Everyone knows the details already, but the basic facts are essential here: former MP Rahim Jaffer was charged last year with drunk driving and drug possession. Several days ago, under an agreement reached between his lawyer and an Ontario provincial Crown prosecutor, Jaffer pleaded guilty to lesser charges. The provincial prosecutor said there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction on the more serious charges; according to this report, police sources said that “a rookie OPP officer failed to follow proper procedures during a strip search of Jaffer.”
Now, keeping in mind that at the time he was charged Jaffer was neither a Conservative MP nor working for the Conservatives in any capacity whatsoever (they had long since elbowed him out of the nomination race in his riding), and that his plea deal was reached with the Crown prosecutor, not the judge, in a provincial jurisdiction that the federal government absolutely has no say in, take a look at a sampling of what various media and opposition members had to say:
David Akin: “Turns out the judge in the case, Doug Maund, is a long-time Tory.” Jane Taber: “Stephen Harper’s tough-on-crime Conservatives were accused of being not-so-tough when it comes to one of their own…” Akin, again: “Jaffer’s former caucus colleagues immediately tried to distance themselves from the (Crown prosecutor’s) decision.” Peter Mansbridge, introducing the top story on The National: “As a Conservative Member of Parliament Rahim Jaffer was known for his tough stand on crime. Now, the opposition says he’s a Tory example of another kind: hypocrisy!” Liberal MP Anita Neville, seen bellowing in the HOC on The National: “The Conservatives are conspicuously silent…when the law is being flouted by one of their own.” Toronto Lawyer Russell Silverstein, on The National: “You know, when the public sees somebody charged with drunk driving and possession of cocaine who’s politically connected…” Unidentified man-on-the-street, on The National: “Ex-Conservative MP, married to the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs – I mean obviously they’re going to drop the charges, they had no choice.” (all emph. mine)
The attempts to attach Jaffer’s actions to the Conservative government (“one of their own“) were pure partisan ridiculousness, and almost laughable; what was not even slightly laughable, in those several days of coverage, were the efforts of various media and opposition members to raise, in a sideways fashion – i.e., without being accountable for it – a constant insinuation that the Conservative government interfered behind the scenes in a decision made by a provincial crown prosecutor. For two days and nights, a serious allegation which there was no evidence for became unmistakably threaded into the subtext of the coverage of what was, unaccountably, the biggest news story in the country.
While various other media members also joined in, it was once again the CBC who led the charge, displaying a perfected reversal of the sort of coverage they gave the Liberals. When in 1996 Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien was ordered by a judge to answer a charge of assault, and Quebec’s Justice Minister announced a few hours later that he would not allow the case to proceed, there were no insinuations that there had been any political interference. When Jean Chretien’s son Michel was charged in 2002 with sexual assault, illegal confinement, and sodomy, the mother of the victim stated that she had been pressured by a sitting Liberal MP to not press criminal charges. She said the MP told her –
“…(Chretien) is the Prime Minister, he has all the power and he will fight this case for Michel. Then she told me that ‘a lot of dirty things are going to come up about your past and the media will be there’…I almost changed my mind (about pressing charges) because of that.”
Remember the CBC’s top-of-the-hour news story on that? Well, me neither, because there wasn’t one. And yet somehow, in the last two days, a provincial crown prosecutor’s decision, in a case involving a former MP, now a private citizen, somehow managed to become attached, with great deal of hyperventilating outrage, to the Conservatives. How does that happen, exactly? Only Mansbridge’s hairdresser knows for sure, but consider, in isolation, the CBC’s decision to nationally broadcast, in their top-of-the-hour story, the following statement:
“Ex-Conservative MP, married to the Minister of State for Women’s affairs, I mean, obviously they’re going to drop the charges, they had no choice.”
