Bahrain has requested an Ethics Commissioner look into troubling allegations of slavery … developing….
Intensely and excruciatingly related: He’s no Tommy Wynette! – “Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff did not speak to reporters again Thursday and has not taken questions since the accusations surfaced.”
Repeat after me, tattered Liberals – Leadership!
T:
As has been correctly pointed out here, the issue was first raised as a provincial matter by the Ontario NDP Party.
Labour code issues are provincial jurisdiction and the allegation is that there was some cover-up by the Ontario Liberal party on this issue.
The issue involves the conduct of a Liberal MP and may involve some federal jurisdictions, such as immigration.
Has anybody noticed that by her comments Ruby is ready to throw her own brother or her own mother under the bus on this issue?
She claims that is was her brother who did the hiring and supervising of household staff – not her.
And, they were supposed to be care giving her “disabled” mother ( the one who globe trots on the taxpayer dime with Ruby and dances the night away at Liberal parties)- so Mom must have supervised their “care” of her – n’est pas?
Further, various comment sindicate Ruby was promising quick action on the immigration because she was a parliamentarian and had “friends” in the Immigration department. Is that not influence peddling for personal gain?
How very Liberal of her. Now, if she was Conservative this would be world wide breaking news and leading every newscast don’t you think?
(even though, even if the worst of the accusations were true, would still have nothing to do with the federal government or that committee).
Thanks Ted, you just proved my point about Dhalla demanding the ethics commissioner investigate, and how it had nothing to do with that office.
Paulstuff:
I wasn’t the one who said Martin was pro-Conservative. It was “T” not “Ted” who said it. Martin is not pro-Conservative. Nor is he pro-Liberal though. No one went after the Liberals with as much force as he did under Martin and Dion.
I’d say Martin is personally more conservative than liberal and generally prefers or leans moderate/red tory conservative, and leans to the Conservative Party at least the Conservative Party as he thinks it should be, but he definitely does not like Harper, so I would never call him pro-Conservative, certainly not these days.
Harpo and Harperites attempting once again to deflect attention from their own ineptitude. Their administration is in freefall and Harpo sees the writing on the wall; his government is in trouble.
That you, O Pauper of Dimness? Eerily ye sound like he.
A veilled accusation against the PM and the Conservatives of fabricating and orchestrating the whole thing to divert attention. Yeah, sure. Par for the course for a Liberal attack clown. Lie, lie, lie… and lie some more.
Don Martin of the Post is usually very pro-conservative, and for him to categorize this as a non-story, well, I think that speaks volumes.
Whatever you want to believe, “T”. And the fact that you’re blatantly obviously anti-Harper and anti-Conservative speaks far greater volumes. Of bovine manure. From Heck.
Ted:
It’s news to me that “the Conservatives want to haul Dhalla and the nannies before a Parliamentary Committee.”
All I’ve heard is Dhalla herself would like to appear before the Parliamentary Ethics Committee to clear her name. Which is strange, since this is not an ethical question about actions in parliament.
Since you made the allegation, it is now up to you provide proof that the Conservative Party has any interest before hauling anybody up before a Parliamentary Committee.
For your sake, I hope it’s not a case of overactive imagination.
“Thanks Ted, you just proved my point about Dhalla demanding the ethics commissioner investigate, and how it had nothing to do with that office.”
I never said that it did, Paul. I only noted it for the fact that Dhalla is the only one who has tried to get to the bottom of the facts in any formal way. Whether it will amount to much – and I’m frankly sure it won’t because she has not done anything unethical as a Parliamentarian – the point was only to highlight that the Conservatives and the NDP are creating a circus out of this before the facts come out. So much so in fact that that seems to be the intent.
Moreover, the Conservatives are trying to make this issue the government’s business and so there is even some loose rationale.
Poor Iggy Puff…as the recently coronated leader of the only Canadian political party offering Hope and Change(TM) this is not the type of press he was hoping for.
It seems that LPC H&C amounts to hoping that Canadians don’t notice that nothing has changed in the sleazy, hypocritical, world of the champagne socialist set.
If only Ruby were more skilled in the application of the Puffin Principle none of this would be anywhere near a fan.
