From the Treasury Board Secretariat:
OTTAWA, April 11, 2006 – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government today introduced the proposed Federal Accountability Act to restore Canadians’ trust in government.
Treasury Board President John Baird introduced the Act in Parliament. An Action Plan was also released, which includes additional measures the Harper government will undertake in order to deliver on all its campaign commitments to clean up government.
The Action Plan, draft legislation, fact sheets, and other materials are available at www.accountability.gc.ca.
We shall see…
Gee, I don’t know. What if it works??! We’ve never had anything like this before. Does this mean that elected officials and others in government can no longer have free rein with our tax dollars? What the hell is Harper trying to pull? HONESTY, in government??? UNHEARD OF!! What’s next, getting tough on criminals?? They are poor misguided souls that have had a hard life and NEED to be coddled. REHABILITATED not PUNISHED!! I suppose you’re gonna try and tell me that he is also supporting our military! The LIEberals just about had them whittled down to nothing and now this Harper guy is looking at resurecting them?! Must be close to Easter or something! Next he’s gonna try and tell you he’s gonna lower the very popular GST by a percent or so! This is ALL unheard of and all I can say to that Harper guy is, … GOOD ON YOU!
Been waiting for this day since before the election writ was dropped.
It’s my favourite of the Big-5.
Thanks for the link.
I love the logo; Canada’s New Government
It is incredible to watch the difference and realize even more how bad the old gang was.
I agree. It is so refreshing to see new faces in government. It was way past time for a change (cleansing) in this country. It sure does make one wonder, what if this passes and it really works? I can not wait until the AG has these powers and get into INAD. I have a very funny feeling tht when this large task is undertaken it will make the sponsership and ad scam look like peanuts. It was reported in the Globe on April 8, that it is costing $50,000 per aboriginal family
per year (8 billion taxpayer dollars). Does anyone know of one aboriginal family that actually receives that kind of money? I think not. The only ones I see that are packing the cash it the elite chiefs with endless expense accounts! This is just my oppinion though. You are on the right track PM Harper!
I went & had a look at the link & yes Cornell you are right Canada’s New Government is already looking impressive, also read the PM’s message. I think the more we see of our new government & New PM that Canadian’s may feel that they are not getting fleeced anymore,Yes this is a start for a New Canada & Yes maybe just maybe now we can get trust back in government.
Happy Easter Everyone
As I type this I’m watching or PM dress down that pederast, the “leader of the opposition” in Parliament by announcing that the New Accountability Act has just been released.
Thank God we are rid of those squalid, lying, immoral & unethical Lieberals. GO STEPHEN!!!
Beware! The Librano$ are not yet dead; they are on their bellies, granted; however, seems they shedding/changing their skin.
This Liberal blogger is leery, lost, suspicious. Can you blame hims? +
Welcome to the Socialist Power Corp. Party of Toronto.
The daggers are out for AdScam Martin/Earnscliffe. +
April 10, 2006 – Regarding Bob Rae from this Globe and Mail article:
“Mr. Rae, whose campaign is headed by members of Jean Chr�tien’s inner circle, including his brother, John Rae, and Mr. Chr�tien’s closest policy adviser, Eddie Goldenberg, was accompanied in Edmonton by two of Mr. Chr�tien’s Western Canada organizers from the 1990 leadership race, Randy Pettipas and Raj Chahal.” +
http://www.tdhstrategies.com/home.html
it’ll be interesting to see if this passes the liberal dominated senate . i’m sure the whole sorry bunch of thieves , the senate and the opposition liberals , are consulting lawyers , the mafia , various small time criminals and a few communist dictators on how to block this without making themselves look bad.
Mighty decent of you William.
A little o/t fin.gc.ca (click on big red leaf – budget consult.) is looking for pre-budget submissions – consultations with ordinary Canadians:
Without restricting other comments you make, we would appreciate your views on the following questions:
What would you like to see in Budget 2006 and future budgets?
If you propose further tax cuts – or spending increases – where should the government spend less?
How can the government deliver programs more efficiently and effectively?
To place these questions in context, see the Minister�s Consultation Invitation.
Started Apr. 6 – Closes Apr. 19
It has to pass 3 readings and Senate Ratification. I believe nothing until that’s done. I admire Stephen Harper, I think the legislation is long over-due, and they could have made it even tougher, but Kudo’s for doing what they’ve done.
That said, there’s a nest of vermin called Senator’s, which have stated they intend to block the CPC at every turn…
Consider for a moment that Harper has placed Senate Reform on his list of things to do. Now consider that Liberal Senators, knowing they will most likely be out of a job come a majority Harper government, have zero to lose making his life miserable, and everything to gain (other than the respect of Canadians).
