Wells On Vellacott

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Paul Wells;

“Because the campaign offices of trailing candidates tend to be so empty in the week before an election that anyone can just stroll in and do some freelance smear work.
That’s plausible.”

So – as pointed out on John Gormley Live just now – not only did some unidentified homeless guy sneak into Axworthy’s campaign headquarters unnoticed to “freelance”, he sat there on hold for 12 minutes.
Yes. Plausible.
Hengen affadavit on caller’s identity. (pdf)
CBC video
(Wells claims he was speaking tongue in cheek, and that I missed it. This is plausible. I have been forced to live in a state of suspended disbelief ever since Lorne Calvert endorsed a Conservative government.)

55 Replies to “Wells On Vellacott”

  1. Kate, Tom Hengen, PHD, ex-Liberal leadership candidate (SK) has sworn as Affidavit idfentifying the caller as a well-known Axworhty associate.
    The fact that this was defamatory, that they almost certainly knew it was false, that they were idiots to use the campaign office phone, that it was a cowardly act: add to it that THEY LIED ABOUT IT AFTER THE FACT!!!!
    This is OUTRAGEOUS!
    That a lawyer, an ex-NDP MP, a law prof, (albeit a Liberal candidate) would be part of this is infuriating.
    These seem like all-time lows from the Liberals.
    What next???
    Public disgust & outrage, I hope.

  2. A Canadian site with good articulating conservative sense. I have a number of good links with American conservatives, but have found a Canadian difficult to find. I came across you through the ultra-liberal BBC (some of us are working to change things in the British media broadcast world, believe me…).
    I have linked to you today. I hope it helps – though you are doing well enough without it I perceive.
    God bless
    An English journalist, conservative (not of the David Cameron New Liberal variety). WPS. Whatever happened to that guy who starred in Due South – always liked that.

  3. Check out Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North) as it appears the mystery caller has been identified… and the idea that it is somebody outside Axworthless’ office is officially dead.

  4. I don’t tend to hang out at campaign offices, but at the last election my father volunteered at the local conservative candidates office. Because his truck broke down I ended up picking him up a couple of times and what I can say is this:
    The second I entered the office volunteers jumped on me like a horny dog on a leg because they DIDN’T KNOW ME. Only after I had been there a couple of times was I left alone. Is it possible that someone walked into there and used a phone? Yes. It’s also possible that an earthquake will destroy Alberta …

  6. Another lame excuse from the Liberals, but did we expect anything different? I for one cannot understand how this one has slipped under the radar of the media (with exception Mike Duffy), but then again, considering most are biased against any right of centre party. Keep the faith!
    As for your question Mr. Glover, the actor who played in Due South was Mr. Paul Gross and he has been in several t.v. movies and Canadian films since his appearance on the show. Men with Brooms is his latest big budget (for Canadian standards) film which revolved around curling. It co-starred Mr. Leslie Nielson of Naked Gun fame.

  9. Sent this to Paul earlier today:
    Paul,
    In your blog:
    “Axworthy concedes the call came from his campaign office but believes someone not connected to his campaign sneaked in and made the call.”
    Because the campaign offices of trailing candidates tend to be so empty in the week before an election that anyone can just stroll in and do some freelance smear work. That’s plausible.
    OK but, the Post says:
    Douglas Richardson, co-chairman of the Liberal campaign in Saskatchewan, said dozens of people were at the headquarters at the time of the television show and a stranger could have used one of the dozen phones in the office.
    Interesting?
    Jim

  10. Volunteer —-> “Make phone calls” Hee haw … hee haw … hee haw, Librano$. Help Chris: “there are many ways you can help.” >>>
    If you are interested in supporting Chris,
    there are many ways you can help.
    Become a Volunteer –
    The back bone of any successful campaign is a team of enthusiastic volunteers. Please contact Chris’ campaign at chris@chrisaxworthy.ca to share your skills. We are looking for people to deliver flyers, knock on doors, make phone calls, work in the office, donate financially, put up signs, and more. Any amount of support is important and appreciated. >>>
    http://www.chrisaxworthy.ca/help.html

  11. …this brings back to memory about a past prime shyster, err prime minister, who talked to homeless people on his way home from work…
    The apple doesn’t fall from the tree I guess.

  13. Kate… check your email, the Ekos poll just came out showing the conservatives gaining back the momentum… their up 2pts from yesterday and the Libs are down 2pts.

