Ruby Dhalla

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I have worked real hard in the past and success was not part of the payoff, and I would imagine there's a lot of folks who have put the lie to that "equation" empirically

I certainly can. I've been incredibly successful and have virtually no work ethic. Mind you, I've above average intelligence so that may account for that.
 

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I'm not rushing to Ruby's aid but a thousand dollars a month plus room and board sounds fair for someone with a disability and not much in the way of qualifications Presumably they were free to go some where else. The nannies got the job through an agency so it hardly seems to be cruel and unusual. A nanny would expect to be called at odd hours occasionally.

Do the math. 16 hours a day for $250 per week. If you can find people that think that is fair, let me know. I'll hire them and double their pay.
 

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The silence for some of the Liberal supporters is deafening, especially since they would have been all over this story had Ruby been a Conservative.
 

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I'm not rushing to Ruby's aid but a thousand dollars a month plus room and board sounds fair for someone with a disability and not much in the way of qualifications Presumably they were free to go some where else. The nannies got the job through an agency so it hardly seems to be cruel and unusual. A nanny would expect to be called at odd hours occasionally.

Seizing passports and refusing earned pay.

And, I watched Dhalla and her lawyer on the CBC News tonight.....her lawyer looks like he was given the job of playing a bottom-feeding arsehole by central casting.........and they are both lying through their teeth in my humble opinion. Now all the power that Ruby can bring to bear will be aimed at these unfortunate ladies.

I find in incredible that the Liberals, her caucus mates, are not coming to her defence. It speaks volumes.

In the eyes of the law, she is innocent of any crime until proven guilty.....but in my opinion, she is guilty as hell.
 

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I find in incredible that the Liberals, her caucus mates, are not coming to her defence. It speaks volumes.

CJOB 68: Manitoba's Information Superstation

"The MP for Brampton-Springdale is glamorous, energetic and career-oriented. She's also viewed by fellow caucus members as a “high maintenance” self-promoter, unwilling to do parliamentary drudgery, and demanding with her staff.

“I don't get the sense that too many people are feeling all that sorry for her,” one MP said."



My favorite quote from that link is..

"As the critic for Multiculturalism, Ruby Dhalla has passionately toed the Liberal line, claiming that the Liberals care more than the Conservatives about immigrants, about women, about the rights of women, about the rights of working women and about the poor."

That's what makes this story and the deafening silence from Liberal supporters so hilarious.
 

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CJOB 68: Manitoba's Information Superstation

"The MP for Brampton-Springdale is glamorous, energetic and career-oriented. She's also viewed by fellow caucus members as a “high maintenance” self-promoter, unwilling to do parliamentary drudgery, and demanding with her staff.

“I don't get the sense that too many people are feeling all that sorry for her,” one MP said."


My favorite quote from that link is..

"As the critic for Multiculturalism, Ruby Dhalla has passionately toed the Liberal line, claiming that the Liberals care more than the Conservatives about immigrants, about women, about the rights of women, about the rights of working women and about the poor."

That's what makes this story and the deafening silence from Liberal supporters so hilarious.

Yep, they are slipping away like rats from a sinking Sikh. :)
 

#juan

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Seizing passports and refusing earned pay.

And, I watched Dhalla and her lawyer on the CBC News tonight.....her lawyer looks like he was given the job of playing a bottom-feeding arsehole by central casting.........and they are both lying through their teeth in my humble opinion. Now all the power that Ruby can bring to bear will be aimed at these unfortunate ladies.

I find in incredible that the Liberals, her caucus mates, are not coming to her defence. It speaks volumes.

In the eyes of the law, she is innocent of any crime until proven guilty.....but in my opinion, she is guilty as hell.

Colpy you don't know that she is guilty of anything. The "nannies" were hired through an agency so they knew what their wages would be. a thousand dollars a month plus room and board is pretty good pay for a live in nanny You assume she and her lawyer were lying based on nothing but your opinion. Your opinion would not be good enough in a court of law and that is all you seem to have.
 

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The Conservative party is famous for their coaching and bribery like in the Chuck Cadman so called deal.

Ruby Dhalla was an effective voice against the Convervative party and the Harper government has decided to silence this voice once and for all.

Lets face it the Conservative party has a visible minority intolerance and women issues so Ruby meets the requiements.

We have to remember Navdeep Bains a Liberal MP of Mississauga-Brampton he was effectively muzzled by the Conservatives when they tried to deport a close relative of Navdeep Bains from Canada.

Ruby Dhalla is from the riding next to Navdeep Bains, which is Brampton—Springdale

I just like to know what the Conservatives promised the nannies is it Canadian citizenship, maybe a million dollar insurance policy, maybe more?

According to Ruby Dhalla’s lawyer this alegedly happenned one year ago so the nannies are just bringing it up now?

Looks like the Conservatives are ready be thrown out of office but wait, I heard the Prime Minister is at the Governor General’s home having porogue-ee talk to save his political ASS-ET again
 

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Seizing passports and refusing earned pay.

And, I watched Dhalla and her lawyer on the CBC News tonight.....her lawyer looks like he was given the job of playing a bottom-feeding arsehole by central casting.........and they are both lying through their teeth in my humble opinion. Now all the power that Ruby can bring to bear will be aimed at these unfortunate ladies.

I find in incredible that the Liberals, her caucus mates, are not coming to her defence. It speaks volumes.

In the eyes of the law, she is innocent of any crime until proven guilty.....but in my opinion, she is guilty as hell.



:angry3:Damn!! Twice this month, I've had to agree with Colpy........:fart:will it never end??

Ruby's got quite a sense of entitlement. Fire the bitch.
 

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The Conservative party is famous for their coaching and bribery like in the Chuck Cadman so called deal.

Ruby Dhalla was an effective voice against the Convervative party and the Harper government has decided to silence this voice once and for all.

Lets face it the Conservative party has a visible minority intolerance and women issues so Ruby meets the requiements.

We have to remember Navdeep Bains a Liberal MP of Mississauga-Brampton he was effectively muzzled by the Conservatives when they tried to deport a close relative of Navdeep Bains from Canada.

Ruby Dhalla is from the riding next to Navdeep Bains, which is Brampton—Springdale

I just like to know what the Conservatives promised the nannies is it Canadian citizenship, maybe a million dollar insurance policy, maybe more?

According to Ruby Dhalla’s lawyer this alegedly happenned one year ago so the nannies are just bringing it up now?

Looks like the Conservatives are ready be thrown out of office but wait, I heard the Prime Minister is at the Governor General’s home having porogue-ee talk to save his political ASS-ET again

Now this is more like it

:lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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The Conservative party is famous for their coaching and bribery like in the Chuck Cadman so called deal.


It's just as wrong to stereotype Conservatives as it is Liberals. The party is just a party; people join it to have a good time.

Ruby Dhalla was an effective voice against the Convervative party


So her job description was 'be an effective voice against the Conservatives, no matter what they do'? Wow, how's that for being pointlessly confrontational!

and the Harper government has decided to silence this voice once and for all.

I don't think it's fair to assume without evidence that this is some kind of planed conspiracy hacked up in the Conservative Party Caucus. We do have proof, however, that certain MP's (party affiliation being irrelevent) have chosen to stick their legislative noses into judicial matters, forgetting that there's a reason for which we've split the government into separate branches. Again, until we have proof that this is some kind of official Conservative Party conspiracy, I'd rather look at it as an issue of individual MPs (regardless of Party affiliation) who've chosen to exploit another person's problems unscrupulously to their own advantage.

Lets face it the Conservative party has a visible minority intolerance and women issues so Ruby meets the requiements.

It is unfortunate that, for some reason, the Conservative Party, along with the PC's, Reform, and Canadian Alliance before them have tended to attract a lot of racist, anti-immigrant, and other bigoted types. To be fair though, I've also come across conservatives who acknowledge this problem and who themselves are very critical of the fact that the right doesn't do enough to distance themselves from such elements. Again, the Conservative Party is not officially anti-minority or anti-women. Many of tis members may be, and that is a big problem. But again, you seem to like to smear a whole group of individuals based on petty party divisions.

We have to remember
Navdeep Bains a Liberal MP of Mississauga-Brampton he was effectively muzzled by the Conservatives when they tried to deport a close relative of Navdeep Bains from Canada.


Indeed, there are many Conservatives like that, but don't smear them all. Give precise names and target them. Why are you smearing the entire Conservative Party. The NDP attracts many militant and hateful types, too, but it would be equally inappropriate to just smear them all because of that. The Liberal Party is lucky in a sense by being sandwiched in, with the extreme left and right going to the NDP and Conservatives to deal with. This does mean that we really need to know our candidate when voting NDP or Conservative, but it doesn't mean that Liberals are necessarily better. Many Liberals are nothing more than status-quo types who like to gutlessly follow the polls, true professional politicians of the shallowest sort. So if we're going to vote Liberal, we need to get to know their candidates too to avoid that sort. Each Party has its bad apples, and the only way to get rid of them is to know the candidate we're voting for and not sheepishly vote Party like many do.

