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May 17, 2013, 8:42:41 PM5/17/13
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Same old pattern: Harper or one of his Cons get caught red-handed
either cheating, stealing, lying or committing a major breach or
criminal offence.
What does Harper do? Nothing. He covers up for them. Which gives them
the green light to keep on doing what they were doing: cheating the
taxpayers out of our hard-earned money.
And this is the guy who worked like a crazed banshee to topple the last
Liberal government because of 'their' corrupt practics and continued
lack of accountability'?
Time to clean House again, it seems. This time, let's elect a
government that truly can keep its promises - and keep the riffraff the
hell out of their ranks.
This entire Harper government IS rank. And it has to be defeated.
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Reuters - Fri May 17, 2013
Canada's PM defends aide at heart of growing expenses scandal
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended on
Friday a top aide who is at the center of an expenses scandal that is
becoming one of the biggest crises to hit the governing Conservatives
since they took office in 2006.
Opposition parties want an inquiry into why Nigel Wright, Harper's chief
of staff, secretly gave a personal check for C$90,000 ($88,000) to a
senator who could not afford to repay housing allowances he had claimed
improperly.
Critics said the deal made a mockery of the government's claims it would
boost accountability in Ottawa. They also said it broke ethics rules
preventing senators from accepting gifts.
"Mr. Wright has the full confidence of the prime minister ... << =====
Mr. Wright is staying on," Harper's chief spokesman, Andrew MacDougall,
told reporters on Friday.
The senator, Mike Duffy, resigned from the Conservatives on Thursday and
will sit as an independent.
The affair has the potential to damage Harper badly. Even before the
scandal broke, polls showed his party trailing the opposition Liberals.
The next election is not due until October 2015 and the next two years
could prove painful unless he deals with the crisis.
"I think the prime minister really needs to understand that this is
about as serious an ethical breach as it gets and he needs to take some
action here," said Charlie Angus, ethics critic for the official
opposition New Democrats.
"He can't keep Nigel Wright in his position and pretend that this is
going to go away... This is really about the prime minister's personal
credibility," Angus told Reuters.
Commentators across the political spectrum say Wright, a wealthy
businessman who is on secondment to Harper's office from private equity
firm Onex Corp, had made a shocking error of judgment and should resign.
MacDougall, asked why Wright had written the check, said Harper's office
was in contact with federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, who is
responsible for ensuring officials obey the rules.
MacDougall did not answer when asked how it was possible that Harper,
who keeps a famously tight grip on government, could not have known
about the C$90,000 check.
The Conservatives are now distancing themselves from Duffy, a former
television journalist who Harper named to the Senate, the unelected
upper chamber of Parliament, in late 2008, and who had proved
particularly popular at fund-raising events.
"Some of the questions that were raised were a surprise to us and
Senator Duffy will answer those questions as an independent senator,"
MacDougall said.
Separately, a Conservative official said the Senate would reopen a probe
into Duffy's expenses that ended earlier this year after he repaid the
allowances.
A second Conservative senator - expelled from caucus in February after
he was charged with assault - is refusing to repay housing allowances.
either cheating, stealing, lying or committing a major breach or
criminal offence.
What does Harper do? Nothing. He covers up for them. Which gives them
the green light to keep on doing what they were doing: cheating the
taxpayers out of our hard-earned money.
And this is the guy who worked like a crazed banshee to topple the last
Liberal government because of 'their' corrupt practics and continued
lack of accountability'?
Time to clean House again, it seems. This time, let's elect a
government that truly can keep its promises - and keep the riffraff the
hell out of their ranks.
This entire Harper government IS rank. And it has to be defeated.
_________________________________________________________
Reuters - Fri May 17, 2013
Canada's PM defends aide at heart of growing expenses scandal
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended on
Friday a top aide who is at the center of an expenses scandal that is
becoming one of the biggest crises to hit the governing Conservatives
since they took office in 2006.
Opposition parties want an inquiry into why Nigel Wright, Harper's chief
of staff, secretly gave a personal check for C$90,000 ($88,000) to a
senator who could not afford to repay housing allowances he had claimed
improperly.
Critics said the deal made a mockery of the government's claims it would
boost accountability in Ottawa. They also said it broke ethics rules
preventing senators from accepting gifts.
"Mr. Wright has the full confidence of the prime minister ... << =====
Mr. Wright is staying on," Harper's chief spokesman, Andrew MacDougall,
told reporters on Friday.
The senator, Mike Duffy, resigned from the Conservatives on Thursday and
will sit as an independent.
The affair has the potential to damage Harper badly. Even before the
scandal broke, polls showed his party trailing the opposition Liberals.
The next election is not due until October 2015 and the next two years
could prove painful unless he deals with the crisis.
"I think the prime minister really needs to understand that this is
about as serious an ethical breach as it gets and he needs to take some
action here," said Charlie Angus, ethics critic for the official
opposition New Democrats.
"He can't keep Nigel Wright in his position and pretend that this is
going to go away... This is really about the prime minister's personal
credibility," Angus told Reuters.
Commentators across the political spectrum say Wright, a wealthy
businessman who is on secondment to Harper's office from private equity
firm Onex Corp, had made a shocking error of judgment and should resign.
MacDougall, asked why Wright had written the check, said Harper's office
was in contact with federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, who is
responsible for ensuring officials obey the rules.
MacDougall did not answer when asked how it was possible that Harper,
who keeps a famously tight grip on government, could not have known
about the C$90,000 check.
The Conservatives are now distancing themselves from Duffy, a former
television journalist who Harper named to the Senate, the unelected
upper chamber of Parliament, in late 2008, and who had proved
particularly popular at fund-raising events.
"Some of the questions that were raised were a surprise to us and
Senator Duffy will answer those questions as an independent senator,"
MacDougall said.
Separately, a Conservative official said the Senate would reopen a probe
into Duffy's expenses that ended earlier this year after he repaid the
allowances.
A second Conservative senator - expelled from caucus in February after
he was charged with assault - is refusing to repay housing allowances.
The Doctor
May 18, 2013, 9:41:17 AM5/18/13
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In article <_7Alt.270$T62...@newsfe08.iad>,
Step up Justin Trudeau!
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God,Queen and country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising!
http://www.fullyfollow.me/rootnl2k Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism
The false churches will conform themselves to this world's demands, seeing as they do not fear and thus do not obey God. - anon
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