43 Replies to “The Lights Are On..”

  1. a good sign for the Conservatives on Goodale’s turf no less. why are they hiding if they have nothing to hide?

  2. The better sign is reading Turner’s blog entry that Kate linked to.
    That riding should be CPC, certainly was pre 1993, if it goes CPC then things are going well.
    Guess those (fellow)Ontario voters aren’t so corrupt and dumb as some think after all… ;->

  3. You’d think the political correct a-hole could say Merry Christmas……….????????????

  4. Well again, from a distance down here in Arizona.
    I do not think ralph flatbeer leaked anything. He will however cover up for his boss big paul. It’s the PM who calls the shots and once again he has looked after his friends across the land.
    What I find the most disgusting is the lack of effort in the major media in reporting all aspects of this corruption. NAME PAUL’S FRIENDS WHO MADE THE MONEY, HOW MUCH DID THEY MAKE AND SO ON. The Canadian media should be ashamed of themselves. Are these reporters just lazy or is the lack of effort on purpose. Ralph and his buddies don’t need the lights on with the big media on thier side.

  5. CTV is still pushing the “many Bay Street insiders think that the RCMP are on a wild goose chase” meme.
    What a crap network.

  6. Whoa Matt,
    CTV were the only network pursuing the story for a month. They kept it alive.
    THere are many Bay st insiders who think this and want it to go away. There are many who think it stinks and want it looked into.
    While never one afraid to criticize a network I think in this case you should temper the criticism. They helped make the story when no other MSM would touch.

  7. Like the brilliant strategy of an 8-week election (that the caucus didn’t want), I put this one on the heads of the Martin “Board.”
    When it’s the unelected folks who made all the bad decisions, look out — MPs will be furious.

  8. Spiderman, aka Erik Bornman, can do the job: Locks mean nothing to Spiderman. No need to call the plumbers, either. Right, Dick (Nixon)?
    Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue
    Published: 2005-05-10 08:17:00
    By Bill Tieleman
    TheTyee.ca
    The Basi-Virk-BC Rail probe may yield BC�s biggest scandal yet. If so, meet the Crown�s mysterious star witness: �Spiderman� Erik Bornman.
    Erik Bornman�s nickname is Spiderman but the former top Paul Martin aide is now stuck in a sticky web of intrigue that includes the tainted $1 billion BC Rail privatization deal, drug trafficking, influence peddling and the impending high-profile trial of accused ex-BC Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.
    How did Bornman, a well-connected BC and federal Liberal operative, become the crown�s key witness against his former friends Basi and Virk in the trial arising from the dramatic police raid on the BC Legislature in December 2003?
    Why are most media outlets all but ignoring Bornman and his extensive links to both the federal and provincial Liberal governments?
    And why has one of BC�s top Supreme Court justices refused to release information about two mysterious search warrants connected to the case before the May 17 provincial election?
    These unanswered questions are just part of one of the most fascinating scandals in BC political history and it�s far from over.
    The whole story will not likely come out until Bornman testifies against Basi and Virk sometime in 2006, when their trial on allegations of bribery, influence peddling and breach of trust is scheduled to occur.
    But in the meantime, much is known about Bornman and his pivotal role in the scandal that has rocked two governments.
    Dirty tricks resume
    Bornman, 28, is a controversial figure even within the BC and federal Liberal parties, with a chequered past that includes some dubious political activities.
    Bornman earned his nickname Spiderman after he entered a locked federal Liberal Party office � which contained the BC membership list during the time of the leadership battle between Paul Martin and Jean Chretien � through the ceiling.
    In 1999, Bornman helped organize a federal Young Liberal convention in Victoria�s Traveller’s Inn that turned into a drunken hotel-trashing. The party was sued for $10,000 in damages by owner John Asfar but he settled out of court.
    Surprisingly, in 2003 Bornman was listed as the registered lobbyist for Asfar’s efforts to locate a casino in a Victoria hotel.>>>
    tyee.ca
    Oh what a tangled web we weave
    When first we practice to deceive. – Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808)
    shakespeareonline

  9. Wat’s this mean?>> Canoenews (web)site >>>
    Martin backs Goodale
    LONGUEUIL, Que. (CP) – A possible leak that could hurt the Liberals dominated the election campaign Friday with Paul Martin confirming people in his office knew of a decision on income trusts before it was made public.

