I note that a few of you are discussing the Mulroney testimony in the reader tips thread. I’m too busy today to follow it, but you can use this thread for links or on topic discussion if you wish.
From the comments;
“Lapierre stated, while on with CTV’s Mike Duffy, that the Liberal MPs on the Ethics Committee were given today’s questions to ask by the CBC.”
If true, this merits an investigation, followed by a housecleaning.
Stephen Taylor now has an official CPC release on the allegation.
Update:
I somehow think that Schreiber believes he will be staying in Canada forever. Lufthansa is waiting.
A huge country to run. A severe winter upon us. Afghanistan and our troops, a top priority. The list goes on.
If the Canadian voter, no matter what party they support, can not grasp what a pantomime this is, we have a problem in the next election.
I somehow think that Schreiber believes he will be staying in Canada forever. Lufthansa is waiting.
A huge country to run. A severe winter upon us. Afghanistan and our troops, a top priority. The list goes on.
If the Canadian voter, no matter what party they support, can not grasp what a pantomime this is, we have a problem in the next election.
Brian Mulroney once stated over a decade ago that “There is No Whore, Like and Old Whore”.
and all quebec politicians are the same.
the reason the reform party started was because payola in the east was the order of the day.
Liberal MPs on the Ethics Committee were given today’s questions to ask by the CBC.
Tail wags the dog?
A taste of the country run by the french.
And thats a historic fact.
We have Trudeau, Chretien Mulroney and Martin. All these clowns are or at one time were associated with Paul Desmarias Power Corp. I wonder why they are the PM’s that are involved in verious sleezey tactics . IMO Desmarias and the Prime clown Murice Strong are pulling the strings for these clowns towards their own chosen end results.$$$$$$$$.
If proven then the CBC should have to wear this cloak of shame during the next federal election. Before each and everyone of their news broadcasts or stories on the election they should have to read a disclaimer stating:
“This news agency has a proven bias in favor of the LPC therefore viewers of our programs must be aware that the credibility of our election coverage is questionable.”
Lynn,
Why not complain to Elections Canada that the LPC is getting free political advertising from the CBC and CTV?
Then another “arm’s length” government organization can investigate and give us an answer as to whether there is more than just “bias”?
How do we make government institutions work for us rather than just complain about them….
“Liberal MPs on the Ethics Committee were given today’s questions to ask by the CBC.”
An “ethics committee” with Liberals on it is an oxymoron
Even when feigning an ethical purpose the bastards are running some con…this time the collusion was with partisan pimps in Mothercorpse.
Please, Please PM Harper, house clean this bolshy cess pool or pull the plug on it.
Pablo had a hernia last nite on Duffy, trying to turn it around DelMaestro gave it back big time. Its pretty easy to rewrite in your own handwriting then say you wrote.
But this raises an interesting question
Has the CBC been writing the questions for the liberals in the HOC Question Period? Some of the questions are pretty off the wall looking for mud when there isn’t any.
So lets stop wasting anymore money on this Opposition Witch Hunt & Start an Inquiry into the Liberal/Collusion
They’re getting a new CEO.
What do we know about this guy?
I found this short bio of him on the Zarlink Semiconductors website:
Hubert T. Lacroix, Director
Senior Advisor, Stikeman Elliot
Hubert Lacroix has been a Director of Zarlink since July 1992. A senior adviser with the law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP (Montreal office) and with Telemedia Ventures Inc., Mr. Lacroix has more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions of public companies, and corporate finance.
Mr. Lacroix is an active director with several other companies. He acts as Chairman of the Board of SFK Pulp Fund and is a trustee of the different entities in this unit trust structure. He is also a Director of Transcontinental Inc., SECOR Inc. and ITS Investments Limited Partnership. From February 1, 2000 to May 5, 2003, he was Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation, a media and telecommunications company. Previous to holding that position, he was a senior partner with a major Canadian law firm for more than 20 years.
Over the years, Mr. Lacroix also sat on the Boards of Donohue Inc., Circo Craft Co. Inc., Adventure Electronics Inc. and Michelin Canada Inc.
In addition, Mr. Lacroix serves as an adjunct professor with the Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal where he teaches in the fields of securities law, and mergers and acquisitions in public markets. He is a trustee of the Martlet Foundation of McGill University, and a director of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation and of the Fonds de développement du Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.
Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Law from McGill University (1976), was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1977 and holds an MBA from McGill University (1981).
Silly silly conservatives… That’s not the story!
This is…
“Conservative MPs kind to Mulroney”
OTTAWA – If Brian Mulroney’s appearance before a Commons committee was high political theatre, the Conservatives came well prepared with stage direction and scripts that subtly favoured the former prime minister.
Get all the gory details at http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/12/13/4723315-cp.html
Duuuuuuh! Hello! Are you forgetting that the whole Mulroeny–Shreiver fiasco was engineed by the CBC in the first place!! Why wouldn’t the Liberals feast on the Carnage?
Fire all of the employees and sell off the assets, the CBC is a disgrace.
