Because nominating “Canada’s most respected CEO” as chair of the proposed public appointments commission sets all the wrong precedents;
“The job comes with a salary of $1 a year.”
Because nominating “Canada’s most respected CEO” as chair of the proposed public appointments commission sets all the wrong precedents;
“The job comes with a salary of $1 a year.”
Why does criticism of X (in this case, the Liberal Party) mean that one is biased?
Couldn’t it mean, instead, that one is truthful, and that the Liberal Party deserves criticism?
Again, this is an key component of the Liberal ideology – You Must Not Dissent. You must not criticize; that is unCanadian.
By the way – check out Ignatieff’s new mantra. He is defining the Liberal Party as ‘ideological’, with a ‘grand vision’ and Harper as ‘without a grand vision’. That’s a typical Liberal style – which is to move into Great Nation Rhetoric, a tactic based on and only on, ‘the emotions of patriotism’..and ignore the ‘bricolage’ reality of nuts and bolts reality on the ground. Remember Martin’s puffing about ‘I love Canada’..and attacking Harper about whether he ‘loves Canada’? Who cares? And note, Harper instead, spoke to EveryMan Canadian, not the rhetoric of the mob.
So- we’ll see. Can the Liberal Party break free of its focus only on mob propaganda, emotional hype and emotive manipulation? I doubt it.
From the CBC Web site:
“Popular Calgary oil executive Gwyn Morgan has been nominated by Stephen Harper to chair the prime minister’s proposed public appointments commission….
“Gwyn Morgan will earn $1 a year if the appointment is approved. But Liberal MP Navdeep Bains objected to Morgan’s nomination, saying he was openly pro-Conservative.”
Surprise, surprise. Stephen Harper nominates someone who is “pro-Conservative” for a position and a Librano MP (Morally ‘Poverished?) is upset.
That takes the cake. These Librano$: oy vey.
“There’s no doubt that there’s a clear bias in Morgan’s remarks,” Bains told Canadian Press.”
Agreed. After reading the quotes attributable to Mr. Morgan, he is biased. Against corruption. Mismanagement. Deception.
Good choice for Canada. Sure beats another Dingwall, Pelletier or Ouelette.
Oh yeah. And I meant to mention: Where is it that we heard that Librano MP Navdeep Bain isn’t happy with PMSH’s nomination of Gwyn Morgan as the chair of the prime minister’s proposed public appointments commission?
FROM THE CBC, that Canadian paragon of neutrality.
LOL
Dog in the manger…the Libranos don’t really want the job it only pays 1$. They just don’t want anyone else to have it either.
“There’s no doubt that there’s a clear bias in Morgan’s remarks,” Bains told Canadian Press. “It shows a lack of judgment on making his comments, and more importantly, this individual is supposed to be in a non-partisan position to end patronage.”
To Liberals, merely speaking the truth shows lack of judgment. Liberals are allergic to truth.
They just can’t stand sucking hind tit can they?
Harper seems to know just how give them a sore stomach without looking like he is.
I love it.
I’d hate to see how big Morgan’s severance will be if he ever gets fired.
What’ll it be $3.24 ?
Almost enough for 4 packs of gum.
According to Elections Canada Gwyn Morgan donated $5000 in 2005 to the Liberal Party. He hardly seems to have a partisan agenda against the Liberal Party.
The Libranos live in a glass house.
What do they think they’re doing, throwing these stones?
It’s astonishing to infinity that the Libranos would complain about appointing someone to a high-level cs position who happens to be a supporter of the governing party.
Canadians will just laugh at the Libranos for saying such hypocritical stuff. After all, they did all the wrong things as if they were divinely entitled to while no one else is.
Mr. Morgan donated $5000 to the Libranos? Well, maybe he has massive brainfarts in between his better judgement, I guess… LOL
Why donate to the Libranos? They took our money already anyway! And still haven’t returned the, what was it, $40 million?
well maybe if PMSH could find an honest Liberal or a Dipper with a modicum of common sense, he would have asked one to sit as Chair,. . . but none exist so . . . gotta go with the one that brung ya . . .
Morgan’s ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR SALARY could certainly be precedent setting for national and multi-national CEOs across board and perhaps will influence same to do likewise — not quite.
