I guess if you’re delivering a lecture at Harvard you can get away with fudging the details a bit, but as a Prime Minister-in-Waiting, you’d better know your stuff. Iffy is clearly in over his head.
The Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles (!) exposes another chink in the Count’s armour – Ignatieff gets his facts wrong in Arar case:
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has told a British newspaper that Canada dispatched Maher Arar to Syria to be tortured.
Ignatieff made the erroneous statement in an interview published in September in The Observer while clarifying his stand against torture…
(H/T NNW)
Now here is the paragraph with which the Star takes issue:
“Canada sent Maher Arar (a Canadian engineer) to Syria, and a court found that he had been subjected to extraordinary rendition, that his claims (of torture) were true and that he had delivered no intelligence to anybody. It was a disgrace. So, we don’t do it. Ever. Period. Off the table. We don’t get other people to do our dirty work for us, and we don’t do dirty work ever.”
But MacCharles says that “Arar was sent to Syria by the United States in late 2002 after he was detained while in transit to Canada through JFK Airport in New York”, and “contrary to what Ignatieff said, no court has made findings of fact in Arar’s case.”
Iffy’s spokeswoman Jill Fairbrother blew off the Star’s request for an interview.
UBC law professor Michael Byers weighs in:
…while public figures sometimes make mistakes, Ignatieff’s statement was related to his own position on torture, “a matter on which he wrote extensively while a Harvard professor, with those writings having since been subject to intense scrutiny.”
“For him to get the facts wrong on the highest profile case of torture involving a Canadian citizen is deeply worrying.
“It suggests a certain lack of attention to detail, and perhaps even concern, on a matter that was engaging the Canadian public, a commission of inquiry, and courts in both Canada and the United States at the very same time that he was expressing opinions on torture in The New York Times.”
Very worrying indeed for someone who could end up being Prime Minister of Canada if the Liberal Party of Toronto has its way.
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Update: More from Phantom Observer – So, Did the Liberals Want Maher Arar Tortured, Mr. Waffle?
interesting times
another interesting item Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper doesn’t watch
Canadian News
I think of more concern for Canadian News would be do Canadians watch Canadian News?
fh
Iffy Days? Dalton Days? Rae Days?
The left-liberal answer: same old, same old.
Vote for Iffy Days.
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“Should public sector workers in Ontario – be told to take “Dalton Days”? These would be days off – without pay – similar to “Rae Days” in ‘93 when all provincial employees took 12 days of unpaid leave as a cost cutting measure. The Ont. gov’t is running at a $20B per year deficit, salaries represent 80% of operating costs.
1. Yes. All provincial & municipal managers, employees & politicians
46.5%
2. No. This is unfair to the employees
31.6%
3. Yes. But only “non-essential” workers
19.6%
4. Other
2.13%”
http://www.cfra.com/
The answer to your question fh is no they don’t.
With this information coming to light, forgive us for wondering how tuned in to Canada Ignatieff really is.
Wonder if he even knows we paid Arar over $10 million for his troubles?
Wonder if he knows there are some others lined up looking for money for allegedly being tortured while visiting their “homelands”?
Appears instead of being in the loop and on top of recent events, a landmark event at that, Iggy is making a loop to hang himself politically.
It’s rather unbelievable.
Mr. Ignatieff, you’re time is up!
Don Martin says Iggy had a “good week?” LOL What planet is this hack on?
One of the few times that Ignatieff tries to put out some policy (even a joke of a policy like the pink book), he absolutley gets kneecapped by his own war room via Wayne Easter’s dead beaten door knob stunt. The media was lining up to listen to Easter’s staged doorknob drama and a communication officer had to come from Ignatieff’s pink book presser and shoo Easter away to get the media’s attention on Ignatieff.
Harper told everyone to stop with the logos. Since that is now done you know what is going to happen? The EC is going to investigate and slap the Tories on the wrist, tell them not to do it again, and to put plans in place to ensure it never does. And since no money went to line pockets like the Liberal Sponsorship Scandal did, that is all that will happen. Meanwhile, the Liberals will continue to overshadow their rare policy announcements with constant scandal mongering, contributing and offering nothing as an alternative while the Tories continue to govern.
