http://www.vancouverspinecarecentre.com

You are simply assuming that the allegations (no work permit, etc.) are true – this hasn’t been proven in court.

And if I am caught without my drivers license, I have 24 hours to produce it. So your example is crap.

Here are the facts:
1. The nannies needed 2 years of service under their restricted visa within three years here in Canada. Failing that, they can be deported which is the last thing they would allow to happen in their lives.
2. Ruby Dhalla claimed that the nannies were treated with respectl love and care.
3. Ruby also claimed that they were paid fairly and legally for the legal amount of time worked done on only the required responsibilities allowed under the nannies’ employment visa.
4. Ruby claimed further that the nannies living conditions were the best any one of them could hope for.
5. Ruby claimed that she did not really live there and when she was there, she was hardly around to know what is going on. It was her brother’s business to hire and give those nannies their jobs.

In all of these facts and claims, why would a desperate nanny who would take a half decent emploment conditions pass this one up? I can understand one nanny quitting from this opportunity, but THREE? If Ruby was never around, how would she know that the nannies were treated as she described by her family. She never really lived there, right?

One must wonder!

Whatever the truth of the matter, politics is a game of public perception. Ruby’s conundrum is this: how on earth, as a seemingly high-powered, up-and-coming politician, does she challenge the testimony of a couple of humble Filipino nannies without seeming utterly mean-spirited and heartless to the public?

Her lawyer has already done her no great favour by implying some sort of conspiracy theory with persons unknown out to get her. Two strikes against her right there. First, there’s her credibility: Filipino nannies in a convoluted Canadian political conspiracy? Come off it.* Secondly, it’s all about poor little Ruby, isn’t it?

Unless she can come up with close circuit TV footage of PM Harper in a Toronto hotel lobby handing the nannies an envelope containing $75,000, she’s going to have to wear this one.

And because she is a politico, the sublime irony is that she’d be among the very first to yell for blood if an opponent across the floor were caught in the same predicament.

By the way, no partisanship intended here. It’s not a Lib or a Tory or Kneedipper thing, it’s the price of being in politics.

* Say what you like about the old blarney-master, but at least Brian Muldoon is sparring with a credible villain in public eyes (a dodgy German businessman)!

You are stretching a point beyond credulity. I stayed at many homes in India with servants. Let me tell you clearly and succinctly the servants had their place, they did the cooking (or assisted the wife of my friend(s) on special dishes) and housework.

A servant (or nanny in this case) is just that. Not a friend, not a confidant, not allowed to lay down on the couch and clearly not one to be served by the employers.

You sure you are not related to Dallah. You sure do try and apologize for here big time!

ethnics or ethics……Freudian slip?

LOL.. honest to god…

If the police pull over a driver and ask for their drivers license and insurance
and they don’t have it on them. There is “no” innocent. They plead guilty with an explanation.

No Work Permit… Guilty..
Cash Under The Table.. ( no cancelled cheques. ) Guilty.
Withholding another persons passport. Guilty.

All the allegations regarding Labor Relations are redundant..
These woman were not working as “legal employees”, therefore,
they’re not protected under the Labor Act. That’s just another screen
Ms. Dhalla, and her Lawyer keep putting up,
to defuse the laws that have been broken. ( see above )

I may not have all the evidence, but based on the evidence it does not look good for her.

Could this be a conspiracy? yes, but with actual substance.

So much for the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”.

And no, I am not involved (directly or indirectly) with Ms. Dhalla.

I’ve seen Mike Bullard’s act, and he’s no comedian!

You misconstrue my comments to suit your own ethno/religious agenda. To be a Canadian is to first and foremost have allegiance to a country which is a secular democracy. To not like or to disagree with ethnic rants about being persecuted by a foreign government or to bring your intolerance for said government to this country is something most Canadians dislike and frankly could care less about. It is not racist to offer such an opinion but people like you will try to slant in that direction to stifle debate. Muslims are experts at it.

