Today's Complaint About Liberal Party Memberships

...From the how stupid is this file.

Laurier Club membership has its privileges. Usually one or two cocktail parties a year. A private reception at most conventions. You know, that sort of thing. It's a club that invokes the elite, dedicated members of the party to join and costs $1100 per year, effectively tapping out any further donations to any other party function.

What your membership to this elite club doesn't include however is your membership fee into the party. So, effectively, you give money to the max to the Liberal Party of Canada but it doesn't give you a membership to the party.

Conversely, if you join the Chequemate program of the party for $20 per month, you are automatically renewed as a member every year. So, you can give $240 a year and be a member of the party automatically, or you can give $1100 to the party and not be a member at all.

I think I'll cancel my LAURIER Membership today.

Tory Minister Lisa Raitt in Denial

...either that or she's suffering from mushroom syndrome - kept in the dark and fed a lot of manure.

The minister claims there is no relationship between a leak at Chalk River and radioactive sludge found in the Ottawa river. I guess she thinks the sludge just magically appeared.

John Tory Ready to lose Again

PROVINCIAL BYELECTION CALLED IN
HALIBURTON-KAWARTHA LAKES-BROCK


NEWS February 4, 2009

A writ was issued today under Section 9.1 of the Election Act for a byelection in the electoral district of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. The byelection will fill a vacancy created in the provincial parliament.

Under the Election Act, elections must be called on a Wednesday and held the fifth Thursday after the date of the issue of the writ. Voting day will be March 5, 2009.

ConservativesONLINE.ca ... Copy Cats!!! Who Would do Such A Thing???

I can't believe it!! The nerve of some people. Someone went out and started an aggregator named ConservativesONLINE.ca and it looks just like LiberalsONLINE.ca

LiberalsONLINE.ca Welcomes "Eugene Forsey Liberal"

LiberalsONLINE.ca continues to grow with over 50 Featured Liberal Bloggers now. The most recent, welcome addition is Eugene Forsey Liberal. A big big welcome!

Is Anyone in the Liberal Party Worried About Radioactive Waste in our Drinking Water?

7,000 litres a day.

That's how much radioactive waste water is flowing into the Ottawa River from Chalk River. My question is why our party isn't taking the Harper government and its Minister of Natural Resources, Lisa Raitt to task on this. I would think the Canadian public would like to know more about 7,000 litres of radioactive water per day going into our water supply, wouldn't you?

Thank goodness for guys like Greg Weston. At least he's trying to bring it to the forefront. At what point does the government of Canada decide to protect the general public and close the reactor? Minister Raitt has been dodging this issue for the better part of 2 months. Where's the rest of the MSM?

Can you say Chernoble anyone? 7,000 litres a day!!!

LiberalsONLINE.ca Welcomes "Fresh Meat"

The latest to join the Featured Liberal Bloggers at LiberalsONLINE.ca is "Fresh Meat". Interesting name that. Welcome aboard.

All About the OYL and Their 2009 AGM

For the past couple of years I've asked why our youth continue to run "slates" for positions on the executives. What ever happened to running on your own merits. Can't blame them though really. The adults in the party not only condone these actions, we taught them how to do it and we sit idly by while we sponsor them and egg them on.

Maybe it takes a good kid Like my friend Krista Balsom to fall for all of us to realize how far wrong we've gone as a party. Krista Balsom who eats, drinks and sleeps Liberal life. Krista Balsom that volunteers for absolutely everything there is that contains the name Liberal. Just how far and how hard will we push our youth to turn them into people they aren't?

The senior party is no better. I mean we just witnessed a completely voteless leadership. A step backward from the Martin coronation of 2003 in my opinion. I guess we are leading by example then.



h/t to Tilting at Windmills

Conservative Raitt's Nuclear Disaster Cover Up - Day 58

CANADIAN SILKWOOD (Day 58)

And where are the calls from the opposition for a public inquiry?

Jack Layton is too busy attacking Iggy for bailing on the coalition.

Gilles is too busy trying to figure out how he is going to bail on the BQ and resurrect a bid for the provincial leadership.

And Ignatieff . . . he is too busy playing hall monitor while Harper is on "probation".

Meanwhile, Harper and his cronies continue to avoid any accountability for not shutting down and repairing the Chalk River Nuclear facility when they were advised by Canada's "independent" regulator Linda Keen that an accident was likely to happen.

Harper and his Ministers continue to avoid any responsibility for the nuclear leaks that occurred and continue to plague the aging plant.

Canadians are no wiser as to why there was an almost two month delay before being advised that nuclear incidents had occurred (and are continuing to occur) at one of its nuclear facilities.

A good synopsis of the situation is found here

In waiting for the press to be focused on the January 27 budget to be tabled before notifying the public of the problems at Chalk River, Stephen Harper and Minister Lisa Raitt have risen to the height of political cynicism in trying to distract Canadians from the obvious responsibility their government should take for firing Linda Keen for doing her job, for allowing a dangerous situation to continue to exist at Chalk River and for covering up the incident for almost 2 months while their government was already on the verge of defeat over their reckless economic update.

It was much more import for the Minister of Natural Resources to notify the public of the Energy Board Appoiintments than it was to tell them about a nuclear spill. In fact several annoncesment by the Minister were more important than a silly old nuclear leak.

I wonder if this is of any importance to those that live anywhere near Chalk River?

Mr. Ignatieff, call for an inquiry now!!!

LiberalsONLINE.ca Welcomes "My Can of Contemplation"

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