It’s lose/lose time for the Senate. They hold up CPC legislation, and the electorate will demand their heads. If they do nothing, Harper will take their heads anyway by reforming the Senate.
There’s more than one Senator who won’t give a shit because of that.
John D. There is one group in the Senate that you forgot to name: Media! I can’t find the information right now but a good portion of our Lib Senators are from journalism back ground. When I read this I was shocked. We all assume that someone in a postion of this kind of party would be lawyers, accountants but it is the reverse the major portion is from media.
re: fin.gc.ca
Oooh, I’m so writing a list for them. Not sure it will do any good, but then at least I have something I can send my MP, the local paper, email lists, forums, my blog, etc…
It’s a good exercise, if nothing else.
As a certified and chartered financial planner for my ostensible day job, I really like the bit about letting the Auditor General shine some long overdue light into the running of Crown Corporations, federal agencies and the like. It would be interesting to study the distortions they introduced into the marketplace.
Heavens, they will be required to KEEP RECORDS!! Almost of unheard of in the private sector, you know? How about the yapping of emails, like Scott Brison, on the income trust file as well?
Yep, sending emails from cabinet meetings to employees from banks always helps to ensure security!! Thanks to Scott Brison, for telegraphing insider trading information to who knows how many others? Has Ralph Goodale any further information he wants to make known for public consumption? (See Warren Kinsellas March 8th blog entry for the nitty gritty)
After all the market crap (eg Enron, Adelphia, BreX, and big fish like Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom infamy), that those involved in financial services have had to endure over the last number of years, you then find out that the government has joined the crooks!! I wonder how that Judy Wasylycia-Leis initiated SEC probe is doing, and whether they have taken Scott Brison’s statement yet?
Thanks to the LIEberals for helping out our profession by underscoring what a backwater we have become. Garth Turner might have a few choice words to offer on this issue as a former finance minister.
If this legislation doesn’t pass, it is then long overdue time for an expression of taxpayer discontent dubbed the analogue to the Boston Tea Party, the Canadian version:
“THE MAPLE SYRUP PARTY”.
The offending parties get doused with maple syrup, covered in avian flu bearing chicken feathers supplied by the CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce, and run out of town on a proverbial rail.
In the event the legislation does pass we still get a “Maple Syrup Party” only this time flapjacks get served instead.
The former government’s job description considering Adscam, gun registry, HRDC, (add your own boondoggles) had become “highwayman”.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank those “Responsible” for their “helpful consideration” of retired clients and investors.
If all concerned would have the decency to take a breath and give him some wiggle room we may find out the world will keep revolving. The Conservatives are going to make mistakes, how/if they handle it should be judged on election day. Can they really do any worse than the Liberals?
The whole (over)reaction by M.S.M., Supreme Court Judges (did you read about B. McLaughlin today?), Senators, etc., is starting to seem like ‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREWS’. I saw a G & M Columnist Sunday on CTV-QP, Gloria ?, who was embarrassed to admit Harper was doing so well…so far. I’ve seen and heard similair such comments.
Take a deep breath everyone, enjoy the season, plant some seeds (over@ fin.gc.ca) and hope for a good crop. If it all goes for he_ _, we’ll know how the farmers feel.
The late Giuseppe (Joe) Morselli will not be testifying. Ciao. +
Liberal Crime Syndicate
At a meeting in 2001 with Joe Morselli, Brault said that he arranged to have the meeting in an overheated room in a restaurant so that Brault could ask …
http://www.bcrevolution.ca/liberal_crime_syndicate.htm – 24k –
“Another section of the act hints that an inquiry might be called into the spending practices of a past Liberal government.
An independent adviser will be appointed for six months to look at public opinion surveying commissioned while former prime minister Jean Chr�tien was in charge, before November 2003, “and determine whether further action, such as a judicial inquiry, is required.” +
http://www.voy.com/178771/13115.html
V-Man, it’s like voting if you don’t do it , you’ve no business complaining about it. I also heard the P.M. say last week he wants to hear ALL ideas.
I predict the the NDP will add some small amendment to the FAA; then they’ll start calling it the NDP’s Federal Accountability Act, or the Ed Broadbent accountability reforms. Remember the NDP budget? Hopefully, the FAA will be more successful than that peice of legislation. Can’t wait, I’m gonna laugh my ass off the first time I hear it.
Just listened to Question Period, it is amazing the expectations from the various opposition.The conservatives have truly raised the expectation of results based i think on the solid progress that they have achieved in such a short time to date.
