Bribery, Paul Cochrane & Native Treatment Center, PWGSC Etc, Jean Chretien & $7,000 Dinner, Business, China, Liberals & Ignatieff, Putch, Quotas

Thou Shalt Not Protest the Chinese human rights record in France Judi McLeod, Dec. 7, 2005

Do you remember Jean Chretien and the Asia Pacific Economic Conference -- Min. Andy Scott and "Let Hughie take the fall"?

France, whose government soft peddled on last month’s massive youth violence, is forbidding demonstrations during a visit to their country by the Chinese Prime Minister.

Protesters, who held French society hostage for weeks and torched thousands of vehicles, faced curfews rather than the country’s military.

An edict from the French government in advance of the pre-Christmas visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to its citizens: Thou Shalt Not Protest the People’s Republic of China.

Gee, do you suppose France has plans for business too. . . plans that might be affected?



Memory Lane: Bribery, Paul Cochrane, Manitoba Native Treatment Center, HRDC / PWGSC / HRDC / Health Canada -&- Jean Chretien -- $7,000 dinner

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They Do Think Differently in Ottawa< -- Jean Chretien's Farewell Fund-Raising -&- Aug. 8, 2003

Gillian Cosgrove has a column in Saturday's (Aug. 9) National Post that tells us that Chretien is demanding a farewell fund-raising dinner. A table for ten at his Confederation Dinner in Toronto on Oct. 30, will set one back a cool $7,000.

[. . . . ] "This guy Chretien has no effing shame. First, he rams through Bill C-124 virtually outlawing corporate donations. Then as his swan song he comes back cap in hand to The Street and asks us to do what will be illegal next year. Talk about cheek!" [. . . . ]

Another article in the preceding day's paper (Aug. 8 A3) details how a federal bureaucrat, who resigned in disgrace for taking bribes from a Manitoba native treatment center, was then rehired by HRDC and Public Works Canada as a contract worker. The scam basically had Mr. Paul Cochrane steering millions in Health Canada grants to the center in exchange for a $50,000 bribe, along with three SUVs, vacations, and other goodies. The native center folded when the scandal broke, and is, like Cochrane, being investigated by the RCMP. . . . .John Williams, CA MP, and Chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, points out: "It's incredible. Two departments that have scandal written all over them have opened their doors to a man who left another department under a cloud. It shows that the ethical malaise in the federal government is very much alive and well."

And what were Mr. Cochrane's contract duties? Well, it seems his expertise was needed in helping oversee job competions for the massive Public Works department [PWGSC]. I wonder if that task did not have a lucrative sideline to it. [. . . . ]

The Shotgun: Kevin Steele-Former Health Canada Asst. Deputy Minister Paul Cochrane Pleading Guilty-Huge Scandal-Millions-Native Treatment Centre FHTR, week of Mar. 6-12, 2005.


How do you tell benchmarks from quotas?

(Did Paul Cochrane have anything to do with this department? )

White males need not apply -- Internal e-mail reveals hiring ban at Public Works -- "Managers in the Public Works department must hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled, except with written permission from their superiors, David Marshall, the deputy minister, ordered in an e-mail circulated yesterday." Tom Blackwell, National Post, Nov. 19, 05

Pierre Teotonio, a department spokesman, said last night the order was prompted in part by a precipitous drop in the number of employees hired from the designated groups this year. The proportion of female, disabled, aboriginal and non-white new hires fell from one in eight this March to only one in 20 by September, he said. The federal benchmark just for the hiring of visible minorities is one in five.

Ministers plotted to oust Chrétien if referendum was lost, CBC says -- "We asked ourselves difficult questions such as: Could a prime minister from Quebec represent Canada in negotiations?" Mr. Tobin said. Could a team from Quebec negotiate on Canada's behalf if the province's left Canada? Rheal Seguin, Sept. 9, 05

Angry GWN lists the ministers at the time and separates the list by whether from Quebec or not. -- Jean Chretien: Was the target of a putsch Angry GWN, Sept. 9, 05



Memory Lane: Libs, Parachutes & Ignatieff

Frost Hits the Rhubarb, week of Feb. 20, 05


That's my prognostication. For the PM -- chicanery on the way up -- shivs on the way down.

All eyes on Ignatieff Peter C. Newman, National Post, Feb. 26, 05

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[. . . . ] The real star at [the 2005 Liberal convention ] the gathering will be Michael Ignatieff, who has been asked to deliver the keynote address. [. . . . ]

Liberal kingmakers often ignore the clamouring of ambitious Cabinet members and opt instead to pluck from obscurity an untried but inspiring outsider.

That's political sorcery of the highest order. Instead of having to defend the corruption and patronage of the ancien regime, the freshly-minted leader can innocently declare: "Who me? What Sponsorship Scandal? This is moi, a new guy with new ideas."

Thus does discontinuity rule. [. . . . ]

Memory Lane: Doing Business

FHTR week of Sept. 4-10, 05: So You Want to Do Business in China

"Mr. Cai added that cultural barriers face people of Chinese origin who don't speak Chinese."

The moral of the story is use a Chinese intermediary who was sent to the West to study?

Pitfalls in China's progress -- What your business should know about China's headlong campaign for change There are other articles on the FHTR Sept. 4-10, 05 on China.

On the War on Terror, Part I: The Unexamined Effect of the Hainan Island Outrage -- Communist China was already helping Osama bin Laden launder money through its financial fronts around the world. China e-Lobby, Sept. 9, 05

AsiaPundit: "Below is a Chinese copy of the abstract of an official Propaganda department circular" Search AsiaPundit.com for the exact link which is Sept. 9 or previous. Check Jackie Jura: Orwell Today


Norman Spector: B.C. yacht in 1.5 tonne coke bust from Chad Skelton and Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun

FHTR week of Sept. 4-10, 05 -- Jamal Akkal of Ontario -- A student of terror: How a Windsor man was recruited by Hamas -- "he intends to return to Canada once he is released" from prison. Stewart Bell, National Post, Friday, September 09, 2005

On the War on Terror, Part I: The Unexamined Effect of the Hainan Island Outrage -- Communist China was already helping Osama bin Laden launder money through its financial fronts around the world. China e-Lobby, Sept. 9, 05

FHTR week of Sept. 4-10, 05: Read the excerpt from MacFlecknoe and see if it applies to anyone featured in this election . . . or previous ones

Merry CHRISTmas.


There are more articles but that is all time permits right now.

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