From a National Post article (on the long list of Liberal leadership candidates busy borrowing cash).
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: No minister with same role
MINISTRY: Competitiveness and the New Economy
h/t to commentor “dude”, who observes that “here’s some humour to found in the Minister of Complex Files taking up the role of critic to… nobody.”
Yes, there is.
I wonder how much of Ms Stronach’s loan money is designated for Cigar purchases for foreign dignitaries.
Yes for Clinton!
Sigmund, how Freudian of you to think of that.
The strategy for :
Competitiveness in the New Economy is to get the government out of the way.
Starting with the Liberal –
Minister for Competitiveness in the New Economy
Belinda is proof about Darwin’s law of evolution – only the strong survive.
Then again it keeps the gene pool balanced…
I suppose we’ll hear as much from her in this role as we did in her role of “Minister for Democratic Renewal”.
What complete twits.
Belinda is learning a few lessons the hard way:
1) Better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond
2) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
3) Unless you’re unusually gifted, turncoats are rarely ever trusted again by either side
4) Money can’t buy you happiness
5) There are some problems even daddy can’t fix
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: Jim Flaherty
MINISTRY: Bigger Economic Pies
Reluctant Ninja,
Regarding iten #4 of your post:
Has it ever been known to make anyone sad?
and from the same list . . . . it takes two liberals to critique Diane Finley.
Must be they are half as smart as Ms. Finlay
Reluctant Ninja,
agreed, except for item #4 of your post:
That’s one I would like to test out. Lend me 10 million bucks?
All right, slight amendment to #4: Money can’t buy you happiness (but it’ll buy you a gigantic yacht so you can sail right up next to it).
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: Peter MacKay
MINISTRY: Heartbreak Hotels
http://www.liberal.ca/default_e.aspx
Mole is still working at liberal.ca.
BS’s Big Daddy Paul Who’s mug is up re Kyoto.
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: No minister with same role
MINISTRY: What am I doing here?
Sorry,I couldn’t resist another!
Here’s a Screech inspired nightmare:
Belinda Stronach wins leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential nomimation of Whateverthehell Party.
Liberals win next Federal Election. Belinda becomes PrimeMinister of Canada.
Hilliary wins whatever it takes to win in the States.
Hillary becomes President of the United States.
That’s where I passed out. Can someone file a fitting end to this nightmare?
I like the term they use in the UK and Australia for this post: Shadow Minister for …
I mean , everyone’s a critic.
Old Squid, I’d guess you would see Slick Willie doing some shuttle diplomacy.
Well isn’t this just what the LPC does best — make work for their friends?
old squid, to complete your nightmare, how about:
Jane Taber becomes Governor-General of Canada
Oooohhhh, oooohhhh (with apologies to Horshack) I just thought of one more step…
Belinda Stronach orders Immigration to accept residency claims of Arab oil sheiks, stating: “They’re rich, therefore they have no reason to do anything illegal.”
maz2
http://www.liberal.ca/default_e.aspx
“Mr. Harper’s policies have already hurt Canada’s reputation on the world stage.”
Don’t tell me that PM Harper has slashed federal grants to the Shumka Dancers?
Belinda/Hilary/Jane having pyjama parties….painting their nails, giggling and talking about all the cute boys in politics.
loans can be forgiven and I wonder what the rules are about failed candidates donating what is left in their campaign war chest to the party. Didn’t Martins’ campaign hand over many millions to the party? Was some of that money used to pay back some of the sponsorship money?
Are all the candidates really running to lead the party or is the party just using the system as a cash cow?
Critic to?
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: No minister with same role
MINISTRY: Competitiveness and the New Economy
I guess they are anticipating the results of a few years of honest and competent government. Ie; New Economy = Canadians won’t be paying for LIberal largess.
I can picture them doing a LOT of Criticizing or just plain B***hing about that.
😉
Donna forgetta The Minister of “IF”:
Giuseppe Volpe.
Find the “IF”: $108,000 worth of IF.
OTTAWA (CP) – Liberal leadership hopeful Joe Volpe is promising to return any donations that violate the letter or even the spirit of a law prohibiting corporate contributions.
Volpe, under fire for receiving $108,000 in donations from former and current Apotex Inc. executives, their wives and children, made the promise in a written statement issued late Wednesday.
