Scandal, etc., blah blah blah. The real story here is the picture. Jeez! The guy looks like death warmed over. Does he sleep? Eat anything but finger food and beer?
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Occam is right - he’s looking pretty damn haggard.
Always let your conscience be your guide is a pretty darn good motto and so I’ll go easy on him….
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Memo to the Prime Minister & Mr. McCallum:
Re: The hypothetical Dingwall suit.
Sirs ~
So fight the damn suit, you assholes. Do something useful with our money for a change. Consult a private sector litigator, someone who knows the law, not your useless appointed toady lawyers, who are only interested in sinecures.
Posted by: Tony at October 4, 2005 7:28 PMDingwall, a Chretienite, knows the location of closets containing Liberal skeletons. Dingwall has basically been told this by PM^2:
"Look Dinger, sorry about the Mint gig, but it's just a bit over the top. Even with the CBC coming back online this could hit our numbers if it isn't buttoned up quick. Tim Murphy always likes to talk about all the comfy fur for party guys and thats not about to change. I'll make it a top priority to ensure it will be well worth it. You won't be disappointed."
Posted by: Bart F. at October 4, 2005 8:27 PM
I shall try to show you this asshole's pic ... maybe. Don't know if I can do this or not ... here goes.
Dear leader ... you look a bit haggard.
This is not severance, it's hush money, because without it Dingwall would be spilling the beans big time. Do the Liberal's have more SCANDALS in the offing, you bet they do!
Posted by: Bruce Randall at October 4, 2005 8:40 PM
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I guess not.
Anybody see McCallum on CPAC? Peter van Dusen put him through a real grilling, and it almost laughable the look of terror on his face, not to mention the b.s. he was uttering. He's learned Lib double-speak very well. Always thought there might be a shred of decency in him. Oh well. No lawsuit - courts demand evidence, evidence contains untold horror stories of more Librano mismanagement. Start dem shredders, boys. This is only going to get uglier.
Posted by: Iron Lady at October 4, 2005 9:13 PMHush money exactly but if Dingwall sings then the LPC goes down not just Martin and that ain't gonna happen. IMHO.
Posted by: kelly at October 4, 2005 9:43 PMIsn't severance paid when the employer decides to let someone go?? Isn't it Dingwall the one who broke the contract? Shouldn't it be the government going after Dingwall for breach of contract? Just asking.
Posted by: truthsayer at October 4, 2005 9:57 PMLibrano$ election avoidance scheme; mapped out and blueprinted.>>>
Liberals set Commons calendar to avoid election
OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberal government has stacked the parliamentary calendar to make it almost impossible for the Opposition to trigger an election before the winter holidays.>>>
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Giving them another three or four months to shovel a lot of money out the back door, and dispose of a lot of documents. (On Question Period tonite on the tube, the question was raised, (but not answered), about the removal of a hundred boxes of documents from Public Works, by the RCMP. My question: Did Alphonso Gagliano's appointees to the Mint, go along to help 'sort' these documents?
When John Dillinger was asked by the FBI why he chose to rob banks, he answered: "Because that is where the money is."
He's an elderly man; looks a little shriveled in his age, kinda like his politics.
Posted by: Sam at October 4, 2005 10:56 PMKraft dinner Kate.
Don't forget Kraft dinner is his "favorite" meal...
Posted by: Knight of Good Mr. Iron Man at October 5, 2005 2:06 AMI propose that the I would like to donate money to the legal fund of our government to fight any lawsuit that Dingwall throws the feds way.
My only condition is that this fund be administered by the CPC.
Who's with me?
Posted by: tulip at October 5, 2005 10:25 AMPeople are entitled to severance packages when they are severed by their employer, not when they quit voluntarily. Period. They are also not entitled to severances packages when they are terminated "for cause", for example theft of company property, breach of company policies, or fraud. This is common law. If the Mint put something in Dingwall's contract that he would be entitled to severance when he quits voluntarily or if he is terminated for cause, then that is equally scandaluous.
Posted by: Bernard at October 5, 2005 10:54 AMI think Dinkwall should get severance.
4 fingers maybe.
Posted by: greenmamba at October 5, 2005 11:21 AMAll the Liberanos need a severance package, lets sever there heads grom there bodies!
Posted by: FREE at October 5, 2005 12:25 PMIt's commonplace in the U.S. for the presidency to age a man (we haven't had a female president yet - we'll see what that does, may be more along Thatcher lines?), and at the end of a president's term, whether it's 4 or 8 years, there are always photo roundups showing how much he's aged in office. Usually it's kind of scary - Bill Clinton was an extreme example.
