The Hon. Stéphane Dion, the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has appointed local Member of Parliament Blair Wilson as the National Revenue Critic.
‘‘I am honoured to serve as the Official Opposition’s Critic of National Revenue,’’ Wilson said. ‘‘I will work hard to ensure that Canadians are fairly treated by the Canada Revenue Agency. Our tax system has to be easy to use, it has to be responsible to taxpayers’ concerns and it has to protect our privacy.’
‘‘It is important for taxpayers to be able to get through to a real person on the phone if they need help,’’ Wilson added.
Wilson has previously served as an Associate Critic of Finance and as the Critic of Sports. He is currently the Chair of the BC Caucus of the Liberal Party of Canada and serves on the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
Friday, October 19, 2007
West Vancouver MP Blair Wilson Appointed Liberal Revenue Critic
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You're kidding right? Didn't he have to close Wilson's Steakhouse because of bankruptcy and tax issues?
Talk about putting a fox in the hen-house... well, at least outside the hen-house... criticizing it.
Blair Wilson....just another empty suit.
Obviously, Dion is not aware of Blair's well-known financial troubles, perhaps Dion is clueless in more ways than one.
LOL. Tell me this is a joke.
De yawn is truly doing a great job. NOT
Who?
Does anyone know if Sue Cook is attending this weekend's Green Party leadership convention? Sue, who will you be endorsing?
Sue is not a Green Party member.
That's not what she said.
From the following website of Green Party leadership candidate Ben West. Recognize one of these names?
http://www.votebenwest.ca/endorsements
Endorsements
HomeAndrea Reimer - Former Green Party Vancouver School Board Trustee
Cameron Ward - Renowned Progressive Lawyer
Tom Williams - Founder, "Give Meaning"
Guy Dauncey - Climate Change Critic, Green Party Shadow Cabinet
Sharon Labchuck - Leader, Green Party of PEI
Janice Harris - Former Mayor of North Vancouver
"Ben's already a leader within the Green Party in BC. With his experience, creativity, and drive, the other parties are going to have to watch out."
Janice Harris‚ Former Mayor of North Vancouver
http://www.votebenwest.ca/endorsements
former interim mayor for the District of North Vancouver
former interim mayor for the District of North Vancouver
Who is Janice Harris fooling?
Will Janice run for the Greens in North Vancouver?
The only two reasons Janice Harris was elected to DNV Council are the following: Her son's name is Yorke, and he is the son of Bruce Yorke, a long time socialist and friend of Harry Rankin on the City of Vancouver Council. The other reason is that she professes to be green. She will ruin a forest as she did when she voted against the Northlands Golf Course...to save a shrub.
Please people in the DNV, and the entire North Shore, we do not need more traffic and pollution into our neighbourhoods, especially if this is done when supposedly GREENS are involuved! They are not. Incorrect.
Wendy.
John, I hope you are there to comment.
Cameron Ward, "a renouned progressive lawyer" lives on Ross Road in Lynn Valley. I don't know if he is green, but he asked me to put him on my list. He is certainly against tasering and the abuse of citizens whether it be political or physical. Another old friend of mine is Dirk Ryneveld from Kimberley. Cameron and Dirk and I, I believe are on the same side and this stuff is great on the blog!
If Janice Harris ran for the Greens in North Vancouver that would be a farce. She is a pseudo green not an honest green.
Actually on second thought would she have to relinquish her seat on council to run? Maybe she should go for it. She would probably get a decent amount of votes as she has on District council but not enough to win. (I should probably stop talking). For some reason she has fooled the voters of the District into thinking she is Green.
I would really like to know why district voters tend to have the impression she is Green.
What initiatives has she brought to District chambers to earn that distinction. Seems to me she votes in favour of almost all development. I know she was the only councillor to vote in favour of the proposed ORCA Seymour Parkway development last year. I would hope the community of Seyymour will remember her voting against the density wishes of the OSCP.
Wonderful, The people of Seymour are sick and tired of Janice Harris violating their official community plan.
It's IRCA, but who cares?
The people in the DNV are sick and tired of Council violating Official Community Plans. What is the point of millions of dollars and time spent by community activists and why are they continually chucked out by our pro development DNV Council?
Wendy do you consider yourself and John 'the people'?
Actually Wendy, Bruce Yorke is her father-in-law. Your statement would have been correct if you had said "her husband's name is Yorke..."
Be that as it may, while her husband's family may have helped her win her first election, her wins since then have been all her own.
You may loathe her politics but you have to give her that. A true incompetent would never have gotten re-elected repeatedly no matter what you might think.
