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At the end of the session Doug Christie revisits this questioning. He comes across as a bitter and angry blowhard, but they go a long way to establishing what appears to be a very ugly pattern. Someone (let’s call him Lucy for sake of argument), tries to get the police to proceed with hate crime charges. The police use their full powers to investigate, including issuing warrants and seizing evidence. They eventually decide that either no crime has been committed or the burden of proof is just too high, so drop the charges and pass the evidence on to the CHRC where regular rules of evidence and burden of proof don’t apply. Whether or not this is a conscious strategy on their part (and Steacy insisted it was not), it would certainly appear that that is indeed the end result, based on the examples provided today. Jaeger at sda
Relative to the police, CHRC investigators have pretty limited powers. They would, for example, have a hard time getting a warrant to seize and crack a hard drive. But why should that stop them?
The scenario Jaeger outlines above is entirely plausible. Proven? Not yet. But the groundwork has been laid.
It is well past time for a full scale judicial investigation into the methods and tactics of the CHRC. The evidence which came out today is not, in itself, the smoking gun. Rather it is the whiff of cordite which suggests guns are being fired close by.
Time for the spineless CPC to appoint a judge and get on with the task of cleaning up this mess.
And, while we are looking at this, it might be an idea to look a little more closely at the police forces which, apparently, handed over evidence obtained under warrant to “investigators” who a not likely to have been entitled to that evidence. Whether or not there was a Memorandum of Understanding as between a particular police force and the CHRC is irrelevant. If evidence obtained during the course of a criminal investigation is released to a third party a serious abuse of process has occurred.
Written by jay on March 26th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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The Liberals rely on a book which purports to have the inside scoop on a CPC attempt to bribe Chuck Cadman for his vote to bring down the Martin government. The Liberal Party website reports the “bribery” as fact and adds that Harper knew. Harper sues. The widow Cadman now says that so far as she knew Harper didn’t.
My own thought is that this whole thing was a fairly well planned Liberal smear which was calculated to hit just in time for the early Spring election that Dion and the Liberals were too wimpy to force. The thing about a smear during an election is that the exact truth does not matter; what you are looking for is a two week sensation your pals in the Liberal media can run with. But without an election a smear can turn into a disaster as it is investigated. And the CPC is very smart indeed suing the Liberal Party. That party is very close to broke whereas the Tories are awash in cash. A couple of hundred dollars on a libel defence plus the very real possibility of serious damages will have the few remaining adults in the Party demanding some serious accountability.
Written by jay on March 4th, 2008 with 5 comments.
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Ezra Levant reports receiving a libel notice from Lucy Warman’s lawyer. Who just happens to be the liar Kinsella’s lawyer of choice.
Well worth reading the letter - which Ezra characterizes as a “letter to the editor” - as it suggests that Lucy Warman is prepared to fight on the “90sareover” comments vis a vis Senator Cools. Ezra doesn’t think much of Warman’s willingness to fight on the issue, “I’ll bet you a dollar this subject doesn’t find its way into any suit against me, either.”
We’ll see when the pleadings are filed. As I have said before, the pleadings will frame the discovery and the discovery may very well be the end of the CHRC in any form. Nbob has rightly pointed out that discovery is confidential unless the material is used in Court…which will make for a very interesting trial.
It will be particularly interesting to learn more about Lucy’s activities during the time he worked for the Commission, who supervised those activities and the basis upon which he left the Commission.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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I interviewed Keith Martin again today. He said support within the Liberal caucus for his motion is “huge.”
Stephane Dion has not talked to him about it, or asked him to withdraw it. Only a couple of Liberal members raised concerns, but no one has asked him to remove the motion.
“There is enormous support within caucus and across party lines,” he said.
Stay tuned. deborah gyapong
Written by jay on February 16th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Kathy Shaidle has an excellent piece in today’s National Post on the hypocrisies of the CPC on the free speech issue. So, Posties, finally the liar Kinsella is gone. Time to hire someone who writes from the right rather than the Beaches left.
