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1. Harper should cut the CBC budget by 300 million dollars in the next budget. If the budget passes, yippee, if it becomes an election issue the CBC’s election coverage will be under the microscope.

2. We must demand answers! This idea, this is done all the the time, will not wash… this was an ethics committee trying to find out the truth… the members of this committee cannot be charged with anything that is said within that committee and to have the CBC using that privilege to try and trash Mr. Mulroney, is wrong. The CBC and Fifth Estate have spent million and millions trying to get Mr. Mulroney on whatever they can, and my question, was who on that committee was working with the CBC. If you remember, Mr. Thibeau started the questions on Spectrum… and to me, the Chair was quick to back this whole thing up. Was he too in on it as well? Remember Mr. Mulroney tried to read a letter as to why he was invited to that committee, and the Chair immediately “shut him down!… and if you watched Mike Duffy Live, he directly asked Mr. Rodriquez if the CBC had approached him, he said NO.. now we are finding out that maybe that was a lie. and the liberals were investigating Mr. Mulroney to see if he did something not legal?….. If, like the liberals are saying, if this is done all the time, why didn’t Rodriquez admit it?. I have written Mr. Carlin, Ombudsman of the CBC and he replied to me that this is under investigation . I wrote him again… and plan to again today, and I think the more everyone of us writes him demanding answers, the better… his email address is:
   ombudsman@cbc.ca

3. If Mr Rodriguez lied in front of the ethics committee…..well isnt that worth an investigation and isnt it more relevant that a sitting MP lied in fron of a committee of the house rather than an investigation into alleged activities 20 years ago?
   Seems the CBC is saying this is true. It would seem that the appropriate order of business is that Mr Rodriguez, upon return to the house, should apologize to the speaker. Being an Honorable member, as are all members, the apology will be accepted.
   Without that, based on a point of order from another member, the speaker should ask Mr Rodriges if he has any answer to the charge. If not then the Speaker after some investigation should sanction Mr Rodrigez, essentially not recognize for some time frame.
   Thats the public side. The speaker would be correct in calling all house leaders aside before the next session and read the riot act to them….essentially, this must stop, there must be decorum and they must live up to their titles as honorable members. Failure to do so will result in less co-operation from the speaker, who can eject, and fail to recognize individual members and can begin to stop recognizing parties…..as parlaiment is supree the speaker is KING of the house, all parties would do well to recognize that.
   Now Mr Szabo is another matter…..he seems mild mannered and at times seems fair, but he was clearly part of the gamesmanship that went on that day. If I am a con member, I would try to make common cause with the Bloq to remove Mr Szabo as chairperson…common enemy and even the Bloc members dont hate Mulroney, there is an abiding respect for the man, as a loyal Quebecer….of course thats what got him in trouble elsewhere in Canada but thats not the point.
   Get Szabo replaced, I would feel better with Co Martin of the NDP or Serge Menard in charge if it has to be an opposition memeber. There must be a price for the games played.

4. Mopriguez was screaming at Del Mastro on MDL demanding an apology for calling Mopriguez a liar.
   Who’s the one that should apologize, Pablocks?

5. Lorraine: “Julie Van D’s brother, Peter Van Dusen of CPAC is, by contrast, always nicely groomed.”
   Don’t know if this is a relative, but there is also a Mark Van Dusen in the “communications” business, on behalf of the Kangaroo Kourt of Kanuckistan:
   http://direct.srv.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500/REcn%3dVanDusen%5c%2c%20Mark%2cou%3dCHRC5103-CCDP5103%2cou%3dCHRCF7E5-CCDPF7E5%2cou%3dCHRC-CCDP%2co%3dGC%2cc%3dCA

6. Mark
   For you and other CBC/Liberal sympathizers:
   You miss the point and that is, that it is outrageous that my, and your tax dollars, should be spent financing anyone or any organization that attempts to intervene or influence in any way our domestic politics. Those who do should be banished from parliament including the organizations behind them. I will not accept my tax dollars being spent in this manner. Why are you so willing to tolerate it? This practise is only commonplace in communist and other totalitarian regimes.
   If we must have a publically funded news organization, that organization must be barred by legislation from ever being involved in any way in the reporting of news of parliament.
   Erwin