Now we know why Justin didn’t have any qualms about accepting Eve Adams into the fold.
Doesn’t everyone cheat the nomination process?
CTV, via Maz2.
Now we know why Justin didn’t have any qualms about accepting Eve Adams into the fold.
Doesn’t everyone cheat the nomination process?
CTV, via Maz2.
Did elections Canada show up with a RCMP swat team and a CBC camera crew, who “just happened” to be in the area?
Oh silly me, it’s not illegal Liberals do it.
Well, technically he made a minor violation of campaign rules, but remember it was for the greater good. He is unquestionably the People’s Choice in his riding. He will make an outstanding member of Trudeau’s government, once the evil Harper has been driven for office in ignominious disgrace.
FROM office.
So this Liberal clown knowingly flouted nomination rules as laid down by Elections Canada and other than paying the Receiver General back, no penalty is imposed. He still gains the presumed benefit of his malfeasance.
Dean Del Mastro, on the other hand, who committed a similar offence during a federal election campaign, is led away from court in handcuffs and leg irons to begin his jail sentence.
But then again, he was a Conservative.
…and I was all over the CBC website looking for this story. Couldn’t find a thing.
at work is the operational mode of the official MSM dual standards paradigm.
When a liberal leader or his minions openly undermine the democratic process of his psrty or country – it is a forgivable minor detail.
When a Conservative PM tells a conservative senator to pay back monies he wrongfully claimed – this is somehow an government crushing scandal.
In both cases the media, and liberals display their situational morality.
This is par for the course for both the Liberals and the CBC as well. The double standards here are absolutely attrochous (kind of like my spelling I think ;-)) and simply are unacceptable. The fact that they seem to get away with this stuff without any serious consequences (unlike Dean DelMastro) is a complete travesty of justice. Dean chose to contest the Elections Canada findings and now is paying the price. This clown is now the nominated candidate in his riding and has no consequences. This will “teach” poeple that you can’t buck Elections Canada and survive the outcome.
“…other than paying the Receiver General back,…”
Details matter. He is not supposed to pay the Receiver General, he is supposed to get other people to donate money to pay the Receiver General a sum equivalent to the amount of his own money he wasn’t allowed to spend on his own expenses in a campaign (not for election to public office, but for the nomination to be a political party’s candidate in running for public office.)
Just like Senator Duffy is not allowed to get other people to donate their own money for him to use to pay back expenses he claimed that most people agree aren’t justifiable, but that the Senate’s rules don’t actually forbid claiming.
Is that clear?
While in agreement with those above that see the hypocrisy and bias of the media, doesn’t it seem oddly intrusive that the government has regulated how much candidates within political parties can spend to be their nominee? Shouldn’t that be the sole business of the party and their internal constitution, rules etc to be judged eventually at the polls?
I just had to stop by, after the first time in like 3 years, to tell you guys that your great leader is toast no matter what. Because he’s not getting a majority, no way no how. Even with a minority I look forward to the Libs & Dips defeating him and, even if they don’t have a coalition, having an accord of some sort. Goodbye to the most disingenuous secretive mofo to ever inhabit the Langevin block.
I presume you wish this so that you can join your communist brethren (as in Venezuela and its proxy, Cuba) in prosperity.
Hey Commie Troll – only commie plebs have “great leaders” Conservative/populists have individualism and reject “leaders”.
Just a small sticky note to correct your myopic world view
Don’t worry Mr. C-Troll, After a few years of your “socialist paradise” We will revert back to prosperity. I just pray you and your ilk don’t muck it up beyond repair.
Why no charges? Could it be that they only charge Conservatives with such offences?
Why should the government concern itself with internal party business. I’m from back in the days of KFC buckets full of cash. It worked just fine. In my opinion, how a party finances itself is nobody’s business.
Dean del Mastro was fined, shackled and thrown in jail, oh I forgot he was not a lieberal!
Another chemical plant in China explodes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34029202
Their economy is imploding.
Didn’t someone say that they admired the Chinese gov’t for their ability to get things done?
It’s alright when a Liberal does it, so….
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it’s okay as long as justin chose him “from the heart outwards.”
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“…In my opinion, how a party finances itself is nobody’s business.”
I think it is everyone’s business to know who a party is getting money from, so we can know in advance of voting if e.g. the candidates that Communist Troll wants to work for are working for foreign interests as in the case of the Clintons in the U.S.A. But as long as we know about it I don’t care how much they get or how much they want to spend on their internal elections.
PET Cemetery Report: “over a column light as hair.”
Liberal roots: a two-fer from Maggy Artwood, OC, (Ordure doo Canada).
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“Hair is in the election-season air, but is it crucial to the question of your vote?”
“Margaret Atwood: Those attack ads on Trudeau introduced the subject, with ‘Nice hair, Justin’ – but now that the hairball has been coughed up, so to speak, let’s consider it”
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/hair-is-in-the-election-season-air-but-is-it-crucial-to-your-vote
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“Margaret Atwood column pulled, re-posted on National Post website”
“Margaret Atwood, the author […] recently wrote an opinion piece that turned more to fluff, particularly as it exists in the form of the hairstyles and follicular proclivities of the three male candidates in the federal election.
