Author: Stephen Taylor

Thanks to Blogging Tories MK Braaten for leading this effort, and Angry for providing some other research. Everybody is invited to contribute to the story of course. Post any new data that you find.

So, prior to the Goodale announcement on November 23rd at 6:00pm, it is alleged that a few people received advance word of either the details of finance minister’s announcement or just that he was going to make one. What follows are volume graphs that I made of the most acutely traded income trusts prior to Goodale’s announcement. The volume of the trading is listed as “unusual” on stocktrends.ca.

Click each of the following graphs to enlarge.

Homework assignment: Find insider connections (if any) between these income trusts and the Liberal power structure.

What could be more hypocritical than Paul Martin standing up to give a speech at an international conference on global warming when Canada has done nothing to try to meet the first-phase of Kyoto’s targets?

How about Paul Martin using his old and decrepit gas guzzling jet to rush back to Montreal two days later to get some photos with Bill Clinton for a campaign endorsement?

Paul Martin burned 4,879 litres per hour to get there and back and while he was there he had a ‘bilateral visit’ with a former US president. Of course, if Paul Martin wants to call it a ‘bilateral’ meeting (and announce it on Liberal.ca instead of pm.gc.ca) we know that our brave PM has also had ‘bilateral’ visits with the likes of other non-world leaders such as Bono.

Paul Martin has done little to cut our emissions and to live up to our Kyoto commitments. He has failed in his relations with the current US leadership. Canada used to have leverage for change among our friends, now Paul Martin needs to cover up such erosion in our international influence by meeting with such pseudo-brokers of change like Bill Clinton and Bono.

This is simply crass campaigning by the leader of the Liberal party.

In this video, captured from CPAC, Liberal backbench MP Don Bell gets an earful from a constituent.

Liberal MP Don Bell (00:51) 704KB