SENATE CALLS IN RCMP
Stephen Taylor is breaking the story that the senate will call for a RCMP investigation of Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne;
[concerning] the actions of Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne, a late-term Chretien appointment. Lavigne made news a while back when he used Senate resources to cut down some trees on his property. Today, the Senate board of Internal Economy heard that he allegedly filed a false $20,000 travel claim and I’ve heard that his own colleagues are going to call for an RCMP criminal investigation.
When, when will the Canadian electorate start to realize that they have been ruled by Ali Baba and the Forty thieves for most of the last half century. I can’t wait to hear and read the excuses from all the libs and dippers about this latest case. Right on the back of Pizza Joe offering to return the money. What’s next will we get another diatribe from Iggy that he’s not from the “Old Gang”. To continue to be a Liberal in this country just means that you have sold your soul to the devil and as long as you don’t admit it, all will be forgiven at the next election.
Repeat after me:
“The Liberal Party is not corrupt…the liberal party is not corrupt…the liberal…”
My God this corruption stuff, just seems to have no end.
Maybe someone should google “RCMP Investigation” and “Greg Sorbara” before getting too excited about this one!
Andy
Keep it bubbling up….
There are still those who need more proof that their their taxes were wasted, or worse,’misused’.
Only one Canadian political party has it right when it comes to the Senate. Abolish the bloody thing and lets just be done with it!~!!!! Sheeesh!!!
Oooooooh…
Librano$$$$$$$$, eh? 😉
Skeletons…
Librano skeletons…
Coming out of the closets…
In Canada.
I didn’t make this up.
Okay everyone, it’s list time. Let’s try to recall all the “questionable” things that senators have done that would have landed you and I in jail.
First one: female senator who was caught cashing her daughter’s UIC cheques while darling daughter was living in California. The name will come to me eventually.
maybe he could hire Joe Volpe as a PR consultant to try an spin out of this . . . .
wait until the RCMP report on Adscam . . . .
Oh, how quickly we forget:
“Senator Eric Bernston, the highest ranking member of the Devine government to be implicated in the scandal is presently on trial. He has been charged with breach of trust for allegedly diverting $125,000 from the PC caucus to the PC party, and with fraud for submitting allegedly false expense claims totaling $69,000.”
The Carillon, Jan 1999
Appointed by Brian Mulroney, convicted of fraud.
For the Liberals I guess that at least the timing here beats having the story surface during the next election campaign. Not that there appears to be a shortage of such items…
Antenor, do you feel that it would be wrong for Ignatieff to point out that he’s not part of the same gang?
More on “Mr. Clear Cut”….. Lookee at the names: Lavigne, Frulla, Gagliano, Copps, aka Librano$.
August 11th, 2005
Czech hotel deal suspect
Bets off on Czech hotel
P.A. Sévigny
Thierry St-Cyr blames former MP Raymond Lavigne for cutting the so-called “Czech hotel” deal on the Lachine Canal.
The deal concerns a piece of land which, two years ago, was leased to promoter George Syrovatka for a mere $1 by the federal government in order for him to build a Czech community centre on the site. With the new Montreal Casino about to move next door, the locale has taken on new value and Syrovatka has decided he would rather build a hotel. Locals aren’t happy.
According to St-Cyr – the former Bloc Québécois candidate who nearly bounced Verdun MP and Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla out of her seat – Raymond Lavigne was behind the hotel project from its very beginning. He was the Ottawa operator who flushed the piece of land out of Alfonso Gagliano’s Public Works Department and into former minister Sheila Copp’s Heritage Canada before it was signed over to Syrovatka, he says.
Now a senator, Lavigne is reported to have recently organized a top-level meeting for both Sud-Ouest borough councillors Line Hamel and Robert Bousquet with officials at Parks Canada to discuss the hotel project, which has been buried under accusations of Liberal patronage in the last weeks and faces dissolution. While Lavigne is known to have been at the meeting, borough Mayor Jacqueline Montpetit refused her invitation because she felt it was “inappropriate.” …
http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=6829
The Senate is about to find out what the press found out. They’re no match for Harper, either.
I wouldn’t want to be in this guy’s sights.