Ignatieff had a “good week?” Heh, talk about setting the bar low.
Maybe the Liberals did send him to Syria and the US story is part of the coverup.
Yeah, door knob Easter’s little knob prop has lost it’s shine.
This is huge! Huge, I say!
A file and subject of which Iffy has built a career around and he messes it up to the point of embarrassing inaccuracies? How is he to be trusted with anything of national importance. His credibility is shattered.
This isn’t just a little boo boo, this is a big one.
Just add it to the pile! Wow.
As Neo at the halls always says, “operation kick yourself in the balls.” as stuck once again.
Iggy is stupid. The liberal elite are going to be falling all over each other to get rid of him. Not like they weren’t anyway, but this will just speed up the process.
I can’t wait to see what the dummy does next week. This is getting good.
Link to the latest Ekos data.
OT. Anyone know whether we are allowing the Cambodian-flagged ship’s human cargo to remain in this country? If they are would there be any guarantee they’d be good for Canada?
Iffy is going to let PMSH stew in his own juice instead of bringing him down.
We need a recipe for that stew.
Should we start with iffy chicken stock.
Keith Martin has sent out a 10%er (with lib logo) complaining about senate partisanship. Question for Keith, who appointed all those liberals that have recently retired. If libs had not been so partisan, there wouldn’t have been so many liberal vacancies. Funny how that works.
MI was tricked by Ian Davey. They promised him the job of PM, all he had to do was show up.
Reminds me of how the Liberals lied to thousands of highly skilled professionals in securing accredition/employment and leaving them to drive cabs and clean factories.
Another shameful example of a failed immigration policy by the Liberals.
Re : Ig-wiggles having a good week.
Well, it all depends on what you’re used too.
When you’ve only made a cackling spectacle of yourself three times this week, versus it being a daily occurrence previously, you could call that a good week.
Now, as to which planet that Martian is on, is a mute point. It’s more a question of which public broadcaster he’s trying to ingratiate himself to. It’s all about manufacturing a leftist narrative to impress his potential future employers with.
In the “Globe and Mail” today – liberal reporter, Jane Tabor has Wayne Easter as the HOT for the day and said more will come from him on Sunday’s Question Period…. I refuse to watch the bias liberal hack show of Tabor and Oliver… but I am sure she will try to help her liberal party as much as possible. I bet dollars to donuts – there will be NO SIGN OF HER LIBERAL LEADERS SLIP UP on her show on Sunday! – she and Oliver will sock that one away hoping it will long be forgotten!. I also bet there will be nothing about it on Tom’s liberal show tonight… He will be pushing the new poll numbers and how the Conservatives have dropped 2 points… all with his help!…It has to be us to expose Iggy for what he is – empty ideas and say whatever comes in his head if it is factual or not!…. You will not hear anything about this on CTV or the CBC as well and I bet Peter will milk all he can tonight on his panel about the poll today with the Conservatives slipping 2 points…. Nothing about his liberal leader not knowing anything about foreign affairs….what a bunch of bias reporting we have!
It wasn’t so bad (except to the LPC), when Iggy the loose cannon was only wrecking the Liberal ship. But now he’s doing damage to the good ship Canada.
There are enough negative narratives developing around Iggy. If an “anti-Canadian” narrative starts to take hold, the Libs are in lots more trouble. It’s great to see Tonda not cutting Iggy any slack.
Next minefield for Iggy is the Olympics: does he cheer whole-heartedly for the home team to finish first overall, or does he revert to analytical mode, and predict a mediocre showing ?
LOL, lots of good comments here today; I’m having giggle fits!
My fave faux pas this week was the doorknob holding the doorknob (with an alleged doorknob lurking in the shadows), embarrassing the doorknob holding a pink book.
LDPT: Liberal Doorknob Party of Toronto
Well, that should prove to our LibLuvin media the right man has the job of PM.
And the 2 polls out today prove ‘Canadians are not stupid’.
40:30 38:27
Iffy is going to get absolutely creamed in the debates.
Re: Iggy’s “good” week.
Blame Crash is on to something. When a half dozen screw-ups is a sign of the LPOC looking good I’m pretty sure that the PM and his government have nothing to worry about.
