The Disaffected Lib: Harper Cons – Sucked In Again by DND
A Con conned? Say it ain’t so. But it’s now emerging that those grifters at Canada’s Department of National Defence knew a couple of marks when they saw them and pulled the wool over the eyes of...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: CBC’s Brian Stewart Casts Bones & Reads Entrails –...
It seems Brian Stewart has been a CBC defence wonk since the days of muzzle loaders and black powder. That makes his take on the F-35 fiasco all the more notable. “The who-knew-what about the real...
View ArticlePolygonic: MacKay: We’re just as dodgy with our accounting as Sponsorship-era...
Duhhhhr! Ooonnggg… errrrggg…. Out of the mouths of babes. It’s been an awkward delight watching Conservative spinmeisters trot out Plan A through Plan W in their Catalogue of Flimsy Excuses over the...
View ArticlePolygonic: The Coyne chrysalis
”This isn’t about the planes, in other words, or costs, or accounting. This is about accountability. This is is about whether departments are answerable to their ministers, and whether ministers are...
View ArticleThe Scott Ross: The F-35 Boondoggle
Many are angry that instead of the promised $16 billion cost of the new F-35′s the actual price tag will be more than $25 billion but Canadians shouldn’t forget that originally not only did this...
View ArticleThe Scott Ross: Conservatives Lied About F-35 Contract
Peter MacKay lied. In 2010 Defense Minister Peter MacKay said many times that the F-35 was selected in an open, competitive, and transparent process, this is contradicted be the Auditor General...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Double Them
The F-35 costs were (more than) double what MacKay and the Conservatives told the public. The books used to track expenses for the jets were doubled. The books for Fantino’s CPC Vaughn campaign are...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35: Thirty Five ways to Fail
MacKay has implicated the whole CPC cabinet as being complicit in an attempt to deceive voters prior to last year’s election as to the true cost of new fighter jets. Another unprecedented situation...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out the final news cycle...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Another MacKay-Fantino Love Child?
They could’ve stuck with the ships Paul Martin had on the books when he left office, but nooooo. The ships, three of them, were to replace the navy’s 45-year old supply ships only they were to be...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wright Quits, Wallin & Duffy Half-Quit, May Lashes...
What dirt does Duffy have on the Prime Minister, that would have had him order his Chief of Staff to cut Mike Duffy a cheque for more than $90,000? Mike #Duffy and Nancy Greene, #senators raising money...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Who Will Lead the Tories into the 2015 Election?
If there was just one thing that Tories learned from Monday’s by-elections it was that they’re up against a resurgent Liberal challenge with Justin Trudeau at the helm. They probably didn’t need the...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35: Lies from Lying Liars #cdnpoli
The F-35 was going to be a plane made with Chinese parts, despite US law forbidding that. mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBR… this just adds to the ridiculousness. Russia probably has deal w china to...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: That’ll Be the Day When Pigs Swim
Everyone knows, deep down, that pigs can’t fly but we may discover that pork floats just fine even in Canada’s Arctic waters. Stephen Harper would have us believe that he’s all about the Arctic. He...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Tories Look to Make Death With Dignity a Wedge Issue for...
Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the criminal prohibition on physician assisted suicide, Harper justice minister Peter MacKay let’s slip the Tories...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Pony Express Government
CSE has undertaken a domestic spy operation that is illegal in Canada, because it’s spying on communication of Canadian citizens. CSE is supposed to only spy on foreigners, and the Commissioner...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Just Not Ready To Debate
Who's not ready??? #cdnpoli #GPC pic.twitter.com/Beuw1DUacQ — Elizabeth May MP (@ElizabethMay) May 29, 2015 *Zing Also, Goodbye Peter MacKay: Good news everyone! Peter MacKay or Conservative polling...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: C-51 Stops a Veteran From Being a Liberal Candidate
I wondered why Peter MacKay’s Liberal challenger was quitting too, and it seems the reason was how Trudeau mishandled the C-51 “anti terrorism” vote by supporting the bad bill. Since MacKay is quitting...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Choosing a new leader for Canada’s Tories.
The date has been set: May 27, 2017. That is when the Conservative Party of Canada chooses a replacement for former leader Stephen Harper and Acting Leader Rona Ambrose. Looking for an abbreviation to...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Airbus and the Ghost of Brian Mulroney
A blast from the past. A German-Canadian huckster. A former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister. A dodgy prime minister. A European aircraft giant with a reputation for handing out easy money....
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