CBC News on Monday night: Liberals take Labrador, as Jones wins big over Penashue I have to confess to being caught by surprise when Labrador MP Peter Penashue suddenly announced his resignation from the House of Commons and his intention to run in the subsequent by-election. It made a lot
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: The perfect man for the job
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue has promised to do something very unusual this coming Tuesday. He’s going to offer an explanation. My interest in Penashue was originally piqued by this video posted at Impolitical in which the minister mindlessly recites the same non-answer to every question the reporter can think to ask him. Until this past week, he’d been doing pretty much the same with every reporter since then, though not many have had the opportunity to get even that much from him. And until this past week, his colleagues on the opposition side of the Commons were getting even less. Questions put to the member about possible irregularities in his campaign financing were being fielded by anyone but. So the NDP decided to talk about intergovernmental affairs and actually got Penashue to stand up and start talking….
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: The view from under the bus
This past week Michael Sona publicly declared his membership in a very large club: people who have grown impatient waiting for Elections Canada. Beyond that and his claim to be completely innocent of any attempt to suppress votes in Guelph, there’s not that much to take away from his interview
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: The court has spoken
The post I put up yesterday to report on the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding Etobicoke Centre has been updated a couple of times with links to media coverage. There’s lots there if you want to dive in and get even more detail. Short version, as you’ve probably heard by now:
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: Peter, Paul and Provincial Airlines
Two months ago I added Peter Penashue, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, to the list of people I was keeping an eye on for this series of posts. He finally surfaced again this week. Before we get into the details of Penashue’s campaign spending during last year’s federal election, let’s get
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: Too much of nothing
The Council of Canadians and the seven ridings When it was first reported that the applicants in this case were requesting information from Elections Canada, it was suggested that EC was going to defer to the court and the matter would be considered at the hearing scheduled for next month.
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