British and French ministries aren’t commenting on a British newspaper’s report that France will send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan.

Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre told CTV’s Newsnet that he believes the French troops will go to eastern Afghanistan to help the Americans.

I went through the whole Liberal Press Release and they didn’t mention even trying to contact MacKay. I guess in their view, putting “Critic:” in front of headlines means they don’t need to provide any balance.

In his riding of Shawinigan or Saint-Maurice-Lafleche, Mr. Chretien had a tough time getting ahead of the Creditiste (damn the ADQ) and in order to make his life easier, he would make sure one of his friends would win the Conservative nomination, and then not campaign very much during the election. According to Jean, some people just liked the business they would get by having their name on the ballot and on the posters.

This strategy was not public. It was not a park-your-vote ploy in Shawinigan. It was slightly nefarious methods by one of the smartest political operatives in Canadian history.

At Fuddle Duddle.

Here, I thought he just bought off the voters. He’s actually cheaper than I thought.

Some 200,000 Liberal party members are entitled to vote but party officials concede less than half will likely turn out.

From Canada.com
Reason for the low turnout is the lack of transportation from cemetaries.

UPDATE: Steve has an update on Volpe’s “I don’t discriminate against dead people” fine that was handed down.