[uwish]

CPC isn't perfect. None of the parties are, but he is the lesser of 5 evils.

And at least the CPC has a platform I can support.

unlike the others.

How many parties are 'getting tough on crime' AFTER the CPC introduced the crime bill? (all of them) then who has the balls to HOLD IT UP in the senate (the liberals) while preaching safety on our streets and a tougher stance on crime.

if that isn't hypocritical then someone tell me the definition.

[Arctic_Menace]

DerbyX DerbyX:

ridenrain ridenrain:

How does that feel to such a devoted party worker, Derby?
That an ex-party leader is saying that you guys need a big loss to shock some sense into you're thick heads? What do you say when you're own people say that the effects and corruption of ADSCAM still smell up the party so bad they want you to lose?

You're the one that needs to look for a new party.

So what? Why should one disgruntled persons opinion change mine. Mines based on Dions platform and not on a bunch of buzzwords still being tossed around by people who support someone who tried to bribe a dying man.

Everything you have ever posted about concerning your dislike of political porking, political appointments, corruption in office, media control, party control and the entire political system in general has been proven in your own party.

Everything.

Yet you always have a "but" for why its perfectly acceptable under Harper the things you found unacceptable in the Liberals.

You fancy yourself a political reformer and as somebody who thinks he knows how to make the system better but in reality you are nothing more then a kool-aid drinking con blindly supporting his party doing exactly what you cried about when the Liberals were in office.

On yer bike sunshine.

[uwish]

here we go the NDP / liberal alliance!

I love the NDP, taliban jack can continue to split the left vote.

maybe he and his party could be the official opposition??

[fifeboy]

hwacker hwacker:

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Why is Harper afraid of the press? Why is he afraid of the public? Why is he afraid of real democracy?

Harper is a coward who hides from anybody who might challenge him. He's afraid to let his candidates talk to the media or the people.

and we can all hope when he wins a majority you'll all leave this country under protest. Oh take the CBC with you.

Damn are the left really pissy this election, it must suck knowing you have lost already.

If Harpie gets his majority, like all 60% of the country that voted against him is going to leave

However wackey, you are a good laugh! Don't forget to wash your hands.

[ridenrain]

So if we unite the left, where do the Liberals play into the spectrum? Might as well just cut them loose to die.

[DerbyX]

ridenrain ridenrain:

yeah, they were all cleared .. Like Brian Mulroney.


You'll stonewall any crime and ignore any criticism of you're party till the day you die.

We have decades of Liberal crimes against Canadians and you have red kool aid and a record of Justin Trudeau singing Kumbiya, over and over again.

Remember when Jean Lambert, a former vice-president of Groupaction Marketing Inc. expressed wories that Chretien would have him killed over ADSCAM?

$1:

"I was a speck of dust in this," he said. "If I was right, well, the idea of having a hunting accident in my living room didn't interest me, either."

If that happened in the US, you'd be livid and if Mulroney did that,the whole liberal camp would be quating on parliament hill.

Of this.. you say nothing. No wonder Liberal insiders are sick of their own brand.

Sure thing sunshine except once again you spout nonesense.

here are no decades of crimes by the Liberals against Canadians, there are some Liberals who have comttited crimes but this whole conspiracy theory about the whole Liberal party being corrupt is just more of your partisan drek.

You simply ignore the fact that you are the political equivalent of a moon hoax theorists when it comes to the Liberals. You will put forth every lie, every rumour, and every unsubstantiated opinion as "evidence" in your anti-Liberal jihad.

Now you are posting about the rantings of some half-baked loony thinking Chretiens going to off him?

Need I post the list again showing the number of things you cried about the Liberals doing, the things you said were grounds for their being kicked from office and the very things you now find totally acceptable from the CPC?

I like to compare you and Rev Blair and myself. Conservative, NDPer, and Liberal.

