Just a reminder of where Gomery fits in the grand scheme of things…
And that doesn’t include Indian Affairs or the Crowns.
On the topic of Crown Corporations, and converging with a Montreal Gazette article on Gagliano and Canada Lands featured by Andrew Coyne today, a couple of background items landed in my inbox this morning;
Every two weeks between 1996 and 1998, a well-heeled Montreal businessman would breeze into the downtown offices of Canada Lands, the federal Crown corporation that sells surplus government land.
Plus, this press release from 2002;
The former Quebec headquarters for the Canadian Army, located at 3530 Atwater Avenue in Montreal was appraised in 1995 at $9 million, but later sold in 1999 for $4 million!� At the time of the transaction in 1999, when the land was actually sold, the market value was conservatively estimated to be worth $12 million.�
Keep that in mind when you hear “wait for Gomery”. Concerns that Gomery will whitewash what happened are misplaced.
Gomery is the whitewash.
And that is why the Libranos are scared absolutely crapless that they will be turfed from power. One they lose control of the govt, it will all come out, and it will be huge. Harper would have to appoint a minister for public inquiries to even begin to plumb the depths of it all.
Kate,
Outstanding information. I’m stunned by the implications. My God, we are as crooked as they get.
The Black Rod said it best and I am surprised no one else has picked up this theme;
“The Liberal government is a Kleptocracy”
These arguments that they can clean up their own “mess” (as they try to portray it)through Gomery, and that in the meantime they and their bureaucrats are trustworthy is a tactic even the despots of the African sub-continent don’t try to pull off on their people. The paper shredders must be working 24/7.
And we are supposed to be falling for this according to the CBC and the pollsters.
I swear if it weren’t for the bloggers they would have tried to cover this all up and steal even more- oh wait they did they call it grants to foundations.
Taxpayers both in and out of English Canada- yes even in Quebec when you think about it -were fleeced. That is comprehensible to everyone except the desperate government and opportunistic NDPers and why both the Tories and the Bloc would have no further tolerance for the thieves and liars.
It would be almost treasonous NOT to turf out the Martinites, the Chretienites – hell it almost makes one wish longingly for dare I say it – PET himself.
Kleptocracy. That is the issue.
Kleptocrats and their allies belong in jail not in Parliament or the civil service.
Don’t forget that the MSM is no see, no tell. Most Canadians don’t read blogs or dig for info so they are blissfully unaware of the true depth of Liberal criminality.
“If I had a million dollars”…I’d write a letter to every Canadian to make sure that they know what they’re doing when they next vote Liberal!
Kleptocracy? Interesting concept, indeed.
Strange no one has picked up on that before? Check previous posts?
Let’s add thugocracy; now it’s two-for-one sale of Canada.
Kleptocracy: mania for stealing; uncontrollable urges for looting the tax-base of Canada; Chretien/Martin and the entire screw-Canada; a criminal conspiracy (cons(with)+piracy); Captain Martin, Sir; he of the “blind” “trust” me, suckers!
Thugocracy: The Choker, aka Plaque Man/ Librano/ Mr. Mace Spray/ Payola Martin/ Dithers/Slithers/I-Know_Nothing,,, The PM PM who swore an oath of office, (Memo to self: Must search for the oath & post here).
Mo Strong is proud of his proteges. And Henne Strong is too.
Thank-you for the information Kate. I have long suspected Gomery because he was appointed by the P.M. (Paulee) when the judge was on holidays – so he could not set up shop before the election if he (the judge) was away,could he? I had a feint hope though after Cretin figurativly ‘spit in Gomery’s eye” and the grand cheer from the Lib. M.P.s for their hero’s (Cretin) great ‘whomp up of the Judge’ Mr. Gomery said something along the lines of ‘I am an old man now and I don’t have to pander to anyone’. I have been on the look-out for cracks and I have seen a few. What do you bloggers know about Judge Gomery. If you want to read a forensic report on the oil for food buisness go to http://www.davidhawkinsreaserch.com , the ambassider in the U.S. might have to send an apology for making the U.S. apologize to him for saying Canada was the launching pad for 911. Some new insights into Kyoto, M. Strong, Power Corp…..also.
