Harper government email debacle
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- In the latest instalment to Stephen Harper versus everyone else drama, the New Democrats want the Mounties to investigate whether or not the ailing and failing Conservative government broke the law by taping a private NDP conference call involving NDP leader Jack Layton.
And an NDP email screw-up was at the bottom of it all.
Duncan isn’t only a city close to p2pnet’s luxurious central headquarters on Vancouver Island, it’s also home to Vancouver Island North Tory MP John Duncan and over in Alberta, the new Edmonton Strathcona NDP MP is —- Linda Duncan.
You can guess the rest.
Dimitri Soudas, the Prime Minister’s press secretary and senior Quebec adviser, was filmed on Sunday distributing the recording of the NDP caucus meeting to the media and, “claiming it showed the NDP and the Bloc Québécois had long conspired to topple the Conservative government,” says the Globe and Mail.
Why?
Harper and his party, in deep trouble with the likely prospect of a coalition government looming, must do everything they can to halt the process and the contents of the email purportedly suggest the opposition parties have been plotting together against him since well before the election.
The NDP are now demanding the RCMP investigate the taping of the party strategy session by John Duncan.
Says The Globe and Mail:
“Lawyer Jacques Shore, the first research director for the watchdog body overseeing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said the scenario that played out this weekend in Ottawa raises serious questions.
“The Criminal Code states that it is illegal to record a group conversation without the consent of at least one of the intended participants. Furthermore, a separate provision bans the dissemination of such a recording.”
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versus everyone else - Will Dion and Layton oust Harper?, November 29, 2008
Globe and Mail - NDP wants Mounties to probe Tory taping of call, December 2, 2008
prospect of a coalition government - Canada’s newest new government, December 1, 2008
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