Harper Regime Buries Conflict of Interest Report on Illegal Lobbying by PMO Insider
March 10th, 2012
Someone has to continue to bear witness on this, and it will be me.
We have now reached the three-month mark since it was reported that the Lobbying Commissioner and the Conflict of Interest Commissioner had both completed investigations into illegal lobbying by former Harper regime insider Bruce Carson, subsequently an oilpatch advocate and water purification system consultant. And not a peep of that report yet. Why?
One can only assume that the contents of the report were so inflammatory that the PMO has been busily working away these past three months rewriting the report so that it will be more to their liking.
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Dr.Dawg
Lobbying Commissioner, no?
Sixth Estate
Both, actually.
Sixth Estate
And an RCMP probe, to boot, again with no results.
Sam Gunsch
Theory: Informed citizenry might provide leverage.
Context:
MSM corporations laying off experienced investigative journalists.
Critical journalist receives McCarthyism treatment by Manning Centre for Building (not so much) Democracy
It’s cold out there.
Democratic emergency care: Blogosphere
Holly Stick
Maher himself thinks it was a misunderstanding and that he was not targeted for his recent reports:
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/03/10/it-really-was-a-misunderstanding-maher-says-of-eviction-from-manning-party/
Dr.Dawg
Sorry if I’m not keeping up, but from your link:
A separate conflict-of-interest investigation by federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson was quietly suspended in November pending the outcome of an RCMP probe into Carson’s affairs.
Did either of these actually complete work?
Sixth Estate
Reportedly the Lobbying Commissioner is done and the Ethics Commissioner “nearly done,” which I assume means the same thing.
One uses the police as an excuse. The other has none.
Nadine Lumley
Steve Harper, President, the Corporate Party of Canada
Harper’s not crazy. Crazy is just the front for corporate interests.
Harper’s Neoconservatism: This entire “hard right” movement is a crock. It is not a religious evangelist movement, **OR a moral movement. It is a corporate movement.
http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/2010/11/democracy-for-sale-and-my-epiphany.html
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From Emily Dee:
Saskboy
Ah, I didn’t understand this was about Carson from the title. I’m going to write about this too.
Bruce Carson Slipping Away? | Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff
[...] what to do has been largely ignored by the main stream media since December. Fortunately there are solid bloggers raising the issue before it dies, and Harper’s friend Carson slinks away [...]
Holly Stick
APTN hasn’t forgotten Carson:
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/03/22/aboriginal-affairs-changed-water-project-once-floated-to-bruce-carson/