The column appeared briefly on the National Post website before being removed. An edited version of the column reappeared on the site later Friday evening.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/margaret-atwood-column-pulled-from-national-post-website/article26062654/
If you think the opposition could keep a coalition together for more than a nanosecond I might be concerned.
The only way it works is if Leisuresuit Larry goes from third to first, and not even the soft ndp vote is up to lending their vote for sloppy seconds anymore. And if you think the liberals will agree to being 2nd fiddle to the ndp you haven’t been paying attention, liberals resented being behind the ndp after the last election even going so far as refusing to give up their office space from when they where OLO. If the NDP managed a minority win the blu-lib caucus would do what the reform caucus did to Stockwell Day. This would make it near impossible for legislation to budge out of the HoC.
Then even if it did, the senate has no NDP members and you could bet dollar’s to donuts each and every piece of legislation that did eek out of the HoC would sit stagnant for months.
As for Tommie boys promise to abolish the senate well hope you enjoyed the Meech and Charlottetown circus because Quebec and Ontario said they want the senate to remain the same, and you can add Leisuresuit Larry and whatever caucus he would have left piling on and even helping the CPC force an election over the issue.
Lets digress on that sideshow, because the last time the Mulroney government tried the constitutional reform game Quebec put him over a barrel by demanding a special status clause in the constitution which would enshrine Quebec the right to obstruct legislation not in their interest.
Now imagine what Tommie boy will have to promise ol Wynnbag who right now is driving Ontario over a fiscal cliff…and we haven’t even got to the other premiers, native groups and other interest groups that the NDP needs to keep happy to get re-elected.
Yep a real stable government. ..for about 18 seconds.
This is the scenario that folks are thinking about and should carry Harper to another majority.
Your welcome.
By the way troll sucks to be you.
Joseph, I think that a coalition would be signed in a heartbeat.
It would be entertaining. whichever party won the most seats would likely be PM and their first order of business would be to hire a food taster.
Justin has come out for a merger of the parties, a coalition, and against both ideas.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/14/trudeau-endorses-future-coalition-with-ndp
If the brass ring was presented, the elbows would be flying.
The Liberals and even the NDP feel pretty comfortable with Elections Canada, they tend only to punish Conservatives.
I totally agree with you Joseph.
If the NDP get in Canada will be turned upside down, NO JOBS we will go into a recession fast. Mulcair only thinks about the UNION jobs, he and Wynnbag make a pair. The price of everything will sky rocket. Ordinary Canadians will not be able to afford anything. Notley is another bag full of tricks and play on words and just plain lies.
The Lie brals are no better and I don’t want to get started on them. They lie all the time Justin can’t make up his mind, so Butts makes it for him. He will not be a leader but a thorn in ones side. These two together are an accident waiting to happen.
Harper to another majority.
You nailed it. This sort of thing is only illegal if Conservatives do it.
I agree with those who think the NDP under the Liberal/wannabe Conservative/NDP Mulcair and the Shiny Pony would form a coalition in a heart beat. Then Venezuela here we come.
Btw, if the commie troll had family experience living under communism it would not be so mouthy about wanting that evil.
This was about the internal party race for a nomination, not the contest for a seat in Parliament. It’s one thing to have spending rules for candidates running for Parliament (although I’m not crazy about them either), but what parties do internally to nominate their candidates for election is absolutely no concern of government and the legislation should be changed to respect that.
The NDP and Liberals are both hungry for power and would form a coalition to get it and game over Canada with a Straw Man and Tin Man in charge.
We’d be fools to believe either of them when they say they won’t do it.
Speaking of Justin, I just came across this article on FB
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/185054/canadian-left-calls-neutrality-honor-killings-michael-kravshik
and I am wondering, considering it was written in April 2013, how I missed that in the news, was I in a coma? How did he and the NDP slip away from that one. Is this for real?
I suspect that if Trudeau cosies up to the NDP in a coalition, he may face a caucus mutiny. It is not in the interest of the Liberal Pary to make Mulcair prime minister. The Liberals would be better off supporting the Conservatives to the point where polls point to a possible Liberal victory. Mind you, at that point the NDP wouldn’t force an election.
I agree Scar. The Grit caucus would take Trudeau out for two reasons: first, he just lost the election, finishing third, so should resign immediately. Second if he tries to play second fiddle to the NDP, what’s left of the LPC brain trust will turn on him and remove him for trying something really stupid, that would surely put the continued survival of their party in jeopardy.
Harper will win a majority because this is what awaits Mulcair in Sept, from the Torstar Liberals no less, many of whom whose ilk surely plan to defect to the Tories if for no other reason than to prevent the release of the socialist hounds (moderate my patottee):
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/08/22/five-weak-spots-that-could-derail-mulcair-and-the-ndp-hepburn.html
BTW, Trudeau is so yesterday’s news.