Archive for December 17th, 2008
Big Lie # 3 – PNP creates jobs
For a scam as big as the immigrant scam you need big lies. The first and second big lies were 1) the money went into legitimate businesses and 2) it was a private deal with no government influence.
The Third Big Lie is: the PNP money created jobs.
Innovation Minister Richard Brown said over and over at the Public Accounts Committee hearing “The money created jobs. It saved jobs from the coming recession.
Tim Banks, a businessman puts his PNP units and Air Miles together
Big Lie # 3. Here’s what PNP windfall money did: it allowed business owners and the other recipients to indulge themselves.
So we’re putting togethter a list of things that you can but with PNP units. We’re taking $40,000 as the average a “business man” would get.
Tim Banks would only needed 4 PNP units to get this.
Porsche = 4 PNP units
Liberal bullies shut down Public Accounts Committee into PNP scandal
By Stephen Pate
NJN News
December 17, 2008, Filed 1:30 PM
At approximately 12:15 noon, the Liberal members of the Public Accounts Committee looking in the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) forced a motion that shut down the hearings until after the Auditor General’s report.
Despite requests from the Opposition and Chairperson Jim Bagnall, MLA Conservative Montague to bring Innovation Minister Richard Brown back to finish answering questions, the Liberal Members unanimously passed a motion that shut the PAC down. The Liberals argued the Auditor General should be allowed to do his job without interference from the PAC.
Chair Bagnall said he had a letter from the AG stating the PAC was not interfering with his work and he did not object to their hearings.
The Liberal majority would hear none of that and shut the committee down indefinitely.
PAC member Mike Currie (Conservative) argued and presented a motion to take the committee hearings across the Island as had been the case with the Polar Seafoods issue.
The Liberals shut that down.
There was fireworks as committee members tried to shout down the chair, argue across the table and generally disrupt the proceedings.
The Liberal majority had effectively reduced question time to 44% of the total 2 mornings devoted to the PNP scandal hearings.
Opposition Leader Olive Crane said she now had 400 questions to ask. She was only able to ask fewer than 20 questions during both hearings.
Film as fast as we can edit.
