Liberal Millionaires Club

Five and 1/2 Minutes - New episode – Dec 3 08

Ghiz takes his ball and goes home

Mystery women on PEI

Media censorship

and more…

The rest of the story.

Most of what Banks says is like mouthing off but every once in a while he tells the truth. He’s always bragging about being on the outs with the Liberals, which we know is a cover story for his patronage in business fund. Here’s what he says about his affiliation with the Liberals.

…in the 39 years that I have been involved in the Liberal party I have seen us do a lot of embarrassing things but I can honestly say that his performance on TV the other night wins the prise….

We know you got your head down in the trough Timmy, don’t worry. How many PNP units did you and your companies get?

C’mon get it over with. You’ll have to talk about it someday.

PEI Premier Robert Ghiz has effectively shut down the site people were using to investigate who opened all those numbered companies this year. The site OpenCorporations.org was recently opened by long-time blogger and internet guru Peter Rukavina.

Ghiz is obviously trying to restrict free public information and we suspect hide the members of the Liberal Millionaires Club. Hey Robert, you’re supposed to be a Liberal – as in liberal – not an oligarch / dictator.

Users could research for free the complex relationships between all PEI for-profit corporations.

Peter explains in his post

The Province of PEI has modified its online Corporate Registry so that details of individual corporations are no longer exposed to search engines — there’s a new “are you human” check on the site, with the note:

Details of registrations in the Corporate Registry are available to the public. A security feature of this online service requires a key code authorization. To view details on any specific registration, please enter the key code below.

I will leave it to others to debate the merits of this move on the Province’s part, but the practical result of the change is that I’ll have to shutter the OpenCorporations.org service shortly, as without the ability to spider the Corporate Register the corporations information there, which is already almost three weeks out of date, would soon become unreasonably inaccurate.

I’ll leave OpenCorporations online until mid-week and then shut things down. I’ll continue to make the spider source code, and the raw data spidered on November 19, 2008 available for download.

Over the week that OpenCorporations has been live there have been over 150,000 searches from 2,100 unique visitors, the vast majority of them from Prince Edward Island. On average each visitor visited 46 pages, and spent 10 minutes on the site.

Of somewhat ironic interest, some of the most frequent users of OpenCorporations.org were within the Government of PEI network (3,927 searches), the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (2,016 searches) and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (1,057 searches).

Rick Adams CEO of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital say privacy of staff is more important than warning Islanders of dangers present at the hospital. This is another example of the dangerous patronage appointments of the Liberal Premier Robert Ghiz.

Mr. Adams, a Liberal party hack and Premier Ghiz appointment, shows that he has no credentials or qualifications for managing the QEH. He’s just a CYA bean counter in an important institution of public health.

Adams not live up to the motto of the QEH

Health System Values:
Caring
We will treat all people with compassion, respect and fairness.

Premier Ghiz has no idea of how to manage PEI and placing people like Adams who are unqualified for their jobs puts all Islanders lives at risk. An accountant is not trained to manage a health care facility. They are trained in accounting, Premier Ghiz. Can you please put your Liberal loyalty meter away and think about Islanders for a minute.

We call on the the Premier to put him some place where he can do no harm and appointment a qualified hospital administrator who can assist in keeping Islanders alive and well, whether they are Liberals or not. Health is not about politics. It’s life and death.

Adams is a typical bean counter – it’s all about the money, making those debit and credits add up. He has little common sense in dealing with the public on a compassionate basis.

We have a right to know what is going on at QEH and remind Adams and Ghiz: it’s our hospital, for us and not some sandbox for the incompetent Liberal patronage pool.