Interesting. Suppose some non-taxpayer-funded news network – let’s call it Fox News Canada – aired an unidentified man-in-the-street’s assertion that Michael Ignatieff beats his wife if she leaves dirty dishes in the sink. The network, and the reporter, would surely be required to provide some evidence to back up the statement or else face very serious consequences. It wouldn’t t even begin to suffice, as either a legal or moral defense, one wouldn’t think, for the network – or the reporter or the producer – to say “hey, we didn’t say that at all, it was some guy in the street.” To the contrary, the only justification for airing such a statement would be if it was made by a known public figure, at which point there might be some justification for covering it, albeit without repeating the allegation, and only in the context of a story noting that politician X made a serious allegation about Ignatieff without any proof to back it up; there could certainly be no journalistic justification whatsoever for airing such a statement from some unidentified man in the street, and any broadcaster who aired such a serious accusation without proof would be liable for it, and held to account.
Someone at the CBC made a decision to broadcast, coast-to-coast, an unidentified individual’s statement that a particular provincial Crown prosecutor – someone who has a name, a professional reputation, and a family – rendered a decision based not on the law he’s been sworn to uphold but on political interference from someone outside his jurisdiction, and that our sitting government illegally interfered in a court case in a provincial jurisdiction – and all without one single shred of evidence.
Was it urgent, serious, and of public importance for the CBC to nationally broadcast a categorical, unproven allegation of serious wrongdoing made by an unidentified member of the public? Was the unidentified individual’s honest statement of opinion in any way based on fact? Has the CBC – would the CBC – ever broadcast an allegation of serious wrongdoing by a Liberal government that had absolutely no basis in fact?
No, no, and no.
Vile, unethical, unprofessional journalism – and it only costs us a billion dollars a year.
You know, there oughta be a law…
“vile, unethical, unprofessional……” believe that says it all. The sooner we get rid of this annual billion dollar plus drain on the treasury, will be a great day for Canada
EBD – Thanks for clarifying this matter, fact is that I will not vote for anyone who takes illegal and dangerous drugs. I will vote for someone who got drunk at a function and made an ass of himself, nonetheless. In this case I couldn’t remember whether Jaffer was still and MP or not, or associated to the party in any official functionary manner, and knowing from his past, considered him an idiot anyway. It does seem though, at the very least our police are either making a bollocks of everything they touch or our courts are too soft, despite the antics of the national press. Their bias is appalling.
I suspect they’re daring the government to do just that. It’s time: Axe the CBC!
“In this case I couldn’t remember whether Jaffer was still an MP or not, or associated (with) the party…”
You represent the CBC’s dream demographic.
Seriously, though, Jaffer himself isn’t the issue here.
Yes, good takedown of the reorting on this, and a great emphasis on the facts of who is in charge.
However, I am still disgusted that there was cocaine found anywhere near the cabinet table. Please tell me Helena had some real serious star chamber questions asked of her by the PMO.
Jaffer is an idiot and to save his wife’s job he had better do a full and complete crydown with Strombo, or bev thomson or something, admitting he had it, had a problem and what he has done to deal with it…oh and that his wife never knew a thing. If she did then just preceeding the interview she needs to resign to take care of her husband, or divorce the fool. Silence doesnt do anyone any good.
I am sure Jaffer was able to spring his way due to our wonderfully forgiving legal system, but he and his wife have another court to deal with, public opinion.
The Conservatives are true unadulterated hypocrites. Get tough on crime my ass. As long as it is not one of their own. All the right wingers can jump up and down and try to obfuscate the matter, however, the fact remains this former Conservative MP who touted the get tough on crime rhetoric that the Conservatives are sooo fond of, was in possession of cocaine and had alcohol in his system. Hypocrites all.
While I agree entirely with EBD’s analysis, there remains one part of this story (and not unique to it) that has become too frequent a fact in Ontario under the Liberals, and that’s “no reasonable prospect of a conviction…”. This has been used on a number of occasions by the Liberals to avoid court trials that would have been considerably embarassing to the Liberal governments, and especially detrimental to local police services, most particularly the OPP. Coincidentally or not, its the most frequent reason for the provincial crown bailing on private prosecutions under the Criminal Code.
One of the more serious cases was the Jonathan Logan case agasinst the OPP, more recently the Caledonia case from Hale against Fantino and now this one.
