Indebted-Dion's Delinquent Deposit Deadline.
ridenrain @ Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:11 pm
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Stéphane Dion misses new debt payment deadline -- again
September 13, 2008
For the second time, Stéphane Dion has failed to comply with an Elections Canada deadline to pay back his six-figure campaign debt remaining from his 2006 Liberal leadership campaign. Stéphane Dion has violated his agent’s written promise to creditors to pay back approximately $230,000 by September 3, 2008 - almost ten days ago.
According to news reports yesterday, Stéphane Dion failed to make the payment and Elections Canada has let him out of his promise, granting him an extra month to make his September payment. The sweetheart deal is the second of its kind and averts a cash crunch in an already financially wobbly Liberal campaign. Lisa Laflamme reports that Stéphane Dion has been given a “one-month extension until October 3rd to report on his repayment plan.”
“Stéphane Dion was supposed to pay off all his campaign debts on June 3, 2008,” noted Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton. “He failed and got a generous extension, under which he promised to pay off 1/3 of his debts by September 3, 2008. His agent even signed a written promise to the creditors to do so. But yesterday we learned that Dion failed – again. He has missed another deadline and this time he has broken a written commitment to his creditors.”
“If Stéphane Dion can’t keep his own written financial promises, why should Canadians trust him to manage Canada’s finances?” asked Poilievre.
“Stéphane Dion has mismanaged his own campaign finances. Canadians can’t afford a weak and risky Dion, in a time of global economic uncertainty.”
September 13, 2008
For the second time, Stéphane Dion has failed to comply with an Elections Canada deadline to pay back his six-figure campaign debt remaining from his 2006 Liberal leadership campaign. Stéphane Dion has violated his agent’s written promise to creditors to pay back approximately $230,000 by September 3, 2008 - almost ten days ago.
According to news reports yesterday, Stéphane Dion failed to make the payment and Elections Canada has let him out of his promise, granting him an extra month to make his September payment. The sweetheart deal is the second of its kind and averts a cash crunch in an already financially wobbly Liberal campaign. Lisa Laflamme reports that Stéphane Dion has been given a “one-month extension until October 3rd to report on his repayment plan.”
“Stéphane Dion was supposed to pay off all his campaign debts on June 3, 2008,” noted Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton. “He failed and got a generous extension, under which he promised to pay off 1/3 of his debts by September 3, 2008. His agent even signed a written promise to the creditors to do so. But yesterday we learned that Dion failed – again. He has missed another deadline and this time he has broken a written commitment to his creditors.”
“If Stéphane Dion can’t keep his own written financial promises, why should Canadians trust him to manage Canada’s finances?” asked Poilievre.
“Stéphane Dion has mismanaged his own campaign finances. Canadians can’t afford a weak and risky Dion, in a time of global economic uncertainty.”
ridenrain @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:11 pm
No explanation or defence of how this brilliant and effective orator could be so bad a personal finances to let himself get in such debt?
How do you people expect this man to resolve Canada's financial "emergency" when he can't even manage his own campaign.
Not Worth The Risk.
Freakinoldguy @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:34 pm
ridenrain ridenrain:
No explanation or defence of how this brilliant and effective orator could be so bad a personal finances to let himself get in such debt?
How do you people expect this man to resolve Canada's financial "emergency" when he can't even manage his own campaign.
Not Worth The Risk.
How do you people expect this man to resolve Canada's financial "emergency" when he can't even manage his own campaign.
Not Worth The Risk.
Of course there's a logical explination. It was all laid out in the Chatelaine interview with Ms. Krieber. She does all his finances, along with things like dressing him and planning the Liberal party strategy over supper, so it's quite likely, given the reality vaccum he lives in, he doesn't even know about this debt.
If elections Canada ever wants to get the money they're owed, they'd better consult the person wearing the pants in the Dion family.
saturn_656 @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:40 pm
This is the guy that's supposed to save our economy yet he cannot even keep his own finances in order?
What a joke.
ridenrain @ Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:57 pm
That's what the Green Shit tax is for.
Do you think all Liberal insiders have friends and family in Power Corp?
.. well of course they do.. but their cheap ass Liberals friends after all.