Greg Weston has seen the books.
After pounding the Liberals again yesterday, Conservative MP Jim Prentice was kind enough to share with us his 24 photocopied pages of St. Philips school bank statements for our reading horror.
They begin with thousands of dollars in bank machine withdrawals in Hollywood and Sea World, California, plus room charges for a week at the West Coast Anaheim Hotel.
Perhaps not satisfied with the educational value of jumping dolphins and movie stars, the cash-card-toting tourists of Keeseekoose apparently decided to hone their math skills at the Casino Regina.
In one day, the bank statements show withdrawals at the casino — remember this is the bank account to run the local Native school — for $500, then $300, then $600, then another $600. Three weeks later, in one 48-hour losing spree, the school accounts show 14 separate withdrawals totalling $5,600 from casino cash machines.
There were plenty of other bank card charges to the Native school that just keeps giving.
The records show dozens of charges for hotels and restaurants, shoe stores, hair salons and Canadian Tire.
The biggest single charges are for the local “Rangers” hockey team.
The records show direct transfers from the school to the team’s account of $1,500 one day, $4,000 another, $2,000 a few weeks later.
In total, we count over $10,000 that flowed to what has to be the most well-financed little-league team in the country.
All of this happened back in 2002, but federal auditors never noticed a thing, probably because they would never have occasion to check what happened to millions of dollars in federal money given to reserve schools such as St. Philips.
Someone on the reserve did finally call in the RCMP, and two officials have been charged.
As for all the loot that went to the luckiest little league hockey squad, the president of the team was the then band chief.
He was never charged with anything.
He was, however, the Liberal candidate in the 2004 federal election.
Via Newsbeat1
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You will get what you settle for.
If all you do is bellyache on a blog, nothing will change.
You just can’t leave it at griping about everything the corrupt classes get away with.
They have proven over and over that it is THEY who live in another country from Alberta. Our culture here is just as vastly different from theirs as English and French culture.
Take them up on their threats to Alberta.
Get on the phone to your MLA, MP, call Ralph’s office. DEMAND that efforts be made at starting a referendum on seperation.
The system has proven that it cannot bear change and reform. This is our only option. Become the master of your own destiny for a change, not its slave.
Well, Richard – I suppose if your premise is that the only way to make change is to take matters into your own hands, you’d have to join the ranks of Lee Harvey Oswald.
For my part, I don’t have those types of ambitions – it’s enough to help direct a few thousand readers a day to news items that their usual sources ignore or bury beneath a pile of Liberal sponsored propoganda.
Where the change is effected is when those people return to their homes and workplaces, armed with facts to counter the spin those who don’t have time or access have been fed.
You don’t have to change everyone’s mind you know. Just enough to tip the balance.
Think Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth.
Well, when government makes it official policy to spray the place with a firehose you can’t really blame the people getting a little wet.
This is what Blogs are all about. Just 2 years ago when would anyone have heard about any of this? The newspapers don’t report it. The TV doesn’t report it. The radio doesnt report it. The government has been counting on our ignorance.
enough
‘He was never charged with anything’????? What is Andy Scott talking about then–he stands in QP every day stating charges have been laid–when are the right questions going to be asked? I know we don’t get answers–that is why it is called QP–but questions can be asked outside the House can they not?
Kate,
I’m not thinking Lee Harvey Oswald (I honestly don’t know where you came up with that one) and I’m not even thinking Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth.
I’m thinking Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington…..
Enough, *The government has been counting on our ignorance. I must second that.
Finally, someone on the reserve did telephone the RCMP. Two officials have been charged.
Reading this, we don’t conciously think, *Whistle Blower*. Yet, that is exactly what has happend to fix things.
Someone wanted to stop theft and wrong doing, picked up the phone and did the right thing.
Bill C-11, [WB Law], could protect this person from repercussions if it were enacted.
It’s good country wide, not limited to government or Ottawa only. TG
Good work Kate …
These indians speak with forked-out money.
I hear you on trying to tip the balance, but I regret to say that you are likely preaching to choir and the support for the system that allow this kind of crap has bought and paid for enough support to secure it’s future. The next election will change nothing. I have to agree that bailing out is the only way in this pretend country.
Nothing changes until after the shooting stops .. History spells that out .. Not much meaningful change has ever come about peacefully. Sad eh?
The only thing I can think of that may qualify as change without shooting was Reagan’e Evil Empire Victory, but then, it was the backing of the big guns that made that possible along with the bancruptsy of the Soviet State. That state was already being sucked down the vortex at that time anyway. So that diminishes the meaningfulness of that particular change.
Re: Adscam et al, Stephen Harper and the upcoming election
I have noticed that Stephen Harper seems very relaxed and confident lately. You would think that after the whitewash of Gomery and the quick rebound in the polls for the Liberals with what support that they did lose going to the vacillating NDP rather than the steadfast CP that he would be more agitated and less eager to go to the polls.