  11. The media will look back after the 23rd and say the TSN turning point for the demise of the Lieberals was “RCMP INCOME TRUST CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED”. and to think even me as a rookie political junkie can see he should have stepped aside and would have been able to sell that position easier to his riding and probably deflated this topic from front page. Wait to go Ralph Goodale, all those years in office and you screw it up on such a simple thing like keeping your staff and PMO’s mouth shut. You will be in the history books as “IDIOT”

  12. PMO office knew about the announcement.
    of course at the intersection of Bay Street and Sussex drive is where the Liberals and their cronies guard the status quo and pay themselves the dividends.
    maybe PMPM is saying he leaked it?? Medisys???

  13. The Globe and Mail
    Aide in Martin PMO says he was paid by Corriveau. By TU THANH HA AND DANIEL LEBLANC. Thursday, May 26, 2005, Page A1. MONTREAL, OTTAWA — A staff member in …
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050526/GOMERY26/TPFront/TopStories – 17k ->>>>
    PMO? Nah, that was Chretien.Chretien knew nothing. AdScam Martin knew nothing.
    Now, in Income Trust corruption, while Goodale knows nothing, Martin knows everything. But, he did not know nothing. ?

  14. I can’t help this feeling that there will be a “sacrafical lamb” in this. It will be decided over the weekend, will this person be from the finance office or the PM’s office? Monday morning, they will have something to say, and hope that this goes away. Then the negative ads will start. The best was Steven Harper on the National tonight. Telling the reporters that he didn’t have anything to say and that the Liebreal’s are the ones that have all of the explaining to do! That’s class, sometimes its best to just say nothing!

  16. Let’s hope the people in his riding do the right thing. Maybe someone could get a surplus police car and park it in front of his office.

  17. Just saw on CTV news the Queen’s Cowboys have contacted Mr. Goodale. He will be “helping police with their enquiries” next week.

  18. I predict the lamb will come from the PMO. All a big misunderstanding really…….
    Staffer A…… “I accidently let it slip to my dear sweet granny who only trades on sundays…. it turns out it was bingo day at the legion……..well things got out of hand…”
    This will allow PMPM to do the right thing….”See I cleaned it all up….”
    All that remains to be settled is the price Staffer A requires to fall on the proverbial sword. Perhaps an emergency untendered $400,000.00 contract to study the feasability of government funded universal dolphin daycares!! (see Kates next post for further information regarding the urgent need for aforementioned daycares)

  19. Hey Mary M,
    I totally agree with you on your “sacrificial lamb” theory. I also think the Liberals are grooming a fallguy as we speak.

  20. Hey McScotty:
    I have one other comparision:
    I live on the lake, I watch these little black birds called coot’s. They swim around and feed until the Big EAGLE flys over! They quickly swim into a tight huddle and then they kick out the one they are going to sacrifice. The elderly, sick or which every member of the flock that is no longer needed. (I do have a short video, recent video on digitial. I always cheer for the one that got away! Cheers!

  22. How about Scott Ried–he has soiled himself already so hewould be deadwood to the Liberals for ow anyway. It is an insult to comare him to a lamb, he is more like a coyote–but he made himelf expendable

  26. You realize of course that if this election degenerates into a your winger said something worse on his personal web log when he wasn’t on party time than my winger did argument, then I am going to be less than impressed.
    Remember H. L. Mencken’s prescription: “The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
    This is an election. Each voter has to pick from a menu of stolen goods to be autioned off. My bet in this election is Mr. Harper, because he’s the only one who seems to have some common sense between his ears.