The Liberals are trying to find sleaze in the Conservatives and it is patheic coming from them, I am amazed they can keep a straight face when they ask the questions.
It’s heart-warming to see the CBC dismiss it as being so inadequate.
I just witnessed Judy W. (NDP) call Mark Holland and the Liberals hypocrites for criticizing the Cons. budget re: funding for education, municipalities, etc. He had the gall to say that was old news , the fact is we have a new gov. and we are discussing THEIR faults.
Ian said:
“The Liberals are trying to find sleaze in the Conservatives and it is patheic coming from them, I am amazed they can keep a straight face when they ask the questions.”
Wasn’t it the Hell’s Angels chapter out of
Toronto, criticizing our former PM Paul Martin as a “#%$##@)(** hypocrite”; last April 2005?
“Thu, April 7, 2005
It’s enough to make an Angel cry
By GREG WESTON — Sun Ottawa Bureau
You know that Paul Martin and his Liberal government have reached a true ethical milestone when even the Hells Angels are holding their noses at the stench of the Adscam fiasco.
The biker gang’s Toronto chapter is so peeved at the PM that it has adorned its website with a doctored photo of Martin, decked out in a bandanna, over the caption: “Pirate of Canada.”
What got the bikers’ leathers in a twist was Martin’s odd statement that the federal Liberals should not be tarnished by the “activities of a very small few who may have colluded against the party.”
The bikers fumed to us by e-mail yesterday, saying: “The government thinks it’s fine to blame every Hells Angel for the actions of a few … What a country this used to be. What a hypocritical pile of #&$* it is becoming.”
The Liberals losing the Hells Angels vote fit perfectly into a truly wacky week of Adscam in which parliamentary politics is verging on the theatre of the absurd.”
You know your country is in trouble when even the Hell’s Angels can’t stand the corruption.
If Hell’s Angels critique is a barometer of moral health in government, then truly we are deep in the shit.
Bring on the Accountability Act, it couldn’t happen too soon.
I like the Accountability Act, but why it the Minister left 30 loopholes that he promised would be closed during the election campaign? Hopefully that will get cleaned up when it gets debated and amendments are added. Also, it’s good to see the govt to get an advisor to start a inquiry about Chr�tien’s usage of opinion surveys prior to 2003. But what about former Prime Minister and Harper adviser Brian Mulroney, who received $300,000 in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. Mulroney testified in court while he was suing the federal government: “I had never had any dealings with him.” Nonetheless, the former Prime Minister was ultimately successful in his legal fight with Ottawa and was awarded $2-million of taxpayer dollars. We want that money back too! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, I say.
Did anyone hear about the PM taking his message directly to the people? They’ve set up some kind of sattelite signal or? to direct feed local TV,bypassing the MSM;they say in order to get the message to the people without the MSM adding their 2 cents worth. Fanastic! Any body know about this,just heard it on Mike Duffy.
Do you think MSM is learning how insignificant they are? I hope Cons never give in to them,watching MSM whine and try to be important to somebody,is the best reality show going!
Want to know what the best by-product to come out of the Accountability Act is?
Just ask a certain chretienite.
http://www.warrenkinsella.com/musings.htm
“I suspect that I, and quite a few others, intend to write to this independent advisor and offer whatever assistance and documents he or she requires. And, personally, I think a judicial inquiry is an excellent idea.
Chickens, time to come home to roost.”
The liberal civil war goes on as the gift that keeps on giving.
The only way this could get any better is if the leadership contenders line up condemning any investigation into the ad contracts in question.
The CBC labels Prime Minister Harper an “idiot”.
“An idiot’s guide”
Down with the CBC.
Cut their funding & allow the CBC to wither and die. +
CBC Ottawa
The federal accountability act: An idiot’s guide
CBC News – 19 hours ago
Robert Sheppard began his career at the Montreal Star (may it rest in peace), spent 22 years at the Globe and Mail and was recently senior editor at Maclean’s magazine. He has co-authored a book on the Canadian … +
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/20060411sheppard.htm
FAA says
“create the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to reside outside the Department of Justice (the Director will be selected in a manner similar to that used to make the most recent appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada);
give the Director of Public Prosecutions jurisdiction to conduct prosecutions for offences under federal jurisdiction, including new fraud provisions proposed under amendments to the Financial Administration Act;”
Which brings up – Can the new FAA prosecutor work with the New Jersey State prosecutor that has Alphonso Gaglianno under investigation pertaining to “being a made member of the Bonnanno crime family” ?
“and best practices for prosecuting cases of fraud involving governments, in collaboration with other jurisdictions in Canada and international partners.”
Pretty “Strong” wording!