Christy's voting skills were absymal. Does Mike Duffy use the same caliber?

Ahhh yes, Premier Christy Clark and her inability to cast a ballot, at an Advance ballot in Burnaby for her home residence (Vancouver-Fairview) ended up using her own name .... as though she was casting a ballot in her MLA riding of Vancouver-Point Grey.......  she succeeded in sealing her ballot but left two names on the ballot, without giving a clear intent of which of the two names would be her preference.

Now we have Senator Mike Duffy running afoul of Senate auditors asking why the Chief of Staff to Steve Harper handed over $90,000, free, a gift, to Duffy.... when by LAW, anything over $500 has to be registered with the Ethics Commish within 30 days.... which wasn't done.  Wasn't even known about until Duffy let the secret slip..... and he even went so far as to borrow the money from a Bank to repay his "loan" from the Government of Canada Taxpayers.....   All of this is covered by Creekside's Alison.

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Google search criteria:   Canadian Senator residency form

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/411/ciba/rep/Deloitte_SenDuffy-e.pdf

Examination of Senator Duffy's Primary and Secondary Residence ...

Page 5: 

2.2. Assessment of Senator Duffy’s Primary Residence Location

1. Based on the documentation provided, it appears that Senator Duffy spent approximately 54% of

his time in Ottawa (for Senate business or other) during the period of our examination. Senator

Duffy spent approximately 30% of the days in Prince Edward Island, either at his primary

residence or elsewhere. We have set out a breakdown of our assessment in the table below.

www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/411/.../Deloitte_SenDuffy-e.pdf‎

May 7, 2013 – Examination of Senator. Duffy's Primary and. Secondary Residence. Status. The Senate of Canada. May 2013 ...

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On another blog, one commenter asked if Senator Mike Duffy voted in his Primary home Riding on PEI whereby his MP would be long time serving Liberal Wayne Easter, or did he vote in his Secondary home in Kanata where the MP is Conservative Hon. Gordon O'Connor?  Or did he vote twice, just like Christy, but Elections Canada officials are not as sharp as Elections BC (and CBC)?

Would Duffy prefer to have his vote for a "winner", or a "loser"?

Would Duffy settle into his Malpeque Primary residence knowing that 75% of the Ridings population on Prince Edward Island went for Liberal Candidates?

Since 1988 the MP for Malpeque has been Liberal.  Since 1993 it's been MP Wayne Easter.
Riding of Cardigan... Liberal since 1988.
Charlottetown Riding... Liberal since 1988.
Egmont Riding 1980 to 2008 Liberal.... 2011 (Poutine era) Conservative.   (more info for all Ridings - Wikipedia)

With such a long history of PEI leaning Liberal.... why did Harper appoint a Conservative Senator? ... it certainly wasn't to give the Province's Primary residents a chance to have a say in the Senate..... from someone who is required to live 183 days per year to benefit from lower taxation, which he didn't, because Kanata is his PRIMARY residence ... sort of....

 Charlottetown's The Guardian:

..... Records obtained by The Guardian Tuesday from the provincial taxation and property division office show Duffy and his wife Heather are identified as non-resident owners of their Cavendish cottage and thus pay higher property taxes.

Prince Edward Island charges 50 per cent more in property taxes to owners who are not permanent residents of the Island.

In order to get the lower tax rate, one must reside in the province for 183 days consecutively. ......

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...... to establish primary residency all senators were asked to submit copies of three documents: a driver’s license; a provincial health card; and relevant information on their income tax return, together with a signed statement of where they vote.

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Mike Duffey... in all the years he was a "journalist" never has been within the grasp of being the all time news getter... but today he is the NEWS because of his gaff(s)... and how those gaffs has insidiously spread to others, like Nigel (Wrong) Wright ....  chief of staff to Hapless Harper.