  27. Here’s Pauly’s spin, from an AM640 Montreal story (linked by Bourque):
    “I knew,” the prime minister told a news conference after a speech to Muslims at an Islamic community centre south of Montreal. “I’m one of them. “The fact is that the people who would be on a need-to-know basis would have that kind of information. The fact is that these discussions, they flow up so it would be on a need-to-know basis.”
    The last sentence is key. This is the tactic of the pathological liar – sneaking in a big lie at the end, made to sound like a simple addition to a train of thought. Most of us know, decisions like this, as with all major decisions in Canadian politics, flow DOWN from the PMO. I believe this is further evidence that hapless Ralphie is caught having to cover for his corrupt masters in the PMO, who told him when to make the announcement, and then put the call in to Lib donors on the Street. Is it possible there was an implicit understanding to kick back part of the proceeds to the party?
    No matter what happens, no one should feel sorry for Ralphie Boy…he chose to be part of this crooked Liberal enterprise. Believing he could clean it up, and not get pulled into the web, was pure stupidity on his part.

  28. If Pauly was an officer his Sgt would be about to hand him a revolver with one cartridge.

  29. Vitruvius,
    Well said regarding! Everyone is covering everyone else’s butt! This protects the next butt. (I really mean ass!)

  30. There is at least one person I would be talking to in Goodale’s office, and that’s his director of communications. Remember him? The guy who made the phone call to an old man that had the guy’s organization backtracking on a story they had given CTV? And then called him old and confused?

  31. Goodale Will Sing, er, Talk.
    Goodale announces his first campaign photo-op.
    When: Next Week.
    Topic: Does Corruption/Crime Pay? Sub-topic: What is “trust”?
    Where: In Wascana riding? Broad Street campaign office? Coffee shop? Legion Hall? Mosque?
    Will it be a success? Will Goodale win votes? (Suggestion for Goody’s campaign manager: Take copies of Martin’s Red Book for distribution.)
    Goodale will “allow” the RCMP to set the agenda. The haute noblesse oblige from the Liberal oligarchy. The grilling is “just talks”. Donna worry, eh, Gag. Shades of Librano$$$$$$ >>>
    Goodale Set For Talks With Mounties On Trusts
    By SIMON TUCK
    Friday, December 30, 2005 Posted at 7:10 PM EST
    From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
    Finance Minister Ralph Goodale says that he and other government officials are scheduled to meet with the RCMP next week as part of the criminal investigation into whether the federal government’s plans for income trusts were leaked.
    Mr. Goodale confirmed yesterday that he discussed the plans with “one or two senior” government officials outside his staff and the Department of Finance before announcing them Nov. 23, including Prime Minister Paul Martin.
    Mr. Martin rallied behind his beleaguered Finance Minister for the second straight day, rejecting opposition demands that Mr. Goodale resign because of the criminal investigation into whether there was a leak or insider trading.
    Mr. Goodale said he has no particular message for police and will allow investigators to set the agenda.>>>
    globeandmail.com

  32. Does anyone remember back when Goodale was the Minister of Agriculture and presided over the action taken against Western grain farmers who attempted to sell their grain in the US? His actions supported the Govt and the Wheat Board over the valid aspirations of farmers. At one point, when legal action against a group of Manitoba farmers did not succeed, the law was changed so that they could go back and successfully prosecute them. Grain trucks and other property were confiscated and farmers were put in jail, on of them in his 70’s. Some of them ended up sending more time in jail than some recent murder convictions have yielded – apparently challenging the Wheat Board may be a higher crime than murder.
    Goodale showed at that time that his priority is to enforce the will of his Liberal masters in Ottawa, rather than representing his Sask constituency in Ottawa and consequently he is considered to be a traitor by many in Sask. If he does go down now, by supporting his boss, it will be seen as long delayed justice by many.

