Stephen Harper is to Stéphane Dion…
… what Maggie Thatcher is to Marie Antoinette.
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Kate:
This is (to quote Citoyen Dion…UNFAIR!!!!!). After all, he named his dog “Kyoto”. I mean, I named my beloved golden retriever “Murphy”, which I suppose must make me a proponent of some sort of “Irish liberation movement”.
Or…..,maybe he’s just an idiot, and a hyprocite…
Libranos. Limos. Fancy hotels. Sound familiar?
The Infamous Librano Culture of Entitlement Continues Unabated…
They haven’t changed, have they? Not a bit!
Still blowing our hard-earned tax dollars…
All that on top of all the fancy imported beer and Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn…
the chauffeur, he is not the same one that belong to Mssr. Pettigrew dat stayed in his place in Paris ? non, non it must be another one mais oui?
At least he stay in his own bed ,not share with de minister.
Yeah, and Margaret Thatcher is to Stephen Harper as Guinness is to Bud Light.
Please. Thatcher was ground zero for fiscal conservatism and peace through military strength. Thatcher was the one who told Ronald-friggin-Reagan not to get all wobbly.
Harper won a minority against a bunch of scumbags who were already on their way out, and piggybacked on Bush (who is, incidentally, more popular in Canada than most people think).
Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.
I usually don’t begrudge the Ministers their expenses vs. the functionaries like Scott Reid and his darn bar tab at every pub in Ottawa 3 to 6 times a day [no wonder he was an authority on beer and popcorn!]
But the Honourable Stephane Dion is inheriting the wind of his own “troubling” time as a Minister in the most insignificant cabinet in Canadian History.
By the way Marco, Maggie fit her time and Stephen fits his. He has been swimming upstream for some time and might have a few miles in him yet. So we’ll see.
In terms of carrying handbags, Maggie’s husband had that job.
Does Dion have a honey on the side that he needs to have a hotel close to his home? Is the tax payer forking out for a role in the Intercontinental? Sounds like Trudeau when he would have the military fly him in a helicopter to meet with Liona Boyd.
Things that make you Hmmmm?
Let’s see how Mr. Cherniak spins this!
Honey on the side! LOL
It would be very continental of Stephane to have a Mistress; quite Fwench don’t ya know!
* marco said… Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.
sure marco… but you’re okay with steffi’s champagne
tastes, right?
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cherniak will spin all right . . . while sitting on his thumb.
“Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.”
And Dion couldn’t wear Marie Antoinette’s corset.
Biff, “Does Dion have a honey on the side …
Things that make you Hmmmm?”
I hear Dion is like Borat, he’s convinced that a Hummer is a magnet.
Considering how much gets done at conference hotels, I would have stayed in one as well. In fact, the Tory convention is in November in Winnipeg, and I’ll be getting a place downtown for it.
Considering we’re talking about a year and a half period, $15K sounds fair.
Maybe if we didn’t focus on the trivial shite, we’d have a little better ground to stand on when Minister Finley’s taking one on the chin…er, the eyes.
You kids today, you have no idea.
Back in my day, before Thatcher took over, the deficit was so high that the Finance Minister went door to door in Lethbridge, borrowing nickels to pay for social programs. And you couldn’t get on a plane without some nut with a pound of gelignite strapped to his chest hijacking your plane and taking it to Cleveland. Where you’d be stuck for a week, because the cleaning ladies were all on strike, and the air traffic controllers would refuse to cross the picket line.
And after Thatcher left, John Major took over, and then hockey adopted the shootout rule for tie games, and now the whole world is in the toilet.
Now get off my lawn.
Perhaps mine is a command of obvious facts, but the Leader of the Opposition is going to hear about this little bit of larceny.
I’ll bet there is some digging going on to go after the driver. The MSM in Ontario ripped Cam Jackson mercilessly a few years back for this kind of stuff.
Just who are you a HACK for?
If headlines and revealed expenditures sway public opinion to view the duplicity of the liberals, one can hardly see that as trivial.
Marco…Too funny man!!!
why we do need the f…kn government?
even this one in office now?
Jean Dion will soon be gone and it will be by the sound of the gong.
(real conservative)
whatever happened to pubic transit and Super 8?
grin scarf my arse, doth ms. walsh warble?
Ain’t it fun living large on somebody else’s dime?!
Who was it who said that “Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue”?
You see, in there over the big puddle the socialist governments run basicaly totalitarian operation where they suck the working man dry and spend on themselves.
Now it seems the French citizen Dion is just following their lead.
