Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/15/pol-g8-legacy-fund.html
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Accidental Deliberations: On official distortions
Charlie Angus is right to note that one of the more serious aspects of Tony Clement’s G8 pork-barrel coverup may be the prospect that senior bureaucrats gave false information to the Auditor General at the Cons’ behest. But it’s also worth noting the p…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Out of scope
Following up on this morning’s post, there’s actually another notable bit of misdirection involved in Tony Clement’s G8 pork-barrelling which helps to explain why the Auditor General was led astray in reporting on the Cons’ spending.
Here’s some of t…
Continue readingImpolitical: Early evening accountability watch
The RCMP: The Mounties have dropped their preliminary probe of a former Tory aide who was cited for political interference in an access-to-information request. An RCMP spokeswoman said Monday there will be no further investigation into Sebastien Togner…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tip of the iceberg
Needless to say, we’ll figure to hear plenty more about the revelation that Tony Clement administered G8 Muskoka pork-barrelling out of his constituency office to avoid the accountability that comes with actual government consultations. But the story …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: RCMP to investigate the Looters In Suits $50 million expenditure 100km from Huntsville (un-approved G8 spending)
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’ « the reeves reportExcerpt from The Reeves Report:Because of an election-time early leak of the Auditor General’s G8 report which I wrote about here, many opposition MP’s were su…
Continue readingImpolitical: The RCMP G8 evaluation in the early going
The way the news of a possible RCMP investigation into the Harper government’s G8 spending broke yesterday really was interesting. We have learned, courtesy of the Auditor General’s review, of $50 million being spent on G8 legacy projects in Tony Cleme…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- When Paul Wells tears into a story, you can be assured of results that are both entertaining and frustrating. This week, he’s been hard at work pointing the complete lack of transparency and credibility in cuts which…
Continue readingSleaze, slush funds and the Auditor-General’s report: This is supposed to make a difference?
With the release of Sheila Fraser’s report detailing a record of malfeasance and misdirection regarding G8/G20 spending, a whole raft of familiar patterns re-emerges.
Sleaze, slush funds, money earmarked for border infrastructure spent in Huntsville (…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: I Like the Acting AG Already
“The government didn’t tell Parliament it was approving $50 million for a G8 legacy fund that doled out cash for projects in cabinet minister Tony Clement’s riding based on his advice, according to the auditor general, who could find no paper trai…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Is the G20 slush fund scandal the Harper Tory gun registry?
When the Auditor General first reported about the gun registry, she told Canadians that “What’s really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark” about the cost of building the long gun registry.
Then opposition Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkr…
Continue readingImpolitical: It matters
Just wanted to pick up on a thought in Warren Kinsella’s post on the release of the Auditor General’s report today: “Lying liars.”
The Auditor General’s report has confirmed what came up during the election, that there was serious non-disclosure to Pa…
Continue readingBaird gives Washington the green light by backing Obama’s 1967 proposal
Well if you were expecting to see more unity and a more streamlined process of decision making from the Harper government, you can forget about it.
The new Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada does in fact stand with U.S. preside…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Canada dutifully fulfills the US’s role towards Israel
Canadian policy and rhetoric has been staunchly pro-Israel for a long a time. It is a stance which, especially with Harper at the helm, arguably resulted in Canada’s inability to win a security council seat last year. However, despite adopting a positi…
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM Goes to Europe for G8
Inspired by these stories: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/25/harper-europe-g8.htmlhttp://www.thestar.com/news/article/996441–siu-s-g20-ruling-a-failure-of-justice
Continue readingPolygonic: Some summit perspective
G8 times are here again! And France gets its day in the sun as host, which clearly heralds the ascent of a new French Order in Europe and the world. It will inevitably send their newspapers and TV chat hosts into a month-long tizzy of neurotic self-congratulation and overblown patriotism. Nicolas Sarkozy will almost certainly […]
Railroaded by Metrolinx: G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
“You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it.”– Prime Minister Harper This is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be true. Over the past three weeks, I marched on eight demonstrations, until Sunday, when I collapsed from heat exhaustion. I
Continue readingRailroaded by Metrolinx: G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
“You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it.”- Prime Minister HarperThis is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be true. Over the past three weeks, I marched on eight demonstrations, until Sunday, when I collapsed fro…
Continue readingRailroaded by Metrolinx: G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
“You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it.”– Prime Minister Harper This is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be true. Over the past three weeks, I marched on eight demonstrations, until Sunday, when I collapsed from heat exhaustion. I
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: But seriously folks…
This week has been one hell of a ride. But now that things have settled down and my fifteen minutes of fame is coming to an end, I have a chance to pause and reflect on the issue that sparked all this: the outrageous, growing bill for the G8 and G20 …
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