O/T and this just in on the newswire – our economy GREW again by a larger margin than was predicted. I think it was on the CBC newswire.
Iggy’s week just got worse – guess this good news for Canadians will send the scandal-mongers into overdrive.
I give Iggy’s past week a score of 4 doorknobs out of a possible 10 on the scale where doorknobs are a measure of Liberal excellence. I’m thinking it appropriate that the Liberals change their logo to that which includes a doorknob and that their last photo op have several doorknobs in plain site of Iffy.
Excellent comments today and I applaud Richo’s suggestion of rating Iffy’s performance with Doorknobs!!!
The doorknob scale, is a riot, Richco! Good on ya!
Who better than Easter too for the introduction? Easter, is one of the prima dona doorknobs in the LDPoT!!
Facts? Facx? MSM Facts?
Hot. Twits.
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“Daring hoax exposes limits of instant journalism
WASHINGTON – You attend a press conference. The newsmaker speaks. You run a DNA test to confirm they are who they claim to be. And then you publish.
An absurd notion. But only marginally more absurd than the high comedy that played out at Washington’s National Press Club on Monday, a few floors above the Toronto Star’s Washington Bureau, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce made big news that wasn’t.
Already in the news for its hard-lobbying opposition to U.S. climate-change legislation, the pro-business Chamber dropped reporters’ jaws with what appeared to be a turning-point announcement – that the organization now accepts that “without a stable climate, there will be no business.”
The dramatic reversal was conveyed instantly, led by the Reuters agency, and minutes later it was picked up by the New York Times and Washington Post Web sites.
But by the time Fox Business News jumped in with real-time analysis, the real U.S. Chamber of Commerce burst into the news conference, together with red-faced representatives of the National Press Club, to debunk the proceedings as a hoax.
Reporters’ heads swiveled back and forth from the possible interlopers at the podium to the possible interlopers who were calling them out, wondering who among them was legitimate. For a few minutes both sides stood their ground. Someone asked for a business card.
And finally the ruse was revealed – the man purportedly speaking on behalf of America’s largest business lobby was in fact Andy Bichlbaum of the anti-corporate pranksters known as the Yes Men, who had just pulled off their piece de resistance.
After previously impersonating the likes of Dow Chemical, Halliburton and the U.S. Government, the activists had punked their way into the very heart of mainstream American journalism, running a bogus presser in hall of fame studded with the portraits of everyone from Walter Cronkite to Edward R. Murrow.
The real Chamber is hopping mad, as you would expect, and the Press Club is cringingly embarrassed at how easily the acceptance of a $500 room rental fee exposed a major vulnerability to guerrilla-style activism. The rest of us received a cardinal lesson in the dangers of the tweet-first-ask-questions-later pace of modern news.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/713670–potter-daring-hoax-exposes-limits-of-instant-journalism
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“PM No Fan of Canadian News
Richard Madan, CityNews
Prime Minister Stephen Harper revealed he doesn’t tune into Canadian TV news, because he doesn’t like to hear what others say about him”
“I tend to watch American news; I don’t like to watch Canadian news and hear what Allan [Gregg, the pollster/CBC pundit seated in the audience] and everybody else is saying about me”
“My hobby is to watch politics elsewhere.”
Ouch! Make that a “double-ouch” for Canada’s broadcasters pushing the whole, you know, “Save Local TV News,” campaign.”
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/national/article/61225–pm-no-fan-of-canadian-news
The Arar affair happened under Liberal watch, this Conservative government had to deal with it.
Giggles Taber would have Knob Easter as “Hot” being he’s a fellow Spud Islander. Hot potato maybe?
o/t
Ha, this could get really good! What will ‘Tom’ do now with today’s PP segment if he can’t bash the government?
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2009/10/george-smitherman-dismisses-federal-liberals-on-tory-infrastructure-skew/
Canadian sense — Another shameful example of a failed immigration policy by the Liberals.
Thats gotta be the best line I’ve seen all year , heh damn , too true.
Maz2, Good for PM Harper for saying that about Canadian news. I hope he’s watching Fox, though, not CNN. CNN couldn’t get enough of Michelle Obama hula hooping yesterday! That’s not news.
