Could it be brain damage? Memory loss? No, just another CONjob.

Dean Del Mastro:    Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party of Canada always provides all documents requested by Elections Canada. In fact, we provide Elections Canada with full reports on all our campaigns. The Conservative Party of Canada ran a clean and ethical campaign. That is what the evidence demonstrates.   (Hansard, February 29, 2012)

On April 15, 2008, the RCMP executed a search warrant at Conservative Party Headquarters on behalf of the Elections Commissioner in order to seize documents related to the investigation of the In and Out scam. The warrant alleges that not only did the party exceed the maximum amount allowed for election expenses but the Conservative Fund may also have filed financial returns "that it knew or ought reasonably to have known contained a materially false or misleading statements."

An unidentified staffer opens the door for a plainclothes RCMP officer during a raid on Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on April 15, 2008.

More from the Flawed and Disordered party of Harper

There they go again…standing behind our brave men in uniform:

The federal government has lost its third attempt to delay a court ruling from taking effect next month that would allow RCMP officers to form a union. ..The ruling leaves the federal government with little more than a month to pass legislation that would allow Mounties to form a union, or it could go back to court to try to extend the already lengthy legal battle.

Those fiscally responsible, cop longing CONs!  Spending tax dollars to thumb their noses at the RCMP and the federal court.


In an April 2009, decision Judge MacDonnell cleared the way for a union. He ruled that a section of RCMP regulations that did not allow an independent group to engage in collective bargaining on behalf of officers violated the Charter of Rights.

Oh, that damn, troublesome Charter of Rights!  And really, what an affront that our brave men in serge should actually think it enshrines their rights! 

Yo!  Elliot!  Earn your partisan appointment!

This watchdog doesn’t need teeth

Harper will chew his food for him.

The new man in charge of holding the Mounties to account is a Toronto estate lawyer who describes himself as "collegial." But his predecessors question whether a "neophyte" with that mindset is up to the job. Ian McPhail, who has spent most of his career focusing on wills and real estate, acknowledges he has much to learn about the RCMP.

"Look, you probably know more about the background there than I do," Mr. McPhail said in an interview last week. "I'm going up Monday, it will be my first day on the job."

So why did Steve pick him, I wonder?

Oh. I see.

While he has worked as a Conservative organizer and chaired Ontario government bodies, he has never before tried to police the police.

Shirley Heafey, the RCMP Complaints Commissioner from 1997 to 2005, spent two years inside the agency as a vice-chair before taking the helm. Prior to that, she worked for the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the oversight body of CSIS, Canada's spy agency.

Asked about Mr. McPhail's appointment, she said the Mounties "are going to love to have him there.  He's just a caretaker. There's no power to do anything unless you really push the envelope," she said. "He's coming in cold. There's no way he can do anything in a year . . . he's a complete neophyte."

But that’s exactly what Harper wants.  To get nothing done on this, and many other files.