This has set me to wondering whether he and the CP may have a few tricks up their collective sleeve that they have been saving for when the writ is dropped.
I think that with the Gomery inquiry’s report rehashing the Adscam, the Dingwall affair, Keeseekoose, the RCMP pension scandal now dawning, etc. etc. that the Canadian public is now starting to recognizr the symptoms and realize that the LP is systemically corrupt – that the corruption/entitlement cancer has reached to bones and that the patient is now terminal.
Most pundits and bloggers will agree that if the Mr. Harper and the CP can keep the corruption issue front and centre during the entire campaign and supplement it with a solid, well thought out introduction and publicizing of the party’s policies, those to the right of centre in the LP will desert it in droves and run into the welcoming arms of the CP (where they truly belong – they just didn’t know it yet ).
Which brings me back to Harper’s mood of late…
Does he have one or more scandals to reveal during the election? And if so is it the kind of toxic material that will lay waste to any pretext of PM’s innocence in the scandal culture that pervades the LP? The kind of material that will convince the Candadian public that the LP cannot be saved by radiation or Chemo or surgery but that it must be euthanized for the good of all concerned. (It has long been my contention that the LP could be completely wiped out if their conduct enraged the Canadian public enough at the right time – during an election.)
I can think of no other explanation for Mr. Harper’s current demeanor.
In the meantime I wonder if the CBC can pull their documentary on the “Mulroney Tapes” together in time to run during the election campaign:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C3D812D2C
“Think Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth.”
Blatant smear campaign that was revealed as a sham, when there were more pressing reasons not to support Kerry? I don’t think that’s the best example. How about Watergate stories in the WSJ? That’s a better example of the media enacting change.
And to answer the Mulroney tapes question, I saw an add for it to be shown, and the ad aired last night on CBC.
“I saw an add for it to be shown, and the ad aired last night on CBC.”
What an amazing coincidence that Mother Corp can start the advertising just before the election. Mulroney was, let’s see, a CONSERVATIVE, wasn’t he? Any bets on when it’ll run? The week before Election Day, two nights, the night before?
Cameron? Don? Robert McC? Where are you and a few others with your whiny, two-per-cent-truth remarks? You fellas are very selective as to when you want to enter the fray and try to dump on anyone who might support the CPC.
If Gomery doesn’t recommend that ALL repeat ALL federal expenditures be open to review by the Auditor General something is very wrong. However, it would be the worst of all situations to the lefties if proper scrutiny is ever introduced to federal expenditures such as Indian Affairs.
The Swift Boat Veterans were revealed as a sham???
Wtf are you trying to pull now? More moonbat lies! Kerry had what, less than half a dozen buddies who backed his story (some weren’t even there!!!!). Meanwhile over 400 veterans say Kerry lied! That alone puts the boots to ANOTHER leftwing revision of history!
This is not an isolated incident, this kind theft is why living conditions on so many reserves is abysmal. Members of band councils have been doing this for decades, but are they not entitled to their entitlements?
Forget about all those petty little alleged monetary scandals and reserve Friday December 2 at 10:00 p.m. for…
The Secret Mulroney Tapes:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/cinemareal/mulroney.html
The Swift Boat Campaign was a “smear campaign revealed as a sham”? Get real. There WERE other reasons to oppose Kerry, but it was his insistence of parading his brief Vietnam tour as the de facto ‘Nam experience and irritated the hell out of the vast majority of SB vets who refused to take it lying down.
And the Democrats thought it grand to run an anti-war vet as a war-hero, and nobody’d care. The Swift Boat Vets cared, actually, and called him out on it. It was Kerry’s boneheaded idea to feature his ‘Nam experience so prominently, and there were just too many other vets who remembered things differently to keep quiet over it.
As for Harper and the CPC, they’ve tons of info on the corruption of the liberals, and everybody knows that. But that just isn’t enough to get ’em elected, unfortunately.
They have to go on the offensive with ideas and strategies on how to run the country their way, and not let the lying liberals dictate the agenda. The people I know who are still liberal (yeah, therapy would likely help them) are disgusted by the corruption, but complain Harper & Co. have offered nothing else but fingerpointing.
Outlining plans to fix the corruption is a good start. Now Harper & the CPC have to discuss how they’ll fix crime, immigration, trade with the US, etc., and convince Canada that the liberal portrayal of Conservatives as right-wing, neo-con religious fundamentalists is nothing but liberal fearmongering and BS.
Hammer Dithers & co over these new ephemeral “tax cuts” which require blindly keeping the libs in power until 2010-11 until they take effect. Tell Canucks they can expect their tax refunds right after the liberals abolish the GST. Challenge Martin on healthcare: how can Martin demonize Harper/Alberta on private healthcare, when the PM’s doctor owns the country’s largest private health clinic?
