If you were a member of the NDP no one in the media would be asking either…
Want all this Senate partisan/media lead outrage to disappear? Harper can offer a travel and expense audit of ALL Senators. His longstanding offer of requiring all Senators to be elected should also be tied to the offer.
All the leftist trough denizens and their media enablers will create a cacophony of silence such has never not been heard in Ottawa.
Sure, she says that now, but the moment she got in she’d be swanning about all over the damn place, dogs and all. (Just kidding! Kate for Senate!)
senators do nothing of value. they could all be from sask and it would not matter. i for one think the senate should be abolished. start the necessary constitutional process and get on with it.
Harper will appoint anyone the province elects – so put a spark up Wall’s butt and pass a provincial senate election act then let the democratic process replace Wallen.
Oh yeah, and remind the Leader Post as well.
Senator Wallin was on John Gormley’s show this morning and explained that since most of her journey’s home to Saskatchewan aren’t direct flights from Ottawa (any journalist ever checked the flight offerings before reporting?,) and she often travels via other engagements elsewhere (note Senator Tkachuk’s comment about how he wouldn’t do as much as she does), the rules don’t allow her to report most of those journeys as travel home to Saskatchewan.
Sounds very plausible. Perhaps we should find out the facts before judging, but then what would we do for fun?
I suspect if I delved into it all I would conclude that Senator Wallin meets the residency requirement and I would be less surprised if some of the many other engagements she undertakes looked like not necessarily senatorial duties.
Kate take a six figure/year government position? for life? Who wrote this header… really. If Kate pushed for and got a limited term deal then yeah.
The only reason the media are picking on Wallin and Duffy is because they are prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team — just read the article: the “expert” complainant is a former NDP staffer.
While the Constitution Act, 1867 provides no definition of residency for Senators, and while there may be one that Parliament has adopted for that purpose, abiding by something like the residency requirements in the Income Tax Act would no doubt raise the alternative objection — namely that they aren’t doing their jobs because they’re spending too much time at home.
As for the mechanisms by which Senate reform or abolition can be achieved, Mr. Harper sent a lengthy reference to the SCOC a week ago Friday — this to short-circuit (even if the reference will take time for a decision) opposition from the usual suspects: the Province of Quebec and the Liberal Party of Canada, as Paul Wells noted in his column this past week.
Notice that it is always an “expert” who comments–and also from university. where the real world does not exist. (like PhD). Besides. have you ever been to Regina???
“prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team”
I had the misfortune to pick up a Toronto Star this week while killing time in a mall. Columnist Tim Harper was shrieking that Duffy had a target on his back for exactly that reason…although he didn’t phrase it that way. See, all his colleagues are nonpartisan and work hard to hold people accountable. Stop laughing! But Duffy deserted for a patronage position. Like, he’d never do that…
Yeah, he spoiled my A and W burger combo.
“…reason the media are picking on Wallin .. the “expert” complainant is a former NDP staffer. …”
Posted by: David Southam
“an “expert” … comments … from university. where the real world does not exist. … Regina.”
Posted by: sly
Unsurprising it comes from a self-appointed “expert” from the UofS (the S is for Socialism) in Regina. Note Senator Wallin is described as “popular with the Canadian Forces.” Is Professor Leeson is one of those Regina academics who signed the letter objecting when it was proposed that children of soldiers who died on active duty should be given free tuition?
Kate should be nominated!
There must be a highly-politicized overly-bureaucratic process that can be easily navigated?
Exactly right, “Wallin and Duffy are prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team”.
If they were appointed by a Liberal PM they’d be the greatest. Duffy comes from PEI, born and raised there and that place is Liberal red, it’s as traditional as the spuds they grow in the red sand.
Note that in the BNA Act, residency does not include time spent in Ottawa doing the job of Senator. 2 weeks in PEI per year is all that is required for Duffy. This whole exercise in stupidity should have been crushed when it first reared its ugly head. It is nothing more than an attack on Conservatives and the idiots should have seen it coming and stopped it. Perhaps the Conservatives should put someone in charge.
I think Pamela Wallin represents Saskatchewan well, from my years growing up there, she’s always placed the best interests of Sask. first.
I think Howard Leeson represents the University of Regina’s mindset quite well… “just sayin”
TheTooner, exactly, and it seems that many here have picked up on the fact that the good professor is a radical leftist.
All you need to know about this story is that the writer Jason Warick is a self-admitted left-wing activist journalist and Howard Leeson is an NDP operative.
The issue isn’t the Senate; it’s the NDPers masquerading as “journalists” and “political experts”.
Well said Rob Huck, you are right on !!
As a Saskatchewan resident it is well know that Pam Wallin is home in the province on a regular basis. Before this is over the left will claim that every Conservative appointed Senator should be fired.
All that has happened here is that the left have found a niche that they haven’t exploited yet and they’ll beat it to death until the MSM move on to something new. The scary thing is the number of Canadians that give this kind of cr-p credibility.
Well, I agree, of course, that Kata would make a far better (and more representative) Senator from Saskatchewan than any of the others, and I’m ready to sign the petition.
For my part, one of the most expensive Senators is Terry Mercer, a Liberal allegedly from Nova Scotia, about whom I never heard much in Nova Scotia and since his appointment I’ve heard even less about his work in Ottawa. Like Kate, I can (and do) say “If I were in the Senate ….”
If you were a member of the NDP no one in the media would be asking either…
Want all this Senate partisan/media lead outrage to disappear? Harper can offer a travel and expense audit of ALL Senators. His longstanding offer of requiring all Senators to be elected should also be tied to the offer.
