Conservative MP Shelley Glover made a disparaging remark about senior Anita Neville, suggesting that she was past her expiry date.
Later she twitted that "She doesn't dislike Neville as senior, she just doesn't like her seniorism." Not sure what that means, but a CRUSH member twitted back: "I don't dislike Glover because she is stupid, I dislike her stupidism."
This woman is a loose cannon, once suggesting that it "was a known fact that all criminals voted Liberal and all cops voted Conservative" What does that mean to those of us who don't vote Conservative? That the police officers we pay with our taxes are not there to protect us too? But the Cons are there with their talking points.
First of all, I would like to remind seniors in the Winnipeg area that Ms. Neville just voted to oppose the Conservative Government’s plan to increase GIS payments to the most vulnerable, lowest income seniors in Canada — a measure that would benefit single seniors by up to $600 and senior couples by up to $840.
Your government wasn't defeated on the budget but on your Contempt of Parliament.
Seniors will be looked after by the Liberals too, who are also presenting a better plan for caregivers, than the .82 a day you're providing. So little for seniors but $21 million for gun owners. We know where your priorities are.
Tom Flanagan has been speaking out a lot lately about where Stephen Harper has been taking the party. He even recently praised Michael Ignatieff as a role model and revealed that he indeed knew about Harper's 2004 coalition, that included the full support of the Bloc.
But will this interview get him banned from the party? Apparently Brian Mulroney was given the heave ho. Stephen Harper does not allow any dissent.
It's interesting that Shelly Glover is claiming not to have ever heard of him. Where has she been? Flanagan has been by Harper's side for years and handled both the 2006 and 2008 election campaigns. But then Shelly Glover wanted to give water bottles with the Conservative logo to school children as a 'reward'. And she's not much into free speech either.
The Equivocator has an excellent article on Harper's flapping in the wind, that's worth a read. He brings up some of the same points as Flanagan. He just can't seem to get his act together.
Constant Inconstancy; Being the Lamentable Tragedy of Stephen, Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister believes that it is Canada’s system of democracy that causes uncertainty, which leads to negative effects on Canada’s economy. Unfortunately, PM Harper is not as constant as the northern star. His interview with BNN came a full thirteen days after his decision to prorogue parliament by phone and the PMO, as well as the Conservative Party of Canada, have provided many different justifications for locking parliament’s doors for a full three months instead of having all 308 MPs return on January 25th. ...
The above video is from a constituent of Conservative MP Shelly Glover, a woman who claims that she is on leave from her job as a police officer and actually brags that "We are the only party that has elected police officers."
I think that is horrible. The police should NEVER be politicized. I know it's all part of the Cons so-called "law and order" agenda, which is more about taking power away from judges and filling the private prisons they are negotiating with their American buddies; than anything else.
But I don't ever want to think that any police officer responsible for my safety is politically partisan. It gives the wrong message to Canadians. "Vote for Shelly and you'll never get a speeding ticket". It just raises far too many questions.
And besides, if she's just on leave to serve as an MP for awhile, does that mean she's "just visiting"?
And of course, like her cohorts, she's not above abusing tax dollars to send out junk mail, as her constituent so aptly points out. Shelley go back to Winnipeg where you can be of service. Stop trying to silence dissidents and stop abusing our generosity.
Saint Boniface MP Shelly Glover is going to chair a new Conservative Law Enforcement Officers’ Caucus.
Glover is on leave from the Winnipeg Police Service and is the first female police officer ever elected to parliament. She was elected last October for the first time.
She will chair the new group which counts four members total – Rob Clarke from Saskatchewan and Dave Mackenzie and Rick Norlock from Ontario.
“We are the only party that has elected police officers,” Glover said today.
Clarke is an 18 year veteran of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, Mackenzie was the chief of police in Woodstock, Ont. and Norlock was an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police for 30 years. Glover was with the WPS for almost 19 years in a variety of positions.
