39 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Libranos!”

  2. It is often said that a good lawyer knows the answer before they ask the question. I am guessing Pierre has full knowledge of who sold those shares. That being said, can’t an investigation be opened under the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) into Insider Trading?

  3. Willy Porno is turning out to be a bigger liability to the Liberals than PM Socks,,, and that’s really hard to do!!

  4. Morneau and the government benches are bad enough, but that Speaker is supposed to be impartial and keep his mouth shut. Instead, he keeps running interference for the Liberals, proving everyone’s worst expectations of him being a Liberal partisan who doesn’t understand the first thing about his role and office.

  5. “Can the Minister tell us who sold those shares”… the answer is yes he can tell you who sold those shares, but no he won’t because Morneau like all Libranos is a crook… clearly Morneau sold those shares and if he didn’t personally sell those shares than he alerted someone at Moron Shepell to do so. Anyone else notice how the Librano speaker Regan attempted to shield Morneau from answering the question by stating the question was “irrelevant”…? Irrelevant to whom? As Judge Gomery stated, “the Liberals foster and nurture a culture of corruption”, Canada is back baby! No 16 dollar orange juice or paying back the taxpayer so no Media “outrage”, just business as usual for the Libranos and their corporate Media whores. As smilin Don Martin at CTV likes to say whenever a Librano scandal emerges, “is this story over yet”? “I mean does this story have legs?” No Don, thanks to crotch stains like you this story doesn’t have legs.

  6. Mentioned at beginning of QP “Liberal MP’s are speaking out about Morneau…they are embarrassed”
    Really?? Who?

  8. thanks! I just requested the information on who sold the shares on the dates set out. Should be fun!

  9. I wish one of the Conservatives had pointed out the stock market went up not due to the insider trading of the Liberal government but rather the result of the increased markets brought on by the election of Donald Trump. Not the result of anything the Liberals did

  10. Morneau always has that smug look about him that says “Who do these ingrates think they are to question me after all I have done for Canada? Do they not know that I am the smartest person in the room?”
    Morneau should ask Goodale for advice. Remember how Ralphie somehow survived the income trusts insider trading scandal just before the 2006 election.

  11. Thanks Jaedo Drax. I used that link to send the following to the Ontario Securities Commission. It’s easy to do and I recommend everyone submit their concern.
    As Finance Minister William Morneau represents my interests as a citizen, his integrity must be beyond reproach. In question period on Nov. 27th he was asked numerous times whether 680,000 shares of Morneau Shepell were sold by himself immediately prior to the introduction of new tax legislation. That legislation resulted in a drop in share price for the company, a drop avoided by whomever sold the shares. Mr. Morneau refused to deny selling the shares in question leaving taxpayers like myself concerned whether insider knowledge unavailable to others was used to protect the value of his stock.
    Insider trading is considered a serious infraction of financial transactions and should be considered VERY serious if a Minister of the Crown, particularly the finance minister is involved. Will you investigate to see whether the 680000 shares belonged to the Minister? Will you inform the public if in fact, the Finance Minister sold the shares in advance of tabling the new legislation?

  12. Above all libranos value loyalty. If you have to take one for the team, well you do it. You will be rewarded even if it’s years down the road.
    Morneau is clearly lying and if you look at the librano bench they know he is. Nobody is standing and cheering him on. They are stonewalling hoping this issue can be swept under the rug.
    The Securities Commission is loath to investigate the Minister. A private individual would have his ass in a sling over something like this but no civil servant wants to end their career tangling with a Minister. This isn’t the USA.
    So the game continues until someone delivers a manila envelope with damaging evidence on the Minister. This is not likely to happen but hey hope springs eternal after what happened at Wilfred Laurier University.
    Morneau is rumoured to have indicated he will not seek re election. If that is true bongo has the perfect out. He replaces him and Morneau disappears.

  14. Does anyone feel like the deplorable’s Killary mentioned in her Speeches. We are Morneau and SOCK PUPPETS DEPLORABLES…..WE NEED TO STAND UP THE LIBRANO’S!!! VOTE OUT THE LIEBRALS OUT IN 2019!!

  15. I doubt the Ontario Securities Commission will do anything. He owns a numbered Ont. company that owns an Alberta numbered company. Maybe his wife sold them.

  16. To Key Picker: sure, feel free. However, if you’re sending a complaint to the OSC, using your own voice would lend more weight.

  17. Same – cut, pasted, submitted.
    Maybe Kate could paste the link as a “Pollspotting” … SDA’ers seem to move mountains on those!

  18. I was going to suggest that Morneau’s dancing around the question of whose shares were sold was outrageous, but after further consideration, I determined it’s standard operating procedure for this bunch of lying thieves. It must be awfully hard, sitting in the House, listening to this sh!+, not to yell out, “ANSWER ToHE F***ING QUESTION!” 2019 can’t come soon enough.

  19. If this continues Morneau will be the troublesome individual for the liberals at the next election. If you noticed Sock monkey has been talking about anything other than taxes and the middow clath. Other thinks that have arisen of late are making the usual liberal talking points implausible.
    Liberals are all about empowering women…er..just ignore all those stories about prominent liberal politicians and accusations of sexual abuse.
    Liberals are all about free speech….but just ignore what happened at Laurier university.
    Liberals are all about helping the middle class…please pay no attention to those accusations about Morneau and how he used those loopholes they denounced as being used by tax cheats.
    Liberals are all about transparency….now stop asking about those 1k per plate fund raisers with Juthtin.
    This leaves them with selfie sessions with folks that are not able to cast a ballot or have the privilege of having source deductions on their income. The problem with that is that eventually the sock monkey will encounter a hostile crowd not interested in selfies.

  20. See the problem, he could have said “I don’t know” or “no” if it wasn’t him or someone that represents him. He chose talking points instead.