But how long has PM been PM - 18 months maybe? He looks like he's been hitting the Slim-Fast too hard. Of course there have been *all* the scandals but he had to know those would come home to roost someday - right? Right??? Sir, eat some Alberta beef, take a nap, quit reading the papers. I disagree with you, but you have far too much power in this country to be in bad shape.
Posted by: Meg Q at October 5, 2005 1:38 PMMaybe Dithers is worried about his upcoming excommunication by the Catholic church?
Posted by: DoubtingThomas at October 5, 2005 3:08 PMFree:
No. Let's not. Please keep any further psychotic comment to yourself. This post was supposed to be funny. Watch one of the terrorist beheading videos to see how funny decapitation really is.
Tee.
Hee.
Hee.
Posted by: Occam's Carbuncle at October 5, 2005 3:12 PMCANADIAN PSALM -SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE 23RD & 24TH
Paul Martin is my shepherd I shall soon want
He leadeth me beside still factories and abandoned farms
He restores my doubt about the Grits
He annointed my wages with taxes and inflation,
So my expenses runneth over my income.
Surely, poverty and hard living shall follow the Grits
and I shall work on a rented farm, and live in a rented house forever.
Five thousand years ago Moses said:
"Pick up your shovel, mount your ass, and I will lead you to the promised land."
Five thousand years later, Trudeau said:
"Lay down your shovel and sit on your ass, light up a camel; this is the promised land".
This year Paul Martin will take your shovel, sell your camel, kick your ass, and tell you he gave away the promised land.
I am glad I am a Canadian
I am glad I am free
But I wish I were a dog
and Paul was a tree
capebretonblue,
"Stay where you're at and I,ll come where you're to" or is that a Newfoundland saying? With humor like yours lots of laughs would make up for any shortcomings, if any, your island might have. Cape Breton may have produced Dingwall?Wallding but you showed you are a lot smarter than us in the "Rest Of Canada" because when you sent him to us, we were not only dumb enough to take him in but reward him handsomely, then to add insult to injury, to reward him again when his wrongdoing is revealed.
Cape Breton Canso fired Dave Dingwall in 1997. We knew what he was like. Sorry it took the rest of you so long to catch on.
Posted by: capebretonblue at October 5, 2005 8:31 PMLibrano$ Ultimate Fraud/Scamdal: Free Taxes & a Yearly Severance Package For Every Taxpayer. >>>>
Surpluses to trigger annual cheques to taxpayers
OTTAWA (CP) - Every taxpayer in the country will get a cheque from the federal government each year that it posts larger-than-expected surpluses, sources say.>>> cnews
Big pizza trouble again for Canadian minister
Wed Oct 5, 4:50 PM ET
Another day, another extremely expensive dinner at a Toronto pizza parlor.
A day after failing to explain how he had managed to spend C$138 on pizza for two, Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe was roasted in Parliament on Wednesday for spending C$207 on pizza for three people at the same establishment.
Volpe charged both meals to his expense account, prompting opposition Conservative parliamentarians to accuse him of wasting taxpayers' money. The ruling Liberals are trying to overcome the damage done by a government patronage scandal.
"I'm sure Canadians are getting indigestion just thinking about all that pizza," Conservative legislator Rahim Jaffer told Parliament, prompting a chorus of mocking catcalls, jeers and groans.
Volpe -- who said last month that some meals had been used to discuss affairs in the province of Ontario -- replied that he had been talking about immigration issues. Jaffer found this explanation found hard to swallow.
"The minister of immigration has eaten himself into a corner... Obviously the minister cannot remember which phony excuse to stick to. Which is it? Ontario issues, immigration issues or is the minister just out to lunch?" he asked.
Last month, government records showed that Volpe spent almost C$7,000 on 31 meals in one seven-week period earlier this year. The records showed that on one night, Volpe had two dinners, each one with a different group of people.>>> news.yahoo
Posted by: maz2 at October 5, 2005 9:53 PMThe Honourable Joe Volpe, P.C., M.P.