Then again, with conservative news organizations like the Toronto Star hounding the LPC it was inevitable that a turd or three would bob to the surface.
I guess not all Puffins are created equally and it should come as no surprise that Ruby and Judy Sgro are tight.
Birds of a feather and all that.
Syncro
Iggy isn’t hiding . . . he’s sulking.
Last week he reached out and placed a crown on his head, his Coronation the proper outcome of a life spent as a foreign intellectual.
This week he expected to bask in the media afterglow, in the adulation of the little people, in the adoration of his Party.
And then some cutey-pie bumpkin with a flashy smile and a nice rack rains on his parade.
He’s right to sulk. He’s not getting his way.
Well ‘Ted’ its that VRWC theory that ‘Kate’ is pushing on her SDA blog. Ted there is a book that the VRWC put out, how to kill a liberal hopeful, by hiring nannies as slave labor and paying them under the table, taking away and with holding wages, on page 13. Oh, and by the way Ted as you are making excuses for the political party, why don’t you think about if an ordinary Canadian worker done this.
Even though Ruby Dhalla was born in Winnipeg she is the daughter of a Punjabi immigrant family. I see no reason why she, a Sikh woman, cannot come to Ottawa Canada and treat her hired help in a manner she is accustomed to in her own culture.
If not, then Canada’s multicultural system of selling out our hard earned morality and values to the scum of the earth, has failed Ruby Dhalla.
Don Martin thought that because he was from Calgary he would get lots of yummy career building insider tips from the Harper Conservatives.
It did not happen. Don Martin is bitter. His claim to fame??? is writing a slavish butt kissing bio of Belinda and being shmooosed and buddied up to by Liberals. Now he runs to Ruby’s rescue like a good Liberal toady.
Only anti-Conservatives need apply for the PPG so Martin gets to be a member of the “club” by blasting Harper so he can hob nob with the Ontario “elite” instead of Conservative heathen.
He won’t every be welcome back in Alberta- he has burned pretty well every bridge to journalistic integrity for his own career aspirations IMO.
This whole scandal will only harm Iggy and the Liberals in the eyes of the voters.
Iggy running away when the going gets tough is the worst kind of optics, particularly for a newly-coronated “leader”. People will be asking how can this guy face the problems of Canada and the world if he can’t even deal with problems within his own caucus?
Not looking positive, the future for Iggy and the Liberals, I’m afraid.
Even if it turns out that Dhalla did nothing wrong, too late- the damage is already done, particularly for Iggy, who’s failing to stand up and deal with it, is hiding out, hoping it’ll pass quickly. That’s the way it works in politics, unfortunately.
Stephen Harper, on the other hand, his colors don’t run; he doesn’t cut and run away. He stands up and deals with whatever shee-it happens.
Rather unfortunate for Iggster to be faced with a public relations fiasco so soon after underbussing the jackal…
It’s just liberals cleaning house before Iggy decides to go for the brass ring.Iggy can’t have this sort of thing popping up on the campaign trail when liberal talking points focus on protecting the most vulnerable.
Or,liberal unity is a myth and right wing Iggys coronation has really po’d the left.
Don’t waste your time with Ted and others of his ilk (leftists,) logic and empirical evidence means nothing to them… its all about the leftist cause. It is the same the world over, the liberal left do nothing wrong or if they do it is because of the conservatives for whatever reason. The liberal left are perpetual 10 year olds – it is always someone else’s responsibility/fault. It has always been like this and it will never change. The only difference for us today, is that so many liberal leftists are in positions of power in government, business, education, the arts… everywhere. These folks will hand us over to the despotic hordes for slaughter and blame us for having to do so.
Ted, if the lallegations have nothing to do with the federal government, as you said, then nor do they have anything to do with the ethics commissioner.
If Dhalla really wants to clear her name, than the ministry of labor (wages and working conditions), immigration (illegal workers), and RCMP (taking and holding of passport), are the ones Dhalla should be demanding investigate. Of course since the you kniw what hit the fan I imagine those investigatons have already started, whether Ruby wants them or not.
So I’ll ask aagian Ted, when will Iggy show leadership and address the issue in public?
Ted
Remember “lipstick on a pig”?