Canadian people are nice and polite, they notice though things will go on as usual.
Marko, you are right about Harper & Thacher. I voted for him and will again, though it is for lack of person with guts, sort of like Ralph.
Of course,dion deserved a hotel for the conference. He was hosting the event and most likely had to entertain also. Would we rather have steffi in his hotel away from the prying eyes of the press,or kneeling in some dark alley wearing his blue dress while blowing Clinton? Give the guy a break!!!
Check out the PDF for the chauffeur expenses at the CTF site. Whoever filled out the expense report spelled Dion’s name wrong.
…classic case of:
“don’t do as I do, but do as I say”
The “don’t go all wobbly” wasn’t advice to Reagan, it was to Bush Sr.
Dion would be quite fetching in a Marie Antoinette corset, stockings, garter belt and that cute little backpack whilst jogging for the bus.
That’s not fair! That’s not fair!
You don’t know how much fun it is to ride in limo’s and play on the hotel waterslide!
SD
Is it time to plug John O’Sullivan’s book: The President, The Prime Minister and The Pope?
And as far as: “Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag” is concerned, wait for the coming crisis; who would you want in charge? Given present choices, Canadians have shown in the recent poll they know.
Sorry to put a damper on the mirth, guess I’m tired.
Apologies for being off-topic, but didn’t want you to miss this link. It’s another Aussie pro-military song – not sure if it’s also youtube’d.
Find it here.
Interesting analogy. “Let them eat cake” was never uttered, it was revolutionary propaganda.
Speaking of Dion, I’ve done a post in which I discuss my analysis as to what’s very likely going on with him and the Chretien mob, who’s apparently pulling the hapless little man’s puppet strings, setting priorities for him, etc., etc…
The Chretien era is back, via proxy, with the Cretch behind the curtain… http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/02/chretien-flunky-we-signed-kyoto-knowing.html
Marco: Thatcher was the one who told Ronald-friggin-Reagan not to get all wobbly.
You are confusing Reagan with George Bush Sr.
funny thing about that “let them eat cake” phrase. Here’s an explanation i read. The idiot french govt, in order to “help” the poor, limited the price of bread. (usual misguided socialism/communism)
The bakers then stopped making so much bread, just the govt mandated quota, since they weren’t making any money on it. They made more expensive products.
So, somebody, possibly marie, said “let them eat cake” ex – bakers forced to sell anything else in the shop at the price of bread.
I guess a grain of salt could be taken with this bread story. I don’t know, although it sounds like a typical silly ass socialist solution to an economic problem.
Hmmm…Dion in a corset, stockings and garter belt, eh? Since the post the other day about Steffi getting out the whip, I was picturing him in leather and latex. Now the vision is completely screwed up. Yuck!
Bolshevik: Harper’s got guts, he just doesn’t have the majority. He could have come out with all his guns blazing, you know, a real gutsy move, flexing his muscles singing Mighty Mouse’s theme song, “Here I come to save the day!” but where would that have got him?
The MSM’s total disdain (the poor guy couldn’t even wear a cowboy hat, for Gawd’s sake, and he’s an Albertan, without the MSM hooting in derision); the Opposition’s big guns, the public’s skepticism (hey, we don’t have gutsy politicians in Canada: Who does he think he is?).
I think PMSH is one of the gutsiest guys around. He’s just quiet about it, knowing that he’s got to play the power game very cagily in screwed-up Canada, with dirty players on the Opposition benches and Librano cheerleaders in the MSM…Not to mention Garth Turner playing the role of Judas…
Oy vey, what Stephen Harper has to put up with…
The Liberals are where they deserve to be, out of power and broke. They do not have the money to even buy Ads to spread LIES about the Conservatives.
Kinsella thinks they work and they should BORROW the money to do them.
At least Conservatives are putting out the truth in their Ads. It’s straight from Liberal mouths and the rest is documented evidence.
They have a funny edge to them as well. It’s not likely we will retrieve the money lost under Liberal rule , we may as well laugh as cry.
All they can do is foam and yell in the HOC, it’s their last refuge.
Might be a daunting project, but maybe Dr. Fruit Fly could calculate the “cabon foot print” of his boy Dijon and kick the whole Kyoto “Rocky Horror show” off by displaying leadership by example…. I think Stephanie D would take the first hit for the cause and park the Limo and take more “carbon friendly” transport and residence in Ottawa??
Where’s your “carbon conscience” Dijon?
Maybe make Stornoway “carbon negative” instead of pissing away $100K on furishings…wadda ya think…good show of faith from the green messiah?