According to Mr. Mulroney’s answer when he was asked how much of the $225,000 was still left with him, he said $15,000 per year was used for expenses which was a total of $45,000. The rest was still intact. We are talking a very minute sum here but CBC and the Ethic committee will carry this on until he dies. Seems like it wasn’t even taxpayers’ money to begin with. Note that the amount is almost still there but the MSM fail to mention that. Wow!! How disgusting is MSM – I can’t stand watching those stations any longer and hopefully Fox News can come sooner than later to this country. Funny that channel is in the high numbers – channel 251 on the TV guide -and therefore a lot of people don’t have access to it. If only people would watch and see how they can bring out the dirt on the left and far left leaning channels like NBC. Think what they could do here in Canada with CBC and often CTV. I am however seeing Mike Duffy being more sensible these days.
This whole Mulroney-Schreiber “Affair” is really nothing compared to what went down under the Liberal reign of boondoggles and various frauds and corruption. That was OUR money they were scattering to the wind to keep themselves in power with.
Mulroney was playing with Schreiber’s money or whatever the deal was about.
The man has apologized and I for one believe him. I do not believe Schreiber.
However there are those who would never be satisfied with anything from Mulroney, they’d hang, draw an quarter him for pleasure. These are the same people who give Chretien a pass.
The main problem here is Politics of the insanely desperate Liberals with the Dippers and Blocheads going up the middle to smear anyone they can.
Yesterday, Pablum Rodriguez should have been shouted out of the room with his questioning which had squat to do with this Committee mandate.
If the CBC personnel fed the questions to the Liberanos we had better get onto it pronto because the Media will have no interest in doing it.
They only get their asses in gear when it’s a scoop on the Conservatives, even a fabrication will do.
Last week the Dippers were forced to beg forgiveness for their smears, who’s next?
i just had a look a CBC.Ca cannot see anything on the liberal/CBC collusion, nothing at all.
Imagine That
I really think that if & when PM Harper gets a majority that’s when (without the opposition interference) we should be reopening these Major Liberal cluster F***S, It will cost a bundle but it could just bury them for years.
I agree with Gord Tulk, Joanne and Neil that this demands a full public inquiry. If there’s any evidence that what Lapierre says is true — and it shouldn’t be too hard to find out — and if the CBC and the Liberals have been colluding in orchestrating the questions asked — and therefore covered — at a parliamentary committee, then the management and reporters at CBC, as well as members of the LPC, should be forced to answer some questions under oath.
Let’s hope the Conservatives keep this issue forcefully alive in the house, and refuse to let it drop. If the Liberals and the CBC have been colluding in the interests of Liberal electoral success, that would absolutely be one of the most serious scandals this country has seen, and it would have serious repercussions for the future of the CBC.
At Stephen Taylor’s, commenter Roy Eappen described the CBC as a “Liberal War Room”; anybody who’s been watching the National would be hard-pressed to disagree.
A couple of days ago Susan Bonner ended a report this way — (and I wish there was a way of communicating here her tone of voice): “The Harper government has made no secret of it’s desire to expand the nuclear industry in Canada. The isotope crisis suggests the management of the current industry might make a better priority. Susan Bonner, CBC news.”
That’s not news coverage, it’s a profoundly presumptuous insertion of her/Liberal “advice” into a supposed news report.
Earlier in her Iggy-heavy report, a clip of Gary Lunn saying calmly that the government’s first priority was to resume production of isotopes was set up with these specious, derisive words: “The government was quick to congratulate itself.”
Anyone who saw the clip of Lunn knows there was nothing even remotely self-congratulatory in either his words or his tone; it was a matter-of-fact response to a question in the House. Her little shot — “the government was quick to congratulate itself” — is an unwarranted, openly partisan smear which, in light of her own reporterly immodesty, is baldly hypocritical in light of her own reporterly immodesty.
CBC’s disproportionate extent over the years of CBC’s coverage of Brian Mulroney’s $300k transaction — 13 or 14 years ago now — is absolutely damning for the broadcaster in light of the fact that back when there were serious accusations that a sitting Liberal prime minister used the RCMP to repeatedly goon the BDC’s Francois Beaudoin and his family after Beaudoin refused the PM’s request to provide a $1.6m (later cut to $615k) taxpayer-funded loan to the pm’s friend, there were no Fifth Estate investigative documentaries, and, if you watched the National, it wasn’t really news of any sort at all, except perhaps cursorily and in passing.
Chantal Hebert pointed out last night that anyone under the age of 37 would not have even been able to vote for Brian Mulroney, and yet this tawdry $300k affair has been top-of-the-news material for weeks now; there have been, what, four At Issue panels on the subject, and a series of Fifth Estate documentaries. Question: why was Shawinigate, when it was a current story, worthy of only one-one-hundredth or one one-thousandth as much coverage from CBC?
And on a sad note, it’s really hard to figure out why Andrew Coyne would continue to display, on CBC, a thousand times more on-air voluble-and-at-length outrage over Mulroney than he ever did over Shawinigate, a far more serious and significant incident that involved a sitting PM, intimidation by the RCMP, and a larger sum of taxpayer — not private — money. The discrepancy makes no sense. Either AC’s not as outraged by the events surrounding Shawinigate — which would be hard to fathom — or (?)
Not enough time spent outside of urban areas?
Suggestions?
We have to remember there are so many of the CBC Hacks who are connected through marriage, family connections and friendships that go back through the Liberal history. It’s as close to inbred as it gets.
Coyne is not worth commenting on.
Liz.
You are talking incest here. Which describes much of it. (chuckle)