David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks Lebanc will enjoy voting in Parliament if the Bloc and the Conservatives attempt to knock Humpty Dumpty off the wall like they nearly did with his buddy Paul Martin on May 19th, 2005 N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/08/dominic-leblanc-makes-1st-public.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dominic-leblanc-discharged-1.5350109
Dominic LeBlanc discharged from hospital after stem cell transplant
Re-elected New Brunswick MP was hospitalized during the campaign
CBC News · Posted: Nov 06, 2019 2:00 PM ET
Dominic LeBlanc addresses the media. LeBlanc took a step back from his cabinet duties as intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs minister in April to focus on the treatment he was getting for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (Matt Smith/The Canadian Press)
After nearly two months in hospital,
longtime Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc can return home to New
Brunswick after a stem cell transplant.
The MP for the riding of Beauséjour took a step back from his cabinet duties as minister for intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs in April to focus on the treatment he was getting for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
LeBlanc released a statement today saying that he underwent a stem cell transplant Sept. 18 and was released yesterday.
He thanked his constituents, who re-elected LeBlanc for the seventh straight time last month, for their understanding.
"I am feeling stronger every day and very much looking forward to returning to New Brunswick as soon as possible," he wrote.
In a joint statement, Dr. Silvy Lachance from the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital said the transplant went well and there were no unusual complications.
LeBlanc travelled to the Montreal hospital in early September, missing most of the campaign.
He was diagnosed with lymphocytic lymphoma in 2017, when he was fisheries minister. Last year, he announced that his cancer was in remission.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesThe MP for the riding of Beauséjour took a step back from his cabinet duties as minister for intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs in April to focus on the treatment he was getting for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
LeBlanc released a statement today saying that he underwent a stem cell transplant Sept. 18 and was released yesterday.
He thanked his constituents, who re-elected LeBlanc for the seventh straight time last month, for their understanding.
In a joint statement, Dr. Silvy Lachance from the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital said the transplant went well and there were no unusual complications.
LeBlanc travelled to the Montreal hospital in early September, missing most of the campaign.
He was diagnosed with lymphocytic lymphoma in 2017, when he was fisheries minister. Last year, he announced that his cancer was in remission.
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David Amos
Reply to @Peter Boone BINGO
David Amos
Methinks Lebanc will no doubt enjoy voting in Parliement if the Bloc and the Conservatives attempt to knock Humpty Dumpty off the wall like they nearly did with his buddy Paul Martin on May 19th, 2005 N'esy Pas?
Peter Boone
I wonder how many CLAMS it would cost the rest of us to jump the healthcare cue.
David Amos
Reply to @Peter
Boone: I know its costing me too much already just to see what is wrong
with my heart Trust that there is no way i could afford an operation to
fix it. Methinks I should sue the Queen ASAP for a lot of CLAMS N'esy
Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Peter Boone: Go Figure
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
David Amos
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Reply to @Peter Boone On August 7th a dude named Fergus O'Ryan remarked that Leblanc awarded the lucrative clam contract to his friends who didn't even own a boat. Methinks thats what you were having fun with within your comment N'esy Pas??
David Amos
Methinks everybody knows (Elections Canada in particular) knows that I was in and out of the hospital during the last election. Furthermore I am scheduled to got back in to the hospital at least 2 more within the next month in order for the doctors to determine what is wrong. Meanwhile I am now confronted with the emergency and doctor bills because Leblanc's boss Mr Prime Minister Trudeau the Younger and his provincial cohorts will not see that my Medicare number which I had in New Brunswick before Leblanc was born in Ottawa is no longer disabled N'esy Pas?
Charles Mitz
Best wishes Dominic...we are all pulling for you
David Amos
Reply to @Charles
Mitz: Who is we? Methinks Leblanc and his cohorts never pulled for me
when his pals in the RCMP falsely arrested me and tried to convince the
shrinks in the hospital in Fat Fred City that I was crazy mere months
before the economy crashed in 2008 N'esy Pas?
David Peters
Wonder if all Canadians would get the same healthcare treatment as this ultimate liberal insider. -eye roll-
John Worley
Reply to @David Peters: Its treatment in Canada that is available to you
David Peters
Reply to @john worley:
I think it's naive to think that all bears are equal in a hyper politicized healthcare system.
I think it's naive to think that all bears are equal in a hyper politicized healthcare system.
David Amos
Reply to @David
Peters: Methinks some of us have to pay for the Health Care we are
entitled to merely because we ran against Leblanc and his cohorts N'esy
Pas?
David Peters
Reply to @David Amos:
Many treatments for life threatening illnesses ARE NOT free for Canadians in our nationalized healthcare system...and, if you have insurance...expect them to drop you like a hot potato the minute they find out you're sick...and they find out very fast.
Many treatments for life threatening illnesses ARE NOT free for Canadians in our nationalized healthcare system...and, if you have insurance...expect them to drop you like a hot potato the minute they find out you're sick...and they find out very fast.
David Amos
Reply to @David Peters: Insurance???? I don't have a Medicare card thanks you your political heroes
David Amos
It must be nice to have a Heath Care Card Methinks I will sue the Queen in order to get one for myself. My emergency room bills are starting to pile up and I am tired of everybody laughing at me am a loser in another election that Leblanc easily won within without having to do a tap N'esy Pas?
John Worley
Reply to @David Amos: Emergency doesn't send health care bills. Are you an American?
David Amos
Reply to @john worley: Clearly you don't know everything EH?
David Amos
Reply to @john
worley: Methinks everybody but you knows that your hero Andy Scheer is
the Yankee who has been winning seats in Parliament while I am the
Canadian born and raised in New Brunswick who has been running against
him and his liberal cohorts since 2004 N'esy Pas?
Chris Bowdler
And he was “re-elected” after zero campaigning....will no doubt be a really good, active representative for all the people in his riding....
Angela Kung
Reply to @chris bowdler:
Of course he wasn't campaigning. He was being treated for leukemia. Is there some part of that you don't understand?
Of course he wasn't campaigning. He was being treated for leukemia. Is there some part of that you don't understand?
Bill Mavin
Reply to @chris
bowdler: He was re-elected bcause he had the respect of his
constituents. I realize that respect is probably a foreign concept for
you
David
Peters
Reply to @chris bowdler:
They could have ran a chair in that riding...free-bees for all!
David Amos
Reply to @David
Peters: Methinks everybody knows that the Prime SANB turf will be nearly
forever Liberal just Like Fundy Royal loves the Conservatives N'esy
Pas?
Reply to @Bill Mavin: Spoken like true Red Coat who can't argue
David Amos
Reply to @Angela
Kung: Methinks Leblanc and his cohorts know I was in a hospital
emergency room in his riding twice during the election but I still
debated my political foes in Fundy Royal when I was permitted to do so
N'esy Pas?
Bill Mavin
Reply to @David Amos: Oh, you hurt my feelings but I will get over it- oh look I already have.
Ashley Kelly
"After nearly two months in hospital, longtime Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc can return home to New Brunswick after a stem cell transplant."
Interesting. New Brunswick medicine is good enough for the public but Mr. Leblanc gets his treatment in Quebec. Am I missing something?
Michel Forgeron
Reply to @Ashley Kelly: You may be. Where would you get a stem cell transplant in NB ?
John Cannothan
Reply to @Ashley Kelly: You are missing something...
Rosemary
Hughes
Reply to @Ashley
Kelly: Depending on the disease or the treatment required, some
hospitals in other provinces specialize. That would be why we all enjoy
universal health care. If I break my leg skiing in BC my OHIP will pay
the bill.
DON
MOFFATT
Reply to @Rosemary
Hughes: Actually it might not pay the bill. It does not have to. You are
only covered in the province where you reside.
Michel
Forgeron
Reply to @DON
MOFFATT: Not quite accurate, most provinces have arrangements to get
paid by the patient's home province. A little different in QC, sometimes
you have to pay the bill and the NB Dept. of Health reimburses you. We
also pay for many "special" or "unique" services given in the US, with
prior approval of the NB DOH.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Ashley Kelly:
You are. No SCT in NB. isn't unequal health care in Canada just great???
You are. No SCT in NB. isn't unequal health care in Canada just great???
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Ashley Kelly:
Compassion, empathy, respect for others, especially the sick....
Compassion, empathy, respect for others, especially the sick....
Angela Kung
Reply to @Lewis Taylor:
Much smaller population in NB. Probably makes more sense to outsource to a larger province.
Much smaller population in NB. Probably makes more sense to outsource to a larger province.
JJ Carrier
Reply to @Ashley
Kelly: You've been flagged as well...Kicking someone when they are down
may be normal for you, but here in the real world...
Andrew Hebda (NS
Reply to @Ashley Kelly: You are missing everything... The election is over
David Peters
Reply to @Ashley Kelly:
Being a political insider has it's advantages.
Being a political insider has it's advantages.
Jan Weidenhamer
Reply to @Ashley
Kelly: From my experience, not all places have facilites for stem cell
transplants. My husband had one and we had to move to the city for 2
months.
DON
MOFFATT
Reply to @Michel
Forgeron: I think technically I am more correct than incorrect. I stated
they might not pay the bill and they do not have to. Companies selling
medical insurance have been trying to drive this point home.
Deborah Charlebois
Reply to @Michel
Forgeron: There is a Stem Cell Transplant Program in Saint John. Dr.
Terrance Comeau and his team at the Saint John Regional Hospital are
top-notch! https://en.horizonnb.ca/home/ways-to-give/news/official-opening-of-the-stem-cell-transplantation-program-lab.aspx
David Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier:
Would you like to have a public debate before I go back to the hospital
about why your political buddies won't give me a Medicare card?
David Amos
Reply to @Michel
Forgeron: Where does one get a Medicare card in New Brunswick when Hugh
Flemming and Higgy won't permit it and all the other politicians just
laugh or play dumb?
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks everybody knows Leblanc has several powerful billionaire buddies not just in the Irving Clan and they all need him to get better and stay in office for their benefit N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/08/dominic-leblanc-makes-1st-public.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dominic-leblanc-cancer-campaign-plane-1.5238677
Dominic LeBlanc makes 1st public appearance in months since non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis
New Brunswick MP asked about controversial Irving flight
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, who stepped back from his cabinet duties earlier this year to focus on his non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment, made his first public appearance in months this morning, telling reporters he intends to be in "fighting form" on the campaign trail this fall.
The longtime New Brunswick MP said his treatments for the cancer, which affects the lymphatic system, are going well.
"I have successfully completed five chemotherapy treatments," he said in Moncton. "The doctors at the Georges Dumont Hospital are very, very encouraged by the results, very positive."
