ADSCAM -- Canada's Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open

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-- Here is the best link I've found to get up to speed on the scandal: http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/006611.php

Canada's Watergate (only better .. with Liberals in the cross-hairs!) -- When Justice John Gomery lifted his own publication ban Thursday on jaw-dropping testimony by Groupaction president Jean Brault, a nightmare of allegations against the federal Liberal party gushed forth into the public domain in a firestorm of ferocity.

Canadian Liberalism: A Decade Of Scandal & Media Suppres... -- Captain's Quarters exemplifies the best of what blog reporting can be in its recent handling of the Canadian AdsScam case.

http://virtualexpatriotcanuck.blogspot.com/

Commission insiders insist that, as lethal as the Brault testimony might be to the Liberal party, there is yet more and worse to come.

PQ got kickbacks, too EXEC: AD FIRM ALSO PAID GRITS

A Blog Written From Minneapolis Rattles Canada's Liberal Party

BQ SPILLS ADSCAM BEANS ON MARTIN INVOLVEMENT!

New Canadian Corruption Scandal inside the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs --

Canada's Scandal: The Government vs. The Blogosphere

Liberal Meltdown in Canada (USA is catching on)

American blogger under attack by canadians starved for information

The Rot Runs Deep

WASHINGTON POST: Canada's Press Crackdown

On-line journal provokes a firestorm [Liberal Sponsorship Scandal in Canada]

Scandal-rocked Grits call in the Mounties (Canadian Libs pay victim card - gut check time for CPC)

UPDATE: Liberal Meltdown in Canada (absolutley devastating information)
http://noncogent.blogspot.com/2005/04/gomery-considering-charging-bloggers.html

Gomery Considering Charging Bloggers It has been suggested to me by what is admittedly second-hand information, that Justice John Gomery will consider charging any Canadian blogger who not only provides a link to a site containing banned material, but any Canadian blogger who “names the site containing the banned material.”

Website owner could be charged with contempt of court. [ 1, 2 ]

I dont think Canadians will accept this.
This is absolutley devastating information.
http://mkbraaten.blogspot.com

Gomerygate [ 1, 2 ]

Blogosphere 1, Liberals 0 -- It is the borderlessness of the Internet that has made possible the release of the truth about the Liberals to the Canadian public. Yet we are still in a phase of change where the Liberals are able to harass and intimidate some Canadian blogs, such as NealeNews, into silence. At this point, it was the Americans who came to Canadians’ aid, by posting the information denied to Canadians on a number of American websites.

Brault may have fingered Alfonso Gagliano’s links to mob

Beat to Quarters (FR mentioned)
-- Captain's Quarters has really stirred up the Canadian blogosphere by carrying details of court testimony on a governmental scandal that is banned from publication in the Great White North. The scandal is about the use of Canadian government money, laundered through a private ad agency, to hire Liberal Party hacks, and is so serious it may catapault the Canadian conservatives into power. This incident marks one more step by the blogosphere into the realm of news generation as opposed to mere commentary.

Canada: Blogger busts Adscam ban, officials thinking of charging Canadian blogger. -- For those who don't know, the American blog which busted the Canadian wankers is:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Just keep scrolling for multiple entries. Actually, here's the post which reveals the testimony, the reporting of which is a crime in Canada:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004220.php

More here

and here

According to 'authorities' linking to the post is a crime in Canada.

Canada's Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open

Canada: Banned sponsorship testimony on U.S. weblogs

Let's see if I get charged for linking to this!!!!!

website owner could be charged with contempt of court.

CANADIANS TO BE CHARGED FOR 'THINKING' ABOUT GOMERY INQUIRY....

Just heard on CBC...

Winds of Change has a great post on the scandal. Be sure to read it. Don't forget Small Dead Animals, which has a lot of background on Adscam.

Entangled: Quick Scandal Update
Who Dunnit: The Ban, The Blogs & The Politics
The Dividing Line: Why Martin Investigated His Own Party
Dance on a Volcano: The Liberals' High-Stakes Options
- As Captain's Quarters notes, see the blog Small Dead Animals: The Roadkill Diaries for some excellent background on the case.
- Wikipedia's entry is also quite good.
- SDA:TRD also has a roundup of reactions from the Canadian blogosphere.
- Though I have to say, the ultimate link roundup has to be the one at Bound by Gravity.
- NASTY EMAIL RESPONSE from US Publication Ban Breaker [ 1, 2 ]

221 posted on 05/19/2005 4:03:12 PM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

Up late tonight???? -- I don't think it's over yet - even though everyone assumes it is.
The opposition will have plenty of chances to topple the government during opposition days in the weeks to come. Explosive Gomery testimony is to come. Grewal's tape is pretty damning (John Ibbitson believes that if it was released 24-48 hrs earlier the vote would have gone the other way).

222 posted on 05/20/2005 1:28:35 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

HILL AIDE IN FURY OVER $$ (Kennedy in-law testifies re flopola Hollyweirdo fund-raiser)


How the Liberals cling to power
-- "It disgusts me. Absolutely. I can't believe how low we as Liberals will go to hang on to this government."

223 posted on 05/20/2005 4:04:01 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

Thank you so much for all your work, backhoe.

I guess I'm disheartened. I'm tired of hearing Stephen Harper be called "scary" and a "misogynist" when he was just being truthful.

Really, if Belinda had been a man and Stephen had said exactly the same things about why "he" had left the party, would he be called a man-hater? No.

I'm starting to understand why so many Canadians are cynical and apathetic. I'm starting to become that way myself, after four years here.

