Tie Domi and Belinda Stronach.

[Ricki Bobbi]

As a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, for a different party, this is the right forum for this.

It appears the rumours about Tie and Belinda have a little more support.

From his wife's affidavit filed in court last week.

Link here.

In the application, filed Sept. 18, the day before Tie Domi announced his retirement from the NHL, she alleges her husband’s ``intimate sexual relationship” with Stronach caused their marriage to deteriorate as well as his relationship with their three children.

[geoffrey]

It's no one's business. I can't believe people enjoy and get a kick out of watching lives destroyed. That's the media for you.

[M.Dancer]

I can't believe a woman who is supposedly quite sharp and who potentially has a political future would allow herself to be put in a position where her good name and reputation will be dragged through the mud in order to bed a sports bimbo.......

Will the sex tape be just around the corner?

[Shakeyhands]

why would anyone care? especially on this board.

[M.Dancer]

http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story....622&k=37636

[Renegade]

Looks like Tie and Leanne have settled!

Not sure what Tie was doing anyway, Leanne is much hotter than Belinda. picture

[geoffrey]

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[fellowtraveller]

Here's hoping that Leanne gets a lawyer that performs better with divorces than Domi performed as a hockey player.

[M.Dancer]

Looks like Tie and Leanne have settled!

Not sure what Tie was doing anyway, Leanne is much hotter than Belinda. picture

aynh...either or.....

[watching&waiting]

I really could not careless if Belinda was gang banging the whole hockey team, she is an adult and she has the right to say yes or no to who she sleeps with. But yes this will only bring attention to her political arena and it will make some people chose others, because they will vote on moral issues. Not that I think her riding is anything like the bible belt in the USA. Hell in some places this would gain her support. Also, it is quite possible that she is not involved with this, but from the reports it does seem more likely then not. I hope she thinks it was worth it. I am sure Peter Mackay will think he is glad to have dodged the bullet with her.

[jdobbin]

I am sure Peter Mackay will think he is glad to have dodged the bullet with her.

But now he's with another ballbreaker. Condi Rice. <heh>

[Topaz]

As its been said, why would she want to make this public? Revenge? I hear divorce can be nasty but if he is giving her money and still looking after the kids, why would she want to stay with someone that doesn't want her anymore? She should remember the good times and look for good times with someone else who wants to share a life with her.

[jdobbin]

In Winnipeg, Jets fans re-arranged the letters of his name to spell "Me Idiot" for the amount of selfish penalties he took.

[August1991]

It's no one's business. I can't believe people enjoy and get a kick out of watching lives destroyed. That's the media for you.

I disagree. It's Greek theatre, and Belinda has chosen to go on the public stage.

But Stronach did comment when asked if a man in her position would receive the same level of media scrutiny.

"I'd like to say in a country like Canada that there isn't but I do believe there is a double standard," she said. "It's very unfortunate for other women in this country that want to seek political office and make a contribution."

CTV

Nonsense. When Trudeau's wife ran off with Mick Jagger, everybody was laughing at Trudeau or sympathizing.

She also says the former Toronto Maple Leaf player told her if she did not hire a lawyer he would give her $1 million in cash and a $1.5-million house.

If she contacted a lawyer, however, she "would get nothing."

Hmmmm.

Then my favourite quote in the whole story:

She says she believes the relationship began when her husband started working on Stronach's political campaign in January, even though, "Tie had little to no interest in politics, and in fact, had not the slightest idea about political ideology," she says in the document filed in court.

[BubberMiley]

I really could not careless if Belinda was gang banging the whole hockey team, she is an adult and she has the right to say yes or no to who she sleeps with.

I missed that part of the story.

[newbie]

I am sure Peter Mackay will think he is glad to have dodged the bullet with her.

But now he's with another ballbreaker. Condi Rice. <heh>

Yep, and gone where no man has gone before.

[kimmy]

But Stronach did comment when asked if a man in her position would receive the same level of media scrutiny.

"I'd like to say in a country like Canada that there isn't but I do believe there is a double standard," she said. "It's very unfortunate for other women in this country that want to seek political office and make a contribution."

CTV

Nonsense. When Trudeau's wife ran off with Mick Jagger, everybody was laughing at Trudeau or sympathizing.