All the leftist trough denizens and their media enablers will create a cacophony of silence such has never not been heard in Ottawa.
Sure, she says that now, but the moment she got in she’d be swanning about all over the damn place, dogs and all. (Just kidding! Kate for Senate!)
senators do nothing of value. they could all be from sask and it would not matter. i for one think the senate should be abolished. start the necessary constitutional process and get on with it.
Harper will appoint anyone the province elects – so put a spark up Wall’s butt and pass a provincial senate election act then let the democratic process replace Wallen.
Oh yeah, and remind the Leader Post as well.
Senator Wallin was on John Gormley’s show this morning and explained that since most of her journey’s home to Saskatchewan aren’t direct flights from Ottawa (any journalist ever checked the flight offerings before reporting?,) and she often travels via other engagements elsewhere (note Senator Tkachuk’s comment about how he wouldn’t do as much as she does), the rules don’t allow her to report most of those journeys as travel home to Saskatchewan.
Sounds very plausible. Perhaps we should find out the facts before judging, but then what would we do for fun?
I suspect if I delved into it all I would conclude that Senator Wallin meets the residency requirement and I would be less surprised if some of the many other engagements she undertakes looked like not necessarily senatorial duties.
Kate take a six figure/year government position? for life? Who wrote this header… really. If Kate pushed for and got a limited term deal then yeah.
The only reason the media are picking on Wallin and Duffy is because they are prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team — just read the article: the “expert” complainant is a former NDP staffer.
While the Constitution Act, 1867 provides no definition of residency for Senators, and while there may be one that Parliament has adopted for that purpose, abiding by something like the residency requirements in the Income Tax Act would no doubt raise the alternative objection — namely that they aren’t doing their jobs because they’re spending too much time at home.
As for the mechanisms by which Senate reform or abolition can be achieved, Mr. Harper sent a lengthy reference to the SCOC a week ago Friday — this to short-circuit (even if the reference will take time for a decision) opposition from the usual suspects: the Province of Quebec and the Liberal Party of Canada, as Paul Wells noted in his column this past week.
Notice that it is always an “expert” who comments–and also from university. where the real world does not exist. (like PhD). Besides. have you ever been to Regina???
“prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team”
I had the misfortune to pick up a Toronto Star this week while killing time in a mall. Columnist Tim Harper was shrieking that Duffy had a target on his back for exactly that reason…although he didn’t phrase it that way. See, all his colleagues are nonpartisan and work hard to hold people accountable. Stop laughing! But Duffy deserted for a patronage position. Like, he’d never do that…
Yeah, he spoiled my A and W burger combo.
“…reason the media are picking on Wallin .. the “expert” complainant is a former NDP staffer. …”
Posted by: David Southam
“an “expert” … comments … from university. where the real world does not exist. … Regina.”
Posted by: sly
Unsurprising it comes from a self-appointed “expert” from the UofS (the S is for Socialism) in Regina. Note Senator Wallin is described as “popular with the Canadian Forces.” Is Professor Leeson is one of those Regina academics who signed the letter objecting when it was proposed that children of soldiers who died on active duty should be given free tuition?
Kate should be nominated!
There must be a highly-politicized overly-bureaucratic process that can be easily navigated?
Exactly right, “Wallin and Duffy are prominent former journalists who broke for the wrong team”.
If they were appointed by a Liberal PM they’d be the greatest. Duffy comes from PEI, born and raised there and that place is Liberal red, it’s as traditional as the spuds they grow in the red sand.
Senator Lillian Dyck of Sask.
was appointed to the Senate of Canada in the spring of 2005 by former Prime Minister Paul Martin. In her naiveté, she decided to become a New Democratic Party (NDP) senator, but was immediately rejected by the leader of the NDP, Jack Layton.
read on:
http://sen.parl.gc.ca/ldyck/html/eng/01home.html
Note that in the BNA Act, residency does not include time spent in Ottawa doing the job of Senator. 2 weeks in PEI per year is all that is required for Duffy. This whole exercise in stupidity should have been crushed when it first reared its ugly head. It is nothing more than an attack on Conservatives and the idiots should have seen it coming and stopped it. Perhaps the Conservatives should put someone in charge.
I think Pamela Wallin represents Saskatchewan well, from my years growing up there, she’s always placed the best interests of Sask. first.
I think Howard Leeson represents the University of Regina’s mindset quite well… “just sayin”
TheTooner, exactly, and it seems that many here have picked up on the fact that the good professor is a radical leftist.
All you need to know about this story is that the writer Jason Warick is a self-admitted left-wing activist journalist and Howard Leeson is an NDP operative.
The issue isn’t the Senate; it’s the NDPers masquerading as “journalists” and “political experts”.
Well said Rob Huck, you are right on !!
As a Saskatchewan resident it is well know that Pam Wallin is home in the province on a regular basis. Before this is over the left will claim that every Conservative appointed Senator should be fired.
All that has happened here is that the left have found a niche that they haven’t exploited yet and they’ll beat it to death until the MSM move on to something new. The scary thing is the number of Canadians that give this kind of cr-p credibility.
Well, I agree, of course, that Kata would make a far better (and more representative) Senator from Saskatchewan than any of the others, and I’m ready to sign the petition.
For my part, one of the most expensive Senators is Terry Mercer, a Liberal allegedly from Nova Scotia, about whom I never heard much in Nova Scotia and since his appointment I’ve heard even less about his work in Ottawa. Like Kate, I can (and do) say “If I were in the Senate ….”