There is the sunny side up kind of thingy for Prime Ministers (former) and their appointees current (doghouse) status ..... with the public:

Harper appointees,  52;  three in the doghouse

Chretien appointees 22; one in the Doghouse  Mac Harb

Trudeau, the elder, 4  in good standing

Mulroney, 8  in good standing

Martin, 14  in good standing

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PM Harper's Appointees

Salma Ataullahjan
Denise Batters
Diane Bellemare
Lynn Beyak
Doug Black                      
Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu
David Braley
Patrick Brazeau   Quebec
JoAnne Buth
Claude Carignan
Jean-Guy Dagenais
Jacques Demers
Norman Doyle
Michael Duffy  PEI
Nicole Eaton
Tobias C. Enverga
Suzanne Fortin-Duplessis
Linda Frum
Irving Gerstein
Stephen Greene
Nancy Greene Raine
Leo Housakos
Hector Daniel Lang
Michael L. MacDonald
Ghislain Maltais
Fabian Manning
Elizabeth Marshall
Yonah Martin
Tom McInnis
Paul McIntyre
Don Meredith
Percy Mockler
Richard Neufeld
Thanh Hai Ngo
Kelvin Ogilvie
Victor Oh
Dennis Patterson
Don Plett
Rose-May Poirier
Michel Rivard
Bob Runciman
Judith Seidman
Asha Seth
Larry Smith
Carolyn Stewart-Olsen
Scott Tannas
Betty Unger
Josée Verner
John D. Wallace
Pamela Wallin  Saskatchewan
David Wells
Vernon White

The $10,000 a month man, Don Millar, created the attack ads and won the election for Christy

The ad was produced by Vancouver’s Hogan Millar Media and ran during the final four days of the campaign.   Michael Smyth  May 19, 2013

November 27, 2012 we wrote this on Don Millar, the man who was advising the BC Liberal Government Caucus Researchers who then proceeded to break the law by their using Government resources for partisan purposes, and when caught they got a slap on their wrists by Deputy Chief of Staff Kim Haakstad.

Don't waste your valuable time looking for the hiring of Don Millar, we did, last week when the news broke about Christy Clark's dark dungeon OIC appointees were caught using Government Equipment and Resources to run  personal ATTACK websites against the Leader of the Opposition, Aridan Dix (ATTACK ADS I) AND  John Cummins (ATTACK ADS II).

There is a loophole as to how someone may be hired via an untendered contract, which is okay, if it's an emergency ......snip

There's also this, by the Tyee's Andrew MacLeod

The British Columbia government has suffered a series of embarrassing leaks, the most damaging of which was the draft multicultural outreach strategy that forced the resignations of a cabinet minister and of Premier Christy Clark's deputy chief of staff.

While the leaks give the appearance of widespread disgruntlement within the BC Liberal ranks, it's much more likely that they can be traced back to one former caucus employee.

The most recent leak went, as several have, to Cassidy Olivier, a reporter with The Province newspaper. It included an email from Sam Oliphant, who was then a caucus researcher and is now a spokesperson for the BC Liberal Party, and a four-page research note on BC Conservative Party leader John Cummins.  snip

A BC Hydro Smart Meter that smiles upon IPPs

Independent Power Producers have something to Smile about because they get to use a Net Metering system........ oh, and they have a signed agreement enforced by the BC Liberals upon BC Hydro which means that the company is locked into a higher, highest cost factor, to a tune of $500 million in 2011/2012 because of the IPPs.

Ad Analog promoting IPP

Advertising for the Net Metering system was done through large, lucrative contracts which made the Analog Meter appear to be smiling.   However in a real Analog Meter, there are no teeth, except for the BC Liberals and BC Hydro putting the bite on our pockets.   Which is all sort of strange, because from the document that the smiling image was lifted from Energy Minister Rich Coleman said otherwise. 












Here's what Premier Gordon Campbell, Premier  had to say on February 27, 2007.   Page 4 of 44.

Just as the Government's (WAC Social Credit Party of BC) Energy vision of 40 years ago led to massive benefits for our Province, so will our decisions today.   The BC Energy Plan will ensure a secure, reliable and affordable energy supply for all British Columbians for years to come.  

Over at Northern Insight, Norm Farrell has done excellent reporting, referencing, ...... keepsakes, for future generations to show just WHEN BC Hydro became so skewed that "the benefits" were re-directed to BC Liberal Party insiders.

"Overall, according to Hydro's 2011-12 annual report, IPPs earned $676 million from Hydro in the 12-month period ending March 31..."

Had BC Hydro purchased that same quantity of power at recent spot prices, the savings to BC power consumers would have been as much as $500 million.  - Norm Farrell

A real Analog meter, No Happy Face

http://www.energyplan.gov.bc.ca/default.htm

The BC Energy Plan puts British Columbia at the forefront of environmental and economic leadership. This plan looks to all forms of clean, alternative energy in meeting British Columbians’ needs in the provincial economy.  -  Rich Coleman

2012 BC Liberal Minister Rookies were incompetent, will their replacements be the SMART version, 2013?

With the "Stunning Victory" for Christy Clark and her Today BC Liberals on May 14th, there's talk by them already, of a Summer and/or a Fall Session of the BC Legislature.  Convenient that, because the Yesterday BC Liberals of 2012 were unable to soldier on with their rookie ministers.