Ruby Dhalla is from the riding next to Navdeep Bains, which is Brampton—Springdale
I just like to know what the Conservatives promised the nannies is it Canadian citizenship, maybe a million dollar insurance policy, maybe more?


Now what you're suggesting is libelous and unscrupulous. If it's indeed true, which it could be, it's up to the courts to decide, not us.

As an asside, I think Harper is a bully, but I still wouldn't generalize it and say that because Harper is like that that all conservatives are.

Le'ts ust get rid of the parties and field independents. This is the kind of mindless generalizations party politics seems to generate.
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OK let me ask all the brainiacs the simple question..

Have you ever sponsored a nanny or maid into the country ?

Canadian Law that you are responsible for the Sponsored person to the country and how do you stop them from shafting you after entering the country.. You become somewhat legally responsible for that sponsored person that you brought into the country and all good intents can turn bad. The only way some people feel they can hold back a person is the hold their passport. It is NOT right and but still done on a regular basis. For most the request to have the passport is the only thing to have it returned and a quick search RCMP of the persons will ensure they did cause any problems before leaving the country and host people.

I am by far not saying this is right and what happened..
 

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We know a nice girl from Belarus who got her citizenship here after being brought over by a transplanted Jewish shrink from Montreal to be a nanny. He & his wife treated her like a slave and then she met another local guy here who treated her better but he was a slob and she ended up being his slave, too even though she was treated a little better.
She simply didn't know any better because what she had here, even though it was poor standards in our POV, was better than what she had over in Belarus.
But get this, her Dad was a fairly well-known surgeon in Belarus and didn't even rate to have a car over there. Had to be a party member fairly high up to have a car I guess.
 

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The opening post was just a lot of hearsay nonsense that Colpy is trying to use to skewer the Liberal party yet again. There may be some truth to the allegations but Colpy treats the whole thing as gospel without any proof whatsoever.


Now, I been waiting for days for someone to bring this up.

I didn't want to do it, for fear someone would think I was Liberal-bashing> (Perish the thought!)


Dear Ruby, Sweetheart of the Liberal Party of Canada, Cabinet minister, uncontested loveliest of them all, Champion of Canadian multiculturialism..........appears to be, in reality, an elitist psycho-bitch. (My heart leaps with joy!)


A sense of entitlement is, of course, part and parcel of the upper crust of the Liberal Party.......but Dear Ruby has carried it to an extreme! Immigrant ladies hired to aid her ling mother claim they were worked 16 hours a day for the paltry sum of $250 a week......ai..illegal, under Ontario law........forced to do work they had not hired on for........forced to do unpaid overtime.....illegal, under Ontario law........had their pay with held.......illegal under Ontario law, and YES! the best of the best! Had their passports seized by the winsome Ruby! A serious Federal crime!
Slavery brought to Canada! Multiculturialism and Liberal ethics at their finest! Gotta LOVE it!

And, oh, it is just the gift that gives on giving.......the Liberal gov't of Dalton Dumbass McGuinty has admitted his Labour Minister exhibited "a bit of a tin ear" when told of the situation at a Town Hall meeting.[unquote]

Absolutely none of these Allegations are proven, and all of them are denied. I assume Colpy would want proof if the allegations were against him.

In time we will all know the truth of this matter, but that won't be for a while yet.
 

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lol I'm not into hanging.
Anyway, that is beside my point. I was thinking about how investigations into upper politicians booboos are not usually settled as to guilt. Mulroney, we still don't know for sure. It took a long time to figure out the Chretien/EI thing, but the Shawinigate is still undecided (I think). Martin, we still don't know if he was in on the Adscam crap.
 

#juan

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lol I'm not into hanging.
Anyway, that is beside my point. I was thinking about how investigations into upper politicians booboos are not usually settled as to guilt. Mulroney, we still don't know for sure. It took a long time to figure out the Chretien/EI thing, but the Shawinigate is still undecided (I think). Martin, we still don't know if he was in on the Adscam crap.

We know that Mulroney is guilty. He has admitted he took the money but he claims it was only $225,000.00, or $75,000.00 less than what Schreiber said. As far as I'm concerned, any elected official taking money is guilty of accepting a bribe. He should be jailed but I know he won't be.