Go have another drink Wendy
Hello Lyle,
I have to disagree. It's quite possible for 'incompetents' to keep getting elected. If you are highly organized and get that certain segment of the electorate out to vote which support you and your platform, voila' your elected. Particularily when only 30% of the people vote. Granted , you couldn't be an idiot or a fool but you can work the crowd, get the vote out and supersede those who might vote against you but just don't vote at all. And let's not forget good ol' name recognition. I'm very certain Janice enjoys much of that but is that true substance or a 'who else do I vote for?' thing?. Plus she has got to have a fairly strong Gree...uh..er...I mean...Liberal backing.
Janice Harris is not a leader and she has made no contribution to the District and this not malicious gossip.
It is a fact which none other than Janice herself has acknowledged and on more than one occasion.
Of all the Councillors she has the least number of initiatives and motions to her credit.
She has openly boasted that she works no more than 15 hours a week at her job.
But as a cynic would say this is the reason why she gets elected and re-elected and without spending any money on her campaigns.
Janice is a strong believer in pleasing developers and she has supported development both large and small connsistently even if it was contrary to existing community plans.
She is however, smart enough to make the people believe that she is "green" because as Wendy said, she will fight like hell for the preservation of a shrub on the side of a road but has no compunction to cut down a forest for big scale devlopment.
She wanted 1600 houses instead of the Golf Course by way of example.
She also wanted a massive housing development in Deep Cove on the Matsumoto place. If Harris had her way the Distric would look like Surrey and that is no bull.
I other words Janice Harris is a fraud but her pro developer stance has assured her being re-elected consistently.
She has also managed to fool the "left" by letting it be known that she is the daughter in law of the famous Bruce Yorke who served as a COPE Councillor in Vancouver.
The District establishment likes her because they know that at heart she is a reactionary and a witch hunter who will always do the dirty work for the establishemnt and do so more effectively than any other member of council precisely because of the image people have of her as a environmentalist and progressive which she most definitely is not.
With these credentials it is easy to get elected with the highest votes in the District.
What people who know Janice Harris intimately don't like about her is not that she is a reactionary and a witch hunter but that she is so utterly hypocritical.
John you just ruled out Wendy and explained why she will never be elected. She is not organized and she is both an idiot and a fool.
John you should not deduce from my previous comments that I'm a Harris supporter.
Frankly I thought she was a better mayor than a councillor particularly during the immediate aftermath of the landslide.
On your other point, do I think a 30% voter turnout is acceptable? Hell no. The plain and simple factor is that what happens at the Hall routinely affects people's day to day lives in a lot more hands' on way than what happens in Ottawa. And the average Joe/Jane has a lot better chance of being heard locally than federally.
I've been at numerous Council meetings where the gallery was jammed at the start yet virtually empty 90 minutes later and that's a shame since it means people care about a single issue and ignore the meat and potatoes that typically comes in the second half of District Council meetings.
What any of this has to do with a West Vancouver MP is beyond me.
John, how about a full behind the scenes report on the Green Party leadership convention?
John Sharpe said...
"If you are highly organized and get that certain segment of the electorate out to vote which support you and your platform, voila' your elected."
So John, I guess you are not organized and can't seem to get a segment of the electorate to support you or your platform?
Janice Harris wins because of name recognition alone. Some of the population do support her platform, but most simply recognize her name.
Even though I don't vote for her, I respect the fact that she is hands down the vote getter in North Van. What did Ernie place compared to her?
(Janice had more 20.3% more votes than Ernie in 2002).
Now now comments about Janice have usurped the actual topic of this post, e.g. Blair Wilson. What is it with some of you?
Back on topic, I don't think I will ever forget the picture of Blair Wilson's car being towed away because he wasn't keeping up his lease payments. Why is it that someone who can't even manage his own finances is being put in the position of watchdog over everyone else's? If he ever has to declare personal bankruptcy, I believe he'll be kicked out of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and lose his CA designation.
"anon" 2:22
If this is your standard and I am not saying you are wrong than you better not re-elect Don Bell.
Compared to him Blair Wilson is a Giant.
"anon" 2:22 pm
Ernie Crist cannot be compared with Janice Harris. He was a leader with a vision and he let the people know.
It is also true that he antagonised quite a few people at times and this was reflected in his vote standing.
Quite a few times he was number one and quite a few times he was not.
The point is that he always had a solid and far reaching election program and everybody, whether they agreed or disagreed with him, acknowledged that he was one hell of a hard worker, something Janice Harris was not and still is not and that is for damn sure.
Somebody said about Ernie Crist that his ego was the size of a mountain but his heart was even bigger. That might well sum it up.
Hi WerNIE!!!!