Was it merely a strategy to not face the opposition MLAs questions?  Not face the Press?  Not face the Public? Or was it time to NOT be a government, but spend like a Government, by padding their accounts?

As it is now, with 25 old MLAs, some tried, some failed, and 25 new MLAs, never tried, could fail, what's the difference in being ready to battle in the BC Legislature today, compared to the previous year .... Rookies?

Finance Minister Mike de Jong called their lack of ability for the Yesterday BC Liberals, to mount an offensive last Fall, was because......, as Craig McInnes wrote in the Vancouver Sun:

"..... It’s not as though there isn’t time for both. A fall session was scheduled to sit for a total of 28 days in October and November, hardly long enough to monopolize the government’s timetable between now and February, when the next session is scheduled.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong gave a more persuasive and less flattering explanation for the lack of a session when he told reporters recently that it was cancelled because Clark restocked her Cabinet with rookies who need time to learn their portfolios and the government wanted to continue the work started last summer of “reaching out to British Columbians.”

In other words, it lacks the competence at the moment to face the opposition in question period and would rather spend the time campaigning. ......"

The pundits said there was a BC Liberal 801 Club, but was it really a Kool, Topp and Guy ploy?

The pollsters (majority) were wrong, the press (majority) were wrong, the public (minority of 50% of those who did vote) was wrong.

Couldn't we have had an election without the first two "reporting" to the public?  With the Pollsters "in control" of where they said the public opinions were going and with the Press in full control of publishing the Pollsters products, was the public tricked into believing that there wasn't a hope in hell of the BC Liberals winning?   And just who are these people that contribute their Yes and No answers to the Pollsters?

The other question is why was there a 2/3 majority of one company working for the BC Liberals and the 1/3 working for the BC NDP?   KoolTopp & Guy

Our team brings a balanced attack, with top-notch talent at every position - our speedy sniper swooping in from left wing (Topp), our playmaking centre who can be counted on to win the key draws at either end of the rink (Guy) and our right-winger with the cannonading slapshot that puts the puck in the net everytime (Kool).

Vancouver Sun:

It’s notable for the obvious reason: Boessenkool has gone dark since last fall when he was forced to resign as Clark’s chief of staff.

But more interesting, is the other two names on the company letterhead.

On one side of the political spectrum is Topp, an Adrian Dix confidante who is running the campaign for the provincial New Democrats.

On the other side is Guy, best known for his work in Ontario but who has also been playing a significant role for Clark and her BC Liberals. Guy was a speaker at the party’s convention last October, and I’m told the party is  close to  naming him as a senior strategist for the coming campaign — possibly even campaign manager.

Between them in the new staff lunch room is Boessenkool, who knows enough from his time as chief of staff to be helpful to both, I’m sure.    Jonathan Fowlie

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Will KTG have to drop their Middle Man, who failed, and settle to changing their company name to

KoolGuy

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Sister Sages Musings 
Grief, Blame and Anger 

BC Liberals Budget 2013 .... is Balanced ......

At least we now know why the voter turn-out in British Columbia is so low.

If you Don't vote, you're never going to lose.

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or

The Sixth Estate  have their own idea..... which is Snipped....

The BC NDP’s Error: Nobody Cares

May 14th, 2013

I’m not terribly interested in speculating, at least for the moment, about why the pollsters would be devastatingly incorrect — again — about a provincial election campaign. My guess is that in this case it has something to do with young people not voting, but again, the answer will become clear over the next couple of weeks. Mainly because that’s what the media will be focusing on.
Instead I have something else to get off my chest. I’m disappointed every time a far-right anti-government political party led by ignorant, unimaginative, corrupt, pro-global warming oligocrats wins an election. But to be honest, I’m not entirely surprised, and I’m actually surprised I’m not more disappointed. Being a leftist of my generation — I’m almost 30 now, so I can no longer truly claim to speak for the youth, but I am part of a generation that elects not to vote in unprecedented numbers — is a lonely lot. It’s also a thoroughly depressing lot, to the point that you sort of get inured to this kind of thing. 

