Archive for October 2nd, 2008
Bush Dumville – Watergate’s non reply reply revisited
Bush Dumville, MLA, working on the perfect non-reply reply
In the Watergate Scandal, reporters Woodward and Bernstein created the term “non-reply reply“. It meant an answer that was not direct to the question and meant to mislead. My mother called them lies. If you’re a lawyer you call it disingenuous.
CBC – P.E.I. auditor general will do full review of immigrant fund
CBC
Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 5:09 PM AT
P.E.I.’s Provincial Nominee Program, at the centre of a controversy about how immigrants’ money is being invested, will be subject to a full review by the province’s auditor general.
In the five months before the PNP was closed down on Sep. 2, about 2,000 potential immigrants put up $200,000 each for visas to come to Canada, pending health and security checks. In the last week serious questions have been raised about where that money was invested, and the involvement of companies owned by government MLAs.
CBC – P.E.I. writes cheque for immigrant protester
CBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 4:05 PM AT
The protesters are escorted by police from the office of PEI Business Development Inc. (CBC)
A Chinese immigrant who protested at a P.E.I. government office Wednesday, saying the province owed him money under the provincial nominee program, was handed a cheque Thursday morning.
Eleven other immigrants, all who came to P.E.I. under the nominee program, have meetings to discuss their files scheduled for Thursday.
Just In – Did the Premier’s wife get PNP funds?
Premier Robert and Dr. Kate Ghiz, are they in on the Immigrant Scam?
A newly registered company on PEI raises the question – was the Premier forthright in his statements to CBC this week?
The corporation K.J.M.E.G. PROFESSIONAL CORP. was registered on August 1, 2008. This puts it square within the period when Liberals were registering thousands of corporations to scam immigrant funds.
Guardian – MLA received funds from investor program
TERESA WRIGHT
The Guardian
A government MLA removed from the public accounts committee Tuesday says although he did receive money through a provincial immigration investment program, this was not the reason he left the committee.
Bush Dumville, MLA for West Royalty-Springvale, was a member of the committee which is charged with matters concerning the public funds of P.E.I. since first taking office in the spring of 2007.
Bush Dumville MLA, admits to PNP funds but not how much, “This wasn’t even on the radar"
On Tuesday, the committee was informed by a letter from the premier that Dumville and Alan McIsaac, MLA for Vernon River-Stratford, would no longer serve as members.
Guardian – Immigrants stage protest seeking $25,000 deposit back
WAYNE THIBODEAU
The Guardian
A group of nine Chinese investors who were demanding their money back from a provincial government program that aims to connect immigrant money with local business were removed by Charlottetown police officers Wednesday from a downtown office building.
Jinhui Gao, a Chinese immigrant on P.E.I., vents his anger during a protest Wednesday in Charlottetown at the Prince Edward Island Business Development offices. He and other immigrants say the provincial government has not returned their “good faith’’ deposits of $25,000 each paid when they immigrated to the province. Guardian photo by Brian McInnis
The immigrants staged a sit-in at the offices of P.E.I. Business Development, demanding their $25,000 “good faith’’ deposit back. The money is supposed to be returned after the immigrants have lived in Canada for over a year.
But some investors who have been in Prince Edward Island for up to two years have not seen one cent of that money returned.
The immigrants say they were promised a face-to-face meeting, but after waiting five hours the only face-to-face meeting they had was with Charlottetown police officers.
CBC – Immigrant investors demand their money
CBC.ca
Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 7:07 AM AT
Twelve Chinese immigrants staged a sit-down protest Wednesday in a downtown Charlottetown provincial government building, saying they are owed money they provided for investment.
Chinese protestors claim Province is holding their money
The 12 came to P.E.I. under the Provincial Nominee Program, which provided visas for immigrants who could put up $200,000 for investment in Island companies. One of the conditions of the program was that if the immigrants stayed on Prince Edward Island for at least a year, they would be entitled to get back $25,000.
Liberals unravelling like a ball of twine
When a ball of twine starts to unravel, there’s usually no stopping it. The Liberal government of Robert Ghiz is unravelling at a rapid pace only 16 months into its mandate. The Island’s 22,000 people with disabilities have no hope of relief unless we become a photo-op for the Premier.
Premier Robert Ghiz, unravelling
Since the Immigrant Scam story broke last week on CBC, it has had nearly daily coverage on CBC or in the Guardian. The Guardian is doing two stories a day and I can’t keep up with my blogs anymore.
Immigrant Scam is 4 times bigger than Ad-Scam that killed the Chretien/Martin Liberals. You’ve got to hand it to the Ghiz backroom boys for finding that much money to steal from the Chinese.
Chretien and Martin, Ad-Scam axed both
CBC Comments – Immigrant investors demand their money
CBC.ca
Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 7:07 AM AT
Chinese Immigrants demand money back from Province of PEI
JohnFrum wrote:
I must be reading this wrong. It almost seems like they are selling visas for $175K. Must have been an article about russia or something, surely not about us…
Not sure why those people came to PEI anyway, if they have already $200K to toss around I’m willing to bet that they could have a good life in China. It’s the poor bugger who barely has $2k to his/her name in china that we should be trying to help out – not someone who is already a success.
