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Weekly Archive: May 29, 2005 - June 04, 2005
June 04, 2005
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What I figure is the worst fear of the rabble.ca crowd is coming true -- they are seen as irrelevant:You'd probably never heard of the website rabble.ca before last week -- and most people still have no idea what it...
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The announcement of an offical inestigation by the ethics commissioner into the actions of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, who is caught on tape dangling rewards in front of Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal in return for support of the Liberal budget,...
June 03, 2005
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I argued way back that with an election looming, and the polls showing the Liberals heading for disaster, Paul Martin will have no choice but to lead the Liberals. No one would want the job, and the Liberal brass wouldn't...
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From the National Post:The Royal Canadian Mint is set to unveil two special coins to honour Pope John Paul II this summer. The 2005 John Paul II pure 99.99% silver coin and the 2005 John Paul II 10-karat gold coin...
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From the Globe and Mail:Federal ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro announced Friday he has launched a formal investigation into the Gurmant Grewal secret tape controversy. Mr. Grewal, a Tory MP, secretly recorded his phone conversations with Paul Martin's chief of staff...
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From the editorial pages of the Liberal-friendly Toronto Star (free registration required), Chantal Hébert speaks of rebellious whispers:If there is a lasting subtext to the tape transcript that has immortalized tawdry Liberal haggling over the purchase of the soul of...
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Funny comment on rabble.ca with regards to what consequences the government will face over the Grewal tapes:From an earlier post: "When the Canadian public read these transcripts it has to spell the end of this Liberal government." Response: Sorry, but...
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From the Globe and Mail:The final day of testimony at the Gomery inquiry yesterday aptly featured former minister Alfonso Gagliano, who went through a roller-coaster hearing in which he fended off allegations of pork-barrelling with an emotional defence of his...
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From the Toronto Star (free registration required):While MPs defended Shapiro's integrity, some criticized his performance over the last year. New Democrat MP Ed Broadbent went so far as to suggest that Shapiro, who was named to the job just a...
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Stephen Taylor has some interesting ideas for how the Conservatives can make a breakthrough in Quebec and take control of events. Read this thought provoking post....
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I swear, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan must has a pull-string hanging out of her back, being yanked by whoever sits behind her (according to the seating plan, that would be either Tony Valeri or Karen Redman). Check out Anne...
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"Everybody gets away with stuff. It's just a joke." Words of an unnamed "senior Liberal MP" quoted in the Globe and Mail discussing Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and Prime Minister Paul Martin's Chief of Staff Tim Murphy. These two senior...
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Under the banner of "Informed Sources", page A18 of today's National Post (but not in the electonic edition), this piece by Steve Janke (aka Angry in the Great White North):National Post The question Mike Duffy should have asked On Wednesday,...
June 02, 2005
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From Yahoo News:The federal ethics watchdog says he doesn't appreciate being used as a bargaining chip by the prime minister's chief of staff. Bernard Shapiro was reacting to secretly taped negotiations between MP Gurmant Grewal and the Liberal government over...
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From the Globe and Mail:The prime minister is refusing calls to have his chief of staff and health minister step aside while the Mounties investigate the Gurmant Grewal secret taping affair.Is this it? Is this the live grenade, the pin...
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With the furor building over the not-so-much-arm's-length relationship between the government (and in particular, the Prime Minister's Office) and the Ethics Commissioner (see here and here and here), this news just adds fuel to the fire:Federal ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro...
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From the Toronto Star:Federal ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro will be in the hot seat when he appears before a House of Commons committee today, facing questions about whether he truly operates at arm's length from the Prime Minister's Office. Questions...
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From the National Post:The Gomery Commission suspended activities Thursday morning after a bomb threat was called in for the Complexe Guy-Favreau, the government building on René-Lévesque Boul. where the Commission is sitting. Activities were expected to continue, beginning at 2...
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Hopefully there will be more editorials like this one. (hat tip to reader Surecure)...
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We need to have a tax revolt. Cutting the Liberals off from their source of cash -- you and me -- is going to be the only way to fix things.
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Just yesterday, the news was that the same-sex marriage bill was going to sidelined until the fall. Well, a whole day has passed. Today's news is that the bill is going to be fast-tracked:The federal government told Liberal MPs yesterday...
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Go to Conservate Life to get the details. But it seems that being under investigation by the RCMP for entering into fraudulent advertising contracts with the government does not exclude you from other million-dollar contracts from other departments. It's a...
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First watch this interview Mike Duffy had with Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh. If you're like me, you might have yelled at your computer monitor. Why? Because Minister Dosanjh was making a point that every MP who enters government has to...