He was also forced to respond, for the first time in person, about the controversial flight he took on a private aircraft owned by J.D. Irving to undergo cancer treatments in Montreal. The Irving family is tied to the shipbuilding, oil, forestry and agriculture industries.
The flight, first reported by the Globe and Mail, took place on June 13, according to a filing on the ethics commissioner's website.
LeBlanc reiterated to reporters on Wednesday that he cleared the flight with the ethics commissioner.
"I can't speak to what other patients do."
Democracy Watch, an organization that advocates for greater government accountability, has argued Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion erred in preapproving LeBlanc's private trip aboard an Irving plane.
"The ethics commissioner acted like an unethical lapdog by approving this unethical gift of a flight," co-founder Duff Conacher said last month.
Leblanc plans to be in ' fighting form'
LeBlanc set up a conflict of interest screen with the ethics commissioner's office, after he was appointed to cabinet in 2015, that bars him from taking part in decisions that directly affect James D. Irving and his companies.
The Beauséjour MP served as minister of intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs before stepping aside in April for treatment.
Watch: LeBlanc 1st appearance in months after cancer battle
Intergovernmental
Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc spoke about his use of a private plane
- owned by the the J.D. Irving company - to get to his cancer
treatments in June during his first public appearance in Moncton after
stepping away for treatment for his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma earlier this
year. 0:59
LeBlanc was diagnosed with lymphocytic lymphoma in 2017, when he was fisheries minister. Last October, LeBlanc announced that cancer was in remission.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has temporarily taken over responsibility for intergovernmental affairs, while Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, took over LeBlanc's duties for northern affairs.
With files from The Canadian Press
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Fergus O'Ryan
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Guy awards the lucrative clam contract to his friends who don't even own a boat.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Fergus O'Ryan: Welcome to the Circus
Fergus O'Ryan
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Sorry about the cancer, truly.
Resign. You symbolize everything that's wrong with politics.
Al Kennedy
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Reply to @Mark Baker:
LeBlanc can't afford plane fare? He's a millionaire.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Al Kennedy: Methinks everybody knows Leblanc has several powerful billionaire buddies not just in the Irving Clan and they all need him to get better and stay in office for their benefit N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Al Kennedy: Methinks everybody knows Leblanc has several powerful billionaire buddies not just in the Irving Clan and they all need him to get better and stay in office for their benefit N'esy Pas?
Anne Bérubé
Well, sorry Dominic, you can buy your own airline ticket just like anyone else
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Anne Bérubé:
Maybe there were scheduling issues. Maybe an Irving friend was going anyway, or offered a private flight when no airline could meet his medical needs. He's a sick man.
You remind me of Harper, who couldn't even wait a week to make personal attacks against Pierre Trudeau after his death (Globe op-ed).
Maybe there were scheduling issues. Maybe an Irving friend was going anyway, or offered a private flight when no airline could meet his medical needs. He's a sick man.
You remind me of Harper, who couldn't even wait a week to make personal attacks against Pierre Trudeau after his death (Globe op-ed).
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Merhinks the only dude you are fooling is yourself N'esy Pas?
Robert Petras
Another Liberal that needs to be shown the door. Entitlement and corruption abound. Sadly Canadian choices are limited as they all know where to find the pig trough.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Petras: I concur
Al Anderson
He is a Liberal..so he is entitled to his entitlements don't you know...
Fergus O'Ryan
Reply to @Al Anderson:
Its disgusting
Its disgusting
David R. Amos
Reply to @Fergus O'Ryan: YUP
Paul Maceachern
Maybe he can explain why all the judges appointed in NB are contributors to his campaign or his relatives.
David R. Amos
Reply to @paul maceachern: Good luck getting an answer to that concern.
Jim Johnson
It is not only the controversial flight through Irving but another ethics violations where 5 of the 6 judicial appointments in NB were friends and family.
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Jim Johnson:
All judicial appointments were merit-based and independently identified. CBC should not allow your smear to get up.
All judicial appointments were merit-based and independently identified. CBC should not allow your smear to get up.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Yea Right
Mack Leigh
While my sympathies are with Mr. LeBlanc and his family for what he is currently going thru I cannot help but wonder if there is nothing that a Liberal won't stoop to to get elected... This whole thing smacks of using a man's illness as a means of gaining the sympathy vote.......Hopefully people will see this for what it is and vote accordingly... Hopefully the people will see thru this ploy and realize that re-electing Liberals come October is the last thing Canadians need...... They have sold out the people of Canada and fed at the trough long enough.
Ke Irwin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Hypocritical, heartless, inappropriate and sociopathic! Good luck on judgement day!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ke Irwin: Methinks its polling day that should worry you and your hero Mr Leblanc N'esy Pas?
Dan Ridler
What is the point of having an ethics commissioner with no concept of ethics?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dan Ridler: Methinks that is the point It has been that way since Howie Wilson took the job N'esy Pas?
Kriss Robinson
It's good to know Canada's billionaires are standing by to offer the little guy help. Does anyone know what billionaire has been assigned to my family? Other than that, all sarcasm aside, get better soon.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Kriss Robinson: Methinks Mr Morneau and his wealthy wife are always concerned as to whether or not all the little guys are eating enough french fries N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dominic-leblanc-irving-lymphoma-1.5215637
Ethics czar erred in approving LeBlanc's use of Irving plane: Democracy Watch
'Given his immune system is compromised, his doctors determined that he could not travel commercial'
The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 17, 2019 4:44 PM ET
Dominic LeBlanc addresses the media in Saskatoon, Sask., Wednesday, September 12, 2018. (Matt Smith/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The House of Commons' ethics watchdog should never have approved a flight taken by Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc on a private aircraft owned by J.D. Irving, says an organization that advocates for greater government accountability.
Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, said ethics commissioner Mario Dion erred in pre-approving LeBlanc's private trip from Moncton to Montreal aboard an Irving plane, to see a doctor for cancer treatment.
"The ethics commissioner acted like an unethical lapdog by approving this unethical gift of a flight," Conacher said.
The flight, first reported by The Globe and Mail, took place on June 13, according to a filing on the ethics commissioner's website.
LeBlanc is being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has been on medical leave since April. He needed to attend a hospital in Montreal and was told by his doctors he could not travel commercially, according to a spokesperson in his office.
He travelled from Moncton to Montreal on a "non-commercial chartered or private aircraft" owned by J.D. Irving Ltd. — a company headed by a personal friend of LeBlanc's who owns and is affiliated with companies involved in shipbuilding, oil, forestry and agriculture.
"Given his immune system is compromised, his doctors determined that he could not travel commercial," said Mikaela Harrison, a communications assistant in LeBlanc's office.
"All travel was pre-approved by the commissioner."
A statement provided by Dion's office says he "considered the facts that were presented to him and granted his approval under Section 12 of the (Conflict of Interest Act) related to travel," adding that the sparse details provided in the public filing are all that Dion is permitted to say on the matter.
Influence over the minister
That section of the law says that ministers and others cannot accept free non-commercial flights except in exceptional circumstances — generally considered to be emergencies in remote locations — or with the commissioner's approval. It doesn't spell out what should lead the commissioner to approve or forbid a flight and Dion would not elaborate.
Conacher said LeBlanc should have instead chartered a private plane and paid for it himself, rather than accept a gift from the owner of a company that regularly lobbies the federal government.
He pointed to four charter airline companies that can be hired for private flights within eastern Canada, one of which indicates online that it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can be in the air within 40 minutes.
"The general rule is, you can't accept any gift that might reasonably be seen to have been given to influence you, and a gift of a free flight from a company that lobbies the federal government — anyone would reasonably see that as a gift that could have influence over the minister," Conacher said.
'No exceptional circumstance'
LeBlanc did establish a conflict of interest screen with the ethics commissioner's office after he was appointed to cabinet in 2015 that bars him from taking part in decisions that directly affect James D. Irving and his companies.
But Conacher said this conflict screen doesn't make the Irving flight OK, it makes the situation worse.
"He's supposed to stay away from anything to do with Irving, so this just compounds it."
Conacher also raised concern about the lack of transparency involved in Dion's decision. He believes all rulings and decisions of the conflict of interest commissioner should be made public, as is the case for ethics complaints that are investigated by Dion's office — they lead to reports that lay out facts and Dion's reasoning in sustaining or rejecting the complaints.
"There's no exceptional circumstance here and you're not required to take this flight from the Irvings," Conacher said. "Do like anyone else would have to do anywhere else in the country — if they didn't want to drive themselves, charter a plane."
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David Amos
Methinks
if the lawyer Duff Conacher were remotely ethical he would have
answered the same same documents I sent him,, the Governor General,
Bernie Lord and a lot of other public officials and lawyers in 2004
N'esy Pas?
Brian
Stewart
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others it would appear
David Amos
Reply to @Brian
Stewart: Methinks that is the law of the jungle that all lawyers are
very familiar with Another one that all businessmen know is "He With the
Gold Makes The Rules" N'esy Pas?
Dave King
Danny
Williams took a chartered flight to Florida when he was Premier of NL
for medical treatment. This outraged everyone and was the beginning of
the end of his political career. Everyone will complain about something
so charter private flight don't think it would have been different. What
the issue is who he took the flight from. If he chartered, he would
have only charged the tax payer so I say good that the Liberals finally
saved Canadians some money.
McKenzie King
Reply to @Dave King:
The issue with Danny wasn't that he took a private charter, that he paid
for by the way, but that he went to a for-profit hospital in the States
for a medical treatment he could have gotten in Newfoundland, but he
would have to wait just like anyone else.
David Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: True
Joe campbell
It would be interesting to know who phoned who. Did Leblanc call Irving for a jet ride or did Irving call to offer the jet.
David Amos
Reply to @Joe campbell: How would Irving know his buddy needed it?
Ron
Vollans
Reply to @David R.
Amos: If you are friends with someone, it's reasonable to assume your
friend knows about your health problems.
David Amos
Reply to @Ron
Vollans: Methinks its a cae of which came first the the chicken or the
egg. I bet the plane was on stand by if he needed it Obviously everybody
knew in advance of the "emergency" in order to seek Dion's permission
N'esy Pas?
Caroline B
I'm
thorn between two things: 1- It really sucks that this gentleman is
suffering from a very aggressive form of cancer and I really hope he
recovers because I don't wish people ill. 2- The Irving family has way
too much control over the government and this is just one more thing to
add to the naughty list. After their political interference in the MV
Asterix project which led to the Norman case, they should have been
laying way low. And this sick politician should have probably just taken
the time off and taken the train to Montreal (would have been 17 hours
but I'm sure one day of traveling wouldn't be a problem for his health).
