @jasonlietaer and the whole Team have built. (Also great to be working with my pal @calmaclellan again)

Enterprise

@EntCanada

2 years

We are excited to welcome @MitchHeimpel as Director of Campaigns & Government Relations! 🎉 He's joining the team with a deep understanding of Parliament Hill, Queen's Park and what it takes to win the day. Learn more about Mitch & say 👋!

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

The Prime Minister is not having a good day in Question Period But, after all, it’s #justinflation

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

If you haven’t been watching @RaquelDancho rise through the ranks of @CPC_HQ , you should be.

Raquel Dancho

@RaquelDancho

2 years

Today I questioned the Minister of Housing on his government's terrible record on home affordability. During the past 6 years the price of an average home has effectively doubled. We need a serious plan instead of the same ineffective policies. Watch our exchange below:

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

The idea, that three Deputy Ministers saw this report…and NONE of them old their Minister is simply not believable. Either we are dealing with a significant failing of the federal public service, or somebody’s lying.

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

1 year

National security adviser Jody Thomas tells MPs that CSIS report on targeting of a Conservative MP's family by China went to 3 deputy ministers in 2021: DM of Public Safety, DM of Global Affairs and DM of National Defence -- which was her. She told MPs she was on leave at time.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

“But, still, no nation has mastered the ability to step on every bloody rake quite as well as Canada.” Awesome to see my name in @the_lineca this morning. Check it out 👇

Mitch Heimpel: Want to fix Canadian military procurement? This is what it'll take

Procurement, and especially defence procurement, is a breeding ground for leaks, scandals and just general bad news.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Man, where do I start? I fought with my Grade 12 history teacher about Brian Mulroney. I am a Conservative, because I thought as a millwright’s son from Kitchener, I had something in common with a with an electrician’s son from Baie-Comeau. 1/3

Caroline Mulroney

@C_Mulroney

3 months

1/3 On behalf of my mother and our family, it is with great sadness we announce the passing of my father, The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th Prime Minister. He died peacefully, surrounded by family.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Free advice for NDP friends. 1) throw the CASA into the eternal flame 2) spend six months going after the government like your seats depend on it (they do!) 3) Call the election on your timeline, not Justin Trudeau’s

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 month

Literally half of Ottawa owes @scoopercooper an apology.

Michael Chong 🇨🇦

@MichaelChongMP

1 month

2/ Commissioner Hogue on May 3, 2024 regarding Han Dong's nomination and the subsequent 2019 election in Don Valley North, where Liberal candidate Han Dong won: "Available intelligence respecting the 2019 Liberal nomination contest DVN reflects a well-grounded suspicion that the

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

11 months

Legitimately the worst NDP Leader in my lifetime.

National Newswatch

@natnewswatch

11 months

Singh remains 'cautiously optimistic' about a public inquiry into foreign interference despite delays in calling one

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Public. Inquiry. Now. Important 🧵.

Mackenzie Gray

@Gray_Mackenzie

1 year

Liberal MP Han Dong is alleged to have been helped by the Chinese consulate in Toronto during his 2019 nomination race, by bussing in seniors & students to vote for him, according to CSIS docs & sources CSIS asked the PM's senior staff to rescind Dong's nomination, per sources

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

4 months

Justin Bieber has now coached Auston Matthews, Morgan Rielly, William Nylander and Mitch Marner to more playoff round wins than Sheldon Keefe.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Got a new office mate over the lunch break. He immediately informed me that the pig was his favourite.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Nothing to see here, just a key finding of the Rapporteur’s report being refuted by… … …the Prime Minister’s NSIA You know why you need a public inquiry? Because the pains and penalties of perjury tend to motivate better truth telling.

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

1 year

Jody Thomas says fact Bill Blair did not read a note from CSIS in 2021 indicating a Conservative was being targeted by China was not due to inability to access top secret email, as David Johnston's report says. "Minister Blair would have been given a reading package." --Thomas

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

5 months

Recruiting high profile candidates is always a great sign of momentum. Stealing the columnist I most read at the National Post is bad for my morning routine, but great for 🇨🇦. Sabrina will make a great MP.

Sabrina Maddeaux

@SabrinaMaddeaux

5 months

📣 Announcement Time 📣 I’m running to be the next federal Conservative candidate and MP for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill. Help me be your voice in Ottawa:

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

🌶🌶🌶 and wildly accurate email from @ScottAAitchison this morning on things that should be compared to the Holocaust. The correct answer, as Scott points out, is nothing.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Seriously, let’s just go back to delegated conventions.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Last time Windsor elected a PC MPP? 1955. Last time Timmins elected a PC MPP? 1987. Last time Thunder Bay elected a PC MPP? 1985.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

As I predicted here 👇 two weeks ago. We’ve apparently reached issues management stage 3. Quick reminder. The PMO controls what information NSICOP sees and what it makes public. It meets no definition of the word “Independent”.