Blair wants a left social agenda and a left economic agenda but more importantly he wants a better and more honest political system. He decries the same corruption you did in the Liberals in both the Liberals and the CPC. He just doesn't believe (or realize) as I do that most of that corruption is endemic and virtually unavoidable due to the human factor and will be just as prevalent in the NDP. I want a left social agenda but a right of centre economic agenda and understand that things like political porking, appoitments, and politics in general are inherently corrupt. Its the system not the people and I get proved right on a daily basis as I always am. The only good thing about the CPC being in charge is that they dispelled all the notions their supporters had about them being honest, open, and accountable. They did everything they bitched that the Libs were doing, everything. Floor-crossers, porking, appointments, cuts to the military, broken promises, you name it they did it. In addition they have begun an outright attack on the means we have to hold the govt accountable, something someone like you should be threatening open revolt for ...... if you weren't a huge hypocrite that is.

That brings us to you. A right wing social and economic agenda. Thats OK, you are entitled to your opinion and just because I think your social outlook is inherently retarded doesn't mean you aren't entitled to have it as a opinion. Where your hypocracy goes overboard is the fact that you have consistently failed to hold your own party to the same set of standards unlike both myself and Blair. You claim all the Libs are kool-aid drinkers for ignoring their parties misdeeds (by your standards of course) yet the harshest criticism has been 'I don't like it but .....". Please. Take political porking. 6 months ago we had this very debate when the list of CPC pork was published and suddenly the porking that was downright criminal under the Libs was "bad but acceptable" under the CPC. Thats the very definition of hypocracy and that was before Harper tacked on an addition 8.8 billion in election run up pork.

I understand the reasons for that porking and hold both parties to the same standard as does Blair (though he disagrees on its level of acceptance). You however find it only wrong when one party does it.

Its the same for credit and blame. In another thread you posted " Makes you wonder why Chretien put us in that war anyways.

I'm going to stop calling it Chretien's war because NATO might win this and I don't want that to stick. I don't like it but we do need to set and end date and the combined parliament gave us to 2011 and since all the good Liberals who started the mission have left, we're probably unable to get a vote to extend the mission."

In other words, as long as there is blame to be cast its Chretiens war but if we win and credit gets dished out you want to be sure that Chretien receives none and likely Harper should get it all.

Then you post about how "you don't like it but ..." (you always say that) over a 2011 departure date but if you recall when the Libs and CPC were negotiating this the Liberals were called every name in the book for unrealistically setting that date. You had nasty words for the Liberal "cut and run" mentality which is now suddenly the most prudent and wise option.

Everyday you prove your hypocracy as well as the idea that some people simply aren't smart enough to be allowed to vote.

[ridenrain]

Can you put that into a bumper sticker slogan? I don't want to waste the time reading you're rantings.

[DerbyX]

Rev Blair and I rule, you drool.


The points made though. Next time don't accuse me of not holding my party accountable when everybody in Canada holds their party more accountable then you ever will.

[ridenrain]

Bullshit. Being found not guilty by planted party bureaucrats isn't proof of innocence. Come back after this majority and we'll see if the Harper government can even get close to the corruption of Chretien.
Why don't you Go back to Rev's little basement forum and sulk in private so we can actually discuss news and events.

[DerbyX]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Bullshit. Being found not guilty by planted party bureaucrats isn't proof of innocence. Come back after this majority and we'll see if the Harper government can even get close to the corruption of Chretien.
Why don't you Go back to Rev's little basement forum and sulk in private so we can actually discuss news and events.

Bollocks and you know it. Harper has well and gone surpaced the Liberals in corruption but you are such a kool-aid drinking con you can't accept it.

I keep telling you to drink bottled water because its obvious the heavy metal contamination in your area is rotting your brain.

[uwish]

I can't believe roller derby is comparing corruption of party's after the adscam boondoggle.

if there is heavy metals in the water it sure as hell isn't us drinking them!

[DerbyX]

Just like you guys all turn your head and cough when the evidence of Harpers admitting his role in attempting to bribe a dying Chuck Cadman in order to force an election. A clearly criminal act comitted directly by your party leader who no don't used his underworld connections to quash the indeitement.

