Campaign to be Ruby's nanny

Cuzzin E · May 6, 2009

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/628987

Alright, I gotta admit, I really want to be Ruby Dhalla's nanny... she can abuse me all she wants!

I would be standing there in a leather thong, checking out my superfresh linebeard in the mirror when she cracks the whip, calls me a useless sharmouk and orders me to cook her some curried goat. After dinner the handcuffs would come out...

Better yet, it can be a reality tv show.. compete to be Ruby's nanna! I would win that contest my friends, you not a chance

bjre · May 6, 2009

It is really simple, who want to do it, do it; who don't want to do it, leave and go.

Too many laws, too many tax dollars and time wasted in such meaningless things.

xul · May 6, 2009

It is really simple, who want to do it, do it; who don't want to do it, leave and go.

The allegations are not meaningless. To a politician, they are almost vital if they are proved by the investigation. Of course, she has presented her stories. Maybe people needs to see the result of investigation before makes any judgement.

Fast-rising Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla has become entangled in the nanny trap, with allegations two nannies hired to care for her mother were illegally employed and then mistreated.
The nannies also allege Dhalla improperly seized their passports and family members forced them to do non-nanny jobs such as washing cars, shining shoes and cleaning family-owned chiropractic clinics.

Oleg Bach · May 6, 2009

It is really simple, who want to do it, do it; who don't want to do it, leave and go.
Too many laws, too many tax dollars and time wasted in such meaningless things.

Nawh! I did not have a clue who this new and up coming liberal star was - I looked at a photo of Ruby..I can tell a lot by an image...you can tell by the breeding and general demenor - Ruby is an eastern elitist and not an opportunist - give it time and she will have you clean her toilet - she is arrogant and smug - and highly entitled...Do you really want this person having political control over YOU? Liberals create monsters..that's the very nature of maniplatory emotional liberal feel good policy.....Ruby is not nice ....and if she were in her nation of origin - she would need body guards to protect her from being attacked by the poor - those who resent usery.

Oleg Bach · May 6, 2009

A L S O : Ruby may be a Belinda Stronach wanna be...she could cross the floor at any moment..she's a social climbing kind of girl.. :lol:

Cuzzin E · May 6, 2009

- she is arrogant and smug - and highly entitled

So you are saying I have not a chance?

Topaz · May 6, 2009

Well, today, Rudy resigned and she did the right thing unlike two of the Tories guys last year that refused to! Talk about being arrogant... that belongs to the greater part of the Tories! So I guess from now to election day we will hear from the Tories about Rudy and Iggy's tax increases. I REALLY getting sicking topic, when every Tories stand up to answer a question and then throws in Iggy's tax increases.

Oleg Bach · May 6, 2009

You can not import a caste structure into Canada via a freshly elected politician - I guess our dear Ruby figured out that the Butto or Amelda Marcos style of rule will not be tolerated - she has to mature and adjust to a better level of social conciousness.. If she truely did resign today - it shows that even a lowly servant can take down a cruel master.....AND - Ruby will be welcomed back in time..once she has a change of attitude and understands this is NOT the sub-continent.

Remiel · May 6, 2009

That seems like an odd comparison to draw: Historically, Sikhism has rejected the caste structure in India.

M.Dancer · May 6, 2009

Well, today, Rudy resigned and she did the right thing unlike two of the Tories guys last year that refused to! Talk about being arrogant... that belongs to the greater part of the Tories! So I guess from now to election day we will hear from the Tories about Rudy and Iggy's tax increases. I REALLY getting sicking topic, when every Tories stand up to answer a question and then throws in Iggy's tax increases.

Excuse me Miss Roseanne Roseannadanna, but we are discusing Ruby Dhalla, not some fellow too small to play football.

