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Archive for October 29th, 2007

Dalton McGuinty’s decision to have the Aboriginal Affairs ministry stand separate from Natural Resources, sounds like a good one at first glance. Natives and non-natives alike think it’s about time.

Yet, I can’t help agreeing with Aaron Detlor’s take on things:

Detlor also described the post-election move as a “reluctant admission” on the part of the government that land claims are in fact a provincial concern.

That was exactly what I was thinking.

Time to start actually taking responsibility, Dalton.

Meanwhile, there’s a throne speech coming.

Smitherman and Wynne are staying put.

*Sigh*

And I didn’t see that one coming.

How many more sleeps til the next election?

B.C. Liberal MP resigns from caucus. (CTV)

Good decision.

Steve Janke has more.

And Stephen Taylor has a few questions about Garth Turner’s donation practices.

From the Province:

His father-in-law, West Vancouver real estate mogul Bill Lougheed, former Wilson campaign workers and business associates are claiming the MP committed breaches of the Canada Elections Act in failing to report campaign expenses.

Liberal insiders who worked for the candidate in the 2005-2006 election allege Wilson ran a campaign using cash payments and did not report all his spending.

They claim many campaign expenses were never reported to Elections Canada after Wilson, 44, switched his staff in favour of another team.

Last week a citizen in the riding filed an Elections Canada challenge to Commissioner William Corbett to have Wilson’s campaign expenditures investigated.

Here is a nice tidy summary of some of Dion’s current headaches - Alberta Ardvark. H/T CC.

“It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”

Update: Province article - Part 2: The real story behind Blair Wilson’s business ventures.

And this is a hoot - The Province blogging about bloggers’ reactions to the Province’s Blair Wilson story.