No one could meet the Koyto targets. Eddie Goldenberg, a senior Liberal advisor, has revealed today that the government of Jean Chretien always knew that the targets were unachievable. Worse yet, another source explains that the targets were set in a completely capricious manner, unconnected in any way to any kind of science.
Check who stands to benefit most in big bucks from Kyoto. Check who the architect(s) of the Scheme/Scam are.
What part of the Scam were implemented right away by Chretien and his cabal while no further plans to implement the IMPOSSIBLE were put in place?
Dion and company sat on the Accord for 10 years, with nothing but empty rhetoric. now he has the
colossal nerve to claim he is the Expert.
He will rue the day he got high on Kyoto, it’ll take him down.
He may also want to change his dog’s name!
As predicted by some of you fine folk…the “spin-cycle” has begun over at cherniak’s.I only go there for the comedy value now..no credibility there anymore,just a dion “love-in”.hmmmmmm
“Eddie Goldenberg, a senior Liberal advisor, has revealed today that the government of Jean Chretien always knew that the targets were unachievable”
>> That’s very interesting, particularly in light of the fact it was Chretien ( enaged in his typically mindless buffooish world stage theatrics) who announced at the Original Kyoto Protocol conference that “HE” would “DOUBLE” the targets the Kyoto commission assigned Canada…just to show his confidence in Canada’s ability to rise to an global environmental challenge. ( at the time I thought this was jsut so much typical Chretien clowning before a global audience)
Then he sits on his thumb for 5 years and likewise Martin as these doubly aggressive Kyoto targets go unaddressed…almost like they intended a default so they had an excuse to ship $billions to China in Carbon credit default payments.
More ammo to support that theory from “Golden Eddie”.
If dion had not mady kyoto his #1 mission, would posters, columnists, reporters and the msm paid any attention to the goresusukiz duo. Would we have paid any attention to the double standard the above duo practice. I doubt it. What has happened is the truth about carbon credit trading was slowly getting out. Now, we see the stupidity of it with the green bus crossing canada and ds saying Yes, I am emmitting ghg, but, I am sending money out of the country to make it even. No one has asked him how long the ghg he has sent into Canadian air will stay there for cdns to breath and get sick from. The same goes for algores trip. Would anyone of bothered to check the donations from corporations to the foundation of ds, I doubt it. We find that a couple of car makers are regular contributors. Who is making hybrids, any connections. Would anyone have pd attention to the ghg emmitted and cost, of getting dion and his driver around for the past few years. If the libs had not pounded their desks aka Kruchev (sp) at the UN, would we know that the libs have been getting donations from suspect groups. I sometimes wonder if Dion is not the mole everyone talked about during the last election. Maybe he does have Canada’s interests at heart, and knows the only way to get us back on track is to send the liberals to the land of the dodo bird. At least Layton will be able to exercise as he takes over as opposition leader and the libs retreat to the tird party status. The name Trudeau still sends chills across western canada, so if the libs hope to increase votes out here with Justin, think again.
Somebody planned the Air India attack. 2 planes from Vancouver were involved, who did it, why, and why wasn’t it called a terrorist attack some 20 yrs ago. How many witnesses have been silenced, intimidated, protected, over the years. How many are in high places, either in business, politics, organizations. Why have the liberals, over the years, tended to ignore all of it. Who and what are they hiding.
All that money that’d be paid by ghg emitters and so on to “neutralize” (in the wild, whacky imaginations of moonbats) contributions to “warming” and so on…
We know full well, as we’ve seen all too often before, like with the Oil-For-Food program and all sorts of international aid thrown out by Liberal governments, that the money really doesn’t go very much to those for whom it’s claimed to be earmarked, or for whatever purposes. Nay- we reasonably suspect that these programs are scams to enrich the scammers.
Remember, the UN has its fingerprints all over all this. The scammers are greedily rubbing their hands, cackling, behind the scenes, awaiting the rich windfall they expect as ghg’s continue to skyrocket all over the world, particularly in China, who already contributes some 50% of all manmade ghg emissions, which actually account for a tiny bit of total ghg’s emitted on this planet. Think of all the emissions from the mouths of everyone and everything that breathes, for instance.
Who’s a sucker? Who wants to surrender their money to those crooks who aim to scare the hell out of us for profit?
I think Dion would suit wearing Marie Antoinette’s corset
a lieberal nothing more than a common ottawa priviligist? this is news? the newly minted leader, then; totally EXPECTED.