Top relate your ethnic squabbles with the foreign government of India, a country I have visited and find fascinating and diverse, to WWII is to propose a canard that is fallacious and illogical. Stick to the point. I repeat I don’t give a damn about your paranoid delusions about the Indian secret service. If they have need to watch your type or could be bothered with someone like Dallah then ask yourself why? Methinks they have bigger fish to fry right next door and withing their nation.

I also treat all religions equally. Religions are a mass brainwashing scheme that turns otherwise intelligent people into walking, breathing disciples of dogmas that are, in all likelihood, pure unadulterated fiction. Religions, as we can see everyday in the newspapers and TV screens of the world turn one citizen against the other. Why is this Mr. Singh? Could it be intolerance of someone else’s point of view?

There is far too much political correctness in dealing with the mutual intolerance of one religion over the other. In fact you speak of Sikhs as though you are not only a unique cultural entity but a religion as well. Sounds a lot like many Muslims who adhere to their dogma as superior to even the secularity of this countries laws.

It ought not to be happening and clearly is most unwelcome by most secular Canadians. Keep your foreign battles to yourself and out of Canada. The Tamil demonstrations are the most recent example of this kind of opinion.

Your condescending and borderline-racist tone not withstanding, why does not the Canadian Government get to the real truth on AIB and set up a Royal Commission to investigate the mass murder of “over 329 including 280 Canadians” (the majority of whom were Sikh-Canadians)? A Royal Commission is set up when an innocent Canadian goes to jail . . . here we have the murder of 280 Canadians and no Royal Commission!

Regarding your ethnic rant, I am sure many Canadians gave a “damn” when the Germans were bombing London in 1940 and occupied Paris. I bet you will give a “damn” if such a thing happened again. Apparently, so did the Sikhs back then: they formed 50% of the British Indian Army prior to 1947 and over 83,000 Sikhs died fighting, and 185,000 were wounded, in WWI and WWII (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKdOuP1Y-ig&feature=related). Now you are asking their descendants in Canada to not give “a damn” when the Brahminist regime in India sends in their army into their Punjab homeland (1984-93; +250,000 Sikhs killed) or decides to kill over 3,000 Sikhs in Delhi through state-sponsored “riots” (November 1984).

Regards,
Aaron

It is your kind of paranoia that led to the worst terrorist attack in Canadian History when the Air India plane went down killing over 329 including 280 Canadians. Please keep your old country ethnic/religious conspiracies in the old country. I and many tens of thousands of Canadians of Irish descent didn’t fight the IRA’s battles against the UK inside Canada and it would be appreciated if you kept these lunatic theories out of Canadian discourse.

After that bombing if I were the Indian government I’d be watching the loonies and their apologists who did it too. Who could blame them. I would expect my government to protect Canadian interests in the same manner.

We have enough of the Tamils, the Palestinians and in the past the Serb Canadians fighting their battles and disrupting our lives over matters we just don’t give a damn about. You are not helping your fellow sikh, Ms. Dallah, if this is the kind of rubbish she is involved with as well as nannygate.

The purpose of my post was to propose a third alternative “theory” for the attack on M.P. Dhalla, aside from the “right wing conspiracy” being thrown around by the Liberals.

The reality is that there is a lot of interference into Canadian affairs by the Indian Government and its intelligence service (RAW) which our CBC will never report on – this is your real “trojan horse dilemma”, especially, in a world of globalized economic systems and outsourcing (of jobs, intelligence, and propaganda). Most of their activity is targeted against Sikhs (and Pakistan).

If you wish to get some inkling of all this, please read “Soft Target” by Globe & Mail journalists Brian McAndrew & Zuhair Kashmeri (the second edition came out recently).

Regards,
Aaron

Actually, this whole Dhalla thing has really been Kenney’s masterplot to win her affection. I think Freud has written about this sort of obsessive-compulsive-manipulative behavior.