Openly scoff at the idea that the liberals are the only party able to keep Quebec & the country together, when it’s liberal corruption that awoke the Quebec successionist movement after years of dormancy.
Kill ’em with facts.
The thing that drives me crazy is when I ask people what could be the WORST thing to happen if the CPC won a minority in the next election. Nothing drastic could possibly change with a wobbly minority Conservative government, and we’d all have the satisfaction of turfing the liberal trough-dwellers out. But they still think “Harper’s scary with a hidden agenda…”.
The Conservatives have to work awfully hard to change that liberal media-induced state.
sjd/at/cogeco/d0t/ca
In reference to R. White’s “bellyache” comment: I have been a part of many discussions where information from Kate’s site, and others including AGWN’s, was scoffed at when brought up, but then subsequently investigated by the doubters and found to be true. I personally know four people who were politically disinterested but now are eager to dump the Liberals, and now they talk about their discussions with others who were similarly uninformed.
SDA is a source of the sort of information which is — there can be absolutely no doubt anymore — censored by the Liberal-friendly media. And when hosts of radio shows with national scope recommend Kate’s site on-air, when newspapers refer to her site, and when provincial MLA’s refer to SDA in legislature, it seems to me that what Kate is doing is the exact opposite of “bellyaching”, and that SDA does a thousand times more to take down this corrupt priestly class in Ottawa than any phone call to an MLA ever could.
I have turned into a bit of a media junkie/watcher in the last year, and there is no doubt whatsoever that in many cases the MSM follows the lead of sites such as Kate’s. They know that they would lose their institutional credibility if they remain consistently outperformed by a private citizen with character, strength and a nose for honesty.
I KNEW that the annoying Canadian Tire guy (the metrosexual one) had something do with corruption in this country and I’m glad to see that, based upon the Canadian Tire receipts, a case can be made for refusing his commercials during Hockey Night in Canada.
They should hire Don Cherry instead.
Take a look at http://www.nealenews.com and see what hypocrisy Martin is throwing at Canadians now. Religious groups will be upset at a Christmas election. Since Christians celebrate Christmas why would Martin care?? Did he take Christians into consideration with his SSM bill? Remember the Swiss Air memorial where Chretien told the pastor not to refer to God?? Now Martin is suddenly concerned about Christians. Give me a break. I agree with Gord Tulk, Martin is running scared about something.
Interesting blog. Sorry to see that conservative Canadians are just as stupid as conservative Americans.
But not as sorry to see that liberal Canadians are far more stupid than liberal Americans
And don’t forget that “Legislation Will Die” if the Liberals fall, according to CTV:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K67B21D2C
Think about the children:
“It is very hard for me to say that pensions to senior citizens should be put at jeopardy, all of which to have an election campaign over the Christmas holidays, when in fact that election call is definitely going to come within a couple of months,” Martin said.
Think about the elderly:
“It is very hard for me to understand why one would put at jeopardy the funding that we want to give to lower-income families to protect them from the rising costs of fuel oil,” Prime Minister Paul Martin told reporters in Toronto on Wednesday.
Anybody still doesn’t think Dithers is scared?
EBD, You said it so well. I’m better off pointing to what you just said rather than redrawing the picture in a different way. Damn well said.
Sjd, The agenda of scary Harper proaganda over time has worked all too well for the Libranos. This is the one major achievement of the Martinite stratiegists.
This mindset planted in uninformed Canadian minds is the one major bar to a decent CPC victory at the polls.
Changing minds is difficult and costly. Let’s hope there are good reserves in CPC coffers. IN the mean time…
We can point Liberals in this direction:
http://www.Conservative.ca/EN/Accountability/
TG
Big Chief goes to Hollywood
No wonder Andy Scott was doing the racism dance. Look at this:
After pounding the Liberals again yesterday, Conservative MP Jim Prentice was kind enough to share with us his 24 photocopied pages of St. Philips school bank statements for our reading h…
What are Liberals afraid of? Maybe they are, maybe they’re not. If they are here are some possible reasons:
– Conservatives have huge war chest for blitz sound-byte advertising
– Harper is now bloodied from last election and thus will be much more formidable opponent, whom Canadians know better
– Canadians continue to be disgusted with Adscam and related corruption, except for GTA and Maritime voters (still dumbfounded why)
– all kinds of other scandals to bring forward; this site mentions a few now
– The demonization will be less effective and Libs have far less money to spread slime
– MSM media is more sensitive to critisms of bias. BTW CTV is way worse than CBC. Mike Duffy is a blithering, biased joke.