[uwish]

he has been cleared of any wrong doing in that incident.

and you think that compares to brown paper bag money handouts to corrupt officials of tax payers money?

your a one trick pony

[ridenrain]

$1:

199 Reasons to NOT vote Liberal


1. Canceling the Sea King replacement

2. Sponsorship scandal

3. Gun Registry

4. HRDC boondoggle

5. Problems with Transition Job Funds program

6. Tainted blood

7. Radwanski Spending Affair

8. Pearson Airport

9. GST Flip Flop

10. Airbus Investigation

11. Voting against Red Book promise of independent Ethics
Commissioner

12. Irving fishing lodge stays/travel on Irving jets for cabinet
ministers

13. Martin traveling on private corporate jets as Finance Minister

14. Don Boudria's stay at Boulay owned chalet

15. Denis Coderre staying with Boulay

16. Alfonso Gagliano being appointed Ambassador to Denmark

17. Shawinigate

18. Claude Gauthier (PM's friend)'s Transelec getting CIDA grant
that was questioned by the Auditor General and even CIDA.

19. Liberal fundraiser Pierre Corbeil charged with fraud by RCMP
after he approached several Quebec companies seeking federal job training grants and
asking for payments to Liberal Party, having gotten the names from senior Quebec Liberal
Minister, Marcel Massé.

20. Michel Dupuy, Heritage Minister, lobbying the CRTC.

21. Tom Wappel refusing to help blind veteran

22. Gagliano's son benefiting from contracts from his father's
department

23. Gagliano's former speechwriter, Michèle Tremblay was on a $5,000
a month retainer with the Canada Lands Company to provide speeches for the Minister.
Former President John Grant let her go saying "we got nothing in return." Grant claimed that all
Crown Corporations reporting to Mr. Gagliano were told to put Ms. Tremblay on a monthly
retainer.

24. Iltis replacement

25. Purchase of new Challenger jets for the Prime Minister and
cabinet

26. NATO Flying Training program contract

27. Liberal friends appointed as IRB judges being investigated by
RCMP
28. Hedy Fry's imaginary burning crosses

29. Maria Minna's improper municipal vote

30. Minna giving contracts to two former campaign staffers for
public relations work for a
conference that had already been held

31. Lawrence MacAulay and contracts directed to Holland College

32. Lawrence MacAulay and Tim Banks

33. Lawrence MacAulay hired his official agent, Everett Roche, for
$70K, but Roche never did any work for it. (Oct 2002)

34. Art Eggleton and contracts to his ex-girlfriend

35. Copps' aide Boyer's spending habits

36. Collenette resigns for breach of ethical guidelines involving a
letter he wrote to the Immigration and Refugee Board

37. APEC Inquiry

38. Andy Scott's 1998 resignation that came eight weeks too late,
after a media circus wore him down for indiscreetly shooting his mouth off on an airplane.

39. Anti-American comments by Liberal MPs, officials, and the former
Minister of Natural Resources.

40. Rock and the Apotex/Cipro affair

41. Rock giving Health Canada contract to car cleaning company.

42. Manley lobbying CIBC on behalf of Rod Bryden

43. Manley's fundraiser suggesting donors to his leadership write it
off as a business expense.

44. Manley using his pre-budget consultations as Minister of Finance
to solicit support for his leadership bid.

45. Coderre's relationship with Group Everest

46. Martin's fundraiser/employee of Finance Jim Palmer

47. Martin's "blind trust" and his relationship with CSL.

48. Gerry Byrne requesting fundraising money be sent to his home
address, with no records kept.

49. Gerry Byrne pouring bulk of ACOA money into his own riding.

50. Virginia Fontaine Addictions Foundation

51. Prime Minister's former assistant, Denise Tremblay's huge travel
expenses on Veterans Review and Appeal Board as Minister pleaded poverty to veterans'
widows.

52. Chrétien appointing Hon. Roger Simmons (former Trudeau minister
convicted of income tax evasion) as Consul-General in Seattle

53. Chrétien trying to bring hit-and-run driver Carignan back into
caucus.

54. The RCMP is investigating possible fraud and bribery within
Industry Canada, involving possible "overpayments" to recipients of federal business grants.
The probe centres on the National Research Council, which hands out federal grants to small-
and medium-sized businesses.

55. More than half a dozen bureaucrats have been "removed" from
their jobs at a Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) in Toronto following a police
investigation into projects funded under one of the department's grants and
contributions programs
56. Revenue Minister Elinor Caplan called in the RCMP and ordered a
sweeping security review after four tax department computers were stolen containing
confidential personal information on more than 120,000 Canadians.

