How
do you put out a fire?
Simple
question, first of all it depends on how big the fire is. If it is a small fire, like a candle, it’s
pretty simple. You can blow it out, some
like to dampen their fingertips and pinch the flame out, or the more elegant
might use a candle snuffer. Basically
you can douse it with water (on your fingertips) or starve it for fuel (with
the snuffer).
If
it’s a larger fire, like a campfire you can toss a bucket of water on it,
starve it for fuel and let it burn out on its own.
What
if it’s a big fire? Like a PMO/Senate
Scandal?
Well
Steve and Co. have tried just about everything you can think of. They tried to let it burn itself out, no
luck. They threw water on it and tossed
people under the bus to no avail.
They
even sent their minions with torches at Justin Trudeau, the only problem is
that Canadians like Justin Trudeau. He
may not be everyone’s choice for PM, but lots of us grew up with him. He’s a nice guy.
And
the fire the Harperistas started at JT’s feet just drew more people to him to
sit by the fire. Like going camping or
enjoying a bonfire. It just wasn’t
working.
So
the Harper folk looked for a new place to set a fire. I mean intentionally.
So
they set their torches toward recently retired Lieutenant General Andrew
Leslie. And they got a fire started.
A
lot of people are upset that the General’s move to a new home not far from his
existing home ran to $72,000.00 or so.
CTV
reported this, Minister Rob Nicholson is telling the DND to look into
this. But the bottom line is that it
appears that the only thing that General Leslie did wrong was to join the wrong
political party.
He
joined the Liberal Party of Canada.
You
see, because the Military requires members of the Forces to relocate, there is
a provision that helps to take care of the move. A benefit of serving for 20 or more years in
the Military is that the government pays for one last move. It could be across town or across the
country, but the government has a third party company that takes care of
packing, storing, and moving the retirees’ property to the new location. The Integrated Relocation Plan (IRP) also
takes care of some of the expenses in selling the old home and buying the new
one. In General Leslie’s case, this was
$72,000.00.
General
Leslie did not hire anyone, he didn’t do anything other than what a 20+ year
veteran would do. He submitted his
information for the move. The third
party took care of the rest.
The
IRP has been on the books for decades.
As a matter of fact, the Auditor General submitted a report on the IRP
in November 2006 to the Harper government that pointed out a number of problems
with the IRP. The government did nothing
about it. They even repeated problems
that the AG pointed out in 2006.
When
General Leslie moved in 2011, no alarms went off, no one at the Treasury Board Secretariat
(Tony Clement’s department) waved any flags and no one in Rob Nicholson’s
National Defence Department raised any issues either.
Actually,
the Harper Party was so enamoured with General Leslie that they offered him a
job, even hinting that he should run for them in the next election. No they didn’t get mad at him until after he
had signed on to be an advisor to the Liberal Party on International Affairs.
Go
figure.
The
Harper Party should take care here. They
have already offended the Veterans and the Military with their treatment of our
Warriors. They are adding fuel to that
fire by starting up with General Leslie.
You
see the danger is that when you start fires, they can become unpredictable… especially
when they are big ones.
It
just depends on which way the wind blows.
Laters
BC
Maybe
Stever should be happy we don’t live in an emerging Democracy like Egypt… It’s
not good to pee on the military there, is it Steve?
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