Liberal Party.

[Gone_Fishin]

Dhaliwal would have been hoping to all ends he may have been able to fix or make this go away. HE hasn't and now everyone knows, taking him off as a candidate is the right move now that the Liberals know. I assume you know the intimate personal financial details of every one of your friends?

Didn't think so.

Came to light, he's no longer a candidate, that's all any party can do about things when they aren't informed of private issues like these. This is a Dhaliwal issue and he is out because of it.

Funny that the liberals acted and removed someone doing wrong when it came to light, but Dix just allowed his candidate to steal and when caught the NDP are simply saying "pay it back and all is forgiven"

Yes, there is quite a difference when the Liberals kick their candidate out right away, while the NDP has rewarded Dix with the leadership after (and in the interim, too) he has broken several laws, and would-be NDP leader Lali is allowed to stay on even after he is found thieving constituency funds (aka taxpayers' dollars) for NDP advertising.

There is a deep level of malfeasance among the NDP, rooted perhaps in a sense of entitlement by their candidates that have largely suckled at the taxpayers' teats all their lives. There are no self-made business people in the NDP, rather they are a bunch of activists and union leaders who have never had an entrepreneurial position in their lives. With more and more linkage across Canada of these union leaders to organized crime (Quebec, anyone?), is it any wonder that the propensity to steal is so great among their ranks? They see it as "easy money" when they get into politics, and most certainly we'll be exposed to more and more malfeasance and corruption within the NDP as the days go by.

[NAB]

So what I read from the announcement posted above...

"Sukh Dhaliwal is stepping aside as the BC Liberal Party candidate in Surrey-Panorama."

What have I missed that suggests the party dumped him, turfed him or "removed him" ....and that it wasn't purely his own decision - not someone elses?

Nab

[steven lloyd]

Thank God I can vote for a Conservative candidate (go pipeline!) in my riding with no worry a Liberal candidate might win.

[Gone_Fishin]

^^^ You're reading just what you want to read into it Nab, nothing else.

The outline of a high heeled shoe is clearly imprinted in Sukh's backside. He got kicked so hard I think it may have hurt her toes...

[Gone_Fishin]

"The BC Liberal Party, at Clark's direction, sent out a press release Friday morning that Dhaliwal's candidacy was under review by a committee bearing the unwieldy title of Candidate Approval Subcommittee of the Provincial Election Readiness Committee. Sam Oliphant, a spokesman for the party, wouldn't discuss who's on the committee or when the review was expected to conclude. "We don't release that information," he said. The party's press release stated that Dhaliwal disclosed his "legal situation" to party officials on Wednesday."

[NAB]

I read exactly what was there, and read nothing further into it at all. So far speculatively reading something further into it seems to be the intent of others, not me. What I am reading into the situation is that it appears the party have taken an extremely long time to address the issue.

Nab

[flamingfingers]

^^ Why did Christy not call a presser and announce this herself? She could have almost played the pretend leader by doing so.. Instead, she sends her minions out and hides behind Rich Coleman's ample skirts? Where is she? What has she said about the Eric Foster theft and his malignant influence on the John Doyle backstab? Scandals erupt and where is she??

[NAB]

^^^ You're reading just what you want to read into it Nab, nothing else.

The outline of a high heeled shoe is clearly imprinted in Sukh's backside. He got kicked so hard I think it may have hurt her toes...

SURREY, B.C. - High-profile B.C. Liberal candidate Sukh Dhaliwal says he won't run in the upcoming provincial election after he was charged with six counts of failing to file income taxes.

Dhaliwal, a former two-term MP for the federal Liberals, had been acclaimed as a candidate last October, but a month later he appeared in court on the charges under the Federal Income Tax Act.

The Liberal Party said earlier Friday it was reviewing Dhaliwal's candidacy in Surrey-Panorama after learning about the charges on Wednesday, but Dhaliwal said he wasn't pushed by the party to quit.

http://www.globalnews.ca/canada/bc+libe ... story.html

[Gone_Fishin]

^^ Why did Christy not call a presser and announce this herself? She could have almost played the pretend leader by doing so.. Instead, she sends her minions out and hides behind Rich Coleman's ample skirts? Where is she? What has she said about the Eric Foster theft and his malignant influence on the John Doyle backstab? Scandals erupt and where is she??

Where's Dix with Lali? Busy counting stolen taxpayers' money in a dark room somewhere? Lali should be criminally charged. He's already admited guilt. Nothing has been proven against Suhk. Yet Suhk has respectably stepped down, while Lali continues to steal. How bizarre that you take proven theft by the NDP so lightly yet pounce on unproven allegations elsewhere.

[Urbane]

He was clearly on his way out the door and quit before he was formally booted but the spectre of NDP'ers suggesting that the Liberals were too slow kicking him out juxtaposed against their defence of Dix's indiscretions is mind-boggling. Meanwhile, what is Dix doing about Lali? Silence, but somehow that's okay. It's incredibly hypocritical to say the least.

[flamingfingers]

Sukh Dhaliwal not charged??? He has admitted he did not file proper tax returns and HAS BEEN 'charged'!

The charges were sworn by a Surrey justice of the peace on Oct. 15, 2012 according court records obtained by The Sun.

Two weeks later, the B.C. Liberals announced that Dhaliwal would be their candidate for Surrey-Panorama in the upcoming provincial election.

Dhaliwal made a first appearance on the charges in Surrey Provincial Court Nov. 26 and was arraigned Dec. 17. The case was before a Surrey judge three times in January. And it is again in court today to fix a date.

[maple leaf]

From what Suhk Dhailiwal himself said on Global news just now is that it was his decision to leave and that the party was behind him to stay on.
As far as Lali goes the precedent for what malfeasant action one has to do in order for an individual to be asked to step down from a position as an elected official was set pretty high by none other than Gordon Campbell.Not agreeing with that ,just saying.

[Urbane]

Reading comprehension 101 you guys?

Ethhics 101 is another good course. Those who defend Adrian Dix and even suggest that what he did in forging that document is just what employees do for their bosses should definitely take that course.

[Gone_Fishin]

Charged, not proven guilty of anything. Not sure where anyone said he hasn't been charged? Lali and Dix, on the other hand, have indeed been proven guilty of theft.

FF, why aren't you raving mad about Dix's silence over the theft by Lali?

[flamingfingers]

Charged, not proven guilty of anything. Not sure where anyone said he hasn't been charged? Lali and Dix, on the other hand, have indeed been proven guilty of theft.

FF, why aren't you raving mad about Dix's silence over the theft by Lali?

It has not been proven that he used constituency funds. Why aren't you raving mad about Foster using taxpayers funds to update an office to the benefit of a prominent Liberal donor? Or outraged because Foster did not step down as chair of a committee that stabbed John Doyle in the back in a clear conflict of interest case?