A wannabe Chretien 
....no majority tho.....how sad for Stevie.
What a sad end the RCMP has come to......
....no majority tho.....how sad for Stevie. What a sad end the RCMP has come to......
PMO uses RCMP to disperse...journalists!
PMO uses RCMP to disperse... journalists!
Wow.
This surprises even cynical ol' me.
Harper's accountability? Transparency? Democracy?!
How about...
Prime Minister's Office uses RCMP to boot journalists from hotel
"By Bruce Cheadle
CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - RCMP officers, acting on orders from the Prime Minister's Office, evicted journalists from a hotel lobby Wednesday to prevent them from approaching Conservative MPs to discuss the country's governance.
While tour bus groups freely wandered the lobby of Charlottetown's Delta Hotel, plainclothes Mounties rebuffed reporters who had convened for the Conservative party's three-day summer strategy session.
"There's a time and a place for the media," a Mountie told a small knot of print reporters, making it clear the issue was not a matter of security but of communications strategy.
The unnamed officer said he was acting on orders from the PMO. ..."
Full story:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/conservative_caucus
Wow.
This surprises even cynical ol' me.
Harper's accountability? Transparency? Democracy?!
How about...
Prime Minister's Office uses RCMP to boot journalists from hotel
"By Bruce Cheadle
CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - RCMP officers, acting on orders from the Prime Minister's Office, evicted journalists from a hotel lobby Wednesday to prevent them from approaching Conservative MPs to discuss the country's governance.
While tour bus groups freely wandered the lobby of Charlottetown's Delta Hotel, plainclothes Mounties rebuffed reporters who had convened for the Conservative party's three-day summer strategy session.
"There's a time and a place for the media," a Mountie told a small knot of print reporters, making it clear the issue was not a matter of security but of communications strategy.
The unnamed officer said he was acting on orders from the PMO. ..."
Full story:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/conservative_caucus
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Now add this to the mix:
And of course hilarity ensues....
MacKay Skips Out on Asia-Pacific Meeting - Embassy - Newspaper Online.MacKay Skips Out on Asia-Pacific Meeting
Suspicions that the Foreign Affairs Minister can't handle his portfolio rise as Peter MacKay skips out on an important multilateral meeting, sending his deputy in his place.
The ARF is intended to discuss security and terrorism issues in Southeast Asia, a region rife with terrorism and insurrections, and where Canada has traditionally sought to help countries like the Philippines and Thailand deal with internal security issues.
The forum's membership includes North Korea, China, the European Union and the United States, and provides a way for Canada to be a little closer to international issues like the North Korean nuclear talks.
Mr. Dugas said the ASEAN Regional Forum is important enough to "dispatch our deputy minister, who is our most senior mandarin."
And of course hilarity ensues....
Canadian minister gets shirty at Asia summit - Yahoo! NewsMANILA (AFP) - Apparently, Canada didn't get the memo.
Deputy Foreign Minister Leonard Edwards cut quite a figure when he turned up for a gala dinner at the Philippine presidential palace Tuesday in his traditional -- and very transparent -- Philippine shirt.
The trouble is that all the other men were in suits and ties.
Canadian officials could not immediately be reached for comment, but Edwards did not appear to be the happiest man in the room when the dinner's group photo was taken -- and he ended up in the front row.
Nevertheless the minister put on his bravest face and smiled as he shook hands with another summit leader not wearing a tie -- his host, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo
Maybe Peter left early to go walk the dog...
Or was missing potatoes...Maybe Peter left early to go walk the dog...
So much for 'The Gentle Island'...
This is de rigeur for our man Steve. It's been his play all along.
This is de rigeur for our man Steve. It's been his play all along.
Were the journalists prevented from approaching Conservative MPs on the street? At the door? Just in the lobby? Were they pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, water-hosed, fired on with rubber-bullets? Or were they asked to leave, and voluntarily complied?
Ooops.
Threadkill:
Same link as OP.
Ooops.
Threadkill:
Same link as OP.
Tories throw open doors to caucus meeting for photo op after secretive start
The federal Conservatives made a show of opening their summer caucus meeting room to news media Thursday after the three-day strategy session got off to a rough start.
The Prime Minister's Office instructed RCMP officers to evict reporters covering the event in Charlottetown from a public hotel lobby on Wednesday.
The Mounties involved made it clear the expulsion was all about message control, not security.
Only two of the party's 125 MPs were offered up for interviews on the session's opening day.
But on the second day, TV cameras and reporters were invited into the hotel ballroom to witness the opening of the full national caucus meeting.
MPs and Senators belted out the national anthem, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed former Liberal MP Joe Comuzzi into the Tory fold.
Harper was to give a news conference late in the day, but officials from his office waffled when asked when any other cabinet ministers or MPs would be made available in a media room set up across the street from the hotel.
What?!? :yikes:
The RCMP didn't let journalists ambush MPs in a hotel lobby? What is this world coming to? Journalists should be allowed to do ANYTHING they want! Just ask Princess Diana.
The RCMP didn't let journalists ambush MPs in a hotel lobby? What is this world coming to? Journalists should be allowed to do ANYTHING they want! Just ask Princess Diana.
gee, asking questions of publicly elected officials somehow compares to chasing a celebrity down the street?What?!? :yikes:
The RCMP didn't let journalists ambush MPs in a hotel lobby? What is this world coming to? Journalists should be allowed to do ANYTHING they want! Just ask Princess Diana.
I just saw the honourable hosebag Harper drive 5 feet away from me in Ch'town. I couldn't spit far or fast enough. Probably get arrested for that anyway. At least Chretien would fight ya himself.