  33. Wild Rose said:
    “At one point, when legal action against a group of Manitoba farmers did not succeed, the law was changed so that they could go back and successfully prosecute them.”
    Ex-Post Facto Laws: How Tyrants Abuse Power.>>>
    In The Constitution of Liberty, F. A. Hayek (1960: 205-20) notes that some coercion, while unavoidable in a civil society, can be minimized by requiring that coercive actions comply with general rules that are known in advance by individuals. If individuals know the law, they can base their actions upon established rules and minimize the ill effects of coercion. Hayek states that not all legislative enactments will satisfy the three criteria of what he calls “true law”–generality, certainty, and equality. He argues that true law provides the general rules which minimize coercion and that legislative enactments which do not satisfy these criteria are objectionable. He writes that the law must be general, that it must be known and certain, and that it should apply equally to all. A necessary condition for the law to be known and certain is a prohibition on ex post facto laws. After all, the law can hardly be known and certain if new laws can be made to apply retroactively to actions already performed.
    From a policy standpoint, as Hayek’s analysis indicates, ex post facto laws are riddled with problems. >>>
    cato.org

  34. Paul Martin knew. Did he tell his physician, the owner of Medisys who saw his stock rise by 200,000 shares before the close of trading?

  35. Re the Globe & Mail article: Will any MSM reporter dare ask Goodale if he will have his lawyer present when he talks to the RCMP?

  36. Interesting the RCMP seem to be “investigating” so unusually quickly. Why? So it’ll look like they’re truly independent? So they can, despite claims it could last beyond Jan. 23rd, wrap it up, completely “exonerating” everyone of the Martin gang due to “lack of evidence” before the vote?
    Since when do the RCMP have, all of a sudden, the resources with which to do their job? Perhaps some cops were pulled from gun registry duty or, worse, counterterrorism duty?
    I just know everything’s screwed up in Canada. Thank Paulie M.

  37. I doubt if the RCMP will necessarily actually grill Ralphie G. Maybe they’ll just get together for beer and popcorn, and Good Old Ralphie G. will immediately return to gladhanding and posing as if he’s of impeccable, unimpeachable character. Well, I’ve long believed anyone who remains a “Liberal” after all we’ve learned about the “Liberal” Party has some ethical problems that allow them to rationalize remaining with the LibMob.
    Perhaps Ralph is a good man, but even then, he’s still a loyal “Liberal” and that’s a problem serious enough to warrant his defeat this election.

  38. “Ralphie’s’ as pure as the driven slush. I offered up a post yesterday to the G&M which they wouldn’t post, big suprise. I referred to Medisys and how easy it really is to trace the trades back to the client’s of the brokerage houses that did the trades. The thing I like is that PMPM admits that he knew of the timing and content of the announcement, yet at first “Ralphie” said only himself and his closest departmental aids knew. The bilge rats are busily scurrying about, stepping in their own shit,while trying to distract, deceive, confuse, cover up and hide their tracks. What’s that song, “It’s too late baby.”

  39. Bruce; Suprise! Suprise! Guess what, you are not the only one that they sensored. I too, submitted an article re: Medisys Income Trust and Paulie’s private Doctor and I was sensored! It just goes to show what you can’t put in the comments to the Glob!

  40. Mary; it was your post here that inspired me to give it a go and see what would happen. Apparently the editors there didn’t like my analysis.

  41. Ah, yes, of course. You two have experienced for yourselves personally exactly what I’ve been writing about for months. The MSM will usually reject even looking into the truth if it might embarrass or electorally harm the Liberals. Most particularly they protect the Liberal leader.
    I, before discovering the blogs just this past spring, had half of my comments to Canada.com’s news site censored. I was pretty certain they were acceptable, not being libellous, profane or pejorative to anyone, but I guess the censors thought they were too bold for the people to read. Probably didn’t want me to open anyone’s eyes with logic, perspective, etc. Never went back to comment there. So here I am…

  42. All of the MSM seems to be Liberal syncophants. What’s preventing anyone from starting up a truly independent news outlet with its own newspaper, tv, radio and internet reach? I suspect it’s the CRTC.
    It’s financially possible in more than one way. And there’s the desire of millions of Canadians for such a truly independent media outlet with wide reaching communications to everyone.
    I believe the only truly free press in Canada today is right here on the internet. That’d explain the exploding appetite of the people for blogs and independent, internet based news sites such as Canada Free Press and World Net Daily.
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com

  43. Some of them ended up sending more time in jail than some recent murder convictions have yielded – apparently challenging the Wheat Board may be a higher crime than murder.
    Of course it’s a higher crime – killing your neighbor doesn’t put bureaucrats’ careers in danger.

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