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How do you surmise that Tzeporah Berman misled the public, Brianwearsatututoo?

As Program Director for ForestEthics, Tzeporah Berman has been fighting to save North American forests. Did you see her on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvfQM6wam6k

We have to consider the environment in this election.

a CEO bend the truth? STOP THE PRESS!

CEOs are just salesmen in expensive suits. They play up to the crowd, and I think this case is no different -- the caller implied donations were bad, so P's CEO decided to take the easy way out.

But what is so wrong with a company making a LEGAL donation to a political party? No politician is donation-free, and shouldn't be -- that's the democratic process at work.

Rman

Tzeporah Berman had a segment on bill good between 11.30 am n 12.00 pm....She stated early in the segment,talking about Private versus public ownership........
she made a comparisan,she stated........

It`s just like our forest,our forests have never been privitized,we own all our forests.
Well I couldn`t let it stand,I reminded her about the 300.000 hecters of tree farm forest tenures that Gordon Campbell gave to Timber west and WFP, I reminded her that the province was censured for these giveaways and the auditor general gave scathing reports about the forest giveaways.
Tzeporah was unable to refute my claims,she weaved and bobbed and didn`t speak to that...........
The forest giveaway was ahuge issue(still is) but somehow it slipped her mind(selective memory)
or propoganda,I reminded her about Campbell breaking his promise and selling BC Rail/privitizing BC Ferries......

I guess she forgot about that too.

She also used false numbers about how much power we import,when in fact we are a exporter of power..........

She can have any position she wants on IPPs.......
but she needs to be called on deliberate distortion of facts..........

go-ahead,listen to the segment april 7th cue up 11.00 am ---fast forward to about 11.33 for the start of the segment.

http://www.cknw.com/stationshared/audiovault.aspx

Steve Brad--The CEO of plutonic can donate what ever he wants to whomever--but when you come onto shows to do questions and answers your supposed to tell the truth,not fib...........

But thats okay right,he was/she was fibbing to support Gordon Campbell so it`s all good?

It would be headlines in Canwest papers or Global news if Carole James made such a blatant error.

Tzeporah Berman

is wrong about Canucks being environmentally concerned. All any government has to say is "It's either your job or the environment" and bingo! The environment goes out the window. We react; we don't question. And when it turns out our job is gone anyway, we haul out the pitchforks and torches, and go looking for "treehuggers".

We are good little lemmings.............

pies and damned pies, etc.

At the risk of irritating the moderator, I will not use a certain word to describe the exchange noted above. The issue is not a legal campaign donation SteveBrad, it is the pie. A CEO would know where the money went and he chose the pie. Then, when the CEO was caught with the pie, Good played his cheerleader role well, dumping the caller. The issue is the pie, with the a la mode being the complicit media.

Brianwearsatututoo

Did you like the bit about the previous NDP giving out ROR projects too?

Thes e aren`t .......

ROR......a project with more generation than a site C isn`t run of river.....

this up to 20 kilometers of dozens of rivers and spawn bed ruined,and warming of the water!

You know that Rman/

I said it before,I will say it again,almost as many Liberals are upset over these giveaways,thats why the NDP will win..........

I see very little if any NDP vote bleeding to Campbell,but I see many Liberals staying home or voting for Wilf Hanni.

P.S. Rman,your trying to divert from the issue again.........

I think coal was mined when the NDP were last in power/go figure/ who heard of greenhouse gasses or global warming in the 90s....After all,wasn`t the 90s cold and dark,snow on the ground all year round,uphill to and from work,if there was any work?

dinners

I think Plutonic's Pirate king did confess to buying a few Liberal party dinners. Bill was so busy playing kissy face with him that he forgot to ask how much he paid for those dinners?
Its not our absent minded Pirate friend's fault if Gordo had to claim, that $500 lump of rubber chicken was a campaign donation.

IPP donations at $822,000

According to Elections BC Donald McInnes has personally donated $34,575 since 2001.

Another Plutonic Exec (who has held a variety of senior positions in the BC Government including Gordon Campbell’s Deputy Chief of Staff) donated $4440 since 2005.

Add this to Plutonic total ($51,906) and General Electric ($16,987) and you get a hell of a lot of political influence and billions of dollars worth of over-priced energy contracts.

In fact the IPP industry has given over $800,000 to the Liberals since 2001. Check it out for yourself on this community Blog.

http://www.publicpowerbc.ca/ipp-political-contributions-bc-libs-exceeds-800000

Many important BC Liberals have moved to the Gold Rush as well.

http://www.publicpowerbc.ca/insiders-move-ipp-industry

The above Blogs document and link to evidence that don't look too good for the BC Liberals. In fact considering they have given away over $30 Billion in contracts so far, the BC Rail scandal pales by comparison.

Lies, damned lies and................

............ Bill Boring. I wonder how much Bill Boring donates to the BC Liberals? Does he want to be the new L. G.? Also, a note to the CRTC is in order, suggesting that 'NW 98 is an advertising arm of the BC Liberals?

Does CORUS donate to the Liberals?

No wonder the once mighty '98 is a pale shadow of its former self.

Pimping BC

I wonder where Patrick Moore is?

Seems to be a 'green' opportunity here!

true, true...

Wallace -- you're right about that, and now I want some pie. He did lie, and it didn't come off well at all. :) When I heard the stutter in his voice on CKNW, I just thought to myself "He's lapsing into CEO speak"... which after having been an investor for many years in equities, you just know is salesman mode.

To someone else -- it would be an entirely different situation if the candidate him/herself made that error, instead of the CEO as was the case here. You can't compare the media attention of a CEO's "pie" to what theoretically would happen if Carole James served the same "pie." :)

Brian

Nice work Brian, kudos!

A ride to Hawaii

Just bought dinner! LOL!

Next it will be I just gave the Premier a ride to Hawaii (re: corporate jet!)!!!!

No wonder politicians are desperate to stay in power, green power that is! LOL!

Where is that coming precipice when you need it!

You know the one which will actually make us change our unsustainable behaviours!

Where is Klaatu when we need him most?

A follow up......

John Malcolm really hammered the CEO of Plutonic today.......

It`s a must listen to segment,including another special appearence from Quarry.

Cue up april 8th/ 3.00 pm--the segement is between about 3.10pm ish to 3.25pm ish

Here is the link

http://www.cknw.com/stationshared/audiovault.aspx