Harper adds another rung to his 'Majority' ladder

tough love · Post by **tough love** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:00 am

Harper considers legal action over Adscam funds

CTV.ca News:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper remained vague Thursday about whether his party will sue the Liberal Party of Canada to reclaim some of the money lost in the federal sponsorship program.

"All I can say is the government will review all legal avenues," Prime Minister Stephen Harper told The Canadian Press.

The Liberals have already paid back $1.14 million that the party admits was diverted from the sponsorship program.

But Harper said it's possible "that there continues to be money that's missing."

Liberal MP Scott Brison dismissed any potential law suit as nothing but partisan politics financed by taxpayers' money.

"I believe this is all part of an ongoing smear campaign by the government against the Liberal party," he told CP.

The sponsorship program was developed to boost the profile of the federal government in Quebec after 1995's slim federalist victory in the sovereignty referendum.

An inquiry later found that $155 million of about $355 million in funding set aside for the program found its way to Liberal-friendly ad agencies and contractors who often performed little or no work for their pay.

Part of the money was siphoned back to the Quebec wing of the federal Liberal Party, with $800,000 in official donations and more than $1 million in kick-backs.

Chuck Guite, who ran the program in the 1990s, is one of three executives charged in the sponsorship probe. Advertising executives Jean Brault and Paul Coffin have already been charged and sentenced for their involvement.

Guite's fraud trial wrapped up four days of testimony on Wednesday, during which government witnesses pointed to federal paperwork where the executive apparently disregarded the rules when awarding lucrative promotional contracts.

Guite is defending himself in the trial, which will resume on Monday.

Coffin pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud last May, and was sentenced to an 18-month prison term by a Quebec appeals court.

Initially, he received a two-year less a day conditional sentence of community service. The Crown appealed the ruling, however, saying the sentence was not enough to deter others from doing the same in the future.

Brault has already pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud totaling $1.6 million. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison on May 5.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... TVNewsAt11

Too Freakin CHOICE:

Criminals Say What:

Liberal MP Scott Brison dismissed any potential law suit as nothing but partisan politics financed by taxpayers' money.

"I believe this is all part of an ongoing smear campaign by the government against the Liberal party," he told CP.

Me thinks those desperate thieving pieces 'o crap did a real good job of smearing themselve$. :wink:

RACK the visionist Harper for always being a step ahead of the tards when it comes to the majority dance.

Would anyone like to hazzard a guess on what the poll results would be if the real public were asked if they think that the Government of Canada has the right to, or should they sue the self_serving Libby Scam_Bag$???

Hummm, anyone?

It's not to late to change teams, if you want to be on the winning side, Losers.

tough love · Post by **tough love** » Sat May 13, 2006 10:27 am

Would anyone like to hazzard a guess on what the poll results would be if the real public were asked if they think that the Government of Canada has the right to, or should they sue the self_serving Libby Scam_Bag$???

Hummm, anyone?

That's what I thought.
I fault no one for being shamed into silence.

Once again; RACK The Poli_Skills of The Honorable Prime Minister Harper, and a good day to all.

btw...all repentant losers are being welcomed into The Alliance fold with open arms, no questions asked.

Harper Loves You :)

Canadian · Post by **Canadian** » Sat May 13, 2006 2:27 pm

ahh bullshit. All this is , is just a political stunt.

You want to talk about wasting money, read this:

The Conservative government is set to sign a botched building deal that will cost taxpayers an incredible 20 times its past market value, says an NDP MP.

Ottawa's Paul Dewar said yesterday the public works department is inking a 10-year lease-to-own agreement worth $624 million for a building the last Liberal government could have bought outright for $30 million.

"It really is outrageous. The government will spend over $620 million for this property by the time it finally owns it -- 20 times more than the original purchase price," Dewar fumed in the House of Commons.

The building at 3000 Merivale Rd., which formerly housed JDS Uniphase, will become the new RCMP headquarters.

