15 Replies to “The Coffin Sentence”

  1. This sentence has to be appealed. Boilard is the same judge who (illegaly) excused himself from the big biker trial in Quebec and should have been removed from the bench. I wonder if the fact that he was appointed by Chretien has anything to do with why he wasn’t removed from the bench? How much time and/or money did Boilard donate to the Liberal Party of Canada or it’s candidates before he was appointed judge?

  2. Have a heart for Paul Coffin- he only got to keep a half-million dollars that he stole off the taxpayers, and although he gets to keep his advertising company, he still has to hire a ‘hands off’ comptroller to do his books. (It could be months before he gets another contract from the feds.)

  3. >>>>>> J,M, & J: Librano$ have morphed into “The Reform Party of Canada”. Preston, you ole redneck, you did “It”. >>>>>
    Grits begin flurry of reforms
    OTTAWA (CP) – “World-class” audit and oversight system, or crass political smoke screen in advance of a looming government scandal? >>>>>
    v. morphed
    v. tr.
    To transform (an image) by computer: cinematic special effects that morphed the villain into a snake. dictionary.com

  4. I’m surprised. I fully expected the Coffin affair to fall off the justice and media radar screen just as so many other astonishing calamities do all the time. Perhaps there’re a few non-Librano lawyer types within the system doing the right thing, or perhaps Coffin’s the fall guy for one or both PMs?

  5. Maybe a very few months cooling off period and he’ll be right back at the trough trying to recoup the his losses.

  6. Nothing like the hurricanes and the deployment of DART to fully occupy the first 15 minutes of every MSM newscast to DISTRACT, then it’s on to fluff stories and sports… no time for criticizing something minor like a corrupt government here… too many convenient natural disasters going on…my god, a hurricane is developing somewhere and it may hit north america!… rabid drooling, shove it down our throats…we’re purifying water in Pakistan for christ sakes!…more rabid drooling and interview the sad spouses left behind… put it on page 1 for 2 weeks!!!… Paul Martin deigned to finally to someone in the US, but not the president, and threaten them!!! – the softwood lumber bit is now as good as resolved !![my ass]…Halleluiahs all around, Llloyd!…
    yikes…Can somebody please refresh my memory the last time CTV put on anything critical of the government?…

  7. It would be terrible to have to make him stay in on the weekends now, wouldn’t it?

  8. Huh- who even knows if he even bothered in the past to go out on weekends? Maybe he just had buddies come over for the weekends to enjoy his hot tub, gigantic-screen tv and vintages from his cellar? Nothing’s stopping him from living like this today. Hell, if he needs stuff from outside, he can order it over the phone, the internet or can pay some teenager to go get it and bring it to him.
    He’ll no doubt figure out a way to adapt to his punishment.
    But wait- he’s currently allowed to go out at any hour during the weekend! His curfew of 9 PM only applies to weekdays.
    Some punishment! That’s the Librano way…

  9. From section [47] of the judgement….
    ” In my view, the risk of re-offending is extremely minimal, I would dare say inexistent. Indeed, the sponsorship program is a thing of the past…….”
    Obviously – the honorable judge has forgotton the Liberals are running the government. There is and will be many more sponsorship programs (of similar intent and money laundering). That’s how the Libranos -and politics in general – work.
    Curious – if it’s the same judge – he has written several books on Lobbying, conflict of interest, and one called ‘Party Discipline – 1988-1998’.
    One would figure being exposed to the political process would jade someone to be more harsh – not more lenient in sentencing.
    Especially with the systematic theft of more than $1.5M from Canadians.
    If I robbed a Brinks truck of the same amount, I’d be up the river for a decade.
    But not some greasy theif whose Liberal connections and money laundering facilitated an ever expanding amount of cash.

  10. We really need to start questioning judges. Time and again they get away with rulings that have no basis in law, the constitution or reason or logic. Many are patronage appointees, which is in and of itself unethical as we know the wont of party loyalists to serve the interests of the party and the special interests who support it.
    And all of this is likely to be part of the ruling-formulation process going on in the minds of judges. Common sense and rationality plus the realization that there’s currently nothing to be done to hold judges to account, at least in the SCOC, for apparently illegal, unconstitutional rulings.

  11. The Judge must think we Canuks are all numb from the shoulders up. *The sponsorship program is a thing of the past*?? What crap!
    I have a list of eightteen crown corporations here in front of me. These eighteen are exempt from the freedom of information act.
    Three of those are of fantastic special interest. They are Canada Post Corporation. [Oulette]. C.B.C. [No Adscam possible here?] and C.N.Rail.
    [I owe an SDA commentor a credit for this list]
    You are probably aghast that I would suspect a can of worms or two here.
    There are a couple of other suspicious corners where I suspect there may be the a tiny irregularity or two.
    Lottos and gaming come to mind and authority for Horse and Sulky racing comes to mind as well. Lots more but no need to go on.
    73s TG

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