57. More than $7 billion stashed in Foundations by Finance Minister
Paul Martin with little or no accountability

58. Dhaliwal over seeing Richmond-airport-Vancouver transit line while
being owner of the airport limousine service

59. Tom Rosser, former Dhaliwal advisor lobbying Natural Resources
department and minister on environmental issues only months after
leaving government.

60. $5.3 million GG northern travel

61. GG budget doubles in 5 years

62. Robert Thibault giving a grant as ACOA minister to a wharf and
boat yard where his brother-in-law has a monopoly.

63. Royal LePage contract, which the government was forced to cancel
in the wake of serious concerns being raised.

64. Shutting down the Somalia Inquiry

65. Home heating rebate, which was sent to prisoners and deceased.

66. Martin firing Bernard Dussault, Chief Actuary of CPP

67. Ethel Blondin-Andrew buys fur coat on government credit card

68. Chrétien's imaginary homeless friend.

69. Liberal MP Rick Laliberte's extensive travel budget

70. Liberal Senator Thompson living in Mexico

71. Vendetta against former BDC President François Beaudoin

72. The flag give-away – which estimates suggest might now have cost
$45 million instead of the promised $6 million, and reportedly
involved fake invoices.

73. Gagliano's two week trip, at taxpayers' expense, for a two day
event with the head of the Royal Canadian Mint and Maurizio Caruso.

74. Secretary of State for multiculturalism and status of women
Sheila Finestone using government car (which junior ministers are only
allowed to use for government business) to drive home to Montreal,
which even Sheila Copps criticized. (Ottawa Citizen, May 22, 1994)

75. Liberal MP Jag Bhaduria's hate mail to his former employers,
wishing that they had been shot by killer Marc Lepine

76. Liberal MP Jag Bhaduria making false claims about his academic
qualifications.

77. Paul Martin and Maria Minna attending fundraising dinner for
group linked to Tamil Tigers in May 2000 (National Post, Sept. 8th,
2001).

78. David Anderson, as National Revenue Minister, suing the
government for lost wages after being removed as IRB appointee by
Conservative government seeking $454,000 from a deficit-ravaged
federal treasury. (Vancouver Sun, July 24, 2004). Anderson
eventually agreed to drop the suit.

79. David Anderson suggesting that the BC doesn't need extra House
of Commons seats, because they wouldn't be worth much given the poor
quality of most West Coast MPs. (Vancouver Sun, July 24, 2004)

80. A consultant on an executive interchange program persuaded
Natural Resources to undertake a $700-million reorganization of its
research facilities for which no business case had been made. The
program was fast-tracked because he had developed a social
relationship with the deputy minister. He was eventually charged with
diverting $525,000 to a numbered company he controlled. (Globe and
Mail, May 30, 2005)



And the list continues under Prime Minister Martin:

81. Raid on reporter Juliet O'Neill's home by RCMP

82. Permanent Resident Cards

83. Judy Sgro going on vacation as cards became mandatory and landed
immigrants were left stranded
84. Minister Frulla's renovations

85. Pay raises for chiefs-of-staff in ministers offices, while
spending is frozen for public service.

86. The government's changing numbers on how much money has gone to
CSL

87. Lobbyists in Paul Martin's transition team being allowed to
return to lobbying immediately, after being involved in process of
picking new cabinet and senior staff.

88. Minister Comuzzi's anti-Quebec comments

89. Martin government using closure after only six days in the House
of Commons, followed by using time allocation in the Senate.

90. Problems with DND's contracts with Compaq Computers that may
have cost taxpayers up to $159 million for work not performed.

91. Martin using government jets to tour the country campaigning
before election, spending up to $1 million for air travel alone.