Minister
Travel Expenses – June 2 to September 1, 2005
Date(s) Purpose Total Cost
06-17 to
06-18 Attend meetings $1,938.59
06-30 to
07-02 Attend meetings - Accompanied by spouse $4,394.70
07-05 to
07-10 Attend meetings - Accompanied by spouse $6,821.91
07-14 to
07-19 Attend meetings $4,603.88
08-02 Attend meeting and conduct departmental business in the Greater Toronto Area $52.00
08-03 to
08-05 Attend meetings $2,337.19
08-22 to
08-27 Attend cabinet meeting and ministerial business $3,656.53
08-29 to
08-31 Attend meetings $2,212.42
*Total: $26,017.22
Hospitality Expenses – June 2 to September 1, 2005
Date Event Description Cost
06-02 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $176.00
06-07 Breakfast – Working breakfast to discuss immigration issues with Ontario ministers $251.85
06-14 Breakfast – Working breakfast to discuss immigration issues with Ontario ministers $251.85
06-14 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $224.00
06-20 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $139.00
06-21 Breakfast – Working breakfast to discuss immigration issues with Ontario ministers $251.85
06-21 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $211.00
06-28 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $379.00
06-30 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss immigration issues $392.00
07-04 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $138.00
07-05 Breakfast – Working breakfast to discuss Toronto issues $28.00
07-12 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $256.00
07-13 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $225.00
08-02 Breakfast – Working breakfast to discuss Toronto issues $10.00
08-10 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Ontario issues $133.00
08-13 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $30.00
08-15 Lunch – Working lunch to discuss Toronto issues $220.00
08-20 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $207.00
08-22 Dinner – Working dinner to discuss Toronto issues $190.00
*Total: $3,713.55
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/expenses/2005-Q3/volpe/index.html
SUBJECT: The definitive word on Dingwall's severance entitlement
Reader Mark in Ottawa directed me to an interview from this morning between CFRA Radio host Steve Madely and Howard Levitt, a lawyer at Lang Michener in Toronto, who is also the author of The Law of Dismissal and editor-in-chief of the Dismissal and Employment Digest. (You can hear their talk here, directly, or here if the first link doesn't work. Scroll down to the post "Should Dingwall Get Severance?" But you must have a media player on your computer that will play MP3 files.)
Yesterday in the House of Commons, Revenue Minister John McCallum (who I must say, again, takes incompetence and fecklessness to new depths each time he speaks), claimed that the Royal Canadian Mint Act, the Financial Administration Act and "the crown corporation general regulations" all required the government to pay former Minthead David Dingwall generous severance after he terminated his employment contract prematurely. (McCallum's remarks are here.)
When Madely asked Levitt if this could be true, Levitt, who is considered by many to be the premier expert on severance in the country, said flatly, "What McCallum says is patent nonsense." There are no general, universal obligations under Canadian law to pay severance to those who leave of their own accord.
According to Levitt, if anyone of us quits his or her job voluntarily "that's the end of it. We've terminated the contract unilaterally and there's no mutual obligation" that binds our employer to pay us compensation for leaving.
At the end of the interview, Levitt concluded if Dingwall's resignation was voluntary "and not in return for an agreement, then he has no entitlement to any pay whatsoever, either statutorally or at common law."
If Dingwall had been demoted or transferred in hopes he would get disgusted and resign, or if he was told to resign or be fired and he and the government chose, euphamistically, to call it a resignation to enable him to save face, then, Levitt says, Dingwall might be entitled to compensation. But since none of these seem to pertain in Dingwall's case, Levitt explained that none of the ordinary triggers for severance apply.
Did his signed employment contract contain a provision for severance? No. So Levitt reiterated that there is no case law nor any statutory law that obliges Ottawa to pay the former Mint CEO even one of the nickels his organization produces.
Is there any circumstance in Dingwall's case that might compel the feds to pay him severance, Madely asked? Yes, said Levitt. If the government agreed to pay him severance to get him to leave, then he would have a case. The deal could be written or merely oral. It could have been made in a telephone call from the PMO or from McCallum. Then, there would be a legal obligation to pay.
But then the obligation would be the result of some shadowy backroom deal, not some legal requirement.
My guess is that what the government is trying to do is cover up a deal it made with Dingwall after his expense and lobbying controversies broke. The obligation began then and only then. There is no "Canadian law" compelling them to pay out, but rather a expeditious little arrangement they made with the Dinger to get him to leave quietly.
Their repeated appeals to the Privacy Act, too, are part of a one-two cover-up punch: We have to pay Dingwall out, the law says so, but we can't divulge to taxpayers (who are footing the bill) just how much that severance will be, because the law also forbids that.>>>
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Maz, you left out his last, one-sentence paragraph:
"How convenient and how dishonest."
Posted by: EBD at October 5, 2005 11:12 PMWhenever I see Paul Martin, I ask myself who really won the last election. He looks like someone winning an agonising route to an early grave. And if that's what he wants, all I can do is wish him every success.
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