The story is slowly oozing out
Raitt reportedly criticizes colleague on tape
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt reportedly makes "disparaging remarks" about a cabinet colleague in a tape recording that is part of court fight in Halifax.
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper is in court fighting an attempt to block it from publishing details of the recording.
Details of the case are under wraps for the moment, but Liberal MP David McGuinty told the House of Commons that Raitt reportedly describes Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in the tape as "not very competent."
"The minister has a opportunity to tell us more about this," McGuinty said Monday, asking Raitt to state "loud and clear and unequivocally" that his information was untrue.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson rose to answer for Raitt, re-stating the government's position that it was not a party to the court action in Nova Scotia.
Sources said Raitt's former press secretary, Jasmine MacDonnell, is seeking an injunction to keep the tape from becoming public.
They said the tape was left on accidentally after recording an interview with journalists, and captured private comments by Raitt.
The NDP demanded to know who is paying MacDonnell's lawyer.
McGuinty said the internal squabbling is undermining the confidence of Canadians at a time when the shutdown of the Chalk River, Ont., nuclear reactor is creating a shortage of medical isotopes.
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"Sources said MacDonnell, who resigned last week after another gaffe, left her tape recorder in a House of Commons washroom weeks ago and it eventually made its way into the hands of an Ottawa-based reporter for the Chronicle-Herald."
Nuh. She left secret documents at ctv and she left her tape machine in the bathroom!!?
If true she deserved to be fired.
One has to wonder how the Chronicle Herald came to have the tape and why McGuinty knows everything that's on it even though it has been kept from the public. This is starting to sound like a Dhalla revenge hatchet job.
The Ethics Committee left it to the appropriate authorities to deal with Dhalla, one has to wonder about the way Ms. McDonnell tends to leave things behind for others to find, as well as being the daughter of a prominent Iggy fund raiser.
Liberals haven't learned a thing.
As Gomery said they are "criminally organized".
Now where do you suppose that missing $40 Million from Adscam is?
Have the Liberals been using an inordinate number of brown paper bags lately?
"McGuinty knows everything that's on it even though it has been kept from the public"
- Uhhh no, actually the details have been reported in several news stories long before McGuinty mentions it.
"This is starting to sound like a Dhalla revenge hatchet job"
-are you serious??? ROFL!! Out come the conservative foil hats...
As Gomery said they are "criminally organized"
- this is a lie. Gomery never said this about the liberal party.
Now where do you suppose that missing $40 Million from Adscam is?
- Yawn. Individuals and corporations responsible were prosecuted and tried. Provide verifiable proof that the party actually took the money...put up or shut up, bub. By the way, Any ideas on where I can get a $1m insurance policy, or how to get TV ads for a few $M, or how about $1Bn worth of lumber, but then again I'm $55Bn short...can you spare a few bux, buddy?
- Have the Liberals been using an inordinate number of brown paper bags lately?
They would surely have asked your vaunted Mulrooney for a few spare ones he has lying around. But only at hotel rooms where Grewal wasn't around Taping things....
Con Trolls....like shooting fish in a barrel.
Anon@7:01
You never read the transcripts or the reports from the Gomery Inquiry obviously, though not surprising being that you do support a "criminally organized" political party.
"You never read the transcripts or the reports from the Gomery Inquiry obviously, though not surprising being that you do support a "criminally organized" political party."
- Again, it is a lie. Gomory never said that about the liberal party. I could talk about paying off people for votes, the in & out scandal, or other CRIMINAL methods DIRECTLY connected to the CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA - but that would just be too easy. Nice try conny troll. but enjoy your conservative toaster (costs 3 times as much as any other, burns toast, and denies it did anything wrong)
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