The Caledonia case was especially interesting, since a provincial court judge found there was sufficient evident for the charges to proceed, yet the crown refused to try it. The matter should have gone before the court, not be adjudicated by the crown prosecutor.
None of this, of course, is a defense of the indefensible CBC, just one more question in the Liberal hegemony the CBC is a part of.
As a veteran police officer explained it to me, this is par for the course in many instances. Contrary to popular belief, it is difficult to obtain an impaired driving conviction as
a good lawyer can usually find something, however insignificant, to throw the case off.
As a result of this, most impaired driving offenses are reduced to careless driving by the Crown. The accused will then happily plead guilty to that charge and be on his merry way.
As usual T , knowledge of how Canada works, is not your strength. Prosecution of Jaffer is in the hands of the Provincial Attorney General’s Crown Prosecution Service, which, oops, happens to be run by Liberal Chris Bentley… As an aside, the former Liberal Attorney General, remains in the docket on a vehicular homicide matter…
T or Ted is a corrupt Liberal stooge, forgive him he knows not what he doesn’t know.
“most impaired driving offenses are reduced to careless driving by the Crown”
Not in these parts, they aren’t.
” “no reasonable prospect of a conviction…”. This has been used on a number of occasions by the Liberals to avoid court trials that would have been considerably embarassing to the Liberal governments, and especially detrimental to local police services, most particularly the OPP. Coincidentally or not, its the most frequent reason for the provincial crown bailing on private prosecutions under the Criminal Code.”
Bingo. And not just “private” prosecutions.
What happened here is just another case of a timid Assistant Crown Attorney who, when faced with the prospect of a lengthy trial and possible humiliation at the hands of a high-priced, aggressive defence, decided to fold.
Great takedown EDB
Problem is that this is as far as it will ever go.
With the Liberal/NDP infiltrations in every nook & cranny of Canada all we will ever see is the Mass assination of the PM & conservative’s & Guilty by association drive-by smears.
BTW why nothing other then a blip this wk. on a former Liberal MP caught up in a illegal stock trading scheme.
See i cant even remember the Liberal MP’s Name, Why?
IS it because he is a former liberal MP?
Or what about Liberal MPP & Former Ontario A.G. Michael Bryant he has fallen right off the screen for the the ‘Alledged’ Hit & Run Death of a Toronto bicycler.
Linking the Jaffer case to the Conservative’s tough on crime agenda shows how damned silly and stupid people are including those in the HOC and the media.
This case has zilch to do with the Conservative Federal government, the focus should be on the provincial Court system in McGuinty’s have-not province of Ontario.
Exactly “bryanr” !!
The Jaffer case may be the precursor for the high profile former McGuinty cabinet Minister to be tried later this year on a serious traffic issue that took place in Toronto, last year.
Sort of a quid pro quo.
MSM is on notice, SDA readers will be watching closely for that one.
Impaired driver, $500. Cocaine possession no charge. Rookie cop..priceless.
Pop into a third world country and let the locals see you toss a handful of money into a dumpster. When the tumult begins take a picture and hang a story about global warming on it.
Much of the media is no more reliable than that.
Anyone reads the post and thinks that Jaffer or the police are the issue here has serious reading comprehension problems…
The media went after Bryant or whoever former McShifty cabinet minister ran over some guy in Toronto. Although they didn’t print or say one word about how his action was all the fault of the other provincial Liberals…
I’m not saying the media isn’t subhuman vermin garbage cause they are.
But Jaffer did act like he was above the law and it does look bad on our side. That said, the conservatives can’t come out in the middle of the legal proceedings and shoot their mouths off cause they’re the government and they have to keep their distance. They can’t be seen to interfere in a legal proceeding.
I also remember former Ontario Liberal Joan Smith (and this is going back a few decades) resigning her cabinet post (attorney general) when one of her son’s friends got himself arrested and she made a phone call to see what was going on. She wasn’t even trying to put pressure on the cops to drop it. She just wanted to know the facts. That was seen (rightly) as interference and it ended her political career.
She was the wife of the founder of Ellis Don construction and one of the best connected Ontario liberals.
