“I ain’t the heavy, it’s my brother…”
Facing new allegations she mistreated nannies, Dhalla, in a statement released to the Star through a lawyer, said she has “no knowledge of the details regarding the live-in caregivers for her family” and had “no involvement in the selection, interviewing, hiring, supervising, sponsoring or any financial transactions whatsoever with a live-in caregiver for my family.”
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In the interview, Ruby Dhalla said nannies at the home work for her family, not her.
She said she spends four days a week in Ottawa. Gordo and Tongson said Dhalla arrived at the home every Thursday and left for Ottawa on Monday. They said she occupies the biggest suite in the four-bedroom house.
Dhalla said all queries should be directed to her brother.
(Youtube)
More – Ruby and the Slumdogs
WAIT! There’s more!
Advice: Librano to Librano – “and check to see if she’s actually broken any laws or not.”
In 2004-05, when she was immigration minister, Sgro and her officials were accused of using temporary residence permits as political favours. Sgro eventually had to step down as immigration minister in early 2005, but she personally was cleared of any wrongdoing by the federal ethics commissioner.
Based on that experience, Sgro said she’s been telling Dhalla to remain calm, quiet and focused on building her defence.
“I braced her for the storm, told her what I suspected was going to happen, because things get sensationalized,” Sgro said. “Her job now is to prove her innocence and get herself good legal counsel and check to see if she’s actually broken any laws or not.”
Do I hear the sounds or someone getting thrown under a bus?
Divert, blame, redirect.
Withholding a foreign govt’s passport is a criminal offense..let’s start with that one.
All I know about Dr. Ruby Dhalla is that she’s spamming my mailbox, even though I don’t even live in her constituency. How she got my address is a mystery.
Quick! Time for a diversion – start the Bollywood dance number!
30 Million – 1. Sounds like their odds of winning the next election, doesn’t it?
Rubby is speaking right now on cbc newsworld.
“I ain’t the heavy, it’s my brother…”
Absolutely brilliant. Only two people in the world could come up with something like this, Mark Steyn and Kate McMillan.
Indo-trash.
Ruby ain’t pretty, she just looks that way.
So now maybe bothof them are lying.
Wonder if the Ontartio College Of Chiropractic will need to nuke their licenses if they are proven to be lying ?
That photo, by the way, was taken in Streetsville (part of Mississauga) by the cenotaph (over the dude’s left shoulder), about 8 feet from the entrance to the ice cream shop that my wife and I go to all the time in the summer.
“I ain’t the heavy, it’s my brother…”
Ruby resorting to the Liberal Puffin methodology.
Lets her brother hide the nanny hiring excrement.
Are any one of us responsible for the misdeeds of others in our family?
Dhalla’s lawyer insisted she was not the employer. The employer, verified through signed documents, was her brother Neill.
Hmmm. How does that make Ruby culpable? Why? Because they have a common mother?
Curiously, the truth always come out when the facts are presented.
Wonder if the Ontartio College Of Chiropractic will need to nuke their licenses if they are proven to be lying?
So what chiropractor isn’t lying when they say, “this won’t hurt a bit”.
Allegedly, all workers claim that Ruby interviewed them and or hired them, the agency head who placed these women claims she also dealt with Ruby,and the domestic workers rights org Intercede spoke with and dealt with Ruby and not her brother.
Yup, that truth thing shall set you free.
set you free
“Are any one of us responsible for the misdeeds of others in our family?
Dhalla’s lawyer insisted she was not the employer. The employer, verified through signed documents, was her brother Neill.
Hmmm. How does that make Ruby culpable? Why? Because they have a common mother?
Curiously, the truth always come out when the facts are presented.”
Spin Spin Spin!!!!!!
The nannie didn’t accuse the brother of threatening or taking the passport….
Inconvenient truth??????
So, she’ll take her love to town for 4 days, then home for 3 .
Got it.
Dhalla’s lawyer insisted she was not the employer. The employer, verified through signed documents, was her brother Neill.
Hmmm. How does that make Ruby culpable?
Posted by: set you free at May 8, 2009 3:45 PM
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Here you go set you free
From this TORSTAR article
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/628987
read it and weep!
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“According to [NANNY]Tongson, RUBY DHALLA(catch that set you free?) demanded and took all her personal documents, including her passport, birth certificate and marriage certificate, saying she needed them to fill out the application to hire her as a live-in caregiver.
Tongson said she grew concerned as weeks passed without her documents or work authorization materializing. She turned to Intercede, the agency that helps foreign workers. Intercede called Ruby Dhalla’s office in Ottawa. According to Tongson, Dhalla flew home from Ottawa the next day. Tongson said the documents were left on the kitchen counter after Tavinder Dhalla had her sign a handwritten note saying she had given the documents to Neil Dhalla, and she could have had them back at any time.
