Today after question period, Liberal Minna got up on a point of order, and said that she had received a complaint from Monica Lysack about MP Mike Lake's comments during Statements by Members. It appears she was upset because he had destroyed her good name. So, I looked up what he had said that was so upsetting.
From hansard, March 28th, 2007.
MP Lake:
Mr. Speaker, between 1993 and 2005, the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada received a mind-numbing $2.2 million from the previous Liberal government.
Last week, its executive director, Monica Lysack, appeared before the human resources committee and tried to defend her organization, saying that the Liberals gave her $600,000 of that windfall to “monitor whether or not government investments in child care are actually being spent on child care”. What a typical Liberal manipulation.
By Ms. Lysack's own admission, her organization has never created one single care space, but the Liberals gave it $2.2 million and then asked it to track down organizations, like its own, that received taxpayer dollars and did not create child care spaces.
Fortunately for Canadian families, the days of Liberals' big talk and zero action on child care are over. With nearly $5.6 billion invested in children and early learning for the next year, the new Conservative government is clearly getting the job done for all Canadian families.
Do these advocates just not get it? Why would she protest what was clearly the truth? Now we get to hammer at her even more. Let sleeping dogs lie, Lysack, you can't win this one and you look like a whiner for bringing it up. Try going out and raising the funds you need, for, um, well, for what ever you seem to do. Did you and Minna spent all Easter coming up with that lame duck? Personally, I think MP Lake is spot on!
Oh, by the way, why haven't those two peekinafile Liberals, Holland and Jennings, risen in Parliament to explain the Contempt of Parliament charges leveled against them? I looked for them today, they appeared to be missing, along with most other Liberals. Are they still consulting their lawyers on the little matter of opening confidential files that were Conservative property?
2 comments:
Uh huh. By using Lysack's own admission, Mike dragged her name through the mud. Must make sense in her own mind.
I'm not well versed in Parliamentary law, but I'm starting to wonder if Holland and Jennings could get in trouble from the Speaker for not answering in a timely manner.
I'm going to present at Bill C303 the childcare bill and I will stand up to tell them my exact salary for advocating. Monica won't but the rest of us will lol.
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