What would have happened if the conservatives meddled in the jaffer case by shooting their mouths off? The media would be crabbing about interference. They didn’t so of course the media is crabbing about hypocrisy. Cockroaches that they are.
But I’ll say it again: this doesn’t look good on our side even though the legal issues are just fine. There is the stink of hypocrisy when you make your position a tough-on-crime one then go off and commit some yourself. Just like the US senator who was all fire-and-brimstone, burn the sodomites on TV while taking it public bathrooms on the side.
David Akin, Jane Taber, the CBC et al . . . they don’t need any facts, they all belong to the “just make sh*t up” club of liberal media blowhards.
A truly pathetic lot but mildly entertaining at times.
The vast majority of Canadians, being fair minded, realize they are anti- CPC and don’t trust a word they say.
Lizette, I don’t people are missing the point of the post, its just that evidence for EBD’s point only makes the point of the post that much more devastating.
“The vast majority of Canadians, being fair minded, realize they are anti- CPC and don’t trust a word they say.”
Fred, no they don’t. I even have staunch NDP friends, that think the CBC’s reporting integrity is beyond reproach.
If the Harper Tories had interfered in this case, here is what would have happened.
Someone from the federal Tory camp would have phoned a McGuinty Liberal in the Ontario Attorney-General’s office. The Tories (keep in mind that Jaffer has embarrassed the party in the past) would have requested a big favour from the Liberals to bail out former Tory MP Jaffer. Being kind-hearted souls, the provincial Liberals would have said: Sure, no problemo. We are always keen to spare our political rivals any embarrassment.”
And pigs fly.
bryanr @ 9:14 and Lizette P @ 9:38, what you said.
Even a basic one term course in propaganda shows that there is a systemic left bias in Canada’s print and visual media.
It is high time that a FoxNews north was created to counter the constant assault by the leftist media.
I think we should press for an investigative commission of the nature of and the role of the CBC in Canada.
It has over the years degenerated into a solidly partisan propaganda system for the Liberal political party. Paid for by the citizens of Canada. As such, this is a corruption of taxpayer money.
I don’t watch the CBC but I’m aware of its relentless one-sided focus against the Conservatives. This focus is all unsubstantiated, ungrounded and pure speculation.
Remember how it tried to link Karl Schreiber to Mulroney to Harper? Remember its hysterical focus on ‘wafergate’ – where it falsely accused Harper of ‘pocketing the communal wafer’? Its columnists and news agents are openly partisan (Mansbridge, Heather Mallick, Kady O’Malley) and invite other partisans to rant against Harper (Travers, etc).
What the CBC ought to be is a news site focused only on fact-gathering and objective analysis. Instead it has degenerated into a propaganda site. We need a Royal Commission to examine this degeneration.
Ok, given the media take on this story, which if anything is about obstruction of justice by the courts (caught with coke red handed, “no reasonable prospect of a conviction”? WTF is that?) are we SDA people still going to get all mad the next time Harper goes slow on something?
Like, why do we still have a gun registry? Maybe because when the -Conservative- government even suggests they might like to cut it back, lower the budget, maybe stop registering AIRGUNS of all things, we get a solid week or more of front page stories claiming the end is here, we’re all gonna dieeeee!
Of course if a -Liberal- government were to propose killing it and replacing it with nothing at all, all guns to be unregistered not worth worrying about nothing to see here move along, it would either be a great idea for a week on the front page or nobody would mention it.
CPC works by night and fog because of these MSM Liberal Party tools. Next time some minister comes out and mouths some politically correct platitude about global warming or guns or immigrants or Afghanistan or whatever your hobby horse is, REMEMBER THIS STORY.
And for God’s sake pressure the frickin’ life out of your CPC MP and your CPC poobahs every single chance you get. Keep that torch burning under their butts, make them sweat and scramble to keep moving in the right direction.
That’s how we get this done.
Great article, I couldn’t agree more. As I heard one lawyer say on the radio, it would be professional suicide for the judge to dismiss the charges due to political interference. The sad thing in this case is that once again likely because of poor police work, charges were dismissed against a clearly guilty individual. The other sadness here is that if you have the resources to obtain a first rate lawyer then almost any technicallity will result in the dismissal of charges. Unfortunately us peons do not have those resources so we usually pay the price as we should if guilty, all of us.