You know, I think the MSM are trying to drive the CPC numbers down. They don’t like the CPC going up and their Libs going down in the polls. They are doing their darnest to narrow the gap. THEY are trying to drive the agenda.
It is so obivious, Giggles, Oliver, Fife, Clark, Travers, Martin, the whole Mothercorp hate PM Harper and the Conservatives.
I’m amazed the CPC is doing so well inspite of the vicious attacks of the opposition and the MSM.
Liz J It looks like Giggles Tabor want to polish Easter’s knob so it will be a shining performance standard for the LOPofT
frmgrl, of course the vindictive muckrakers you list, passing themselves off as journalists are busy trying to drive the Conservative numbers down. That’s why they jump on anything from door knobs to phony cheques. When have we heard anything positive on the economy or anything else from that lot?
They were bemoaning the fact they were talking too much about Iggy and the Liberals, feeling they should be concentrating more on the Conservative government. They’re now going for faux scandals to take the heat off THEIR party and it’s leader.
They are running on their perception we are all dumber than a sack of doorknobs.
How much time and millions of Dollars has Canada spent on the Arar file and Ignatieff is still clueless. Where has Ignatieff been for the last 4 years let alone the last 25 years? Will main street media tell Canadians the facts and who is the real “knob” around Ottawa?
I note a story this important is not covered by CTV News – at least I haven’t seen anything yet. Should we hold our breath and expect Tom Clark have this important story aired on his show Power Play today? Any chance that Tom Clark would present Ignatieff with the “knob of the day award”. Who is more deserving?
“CNN couldn’t’t get enough of Michelle Obama hula hooping yesterday! That’s not news”
Right on Soccermom. Our local CTV news included that segment on their ‘healthwatch’ segment and I ripped of a seething e-mail to them commenting on the fact that we have our own Canadian first lady that should be featured far before Michelle Obama.
Their response was condescending imo and they justified their use of the clip because the piece was about obesity.
Ya right. I would guess the topic was formatted around M.O. versus the other way around.
Do you all think the media is going to latch on to THIS story abou the Liberals?
http://russ-campbell.blogspot.com/2009/10/four-liberal-mps-were-using-public.html
By the way, I’ve been watching Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in QP latley, and she has really grown in her portolio under difficult circumstances. Today for instance, in her interaction with Ken Dryden.
Hey, this doorknob scale of Liberal competence has all kinds of possibilities. Odd that Taber first throws Easter under her bus by calling him out on the screw-up then puts him on her HOT list. There’s just no accounting for low standards I guess. Maybe Jane’s got a thing for doorknobs? Who knew? Brass ones at that.
P.S. – thanks to George Smitherman who straightens Gerard Kennedy and the Liberal spinner out with the truth. Nothing sinister about that infrastructure money after all.
So glad Kennedy left provincial politics. I imagine so too are McGuinty and Smitherman.
Iffy bailed out of Harvard, USA for this?
Was this included in the inducement offered Iffy by Apps&Co?
Sheesh … Iffy won’t go home now.
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“Disposable income rises faster in Canada
Canadians’ real disposable income grew twice as fast as that of Americans’ in the last four years – a trend that will continue in the post-recession economy, finds a new report from CIBC World Markets.
Since 2005, per capita real disposable income in Canada has risen by $2,600, whereas in the U.S. it has risen by just over $1,300. This is a complete reversal of the trend seen in the 1990s when Canadian income stagnated compared to surging U.S. earnings.”
http://www.ilslearningcorporation.ca/articles/articles/1119/1/Disposable-income-rises-faster-in-Canada-/Page1.html
maz2 @ 4:20 – Sssssh, don’t tell any door knob Liberals – they won’t like us HAVING MORE OF OUR OWN MONEY TO SPEND ON BEER AND POPCORN!
“Iffy’s spokeswoman Jill Fairweather blew off the Star’s request for an interview.” She also, apparently, said that the Lib$ couldn’t locate the tape with Iggy’s actual words about this.
Hmmmm. The Lib$, conveniently, can’t find the tapes that would verify what their “leader” (sic) said.
