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applegrove

(118,503 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 08:41 PM Apr 2013

"Conservative campaign worker Sona charged in robocall probe"

Conservative campaign worker Sona charged in robocall probe

By Laura Payton, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/02/pol-michael-sona-charged-under-elections-act.html

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"You've got to take a look at the options and just say, 'You know what, what is the more realistic option here? That some then-22-year-old guy managed to co-ordinate this entire massive scheme when he didn't even have access to the data to be able to do this, or the alternative — that this was much more co-ordinated or possibly that there were people that knew how to do this, that it was being done?'"

Sona has sometimes surfaced at social events around Ottawa. He attended a party at Hy's Steakhouse following the tabling of the federal budget on March 21, an event attended every year by cabinet ministers, political staffers and reporters. A photo posted on Facebook last fall following a Halloween party featured him with a former NDP staffer.

Sona's lawyer calls for public inquiry

A statement from Sona's lawyer, Norm Boxall, says neither of them will make a public statement beyond the one distributed by email. Boxall called the charge disappointing but said it provides an opportunity for Sona to address the allegations in court instead of in the media.

"I cannot help but comment that if the government was interested in the public being fully informed and the issue of robocalls being properly addressed, a full public inquiry would be called, rather than a charge laid against a single individual who held a junior position on a single campaign and who clearly lacked the resources and access to the data required to make the robocalls. I am confident the public agrees."


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"Conservative campaign worker Sona charged in robocall probe" (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2013 OP
Good - the PC always think they can lie and it is okay riverbendviewgal Apr 2013 #1
Oh no. You're in trouble now. Harper is from 'the Calgary School' of economics. It is not a satelite applegrove Apr 2013 #2
I know....and if you want to know what these people from the Calgary School of Economincs are like riverbendviewgal Apr 2013 #3

riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)
1. Good - the PC always think they can lie and it is okay
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 10:48 PM
Apr 2013

because Harper believes in the School of Chicago way of thinking It is okay to lie to the masses for the benefit of the rich elite.

He is a follower of Leo Strauss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Conservatism#Leo_Strauss_and_his_students

applegrove

(118,503 posts)
2. Oh no. You're in trouble now. Harper is from 'the Calgary School' of economics. It is not a satelite
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 11:00 PM
Apr 2013

of Chicago purposely started in Canada's oil patch .....take it back....now.....

riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)
3. I know....and if you want to know what these people from the Calgary School of Economincs are like
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 11:14 PM
Apr 2013

watch POWER OF NIGHTMARES documentary....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

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