Showing posts with label Elections Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elections Canada. Show all posts

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Darwinism: Liberal Media, Liberal Party, Dinosaurs

Kory has been one of those (sadly, increasingly rare) Hill denizens who was always able to put aside partisanship and competing interests, and hang out on a patio talking politics over beer and chicken fingers with anyone possessing a similar sense of perspective and humour — whether a Liberal staffer or pixelstained liveblogger.- Kady OMalley July 29, 2009

Kory Teneycke has moved on to Quebecor after a short stint at the CBC as a guest panelist. A Fox News Canada?

The CRTC has confirmed reciept of an application by Quebecor. Quebecor that has some properties through Sun Media in Toronto. Details are not clear what is contained inside the application. The process could take months and a public consultation will follow before any decision. Fox News was launched to widespread derision in 1996, today it beats their competitors easily.
the Liberals’ problems are far worse than weak leadership and a divided left. Everywhere, liberal welfare states are retrenching. All are facing massive public-service layoffs, deep cuts to entitlements, shrunken budgets for health care and education, and inevitable tax hikes. They’re too broke for new social programs, or to throw money at climate change. As Britain’s David Cameron says, the drastic spending cuts to come “will change British life.”- Margaret Wente June 10, 2010
Leadership, balance sheet, moral compass, grassroots are required for a political party to be seen as credible.  June 10, 2010 Ekos Poll
  • Liberals are in fourth place, behind the Green Party in British Columbia.
  • Quebec is the only province that feels the country is going in the wrong direction.
  • Over 50% of Liberals feel Canada is moving in right direction
  • Only Quebec scores below 41% in Government of Canada moving in right direction
Elections Canada has spent over $ 120,000 to date fighting the return of $ 600k GST  overpayment by the Conservative Party because the elections watchdog argues, makes it clear that double dipping is not forbidden because it “contemplates and reconciles such multiple payments.” Changing the act is “something for Parliament to decide, not the (chief electoral officer) or the court.”- Bruce Cheadle June 9, 2010
The Liberal Party would be at on the hook for a large repayment. The Liberals were given sweetheart deals regarding their leadership loans.

The Liberals were recently forced to go to court to seek another extension on loans from 2006 as Elections Canada could NOT provided another extension. Justice Paul B. Kane of the Ontario Superior Court last week granted MPs Dion, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Hedy Fry, Joe Volpe, Martha Hall Findlay and Gerard Kennedy until the end of 2011 to pay off their debts.- Glen MacGregor, Feb 01, 2010


Some young Jedi masters are busy planning a palace coup to replace Michael Ignatieff and present Canadians with a new political party. They don't see the asteroid...

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ekos Poll April 2010 Liberal Party of Canada Maintains Dion Support Level

Ekos Polling conducted another Poll between April 14th - 20th, sample size 2,084, M.O.E =2.15.
Are we going to hear excuses from each political party why little movement is taking place on a weekly basis? The bar graph have includes six Polls from June 2009 to present,  demostrating the futility of measuring the movement of partisan vote or leaning (excuses) . Here is the Post last week. Ekos Poll: Direction of Government Right or Wrong
Here is my list of  excuses: Nothing is sticking, the suggestions our military  are "War Criminals" using rendition, NDS, smearing the Canadian Government, Civil Service is participating some secretive undemocratic government by redacting documents to hide details of "torture".
The opposition does not understand fighting for the Omar Khadrs', alleged murderers guilty of "gun residue" trying to kill our soldiers, relief workers, government official is not a vote winner.
The circus act in targeting an ex-junior minister, her spouse in the latest witchunt, was never going to work outside the Ottawa bubble. The actors in this poorly acted soap opera are hiding behind parliamentary privilege.
The Press Gallery, Political Pundits who have been participating in this yellow journalism for months have failed. They are quoting the same allegations, smears that are behind parliamentary privilege.
Canadians will NOT switch their party loyalties on Parliamentary privileged-MSM spin, we have always tuned out Politics for the most part.
Apologists for the other side will give you excuses why the government is in trouble and running scared.
Angus Poll was the most accurate in the General Election October 14, 2008.
Note: * My graph may contain an error regarding BQ 20% vs 7%. Update if necessary.
Update: Norman Spector, Bloggers have questioned relationship of Pollster hired by CBC.
Still, even a poll skeptic such as myself was surprised to read in The Globe and Mail this morning that Ekos’s Frank Graves is simultaneously polling for the taxpayer-supported CBC and providing partisan political advice to the Liberals: “Frank Graves of Ekos Research … has told the Grits that the wedge politics of the Conservatives provide them with an opportunity to stake out a stark alternative. Stop worrying about the West, he’s told them. No need to fear polarizing the debate. It’s what worked for Mr. Chrétien against Preston Manning and Stockwell Day. -Norman Spector
Screen Shot Financial Report Leadership: Incomplete.
Contributions - Details
Alberta Ardvark has a great post
I told them they should invoke a culture war.
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 Not sure whey Kory Teneycke get his figures I did a quick search on Elections Canada. Only found this:
Family Name Initial Given Name Name of contestant Date received Class of contributor/ Part # of the return Monetary ($) Non-monetary ($)
Graves Frank Rae, Robert Keith Oct. 3, 2006 Individuals / Part 2b 500.00
Graves Frank Ignatieff, Michael Jul. 13, 2006 Individuals / Part 2b 238.21
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