Via Michael Harkov’s quoting Don Martin”s saying that Iggy’s had a “good week”: Martin is so far gone, I’m wondering what planet he’s on: obviously the farthest one from Planet Earth.
frmgrl: It’s not just a minor miracle, it’s a major one, that PMSH and the CPC are doing so well given the Librano$’ cheerleaders in the media. Can you imagine where the polls would be if the MSM supported PMSH and his CPC? ‘Through the roof. ‘Majority for sure.
As it is, a majority could happen anyway: a doubly deserved victory for Stephen Harper, a true Canadian hero.
John Ibbittson editor of G+M, Craig Oliver and Tom Clark at the end of Power Play tell viewers only Conservative party are partison. G+M and CTV working very hard to save Canada from bad conservative government and not backing down on rinc stimulus stats!!! They seem very upset that the Liberal Government of Ontario calling them out on their stats on stimulus. Craig Oliver tells viewers that Dmitri Soudas should just SHUT UP. Another letter of complaint sent to PowerPlay. I am getting the feeling that all my emails are going directly to Junk Mail!
This reminds me of 2006 when Iggy declared that Israel had committed war crimes in Lebanon. In fact, there was never a trial or judgement in that case either.
Iggy seems to believe that his opinions are the equivalent of court judgments.
Soccermom 4:35pm.- Tom Clark is having a hissy fit on our spending for the LPOC.
Well wonders never cease, Tom is worried about the deficit. MY OH MY! he is worried since when; I think he sees money slipping away from the Liberals’ grasp and the money he was hoping to get from them for all the ‘hard work’ he and company(ctv)did for no work at all in protecting the his boss-LPOC from little old conservative party.
The NATIONAL MEDIA STRESS is setting in.
bEC 1:29PM- I notice that CNN LKL has not been talking about his ‘love god OBAMA and Michelle’ I take it from LKL and CNN silence that they are afraid of OBAMA.
Michael Harkov says:
October 22, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Do you all think the media is going to latch on to THIS story about the Liberals?
http://russ-campbell.blogspot.com/2009/10/four-liberal-mps-were-using-public.html
If they don’t, they’re missing a logical ante-up in the match. Of course the traditional LW-MSM will ignore it, but even bloggers like Russ Campbell, and yourself, Michael, for giving this some light, can assist in perforating the accusations of the hypocritical Liebrals. Certainly any online lobbying and solicitations for Party or MP contributions goes against the grain of ethics, even in the sleezy world of politics.
PM Harper and Chief-Shoot-the-Puck.
Anyone remember George Armstrong, aka The Chief?
Does PM Harper know for which team Armstrong played? Which position? (Hint: 1967 was the last Cup for his team.)
Betcha a Tim’s coffee PM Harper knows.
>>> “the figures suggest reserves are winning out.”
IMO, PM Harper is a political genius.
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“Ontario reserves to see boom in rink building”
“Stimulus spending poised to benefit northern Ontario communities; Kenora Tory MP credits his riding’s success to hard work”
>>> “He also sees a political message to his communities in the fact that rookie Tory MP Greg Rickford, who narrowly won the riding of Kenora, long-held by the Liberals,
>>> secured more funding than any other riding in the province – largely for 22 native communities.
“There’s a demonstration that, you know, if you happen to support the ruling party, then you get some special consideration,” said Chief Beardy.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-reserves-to-see-boom-in-rink-building/article1334745/
How about a Disney movie called Doorknobs and Broomsticks, NOT starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson but Hedy Fry and Wayner Easter?
Wayne’s fantasies are equally far out.
Fay at 6:44 pm – I saw that too.
And with that segment I decided I wouldn’t be watching PP any more.
I miss Mike Duffy!
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is really doing well, a rookie handling a monster thrown at her within months of being elected to Parliament.
PMSHs judgement of her capabilities was right on.
Rick Hillier more or less backs up Minister McKay and O’Conner’s claims they didn’t see the 2006 report, he doesn’t recall seeing it either:
http://www.canada.com/news/national/defence+chief+cannot+recall+reading+report+over+Afghan+detainees/2133598/story.html
I miss Mike Duffy too! I quess I will have to give up on Power Play and start watching Glen Beck on Fox news. I wish we had Fox news in Canada.