Written by jay on February 13th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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My friend Alan at GenXat40 writes of the Ontario election,
And, just so I can also be among the first to point it out, between the massive win in Newfoundland yesterday for an anti-Harper Tory and today’s ditching of any vestige of a right wing agenda in Ontario, I see the message this week for the Prime Minister is not good. genx@40
I replied in his comments,
I fear, Alan, that you have managed to reason your way to a rather false conclusion; the very worse thing for Harper would have been a Tory win simply because our man John is all the red tory things Harper abhors. had he won it would have amounted to a repudiation of the sort Conservative party conservatives might support. John Tory was positioning himself to be the weak chinned David Cameron of Canadian politics, certain of nothing but his commitment to multi-cult lunacy and emission reduction.
He has now lost decisively to a miserable little man which strongly suggests that the conservative base was not drinking his watery Kool Aid. Which is grand news for Harper as it allows him to serve up the hard stuff.
Newfoundland does not matter…never has, never will.
Wimps who suck up to assorted urban minorities, fudge their positions and generally try to pretend that the are Liberals in a hurry do themselves, the conservative interest and their province/country no favours. Harper is smart enough to realize this.
Written by jay on October 11th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Given the state the Conservative Party is in, that general election would almost certainly be lost, as our poll today seems to indicate. It is so blindingly obvious that I am amazed Gordon Brown has not chucked caution to the wind and given Dave his wish. The Tories are incoherent, policy-free, a PR stunt going badly, and terminally, wrong. The veneer of magic Dave brought with him - and it was only ever a veneer - has cracked and is flaking off. He has nothing to offer except spivvery and (to use a word beloved of Quentin Davies, of whom more anon) vacuity. And the great thing about an immediate election is that the ensuing defeat for the Tories would give them an excuse to end the self-deluding experiment that has been life with Dave, and send a man to do a man’s job instead. simon heffer, telegraph
So that is England, we could not possibly say the same thing about Steve and Liberals-Lite. Dave is, after all, better looking and better dressed.
Written by jay on June 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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Most troubling, though, I think the Harper Conservatives have become Mulroney-ized. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney seems to have too much influence over policy and strategy.
That’s where the current Tories’ Quebec pandering comes from, as well as their ludicrous green plan. Mulroney, who this spring was honoured as Canada’s “greenest” prime minister, is firmly convinced that middle-class voters are motivated to choose a party in a campaign by the party’s stance on the environment. lorne gunter, edmonton journal
Green hysteria in the middle class might well manifest itself in voting behaviour. After all, doing anything else would impact upon the very middle class lifestyle these folks cherish. But voting? Voting costs nothing.
The CPC is stuck with a bunch of green policies which, as Gunter points out, it does not actually believe in. And it is stuck with them because it lacks the spine and the leadership to actually lead the voters out of the green delusion.
Now, the good news is that a lot of the hysteria is abating. While the Goracle can still pack in the guilt plagued SUV driver and the media is still incapable of reporting the science rather than the spin, the chances are pretty good the green tide will recede over the summer.
Had the Tories any wit at all they would, as gas prices head towards $2.00 a litre, point out that this was actually a good thing and that to really cut those emissions - in the event the Liberal Senate passes the Kyoto compliance silliness - the Tories will be imposing an immediate $1.00 a litre carbon tax. And, for good measure, will impose the same tax on the energy equivalents (however generated) in natural gas and electricity. Call it the Liberal Party Catch Up Act and actually confront the sainted middle class with the real costs of Kyoto compliance.
Of course, the really smart move would be to convene a conference on Kyoto which featured skeptics as well as the elect. Start with Bjorn Lomborg. But the eager beavers in Finance and Energy to work costing specific measures. But put the chaps in external to the task of figuring out what we might do for people dying this week with the money we would otherwise spend on reducing carbon emissions. Invite the Premiers and the leaders of the various political parties and hammer out the cost benefits.
As if.