92. Martin's relationship with Earnscliffe

93. Questionable contracts to Earnscliffe

94. The appointment of former Liberal MLA Howard Sapers as the
Correctional Investigator of Canada

95. Pierre Pettigrew's flip flopping on health care

96. David Dingwall's expenses as head of Royal Canadian Mint

97. Liberals planning to give David Dingwall a severance package
after he resigned

98. The secret National Unity Fund reserve

99. Calling an early election after earlier promising first to get
to the bottom of the sponsorship scandal

100. Martin suggesting changes to legislation and introducing bill
that benefited CSL, despite concerns from his own Deputy Minister that
he was in a conflict-of-interest (Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 2004)

101. $99 million Public Works contract that went to company overseen
by Liberal fundraiser and future Senator Paul Massicotte (Montreal
Gazette, June 26, 2004)

102. Parliamentary Secretary Dan McTeague's 3-person, $224 trip to a
Pizzeria

103. Immigration Minister Judy Sgro's staff being allowed to stay
on "extended travel" benefits, letting them bill taxpayers' for
thousands of dollars in hotel rooms and meals, because they didn't
want to move from Toronto to Ottawa until after the election.

104. Correctional Service of Canada Commissioner Lucie McClung's
travel expenses

105. Contracting irregularities on more than two dozen projects at
DND worth tens of millions of dollars, showing over-billing, profit
excesses,
unauthorized additional work, lack of accounting records, spiralling
cost overruns, etc. (Globe and Mail, July 14, 2004).

106. ACOA Minister Joe McGuire canceling ACOA loan and grant to ABL
Industries Inc. because it would compete with company in his riding.
(Fredericton Daily Gleaner, July 17, 2004).

107. Andy Mitchell's chief of staff's $22,000 in expenses to commute
to Ottawa (Toronto Star, August 2, 2004).

108. André Ouellet's travel and hospitality expenses at Canada Post.

109. Government delaying release of audit on Ouellet until after the
election (Globe and Mail, July 31, 2004).

110. Martin's principle secretary Francis Fox's sister getting
untendered contracts (The Province, July 27, 2004).

111. Continuing problems in advertising files at Public Works
(Ottawa Sun, July 26, 2004).

112. A Liberal Party of Canada fundraising letter signed by Paul
Martin, asking potential contributors to offer $7,000, $7,100 or
$7,200 in contributions – far in excess of donation limits passed by
the very same Liberal government

113. Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne violating municipal bylaws.
Municipality pursuing legal action against him. (Ottawa Citizen,
August 19, 2004).

114. Spa Days for inmates approved by the Correctional Service of
Canada, which on Aug. 21 invited inmates at the Grand Valley
Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., to dabble with manicures,
pedicures and aromatherapy, not to mention cups of tea served in fine
china, all accompanied by a harp serenade. (National Post, September
9, 2004).

115. Five employees in the ''overwhelmed'' immigration section of
Canada's embassy in Iran have been fired over the past year after they
each were caught breaching federal ethics rules (National Post,
September 13, 2004).

116. Questionable contracts and spending from the Canada Investment
and Savings group set up by Martin in 1996 (Globe and Mail, September
13, 2004)

117. Questionable contracting practices at Canada Information Office
(The Hill Times,September 13, 2004).

118. A top Canadian diplomat based in China has resigned amid
reports he is being investigated for allegedly taking bribes to help
Chinese nationals enter Canada illegally. (Vancouver Sun, September
22, 2004).

119. Abuse of government credit cards by staff at Fisheries
Department (CP Wire, September 24, 2004).

120. Canada's questionable hiring of the niece of Syria's foreign
affairs minister to work at the embassy in Damascus (Globe and Mail,
October 5, 2004)

121. Hélène Scherrer using Challenger to fly to Banff during
election to give partisan speech

122. Abuse of Challengers by Paul Martin and various ministers (eg.
Andy Mitchell, Claudette Bradshaw)

123. Abuse of Challenger jets for political business instead of
government business (Le Devoir, October 4, 2005)

124. Paul Martin taking Challenger jets to Liberal fundraisers

125. Challenger food bill of $508 per flight

126. Expenses during election filed by aide to Ralph Goodale

127. Questionable expenses during election filed by aides to Judy
Sgro

128. Ongoing problems and safety concerns with the submarine program

129. Various federal departments reported in excess of $1.1 million
in theft of computers in 2003, but the information is potentially more
valuable than the hardware (Vancouver Sun,October 14, 2004).

