Michael Ignatieff doesn't have what it takes to deliver a credible and meaningful threat.  Instead, he just yaks on and on, expressing doubt that his people can achieve results, and then threatening to do...well...nothing in particular.

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It looks like Elections Canada is checking into the mandatory riding services package bought by every candidate during the last election.  Elections Canada is concerned that this package of buttons and posters isn't worth the $2,500 charged by the party, and that this is a scam designed to hide the transfer of money from the ridings to the party.

I don't know about that, but I want to point out that whatever was in that bag, it was pure magic.  It seems like the candidate could use to contents to do anything -- from decorate the office to running surveys.

That is one magical bag of electoral tricks.

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Every once in a while, a media outlet has to pull a story when they realize they got ahead of the facts.

In this case, though, CityTV out of Toronto seems to have been fooled by someone into thinking that Ruby Dhalla, who is in trouble over allegations of mistreating illegally hired live-in caregivers, was exonerated by a parliamentary committee examining those allegations.

The truth is that the Liberal minority on the committee issued a report dismissing this as a witch hunt, while the majority has recommended multiple formal investigations.

How did CityTV get this so wrong?  I am speculating that Liberals tricked CityTV ahead of the report being issued by the committee.

After trumpeting an exclusive, CityTV had to pull the story once they realized the story was wrong.  I wonder if the people in the CityTV newsroom feel that they've been burned by Ruby Dhalla and the Liberals.

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At first I winced.  Then I paused.  Then I thought about it some more, and I realized that the Lisa Raitt tape was just so much nonsense.

Except for the bit about Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff being shoved around by bankers.  That was interesting.

That was worth listening to the rest of this inconsequential stuff.

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