“The “don’t go all wobbly” wasn’t advice to Reagan, it was to Bush Sr.”
correctamundo.
pres reagan needed no reminders about wobbliness.
watch ‘in the face of evil’.
the crushing of communism was mr reagan’s life long quest and greatest legacy.
t’warnt no coincidence ‘appened on ‘is watch.
Dion; the fwench sixteen year old girl, of war heros.
This may sound a little like a Canadian saying ” I know somebody who plays hockey”, but, I have a friend who was once Trudeau’s mistress .
It’s not Lianna Boyd, although I’m told she was also making the beast with two backs with the du-timing socialist.
Plenty of pictures too!
“The MSM’s total disdain (the poor guy couldn’t even wear a cowboy hat, for Gawd’s sake, and he’s an Albertan, without the MSM hooting ”
ya, I never did get the ‘derision angle’ on this, like, ok, he’s in alberta aaaaand from alberta, sooooo in alberta they wear the very identifiable traditional cowboy hat …… what am I missing here?
well of course what I was missing was the MSM derision angle.
tranna MSM easterners chortling at the western hicks etc.
p.s., I apologize for the east and disclaim any involvement in the process of easterners foisting the like of stephannnnnnnnn dionnnnnnnnnnn onto the hard working albertans and other westerners.
Perhaps Dion took his cue from Bev Oda:
www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2679488#SOBQ-1891199
Mr. Michael Savage (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to have a chance to follow up on a couple of questions that I asked this week in the House.
I asked questions on successive days about the extravagant use of limousines by the Minister of Canadian Heritage while at the Juno’s last year in Halifax. I received no answer on two key fronts.
There are a whole host of questions, but two key questions were never answered. Number one: Does the government consider it an extravagant use of taxpayers’ money? Number two: Why were Treasury Board guidelines broken when these expenses were not posted on the website as required?
Last year Halifax was delighted to host the Juno’s. In fact, Nova Scotia is one of the cultural capitals of Canada. We were delighted to have the Juno’s for a number of reasons, one of which was the economic boom that it brought to Halifax. Taxpayers, however, were not aware of the extent to which the heritage minister contributed to that economic boom by the use of taxpayers’ dollars.
I have the bill for the limo services that were used by the minister while she was in Halifax. It is interesting to note that she arrived on March 31 and left on April 3. On March 31, two different limousines were required. In fact, one was a mini-van and one was a limo. Apparently the mini-van was not good enough and the limo was requested. It took two orders to get her into the Delta Barrington.
Later that day she had another limo from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for three hours. That evening she required a stretch limo from 4:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. It was on standby, meaning it was not even used. It was just sitting there being charged to taxpayers while she was doing other stuff, some of which could have been business, some of which could have been personal.
On April 1 a sedan limo from 9:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. was used for seven hours. Most of that time the limo was on standby. Later that evening, a stretch limo was required from 5:30 p.m. until 11 p.m., with a half hour break, and then another limo from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. That was hospitality night, and the minister should go to some of those.
The hotel the minister stayed at, the Delta Barrington, is exactly one-tenth of one kilometre from where the Juno’s took place. The hospitalities were all in the same general area as well. The Economy Shoe Shop is a great place and one that I would recommend to many members for the artichoke dip. It is a great spot. It is where CTV had the big bash. Did the minister really need 7.5 hours of stretch limo on standby while she was inside the Economy Shoe Shop, which is less than one-tenth of one kilometre from the Metro Centre? The Metro Centre and the hotel also happen to be connected by pedway and underground tunnel. It seems a little excessive.
The next day she used a stretch limo. The day after the Juno’s it says here that a stretch limo was on standby from 12 noon until 5:30 p.m. That evening, two sedan limos were required for standby for the red carpet walk event. So even when she walked, she needed limousines. It boggles the mind. After the Juno’s a stretch limo was required from 11:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. The next morning a stretch limo took her out to the airport.
The total bill for limousines for the approximately three days that the heritage minister was in Halifax was $5,475, of which she repaid $2,000, leaving $1,000 a day for stretch limos to the taxpayer.
I notice the parliamentary secretary here. He is not the guilty party. He is probably as disgusted by this as I am. He is most likely armed with all kinds of notes about the wonderful things that the minister has done for arts and culture. It is a mirage, all these cuts that the rest of Canada knows about.
I would give him three of his four minutes to give us that stuff. That is fine. I would ask him to take one minute to answer two simple questions. Is $1,000 a day for a limousine reasonable? Why did the minister break Treasury Board guidelines, try to hide her expenses, and not post them on the website?
