Posted on 02/09/2022 5:36:11 PM PST by george76
Milton Chan says that as a volunteer, he is exempt from party's travel restrictions. Staffers of the financially strapped party cry 'Nonsense!'..
The order came down before Christmas from Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca that anyone hoping to run as a candidate in the upcoming provincial election would be prohibited from travelling out of country for sunny winter getaways. No exceptions.
But some had already made plans to travel, and they were in a bind. One candidate said she called the Ontario Liberals’ chief returning officer, Milton Chan, in December, to explain that she had already purchased expensive non-refundable tickets. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Chan was on his own sunny vacation at the time. Still, he informed her that the edict was clear: forget about the vacation or forget about being a Liberal party candidate.
At the time, Chan was roughly a week into a six-week South American Christmas vacation that included stopovers in Colombia, sunny beaches in Rio de Janerio and Miami, and a week-long Caribbean cruise. He was not a candidate and the order didn’t apply to him.
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News of Chan sunning and partying down south while Liberal candidates were being made to stay home spread quickly through party ranks... just as the Liberals are preparing for a provincial election set to begin in the next few months.
Chan’s near-daily updates of his adventures posted to his publicly viewable Instagram account didn’t help.
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One photo posted to Instagram by Chan that particularly rankled some was a selfie he took in front of a smorgasbord on Jan. 3 — the same day Ontario returned to lockdown as a response to skyrocketing Omicron case counts, shutting all restaurants and bars.
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It’s the classic Liberal ‘let-them-eat-cake’ moment
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
[Eastern] Canaduh:
One of those places where the sun doesn’t shine [much in the Winter]?
What a dick.
Three dollar bill...
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