224 posted on 05/20/2005 4:10:47 AM PDT by proud American in Canada

To: proud American in Canada

Thank you so much for all your work, backhoe. I guess I'm disheartened. I'm tired of hearing Stephen Harper be called "scary" and a "misogynist" when he was just being truthful. Really, if Belinda had been a man and Stephen had said exactly the same things about why "he" had left the party, would he be called a man-hater? No. I'm starting to understand why so many Canadians are cynical and apathetic. I'm starting to become that way myself, after four years here.

Thanks for looking... and keep your chin up, it takes time to overcome years of propaganda and prejudice.

That "scary" card was so overplayed here in the USA that it has lost much- though not all- of its impact.

You just got Fox news up there, and while it will not change things overnight, things will change. People do not like being deceived.

We had a lot of groundwork laid by talk radio, going back to 1988.

The old media and its distorsions and agendas is still powerful- the Terri Shaivo case points to that, still- but it is losing its once-monlithic grip.

There is much work to be done in both our countries, overcoming the Media, both reporting and entertainment arms of it, correcting the desire for a Nanny-State that beaureacrats, teachers, and union leaders want, and educating the public at large.

There are still substantial numbers of people who harbor the lethally-wrongheaded and deceptive belief that "the government" has a great big bag of free money, and that whichever pressure group they belong to has first claim on it. If you can ever convince them that the "bag O' free money" comes from the pockets of families & businesses, and that it is never, ever "free," you've won half the battle.

225 posted on 05/20/2005 7:22:13 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

Excellent post, and you're very right.

Talk radio is a big part of it--Rush changed the political landscape in the U.S., and Canada could use that, a national talk radio host who exposes the lies and distortions of the MSM and brings Canadians together.

226 posted on 05/20/2005 9:14:43 AM PDT by proud American in Canada

227 posted on 05/20/2005 10:10:48 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

Grits and scandal live on -- There is dancing in the streets of Toronto today because Christmas has come and THE GOODIES WILL FLOW! Until they leave for the cottage at noon for the long weekend, they'll be counting the GOODIES they believe that the Liberals will (this time for sure!) showering down upon them any minute now.

228 posted on 05/20/2005 10:48:55 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

229 posted on 05/20/2005 4:45:05 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

A House divided is not a cause for celebration (new citizen decries Liberals' divisiveness) -- By the time this is all over, the people of Canada may WISH that they had the lofty status of a banana republic. They live in a dictatorship. A benevolent one (for the moment) but a dictatorship nonetheless.

230 posted on 05/21/2005 12:42:02 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

231 posted on 05/21/2005 12:53:05 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

232 posted on 05/21/2005 9:26:59 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

Lights out (David Warren)--At the end of a second week of disgrace in Parliament, I can find no upside. Paul Martin contrived to remain in power by purchasing Belinda Stronach (at the bargain price of one second-tier Cabinet seat). The Conservatives released a tape, recording the prime minister’s chief of staff negotiating the purchase of two other members; with no major outcry. The government, which had lost the confidence of the House last week, established the principle that “possession is ten-tenths of the law”, by clinging to power until it was able to buy what had previously eluded it, with the resources of the state.

233 posted on 05/21/2005 10:27:47 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

234 posted on 05/21/2005 3:00:49 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

To: King Prout

Here goes my best effort.

Belinda Stronach : Heiress to a massive fortune, from Magna
The new Barbie for the 21st century. Sorry to put it this bluntly, but Belinda is only capable of wanting to be Hillary.
Check out Barbie's new site. :-)

Turncoat Barbie

Paul Martin: Prime Minister (Liberal), came up through the ranks of Power corp.( The last (successful) Canadian Prime Ministers have come from/through Power Corp.)Power corp.
Martin is owner of Canada Steamship Lines, with most vessels registered in foreign countries.

Gagliano:The mob connection Link

Stephen Harper: IMO, A man of Honor, a man who can't be bought.

Stephen's thoughts

Peter McKay:How CREWL

Andrew Coyne:Blog

Paul Wells:Blog

The Ottawa Citizen : Main newspaper in Ottawa. Owned by the Asper family, who also own many dailies, and the National Post.

Mulroneyite suckers: A not very civilized term for the conservatives that have moved to the left, and are willing to fall for anything. No convictions.

King/Byng or Sir John Kerr firing Gough Whitlam, : Historical refences

25 posted on 05/21/2005 7:37:56 PM EDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)

235 posted on 05/21/2005 5:02:00 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)

236 posted on 05/22/2005 10:56:20 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Dissent being stifled...Andrew Coyne sued -- neither CTV, Global or CBC covered it on TV tonite. To me, this is a huge story and a huge deal!
Andrew Coyne has been providing the best commentary and reporting in the country on our national political situation and now they are attempting to make him pay for it. The Liberals' power and arrogance knows no boundaries, legal, moral or ethical.

237 posted on 05/23/2005 2:07:37 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Stronach hits back at 'disgraceful' attacks ...(and, BTW, Ex-CINO left owing CPC $400K!) -- she abandons her own party to hand a confidence vote to the other party, gets a Cabinet post in exchange and screws her old party out of $380K. But she's the victim because she was criticized for her exemplary conduct.

238 posted on 05/23/2005 4:59:09 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

239 posted on 05/24/2005 2:00:45 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)


Mark Steyn: Woe, Woe, Ontario
-- Canadians are so in love with what the government can give them that they don't care about how much abuse they suffer as long as they get stuff from the government.

240 posted on 05/24/2005 12:49:09 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

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