Kate:
This is (to quote Citoyen Dion…UNFAIR!!!!!). After all, he named his dog “Kyoto”. I mean, I named my beloved golden retriever “Murphy”, which I suppose must make me a proponent of some sort of “Irish liberation movement”.
Or…..,maybe he’s just an idiot, and a hyprocite…
Libranos. Limos. Fancy hotels. Sound familiar?
The Infamous Librano Culture of Entitlement Continues Unabated…
They haven’t changed, have they? Not a bit!
Still blowing our hard-earned tax dollars…
All that on top of all the fancy imported beer and Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn…
the chauffeur, he is not the same one that belong to Mssr. Pettigrew dat stayed in his place in Paris ? non, non it must be another one mais oui?
At least he stay in his own bed ,not share with de minister.
Yeah, and Margaret Thatcher is to Stephen Harper as Guinness is to Bud Light.
Please. Thatcher was ground zero for fiscal conservatism and peace through military strength. Thatcher was the one who told Ronald-friggin-Reagan not to get all wobbly.
Harper won a minority against a bunch of scumbags who were already on their way out, and piggybacked on Bush (who is, incidentally, more popular in Canada than most people think).
Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.
I usually don’t begrudge the Ministers their expenses vs. the functionaries like Scott Reid and his darn bar tab at every pub in Ottawa 3 to 6 times a day [no wonder he was an authority on beer and popcorn!]
But the Honourable Stephane Dion is inheriting the wind of his own “troubling” time as a Minister in the most insignificant cabinet in Canadian History.
By the way Marco, Maggie fit her time and Stephen fits his. He has been swimming upstream for some time and might have a few miles in him yet. So we’ll see.
In terms of carrying handbags, Maggie’s husband had that job.
Does Dion have a honey on the side that he needs to have a hotel close to his home? Is the tax payer forking out for a role in the Intercontinental? Sounds like Trudeau when he would have the military fly him in a helicopter to meet with Liona Boyd.
Things that make you Hmmmm?
Let’s see how Mr. Cherniak spins this!
Honey on the side! LOL
It would be very continental of Stephane to have a Mistress; quite Fwench don’t ya know!
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marco said… Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.
sure marco… but you’re okay with steffi’s champagne
tastes, right?
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cherniak will spin all right . . . while sitting on his thumb.
“Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag.”
And Dion couldn’t wear Marie Antoinette’s corset.
Biff, “Does Dion have a honey on the side …
Things that make you Hmmmm?”
I hear Dion is like Borat, he’s convinced that a Hummer is a magnet.
Considering how much gets done at conference hotels, I would have stayed in one as well. In fact, the Tory convention is in November in Winnipeg, and I’ll be getting a place downtown for it.
Considering we’re talking about a year and a half period, $15K sounds fair.
Maybe if we didn’t focus on the trivial shite, we’d have a little better ground to stand on when Minister Finley’s taking one on the chin…er, the eyes.
You kids today, you have no idea.
Back in my day, before Thatcher took over, the deficit was so high that the Finance Minister went door to door in Lethbridge, borrowing nickels to pay for social programs. And you couldn’t get on a plane without some nut with a pound of gelignite strapped to his chest hijacking your plane and taking it to Cleveland. Where you’d be stuck for a week, because the cleaning ladies were all on strike, and the air traffic controllers would refuse to cross the picket line.
And after Thatcher left, John Major took over, and then hockey adopted the shootout rule for tie games, and now the whole world is in the toilet.
Now get off my lawn.
Perhaps mine is a command of obvious facts, but the Leader of the Opposition is going to hear about this little bit of larceny.
I’ll bet there is some digging going on to go after the driver. The MSM in Ontario ripped Cam Jackson mercilessly a few years back for this kind of stuff.
Just who are you a HACK for?
If headlines and revealed expenditures sway public opinion to view the duplicity of the liberals, one can hardly see that as trivial.
Marco…Too funny man!!!
why we do need the f…kn government?
even this one in office now?
Jean Dion will soon be gone and it will be by the sound of the gong.
(real conservative)
whatever happened to pubic transit and Super 8?
grin scarf my arse, doth ms. walsh warble?
Ain’t it fun living large on somebody else’s dime?!
Who was it who said that “Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue”?
You see, in there over the big puddle the socialist governments run basicaly totalitarian operation where they suck the working man dry and spend on themselves.
Now it seems the French citizen Dion is just following their lead.
Canadian people are nice and polite, they notice though things will go on as usual.
