Angry in the Great White North defending Warren Kinsella?
Well, he certainly doesn’t need my help to defend himself, but I hate to see a person being misquoted and misrepresented to the media.
And in this case, I think that’s exactly what is happening to Warren Kinsella.
Tory MP calls for Goodale to step aside
CTV.ca News Staff
Conservative Finance Critic Monte Solberg is demanding that Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale step aside following a CTV News report on the income trust debacle.
On Wednesday night’s CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, Kathy Tomlinson reported that a representative of Canada’s most influential seniors’ lobby group, CARP, may have been tipped off about planned changes to the federal government’s income trust policy.
In the hours before Goodale announced that the federal government had decided not to change its stand on income trusts but would increase the tax credit on corporate dividends, there was heavier-than-usual trading in income trusts and devidend-paying stocks.
That has fuelled speculation that some investors profited from an early warning.
Goodale has repeatedly insisted that no advance word came from his office. “The Finance Department is very meticulous about these matters,” he said Tuesday.
“There was no specific advance notice whatsoever.” >>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?B3L4MNYS
ctv.ca
Bullshit it’s common knowledge now the Finance dept called Judy Cutler at CARP the day of the announcement. Think kickbacks. The LPC is broke according to all the reports, can’t figure out why the bastards have all my money.
The Church of Whats happening Now
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Paul, you lying cheating bastard.
I’m sick and tired of hearing the term “socially backwards Conservative”, or those “Dinosaurs”. I have voted Conservative all my life, despite my family traditionally voting Liberal for the last 150 years. I wasn�t always proud of my party. Mulruiness went batty towards the end, and what happened to Kim Campbell by the PC�s was nasty and cruel-hearted� luckily she turned it all around later. Joe Clark was a twit� took me 20 years to realize that the day he didn�t resign from cabinet over Meech Lake was the day his morality and ethics stepped out for Ice Cream and never came back.
I will say to you oh so “enlightened Liberals” this country was a much better place to live as little as 20 years ago. Even Trudeau wouldn’t have wanted the running joke we have become. >>> more
http://churchofwhatshappeningnow…w.blogspot.com/
Decode this. >>>>>>> It’s gonna be fun. When is 23 Jan./06? ( Martin/Earnscliffe is toast )>>>
December 9, 2005 – Apropos of nothing, two of my political golden rules containing the word “never.”
1. Never, ever give up. Keep hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and don’t stop until after someone has told you that you can stop, that you have won. (“Relentless” is praise, not an insult.)
2. It’s never the break-in, it’s always the cover up. (Follow the money to the end.) >>>
warrenkinsella
It is unclear based on the facts of this story how Kinsella is being smeared. He changed his blog entry after the fact. That is not very honourable, now is it?
Well, it seems that Kinsella got it right:
CARP leader in crossfire over income trusts
CTV.ca News Staff
Allegations of leaks in his department have put Finance Minister Ralph Goodale on the hot seat in the middle of an election campaign, and put the director of a seniors’ organization in an uncomfortable spotlight.
The Liberals were caught off guard Wednesday night, when Bill Gleberzon, the Director of Government & Media Relations for Canada’s Association for the Fifty Plus (CARP), told CTV News he got a phone call on the morning of Nov. 23, alerting him to an announcement later that day from the finance minister’s office.
That call came several hours before Goodale announced that the federal government had decided not to change its stand on income trusts but would increase the tax credit on corporate dividends.
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“The day they made the announcement they phoned us and said something is going to be said,” Gleberzon, told CTV News Wednesday night.
Gleberzon said the call came from a senior policy advisor in the finance minister’s office, someone his group had been dealing with all along.
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At first, Gleberzon said no one from the finance minister’s office had contacted him about the interview.
When told that the finance ministry’s communications director, John Embury, had already admitted to calling Gleberzon Wednesday night, he explained:
“I did speak to him �. I shouldn’t have said that I didn’t, but I did,” Gleberzon told Tomlinson.
“They phoned me and they asked — they found out about the interview. He asked me what was going on, I told him, but it’s when we were talking about the timing issue that I realized how important it was.”
Gleberzon said Embury told him: “We don’t want to coach you, we don’t want to tell you what to say, we just want to know what to prepare for.”
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full text: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051208/goodale_carp_051208/20051209?hub=TopStories
It just keeps getting more interesting by the day.
I believe this insider trading affected stocks listed on the NY stock exchange. Anybody heard of any US investigation being talked about ?
Perkunas…. see Captain’s Quarters…. commenters from Canda & etc….
More from Warren: Revenge is sweet. Kinsella is hoping for AdScam Martin/Earnscliffe to fall. Blog on. >>>>>
December 9, 2005 – It’s not like political parties haven’t thrown a young partisan or two on the electoral fire before. But this is (a) dumb because it’s so apparently widespread and (b) testifies to the fact that the party can’t even find one or two real Canadians to get their message out.
Whatever that message is.
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Young Liberals posing as average Canadians in letter campaign
Letters to the editor, television ads get out Martin’s message
Allan Woods, The Ottawa Citizen
NORTH BAY – Liberal party activists have launched a campaign to sway public opinion on child care, but it’s operated largely by members of the Young Liberals, who are passing themselves off as average Canadians.
They attack Conservative leader Stephen Harper in letters to newspapers that denigrate his child-care plan while promoting Liberal leader Paul Martin as the only worthy choice to run the country. But don’t identify themselves as affiliated with the Liberal party.
“This seems like yet another attempt to help those Canadians who, frankly, don’t need the help, but whose vote Mr. Harper needs,” reads one letter, published in Wednesday’s Globe and Mail. The letter was written by Denise Brunsdon, who was, until recently, a former national director of the Young Liberals.
“To give $100 a month per child leaves families looking for quality, affordable child care out in the cold and slaps the faces of those who make real sacrifices to have a parent stay at home as a full-time caregiver,” reads a second, in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, which was written by Amelie Crosson, a former speechwriter for Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan. >>> more
kinsella
The very fact that a Goodale aide called Mr Gleberzon is enough of a smoking gun for both a police and securities investigation. Part of the CTV report also stated that is was common knowledge on Bay Street that there would be a big announcement the day it happened, and clearly a bunch of people guessed right or actually had inside information. The fact that Mr Emery(?) tried to silence Mr Gleberzon is more than enough reason for Mr Goodale to step aside. I’m amazed CTV has gone after this one! Perhaps Mike Duffy can take some time from his Liberal-fawning to talk about this one today. We will see.
From a disinterested 3rd party; looks like the liberals are/were trying to make some quick Christmas cash on insider trading. Does this mean ‘they’ see the writing on the wall and are funding their own retirement plan?
Small Dead Animals is among the best blogs in Canada.
This entry is questionable. Effectively, SDA has suggested a leading national associaiton of misquoting Warren Kinsella from his blog. However, it has become an established fact that Kinsella changed his website after the fact, and in fact, CARP did not misquote him. This can be confirmed by checking the entry in quesiton on Kinsella’s site and compairing it to the original entry as recorded on the commentsplease.com site.
Unfortunately, SMA and Kate have yet to post this correction on the site. At a time when it is being complained that the traditional media are not being fair or objective, the onus is on bloggers to keep accurate themselves.
Whatever happens in the Income Trust issue, it does not justify making misquided allegations against national association.
SDA should withdraw it’s claim of misquoting or at least provide an update on the affair.
By the way, what is SDA policy of editing one’s blog entries after the fact?
Thanks for the site, sincerely.