Tongson signed the letter.
Why am I not seeing “Nannygate” headline banners in the MSM?
annnnd it’s all an evil neo-con plot.
annd everyone is a liar but me & my lawyer
ROTFL
It’s a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Ruby and her lawyer just did a Paul Martin on National TV right now…Idiots!
This was unwise and just feeds the media more insuring more Canucks will notice this.
I think Iggy told Ruby to step down but she’s fighting it instead. Bad move.
This video is a perfect backdrop to Rubygate.
Borrowing Ms. Dhalla’s own words in it, the prosecutor in her case may say the following:
Ms. Dhalla, as the country celebrates International Woman’s Day, numerous women working in your family home don’t have much to celebrate. Last week, when I spoke to the nannies previously in your employ, they were all asking, “Why would such an outspoken advocate for women’s rights not do anything to help those of us in her own home?
From what I read of the Star article, the mother was more likely in the need of a health care aid worker. I am not sure how such a program works in Ontario (if there is one). Perhaps the siblings found it cheaper to have two nannies instead of paying for a care giver. Just a thought.
Something must of ticked the nannies off to go public. Not just the stuff we read, but there has to be something else. And if there is, they’re holding back for when it really counts.
…but she’s fighting it instead. Bad move.
No, it’s a good move.*
Ruby has her pride.
*never interupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake
I’m still trying to get around the Star breaking this news.
Imagine the editors’ meeting room before the story broke. Do we bite the hand (LPC) that feeds us? Or do we sympathize with new immigrants, who are likely in this country illegally, but will almost certainly vote Liberal once granted citizenship?
Can someone call LPC to see what we can get for NOT running this story?
Goodbye Ruby Dhallsday
who could hang a nanny on you day.
when she shifts with every new day
P’iggys going to miss you.
The stupid bitch is trying to blame it on a Conservative conspiracy. That is the end of her. Even msm is not stupid enough to fall for that one. Iggy, paging Iggy, oh Iggy…..
Iggy has thrown the slave mistress under the bus.
I wonder who they will get to replace her? There has to be some female liberal out there that isn’t a madame for strippers, a professional leaf blower, or a keeper of foreign slaves.
Why the Star broke this story?
I think the bush whacking of Professor Puffin has just started, certain Liberals would prefer to see a democratic leadership contest that would more likely than not result in Bob Rae becoming leader.
Iggy, that sound you hear is the bus approaching at a high rate of speed.
If she has nothing to hide, then Miss Dhalla should let the police look into it.
And yes, she DID railroad her brother.
The Star’s likely pissed about the right turn the Libranos have taken.
Remember, Iggy is the Ted Morton of the Liberal party – there’s a lot of tweed-jacket-owning-hair-farmers out there who think a centrist in charge is worse than Harper.
imho
“Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you”
I could not resist…..
MSM reaction … Move along nothing to see here.
Off topic but I do love how Adler takes no prisoners here!
“I throw in these Canadianisms because Michael is educating himself on how best to impersonate a Canadian. They feed him my commentaries and while I am not a Harvard professor, I try to be instructive.”
Here’s an old youtube video of Princess Ruby Dhalla politicing and grousing for votes at the BRAMPTON FILIPINO SENIORS CLUB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYI9QKO4pE&feature=channel
Bet she’d get a senior,oops,I mean a serious ass-kicking if she showed up there today!!!
P.S. turn down the sound as there’s no talking just a loud annoying soundtrack playing in the background.
Dhalla Nannywalla Stonewall’a
Posted by: Mr.g at May 8, 2009 3:53 PM
Dhalla’s lawyer alleged it was Neill who took the passports, which were required so the immigration process could be expedited.
At one point, when the lawyer was attempting to answer a question, he got interrupted five times by a media member.
I thought he made a pretty good argument about how the media feeding frenzy got out of control.
He also produced boarding passes that demonstrated Ruby was only in Toronto for three of the 11 days the nanny was employed. He also produced contracts with a cleaning company that cleans the chiropractic office, leaving one of the allegations against the family in doubt.
I’m only interested in facts, not in character assassination or the pitiful comments about ‘what if this had been a Conservative.’
Just the facts, ma’am.
If Ruby in fact had nothing to do with this, she’s no more culpable on this issue that Jimmy Carter was when his idiotic brother pissed on the White House lawn.
Ruby Tuesday tunes? About as juvenile as lefties are accused of being.
C’mon, guys. Pick up the level of debate here.
We’ll see how this plays out on today’s political shows.
