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Posts Tagged ‘Peter Donolo’

In the media and the blogosphere from both the right and the left, everybody’s got something different to say from the other. The more we try to update ourselves, the more confusing this all becomes.

In addition to busty hookers and wild parties filled with cocaine and booze as well as alleged influence peddling , blackmail and business corruption; add to this an ethics commissioner who is appearing more ethically challenged these days. She first says that she refuses to investigate Guergis and then she tells the CBC that Brother Steve never asked her to investigate in the first place, in spite of  Steve announcing last Friday that he would ask the ethics commissioner to investigate along with the RCMP. One must wonder: which is it? Brother Steve is most certainly not above lying and being very secretive, but  what about Mary Dawson? Is she less than ethical?

Derek Snowdy, the private investigator who is said to have provided Brother Steve the straw that broke the camel’s back,  is said to be a ‘Harpercon’ himself. Although, according to Bob Fife, it seems that the Snowdy approached Peter Donolo before dumping his info on the Harpercons’ lawyer.  It seems that Donolo refused.    However, CTV doesn’t seem to offer any more details on that front. Is that even true? If so, why would Donolo refuse, one might ask? I was curious so I checked around the net for other stories on that subject and only found this from the Toronto Star, with whom Snowdy had been chatting it up.  Again, more contradiction; well, sort of:

“A receptionist took a call from someone who said he was a private investigator last Thursday. The call was never returned. We have no record of any e-mail,” Lague wrote in an email Thursday. “We don’t deal with private investigators. So no meeting was turned down because the call was never returned.”

Mario Lague is Iggy’s communications director.

Some ‘devoted’ conservative member. Again, simple explanation most probably.  I think Snowdy, like many typical private investigators or in similar lines of work was looking for the highest dollar to buy his information.   After all, if Snowdy was simply offering to give this info away, would Lague or Donolo have turned it down, even if as Lague says, they don’t usually deal with private investigators? Maybe. Maybe not.

Whatever the case, I don’t think Donolo or Lague thought this was worth while.

Jeff Jedras of A BCer in Toronto, I think  summarizes this whole debacle to date best. Like Jeff, I think many others, like myself, agree that in the end, this is nothing more than melodrama involving disfunctional people excercising poor judgement. Most of the info coming out of the media these days is pretty trivial.

The media circus is going to continue.  Like some of us have been saying, Iggy, really time to change your tune! If Donolo or Lague honestly thought there was something earth shattering Snowdy had to offer them this time, coupled with the Liberals’ weak numbers, dealing or not dealing with any PIs, wouldn’t  they have made more efforts to attempt to track down Snowdy and find out what he’s got?  Right now, it doesn’t sound like much effort was made on the part of Lague or Donolo to track this down.

Iggy came out about health care recently, it’s time for him to concentrate on finding ways to protect the Canada Health act and how to ensure that health care remains universal, as well as the economy, jobs and yes, keep lighting that torturegate heat under the Harpercons; that seems to be something Steve really wants to be kept hidden.   As Jeff says, there were many great ideas that came out of the Can 150 event; it is time that Iggy and team Liberal started putting that red book together. 

As for the Conservative drop in numbers post-Guergis, Steve is doing a fine job of sinking himself with his mishandling of the whole Guergis affair. 

Yes, the Liberals were right to turn this down and now it is up to Iggy to follow through with more important things that Steve would only love to remain on the back burner long enough to be hopefully forgotten. It is Iggy’s job to keep these issues front and center.