tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post4464269746726916918..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Jean-Pierre Kingsley and the Education of Pierre PoilievreSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-60299553887745684312014-03-27T00:46:40.321-04:002014-03-27T00:46:40.321-04:00hi anon...yes I think it's safe to say that JP...hi anon...yes I think it's safe to say that JP will not look back fondly at this unfortunate episode, this farce. If he hadn't read the report line by line he should have withheld his judgement until he had. You know, I can't grade it until I read it all. And giving it such a good grade without having done that, and playing into the hands of the Cons, is simply unforgivable... Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-53149856131970683632014-03-27T00:41:25.202-04:002014-03-27T00:41:25.202-04:00k, simon- but not even 'the frontenac camp'...k, simon- but not even 'the frontenac camp' ??--i did know the staff well, some time ago- (because family visits) and they're... ok...it is Club Fed in the con-bubble, after all ;)<br />the zoo would be a damn sight better imo anyway- than the animals from the wild, jailed- eh?<br />(...i sometimes wonder how darwin is, you?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-35268664786539322672014-03-27T00:37:28.734-04:002014-03-27T00:37:28.734-04:00hi thwap...when I first read about Kingsley's ...hi thwap...when I first read about Kingsley's absurd grading exercise I honestly wondered whether he was angling to get his old job back. And I certainly wasn't impressed by the way he blamed it all on the media, when he should have known that the Cons would use his remarks as propaganda. As for Elections Canada I don't know what to think. I'm frustrated by the lack of progress on the robocall scandal. But in their defence they lack the powers to compel people to testify, powers they asked for but didn't get. And Mayrand, the Harper appointee, shredded Poilievre's arguments like a wood chipper. Also, there must be many in Elections Canada who are now probably nursing a grudge, so I'm hoping that extra motivation might cost the Cons one day...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-78975050721888034962014-03-27T00:23:02.156-04:002014-03-27T00:23:02.156-04:00hi anon...I'm pretty sure they are sharp, but ...hi anon...I'm pretty sure they are sharp, but in all the wrong ways. The kind who use their skills to get around laws rather than uphold them, and who check the sense of decency at the door, in their zeal to turn the insane commandments of the fanatics in the PMO into ugly reality. Or in short...as you put it..skunks...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-43244875836837409112014-03-27T00:16:25.398-04:002014-03-27T00:16:25.398-04:00hi liberalandlovingit....I'm afraid we will no...hi liberalandlovingit....I'm afraid we will not get the answers our democracy requires until we defeat them, and launch a massive inquiry into their no doubt many illegal activities. However, when they are convicted I suggest they be confined in a zoo rather than a penitentiary because I very much doubt that they can be rehabilitated. And better safe than sorry... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-49711400486612039432014-03-26T12:16:38.175-04:002014-03-26T12:16:38.175-04:00I saw the interview of JPK with Solomon on P&P...I saw the interview of JPK with Solomon on P&P yesterday. JPK appeared defensive and belligerent when asked about his updated views. He seemed to be saying that it was Solomon's fault that he had asked him for a grade so he had come up with A-. <br /><br />It would have been a lot better if JPK had admitted he made a mistake and had given his opinion before he had read the bill in detail (he admitted yesterday that he had not read the bill "line by line" before he had graded it). Althia Raj had opined to Mansbridge on CBC that she thought JPK had not read the bill carefully and it now appears she was bang on.<br /><br />My opinion of JPK has fallen as a result of this. JPK's apparent belligerence suggested that he did not recognize the harm he had done when he had given the Cons, and even Andrew Coyne, ammunition for saying that the bill was not as bad as others had been saying it was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-49754442887097267202014-03-26T11:01:58.940-04:002014-03-26T11:01:58.940-04:00I hadn't read the legislation yet, but I was p...I hadn't read the legislation yet, but I was pretty damned sure that Kingsley was speaking too early. The stuff Poilievre emphasized sounded reasonable, but I knew the devil would be in the details.<br /><br />I believe Kingsley had a hand in stifling genuine democracy in Haiti a few years back. I've lost a lot of respect for the entire edifice of Elections Canada in the past few years.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-70440532592009699192014-03-26T10:10:57.431-04:002014-03-26T10:10:57.431-04:00The corporate conservative lawyers who wrote this ...The corporate conservative lawyers who wrote this stinker should have looked left and should have looked right before allowing this legislation attempt to cross the Trans-Canada. These folks are obviously not the sharpest tools in the shed.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejelYnVI3U<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-40776115349759694512014-03-26T09:00:20.278-04:002014-03-26T09:00:20.278-04:00all i can think is- SH is nuttin but a third-rate...all i can think is- SH is nuttin but a third-rate tin-pot arms dealer with lawyers guns and money for friends--a question i ask every day--where in tf was the vaunted 'professional' voice from on high--when the decision to listen to the drug-addicted, power-mad, vote-buying, goodness-be-damned shells of human beings-was approved--it happened on someones watch. WHERE??? They need segregation and rehabilitaion. At Milhaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com