Earlier this week, a Liberal MP stated in her question during QP that Jaffer “was” in possession of cocaine, even though those charges were dropped. No one in MSM asked her to repeat what she said outside the chamber — where she’s not immune from prosecution. Simply put, she wouldn’t dare, which is why no PPG reporter asked her to. And not a coincidence that the question was asked by a low-profile MP, someone who doesn’t make the rounds on the talk shows. Then again, if it was Goodale, Hall-Findlay or someone like that who asked the question, they still wouldn’t be asked to repeat it. That would put the Libeals on the defensive and MSM has no interest in doing that.
Former Ontario Liberal attorney general Michael Bryant was mentioned earlier. It’s going to be fascinating to watch the hypocriy of MSM in action when Bryant beats the charges (and he will in the end). It will be a simple summary report filed on thats story: some background followed by the acquittal. Certainly there will be no inference that a former LIBERAL attorney general got preferencial treatment by a soft-on-crime liberal judiciary. The simple summary report that will be filed on that day will be gone the next — dead and buried.
BTW, just as an aside to the CBC’s hypocrisy and favouritism to the Liberal party, a week after the Harper gov’t’s Speech from the Throne, in which many critics were interviewed following it, I tuned into CBC Ontario’s Live at 5, anchored by Diana Swain, a fill-in for Mansbridge sometimes on The National, just to see what kind of coverage would be given to the Liberal Speech from the Throne from the Ontario legislature. Swain gave a summary of what was in the speech, she then passed it off to a reporter who detailed the speech in a Liberal-gov’t-talking-point fashion and the coverage concluded with a one-on-one interview with McGuinty, before Swain went on with the rest of the days news. No critics! No one from the opposition interviewed, even though Conservative leader Tim Hudak get a presser following the throne speech, which I found down the dial on Global TV.
CBC: all liberal, all the time.
FIRE. THE. ALL.
Great summary, EBD, of what’s going on in this latest l/Liberal “scandale de la semaine” concerning Rahim Jaffer (who is a scumbag) and his ties to the CPC.
Canada becomes more like a Banana Republic every day. (I lived in one awhile back, and am distressed to see Canada sliding down the slippery slope of corruption faster and faster with each passing day.)
The “culture of corruption” that Judge Gomery associated with the Liberal$, especially under the former thug-PM Chretien, has permeated our courts, our public institutions, and our media — heck, the Canadian MSM is an extension of the lib-left and shills for them night and day.
The CBC is an especially odious cesspool, given that we, the taxpayers, foot their bills. They have proven to be a relentless battering ram of the duly-elected CPC government and our PM, something that would be their right and privilege if they were a private media outlet. But, seeing as those of us who voted for the CPC are forced to underwrite the CBC’s lurid, lop-sided, lying coverage of all political issues, it’s an outrage.
And that’s the real scandal, but the media have their faces so mired in the sludge of the pig sty, they can’t smell what the rest of us can. And, what’s the point of writing Vince Carlin, their hand-picked Ombudsman and former CBC employee? He’s the usual partisan hack, so beloved of the leftards. His office is absolutely useless, because even when he admits wrong-doing on the part of the CBC, nothing ever changes. All we get are talking points about “journalistic integrity” and how it is being upheld at the CBC, even when the facts, which he has admitted, reveal otherwise. (If, however, you wish to write the CBC Ombudsman about this latest partisan garbage, here’s his e-mail address: ombudsman@cbc.ca
We’re way past Orwell’s 1984.
Folks, folks, this is nothing new. And you do not need to be a former MP or a music star.
This plea-down from impaired driving and drug possession goes like this.
Guy blows over .08, throw in a couple of other charges as gotcha bargaining chips.
Then the lawyering begins, and it ends with a reduced charge, a fine and a suspension.
I was right there in 1996, (fourteen years ago) and watched this happen to a “not former MP”.