“We’ll see how this plays out on today’s political shows.”
As everyone here knows, you always get the unvarnished truth from political shows…
I’ll bet Ed Stelmach coached Ruby to take the nannies’ passports.
They’re both socialists, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Would you please stop citing that right-wing rag, the Star, as a source, Kate? They’ve convicted this poor woman already without the benefit of a trial–them and their Conservative masters.
Oz:
I’ll take you up on that bet.
Since you brought it up, it’s up to you to prove your allegation.
“C’mon, guys. Pick up the level of debate here.”
****Warning to progressives contains BANJOS****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvDvMV4_FY&feature=related
rich:
Pre-game show in Regina?
set you free:
1) Because there was a cleaning contract does not mean that these two women were not asked to clean those offices.
Because there was a hired person to shovel the snow does not mean that the women were not asked to also shovel the snow – at midnight, by Dhalla’s mother, apparently.
2) Gordo who admits to working only 11 days, claims she was taken three times to clean the apartment of a family relative. And it took her a month to receive payment, and only when a Brampton businessman intervened (he confirms that he did so).
3) Tongson, (not Gordo) the second ‘care-giver’ who was there for about three months, states that she gave her passport and documents to Ruby and when these weren’t returned after several weeks, she called ‘Intercede’. The documents were returned but only after Tongson was given a handwritten letter by the mother, which had to be signed; the letter stated that she had given the documents to Neill and that she could have had them ‘back at any time’.
This is a strange action on the part of the mother.
Tongson also claims that she was asked to clean those clinics, and the apartment of the cousin.
4) The lawyer is attempting to define Dhalla as the victim and the nannies as part of a conspiracy against Dhalla. He declares that their stories are ‘concocted’ and part of an attempt to destroy Dhalla. I think that this requires evidence.
After all, why didn’t they do this last year, during the election? That would have made sense. Instead, as often is the case with immigrants who are uncertain of their rights, they did nothing about these events but went on to valid work elsewhere.
They only spoke out when Wynne referred to abuses of such workers.
5) They were hired as care-givers but were not actually doing any such work. And, they were in the Dhalla household without a legal work permit.
I don’t see how Dhalla can get around these statements by trying to set up a conspiracy of ‘someone out to destroy my career’.
You can take the family outa Shitholeistan but you cant take Shitholestian outa the Family …. They abuse their servants back home so why not continue the custom in Canada and our system allows it to happen all the time
The real question is where was Brian Mulroney? Did the money that paid the women come from an Airbus commission?
Honestly you are all missing the BIG PICTURE….connect the dots people!
You can take the family outa Shitholeistan but you cant take Shitholestian outa the Family …. They abuse their servants back home so why not continue the custom in Canada and our system allows it to happen all the time
Why is she consulting with & having a lawyer speak for Her? She has never had a problem before on any political program to steal the show by never giving a true answer or never stops talking.
Why is she asking the Ethics Comm to handle this when this is allegation of Provincial Labour Act violation to begin with & a allegation of Federal Immigration laws.
This did not happen in the HoC, is this so they can get the best coverage Feel sorry for me not the worker.
I watched that vid at CTV her & her lawyer, Spin Spin & spin even more typical Liberal tactic keep it up until the public tires of the Scandal & it will go away & the Liberals would know afterall no lack of experience in that department.
Evil Ted with a goatee
Does that in fact make you a good Ted from an evil universe where socialism makes sence?
My FAVORITE episode of South Park is called “Spooky Fish” where the evil Cartman with a Goatee shows up. MUST SEE TV for a Star Trek fan.
BTW did anyone hear John Gormley say he hasn’t seen any Star Trek movies or episodes. These should be part of the public school curriculum if only because you can’t possible watch any comedy show without seeing Star Trek references in multiples. You Star Trek illiterates have no idea how many jokes fly right over your heads.
ET:
So, what do you suppose Ruby’s involvement was in ordering the women to shovel snow?
Or cleaning a relative’s apartment?
If my kid throws a rock through a window, should I go to jail?
It seems somewhat backwards here, a sort of Mexican justice, where you’re guilty in the court of public opinion until you can prove yourself innocent.
There is contradictory claims on the passports, to be sure.
Sticking with the facts, there would still be one way to clear up who took the passports.
If Dhalla’s boarding passes show she was out of town on the date this allegedly happened, then it would have been impossible for her to take delivery of the passports.
If Dhalla’s boarding passes show she was in town on that date, then the nanny’s version would be correct.
That question never came up in the news conference and Ruby’s lawyer said the passports were taken by Neil.
What’s true is somebody is not telling the truth.
Not sure who yet, so I’m not willing to send anybody to the gallows yet.