Category: Shiny Pony

Oh, Shiny Pony!

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Gerald Caplan;

I’m not sure what’s more outrageous: that these organizations shelled out very big bucks to have an MP address them – and if I were involved in any of them I’d want heads to roll – or that this MP didn’t have the good sense or ethical sensibility to decline.
On the contrary, since becoming a Member in 2008, Mr. Trudeau has raked in $277,000 in speaking fees from 17 speeches.
[…]
That handsome MP’s reward includes a $157,731 annual salary plus $25,850 in accommodation expenses plus 64 round-trip plane trips. At a time when fewer and fewer Canadians make a secure, livable wage or get any benefits and pension at all, this must seem like winning the lottery. But for MPs outside the cabinet, it’s just the beginning. Yet speaking to a school board, university or hospital means being paid a second time from the public purse, a clear case of double-dipping by any standard.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

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john g, in the comments;

2009: CBC Refuses to run CPC anti-Ignatieff attack ads. “We’ll only accept political advertising like that when there is an election campaign on,” he told Canwest. “We have generally pretty strict guidelines.”
2013: Justin Trudeau’s “teacher” ad aired on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada during the Ottawa/Philadelphia broadcast tonight, at least once. I must have missed Stephen Harper’s visit to Rideau Hall earlier today.

You can pester the Ombudsman by email and Twitter.

Oh, Shiny Pony! Or, Raed Jaser Not “Completely Excluded”

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As Justin the Just put it:

…”There is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded…”

Well, not that excluded (with video):

CBC News has confirmed that Canada tried nine years ago [under a Liberal government] to deport Raed Jaser, one of the two men accused in the Via Rail terror plot, but authorities didn’t proceed and later granted him permanent residency [and he was later pardoned under the Conservatives]…

Time now not to “commit sociology“, rather to ensure we can commit law enforcement.

Latest on the Canadian Terrorism Plot

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There are some interesting developments in the judicial proceedings against the two alleged terrorists:

A man accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada gave a rambling statement in a Toronto court Wednesday and appeared to be saying he does not recognize its jurisdiction.

“My comment is the following because all of those conclusions were taken out based on criminal code and all of us know that this criminal code is not a holy book,” Esseghaier said at the hearing Wednesday. “We cannot rely on the conclusions taken out from these judgments.”

In related news, Justin Trudeau has released a new advertisement in which he states, “I’m going to work hard to earn your trust.” That’s an interesting statement considering that a review of his Twitter account still has only this to say about the recent terrorism plot. That’s a rather peculiar way for the Shiny Pony to gain the trust of Canadians who are legitimately concerned about harm coming to themselves and their families. Perhaps if he become PM, our nation’s security services will be handed over to the unemployed folks of “Occupy” and all threats to Canada will be warded off by this nightly ritual.
Update: Why was Raed Jaser still here? (podcast discussion on the same)

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