I'll go waaaay out on a limb and guess that no Conservative MPs went anywhere near the street or near doorways accessible by the media.Were the journalists prevented from approaching Conservative MPs on the street? At the door? Just in the lobby? Were they pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, water-hosed, fired on with rubber-bullets? Or were they asked to leave, and voluntarily complied?
....
Think about the question "...were they asked to leave, and voluntarily complied?".
Only if one has never been approached by the police and asked ("told") to move, would one think that there is really any choice in the matter.
Further, the fact that an elected representative, operating on money taken from all constituents, no matter who voted for whom, would use our federal police force to chase away (initimidate) the media, is inexcusable. Harper apologists will try to minimise and deflect, but the act of controlling the media, love 'em or hate 'em, is another step toward governance without accountability and is not a desirable situation, not matter which political party is in power.
Harper is not my Prime Minister, but he uses my money and his policies affect my life and the lives of my loved ones, and I want questions asked and answers given.
You're not supporting the troops.
:-( Waaa....I can't get my questions answered....waaa.... :-(
You don't like the current government? Vote 'em out next election.
Not getting answers from your local MP? Vote 'em out next election. (sorry, Harper isn't everyone's local MP - deal with it)
Don't like the way they treat the media? Vote 'em out next election.
In the end, they were elected, they are running things, and really, they are under no obligation to answer questions or be transparent. If you don't like it, vote 'em out next election.
Nothing like a bunch of back-seat politicians who think they can run this country better. Don't like it? Run in the next election.
You don't like the current government? Vote 'em out next election.
Not getting answers from your local MP? Vote 'em out next election. (sorry, Harper isn't everyone's local MP - deal with it)
Don't like the way they treat the media? Vote 'em out next election.
In the end, they were elected, they are running things, and really, they are under no obligation to answer questions or be transparent. If you don't like it, vote 'em out next election.
Nothing like a bunch of back-seat politicians who think they can run this country better. Don't like it? Run in the next election.
I guess it's all part of Harper's accountability and openness. Nothing like hand picking you will ask what pre-determined question ahead of time. And you wonder why people distrust what is said.... Of course everytime one of the buffons speaks there is a different story...What?!? :yikes:
The RCMP didn't let journalists ambush MPs in a hotel lobby? What is this world coming to? Journalists should be allowed to do ANYTHING they want! Just ask Princess Diana.
Apart from the KGB like fun, this is a misuse of the RCMP. Surely some rent-a-cops would have done the job.
To use the RCMP to make sure no monkey is scrummed, well that a first in Canadian Politics. Congrats Harper! Using the RCMP as part of your communication strategy is priceless. No wonder I don't have much respect for them anymore.
This is not the government but a political party."No cameras, no mics," one plainclothed RCMP officer told CTV News on Wednesday. "That is what the party asked."
I'm sure that now that the media is reporting this, the Connies will make up a story that sounds half plausible...
The Turner Report » Censored in CharlottetownThis action today at the Conservative national caucus in Charlottetown is a first. It begs the question of what information Mr. Harper is trying to suppress in this, a supposed open democracy.
Imagine you are a Conservative MP or minister, untrusted enough by your leader to even share a room with a media person. Imagine you are an RCMP officer, reduced to this. — Garth
Ironic given that they promised to be transparent. beejaconIn the end, they were elected, they are running things, and really, they are under no obligation to answer questions or be transparent.
You're not supporting the troops.
Wonder if this guy is:
CTV.ca | Tory MP sorry after assistant impersonates himOTTAWA -- A red-faced Tory MP is apologizing after his assistant impersonated him -- and provided false information -- in an e-mail exchange with a constituent over the hot-button issue of Afghan detainees.
An e-mail from Gord Brown's parliamentary office, dated May 2, claimed that every alleged case of abuse involving Afghan detainees had been investigated and proven to be unfounded. That despite the fact the Afghan government has yet to finish an investigation into the torture claims.
"Every report of abuse, upon investigation, has been found to have originated with the Taliban,'' said the e-mail.
It went on to claim that the Canadian media have not been able to find any "evidence of abuse so they are `growing' the story to keep it alive.''
It also compared journalists covering the issue to spiders: "Journalists are trained to take any news story and stretch it out in as many ways as they possibly can. Think of a spider's web.''
In particular, the e-mail criticized a story by CP reporter Jennifer Ditchburn about the detainee issue.
Calls were placed Friday to both Brown and the prime minister's office, checking the authenticity of the e-mail and whether the note represented the government's position. Shortly afterward, King sent a letter apologizing to Davidson and Ditchburn, claiming he actually wrote the e-mail.
It's not the first time a Conservative MP has been impersonated by an assistant.
In 2001, Rahim Jaffer of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance lost his position as chairman of the party's small business advisory committee when an assistant impersonated him on a radio program with Jaffer's blessing.
That Rahim Jaffer, never far away from a lie it seems...
maybe this is what harpo meant by promising a "transparent" gov't
people impersonating MPs
people impersonating MPs
That's Right Honourable Hosebag to you, commoner, and don't you forget it!I just saw the honourable hosebag Harper drive 5 feet away from me in Ch'town. I couldn't spit far or fast enough. Probably get arrested for that anyway. At least Chretien would fight ya himself.
I bet ya Lord and Lady Tubby use that kind of language all the timeThat's Right Honourable Hosebag to you, commoner, and don't you forget it!
I can't understand why the PM would want to keep team liberal... ummm I mean the media at arms length.
Cheers
MacGuiver
Cheers
MacGuiver
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