It said Volpe has instructed his financial agent to review all contributions to his campaign and to determine “whether or not these donations, while legal, may be perceived to be against the spirit of the Canada Elections Act.”
“If such a determination is made, Mr. Volpe has instructed his financial agent to return those donations to the donor.” canoenews
Old Squid, Red Ant and Reluctant Ninja,
Thought you might like an old quote from that wonderful singer Ella Fitzgerald, “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” 🙂
one more amendment to reluctant ninja #4;
money can’t buy you happiness but it can definitely buy you a better class of misery
Hey Squid, how about Hillary and Belinda compare notes on Slick Willy, get into a tiff and the US declares war on Canada? Or Canada tries to burn the White house again.
By that time Texas will become a republic again and ignore both countries sorry asses.
NEW LIBERAL CRITIC: Belinda Stronach
TORY TARGET: Joe Flaherty
MINISTRY: Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses.
Re: ” …the Minister of Complex Files taking up the role of critic to… nobody.”
It’s symbolic. It’s like they put a dunce hat on her head.
Another interesting part of the NP article is the new method of fundraising being tried by some Liberal candidates. They’re not allowed to get it all from a few rich executives or companies. They can’t raise it $5,400 at a time without using questionable loopholes to bring in the rich executives again. The general public won’t give them a dime as they have stolen far more from each Canadian.
So where to get the money? Why from the NDP ofcourse….
“Mr. Volpe is preparing a lawsuit against New Democrat MP Pat Martin, who accused him of deliberately skirting the law and asked Elections Canada to investigate the donations.”
Next up….sue the CPC for something.
What? Liberals bloat the size of their shadow cabinet with unnecesary, frivolous positions that serve only to inflate the ego of those appointed and to waste taxpayer dollars?
Perish the thought.
It is a pointed example of the differences in ideologies: The conservatives favour small, effective government and the liberals appoint unecessary crititcs simply because their little brains are hardwired to think bigger = better.
Joe Volpe is the poster boy for what’s wrong with the Liberal party today. If he has asked to have his donations reviewed it is too little too late. The public now knows about it and has made their judgement on the Liberal party. It continues to flaunt the rules and is prepared to do whatever is necessary to win. Volpe’s leadership campaign is done. Watch for a “graceful” withdrawal after selling of memberships is done.
This portfolio is the only one they could give to Belinda because she doesn’t understand any of the others. What better portfolio to critique than one that doesn’t exist. I bet B.S. doesn’t run in the next election. She hitched her mule to the wrong wagon and lost big time.
Let me see Belinda, Hillary and Bill together… This has could have at least two different endings. How do you say threesome in Quebec? The makings of a new Liberal sponsored film industry in Canada ( Canadian tax payers s___d, U.S. on top). Or we could go with a cat fight scenario, Bill and Hillary split, we get Bill, US gets Hillary, we’re all s____d (hard to say who’d end up on top of that one).
Forget it, she’ll never run for anything again. She’ll flit on over to some Maurice Strong-linked NGO and start gallivanting around to international intellectual-masturbation festivals in Davos, Dubai, etc. She’ll spend the odd day with Bill on the golf course, cheating on her score to keep up with the old disbarred louse.
Will someone please explain to me why the Liberal Leadership candidates have to borrow money for their campaigns. I thought that after Ex-Finance Minister Goodale let the cat out of the bag with the Income Trust scandal that the Liberal party would get millions in donations from their Bay Street Boys. Maybe someone slipped up and forgot to forward the cash. Sorry not the cash the Number of the Account in the Caymans.
Critic of a ministry that doesn’t exist? Hasn’t changed much from Minister of No such thing last week (skills & democratic renewal).
o + o is still O , except when it comes to Belinda. Then apply that formula to the Diane Finley equation. Ouch.
Oh my, what a golf game that would be, after all
Bill always cheats, just habit I guess.
Tiger Woods told us this and I believe him!
As for Belinda, who cares?
It must be getting late…but here goes. Since this started out as a humorous piece and has the “Belle of the Ball” theme, I present:
Belinderella, A Well-Known Tairy Fale
Once upon a time, there was a gritty pearl named Belinderella. She lived with her sticked wep-mother and her two sisty step-uglers. They made Belinderella do all the wirty dirk around the house. Wasn’t that a shirty dame?