Anon 2:22 here. I have not voted for Don Bell since oh, about 1999. The bad smell following him around finally permeated my four walls. There's a bad smell around Blair Wilson, too, but whether or not it's better than the one surrounding Mr. Bell is a matter of some subjectivity. Depends on what you think smells worse. In any event, neither one seems to be able to manage their own financial affairs.
"Somebody said about Ernie Crist that his ego was the size of a mountain but his heart was even bigger. That might well sum it up."
No mention of the size of his brain.
So Janice Harris gets re-elected solely due to name recognition but Ernie due to his FIVE YEAR PLAN?
Name recognition was a good friend to Ernie and the only reason he was re-elected after he grew senile and completely out of touch with reality.
Blair Wilson is in serious glue, as is his Campaign Manager John Moonen. Evidently not are his campaign finaces(managed by Moonen after the first campaign manager quit over money issues)in question, but his Wilson's disasterious business history is slowly comming to light. He's hurt a lot of folks.
I recieved an email earlier tonight which casts some very long shadows. I compared what I know to what Moonen/Wilson reported on their Campaign Election Expenses form following the last election.
Mr Wilson was advertising fevourshly in the last week or so of this election.
John Moonen, as Blair Wilson's Campaign Manager in the last election, needs to explain a number of issues to the voters. Including why he (Moonen), allowed his Campaign to evidently exceed Elections Canada regulations on the spending cap and allow his Campaign to submit to Elections Canada a summery which is devoid of obvious charges (look on the Elections Canada website) - such as the Blair Wilson double decker bus. Thier bus rolled past my place on election day!!
Perhaps I'm wrong, but the whole Wilson/Moonen thing stinks to me.
I welcome opinions to the contrary.
Vancouver Province..... headline
West Vancouver-Sunshine coast MP Blair Wilson has unpaid debts, allegations of improper campaign spending
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=7f221cb3-cc92-445c-9b93-9bd333569087
I think this is about to get yummy.
Give a corrupt crook enough rope and he will hang himself. Blair Wilson and the Fed Liberal Party are a fine living example of that.
December 22, 2007
News is breaking on disgraced former Liberal MP Blair Wilson. The MP forced to quit the Liberal caucus over allegations that he committed egregious violations of the Elections Canada Act has been told by Stephane Dion that he will not be allowed to stand as a Liberal candidate in the next general election.
It appears that Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion has taken this decision before a conclusion to the Elections Canada investigation of the Blair Wilson matter.
Perhaps Stephane Dion studied the evidence sent to Elections Canada and came to his own conclusion. You can see the evidence for yourself here on this blog:
The Charges (The letter of complaint)
The Cowrie Street Office (The Cowrie Street evidence)
The Marine Drive Office (The Marine Drive evidence)
Printing (The Printing evidence)
Canada Post (The Canada Post evidence)
The Umbrellas (The Umbrellas evidence)
The Coast Reporter (The Coast Reporter evidence)
The Whistler Question (The Whistler Question evidence)
Jamey Kramer (The Jamey Kramer evidence)
Conclusion
This has yet to be reported in the main stream media, so take it with a grain of salt. But solid sources are telling me that someone close to Blair Wilson's former campaign manager John Moonen has revealed that Blair Wilson was informed of the decision by Stephane Dion in the last couple of hours.
When the allegations were first raised, Stephane Dion was "pleased" that Blair Wilson was working with Elections Canada to resolve the concerns:
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says he is "pleased" Mr. Wilson has called on Elections Canada to launch a formal review of the matter. Mr. Dion said the allegations against Mr. Wilson are "serious" and "raise questions that Mr. Wilson must address without delay."
If the reports are true, Stephane Dion is no longer pleased, and no longer interested in what Elections Canada has to say. It might be that Elections Canada has concluded an investigation and told the Liberal Party leadership, but that isn't what the sources are telling me.
Stay tuned for formal confirmation of this breaking news.
Public Eye Online has solid information from the Liberal Party.
Re comments about Janice Harris needing the Yorke family's efforts to get elected:....
I worked with Janice Harris in the early 1970s, with civic and environmental activism in Vancouver. I spent a lot of time with Janice, occasionally with Michael Yorke, and constantly with her father-in-law Bruce Yorke. I know that Janice is the mover and shaker in her family, *the* supreme worker bee. She spent exponentially more time doing the physical walking, phoning, painting, leafletting, meeting-attending, and speaking than her husband and father-in-law put together. The Yorke family "helped" her get elected in North Van? Baloney. Janice is a 110% powerhouse all on her own. I don't know if she's as "green" as you'd like her to be today. I do know that she endlessly works, and she speaks with a big, bright, socially caring heart. Convince her that the issues are important, and she'll get on board with all she's got.
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