  14. Check out Warren Kinsella’s Latest:
    January 20, 2006 – I am now Live Blogging� from the Public Affairs Association of Canada� event featuring Ipsos� polling wizard Darrel Bricker�. I am with my co-conspirators Kiriakos Angelakos, R.W. Richardson and John (I Went To Lourdes Too)Wright. We are at the back, at the children’s table.
    Darrel’s deets:
    His first line: “Canada’s next Prime Minister will be Stephen Harper.”
    On the other pollsters’ erratic results, Darrel didn’t bite. Didn’t care.
    “The Liberal Party’s timbers are rotten to the core.”
    “The exoneration of Paul Martin by Gomery was believed in Ottawa by his Liberal strategists. It was not believed by Canadians.”
    Best Prime Minister choice: two-thirds say Stephen Harper.
    “Even among Liberals, they think Paul Martin has run a bad campaign.”
    Decided vote: Tory 38, Liberal 26, Dippers 19.
    Nearly 60 per cent of voters blame Martin and his strategists for the Liberals’ loss.
    Bloc vote is slipping to the Tories alone in Quebec. Nowhere else.
    “The campaign has essentially been over for two weeks.”
    “The Tories are knocking on the door of a majority..but the NDP is coming up and set to win a fair number of seats in Ontario.”
    “Sorry, Paul Martin, it’s over.”
    “My God, did we ever think we’d see the Liberals at third place in the province of Quebec?”
    Tories have had a four-point lead in Ontario for three weeks. “Liberal seats are all mainly in GTA….905 mainly going to the Tories.”
    “Landslide Annie just got hit by a landslide. Thanks for coming out.”
    65 per cent of the population believe the Tories are going to win.
    “Paul Martin’s staff have spent too much time watching the West Wing…George W. Bush is not on the ballot in this election,”
    “Gomery, guns, gaffes, Goodale” – why the Liberals lost, Darrel says. “They wouldn’t be in this position if they hadn’t called the Gomery Commission.”
    I repeat: “THEY WOULDN’T BE IN THIS POSITION IF THEY HADN’T CALLED THE GOMERY COMMISSION.”
    Couldn’t said it better myself
    Words to encourage everyone!!
    Jonathan

  15. I don’t know how anyone could take Wells’s comment as anything but sarcastic. He’s a frequent weilder of ironic commentary, and has hardly distinguished himself as a Friend of Martin or anything.

  16. Fact is the caller has been identified. So Axworthy can save his ass and come clean because this is headed to court.
    Maybe he will be able to hold his head high when he walks the streets.
    Don’t let his idiotic friend take him down with him. If his friend won’t come out and identify himself he is no friend.

  17. I think Paul Wells meant “possible”, in regard to
    the caller being someone who walked into the Liberal candidates’ office, and made the now infamous call. It is possible, but certainly not “plausible”.

  20. HA! Geeze, the BBC and CBC are one of a kind.
    Didn’t know you dyed you hair Kate. Yeah, you look better without the glasses.
    😉
    cheers
    tom

  22. they didn’t notice millions of dollars (a billion at HRDC) going missing they didn’t notice some interloper making a phone call for 18 minutes, must have been the invisible man

  23. Maybe the homeless guy blended in well with the other volunteers.. I hear a squeegee kid is running a Liberal candidate’s campaign in Vancouver.

  28. Yeah, it occured to me you might be joking… but eh… since it was the very excuse first used by Axworthy when the story broke (offices were nearly empty and anyone could have walked in), I decided to use it at face value.
    Remember, I’m living in a province where an NDP premier just endorsed the Conservatives federally.. so maybe my irony meter has been over-revved.

  31. please call David Walmsley 416-367-2000 x 8710 at the Toronto Star and request nicely that we get a equal opportunity to stand up for all parents. Martha Friendly has put in an article of about 1200 words in describing a Liberal style of daycare. She only views on side of it. We are asking for equality for all parents!
    Please advise David Walmsley 416-367-2000 x 8710 (nicely) that we would like an equal opportunity to speak. The National daycare is only shown and the other parents are ignored…
    sorry about posting off topic but I need help…

  32. According to the latest Ekos poll the Lie-beral’s continue their downward spiral, not suprisingly the Strategic Counsel shows the race tightening. Which one to believe, doesn’t matter does it? I’ll wait for Monday’s results.