Adam Fowler
Reply to @Caroline B: He has been on medical leave since April
Ron
Vollans
Reply to @Caroline B:
The problem is his exposure to infectious diseases. Trains would be worse than commercial flights.
The problem is his exposure to infectious diseases. Trains would be worse than commercial flights.
David Amos
Reply to @Ron
Vollans: Methinks the mini van of the Shadow Cabinet Minister Rob Moore
would have been as clean as Irving's plane N'esy Pas?
Mac Isaac
"There's
no exceptional circumstance here..." Is this clown out of his gourd?!?
Seriously, if having cancer isn't an "exceptional circumstance", what in
hell is it!?! This partisan sniping has limits...no matter what your
affiliation might be. Surely having some sort of humanity is important,
too.
Evelyn
Gaudreau
Reply to @Mac Isaac:
He could certainly have avoided this controversy by leasing a private
plane and paying for it out of his own pocket. I am pretty sure he could
afford that expense. No reason to accept a gift from a company.
Ron Vollans
Reply to @Evelyn
Gaudreau: He made multiple trips. Each trip would have cost $2000+ per
hour of flight time, plus stand-bye time, plus flight back time. I
don't think many people can afford that.
David Amos
Reply to @Ron Vollans: Methinks everybody knows Leblanc certainly can and most of the rest of us cannot N'esy Pas?
Adam Fowler
Ol'
Dom has been on leave since April, had enough time to consult doctors
regarding his travel, enough time to get this trip approved by the
ethics commissioner, but yet didn't have enough time to take a day to
drive up and a day to drive back or be driven?? Certainly doesn't seem
like it was a last minute trip...God forbid he be like the common folk
that he "represents". What a joke.
David Amos
Reply to @Adam Fowler: Welcome to the Circus
Mario Doucet
If
LaBlanc is getting favors like this from the Irvings what are they
getting in return from this politician, not to mention the friends and
family judicial patronage appointments that will affect the legal system
for decades, this guy is unreal, cares very little about the people of
Canada.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Mario Doucet: However he has been extremely successful at filling his own pockets and those of family and friends...
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: YUP
Mack Leigh
Quite
a list of " friends " that are stepping up to help Dominic in his time
of need.. Treatments at the Georges Dumont Hospital in Moncton.. The
same hospital where cancer researcher Ouellette received millions in
funding by the Liberals.. Is not Dr. Ouellette also a personal friend of
Dominic and have they not vacationed together along with V. Boudreau
and other staunch Liberals... Nothing to see here folks other than more
Liberal corruption , collusion and feeding at the trough.. Perks not
afforded to us poor folk who have to get to doctor appointments on our
own steam no matter which disease has comprised our immune system......
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Surprise Surprise Surprise
David Brooks
Let them eat cake....
David Amos
Reply to @David Brooks: They already do
Marc
Martin
This
is so irrelevant, in the past I have seen several time the Irving used
their plane for their own employees and other people, the MCains also do
this, leave political bias out of health issues come on now.
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks we should not be surprised to see you brag that you
were on the planes translating things for the "Powers That Be in NB" and
the SANB N'esy Pas?
Buford
Wilson
Dominic stepped in it.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Buford
Wilson: One more time !! Does not even make him flinch since he and
his cohorts are .... Above The Law .....and are accountable to no one..
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
Methinks everybody knows I have beating on that drum since I first ran
against them all in 2004 N'esy Pas?
Dayton Funk
Unethical ethics Czar is the story here.
David Amos
Reply to @Dayton Funk: YUP
Roland Stewart
He is a good Irving employee and worked hard for the right to fly in that plane.
David Amos
Reply to @Roland Stewart: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Donald Smith
And we're really supposed to believe this [ lol ]
David Amos
Reply to @Donald Smith: Mais Oui
Lewis
Taylor
Incredible
to see the lack of human civility when someone is battling cancer. for
what? political points? For CPC sycophants to find something sinister
here with all the BS that happened under Harper for personal gain is
mind blowing. Ashamed of the Canadians that resort to this partisan
onslaught. Nothing is safe and it will eventually destroy everything.
In this mindset please don't expect empathy when you are battling this
disease....cynicism and indifference are contagious.
William Vanston
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Your comments are the ones that are partisan. I would expect
most people in New Brunswick would not have been offered Consultation in
Montreal let alone a round trip in an executive jet. From experience in
Ontario I know that from Indentification of possible lymphoma to first
treatment 97 days .
It’s great that he appears to be beating cancer but you can not actually believe it’s fair to those that had to see him stepping to the front of the line.
The complaint is from an organization that leans left, some where between NDP and Liberals.
The problem with the issue is that if you and your loved ones get to go tothe front of the line you are not going to do anything for those stuck at the end of the line.
It’s great that he appears to be beating cancer but you can not actually believe it’s fair to those that had to see him stepping to the front of the line.
The complaint is from an organization that leans left, some where between NDP and Liberals.
The problem with the issue is that if you and your loved ones get to go tothe front of the line you are not going to do anything for those stuck at the end of the line.
Cathy Bowslaugh
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Guess you didn't read the article huh? He can very well afford
to charter his own flight, which is more than most Canadians can say.
Instead he accepts a flight from a Liberal friendly company that lobbies
the government. if this were the Conservatives, you'd be all over it.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks I should lay odds that you are somehow related to
Leblanc's buddy the Health Minister Pettipas-Taylor N'esy Pas?
Fred Dee
an ethical man would not have asked!!!!!
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Fred Dee:
Wrong....someone who is open and transparent will seek ethical approval...because the lack of understanding that is overwhelmingly obvious in these posts.
Wrong....someone who is open and transparent will seek ethical approval...because the lack of understanding that is overwhelmingly obvious in these posts.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you and your favourite liberal lawyers should go to
Federal Court and pull my file in order to review the answer I got from
Mario Dion's old post known as "The Office of the Public Sector
Integrity Commissioner" N'esy Pas?
Fred Dee
GEEEEEEEEE the obvious is not obvious with the Moncton crew. Of course he gets approved,,,, he is Justins friend is he not!!!!
how much time has he spent in Ottawa working for us while getting paid full time!!! should have stepped back from his post while ill... but $$$$$ for nothing and flights for free!!!!
how much time has he spent in Ottawa working for us while getting paid full time!!! should have stepped back from his post while ill... but $$$$$ for nothing and flights for free!!!!
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Fred Dee:
Most employees have sick days...especially govt employees. Do you not know this???
Most employees have sick days...especially govt employees. Do you not know this???
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you should be using one right now in order to write all
this spin rather than doing it at work N'esy Pas?
Janice small
The
power of being in power..Leblanc has more the the means to charter a
flight to Montreal..I guess it's no different than Peter MacKay being
dropped off and picked up by a Canadian Military Sea King.. from a
fishing trip..
The rules are always different for the privileged.
I wish Mr. Le Blanc good health and a successful recovery, however, there is no denying the obvious.
Fred Dee
Reply to @Janice small: I believe that was actually for gov. reasons!!!
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Fred Dee:
the difference is that in this case Canadians did not pay for the travel!!! big difference with McKay where we all paid!!!
the difference is that in this case Canadians did not pay for the travel!!! big difference with McKay where we all paid!!!
Jake Devries
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: the difference is that macKay was ON government
business...LeBlanc was on Irving business...you know, his REAL
employer..
David Amos
Reply to @Jake Devries: YUP
valentina vivianao
There
are thousands of cancer patients with weak immune systems that cannot
afford to drive to their treatment because they cannot afford the
outrageous parking fees and have to resort to taking public transit. The rules are always different for the privileged.
I wish Mr. Le Blanc good health and a successful recovery, however, there is no denying the obvious.
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @valentina vivianao:
Yes he could have....too bad NB does not have the same standard of care as elsewhere in Canada so that he could have driven and parked. That is the injustice!
Yes he could have....too bad NB does not have the same standard of care as elsewhere in Canada so that he could have driven and parked. That is the injustice!
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Cry me a river. Then once you are done who are you gonna blame for that if not liberals?
Fergus O'Ryan
"Ethics czar erred in approving LeBlanc's use of Irving plane"
This guy is an embarrassment, I'm sorry he has cancer. It's a conflict of interest, don't try and point it any other way.
This guy is an embarrassment, I'm sorry he has cancer. It's a conflict of interest, don't try and point it any other way.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Fergus O'Ryan:
Please explain the conflict of interest and how taxpayer money was misappropriated??
Please explain the conflict of interest and how taxpayer money was misappropriated??
Jake Devries
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: You seem to be "employed" pushing the Lib spin...are you paid for this ???
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you should take a day off and go to Federal Court and
pull my file then start reading N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Jake Devries: Methinks most folks would bet dimes to dollars he is N'esy Pas?
Marc LeBlanc
Remember Mike
Murphy's comment about the "Liberal Elites"who are running this province
into the ground while lining their pockets all the way down
If you don't see the obvious,you're the real problem
If you don't see the obvious,you're the real problem
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Marc LeBlanc:
Quoting Mike Murphy is never a good starting point!! kind of like quoting Donald Trump!
Quoting Mike Murphy is never a good starting point!! kind of like quoting Donald Trump!
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks anyone can Google RCMP Sussex New Brunswick
Within YouTube can be found a quote of a letter to me from Mikey Murphy when he was the Minister of Health for NB in 2007 N'esy Pas?
Within YouTube can be found a quote of a letter to me from Mikey Murphy when he was the Minister of Health for NB in 2007 N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Go Figure
January 30, 2007
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Mr. David Amos
Dear Mr. Amos:
This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29, 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP. Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve Graham of the RCMP °J" Division in Fredericton.
Sincerely,
Honourable Michael B. Murphy
Minister of Health
CM/cb
January 30, 2007
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Mr. David Amos
Dear Mr. Amos:
This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29, 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP. Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve Graham of the RCMP °J" Division in Fredericton.
Sincerely,
Honourable Michael B. Murphy
Minister of Health
CM/cb
Kim Moore
I am curious as to how those of us who don't have rich friends with private planes, would have gotten to the hospital.
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Kim Moore:
Maybe you don't have cancer? or maybe your community does a fundraiser? or maybe you live in Mtl or Toronto? or maybe ....
Maybe you don't have cancer? or maybe your community does a fundraiser? or maybe you live in Mtl or Toronto? or maybe ....
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Maybe you should take a hint from all the down votes and quit
because you are certainly not doing your beloved liberal party any
favours today with you malicious nonsense However everybody know why I
hope you continue on N'esy Pas?
