Harassment on the Hill-Tough Questions need to be Asked! #bcpoli #canpoli

There are some tough questions that need to be asked.

Sexual harassment is a terrible thing and should be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

Everybody has the right to a stress free workplace and life.

It is also no small mystery that sexual harassment purports to occur in the house on the hill in Ottawa. The environment is there and it needs to be fixed.

We have all read versions in biographies over the years just as we have all read the stories when the NDP first swept the province of Quebec they did it with Jack’s army of young youthful candidates in their twenties and thirties.

We have also read the stories of all the marriages that have not survived life on the hill.

This blog piece is written to discuss not what happened but what I think is a glaring lack of investigative reporting relating to these cases.

What I can’t figure out in the cases that have been reported on this week is why the NDP MP went to Trudeau.

I get that she was sitting next to him on a bus.I get that this is a personal issue.

I cannot fathom why on earth the MP did not bring it up with the NDP Whip or the Party’s leader before she talked to Trudeau.

This is also a big political issue .

To Wit:

You are fighting tooth and nail for every vote,every piece of ground you can get before the next election in 2015.

Why would you not go to your party’s brass and tell them what happened and get some direction ( Leadership) on what steps to take?

Unless she did and they did nothing about it.

For what it’s worth I find it hard to believe that Mulcair and company would sweep it under the carpet.

It is also just as unbelievable that they would counsel her to speak to Trudeau at the first available opportunity.

More likely had the upper echelon of the NDP been involved there would have been a meeting involving the whips and the complainants dealing with the issue with the added instruction of not going public being expressed clearly.

The matter could have been dealt with in a less public forum through to conclusion saving the complainants from as we have heard been harassed twice.

That doesn’t appear to be what happened.

It seems that the complainant went straight to Trudeau.

If that is in fact what happened I think we have a right to know why?

If she did approach her own party brass and they did nothing we also have the right to know why not.

After all in less than a year you will be asked to vote on leadership and isn’t this what this is about?

By-Election Results; Did the Trudeau Bubble Burst? #bcpoli #canpoli

Harper: Put that in your pipe and smoke it Justin!

The results are now in in tonight’s by-elections and the Conservatives held onto their two seats and the Liberals won their two.

What does it all mean?

In a nut shell Justin Trudeau aint exactly the next great thing.

Lets face it the Liberals won two seats that they should have, lost one they could have and got blown out in the other.

In the great battle that was Toronto Center the Liberals won a Bob Rae seat in a by-election where nobody bothered to vote. ( 27.8 % of registered voters voted)

In Quebec they won Denis Coderre’s old seat. So what; they won that with great leaders like Ignatieff and Dion .

In Manitoba the Conservatives won big where they were expected to and squeaked by in Brandon-Souris.

In other words with the deck some what stacked against them the Conservatives still won.

To wit;

a) it so goes that sitting governments rarely win by-elections

b) the senate scandal

c) so-called problems with the nomination process

d) the Liberals ran a candidate with the last name Dinsdale a very popular candidate in the riding

e) the Conservatives ran a candidate who already lost the riding once

f) the mainstream media threw everything at the Conservatives they could to help Trudeau

This was the Trudeau chance to show greatness and steal one for the team and he couldn’t deliver.

What are the take a ways from all this?

The Conservatives have to keep the nomination process whistle clean and they should be fine. After all almost 45 % of registered voters turned out in their squeaker and they still won so I don’t think the public will be influenced at all by the so-called senate scandal come election time.

For the Liberals : Trudeau is not the piece of gold you quite thought he was. The west wasn’t buying what he was selling. Without a platform and a vision it is the voting public who will give him the finger when his train leaves the station.

For the NDP : Tom Mulcair might be excellent at question period but he is a dipshit on the campaign trail. He couldn’t motivate anybody to vote for everybody’s favorite socialist Linda McQuaig.

What will the mainstream media say? That Harper will worry over the results tonight.

In truth he won’t and it will be the media and the opposition that will be worried.

I would say the prospects for another majority look a little rosier now than they did a few hours ago, don’t they?

It’ll be an interesting run up to the 2015 election and Political Insider will be there to bring you all the action.

Stay tuned and as always thanks for reading!

Federal Liberals Have a Dilemma!

It's easy son, wave it a little longer and they will want you real bad!

Justin Trudeau has once again said he is not interested in the job of permanent Liberal leader. He made that clear moments after Bob Rae announced that he would stay on as interim leader but would not be in the running for the permanent job.

This presents a huge problem for the party that is trying to reinvent itself.

At this point Gerrard Kennedy,Joyce Murray,Martha Hall Findlay,Marc Garneau, Dominic LeBlanc and David McGuinty are the names rumored to be interested in the job.

These potential candidates would have trouble motivating their own EDA ( Electoral District Association) boards to show up at their summer barbeques let alone captivate the country to vote for them.

So unless they have a sleeper superstar ( Dalton McGuinty LOL ) it comes to begging Trudeau to take the job.

The Dilemma of course is if he takes the job it helps the Conservatives, if he doesn’t take the job Tommy Mulcair and the NDP will steam roll them in the next election.

It is sort of a ” your screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t” situation don’t you think?

Craig Scott wins Toronto Danforth in the battle of the Socialists

 

Jack Layton must be looking down proud tonight as dipper comrade Craig Scott soundly trounced fellow socialist in the Brawl for it all in Toronto Danforth.

