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In a stroke of bad luck for Michael ignatieff he still  has disgraced racist candidate Andre Forbes running under the Liberal party banner . Because Mr. Forbes did not formally drop out elections Canada cannot take his name off the ballot. 




The Liberal leader booted Quebec candidate Andre Forbes from the party last week for once describing aboriginal people as “featherheads” and questioning their work ethic.


But Forbes did not pull out of the race and will remain a Liberal on the ballot in the northern Quebec riding of Manicouagan.


A spokesman for Elections Canada says the Liberals cannot run another candidate as long as Forbes’ name is on the ballot.




This should be a case study in why background checks are of paramount importance. In addition here is Forbes in his own words it is disgusting this man does not deserve to run for any public office.

Kevin Libin makes a couple good points here first that the media will sniff out any slight perception of conservative “scandal” and then pounds. In addition in the wake of the Giffords tragedy we cannot now afford to take any threat to a public official lightly. Finally a word to the wise we now live in the digital age where lives are literally being documented online so be careful what you put out there for public consumption it might come back and bite you in the rear end one day.


From National Post 
Izzy Hirji was “one of several hundred students who gathered outside a Conservative Party campaign event in Guelph to encourage his young peers to get out and vote — for whomever they wanted — in the upcoming election,” the Toronto Star informed us on Wednesday. He was part of a “peaceful” apparently “non-partisan” group that Hirji told the Star was merely a “democratic exercise” trying to get people politically engaged. He was kicked out in one of those supposedly heavy-handed and sinister purges we’re told are being routinely conducted by Conservative goon squads.


Except, Izzy Hirji isn’t just some enthused democrat looking to energize the electorate, whatever their political stripe. As the bloggers at The Black Rod were the first to point out this week, he’s one of Stephen Harper’s more, shall we say, animated critics. In 2006, he was so angry with the Tories’ climate change policies, he posted on the Facebook Enviro Club this comment:


“…stephen harpers plan is ridiculous, 40 years without results, and death to Kyoto!?!?!?! OMGWTF im ready to like go to Ottawa myself an take him down…”


I don’t know if Hirji meant to sound like a violent menace when he said he was “ready” to “like go to Ottawa” and “take him down”—Mr. Hirji responded to bloggers by insisting “it was a joke” and that he doesn’t think comments from five years ago should “come back to haunt me” (he’s also since deleted the post)— but for RCMP officers tasked with the safety of the prime minister, when someone who has published such threats shows up live and in person just yards away from a potential target, it’s necessary to err on the side of caution. Anyway, as the Black Rod points out, this wasn’t the end of Hirji’s anti-Tory agitation. In March 2008, he partook in a rambunctious protest in Guelph against Harper, in which protesters blocked a street and climbed up on the roofs of a building. For all his protestations about being non-partisan, Mr. Hirji also has a record linking him to active support for the Green party. Perhaps that alone isn’t a good reason to shoo him away from a Tory event — though, again, they are private — but it does cast a lot of doubt on his assertions that he was only there to get out the youth vote. After all, if you’re looking for apathetic university students, there are probably a lot better places to find them than at a campaign rally.

I am following up on a post I did last week on CBCs bias and Peter Loewen. Apparently some key facts of his political history were left out in the piece done on his involvement with vote compass. Sandy from crux of the matter has the rest of the story.


From  crux of the matter


While CompassVote may indeed be biased, that is not the point of this post. Rather, what is the point is that Peter Loewen has nothing to do with it if it is.


First, Loewen was NOT the Compass Poll creator. In fact, he wasn’t even on its development team. Yet, the headline on this Toronto Sun column by Brian Lilley states that Loewen was the “creator” of the poll and Lilley writes in his second sentence that Loewen was one of key people behind the development of the poll. As Loewen will explain himself in the e-mails to follow, he will simply be involved in analyzing and publishing the results after the election is over.  


Second, Loewen was not actually on the Ignatieff leadership team in 2006. Rather, for the most part all he did was carry out some research with Daniel Rubenson on the effects of communicating leadership candidate messaging via direct mail — hardly the stuff of partisanship.


Moreover, as University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan explains in his e-mails, Loewen also worked on the Stephen Harper leadership team in 2004 doing pretty much the same kind of thing as he did for Ignatieff,  as well as for Bill Black in the 2005-06 Nova Scotia PC leadership campaign. In addition, Loewen was a housemate of Pierre Poilievre‘s during university. So, the man is hardly a political partisan. 

 Maria Aragon singing O Canada at a conservative rally in Winnipeg. Whatever you think of her she is a genuine talent.

David McGuinty reignited the possibility of the liberals even if they lose forming a coalition with the other parties after the election.   Obviously the liberals have no problem with possibly signing a pact with socialists and separatists even if Canadians don’t want it. The only thing that is clear so far as this election has been driven  by one thing and one thing only opportunism.





To get a fuller picture go to this great post byTrusty Tory.