Mission Accomplished

18 Replies to “Mission Accomplished”

1. So, the two most egregious and reprehensible smears against conservative Senators will result in no consequences for anyone?

2. It’s about time. Imagine all the stress this has caused due to Senate inefficiencies. The issues with the Senate were more about politics than anything else, they were going after PM Harper anywhere they could and this was another place to try to get him. That aside he didn’t handle the Senate affair well, he didn’t need to do more than ask them to stay out of caucus until it was cleared up but he went overboard. Also blame the media who went nuts as well. PM’s appoint people to the Senate, they do not run the place.

3. In my opinion, Duffy and Wallin ran into problems because they did so much more work than any other senators and had much more fodder to challenge. With Wallin, a lot of the money she paid back was for public events which didn’t benefit her personally but the claim was made that it wasn’t for Senate business. When a politician does public relations, is there ever a reasonable method to label it as other than government business? The amounts involved in the Senate scandal were chickenfeed and any embarrassment should involve the over-reaction to the spending. Trudeau can blow $30 billion without as much of a reaction as a $16 glass of orange juice. I think Wallin is a damn good Senator and I think the same about Duffy.

4. The NDP ripped off more taxpayer dollars with their mixing of constituent and political offices than the Senators at their very worst; more fake issues supporting the false narratives that masqueraded as the last federal election. Right, the Tories had to go, and Canada is warming the earth.
   Absolutely disgusting chapter in our history; an incumbent government, with actual data to prove their case, tossed overboard the ship of state so cabin boy could elbow and shout down his way to power, enabled by the GTA’s finance addled masochists, with false data given a pass by the ignorantsia.
   Now the mediocracy criticizes, out of bounds last year as off the hate-Harper message, are buoyed and secure their political consorts are comfortably ensconced in power, with cover of time and opposition leadership change before the next federal election.
   That of course will be Harper’s fault, burdening us with with $7.5b surplus and good government.
   No worries, the Laurentian media will bury their objections and do their progressive perk up to declare the Tories not ready for prime time, in spite of what will be innumerable scandals, broken promises & fiscal failure.
   Only a populist leader – who will resonate with the voter by highlighting the Grits litany of removal of accountability, putting Parliament in a chokehold and reforming the electoral system by giving the power of selection of MPs over to party leaders instead of voters – can prevail next time.
   The obscene waste of money chasing climate change mirages and lessened security will be there too to remind Canadians what happens when you elect a training wheels band of crony collectivists.
   The GOP rumble surely shows establishment types could care less what voters think; maybe so but it’s still the best thing we’ve got so far, not elitist PR.

5. I sometimes wonder who runs the government – the people who are elected or the people who aren’t elected.

6. Steve, i stopped wondering some time ago.
   Kleptocracy.
   Have you noticed?
   Billions are stolen, misspent , wasted..by government..
   no one is fired, no one does jail time.
   Laws are for the little people .
   Special people do no time, face no charges.
   Police Chiefs brag on national Tv , that they will not enforce the law or court injunctions..
   Your combined tax bill has passed 50% of your income..
   Still wondering?
   Government by thieves,for the benefit of those thieves.
   Every one of Harpers saner initiatives got sabotaged in the fine print.
   Bill C-68 Strips legal gun owners of their civil rights,after being modified.
   Bill C-45 makes employing other people pointless.
   Environment Canada is above the law.
   The running of the government has always been in the hands of the bureaucracy, who consume resources with the same control that fire exerts.
   Both being useful servants when controlled, but fatal when not.

