Another drug bust tied to Liberal Party operatives in British Columbia. This time it’s Ecstacy.
Ravinderjit Kaur Puar, who is also known as Ravinderjit Kaur Shergill, was captured on tape saying she was involved in the sale of ecstasy and marijuana and also said she did not want any “heat” because both she and her father are politicians, according to U.S. court documents.
“We don’t drop our weed off here. We take it all the way to California,” Puar was also quoted in the documents as saying.
Puar ran unsuccessfully earlier this year for the NDP nomination in Vancouver-Kensington, which was won by David Chudnovsky, who went on to win in the May provincial election.
She was also elected as a Liberal party delegate for Paul Martin’s leadership team in the fall of 2003, but did not end up attending the convention.
Puar’s father, Kalwant Singh Puar, is on the executive of Vancouver’s Ross Street Sikh temple. He has been a high-profile supporter of federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
83 kilos of cocaine found on a Martin owned Canada Steamship Lines vessel, drug related arrests in BC of Liberal fundraisers and organizers (the Basi Boys) associated with Paul Martin’s leadership campaign, and the curious testimony of Miriam Bedard at the Commons committee hearings into Adscam.
Perhaps it’s time the federal Liberals were asked to recuse themselves from further debate on marijuana decriminalization. Conflict of interest, and all that.
I live in the Lower Mainland. It is not an easy place to live anymore.
As for the Liberal Party, they are a criminal organization in my opinion. These stories are more proof of that. It is much worse than people think.
I wish we had just one really good investigative reporter in Canada who would take this story up.
Priceless-just priceless! The sleaze never stops.
The Liberal Party, (and everyone remotely connected to it), is the political equivalent of HIV……..
When the Libs see the money that can be made, is there any question greed trumps integrity in this country? Watch for legalised prostitution, using Vancouver as an experiment, of course. Too much tax-free money escaping the Libs, and we can’t have that. The federal government as pimp and drug dealer – looks like a sure fit.
Well, those three stories were informative.
One about an international shipping line that may have been used by traffickers to move drugs (gasp! clearly the owners of the ships themselves are drug runners… a drug dealer would never put his product on someone’s ship without getting permission first).
One about testimony at the Gomery Inquiry that was third, if not fourth person “someone told me that someone else’s company was apparently “involved” in drug smuggling…).
And a third story, which admittedly seems more worrying, but also mentions that the most dasterdly figure involved has been fired by the Liberals. I would also point out that if I EVER (and maybe I will now…) linked to a news article from “The Cannibis News” I would be absolutely SKEWERED by conservative bloggers.
Well, you’ve convinced me, everyone who’s ever worked for the Liberal party is clearly a criminal, and if they aren’t, it’s just because their better at hiding it!
I imagine one could find some pretty unsavoury characters in the bottom rungs of every political party in Canada (including the CPC). Unfortunately, it seems as though only conservatives have enough time on thir hands to go looking these days…
What a solid citizen though, she doesn’t drop it here, she drops it there – sounds like Dr. Seuss.
She sounds like a partner for Mr. Herle, answer a poll, have a hit.
Is there anyway short of revolution to clean this continent up?
Actually, Lord Kitchen Sink, there’s 4 stories there. You forgot about the Basi boys.
I tend to agree with you that PMPM’s CSL having coke smuggled on a ship probably didn’t have anything to do with the Libs, and I’ll even agree with you on the Gomery testimony allegations, but when you’ve got these 2 other stories coming up (Basi and Kaur), then 1+1+1+1 starts to equal 4. Any of those stories on their own don’t prove anything, but altogether they start me thinking that maybe there is a grain of truth to what started out to be just another weird conspiracy theory.
Hey Lord Kitchner,
So what your saying is, “We the Liberal Party don’t want anyone poking their noses into our drug business and that anyone who tries to be a good citizen and crime buster is being anti-Canadian because that’s not Liberal values”.
Now where have I heard that before?