Edited May 7, 2009 by M.Dancer

bill_barilko · May 7, 2009

Ruby, Ruby-when will you be mine! :lol:

Keepitsimple · May 7, 2009

Dhalla is an overbearing blabbermouth. On political shows like Don Newman and Power Play, she's a motor mouth who just won't shut up.

M.Dancer · May 7, 2009

Dhalla is an overbearing blabbermouth. On political shows like Don Newman and Power Play, she's a motor mouth who just won't shut up.

You wacth her with the sound on?

Why?

August1991 · May 7, 2009

You can not import a caste structure into Canada via a freshly elected politician - I guess our dear Ruby figured out that the Butto or Amelda Marcos style of rule will not be tolerated...

I wonder how many other Canadians, when they read this report, thought the same.

If all politics are local, then the true level of politics (in an HD world) is personal. Some people dislike Stephen Harper because he has cold blue eyes; others perceive Michael Ignatieff as a warm, benevolent father-in-law.

Ruby Dhalla is a public personality and so she clearly has a big ego. Does she have anything else?

Edited May 7, 2009 by August1991

robert_viera · May 7, 2009

My MP here in Barrie, Patrick Brown, was apparently involved in a failed scheme to get jobs for immigrants from Korea just prior to his becoming MP. The immigrants paid between $7,000 and $13,400 to an immigration firm called ULSC Immigration Consulting and Mr. Brown was apparently the person in Canada that was supposed to help them get high-paying truck driving jobs. According to an article in the Toronto Star, the jobs 'evaporated' when the Koreans got to Canada. Apparently an immigration consultant named Yolanda Simao picked-up the challenge of getting jobs for the Koreans when Mr. Brown "ceased being part of the picture", and wound up being reprimanded by her professional association. It was in Ms. Simao's disciplinarly file that I read about Mr. Brown's involvement. I guess Mr. Brown was too busy running for office to fufil his obligation to these immigrants? I wonder how much he got paid?

The Star article is here:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/226062

The disciplinary file is here:

http://www.csic-scci.ca/images/Image/2007-...l_%20080317.pdf

More comments and excerpts from the above documents are here:

http://forums.simcoemediagroup.com/yabb/Ya...?num=1221060075

Edited May 7, 2009 by robert_viera

Cuzzin E · May 7, 2009

Ruby Dhalla is a public personality and so she clearly has a big ego. Does she have anything else?

a nice rack!

M.Dancer · May 7, 2009

a nice rack!

And....

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3667/12...ministerdq0.jpg

madmax · May 7, 2009

It is really simple, who want to do it, do it; who don't want to do it, leave and go.
Too many laws, too many tax dollars and time wasted in such meaningless things.

Nonsense

madmax · May 7, 2009

The allegations are not meaningless. To a politician, they are almost vital if they are proved by the investigation. Of course, she has presented her stories. Maybe people needs to see the result of investigation before makes any judgement.

It would have been helpful if the Ontario Liberal MPPs had taken their complaints seriously instead of brushing them off. The fallout of this could be 1 LPC MP and 2 Ontario Liberal MPPs.

madmax · May 7, 2009

Well, today, Rudy resigned and she did the right thing unlike two of the Tories guys last year that refused to! Talk about being arrogant... that belongs to the greater part of the Tories! So I guess from now to election day we will hear from the Tories about Rudy and Iggy's tax increases. I REALLY getting sicking topic, when every Tories stand up to answer a question and then throws in Iggy's tax increases.

I don't expect the Conservatives to be honest or to answer a question without diversion. What this has done is ruined their credibility at a time when they need to deal with a serious matter. Losing her critics role merely means she gets to do less then she already does.

Edited May 7, 2009 by madmax

mikedavid00 · May 7, 2009

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/628987
Alright, I gotta admit, I really want to be Ruby Dhalla's nanny... she can abuse me all she wants!

I would be standing there in a leather thong, checking out my superfresh linebeard in the mirror when she cracks the whip, calls me a useless sharmouk and orders me to cook her some curried goat. After dinner the handcuffs would come out...