I’m sure you’ll at least agree that perception is reality. Nobody can predict how this will turn out, but it is a story. Ironically, Ruby appears to be a victim of PC because it’s women who have accused her of abuse. You are guilty until proven innocent when a woman accuses you of abuse, and even after you are proven innocent there is still the perception of guilt.
As far as timing and politics, I have no doubt that both are involved; and, you’re being a good (L)iberal feigning anger, just as any good (C)onservative would do if the shoe was on the other foot.
Way to take one for the team Ted.
Set You Free:
Always remember, Google is your friend.
David Tilson, chair of the Parliamentary immigration committee told reporters yesterday after question period that the committee would be calling Dhalla and the two nannies in for a public hearing. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/politicalbytes/2009/05/a_forum_for_ruby_dhalla.html
Ted.
So, the federal responsibility of immigration and treatment of guest workers and the possibility of illegal behaviour by a federal member of parliament is none of the federal government’s business?
If I were Iggy’s strategist I would cut her loose immediately.
What sez the Jackal?
Syncro
My comment is, how is this such a big news story in Canada, when the global warming fraud and the theft-in-plain-sight of free speech don’t cause even a ripple of discontent?
We need more principled leadership from all our parties, it cannot be allowed to stand that a Conservative prime minister would say nothing about the global warming and free speech issues for over three years of his mandate. I don’t care how Tim Hortons he is, there are higher principles than cutting the GST by one per cent.
There might be quite a few ‘nervous Nellie’s’ in the HOC, and elsewhere, who have hired foreign nannies. Many of today’s ‘working women’ like having a ‘maid’ but few of them wish to pay them proper wages so they ‘hire’ foreigners.
In B.C., many in the immigrant communities brought in workers from their own country (acting as the ‘sponsors’) to work on the wealthy ‘new Canadian’s’ holdings. The workers were paid dirt until they paid off their passage. Some were slightly better off, some were way worse off..non were free – the Romanian girls who Judy promoted coming to this country as strippers were in the same boat as any of these Dhalla nannies. Anyone who travels knows that a person without a passport is nobody outside his native land.
I pity those nannies, they were trapped when Ruby seized their passports. They were defacto slaves because they were ‘nobodies’. It must have taken great courage for them to come forward with complaints against a powerful person like a Canadian M.P. They were like the Irish people who worked for ‘sponsors’ in the past…they were in the same boat as many gument workers..in the YT, a friend of mine was a cook at the dryout centre when the local Liberano government took over that private service – she was asked to sign a paper guaranteeing that she would support her employer (the Lib gument). The gument’s dry out centre (a place for drunks to spend the night), of course, failed. Too many rules, no smoking, no coffee in the kitchen with a nice cook (like my acquaintance) too many self righteous ‘councillors’….Drunks went elsewhere to sort out their problems.
IMO, this is an explosive story and has a lot more legs than a spider.
“Even though Ruby Dhalla was born in Winnipeg she is the daughter of a Punjabi immigrant family. I see no reason why she, a Sikh woman, cannot come to Ottawa Canada and treat her hired help in a manner she is accustomed to in her own culture.”
Time to get out the victims hierarchy card to figure out who’s a bigger victim. Since they’re all “brown” women does anyone know what the tie-breaker is?
A Sip From Mason’s Jar.
Agatha spouts to the MSM with an agonizing plea:
Get off Iggy/Dhalla/Liberals.
Agatha is another Hopester.
Fear not, Agatha: WaldOIggy is in hiding.
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“Mason says she hopes the focus can shift to the larger issue – first and foremost being problems with the federal Live-In Caregiver Program.”
urlm.in/cjpd
Peter O
With respect ,I have to disagree with you(politically speaking). First of all, that 1(actually 2) percent you speak of is effective stimulus (conservative style) that has contributed to Canada’s strength at this time. Secondly, PMSH realizes there is no up-side to taking a stand on AGW. The bottom line is: as an exporter to the US we will have to participate in whatever market they dictate. That being said, being proactive is quite entrepreneurial and kills two bird with one stone because it takes this wedge issue away from the left. Lastly, the HRC’s must be approached cautiously. Why? Perception. In Ontario and Quebec any Conservative moves on the HRC’s will be perceived as racist. This will undoubtedly hurt the Conservatives in central Canada.
