This Librano/Dithers meltdown fireball can't be good for the polar icecaps.

Just asking - What's Cap'n Ed's connection with Canada?

The RCMP is finally starting to investigate crimes comitted by Liberals! Better late than never but it shouldn't take the promise of a new government. Then again - the RCMP shouldn't have taken dirty money stolen by the Liberals themselves!

Captain Ed is the American blogger who wrote
about the Gomery report when it had a ban on
any news about it coming out. He has some friends
or something who are aware of any political
happenings in Canada and presents them very
well.
I go there for the latest news on our election as
he always has information and wise comments to make as he is intelligent and objective and
worth reading.
That is who Captain Ed is. Read him at
Captainsquarters.com
I am sure you will enjoy his comments and we
owe him because he had the courage to write what
the Canadians did not. He took a risk and we
learned the facts of the inquiry.
He is also, among many, Americans who like Canadians. The American blogs, conservative anyway, usually speak well of Canada and know
more than we think about our situation and are
hoping for Harper to win.

Hush-hush agreement, plea bargain, suspended sentence ... one is obstruction of justice and the other ones are ... ????

Aw, who cares, the money was stolen the second it came out of my pocket, and someone in Quebec was going to get it anyways.

Arty,

In a wick-0-pedia nutshell, the Capt defied the courts of this land to ensure Canadians were aware of the deceitfulness of our system. *The Angry Beav helped too*

Seeing Canada can talk the talk (association of sources), the the ol' salt has made Canada walk the plank ever since.

Wonderful to hear!!! With the meltdown reaching Three Mile Island proportions I fully expect to see further examples of the Ottawa buerocrati practicing the golden rule, CYA. I think we may have achieved critical mass!!!

Thanks. Captain Ed seems very well informed about our situation and I agree that he deserves our thanks and support.

I read the American blogs a lot esp Little Green Footballs, Belmont Club etc. but they don't have a lot to say about Canada except when the Libranos screw up internationally and we all get tarred with the same brush.

Off Topic:

I saw these poll numbers on the CTV website:

http://tinyurl.com/ddwbe

Now can someone explain the logic of the first paragraph:

"The Conservatives have edged ahead of the Liberals thanks to huge gains in Quebec, where many voters now see them as a viable alternative to the Bloc, according to a new poll."

When the Quebec numbers are as follows:

* Bloc Quebecois: 53 per cent (+1)
* Liberals: 23 per cent (-6)
* Conservatives: 15 per cent (+7)
* NDP: 6 per cent (-2)
* Greens: 3 per cent (unchanged)

Sloppy reporting? Wishful thinking? Bias?

I haven't done the math but I think that means that the 7% increase in Quebec is the dominant factor in the increase in CPC support when you aggregate the results nationally. Other regional increase is in the 2 to 3% range.

Whether the increase in Quebec translates to seats, we would have to see the breakdowns by riding. It may mean nothing at all.

What's this crap on CBC Neil MacDonald tonight about Tories raising taxes? Mansbridge says it's from the CPC, nobody would go on camera? Spinny?

Any comments?

I'll try Gwerty. Conventional thinking goes like this. The Bloc vote is percieved to be solid in the 45-50% range. A core of these voters are unabashed separatists and some of this vote is said to be a "protest vote" in response to Lib corruption, in other words soft federalists. The remaining electorate that is looking for a fedaralist party to vote for is divided between the other four parties. From the results of this pole one can assume that the CPC are attracting the fedaralists in Quebec that would NEVER vote Bloc. Does that make sense?

Syncro

Gwerty, I should also have added that the CPC gains appear to be directly at the expense of the LPC.

Syncro

Just read in the comments at Cherniaks that the Liberals launched a attack ad on TSN complete with guns and tanks. Anyone see the ad ?

Hey, dog soldier, I saw that on CBC too. Tonight is the first time I've watched CBC in probably a year.
What on earth are they talking about the CPC raising taxes? That's the most bizarre thing I've ever heard and seems to go against everything Conservatives believe.
I'm highly skeptical, but unfortunately too many people aren't and will just accept it as gospel fact.

Re Explain the first paragraph.
A year ago the cpc were barely on the radar screen of most Quebec voters, so despite their disgust at Liberal corruption they felt they had no choice but vote Liberal in order to maintain their Canadian Loyalty. That has now changed and they are starting to see the conseratives as a viable alternative. If Harper has a good French language debate you may yet see the polling numbers improve for the good guys, while the mob's buddies continue their slinkage(just made that word up)into oblivion. If the conserative numbers go up in La Belle Province, the sheeple in Ontario will be more inclined to view Harper as less scary and the Ontario numbers will go up. A rise in the Ontario numbers will in turn bring up the numbers in Atlantic Canada as they rush to join the bandwagon, less they get left behind and miss the Federal Gravy Train Express. Remember, twenty persent in the belle province is worth about six(minimum) to nine(maximum)seats in the house. Twenty- three percent is even better and if I may dare to dream I could spend the next four years watching crooks prosecuted, assets seized under the proceeds of organized crime, and the beginning of the return of my country to its people and out of the hands of the mob.

