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  4. “Turns out Canadians spend more on taxes than they do on food, clothing and shelter.’
    Ummmm Dave. Your group does great work,but I have known this ever since I started slaving in this great socialist country.My question….how can we reduce it. And please don’t give me this “free” medical care crap,or a social safety nets,etc.
    Don…your response to MaryT was no better then her comment.Frankly,I don’t care if he was a little green mouse from the Moon. He murdered 21 innocents,and we will never know what was going on in his mentally deficient brain. What does his race have to do with anything?

  5. Liz J: Afstan and another mendaciously spinning Globe headline and first two paras:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070416.wdefence16/BNStory/International/
    ‘O’Connor envisions conflicts lasting 15 years
    BRIAN LAGHI
    Globe and Mail Update
    OTTAWA — Canada needed to acquire 120 new tanks to deal with another 10 to 15 years of conflicts in Afghanistan and other countries, Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor said Sunday, amid opposition concerns that the war is escalating.
    “Afghanistan and these type of engagements are the future for 10, 15 years,” Mr. O’Connor told CTV’s current affairs program Question Period.’
    The underlying facts are buried very deep in the story:
    ‘“When I talk about 10 or 15 years, I’m saying that’s an assessment from defence and government that if we were to go to other ventures like Somalia, or, I don’t know, Darfur or whatever,” the new tanks will be needed, he said.
    He insisted he was not referring specifically to Afghanistan, saying “our commitment militarily is to the end of February ’09,” and cabinet wasn’t scheduled to discuss the matter until next year.’
    That’s not what the average reader would think from giving the story a quick glance. What gutter “journalism”.
    Mark
    Ottawa

  6. Liz J—the Chamber of Commerce invited the Goracle to come to Calgary. They sure do not have the welfare of Calgarians in mind when they did this senseless act.
    [ Trolling and flame wars will not be tolerated here – please stop it.
    Please don’t feed the trolls here – ED]

  9. Schools are so difficult to protect, mainly because such large numbers of people must move in and out of many entrances quickly so as not to be late for class.
    At military bases, the guard house is effective because people do not come and go en mass.
    An electronic ankle bracelet for kids may work. Those entering the *scan zone* without one would be restricted to a visitor*s room with reception behind armor glass.
    Guess that would not work if one of the students became postal. = TG

  10. Harper urges Canadians to remember Holocaust victims
    OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper bore witness to the millions of Jews killed during the Holocaust in a memorial ceremony Sunday, vowing to oppose anyone who advocates the “destruction of Israel.”
    “It has been said that lies become truth if they are repeated often enough. That’s why truth is so precious. That’s why the truth must be repeated, over and over and over, to protect us from lies,” Harper told a couple of hundred people gathered on Parliament Hill on Sunday to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
    “So let us plainly state the awful, incontrovertible truth that brings us here today: Millions, including six million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.” …-
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=34991afb-6ff3-4484-a019-d367c00800bb&k=12512

  11. Just read an article about the wacko Kevin Potvin at the National Newswatch. They had a picture of him and my first thought was, he looks just like that attention ho Garth whatever.
    Maybe it’s just me.

  12. Thanks for posting that maz2. The more PMSH speaks on important matters such as this and at the Vimy memorial rededication, the more proud I am to have him as Canada’s Prime Minister. On the international stage he conducts himself, on our behalf, in a dignified and stately manner. Something that’s been sorely lacking in our last 2 Prime Ministers.