PMSH is betting his career on the fact that western Canada will deliver Conservative seats regardless of his strategy. Small ‘c’ conservatives have no other options, except to stay home.
Time to get out the victims hierarchy card to figure out who’s a bigger victim. Since they’re all “brown” women does anyone know what the tie-breaker is?
Posted by: Indiana Homez at May 8, 2009 12:48 PM
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Don’t worry Indiana Homez,they’re going to get the crew of writers from the TV show “Law and Order:SVU Anti-White Unit” to cook up a plot that eventually blames “White men in Suits” as the culprits for Ruby Dhalla’s heinous treatment of her Non-White slaves!
So, the federal responsibility of immigration and treatment of guest workers and the possibility of illegal behaviour by a federal member of parliament is none of the federal government’s business?
Well, the Minister of Immigration for one, Warwick.
This is a standing committee on policy. Bringing the nannies and Dhalla in is a ridiculous abuse of government for partisan gain.
Don Martin has been predictable ever since PMSH canceled his watering hole entitlements.I just skip over anything he writes these days,his bitterness is easy to recognize,sucks to be him.
Do you think CBC will demand live TV airing of the parliamentary committee like they did for every single committee that was an allegation related to anything conservative – including Mulroney?
Will every breathless comment by Ruby and the nannies be disected by Don Newman and Susan Bonner with veiled innuendo?
Heh!
Yes Ted,
The liberals would never hold ridiculous grandstanding abuses of power on committees…
Who are you trying to kid here? The last election was partially over the circuses created by liberal (and NDP/Bloc) idiocy on the committees.
I guess it isn’t a problem when they target conservatives. Save your tears for people who haven’t seen what your lot do every time they get a chance.
A little off topic but shows the mindset. Adler spoke of Iggy’s book that said he cared for his ailing mother. It was touching but actually it was the story of his brother that did care for his ailing mother. Iggy used ‘I’ 156 times if memory serves but labelled the book as fiction to avoid any blowback. Was this the brother he told not to speak or stand by him at UCC? I carry no party’s card, I vote for the least worst.
Ted:
So Dhalla steps into the doo-doo at the same time a Parliamentary Committee has had an ongoing examination on the issue of immigration.
Sucks to be her.
Don Martin use to write some good stuff – but that was a long time ago. He’s now gone into the cave to join the rest of the lib morlocks.
I repeat again
Bob Fife said it on Power Play
“If this was a Conservative MP”
Well we all know the answer to that.
And as usual the Liberal Spinners are at it again, pissing on a grass fire before it becomes a full blown forest fire.
Hiding ? Found – on WK’s site ! Fuzzy warm picture of him.
Dhalla ?? Dhalla !!?? Are you crazy !? Carpet. Sweep. Nothing to see here, move on. Mom’s the word. Obfuscate. No time to report, meeting with god – he so approves of the fatherly punk, drug culture, free spirit, not responsible for actions kinda daddy, ya know. Sorry to hear you need some medical attention 🙁
ethics are never a problem when you lack morals.
Does the Dhalla family have a caregiver for Mama in their home now? What does said caregiver do when Mama Dhalla goes globe hopping with Ruby?
Don Martin is as biased as they come. Compare and contrast how he treat very similar situations.
My, my…how touching…the small dead minded
championing the cause of underpaid and exploited workers. I’m all choked up.
It’s now complete.
All the wingnuts have been let out of mom’s basement.
Off topic but kinda related:
Michelle Obama on her continuing whining for more social justice tour yesterday:
“Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants,” she said at a meeting of Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to develop and promote policies to help working families.
Absent personal assistants for all, Mrs. Obama said workers should have paid sick days, schedules that give them time for their family responsibilities, such as picking up children or taking them or parents to doctors’ appointments, and quality child care on the job.
Also needed is paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, or to deal with serious illness, she said.
“These types of policies can be the key to whether a family remains economically viable or slips into financial uncertainty,” she said.
Some 22 million working women don’t have one paid sick day, Mrs. Obama said, meaning they lose money anytime they have to skip work because of an ill child. Current law, the Family Medical Leave Act, provides unpaid leave for birth, adoption or serious illness.
