Journalists are obviously not doing their jobs. When "Doorknobs" Easter first yelled about his anonymous Liberal spy at the PEI airport, journalists should have jumped to get the security tape of the incident. They did not. Yet the tazer incident at the Vancouver airport was on the news within hours.
Considering that PEI only has 120,000 people in total, and probably only 50 work at the airport, you would think that someone would have figured out who the squealer is. Believe me, everyone knows everyone in PEI. So, why hasn't the letter writer come forward? The people of PEI should be embarrassed by this persons lack of balls and accountability for the pain they have caused to Helena. I wonder if now that they know she had just suffered her second miscarriage, if they feel any remorse for what was by all accounts a politically motivated slime job of Minister Helena.
The people of PEI should listen to their Premier when he tells them that Minister Shea had nothing to do with a contract awarded to her son-in-laws firm. He is one of the few honest Liberals they are going to meet.
I remember a night out in PEI, where "Hang Em High" Liberal MP Shawn Murphy was working the bar, charming all the "cougars". They were loving the attention, and will vote for him again because he is such a good guy. That's all it takes in PEI, drinks at the bar.
When he came our way and he found out we were from Alberta, he yapped about how partisan our Alberta MP's are, and showed none of the friendly PEI hospitality we love so much. He's not the worst of the 4 PEI MP's, Wayne Easter has to take that title. How is it that PEI gets 4 MP's for 120,000 people but other MP's have 120,000 per riding? Even my PEI relatives are embarrassed about that situation.
I want the person that wrote to Wayne Easter to come forward, with the tape of the incident, or at the very least the RCMP should investigate that person. That person needs to take responsibility for starting a witch hunt against Helena, for purely partisan reasons. So, "Hang Em High" Murphy can call Albertans partisan all he wants, but when it comes right down to it, PEI is showing what Liberal toadies they really are, and they should be calling Wayne Easter to task.
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I am pleased "someone" is starting to follow up on this theory. How come Wayne Easter was sent this letter and Fife/Tabor and Oliver didn't have that person interviewed every 5 minutes. You can be assured, it was looked into, but found not to be negative against the PM or we would of seen it. Who is this person, who appointed him to the job.. and what side of politics is he involved with???.... Wayne Easter has been asking for the PM to fire this Minister ever since this incident... and now he dares to get on TV and say the PM acted to quickly in firing her.... I know the liberals think they are "ruling class" and we are all peasants - but this goes too far...The only thing the liberal party can come up with is scandal after scandal... no ideas, no suggestions in running this country, they just feel if they make up enough scandal with the complete help of the MSM - they will get back in power... How would they ever run our Country - they have no idea what policies are about!....
Could the reason no one has come forward is because they don't exist.
It wouldn't be the first time someone made up a story and ran with it. Rathergate comes to mind, and remember the NYT reporter who filed nothing but stories from his imagination. Then there was another reporter who never left his apt and was filing stories from Iraq.
Something probably did happen at the airport, as Helena said she was sorry. But what she was sorry about could be arriving late and having to rush thru to get on the plane. The tape needs to be made public. Perhaps Mr Z should question Easter to see how much is fact and how much is fiction.
Even the reporter is surprised at how much this story has grown.
I wonder if Wayne Easter bully's the women of his riding like he bully's the women in the conservative party?
Totally in agreement with you.
The 4 Liberal MPs can be bought, but I was appalled at just how low a price. Aim low, avoid disappointment
No wonder it is considered a Hellhole, it's because of the poor choice of representatives they send to the HOC. You would think those people would catch on - eventually eh?
Totally in agreement with you on this one.
The 4 liberal MP's from the island leave much to be desired in the way of representing their constituents, but then you deserve what you get by voting for them. I knew that they could be bought, but appalled that they were bought for such a low price. (Drinks at the bar)?
Aim low, avoid disappointment eh?
Understandable why some deem this place a "Hellhole!" We can't all be wrong.
Let's start with the Board of Internal Economy $ 500 million ATM-100% unredacted no more closed door meetings on how the MP's spend our money. (No audit since 1991)
Next mandatory drug testing of MP's, Senators, spouses, children for (National Security red flags wink wink), links to organized crimes.
The Media should also be screened for drugs or financial wrongdoing to eliminate any potential conflict of interest.
PEI is one of Canada's best kept secrets and they most certainly deserve much, much better than the mean spirited, bully antics of Wayne Easter.
He is a complete and total embarrassment and an unnatural fit for this lovely island with a population of islanders that are delightfully humble.
AS well, I can round up 10 natural born islanders and they too would call the Charlottetown airport a "hellhole".
The airport IS HOW you get there not WHY you GO THERE!
There are under 200,000 people in PEI. Someone knows the anonymous letter writer because now this story will be in the ranks of a folk legend, guaranteed!
Let's hear from the coward, Easter and back up your allegations!
I was one of those raising the question of the identity of the letter writer early on. However, I think we need to keep a few things in mind.
• There IS a letter, an anonymous one, describing what took place in the airport. It may still be available at Kady O'Malley's blog.
The reason given at the time for keeping the identity of the letter writer secret was the fear of repercussions, such as loss of job.
IMO, calling the person names is counterproductive, but I do think finding out if there is a connection between the person and the Liberal MP is relevant.
Since so many insinuations were being made at the time about Ms. Guergis, without any supporting factual information, I thought it reasonable to raise the question, not because I wanted anything bad to happen to the letter writer, but because there was the possibility the complaint was politically motivated, i.e. that the person making the complaint was somehow connected to Wayne Easter.
After all, the very same thing happened before with waferGate and with the fake memo modelled on the Environment Canada letterhead which was circulated in Copenhagen.
• There WAS an incident at the airport, otherwise Ms. Guergis herself would not have apologized for her outburst. She herself wrote at the time (I haven't found the entire text of her written apology):
"Regardless of my workload and personal circumstances, it was not appropriate and I apologize to airport and Air Canada staff. ..."
• Asking for the video of the incident is not relevant, IMO, since Ms. Guergis admitted the incident took place. However, a video of the incident might prove that journalists’ accounts of the incident were greatly exaggerated. They portrayed Ms. Guergis "throwing" "hurling" or "tossing shoes", whereas in the letter it stated “… she slammed her boots into the bin …”; they described Ms. Guergis as having “tantrumS” which were “obscenity-laced”.
• One's political affiliation does not automatically make him/her an enemy of the current government, so knowing the political affiliation of the letter writer is not relevant UNLESS it were discovered the letter writer is connected to Wayne Easter.
But, as has been pointed out, no journalist pursued that line, although they saw fit to pursue whether her academic credentials were credible, whether she could actually afford her mortgage, and what she was like in an earlier (ten+ years ago) relationship.
So, journalists' role in this matter has not been one of fact-finding, but rather of dirt-digging, I'm afraid.
Charles Adler today had a good rant about the so called Jaffer/Guergis scandal. Calls it crap at the very end of his rant.
Go to and listen
http://www.cjob.com/other/audiovault.html
Click on April 19 at 1:00 P.M. and at 1.35 mark Adler has his comments
I think that it very fair to ask for the identity of the letter writer. MP Easter and many of his colleagues demanded the Ministers resignation because of the allegations in that letter.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/03/01/liberal-guergis.html
Further, the same MP Easter, his colleagues and their leader made blanket accusations, going so far as to use words like liar when the Ministers staff wrote NAME INCLUSIVE letters, praising and defending her. Those letters were not anonymous and yet the Liberals still halved and quartered these people whereas their source and rationale for the witch hunt had been anonymous.
http://www2.canada.com/abbotsfordtimes/news/sports/story.html?id=2749547
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