For a fun read, visit The Way the Ball Bounces, for take on iffy changing his mind.
Compares him to punksitwany phil (sp) and seing his shadow gives us 6 more weeks of conservative government.
-Has anyone looked in Fife’s office for that missing tape or a washroom.
If anyone should shut up it is Craig and giggles.
Here is the real headline:
>>> “Toronto ridings actually come out on top”.
>>> “Toronto ridings actually come out on top when it comes to the $2 billion federal Knowledge Infrastructure Program to fix up colleges and universities, said Smitherman.”
TORedStar plays it down with this headline:
>>> “Toronto gets fair share of cash for projects, Smitherman says
Contrary to what the federal Liberals charge, Toronto is not starved of federal infrastructure dollars, says Ontario deputy Premier George Smitherman.
Toronto ridings actually come out on top when it comes to the $2 billion federal Knowledge Infrastructure Program to fix up colleges and universities, said Smitherman.”
“But once the billions in combined federal and provincial infrastructure dollars are handed out, Smitherman said he is “pretty confident” it will have been done fairly.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stimulus/article/714709–toronto-gets-fair-share-of-cash-for-projects-smitherman-says
Joanne, Fay et all,
Watch PP with the mute button on. You can tell exactly what is being said just by the facial expressions on Tom Clark’s face. Yesterday, it seemed as though he was staring right through the conservative viewers and at times, I was concerned he may pop a blood vessel.
Knowing this group, I always suspect that after a week of PP, piling on the government we have bombarded them with complaints. It almost seems as though the guy piles on harder and is saying, na na na na na!
Yesterday, the Smitherson comments should have been front and center. Ralph Goodale’s accusation in the HoC should have been dissected. Mark Carney’s speech should have been discussed but what happens? Tom continues to alienate what few conservative viewers he has left. It’s so disappointing.
Akin/MSM calls this “political cover”.
Yes, PM Harper is a political genius.
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“Ontario Liberal backs Harper over stimulus charges
Canwest News Service via National Post ^ | 2009-10-23 | David Akin
OTTAWA – The federal Conservative government got political cover Thursday from a senior Ontario Liberal cabinet minister and from a group representing the country’s municipal leaders over allegations federal economic stimulus funding was being directed to ridings held by Tory MPs.
For several days now, the opposition Liberals and several news organizations have been building the case that more money is going to Tory ridings than non-Conservative ridings.
But George Smitherman, Ontario’s deputy premier and his government’s infrastructure minister, said statistical analyses that have made that case are based on incomplete data and that the Liberal government in his province sees no evidence that federal Conservatives are directing stimulus funding for political gain.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369066/posts
“If anyone should shut up it’s Craig and giggles”, MaryT, I agree.
If Soudas is doing so much harm to the Conservatives you’d expect those Liberal cheerleaders to cheer him on.
Power Play is off my list as of last evening. There’s not a shred of doubt Clark is another player for the Liberals.
Ralphie Goodale sure is one bitter Liberal who cannot accept sitting in Opposition. He has to be angry at the people of Canada too, they elected the Conservatives to govern. He just oozes hatred for the PM and his government both in the House and out. If it’s all for show, he’s one heck of an actor. I believe he accused the Conservatives of fraud in the House but innuendo had to suffice outside the immunity of the House. On PP Clark tried to get him to make the accusation but he hedged around it as he wriggled his butt on the stool using his usual hand gestures.
I read the 10 CTV stations are in danger of closing in Ontario, wonder how much PP and Tom Clark have to do with losing viewers and advertizers in Ont. If conservatives are turning ctv off, could that be the reason PMSH is gaining strength in that province.
CBC will soon be much better, they are making changes to newsworld, and soon Peter M will be standing to deliver the news. Does that mean his brain will start working. The At Issue panel didn’t look too happy last night. Body language and facial expressions is sometimes more truthful and the words they speak.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but I sure don’t blame PM Harper for saying he doesn’t watch Canadian news.
Personally, I’m going to boycott CTV. Even CBC is better.
