Mike Duffy and the conservative way.
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I agree, as long as they control The Bank of Canada they don't care what the hired hands do to each other.
I'm beginning to wonder if those reprobates deserve all the attention they are getting. F**king disgrace to the country!
Getting to sound like Harper may rue the day he got Mike Duffy pissed off! Cops got their hands on a few emails between Harper and Duffy apparently, if the cops are any more credible than Harper or Duffy.
One of the tremendous advantages that Canadians enjoy with an appointed Upper House is the fact that our honourable senators are able to function more independently of the Prime Minister's Office than can their counterparts in the elected House of Commons. No prime minister can purport to definitively control the Senate. The split in Conservative ranks on matters related to recent suspension motions were an example of this, and new examples continue to arise as the Government loses control.
Even in yesterday's sitting of the Senate, The Honourable Senator Yonah Martin (British Columbia), the Deputy Leader of Her Majesty's Government in the Senate, saw a Government motion to change the Senate sitting scheduled successfully adjourned by Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Senate, with the support of Conservative senators.
Golly. It's a miracle I tell you. Remember how the Cons told us that Benjamin Perrin's e-mails had been deleted when he left the PMO?
So we couldn't determine what that PMO lawyer told Stephen Harper about the Duffy deal.
Well it turns out that was just another oops............
PMO recovers ex-legal adviser’s e-mails on Duffy affair - The Globe and Mail
So we couldn't determine what that PMO lawyer told Stephen Harper about the Duffy deal.
Well it turns out that was just another oops............
PMO recovers ex-legal adviser’s e-mails on Duffy affair - The Globe and Mail
Alberta senator claims $12,000 for two-day trip to Ottawa
The top-spending Conservative senators routinely purchased high-priced business class airfares and repeatedly used public money to bring spouses with them on trips to Ottawa, even as the Senate expense scandal was in full swing last fall.
In one case, Senator Scott Tannas of Alberta billed $12,000 to taxpayers to fly himself and his wife in executive class to Ottawa for a two-day trip.
The cost of Tannas's round-trip business class flights from Calgary to Ottawa and back ranged from $2,400 to just over $5,600. On one trip, both he and his wife flew business class on tickets costing just over $5,600 each.
Another senator, from Toronto, was one of the party's highest billers for travel despite being just an hour by air from the national capital.
The pricey travel, found by a CBC News review, came at the same time as senators were debating whether or not to suspend three of their peers — Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau — for questionable spending practices.
"To me, it's really shocking that they exercise such poor judgment, even if it's legal," said Ian Greene, a professor of public policy and administration at York University in Toronto.
During those five weeks, three of the top four Tory travel spenders in the Senate claimed a total of $24,011.79 on business class airfares for themselves and another $13,719.21 on business class flights for their spouses.
Senate travel rules restrict the number of flights a senator can take each year, but place no limit on how much a senator can spend on each airline ticket.
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Tory senators expense business-class flights with spouses - Politics - CBC News
The top-spending Conservative senators routinely purchased high-priced business class airfares and repeatedly used public money to bring spouses with them on trips to Ottawa, even as the Senate expense scandal was in full swing last fall.
In one case, Senator Scott Tannas of Alberta billed $12,000 to taxpayers to fly himself and his wife in executive class to Ottawa for a two-day trip.
The cost of Tannas's round-trip business class flights from Calgary to Ottawa and back ranged from $2,400 to just over $5,600. On one trip, both he and his wife flew business class on tickets costing just over $5,600 each.
Another senator, from Toronto, was one of the party's highest billers for travel despite being just an hour by air from the national capital.
The pricey travel, found by a CBC News review, came at the same time as senators were debating whether or not to suspend three of their peers — Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau — for questionable spending practices.
"To me, it's really shocking that they exercise such poor judgment, even if it's legal," said Ian Greene, a professor of public policy and administration at York University in Toronto.
During those five weeks, three of the top four Tory travel spenders in the Senate claimed a total of $24,011.79 on business class airfares for themselves and another $13,719.21 on business class flights for their spouses.
Senate travel rules restrict the number of flights a senator can take each year, but place no limit on how much a senator can spend on each airline ticket.
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Tory senators expense business-class flights with spouses - Politics - CBC News
Conservatives have no respect for law and order nor for due process. They are out to enrich themselves by any and all means possible. The last honest Conservative was Joe Clarke. Since them it's been a race to the bottom as they try and emulate Sarah Palin (who endorses Harper) and the looney bin Tea Party.
Thanks to the Conservatives no person with a success story will ever run for office and the NDP will take over and Canada will be closed for business
Personally I want to see the NDP in power as they'll level the playing field and end the interventionist tactics of the Conservatives. The House needs some ordinary people in it so that the Governemnt remembers that it exists to serve the people and not the other way around.
A Happy Holidays from our leader. Not the nuts to say Merry Christmas.
That's probably the Christmas dinner Mrs. H. is holding.
That's probably the Christmas dinner Mrs. H. is holding.