Conservatives Develop Quebec Campaign Song

Apparently there will be a "regional media buy" to have the new song aired.

As an aside...I think Cher's hair looks awesome.

Like I Said...Jack Layton is Full of Sh#t!!!

Our good friends over at Politics is Local tipped the canoe that we were going to sink the Dippers in today over at their blog this morning. Yesterday I hinted that Jack was full of it.

Here's Local Grit's post. It's a beauty.

Layton Promises What Liberals Have Already Delivered

Jack Layton is trying to prove that his party's victory in Outremount wasn't the combination of random forces unlikely to repeat themselves. To this end, he is promising Montrealers cash for their transit system. One problem Jack. Liberal leaders have already done what you are promising to do. A Liberal Prime Minister already gave one cent of the gas tax to cities for transit. A commitment that would have been made permanent had Mr. Layton not brought down the Martin government in the fall of 2005. The rest of Jack's money is going to come from a cap and trade system set up by a pair of Liberal premiers. Tomorrow look for Jack Layton will promise to start the Canada Pension Plan, repatriate the Constitution and eliminate the deficit of the early 1990's.

As I've been saying over and over again, the Dippers continue to attack Liberals because they have no plan of their own that's worth a flying fiddle.

Why Does Stephen Harper Hate The Arts So Much?

Perhaps he was deprived from them as a child.

It's Easy to Promise the Moon When You'll Never Form Government

Just ask Jack Layton. Sure Jack.

Conservative Bloggers and Trolls Wrong as Usual

For months Liberal bloggers have been wrning of the impending doom and gloom of the Candian economy. And, for months we've been invaded by Conservative trolls telling us how great the economy is and how this is the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years....yadda yadda yadda.

Well the other shoe just dropped trolls. Of course you all remember the first shoe.

So it looks like the economy and the environment will be the hot items for this fall's election. The Liberals will be quite okay with that. We have a plan for the environment. The Conseratives don't. We have a history of sound surplus financing. The Conservatives don't.

The prediction...Stephane Dion is the next Prime Minister of Canada and it sure will be interesting to see who the next leader of the Conservative Party will be.

One Week Left to Saskatchewan Nomination

That's right folks. We have an open nomination for the riding of Desnethe Missinippi Churchill River. One that involves Joan Beatty and David Orchard. August 14th is the day of reckoning.

I shouldn't have to tell you how I stand on the matter but, just in case you forgot, I am all for David Orchard becoming the Liberal Party Candidate for DMCR. I've explained my reasons over and over again, but the main reason is that the Liberal Party has to do something different in the prairies and I believe David will act as a catalyst in that regard.

As all of you know, campaigns are an expensive proposition. So donate early and donate often. https://www.vttoth.com/ORCHARD/donation.html

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Kids Need Schools

Big thanks to ST for writing this blog for me.


This is a picture of children from the Cree community of Appawapiskat. The community and these kids have been advocating to the federal government for years for funds to help build a new school to replace their old one, which has been declared condemned. They had received promises from both federal Liberal and Conservative Indian Affairs Ministers that the school would be built, but nothing has been done. Now, however, the ultra-compassionate (said with sarcasm) Chuck Strahl has point-blank said that the school wouldn’t be built. Not on the priority list, according to Chuck, even though these kids have been without a school for eight years.

In the meantime, one of the kids, Thirteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin, has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize for her efforts in getting the new school. That award is given out by the same folks who give out the Nobel Peace Prize. It would be a great honour for Shannen, and at the same time an extreme embarrassment to the Conservative government, if she were to win that award and the school had still been refused funding.

That isn’t the only action these kids have taken:

The youth have sent notice to the federal government, letting them know they intend to send a report to the UN detailing Indian and Northern Affairs’ failure to build a school. It will be addressed in the upcoming review of Canada’s obligations under the Conventions on the Rights of the Child. “We want what every other kid takes for granted, we want a new school,” said Shannen Koostachin, 14…The group would like to invite the UN to visit Attawapiskat and “walk a mile in our moccasins” to see what students are forced to live with every day — a request Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Chuck Strahl denied when students visited Ottawa.

Of course Chuck would deny the UN the opportunity to visit the community - because it would guarantee international condemnation (which it still might anyhow). It would show the world that while the Conservatives may mouth apologies for past wrong deeds and speak nice words (which still get sneered at by the likes of Pierre Poilievre), it can’t act on current wrong deeds.

H/T to Cam for highlighting the plight of the kids and community of Attawapiskat.

I've linked to the sight on my sidebar.

The New Conservative Campaign Song

That's Right! 31 Summonses!!! I think that's a record!

Julie Couillard Stole Maxime's Briefs???

Really? That's what I'm reading between the lines with this report from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Maxime the victim. Poor Maxime.

And, Yes I DO Think Doug Ferguson Should Remain As President

Liberal party responds
National Post
Fri 01 Aug 2008
Page: A15
Section: Letters
Byline: Douglas Ferguson
Source: National Post

Re: Elections Canada's Double Standard, editorial, July 31.

This editorial incorrectly states that, "Under the Elections Act, these [outstanding leadership] obligations should have been paid in full by June 3 of this year." In fact, June 3 was not a "repayment" deadline. Rather, leadership campaigns were required to report the status of unpaid claims and loans on that date, which then allowed them to be subject to a "binding agreement to pay." All our leadership candidates complied fully with the statutory requirements.

I also take issue with the statement: "There is little chance the remaining millions will be paid by the end of Elections Canada's grace period." In the past four months, the former leadership candidates raised a total of $977,381.97. As was reported today in La Presse, Liberal leader Stephane Dion raised $331,110 between April and June, and is on track to pay off the remainder of his debt.

On the other hand, the Conservatives seem to merit the special attention of Elections Canada. Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, appointed to his post under the current Conservative government, has stated that the Conservative party is the only one to have participated in the "in-and-out" financing scheme in the last election. As a July 15 Canadian Press story notes: "Marc Mayrand indicated that the transactions may eventually put the Conservatives in violation of election spending limits by more than $1-million."

Douglas Ferguson, president, Liberal Party of Canada, Ottawa.