Gomery Inquiry-Too Expensive? Independent Media & Hoi Polloi "Keep on digging", Weston Smells Liberal Fear, CPAC-Himmelfarb, CFRA, Dictator & Chrétien

He ran the country in the same way and he wants to deep six Gomery?

Dictator was lobbied by Chrétien Alan Freeman, Mar. 1, 05

WASHINGTON -- In the fall, former prime minister Jean Chrétien slipped into Ashkhabad, capital of one of the world's most repressive and authoritarian regimes, for a meeting with Turkmenistan's president for life, Saparmurat Niyazov.

Mr. Chrétien met for close to an hour with the onetime Communist strongman who prefers to be known as Turkmenbashi the Great, leader of a personality cult so extensive that statues of his likeness dot the capital and the months of the year have been renamed in honour of him and his family.

Mr. Chrétien, in his new role as counsel for the Calgary law firm of Bennett Jones, was accompanied at the meeting by his client, Roger Haines, a Calgary oilman anxious to gain a foothold in the oil-rich Central Asian nation. [. . . . ]

Search:lobbying efforts, Buried Hill Energy, China, Russia, Niger, Kazakhstan, PetroKazakhstan Inc., Calgary-based oil firm, human-rights, Canada's Foreign Affairs Ministry, oil concession, border dispute, two-year cooling-off period, Serdar concession, Caspian Energy Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies





Greg Weston: Protests from Chretien's coterie aimed at the Gomery inquiry have shifted into high gear -- they must fear something

"Wethinks they doth protest too much."

Henchmen try to throw bloodhounds off the scent

What's $20 million when it comes to finding out how frivolous the government is with a $180 billion budget? There has been NO inquiry into $1 billion gun registry - so this is as good as it gets in shedding light on wasteful spending habits.

Critics barking at the inquiry's heels -- to save the Liberal status quo? March 1, 2005, Greg Weston, Sun Ottawa Bureau

Jean Chretien's junk-yard dogs are at it again, yapping and snapping at the Gomery inquiry into the Adscam mess, apparently barking for the commission's early demise.

In recent weeks, former Chretien operatives and other Liberal leftovers have been howling over the costs of the commission, with some estimates now running as high as $80 million.

Cost alone is reason enough to shut the inquiry down, they growl. [. . . . ]

Search: Warren Kinsella, Somalia inquiry

Keep digging, Justice Gomery -- Canadians have been saying thanks to the Auditor General too.





Note that I have bewailed the fact that CBC Newsworld did NOT carry the Gomery Inquiry testimony Feb. 28, 05 -- nobody important enough testifying? Well, check the article below.

The problem with the CBC is that it is the propaganda and protector arm of the federal Liberal government, their benefactor and $$$ provider. It is impossible to make unbiased journalistic decisions about what stories to cover in that situation, would you not say?

Ad executive's salary jumped after sponsorship Tu Thanh Ha, Mar. 1, 05, Globe and Mail.

Montreal — Before the sponsorship contracts began flooding into Quebec, Jean Lafleur was an ad executive who, in 1994, reported a comfortable but unexceptional annual salary of $108,000.

In 1996, as Ottawa increasingly began funnelling money to Quebec, he pulled in $2.4-million. He also earned $2.4-million the following year, when the sponsorship program officially began.

Over a period of six years, federal money would be the major source of the $12-million his family paid itself, according to documents released yesterday at the Gomery commission as it kicked off two months of hearings in Montreal. [. . . . ]

Search: $9.3-million, $1.2-million, $1.1-million, $471,000, $30-million, Alfonso Gagliano, Jean-Claude Hébert, lawyer Jean H. Lafleur, who represents Via Rail, $40-million . . . . .

On CPAC I watched the Gomery Inquiry yesterday and in particular, Mr. Himmelfarb who managed to stay in the Privy Council Office (I think that is the name. Check.) The following is just my humble opinion but -- the first thing that came to me was

Hello, the politician lied

and make no mistake about it, anyone who manages to remain that close to two Prime Ministers is a politician. Another phrase which jumped to mind was

parsing the meaning of "evident"

in revealing virtually nothing as he discussed whether the Auditor General had suggested there was

no "evident" value for dollars

He reminded me of Bill Clinton parsing "is" and of Clinton's other utterly sleazy claim,

"I did not have sex with that woman."

and of course, he did.

The conspiracy for Canada's Prime Ministers to

"know nothing"

either was intentional and colluded in by two Prime Ministers -- or what is the other logical conclusion?


I have been listening to CFRA 580 Talk Radio, Ottawa with

CFRA 580 Talk Radio, Ottawa -- listen live as the host, Michael Harris Live, explores the "conspiracy of silence", "politicizing the civil service", slush fund, kickbacks and ex-Cabinet Ministers sliding from office to head government / crown corporations -- and more Excellent!

Some in the media are hearing from citizens crying for the Gomery Inquiry to continue! -- not be ended to save corrupt butts. There is outrage in the land!