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Yesterday, I posted my concerns that Tim Murphy was caught on tape admitting to the ability of the PMO to influence the pace of work at the ethics commission, and how that seemed to be in direct violation of the...
June 01, 2005
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Go to Dust my Broom and read the whole thing. Here's the bottom line. The money to pay for the $4.6 billion in goodies that the Liberals had to promise to get the NDP on board for the budget vote...
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For all our ponderings of why voters in Ontario are so willing to forgive the Liberals and vote for them, we've always considered things like innate urban liberalism, fear of the "hidden agenda", bribery. But what we haven't considered is...
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From the Globe and Mail:The definition of marriage is unlikely to be changed to include same-sex couples until some time in the fall, after the Liberals backed down yesterday from an attempt to curtail committee hearings and push the controversial...
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On another front in Ottawa, a fight is raging over the budget legislation:Part of a co-operation agreement between the Liberals and the NDP, which has so far helped prevent the government's defeat, involved the government deferring tax cuts to large...
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In all the hubbub about the Grewal tapes focussing on deals or no deals, I found this tidbit at the bottom of the Globe and Mail piece most interesting:Throughout the discussions, one of Mr. Grewal's goals appears to be to...
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Remember Art Eggleton? Here's a bio:Art Eggleton has served in public office at the municipal level at the City of Toronto and in the Canadian House of Commons for over thirty years. Mr Eggleton was raised and educated in Toronto...
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The folks at Transparency International compile an annual index of "Corruption Perceptions". They review many sources of information (the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Global Competitive Report, the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, and so on) and put together an aggregate...
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From almost as soon as the Conservatives said they had taped recordings of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and Chief of Staff Tim Murphy trying to come to some sort of deal with Conservative MP Gurmont Grewal such that Grewal would...
May 31, 2005
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Never ever speak in absolutes. This absolute from Paul Martin - "Let me repeat once again: No offer was made." -- is likely to haunt him.
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From Politcs Watch, MP and blogger Monte Solberg lists his favourite blogs: Blogging Tories Small Dead Animals The Shotgun Colbert's Comments Political Staples The Meatriarchy Andrew Coyne Inkless WellsAhem! AHEM! I guess I'm just so much chopped liver. Right then,...
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Is this the first domino of many to fall in the Adscam inquiry? If so, who will be the last domino? The Prime Minister?
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First, from the Gomery Inquiry Terms of Reference:(k) the Commissioner be directed to perform his duties without expressing any conclusion or recommendation regarding the civil or criminal liability of any person or organization and to ensure that the conduct of...
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From the National Post:[Jacques Corriveau, a longtime party organizer and friend of Jean Chrétien,] denied at the sponsorship inquiry Monday that paying the salaries of three Liberal party staffers was a scheme to divert sponsorship profits to the federal party.His...
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From the Globe and Mail:Former prime minister Jean Chrétien was warned in the late 1990s to stay away from one of his old friends, who made millions of dollars in sponsorship funds allegedly with the use of fake or inflated...
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From the Globe and Mail:Former prime minister Jean Chrétien unexpectedly dropped his attempt to oust Mr. Justice John Gomery as the head of the sponsorship inquiry yesterday, just a week before his lawyers were to argue their case in Federal...
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The rankings of Canadian blogs and of the Blogging Tories have been updated for today (Tuesday, May 31, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear...
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A group of über-bloggers, lead by Roger Simon, are working on a affiliates program tailor-made for bloggers. It is called Pajamas Media, and they are still looking for members. Currently there are 400 blogs signed up, including myself, so clearly...
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CTV is saying that the the Martin Liberals were offering a deal to a Conservative MP willing to vote for the budget, and that Prime Minister Paul Martin knew about it:CTV News' Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reports that the...
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Stephen Taylor has an excellent post about a good idea from Democracy Watch executed poorly. The issue DW was checking on was the rules for disclosing political campaign donations, and the limits on their size. Go read the entire piece...
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The question of the limitations of the Gomery Inquiry made me check into previous inquiries: From the Krever Inquiry investigating Canada's tainted blood supply:(h) is directed to submit an interim report in both official languages to the Governor in Council...
May 30, 2005
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The publisher of the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, Mr. N. Z. Bear, is quoted in this piece from the Wall Street Journal about counting blogs. Very informative and thought provoking article -- read it and the related post and comments...
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The rankings of Canadian blogs and of the Blogging Tories have been updated for today (Monday, May 30, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear...
May 29, 2005
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The rankings of Canadian blogs and of the Blogging Tories have been updated for today (Sunday, May 29, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear...
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Canadian socialist web site rabble.ca is calling for reader to get involved in US politics. Well, "involved" is a strong word. It suggests injecting yourself into the process, understanding the way the government and party system works, and finding a...
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