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More Conservative pork-barrel/partisan politics over economic stimulus.

Posted by Scott Tribe on November 9, 2009, at 11:38 am |

Yet again today, we have more examples/evidence of the Conservatives deciding to use stimulus funds for partisan gain.

First, more studies from independent media researchers that continue to show that Conservative ridings are getting disproportionate funding advantages over opposition held ridings:

The investigation — a two-week project by The Chronicle Herald, the Ottawa Citizen and journalism [...]

A perfect example of a 'red herring' provided by the Conservatives

Posted by Scott Tribe on November 2, 2009, at 11:27 am |

So, my last blogpost observed yesterday one of the levels of government was going to get blamed by the public for the H1N1 vaccine shortage if it continued. I didn’t say who I thought should be blamed; I just said someone was going to be if this situation continued. If you read the headlines [...]

More Tony Clement hilarity.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 27, 2009, at 7:33 pm |

A hat tip to Steve V on his excellent blogpost on this new bit of partisan pork barrel hilarity and hi-jinks from Industry Minister Tony Clement. After reading this and finding out that Clement has engaged in more pork barrel partisan shenanigans for his riding, I really want to know – did Clement secretly [...]

Tony Clement & Conservatives still can't get their stimulus stories straight.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 27, 2009, at 10:23 am |

It’s been said by some political observers that the Conservative Party and Harper are most effective when they can say and do stuff from scripted moments. When they get into unexpected crises and trouble that crops up unexpectedly however, they go off-message and make blunders. That appears to be the case here with the [...]

I pretend to be a Conservative MP handing out government money..

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 24, 2009, at 11:49 am |

..and crediting it to my party instead. Here I am sending you all your very own partisan infrastructure stimulus funding novelty cheque:

Do you also want to be a Conservative MP for a day? Create your own novelty cheque.

By the way, on a more serious and related note, read the Jim Travers article this AM on [...]

More Conservative slush - this time in Northern Ontario.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 22, 2009, at 3:56 pm |

A press release and report from Gerard Kennedy that is now at the Liberals homepage that you might find of interest:

Stephen Harper’s pork-barrel politics extends to Northern Ontario, where he let Tony Clement give Conservative ridings twice as much infrastructure funding as opposition-held ridings, a Liberal analysis shows. Under the first comprehensive look at all [...]

This guy 'gets' Harper; hopefully we will as well.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 22, 2009, at 2:36 pm |

I saw this fellow being quoted over at Impolitical’s blog this AM, but I think his analysis of Harper is well worth repeating:

Michael Behiels, a native of Alberta’s Peace River country, teaches Canadian constitutional history at the University of Ottawa. He says Harper’s approach to politics and governance is shaped by his Christian fundamentalism. “Harper [...]

More media investigations on stimulus grants..

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 21, 2009, at 6:14 pm |

..this one is done by the Globe and Mail, and they find more evidence of Conservatives funneling money disproportionately to ridings they held over ones held by opposition parties – this time in reference to funding for recreational facilities:

A high-profile Harper government stimulus program created to build hockey rinks and other recreation projects has funnelled [...]

Winston Churchill Lord Acton saying?">What’s that old Winston Churchill Lord Acton saying?

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 20, 2009, at 10:44 am |

Gerry Nicholls, who worked with Stephen Harper at the right-wing National Citizens Coalition several years ago, and has been one of Harper’s most vocal critics from the right-wing conservative side of the Canadian political spectrum over all these partisan maneuvers the Conservative government is attempting to do with politicizing the Economic Action Plan (the various [...]

Some holes in the “we didn’t know transfers had stopped” defence? (Update: PMO retracts “military didn’t tell us” claim)

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 25, 2008, at 3:01 pm |

Ok, so the Conservative government is now claiming they weren’t aware of the Canadian Armed Forces having stopped the transfer of detainees to the Afghanistan authorities (even though most of us agree that it was a GOOD thing this happened, the Harper government seems embarrassed by it – maybe because of all those “You’re all [...]

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More Conservative pork-barrel/partisan politics over economic stimulus.

A perfect example of a 'red herring' provided by the Conservatives

More Tony Clement hilarity.

Tony Clement & Conservatives still can't get their stimulus stories straight.

I pretend to be a Conservative MP handing out government money..

More Conservative slush - this time in Northern Ontario.

This guy 'gets' Harper; hopefully we will as well.

More media investigations on stimulus grants..

Winston Churchill Lord Acton saying?">What’s that old Winston Churchill Lord Acton saying?

Some holes in the “we didn’t know transfers had stopped” defence? (Update: PMO retracts “military didn’t tell us” claim)

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