– Libs know Harper positioned for power given withdrawal of support for Liberals by NDP, Bloc. (Read Andrew Coyne’s article in National Post today for more details)
– Large block of voters will refuse to vote Liberal
– Unlikely Lieberals can blame opposition for holiday election, when they will be setting date. (My fearless prediction 30 Jan 05, for above reason)
– Difficult to run on economic record when it is clear growth a result of Cdns working butts off and paying taxes. Health care still a mess, native affairs still a mess, (Martin plans to dump another $6 billion there next week). Liberals abysmal at best at budget forcasting, if not downright dishonest. Cdns far more willing to believe they are playing games
– Martin knows he backed idea of Cdn troops in Iraq – “I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly possible.” (Paul Martin to North Bay Nugget 30 Apr 03)
Unless, of course, Harper is a complete moron with a deathwish, going against Liberals when behind in polls, with as many Canadians concerned about him as disgusted with Liberals.
On verra!
The Liberals cannot talk of CPC ‘hidden agenda’–don’t forget Belinda left a CPC policy meeting to go to Paulie’s place to be bought off with a Cabinet Post. Does anyone really believe that she hasn’t spilled her guts many times over to her new found buddies?
Notice the coy, cutsey words: “the Stronach family”. >>> more
Fundraising facts [Martin succeeds Chretien]
Martin raised triple the $4 million leadership race spending limit. A portion of the money was spent on pre-paying expenses before the official start of the campaign, thus trumping the spending limits. The limit already excludes things like opinion polling, hotels and airfare for candidates. So where did that money come from? Who might Mr. Martin owe favours to?
* -Martin’s total fundraising: $11.9 million from 3,254 donors
* -Gerry Schwartz, CEO of Onex Corp. and head of Martin’s corporate fundraising drive, contributed a total of $312,587 personally and through his subsidiary companies.
* -Other major contributors (approximately $100,000 each):
McCain Foods, the Stronach family, Jimmy Pattison, Michael Chin, the Irving family, CanWest Global, Hollinger, Amadeus Capital Corp, Harry Steele, the director of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and owner of Newfoundland Capital Corp., KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, D.M. Firestone (head of Glendale Corp. of Toronto), Grant Forest Products, Elvio DelZotto (a Toronto developer and one-time president of the Ontario wing of the federal Liberals), Alliance Atlantis and Calgary oil and gas exploration company Harvard Energy.
* Canad Corporation and Telus Corporation provided more than $60,000 each in goods and services in lieu of cash. >>>> more
http://umanitoba.ca/manitoban/2003-2004/1119/ed_01.html
Good Post Kate. And well said EBD. Thanks to you Maz2 for exposing the Dither’s supporters. I am of the same opinion as most of the people here, that E. Canadians are so insecure that they are willing to identify with common thieves – with the delusional belief that they can appear ‘superior’ to Americans and western Canadians (esp Albertans), in that they vote differently – and that they win superiority OVER Westerners by voting for the outfit that is notable for being anti- western Canada and anti American. The east likes to believe that they are ‘Old’ Canadian “money” er, “establishment”. Sort of Aristocratic and so ‘above’ the ‘mud and the blood and the beer’ of ‘rednecks’ raising hell out west. Deep down they know they lack the courage to ever do anything to rock the boat. Deep down they know that their claim to ‘aristocratic’ behavior is hollow and they lack even the basic courage of rats. I’d feel sorry for ‘them’ if I felt like it but I don’t feel like feeling like that.
I want this election to happen right away to get the perma frost thawed out so the west can proceed with our future on solid soil. We are waiting…with impatience… because unlike the east, we are planning our future based on the results of this next election. It looks good for us with or without our Conservatives winning the next federal election.
Indian Affairs is functioning exactly as it was designed to do- over twenty years ago, when Jean Cruton was in charge of it!
Richard was right on target on some points, such as the urgent need for meaningful democratic grass roots change in Canada is abundantly clear. “Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington…..” No doubt. Come on Canada, I don’t expect a Lincoln, just give me an Ike.
The Canadian Conservative movement needs a clear message and a LEADER to deliver it to the voters. You must have a national party to be successful. There are sensible disaffected all over Canada who love her as a whole nation. You run off half your constituents when you start talking separation.
In defense of Canada (such as it is), your election cycle and political mechanics are retarded, and all your Democratic institutions are corrupted and/or enfeebled (press, law, police, schools, government). We all know it’s your own fault, but that’s beside the point. What now?
Would you please get a viable political strategy? Sheeeshhh. Iraqis understand Democracy better than Canadians.
Put your glasses on Tom, how clear does the Conservative message have to be and you for one shouldn’t be talking about leadership,Bush or Kerry? Since when was seperation part of the Conservative Party platform? Look in the mirror when you talk corruption as well, the Lie-beral’s learned all they know from the U.S. experience.