  33. Etobicoke Liberal riding president throws support to Tory
    Jan. 20, 2006. 03:44 PM
    In a last-minute blow to high-profile Liberal candidate Michael Ignatieff, the president of the party�s riding association in Etobicoke-Lakeshore swung his support today to Conservative rival John Capobianco in Monday�s federal election. >>> via andrewcoyne.com

  37. “I think Paul Wells meant “possible”, in regard to
    the caller being someone who walked into the Liberal candidates’ office, and made the now infamous call. It is possible, but certainly not “plausible”.”
    Yikes folks. It’s sarcasm – plain and simple. I can’t even believe it’s being debated!
    That office (just adjacent to a public bank machine) is hardly a fortress, which now seems to be a mistake – in terms of the level of uncertainty injected into this situation.
    Although I am far more likely to buy the bad apple volunteer argument than the ‘someone snuck in’ idea.

  38. For me, I’ve been forced to live in a state of suspended disbelief ever since Kate wrote for the CBC website. 😉

  39. I sat here this morning in beautiful Windsor and watched the Canada Steamship Lines lake freighter the Rt Hon Paul Martin sail down the Detroit river. I may be mistaken but I could have sworn it was sinking.

  40. PMPM, leader of the Federal Libel Party. Thanks for the great news re Ignatieff, Maz2!! Wonder how many other disaffected Liberals there are out there? Wappel? Every Western candidate? K Martin? Every L candidate capable of thought that has a conscience? Every Qc candidate?

  41. Crew of PM�s sons� ship fear for jobs
    Rumours say vessel will be reflagged, deckhands replaced after election
    By STEPHEN MAHER Staff Reporter
    The crew of a vessel owned by Prime Minister Paul Martin�s family is afraid the company is only waiting for the election to end before reflagging the ship and replacing the sailors with a foreign crew.
    The Atlantic Superior, a 220-metre bulk carrier that usually works in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, is in Halifax for repairs to its engine.
    The rumour on the docks is that Canada Steamship Lines Inc., the company Mr. Martin built and eventually handed to his sons, plans to register it abroad and hire a cheaper foreign crew, but is waiting until Tuesday, because the news might hurt Mr. Martin�s electoral chances if it came out in the middle of the campaign.
    “That�s why he might have kept the Canadians on board until just after the election, because he knows that it would kill them if he would do so right now,” said a union source, who asked not to be named.
    The rusty ship, flying a tattered Canadian flag, is tied up at Pier 34 in Halifax, with a skeleton crew aboard. >>> more
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/478450.html
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    For a long essay re CSL Martin, Strong, flags of convenience, tax evasion. & More, more go here to
    “Blind Trust”…
    http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/1935240

  42. Sorry, I completely missed the irony of Paul Wells’ statement. It’s his fault. He calls his blog”Inkless Wells”.
    So I never go there. Figgered I’d be greeted by a blank page.

  44. Big yuks on Air Farce tonight: Stephen Harper doing a Nazi salute, Harper’s face juxtaposed with that of Karla Homolka, the devil supporting Stephen Harper.
    Ha ha. Geddit? Ha ha … right?

  47. Re Lorne Calvert endorsing a Conservative government.
    Both the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province are endorsing the Conservatives.
    I wonder what the Toronto Star will do.

  48. Just a little OT with nerves stretched to snapping point:
    Belinda called Tie and said, “Please come over here and help
    > me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure it out or how to
    > get it started.”
    >
    > Tie asked, “What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?”
    >
    > Belinda said, “According to the picture on the box, it’s a tiger.”
    >
    > Tie decided to go over and help with the puzzle.
    >
    > She let him in and showed him where she had the puzzle spread all over
    > the table.
    >
    > He studied the pieces for a moment, then looked at the box, then turned
    > to her and said, “First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going to
    > be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger.
    >
    > He took her hand and said, “Second, I want you to relax. Let’s have a
    > nice cup of hot chocolate and then…………”, he sighed, …..
    >
    > “Let’s put all these frosted flakes back in the box.”

  49. Funny part is there has already been 16 defamation suits filed over this election. I got this news yesterday from Robert Worthington LLB. But the lawyers are sitting back waiting to see who is elected first in order to know who to sue. And have you heard about the Ralph Klein manslaughter charge……

  50. Re Lorne Calvert endorsing a Conservative government.
    Both the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province are endorsing the Conservatives.
    I wonder what the Toronto Star will do.
    I sat at the head table of a dinner in Saskatoon about six weeks ago and Lorne was at the table talking about how great uranium mining was for the province. Lorne???? This guy was an honourary member of the United Church anti-uranium mining committee (or maybe it was the anti-Christ united uranium mining comittee, can’t recall). But he floored us with his talk. Do you think he had advance notice of the major layoffs in Prince Albert?

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