I almost wasted time on Neil Macdonald a couple of days ago when he pulled the same stunt with the "Chapter 5" misrepresentation in his "Unreality Check" over the suitcase full of money photo-op.

You had to parse his words carefully to realize he was not disputing what the Conservatives said, only selectively quoting those portions of the AG report that covered the basics - ignoring the parts that disclosed the awarding of contracts for "verbal" reports.

He insults our intelligence.

Yes I saw it on the CTV news tonight and looked for it on the Liberal's website. It is not there. Don't worry, Jason (AKA Canada's Baghdad Bob) will have some (il)logical explanation as to why it is OK for the Liberals to do this but not the Conservatives.

Well said Greg, that's a hell of a lot clearer than my clumsy attempt.

Kate, Right on, I watched that to and wondered what the hell I missed, considering I thought I understood the issue. These god damn apologists can sure twist a phrase, he totally avoided the "verbal" aspect of the reports. I guess it's all about "value" or dare I say it "values".

spin this...

"But the Conservatives called CBC this week to say that while they would allow the Liberal tax cut to stand for last year, meaning Canadians will still get that tax rebate, they intend to immediately raise personal income taxes if they are elected later this month."

Jason Kenney said Friday

As more of this type of stuff comes out, the more shifting of voter preference, the greater the shift the more likely more whistle blowers will show...........It is within the realm of possibility that we might find out what those Sponsorship program Advertising agencies were actually doing with and for all that money...... one might even question whether any of these agencies worked on past Liberal election campaigns.

OK Steve, I won't try to spin this, being as how I am not privy to the CPC taxation policy. What I can do is tell you what it means to me.

Based on the information provided it appears that the CPC are going to honour the LPC tax cuts from the last budget.

If the CPC forms the government they are proposing to recind this bill and replace this tax reform with one of their own, apparantly with deeper tax cuts.

The other pertinent point in the CBC article appears to be that there is another plank in the CPC platform that has yet to be released.

As with all things on the CBC one must read carefully. We shall see.

Syncro

Syncro...we shall see. The interesting part is why call the CBC a week before you release your package properly?

Steve, go to Calgary Grit and follow the thread there, it might provide further insight.

Syncro

Yes the Conservatives are keeping their biggest bullets until a few days after the debates. You got to have something to follow up with.

Don't forget their is income splitting coming.

Don't worry. You think all of a sudden we are not going to be the party of tax cuts.

I think the Conservatives are just setting up a trap for the know-it-alls at the kindergarten war room.

I wouldn't assume the Conservatives called the CBC, it's likely the other way around. And Neil MacDonald is reporting the facts as the Conservatives have given them to him.

However, I suspect they're just setting up a broader tax cut plan, and I think the one that will resonate with their base the most is one that would reduce the middle tax rate by two or more points. Alternatively, they could be making the first 30 odd thousand dollar bracket start after the basic deductions, rather than before, which would have the effect of increasing the number of people who only pay the lowest 16% rate substantially. Allowing couples to file jointly, with the minimum rate doubled, would appeal to their two income with a part-time parent crowd. So there are a lot of ways they could go.

Here's a thought. What if Paul Martin won the Liberal ladership instead of Jean way way back when?

Monte Solberg is chortling about this, so I would bet that Patrick & Bill & others are onto something.

January 6, 2006

OTTAWA – This evening, CBC’s The National ran a so-called “Reality Check” alleging the Conservatives would raise taxes.

This report is not just misleading; it is false:

* Taxes would be drastically lower under the Conservatives than under the Liberals.
* Our tax plan will include cuts to the GST, and large cuts to personal income taxes and business taxes.
* Under our plan, all Canadians will pay lower taxes.
* Only the Conservative plan will cut taxes for the lowest-income Canadians – the 32% of Canadians whose income is too low to pay any income tax.

Under a Conservative government, taxes will be dramatically lower – billions of dollars lower – than under the Liberals. That’s a fact. Details on our entire fiscal platform will be released along with the entire Conservative platform in the near future.

We have been upfront about replacing the Liberals’ inferior tax plan from the outset of the campaign, beginning on December 1st – Stephen Harper’s first announcement on the Conservative tax cut plan. Any attempt to build an argument to the contrary, based on a particular, selective point, is not only misleading, it is false.

I'd like to ask a question: What future will you buy into?

In a few weeks, we as a nation face a very serious decision - do we continue our downward spiral or do we change for the better?

Who will be our next taskmaster?

Caveat emptor.

Cheers
Tom

I saw Neil McDonald's piece on CPC raising taxes. It was the usual spin by the Communist Broadcasting Corporation and its resident liar.
They assume it is a tax increase if the Conservatives don't agree with the tax plan of the Liberals. They did mention it but not too much that sources in CPC said they had their own plan coming. I suspect it will be more agressive than the Liberal pitance offered in that so call economic update. Let's wait and see. Harper is keeping his powder try until he sees what more the Liberals are going to offer to buy Canadians.

I saw that on CBC as well about them returning the Income tax cuts made by the Libranos in the last budget from 16 to 15 back up to 16%.
They did say that the CPC had actually phoned them and told them this but wouldn't comment on camera.