Brian Stewart
Reply to @David R. Amos: that is sound advice but it isn't being heeded
Marguerite Deschamps
It's
episodes like this one that deters good people from running for
political office. The man has cancer for heaven's sake! And the flight
was preapproved. No wonder we are run by goofballs in Fredericton!
mike kennedy
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Too bad all Canadians with cancer do not get his benefit. But they do help pay for it.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
What benefit? getting medical treatment? all Canadian get this especially if you live in have provinces and not NB.
What benefit? getting medical treatment? all Canadian get this especially if you live in have provinces and not NB.
Jody Melsom
Reply to @mike
kennedy: Hey Mike....how much did you chip in for the free flight? I am
guessing at least half of the zero dollars came from your pocket alone.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Jody Melsom:
I think Mikey thinks he is Jim Irving
I think Mikey thinks he is Jim Irving
Fred Brewer
Reply to @Jody
Melsom: I think he meant there is no such thing as a "free lunch" and
therefore no such thing as a free flight. We the taxpayer will pay for
this flight with government "favours" and subsidies down the road to the
benefit of you know who.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Barry Odonnell: love him, no. like him yes, like I do many other people, no matter the language they speak.
Jake Devries
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: yes, corruption should never see daylight...
David Amos
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Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks its time for you to take your meds and a have nap N'esy Pas?David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks all you SANB dudes love everyone named Leblanc N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks its a rather telling thing that you can insult me but
when I rely in the same fashion I am blocked N'esy Pas?
Chris
Schott
One
the one hand; he got ethics approval. On the other hand.....did Leblanc
HIMSELF not see that this was a conflict of interest?!? I mean one of
the liberals LARGEST donors, they are embroiled in a fair number of
sketcky government ship building contracts. Leblanc might be one of the
most corrupt of al the liberals. Sigh
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Chris Schott:
Conflict? he has removed himself from all decision with Irvings because they are friends then your friends cannot help you when you have a life-threatening disease??? Altruism can only take you so far!
Conflict? he has removed himself from all decision with Irvings because they are friends then your friends cannot help you when you have a life-threatening disease??? Altruism can only take you so far!
Jody Melsom
Reply to @Chris
Schott: Corrupt? That is laughable. Oh no, a bunch of lawyers got jobs
as judges, and surprise surprise, these lawyers just happened to be
friends with......you guessed it...lawyers. Can you imagine a scenario
where lawyers didn't know other lawyers? Did they meet the criteria to
become judges? Yes they did, it's not as if they appointed some random
person that Dominic knows that works in retail to become a judge.
When you have cancer and need treatment for it, let us all know how straight your mind is and how clear your thoughts are.
When you have cancer and need treatment for it, let us all know how straight your mind is and how clear your thoughts are.
Chris
Schott
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: They may be his friends; but he - along with his colleagues in
the liberal cabinet - is a public servant in charge of ALOT of money
that does to his....friends. Lewis do you see no conflict - or potential
conflict - here?
winston adair
Reply to @Chris
Schott: How word he have got there if he was turn down? Might have had
to call Air Force 1. Was it life or death?
Lewis
Taylor
Reply to @Chris Schott:
he is not making decision on Irving files because they are friends it is cleared by ethics then the guy has major health issues and his friends cannot help him? and he declared it with ethics. you would prefer a lose-lose scenario??? Maybe all elected officials should take an oath to disavow all friends??? really? no wonder we are in this mess.
he is not making decision on Irving files because they are friends it is cleared by ethics then the guy has major health issues and his friends cannot help him? and he declared it with ethics. you would prefer a lose-lose scenario??? Maybe all elected officials should take an oath to disavow all friends??? really? no wonder we are in this mess.
Jake Devries
Reply to @Chris
Schott: LeBlanc and his wife are millionaires...ill-gotten from the
taxpayers...let him pay his own damn way...like the rest of us
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Conspiracies galore...med levels too low??
Jim Johnson
A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal
Kim Moore
Reply to @Jim Johnson:
The same thing would have happened if he was a Conservative. An oil executive would have given him a free flight on a private plane. This is not a partisan issue.
The same thing would have happened if he was a Conservative. An oil executive would have given him a free flight on a private plane. This is not a partisan issue.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Jim Johnson:
And a Con hack is a con hack is a con hack...
And a Con hack is a con hack is a con hack...
winston adair
Reply to @Jim Johnson: Yea crooked as they come.
Buddy Best
Reply to @Kim Moore:
Your right Kim. This is more elitism policy. Their list of entitlements
cannot be challenged and some politician some where next week will be
doing the same thing. It will be as wrong then as it is now, but it too
will have no lasting consequence. The living ills of the haves and have
nots. Sick!!!
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks the same holds true for liberal ones such as yourself N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
" Thanks for the FREE lift , Git ye back later , tenfold " !
mike kennedy
Reply to @Lou Bell: But don't you know they are just friends... with benefits.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Waiting for you to need help some day.
Waiting for you to need help some day.
Brent Mitchell
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: and then Irving will fly us to the hospital?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks you need help today N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Apparently " unable to travel commercially " translates to " FREE FLIGHT " !!
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Lou Bell:
for cancer...how sick can you be?
for cancer...how sick can you be?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: How sick are you?
Lou Bell
Obviously Mr. Dion hasn't a clue as to what his job really is. That's a permanent tatoo he's wearing !
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Similar to yours?
Similar to yours?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks you two are two peas in a pod one red and one blue N'esy Pas?
mike kennedy
Hey Irvings, do you mind if I use your personal plane. No? But why?
mike kennedy
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
No need for a plane....you are on your own stratosphere
No need for a plane....you are on your own stratosphere
Jake Devries
Reply to @mike
kennedy: why ?? Because you cannot do anything for them...like try to
get a contract with Davie shipyard sent to hfx shipyards, aka Irving...
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks byway of the tally the down votes against you most
folks must be wondering what planet you are on N'esy Pas?
John Siciliano
Even Democracy Watch
is a group that can lobby. So when those that say Irving can lobby so
can groups like Democracy Watch. Democracy Watch just because they say
something that resonates with one side that does not determine
wrongdoing. That is what independent arbiters like the ethics
commissioner are for otherwise what is the point of having one.
mike kennedy
Reply to @John Siciliano: Who does Democracy Group lobby?
David Amos
Reply to @mike kennedy: Every day
Kasper Kane
The ethics czar needs to be investigated
David Amos
Reply to @Kasper Kane: I wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Roger Jerome
This is hard to believe....lol
David Amos
Reply to @Roger Jerome: Methinks believing has nothing to do with enjoying a circus N'esy Pas?
Lewis
Taylor:
A company that
regularly lobbies govt...and that Leblanc has officially recused himself
from any file involving the Irvings....Duff you cannot have it both
ways...you recuse because they are friends and then you cannot accept
when a friend helps you when you have a
potentially....probably....lethal disease???? Let's see how this would
play out if you had the cancer????
Robert Buck
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: And how would you get to an out of province hospital if you had
cancer and could not fly commercial? Would Irving supply you with a
free flight?
Lewis
Taylor:
Reply to @Robert Buck:
Why not ask them yourself??
Why not ask them yourself??
Dianne MacPherson
Reply to @Robert Buck:
Irving does sponsor a program called
'fuel the care' for families travelling to
the IWK in Halifax for their children.
Chalk this one up as the adult version !!!
Irving does sponsor a program called
'fuel the care' for families travelling to
the IWK in Halifax for their children.
Chalk this one up as the adult version !!!
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you know as well as I why the "Powers That Be in NB"
have denied me my right to possess a Health Care Card for many years
Hence why would you liberals suddenly care if i had cancer or not N'esy
Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor Methinks you should ask yourself why you dared to call me a
conspiracy theorist yesterday and expect me to not respond to your
insult N'esy Pas?
mike kennedy
No, it's all fine Dominic is a Liberal and has special entitlements unlike the ordinary Canadian.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
John
Siciliano
Reply to @mike kennedy: So you think you know more than the ethics commissioner. He knows the rules you don't!!
mike kennedy
Reply to @John
Siciliano: The commissioner is a Liberal appointment, think about it.
I'll take the word of an arms length group like Democracy Watch any day.
John Siciliano
Reply to @mike kennedy: Except Mary Dawson was also appointed by the Conservatives. One could assume that as well.
John Siciliano
Reply to @John Siciliano: How far are you going to take that argument??!
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Democracy watch is a lobby group!....wake up!
Democracy watch is a lobby group!....wake up!
Lou Bell
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: NO IT'S NOT !!!
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Who do they lobby?
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Have you ever follow their messaging? You would not ask the question. Hint....they support the CPC.
Have you ever follow their messaging? You would not ask the question. Hint....they support the CPC.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Hint...you don't like it when your Liberals are busted by an arms length group.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Or when a CPC hack takes advantage of someone's health to try and create a scandal out of nothing!!!
Or when a CPC hack takes advantage of someone's health to try and create a scandal out of nothing!!!
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Give the same treatment to all Canadians and I'm more than fine
with it. Canadians are fed up with these types using our money to fund
their friends
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Mikey have you had a family member with cancer? you would have appreciated that some hack stranger tries to gain political advantage over their dire situation??? I think any decent human would agree that this would be a disgusting cheap shot. if you don't agree then please let me know the next time you have a family member with cancer...so I can deliver an equal dose of medicine.
Mikey have you had a family member with cancer? you would have appreciated that some hack stranger tries to gain political advantage over their dire situation??? I think any decent human would agree that this would be a disgusting cheap shot. if you don't agree then please let me know the next time you have a family member with cancer...so I can deliver an equal dose of medicine.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
It is not your money!!!!! get over it.
It is not your money!!!!! get over it.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Where does the money to pay for the contracts awarded to Irvings by LeBlanc come from in your mind?
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: There are many Canadian's needing help. LeBlanc should not be
given more just because he has access to handing out taxpayer cash.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Have you looked up the word "recuse"??? the irvings get contracts from all govts...especially PCs in NB. They are a major company and conduct their business with whoever is in office. I actually think it is better for us poor taxpayers when these relationships are disclosed up front like Leblanc did and avoid being part of the process. you would prefer when your buddies in the CPC take gifts without declaring it????
Have you looked up the word "recuse"??? the irvings get contracts from all govts...especially PCs in NB. They are a major company and conduct their business with whoever is in office. I actually think it is better for us poor taxpayers when these relationships are disclosed up front like Leblanc did and avoid being part of the process. you would prefer when your buddies in the CPC take gifts without declaring it????
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
Name one contract that was awarded to Irvings that Leblance was the decision maker?? This is not Higgs in NB.
Name one contract that was awarded to Irvings that Leblance was the decision maker?? This is not Higgs in NB.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Recuse means nothing when you have handed out many millions
already in the past with potentially more in the future. It is
completely meaningless.
