Ouch.
Tip and screenshot sent along by a sharp eyed reader who notes;
“Overall I’ve estimated Ignatieff hasn’t made much over $10,000 on his sad auction. My favorite byline though is from the sales page of Ruby Dhalla. “but know this – anywhere you are, Ruby’s probably been there twice this year already!” Ignatieff’s got innuendo.”
And Calgary Grit can’t bear to watch.
Our man is up against another conservative great – Bob Stanfield.
Vote with your heart.
By that, I mean the evil, black heart that makes Preston-loathing Liberals and Red Tories run crying to their mammas Child Care Professionals …
Remember – one vote per day – because cheating is for Liberals!
Another bucket of chum thrown into the Liberal leadership campaign. CTV;
Embattled Liberal MP Boris Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as deputy foreign affairs critic following the uproar over his comments suggesting Canada should negotiate with Hezbollah.
Wrzesnewskyj found himself distanced from members of his own party when he made the statement during a fact-finding mission to Lebanon last week.
CTV’s Graham Richardson told Newsnet that Wrzesnewskyj tendered his resignation on Wednesday and that his resignation was accepted.
More from Jason Cherniak.
Of Mohammed Hashim
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A “left-leaning” anarchist? Talk about politically conflicted….writing of Sid Ryan, president of CUPE;
The man is awesome. Especially his views on Palestine. BTW I firmly believe that CUPE taking that stance and Sid promoting it was an excellent move. Great work Sid!
h/t Jason Cherniak (who has Ryan’s views on Israel for the record).
Well, quite the week for LIberal leadership candidate communications directors, yes?
And help ruin a Liberal’s day.
(I do wonder about the hostility over there from some at CG – after all, Chretien and Paul Martin stole much of his fiscal platform, and have never been reluctant to take the credit!)
Remember, one vote per day!
[x] Preston Manning
Remember, one vote per day!
Democratic politicians are a ““a little bit scared of the bloggers”. And not the right-leaning ones, either.
For Greatest Prime Minister we never had. You can vote once per day.
Rasmussen Reports began polling the Ned Lamont-Joe Lieberman general election match-up last night. After 375 interviews, preliminary numbers show Lieberman ahead of Lamont by 3 percentage points. Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger is a non-factor in the single digits. The last Rasmussen survey of a three way general election found Lamont and Lieberman tied at 40% with Schlesinger at 13%. It appears Lieberman is gaining ground primarily among GOP voters.
The Liberals once again demonstrate their ability to set aside the national interest to serve the higher principles of party loyalty.
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Has Bob Rae spotted an opportunity to break from his damaging association with the terrorist sympathizing NDP? These quotes were sent by reader email, reportedly from an interview with Amanda Lang on ROB TV on Wednesday. (If anyone can find online sources for verification, I’d appreciate that.)
“Canda as a country is committed to Israel’s sovereignty and Israel’s right to exist within secure boundaries” “Canada is not unneutral in this regard- we have a strong stake in the outcome”
“Hezbollah is a group that does not believe Israel has a right to exist period. It’s not that they disagree with this border or that-it’s that they don’t believe Israel has a right to exist. Everybody has to wake up to that.”
Note that Rae believes “everybody” has to “wake up” to something that’s been blazingly obvious to most rational human beings for at least a decade. It says something about the company he’s been keeping.
Be sure to bookmark the Progressive Bloggers for forthcoming analysis on how Bob Rae is nothing less than a warmongering shill for the Zionists and fascist Bushitler neocons.
update – the source is at RobTV.com. Go to 5:00 PM show “Taking Stock with Amanada Lang”. The interview is not listed in the program segments, but comes just before the interview with Arturo Duran – at the 36:00 min mark
(Images from CWC)
Also – Here’s a bit of info about the “rock and golfball throwing” incident. Brave Mohawks indeed – small wonder they hide their identities behind ladies’ hankies.
UPDATE – Toronto Star;
A judge is ordering an end to negotiations between the province and aboriginal protesters over a contentious tract of land until the occupiers move off the property.
Superior Court Justice David Marshall says the talks must be suspended until the barricades come down at the Caledonia, Ont., housing development.
Marshall issued his order today after holding several hearings to discover why his previous orders to remove aboriginal protesters have been, in his words, “blatantly disregarded.”
His tough talk would be more convincing if he threw a few high ranking officials in the slammer for contempt of court.
Pieter Dorsman is back and blogging on the latest developments in the Liberal Party of Canada dithering over the “Who-To-Cheer-For? War”;
The first thing you have to do when you walk into [a Chapters, Indigo and Coles bookstore] is to avoid the table with ‘Heather’s Picks’ which given her political interests I have always looked on with a fair degree of caution. Not sure if we can find Alan Dershowitz on that table now that Reisman has moved along the political spectrum, but you never know.
Canadian Coalition for Democracies:
Ottawa, Canada – The Opposition Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois parties called for the convening of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development during Parliament’s summer recess for the purpose of challenging the government’s Middle East policy and the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon. Such a committee requires that notice be given on the internet, and any potential witnesses can contact the Clerk of the Committee to request standing to provide testimony.
Several groups applied to be witnesses and were accepted by the Clerk of the Committee. These witnesses travelled to Ottawa from across the country on short notice and at considerable personal expense.
The committee met on August 1. In the morning, the committee MPs had an opportunity to question the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Peter MacKay. In the afternoon, the Opposition MPs, mainly led by Alexa McDonough of the NDP, put forward a procedural motion calling for committee business to be dealt with before the witnesses were heard. The government MPs responded that concluding the committee business before hearing from the witnesses was like passing a verdict in a trial before calling witnesses.
