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Ken's Korner

It would appear that ‘silly ‘season has descended upon us once again, on many different fronts.

Weather wise, our spring has been tremendous.  Personally I cannot remember a March as nice as the one we just experienced, and the first few days of April were even better, until today.  Yesterday, we were basking in the lovely temperatures that were in the high teens, and today, it is barely zero, with a strong wind, and it is snowing!  How cruel is that?

And then we have our politicians.

Here in the halls of power in Regina, we have one person accused of giving the Trudeau salute to the leader of the opposition, and then further revelations came forward that this same member uttered threats against the aforementioned leader, a charge that the Sask Party member denies.  However, there were witnesses to the conversation where the threat was supposedly uttered, and while they cannot confirm the words spoken, they can confirm that the discussion was heated.  Add to the mix the fact that the Sask Party member is a self described “reformed gang leader” and a former drug dealer and all around vicious and dangerous tough guy, and a lot of people are convinced that there probably is some merit in the charges made by the leader of the opposition.

After all, there is an old adage, ‘tigers can’t change their stripes”, but I think it would be fair to say that that adage applies equally to both parties involved in this dustup.  So who is right, and who is wrong.  In this case, Who knows! 

Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, and maybe these people can get down to business and earn their keep.

The other glaring example of “silly” is the latest scandal regarding one of Canada’s Ministers of State, that being Helena Guergis and her husband, ex Tory MP, Rahim Jaffer.

This is the lady, that just a few weeks ago, threw a tantrum at the airport in Charlottetown because she came late for a flight, and had to go through a security check.  Obviously her opinion of herself is much greater that those of common Canadians who willingly put up with security checks at airports, but I digress.

She finally did go through security, but not before shouting at the folks who were doing nothing more than their jobs, and then proceeded to run down the lovely province of PEI.  Not terribly smart, this lady, when she gets angry.

Chapter two of this issue comes when her husband, the ex MP, hits court in Ontario on charges of impaired driving, possession of cocaine and speeding, which was the reason why he was pulled over.  When his case came to court, those charges were dropped, and he pled guilty to a charge of driving with undue care and attention, and given a token fine.  This occurred even though the Ontario Provincial Police stated that they had enough evidence to prove the charges, and had no idea why the charges were dropped when the court case started.

The cops have no ideas why the charges were dropped, or at least that is what they are saying, but everyone knows why the charges were dropped.  This is just another small example of how our present federal government is turning our country into some kind of third world country, the kind of country where corruption can flourish.   Other examples would be the flaunting of Parliament, Prorogation, failure to release information, etc.,etc.

But back to Jaffer and his spouse. Lately, Jaffer has been out trying to drum up investors and work for his company.  On his website, until April 8, yesterday, he also displayed the Conservative logo on his site, and was stating that he had inroads into the halls of power in Ottawa, specifically the Prime Minister’s office.  He reportedly told investors that he had access to Government money as in loans and grants through his company, Green Power Generation.  His website also made claims that he is a key player in developing future Canadian Policy.

Jaffer refused interviews over this matter.

What is for sure though, is that he was using one of his wife’s Government supplied BlackBerrys, and the Parliamentary email address that came with it, for his email.  If one is claiming to have an inroad with the government, and then pops out an email addy that goes through Parliament, to me that would state that there is some merit to the claim of being an insider.

Personally, I have no doubts that this story will not go away before Ms. Guergis does, and my bet is that her departure will happen sooner rather than later.  If it does not happen, then one has to wonder what it is that she has that is keeping her in her cabinet chair, since she really does not seem to be that astute politically.

Just a small note regarding Ms. Guergis before closing this off, she also claimed on her election expenses, $977.00 for shoes, clothing and jogging outfits.  The claim is being audited by Elections Canada, and if they agree to the charge, taxpayers are on the hook for close to six hundred bucks to reimburse her for the campaign expense.

As I said, silly season.
Ken