After months of casting about desperately to blame someone else we’ve fallen back to blaming everyone else.
Well, that’s alright then. And here everyone was worrying about the mayor of Canada’s largest city being an irresponsible douchebag or something!
Which of us has not accidently smoked a little crack during one of our drunken stupors? He was only unlucky in that someone videotaped it. My house rule is that all cell phones go into a box by the door for just this reason.
Really, any other rule would be foolish.
‘One of’ his drunken stupors? I had long assumed it was just one continuous drunken stupor…
“I did that but it was during one of my drunken stupors” is going to be my stock excuse for absolutely everything from now on.
Good plan!
Hey! I’d like to see you maintain a multi-year drunken stupor without fortifying yourself with crack! Though I’d think that meth would have been better for this purpose.
Who knows? Maybe there has been meth hid in his madness…
As Prince Harry found, the last time he visited Vegas…
Well at least no one is joking about Mel Lastman and snow in winter anymore.
Pamela Wallin’s comments are interesting.
“It’s a sad day for democracy” she says!? What definition of democracy does she ascribe to?
The Senate debated the motion for over 2 weeks then held a vote to suspend her. The result was 52 yeas, 27 nays, and 12 abstentions (including her own) Isn’t that as close to the Senate being a “democracy” as you can get?
Secondly, she wasn’t “democratically” elected to the position in the first place.
This is why I’m glad that the motion was to do everything but kick them out, of I am concerned that if they were kicked out it would cause a constitutional crisis, and if it were found to be permissible in law (because the Senate is supposed to have control of itself), it would set a very bad precedent, for should the Senate become and elected senate, it would give the majority party the ability to toss out elected minority party members.
I’m sure someone will be able to come up with some kind of cocaine/snow joke :D.
I’ll give this the “Groan of Recognition” it deserves. 
What are you trying to do, bring logic and rationality into this?
What astounds me in this Senate horseshit is that reporters who have spent their lives digging up dirt like this would think they could get away with it themselves. You’d think they’d know the value of perception.
I keep thinking that, too - Duffy especially. Wasn’t he the Parliament correspondent for decades?
Except part of their argument is that the rules have been so loose that they thought they were in compliance with them; that the rules were tightened up a few years ago and that they’re being judged under the newer rules, not the old ones.
I have no idea if that’s true or not, but it bears investigation. Their argument is that the PMO just wanted to get rid of an embarrassment and has leaned on the Tory senators to do the expulsion, without a full investigation.
I agree.
My thought is… how much do they really know about they’re own accounting practices? I can’t picture a senator sitting alone in their office at month’s end, sorting through receipts, tabulating all their expenses, filling out mileage claims, etc…
Am I wrong to assume that they employ someone who takes care of all the mucky-muck paperwork such as taxes, bills, expense claims, etc…? Say, someone who knows all the ins and outs, rules and regulations, and is experienced in such matters?
I can however, picture someone presenting them with reports, paychecks, expense claims, etc. to sign. I can also imagine someone advising them on how it is possible to claim the living expense allowance by suggesting a means to make them eligible.
“Don’t worry about it.” “You’re not the only one, everyone does it” “They’ve been doing this for years” “They’d have to go back and investigate eveyone.”