Marko, you are right about Harper & Thacher. I voted for him and will again, though it is for lack of person with guts, sort of like Ralph.
Of course,dion deserved a hotel for the conference. He was hosting the event and most likely had to entertain also. Would we rather have steffi in his hotel away from the prying eyes of the press,or kneeling in some dark alley wearing his blue dress while blowing Clinton? Give the guy a break!!!
Check out the PDF for the chauffeur expenses at the CTF site. Whoever filled out the expense report spelled Dion’s name wrong.
…classic case of:
“don’t do as I do, but do as I say”
The “don’t go all wobbly” wasn’t advice to Reagan, it was to Bush Sr.
Dion would be quite fetching in a Marie Antoinette corset, stockings, garter belt and that cute little backpack whilst jogging for the bus.
That’s not fair! That’s not fair!
You don’t know how much fun it is to ride in limo’s and play on the hotel waterslide!
SD
Is it time to plug John O’Sullivan’s book: The President, The Prime Minister and The Pope?
And as far as: “Harper couldn’t carry Thatcher’s handbag” is concerned, wait for the coming crisis; who would you want in charge? Given present choices, Canadians have shown in the recent poll they know.
Sorry to put a damper on the mirth, guess I’m tired.
Apologies for being off-topic, but didn’t want you to miss this link. It’s another Aussie pro-military song – not sure if it’s also youtube’d.
Find it here.
Interesting analogy. “Let them eat cake” was never uttered, it was revolutionary propaganda.
Speaking of Dion, I’ve done a post in which I discuss my analysis as to what’s very likely going on with him and the Chretien mob, who’s apparently pulling the hapless little man’s puppet strings, setting priorities for him, etc., etc…
The Chretien era is back, via proxy, with the Cretch behind the curtain…
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/02/chretien-flunky-we-signed-kyoto-knowing.html
Marco:
Thatcher was the one who told Ronald-friggin-Reagan not to get all wobbly.
You are confusing Reagan with George Bush Sr.
funny thing about that “let them eat cake” phrase. Here’s an explanation i read. The idiot french govt, in order to “help” the poor, limited the price of bread. (usual misguided socialism/communism)
The bakers then stopped making so much bread, just the govt mandated quota, since they weren’t making any money on it. They made more expensive products.
So, somebody, possibly marie, said “let them eat cake” ex – bakers forced to sell anything else in the shop at the price of bread.
I guess a grain of salt could be taken with this bread story. I don’t know, although it sounds like a typical silly ass socialist solution to an economic problem.
Hmmm…Dion in a corset, stockings and garter belt, eh? Since the post the other day about Steffi getting out the whip, I was picturing him in leather and latex. Now the vision is completely screwed up. Yuck!
Bolshevik: Harper’s got guts, he just doesn’t have the majority. He could have come out with all his guns blazing, you know, a real gutsy move, flexing his muscles singing Mighty Mouse’s theme song, “Here I come to save the day!” but where would that have got him?
The MSM’s total disdain (the poor guy couldn’t even wear a cowboy hat, for Gawd’s sake, and he’s an Albertan, without the MSM hooting in derision); the Opposition’s big guns, the public’s skepticism (hey, we don’t have gutsy politicians in Canada: Who does he think he is?).
I think PMSH is one of the gutsiest guys around. He’s just quiet about it, knowing that he’s got to play the power game very cagily in screwed-up Canada, with dirty players on the Opposition benches and Librano cheerleaders in the MSM…Not to mention Garth Turner playing the role of Judas…
Oy vey, what Stephen Harper has to put up with…
The Liberals are where they deserve to be, out of power and broke. They do not have the money to even buy Ads to spread LIES about the Conservatives.
Kinsella thinks they work and they should BORROW the money to do them.
At least Conservatives are putting out the truth in their Ads. It’s straight from Liberal mouths and the rest is documented evidence.
They have a funny edge to them as well. It’s not likely we will retrieve the money lost under Liberal rule , we may as well laugh as cry.
All they can do is foam and yell in the HOC, it’s their last refuge.
Might be a daunting project, but maybe Dr. Fruit Fly could calculate the “cabon foot print” of his boy Dijon and kick the whole Kyoto “Rocky Horror show” off by displaying leadership by example…. I think Stephanie D would take the first hit for the cause and park the Limo and take more “carbon friendly” transport and residence in Ottawa??
Where’s your “carbon conscience” Dijon?
Maybe make Stornoway “carbon negative” instead of pissing away $100K on furishings…wadda ya think…good show of faith from the green messiah?