I hardly watch PP with Tommy Clark anymore. Should rename it Bash the Tories Show. Never have watched QP with Giggles and Oliver. Whenever I’ve seen them you can tell they hate PM Harper and the Conservatives.
Maybe Tommy is auditioning to be a Liberal senator if they Liberals ever get back in.
I now watch Glenn Beck. At least you learn something and don’t feel like you need a shower at the end of the show.
What we should all be even more frustrated about is the regionalization of this debate. Where is that in the discussion? Why has that been ignored? What is wrong with a news media that relies on the word of ONLY Ontario MP’s and then a rebuttal by Ontario Minister, Smitherman?
Where was their concern and dissection of infrastructure $’s for 9 other provinces and 2 territories?
Where are the interviews from those officials?
This is bunk! The national television networks are spending millions of dollars telling Canadians that we will lose our regional stations but in the meantime, they have resorted to placing Canadian national events into a square box called upper and lower Canada.
This should outrage ALL CANADIANS!
Just make sure you email Tom Clark to let him know that you are not impressed with his impartiality on the show. Take a strip of him every time his bias shows and let others on CTV know that as well.
tclark@ctv.ca
The answer bec is obvious. The only MPs the libs have are from Ontario. Hence the name LPOT
When sending emails to Tom Clark, add a little blurb saying you will not be watching olympic coverage on ctv, or the torch run, especially as ctv has designated 27 of their people to carry the torch.
One could go further and contact all advertisers that they will boycott them until ctv changes its bias and fires Clark.
And why is there no outrage over the liberal red mittens with the maple leaf on them.
Agree Bec, that Tom Clark has turned this show into politics for Upper and Lower Canada! My favourite part on Mike Duffy was The Radio Guys. They were a mix of talk radio from all parts of Canada. I noticed that Tom Clark appeared very uncomfortable with comments made by former finance minister of BC. Yesterday he featured only Peter Donalo and Jean Pierre. They happily told Tom what he wanted to hear.
I don’t think CTV cares about all Canadians. They didn’t blink an eye closing down Brandon’s local CTV station.
Not to defend Power Play but sometimes there are little gems that appear now and then.
I have to say I used to think Clark was pretty fair and even-handed. There were moments, as in when he went after Lisa Raitt unmercifully, but by and large he was more reasonable than any other political commentator on TV. He certainly did not have Duff’s personality, but I enjoyed the perspective he brought to US/Canada relations.
Since he came back in September, however, things have changed and he simply parrots Liberal talking-points, feeds Liberal MPs puff questions, and tries to ambush Conservatives.
I can only imagine his ratings have dropped, and he thinks the only way to keep his job is to go overboard for the Liberals.
I thought the same thing about CTV red mittens for the Olympics Mary T. I quess Craig Oliver would say that shows we are overly partison and just tell us to SHUT UP!!!
CTV viewers…..suckers ALL! It’s a sickness I tell you! Viewership is going down for a reason..well, except for the way too many here who seem to have little choice.
Knock it off! They’re really not worth the time. As Joanne has said, CBC of late is turning out much better and balanced fare.
Iffy: ““There’ll be more and we’ll tie it up in a big bow and hand it to Canadians and say, ‘There you are.’”
Iffy’O'narcissist.
I = 9.
He = 7.
“It’s very visceral.”
“I don’t think I’m dreaming.”
“*Bragging and false autobiography – The narcissist brags incessantly. His speech is peppered with “I”, “my”, “myself”, and “mine”.”
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“What happened, Michael?”
“I don’t pretend to have all the answers. I’m still learning. And there are three or four other pieces that have to be there before Canadians start to think, ‘Yeah, well, he’s at least thinking about our future,’ ” he says, again casting forward. “He’s not up there at 50,000 feet, he’s trying to address the anxieties and anguish that I saw in that food line, that I see in the supervisor’s face. And you have to make that connection. And it’s not enough to just have lots of ideas, lots of policies. People have got to feel, ‘That guy, he’s in my corner. He’s a little funny, he’s got a funny name, he’s been outside the country, but he’s in my corner.’ I mean, that’s the connection you have to make. It’s very visceral. And I feel I make the connection constantly. I don’t think I’m dreaming.”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/23/what-happened-michael/print/
*http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
Oliver loves Trudeau apparently Trudeau can do no wrong. He is proud that 80% of canadian national debt is caused by his beloved Trudeau. Can you imagine- 80%. We should remind Clark of that one.