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Kimberly Rivera and the Non-combatant Press, Wikipedia, and yes, the Public too.

Non-combatant:   "civilians who are not taking a direct part in hostilities"

The war of 2013 in British Columbia is just about over, the only thing left is the shouting out from those who won.   The Press, who have never been politicians; The Public, who have never been politicians, have been "fighting" for 30 days.  Then there is the more serious side to "fighting" like from an earlier Post, "IAW SoM, B Coy will conduct CM1005 IVO Gr 12U QQ 1234 5678." 

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The Real WAR and Desertion

 .........The common sense of desertion was plain to almost anyone who had actually been under fire. Again and again these men on the run were fed, sheltered, comforted and transported by soldiers close to the front line. But the further away from the guns they got, entering the reposeful regions of pen-pushing "rear echelons", the more wary, disapproving and uncomprehending their compatriots became. Ultimately they would end up in the hands of the military police, and then in some nightmare "stockade" or military prison where shrieking, muscle-bound monsters who had never been within miles of a mortar "stonk" devoted themselves to breaking their spirit. ........  - Neal Ascherson  -  The Guardian, Thursday 28 March 2013

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Wikipedia (non-combatant press)

Private First Class Kimberly Rivera (born c. 1982^[1]) is an Iraq War resister who went AWOL in February 2007 after a year of service with the U.S. military.^[2] She was the first female U.S. military deserter to flee to Canada.^[3] She was deported from Canada on September 20, 2012 and pled guilty to desertion, receiving a sentence of ten months' imprisonment and a bad-conduct discharge. Amnesty International objected to her detention and designated her a prisoner of conscience.

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Non-Combatant Press

Kimberly Rivera gets her due  May 6, 2013

National Post  -  Matt Gurney  

By every account, U.S. Army deserter Kimberly Rivera is a pleasant person. But that’s not enough to keep you out of jail, where Rivera could remain for the next 10 months.

Rivera enlisted in the U.S. military in 2006. At that time, the U.S. was fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military was desperate for new personnel. Rivera herself badly needed money, and was enticed to enlist by a sign-on bonus of $8,000 the U.S. Army was offering to attract recruits during the conflicts.

Rivera eventually shipped out to Iraq, where she had several close calls and disturbing experiences, including seeing an Iraqi girl crying after her family was victim of apparent collateral damage. She came to question the purpose of the war. In 2007, while back home visiting with family for a leave, she was informed that she would be shipped back to Iraq for a second rotation after her first tour was complete.   snip

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World Trade Centre bombing (2001) Kimberly Rivera was 19 when she chose NOT to sign up.

DoD Selected Manpower Statistics 1999 to 2004:

Page 72

No way of knowing whether the journalist from the National Post has ever been a combatant using swords rather than a pen, but he has a rather extensive Bio:

Matt (Gurney) has a B.A. and M.A. in military history. His hobbies and interests include classic rock music, golfing, cursing the Toronto Maple Leafs and, as all those who know him can attest, he is a shamelessly devoted fan of the original Star Trek series and the Civilization computer game franchise, to which he has already devoted far too much of his life.

Christy's jobs plan for Site C Dam doesn't add up, didn't for Gordon's last ditch stand!

April 20th, 2010 comment from Laila Yuile's blog:

 "The worst is yet to come" Rafe Mair

North Van's Grumps says:

April 20, 2010 7:22 pm at 7:22 pm

There was this show on BBC which depicted the life and times of the Roman Emperor, Claudius (Derek Jacobi ) who was seen by the bureaucrats and soldiers as not being too bright, but he was a great reader of history. There were those that wished to take advantage of him but soon found that their overpriced product of …. digging a harbour, or building a dam …. had escalated their prices to suit the size of their greed.

Today we find that Gordon Muir Campbell says that his Site C project will produce 35,000 Direct jobs and Indirect jobs where the latter certainly won’t be on the construction of the dam.

On page A2 of the Vancouver Sun there’s a scale drawing of three dams: W.A.C. Bennett Dam, Peace Canyon Dam and the proposed Site C dam Liberals commit to building Site C dam where the newest one is approximately one sixth the size of the WAC Bennett Dam. How could a pint size dam match or outperform the statistics for the Bennett Dam?

