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BC Tory candidate faces charges of smuggling


VANCOUVER -Jan 12- Confusion and controversy swirled around Conservative candidate Derek Zeisman on several fronts yesterday, even as Mr. Zeisman struggled to recover from serious injuries suffered in a B.C. highway accident last month.

The most serious matter was a report on CTV News that Mr. Zeisman, who is running for the Conservatives in the province's Southern Interior riding, is facing smuggling charges that could land him in jail.

Conservative campaign organizers were caught off guard by the report, which said Canadian Customs officials have charged Mr. Zeisman, 33, with trying to smuggle 112 containers of alcohol across the U.S.-Canada border in a Mercedes and lying about it.

"This is the first anyone has heard of this," Colin Metcalfe, Conservative communications co-ordinator for B.C., said late yesterday.

"We don't have the full story. Supposedly, there are charges. I'm told they are not criminal but administrative in nature, and he has a lawyer dealing with them."

However, Mr. Metcalfe said all candidates for the party go through a thorough screening process "and they should be forthcoming with their history."

Yesterday, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper told reporters that he was not personally involved in the party's screening process for candidates. "My understanding is that it's supposed to look into criminal backgrounds," he said in Fredericton. "We obviously rely on candidates to be forthcoming with information as well."

From his hospital bed, Mr. Zeisman told CTV News that he expects to be exonerated. "The customs people overstepped their bounds."

At the same time, Mr. Zeisman is under criticism for the Dec. 20 highway collision that has sidelined him during the campaign, as he recovers from a fractured pelvis, a broken femur, three broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

The candidate was driving from Trail to Castlegar in British Columbia when his sport-utility vehicle struck another SUV driven by a woman, who has not been identified.

A letter to the editor written by June Campbell of Rossland, B.C., published in the Trail Times yesterday raised questions about the cause of the accident. It also criticized Mr. Zeisman's campaign team for ignoring the plight of the other driver, a single mother who remains on crutches and away from her nursing job.

"Not one [of them] has ever shown one bit of interest, remorse or concern for his innocent victim," Ms. Campbell wrote.




hehehehe...........another fair and honest politician.....NOT.....time to check on the rest of these so called " I care about the canadian people " politicians...........spread the word, there may be more out there...........elect a crook to replace a crook

Harper dumps B.C. candidate facing charges<br />
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<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060112/derek_zeisman_update_060112/20060112?s_name=election2006">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060112/derek_zeisman_update_060112/20060112?s_name=election2006</a>

I agree....this smuggler of good American booze past the iron curtain into Communist Canada withoot paying duties should NOT be allowed to represent a party that is making attempts to clean up a corrupt federal government Liberal/NDP alliance (Sven? Oh, Sven? Did I hear Sven Robinson calling?). Good for that Harper guy. He had the balls to give him the boot instead of hiding him in an office with a fat payroll somewhere with a promise of silence (did I hear Gagliano calling?). He shouldn't be allowed to run for office representing a group of people who wish to stand on their principles, and don't want to beknown for the same kinds of things as THESE people (below) are known for...

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Apparently Montreal, Quebec born/raised Jack Layton's idolized Communist Party hero Pierre Trudeau was but the beginning of an era...

* In 35 of the past 37 years, Canada has been ruled by:
(1) Pierre Trudeau - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(2) Brian Mulroney - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(3) Jean Chretien - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(4) Paul Martin - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.

* ALL of the above financed/backed and firmly implanted into the office of Canadian Prime Minister by the Desmarais family owned, Communist/Liberal Party affiliated *Power Corporation of Canada* for whom they worked.

* Remember, Jean Chretien was Trudeau's Finance Minister. Remember also, Paul Martin was Jean Chretien's Finance Minister.

Borrowed (quoted) from a friend. Thanks friend!

How fast you people in British Columbia forget NDP Glen Clark, NDP Bingo Gate and Bill Vander SLAM. Please do not limit corruption to only two parties all three are well versed in how to rip the Canadian tax payer off.



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Good government is not a party government

Harper dealt with it very promptly. Svend, Martin and others should take note.

It appears that someone changed the topic here but I would like to comment on the original post.

The topic is whether the Liberals are progressive. There is no simple answer here because there are progressives in the Liberal Party but it appears that today they have been marginalized. In fact the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives are all trying to capture the progressive label. The question is: Why?