Back when I first joined the forum, I wrote about how I thought Belinda.ca received a type of scrutiny that most politicians don't face. Otherwise-serious articles covering her press conferences would describe her hairstyle, her makeup, the height of her shoes' heels, the color and cut of her clothes, whether she was wearing skirt or pants... as if scrutinizing her fashion choices was an integral part of scrutinizing her message.

And, of course, her personal life. She's a young, single, fairly attractive, high profile Canadian politician... and her personal life has been a target of the tabloids since she entered politics.

Peter MacKay is a young, single, fairly attractive, high profile Canadian politician... and the press never said a word about his personal life, at least until he became involved with Belinda.

However, in this case, I have no sympathy for her at all. This isn't a double standard. Stronach's nationally famous, Domi is nationally famous, and even if this affair weren't at the center of Domi's divorce proceedings, it would still be fodder for the celebrity gossip pages just because of the fame of the principles. And, Stronach should ask her friend Bill Clinton if he thinks that her indiscretion has received more publicity than a male politician's would have.

Then my favourite quote in the whole story:

She says she believes the relationship began when her husband started working on Stronach's political campaign in January, even though, "Tie had little to no interest in politics, and in fact, had not the slightest idea about political ideology," she says in the document filed in court.

Something else that I wrote about Belinda.ca back in my early days on the forum is that she would have a unique ability to get apolitical people interested in politics. And, I think I've been proven right.

-k

[Borg]

Ah yes. The missus stays home and raises the kids. Dad goes out and tomcats around.

I suspect Belinda has done a little tomcatting of her own.

Money allows so much more excitment - and it allows one to pretty much do as one wants - and screw the rest.

Sad story all round.

Borg

[jdobbin]

Most sex scandals tend to get a big yawn from Canadians.

The National Post has the details.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/st...4c1&k=77641

[PocketRocket]

*YAWN* Sorry.......you were saying????

[scribblet]

The Tie/Belinda Thing isn’t really peripheral to the conservative’s electoral chances in the next election, but I imagine the pundits in the Tory war room are salivating at the juicy targets being thrown up by the Libs.

The most damning statement BS made was- that there is a double standard - as if she were she a man this whole thing would have been ignored – really? Are the Fiberals so divorced from reality as to actually believe this sh*t ? If B.S were a man, a billionaire politician who knowingly carried on an affair with a married woman, while her spouse was home caring for their kids, I would like to think that the other men in his caucus would turn their backs on him.

She is showing a fundamental lack of judgment, not to mention lack of respect for the instruction of marriage and is certainly exhibiting a character flaw that makes her, IMO unsuitable as a politician and role model. She, and others like her, obviously care nothing about the abandoned children and the wronged spouse.

This type of person is not someone we should want to represent us in Parliament, nor anywhere else and is certainly relevant to political discussion.

[Hicksey]

I think the two deserve each other.

I have no respect for a person that cheats on their spouse. It only proves that their word means nothing. If you want out, end it with integrity -- and then move on.

Stronach pulled the same thing politically.

I don't see them lasting. As soon as it is expedient, or another better (at least it will seem so at the time) opppotunity presents itself one will leave the other as they have in the past.

IMO once a person cheats once they sell out their credibility and are no longer to be trusted.

[Rovik]

I have no respect for a person that cheats on their spouse. It only proves that their word means nothing. If you want out, end it with integrity -- and then move on.

Stronach pulled the same thing politically.

And do you believe that David Emerson also did the same thing politically?

Harper could have really started the ball rolling if he introduced legislation banning MPs crossing the floor (as the NDP proposed and even mentioned during the Leadership debates during the last election,) and betraying the constitutents that voted them in. If these MPs wanted in with another party, then they would have to resign and run again in a byelection or general election (if it was close enough.)

Most people say that Stronach crossing over to the Liberals and Emerson to the Conservatives was wrong, yet nothing has been done to prevent it happening again in the future. If Harper and the Conservatives were serious about cleaning up parliament, this would have been huge step in the right direction.

[BubberMiley]

I have no respect for a person that cheats on their spouse.

I have no respect for a person that makes sweeping generalizations about people while sticking their nose into business that isn't their own.

[uOttawaMan]

Good game Tie you pimp.