David Orchard Campaign Says Conservatives As Unethical As Liberals
Posted on Wednesday, April 27 at 22:02 by sthompson
After the signing of the deal, you shook hands with Mr. Orchard and said that together the two of you would build up the PC party. Then you promptly broke the agreement and railroaded your party into oblivion, with the relentless prodding and eager co-operation of Stephen Harper and your various political and financial supporters. At no time did you ask for nor did you receive permission from your party to break the agreement with Mr. Orchard and to proceed to do the very opposite; and you only “consulted” us party members through our decision-making bodies WELL AFTER you had signed an agreement with Stephen Harper to liquidate the PC Party which you were constitutionally obligated to defend and uphold. You were helped in this treachery by Stephen Harper whose Canadian Alliance members were urged to join the PC Party merely to vote it out of existence. After thousands did so, you and your assorted allies concocted a phony approval process — with no debate allowed at any level of decision making! — producing approval rates for the merger that are usually found only in dictatorships. This whole process was accurately described by Progressive Conservative senator Lowell Murray as “a coup d’etat.”
After having destroyed your party and utterly breeched your signed agreement with Mr. Orchard — which surely should have given you as a MP, a lawyer and an officer of the court some pause! — you and Stephen Harper have grabbed $70,000 of David Orchard’s campaign funds, funds to which you are not legally entitled. The Conservative Party has held on to these funds for a year and a half, while according to the legal contract Mr. Orchard signed as a leadership candidate he was to have them returned to him in 48 hours! The Conservative Party, under your combined leadership, has in effect stolen Mr. Orchard’s campaign donations, forcing him to take your party to court. You have thus defrauded the 257 donors to the Orchard campaign whose money you have put in your party coffers. Your party has formally conceded that the monies are owed to David Orchard, but is refusing to return them, in a “might makes right” fashion. You have no claim to these funds and you both know it!
Canadians need to know that your party that claims to be the Canadian citizens’ ethical watchdog is led by two dishonest and unethical individuals, who deserve to be called scoundrels.
Canadians need to know how a lawyer can sign a contract that gives him immense benefits, and then proceed to break it as if it never existed. Explain that if you can!
Canadians need to know that David Orchard’s campaign funds will be returned to him without delay, with interest, legal fees, and a huge apology. (Presently your party is paying high legal fees to merely stall on giving Mr. Orchard back his campaign donations. Do your members know that this is how you handle their funds?)
As you wish the next election to be about political ethics, it will most certainly be about your ethics as well. As the saying goes, “What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.” It seems that with your immoral and unethical actions, you have cooked your goose, for a long time to come.
Sincerely
Marjaleena Repo
Saskatchewan vice-president
and Management Committee member of the PC Party of Canada, 2002-2003
President, PC Riding Association, Blackstrap, SK, 2000-2002
Senior Advisor for David Orchard in the 2003 leadership race
P.S. To refresh your memory — and to wake up your dormant conscience — MacKay–Orchard agreement, photos of the signing and legal documents regarding Orchard’s funds can be found on www.davidorchard.com.
Marjaleena Repo
201 Elm Street
Saskatoon, SK
S7J 0G8
(306-244-9724
mrepo@sasktel.net
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So Mr. Orchard maybe the time has come for you to help the citizens of Canada reform this dirty system and maybe together we all will be better served. Down with political parties.
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Canadians are asking, why do americans hate us? They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to disagree with each other.
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poster boys for no-ethics double dealing. This timely article
reminds us of their treachery which is in the public record for all of
us to see. Let us be forewarned.
What I keep wondering is: why are Harper, Tom d'Aquino,
Conservatives, corporations so furious about the Martin-Layton
agreement? Why?
Surely it's not because big business interests hate the idea of
Canadians receiving affordable housing, lower tuition, better
training through EI., aid to public transit and energy efficiency
programs for low-income housing ... ?? Even when it's affordable
within the federal budget surplus? Surely not.
But Stephen Harper -- who originally endorsed the Martin budget -
- now says that these added benefits are what make the Martin
budget is the worst thing he has ever seen in Parliament. Huh?
What a history lesson! Class warfare -- right out in the open.
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Mary
Watch when the election comes up,the dipshit public will put the same dope heads right back into office.Then they wil turn around and complain that the government is corrupt,not doing it`s job blah blah blah.
This country is a sorry excuse for a country.
The Diane Oblanzy campaign in Calgary had a meeting the other night.The people involved want a election soon so they can vote the Corrupt Liberals out,and do what,vote their corrupt flunkies in?What a farce.
Yes politics is full of corruption, but there are different levels of corruption. You can't go and compare $70,000 of David Orchard's own money to the estimated millons of dollars of tax payer's money involved in the Sponsorship Program. And the Gomery Inquiry is not a trial (where it would be a matter of the Liberals being found guilty or innocent). It's an inquiry, and there's a difference between the two. At the end of it we'll either have a clear idea of who is responsible, or a muddled view thanks to Liberals and their supporters pointing the finger at each other and not giving us any clear idea as to who is responsible.
And what is with all this Mulroney talk lately? Mulroney resigned and his Progressive Conservative Party had their day in court and were decimated at the ballot box. They paid the price of their actions. Don't go and bring up Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives anymore, unless you're a Liberal who wants to defend your party. And don't shrug you're shoulders and say "they're all corrupt". That kind of attitude breeds apathy and in case anyone hasn't noticed yet apathy is the last thing this country needs.
Constantly people say the Conservatives are racist, homophobic, overtly pro-American, bible thumpers. Conservatives who are racist are racist on a personal level (yes racists have the same right to vote just as you do) and many do vote Conservative but their vote has to go somewhere. If you think there aren't racists who vote Liberal, Bloc, or NDP you're only kidding yourself. And if you think there aren't pro-American "intergrationists" in the Liberal Party then look no further than former Deputy Prime Minister and former leadership candidate John Manley. And I don't think I have to mention the fact that there are many Catholic Liberals who would love to defeat Gay Marriage legislation and once again make abortion illegal. But who are we to judge the Catholic Church or any church for that matter? Regardless if we disagree with them, they have that right of opinion.
If you see me as making excuses for the Conservatives, that's fine. Because I see a lot of posters on this website making excuses for the Liberals. I think a lot of you are so freaked out by what you read and what you hear (with just some of it may not being entirely accurate?), that you've blinded yourself to the fact that the Liberals are no better. The differences being the Liberals are in power, how much of that power can one take, and is it good for them to stay in power as being good for the country are factors that influence our own personal decisions we'll soon have to make. The Conservatives are being just as opportunistic as the Liberals were last year in calling the pervious election. The Liberals are now getting a taste of their own medicine and I have no sympathy for them.
For me right now I look at the fact that so much money was embezzled by the Liberals and that by their greed alone they may have irrevocably damaged Canadian unity in the province of Quebec as being two genuine reasons (for me at least) to try and throw them out of power. Personally those issues carry the most weight with me. That and their smugness. Oh, and that they kill baby seals too.
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"I pick the bones of what's been done. I'm the revolution when the door is shut. I bite the hand that slaps me senseless. I am far too Canadian" -SotW
These are left over accusations from the Reform/Alliance days. Accusations brought by a Liberal incumbent, and never proven nor backed up. But the Liberals keep repeating them until people just start believing them.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
A minority Conservative/Bloc government is a possibility, and would weaken the federal government to the point where they couldn't get the pwoer back without going to war with the provinces.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill