— Musings —06.21.2011 01:28 PM
— Musings —06.21.2011 01:28 PM
Interesting that it’s taken a full month for Jennings to get media interested in this old news.
The article also says:
“John Wiersema, the acting auditor general, said the word “misinformed” was deleted from the final report because auditors found no evidence the government was trying to deliberately mislead Parliament. Rather, he said it appeared the government had been motivated by “expediency.”
“Having said all that, going to Parliament requesting money for one thing and using it for something else is a serious matter which we think deserves parliamentary attention,” Wiersema told a news conference after releasing the final report.
As for dropping any reference to possible illegality, Wiersema initially said he’s “not aware of any specific law that was broken.” He later conceded, however, that the matter is not clear and suggested it’s up to politicians, not the auditor general’s office, to determine whether “anything illegal took place.”
“I think the legal profession could have an interesting, long debate about the wording of the Appropriations Act and whether or not this was inside or outside of the Appropriations Act. We chose not to go there.”
Hey but check this out – the CPC and the Libs. are UP in the polls. So, how is it when the LPOC stays quiet that the poll nos. are going up? Could it be that that downward slide is already starting for the NDP?
http://www.torontosun.com/news
Nice try, kiddo. The Auditor doesn’t determine police investigations, the police do. They’d read the AG report, but not be bound by it.
Yep, I know:-) Interesting polls stuff though, huh?
So the RCMP deciding to investigate the $50,000,000 spent in Mr. Clement’s riding is no big thing? Harper’s 14 point lead in a Nanos poll makes everything OK? Wow.
The RCMP are following up on a “referral”,
and have not (yet) decided on an investigation.
http://www.canada.com/news/RCMP+receives+referral+over+spending+allegations/4982292/story.html
This reminds me of Jennings and Hollands stunt with boxes of files left behind at a CPC MPs office.
Note, neither were re-elected.
Pull the other one Sunshine. I see you are following instructions right to the letter.
Step One: misappropriate $50,000,000 from Canadian taxpayers to spend in Tony Clement’s riding on gazebos and parks.
Step Two: reap the rewards of your investment.
Step Three: when caught flop around in a panic blaming everyone but yourselves.
FYI Wilson, that $50,000,000 is Canadian’s money, not the Conservative’s private slush fund.
Marlene Jennings? Puhleeze! This is what caused the LIbs downfall in the first place. Scandal a day bullspit led by an individual with very little public profile, trust or any degree of competency.
This is not going to help Rae or the rebuilding process. There’s work to be done and this only distracts from it.
The AG’s report should have at leasted invited a look see by the RCMP.
How big does the scandal and the lies have to get before they breach the “scandal a day bullspit” dike threshold? Seeing as lying to Parliament and passing $50M around to your buddies doesn’t qualify for you.
Oh, but it looks like the RCMP may have a lower threshold than you do.
If this happened two months ago, the Tories would not be in government today.
Yep
You guys still talking about “game changers”? Yawn.
Listen to John Baird’s arrogant response and you will pride going before a fall
on this one
This will come to nought, shows how deep the influence peddling is in this party. Harper now more feared than ever.
Some say if this had happened 2 months ago the Tories would not be in government. With the way the opposition has innoculated the voters I’m not so sure, yet it seems intent on going down the same road this session. But at any rate, even if the Tories would not have been there – neither would the Liberals. As Shakespeare said ‘ay, there’s the rub’.
Sadly, coming at the start of the term is going to mean it all comes to naught … simply because such a significant percentage of voters today have the attention span of a mayfly, don’t give a shit about issues of complexity because that would involve some self-education, and just can’t be bothered going to the trouble of truly understanding what this government has been up to the past several years.