Public Works Canada had agreed to buy the building for the department of national defence headquarters, but the agreement was nixed and private developer Minto Inc. scooped it for $30 million.

Public Works Minister Michael Fortier said a memorandum of understanding has been signed. He said real estate markets fluctuate and values go up and down.

Outrageous is an understatement. They will surly bankrupt the country with their wild spending and silly gst cut.

Read the rest here

Hapday · Post by **Hapday** » Sat May 13, 2006 2:32 pm

Public Works Canada had agreed to buy the building for the department of national defence headquarters, but the agreement was nixed and private developer Minto Inc. scooped it for $30 million

When was the deal nixed? You don't just buy a commercial property in week, so Minto must have bought it a while ago. This article is leaving a LOT of information out of this story.

The petty mentality of the press keeps grinding that axe.

Hapday · Post by **Hapday** » Sat May 13, 2006 2:36 pm

Here is reason #1,209 why the federal gLiberals won't be in power for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

Tories smell new scandal over gun registry costs
Gun registry costs may heat up again

Allan Woods, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, May 12, 2006

OTTAWA - The former Liberal government "broke every rule in the book" when it signed a $273-million computer contract for the federal gun registry -- now the subject of a "stop-work" order -- and never reported the costs or terms of the deal to Parliament, a longtime Conservative gun-registry critic alleges.

Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, who discovered the existence of the 15-year contract last fall, said that it was never reported to Parliament in government estimates on spending, or disclosed by the Treasury Board, which controls the government purse.

A Tory source referred to the 383-page contract, which was obtained by Breitkreuz under the Access to Information Act and provided to CanWest News Service, as the "smoking gun" in the troubled saga of the Canadian Firearms Centre.

CanWest believes Auditor General Sheila Fraser will report Tuesday that the former Liberal government kept the true costs of the gun registry from Parliament and that the problems identified in her initial 2002 audit of the controversial program continued for at least three years despite fierce criticism and the scrutiny of opposition parties.

"When they gave out that $273-million contract, they broke every rule in the book," Breitkreuz said, echoing the phrase that Fraser made famous in her audit of the $250-million sponsorship program.

Former Liberal public works minister Scott Brison disputed the Tory allegations Thursday. "To the best of my knowledge we were extremely vigorous" in reporting gun registry costs to Parliament, he said.

Nevertheless, the Conservatives believe the findings they expect to see in next Tuesday's audit into the firearms program will give them the ammunition they need to scrap the registry.

"I think it's a huge story and in my mind this is twice as big a scandal as the sponsorship scandal because here you've got contracts over $500 million going out and the work being done just doesn't measure up to that kind of money that we're spending," Breitkreuz said.

Public Works Minister Michael Fortier issued a stop-work order at the end of April to "reassess" parts of a contract that allows a computer consortium known as Team Centra to run the Canadian Firearms Centre's gun registration system until 2020.

"It's not the whole contract. It's just some parts of the contract," said Jean-Luc Benoit, a spokesman for the minister.

IRATE AT LEAK

Auditor General Sheila Fraser is "very upset" by the leak of an audit report, due on Tuesday, dealing with the federal gun registry. She says she has strong suspicions about who gave it to the media.

News reports Thursday suggested the previous Liberal government hid the gun program's cost overruns from Parliament.

"We will be speaking to certain people to try to encourage perhaps more (discretion) in the future, and that leaks like this are really not helpful and are also an affront to Parliament," Fraser told the Commons public accounts committee.

The leak did not come from her office, Fraser insisted.
© The Windsor Star 2006

fix · Post by **fix** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:34 pm

The petty mentality of the right wing Harper's nutsak swinging press keeps grinding that axe.

Let's talk about leaks shall we...

Ottawa probes gun registry leak
Canadian Press

Ottawa — The federal government has launched an internal investigation to find out who leaked details from an auditor general's report that's due out next week.