130. According to the latest public-accounts-of-Canada reports for
the period March 2004 and March 2005, over 700 laptops, desktops and
central processing units went missing from 35 federal government
agencies -- worth $6 million. (The Province, October 19, 2005)

131. Federal government has lost track of $587 million a year in EI
overpayments and underpayments at the Department of Human Resources.
(Ottawa Citizen, October 12, 2004).
However, the government defends itself by stating that in fact it
has only lost track of $25 million a year and collects the other
overpayments. (Ottawa Citizen, October 13, 2004)

132. $133,000 grant to a Toronto film company that used classified
ads to search for the "perfect" penis. (National Post, October 14,
2004).

133. Man convicted of fraud against government hired to teach ethics
course to public servants (National Post, October 20, 2004).

134. Public Works selling confiscated grow-op equipment to drug
traffickers. (National Post, October 21, 2004).

135. Pressure by Liberal MPs and ministers on ACOA to make funding
decisions based on politics (New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, October
25, 2004).

136. Paul Martin's Director of Communications Scott Reid insulting
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador (Toronto Star, October 28, 2004)

137. The Martin government spent $127,223 on a poll last February
testing ways to diffuse negative reaction to the bombshell
auditor-general's report -- which included the finding the Liberals
ignored their own rules prohibiting the use of tax dollars on partisan
polls
(Vancouver Sun, November 8, 2004).

138. Judy Sgro's campaign volunteer (a stripper) getting ministerial
permit

139. Sgro's senior policy advisor going to strip club to meet with
owner to discuss bringing more strippers into Canada. (National Post,
November 25, 2004). Subsequent revelations indicate that he went to at
least one other strip club to conduct similar meetings (Toronto Sun,
December 7, 2004)

140. Sgro giving out details of private immigration files, violating
Privacy Act

141. Allegations that Sgro broke the elections law in failing to
properly identify the source of a campaign contribution. (Toronto
Star, December 8, 2004).

142. Revelations that the program to bring in foreign exotic dancers
was created under pressure from organized crime (National Post,
December 18, 2004)

143. Irwin Cotler appointing his former chief-of-staff to federal
court (National Post, November 23, 2004).

144. Heritage Minister Liza Frulla giving grant to magazine that put
her on the cover and made her honourary president (Ottawa Citizen,
November 25, 2004)

145. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointing Liberal MP John Harvard as Lt-Governor of Manitoba, in
order to get him to step aside for "star" candidate Glen Murray.

146. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointing Liberal MP Yvon Charbonneau to UNESCO, in order to get him
to step aside for Martin crony Pablo Rodriguez.

147. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointing former Liberal MP Karen Kraft-Sloan as Ambassador for the
Environment. (Department of Foreign Affairs
Press Release, February 16, 2005).

148. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointing defeated Liberal candidate Dave Haggard as the chair of a
newly created Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship. (OIC 2005-0001)

149. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointed his friend Dennis Dawson to the Senate

150. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointed his former Principal Secretary Francis Fox to the Senate

151. Despite promising an end to cronyism and patronage, Martin
appointed disgraced former cabinet minister Art Eggleton to the Senate

152. Martin and his wife complaining about having to live in 24
Sussex (Edmonton Journal, November 17, 2004)

153. Millennium Bureau spending done with same lack of controls and
oversight of sponsorship program

154. The RCMP has charged a senior Immigration Canada manager and
four accomplices in an alleged bribes-for-status scheme in which Arab
immigrants paid up to $25,000 to have their claims fast-tracked and
approved (National Post, December 17, 2004)

155. Making widows of RCMP officers killed in the line of duty pay
for their husbands' funerals (Under pressure from the Conservative
Party, the government reversed this policy)

156. Martin patronage-appointee Jim Walsh breaking ethics guidelines
and attending Liberal Christmas Party (St. John's Telegram, January
20, 2005).

157. Port authority losing more than $60,000 in public funds on the
stock market. When Central Cape Breton Community Ventures took over
the port in Iona in 2000, the private agency deposited only $5,000 of
the $245,000 it received from Transport Canada into a designated bank
account. The federal funding was meant to cover the port's
maintenance, insurance and professional services costs
(Chronicle-Herald, January 31, 2005).