The mainstream parties seem to be trying to define the term in their own image because so many Canadians consider themselves progressive. The Conservatives who eagerly rejected all progressive values are now trying to recapture the name if not the reality. The Liberals who have marginalized their progressive wing are doing the same.

Only the NDP has any policies that could be described as progressive but even that party has moved largely away from it advocacy for better opportunities and instead focused its policies at treating the symptoms caused by lack of access to opportunity.

We do need a progressive alternative and those of us in the Progressive Canadian Party are focused on trying to provide that alternative.

There is also something that the canadian people are not being told about the Liberals and Conservatives, and that is these 2 parties condone the torture of women and children, now how come we don't here and see these ads

" LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES CONDONE TORTURE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN "

Michael Ignatieff and Torture Lite<br />
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<a href="http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mozuz/slepokura/slepokura20051218TorontoStar.html">http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mozuz/slepokura/slepokura20051218TorontoStar.html</a>

they forgot this in their ads.....<br />
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Torture, American Style<br />
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<a href="http://www.tkipp.net/html/editorials/columns/herbert/herbert_050211.html">http://www.tkipp.net/html/editorials/columns/herbert/herbert_050211.html</a><br />
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Any government that commits, condones, promotes or fosters torture is a malignant force in the world. And those who refuse to raise their voices against something as clearly evil as torture are enablers, if not collaborators.<br />

That's it. I'm cancelling my winter vacation to Cuba.

The big problem is that the term "progressive" became associated with the left in the first place. Forced equality of outcomes, political correctness, manipulation of the economy by the state to pick winners and a culture of perpetual dependency and submissiveness to politicans and bureaucrats are certainly not *my* defintion of progress.

what else could Harper do but what he did, if harper could of figured a way to hide it, he would of....so please spare me the " so called honouable thing ", just wait if they get some power, watch the corruption start flying in the Conservative reich....

It is quite interesting how the right wing conservatives have been able to redefine every term that deals with trying to give people a "hand up" in order to vilify it.

I can understand your perspective if you have a few million salted away in investments. If you are already a "winner" right wing policies serve to keep you there unless you happen to have made some bad investments.

Right wingers tend to see a two dimentional world: them against everyone else. Most progressives are neither right or left but anyone who is not right wing to a right winger is left. The more extreme right wing a person the more people you define as left even those on the moderate right.

I agree....this smuggler of good American booze past the iron curtain into Communist Canada withoot paying duties should NOT be allowed to represent a party that is making attempts to clean up a corrupt federal government Liberal/NDP alliance (Sven? Oh, Sven? Did I hear Sven Robinson calling?). Good for that Harper guy. He had the balls to give him the boot instead of hiding him in an office with a fat payroll somewhere with a promise of silence (did I hear Gagliano calling?). He shouldn't be allowed to run for office representing a group of people who wish to stand on their principles, and don't want to beknown for the same kinds of things as THESE people (below) are known for...

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Apparently Montreal, Quebec born/raised Jack Layton's idolized Communist Party hero Pierre Trudeau was but the beginning of an era...

* In 35 of the past 37 years, Canada has been ruled by:
(1) Pierre Trudeau - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(2) Brian Mulroney - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(3) Jean Chretien - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.
(4) Paul Martin - a multi-millionaire lawyer from Quebec.

* ALL of the above financed/backed and firmly implanted into the office of Canadian Prime Minister by the Desmarais family owned, Communist/Liberal Party affiliated *Power Corporation of Canada* for whom they worked.

* Remember, Jean Chretien was Trudeau's Finance Minister. Remember also, Paul Martin was Jean Chretien's Finance Minister.

Borrowed (quoted) from a friend. Thanks friend!


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Now...I repeat. WHY was this ON topic post HIDDEN by vivelewehateamericans.ca but the two above posts we NOT HIDDEN which were WAAAAAAAAYYY ...OFF TOPIC. WHY? You ARE supposed to be "enlightened", and "tolerant", and other such things you bay on and on aboot aren't you??? Like for example FREEDOM OF SPEECH??? Especially when it is ON topic, not OFF topic such as the other posts? Please, oh enlightened, tolerant, progressive ones...explain...inquiring minds, ya know...