Mickey Djuric

@MickeyDjuric

1 year

CP #NewsAlert : Trudeau asks national security committee for new interference probe Two Liberal sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss matters not yet public, confirm to The Canadian Press that Trudeau will announce the news on Parliament Hill later today. #cdnpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

@DonMartinCTV @JustinTrudeau And the thing is, it’s not like the competition is steep. Biden is mired in a legendary midterm slump. Johnson barely survived a vote of his own caucus. Scholz is new, and being savaged in EU press for not delivering on Ukraine. Not exactly playing baseball in the AL East…

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

9 months

If the Conservatives had to pick a Cabinet Minister to be the face of the Liberal Party at this convention, this is who they would have picked.

Catherine Lévesque

@CathLvesque

9 months

Fresh from a visit to Beijing, Liberal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault appeared at the doorstep of Quebec City’s convention centre on Friday to crash the Conservative party’s national convention. Details:

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

The admission that the Prime Minister’s department (PCO) knew is…not surprising. Which means we are now being asked to believe the Prime Minister’s senior civil service failed to inform him. Which his Chief of Staff dismissed as a possibility just last month…

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

In which @scoopercooper comes with detailed receipts. It stretches the bound of any credulity that incomplete or poorly sourced material would make it as far as PCO. We need a truly independent process. And a public one.

Globalnews.ca

@globalnews

1 year

The two reports, from 2019 and 2022, raise questions about what senior federal officials knew and how seriously the Trudeau government took the warnings.

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@MitchHeimpel

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I honestly wish I could retweet @KenBoessenkool like ten times here. People who think “reclaiming the PPC votes” is a path to something a) don’t understand who those voters are and b) really don’t understand how inefficient that vote is for Consevatives

Ken Boessenkool

@KenBoessenkool

2 years

This is such an important point. The idea that the @CPC_HQ path to victory lies in “reclaiming PPC votes” is 🦇 💩 😜. Their voters are mostly anti-authority populists who take pride in voting for parties that can’t win. (To twist the old saying “Don’t blame me, I voted PPC!)

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@MitchHeimpel

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I don’t have my own mother to celebrate this Mother’s Day, but my son has the best mom a little boy could hope for @Melanie_Paradis . This year he got to pick out, and wrap his first Mother’s Day present. Happy Mother’s Day to all!

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

4 months

I think “twofer-gate” belies something that won’t get talked about as much when it comes to Trudeau’s speech yesterday. It was bad. Really bad. Watching a decrepit Muhammad Ali flail at Larry Holmes bad. 1/3

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

7 months

A word of advice to administration at @Concordia . You have a looming issue with the QC government on tuition which threatens the survival of your school. You also look like you have lost all control of your school. The provincial government will absolutely connect these dots.

Elisheva Ysabella Hazan

@ysabellahazan

7 months

Calling a Jew a k*ke is the not only the equivalent of calling a black student the n-word but it’s the language of neo-Nazis. This is not progressive it’s hate very poorly guised as justice, the same way Jew hatred has always functioned. @Concordia

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

That is going to have long term costs. Especially for the kids. I don’t know what the effect of that is. I’m not sure anyone does. This was a long 🧵 about why we should have increased health transfers last spring. That’s where the pandemic was going once we got vaccines. 11/11

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

If, somehow after all this, Johnston still manages not to call for a public inquiry, he will have proven every criticism of both him, and the process, to be entirely valid.

Bill Blair took months to approve CSIS surveillance of Liberal powerbroker, national-security...

Delay by then-public safety minister left little time before the 2021 election for spy agency to monitor Michael Chan

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

7 months

It is a parenting right of passage in this country to take a toddler trick-or-treating in the snow. I’m glad it was Everett’s first time out. Happy Halloween!

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

The Emergencies Act is designed for an active or ongoing situation. There is no active or ongoing situation, either on the streets of Ottawa or at the border, that requires its use. A return to normal policing powers is now what’s best for democracy.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

@KenBoessenkool When the government’s defence is that the Prime Minister wasn’t briefed, but the reporting demonstrates high level PCO involvement, political staff become material witnesses. Because someone made the decision not to brief the PM, who is supposed to be democratically accountable.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 years

I remember Justin Trudeau vowing to cancel the F-35 during the 2015 campaign. I can think of no better metaphor for six years of Trudeau governance than him ending up buying the F-35 anyway.

John Ivison

@IvisonJ

3 years

Boeing told its bid to sell fighter jets to Canada did not meet Ottawa’s requirements | National Newswatch

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

On #IWD2022 I want to talk about @Melanie_Paradis because she never brags about herself. But she lives the Madeline Albright quote “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” She quotes it to me all the time. 1/n

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

Okay, I have some thoughts about this. (cracks knuckles) Settle in. First, this letter was organized by several prominent Liberals who did long service in the last government and, at no point, did anyone see a problem with it..which is wild 1/12

Veteran Ontario Liberals want Green MPP Mike Schreiner to be their leader

Some veteran Ontario Liberals want Green Leader Mike Schreiner to cross the floor and seek the leadership of the Grits — but he’s not interested.

www.thestar.com

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

At some point, a Comms professional looked at this situation and said, “We would rather have people believe our Minister forgot how to use an app she has been using daily for 18 months, than believe she thinks China is committing genocide.” And that argument was persuasive.