7. I can’t remember how many times I requested the CPC government expunge Bill C-68.When I mentioned it to my CPC MP, he gave me the stock answer,” I’ll look into that”, and never another word.
   I sent numerous E-mails and signed many petitions about the Bill, and was replied to with; “thank you for your comments”, by various CPC Ministers and operatives.
   I guess Harper figured that ending the LGR was enough. It wasn’t.
   And as to who runs the Country, note that every Prime Minister since Pearson has made the now obligatory flight to K.C. Irving’s private fly-in lodge in the Maritimes,to spend a weekend with the people who run this Country.I first heard of this event in the 80’s,I think it might have been in a Charles Lynch column, back in the days when there were still a few journalists that weren’t graduates of Ryerson and Carleton.
   It’s usually mentioned on the back pages among the human interest stories,so it’s buried by “dog finds way home from 2000 miles away” and such.
   There was a very brief mention of this at National Newswatch about 25 stories down from the biggies, “Justin,Justin,Justin”, and more “Justin, Justin, etc.”

8. Upper levels of the RCMP are just as political as their legislative masters. Will we mining the spending records of Ms. Turdeau as diligently as those of the Senators? As a old Reformer I am open to doing away with the Senate as the Dippers have been calling for for decades. The Harper governments quit pushing for an elected Senate years ago. Lip service to the plebs to placate their unrest.

9. Don – re every PM making the pilgramage to the Irving lodge, they also stop in at the Desmarais complex in Quebec as well.

10. Shamrock, for the new PC leader, advocacy for a sane environmental and climate policy, i.e. none, is a pre-requisit.

11. Shamrock: Only a populist leader – who will resonate with the voter…
    And how in the Canadian system does that “populist” candidate get nominated/appointed/anointed? Where is the opportunity for a “popular” vote to select such a candidate.

12. Hint: Trump is a populist who now leads the GOP. Nothing stops the Tories, or a third party should our cabin boy PM change our electoral system to PR, from taking a grass roots approach rather than the top down policy formation and decision-making centralization.
    Like you, alas, I am not very confident of this.

13. Many countries with proportional representation see a proliferation of parties. Watch for that. We will have a Muslim party, a Quebec party, Christian Heritage already there, but with ppr they might be competitive. I think an Alberta really Western party would be good, plus other special interests — marijuana party,for example. Should be fun.

14. “RCMP announce they will not file charges over her travel claims”
    In jurisprudence it’s called a Stay.
    It should not be conflated with innocence and definitely not perceived as meaning that the police or the Crown will not take action in future.

15. Actually I do blame Harper for this. Instead of appointing some real conservatives to the senate he put in a couple of entitlement cbc types who had spent their lives feeding off gov. What do we expect.Unfortunate mistake.

16. RCMP are slow learners too.
    Duffie was charged with breaking non existent laws.
    So was Wallen.
    Who in the RCMP is so sure they rule,that they are enforcing law, not on the books?
    This has been pretty obvious for years.
    They refuse to enforce written,legal law, yet seek to enforce laws they feel should be.
    Welcome to our Kleptocracy.

17. Yes parties proliferate in PR, maybe a moderate grass roots libertarian type specifically going after runoff votes to deprive Grits of their ill gotten seat booty. I always liked the marijuana party because I heard they were high in the polls. Seriously though, they could impede the pot tax gambit.
    Robert of Ottawa: Sound environmental policy that recognizes pollution of air, land and sea, not global warming is where emphasis belongs. That cannot happen with the watermelon set because it would mean recognizing Canada is a CO2 bit player with a clean record, that pipelines and cleanest possible burning fuels are the way to go, instead of tilting at useless windmills. The Tories must clearly state they will never allow Canada to be sold out in this way.
    By the time of the next election, coinciding with the mediocracy deciding to give the Grits a pass for their no doubt four year gong, the smoke and mirrors con game that is CAGW will have seen full light of day. How the watermelons explain their way out of that will be fun.
    Claiming daily/monthly/yearly/decade “record temperatures” with doctored evidence (they also don’t bother to mention the 1/3 scientific certainty) with data clearly refuting their “conclusions,” will soon be the new home for political boot hill. It should have already happened, though, so that’s a bit worrying.

18. So, norm, if Harper had appointed a bunch of Conservatives, how loudly would you have been screaming that he’d promised not to appoint senators? Oh, not loudly at all, of course. Why, you were too busy organizing to get your province to elect a senator to be doing any whining. Bang up job on that, by the way.