But the New Democrats say that's not good enough and they want the Mounties to investigate.

"If there's going to be an investigation into the government, it ought not be the government that investigates the government," NDP critic David Christopherson said.

"We want to bring in the RCMP."

On Thursday, news reports detailed portions of a report dealing with the federal gun registry.

Auditor General Sheila Fraser is to present her report to the House of Commons next Tuesday.

Ms. Fraser, who said she was "very upset" by the leak and had strong suspicions about who let out the details, didn't reveal who she suspected.

But Opposition MPs did not hesitate to point fingers, saying the leak came straight from the Conservative government.

The leaked audit information suggested the previous Liberal government hid the registry program's cost overruns from Parliament.

Conservative MP Jason Kenney says the Tories want to find out if the leak came from the government, and then take any necessary action.

"An internal investigation has been launched to see if this information was leaked from a government source," Mr. Kenney told the Commons.

"We certainly hope that it wasn't, and if it was, anybody responsible will be held accountable because this is a government of accountability."

Later outside the Commons, Mr. Kenney said he did not believe the leak is a criminal matter.

The Harpocrites purposely used a leak in an to attempt to discredit the gun registry and now they want to investigate who leaked the information.

Cons investigating cons...

:roll:

I agree, bring in the RCMP, the same way that the Harpocrites demanded happen in the Goodale leak...

fix · Post by **fix** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:38 pm

Canadian wrote:ahh bullshit. All this is , is just a political stunt.

You want to talk about wasting money, read this:

The Conservative government is set to sign a botched building deal that will cost taxpayers an incredible 20 times its past market value, says an NDP MP.

Ottawa's Paul Dewar said yesterday the public works department is inking a 10-year lease-to-own agreement worth $624 million for a building the last Liberal government could have bought outright for $30 million.

"It really is outrageous. The government will spend over $620 million for this property by the time it finally owns it -- 20 times more than the original purchase price," Dewar fumed in the House of Commons.

The building at 3000 Merivale Rd., which formerly housed JDS Uniphase, will become the new RCMP headquarters.

Public Works Canada had agreed to buy the building for the department of national defence headquarters, but the agreement was nixed and private developer Minto Inc. scooped it for $30 million.

Public Works Minister Michael Fortier said a memorandum of understanding has been signed. He said real estate markets fluctuate and values go up and down.
Outrageous is an understatement. They will surly bankrupt the country with their wild spending and silly gst cut.

Read the rest here

Nobody ever said Cons were good at balancing budgets or not running the country into huge defecits with their slash, burn and spend policies...

There's more to this story though... somewhere someone affiliated with the Cons is getting a multi-million dollar kickback..
You can bet on it.

al? · Post by **al?** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:13 pm

Hapday wrote:
The petty mentality of the press keeps grinding that axe.

Word.

The public has spoken. Ironically, the mountains of shit the fiberals keep flinging at the wall only splashes right back on them, and the corruption of their term in power only becomes more apparent.

fix · Post by **fix** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:18 pm

al? wrote:
Hapday wrote:
The petty mentality of the press keeps grinding that axe.
Word.

The public has spoken. Ironically, the mountains of shit the fiberals keep flinging at the wall only splashes right back on them, and the corruption of their term in power only becomes more apparent.

The public said, they don't trust Dicatator Harper enough to allow him a majority.

The corruption, hypocrisy and lies of your tards first 100 days in power is becoming more and more apparent...
You won't last 3 years let alone 13 years...

tough love · Post by **tough love** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:26 pm

Gotta love the smell of Libby Desperation in the morning.

MAJORITY

Carry On. :)

fix · Post by **fix** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:40 pm

:roll:

Is that why you needed the Quebec seperatists help in having your tard's budget passed?

Dream on there Tina, Harpocrite's not getting a majority in his lifetime.

tough love · Post by **tough love** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:49 pm

My dream will be your nightmare.

Works for me.