Accusations that Patrick Brown accepted free trips and did not report income

[Murphy]

This is only after the first day back from the holiday.

Hillier obviously doesn't like Brown. Does he have the evidence necessary to bury Brown? If this goes on much longer, the PCs will not manage a win in June. The in-fighting is not good for them. I imagine Wynne is laughing. I think we'd all like to see some proof.
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Reevely: As PC leader, Patrick Brown took free trips from suppliers, MPP Randy Hillier alleges

Ottawa Valley MPP Randy Hillier intensified his campaign against former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown on Tuesday.

David Reevely - Ottawa Citzen

Ottawa Valley MPP Randy Hillier intensified his campaign against former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown on Tuesday, reporting him to the provincial integrity commissioner for alleged ethics violations — just after most of the Tory party’s executive threatened to revolt if Brown isn’t allowed to run to reclaim his place at the top of the party.

The integrity complaint, which Hillier released publicly at the end of the day, alleges that Brown accepted trips abroad from suppliers to the party and failed to report outside income in routine disclosures to the legislature, and asks questions about how he’s able to afford his home near Barrie.

The trips included visits to India, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Fiji, and Abu Dhabi, Hillier’s complaint says, where expenses were, it alleges, covered by Laj Prasher (who owns a telephony company) or Robert Faissal (a business consultant and green-energy entrepreneur), or their business associates. The trips to the Middle East appear to have included visits to refugee camps.

Faissal, a public fan of Brown, quickly threatened to sue Hillier for defamation, calling his claims “grossly inaccurate” and part of a “political smear campaign.”

The rest here.

Reevely: As PC leader, Patrick Brown took free trips from suppliers, MPP Randy Hillier alleges | Ottawa Citizen

 

[Murphy]

Which begs the question, what did he do to anger some PCs? It should come out in the CTV trial. We'll have to wait until after the election though. Unless this is capped soon, the NDP might form the next government.

 

[Danbones]

He is against the new world agenda writ small in ON, and ISN'T a typical part of the retard machine.

 

[Murphy]

Patrick Brown must want the PCs to fail in June. To my mind, there is no way that his desire to run for the leadership is anything other than stroking his own ego. This video is telling.

107 days until the election.

https://ca.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sea...yhs-syn&type=sbsy_7133_CHW_CA&p=patrick brown

More to come.

The PCs can still refuse his leadership run. It might be better to shut him out now, rather than allowing him press coverage for a race he cannot win.

 

[justlooking]

So Patrick Brown gets accusations.

Meanwhile, Tater Tot provides unshakeable proof. :lol:

 

[Danbones]

yeah screw democracy

 

[Murphy]

Whether Brown is guilty or not, his decision to run was a mistake. If he really cared about the PCs, and to increase the chances that the PCs will win in June, he would withdraw from the race. My personal belief is that his ego won't let him.

That doesn't come as much of a surprise to many people in the PC party.

 

[Hoid]

so it seems the conservatives have some fences to mend in Ontario. Nobody knows you like your own party.

Brown must be as creepy as he looks, and he is Joffery level creepy.

 

[Murphy]

Proper punctuation and spelling are important, Flossy. You say that your father was a teacher, or was he a janitor?

He must have been the janitor.

 

[Murphy]

The nasty words about Patrick Brown continue.
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How Patrick Brown’s childish premier fantasies can still come true

The PC leadership candidate is a poster boy for politicians who never grow up — or give up — because they don’t know how to take No for an answer, writes Martin Regg Cohn.

Patrick Brown is the man-child who still dreams of governing the men, women and children of Ontario.

He is a poster boy for politicians who never grow up — or give up — because they don’t know how to take No for an answer.

As an MP in Ottawa, he allegedly lusted after — and lunged for — a female staffer.

The teetotaler and the intoxicated teen.

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All the while, he found time to date an intern who came on his payroll at 21, followed him to Queen’s Park, tagged along for official trips abroad, and is still standing by her man-child today.

A Progressive Conservative paragon of private-sector thrift, he now confesses to pleading for help from mom and dad on the down payment for his oversized house — just like other hard-pressed Ontario families, except that he’s a never-married 39-year-old (no kids, no obligations) who has earned well over six figures as a career politician since leaving university. A man-child with a mom-and-pop mortgage ($1.7 million) and a subsidized downtown luxury condo who claims to feel your pocketbook pain.

A jock-child who poses for photos with every celebrity athlete he can conjure up, Brown attends fantasy hockey camps while living out his own real-life fantasy as a political poseur. All supposedly for charity, but in reality for his own cause.

Abandoned by his mutinying staff, forced to resign by a caucus revolt, later expelled from caucus, ultimately deemed unfit to run as a Tory MPP in his local riding, Brown now wants it all back. He is running again to be Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, notwithstanding his disloyalty to the PCs.

And why not? It’s his Tory party, and he can cry if he wants to ... let it die if he wants to.

After all, he built it up — from 10,000 members to 200,000 — so why not tear it down? They are mostly his members, wooed and won over (in some cases, and by some accounts, allegedly bought and paid for).

Don’t count him out. But if there is a Brown revival, the PCs’ survival can't be counted on.

A significant number of Tory MPPs might bail if Brown came back as leader — not least Vic Fedeli, the interim leader who has publicly denounced him, and Randy Hillier, the fearless parliamentarian who claims to have exposed him. (A similar scenario might arise if rival candidate Doug Ford takes over, prompting more caucus and candidate departures.)

Brown won the leadership in 2015 in what amounted to a hostile takeover of a moribund, mostly rural rump of a party. If he regains power, beware a split not merely along progressive versus conservative lines, but the Brown lineup versus the old party line.

