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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
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