158. Canadian flag lapel pins being made in China. Only under
pressure, Scott Brison flip flops and agrees to have them made in
Canada again.

159. Questionable dealings around the privatization of the Digby
Wharf, which even Liberal MP Robert Thibault wants the RCMP to
investigate (Chronicle-Herald, February 10, 2005).

160. Adrienne Clarkson spending $17,500 to evaluate cleaning at
Rideau Hall (Ottawa Sun, February 19, 2005)

161. Martin patronage appointee Glen Murray breaking ethics
guidelines and attending Liberal Convention as delegate

162. Martin ignoring parliamentary committee and appointing Glen
Murray as chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the
Economy

163. Marlene Jennings, the Parliamentary Secretary for Canada-U.S.
relations, making anti-American remarks

164. Government knowing about details of torture and murder of Zahra
Kazemi back in November and still sending ambassador back to Iran

165. Government knowing about details of torture and murder of Zahra
Kazemi back in November but doing nothing

166. Tens of thousands of dollars were spent on questionable
acquisitions at CFB Borden (Ottawa Sun, April 18, 2005).

167. Joe Volpe keeping stripper visa program operating, despite
having promised to shut it down (CTV.ca, March 5, 2005)

168. Jean Lapierre acting as lobbyist without registering

169. Joe Volpe trying to intimidating Sikh community

170. In the spring of 2003, the RCMP investigated allegations that
Liberal MP Gurbax Malhi had requested favours and financial support
for Paul Martin's 2003 leadership campaign in exchange for helping
Indian nationals get these temporary resident permits (Globe and Mail,
March 10, 2005)
..
171. Liberals spending $443,237 to change the name Passport Office
to Passport Canada (Montreal Gazette, April 21, 2005).

172. Ken Dryden's chief of staff charged with careless driving
(Ottawa Citizen, March 22,2005)

173. Liberals trying to buy off Conservative MPs with offers of
patronage positions

174. Liberals handling of the submarine program

175. Public Service Integrity Officer's travel expenses (Ottawa Sun,
May 4, 2005)

176. Liberal Senator Michel Biron going to hearing to support killer
Karla Homolka (CTV News, June 9, 2005)

177. Public Works contract watchdog Consulting and Audit Canada
violating contracting rules (Toronto Star, July 4, 2005)

178. Technology Partnerships Canada rules being violated to pay
lobbyists (Globe and Mail, June 24, 2005)

179. Former Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Robert Nault is
working as a paid lobbyist for Nelson House First Nation in what some
allege is an apparent violation of a federal code of conduct. Among
the federal departments Nault is lobbying is the Indian and Northern
Affairs department he headed until December 2003, according to a
lobbying report Nault filed with the federal government. Nault
registered as a lobbyist for Nelson House, now
known as Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, on July 18, 2005 -- one year and
seven months after leaving his cabinet post. Under the Conflict of
Interest and ost-
Employment Code for Public Office Holders, Nault is barred from
working for any entity with which his department had "direct and
significant official dealings" for two years after leaving office. He
is also barred for two years from lobbying his former department or
any of his former cabinet colleagues (Winnipeg Free Press, September
14, 2005)

180. According to documents obtained by the Globe and Mail, Pierre
Pettigrew billed Canadian taxpayers for $10,000 for trips for his
driver in 2001 and 2002. Pettigrew took his driver to South America
and Europe, even though the driver didn't do any driving on the trips.
(Globe and Mail, September 14, 2005)

181. Joe Volpe's questionable hospitality expenses (Globe and Mail,
September 21, 2005)

182. According to media reports, Industry Canada has frozen federal
financing for research projects by an Ontario biotechnology firm
pending the outcome of an investigation into the company's agreement
to pay $350,000 in lobbying "success" fees to former Liberal cabinet
minister David Dingwall. Such contingency fee payments violate
Technology Partnership Canada rules. (Globe and Mail, September 23,
2005)

183. Expenses of chairman of the Royal Canadian Mint Emmanuel
Triassi, who also approved David Dingwall's expenses (Globe and Mail,
October 4, 2005)

