More Peace, Order, Native Vote Buying -&- Gomery Report Fallout

More Peace, Order, and . . . Vote Buying

Update 1:

Ontario may let natives log boreal forests -- 'Whole new opportunity' -- "in the province's vast untouched boreal forests, Ontario's Natural Resources Minister said yesterday" Lee Greenberg; with files from Chris Wattie and Heather Sokoloff and Carrie Kristal-Schroder, Nov. 1, 05, CanWest



Ottawa to announce $3 billion for aboriginals

It's da Lieberal way; throw money at it. Let some stick, strategically, and nothing changes. Think sponsoship scandal (below) and all the money that has been sluiced to native reserves in the past.



The Whistleblowers, Gomery, the Ruined Lives

What is important for all to realize is that the whistleblower legislation proposed by Paul Martin's government does NOT help future whistleblowers; it has been designed to protect the government -- but all you will hear from the PM is the huffing and puffing and outraged tones and promises to get to the bottom of whatever the next scandal will be. The PM and team? Nothing to do with it. PM "absolved" by Justice Gomery.

Do you believe that? The shredders must have been busy and there must have been a surfeit of oral instructions, with no paper trail.

The banality of not noticing evil . . . with a hat tip to Hannah Arendt.



Gomery absolves Martin but mires Grits


Highlights of the Gomery report
Search: Chretien, Martin, Pelletier, Gagliano, Corriveau, Guite, Liberal Party, Five agencies channelled money


PM refers Gomery report to RCMP

I expect Jean Chretien is safe from anything but embarrassment, though he could implicate others; remember the statute of limitations on this? I posted on it sometime in the last year or so. Bah! Humbug!


Jumping Jack mouthed the usual platitudes, calls for more money for his pet projects and, of course, outrage . . . but he sounded as though he might be willing to deal with the devil (if only to keep his face before the media). If the Conservatives come to power, Jack would not get nearly as much attention . . . so.

CBC is ecstatic; PM safe, it seems . . . and thus, so is CBC. It will pretend to pursue news with journalistic integrity--and fail--and PM will have his Liberal Propaganda Organ for the next election.

Bloc Quebecois leader, Gilles Duceppe, at least sounded world-weary and yet, genuinely outraged. He reviewed the fact that his party had questioned aspects of this scandal for years. I like Duceppe. He comes off as a man of substance. Maybe separatism is a reaction to the endemic corruption.

Stephen Harper responded in the manner of a Prime Minister, solid, stable, honest, prepared, and, like Duceppe, unsurprised. He is not going to say anything substantive about Conservative plans, as yet.

No-one knows which way Jack layton will fall; I have heard him described as "relatively unstable" by those who know him.

To paraphrase William Carlos Williams' poem:

So much depends
Upon a red wheelbarrow
Wet with rain.

I offer my poor effort to Jack Layton.

So much depends upon
A publicity hound
Glazed with import.

I remind Jack that doing the right thing would put him in the history books. He has nothing positive to gain in lying down with ****. He would only get up with *****. The scars on his party would last.


Bloc demands election; Tories, NDP hold fire


AdScam heroes paid huge price -- Allan Cutler and "a Montreal advertising executive -- who has always insisted on anonymity"

More than 10 years ago, government accountant began complaining about all kinds of hanky-panky in the awarding of federal advertising contracts. If his red flags had been heeded, Adscam may never have happened.

Four years later, a Montreal advertising executive -- who has always insisted on anonymity -- started seeing millions of dollars flowing from the public purse into ad agency bank accounts for little or nothing in return. [. . . . ]

Wave of allegations with release of Gomery report Jim Brown, CP, Oct. 31, 05

The recommendations range from throwing Prime Minister Paul Martin's government out of office, to throwing the evil-doers in jail, to reforming the arcane rules of ministerial and bureaucratic accountability. [. . . . ]

Search:

Dingwall at the Royal Canadian Mint
Immigration Minister Joe Volpe and his aides
flights by cabinet ministers on government executive jets
Fisheries Department
Indian Affairs Department
lunch and dinner and travel
Treasury Board President Reg Alcock
more red tape
legal prosecution

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