  14. “About 20 minutes into the attack, civilians started to arrive with deer rifles. They helped police return fire.”
    The shots fired came from a lone gunman.
    This happened before “Gun Free Zones”.
    …-
    The Tower Shooting – 40 Years Later (“armed citizens shot back with their deer rifles”)
    At about 11:45 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 1, 1966, it was hot on the University of Texas campus.
    About 96 degrees.
    But other than that, nothing seemed unusual about that summer school day to newly elected student body president Cliff Drummond.
    And then, shots broke the morning calm.
    “As I was walking toward the Tower on the West Mall, I was hearing the reports of the rifle, but it was not clicking [in my head] what was going on,” Drummond said.
    Gunfire on a college campus? It didn’t make sense. It didn’t seem possible.
    “There were some students along the south wall of the Texas Union Building and they were all standing hunkered down, next to the wall. And they were shouting at me,” Drummond said.
    KTBC reporter Neal Spelce was about to be involved in the biggest story of his career. At first it wasn’t obvious to police, bystanders or the media if there was more than one person shooting from the Tower.
    “Nothing like this had ever occurred anywhere before! This wasn’t an event where you said, ‘Oh, this is just like so and so’ therefore you had a frame of reference. Everything was unfolding, new and fresh at the time amidst chaos, bullets, sirens, screaming, shots fired, people yelling. You were seeing people screaming, dodging and diving and hiding,” Spelce said.
    The only clear thing was that whoever was shooting from up there was an incredible shot.
    The first victim from the Tower was the fetus of an 18-year-old pregnant student named Claire Wilson. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818290/posts

  15. Where was the Leader of the RED GREEN party today?, Not in House for Question Period. You would think that he should be there afterall it is the first day back.

  16. bryanr:
    The leader of the Red-Green party was in the HOC today. Elizabeth May was pointed out by the Conservatives up in the gallery.

  17. “But the Martin cabinet authorized the redeployment, and one of the ministers voting in favour of it was Stephane Dion.”
    …-
    Why is Canada in Afghanistan? Because we’re not in Iraq.
    That’s the short answer. Canada played a minor role in the eviction of the Taliban and Al-Qa’ida in the fall of 2001, and deployed a few hundred soldiers in 2002.
    It was only when Canada declined to join the U.S.-led coalition in the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 that the Chretien government suddenly announced Canada would be stepping up its commitment in Afghanistan to 2,000 troops, based in the capital of Kabul.
    As Brian Stewart’s CBC documentary made clear last week, this commitment by the civilian leadership was several times the troop strength recommended by the military command at the time. The mission was clearly politically motivated, so that the Chretien government could say to the Americans that Canada was doing its part in the war on terror, in a different theatre, one approved by NATO and the UN.
    It was only in the spring and summer of 2005 that the Martin government took the decision to redeploy Canadian troops from the relative safety of Kabul to an offensive role in the disputed and dangerous Kandahar province in the south. It was well known in military circles at the time that the new chief of defence staff, Rick Hillier, a former field commander in Afghanistan, lobbied hard for the redeployment.
    But in the summer of 2005, no one in the government, other than then Defence Minister Bill Graham, bothered to warn Canadians of the increased risk. While it was obvious that confronting an insurgency in the countryside was different from patrolling the streets of the capital, the then prime minister was nowhere to be seen or heard on the subject. Hillier was sent out as the government’s public-relations surrogate, a political role he had no business playing but a political vacuum he filled quite capably.
    But the Martin cabinet authorized the redeployment, and one of the ministers voting in favour of it was Stephane Dion….-
    Dion’s comments are way out of line
    It isn’t his timeline that’s inappropriate; it’s his timing and his choice of words
    L. IAN MACDONALD, The Gazette
    http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=19bcb84a-4c84-42b5-aed9-af7946a5c507

  18. Thanks to Mark R. for conclusively proving that no one at the Toronto Star bothers to read what goes into the paper before publishing it. They don’t know it, but they’re better than The Onion, somedays.

  19. When Iggy gave his response to the US shootings, there were a lot of empty seats in the liberal benches.

  20. “Did that creep Albatross dare equate this to Afghanistan? That’s low, even for him. Way to go ED for booting him off.
    Posted by: The Phantom at April 16, 2007 3:26 PM “
    You’ll never know, because that post was deleted. The post was in fact a criticism of SDA in it’s lack of handling the story about dead Canadian soldiers and instantly posting a story about dead Americans. Apparently who ever is playing “ED” today didn’t like SDA being criticized. But I guess you’ll never know for sure.
    “I’m pretty sure that ED is Kate. ED being Editor of the site…
    Posted by: Warwick at April 16, 2007 3:29 PM”
    Well who ever is acting as “ED” today is terribly afraid of a bit of criticism of SDA along with it’s support of racist comments found on SDA. I notice criticisms of Iraq, or Harper and the Conservatives are often frequently deleted here too.
    Controlling free speech and opposing viewpoints is a very cowardly tactic too often used by right-wing fascists the world over.
    That’s quite all right as I take screenshots of my comments on SDA and will post them on another web site to show how right-wing fanatics handle opposing viewpoints.
    ED, better delete all the posts that commented earlier on my deleted posts because if you don’t people here will see that you’re controlling of the information of what they are allowed to see.
    This sounds like the work of the same childish mind behind the Suzuki poll manipulation a few weeks ago.
    Oops, this could be considered another criticism, how long until this post is deleted too?

