The Gerald Keddy Story: An Insensitive Moron

Gerald Keddy is the Reform-Conservative MP for the riding of South Shore-St. Margaret's, Nova Scotia.

He was the one who first brought it to the attention of the Canadian taxpayers, that his party was trying to suggest that money came directly from their coffers for stimulus funding, in the big cardboard cheque fiasco.

He is also the man who called our unemployed and homeless "no good bastards."

Quite a peach.

I'm doing something a little different with my blog, trying to organize archives, etc. so I'm using this page to link my stories on Gerald Keddy.

Feel free to use anything.

We've got to start preparing ourselves for the next election, by reminding Canadians that Stephen Harper is not the only problem this party has. They are the wrong fit for Canada and really must be put out to pasture, before they completely destroy this country.

My Other Postings on Gerald Keddy

Reform Conservative MP Gerald Keddy Calls Unemployed 'No-Good Bastards'

The No Good Bastard Gerald Keddy May Give Unemployed the Last laugh

Gerald Keddy Apologizes to Homeless, But is it Enough?

Gerald Keddy Must be Thrilled as Numbers on EI Swell

Monte Solberg Should Have Kept Quiet. He Only Made Keddy's Comments Worse.

My Postings that Mention Gerald Keddy

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Why Did Harper Sit on Almost 2 Billion Dollars For Social Housing?

Michael Ignatieff Announces Thinkers Conference

National Coalition Against Poverty Vows to End Poverty and Homelessness

Maurice Vellacott at it Again Reminding us of What his Party Stands For

Reform Conservative Abuse of Our Tax Dollars is no Longer Funny

Conservatives Find Way to Cheat Taxpayers at All Three Levels

More Young People Speak Out Against Harper's Abuse of THEIR Money

Reform-Conservatives Guilty of the Largest Propaganda Campaign in Our History. And the Good News Is - We Are Paying For It!

Could the Reform-Conservatives Latest Scandal Cost Harper His Job?

Reform-Conservatives Say 'As Long As There is a Dollar Left to Steal .. It is Ours!!!!'

Well This Spin Was Worth Sixty Million Dollars and Counting

Reform Conservatives Launch Art Show: "Taking Corruption to New Heights"

Canada to Undergo Name Change to Reform Republic of North America Inc.

The No Good Bastard Gerald Keddy May Give Unemployed the Last laugh

I don't normally use cuss words in my blog titles but Keddy started it.

I guess he got an early Christmas present because the ethics commissioner is indeed investigating the partisan ceremonial cheques used by the Reformers, to promote their 'not so much a stimulus plan as a PR stunt'.

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving man, or party. (hee, hee)

(BTW: You have to imagine the video above taking place on Keddy's tree farm. I know it's a stretch, but it's so cute)

Ethics czar issues Tory logo queries
December 10, 2009
CBC News

Canada's ethics commissioner has sent letters to Tory MPs accused of using their party's logo on ceremonial cheques, asking for their responses to the allegations, CBC News has learned.

In one letter to Nova Scotia MP Gerald Keddy dated Dec. 4, Mary Dawson asked that the politician answer a list of questions on how he came to use the ceremonial cheques. The letter stated that a list of questions was sent to other individuals facing similar allegations. The commissioner previously said her office received 50-odd complaints.

"The underlying concern" with the use of ceremonial cheques was that it "furthers a private interest," Dawson said in the letter.

"I ask for your co-operation in providing your response on or before Dec. 18, 2009, so that I may complete my inquiry as quickly as possible following the Parliamentary break," Dawson said.

The logo issue was touched off by Keddy, who last September presented a ceremonial cheque worth $300,000 for an upgrade to a rink in Chester, a community in his riding of South Shore-St. Margaret's. The ceremonial cheque had the Conservative party logo in the top left corner and Keddy's signature at the bottom.

"This issue has received significant public attention and there has been debate both inside and outside of Parliament about the scope of application of the [Conflict of Interest] Code [for Members of the House of Commons] in relation to this matter," Dawson said in the letter.

Opposition MPs argue Conservative MPs are breaking the rules by passing off taxpayers' money as their own or that of the Conservative party in government funding announcements.
'One comprehensive inquiry'

"I believe it would be in the public interest for me to conduct one comprehensive inquiry and issue one public report to establish the facts surrounding the use of these cheques to make a determination on the application of the Code," Dawson said.

She added that she will proceed with an inquiry following this approach.

Liberal MP Geoff Regan, one of the MPs who first raised concern about the issue, welcomed the investigation.

"What the ethics commissioner's letter made very clear to me is that she does take this issue in the matter of Conservatives using the Conservative logo on government cheques very seriously," he said.

Two months ago, two of Canada's senior bureaucrats testified there was nothing to prevent MPs from using ceremonial cheques when acting on their own.

"Events organized by members of Parliament who are not acting as designated ministerial spokespersons are not covered by the policy," said Michelle D'Auray, chief human resources officer at the Treasury Board Secretariat.

On Thursday, the commissioner's office declined to comment when contacted by CBC News, and Keddy's office said he is prohibited by law from responding publicly until after Dawson has completed her work.

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