She said police officers who have worked on the front lines of the justice system are in a great position to influence the government to make reforms to the system that actually work.
Glover said the group will be a liaison between police officers and the prime ministers’ office and the justice minister, to ensure the voices of people who really know what the situation is like, and what is needed, have their voices heard.
She specifically mentioned the Youth Criminal Justice Act as one area that needs a lot of improvement and would benefit from the knowledge of people who have dealt first hand with kids who break the law.
Admirable but how about attacking the root causes of crime, like poverty, for instance ? Tougher sentences will do nothing because most perpetraters don't believe they will ever get caught.
When you look at her voting record, you can see that she is in favour of minimum sentences, but sadly against things that matter, like the environment and accountability.
However, she has also maintained her police officer mentality when it comes to how a good little taxpayer should behave, and heaven forbid the media dares question her colleagues. Not on her watch.
The following exchange between the press and MP Shelly Glover will give you some pause. It certainly makes me think about how cops view democracy and free speech.
I hope Ms. Glover is the exception rather than the rule. But a press conference in Ottawa today added a new twist. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan were at the Canadian War Museum to announce new legislation related to Internet surveillance.
They were joined on stage by several police officers who supported the measures as a way to nab child predators lurking online.
But it was a big news day and reporters also had questions for the ministers on the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the ongoing Cornwall bridge closure and a report from the House of Commons public safety committee.
The moderator, former Winnipeg police officer and first-term Conservative MP Shelly Glover, would have none of it. “If I could interject,” she said after a question on Mr. Abdelrazik. “Today’s a very, very special day for the people who have come from a long distance. Could we please keep our questions focused on today’s announcement?”
“With due respect, it is a news conference,” CTV’s Roger Smith replied.“Yes,” Ms. Glover replied sternly. “And when they put a police officer in charge, they give directions and we hope that you follow them.”
Translation: Shut the ---- up and write what we tell you to write. Charming. Ms. Glover has a future in Iranian politics, if she ever gets tired of Canada.
Maybe Stephen Harper really is trying to turn Canada into a police state. Our own local candidate Brian Abrams, is a former RCMP officer. He wants to oust Peter Milliken so bad that, like Harper, he has hired a U.S. Republican pollster to run his campaign, so we should be seeing a bit of mud slinging here soon. Sigh.
Shelley Glover is the Conservative MP for the Winnipeg riding of St. Boniface. Her bio lists her as a police officer 'on a leave of absence', so I guess she's just visiting, but she's certainly leaving her mark while she's here, though not in a good way.
Like most Conservatives she loves spending taxpayer money to send out partisan drivel, including ridiculous Karl Rove style push polls, and venomous attacks on her opposition.
One of her constituents is so upset with her tactics, that he's created a web page and video, which he gladly shares, for anyone else tired of this misuse of tax dollars.
More Conservative Junk Mail from Shelly Glover Posted by Devin Johnston March 13th, 2009
A couple weeks ago, I decided to do something about all the junk mail I was receiving from my Member of Parliament in Saint Boniface Shelly Glover. I decided to respond to her latest ten percenter by enclosing a mail out of my own.
Members of Parliament can send mailouts to ten percent of the constituents in their riding every week that they are in office. These mailouts are done at a taxpayer expense of about $8-million per year. Most of them are political advertising disguised in the form of surveys that read "Who is on the right track on issue X?" Earlier this week, I responded to one of these mailings with a survey of my own. I enclosed a self-addressed stamped index card. On the reverse side, I wrote "I support taxpayer funded junk mail" and left check boxes for "yes" or "no."
Today, I received yet another money-wasting, tree-killing political ad from Shelley Glover. Once again I responded with a survey of my own. This time, the survey question was "I support the Government of Canada spending $8,000,000 per year to allow MPs to send junk mail to constituents." Once again, I left check boxes for "yes" and "no" and included a stamp and my address so that Glover can return the survey to me. I will keep my readers posted on any response I receive to the survey.
