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'Destructive type of behaviour'

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:05am - 5 Comments

While Keith Ashfield dismisses concerns, Greg Thompson stands by his version of events and, in an interview with the CBC, explains how he brought his concerns to the attention of the Prime Minister’s Office. Meanwhile, the Premier of New Brunswick is displeased.

Tags: Greg Thompson, infrastructure, Keith Ashfield, new brunswick, Shawn Graham

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Mark

Greg Thompson is among the last of a dying breed in the Tory party. A decent human being who favoured acting as a gentleman to acting as a rabid partisan throughout his career, whether in opposition or in government. No doubt, Harper and his gang will be happy to see him gone.

John

Agreed. Along with Michael Chong, Thompson is one of the few Conservatives that doesn't engage in the crass political hackery that has destroyed our system of parliament.

tedbetts

That Thompson, obviously he's been bought out by the Liberals or pretending to be a Conservative. He was also probably embezzling funds from the riding association. He should be turfed from the Conservative caucus immediately for ~~making the party look corrupt~~ breaching caucus confidentiality and banned from running for the party and Harper should launch a criminal and ethical investigation on him.

A word of advice Greg? Watch. Your. Back. (And keep a paper trail.) Hell hath no fury like a Harper scorned.
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The Premier of New Brunswick is "displeased" with political antics. He's so displeased, that he blamed it on the provincial PC leader while admitting he hasn't got a shread of evidence to back up his smear job. Which of course is a flagrant political antic to try and save his skin in the election.

Hell, this is a great situation for the Premier of New Brunswick. It distracts people from his flagrant lies and failures.
Patchouli

The opposite of this is going on in SK — NB has a Liberal gov and the federal Cons don't want to share any PR limelight.

On the other hand, SK Party government (used to be Conservatives but changed their "brand" when too many of them went to jail after power last time) are in collusion with their federal counterparts — they are all the same people here — to get funding for a $431 million football stadium. Lukiwski and Scheer pretend there's no federal cash — Brad Wall has refused to ask for the equalization payments — rumours are everywhere that on July 1, before kick off of the Riders' first game of their centennial season will have an announcement about funding for the stadium.

So they will happily bask in the glory of the photo opps with Rider players and centennial jerseys because they're all Cons. What a shame they can't have that Grey Cup in the photos with them.