So, yes, she has a home in Kamloops. But she doesn't live in it. Is there any proof she has this home? No. Except this:
"I told you I have. That should be good enough for you."
Really? We were also told the Conservatives would:
- give us a universal patient wait-times guarantee (not a half-baked plan to reduce lineups for one type of surgery per province)
- improve government accountability (not appoint Conservative friends and allies to every position possible)
- reduce the tax burden on Canadians (instead of lowering the GST and leaving the income tax system grossly unfair)
- improve child care (do we even have to say anything?)
- come up with a real plan to tackle climate change (not shuffle environment ministers and graphic designs with no real effect)
Cited editorial by Susan Duncan
Published 19 August, 2007
© Copyright The Daily News in Kamloops
14 comments:
Well, after 13 years of Liberals I'm still waiting for half the REDBOOK promises (at least). I recall something about scrapping the GST...I also recall the SAR/maritime helicopter deal getting cancelled at a higher cost than the eventual replacement machines (which are apparently not up to the task. I remember Jayne Stewart (sp) and 1.5 billon unaccounted for in the HRDC scandal. I remember "St. Nelson" promising something like 10,000 new jobs to be created here using some of the aforementioned cash. I remember trying to access it (after the provincial NDP and the federal Libs destroyed the local economy) and discovering how tight the reins were on ensuring only the politicly well-connected could cash in. I remember being scandalized when I learned how crooked the deal was and going to "St. Nelson's" office to express my concerns and being assured my fears were unfounded because the program was being run by his former staffers.
I also recall a recent cash injection here of 6.6 million bucks for the airport.
As to Mrs Hinton's local living situation, with nutbars like you guys and the other bile-filled wreckers Ayn Rand so accurately portrays in Atlas Shrugged haunting her, I'm not the least surprised she has the good sense to keep her home address confidential...it is simply common sense on her part...after all she spends most of her time in Ottawa working for us.
This blog owner can dish it our but cant take...that's why they hide behind anonymous service providers......................
I think they call you wannabe politicians with no guts to face the electorate as having "living room courage" If you dont know what it is, rent Billy Crystal's Saturday Night.
Constructive discussion does not involve vicious gossip with very little foundation. As a great thinker once said: "if you cant attack a person's ideas, attack the person"
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Okay here's a relevant post:
Did the Liberals when in govt give us money for the airport expansion?
NO
Did the Liberals do anything about the pine beetle infestation when it was still controllable?
NO
Did the Liberal senate pass the new tougher crime bill of the Conservatives?
NO
Did the Liberals implement a child care program that put more money and choice in the hands of parents?
NO
Did the Liberals do anything about KYOTO or global warming?
NO
Did the Liberals pass any legislation to prevent scandals such as the Sponsorship scandal?
NO
Did the Liberals vote to put us in Afghanistan?
YES
Did the Liberals not support our military so they were ill equipped to perform the tasks the govt sent them on?
YES
Did the Liberals start the US-Mexican-Canadian talks towards making all three countries one economic block?
YES
Oh, and by the way, when will someone confess the so called "Kelowna Accord" never really existed and consisted of only 46 words in a press release with no plan, no strategy, no thought except throwing out a number that would get good press?
If you dont believe me, ask anyone, first nations or otherwise, to post a signed copy on this blog.
I think though thus protest too much.
I know, but there's only 3 of us reading this blog, and it feels so empty when the spaces are empty.
And BTW, former PM Paul Martin is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executive Officers, the organization fronted by Michael D'Aquino for the New York based Council on Foreign Relations. Check out their website @ cfr.org and see where their policy musings have been for the past 25 years. They have worked hand in glove with the trilateral commision to emulate the European Union model.
Let's be fair. Locally at least, the federal Liberals came through with over 15 million for the water treatment plant and four million for the tournament capital facilities. The Tories have come through with 6.6 million for the airport (thanks, by the way) but only after committing over 11 million to Prince George which already has a much bigger airport than Kamloops.
All that said, any 200 billion dollar a year enterprise is going to have some problems. If you are looking for perfection from any government I have some disappointing news.
One issue with the Tories is that they are not holding our NATO "allies" accountable for taking a turn in Khandahar. When I see young Frenchmen and Germans in active combat I will believe our government is "Supporting the Troops" until then, it is just jingoistic nonsense to try and sell the war.