184. Last week, Public Works was also silent on details of another
case involving forensic accounting. Government accounts published on
Thursday showed a department employee had embezzled $3.45 million from
Public Works office in Koblenz, Germany. Even though the employee was
convicted and jailed in Germany, Public Works will not name him or
give any details of the crime (Ottawa Citizen, October 4, 2005)

185. The federal government inadvertently revealed yesterday that it
is conducting a large -scale forensic accounting probe into "possibly
criminal matters" when it published details of a contract intended for
a Quebec accounting firm. The notice awarding a $2-million contract
for forensic accounting services was published on the government's
tendering website, MERX. It gave notice that Consulting and Audit
Canada was planning to award the
sole-source contract to Leclerc Juricomptable, a Quebec City firm
specializing in forensic work and litigation support. The contract
award notice said the work had to be sole-sourced to Leclerc because
it is "not in the public interest to jeopardize the current investment
in the investigation or to significantly increase the risk to a
successful completion of
the investigation into possibly criminal matters." A spokesman for the
Department of Public Works and Government Services said yesterday that
the notice was published "prematurely" and would be withdrawn last
night. He could not say, however, what is under investigation, but
said the contract was not tied to another scandal that has kept Quebec
forensic accountants busy over the past years. "It's not related to
sponsorship or Gomery, that I can tell you," said spokesman Pierre
Teotonio (Ottawa Citizen, October 4, 2005). It
was subsequently revealed that the department involved was CIDA (CP
Wire, October 4, 2005)

186. Questions about campaign funds from Raymond Chan's campaign
going to his companies (Vancouver Sun, October 7, 2005)

187. Questions about a possible conflict-of-interest between Chan's
activities as minister on behalf of possible business associates
(Vancouver Sun, October 7, 2005)

188. Questions about the report that Chan filed with the Ethics
Commissioner (Vancouver Sun, October 7, 2005)

189. Government giving out contract that specifies no paper trail to
be left in government offices (Vancouver Province, October 11, 2005)

190. Questionable travel expenses at the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans (CP, October 16, 2005)

191. Two employees at DFO fired for making fraudulent travel claims
(CP, The Province, October 18, 2005).

192. Lobbyist registrar Michael Nelson has launched investigations
of four people for eight possible breaches of the ethics guidelines
for lobbyists, the first such investigations ever launched under the
code. (Globe and Mail, October 18, 2005)

193. According to media reports, the federal government has
terminated two contracts with a consulting firm that used to be run by
Liberal MP David Smith and now run by his wife, following a forensic
audit of the contracting practices at a federal agency (Globe and
Mail, October 19, 2005)

194. ATI requests by prisoners for information on prison system and
guards, when information is actually disclosed

195. Liberal candidate Richard Mahoney lobbying for satellite radio
company for a month before registering (Ottawa Citizen, October 19,
2005)

196. Delays and ballooning costs mean a giant software project at
National Defence will eclipse its original budget and won't meet its
goals until 2011 -- if at all. An internal audit obtained by Canadian
Press raises red flags about a new system designed to streamline
computer tracking of military inventory and purchases. MASIS -- or
Materiel Acquisition
Support Information System -- started in 1997 as a $147-million
undertaking. What began as a focused effort to cover a single
equipment category in each of the navy, army and air force soon
mushroomed. By 2003, Defence officials estimated MASIS would be in
place by 2006
at a cost of $325 million, more than twice its forecast budget. A full
introduction of the complex software has now been extended to 2011.
The heavily censored May 2005 internal audit, released under the
Access to Information Act, catalogues a litany of "revised planned
milestones.'' "The prime contract has been amended six times, each
time increasing amounts for professional service fees,'' it says. (CP,
The Record, October 24, 2005)

197. Hospitality and travel expenses of executives at CMHC (Journal
de Montréal, October 24, 2005)

198. Questions about Squamish land deal lease (The Province, October
26, 2005)

199. Liberals handling of tainted water at Kashechewan First Nation

We can seriously talk about when the Harper even gets in the game.

[fifeboy]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Can you put that into a bumper sticker slogan? I don't want to waste the time reading you're rantings.

Wow, bumper sticker slogan politics. Thats good