Vernon McPhee
Reply to @John
Siciliano: Actually Dawson and Dion are/were not appointed by the
government but by Parliament. A key point since Dawson was appointed
during a Conservative minority government but Dion was appointed during a
Liberal majority government therefore Dawson could not have been
appointed by only Conservative MP's but Dion could be appointed by only
Liberal MP's
Jake Devries
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: The Libranos are back...
Buddy Best
Reply to @John
Siciliano: Dawson was a complete joke. Wouldn't recognize an ethics
breach it it bit her, but it also appears the office of an ethics
commissioner is a complete joke.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you must have noticed how many liberals Justice Richard
Bell mentioned in his decision to recuse himself from my matter in
Federal Court N'esy Pas?
John
Siciliano
Reply to @Garry
Hiebert: The ethics commissioner preapproved it and according to section
12 based on travel preapproving is fine in serious circumstances that
are exceptional. It aligns with that section of the conflict of interest
act. Conacher wants the commissioner to revisit it and it is not based
on government business.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @John
Siciliano: Free flights given by lobbyists to politicians are never ok.
Try some common sense not the judgement of someone appointed by the
Liberals to make their life easier.
John Siciliano
Reply to @mike kennedy: Only an officer of parliament can determine that not average citizens.
John Siciliano
Reply to @John
Siciliano: Without an independent arbiter we will have chaos and no
rules. Dion's ruling was made independently not based on any party
affiliation.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @John Siciliano: Well that helps to sweep everything under the rug, you must be happy.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike
kennedy: So you would disavow all friendships when entering politics???
The hate makes clear thought impossible. The guy is fighting for his
life...what do you want in return????
Lou Bell
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: MAYBE APPROVAL for all those unable to afford life saving drugs
that the Government won't pay for !! But they're different , RIGHT
???????????????
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: I would be friends with the guy too if he awarded me lucrative contracts.
Gord Gunderson
Reply to @John
Siciliano: The conflict of interest act only applies to government
business, since Mr Leblanc medical issues has nothing to do with
government business, the ethnic commissioner has no say over the matter.
The EC should have stated so and said it is not government business so
he could not rule.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
the problem with your logic is that they were friends before and he has recused himself for all files involved himself from these cases...do you know what recuse means???
the problem with your logic is that they were friends before and he has recused himself for all files involved himself from these cases...do you know what recuse means???
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Lou Bell:
As you stated yesterday...since you are still in school you still have some homework to do.
As you stated yesterday...since you are still in school you still have some homework to do.
mike
kennedy
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Do you know what conflict of interest means? Or are you immune as a Liberal???
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
You mean what PC in NB have listed as their platform policy??
You mean what PC in NB have listed as their platform policy??
David Amos
Reply to @mike
kennedy: Methinks no politician on the planet or any of their minions
would ever admit that they know what a conflict of interest is even
before a judge and under oath N'esy Pas?
Garry Hiebert
Another liberal ethics issue
Another week another liberal ethics violation
Another week another liberal ethics violation
John Siciliano
Reply to @Garry Hiebert: It won't result in another investigation; check section 12 based on travel and preapproving.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Garry Hiebert:
Leblanc is surely benefitting from this "gift" . How about you trade places with him???
Leblanc is surely benefitting from this "gift" . How about you trade places with him???
mike kennedy
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: How about another Canadians with cancer get this treatment? No,
they don't give Irvings huge contracts, oh well....
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
If these Canadians are within a couple of hours drive from Mtl, Qc, Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Hamilton, etc....then they do not need to travel 1200 kms to get treatment. IF you are in NB then you are screwed. The first case of this cancer in NB Only if you have a super rare cancer do you have that incredible privilege. How about you trade places with him or donate your bone marrow??
If these Canadians are within a couple of hours drive from Mtl, Qc, Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Hamilton, etc....then they do not need to travel 1200 kms to get treatment. IF you are in NB then you are screwed. The first case of this cancer in NB Only if you have a super rare cancer do you have that incredible privilege. How about you trade places with him or donate your bone marrow??
Jake Devries
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: those of us in NB ARE screwed...unless we are Liberal...then
free flights from government contractors...sweet
Dayton Funk
Reply to @Garry Hiebert: by the Liberal appointed Ethics commissioner no less.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks I should ask why you cry about such things only when
the ethics of a wealthy liberal lawyer are in question N'esy Pas?
Jon Anderson
How ridiculous, obviously there's no quid pro quo here. Slow day at Democracy Watch......
mike kennedy
Reply to @Howard Strutt: Don't the Irvings get contract awarded by the Liberals? How obvious does it need to be for you?
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @mike kennedy:
yes nice transaction...I save your life old friend and you will grant all my wishes...if you survive!!! How twisted to see something sinister when someone's life is in the balance!
yes nice transaction...I save your life old friend and you will grant all my wishes...if you survive!!! How twisted to see something sinister when someone's life is in the balance!
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Do you consider your arguments balanced?
Bernie Hopkins
Remember Chretien
jumped the queue for heart surgery. Played golf with a cardiologist one
day and was under the knife the next day. The policy is equal access
to medical care for all Canadians. Apparently retired politicians are
more equal than regular Canadians.
Martin Oram
Reply to @Bernie Hopkins:
So are many people like athletes, law enforcement, military personnel. So what is your point?
So are many people like athletes, law enforcement, military personnel. So what is your point?
Bernie Hopkins
Reply to @Martin Oram: Our public heath care is a sham.
Ronald McCallum
Reply to @Bernie Hopkins:
" Apparently retired politicians are more equal than regular Canadians."
Bernie, do you have a problem in comprehending the following statement?
"LeBlanc's office says the minister, who has been on medical leave since April, needed to attend a hospital in Montreal and was told by his doctors he could not travel commercially because he has a compromised immune system."
EVERYONE who goes through chemotherapy have a compromised immune system.
" Apparently retired politicians are more equal than regular Canadians."
Bernie, do you have a problem in comprehending the following statement?
"LeBlanc's office says the minister, who has been on medical leave since April, needed to attend a hospital in Montreal and was told by his doctors he could not travel commercially because he has a compromised immune system."
EVERYONE who goes through chemotherapy have a compromised immune system.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Ronald McCallum:
Not all have an aggressive disease that requires a bone marrow transplant not available in NB that requires either a 12 hour drive or a commercial flight with all the infectious bugs for someone going through toxic chemotherapy. Not much empathy on this garbage site.
Not all have an aggressive disease that requires a bone marrow transplant not available in NB that requires either a 12 hour drive or a commercial flight with all the infectious bugs for someone going through toxic chemotherapy. Not much empathy on this garbage site.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks many folks would agree that you have no idea what the
word empathy means just like you and legions of lawyers such as
Conacher, Dion and Leblanc to name the 4 mentioned here have no
understanding what integrity means N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
david kirby
What an ethical shambles this government is, and i bet we only know a tip of the iceberg
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @david kirby:
Yeah! There must be an underground network where dying politicians are flown for medical treatment every day.
Yeah! There must be an underground network where dying politicians are flown for medical treatment every day.
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Who is dying?
Bernie Hopkins
Thank God it wasn't a $17 glass of orange juice. CBC would have put the run on him.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Bernie Hopkins:
Slow news day when we create a scandal for a politician who has a life threatening cancer and needs to leave him home province for treatment elsewhere in Canada. Maybe the scandal should be why there is no bone marrow transplant in NB so he could drive or walk to his treatment?????
Slow news day when we create a scandal for a politician who has a life threatening cancer and needs to leave him home province for treatment elsewhere in Canada. Maybe the scandal should be why there is no bone marrow transplant in NB so he could drive or walk to his treatment?????
winston adair
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: This is B.S
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @winston adair:
the fact that this is a story is BS. Trade places and we will attack you!
the fact that this is a story is BS. Trade places and we will attack you!
Jake Devries
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: if "we" do, will we get the Irving planes too ?? Bought and paid for Libs
David Amos
Reply to @Lewis
Taylor: Methinks you seem quite bitter today no doubt its because this
is not positive spin on your beloved liberals N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks its interesting an article on the same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments Yet this news offered to Maritmers has a tally of less than 100 thus far much to the relief of the LIEbranos N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/07/trudeau-defends-judicial-appointments.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dominic-leblanc-judicial-appointment-justin-trudeau-1.5200176
Trudeau defends judicial appointments with personal connections to Dominic LeBlanc
Democracy Watch calls for investigation into whether federal cabinet minister influenced 5 appointments
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the five judicial selections were part of a 'transparent appointment system.' (CBC)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on
Thursday defended a string of recent judicial appointments in New
Brunswick that involved people with personal connections to Beauséjour
Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc — even as a call was
made for the federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to
investigate the matter.
"We are fully confident that the process — the transparent merit-based process that we've put in place is the right one and we stand by it," Trudeau told reporters when asked directly if he would be reviewing recent appointments in New Brunswick.
Earlier this week, it was reported that three lawyers who were past contributors to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
In a fifth appointment last month, Justice Tracey Deware was elevated to the position of chief justice of New Brunswick's trial division.
"We are fully confident that the process — the transparent merit-based process that we've put in place is the right one and we stand by it," Trudeau told reporters when asked directly if he would be reviewing recent appointments in New Brunswick.
Earlier this week, it was reported that three lawyers who were past contributors to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
In a fifth appointment last month, Justice Tracey Deware was elevated to the position of chief justice of New Brunswick's trial division.
Three
lawyers who were past contributors to Dominic LeBlanc's Beauséjour
riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership
bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as
did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
She
and her husband, Jacques Pinet, bought property from LeBlanc in 2013
and moved next door to his summer house in Grande-Digue. Pinet has also
donated to LeBlanc's riding association, and he gave money to help
retire his 2008 leadership debts.According to LeBlanc's filings with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Pinet also paid for LeBlanc to spend three days in 2014 at New Brunswick's Ledges Lodge, which advertises itself as the only 4.5 star hunting and fishing retreat on the Miramichi River.
According to the declaration, Pinet was acting in his then role as vice-president of Moncton's Assumption Life, and LeBlanc attended the lodge as part of an "annual trip with local business leaders and other elected officials."
'Transparent appointments'
At a news conference in Montreal, Trudeau said the five selections were part of a "transparent appointment system," although much about how the choices were made is unknown.
The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say how many New Brunswick lawyers applied for the judgeships or whether any unsuccessful candidates scored higher on independent assessments of their abilities to sit on the bench than the ones who were chosen.
In Canada, all candidates for federal judicial appointments are required to submit an application and agree to an assessment by provincial or sub provincial judicial advisory committees.