  21. Albatros39, your song and dance is getting old so why don’t you take it over to babble.ca or where ever you find kindered spirits.

  22. Albatros39, I suggest you review the comments policy and don’t post here again until you fully understand it.
    Now stop trolling here and go post whatever you want on your own site.
    Any idiotic comments talking about what Kate has failed to cover will certainly be deleted, ’cause as you know perfectly well Kate has not been here the last few days.

  23. IIRC, a commenter said that Bourque is paid to post stuff. If so, who paid for this?
    …-
    Gumdrops
    Superstar Dion blogger Jason Cherniak is calling on “Nincompoop” Ray Heard, the senior Liberal strategist who shocked the political world this weekend by belling the cat about a frothing family feud over Stephane Dion’s dubious leadership qualities, to quit the Liberal Party … Longtime marijuana advocate Marc-Boris St-Maurice is abandoning his quest to run as a Liberal party candidate in the thanklessly separatist riding of Laurier-St-Marie in urban Montreal. Word is he might have been pushed out by pro-Dion operatives worried about stirring up media interest in the party’s position on the abolition of marijuana laws … and Bourque has heard there is a move afoot in the rural Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova by disenfranchised Liberals to run a so-called “independent” Liberal candidacy against the Dion-May cabal. On the one hand that would mean another non-Mackay name on the ballot to draw votes away from Green party leader Liz May. On the other hand, it means a likely reduction in the number of potential volunteers from Liberal ranks who might otherwise find themselves working the trenches for Ms. May during the upcoming election. Developing …

  24. reid: i noticed their were several comments made about the RED GREEN PARTY in Question Period with Moore having the best refering to the visitors section where she was seated(did you see him trying not to laugh,priceless) You would think though the “Official Leader of the Opposition” would be there after the break or was he away getting B**** Slapped by party brass there were some interesting memos flying on the weekend backberries according to some releases.

  25. Albatross,
    Kate is perfectly capable of neutering you on her own and does not need anyone coming to her defense. However, it should be obvious that is not a news service, it is a blog. She lives a life in between posting and is not available to post for days at a time depending on her schedule. It is also not her responsibility to post threads that suit your fancy but hers. Get lost and go join you ideological buddy Kevin Potvin and start your own blog. I think “Verbal Vomit From Pond Scum” would be an appropriate name.

  26. Chuckercanuck said…
    […]
    check out Calgary Grit in the latest thread — “jimtan” is “cheering” the mass murder because it will hurt Harper on gun control.
    sick, sick, sick.
    …-
    https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=5008120865268910809
    Warning: The original Red-Green, (Search SDA), aka Joe Green, who dribbled-commented here years ago, is dribbling drivel on Chucker’s blog. Joe Red-Green and jimtan are perfect exemplars of the: Left-liberalism is a mental disease. They are members of the Kevin Red-Green Potvin fanclub. Sociopaths; all three of them.
    Strong language there.

  27. “Turns out Canadians spend more on taxes than they do on food, clothing and shelter.”
    Why for heaven’s sake, would you find this surprising? Every time I hear someone describe our medical system as “free” I need to take medication for high blood pressure. By my estimate, based on income taxes, I pay about $7,000/yr (plus BC Medical Premiums)for ‘health care’ that offers generally sub-standard and slow medical care.
    Give me choices, please. I’ll pay my own insurance and choose the caregiver and level of service I can afford/desire. My taxes will still continue to care for the poor and the stupid.