I don’t imagine the image of slime oozing out of the Senate chamber will hurt Harper’s effort to cut this group of Liberal bagmen and hacks down to size.
This should be fun to watch.
p.s. – Speaking of Liberal slime, the hilarious “youthforvolpe.ca” website appears to have been “WHACKED”.
Over at Nealenews today, it’s being reported that tenty-nine percent (29%) of Canadians would still vote Liberal!
Calgerian – you don’t change a brainwashed society, one that has been subject to endless manipulative propaganda for a full generation, in a month. Don’t worry; it will come.
But, the exposures of the corruption have to be constant. The exposures of the unethical and shallow nature of the ideological leaders, eg, Trudeau, have to be public and strong. And blogs have to maintain their commitment to facts, reason and openness to new ways of governance.
Between Volpe and Lavigne the sleasy Liberals haven’t had a good day. Tough s**t!
I noticed by just looking on the CBC.ca news site that they don’t even mention this tantalyzing tidbit. I guess (based on the theory of a tree falling in the forest, does anyone hear it then if the media don’t report it, and the public don’t hear about it, then it’s not news.
The Liberals sink lower and lower all the time.
There are more liberal crimes, than seen in a Movie Lexicon or phone book. Who can keep track?.
3 words, w/ appropiate links: Timely. Timely. Timely.
First link: “Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform announces Canada’s New Government Proposes Fixed Election Dates”
Second link: “An address by the Prime Minister on democratic reform” that wasn’t given in Ottawa, but Victoria.
Third link: Prime Minister Harper’s full interview on CTV.
One more reason to send the Senators to the polls.
Revnant Dream: Start here…
http://libscam.godsandartists.com/index.php/Main_Page
If his own colleagues are turning him in I think there is more than a $20,000 false bill to this.
This is really getting interesting. This is starting to look more like Washington North.
You can’t have too many checks and balances were money and power are concerned.
maz2 :
Thank you for the referance.
Holy Hannah, they must have more cash squirlled away than, Trump has blonds.
A little trip down memory lane:
The Progressive Conservative prime minister lost an average of one cabinet minister to allegations of wrongdoing during each year of his 1984-1993 reign.
Who could forget Tunagate: Fisheries minister John Fraser had overturned an order from his own inspectors and ordered a million cans of StarKist tuna released for sale to the public.
Then there was Robert Coates, who stepped down as defence minister in 1985 after it was revealed that he had visited a strip club in West Germany while in that country on official business. Communications Minister Marcel Masse left over an alleged violation of the Canada Elections Act (he was later exonerated), followed closely by John Fraser.
In 1986, Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion Sinclair Stevens stepped down because of conflict of interest allegations related to a $2.6-million loan to a Stevens family company. André Bissonnette, the minister of state for transport, resigned in 1987 while the RCMP investigated his alleged involvement in land speculation. Roch La Salle, who served Mulroney in the public works, and supply and services portfolios, left cabinet the same year after being charged with demanding a bribe and accepting money from businesses looking for government favours. The charges were later dropped.
Conflict of interest allegations involving a personal loan felled Supply and Services Minister Michel Coté in 1988. Bernard Valcourt stepped down in 1989 after pleading guilty to an impaired driving offence. In 1990, current Quebec Premier Jean Charest had to leave his two posts as minister for fitness and amateur sport, and minister for youth after trying to talk to a judge about an ongoing case.
And, finally, in 1991, Housing Minister Alan Redway offered his resignation after being charged over joking about having a gun while boarding a flight at the Ottawa airport. Not a cabinet minister but equally embarrassing to the Conservatives was Quebec MP Michel Gravel, who in 1986 was charged with 50 counts of fraud and influence peddling. He later pleaded guilty to 15 charges, paid a $50,000 fine and served four months in jail.
And, among other things, Mulroney will always be associated with the Airbus scandal.
Quite an embarrassing record for those “virtuous” Conservatives.
Iberia, could you check your calender? It’s 2006 and Mulroney and his party are long gone. I’ve heard that time has a frightening habit of just racing by when you reach a certain age, but with a little extra effort you can cope with this.
Iberia, that is quite a list! You forgot about Sir John A. MacDonald and the railway scandal in your trip down memory lane.