From the Hudson Hope Museum they have this to say about the construction of the WAC Bennett Dam:  Source: 40 Years on: The Story of the W.A.C Bennett Dam

“The moraine provided the answer to constructing one of the largest earth filled dams of its kind. Three years of survey and study of data climaxed in plans to build a dam near the head of the canyon and to use the materials of the moraine to build it.

Construction of the dam took approximately five years and employed more than 4,800 people at its peak.”

35,000 jobs eh, but really one sixth which equals 5,833 jobs, so why does the Site C Dam come with an estimated price tag of $6.6 billion? Or is this going to be another one of those Convention Centres (or a BC Place Roof) ?

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Raif Mair Online:

Dix Fails to Call Clark on ‘Debt Free BC’ Whopper
Apr 27th, 2013

 On the side of the Christy Clark bus are the words “Debt Free BC”. This could mean one of two things – we are now debt free or we will be. Either way, this statement stands as the all-time whopper in BC history and that covers a hell of a lot of territory.

I do not rely on politically-oriented think tanks for my information, rather noted independent economist Erik Andersen. If you add the $70 Billion in direct debt projected in Clark’s latest Budget to secret “taxpayer obligations” relating to private power contracts and public-private partnership (P3) infrastructure deals, you get – wait for it – over $170 BILLION, that’s with a “B”.   Snip

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Laila Yuile's Post, graphically speaking:   

Christy, these are simple instructions: Write the Last Name First and the First Name Last

Ballots, are confusing little bastards at the best of times, especially if they're the New Edition of Elections BC Advance Blanks whereby one voter, on the very first day, has proven, in grand style, to write in the name of the candidate, incorrectly.

Elections BC has never changed the order by which names are listed on a Ballot.

"A - Z" not "Z to A".

Christy Clark though, has shown a willingness to display her uniqueness among politicians, of what others around the world could do with just a little bit more of her initiative to be creative, and therefore, end up having their name on the Ballot before anyone else.   It's as simple as A, B, C, D, E, etc. supposedly.

We're not talking about the mistake that she made by putting her name on the Ballot, and we're not saying that she's going to fall back on the excuse of "I'm 47!"  Shit happens....

The excuse that Premier Christy Clark used on Wednesday was that she signs her name on documents all day long.... she just follows the typed name written below the signature line.

 However, as WE all know, there's the little matter about WHICH name is written first!

Last name of Doe is written First and his First name of John is written Last, or in the Vancouver-Point Grey Riding for a MLA Candidate  ... it's the other way around.

The only thing that Christy got right on the Advance Blank Ballot, was that if TWO names were permitted, her name WOULD have been first because CC is before MM "Margaret MacDiarmid".

But the Premier did get it wrong... she forgot to indicate clearly of her intent by adding the second name to the Ballot... she didn't cross her name out.  Elections BC will probably lean towards the fact that "Clark, Christy" isn't a Candidate and therefore accept the Ballot as genuine.

But can you imagine the value of such a rare "stamp" of stupidity?

Anyone out there who wants to make a bet that the Finder of that Ballot will be mightily tempted to lift if for personal gain?

Premier Christy Clark's goof is quite possibly in the same league as these:

Don't rush, slow down and Read

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Disgraced Kim Haakstad not licking wounds ...... stamps, in Vancouver Point Grey vs Dix an elected MLA

Christy Clark is 47, her bosom buddy Kim Haakstad (47????  35), RECENTLY disgraced Deputy Chief of Staff, reduced to "volunteering to lick stamps in the Vancouver-Point Grey Riding", author of the Ethnic Memo ...... and the BC Liberals???? come out with an attack ad on Adrian Dix because he was 35 and he took HIS severance pay.

Kim, on the other hand has been taking "handouts" for the past ten years.

Using Google with these three simple words ...... kim haakstad salary....  and/or  Vancouver Sun Salary for Kim Haakstad

Remuneration

$149,027    in 2011/2012

 The Vancouver Sun database doesn't seem to be able to access the years PRIOR to 2011/2012


While the Ethnic Memo was being created and implemented, Kim was pulling in close to $150,000.
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UPDATE: May 9, 2013 2:39pm  Over at Bob Mackin's blog he is looking for the $70,000 answer on whether of not the BC Liberal Party has returned the money that was paid to Brian Bonney  BACK to the British Columbia Treasury..... and the answer thus far, is that although the President of the BC Liberal Party isn't returning calls to Mr. Mackin there was a cheque cut by the BC Liberals on March 14... but the proof of it being delivered, in an Open and Transparent Government, arrived today!