As for the Liberal Red Book, shelve it with the five Tory priorities (remember them?)can you name them without looking them up? The environment, affordable child care, and an exit strategy for Afghanistan are notably absent.
The Liberals ordered the new helicopters. Yes, they might have come sooner but we did have a budget to balance after all.
Spending billions on heavy lift aircraft when they are readily leased is a bit of a waste. I don't own a moving van but I have rented a few. Even at a million a trip we could lease aircraft every day for ten years before we even came close to the capital cost of these aircraft. Even Ayn Rand could see the wisdom in that. She's a bit preachy for my taste although fairly libertarian socially at least.
The problem is that no political party really satisfies all our needs. We may like the fiscal conservatism of the Conservatives but not agree with their social conservtism. The opposite applies to New Democrats. The Liberals seem to be all over the map and you never know what you get. Thats the problem with the party system....you may want to buy a horse but you have to buy a pig to get the horse.
More money! Over 3 Millions!!!!
I am Mc Lovin it!
Betty for 20 more years.
Kamloops never had it so good.
Peanuts
Liberal peanuts
Ha ha ha Suck that up you toad kissing socialists!!!!
Hey, what was the letter in todays's paper from Ken S?
Is it me or was it strange? He's a good man, but maybe not on this planet.
it's a question of leadership
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Sep 14, 2007 04:30 AM
Chantal Hébert
MONTREAL
Earlier this month, with three crucial by-elections only weeks away, the bulk of Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's brain trust, including the Quebec co-chair of his national election readiness committee Lucie Santoro, signed up for a trip to Israel sponsored by the Canada-Israel Committee.
A charitable explanation for the decision of some of Dion's top strategists to micromanage his first electoral test from the Middle East at a critical juncture of the campaign would be that all was satisfactorily taken care of on the home front.
But that explanation does not sustain the test of reality. Earlier this summer, Marc Lavigne – the chief Quebec organizer on the Dion leadership campaign – quietly handed in his resignation as deputy national director of the party.
According to Liberal sources, the resignation stated that he "was unable to implement organizational plans."
That sentence may be a polite euphemism for a disaster-in-the-making in the three ridings that go to the polls on Monday.
By all indications, Dion's candidates in Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot and Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean are not even in contention for second place.
But it is the creaky wheels of the campaign in the Liberal fortress of Outremont that should really send alarms bells ringing throughout the party.
Three days to the vote, a Liberal cakewalk has turned into a cliffhanger with the NDP emerging as the party to beat in Outremont.
In the final sprint to the vote, Liberal campaign literature has yet to land on most of the riding's doorsteps.
With the NDP working hard to get its recently recruited Quebec star, former provincial environment minister Thomas Mulcair, into Parliament, local Liberals complain it has never been so difficult to recruit volunteers, even in the dark days of the sponsorship affair.
That should be a sobering wake-up call for the many Liberal strategists who continue to put the party's 2006 demise in Quebec down to a circumstantial backlash triggered by the scandal. It should also serve as shock treatment for the widespread delusion that the native-son syndrome will do the trick for the Dion-led party in Quebec.
There is no denying that the neophyte leader drags much unity baggage in his home province, but certainly no more than Jean Chrétien. He was on the wrong side of the Meech constitutional debate in Quebec when he became leader in 1990 but still had no trouble hanging on to staunchly federalist ridings such as Outremont.
Chrétien used to be as popular in Ontario as he was vilified in Quebec; Dion seems to inspire the same tepid feelings in both provinces.
At a time when sovereignist parties are undergoing a crisis of relevance, the Bloc Québécois is bracing to lose votes to its federalist foes on Monday, but not to the Liberals.
The NDP is poised to benefit from a slippage of the anti-war Bloc vote in Outremont while, in Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean, Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe's candidate is locked in two-way fight with his Conservative opponent.
If the Liberals do poorly on Monday, they will not necessarily be alone in their predicament. Duceppe, Stephen Harper and Jack Layton are all playing for high stakes. But if his party underperforms, Dion – as an untested leader – will take the biggest hit.
Of the main federal leaders, he alone has to convince an increasingly dubious party that there is not a better person for his job looming on the sidelines.
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Chantal Hébert's national affairs column appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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