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kenmore kenmore:

The Conservative government appointed a raft of Tories to federal boards, agencies and as citizenship judges yesterday.At least seven of the 11 appointments yesterday to the National Film Board, Via Rail, the CDIC, two shipping agencies, and citizenship judgeships, went to people with Tory links. They include a former MP, a former Manitoba MLA who now works for a Conservative MP, a former Canadian Alliance candidate, and advisers to federal and provincial Tory ministers

And what? The liberals never did the same? HA!

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dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

kenmore kenmore:

The Conservative government appointed a raft of Tories to federal boards, agencies and as citizenship judges yesterday.At least seven of the 11 appointments yesterday to the National Film Board, Via Rail, the CDIC, two shipping agencies, and citizenship judgeships, went to people with Tory links. They include a former MP, a former Manitoba MLA who now works for a Conservative MP, a former Canadian Alliance candidate, and advisers to federal and provincial Tory ministers

And what? The liberals never did the same? HA!

Liberals just hand pick the candidates...democracy in action.

Dion hand-picks Etobicoke candidate



Professor seen as prize catch, but riding official says he wasn't informed
Feb 22, 2008 04:30 AM
Susan Delacourt
Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA–Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is courting renewed controversy with his decision to appoint Toronto professor and author Kirsty Duncan as the candidate for Etobicoke North in the next election, replacing MP Roy Cullen.

"This is such a privilege," Duncan told the Star yesterday.

Though Duncan, a 41-year-old associate professor at the University of Toronto, is seen as a prize catch for the Liberals and a significant addition toward Dion's goal of fielding 103 women candidates in the next election, her appointment could be raising a few hackles in the riding.

Etobicoke North's riding president, Ranjit Chahal, said he was caught off guard by the announcement, saying he learned of Duncan's appointment only when the Star contacted him. "I was talking to Roy Cullen this morning. He didn't even mention it."

Chahal has called a riding meeting tonight to discuss how to react to Duncan's selection.

This is the fifth person to be hand-picked by Dion without having to face a nomination fight. The Liberal leader also ran into criticism when he designated Joyce Beatty as the candidate in the March 17 by-elections in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River in Manitoba.

Cullen, who has decided he needs to move on after serving for nearly 12 years, won the riding in the 2006 election with 61 per cent of the vote.

Duncan was part of the Canadian team of experts that shared the Nobel Prize with former vice-president Al Gore for work on the International Panel on Climate Change.


What happened to Roy Cullen...... just another Liberal jumping a sinking ship

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ya the liberals did but Harper promised not to and if you want I can post his 2006 election promises...which he broke .. except for the gst reduction which could have been put to better use..

[kenmore]

hey bobo it was harpers election promise... nothing to do with martin...get a grip

[kenmore]

I am a psych nurse... many years exerience.. my take on politics as it applies to mental illness is cult right wing brainwashing and for a short equation to sum it up it would be PCP + tory ideology = personality disorder with cluster B traits..

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...Comming from someone who would vote for the party that wants to leave Canada or the other that thinks it holds the country together. I think both are simply faces of the same crooked coin, stolen from Canadian taxpayers. The Bloc could never exist without the Liberals and the 2 simply play good guy/bad guy to squeeze the Canadian voter in the middle.

That's as confusing and contradictory as wanting to lead one country while being a citizen of another.

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I think if you remember ridenrain the bloc was started by a disgruntled tory..
The initial coalition that led to the Bloc was led by Lucien Bouchard, who had been federal Minister of the Environment until he was fired by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (as pointed out in The Secret Mulroney Tapes). He was joined by several of his fellow Tories, such as Nic Leblanc, Louis Plamondon, Benoît Tremblay, Gilbert Chartrand, and François Gérin, and yes there were a couple liberals... it was mulroneys fucking up the meech lake that led to this..get your facts right will you.. and as for the bloc I like Gilles Duceppe and some of the things they do for Quebec. but I will be voting liberal.. the torys have a history.. of fucking up the country..

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Wasn't John A a tory?

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yes John A was a tory and also a drunk .. but a good prime minister.. the only good one the tories ever had .. been all down hill since then.

[kenmore]

Conservatism was first officially recognized in the DSM-IV-BS. It is coded as an Axis II disorder, number 302.2, and requires a majority of the following symptoms:

A. Blind adherence to a centrally-dispersed dogmatic system created and manipulated by persons unknown.
B. Presence, while holding this delusion, of three (or more) of the following symptoms:
C. absolute trust in talk radio
D. trained to attack when they hear the words "Dion" or "liberal"
E. association of skin tone with terrorist proclivities
F. regular ingestion of Fox News Product
G. absolute belief in polls when there is a .5% increase in tory fortunes
H.inability to pronounce the word "feminist," persistent sneer causing them to pronounce it "feministzi."
I.Encyclopedic knowledge of about 40% of the Constitution and exactly 10% of Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Sportsman's insistence that all babies must be born and raised to age eighteen so that they can be properly executed by lethal injection or shot with assault weapon. If, instead of dying immediately, the victims manage to fall into a persistent vegetative state they are considered "safe" and may no longer executed (though they can still be shot with assault rifles)

Belief that non-white non-Christians are nonpeople
Awareness that Bert and Ernie are sexually deviant and Tinky-Winky has a homosexual agenda
And Oscar the Grouch is a lazy goddamn hippie dumpster-diver
Must never hug a tree at any time

Economic insistence on continuing the useless Afghan mission with no end date.
Contempt for the reality-based community
Either with you or they're against you
Consistently misunderestimated
Trained to disassemble

Conservatism is most common in whites, specifically the wealthy and those involved in authoritarian occupations, and paranoid psychotics. Curiously, very few people of other races are crazy enough to be conservative. Conservatives are most common in certain wealthy enclaves and very rural areas where they have driven all the intelligent people away. Conservative is remarkably uncommon in universities and institutions of learning, possibly due to the presence of smart.

TREATMENT
Conservatism resists treatment with all its might. Selective english comprehension skills and an inability to recall have frustrated medical science for decades. Psychoanalysts have claimed a high success rate in minimizing or reversing the effects of conservatism in patients by exposing them to real life or real human beings outside their select social circle.

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Now I know why he left Stronach

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this is the last one for a while I promise.. couldnt help myself