The committees grade applicants as either recommended, highly recommended or unable to recommend, but none of that information is available, even in redacted form.
Court
of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare is pictured here at her
swearing-in ceremony with New Brunswick Court of Appeal Chief Justice
Marc Richard. (Submitted by Tracey DeWare)
According
to Philippe Lacasse, executive director for judicial appointments in
the commissioner's office, secrecy is required to protect judicial
applicants."In order to ensure and protect the privacy of candidates and the confidentiality of them having applied to become judges, statistics are provided on a national basis only," Lacasse wrote in an email to CBC News.
"A provincial or regional breakdown could allow analysis of the data which may lead to identifying individual candidates."
Call for investigation
In Ottawa, Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
In the letter, released to the media, Conacher asked for an investigation into whether LeBlanc participated in the "decision-making processes" of the five appointments.
The minister's office has not commented on the appointments.
LeBlanc, who holds three cabinet portfolios, including Intergovernmental Affairs, did file a declaration of recusal with the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner over the appointment of one of the five judges.
Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law and according to LeBlanc's declaration, he withdrew from cabinet consideration of her appointment shortly before it was approved.
Moncton
family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard, who is married to Dominic
LeBlanc's brother-in-law, was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint
John. (Veritas Law)
"In order to
avoid any opportunity to provide preferential treatment or to further
the private interests of my relative Ms. Marie-Claude Belanger Richard, I
recused myself on November 6, 2018, from all discussions, decisions,
debates or votes relating to judicial appointments," reads LeBlanc's
declaration.Belanger-Richard's appointment was announced publicly three days later.
There were no recusals filed in relation to the other four appointments, but it is not clear LeBlanc voted on any of them. LeBlanc has been battling cancer and in April this year announced he had been taking treatments and would be stepping away from cabinet duties temporarily to focus on his health.
The four remaining judicial appointments connected to LeBlanc occurred between March and June this year, near the period his health problems flared up.
Still, Conacher said the relationship of the successful candidates to LeBlanc requires investigation under provisions of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act.
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Commenting is now closed for this story.Maude Windsor
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this action of liberal party selection of judges and other posts to comitees such as parole board, EU committee, ....including the senior members (EX levels) of federal public service......
all are appointments approved by Trudeau and PMO.....in small population of new brunswick
these appointments make a big statement.....and affects the way all new brunswickers vote(note the many many elections that were decided by federal appointments)...the trudeau government also uses the french language rules as a political tool to aid in these appointments also. wake up new brunswick...vote for your future
David R. Amos
Methinks one of the most telling things about this news item is that an article offered to all of Canada on the very same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments and yet this bit of news about the lawyer Mr Dion playing dumb offered to my fellow Maritmers will be hard pressed to break a tally of 100 It certainly proves that apathy rules the day in New Brunswick much to the chagrin of Duff Conacher N'esy Pas?
David Smith
Reply to @David R. Amos: Are is it guilt from the maritimers? .... The Liberals did sweep the region, N'est ce pas?
David R. Amos
Methinks I should give the lady a call as well N'esy Pas?
June 29, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Cathy Lahey, QC, partner in our Saint John office, has been appointed to the Department of Justice’s Judicial Advisory Committee (“JAC”) in New Brunswick for a two-year term.
This comes as part of an announcement from The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, who appointed members in five provincial jurisdictions, adding to the existing complement of JACs.
JACs are independent bodies which were formed as part of a new process, announced in October 2016, to assess federal judicial applicants and provide the Minister of Justice with lists of high-calibre candidates who represent the diversity of Canada.
Cathy joins Twila Reid, partner in our St. John’s office, who was appointed to the JAC in Newfoundland and Labrador earlier this year
David R. Amos
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Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks everybody knows that I was not surprised when the lady lawyer played dumb N'esy Pas?
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:55:28 -0400
Subject: Jamie Irving's lawyer Cathy Lahey QC cannot deny that I am a man of my
word and gave her a call Then gave up on her integrity the instant she played dumb
N'esy Pas Madame Lahey?
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David R. Amos
Methinks the sneaky lawyer Duff Conacher must have noticed how many Leblanc's have sat on the Bench in Provincial Court overseen by Dominic's wife since 2017 N'esy Pas?
The Honorable Judge Jolène Richard
Chief Judge
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on November 13, 2008
Appointed Chief Judge of the Provincial Court on June 2, 2017
The Honourable Chief Judge Jolène Richard, the first female to occupy the post of Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick was appointed on June 2, 2017.
Chief Judge Richard, the daughter of Guy Richard, former Chief Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench was appointed a Provincial Court Judge on November 13, 2008. She had a large litigation practice with the biggest law firm in Atlantic Canada, Stewart McKelvey. She practiced for 15 years and was a partner in the Moncton office.
The Honorable Judge Denise A. LeBlanc
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on January 27, 2016
OTTAWA, June 22, 2018
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016. The new process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
The Honourable Denise LeBlanc, a judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick, is appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick, Trial Division.
The Honorable Judge Natalie H. LeBlanc
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on June 1, 2017
The Honorable Judge Ronald LeBlanc
Appointed Supernumerary status on April 3, 2017
The Honorable Judge Donald J. LeBlanc
Appointed Supernumerary status on April 30, 2015
David R. Amos
Methinks every political lawyer in Canada knows why the following is incredibly comical to me N'esy Pas?
"Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion."
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @David R. Amos: and if he signed off with N'esy Pas it won't get read either LOL
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala
Gouk: Methinks legions of lawyers are well aware that I got several
replies in hard copy from Mr Dion's offices over the years as well as
couple of emails from that mindless lawyer personally as well. N'esy
Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks anyone can Google Duff Conacher David Amos N'esy Pas?
Shawala Gouk
Mr. Trudeau may experience transparency and honesty somewhat differently that the average narcissist.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks it takes one to know one N'esy Pas?
Shawala Gouk
Trudeau defends corruption ! Quelle surprise LOL.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks you do too N'esy Pas?
Marty Forsythe
Judges being picked because of political influence has been going on with every Judge being selected, how naive are you people. Go down the list of all Judges and you will find the same no matter what political stripe. The only time Judge Brad Green was in a court room was when he started sitting on the bench how was he selected and so on check it out nothing new here
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Does that make it right ?
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Methinks you should enjoy finding a letter from Brad Green to me within this old file N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: Brad Green, that's a Harper CONservative appointment, n'est-ce pas?
Lou Bell
Invite to a 4.5 star Assumption Life SANB retreat. Anyone surprised. They need to have a meeting somewhere.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: so obsessed by the SANB, aren't you?
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you two should seriously consider dating N'esy Pas?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: es-tu jaloux, mon p'tit chou?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Nope Methinks everybody knows I love French ladies not evil
people who pretend to be N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are a dude and I know Lou is a woman Hence you two are wicked match N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
Of course Justin Trudeau supports the political hiring of Judges as Trudeau himself interfered with the Canadian Justice system when he wanted the CRIMINAL CHARGES against his friends with SNC Lavalin dropped ; and then he threw his two best females Cabinet Ministers out of the Liberal party when they raised concerns about it . Those five Judicial appointments should be rescinded until this matter can be fully investigated , and rectified . It is hard to believe that this level of political interference in our Justice system can be happening in Canada in 2019 ; and it seems to be totally out of control . Oct. cannot come fast enough !
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Matt Steele: as if this is new and only done by the Liberals. Tell it to Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peter-mackay-s-friends-colleagues-make-up-6-of-9-judge-appointees-1.2956696
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peter-mackay-s-friends-colleagues-make-up-6-of-9-judge-appointees-1.2956696
Michael Dome
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: sunny ways...
Jake Devries
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: but but but Harperrrrrrr
Robert Buck
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: just goes to show there is no difference in these parties.
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "Tell it to Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay!"
Methinks you know as well as I that MacKay answered my lawsuit before polling day in 2015 and that Trudeau and his cohorts have been supporting Harper's malice against me ever since Atleast 15 decisions in Federal court cannot be easily overlooked by the Supreme Court N'esy Pas?
Robert Tuckett-Reddy
When you have no ethics as this PM have proven over and over again what do you expect? He has no respect for the rule of law only his close friends, family ties and liberal contributors. The law in this country is no longer blind or unbiased. It reeks of political interference!!!
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Robert
Tuckett-Reddy: My you have such a short memory of what the Harper
government did.A very over the top view does not mean it is true.
DON MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: This article is not about Harper.
Anne
Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: Typical liberalism, when you cannot come up with an explanation
why this is patronage appointments, you accuse a past PM. How low can
you go.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne
Bérubé: it's been going on for as far back as Confederation, no matter
the party in power. Who are you trying to kid here?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne
Bérubé: why do you think the elusive Higgs Bozon halted all government
projects up north if it's not because they did not vote for his pathetic
government?
David R. Amos
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: "This article is not about Harper."
Methinks Harper and his cohorts should be included because the legion of judges they appointed during his mandates are still playing Harper's wicked game today N'esy Pas?
Methinks Harper and his cohorts should be included because the legion of judges they appointed during his mandates are still playing Harper's wicked game today N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: I bet you aren't .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Neither is Mark (Junkman) George:
David R. Amos
Reply
to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam must have noticed that the very strange
SANB dude Marguerite Deschamps and Lady Lou of the PANB ain't one bit
surprised either N'esy Pas? Mark (Junkman) George
Surprise, surprise, surprise.............
With an election looming how could it be any different?
Draw your own conclusions folks and show your approval with your vote.
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Mark
(Junkman) George: My life and that of my relatives has improved under
this government so I will factor that into my decision .This story is a
non issue because the system works well and will not change under any
government.
DON
MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: Most Canadians have suffered through a new carbon tax and loss
of tax credits for fitness, arts and education under this regime. I
cannot thik of one thing that has improved in my life under Justin
Trudeau.
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: You must be a true and faithful liberal till death sets you
apart...I, for the life of me, understand that your increase in income
tax, as well as other taxes of all kinds have increased, no credits
whatsoever as they were all eliminated has made your financial situation
better. Unless you make over $200,000 a year and is a donor to the
liberal party?
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @DON
MOFFATT: Completely agree, less and it is just the beginning. This is
the Maritimes for you, liberal till the end.
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @Eugene Peabody:
Who you vote for is between you and your God, there is no need to justify your choices, poor or otherwise, to anybody.
Myself, I find it hard to vote for someone "WHO COULDN'T BE BOTHERED" TO KEEP HALF OF HIS ELECTION PROMISES.
Who you vote for is between you and your God, there is no need to justify your choices, poor or otherwise, to anybody.
