You then try to paint Canadians as "child-pornographers" if they offer any resistance to US-style state-sponsored techno-snooping.
You get noticed. You offer a non-apology and then suggest that you don't even know the contents of your own bill. At the same time you try to offer assurances that your government would never abuse the constitutional rights of Canadians through the use of the technology you intend to deploy.
Conservative Senator Mike Duffy says “third parties” – and not
necessarily any of the political parties – could be behind election
“robo-call” scandal that’s become a full-blown headache for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
Mr. Duffy offered up his theory in the blame game over a spate of May 2 phone-calls misdirecting voters in an interview with morning host Jordi Morgan on Halifax radio station News 95.7 Monday morning.
I first encountered Duffy some decades ago in Ottawa at the Mayflower. He rather rudely interrupted our group of about a half-dozen senior sailors, in uniform, by asking what we were doing there and stating that he'd never seen us there before.
None of us had enjoyed a particularly good day and to a man we were in an ugly mood. One of our number told Duffy to fuck off. It wasn't me.
Go back to the free food, Duffy. You are absolutely full of shit.
When Peter MacKay, misuser of RCAF aircraft and abuser of authority, comes out with something like this it bears doing the opposite of what he suggests.
The Conservative Party does not need to look into "robocalls" made
during the last federal election any further, Defence Minister Peter
MacKay says.
"It's certainly not something our party condones," MacKay said Sunday
of the fraudulent calls to voters. "It's inappropriate behaviour to say
the least."
Not the keenest dog in the kennel, is he? From the one who lied and sold his party to a bunch of knuckle-draggers this only heightens my desire to look deeper. He overplays little stuff and downplays the big.
Lawrence Martin catalogues a litany of Harper party Nixonian performances. This is good lunch-time fare. Don't slurp soup while reading. You'll just end up blowing it out your nose.
MacKay's claim that there is no need to further investigate the
Robocall affair is akin to saying the coming of Spring is an isolated
incident.
And, of course, the whole mess is being tabulated by the ever diligent The Sixth Estate. It's an unbelievably comprehensive piece of work. I'm bookmarking that page. I think it's going to continue growing.
A small little update before you sit down with the pudding. Kady has a list of 95 Conservative riding campaigns who employed RMG. What? You may think that, but I could never comment.
Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed
in the days before last year’s election to read scripts telling voters
that Elections Canada had changed their voting locations, say telephone
operators who worked for a Thunder Bay-based call centre.
These weren’t “robo-calls,”
as automated pre-recorded voice messages as commonly known. They were
live real-time calls made into ridings across Canada, the callers say.
So, that puts the lie to the 23-year old New Jersey-born lone gunman theory. Grassy knolls everywhere.