  23. This could finish him or – if Trudeau sticks by him – the LPC the next election. If it’s one thing Canadians hate in politicians it’s personally profiting from their positions.
    And Trudeau is just arrogant enough to stick by this crook.

  24. The speaker of the house said he wasn’t sure how selling those shares has anything to do with the government.
    Really? Has the speaker not been paying attention? Morneau has admitted that his own company and its shares were not put into a blind trust as required after he entered government and now it has come to light that someone used insider information to dump their shares just prior to the tabling of new legislation that Morneau’s own department wrote.
    Morneau’s ass should have been fired from cabinet weeks ago.

  25. In other news, CRA is really going after the average taxpayer. Should you actually have the temerity to own a mutual fund which invests overseas, you are in big doo-doo. Said funds often pay taxes to said overseas countries, and same is reported on a T3 although without any information as to which countries received said taxes. Now CRA is – retroactively and without any notice – denying the taxpayers with T3’s any foreign tax credits unless said taxpayers can produce details as to which countries charged said taxes. Am coping with one friend now, and am determined to pursue this as far as have too, just out of spite. But a lot of taxpayers will just forfeit the money to CRA as – even though they’re entitled to the deduction – it’s too expensive to pursue same.
    The next time you read the statistics about how much CRA has “recovered”, just thing about the percentage of said recoverage is because of essentially the auditor wouldn’t listen and the client had neither the means nor the ability to go up against what was clearly an unjust claim.
    It’s still a comment around tax preparers: if CRA comes for a client, give them something – advise the client to pay – and, maybe if you’re lucky, CRA will go away. If it makes the CRA seem rather like the Mafia, so be it. Was once at a CRA-sponsored seminar where the CRA men were told essentially that there was talk in the accounting community that this was the case. Men up front looked rather dazed; obviously they had no idea what went on in the real world. Actually, given tone of the meeting, was surprised the attendees hadn’t set up a tar-and-feathering venue just outside SAIT.

  26. Watch Morneau twist? Not. He just ignored the questions. Talked election-style propaganda.
    Just like Trudeau did when being asked an embarrassing question.
    Typical Liberal tactics.
    And it works. They’ll be re-elected with another majority. Only Conservatives are held to account.

  27. I glanced at the first part of it. Nailing Jell-O to a wall is considerably easier than getting Morneau to properly answer the questions that the opposition members asked.
    If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with…..

  28. The government and Morneau are caught in a trap. The government cannot get Morneau to resign because it’s then admitting that what Morneau has been accused of is in fact the truth. The government would have to resign.
    Morneau cannot answer the question, because if he says ‘not me’ and it’s later found out that he, a family member or friend on his behalf sold the shares, Morneau could be charged and convicted by the House of perjury. If he says yes, he would have to immediately resign his seat for committing a breach of the House Code of Conduct. The government would find it impossible to maintain itself office for such gross corruption and have to resign.
    So they have no choice but to stonewall, hoping that no indisputable evidence arises of a criminal nature for which the Speaker would have to take notice.

  29. Notice the NP headline “Conservatives Attack…..”
    Of course it would never be “Suspicious share sale of Morneau Shappell”

  30. The libranos own ottawa. The speaker the ethics commissioner-they’re all beholden to the libranos.
    If any of these people stood up to the libranos they would be destroyed.

  31. Pushing the tax changes to private corporations is politically the most stupid thing Liberals has done so far, carbon taxes are close second. Let them do it and they won’t be re-elected for the long time.

  33. They mention November 30th. The sale takes place in 2015.
    That is very soon after the election, what am I missing?

  34. Actually the biggest damage if Morneau resigns is that he would have to be replaced by one of the liberal caucus.
    Think about that for a moment.
    How many ambitious MP’s are there in that bunch that would want the finance portfolio?
    Which ones would consider it a personal insult if they didn’t get it. Of those which ones would do something to extract revenge for said oversight?
    That’s if Morneau is removed/resigns.
    If he stays, the meme that Juthtin is protecting him becomes credible and subsequently any of the abuses that Porno is accused of will be assigned to Juthtin by association.
    So Juthtin is left with choosing to let this issue fester and grow.
    This brings in another issue.
    Those liberal ridings the liberals gained by a small margin that are considered swing ridings. Those MP’s, especially the blu-lib variety, might be getting a tad nervous about their re-election prospects and really want this to go away. Would they or have they voiced their opinion at caucus? Are they willing to go so far as asking for Morneau to consider not running next election, and would they leak such information to the media?
    If I’m not mistaken there has been such speculation within the media.
    The point is that much like Paul Martin, Morneau has become the conservatives new best friend.

  36. You are right about the marginal ridings. This is about the time when they’re getting nervous about re-election, particularly if the Dippers get any traction over the next 12 months. The Conservative base vote held up pretty well in the last election, the Dips tanked, so they’re looking to get back a lot of voters they lost when Spawn came in with 39% of total vote.
    However, no one wants Morneau’s job right now. If he goes, the next guy is going to have to 1. clean up the mess, 2. be under a microscope for how he conducts himself.
    Further, no one really wants to be MinFin if they have any political ambition. The last MinFin, Martin, to become party leader had to stage a civil war within the party, and he was a disaster as PM. MinFin is usually known as Minister No, and that doesn’t help much in building a constituency within a party usually. The good economic news from Harper’s term is mostly washed through now. All that’s left is the bad news if NAFTA goes sideways, and the Libs have already tanked TPP. The repercussions of that will come in over the next two years, another nightmare for both Foreign Affairs and Finance.

  38. It really is a waste of effort going after Morneau. Don’t expect much from the so-called Ethics Commish on the subject either. Any irregularities found will be honest mistakes,the rules were not clear..

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