[ShepherdsDog]

Yet another potential scandal for the interm Martin administration.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national ... 09-29.html

[PluggyRug]

SSfunny...I was watching TV eating a mint (gotta love those Altoids) when this report on the mint ripoff guy appeared.

Can't keep up with the scandals anymore, seems like it's a daily occurrence.

PITY WE DON'T HAVE IMPEACHMENT.

Sorry for the caps guys, I'm just a little ticked off with all the shenanigans.

[ridenrain]

Nice payout and it's senator or ambassador Dingbat.


What timing.. Just heard on the radio that it's really up to the big Waffle himself, if Dingbat gets his pension or not. Well, what's it going to be?
(as if we didn't know)

[ridenrain]

Liberal minister John McCallum's doing some damn fine waffling over Dingbat's hush money.
video

.. so he get's the minimum.. by law? HAHAHA.
Who let those reporters in? Open bar for those guys!

[ridenrain]

Running the Mint is Like a
License to Print Money!
Just Ask Dave!


A specimen of the now-abandoned 'Dingwall Dollar.' Planned as part of a new series of bills to replace the current "Canadian Journey" set, the "You Expect ME To Pay For That?!" series was to have been dedicated to Canadian politicians and bureaucrats known for their love of expense accounts. Beginning with the 1000-dollar denomination bill (being re-introduced in order to 'save time'), the Dingwall Dollar depicts the former Mint CEO in front of his army of expense accountants. (The "Bank of Dave Dingwall" inscription is thought to have been an inside joke which would have been corrected on the actual currency.)

[Tory_canuck]

Let's send him our "own lttle severence Package".ABC (Already Been Chewed) gum in a brown envelope?An unwrapped stick of gum in a brown envelope? Dog Poopies in a brown envelope?

[Joe_Stalin]

Why the big hullabaloo?

In Uncle Joe's regime a faithful comrade serving the party always got paid handsomely.

People are never satisfied. Nitpick nitpick.

[ShepherdsDog]

Joe_Stalin Joe_Stalin:

Why the big hullabaloo?

In Uncle Joe's regime a faithful comrade serving the party always got paid handsomely.

People are never satisfied. Nitpick nitpick.

yeah, and the not so faithful got to pick which part of the forest their remains were hidden in.

[Scape]

[web]http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051003/ca_pr_on_na/dingwall_mint;_ylt=AtgQ5dsyuBi0D6UGjbzazG6FM1IB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl[/web]

The benefits of a minority government.

[themasta]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

SSfunny...I was watching TV eating a mint (gotta love those Altoids) when this report on the mint ripoff guy appeared.

Can't keep up with the scandals anymore, seems like it's a daily occurrence.

PITY WE DON'T HAVE IMPEACHMENT.

Sorry for the caps guys, I'm just a little ticked off with all the shenanigans.

Hehe, shenanigans...

[ridenrain]

Don't worry, Joe_Stalin. We're catching up as fast as we can.
Nice to see some reality peaking into the Liberal party. The optics of this are so smelly, it's no wonder that they are having trouble pulling it off.

[ridenrain]

CTV.ca News Staff

Former Liberal cabinet minister David Dingwall was a no-show before a Commons committee on Monday, when he was expected to give an accounting of his lobbying activities.

Dingwall, who resigned in September after questionable spending practices during his tenure as head of the Royal Canadian Mint, failed to show up at the committee on government operations and estimates.

His no-show may have spared the Liberals further scandal-tinged embarrassment on the eve of an election campaign.

But his absence angered opposition members enough that the committee voted 9 to 1 to issue a summons for Dingwall to show up at 9 a.m. today -- half an hour before Prime Minister Paul Martin is expected to visit Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean to request that she dissolve Parliament and call an immediate election.

"I don't care if we have to drag him here in handcuffs in the back of a paddy wagon," said NDP MP Pat Martin, who introduced the motion to issue the summons.

link

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ridenrain ridenrain:

Liberal minister John McCallum's doing some damn fine waffling over Dingbat's hush money.
video

.. so he get's the minimum.. by law? HAHAHA.
Who let those reporters in? Open bar for those guys!

Money for nothing,chicklets for free!

That was excellent.