President Barack Obama’s wife talked openly during last year’s campaign for the White House about her feelings when she juggled work as a top administrator at a Chicago hospital with raising two young daughters.
The issue, balancing work and family, is one she wants to focus on as first lady.
Mrs. Obama told the meeting that growing up in Chicago her family, including her mother and brother, lived on her father’s salary from his job as a city worker. Her mother, who now lives with her at the White House, stayed home.
But “one income really doesn’t always cut it anymore,” she said.
“I personally … know the challenges of leading a busy life at work and at home, trying to do a good job at both and always feeling like you’re not quite living up to either,” Mrs. Obama said. “If people here are like me, I call myself a 120 percenter. If I’m not doing any job at 120 percent, I think I’m failing. So if you’re trying to do that at home and at work, you find it very difficult and stressful and frustrating.”
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We know government workers have these kinds of benefits and as the Obama Admin continues to grow the government, more lucky people will enjoy it down the road. No wonder young people out of school all look for government jobs (Here in Canada anyway)
What pisses me off is that she knows a 7/11 or Walmart job will never provide such benefits and that private industry will only get worse in this regard as taxes will go up to pay for expanding government and all of their benefits.
IMO, the devide is getter larger and larger.
Two distinct classes are being set:
– The private enterprise class. (Peasants)
– The public sector class. (Royalty)
Guillotine anyone?
It is so perfect! Stephen Machiavelli takes off for Europe and Afghanistan leaving the Lieberals to wonder about all the black storm clouds that have suddenly replaced the convention blue skies and bright sunshine, plus they are now getting hit federally and McGintyally by friendly fire from the ragStar. Could the money losing fishwrap soon be in need of a helping hand as well? Will Ruby reveal she has been supplying cut rate “nanny/helpers” to other needy families within the party? Why has “Baby Point Bob” ridden to her defense with all adjectives blazing for no apparent reason? Does she have pictures? Will Iggy sulk in his tent until fall or soon appoint Trudeau as his successor, return to Harvard, and then resign via email? Stay tuned.
So, Howard Levitt’s livid over Ruby Dhalla’s dilemna.
Too bad. So sad.
I agree with other commenters’ views of Don Martin. He’s a total Lib sellout and excels at anti-CPC vindictiveness.
But even he, as one of the “political pundits” on Don Newman’s Politics on the CBC tonight, criticized Levitt’s handling of Dhalla’s press conference, hardly allowing her to speak and displaying such blatant anger.
My take on the press conference is that Levitt knows things aren’t looking good for Ruby and that’s why he didn’t let her talk much and why he was so rattled. Ruby Dhalla’s gravy train is about to crash and there go her privileges, perks, and pensions.
I think it’s begun to sink in that, just like Dorothy’s not being in Kansas anymore, Ruby’s not in Sri Lanka anymore, either.
So, Howard Levitt’s livid over Ruby Dhalla’s dilemna.
Too bad. So sad.
I agree with other commenters’ views of Don Martin. He’s a total Lib sellout and excels at anti-CPC vindictiveness.
But even he, as one of the “political pundits” on Don Newman’s Politics on the CBC tonight, criticized Levitt’s handling of Dhalla’s press conference, hardly allowing her to speak and displaying such blatant anger.
My take on the press conference is that Levitt knows things aren’t looking good for Ruby and that’s why he didn’t let her talk much and why he was so rattled. Ruby Dhalla’s gravy train is about to crash and there go her privileges, perks, and pensions.
I think it’s begun to sink in that, just like Dorothy’s not being in Kansas anymore, Ruby’s not in Sri Lanka anymore, either.
So, how come the 7:09 comment showed up ONLY after I posted the 7:18 comment? Sorry for the double comment but that’s why …
You know what this means for the Liberals:
“Time for another Brian Mulroney scandal!”
I started a Ruby fan club. Anyone interested?
And where is Ikky Piquie? Hiding out in Stornoway? First it was French citizon Deyawn hiding out and pouting in there, now it is the American from ‘Out of USSR”, hiding out in there.
We, the Canadian taxpayers pay the taxes on that property and we pay the leader of the opposition who occupies that place, at our pleasure.
If that foreign type ‘new’ Puffin leader does not come out, we should evict him.