No one could meet the Koyto targets. Eddie Goldenberg, a senior Liberal advisor, has revealed today that the government of Jean Chretien always knew that the targets were unachievable. Worse yet, another source explains that the targets were set in a completely capricious manner, unconnected in any way to any kind of science.
Check who stands to benefit most in big bucks from Kyoto. Check who the architect(s) of the Scheme/Scam are.
What part of the Scam were implemented right away by Chretien and his cabal while no further plans to implement the IMPOSSIBLE were put in place?
Dion and company sat on the Accord for 10 years, with nothing but empty rhetoric. now he has the
colossal nerve to claim he is the Expert.
He will rue the day he got high on Kyoto, it’ll take him down.
He may also want to change his dog’s name!
As predicted by some of you fine folk…the “spin-cycle” has begun over at cherniak’s.I only go there for the comedy value now..no credibility there anymore,just a dion “love-in”.hmmmmmm
“Eddie Goldenberg, a senior Liberal advisor, has revealed today that the government of Jean Chretien always knew that the targets were unachievable”
>> That’s very interesting, particularly in light of the fact it was Chretien ( enaged in his typically mindless buffooish world stage theatrics) who announced at the Original Kyoto Protocol conference that “HE” would “DOUBLE” the targets the Kyoto commission assigned Canada…just to show his confidence in Canada’s ability to rise to an global environmental challenge. ( at the time I thought this was jsut so much typical Chretien clowning before a global audience)
Then he sits on his thumb for 5 years and likewise Martin as these doubly aggressive Kyoto targets go unaddressed…almost like they intended a default so they had an excuse to ship $billions to China in Carbon credit default payments.
More ammo to support that theory from “Golden Eddie”.
If dion had not mady kyoto his #1 mission, would posters, columnists, reporters and the msm paid any attention to the goresusukiz duo. Would we have paid any attention to the double standard the above duo practice. I doubt it. What has happened is the truth about carbon credit trading was slowly getting out. Now, we see the stupidity of it with the green bus crossing canada and ds saying Yes, I am emmitting ghg, but, I am sending money out of the country to make it even. No one has asked him how long the ghg he has sent into Canadian air will stay there for cdns to breath and get sick from. The same goes for algores trip. Would anyone of bothered to check the donations from corporations to the foundation of ds, I doubt it. We find that a couple of car makers are regular contributors. Who is making hybrids, any connections. Would anyone have pd attention to the ghg emmitted and cost, of getting dion and his driver around for the past few years. If the libs had not pounded their desks aka Kruchev (sp) at the UN, would we know that the libs have been getting donations from suspect groups. I sometimes wonder if Dion is not the mole everyone talked about during the last election. Maybe he does have Canada’s interests at heart, and knows the only way to get us back on track is to send the liberals to the land of the dodo bird. At least Layton will be able to exercise as he takes over as opposition leader and the libs retreat to the tird party status. The name Trudeau still sends chills across western canada, so if the libs hope to increase votes out here with Justin, think again.
Somebody planned the Air India attack. 2 planes from Vancouver were involved, who did it, why, and why wasn’t it called a terrorist attack some 20 yrs ago. How many witnesses have been silenced, intimidated, protected, over the years. How many are in high places, either in business, politics, organizations. Why have the liberals, over the years, tended to ignore all of it. Who and what are they hiding.
All that money that’d be paid by ghg emitters and so on to “neutralize” (in the wild, whacky imaginations of moonbats) contributions to “warming” and so on…
We know full well, as we’ve seen all too often before, like with the Oil-For-Food program and all sorts of international aid thrown out by Liberal governments, that the money really doesn’t go very much to those for whom it’s claimed to be earmarked, or for whatever purposes. Nay- we reasonably suspect that these programs are scams to enrich the scammers.
Remember, the UN has its fingerprints all over all this. The scammers are greedily rubbing their hands, cackling, behind the scenes, awaiting the rich windfall they expect as ghg’s continue to skyrocket all over the world, particularly in China, who already contributes some 50% of all manmade ghg emissions, which actually account for a tiny bit of total ghg’s emitted on this planet. Think of all the emissions from the mouths of everyone and everything that breathes, for instance.
Who’s a sucker? Who wants to surrender their money to those crooks who aim to scare the hell out of us for profit?
I think Dion would suit wearing Marie Antoinette’s corset
a lieberal nothing more than a common ottawa priviligist? this is news? the newly minted leader, then; totally EXPECTED.