  28. *
    New CBC “Blogger/Reporter” in town… and she wants to know
    if I’m part of the International Zionist Conspiracy.
    “The Angry Reporter/Reporter en Colère also said…PS, you say
    you’re Scottish-Irish. Can I assume you’re already drunk?
    hah, that’s a good one, a real kneeslapper… now, if i had said
    i was black… would you have made a crack about watermelons?
    i’m guess just lucky you’re a professional… and not one of
    those damn racist conspiracy-nut bloggers.
    *

  29. The Earnscliffe Investigation: Flawed competitions, excessive payments, unnecessary work, and political connections
    In a very long post, I review the Earnscliffe story going back ten years. I refamiliarize myself with the major players, the timeline, the allegations, and the unanswered questions. With the Conservatives initiating an investigation into the polling contracts, this might be of use in the weeks to come. …-
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/222855.php
    The title of the piece comes from Warren Kinsella’s testimony to the Public Accounts committee. It describes what he thought of the polling contracts handed out by Paul Martin’s Ministry of Finance. …
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/222855.php
    …-
    Librano$
    AdScam Martin: I knew nothingk; ask AdScam MayDion. He wrote the cheque$$$$$$$$$$$

  30. Did I read somewhere that Dion called the actions of our brave troops in Afghanistan as “incompetent”?
    Can someone point out where he said this???
    Also, we visited friends on the army base near Edmonton this weekend. It was very telling about how they feel about Jack Layton and the NDP’s woosy hippy unrealistic and downright disgusting attitudes about our role with NATO in helping the Ghani people.
    They had a blow up picture of DAWN BLACK, NDP Defence hippy peacenik whiner on their dart board!
    Nuff said about how the military families feel about the NDP so called speaking up for THEM. In their opinion the Taliban TARGET Canadians so they can get good woosy NDP snivelling with the help of the CBC to back off their good work.
    In fact, some military families will openly say that Jack Layton and some of the CBC type reporters have CAUSED our military deaths.
    For the Taliban – Kill a Canadian soldier – you get a bigger bang for your bomb right here at home.
    Now Layton wants an emergency debate – 8 lives lost and nice big NDP political games headlines.
    The Taliban and Al Queda must be just so happy with Jack and his band of wimps.
    And now Dion calls our soldiers incompetent???
    Sickening isn’t it?

  31. I hate the idea of being on albies side but whenever kate goes away she leaves this place in the worst of hand.
    It truly is sad that this best of the best gets turned into this.

  32. I saw Al Gore’s academy award winning science fiction scare the sheeple people espeically the children until they pay big bucks to the commie countries and I’ll come in person to scare you for $125,000 plus expences Inconvenient Fabrication on sale for $19.99 plus tax at Wal-Mart!!!!
    Don’t you despair that we are witnessing full scale world wide brainwashing and there is NO organized counter to this?
    And then there is Elizabeth May and Dion who are out to save the planet !!!!! and there are millions of people who agree with them!!!!
    I say to Dion – if the end of the world will happen because of Stephen Harper instead of YOU as Prime MInister and Missy May as your green giggly girlie sidekick why oh why would you not insist right now to have an election!!!]
    The planet is at stake!!! Or are you waiting for the polls as all good opportunistic Liberals always do.
    Pull the plug, 007 Dion. Put on your green cape and save the planet. Do it now before it is too late.
    Or, was that just over the top lying rhetoric you and May were spewing in Nova Scotia?

  33. So much for Albert Gore Warms science fiction.
    Now for some pretty snazzy REAL science. Have you seen the Ford Escape Hybrid?
    I am not normally a Ford guy, but they seem to be getting serious at last, or once again. You would be surprised what the Escape hybrid offers for about 25k. check it at:
    TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
    The 8 and ten year warranty on the NiMH battery and EV controller seems pretty solid.
    It is just that longevity that scares Ford and others when it comes to pure EVs = TG