One day there was a proyal roclamation. There was going to be a drancy fess ball at the ping’s kalace that very night in honor of the prandsome hince. All day long, Belinderella’s sticked wep-mother and her two sisty step-uglers kept Belinderella busy getting their drancy fesses ready for the drancy fess ball. As they were leaving, her older sisty step-ugler said, “Why, Belinderella, why aren’t you coming too? Oh yes, that’s right, you only have that dragged old dess to wear. Too bad!”, and off they went to the drancy fess ball.
Well, Belinderella was pretty unhappy. After all, she wanted to go to the drancy fess ball like all the other pearls in the pingdom.
Suddenly there was a POOF and Belinderella’s Gairy Fodmother appeared. “Belinderella, what’s the problem?”
“Oh, Gairy Fodmother! There’s a drancy fess ball at the ping’s kalace tonight in honor of the prandsome hince, and I can’t go because all I have to wear is this dragged old dess.”
“I’ll fix that”, said the Gairy Fodmother. And with one wave of her wagic mand, POOF, there was Belinderella in the dranciest fess you can imagine! And on her feet were two sass glippers.
“Now you need a way to get to the ping’s kalace”, said the Gairy Fodmother. So she changed a cumpkin into a poach, 6 white hice into morses, and 2 rat fats into moachcen.
“Oh thank you, Gairy Fodmother!”, said Belinderella as she was stepping into the poach.
“You’re very welcome, my dear. Just remember, everything my wagic mand has changed will change back at the moke of stridnight.”
“I’ll remember, Gairy Fodmother.”, Belinderella cried as the poach sped away.
Well, when Belinderella appeared at the drancy fess ball, the prandsome hince took one look at her, and they danced every dance together after that, and had a wonderful time.
But when the clock began to mike stridnight, Belinderella cried, “Oh, I’ve got to go,” and she started running for the door.
“Wait!”, said the prandsome hince. “I don’t even know your name!”But Belinderella was already running down the steps in front of the ping’s kalace and she dropped one of her sass glippers.
She sprang into her poach, the moachcan whipped the 6 white morses and off they raced towards Belinderella’s home.
Luckily they were out of sight of the ping’s kalace at the last moke of stridnight when the poach turned into a cumpkin, the 6 white morses turned into 6 white hice, and the 2 moachcen into 2 rat fats. And of course, Belinderella was back in her dragged old dess. She walked the rest of the way home.
As you know, the next day there was another proyal roclamation, saying that all the pearls in the pingdom had to try on the sass glipper. And whose ever foot fit the sass glipper would marry the prandsome hince.
When the prandsome hince got to Belinderella’s house, the older sisty step-ugler tried on the sass glipper, but it fidn’t dit. Then the younger sisty step-ugler tried on the sass glipper, but it fidn’t dit either. But when Belinderella tried on the sass glipper, it fid dit. And Belinderella and the prandsome hince lived appily hever after.
Daniel
(No I didn’t write it, it is a piece that has been around a long time. Not sure who the author was but I’m thinking perhaps he had a couple too many pints at the local pub. Rindercella’s name has been changed to protect the innocent!
‘Caught Volpe on either Politics or Stuffy Live the other day, and it was “constructive.” I waited and waited for him to actually answer the questions put to him, about the donation of $54000 to his leadership (sic) campaign, some of it from teenagers, and he didn’t answer one question.
He blathered on and on about what Librano$ always blather on about, so out of hat I’ll pull “Canadian values,” “great team,” “responsibilities to Canadians,” etc. dipping and diving to avoid any semblance of accountability about donations to his leadership bid.
No surprise here. Just instructive, after a few months of hearing Stephen Harper’s team answer questions put to them in detail, so that Canadians actually know what the Government of Canada is doing and is proposing to do.
Any more of this Librano hot air, and we’ll need more than the Kyoto Protocol to clean it up. Just a heads up, Libs: You’re a huge part of the problem.
Bill and Belinda’s excellent adventure
….Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the “blonde bombshell” or “Bubba’s blonde.”….
…A Belinda acquaintance says: “Bill was always more interested in her money than her breasts.” …
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=578
“Bubba’s blonde”….said she got used to people insinuating that she rapidly rose to the top of Magna, a major auto parts company founded by her father Frank Stronach, because of her family connections. “People on the inside knew I earned my stripes. Those on the outside thought Daddy bought it for me like a pony. What could I do? Take out an ad in the newspaper?”….
