Canada's Biggest Political Scandal You Never Heard Of

[arikara]

It's probably the biggest political scandal you've never heard of. The tale involves Big Oil, millions of taxpayer dollars, call girls and someone the RCMP describes as "one of the prime minister's longest serving advisors": Bruce Carson.

And it largely took place at Stephen Harper's alma mater: the University of Calgary between 2009 and 2011 with a cast of industry CEOs as well as several Harper ministers and aides, including Nigel Wright.

The basic plan was to use $15 million in taxpayers' money for a university think-tank, chaired by Carson, to foster with industry and the federal government a plan to rebrand the oilsands mega-project as "responsible" and "sustainable" and "clean." The name of that think-tank Carson would run: the Canada School of Energy and Environment (CSEE).

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http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/10/05/Canada-Biggest-Unheard-Political-Scandal/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051015

The crooked old dude who was running around with a 22 yr old, and trying to defraud native communities out of money for water filters is back. Not that he ever left by the looks of things.

[Spazito]

1. The Judge in his criminal case was supposed to release the date of her decision announcement...

on October 2 but I haven't seen anything released yet. Here's hoping he is found guilty and this dogs Harper again.

[MisterP]

2. plus the 1,200 "disappeared" First Nations women

Harper reinvented the Tories as the "GOP North" (like Netanyahu runs "GOP East&quot , so he's in cowpuncher drag at the Stampede, digging up the shale, trying to stir people up over the 4 niqab-wearers in the country (that didn't even work for the PQ: the PQ!), waving money around to bring science and religion to their knees ...