Nipawin - March 8, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis | |
tell off |
David Asper has taken an unusual stand in defending Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from |
Conservative Leader Joe Clark's accusations of Jean Chrétien's improper conduct in the | |
Auberge Grand-Mère's affair and from the related charges and coverage by the media and | |
journalists. I say unusual because David Asper used his family's media business CanWest | |
Global(1) to tell off his own media people. | |
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put up |
I am happy to realize that if David Asper owns the newspapers, he doesn't own the |
journalists' thoughts. David Asper says that Jean Chrétien has been cleared of any wrong | |
doing by both the Ethics Counsellor Howard Wilson and the RCMP, and says it is time | |
that Joe Clark and the media put up or shut up, and let the Prime Minister concentrate in | |
matters of national interest(2). | |
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restore |
We must remind our readers that Jean Chrétien has been responsible for Canada's worst |
economic performance among the many OECD countries(3), and that his outrageous | |
management has been condemned by the Auditor General of Canada Denis Desautels, | |
and by the Information Commissioner John Reid. Therefore, I congratulate the work of | |
Joe Clark in trying to restore democracy in our governance, and I congratulate the work | |
of our journalists in describing the misdeeds of the Prime Minister and of his criminal | |
friends. | |
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$350 million |
David Asper did commendable work in defending David Milgaard(4), and in this respect |
he found out that David Milgaard was convicted because of the criminal and unpunishable | |
activity of the police and of the Crown prosecution. Now David Asper is telling us that we | |
have to believe the Prime Minister, the Ethics Counsellor and the RCMP rather than find | |
out what is wrong with our Prime Minister, the Ethics Counsellor, and the RCMP. Maybe, | |
David Asper should put up and shut up with the good work of Joe Clark and our journalists, | |
and concentrate his attention in the $350 million lawsuit launched against his business of | |
national interest(5). | |
------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com | |
CanWest Global http://www.canwestglobal.com/overview/index.html | |
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To Chrétien's accusers: Put up or shut up, David Asper, chairman of the publications committee of CanWest Global Communications Corp., March 7, 2001, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010307/493557.html | |
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Business must not be as usual, and the "Dalhousie School" of Economics, by Mario deSantis, February 26, 2001 | |
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A Mother's Story, by Joyce Milgaard with Peter Edwards, Doubleday Canada Limited, 1999 | |
CanWest sued by former partners. Demand $325M in damages, Barbara Shecter, March 7, 2001, Financial Post, http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010307/493299.html |