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

2 years

International Trade Minister Mary Ng @mary_ng now says it was a *mistake* when she voted in support of a motion that calls China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide and requests special refugee measures for them. Her office said she pushed the wrong button.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

“Morneau’s words paint the picture of a man viewed by his fellow Liberals as a relic. A product of a by-gone era, that they needed to maintain the brand and the bond markets — but which has little political value to the party in the long term”

Mitch Heimpel: So long, Business Liberals.

Who are the Liberals' voters today? What's their coalition? And do any of them think about monetary policy?

www.readtheline.ca

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

3 months

Standard Confidence-and-Supply Agreements would never cover procedural votes like this. That’s why this is a coalition.

Don Martin

@DonMartinCTV

3 months

This is becoming an unholy alliance: Liberals, NDP join forces to block parliamentary investigation into Winnipeg lab security breach - The Globe and Mail

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Doug Ford is the leader of the conservative movement in Canada. Uncontested. #ONelxn

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

As I relax before Christmas dinner, I am overcome by how lucky I was this year. My son is healthy, damn cute, and well on his way to being smartest one in the family. My wife is incredible. A true force of nature. Strongest person I know, by far. Merry Christmas everybody 🎄

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

I see summoning the Ambassador had wonderful results. Expelling diplomats is a political decision. There’s no objective test. You either find their actions acceptable, or you don’t. At this point, no reasonable government could.

中国驻加拿大大使馆 Chinese Embassy in Canada

@ChinaEmbOttawa

1 year

Remarks of the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Canada

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

To this point, this is the most influential endorsement in the #cpcldr race.

Mark McEwan

@Chef_MarkMcEwan

2 years

I am excited to endorse @PierrePoilievre for #CPC Leader. He has what it takes to unite the country and unseat @JustinTrudeau Common sense, intelligence and maturity is what I hear when #PierrePoilievre speaks. This is what #Canada needs in a leader.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

She was constant. Unwavering. A giant in her empathy. Steadfast in her resolve. She was the best of her era, the best of her country, and timeless in every extraordinary way. We shall never see her like again.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

If you had told university-aged me that I would live to see the day when the NDP would rip on a massive auto sector investment, I would have assumed you had the political acumen of a potato. And yet…

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

1 year

Volkswagen made over $20 billion in profit in 2022. Canadians have a right to know how much of their money is going to this profitable company. And what - if any - conditions are attached to ensure that good jobs are created for the long term here in Canada.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

She made time for me. Gave me advice for how to deal with the doctors in what was a pretty fraught circumstance, and advised me how to take care of my family. Christine Elliott is class and grace personified. Ontario politics needs more like her. 2/2

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

If you had to ask yourself, what was worse than 40 high profile Ontario Liberals begging the Green Party Leader to lead them? Having him take time to think about it, and STILL reject them would be pretty close to the top of that list.

Mike Schreiner

@MikeSchreiner

1 year

I've asked myself and others how I can best make a positive difference in building the Ontario we truly want. Here's my statement explaining my decision. #onpoli

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

This piece by @TomMcTague , even if you don’t agree with it in its entirety, is so well written and so incisive in its analysis of modern 🇬🇧 that it’s absolutely worth a Sunday morning read.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

What @erinotoole is doing in the House right now, could rightfully be viewed as a condemnation of David Johnston’s lack of curiosity.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

1 year

The person that David Johnston wants us to believe he is, would have his resignation in to the Prime Minister by close of business.

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

1 year

House of Commons votes 174-150 to ask David Johnston to step down as special rapporteur and to call for full fledged public inquiry into foreign intereference. The vote indicates a majority of MPs have lost confidence in Mr. Johnston.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

This from @MichelleRempel is the clip of the day #JustInflation

Michelle Rempel Garner

@MichelleRempel

2 years

👀Wherein I get Trudeau to admit Conservatives are fighting to keep things affordable, and that we're fighting #Justinflation 👀.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

First @LIUNA , then the Boilermakers, now the IBEW CCO. This would have been unfathomable to me as a young Queens Park staffer once upon a time. Now, I’m just excited to see who’s next .

Ivana Yelich

@yelich_ivana

2 years

“Premier @fordnation has proven over the last four years that he not only supports and understands the needs of the electrical trades but has backed it up with positive and meaningful action that is unprecedented in our union’s history.”

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@MitchHeimpel

2 years

“The forces that have led to Kenney’s departure aren’t interested in or capable of making conservatism relevant to ordinary working people. They have nothing of an affirmative agenda. They are agents of outrage and that’s it.” Man, did @Sean_Speer put the barrel on the ball here

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@acoyne

2 years

Sean Speer: A lament for conservatism - The Hub

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

At a time when it is essential that Canada have a real Ambassador in Brussels and Berlin, this piece by @TerryGlavin goes a long way to explaining why we do not.

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Mitch Heimpel 🇺🇦

@MitchHeimpel

2 years

Is Justin Trudeau collecting CERB? Because right now @fordnation is pretty busy doing his job. Doug Ford being a law and order conservative today. You love to see it. #onpoli #cdnpoli

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