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Harper sues Dion

by DavidAkin on Mon 03 Mar 2008 12:01 PM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Sometime around breakfast this morning at Stornaway, Stephane Dion became what is believe to be the first-ever Leader of the Official Opposition to be sued for saying something nasty about a Prime Minister. Lawyers for Stephen Harper served Dion with a Notice of Libel for “two devastatingly defamatory articles” that Harper’s lawyers say were published at the Liberal Web site.

Harper’s lawyers want the two offending articles immediately taken down from the Web site and then,

We require that on the first available opportunity the Honourable Stkphane Dion read the following Apology in English and French during Member's Statements time in the House of Commons and that this Apology be posted in English and French on the Liberal Party website at www.liberal.ca:

“Member’s Statement” time in the House of Commons runs for the 15 or 20 minutes just prior to Question Period which, on Mondays, begins at 2:15 pm Ottawa time.

Read the Notice of Libel Harper gave to Dion today:

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Re: Harper sues Dion

by bobo17 on Mon 03 Mar 2008 12:52 PM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

Below are some quotes from QP on February 28, 2008 from Liberal and NDP Members of Parliament:

Stephan Dion (lib) - “Chuck Cadman was a man of great integrity”

Karen Redgrave (lib) - “Chuck Cadman was a respected parliamentarian and a man of integrity”

Mr. Sukh Dhaliwalas (lib) “was an esteemed representative of the people of Surrey, Chuck Cadman was a man of integrity”

Mr. Todd Russell (lib) – “Chuck Cadman was a man of integrity. Those who were privileged to have known him and served alongside of him”

Pat Martin (NDP) - “Mr. Speaker, Chuck Cadman was one of the most decent and honourable members of Parliament I have ever known”.

Ms. Raymonde Folco (lib) – “Chuck Cadman was a man whose integrity was beyond reproach”.

Is Chuck Cadman the same guy that was elected as a Reform MP?? You remember the Reformers, they were the ones that the Liberals, NDP and media routinely referred to as “extreme right wingers, neanderthals, country bumpkins, French hating, women hating westerners who disgraced parliament”

Ah the hypocrisy.

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