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Brian Bonney having spent half his time working for the BC Liberal Party, had half of his pay RETURNED by the BC Liberal Party.... so where's Seventy Five Thousand Dollars that the BC Liberals stole from the Government of British Columbia on behalf of their wayward charge, Kim Haakstad.  In fact why were we paying her to orchestrate the Ethnic Memo file for TWO YEARS?

They know, knew that the optics for Bonney looked terrible, but KIM HAAKSTAD...naw, it would look better, GREAT, if she refused to accept her severance that was due to her.  My God, she ripped the public off for a year's worth of  salary, and WE, get NOTHING.

Kim didn't walk away with NOTHING.  

Kim is sitting on a Nest Egg of One Million Dollars from her past earnings!


The public has often cried out at the high flying BC Liberals payment scheme for their over priced OIC appointees, far, far, far away from the BC Liberals edict of  "Value for Money".  These hired guns are over paid because the BC Liberals know that there will be days where the Government will have their OICs caught blurring the lines between Government and Party (Brian Bonney) , Ethnic Memo Kim Haakstad, and Private Channels, the Dobell Doctrine to the fullest.

 Kim had been working on her Ethnic Memo since 2011, the moment that Christy Clark won the Leadership of the BC Liberal Party.

Christy Clark and her followers, knowing how badly their Quick Win of the Ethnic Vote scandal would look to the public, the voters, told Kim that they would not be paying her a severance, thereby creating an opportunity to attack Adrian Dix...... but the voters of HIS Riding have accepted his "past sins", his time in the political wilderness, but Kim?????? Kim is still working hard for the Party, for her BOSS, Christy Clark, licking stamps.... like you mean out of sight, out of mind, using here private channels to access all the personal data that she download to the BC Liberals.

Christy's apology, apologies over the Ethnic Memo was a point at which the Government, the BC Liberal Caucus Government Researchers really started to take off the gloves and went for the jugular of stealing taxpayers resources.  They'd been caught TWICE and each time the public was told it wouldn't happen again, and then it did with Brian Bonney spending half of his OIC Appointee time working directly for the BC Liberal Party!

Brian Bonney??????, in which Riding is he "licking stamps"...

TWO disgraced OIC apppointees for the BC Liberals with their fellow cohorts like Pamela Martin and Lorne Mayencourt bouncing around the Election campaign as though their names, being on the insider list of Kim Haakstad Ethnic Memo, hasn't touched their creditability one bit.

Got news for you guys, WE still remember, it only hit the news wires in March, April, May......

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Went to the polls May 8, 2013 (last night) Advance Vote

Heavy turnout for North Vancouver-Lonsdale

Demographic Statistics from our Blog for all Ridings

Advance voting – Advance voting is held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (local time) on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the week preceding General Voting Day. Advance voting is available to any voter and all advance voting places are wheelchair accessible.  - Elections BC

Gordon FD Wilson has "compelled" Christy Clark's BC Liberals to ban Fish Farms in exchange for..... What?

Has Gordon Wilson dropped his Pen/Sword writing against Fish Farm existence yesterday only to take up a Pen/Pal relationship with Christy Clark's BC Liberals today?

 compelled  past participle, past tense of com·pel (Verb)

Verb

1. Force or oblige (someone) to do something.
2. Bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure.

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UPDATE: Gordon Wilson: "....which comic or cartoon character I would choose for each of the declared Liberal leadership candidates.  I put my mind to this and in the interest of providing a lighter perspective on what is otherwise a rather grim affair, I came up with the following. Christy Clark – Peppermint Patty (Charlie Brown)"  February 15, 2011

Gordon and Peppermint Christy

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How else to explain why Gordon Wilson would have to tell his readers that it is indeed true, it is Gordon Wilson writing on his own blog called "Gordon FD Wilson Blog", and that he is leaving his Sunshine Coast retreat of sheep farming, and his side hobby of being a round table knight, slaughtering fish farms ...... .......  to return to his other home in the big city of Vancouver.  But first he has to leap astride another " horse", this time riding around in the BC Liberal campaign plane for a week until his part of the bargain is completed.  A fourth term for the BC Liberals!


His blog must have had it's highest hits after he made the announcement yesterday:

 Time to come home.