I am on the same page as almost all of you that we MUST have an election RIGHT NOW. There will be nothing left of our country if we wait. Certainly the coffers will be empty and all our ‘Federalists’ will have left the ‘sinking ship’ with our money safely stowed in secret accounts -off shore. The Lib/NDP outfit DO have a secret agenda – if they loose, we loose our assets (we being Canadians). The Libs have a bottomless purse (our money and the oil for food money from Iraq) so this election will determine the fate of our country and will establish how many of us can be bought off like Jacky boy – freedom vs state slavery. The battle lines are drawn -get out and fight for the right and your rights too.
I know that regular Canadians ARE reading the internet, lu selbo , and we can thank the Judge for banning testimony for that, maybe he is on our side. The media and government are reading too because they might need some answers pretty soon. We must ask questions in public and on every talk-show in Canada. Information is a formidable weapon.
Cheers to all
Harper would have to appoint a minister for public inquiries to even begin to plumb the depths of it all.
That’s funny! We already have what is effectively a ministry of financial accountability, called the Auditor General. We also have a department of financial control (or comptrol) called the Comptroller General. We also have a Finance Department who is not supposed to issue cheques without ensuring adequate paperwork has been completed and filed.
While I don’t think that all those beancounting geeks are stealing tax money, I can tell you a couple of things that I do know: years ago, someone in my office complimented a visting AG auditor on his very expensive laptop computer. “Oh yeah”, he said, “everyone knows the AG department spends money like no other department could get away with.” I haven’t seen that guy for years, but I know a couple of AG auditors right now … when they’re not putting the fear of God(mery) into Public Works hacks, they’re swanning around the world on government-paid holidays – errr! conferences and training missions – for a week or two at a time, usually around 5 or 6 times per year.
Which is a roundabout way of saying, it probably hasn’t occurred to many people yet that the problem is not the party logo and the ethnic affiliations of the people who are currently running the government. It is in reality a problem with the sheer size and the overweening arrogance our government. If the solution that you prefer is “more accountability”, then you might as well go ahead and appoint 20 or 30 new Ministers of Accountability, each with their own staffs and office budgets, so that they can sit right beside the ministers and staff of every existing ministry, department and agency. The rate of waste and corruption will probably accelerate, but at least that way we’ll go broke a lot faster and therefore we can get an early start on rebuilding the country from scratch.
http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/
Off topic but check out that site. Hilarious. I found it on right thinking people. My personal site is 42% evil. RTP was 99%.
The agencies and foundations established by the Canadian government while under Liberal control, are mere artifices with the intent of denying true auditability and accountability. There is no reason for these programs to be implemented within such a structure other than for the purpose of obscuring from public view.
This must change. It is our money, and it is not acceptable.
I pray that Harper and the CPC raises this as an election issue.
Where is the $425 million for Sri-Lankan tsunami relief, and why can nobody answer this question.
Disgusting.
The agencies and foundations established by the Canadian government while under Liberal control, are mere artifices with the intent of denying true auditability and accountability.
The corruption in the federal government began long before this current Liberal government took over. Fonzie Gagliano did not teach Chuck Guite everything he knows about corruption. The Kings of Kickbacks have been well entrenched in Public Works and its predecessor departments for decades. Public Works itself was created as an attempt to reduce the wastage and corruption that were rampant when individual departments were doing their own procurement.
There is no such thing as an auditable, accountable Big Government. If you ever find one, look around, because you will probably find a unicorn, a leprechaun and an honest lawyer very close by.
The people in government who are dishonest have all day, every day to think of ways to thwart the auditors and steal money. But the poor taxpaying schmo is too busy working like a slave to pay his taxes, to spend any time figuring out every possible way his government might be lying to him.
Businesses are accountable, because if they waste, lie, cheat or steal, they lose their customers and investors, and they go broke. When a government wastes, lies, cheats and steals, it only has to raise taxes to continue operating.
I agree Justzumgai… but something strange happened after the Liberals came to power – they reduced the number of auditors across government from 800 to 200.
The best information comes from bloggers. There should be a bloggers newpaper so the people who are not familiar with bloggers can find out more than what they are being told by the liberal propaganda machine.