09 November 2006

Following the money

CBC Radio started on Thursday with a story on political donations to the provincial Progressive Conservatives.

Offal News picked up the thread and expanded on it.

Meanwhile the New Democrats have been silent on the GRAP deal and the Liberal Opposition is struggling to figure out what the fuss is about, as evident from fumbling releases like this one.

Try and figure out why the fonts change and the "@" symbols are all over the one from Roland Butler before you begin searching - in vain - to find out what the heck he was questioning back in September 2005.

Then there's this one...same formatting problems that mar its delivery followed by a pretty bland news release about Fishery Products International.

Huh?

Someone needs to check the links.

The best one of all is the November 6 effort from Gerry Reid. The "news" in this release? That he has received a bunch of e-mails critical of the GRAP deal.

Yawn.

And that they are telling him something is afoot here.

Yep. There is a problem. We dunno what it is or what it is all about, apparently, but we gots mail.

At the end, Reid concedes the decision is popular in the business community (he obviously has no contacts in the business community) and pledges that - for all those people wondering why the Opposition hasn't been on this already - they will get around to it when the House opens.

Backside. Dark. Flashlight. Both hands.

Do the math.