http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/27/ndp-s-senator-of-the-week.aspx
SENATOR OF THE WEEK: Raymond Lavigne – Most Expensive per days worked The average Canadian would have to work every day for two and a half years to take home the amount that Canada’s least active Senator charged for only two days of work. While Canadians are working harder and harder to make ends meet, Senator Raymond Lavigne showed up for work only twice last year. But he has a good excuse: the Liberal-appointed Senator is on leave while being investigated for “alleged use of Senate resources for personal gain.” (RCMP press release, 14 August 2007) And while these charges prevent Lavigne from working very much, they haven’t prevented him from putting taxpayers on the hook for $58,000 in office expenses and $47,000 in travel, on top of his $132,000 salary. Seems there’s no price too high for the constituents who never elected Canada’s least active Senator. Also in the top 10 highest spending Senators per day is Liberal Mobina Jaffer who charged $7,900 for each of the 41 days she attended. Coincidentally, Jaffer is also presently under investigation by the BC Law Society for over-billing.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Conservative MP refers to Unemployed as "No Good Bastards"
When is an apology not good enough? When it is insincere and when what the person really thinks has already been spoken. Nothing would please me more then seeing Conservative MP Keddy turfed from office and lose that cushy MP salary. The statement that the unemployed are "No Good Bastards" is unbecoming of someone who is going to cash in on gold plated pension plan for a few short years on the Conservative government dole.
These comments go inline with the thinking of Conservative MP, Human Resource Minister Diane Finley who believes that EI is lucrative. There is a time when those disconnected from the real world need a dose of reality. In this case, its the Conservative MPs. Diane Finley need not worry, her husband, a Conservative insider landed a cushy patronage appointment to the Senate and a big salary, a job for the rest of his life, and another gold plated pension plan. He is likely the guy behind those Conservative propoganda flyers put out in Phil McColemans name, paid for by the Canadian Taxpayer. Those 13% newly unemployed in Brant under Mr McColemans watch pay taxes and paid into EI. They too have been slurred by this Conservative MPs comments.
Thank your fellow Conservative MPs and Conservative Minister for publicly treating people like dirt.... those very people thrown out of work by Conservative governments sellout/oneside trade deals, weak economic policy and the inability to understand the engine that drives the Canadian Economy. This Conservative government in 2 short years diverted $8 Billion in EI surpluses away from the unemployed and gave the money to their pet projects and only under duress decided to put back a significantly smaller 900 Million over a 3 year period.
I wonder who 900,000 newly unemployed in 2009 consider to be the "No good Bastards"
Shame.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091124/national/tory_jobless_remark
These comments go inline with the thinking of Conservative MP, Human Resource Minister Diane Finley who believes that EI is lucrative. There is a time when those disconnected from the real world need a dose of reality. In this case, its the Conservative MPs. Diane Finley need not worry, her husband, a Conservative insider landed a cushy patronage appointment to the Senate and a big salary, a job for the rest of his life, and another gold plated pension plan. He is likely the guy behind those Conservative propoganda flyers put out in Phil McColemans name, paid for by the Canadian Taxpayer. Those 13% newly unemployed in Brant under Mr McColemans watch pay taxes and paid into EI. They too have been slurred by this Conservative MPs comments.
Thank your fellow Conservative MPs and Conservative Minister for publicly treating people like dirt.... those very people thrown out of work by Conservative governments sellout/oneside trade deals, weak economic policy and the inability to understand the engine that drives the Canadian Economy. This Conservative government in 2 short years diverted $8 Billion in EI surpluses away from the unemployed and gave the money to their pet projects and only under duress decided to put back a significantly smaller 900 Million over a 3 year period.
I wonder who 900,000 newly unemployed in 2009 consider to be the "No good Bastards"
Shame.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091124/national/tory_jobless_remark
Christmas Pot Luck
Christmas Pot Luck
Wednesday December 16th
12 Noon
Steelworker Action Centre
249 Murray Street
Brantford
FREE
USW, Crane, Genfast, Easton Coatings,
Cascades, Stellarc
anyone reading this is welcome
Bring what you can, drinks, plates, cups, food, deserts, and children :)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Garage Sale
Brant NDP
GARAGE SALE
Saturday, November 14th
8 AM - 2 PM
87 Varadi Street, Brantford
To donate items contact: Don Bowen at 519-753-7533
Items to be collected, please advise by: Thursday November 12th
Help to recycle and support the NDP as well
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
RECYCLE PHIL McCOLEMAN (BRANT NDP NOMINATION KICKS OFF TOMMORROW
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2159565
Brant New Democrats will nominate a candidate for next federal election at a meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the Brantford and District Labour Centre.
The only declared candidate is Marc Laferriere, a 28-year-old clinical social worker with Woodview Children's Mental Health and Autism Services.
He has collected endorsements from previous candidate Brian Van Tilborg, Don Guest, first vice-president of the Brantford District Labour Council.
Laferriere said he understands the dynamics of a successful campaign after having worked on two.
In 2008, he worked on the campaigns of New Democrats Bruce Hyer, now MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, and John Rafferty, MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River.
"I saw from start to finish how they were organized and carried off," said Laferriere. "We will be using a lot of what was learned there."
The Brant campaign has one early tactic ready to go. The team will kick off a "Recycling Phil McColeman" initiative, in which people will be invited to bring all their copies of mailouts and flyers to the nomination meeting and other events. Party workers will collect and recycle them.
Brant New Democrats will nominate a candidate for next federal election at a meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the Brantford and District Labour Centre.
The only declared candidate is Marc Laferriere, a 28-year-old clinical social worker with Woodview Children's Mental Health and Autism Services.
He has collected endorsements from previous candidate Brian Van Tilborg, Don Guest, first vice-president of the Brantford District Labour Council.
Laferriere said he understands the dynamics of a successful campaign after having worked on two.
In 2008, he worked on the campaigns of New Democrats Bruce Hyer, now MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, and John Rafferty, MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River.
"I saw from start to finish how they were organized and carried off," said Laferriere. "We will be using a lot of what was learned there."
The Brant campaign has one early tactic ready to go. The team will kick off a "Recycling Phil McColeman" initiative, in which people will be invited to bring all their copies of mailouts and flyers to the nomination meeting and other events. Party workers will collect and recycle them.
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