After years of watching Liberals steal our money with impunity (still waiting for someone to go to jail on that one), it makes me long for the good old days when Ministers actually took reponsibility for their actions and resigned. Unlike Jane Stewart, Alan Rock, Alfonso, Chretien, Volpe, Valeri, …
Oh, of course: that was then…this is now. BTW, isn’t Mulroney one of Harper’s advisors?
Grasshopper, I believe that Iggy accepted the Liberal Party hierarchy’s invitation to stand in the riding after they dumped the peoples choice candidate.
Iberia, as a rule I don’t feed the trolls nor play with them but I couldn’t help myself when most of your diatribe states that Consevative members generally step down over allegations, Liberal members when confronted with allegations generally bluster and throw a hissy fit, Radwanski, Stewart, Goodale, Dingwall, Rock, Pettigrew, the list is endless.
Further to my previous post I note that 2 of the Ministers stepped down over drunk driving and joking about having a gun. Let me ask this bluntly. Would Liberals have stepped down over the same transgressions? The answer in case your wondering is no.
My point is that the Liberals aren’t the only ones with a corrupt history. Every party that has held power eventually had problems with it’s integrity. Harper’s government will be no different, so Harper supporters should deluding themselves.
Oops. I meant “Harper supporters should stop deluding themselves.”
Also breaking at this moment….
Glen McGregor, for the Ottawa Citizen, reports that a higher percentage of female MP’s in the CPC caucus prefer the term “Mrs.” over “Ms.” than in other parties.
In a related story, a country wide manhunt is being hastily arranged in a bid to find the relevance of the MSM…..
‘Just heard this on CBC radio: The World at Six. Joe Volpe is giving back the kids’ (sic) money because he found out ONLY yesterday, he said, that it had been donated by minors.
Hasn’t the story been out for a couple of days? He expects us to believe that the MSM and the rest of Canada knew this long before he did?
Well, he IS a Liberal, and they don’t seem to be able to tell the difference between truth and lies. Isn’t that the definition of a pathological liar?
Iberia, I think your post misses the point. The Liberals are the most corrupt giovernment I have seen in my lifetime and that includes the Mulroney government. The reason, in my view, that the Liberals were so corrupt is that there were never any consequences for such behaviour. This attitude was fostered by Chretien and Martin and continues to this day. Look at Volpe and the leadership of the Liberal party that backed his position of “being within the law”. Ethics is a four letter word to them.
I am under no delusions that the Conservatives will not have scandals. No government is perfect. What I will be watching for is how they deal with them. I expect Harper to show that there will be consequences for such behaviour (And it better not be an appointment as the Ambassador of Denmark as it was with Alfonso). The culture of entitlement has to end. So far Harper has kept his word and I have no doubt this will continue.
Senators entitlements: Salary $122,700/annum ++++:
Senator/CEO/Landlord Paul Massicotte: “Remember senators are different than the House of Commons. Senators have had another life and they usually continue with their other life”
ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114108517186_109517717
Iberia . . do you know where the missing $40 MILLION frikin dollars Adscam are?? or the $ 1 BILLION from HRDCgate ??
Now that’s scumbag scamming of the highest order . . the list you provide is boy scout crimes in comparison.
But nobody can ratianalize like a Liberal.
Scumbag thieves, glad they are gone, glad the RCMP have ongoing criminal investigations (plural) to expose the vermin to the cleansing light of justice
Come now people don’t be too harsh on Iberia, he is a Liberal after all, and…..when it comes to Liberals, it’s not that their ignorant, its just they know so much that isn’t so…and we all know that Liberalism is NOT a family value…Cheers
The Mulroney gang behaved like choirboys in comparison to the Chretien/Martin gang!
DO NOT FEED THE F*CKING TROLLS!!!!!!
The corrupt Liberals were able to thrive in Canada because of the corrupt media. Especially during the last 20 years. The MSM in Canada thinks THEY are the news. They even brag that they are able to make AND break Prime Ministers. I only watch the news on TV to see how bad it is. Today I almost puked. Duffy, Galloway, Fife were so full of themselves it was pathetic. Only they want to talk about the PPG/Harper spat. PMSH does not care. Neither do most Canadians. Fife pathetically pleaded for Mrs Harper to ride her motorcycle to Parliament hill for a PPG photo opp. Like maybe only the pompus journalists care anymore about their “business”. Most news-seeking Canadians have moved on to the Internet.
