Why waste the time. Cancel parliament for the next two years. Clearly each minister has the right to do whatever they like. Someone wins the bid process, why honour that? In fact why not just give all contracts to the 65 Chinese workers *disadvantaged by COVID*. Can they do the work you ask? Why is that important, it dont have to make sense.

No no no, an employer cannot hold the identity documents of an immigrant worker. You are setting up a classic slave labour environment. Because now you in a strange land and you cant leave. And either Bell or Cooper *allegedly* facilitated this???

Can a citizenry go to the world court?

The reason Bell isnt speaking is clear. He either incriminates himself or Chester Cooper. One of them did not tell the truth. And Chester Cooper doubled down on *never giving a response to Bell*. Whats Bell to do? No minister of the govt can reasonably tell the public *Im not speaking to give any clarity on a matter, think what you want.*

Meanwhile Kirk Cornish and Adrian Gibson sitting in there with Bell and Cooper, everybody pointing at everybody else saying, *well, they didnt have to leave*

As I said on Monday, we run a stupid nation.

"***The real problem in all of this is the corruption aid that politicians have for decades included in every law: ~"at the discretion of the minister"***

They want the public to believe that any minister can do what he feels like doing because he can act on case by case discretion? Whats to stop a minister from accepting 10,000 dollars for this *off the books, outside policy norms* "discretion". And in this situation, someone who exercises such historically abysmal decisions as Mr Bell is allowed to go rogue?

*Every country probably has a similar break glass in case of emergency power. The problem here is the power is used indiscriminately, randomly, irresponsibly, nontransparently and much too often for personal gain and stupidity. We must start electing honest ethical competent thinking people to parliament. No law maker in their right mind would expect an immigration minister to ok a prisoner getting married in jail, because he has the "legal authority to allow it". Here we often hear, "well the law doesnt say he cant... so".*

*We run a stupid nation. It only takes 10 in power to do so. Every tourist, the EU, the smugglers, Nygard, Sam, the Chinese, they all know it.*

*As I said before Bell will be allowed to survive (because it looks like he's the patsy), until he's embroiled in the irrecoverable embarrassment for the govt*

It is yet to be determined who's lying.

**The January 2023 letter written by the PS says Bell told her the order came from the Deputy Prime Minister**. It would strain the bounds of belief that Bell would make that claim at that time if it werent true. Why would he need to? He has power to order the PS to do what he wants without referring to anyone else. The PS then has to carry out the order or face disciplinary action for not doing so.**The only reason you cite someone else's name on an unusual order that you have the power to give on your own is, you want to make it clear this nonsense didnt come from me**

They're apples and apples. Exactly the same. By your words you proved you do not understand the concept of honour in the Westminister system. It's not about being proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt over 2 years of trails. It's the appearance of guilt and the distraction associated with it

"*Righteous*"???

Resignation in politics is about 2 things, you actually did something wrong or you are embroiled in some mess that is so distasteful you are a huge distraction to the party's agenda or damaging the nation or the party's brand.

Adrian Gibson, charged with alledged bribery, selfishly goes to the "*honourable*" house every day, he has no concept of his ethical or honourable responsibility. It's about "him". He finishes how he started, "*I think I should be a cabinet minister*". The only person that tops him is Cornish, with allegations of rape over him, making speeches about being part Prime Minister

I hope this stops the talks of Chester Cooper as the automatic heir apparent.

Speaking of noone in particular, "*young*" is not the sole qualification of leader, and in this country, "*successful*" definitely isnt. Cuz who knows if the money flowed over or under the table. Our first criteria should be Honesty followed by ethics then character.

The very very very odd thing about that situation is the workers appeared to be living in the hotel. That is beyond odd. What hotel in talks of renovation lets workers live in guest rooms? Offices? About 2 months ago after hearing Chinese immigrant after Chinese immigrant caught in smuggling operations to the US, the question I asked here was, "*were any of those persons employed at the Pointe?*" If Haitian nationals are rumoured to pay 2000 per trip what would a Chinese national pay? And how many years would they be indentured to pay off the debt? Another thing that disturbs me about the Chinese workers is how invisible they are. Recall almost a decade ago when Chinese construction workers staged a protest about how badly they were being treated? We never heard another thing about it. Who knows what happened to them. Wasnt it also reported that the employer had their identity documents? "IF" thats the case, its a classic trafficking scenario.

Again I say we run a stupid nation. How is the DPM caught in the middle of this nonsense?

**The real problem in all of this is the corruption aid that politicians have for decades included in every law: ~"*at the discretion of the minister*"**

Every country probably has a similar *break glass in case of emergency* power. The problem here is the power is used indiscriminately, randomly, irresponsibly, nontransparently and much too often for personal gain and stupidity. We must start electing honest ethical competent thinking people to parliament. No law maker in their right mind would expect an immigration minister to ok a prisoner getting married in jail, because he has the "*legal authority to allow it*". Here we often hear, "*well the law doesnt say he cant... so*".

We run a stupid nation. It only takes 10 in power to do so. Every tourist, the EU, the smugglers, Nygard, Sam, the Chinese, they all know it.

As I said before Bell will be allowed to survive (because it looks like he's the patsy), until he's embroiled in the irrecoverable embarrassment for the govt