The rest here.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/sta...sh-premier-fantasies-can-still-come-true.html

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Man, I'm glad I moved out of Ontario. Between the Wynne government, the hydro bills, the astronomical insurance costs and the sh!t wages, I don't mind the cold Alberta winters so much. I do miss the good friends I have there. Oh well, I'll visit them.

 

[Murphy]

It hasn't been a good ride the past ten years. If this Brown fiasco continues, we'll have him to blame for the high hydro rates, poor wages and high insurance bills.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

You know, what I pay for insurance on two vehicles in Alberta was what it cost me for one in Ontario.

 

[Murphy]

No doubt.

I'm not near Toronto, so that makes my rates cheaper, but when I was posted to Borden from Comox, my rate actually dropped. With a 40% reduction because of no accidents or claims, ICBC was charging me almost $900 a year for insurance. I moved to Borden and the rate dropped to $606/yr. That was in the early 1990s.

People I know that live in Southern Ontario are paying through the nose. Mind you, the way they drive around the GTA, it's more like carnival bumper cars than operating a motor vehicle.

 

[JLM]

Patrick Brown must want the PCs to fail in June. To my mind, there is no way that his desire to run for the leadership is anything other than stroking his own ego. This video is telling.

107 days until the election.

https://ca.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sea...yhs-syn&type=sbsy_7133_CHW_CA&p=patrick brown

More to come.

The PCs can still refuse his leadership run. It might be better to shut him out now, rather than allowing him press coverage for a race he cannot win.

I can't put my finger on it but there's something that's not genuine about that boy!

 

[Murphy]

It's only been a couple of days, but the accusations against Brown are flying. Nothing has been proven, but he's feeling the heat. One MPP, Randy Hillier, has written to Ontario's Office of the Integrity Commissioner, saying that Brown did not disclose gifts and money he received while sitting as an MPP.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...calls-for-investigation-of-patrick-brown.html

This is the website for the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Home

The purpose of the office is to maintain high standards of ethical conduct in the Ontario Public Service. It is independent of government, striving to encourage and sustain a culture of integrity and accountability.

The Office has five key areas of responsibility:
-MPP Integrity
-Expenses Review
-Ministers’ Staff Ethical Conduct
-Ontario Public Service Disclosure of Wrongdoing
-Lobbyists Registration

 

[Danbones]

Whether Brown is guilty or not, his decision to run was a mistake. If he really cared about the PCs, and to increase the chances that the PCs will win in June, he would withdraw from the race. My personal belief is that his ego won't let him.

That doesn't come as much of a surprise to many people in the PC party.

He has an ego like you mean.

It hasn't been a good ride the past ten years. If this Brown fiasco continues, we'll have him to blame for the high hydro rates, poor wages and high insurance bills.

Oh, and what have we got now?

It's only been a couple of days, but the accusations against Brown are flying. Nothing has been proven, but he's feeling the heat. One MPP, Randy Hillier, has written to Ontario's Office of the Integrity Commissioner, saying that Brown did not disclose gifts and money he received while sitting as an MPP.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...calls-for-investigation-of-patrick-brown.html

This is the website for the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Home

The purpose of the office is to maintain high standards of ethical conduct in the Ontario Public Service. It is independent of government, striving to encourage and sustain a culture of integrity and accountability.

The Office has five key areas of responsibility:
-MPP Integrity
-Expenses Review
-Ministers’ Staff Ethical Conduct
-Ontario Public Service Disclosure of Wrongdoing
-Lobbyists Registration

Yes, the fake news freaks are freakin, and after seeing how nonsensically inaccurate those people are here...

it's safe to say the anti brown people are nazis, commies, and globalist country wreckers writ small.

VERY small.

 

[Murphy]

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail

Radwanski and I see eye to eye on this. He's done a lot of damage, and right or wrong, has to go away. The party members must be the ones who reject him. He can lick his wounds and wait for another time to run - if he gets the opportunity.
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With Patrick Brown now in, the stakes in the Ontario PC leadership race have soared
Adam Radwanski - February 21, 2018

Given the way Mr. Brown has behaved the past month, there is no chance he would have quietly slunk away with his tail between his legs if the committee had blocked him.

Almost certainly he would have tried to appeal to the party's executive, gone to court, or both. He would also likely have continued his public-relations assault on anyone he believes has wronged him – the Tories' interim leader, former members of his own staff he claims were behind a palace coup, the media, the two women who made the sexual-misconduct allegations. And in the process he would have continued whipping into a frenzy members of the party who believe there is a conspiracy against him: a crew that includes his personal friends, constituents around his hometown of Barrie, nominated party candidates with whom he has had mutually supportive relationships, and a certain type of conservative inclined toward men's rights activism.

This drama would have persisted long past the leadership vote. But if Mr. Brown is rejected by party members, it will be harder for him to command attention insisting that he was the victim of elites trampling over the will of the grassroots.

But what if the membership – a majority of which signed up while Mr. Brown was still leader, in many cases at the behest of organizers loyal to him – doesn't reject him?

It's doubtful even Mr. Brown has really considered what his renewed leadership would look like. For anyone who pauses to do so, the notion that the Tories could return to some semblance of normalcy – let alone pick up where Mr. Brown left off in presenting a moderate and low-risk alternative to the governing Liberals – is absurd.

The rest here.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...-survival-is-now-on-the-line/article38061537/

 

[Murphy]

More coming.

Watch for day three of the Brown fallout story.

 

[Danbones]

...so explain trudie's little VACATION in India PLEASE.

There's pics, so its a bit more substantial of an accusation then the crap being dumped on Brown.