Myself, I find it hard to vote for someone "WHO COULDN'T BE BOTHERED" TO KEEP HALF OF HIS ELECTION PROMISES.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: "I find it hard to vote for someone"
I always promise to raise Hell but not enough folk seem to care
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield June 18th, 2004
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
I always promise to raise Hell but not enough folk seem to care
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield June 18th, 2004
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
Marguerite Deschamps
The devil is raising hell. Who would have thought?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/surf-clam-five-nations-cancellation-1.4784117
Decision to cancel lucrative surf clam contract remains shrouded in mystery
Surf clam fishing licence was issued to Five Nations Clam Company in February and squelched in July
CBC · Posted: Aug 14, 2018 8:00 AM NT
New Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says confidentiality prevents him from revealing why the government cancelled a contract awarded to Five Nations Clam Company just a few months ago. (CBC)
The reasoning behind the federal government's decision to cancel its surf clam contract with Five Nations Clam Company remains hidden inside a tightly closed shell.
On Tuesday, Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson would only say that the choice was made after "discussions" with the company.
In February, the government awarded 25 per cent of the annual surf clam quota to Five Nations — a contract worth tens of millions of dollars.
But last week, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced it had cancelled the licence in July.
"As you get into these kinds of arrangements, obviously, both sides learn a lot. We want to make sure that this is successful on a go-forward basis," said Wilkinson.
The Arctic surf clam is a bright red tongue-shaped seafood that is exported to Asia for sushi.
Clearwater will 'likely' take 25% back
Clearwater Seafoods, a Nova Scotia-based company that had held a surf clam monopoly before February, will likely fish the 25 per cent meant to go to Five Nations, said Wilkinson.
"There are some issues that we need to discuss with them and we're going to be working through that over the next few weeks," he added.
Arctic surf clams, called hokkigai in Japanese, are most commonly used in sushi. (Robert Short/CBC)
That's good news for Clearwater plant workers in Grand Bank, N.L., says the Liberal MP for Bonavista-Burin-Trinity, Churence Rogers.
"I've already had discussions with Clearwater some time ago about this eventuality, and they're prepared to go fish and process the 25 per cent of the clams that would otherwise be left in the water," he said.
"So for economic reasons, for the company, for the peninsula, for the people of Grand Bank, for the fishermen, it makes a whole lot of sense that they go get it."
Liberal MP Churence Rogers says the reversal will bring stability to Grand Bank. (CBC)
The return of the 25 per cent to Clearwater is temporary, said Wilkinson, with DFO planning to launch a new process to award a new surf clam licence next year.
"The government remains committed to Indigenous reconciliation but it is committed to doing it in a way that is successful," he said.
Five Nations licence controversial from the start
The process that saw Five Nations Clam Company awarded with the lucrative contract has been controversial from the start.
When the company was awarded its contract, beating out six other proposals, it didn't have its partners listed. Months later, records filed in court showed that Five Nations was only 25 per cent Indigenous-owned.
The federal ethics commissioner was also brought into the mix in May, launching an investigation into ties between then-Fisheries minister Dominic LeBlanc's wife's family and the Five Nations Clam Company.
On Tuesday, Wilkinson denied that conflicts of interest had anything to do with the decision to kill the contract.
For Grand Bank Mayor Rex Matthews, it's been a trial to watch the process play out.
"That process was flawed from Day 1. It was wrong from Day 1," he said. "I'm thinking that the reason for it is the company they gave the licence to, Five Nations Clam Company, they didn't have the wherewithal to put the licence into action. If they did, there would have been no reversal."
Grand Bank Mayor Rex Matthews says there is no reason to celebrate the quota decision reversal. (CBC)
Matthews says he doesn't see the potential temporary return of a monopoly for Clearwater as any kind of victory.
"It's not a great deal when you've got your life on hold for another 18 to 24 months. We haven't won anything.… This town wouldn't be participating in any process that was going to take fish from any other community. It just wouldn't happen."
He says he's hoping First Nations communities will also protest the fishery by not participating in the next licensing process.
"They should not partake in this process that put so much grief and pain on their fellow Canadians, and from another rural community, another fishing community," he said.
"The only way it's going to stop is if the First Nations, the Indigenous people, the leadership of those nations steps up and says, 'This process is not right.'"
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dominic-leblanc-minister-ford-provinces-carbon-tax-1.4753807
Dominic LeBlanc has 'fixer' role as Ottawa's relations with the provinces weaken
Promotion from Fisheries and Oceans to Intergovernmental Affairs comes at challenging time
· CBC News · Posted: Jul 19, 2018 7:33 PM AT
New Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc will have to stickhandle several pressing issues, including carbon tax and cross-border trade, ahead of the 2019 federal election. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
On the first working day of Dominic LeBlanc's new portfolio as minister of intergovernmental and northern affairs and internal trade, a joint announcement from two premiers on Thursday appears to be emblematic of Ottawa's deteriorating relationship with the federation.
Premier Doug Ford and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stood side by side in Saint Andrews to announce Ontario will support the Prairie province in challenging the federal government's right to impose a carbon tax on provinces that don't comply with its climate change plan.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe talk with reporters during a meeting in Saint Andrews on Thursday. Ford and Moe have agreed to fight the imposition of a carbon tax. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
It's one of several challenges LeBlanc will be responsible for managing in his new post, and it's why the veteran politician got the job during Wednesday's cabinet shuffle, according to University of New Brunswick political science professor J.P. Lewis.
"We're peaking in terms of regional and, more specifically, provincial challenges that the prime minister and the government are facing," Lewis said.
Changing domestic landscape
The Canadian political landscape is changing with the arrival of new premiers. In the most recent instance, Ford presents an opposing view to the Trudeau Liberals' key policies, especially carbon tax and climate policy.
Another premier could join the fold from the right before the 2019 federal election if United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney wins the upcoming Alberta election.
Elections will be held in Quebec and LeBlanc's home province of New Brunswick this fall.
In light of the current circumstances in the federation, it would be a promotion.
- J.P. Lewis, political scientistAnd it's not just federal-provincial relationships that are becoming fraught, as Lewis noted.
LeBlanc is charged with handling interprovincial disputes — Alberta and British Columbia, for instance — on items such as pipelines and cross-border trade.
"We may see the type of contentious relationships that we haven't seen in, really, between the provincial and federal governments in a while," Lewis said.
Promotion for LeBlanc
He said the prime minister, with an eye on the 2019 election, appointed a political veteran and close confidant to handle an important portfolio since the voters' evaluation of how Justin Trudeau leads the federation is significant.
"In light of the current circumstances in the federation, it would be a promotion," Lewis said of LeBlanc's new role.
Lewis said it falls under a pattern of previous prime ministers to appoint stronger ministers, or "political fixers," to key portfolios or problem areas. He said Stephen Harper used the late Jim Prentice in this fashion.
Dominic LeBlanc was sworn in as minister of intergovernmental and northern affairs and internal trade on Wednesday by Michael Wernick, clerk of the Privy Council, during a ceremony at Rideau Hall. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
Gabriel Arsenault, assistant professor of political science at the University of Moncton, echoed Lewis in saying it's a promotion.
"It is an increasingly important department, because we see that there is a lot of acrimony between the provincial governments and the federal government," Arsenault, speaking in French, told Radio-Canada.
Trans Mountain Pipeline
He said the number one issue on LeBlanc's list is the federal government's purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which lies at the centre of the Alberta-British Columbia tensions.
The federal government stirred up tensions when it decided to take over the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, which will bring a significant increase in tanker traffic off the B.C. coast. (CBC News)
Number two on that list: Ford's push to get Ontario out of the carbon market.
Following Wednesday's shuffle, LeBlanc said the federal and provincial governments share a common interest in strengthening the economy and creating more jobs.
"There'll be a lot more, I think, that we have in common than we may disagree on, and my job will be to work with all of these leaders in a way that advances the interests of Canadians," he said.
On Thursday, the Beauséjour MP tweeted out a commitment to hold a premiers meeting on trade and that "removing trade barriers between Provinces and Territories is vital to growing our economy."
With files from Radio-Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dominic-leblanc-arctic-surf-clam-1.4668606
In a reversal, ethics commissioner to investigate LeBlanc for lucrative Arctic surf clams deal
Tories allege deal benefits brother of sitting Liberal MP, a former Liberal MP and cousin of minister's wife
· CBC News · Posted: May 18, 2018 2:33 PM ET
A brewing controversy alleging cronyism and conflict of interest involving a clam fishing licence awarded by Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc may not be grabbing national attention — but it should be, says a Conservative MP. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion has launched an investigation of Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc's decision to award a lucrative licence for the Arctic surf clam fishery to a group that has ties to his wife's family and the federal Liberal party — a reversal of a decision the commissioner made earlier this month to pass on such a probe, CBC News has learned.
Conservative B.C. MP Todd Doherty, the fisheries critic, alleges the government's effort to expand ownership in the fishery — by clawing back part of an existing quota held by Clearwater Foods and handing it to a group with Indigenous representation — violates the Conflict of Interest Act because it enriches the brother of a sitting Liberal MP, a former Liberal MP, and a cousin of LeBlanc's wife. Doherty asked Dion to initiate this examination.
A spokesperson for Dion would not confirm or deny that an examination is now underway, as is the commissioner's protocol to ensure such an investigation is conducted in confidence.
Comment differs
"We cannot comment at this time on whether or not Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has launched an examination under the Conflict of Interest Act in relation to the conduct of the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc," a spokesperson said in a statement.
But this comment differs from the last time CBC News asked the commissioner about an inquiry into LeBlanc's role in the surf clams bid. At the time, the spokesperson confirmed an investigation was "not being contemplated."
It was not then known publicly that a member of the minister's wife's family had been part of the bid.
Dion had rejected the initial request for examination, telling Doherty at the time that he had been imprecise in his wording for a request, citing the conflict of interest code rather than the Conflict of Interest Act, which includes provisions relating to ministerial conduct. He also said he found no "reasonable grounds to believe that Minister LeBlanc would have contravened ... the Act."
Arctic surf clam is displayed at an event on Dec. 1, 2017, celebrating its new offshore fishing vessel, the Anne Risley. (Robert Short/CBC)
The winning bid for the Arctic surf clam licence was claimed by Five Nations Clam Corporation and its partner, Premium Seafoods. The latter company is controlled by Edgar Samson, the brother of Nova Scotia Liberal MP Darrell Samson. One of the Indigenous partners in the company, NunatuKavut, is presided over by former Liberal MP Todd Russell. A spokesperson for LeBlanc confirmed Gilles Thériault, the minister's wife's cousin, also has ties to Five Nations.
