The federal Liberal leadership race was supposed to help the third-place party connect with a new, younger generation of voters and expand its shrunken base.
But an analysis of those who’ve registered to vote thus far suggests it’s done neither.
Almost 60 per cent are 50 years of age or older.
Related – “We call them the Laurentian elites”.
h/t Mike W
The #1 platform for self-inflicted wounds:
Twitter spat breaks out between federal Liberal camps as Trudeau team struggles to register voters.
Meanwhile…. Garneau flames out, goes toward the light.
When do we get to see @justintrudeau debate the chick his dad was banging? #lpcdb8
— katewerk (@katewerk) March 3, 2013
The National Post has learned;
… that before sending the bribe, GEI enlisted former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien to help advance its interests in Chad.
Mr. Chrétien is counsel for Heenan Blaikie, one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious law firms. He sometimes meets with foreign officials to promote companies that his firm represents. Heenan Blaikie has in recent years been focused on mining ventures in Africa.
Neither Mr. Chrétien nor anyone else at Heenan Blaikie has been accused with participating in the crime, which began Aug. 30, 2009 and ended with the illicit $2-million payment on Feb. 8, 2011. Neither Mr. Chrétien nor Heenan Blaikie is named in the court case’s agreed statement of facts. Rather, they are identified as a “high-level” official and a “Canadian law firm,” respectively.
I live in a country where a Prime Ministr’s son is contesting his mistress for leadership of political party – and it’s not Italy. #lpcldr
— katewerk (@katewerk) January 20, 2013
Back in the days of Jean Chrétien’s government, I recall talking to a very senior player about the issue of accountability on first nation reserves. The Canadian Alliance was probing the matter, and there were allegations, nothing too specific, about spending abuses. Money disappearing down a black hole, that kind of thing.
Raising it with the Chrétien official, I recall being surprised when he said there was a basis for many of the allegations. It was a potentially a major scandal, he said. So why, I asked, was no one probing it? Too sensitive, he said. “We’d be accused of racism.”
That – and the Liberal Party contributions would’ve dried up.
Related – Why arrest when you can drum!
h/t Stan
Justin Trudeau lectures gender-segregated Islamist audience about “coming together.”
“At a time when liberal Muslims across the world are fighting rightwing Islamists, it is sad to see the aspiring leader of the Liberal Party of Canada throw his weight behind those who would snuff out liberalism and stifle free speech in the name of Islam,” MCC president Salma Siddiqui said.
The conference, the largest of its kind in Canada, has been held annually for a decade but concerns surfaced after a Quebec blogger noted that one of the event’s sponsors is IRFAN-Canada, which lost its charity status in 2011 over its ties to Hamas.
The Sun News Network page on Facebook provides for interesting reading from a wide variety of commenters. Reading through many of the comments from the recent stories about Justin Trudeau and David McGuinty, one is struck by two things:
They can spin these quotes any which way they want – saying they were taken out of context or didn’t really mean what they said or whatever – but any reasonable person knows that these words were coming directly from their core hard drives and precisely represent their innermost thoughts.
How ANYONE in Western Canada can cast a vote for a party represented by the likes of Trudeau & McGuinty is truly an example of cognitive dissonance.
While Justin “Bieber” Trudeau is addressing the multitudes/shilling for votes on December 22, I wonder if he’ll be at all bothered by the fact that another of the event’s speakers at the confab, Dr. Jamal Badawi, has, among other things:
⋅ issued a fatwa for Islamonline, outlining six different conditions in which a wife may properly be beaten.
Among other things…
h/t
Hear no Liberal, see no Liberal.
Original Canadian Press story;
CBC version;
The CBC’s “oversight” has since been corrected. Good catch by Wallyj.
As Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued the Ontario legislature and announced his retirement last month, he would have known that some of the darker secrets of his government’s handling of energy policy would soon come to light. Today, those secrets — until now buried in 56,000 pages of released but unreadable documents — are appearing in the open.
In sordid and alarming detail, the documents show that the McGuinty government’s cancellation of gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga are likely to cost as much as $1.3-billion, possibly more. Killing the Oakville plant and moving it to Bath will alone burden Ontario ratepayers and taxpayers with costs that exceed $1-billion.
More here: The government didn’t care about the magnitude of the costs, only the visibility of the costs.
Federal tax dollars paid the $1,700 deposit on the 2005 wedding reception for Mayor Joe Fontana’s son, The Free Press has learned.
And the then-manager of the London facility recalls another cheque issued by the feds appeared several months later to cover the outstanding $18,900 Fontana still owed.
A Public Works Canada cheque stub for $1,700, obtained by The Free Press, bears an invoice number that matches that on the contract signed for the event at the Marconi Club. […]
At the time of the June 4, 2005, wedding reception for his son, Michael, Fontana was Liberal MP for London North Centre and federal minister of labour and housing.
For old times sake, I guess.
The FBI agent who famously infiltrated the New York mob under the fake name “Donnie Brasco” is set to testify as a witness at Quebec’s inquiry into construction industry corruption,
h/t Maple Stump
Is it not surreal — and perhaps even creepy and unethical — that a man counting votes has on his personal staff a person who has legal responsibility for a mentally incapacitated human being who holds such a vote?
Leave her alone! It’s just practice!
This seems like a good time to wish Gen X a happy 50th!