Hello this is Gordon Wilson. After twenty years, I believe that it is time for all of us who were so excited at the BC Liberal breakthrough in 1991, but who left the party in 1993, and those of us who don’t feel comfortable at the prospect of an Adrian Dix government, to come home.
This is not a decision that I have taken lightly, but it is one that I feel compelled to make.  SNIP.....

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Was it only two years ago that Christy Clark was crowned as the Leader of the BC Liberal Party, which then gave her a Free ticket to be the Premier of British Columbia?..... to spend our money like it was her money?  $11 Billion!!!!

This next section of Gordon FD Wilson Blog is called:

Wilson’s Weekly

This is one issue YOU can fix

By gordonfdwilson June 20, 2011 11 Comments

All eyes must turn to newly minted Premier, Christy Clark, to see if her government acts responsibly and denies the new mega-size fish farm proposed for Clayoquot Sound (Friends of Clayoquot Sound). If she does, it will truly signal that the change in direction she promised when taking office is real. If she doesn’t, then we can expect that she will carry on as her predecessor Gordon Campbell did. The Liberals under Campbell readily took donations from the fish farming industry. It would appear from the ongoing expansion of farms along the BC Coast that they turned a blind eye to the environmental consequences of that expansion.

Open pen salmon farming in British Columbia has nothing to do with the production of affordable food to feed the masses. It has nothing to do with diversifying the economy of remote coastal locations, and it has even less to do with providing a method of sustainable fish production. What open pen salmon farming is all about is privatizing the ownership of commercial salmon production. This is being done by allowing the introduction of Atlantic salmon to the coastal waters of British Columbia and providing control of our public assets, namely our pristine sheltered inlets and bays, to foreign-based corporations. This is all being done at the direct expense of wild salmon stocks, which are a remarkable common property resource that has been part of the coastal culture and economy for as long as anyone can remember.

Any responsible government would put the public interest ahead of private corporate profits and simply say NO to open pen fish farming currently used and promoted by this industry. It would be responsible for government to do so because the well documented negative impacts of open pen fish farming are so overwhelmingly obvious to anyone taking an impartial view of the facts. Our politicians should quickly conclude that farmed Atlantic salmon can only be safely done using a closed containment method.

Open pen salmon farming is wrong on so many levels that one has to wonder what it will take for elected officials to finally insist that it be done through closed containment.

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ETC.

11 comments on “This is one issue YOU can fix”

1. Lesley Thorsell June 20, 2011 at 10:33 am Reply

   Great article. Thanks for standing up for this very important issue. I have Christy Clark on speed dial on this one:)
2. cherylb June 21, 2011 at 8:19 am Reply

   This is not a responsible government and they are not serious about real environmental change. I don’t expect Christy to buck the trend.
   On another note – we are still not finished with the HST fight. Please share this newest campaign with all your contacts. We have to do it through the social media as the msm isn’t interested in presenting both sides.
   http://www.hstinbcfacts.ca/
   • Gordon June 21, 2011 at 3:28 pm Reply

     You may well be correct Cheryl, but Christy Clark will only be presented with a few defining issues before the next election and this is one of them. The action takein with respect to the HST is a farse that should infuriate the electorate if they aren’t all trying to enjoy the summer at the beach.
3. Scotty on Denaman June 23, 2011 at 8:07 am Reply

   How true it is that the BC Liberals have so many damn spots on their hands they wish would out, the lying, the corruption, the HST, and so on, that the fish farm issue tends to get lost in the crowd. This could be one of the defining issues, along with raising the minimum wage and reviewing policies on Hydro and ferry rates, that Christy Clark presents to the voters before the next election. It is also an issue that many people already have done something about.
   Remember that it was concern over open-net fish farms that won the North Vancouver Island riding for the NDP in the last election. Recall, too, that the government handed the chair of the commission to study, and hold public hearings on fish farming to the Opposition NDP, a conspicuously unusual move probably designed, the BC Liberals hoped, to blow up in the commissioners’ faces, or, at the very least to lay the blame for any negative findings about open-net systems squarely on the NDP. Instead of playing into a booby-trap of partisan polarization, the commission heard expert witnesses, studied the mounting pile of scientific evidence and listened to the growing public concern about open-net fish farms. Some two decades ago the then-governing NDP placed a moratorium on new fish farm licences. The industry was relatively new to BC, then. The irrefutable body of evidence accumulated since that time, which shows that open-net fish farming harms the marine environment and wild salmon stocks, along with public awareness of the issue, lead the NDP-chaired commission to recommend converting open-net systems to closed-pen or land-based systems. The recommendation was not only presented to the government (who mandated it), but was also adopted as NDP party policy.
   Yes, anyone and everyone can do something about ending open-net fish farming, write letters, attend hearings, eat only closed-pen farmed salmon, etc. Ultimately it’s government that makes the rules. So, if one wanted to vote for ending open-net fish farms, which party would one pick?
   Which one might only be fishing for votes? Which one can be trusted to do what it says it will do…or not do what it said it wouldn’t do?
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5. priscilla judd June 25, 2011 at 6:11 pm Reply