This is Liberal fodder, those corrupt scumbags who so desperate for a scandal they forget this has nothing whatsoever to do with the federal government.
And everything to do with a liberal law system, in a Liberal province.
Sarc/On
Someone needs to go after “Judge Doug Maund”.
His character needs examining, he “obviously”, was influenced by his “Tory” masters.
The CBC article/report could be used as proof.
Sarc/Off
If only Judge Doug Maund would open his yap and publicly complain of the attack on his reputation
perpeptrated by the CBC..!
“most impaired driving offenses are reduced to careless driving by the Crown”
Ain’t that the truth. From personal experiece, I even got off that one – the Mounties didn’t even show for the Crown, as witnesses the boobs, even when the court adjusted to their schedule so that(as my lawyer told me) they could book overtime on their day off.
Probably got too drunk the night before to appear as credible witnesses for the Crown.
“Yesh, judgsh we was proceeding in a northly dureeection when we schpied the perp…..”
Next case! Lucky me.
Helena should just soak him for all he’s got and divorce Jaffer. Serve him right.
I might not brand the MSM’s delight in smearing Jaffer as so much toxic sanctimony had they gone after Svend with the same predatory delight after he pilfered 10s of 1000s worth of jewelry.
But they didn’t, they canonized him as society’s victim and blubbered over his “misfortune” (AKA crime).
Leading the pack of left wing hypocritical apologia is our MSM. Pee on ’em for their blatant partisan prejudice. They’re like a mono-scope in an age of two-way multimedia.
BTW, I think the book should have been thrown at Jaffer. What an entitled, privileged, spoiled brat he is. (Did his visible minority status have anything to do with his lenient sentence?)
And I wouldn’t be at all sorry to see his wife, Helena Guergis, resign as Minister of State (Status of Women). Both of them have disgraced themselves.
When Jean Chretien’s son Michel was charged in 2002 with sexual assault, illegal confinement, and sodomy, the mother of the victim stated that she had been pressured by a sitting Liberal MP to not press criminal charges. She said the MP told her –
“…(Chretien) is the Prime Minister, he has all the power and he will fight this case for Michel. Then she told me that ‘a lot of dirty things are going to come up about your past and the media will be there’…I almost changed my mind (about pressing charges) because of that.”
Kate, who was or is the liberal mp who pressured the victim’s mother not to press charges?
The bigger point to all this is justice can be bought. People with money buy it. A good lawyer can beat these charges because the law is precise and humans aren’t. Back when the earth was cooling salesmen would pay up to $10,000 to beat the charge that would lead to loss of their licence. Some lawyers excelled at this. To them it was routine. Law is like science, a little screw up can invalidate the whole.
Of course the CBC will go after Jaffer, with everything they have. They consider him a turncoat, a brown-skinned conservative.
There’s a lot of misplaced anger, in Canada, over the seemingly incompetent justice system. People tend to blame prosecutors, and judges, but 90% of the time, it’s police incompetence that allows criminals to escape prosecution. There seems to be a disconnect between these two entities. There needs to be more consultation of prosecutors, by police, before some of these charges are filed. Maybe a better understanding of legal procedures would rub off on these cowboy cops.
I’m not a fan of Jaffer and certainly no fan of CBC or the legal system. I was listening to a self described leftist lawyer who said that since the car being driven by Jaffer did not belong to Jaffer it is virtually impossible to prove the cocaine, found in the car not on Jaffer, belonged to Jaffer. Kind of like your wife finding a pair of panties in the rental car’s glove box does not mean you the driver are having an affair. The lawyer then went on to describe how defense lawyers regularly challenge and win against breathalyzer tests. Under these circumstances it is amazing anyone is ever sentenced.
One thing that always bothers me about the Canadian justice system, is the phrase “The Crown vs”. I much prefer the sound of “The People vs”. It’s a much more inclusive definition. It implies some power to influence the system, with public opinion. I know, that is un-Canadian, but I still like the idea.
