What is going on at the ethics committee under Dean Del Mastro’s leadership deserves plenty of sunlight. From a Liberal release this afternoon: Liberal Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics critic Scott Andrews made the following statement today on…
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Impolitical: "Canadians expect their government to respect their fundamental rights and freedoms"
Two things here today on freedom of the press and privacy rights.Dean Del Mastro and his Conservative confreres on the access to information parliamentary committee are trying to get up into CBC’s business – to an even greater extent than they already …
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Sid Ryan = Deal Del Mastro, NDP = Conservative
Need proof that the NDP and Conservatives are more similar than not? Let me offer this up:The Ontario Federation of Labour has commissioned a new poll that shows New Democrats leading or competitive in a number of key ridings.OFL President Sid Ryan sai…
Continue readingImpolitical: The Conservatives make a witness list
Interesting list here, to put it mildly: “Peladeau, Von Finckenstein, Sun Media journos to testify before committee on CBC.” It’s bad enough that multiple representatives who abhor public funding for the CBC will be given a platform. Why 3 of them? I c…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Dean Del Mastro: Champion of Democracy and Scientific Polling Methodologies
The biggest fireworks so far in the sleepy Ontario election campaign have not come between the candidates, but between the pollsters. And there’s a new pollster on the block – Dean Del Mastro:Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary ha…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Dean Del Mastro Plays the Race Card From an Incomplete Deck
When Dalton McGuinty released his party platform, one item had Federal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro in a flap.The $10,000 incentive to employers who hire immigrants.For Del Mastro it brought back chilling reminders of Bob Rae and affirmative action,…
Continue readingImpolitical: More Tory hypocrisy: Dean Del Mastro version
A federal Conservative is stepping in to help Tim Hudak’s PCs complete that Conservative tri-fecta they’re looking for. The Ford-Hudak-Harper one. Here’s what Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro had to say this afternoon: A senior federal Cons…
Continue readingJane Taber’s one-sided column unleashes Dean Del Mastro on Margaret Atwood
In a column worthy of her nickname ‘Tory Taber’, the Globe writer gives all kinds of space to the Con spokesperson to insult and lie about Margaret Atwood. Only one thing missing – Margaret Atwood’s response to Mastro. Because Tabor doesn’t provide any. Another day at our Con media office. All Con all the time.
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Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Dean Del Mastro’s lie-based campaign techniques
At a punditry panel this morning at the Conservative Convention in Ottawa, Conservative MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Dean Del Mastro, took to the microphone to share some of his campaign techniques.Apparently his primary techni…
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