The surf clam licence is worth tens of millions of dollars. The group will now have a quota for 8,924 tonnes of the seafood delicacy, which is harvested in the waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador and is often shipped to Asia for sushi.
'Great friend'
A Conservative order paper question, a tool used by the opposition to extract answers from tight-lipped departments, asked whether LeBlanc knew Samson was the brother of a sitting MP prior to awarding the surf clam licence to his company; it also asked when the minister became aware of his ownership stake. A terse response from the department reads, "Yes, and unknown."
Chief Aaron Sock, the president of Five Nations Clam, said in a statement to CBC News that Thériault is "well known to anyone who knows the fisheries business in Atlantic Canada" and is a "great friend to the community."
"Any suggestion that our community, or any Indigenous community for that matter, is incapable of making a case for access to the Surf Clam fishery based solely on the merits of their proposal, is offensive and patronizing, but not surprising."
LeBlanc, too, has said Conservative claims that the company was awarded the bid because of these connections is "ludicrous."
"I made my decision for no other reason than to allow for increased Indigenous participation in the fishery. I reject any insinuation to the contrary in the strongest of terms," LeBlanc said in a statement.
Middle-class jobs
In September 2017, the government announced it would be expanding access to the fishery — currently a monopoly controlled by Clearwater — through a fourth licence. It indicated the winning bid would go to an "Indigenous entity" as part of an initiative to create middle-class jobs for First Nations people in all four Atlantic Canadian provinces and Quebec.
We are talking about a group of Liberal family members who had no boat and were not even incorporated until after the announcement was made.
- Conservative MP Todd DohertyBut Doherty alleges that when the licence was awarded in February 2018, the Indigenous-led Five Nations Clam Company didn't even exist and was simply an entity on paper. Doherty also said the bid did not have an "aggregate of multiple Indigenous communities associated with the bid," as was deemed "essential" by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in its assessment criteria for winning bids.
As CBC Nova Scotia first reported, court records filed last month by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) reveal that the winning applicant is only 25 per cent Indigenous-owned, with the remainder in the hands of Premium Seafoods.
"Here are the facts. We are talking about a group of Liberal family members who had no boat and were not even incorporated until after the announcement was made," Doherty said in question period recently.
"They did not have any First Nation partners. As a matter of fact, their bid had multiple placeholders. They still secured a lucrative government quota worth hundreds of millions of dollars without meeting critical bid criteria."
In addition to the ethics probe, LeBlanc's decision is now being challenged in Federal Court by one of the losing Indigenous bidders for the licence, Miawpukek Mi'kamawey Mawi'omi First Nation.
The price of Halifax-based Clearwater Foods stock has cratered since the government announced it would end Arctic surf clam monopoly, dropping some 60 per cent.
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Links between minister's wife and surf clam deal lead to renewed calls for ethics probe
Conservative MP alleges group behind winning Arctic surf clam bid has ties to minister's wife
· CBC News · Posted: May 09, 2018 5:32 PM ET
A Conservative MP asked the federal ethics commissioner to investigate whether Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc violated the Commons ethics code by awarding an Arctic surf clam harvesting license to a company with ties to a current Liberal MP. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
The ethics commissioner has rebuffed a request from a Conservative MP to investigate Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc's decision to award a license for the Arctic surf clam fishery to a group with federal Liberal ties.
But Conservatives are now asking Mario Dion to take a second look at the deal — because they say they now have evidence that a member of LeBlanc's wife's family had a financial stake in the winning bid. The Conservatives claim that link may have influenced LeBlanc's decision — an suggestion the minister calls "ludicrous."
According to a letter obtained by CBC News, Mario Dion told Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty that he was imprecise in the wording of his initial request for an investigation, and cited sections of the conflict of interest code that would not apply to a decision made by a cabinet minister in his capacity as a minister of the Crown.
"As the decision taken by Minister LeBlanc was taken in his capacity as a minister rather than in relation to his parliamentary duties, the Code has no application in the present situation," Dion wrote in a letter marked "confidential."
"The information you provided is insufficient for my office to initiate an examination in the present circumstances."
Dion was recently named to the position by the Liberal government and confirmed by MPs late last year.
Doherty, the Conservative fisheries critic, alleges the government's effort to expand ownership in the fishery — by clawing back part of an existing quota held by Clearwater Foods and handing it to a group with Indigenous representation — violates the Commons conflict of interest code because it enriches the brother of a sitting Liberal MP and a former Liberal MP.
On Wednesday, Doherty said he has new questions after learning that a member of the minister's wife's family has ties to the winning bid. He accused LeBlanc of feathering his own nest in awarding the bid to this group.
"What we've also learned through these recently released documents is that Five Nations is headed by Gilles Thériault. Who is Gilles Thériault, you ask? None other than a cousin of the minister's wife," he said in question period, citing documents filed in Federal Court.
A spokesperson for LeBlanc confirmed Thériault is a cousin of LeBlanc's wife.
"Any notion that this was the reason for my decision is a baseless and ludicrous accusation. I made my decision for no other reason than to allow for increased Indigenous participation in the fishery. I reject any insinuation to the contrary in the strongest of terms," LeBlanc said in a statement to CBC News.
"Mr. Doherty is recklessly making personal accusations. I am proud of this decision and will continue to focus on how it will directly benefit First Nations communities across Atlantic Canada and Quebec."
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said he will not investigate Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc at this time after a Conservative MP asked him to look into the bidding process that awarded a lucrative Arctic surf clam license to a group with Liberal ties. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
A spokesperson for Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Doherty would soon resubmit his request for an ethics probe — this time citing the relevant sections of the code and the familial connection.
Dion said in his letter, dated May 8, that prior to the official complaint from Doherty, he undertook a review of his own after media reports circulated about Liberal links to the group that secured the lucrative licence.
"When the matter first became public in March 2018, I gathered information from public sources, which included information you provided in your letter. At that time, I found no reasonable grounds to believe that Minister LeBlanc would have contravened any of his obligations under the Act in relation to this situation," he wrote.
Conservatives are 'mud-slinging,' Trudeau says
The winning bid for the license was claimed by Five Nations Clam Company and its partner, Premium Seafoods. The latter company is controlled by Edgar Samson, the brother of Nova Scotia Liberal MP Darrell Samson. One of the Indigenous partners in the company, NunatuKavut, is presided over by former Liberal MP Todd Russell.
Doherty alleges that when the license was awarded in February 2018, the Indigenous-led Five Nations Clam Company didn't even exist and was simply an entity on paper.
"The minister personally intervened in the surf clam process. He ordered the department to award the lucrative contract to a group that didn't have a boat. They didn't have multiple First Nations partners. They weren't even incorporated," Doherty said Wednesday.
"What they did have was close family ties to the minister and to the Liberal Party. Does the prime minister think its appropriate that the minister is awarding million dollar contracts to Liberals and his own family members?"
Arctic surf clam, prepared for sushi, is displayed at a fisheries industry event on Dec. 1, 2017. (Robert Short/CBC)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Conservatives should take it up with the ethics commissioner if they believe there has been some sort of impropriety.
"We understand that for the Conservatives, mud-slinging is just a way of doing politics and personal attacks is all they seem to have to go on, because it's really hard to attack us on the number one growth record in the G7 and the creation of 600,000 new jobs," he said.
"They stick with the ethical attacks, which is fine, but Canadians need to know we have a conflict of interest and ethics commissioner there to look into the facts of the matter and make determinations."
In his letter, Dion said he understands the matter is now before the Federal Court; one of the losing Indigenous bidders for the license, Miawpukek Mi'kamawey Mawi'omi First Nation, is asking a judge to quash the decision. He said his office will monitor developments and inform Doherty "in due course if any new information leads me to initiate an examination under the Act."
The surf clam license is worth tens of millions of dollars. The group will now have a quota for 8,924 tonnes of the seafood delicacy, which is harvested in the waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador and is often shipped to Asia for sushi.
Surf clam sales in the second quarter of 2017 hit $25 million.
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Commenting is now closed for this story. Terry R Avante
PM’s pal… says it all.
Ray Bungay
@Terry R Avante Ask some fishers in Marystown/Grand Bank . NL7L what they think of the Minister. Not nice.
David Allan
@Terry R Avante
"PM’s pal… says it all."
Except it's not the PM's pal.
Terry's ignorance... says it all.
"PM’s pal… says it all."
Except it's not the PM's pal.
Terry's ignorance... says it all.
Gary Walt
Investigating the ETHICS of the Libs is not possible............there is not one ethical Lib in all of Canada!
Richard Sharp
@Gary Walt
The Lib Cabinet is is intellectually, pragmatically and ethically superior to Harper’s bunch by a country mile. That Poilievre is on Scheer’s front bench speaks volumes about the lack of decent Cons who haven’t jumped ship.
The Lib Cabinet is is intellectually, pragmatically and ethically superior to Harper’s bunch by a country mile. That Poilievre is on Scheer’s front bench speaks volumes about the lack of decent Cons who haven’t jumped ship.
Keith Laughton
@Richard Sharp
As part of your claim of ethical behaviour by Mr Trudeau's cabinet you regularly quote public mandate letters as evidence.
This is a section included in the mandate letters of at least Mr Morneau and Mr Leblanc. It has the ring of a common section so I will assume that it is likely in all the mandate letters.
Mr Leblancs letter can be found here
https://pm.gc.ca/eng/minister-fisheries-oceans-and-canadian-coast-guard-mandate-letter
"As noted in the Guidelines, you must uphold the highest standards of honesty and impartiality, and both the performance of your official duties and the arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny. This is an obligation that is not fully discharged by simply acting within the law."
It seems that for at least these two Minister's the PM's instruction has fallen on deaf ears, and Mr Trudeau doesn't care.
So perhaps your ethics claim falls in the same realm. IE not worth the paper it is written on, or in this case, the server space it is saved under.
Regards,
As part of your claim of ethical behaviour by Mr Trudeau's cabinet you regularly quote public mandate letters as evidence.
This is a section included in the mandate letters of at least Mr Morneau and Mr Leblanc. It has the ring of a common section so I will assume that it is likely in all the mandate letters.
Mr Leblancs letter can be found here
https://pm.gc.ca/eng/minister-fisheries-oceans-and-canadian-coast-guard-mandate-letter
"As noted in the Guidelines, you must uphold the highest standards of honesty and impartiality, and both the performance of your official duties and the arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny. This is an obligation that is not fully discharged by simply acting within the law."
It seems that for at least these two Minister's the PM's instruction has fallen on deaf ears, and Mr Trudeau doesn't care.
So perhaps your ethics claim falls in the same realm. IE not worth the paper it is written on, or in this case, the server space it is saved under.
Regards,
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