As Sir Humphrey would say, “That would, indeed, be courageous Prime Minister.”
Written by jay on May 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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the average growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions increased from 1.1 per cent a year in the 1990s to a three per cent increase per year in the 2000s.
Lead author of the paper, Dr Mike Raupach from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Global Carbon Project, says that nearly eight billion tonnes of carbon were emitted globally into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in 2005, compared with just six billion tonnes in 1995.
“A major driver of the accelerating growth rate in emissions is that, globally, we’re burning more carbon per dollar of wealth created,” Dr Raupach says. In the last few years, the global usage of fossil fuels has actually become less efficient. This adds to pressures from increasing population and wealth.”
“As countries undergo industrial development, they move through a period of intensive, and often inefficient, use of fossil fuel. Efficiencies improve along this development trajectory, but eventually tend to level off. Industrialised countries such as Australia and the US are at the levelling-off stage, while developing countries such as China are at the intensive-development stage. Both factors are decreasing the global efficiency of fossil fuel use.” csiro
Meanwhile Kate points out that Europe’s CO2 emissions are going up….way up and far from any hope of hitting Kyoto targets.
Fortunately, by 2012, Canada will have banned incandescent lightbulbs so everything will be just fine.
I am a global warming skeptic but if I was not I would be outraged at the sheer effrontery of the enviros claiming that Kyoto is any sort of solution or even bandaid. It is being universally ignored by the very people who are waving their scolding fingers at Canada.
It is well past time for the CPC to convene a real conference with real scientists to assess the costs and benefits of Canada’s continuing to pretend that Kyoto is anything but a figment of Maurice Strong’s imagination. And from there we need to chart our own course towards economic energy for Canada without paying lip service to the Goracle or Stern or, Heaven help us, Suzuki.
Written by jay on May 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Greg Staples has the numbers
National
Liberal 33% (0)
Conservative Party 32% (-4)
NDP 17% (+1)
Green Party 10% (+4)
BQ 9%(-1)
This can’t be much of a surprise. How can a voter decide?
| Issue |
Old Liberals |
New Liberals |
| Kyoto |
Kyoto GoGo |
Kyoto Lite |
| ’stan |
Against |
Not really sure |
| Budget |
Spend |
Spend More |
| Deficit |
Where? |
Gone by 2200 |
| Immigration |
Love’em |
Love’em More |
| Quebec |
Nation |
Autonomous Nation |
| Indians |
Cool! |
Way Cool |
| Parliament |
Bit of a joke |
Hilarious! |
| SOW |
And How |
Fund’em Dano |
| CBC |
Praise! |
Praise unto the Highest! |
PMSH (PBUH) really cannot imagine what it might be like to govern from a set of principles and so, predictably, his government has been more or less captured by the bureaucracy. After all, how could they resist without actually having a clue about what they were elected to do in the first place.
When you are elected on a platform consisting of rather limited goals and no principle whatsoever the pool hall jibe of “So now what are you going to do?” can only be answered by consulting the polls. And the questions you ask the polster oracles will all have been suggested by the PCO and the DMs who are actually running the government. You will not ask “should we tax less and spend less?” Rather you will ask if people would prefer a notional reduction of the GST as opposed to a notional reduction in personal income tax, quietly eliding the fact that either “cut” will be purely notional.
Public choice theorists, talking about regulatory agencies, refer to the idea of regulatory capture. This describes the phenomena of a regulator rather quickly becoming aligned with the interests of the outfits it is supposed to be regulating. Of course capture can occur at the level of government itself and that is precisely what has happened to the dimwits in the CPC.
Because they had no serious reason to actually change things in Ottawa they are now as loathsome as the natural governing party ever was. As there is not going to be an election this Spring and probably not in the Fall we can look forward to the year of the big pander. No matter what loonieness is thrown up by the polls PMSH and his gang of eunuchs will get right on it.
Which will keep that dead heat going between the old and the new Liberals.
Oh joy!
Written by jay on May 9th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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