It was an exciting day what with Olivia Chow getting booted out of a voting station and Bob Rae aka Marijuana Bob finally admitting what the rest of us know:” All I am is the leader of a third party!

I suspect the real big winner tonight will be Thomas Mulcair as he prepares to become Dipper in charge this weekend.

First on his agenda: Devour the Liberal Party of Canada.

Big Loser: Marijuana Bob; he just made a bad day worse and conceded on behalf of his candidate.

There is only one trial the people want to see on TV Christy!

The people have no clue what is best for them!

The people want the Hockey riot trials to be over! They want the guilty charged and convicted.They don’t care whether they are on TV or not.

The only person in this province who does not get this is the Premier,Christy Clark.

Even Vancouver’s Dipper Mayor understands that!

In the name of safety,shame and fair hearings the judge that will rule on the application Monday thinks it’s a sham.

This is another in a long line of misjudgements and gaffes made by the Premier!

There is one trial, however, the people are anxious to see on TV. It will occur on election night in 2013.That day Christy Clark and her government will be judged by a jury of their peers.

That trial date can’t come soon enough!

It's bloody obvious isn't it! The people are not smart enough to connect with me!

B.C.Liberals to Chilliwack:We want to buy your vote,is it for sale?

My name is Naomi and I would like to buy your vote!

In another brazen demonstration of old school politics,the B.C.Liberals went to Chilliwack in an attempt to buy off the voters.

Ever since they have appointed their candidate for the yet to be called by-election they have had minister upon minister make an appearance here.

Are they running scared?

Yes; sources tell Political Insider that the B.C. Liberals own internal polling shows them losing this riding badly.

So much so that the Premier has not yet called this by-election.

We wonder when that will happen.This district wants to be represented in the legislature.

It’s only fair!

What do you think?

You weren’t gonna smoke that and go for a drive were you Bob?

Marijuana Liberal Leader lecturing membership at the convention.

Word comes today from a study done in Canada that the drug that the Marijuana Liberal Party proposed to legalize might not be a safe as everybody thinks.

In fact the study says that driving while on pot actually doubles crash risk.

I wonder how Marijuana Bob and newly nominated candidate Grant Gordon will address that while campaigning on the hustings in Toronto-Danforth?

Rumors Eh! BS more like it. Surrey mayor Watts denies rumour she is gunning for Conservative leadership

It must have been a slow news day at the Surrey Now what with them running a figment of somebody’s imagination about the Mayor of Surrey gunning for BC Conservative leader John Cummins’s job.

Not only that,you would think with all the shootings in Surrey ( as recently as today),the Now would have better choice of words than gunning in the headline.

The rumor this writer hears is that the B.C. Liberals, in an attempt to salvage their party, are said to be reaching out to the Mayor to replace Christy Clark who has lost traction with the voting public.

That would be like asking a different ships captain to hop aboard the Titanic and replace the existing one after the boat has started to take on water and tilt.

Not gonna happen either,not even in the Now’s wildest imagination.

THEY PULLED THE STORY

SURREY – If Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts is planning to bump B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins out of his job, nobody has bothered to tell her about it – or Cummins, for that matter.

Asked about a rumour that she’s seeking Cummins’ job, Watts responded with laughter.

“I haven’t even given it any thought,” she said Tuesday. “If there’s not a rumour started by 10 o’clock, better start one,” she laughed.

The rumour was news to Cummins, too.

“I hadn’t heard the leadership is up for grabs,” he said Tuesday. “As far as I know, there’s no movement afoot to replace me.”

A recent Angus Reid poll indicates that while the B.C. Conservative Party has gained some ground (up one percent, to 19 per cent) in popularity, Cummins’ popularity had dropped by a point.

According to the poll, NDP leader Adrian Dix enjoys 26 per cent of the vote in the “preferred premier” category, up seven per cent since November, while Liberal Premier Christy Clark has dropped three points to 22 per cent, Cummins dropped one point to eight per cent, and Green Party Leader gained one point, to three per cent.

The polling company interviewed 800 British Columbian men and women between Jan. 27 to 29. The poll results have a margin error of plus/minus 3.5 per cent.

tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com

Read more: http://www.thenownewspaper.com/Surrey+mayor+Watts+denies+rumour+gunning+Conservative+leadership/6115223/story.html#ixzz1lkARWAt0

Hey Pat,Does that $850,000 include the $780,000 for the pamphlet you threw in the garbage?

Minster Pat Bell said today, after it came out that they had spent $17,000 on a photo-op for the Premier,it was OK because “as of 45 days ago they had only spent $850,000”.

In the manner of the pot calling the kettle black,Adrian Dix said this ad was merely a re-branding of the Premier. Uh Adrian,how many times have you been re-branded over the years anyways?

Minister Bell,that $850,000,does it contain the $780,000 for the HST pamphlet you tossed in the garbage?

Federal By-Election called for March12

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has today called the by=election to file the vacancy left by the death of Jack Layton in the EDA of Toronto-Danforth for March 12,2012.

Voters in this EDA have a history of voting for the two socialist parties the NDP and the Marijuana Liberal Party of Canada.

Even Marijuana Liberal interim Leader Bob Rae held this riding when he was a Federal Dipper back in the late 70’S.

Traditionally governments don’t win by-elections but Layton is probably looking down with more than a passing interest from heaven.

After all,having just been laid to rest,it is a little soon for him to roll over the grave, should the lefties split the vote and the governing Conservatives come up through the middle and win the seat!