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=9385
comment where do the lib’s get the money from the NDP of course.
volpe going to sue: don’t critizize a liberal or they will sue you, Which country has more civil law suits? me thinks they are watching to much of Judge Judy.
Squid wrote…”Here’s a Screech inspired nightmare:
Belinda Stronach wins leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential nomimation of Whateverthehell Party.
Liberals win next Federal Election. Belinda becomes PrimeMinister of Canada.
Hilliary wins whatever it takes to win in the States.
Hillary becomes President of the United States.
That’s where I passed out. Can someone file a fitting end to this nightmare?”
President Hillary Clinton invades Canada in a fit of pique over finding her Husband in bed with the Prime Minister.
Regarding those $500+ ‘donations’ to Volpe- two of them from eleven year olds, and one from a sixteen year old : considering that the new ‘leader’ of the Gliberal Party has already been chosen- why are these kids backing a loser?
(Or- are they ‘donating’ thousands of dollars to other Glibs, too?)
Come to think of it- how does an eleven year old get a tax deduction (against income), for a ‘political donation’?
Regarding those $5000+ ‘donations’ to Volpe- two of them from eleven year olds, and one from a sixteen year old : considering that the new ‘leader’ of the Gliberal Party has already been chosen- why are these kids backing a loser?
(Or- are they ‘donating’ thousands of dollars to other Glibs, too?)
Come to think of it- how does an eleven year old get a tax deduction (against income), for a ‘political donation’?
Warning: Gossip.
Overcame the urge not to c/p this gossip; the urge went away, as, Mark Twain was asked why he composed in bed; “You should get up and exercise, Mr. Twain.” Twain: Yes, the urge to exercise comes; but I lay down and it soon goes away.
Watch for the words “…….” and “40” and “money” and … .
Bill and Belinda’s excellent adventure
The First Post (UK)
Bill and Belinda’s excellent adventure
But Clinton’s new, er, friendship isn’t helping his wife’s presidential aims, writes eric reguly
As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious – glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the “blonde bombshell” or “Bubba’s blonde.”
Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach (right) several times. The sightings seem to be getting more frequent, leading to press speculation that their relationship has moved beyond official “friendship” – the description used by Stronach’s PR people – to true romance. Poor Hillary Clinton. In the run-up to her presidential campaign, the last thing the New York senator needs is lurid stories about her skirt-chasing husband.
Two years ago, the woman Canadians refer to as “Belinda” quit both her job as CEO of the C$10 billion Magna International auto parts empire (created by her father, Frank Stronach) and her then husband – Norwegian speed-skating champion Johann Koss – for politics.
She was elected in a Conservative riding (constituency) just north of Toronto. More important, despite supporting abortion rights, gun control and same-sex marriages, she ran for leadership of the Conservatives – but lost to the right-winger Stephen Harper.
A year later she crossed the floor to join the governing Liberal party and was rewarded with a minor cabinet post. Alas, in January 2006, after barely six months in government for Belinda, the Liberals lost power. Belinda, though, held on to her seat and, less than two years after seeking to lead the Tories, found herself considering running for the Liberal leadership. But in April, after sizing up the competitors, including former Observer columnist and BBC presenter Michael Ignatieff, she dropped out of the race.
Clinton may not care too much. A Belinda acquaintance says: “Bill was always more interested in her money than her breasts.” …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641710/posts
Tiger Woods: Bill Clinton Cheats at Golf, Too
“Interesting math,” Woods said, drawing a laugh before telling a story about a round the two played in February before the opening of the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, Calif …
nealenews
When Willy hits a hole-in-one, what does Willy mark down on his scorecard? TBA.
Aww..I almost feel sorry for her. How long until she catches on and realizes that she only gets made-up portfolios?
It’ll be quite some time I’d bet.
To bad Belinda. You switched sides (the tories got the better deal in my opinion anyway.)& now the party is over.
The coach becomes a pumkin. Your gown into rags. Your great steeds into the left-lib mice they always have been.
At the end you deserted your Prince, & the glass slipper is broke beyond repair.
You should have stayed at the real bash & not gone to the gangsters ball.
You traded in your fairy God Mother in for the Fairy God Father Martin. Now live with it.