CTV;
Asked if anyone outside the department of finance was involved in the decision- making process on the income trust announcement, Goodale said it was a “very, very closely held” decision, involving senior staff members and “one or two other senior people outside the party.”
h/t to Maz2, in the comments.
Leaky Goodale says: No Leak… but….
CARP says it got notice of Goodale announcement
Kathy Tomlinson, CTV News
Finance Minister Ralph Goodale denies anyone in his office leaked word of changes to income trust policy, even as one man told CTV News he was tipped off in a phone call from one of the minister’s senior advisors.
In the hours before Goodale announced that the federal government was increasing the tax credit on corporate dividends two weeks ago, there was heavier-than-usual trading in income trusts and dividend-paying stocks. That has fuelled speculation that some investors profited from an early warning.
Goodale has insisted all along 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.”
But a representative of Canada’s most influential seniors’ lobby group says he got a phone call on the morning of Nov. 23, several hours before the markets closed, and before Goodale made his announcement.
Protocol is that a finance minister never gives word of a policy change while the markets are still open. >>
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Ralph, you promised Canadians you would have “talks” with the RCMP this week. Please advise date, time, location of the “talks”.
Will you have a photo-op before, during, and after the “talks”? The red coats of the Mounties will surely harmonize well with your Liberal Red signs, brochures, Chretien/Martin’s Red Book. Is your face red, Ralph; red, with embarrassment?
“Talks”, Ralph: just “talks”. Go, Ralph, for the “talks”. RSVP
The Globes Sandra Cordon has started the scary campaign for the Lie-beral’s, her articles by-line starts with, “Big, bad Tories”.
Excellent piece in the Calgary Sun by Ezra Levant
today.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2006/01/02/1375638.html
In a previous post I pointed out the connection that these two Medisys directors have to BCE, which through Bell Globe Media, owns the CTV and the Globe and Mail.
Mr. John McLennan
Mr. John McLennan has been Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of AT&T Canada since May 2002. Prior thereto he was President and founder of his own firm, Jenmark Consulting Inc., specializing in strategy, finance and management of technology companies in Canada and the U.S., with a primary focus on telecommunications. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. McLennan was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada.
Louis A. Tanguay
Mr. Louis A. Tanguay is Co-Vice Chairman of the Board of RONA Inc. Prior to December 2001, he occupied several executive positions in the BCE Inc. group of companies. In addition, Mr. Tanguay currently sits on the board of a number of BCE Inc. affiliated companies. He is also a director of several other corporations and organizations such as RONA Inc., Saputo Inc. and A�roports de Montr�al.
According to the Captains Quarters post on the estimated profits from the Income Trust Scandal trading, the BCE controlled income trust yielded the bulk of the trades and the potential profits. Check it out at Captains Quarters in the Canada archive.
Goodale’s buddy, longtime cash supporter, & etc. was at the “meeting”.
Donald W. Black, C.M.
Chief Executive Officer
Greystone Managed Investments Inc >>>
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