In 21st century tech age, it’s time for doubling, tripling of average man’s salary and reducing 40-60 hour work weeks to 20 hours — job sharing could be part of this complex. Family life and ensuing health benefits would proliferate. Plebisite across nation on young mothers daycare preferences could be attained and if the result is that women could afford to remain home with newborns and underagers then the corporate/industrial/banking and real estate industries would be hailed for finally instituting their contributions to growing social and economic crises.
The social and economic deathknell is sounding and those in power to institute 21`st century’s solutions are ignoring it to even their own detriment.
Check out Jack’s Newswatch newsblog dealing with issues of import. Solutions are there. It’s up to body politic to demand implementation.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, does that sound reasonable. Will he work out of Mexico. Sheep herding in North America. Novel anyway.
You guys are missing the point. The point is, why couldn’t they find a Liberal to do the job?
Bains is from my neck of the woods; fairly intelligent guy, I think – for a Liberal anyway.
But everytime I see him all I can think about is how the Libs used to sit him several rows behind Paul “Air Guitar God” Martin, and my sneaking suspicion was always that they did so because they wanted a guy with a turban in every shot, token-like.
partisanship is the ro(o)t of all evil kate. doesn’t matter if it’s a liberal or a conservative. seemingly, small dead animals becomes, increasingly, more interested in bashing a dead govt and less dedicated to promoting the new one. harper’s transparency becomes more transparent all the time. while i enjoy your photography, i question your motives of late.
I agree Davidson.
Thirteen years of corrupt,do nothing ,but promise anything, government tends to make me a little partisan in my thinking.
In time I’m sure it will pass.
I disagree Douglas. It isn’t going to pass for a long, long time.
To answer your question, Libby Raoul (April 23, 2006 06:58 PM): “…why couldn’t they find a Liberal to do the job?”
There weren’t any Librano$ willing to do the job for less than six figures…
This is just the tip of the iceburg. The real dirt on the liberanos is yet to be uncovered. Whe it does, then maybe the people of this country will do what they should of done back in May when those scumballs refused to step down after they were voted down.
Hundreds of millions of Canadian taxpayers stolen by Librano$. Kick them while they are down. Harder & faster.
Porkbusters unite> You have nothing to lose but Liberal corruption/crime.
Exhibit:
Your money, their legal bills
by Romeo St. Martin
[PoliticsWatch Posted 3:00 p.m. April 21, 2006]
The Usual Suspects: Five players, one scandal, over $1.5-million in legal fees. Alphonso Gagliano, David Dingwall, Paul Martin, Jean Chretien and Chuck Guite have billed the government over $1.5 million combined for their Gomery inquiry legal bills.
OTTAWA � Canadians are on the hook already for nearly $2.8 million in legal fees for a number of witnesses who appeared at the Gomery inquiry. +
http://www.politicswatch.com/gomery-april21-2006.htm
Over at Instapundit this report:
April 23, 2006
porkbustersnewsm.jpgPORKBUSTERS UPDATE: This is pretty cool. In the Philadelphia Inquirer PorkBusters gets called “the most effective citizen-journalist watchdog movement in a generation.”
I don’t know about that — it sounds like a bit of an exaggeration — but it’s nice to hear. There’s no question that PorkBusters has gotten a fair amount of attention, and that politicians are at least embarrassed about pork. +
Meanwhile, the Canadian MSM is working all out, against Harper and the CPC. I can’t watch any Canadian news, for all of it is Mike Duffy, Jane Taber, Newmand, and various others whose names I forget…all, with one agenda. Attack Harper, attack the Conservatives, on and on and on. About how badly the CPC are doing, how Harper said X two years ago..and now…It’s endless.
You’d almost think there’s an election going on, and the Liberals were in power, with their ever-ready propaganda arm, the MSM, hard at work.
The Liberal candidates, rather than focusing on developing policies (what? a Liberal with a policy?) are focusing only on ‘How I am different from the Conservatives/Harper’. And, for some reason – moving the env’t right up front.
What’s going on?
Well, yeah! I can see the point expressed by Bains. Rather than appoint this $1 per year guy with a laudable background and reputation, his Liberal Party would have appointed one of their bag men or a buddy of the PM for $250,000 per year (plus perks) for about 6 months at which time he’d be caught doing something crooked or stupid and they’d fire him with a severance in an amount we peons can only dream of. Keep talking Mr. Bains ….. Canadians know how squeaky clean you guys are and how you can be trusted to run the country without the faintest smell of favouritism or pay-off.