“The “don’t go all wobbly” wasn’t advice to Reagan, it was to Bush Sr.”
correctamundo.
pres reagan needed no reminders about wobbliness.
watch ‘in the face of evil’.
the crushing of communism was mr reagan’s life long quest and greatest legacy.
t’warnt no coincidence ‘appened on ‘is watch.
Dion; the fwench sixteen year old girl, of war heros.
This may sound a little like a Canadian saying ” I know somebody who plays hockey”, but, I have a friend who was once Trudeau’s mistress .
It’s not Lianna Boyd, although I’m told she was also making the beast with two backs with the du-timing socialist.
Plenty of pictures too!
“The MSM’s total disdain (the poor guy couldn’t even wear a cowboy hat, for Gawd’s sake, and he’s an Albertan, without the MSM hooting ”
ya, I never did get the ‘derision angle’ on this, like, ok, he’s in alberta aaaaand from alberta, sooooo in alberta they wear the very identifiable traditional cowboy hat …… what am I missing here?
well of course what I was missing was the MSM derision angle.
tranna MSM easterners chortling at the western hicks etc.
p.s., I apologize for the east and disclaim any involvement in the process of easterners foisting the like of stephannnnnnnnn dionnnnnnnnnnn onto the hard working albertans and other westerners.
Perhaps Dion took his cue from Bev Oda:
www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2679488#SOBQ-1891199
Mr. Michael Savage (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to have a chance to follow up on a couple of questions that I asked this week in the House.
I asked questions on successive days about the extravagant use of limousines by the Minister of Canadian Heritage while at the Juno’s last year in Halifax. I received no answer on two key fronts.
There are a whole host of questions, but two key questions were never answered. Number one: Does the government consider it an extravagant use of taxpayers’ money? Number two: Why were Treasury Board guidelines broken when these expenses were not posted on the website as required?
Last year Halifax was delighted to host the Juno’s. In fact, Nova Scotia is one of the cultural capitals of Canada. We were delighted to have the Juno’s for a number of reasons, one of which was the economic boom that it brought to Halifax. Taxpayers, however, were not aware of the extent to which the heritage minister contributed to that economic boom by the use of taxpayers’ dollars.
I have the bill for the limo services that were used by the minister while she was in Halifax. It is interesting to note that she arrived on March 31 and left on April 3. On March 31, two different limousines were required. In fact, one was a mini-van and one was a limo. Apparently the mini-van was not good enough and the limo was requested. It took two orders to get her into the Delta Barrington.
Later that day she had another limo from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for three hours. That evening she required a stretch limo from 4:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. It was on standby, meaning it was not even used. It was just sitting there being charged to taxpayers while she was doing other stuff, some of which could have been business, some of which could have been personal.
On April 1 a sedan limo from 9:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. was used for seven hours. Most of that time the limo was on standby. Later that evening, a stretch limo was required from 5:30 p.m. until 11 p.m., with a half hour break, and then another limo from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. That was hospitality night, and the minister should go to some of those.
The hotel the minister stayed at, the Delta Barrington, is exactly one-tenth of one kilometre from where the Juno’s took place. The hospitalities were all in the same general area as well. The Economy Shoe Shop is a great place and one that I would recommend to many members for the artichoke dip. It is a great spot. It is where CTV had the big bash. Did the minister really need 7.5 hours of stretch limo on standby while she was inside the Economy Shoe Shop, which is less than one-tenth of one kilometre from the Metro Centre? The Metro Centre and the hotel also happen to be connected by pedway and underground tunnel. It seems a little excessive.
The next day she used a stretch limo. The day after the Juno’s it says here that a stretch limo was on standby from 12 noon until 5:30 p.m. That evening, two sedan limos were required for standby for the red carpet walk event. So even when she walked, she needed limousines. It boggles the mind. After the Juno’s a stretch limo was required from 11:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. The next morning a stretch limo took her out to the airport.
The total bill for limousines for the approximately three days that the heritage minister was in Halifax was $5,475, of which she repaid $2,000, leaving $1,000 a day for stretch limos to the taxpayer.
I notice the parliamentary secretary here. He is not the guilty party. He is probably as disgusted by this as I am. He is most likely armed with all kinds of notes about the wonderful things that the minister has done for arts and culture. It is a mirage, all these cuts that the rest of Canada knows about.
I would give him three of his four minutes to give us that stuff. That is fine. I would ask him to take one minute to answer two simple questions. Is $1,000 a day for a limousine reasonable? Why did the minister break Treasury Board guidelines, try to hide her expenses, and not post them on the website?