I can’t watch PP anymore, the man goes hysterical that the conservatives are spending wheres the liberal were accumilating an eight year balance budget by cutting funds to infrastrusture health military etc etc. the very same areas this prime minister has to clean up now after liberal years of neglect.
You see, all that money the prime minister is spending is causing a major problem for the liberals and their petty media as they see money slipping through their fingers for the sake of canadians canadians who were ignored by the liberal party of canada. And as money flow into communities; Tom’s dream of seeing some of that cash for the hard work of displaying himself as a fool for the sake of LPOC, is beyond reach. That is why he is so pissed off at the PM.
Tom Clark and the rest of them are not interested in the canadian public. PERIOD.
Good on the prime minister for saying that he doesn’t listen to the canadian news. Who does anyway, the same drawn out media repeat the same drawn out MEDIAS’ NEWS-NOT CANADIAN NEWS- a big difference.
You see H here, you see H there,
That dreaded H is everywhere.
Painting Canada Blue.
Driving MissIffy and his kids crazy.
More, please.
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“* Action Plan Train Ads Spotted in Vancouver
2 trains spotted on the spare track at Stadium Skytrain Station – at a cost of at least $10,000 – reports blogger”
“* Tories spend $46,000 to turn Toronto GO Trains into rolling ads”
(via nnw)
Liberal Ad$Cam: “agent C4590″.
Liberal Chretien-MartinJr-Dion-Hezbollah Coderre, et al: “brothers”.
The Ad$Cam sisters included, Our Lady of the Cliches, aka Sheila Copps.
Closer and closer to the Liberal Ad$Cammers.
To the RCMP: Keep the heat on. There will be more rats surfacing.
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“Benoît Corbeil’s downfall linked to friend
who became agent C4590
Citing ‘vengeance’ rather than cash payments, Alain Renaud offered to work with the RCMP to help bring down key figure in the Liberal sponsorship scandal
Benoît Corbeil and Alain Renaud were best of friends in the heyday of the Chrétien government, calling themselves “brothers” as they organized for the Liberals through the 1990s and early 2000s.
The friendship seemed strong enough to last a lifetime – except that in 2004 Mr. Renaud embarked on a secret mission as “C4590,” a key informant in the massive RCMP investigation into the sponsorship scandal.
In a previously unknown tale of intrigue and betrayal, Mr. Renaud wore a wire to help the Mounties nail Mr. Corbeil on charges of fraud and influence peddling last year. For his work, he received $29,000 plus a $50,000 performance bonus, and has now been relocated into the witness protection program, with the RCMP effectively granting him immunity from prosecution. And his labours could bear further fruit: Mr. Renaud provided information on at least two other players in the scandal, with the potential for more bonus money, documents show.
Mr. Corbeil, now 46, former director-general of the Liberal Party’s Quebec wing, pleaded guilty last year and underwent a sentencing hearing in Montreal Friday.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/benot-corbeils-downfall-linked-to-friend-who-became-agent-c4590/article1336323/
“Liberal Senator Serge Joyal, who opposes the new law, remained unapologetic about the committee’s amendments yesterday, saying the new law was faulty on numerous fronts.”
This is a Liberal surrender.
It will go largely unnoticed by the liberal-left/Liberals/MSM.
It’s a blow to the Liberal appointed judges.
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“Senate relents on crime bill
2-for-1 sentencing. Amendment would have weakened legislation
The unelected Senate has retreated from a fight with elected MPs over a bill designed to eliminate a judicial practice, when sentencing offenders, to credit them on a two-for-one basis for each day already spent in detention.
The proposed legislation became enshrined into law yesterday, after the upper chamber voted against a Senate committee’s amendment two weeks ago to dramatically weaken the bill because it removes discretion for judges to sentence as they see fit.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Senate+relents+crime+bill/2134815/story.html
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Go to Bourque to see where it’s placed.
http://www.bourque.org/