This nomination is wrong in so many ways, to save boring you I will mention only three. Firstly, no such choices should ever be made without the approval of the Liberal Party of Canada. Such action is simply un-Canadian. Secondly, the candidate is from west of Toronto. Surely no one should be excused for committing such an egregious no-no. Thirdly, the LPC has built up a magnificent structure of precedent in always ensuring that such appointments go to only worthy patronage recipients at magnificent scales of remuneration. If Harper’s nominee is allowed to go forward this magnificent structure will surely come crashing down. Oh my Canada will never be the same again! (For true Liberals only – sarcasm alert)
One other thing B.W. it doesnt have Maurice Strong’s paw prints all over it.
It appears this Liberal MP continues to have his head firmly enchonsed in his rectum. Jake
http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1141/
read it and weep. he’s a bold faced liar.
damn that’s cheap! $1 per year to have it your way? even burger king can’t give it to you like you want it for less than that.
oh for sure, he must be damn good to go for $1 per year.
hope he gives it to you all, next time for free 🙂
$1 a year…
Plus expenses, obviously.
Same pork, different hog. Anyone who believes a Harper minority government is going to change how things are done in the country is delusional.
+ 60 % of Canadians are now delusional… well, when the Auditor G’s report is clear in a month or so…
it may be a good time for the liberals to really show us how “we” don’t support the minority gov’t.
So ex-Voter, what do your other nine buddies think?
Did someone here say that Mr. Bains wears a turban? Well, then. That would explain his illogical thinking : surely he has wrapped it much too tightly around his head. :))
Oh those poor deluded Lieberals. They just can’t bear to stare reality in the eye. It’s a wonder they can even look at themselves in the mirror.
Conservatives or Liberals…just two heads on the same snake. Emerson is the perfect example of this, “switching sides” without missing a heartbeat. Hypocrite Harper is no better, with all his talk about “ethics and accountability,” followed by his appointment of two time electoral loser and good buddy Fortier to the Senate and then to Cabinet.
Before entering the Cabinet, Fortier was a partner at Ogilvy Renault, a leading Montreal law firm. One of his colleagues was Brian Mulroney. He specialized in securities, mergers and acquisitions. From 1992 to 1996, he managed Ogilvy Renault�s office in London, England. In 1999, he became the Managing Director and Senior Advisor (Eastern Canada) at Cr�dit Suisse First Boston. In 2004, Fortier became Corporate Financing Director (Quebec) for TD Securities. Two days after his appointment to Cabinet Montreal Gazette columnist Ian McDonald claimed that Fortier �was easily making $1 million a year running the Montreal office of TD Securities.� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fortier
Definitely not your kind of guy eh sparticus
anonymous 6:52 PM April 23,
Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that? We need to double or triple the average salary while reducing the work week from 40-60 hours to 20 hours if only we had the political will.
Absolutely! Where do I sign on?
sparticus perhaps this man is your hero http://counterspin.tv/comments.pl?sid=340&cid=5715
Hey, Dave Balderstone (April 23, 2006 11:19 PM), re your comment “Anyone who believes a Harper minority government is going to change how things are done in the country is delusional”:
In case you haven’t noticed he’s changing the way a lot of things are being done already. Where’ve ya been?
“Bains, who is the MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, told Canadian Press that Morgan had been openly critical of the Liberal party in a speech to the Empire Club two months ago”
The entiled Librano form the entitlement capital of Canada is entiteled to his opinion and his entitlemants….but of course this culture is alegic to seeing merit based appointment.
Whither the entitlement culture in the pending meritocracy?
Someone mentioned Emmerson crossing the floor again. He just crossed for a cabinet job. Bob Rae is crossing the floor to be the next P.M. Where is the outrage over this. Will the dippers vote for him and put poor Jack out of a job, and unite the left.
This ones is really going to break the bank. Canadians should be thankful that a successful man of integrity will perform this service.
Bains should be a happy man .
the last time I saw Gwynn he was in a lotus position.
‘i am you , and you are we and we are all together.’
thought Id better end it with the islamic part of the song.
“see how they run like pigs from a gun , see how they fly.
Im cryin’, Im cryyyyyyyyyin’ , Im cryin’
sitting on a cornflake , waiting for oSama to come.