Tuesday, October 13, 2009
And Will The Member Resign!
Gerald Keddy must resign from office. Why? Forging cheques. Unless Mr. Keddy was personally giving over 300k to a local community group, he's not authorized to sign government cheques. This particular cheque is identified (comically enough in the memo line) as being from the Recreational Infrastructure Canada Program administered in Atlantic Canada by Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. The agency is under the jurisdiction of Peter McKay and Keith Ashfield politically but the cheque should presumably bear the signature of ACOA president Monique Collette or some other high ranking bureaucrat in that organization. He can't claim that he didn't know what was going on when his signature is on the cheque... in a different ink from the one it was printed in. The Conservative logo is appalling, Mr. Keddy's signature may be worse. As much as members might like to say it, they can't legally bring home the bacon themselves. Gerald Keddy is the Member of Parliament for South Shore -- St. Margaret's and the Chairman of the Commons Standing Committee of Fisheries and Oceans. He has proven himself unworthy of either office. Resign! If he won't Mr. Harper, it behooves you to remove him from his chairmanship and your caucus.
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7 comments:
You are angry he is trying to take credit for spending by the government?
His ego, having the audacity to have someone photoshop his signature on a fake cheque?
Aaron did he break any law, forgery is a criminal act have you contacted the local authorities and forwarded your evidence?
Best of luck, I hope this is not another Liberal faux outrage crisis.
Most of us have tuned out the Liberals after the wafers, bodybags, racist smears by your party against the integrity of the civil service and ministers.
It's a little over the top, but I don't really see this catching on as an issue.
CommonSense should go over to the blogging Tories, where he would be right at home, and would not have to feed lies to people there.
I'm not a lawyer but...
Sect 366 of the criminal code:
"1) Every one commits forgery who makes a false document, knowing it to be false, with intent
(b) that a person should be induced, by the belief that it is genuine, to do or to refrain from doing anything, whether within Canada or not."
I think voting for Gerald Keddy would qualify as doing something. I hope the RCMP investigates. I'm not getting you'd get a conviction. All I said is that he should resign. Our MP's should be held to a higher standard than a court of law. There is a legal question as to whether or not a novelty cheque is a cheque. Probably not since there's no money involved. The general prohibition against forgery cited above however, doesn't care what kind of document your talking about. CanadianSense, I didn't cry wolf about wafers or bodybags. When MP's lie to their constituents in order to get votes, I get upset.
Did the ladies in the photo really have the "belief that it is genuine"? It is pretty obviously a prop. Maybe if you can obtain footage of them attempting to force the giant cheque into their local ATM....
Well, maybe you're right. It does seem to be making the news. The party logo on the cheque is not exactly great optics.
I'd feel more confident I was right if it wasn't making the news.
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