Liberals and those on the left often herald themselves as the architect and sole proprietor of the concept of “equality for women” and all that is tolerant and fair and equal, especially when it comes to women and their workplace tribulations. As a result, women are notoriously more Liberal/Democrat and many women obediently vote that way in elections.
Via Rail, a Canadian government-owned and operated (and of course liberally subsidized) passenger rail outfit that competes with private Canadian transportation companies, just fired its president, Jean Pelletier.
More accurately, since it is government-owned and they don’t even pretend to operate at arm’s length, it was Canada’s current liberal Prime Minister, Paul Martin, who ordered him fired. The previous liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, appointed him.
Oh and coincidentally, Pelletier was previously then-Prime Minister Chrétien’s Chief of Staff. But I’m sure he also happened to be the world’s best choice for driver of the big choo-choo train, much like other liberal party members, supporters and staff who have coincidentally found their way into high positions in other taxpayer-funded toys — I mean organizations, and onto boards and committees and bureaucracies to the point where liberals now completely and entirely dominate every facet of Canadian life from what they watch on TV to what level of health care they will be given.
People who are so worried about the separation of church and state should visit Canada and get a taste of the liberal state and liberal government-owned business cocktail. It’s an elixir that has caused permanent political drunkenness and a thieving, social engineering, and Liberal Party fund-raising and promotion rampage.
Liberal appointee Pelletier, allegedly sober at the time, launched an insulting tirade against one of his female employees recently, after she questioned some very questionable spending choices made by the socialist rail company. It turns out that what she questioned was not only appropriate, but was right on target.
The woman who was the object of Pelletier’s brutish manner is no slouch. She is none other than popular 35-year-old Canadian Olympic hero athlete Myriam Bedard, winner of two Olympic gold medals and a bronze medal in biathlon. Ms. Bedard became the first Canadian woman ever to win two Olympic gold medals, as well as the first North American athlete ever to win gold in Olympic biathlon events in the 1994 Winter Olympics. She was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
Canadian-born and bred, she served as a Canadian Army Cadet when she was the ripe old age of 14. Cadet Bedard excelled in training and proceeded to win a number of awards, culminating in the Army Cadet League of Canada’s Centennial Award as Top Female Cadet. By 1986, Ms. Bedard had completed all levels of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Young Canadians Challenge, and received its prestigious gold level award.
As a Via Rail employee, Bedard said she raised questions when Via Rail paid a Quebec company called Groupaction — an ad firm — thousands of dollars for work completed in just a few seconds. What she was being asked to do stunk of Liberal Party criminal activity, she thought, and she spoke up as any right-thinking ethical employee would do.
She said that she’d taken graphic-arts classes in her school years — but didn’t even need to in order to see that the exorbitant fees Via Rail was paying Groupaction was for work that a 12-year-old with a photo-editing software could do.
It seemed part of her job description was now to be complicit in this scheme.
The liberal government in Ottawa is currently embroiled in the largest government corruption scandal that Canada has ever known, one which makes just about any political scandal in modern times, anywhere, pale in comparison. Nixon’s Watergate and the Clintons are mere fleas compared to this donkey.
It turns out that Groupaction is involved in this Liberal Party government corruption scandal up to its eyeballs as are many government-owned businesses and organizations, and private businesses with Liberal Party ties. (The extent of the scandal has not yet been determined.)
“I was refusing to do things that are illegal, and I’m a victim of that,” Bedard told reporters when she was forced to quit the job she enjoyed and was good at.
Pelletier called Bedard a “pitiful” single mother seeking publicity. “She want to take advantage of the situation”, he sniffed to La Presse.
“I don’t want to be mean, but this is a poor woman in a pitiful state, a woman with no husband that I know of. She’s feeling the pressure of being a single mother with financial responsibilities. Basically, I find it pitiful.”
This from a liberal government appointee in charge of a publicly-funded business, and a former chief of staff to a former liberal Prime Minister, when a loyal Canadian hero and an employee raises concerns about what she sees as illegal and corrupt behavior by the publicly-funded firm she works for, which seems to be aiding the Liberal Party illegally.
He doesn’t want to be “mean”, as he arrogantly trumpeted. No, what he wants to do is “cover his ass”, but is apparently ill-equipped to figure out that it’s impossible to cover an entire government.
And it seems a tad tawdry to bother to analyze what goon Pelletier said, but just how being unmarried and a single mother with financial responsibilities contravenes the Liberal Party mantra, was not immediately revealed by the overweight liberal Pelletier.
He also missed the fact that Bedard is actually married, and has been for two years; and he seems to have been away on official Party business when Bedard, “this poor woman in a pitiful state”, became a Canadian hero and unlike Pelletier, she maintains her fitness and doesn’t today possess a huge fat overweight ass. Oh and also that she has a sense of morality and ethics.
Clearly not liberal material, another Via Rail supervisor allegedly told Bedard that unless she quit her job at Via Rail, Pelletier would have her permanently transferred to Groupaction, at which point she of course quit.
Let’s review: Groupaction is a privately-owned advertising business. Pelletier is President of the publicly-owned Via Rail, and has no ties to Groupaction other than the fact they did some “work” for Via Rail. And yet he could transfer someone of his employ to Groupaction — a private company?
I see. So the liberals didn’t have anything to do with Groupaction then, and weren’t using publicly-funded businesses to funnel funds to liberal-linked supporters who then wrote checks to the Liberal Party of Canada in campaign donations. Got it.
Now that the fired Pelletier has fallen flat on his ass, a case could be made that Pelletier is actually the only pitiful one in this story. But in fact he’s not, because one cannot possibly be full of pity for such a stupid ass.
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