Shergill and her connection to Dosanjh is not an incredible stretch – these people are becoming ridiclous. NDP drug runners – I guess they need socialized medicine because because paying for re-hab with great wads of cash would be frowned upon!
It still amazes me that so little was said in MSM about the CSL drug bust – I saw one quick mention of it just after it happened and then nothing.
As for Meriam Bedard – If I remember correctly her original whistleblowing act was about a VIA RAIL contract. When was Via Rail a “sponsorship” issue. It’s a national contract not a Quebec contract. This whole Adscam thing barely touches the surface of what is wrong in this party.
Hey Lordy
“One about an international shipping line that may have been used by traffickers to move drugs”
“May have”is hardly an argueing point if the drugs were discovered on drug king pin er uh priminister Martins boat.
“Unfortunately, it seems as though only conservatives have enough time on thir hands to go looking these days…”
Agreed god knows the MSM has it’s hands full appologizing, covering up and catching farts eminating from their Lieberal party drug,… er uh over lordys.
Lord Kitchener must be paying you plenty for that kind of blind loyalty. Get out from under his thumb, glance over the Gomery findings, tell me you see the light and then get a real job. 73s, TG
The news item was not “from” the Cannabis News.
It was a reprint of a Globe and Mail article (where the links often go dead), hosted at that site.
Well, I’ll back away quietly now (I don’t know why everyone always accuses the Tories of being “angry”… I feel the love). 🙂
I’ll respond quickly, and hopefully respectfully, to a couple of points people have made before I run for safety.
Bacardi: I realize there were 4 stories there, and actually it was the “ecstacy” story I ignored, not the “Basi” story (that one I mentioned, it was the one from the Canabis News that clearly stated that Basi had been fired). I ignored the “ecstasy story” because the only connections to the Libs there were that one figure was elected as a leadership delegate to the convention (and never went to the convention…) and the other was a “supporter” of the Health Minister. Well, I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t have to look hard to find some CPC “supporters” who are absolute WACKOS, but I would never suggest that those wackos represented the Conservative Party, it’s policies, or its moral compass, and I don’t think others should use similar tactics. (oh, and btw, I am most certainly NOT a Liberal supporter, but if you’re ever going to take them down, it won’t be through this strategy…). Also, you agree with me that the first two stories don’t really hold much water, and yet still you say 1+1+1+1=4… so which is it?
richfisher: I shouldn’t have put that “may” in there, fine the drugs were on the ship (and really, calling it a boat makes it sound like it was Martin’s cottage speedboat or something, not a huge commercial carrier, filled with dozens of cargo containers, but anyway…). My problem was with the assumption that a)the drug dealers told the Prime Minister they were putting drugs on one of his many ships, and b) knowing there were drugs on one of his ships, the Prime Minister did nothing about it. Sorry, I can believe A LOT of what various Tories have to say about Martin… “cocaine dealer” is not one of those things. But you’re right, of course, about the “main stream media”… those evil b*stards!
TonyGuitar: Why, oh why would you attack Lord Kitchener, of all people!!! Well, anyway, I’m not under his Lordship’s thumb (as he was killed during the First World War) but even if I were, I don’t know why Lord Kitchener would want me to be blindly loyal to the Liberal Party of Canada (as far as I know, he may never have even visited Canada, and he certainly hasn’t since 1916). I also take some issue with the idea that I was displaying blind loyalty to the Libs in the first place. If you really think that implying that the Prime Minister is a drug smuggler, and that the entire Liberal Party is overrun with drug smugglers and assorted criminals is appropriate hyperbole then that’s fine. But I’M being blindly loyal? (and to a party I don’t even support no less).
Really, I don’t know where the MSM gets the idea that the CPC is “negative” or that their rhetoric might be a little over-the-top.
Kate: I don’t think the links are the only thing dead over at the Globe.