   What shall we do in the next ten years?
   The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) has just published a report saying that “the ocean’s health is in a critical state” and worse than previously thought.
   Distressed oceans foreshadow mass species extinctions, because the recent fast global decline of ocean health points to a level of marine organisms die-off similar to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
   http://panokroko.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/oceans-12-midnight-for-species-and-man/
   Dr. Rogers said, “If the ocean goes down, it’s game over”.
   They are saying we have ten years to turn things around. Maybe we talk about other things and forget about leaving a planet for the next generation? or maybe – we need to get the fish farms out of the ocean – clean up the water. Maybe this is the one reason our new Premier will address the fish farm problems. We haven’t even begun to talk about doing nothing… but maybe there is no time to ralk. We need a hero – Is the new Premier willing to be that hero?
   thanks for the post
6. Julie July 5, 2011 at 2:20 pm Reply

   Scientists were astounded to find, acid in the ocean, was up to the Shores of BC. The acid eats the shells of the crustaceans. Scientists had thought, the acid was way out in the deep. This is a very serious wake-up call, our oceans are dying. The coral reefs are turning brown, that’s another wake-up call.
   Harper and Campbell support the dirtiest energy on this planet, the Alberta dirty tar sands. This dirty crude, goes to the most polluted country in the world, China. Harper and Campbell had worked hand in hand with China, behind the citizens backs, to force the Enbridge pipeline and the dirty tankers, onto the BC lands, and into our beautiful northern coast.
   Christy is just following the map that was laid out for her, by Harper and Campbell. She has no say in anything important. Christy says family’s first? Horse puckey, the HST comes first with Christy. You would have to be as brain dead as Martyn Brown, not to see, the HST is the most harmful tax of all, for the people. However, Christy has her orders, and she is using every dirty tactic in the book, to force the HST onto her own citizens.
   As far as fish farms. Three First Nations bands at Campbell River, signed in favor of the fish farms. What a let down. I had supported the F.N. people, I signed petitions for them. I spent hours on the computer, asking others to support them. But I guess, who I thought were the stewards of, lands, lakes, rivers, streams, wildlife and the oceans, can be had for a price, and to hell with the eco systems, I thought they wanted to protect.
7. BC Mary September 11, 2011 at 7:27 pm Reply

   Gordon:
   It’s been 2 months since a fresh syllable appeared on your blog. Disappointing.
   I’d certainly like to hear from you more often.
   • Gordon September 12, 2011 at 12:37 pm Reply

     BC Mary – That is true. I have been 100% captured by a business transaction which is finally drawing to a successful close. Then I will be back to the blog – count on it!
8. Gini September 25, 2011 at 12:01 pm Reply

   I didn’t even know you had a blog until today! I’ll be sure to watch for it in the future.

Bloody Amazing, Kim Haakstad Ethnic Memo removed from the BC Security News digest

UPDATE: From March 17, 2013  Where's Kim Haakstad? ..... still working with Mike McDonald on the Bollywood Theme from October 2012?

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The BC Government of Christy Clark has a Security News Digest (index)?????   started this past March 12, 2013????? just a coincidence, with the Ethnic Memo happening the same day ....    or, maybe the BC Liberals have shredded previous issues/years, ..... 

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Of all the Stories that BC's Security News Digest shouldn't have published, it was the Kim Haakstad Ethnic Memo.  But they did.  It's not like the story isn't out there, but the fact that the Digest seemed to have intentionally covered their tracks on a high profile OIC Appointee, Deputy Chief of Staff, speaks to the WHY of having Government Website that only keeps the information visible for one month.  How will the public know what else has happened on the Government breaches if  BC Security are not permitted to do so?

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