Helena Guergis gets no sympathy from other Conservatives for ‘hissy fits’
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/helena-guergis-gets-no-sympathy-for-hissy-fits/article1499190/
Funny thing is the first time I ever saw John McCallum (former Minister of defence) on the tube…I pegged him for fail on a breathalizer. Turns out he got turfed off an Air Canada flight, for just that very reason, when he was a cabinet minister……
Now I like a drink as good as any but……I hold a qualified licence to drive the big stuff. A DUI in Canada automatically cancels my CDL recognition in the US…..US federal law…0 (zero)tolerance….
However that does get some respect…..drive up to a US “sobriety test” (like our RIDE ) and the rigs get waved through….usually with a bit of a salute.
How can the media have any credibility jumping on this case before they have all the facts? Who among them would know whether Jaffer was guilty of Cocaine possession and drunk driving? How do they know the alleged cocaine was his without a doubt?
We have to conclude the obvious here, the media are playing politics at the lowest level.They should be consumed with the provincial justice system in this case instead they’re trying to link it to the Federal Conservatives. We all should be concerned about the media.
Were I the crown prosecutor i would sue the CBC for slander and defamation. It the CP doesn’t then the statement quoted above will be taken by many as a statement of fact. (perhaps the CPC should sue as it too is slandered).
We all know that the CBC is a propoganda dept of the LPC, The only thing is you have to prove it! Much like Jaffer’s case you have to prove it!
Now that said Remember the close call last year during the M/Shr Inquiery when Liberal MP Rodiguiez(dont shoot me for spellang errers)
Anyways he was being fed Questions to ask from a CBC reporter Who! turns out to be his girlfriend?
And remember folks She got a (Better make it look good)slap on the wrist from her boss’s.
BTW Interesting article National Post
Jaffer plea deal ‘Not So Unusual’: Lawyer
Joseph Brean, National Post
drunk driving case, details can limit potential for conviction
That was quite the essay. Mostly redundant since all it did was sum up the blatantly obvious. Everyone knows exactly what CBC is, what it does and to some extent what it costs us.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that Jaffer is an asshole of epic proportions. That was evidenced when he tried to send a proxy to a radio interview disguised as him.
He did recently get pulled over with for driving carelessly with alcohol on his breath and cocaine in the car … for that I too would drop any charges for he is one Muslim who has assimilated nicely into our society.
Were I the crown prosecutor i would sue the CBC for slander and defamation. It the CP doesn’t then the statement quoted above will be taken by many as a statement of fact. (perhaps the CPC should sue as it too is slandered).
This is a very good suggestion. A conviction by a fair court (in Liberal Ontario ???) could be used to initiate a Cabinet (not Parliamentary) Review of CBC management with appropriate changes in staffing and direction.
Skip @ 8:58, I had forgotten that. Let’s see how that one turns out. Personally, I think the charges should be dropped and that’s got nothing to do with the colour of his political stripes.
I do not recall such CBC outrage when Margaret Kemmer(Trudeau) sccessfully defended against an impaired driving charge in 2005. Granted she was prosecuted and is innocent as she did win her case, but the crown chose not to appeal. Did the CBC ask why?, no I don’t remember that either.
I would really love for prosecutor Balogh of judge Maund to instigate libel suits against the CBC and certain Liberal commentators. They are probably constrained from doing so because of their official duties. The Liberal loudmouths like Neville and especially Jennings spew their garbage in the protected HoC, not outside.
Sorry, I meant to type Magaret Kemper.
This just up at G&M Jane Taber
Iacobucci to review All Afghan-Detainee-Scandal-Documents Dating back to 2001
Jane Taber G&M Mar.13/2010
CBC has featured stories on their website for the last 3 or 4 months about the ‘detainee’ crisis,90% of the time one or two in the top ten,which are featured under the Canada news. Sometimes up to 6 different takes on the same BS on any given day. A couple of days ago the fingers started pointing back at the Liberals. The CBC now has one story ,on their Canada ‘headlines’ list. You have to link to the list of top 50 Canada headlines and scroll down to the very last one to find it. This allows them to say they are still covering the issue.It would be very revealing to compare their coverage of the last couple of months with their coverage of the last couple of days.FIRE.THEM.ALL.