Note to Lord Kitchener: I too, take my patriotic duty seriously and “stand on guard” to ensure a “true north, strong and free” from treasonists and corruptors (liberalists and socialists) who care not iota for the safety and security of us, and future generations of Canadians.
Bedard’s boyfriend arrested
MONTREAL (CP) – The boyfriend of Olympic gold medallist Myriam Bedard was arrested Wednesday in the alleged theft of paintings valued at $100,000, Quebec provincial police said.
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What it takes to win…: April 2005
Gomery will finish and there are little scandals in the opposition, there are
… FreeDominion has been revisting the Bedard/drug/organised crime meme… …
whatittakestowin.blogspot.com/ 2005_04_01_whatittakestowin_archive.html – 88k
Bedard at Gomery Inquiry.
Which party has appointed the judges?
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Bedard tetimony, drug deals, organised crime: the Dark Side strikes back. Watch this unfold.
Who is afraid of the big, wolf black? Bloggers have been chilled out by the Lirano$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Who is next? This blog? Your blog? Commenters can be sniffed out. Who is next on the hit list?
Kate,
Duly noted re: the Globe and Mail story. It’s just that my immediate reaction was “Wow, I’d never link to the ‘Canabis News’, conservative bloggers would have a FIELD DAY with that!”
I still think that putting together a bunch of stories about criminals who may have supported the Liberals in some form (or may even have been members of the Liberal party), or who smuggled drugs (surrepticiously I’m sure, that’s how drug dealers work…) on vehicles owned by companies owned by Liberals is a bit rich is all.
As I’ve said before, even wakos and criminals have political positions, and I’m sure we wouldn’t have to look hard to find some members of the CPC who have broken the law, or have said or done other disreputable things, but I would never think of claiming that the CPC was filled with people who “insert example of steretypical extreme right-wing nuttery here”, or that these people were representative of the party as a whole (or the party’s supporters as a whole). And really, is that a level of civility that is too much to ask these days?
Good luck in the next election everyone!
Kitchener:
a) If one cannot be angry at corruption or (on a day like today) terrorism, then there is something wrong with you.
b) While I didn’t link to each story, there has been a lengthy list of items noted here at SDA over the past year or so that directly, or indirectly link members of the ruling Liberals to organized crime, or more commonly – to ignoring obvious warnings about organized crime.
That there may be individuals who have meshed organized crime activities with one of the most thoroughly corrupt political parties in modern Canadian history should come as not a “outlandash” suggestion, but a logical deduction.
The warnings about organized crime infiltrating sensitive areas such as the ports, the airport authorities, parliament itself come not from fringe “conservative paranoids” but from RCMP and CSIS reports.
So, with those facts in mind, when a Liberal party organizer, or someone close to such a person is caught with substancial amounts of drugs in their possession, it would be naive to dismiss the episode as an random occurance. When criminal activities start to occur in the multiple, there comes a point where “random” transforms into “pattern”.
Note that when our Liberal stooge du jour Kitchy says “I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard hard to find members of the CPC who have broken the law”, it means, “I can’t find any”.
Kitch, my 1+1+1… statement was made much more succintly by our very intelligent hostess Kate “when a Liberal party organizer, or someone close to such a person is caught with substancial amounts of drugs in their possession, it would be naive to dismiss the episode as an random occurance. When criminal activities start to occur in the multiple, there comes a point where “random” transforms into “pattern”.”
That is all I’m trying to say – that when you get multiple instances of drug trafficking (sp?) related to an identifiable group (in this case the Libs) the suspicion tends to grow that perhaps the unlikely instances (PMPM’s CSL smuggling) need to be looked at closer and in a different light.
As much as I despise the Libs and PMPM, it almost seems comical to imagine PMartin as a drug smuggler, but with these last 3 drug cases I’ll admit to having some doubts about his innocence. Note that I didn’t say he’s guilty, or I think he’s guilty – I just believe it’s a story that needs looking at a little closer.
Thank-you for respectful debate!
BB.