  34. Appeasement is pure folly
    Conflict never tamed by tolerance
    By PAUL JACKSON
    A remarkable document came into my hands the other day from a Republican friend in Washington and it is something that should be read by all patriotic Americans and Canadians.
    It should also be read by lib-lefters, appeasers, sell-out artists and cowards in all western democracies who want the U.S. and Britain to pull out of Iraq, and the U.S., Britain and Canada to pull out of Afghanistan, and the West to just give in to the demands of fanatics such as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s Kim Jong Il.
    It’s entitled Europe — Your Name is Cowardice and was written, strangely, by a German, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge publishing house Axel Springer (AG) and published in Germany’s largest newspaper Die Welt.
    As most know, Germany, like France, has been one of the great nations of appeasement against Islamic terrorism.
    Not so Dapfner. He noted a week or so ago, commentator Henry Broder wrote in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag an article entitled Europe — your family name is appeasement.
    It’s a phrase, says Dapfner, one can’t get out of one’s mind.
    “Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives, as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed Adolf Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.” …-
    http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Jackson_Paul/2007/04/15/4023441-sun.html

  35. I just watched Elizabeth May on CPAC.
    I am just absolutely shaking with rage at this absolutely glib lying fabricating opportunistic sham shyster radical close minded lobbyist front for the environmental loonies who want to bleed us dry for their “causes”.
    This is a dangerous woman. For any of you who are trained in media relations, interview techniques, spin doctoring and reading body language this woman is a 100% packaged and professional scam artist.
    Think – preachers who sucker their congregations and are soooo sincere and believable.
    This woman is spit and polished and practiced at pretending she is the “anti-politician”.
    I am enraged that she is even getting media play without interviewers asking the hard questions. Giggle, giggle, smile and wink.
    She is suckering them all.

  37. “our results find that the only policy factor to influence multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws.”
    Scholarly Article: “Multiple Victim Public Shootings…”
    Social Science Research Network ^ | John Lott and William Landes
    Few events obtain the same instant worldwide news coverage as multiple victim public shootings. These crimes allow us to study the alternative methods used to kill a large number of people (e.g., shootings versus bombings), marginal deterrence and the severity of the crime, substitutability of penalties, private versus public methods of deterrence and incapacitation, and whether attacks produce copycats. Yet, economists have not studied this phenomenon. Our results are surprising and dramatic. While arrest or conviction rates and the death penalty reduce normal murder rates, our results find that the only policy factor to influence multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws. We explain why public shootings are more sensitive than other violent crimes to concealed handguns, why the laws reduce both the number of shootings as well as their severity, and why other penalties like executions have differential deterrent effects depending upon the type of murder. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818437/posts

  39. Facts About Plug-in Vehicles
    Battery Electric Vehicles (EVs) are by far the most efficient vehicles in the world.
    According to the Department of Energy, enough excess generating capacity exists at night in the U.S. to charge 180 million EVs without adding any new capacity.
    All of our electricity is domestic except for a small percentage from Canada.
    Most Americans waste more electricity in their homes than they would use to drive their cars.
    We will never fight a war over electricity.
    Driving on electricity from the U.S. grid is far cleaner than driving on oil.
    A survey of EV owners found that 48% of them used solar energy to power their houses and cars.
    EVs by the millions could be built today.
    Plug-in cars capable of 50 miles per day would meet the needs of 80% of the American driving public. Source: U.S. Department of Transportation.
    ============ PlugInAmerica.com
    =TG

  41. Posted Friday, April 13th
    Dion event cancelled, can’t sell tickets …
    dryden seems more popular than dion …
    Interested in attending a $225 per ticket fundraising reception featuring federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion and Surrey candidates Sukh Dhaliwal, Judy Higginbotham and Brenda Locke tomorrow evening? (Sat. April 14th)
    Well, not enough party members were. Because the fundraiser, scheduled to take place at the Coyoto Creek Golfcourse, has been cancelled.
    Organizers made a push to sell more tickets on Thursday. But, by Friday, it had become apparent attendance at the event would be a bit lacking – which may have had something to do with the fact former party leadership candidate Ken Dryden had a fundraiser for Ms. Locke at the exact same location Thursday evening.
    So Mr. Dion’s Coyote Creek soiree has been rescheduled – at the request of the Surrey constituency associations – for the next time the leader visits British Columbia. .
    HeH.