Better yet, it can be a reality tv show.. compete to be Ruby's nanna! I would win that contest my friends, you not a chance

You shouldn't make fun of a serious, tragic crisis like this.

To think that someone in this day and age, and with the privlegaes that woman has, could have human slave labour in her home is just sickening. I could never has a person ever bring myself to abuse other people the way she did. Even on vacation I'll get a drink myself or get my own towels and tell room service not to clean our room.

BUT to trap innocent human slaves, pay them 2.50/h, evade taxes, and withhold passports as a threat.. wow that's just SICKENING.

I doubt she'll bee going to heaven whe nshe dies.

mikedavid00 · May 7, 2009

The allegations are not meaningless. To a politician, they are almost vital if they are proved by the investigation. Of course, she has presented her stories. Maybe people needs to see the result of investigation before makes any judgement.

Lol..

So 2 women (and now a third) coming forward mean nothing to you?

What do you think an 'investigation' is going to say? Do you trust what the gov't is goingn to say and do?

2 women came forward and told what happened. I am certainly not going to dismiss their alligations just because they are phillipino.

mikedavid00 · May 7, 2009

I wonder how many other Canadians, when they read this report, thought the same
Ruby Dhalla is a public personality and so she clearly has a big ego. Does she have anything else?

She has human, slave labour to wash her car and clean her families chiropractor practice workingn 16 hours a day getting paid $2.50 an hour. The nannies lived in fear that they would get sent back home and didn't know who else to go to.

What an awful, dispicablel, thing for a human in the first world to do.

I get chocked up just thinking of how anyone as a human could take advantage of another person like that.

It's like the Dhalla's are barbaric animals IMO.

capricorn · May 8, 2009

It would have been helpful if the Ontario Liberal MPPs had taken their complaints seriously instead of brushing them off.

LOL. That's an understatement madmax. Let's recap. In a public forum, Peter Fonseca, the Ontario Minister of Labour, is apprised of a situation where provincial labour and federal immigration laws may have been breached. What does he do about it?

Fonseca heard the allegations during a meeting with nannies and caregivers in the constituency office of Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, and he told the group that they could call a 1-800 number to access ministry investigators.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2009/...377206-sun.html

If media reports are correct, that phone number Fonseca gave to the complaining nannies was not yet in service and would not be for another 2 weeks. No link yet on this detail.

Fonseca was in dereliction of duty and he should answer for it. In addition, these allegations were raised in Kathleen Wynne's riding and she simply let the matter slide. Is this the kind of representation she offers her constituents?

Your Ontario government working for you, eh?

The fallout of this could be 1 LPC MP and 2 Ontario Liberal MPPs.

I don't know if Dhalla is guilty of the accusations against her but I want answers. Fonseca and Wynne have to be brought to account for their mishandling of the nannies' complaints. I heard Bob Fife on Power Play say that the media will not let this matter drop until it is properly disposed of. The Toronto Star is to be commended for their investigative journalism in this sordid affair. There isn't enough of this type of digging done by the media in this country. Good on the Star for shining a light in the dark corners, regardless of how unappetizing are the findings.

capricorn · May 8, 2009

She has human, slave labour to wash her car and clean her families chiropractor practice workingn 16 hours a day getting paid $2.50 an hour. The nannies lived in fear that they would get sent back home and didn't know who else to go to.
What an awful, dispicablel, thing for a human in the first world to do.

I get chocked up just thinking of how anyone as a human could take advantage of another person like that.

It's like the Dhalla's are barbaric animals IMO.

Whoa Mikedavid these are allegations. Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

I agree with you that anyone who would treat another human being as chattel and a slave is despicable. Sadly, such situations do exist in our supposed morally superior society. This Dhalla episode serves to bring those travesties to the public's attention. Let's hope Parliament and the Ontario government act quickly to toughen the laws to protect vulnerable care givers from abuse.