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Title: PMO wanted Gainey death report held until campaign over: emails
Category: Political
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2009-04-03 16:03:13
Canadian

[kenmore]

muzzle muzzle the canadian press.. its the tory way.. hide and seek and do what the autocrat says...

[dino_bobba_renno]

Harper killed Gainey!! I should have known all along!

[DerbyX]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Harper killed Gainey!! I should have known all along!

In the conservatory with the lead pipe.

[stokes]

Considering this didnt happen in Canadian Waters, whats the big deal? This makes no sense at all, because as long as those ships follow the rules inside our waters there isnt anything we can do once they leave our waters. I think the CBC is trying to show their favoritism for the left again!!!

[DerbyX]

It always is isn't it? Doesn't matter what the news story is. If it in anyway shows Harper and the cons in a bad light its either not news or left wing media bias.

[stokes]

This is a non-story to begin with, the only ones who care to print it though are the CBC, but only because their masters from the LPC told them to.

And the sad thing is, I am not even that biased and I can see through the lies.

[mtbr]

slow news day for the anti-Harper crowd..digging deep.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Derb what would be the purpose of holding off the report? It's not like the Consrvatives had anything to loose by this report going public. It sounds more more like a mix up to me.

[DerbyX]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Derb what would be the purpose of holding off the report? It's not like the Consrvatives had anything to loose by this report going public. It sounds more more like a mix up to me.

Sounding like a slip of the tongue to me saying norway instead of france but to the cons here it was a deliberate error. Lets not forget that most of them still post photos of Chretien goofing around with a backwards helmet and consider it hefty newsworthy.

Harper is PM. Thats makes everything he does newsworthy and subject to scrutiny. Contrary to con opinion him missing a photo made worldwide headlines and did reflect on us as a country.

Don't you notice that no matter what seems to happen to Harper its always called "not news worthy" or "media bias".

To me its fair play. When the Libs were in charge everything they did was vilified and now its time Harper was subjected to the same treatment he gave everybody else when he was in opposition.

If it wasn't important then why did they want it quashed until after the campaign?

[RUEZ]

Harper pee's standing up. Story at 11.

[dino_bobba_renno]

DerbyX DerbyX:

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Derb what would be the purpose of holding off the report? It's not like the Consrvatives had anything to loose by this report going public. It sounds more more like a mix up to me.

Sounding like a slip of the tongue to me saying norway instead of france but to the cons here it was a deliberate error. Lets not forget that most of them still post photos of Chretien goofing around with a backwards helmet and consider it hefty newsworthy.

Harper is PM. Thats makes everything he does newsworthy and subject to scrutiny. Contrary to con opinion him missing a photo made worldwide headlines and did reflect on us as a country.

Don't you notice that no matter what seems to happen to Harper its always called "not news worthy" or "media bias".

To me its fair play. When the Libs were in charge everything they did was vilified and now its time Harper was subjected to the same treatment he gave everybody else when he was in opposition.

.............. huh? Well i don't about any other stories in particular but this one really doesn't seem to serve any purpose in my mind. The CBC is reporting on a report that was suposidly surpressed by the PMO even though everyone involved has stated publicly that it was just a misunderstanding. If the CBC wants to some how prove otherwise where is the evidence? Where's the motive? What purpose would it have served to not release the report. What diffrence would it have made?

It was common knowalge at the time that there was a black out on Government releases of information for the purpose of the election. That's not an uncommon thing.

DerbyX DerbyX:

If it wasn't important then why did they want it quashed until after the campaign?

Why would they quash it until after the campaign? I don't think it was even suggested by the PMO that the report should be quashed. Are there any emails from the PMO to that effect? I might even bite into this if there was but all the CBC has is an email from an underling. Even in Massons own words:

$1:

Masson said in an interview this week that it wasn't normal practice to request the permission of the PMO for the issuing of reports and new releases, and it was only done on this occasion because an election was about to be called.

"We had to ask the question in order to know. There was confusion that ensued. We interpreted it as though we were part of this period of restraint."

She also said the incident doesn't indicate any increasing political control of the board. "We're an independent organization. It's not a politicized organization."

[DerbyX]

why this then?

$1:

A series of government emails shows an arm's-length investigatory body was told that the Prime Minister's Office wanted it to "hold off" on releasing a safety report into the high-seas death of Laura Gainey.

Again thought it still seems that no matter what gets reported about Harper they claim the same old story of left wing bias. They do so because then whenever the press reports something bad they can simply point and say "its a media campaign against them".

[hurley_108]

Political interference of any sort in the transportation authorities cannot be tolerated. People's lives are at stake. Whether it was one person or a hundred that died, the PMO, no matter who occupies it, should not be obstructing the release of such reports.

[dino_bobba_renno]

DerbyX DerbyX:

why this then?

$1:

A series of government emails shows an arm's-length investigatory body was told that the Prime Minister's Office wanted it to "hold off" on releasing a safety report into the high-seas death of Laura Gainey.

Again thought it still seems that no matter what gets reported about Harper they claim the same old story of left wing bias. They do so because then whenever the press reports something bad they can simply point and say "its a media campaign against them".

$1:

The series of emails obtained by the Canadian Press are between Aarin Masson, the director of communications at the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, and Roseline MacAngus

Thats not the PMO, like I said it's just some underling. Is that the best the CBC can do?