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Monday, December 03, 2007
Vote for Schreibergelder! (but only if you really want to)
My recommendation – “Schreibergelder” – is in the running at Andrew Coyne’s “Name That Scandal” vote. The final four:
Airbust
Schreibergelder
Airbucks
Schreiberbriber
Frankly, I’m surprised "Schreibergelder" made it this far, as I got little support at the original post. But hey, I’ll take it! Vote here.
Posted by joantintor on December 3, 2007 | Permalink
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How about Schreiberschadenfreude?
Posted by: obc | 2007-12-03 2:38:05 PM
Andrew Coyne is the most overrated pundit on the air or in print in Canada. Seemingly incapable of either being succint or logical, he is also singularly unable to see the big picture and becomes nauseatingly preoccupied with minutiae.
I won't participate in his stupid contest.
Epsi
Posted by: Epsilon | 2007-12-03 2:42:40 PM
Coyne??
In the land the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
For vision, read Mark Steyn
Posted by: John | 2007-12-03 3:39:38 PM
Andrew Coyne, who's he?
Posted by: Liz J | 2007-12-03 4:49:40 PM
Check out www.justrocks.net/chrissblog.cfm for more on this
Posted by: oncejust | 2007-12-03 4:57:24 PM
How about Muldoongate? Or Schreiberuney? How about Elmer Senior McFudge-gate?
Posted by: Kyoto the Dog | 2007-12-03 9:01:24 PM
Let's see if the Enemedia gives THIS story as much play as they did the original one:
"Lalonde wasn’t registered while lobbying for Schreiber"
Failure to do so during Bear Head work was 'slip'
OTTAWA — Former federal cabinet minister Marc Lalonde appears to have lobbied the Jean Chretien government on behalf of Karlheinz Schreiber’s Bear Head project without having registered as a lobbyist — as required by law at the time.
Mr. Lalonde, who was finance minister in Pierre Trudeau’s government, wrote to his old cabinet colleague Mr. Chretien in July 1995, pushing the government to reconsider awarding a contract for military vehicles to General Motors without a competition.
He wrote the letter on behalf of Bear Head, an armoured vehicle factory Mr. Schreiber had unsuccessfully been trying to establish for a decade, first in Cape Breton and later in Montreal.
The lobbyists registration act required lobbyists to register if they were making representations to "public-office holders" like Mr. Chretien "in an attempt to influence the awarding of any contract" by the government.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/996251.html
Posted by: obc | 2007-12-05 10:02:12 AM
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