About five years into Chretien’s pmship Brian Mulroney said that if we thought that his government was crooked it nothing on Chretien’s…
Montreal’s political elite is a very small inbred group. He and others had inklings (or maybe even more than inklings) of what was going on and that it was bad. But I doubt that even he thought JC and co. would get caught.
Paul from Vancouver – absolutely correct. The Conservatives don’t deny that human beings can behave unethically. The Liberals DO deny it. With the Conservatives, there are consequences for unethical behaviour. You stepped down from your position, you lost your job, you had to repay the money, etc.
With the Liberals – their usual tactic was to first deny the event. This follows their pattern of denying that ‘a Liberal can be wrong or not virtuous’. Then, blame its publicity on the Conservatives; then, if it got so bad that the party was affected, the individual would be ‘promoted’ to another job. Gagliano was appointed to Denmark. Chretien shrugged off – what’s a few million? Others are appointed to Senate etc. Dingwall was ‘entitled to his entitlements’. Radzwanski lives very well on his pension. Pettigrew’s lack of explanation of why the taxpayer had to pay for his chauffeur’s trips to Paris and the fact that the Liberal gov’t didn’t make him repay the money? The meals, the dinners, the benefits? This Liberal gov’t, as pointed out, has been and remains, monumentally corrupt.
Notice that Iberia’s list is primarily personal rather than professional misbehaviour and is trivial compared to bilking the taxpayer of millions.
Speaking of corrupt … we need only go back to the 1980s in Saskatchewan and the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine … now that was corruption!
I am under no delusions that the Conservatives will not have scandals. No government is perfect. What I will be watching for is how they deal with them. I expect Harper to show that there will be consequences for such behaviour
Paul from Vancouver :
Indeed. That you had to post this elementery information proves a point as well. The Lib-left Alliance has no clue about civics, human nature, nor what Conservatives really believe in. Us unlike there cabal, do not believe fairys fly from the Butts of politicians. By our inherent ideals Government is to be watched , weighed , & judged every second. You put it well Paul to the fellow who thinks so little of others opinions.(O:}
Canadian Observer
Are you the troll police??
or just the efing troll police.
Well I am not an efing troll…I never multitask if I can help it…although…it is not entirely inconceivable. Anyway thanks for letting us know your an efing troll policeperson. I will try to remember. You’ll be the first to know if I ever multitask.
Iberia…you perfectly defined the difference between conservative supporters and liberals. When the conservative Government appeared to become corrupt, we kicked their butts to the curb. Liberal supporters seem willing to accept anything, power at all costs.
‘Then there was Robert Coates, who stepped down as defence minister in 1985 after it was revealed that he had visited a strip club in West Germany while in that country on official business.’
I couldn’t let the above statement pass without comment–Sgro and Volpe got zinged for IMPORTING strippers into Canada, denied the allegations and are still there. Sgro removed herself as Immigration Minister, Volpe took over and the practice continued. Volpe denied it but was proven a liar–now he is running for leadership using money from kids–and denying that too!
Much as I despise Mulroney he was found innocent and it cost the taxpayer of Canada a few Million to get the Liberals out of that mess.
First of all, I’m NOT a Liberal, I’m NOT NDP and I’m NOT Conservative. I have voted for all three parties in the past. I believe that politicians need to be kept on a very short leash. And I don’t think I’m being a troll for presenting a counter argument to some of the people here who think that the Conservatives are more ethical/more honest/superior to Liberals or NDP.
Ethics is not just about illegal behaviour: I lost my respect for Preston Manning and the Reform Party when, after many years of criticizing the existence of Stornoway and the MP’s “gold plated pension,” he moved into Stornoway and nearly all of the Reformers signed on to the pension.
I need a group hug. I had this jerk as an MP. Then Liza Frulla. Then a Bloc Head who doesn’t look old enough to shave. Montreal needs a Tory rescue mission badly.
Hey Dave. Here’s a hug. You NEED one!