Showing posts with label The scandal with legs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The scandal with legs. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Julie Couillard's Place in the World

This post can be filed under the heading of: "In case anyone thinks that the rest of the world isn't watching Canadian politics under a microscope."

Yesterday was one of the higher traffic days on this ole blog of mine. A quick analysis showed that most of the incoming traffic was generated by google searches of "Julie Couillard".

Fine. I get that. What did surprise me however was that a little more in depth analysis showed that the majority of the incoming google searches came from countries other than Canada. Yes, the rest of the world is watching you Mr. Harper.

Here are the last 60 referrals to my blog along with the location of where the searches hail from:

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Jeff has an in depth look at the headlines around the world.

Monday, April 28, 2008

The Decertification of the Conservative Party of Canada

Wouldn't that be something? Will it happen? Highly unlikely. Could that be one of Elections Canada's remedies? You bet.

On CBC's Sunday with hosts Carole MacNeil and Evan Soloman, Pierre the stretcher of the truth Poilievre appeared on the political panel. Naturally, he lied through his teeth through the entire interview spreading incorrect information to viewers like I spread manure on my garden yesterday - thick and everywhere.

After Pepe le Pierre was finished, a panel was brought on featuring Heather MacIsaac, a PoliSci prof, John Geddes of Macleans and Gloria Galloway of the Globe. Not to underscore the seriousness of the allegations leveled against the Conservative Party of Canada, MacIsaac explains to the hosts and the others on the panel that one of the remedies or penalties that may be thrown at the CPoC is "decertification".

What would that mean? It means, should the party be decertified, all of their elected MPs would have to find a new name to call themselves. In addition, each of the 67 individual ridings involved could face decertification without the Party being deceritfied.

Doesn't that sound pretty serious to you Mr. and Mrs. Canada? I guess Petit Pierre missed that in the talking points.