Garth Turner gets caught.
Reverend Blair @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:38 am
Why would I say that? I wouldn't be voting for him if I lived in his riding. I support anti-floor crossing legislation. Turner isn't exactly my favourite politician.
I also support honesty in politics though, and Turner doing it does NOT excuse the conservative candidate doing it.
mtbr @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:27 am
Garth
The facts Mr. Turner are as follows.
Our producer called you around 11 a.m. Monday morning. He identified himself as calling from CBC News. You spoke with him for a time, and then the producer asked if you would speak with me.. and said we’d like to call you back from a studio where we can record. You agreed.
We called you back within 10 mins. We were delayed a few more minutes as we tried to connect the phone call with the record booth, which we told you.
Then you and I began to talk. I started by saying we were trying to “drill down on the bloggers claims” and you responded as I reported “well I hope you are going to drill down on the kind of gutter politics that creates this crap”.
We talked for roughly 10-15 minutes. At one point you said and I am quoting from the interview transcript:
Garth Turner: “It’s one thing to have it on YouTube, you put this on CBC… ahh, I can’t prevent you, and you can do it if you want and I’ll do your little interview here.”
It is clear to us that you knew you were speaking to a CBC journalist and agreed to do so, and that you acknowledged you were doing an interview.
I might remind you when I tried to further clarify further the events of the doorknocking , you hung up on me.
At the end of the day, Mr. Turner, in your email to Peter Van Dusen of CPAC, copied to us, you were still putting blame on CPAC.
“The bottom line seems to be that CPAC was informed, prior to shooting, that the home in question was that of the son of my associate.”
CPAC has categorically denied that claim. We represented both your side and CPAC’s rebuttal, on our story Monday night.
Regards,
Susan Ormiston
CBC News
Wada @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:22 pm
Mr. Turner may be lying, but Mr. Harper set the precedent.
ridenrain @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:36 pm
Nice one.. Wada-bunch of crap. 
We have this beautiful example, thanks to the desperate Paul Martin government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_wKs_r0D9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_wKs_r0D9M
“Average Canadian or Liberal Insider?”
No. Liberal insider. Art Cowie is a former Liberal MLA in BC.
No. Liberal insider. Matthew Naylor is a Young Liberal activist in BC.
No. Liberal insider. Mike Burton was a 2003 Candidate for the Liberals in Saskatchewan.
No. Liberal insider. Scott Andrews is the executive director of a Liberal association in Newfoundland-Labrador.
No. Liberal insider. Paul Lehman is the former VP-Provincial for the Liberals in Ontario.
No. Liberal insider. Andrew Block is the former president of the campus Liberals at the University of Waterloo.
No. Liberal insider. Jacob Mksyartinian is the former riding president in London, Ontario.
No. Liberal insider. Adrienne Cousins is Vice President-Policy Young Liberals of Canada – BC.
No. Liberal insider. Bardish Chagger is a constituency office assistant for Ontario Liberal MP Andrew Telegdi.
No. Liberal insider. Peter Yung is riding association president for the Liberal Party in Burnaby-Douglas, B.C.
No. Liberal insider. Neil Dhalla is a brother of Ruby Dhalla, a Liberal MP.
No. Liberal insider. Lamiley Lutterodt is the former business manager for Regina Liberal candidate Simone Clayton in the 2003 Saskatchewan election.
No. Liberal insider. Joel Peterson is the executive director of Saskatchewan's Liberal party and a key organizer for Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
I guess the Liberal lawyers got to this one because the original page is down.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:l1 ... cd=1&gl=ca
EyeBrock @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:43 pm
There has also bee more stuff on Garth and his lying ways.
He was exposed in the local media for posting under a false name as 'Milton John' ( all stuff about how great Garth was and how it would be splendid to have more tax on gas etc). Unfortunately for Garth some techie geek noticed that Garth and 'Milton John' had the same IP address. Since then 'Milton John' stopped blogging and Garth squirmed away...
Garth is such a loser. He is history in Halton.
ridenrain @ Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:24 pm
I guess Garth never heard the phrase: "when you're in a hole, stop digging".
$1:
Well, Susan, there are two sides to all stories and I’m flattered you feel it necessary to use my blog to get your message out, when a national TV network is insufficient. Actually, I was asked if I wished to be interviewed by you, but before agreeing, I wanted a conversation. When you became argumentative, the futility of speaking with you further was apparent. So, I did something useful. I went door-knocking. At no point did you indicate our words were being taped. You did not ask me, as Peter Van Dusen did, if you could record. In fact, I sent you the following email after our encounter, “Re: Our Conservation. It was not on the record, as you did not indicate so. Regards, Garth.” I copied Keith Boag, which he confirmed. BTW, you never offered an on-camera interview with me, as you did with Conservative blogger Janke and CPAC’s Stringer. But, whatever. You win. Now can we talk about issues affecting Canadians? —
What an idiot.