I think lord kitcheners own has a weak point, lets not pull together a bunch of unproven links to drug dealing and wrong doing in the Lieberal party.
Lets instead concentrate on one indisputable point.
Within the last month or so Ujjal Dosanjh (a high ranking minister in the Lieberal party) has been alleged to have ties with a family that deals drugs, that boasts of political connections, that runs for positions in the BC NDP party that he formerly headed, he has also been involved in negotiations with a conservative MP attempting to persuade him to change his membership to the Lieberals.
When will the RCMP or the Attorney General investigate these actions? More to the point when will Paul Martin ask this minister to stand down?
Look, ask any member of an organized crime strike force who knows what’s going on. Virtually every South American country is involved in narcotics, either in the transportation, manufacturing or distribution fazes. Many of their officials at the minister level are supposed to be barred from entering the United States. However, because of their government capacity, they attend meetings here anyway.
You’ll recall that the former president of Mexico, Salinas, and a number of his key people were revealed to be narco-traffickers.
We are literally awash in government narco-trafficking with international law firms acting as unofficial diplomatic services for these traffickers.
When long-time Chretien confidante and Bonanno soldier Alphonso Gagliano was made Public Works Minister, it was a signal that the Liberal Party (I don’t mean an old lady in Manitoba) has become so corrupt and so brazen that they no longer felt it necessary to conceal their associactes. The powerful Mafia bosses that Alphonso is on record as knowing, just means that Alphonso has connections to virtually anyone that he wants to in the organized crime world.
Hasn’t anyone wondered why it is that after Bonanno capo Frank Lino outed Gagliano by telling the FBI of the meeting of made Bonanno crime family members in Canada, that no public revelation has been forthcoming in respect to who the others at the meeting were?
Doesn’t anyone in Canada wonder who Gagliano’s mob buddies were at the big Canadian sit-down? No? Why would that be? Is it because other members would reveal associations too difficult difficult to stand up to public scrutiny?
As a 77 year old, I have just read the most scandalizing story coming out of the West Coast in recent memory, regarding this East Indian Kaur women and NDP and Librano supporter running drugs into the United States, and lets see where she ends up in jail, probably here in “club Fed”. The only paper I can find carrying the story is surprisingly the Vancouver Sun, NOT the Province, or the Globe and Mail, or the National Post, Times-“Communist” though it is a National Story but headquartered in BC. Nothing out of the Calgary Herald or the Toronto Star, though they did mention Allard.Nothing out of the Sun Chain, they also mentioned the Allard sentencing. I believe the MSM fascist enablers kept this story on the shelf waiting for an opportune time to let it out, and what better time than to “cover” it with the insane bombings in London today. However the Vancouver Sun gives a blow by blow acct., do the MSM fascist loving media think they could get away with it? Who will give this story legs? I doubt if we hear anymore from the Vancouver Sun on this the same as the coccaine found in Herr Martins boat on the East Coast of Kanada had a five second two liner blip for one day. Did you know that Herr Martins ships are the only shipping line that do not have to warn the coast guard when they are coming into Canadian waters? the rebutal to that was “well they can VOLUNTEER”, now if that is not sick, then sick should be taken out of the dictionary. I heard the debate, but what coverage did that get? When it comes to drug running and a politicion is invloved you can bet it will gather cob webs before it is let out, if at all. However did we ever find out who took the fall for the coccain found in the bow of Herr Martins ship, did any of you hear? fill me in please if you did. Yes we have a Federal Gov’t that is indirectly controlled by the world mafiosa the way I see it, makes the Despots in Afreic look like amateurs, as the despots in Africa are getting away with it because of a majoriy of their people being not only illiterate but helpless, we are helpless but not illiterate, so shame on us we don’t seem to try to be anything else but helpless, too many beer does that to people
Lets keep an eye on this story and write the MSM fascits enablers, and ask them why they are hiding the story, let them know that we know that they are not getting away with it, please take the time to write.
Stephen ww 2 vet.