The more disturbing part i FOUND WAS THE blank screen when there was supposed to be a photo of the Options Canada scandal book writer I think it was.

Then later on they do a bit on Harpers clarification of the CPC child care plan. They showed Mr Harpers speech but the first 30 seconds was muted in which he reiterated the part where the CPC would give 10,000$ for the initial start up of child care spaces in the private sector.

Then they do this numbers break down of the CPC policy on child care highlighting the 1200$ per child with no mention once again of the 10,000$ for the private sector initial start up of child care spaces?

Makes me wonder if the CPC has somewhere in their policy to cut funding to the CBC?

IMHO the CBC shouldn't be allowed to report on the election because it is a conflict of interest. They are going to be biased in favor of whatever party will give them the best deal. Kinda like putting the Fox in charge of the Hen house.

The Black out and muted sound parts I'm unsure about since I use rabbit ears Poverty TV as my kids call it LOL. So it may have been a reception thing but it sure was conspicuous the parts that got left out though?

OOPs they also mentioned that the CPC said they weren't finished announcing their tax cutting policies yet.

It's stuff like this that makes me dislike watching the news as opposed to reading it. If I missed something I can reread it or quote from it in a complaint if I feel they are being disingenuous.

O Scam-a-daaaahhh

Our raped and pillaged land...

The Mother of AdScam $$$$$$$

From here to Options Canada the $$$$$$$$$ moved>

Sheila Tequila Copp$ and the Chretien/Martin Ad$cam coupling.

These monie$ were the inspiration for the the Liberal Party to create the Sponsorship AdScam theft.

Sheila Copps asked recently in her column: "What is that smell?" That smell is right at her feet.
http://www.rapp.org/url/?W77LCYR0
torontosun

Here is the allocation of $8,000,000.00 ---> The beginning of AdScam:

Unity Reserve
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/report/orp/ur-ru/ur-ru08_e.asp

Canadian Heritage
Canadian Identity
Allocation from the reserve

$millions

1994-95

$8
Description

* Authority to include an item of $8M to pay grants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Official Languages Promotion and Community Support and Participation programs.
* Program: Official Languages, Community Support and Participation
* Recipient: Various

Public Accounts References

* Ministry Summary1994-95 p.1920, 1.21, 19.23

Vote 5 - Operating Expenditures
Vote 10 - Grants and Contributions

* Programs by Business Line

Canadian Identity

* Transfer Payments

Support and Participation
Official Languages
Grants to organizations representing official language minority communities, non-federal public administrations and other organizations for the purpose of furthering the use, acquisition and promotion of the official languages (p. 19.8)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/report/orp/ur-ru/ur-ru08_e.asp

Iam surprised as many people even watch the state run television network. This network is in so much trouble remember the backlash last winter, when in there wisdom if you wanted to watch the Canadian Curling Championships you had to buy Country Canada. COUNTRY CANADA!!! My god these guys are nuts at the hub of television & they know that the only thing they got going for them is Hockey Night in Canada, Coronation Street, Rick Mercer & Royal Canadian Air Farce. "COMRADES YOU WILL WATCH & BELEIVE WHAT WE TELL YOU OR BE FORCE FED 24HRS OF OLYMPIC COVERAGE FEATURING COLLEEN JONES"

Just watched Dithers on CTV giving a speech in Montreal about the environment. There was no interpreter and I had to rely on my grade 9 french. What I did understand quite clearly was Martin refering to Stephen Harper as "Stephane Harper". Stephane? (sorry for lack of accente goo, I've got a redneck keyboard) But is this normal? Usually the interpreter drowns out the french audio and maybe I've missed it but it just seemed strange to hear Harper's name 'translated'. It may not necessarily be a bad thing in Quebec - just odd.

I watched the CBC news last night and how they spun the "supposed" tax increases. Then they added in a story on the cpc's "tough on crime" policy and calulated out, it's going to cost the Canadian tax payer a half a billion dollars to keep these gun nuts in jail if they raise the min sentence to 10 years. They said it cost $110,000.00 a year to keep a prisoner in jail for a year.....wowww. And thats not the money to build all the new jails and hire guards. We can call that "JOB CREATION" I suppose.

Talk about biases. I'd sooner pay the extra money, if I know these lunitic are locked up for a long time.

Build new jails and have them filled with corrupt Liberals. Sounds like a plan to me.

CTV news headline which appeared on my screen:
"Conservative leader Stephen Harper says hed repeal current tax cuts"
This is supposedly quoted from his appearance yesterday. I watched that and i cant remember anything like that being said.
Did he actually say that?

CTV almost as biased as PRAVDA(CBC)
In a way its more dangerous. even the Ruskies knew that Pravda was lying , CTV presents it as just slightly to the right and it gives it some credibilty over the ravings of the gubmint funded network.

Kneel McDonald should find himself picking bottles after the crap he has spewed.

The dangerous spots are the places that only have CBC Pravda to watch.--- Peter Mansbridge, reruns of the Beachcombers and Rainbow country and something based on Vancouvers kookoo mayor.