  42. Lorraine,
    I am an enthusiast but have always avoided product buying, selling or stock on hand. Too much investment / overhead.
    Business has always been in the low overhead services.
    Converting late model vehicles to battery EVs could be an enjoyable enterprise though.
    leftcoastelectric.com/
    = TG

  44. Kilimanjaro’s ice set to linger
    A fresh assessment suggests the famous ice fields on Africa’s tallest mountain will be around for decades yet. […]
    “Glacier recession has been a feature on Kilimanjaro for more than 100 years, but this is the first time we really have a precise understanding of the physical processes that control the glacier-climate interaction on Africa’s highest mountain,” said Dr Moelg.” […]
    The recording effort was in position late last year to witness heavy snowfall, which will have led to a slight increase in Kilimanjaro’s overall ice volume. […]
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6561527.stm
    …-

  46. How many Canadian taxpayers’ $$$$$ did CBC pay Ad$cam Chretien, aka Son of Trudeau, for this bs?
    Down with Trudeau’s Charter of Wrongs.
    …-
    CBC | PM’s snub of charter anniversary ’shocking’: Chrétien
    Jean Chrétien says he is shocked that the federal Conservative government has no plans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms….-

  47. “It’s time to ask what secret agendas exist on the left.”
    The left is: MayDion’s Liberals, Taliban Jack’s NDP, The Green party, the Bloc: The Red-Green Alliance.
    Ottawa Citizen editorial board has had an epiphany; praising Reform, Manning, Harper, etc.
    Amazing!
    Liberal MP Coderre is alluded to; but, not named. His name is Denis Hezbollah Coderre; defence critic for MayDion’s Red-Green Liberal party.
    …-
    Extremists in our midst
    The Ottawa Citizen
    Tuesday, April 17, 2007
    Many Canadians have always assumed that political extremism, insofar as it exists in this largely centrist country, resides on the political right. That’s a wrong assumption. The Canadian left is just as likely — even more so — to be infiltrated by radicals who promote intolerance, hate and even violence.
    The case of Kevin Potvin is instructive. Mr. Potvin had planned to represent the Green party in the next federal election, in the riding of Vancouver-Kingsway. His ambitions for higher office, however, were interrupted last week when it emerged that he once described the 9/11 attacks as “beautiful.” Not only, by his own admission, did he thrill at the sight of the twin towers coming down, but when the Pentagon was attacked he “felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.”
    Twenty years ago when the Reform party was established as a new voice in Canadian conservatism, founder Preston Manning knew that people would try to discredit the new entity as a collection of right- wing crazies. For years he fought to keep out any would-be members who harboured fascist or racist tendencies — and he did. Yet to this day, conservatives associated with Reform, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, all of whom are perfectly mainstream in their thinking, have to fight off accusations that they have “secret” right-wing agendas.
    It’s time to ask what secret agendas exist on the left. Green party leader Elizabeth May is no doubt repulsed by Mr. Potvin’s views on 9/11, but how many others in her party are sympathetic to Mr. Potvin’s crazed anti-Americanism? And what about that demonstration in Montreal some months ago in which members representing the left wing of the Liberal party marched alongside people with Hezbollah flags?
    Political extremism, clearly, is an equal opportunity phenomenon. …-
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=f4da2c1e-a235-492b-b946-2e87e00d5c07

  48. lorraine ask’s about Dion making a comment about our forces calling them incompetent.
    Has anyone found this ? I have looked & can’t find it but would sure like to find it as that could be just the nail that drives him to the bottom.
    I watched a portion of CPAC last nite with comments being made that Rowdy Caucas Meeting with Dion, Some threaten to Quit. Anymore on this?

  49. Liberal ex-PM AdScam Chretien appointed “Z”.
    …-
    Zaccardelli admits cancelling criminal probe of pension fund
    OTTAWA — Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli admitted yesterday that he “cancelled” a criminal investigation into irregularities in the administration of the Mountie pension fund in 2003.
    “When I heard that somebody was trying to have a criminal investigation, it was inappropriate at that time and that’s why I cancelled it,” Mr. Zaccardelli told reporters after a heated session of the House public accounts committee in which three witnesses contradicted various aspects of the former commissioner’s testimony.
    At one point during the hearing, former staff-sergeant Ron Lewis, the Mountie who initiated the criminal investigation, turned to Mr. Zaccardelli and said: “He’s telling lies. I’m sick of him, and he’s doing it under oath.”…-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070417.wxrcmp17/BNStory/National/home

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