In anticipation for the defeat of the government back in May, both the Conservative Party of Canada and the NDP redesigned their respective websites into campaign websites. Both remain largely unchanged. Here, I offer advice to the Conservative…
In a minority parliament such as this, the independents have all of the power. In a move likely seen as the Liberal attempt to fast-track bill C-38 through the Commons before the summer, Liberal MP Pat O’Brien quit his party today in opposition to…
Nothing has been confirmed yet, but I speculate that Gilles Duceppe will leave federal politics to lead the Parti Quebecois after the surprise resignation of PQ leader Bernard Landry. The resignation of Landry changes the political equations of a…
The next Prime Minister of Canada should come from Quebec and he should be Stephen Harper. This statement may not seem to make much sense at first but I believe that it would represent a brilliant strategic move by the Conservatives to form the next…
Tonight there are allegations from the Liberals that the tapes are spliced and doctored to make the attempted bribery of Gurmant Grewal seem… um… a lot… worse? You can’t blame the Liberal spin though; this is a logical path to take while running…
I’m watching CPAC’s broadcast of Question Period and Peter Mackay just stood up and outlined the CTV broadcast and the conflicting accounts of the RCMP commissioner and the PMO concerning an RCMP investigation of Grewal-gate. He went on to ask if…
CTV provides extensive online video coverage of Grewal-gate. RCMP investigation? Dosanjh is under the impression that it’s underway, so does Guiliano Zaccardelli, the RCMP Commissioner. The PMO says, “talk to our more senior RCMP guy, he says there…
The fundamentals of a controlled and focused attack are there. The meting of information in tantalizing media-packaged portions, day after day, the directing of the debate in the Commons around the scandal, and the revelations of surprise special…
Gurmant Grewal has just released the tapes and the transcripts of his calls which show that Prime Minister knew of the deal to bribe Grewal to cross the floor. Various Calls to Gurmant Grewal from Sudesh Kalia Audio Transcript Meeting between…
Democracy Watch published a media release yesterday that lamented the still-existing loopholes in the disclosure of political campaign contributions. But has Democracy Watch lost sight of the big picture? (My emphasis in bold) FIRST QUARTERLY…
