tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post4717576541565270762..comments2008-04-27T12:53:22.976-03:00Paul MacPhailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02079670609811458582noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post-19403957279722283032008-04-27T12:53:00.000-03:002008-04-27T12:53:00.000-03:00Hey! You may want to change my link from Dark Blue Tory to The Trusty Tory...just a thought..;)<BR/><BR/>http://returnofthetory.btblogs.caThe Trusty Toryhttp://returnofthetory.btblogs.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post-38134416393915421242008-04-25T16:16:00.000-03:002008-04-25T16:16:00.000-03:00"re the Conservatives going to pay the money back?"<BR/><BR/>Umm...to whom? It was their own money raised from their own supporters, not like the Liberals who, well you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post-88406860618531827542008-04-25T14:54:00.000-03:002008-04-25T14:54:00.000-03:00Are the Conservatives going to pay the money back?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post-16038932037054605102008-04-25T13:40:00.000-03:002008-04-25T13:40:00.000-03:00Licia Corbella has a few good comments in a repost of her column at NP fullcomment:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/04/25/licia-corbella-on-elections-canada-if-they-can-t-figure-out-what-s-legal-how-can-they-expect-the-tories-to-know.aspx" REL="nofollow">http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/04/25/licia-corbella-on-elections-canada-if-they-can-t-figure-out-what-s-legal-how-can-they-expect-the-tories-to-know.aspx</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933783.post-57766799749402155402008-04-25T12:57:00.000-03:002008-04-25T12:57:00.000-03:00Important message in this article to get across to the debaters:<BR/> Parlimant makes the laws, not Elections Canada.<BR/><BR/>''Especially because former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley took a strangely vocal role in policy debates for the head of an organization that,<BR/>* as part of the executive not the legislative branch of government, is supposed to enforce laws not create them. <BR/><BR/>Liberal MP Ken Dryden wrote in the Toronto Star on Wednesday that the Tory financing scheme "isn't what Elections Canada intended" and that "Elections Canada set national and local limits" because it "intended that national spending be for national purposes, and local spending for local purposes..." <BR/>*as if it, not Parliament, had created the Canada Elections Act.''wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03589410224972050999noreply@blogger.com