tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post82352649702833370..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: This week in Con accountabilityAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-49647979234438877542007-04-04T10:13:00.000-07:002007-04-04T10:13:00.000-07:00Letter to Editor in G&M from Senator Joseph A. Day...<A HREF="http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070404/LETTERS04-3/Letters/commentLetters/commentLetters/1/1/12/" REL="nofollow">Letter to Editor in G&M</A> from Senator Joseph A. Day (no relation, I hope). He says the Senate tried to change a couple of provisions in the Accountability Act, but the government would not change them: one that would let the PM get secret reports from the ethics commissioner and keep the results secret, and one that ministers and senior officials need not report gifts from "friends" even if they might be seen to have influenced the exercise of public duties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-51649949463598443442007-03-27T08:25:00.000-07:002007-03-27T08:25:00.000-07:00Sounds like a plan ("banging") . . . Go for it!Sounds like a plan ("banging") . . . Go for it!West End Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05757317517075393438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-23837840467897224192007-03-27T06:05:00.000-07:002007-03-27T06:05:00.000-07:00"Can we start banging on about "13 months of Conse..."Can we start banging on about "13 months of Conservative corruption" yet?"<BR/><BR/>Given that and Holly's post, I'd say<BR/><BR/>"Yep"Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941875334878452635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-29570687630359180912007-03-26T23:07:00.000-07:002007-03-26T23:07:00.000-07:00It turns out even the budget spending on cervical ...<A HREF="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=e907d2c0-b186-4126-9a48-199165b4dd53" REL="nofollow">It turns out even the budget spending on cervical cancer vaccines has its seamy side</A><BR/><BR/>"...Even a seemingly benign feature in the budget -- a surprise $300 million for vaccine to prevent cervical cancer -- has provoked awkward questions. Ken Boessenkool, a Calgary-based consultant and former senior adviser to Harper, is a lobbyist for Merck Frosst Canada, the pharmaceutical giant that sells the only approved cervical cancer vaccine in Canada..."<BR/>Oh those lobbyists!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://liberalcatnip.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-conservatives-behaving-badly.html" REL="nofollow">That link was posted by liberal catnip, talking about more Conservative misbehaviour.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com