Ms McDonough went further, stating that the witnesses were identified with a single well-defined, narrow position, and challenged their credibility. It should be noted that Ms McDonough made these damaging allegations against witnesses approved by the Clerk of the Committee while knowing neither the witnesses nor the content of their testimony.
Below is the list of witnesses scheduled to give testimony that afternoon whose right to speak was effectively revoked by Ms McDonough and other Opposition MPs:
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian Red Cross
Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation
World Lebanese Cultural Union
Monastery Saint Anthony the Great
Canadian Assembly for Lebanon
Canadian Coalition for Democracies
Khal Ishraki, as an individual evacuee
The subject matter for the hearing was specifically Lebanon, yet Opposition MPs passed a procedural resolution that effectively denied all Lebanese witnesses the right to speak. These witnesses included people with family members in the southern war zone of Lebanon and those directly affected by the evacuation. The Opposition used a procedural motion to silence these voices. As a result, Opposition MPs, with no first hand knowledge of the situation, were able to criticize the government without fear of contradiction from Lebanese witnesses or by CIDA and the Red Cross who were directly involved in the evacuation and humanitarian effort.
CCD strongly condemns Alexa McDonough and other Opposition MPs for excluding Lebanese, CIDA and Red Cross voices with first-hand experience on the situation in Lebanon from providing testimony to a committee whose mandate was specifically the tragic situation in Lebanon.
Full press release.
I caught an interview this evening with Alastair Gordon, president of the CCD on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge (770 CHQR) while I was easing my way down Glenmore Trail River. Gordon is a lot angrier than even the press release lets on. Anyone who was determined to speak in support of the government had a big black line drawn through their names by McDonough and her cohorts.
And would-be President of the United States…
Screenshot at Drudge this morning.
A reader emails;
Irwin Cotler is known to have strong views, and is a supporter of the state of Israel. He is usually quite vocal on the subject.
As this link shows, he has recently been in Israel and may be there even at this moment.
So, his comments on everything that is happening right now could be especially relevant.
But, as far as anyone here has been able to tell, he has said zip. No statement from his office, etc.
People are asking why, and wondering if he has been asked to keep quiet so there isn’t any divergence from Bill Graham’s position as far as ‘official’ Liberal policy goes on this.
From the Jerusalem Post link;
Cotler, a staunch defender of Israel who pleads before the High Court in Hebrew, doesn’t make his criticisms in this case lightly. And he’s more circumspect when it comes to castigating Israel on its behavior towards the Palestinians. Having created another multi-point index to calculate the overall protection of human rights – including whether there’s a universal franchise and a democratically elected parliament – he finds that Israel “measures up comparatively well.”
Cotler should know, though he has been criticized by some Canadian elements for being an Israel apologist. The McGill University law professor, who directed the school’s “Human Rights Programme” until he took a leave to run for office, has championed human rights in courts around the world. He has been decorated with the Order of Canada and was the first recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award. His roster of celebrity clients includes Nelson Mandela, Natan Sharansky and Egyptian democracy activist Saad Edin Ibrahim. The cases which have been met with success lead the slightly disheveled, amiable 66-year-old to call himself an optimist.
So he presses on. The Liberal Party member, first elected in 1999 with the highest percentage of the vote – 92% – in a Canadian national election in the last century, now serves as the chairman of the Save Darfur parliamentary coalition, continues to liaise with Middle East jurists to push for more justice, and, of course, presses for Israel to quickly absorb the Falash Mura.
Interesting stuff. Interesting question.
TrustOnlyMulder has a link to an earlier Cotler interview that’s worth checking out. Cotler is on the right side of history with this position, of course. It’s the Bill Graham’s of the Liberal Party – those who are exploiting the crisis for domestic partisan politics – that we need to see squirm.
Another example of why adults in America continue to be wary of the Democrats. And they should.
“The most interesting theory I have heard so far, which is nothing more than a theory, I can’t think – it can’t be proved, is that [President Bush] was warned [about 9/11] ahead of time by the Saudis. Now, who knows what the situation is?” — Gov. Howard Dean
This party responded by electing Howard Dean chairman of the DNC.
And then, there was this – Michael Moore as honoured guest alongside a former Democratic president.
For all the cries of “BUSHARPER!”, there are arguably a lot more similarities between the poorly veiled anti-Americanism of the American Moonbatocrats now in control of a once honourable party, and the people writing the script these days in the Liberal Party of Canada.
Sent by a reader, who notes that there seemed to be more representation at the parade by government “flunkies” than by gays;
I saw a Children’s Aid float, an Ontario Teacher’s Association float, a CAW float, a CUPE float, and of course- the Fire Department, the Police, and the RCMP were in the parade.
It was one of those small incidents that stays with you forever. The driver of the Volkswagon I was a rear-seat passenger in was glaring in his rear view mirror.
He began to swear, shifted gears and accelerated. I turned around and saw — nothing.
“Goddamned pickup trucks”.
I looked again. Sure enough, we were being followed by a contractor’s half-ton. It wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary – the mere presence of the imposing grill was enough to intimidate the jazz musician behind the wheel of our German-engineered shoebox.
Until that moment, I’d never really understood how different my perspective was from that of those living in suburban southern Ontario. I hadn’t seen the truck, because well….
While Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy can be forgiven for not having driven half his life on rural roads, one would think he might have cruised a few parking lots for an SUV “headcount” before coming up with gems like this;
In an interview with Canadian Press, Kennedy said he thought it was time for Canada to impose a tax on gas guzzlers.
He also speculated that he might try running for a federal seat in Lethbridge.
Yeah. Sure he will.
(Reminds me of this Kennedy quote sent on by a reader, from the Winnipeg leadership debate– “By 2010, 100 per cent of the population growth will be from immigrants.”)
