Friday, April 6, 2007

Hinton's department in confusion


Veterans Affairs Canada is coming under fire over the ceremonies at the Vimy memorial in France. First a Radio-Canada reporter noticed that French language interpretive panels on the monument were full of really bad French, so VA Minister Greg Thompson (Betty Hinton's boss) promised he would have them removed.
Now David Thompson, the head organizer of a group of 3,600 students travelling from Canada to join the ceremonies, is saying Veterans Affairs backed down on an agreement to provide lunch for the students the day of the ceremony. The organizers now have to put together $33,000 dollars for lunches ... money that was going to buy souvenirs for the students. CBC says:
The students raised the money to pay for their travel and other costs on the trip. Taxpayers are paying for more than 100 government officials to attend the ceremony.

You can bet one of those officials,our very own MP, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs, is Betty Hinton.

Cited article by CBC News
Published April 5, 2007
Copyright © CBC 2007

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems to me someone should be requesting the financial accounting for this trip.

Anonymous said...

Seems to me the knuckleheads who run this blog have their facts wrong.

Anonymous said...

Hey what happened to the previous blog about Patch and all that good stuff? You mean this blog was set up by Patch supporters? Wow, what a revelation!!!!

Anonymous said...

where's the cheese guy?

Anonymous said...

We are on to you knuckleheads...the lawsuits should flow shortly!!!

Anonymous said...

Its not Hinton out, its Liberals out as they flee off the sinking blog followed closely by defamation lawyers....run you little fourlegged vermin, run!!!

Anonymous said...

Patch could always run for the Greens, and Dion could always agree not to run a Liberal here

Anonymous said...

LETS' MAKE A DEAL DION!!!

Anonymous said...

Is Dion still a French citizen?

Anonymous said...

Yes.

Anonymous said...

How do you spell Dion in French?

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure but the emphasis is on the third syllable