Seeing how liberals in Canada operate behind the scenes when they think nobody is looking is better than a game show. Unfortunately the winners always tend to be Liberal Party honchos and supporters. You’d think the game were fixed or something. And you’d be right!
Sun Media columnist Greg Weston, the go-to guy regarding “adscam” or what I call “the judicial inquiry into Liberal Party corruption which is the biggest political corruption scandal in this fantastic nation’s history”, shines a light on some startling alleged evidence of alleged Liberal Party patronage and corruption. I’m going to keep saying “alleged” because my legal team which stands behind me as I type constantly warn me about impending Liberal Party law-dogs on the prowl.
Oh sorry I drifted off there into political blogger dreamland—I’m awake again now.
To put it in purely hypothetical terms, it seems to me that if this all were really true, it would be the most disgraceful insult to Canadians I’ve witnessed since the last election campaign in which the Liberals lied their way into power, and the Liberals’ gay ‘marriage’ arguments which are based on pure lies.
Weston’s column is an absolute must-read (2 minutes).
‘That sounds totally bizarre’
Finally, amid the Gomery inquiry’s depressing daily feed of waste and greed comes the magical story of David Dingwall, a tale of good fortune sure to warm the hearts of taxpayers everywhere.
Our story begins when Dingwall was turfed out of office in the 1997 election by voters evidently unimpressed with his service as a Liberal MP and senior minister in Jean Chretien’s cabinet.
(One of Dingwall’s lasting achievements as public works minister was hand-picking Adscam star Chuck Guite to manage all government advertising contracts.)
Chretien eventually handed Dingwall a patronage plum as head of the Canadian mint, a job he continues to hold at an annual salary of something over $200,000 a year.
But life was not always that good.
Down on his luck and employment after the 1997 election, Dingwall eventually hung out his shingle as a consultant with the catchy corporate name, Wallding International (Ding-wall, Wall-ding, get it?).
Suddenly, an amazing thing happened.
Dingwall got a consulting gig paying $12,000 a month from a Montreal advertising executive he had apparently never met, supposedly to provide lobbying advice to VIA rail, a Crown corporation prohibited by law from hiring lobbyists.
We say “supposedly” because exactly what Dingwall did to earn $120,000 of taxpayers’ money over the ensuing 10 months remains one of the unsolved mysteries of this tale.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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