Now that Paul Martin has finally called an election, we have an opprtunity to voice our collective opinion on the "good government" he says the Liberals have been giving us for years.
Good government?
Some examples:
1. The current sponsorship scandal that ran from 1997 to 2001 included at least $100 million skimmed off the top in unneeded commissions to Jean’s friends. The litany of payoffs and schemes that lined the pockets of connected Liberal supporters would make a mafia don envious. Jean Chretien’s response: So what if a few million was stolen, it was all in a good cause.” Paul Martin's response: "I didn't do it" (rumour has it that Bart Simpson is now suing for copyright infingement.)
2. An additional $793 million in federal advertising spending over a five-year period was rife with Liberal rule breaking with commissions and fees paid for no work.
3. Jean Chretien’s interference in FBDB loans to the Auberge Grand-Mere.
4. The HRDC grant boondoggle in which $1billion was unaccounted for after grants were being vetted by Liberal-party officials in Quebec, and (surprise) Liberal supporters were frequently the beneficiaries of huge grant dollars
5. As he then was Finance Minister Paul Martin’s interests in Canadian Steamship Lines and how they were not truly in a blind trust. He manges to underestimate the amount of money it received in federal contract by a factor of over $100 million (or as the Liberals call it, petty cash)
6. George Radwanski’s spendthrift ways as Privacy Commissioner (A guys gotta eat, eh...).
7. $101 million for Chretien’s private jets while the Sea Kings are literally falling from the sky. The Liberals overruled its own military - which operates the planes - which said new ones weren't needed until at least 2010.They also broke their own rules on contracts by acquiring the jets without putting out a public tender
8. The $2 billion gun registry, initially promised to cost $2 million.
9. And an endless stream of other Liberal boondoggles and spendthrifts.
Will the latest Liberal scandal pass, as have the past Liberal scandals? Will the proverbial short memories of the voters save the Liberals at the polls?
Or will we finally say enough is enough.
Have the endless cycle of Liberal scandals - financial and ethical - that typified Chretien's tenure so lowered the bar for an alternative to Liberal government, that “warm, vertical and not a Liberal” is all voters now need to cast their vote?
Cast your vote on June 28. Have your say.
Good government?
Some examples:
1. The current sponsorship scandal that ran from 1997 to 2001 included at least $100 million skimmed off the top in unneeded commissions to Jean’s friends. The litany of payoffs and schemes that lined the pockets of connected Liberal supporters would make a mafia don envious. Jean Chretien’s response: So what if a few million was stolen, it was all in a good cause.” Paul Martin's response: "I didn't do it" (rumour has it that Bart Simpson is now suing for copyright infingement.)
2. An additional $793 million in federal advertising spending over a five-year period was rife with Liberal rule breaking with commissions and fees paid for no work.
3. Jean Chretien’s interference in FBDB loans to the Auberge Grand-Mere.
4. The HRDC grant boondoggle in which $1billion was unaccounted for after grants were being vetted by Liberal-party officials in Quebec, and (surprise) Liberal supporters were frequently the beneficiaries of huge grant dollars
5. As he then was Finance Minister Paul Martin’s interests in Canadian Steamship Lines and how they were not truly in a blind trust. He manges to underestimate the amount of money it received in federal contract by a factor of over $100 million (or as the Liberals call it, petty cash)
6. George Radwanski’s spendthrift ways as Privacy Commissioner (A guys gotta eat, eh...).
7. $101 million for Chretien’s private jets while the Sea Kings are literally falling from the sky. The Liberals overruled its own military - which operates the planes - which said new ones weren't needed until at least 2010.They also broke their own rules on contracts by acquiring the jets without putting out a public tender
8. The $2 billion gun registry, initially promised to cost $2 million.
9. And an endless stream of other Liberal boondoggles and spendthrifts.
Will the latest Liberal scandal pass, as have the past Liberal scandals? Will the proverbial short memories of the voters save the Liberals at the polls?
Or will we finally say enough is enough.
Have the endless cycle of Liberal scandals - financial and ethical - that typified Chretien's tenure so lowered the bar for an alternative to Liberal government, that “warm, vertical and not a Liberal” is all voters now need to cast their vote?
Cast your vote on June 28. Have your say.
