Harper STILL has not complied with Chief Electoral Officer request

[Ricki Bobbi]

That doesn't even make sense Ricki.

How does the logic of a vote cast in the last election equate to the logic of Buckler's words?

Please step up your game a little bit, I shouldn't have to point out idiot stuff like that.

Must you insult me and my *idiot* stuff?

You didn't make anything clear about the "lack of logic" being strictly applied to Buckler's words in this case.

Given that you attack everything Harper does, you clearly take issue with those who boted for him.

[gerryhatrick]

That doesn't even make sense Ricki.

How does the logic of a vote cast in the last election equate to the logic of Buckler's words?

Please step up your game a little bit, I shouldn't have to point out idiot stuff like that.

Must you insult me and my *idiot* stuff?

You didn't make anything clear about the "lack of logic" being strictly applied to Buckler's words in this case.

Given that you attack everything Harper does, you clearly take issue with those who boted for him.

Answer the question Ricki.

How does the logic of a vote cast in the last election equate to the logic of Buckler's words?

[Ricki Bobbi]

Answer the question Ricki.

How does the logic of a vote cast in the last election equate to the logic of Buckler's words?

You are assuming there is logic in your words. Unfortunately only you can see it.

You didn't make anything clear about the "lack of logic" being strictly applied to Buckler's words in this case.

Given that you attack everything Harper does, you clearly take issue with those who voted for him.

[watching&waiting]

RB. just let him go off on his dilusional rants and ignore all he says. Everyone on this site knows he does not have any sense in anythign he says, and the only thing that will stop him is completely ignoring him. You can teach the young and the willing, but teaching the insane, that is just best left to the professionals. Let it go and this will die eventually and if we are all lucky he will leave and not come back.

[Ricki Bobbi]

RB. just let him go off on his dilusional rants and ignore all he says. Everyone on this site knows he does not have any sense in anythign he says, and the only thing that will stop him is completely ignoring him. You can teach the young and the willing, but teaching the insane, that is just best left to the professionals. Let it go and this will die eventually and if we are all lucky he will leave and not come back.

Probably a good idea. I'll put him on ignore for a while. Wait till he finds a new victim to attack.

[gerryhatrick]

Answer the question Ricki.

How does the logic of a vote cast in the last election equate to the logic of Buckler's words?

You are assuming there is logic in your words. Unfortunately only you can see it.

I didn't mention my words. You're not even following the discussion, you're just here to troll and bait.

[gerryhatrick]

A recap of the topic:

Federal elections officer disputes Tory defence of donations

Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley repudiated Tuesday all the arguments Conservatives have used to justify their party's failure to disclose up to $1.7-million in donations.

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Treasury Board President John Baird, the Harper government's point man on ethics, and Conservative party brass have maintained that the fees did not constitute donations because they simply covered the costs of staging the convention, which did not turn a profit.

Mr. Kingsley bluntly demolished that argument.

“Profit's got nothing to do with it,” he told the committee.

Under the Elections Act, Mr. Kingsley said: “A fee paid to attend a political event of a registered party amounts to a contribution to the party except where the attendee receives some tangible benefit having a commercial value.”

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Only two weeks ago, Conservative executive director Michael Donison explicitly told the same Senate committee that his party had complied with Mr. Kingsley's request.

“Yes, we have . . . We are dealing with Elections Canada on that matter and we will comply with whatever requirements they have,” Mr. Donison said.

However, Mr. Kingsley told The Canadian Press that he has yet to receive the convention books.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/National/home

So what we have there, undeniabley, is a claim from the CPC executive director Michael Donison telling the Senate committee that his party has turned over what Mr. Kingsley asked for. The same committee that Kingsley tells he has not received the books asked for.

And after all that we have this happening:

A senior Tory official said he would not send Kingsley the books because the matter was being handled by the commissioner of Canada elections, who investigates complaints.

"The Liberal party chose to escalate this matter into a complaint to the commissioner," Michael Donison, the party's executive director, said in a letter released yesterday.

"(This) is why Mr. Kingsley's office has not received, and will not be receiving, information from us on this matter as we are dealing with the commissioner's office, exactly where the Liberal party placed the matter."

Oh, well, nah nah boo boo to Mr. Kingsley I guess. Except that:

However, the commissioner reports directly to Kingsley, who stated unequivocally on behalf of Elections Canada that the information was not provided.

And on the same day:

''This issue is before the commissioner of Elections Canada,'' said Sandra Buckler, the prime minister's director of communications. ''We have supplied what they've asked for. If the commissioner of Elections Canada rules otherwise, then we will comply with the ruling.''

If they've supplied what was asked for how on earth would the commissioner of Elections Canada rule otherwise?

[gerryhatrick]

Still waiting.....

Less than three years since they came into effect, however, the governing Conservative Party, born in part of the former Reformers, is engaged in a ridiculous standoff over semantics with Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley. It's a debate that only a lawyer could love. Moreover, it's offensive in its blatant effort to flout the spirit of the new Elections Act.

At the heart of the debate is the $1.74 million the Conservatives took in from delegates to its policy conference last year. Delegates paid upwards of $600 to attend but, remarkably, the Conservative's accountants tried to avoid declaring the funds since most went to offset the costs of the convention, they argued. Kingsley disagrees and recently told a Senate committee the Conservatives are still refusing to comply with a June order to turn over their ledgers.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news...4a-4c9a4d771f93

This is a Sept. 22 story. I wonder if Harper thinks it will just go away if he keeps delaying?

[gerryhatrick]

Ah hah, I just found it. Turns out the CPC has handed over the books as of September 21.

After the pressure was on they coughed it up.

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?...lative/&c=1

Now we wait to hear the ruling.