From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Getting their friends and allies settled into comfy, well-paid positions   
   before the election?   
      
   You bet.  Even if they lose the election, it will be all that more work for   
   Mulcair to rout them all.  Sorta like laying land mines all over the   
   government agencies before losing the election and having to leave the land.   
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   Ottawa Citizen, July 7, 2015   
      
      
   Tories unleash torrent of patronage appointments   
      
   The Conservative government made 98 patronage appointments over two days last   
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   month, filling up federal boards, tribunals and panels in advance of the   
   October election.   
      
   At least two failed Conservative candidates number among those receiving   
   government jobs.   
      
   On June 18 and 19, cabinet approved the long list of appointees to bodies such   
   as the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,   
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   the National Capital Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.   
      
   It also made 40 judicial appointments, elevating some sitting judges and   
   adding new names to the bench at various levels of courts.   
      
   Among them was Winnipeg lawyer Regan Thatcher, the son of former Saskatchewan   
   Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Colin Thatcher, who was convicted of   
   killing his wife in 1983.       (@_@)     
      
   Gary Meschinshnick, the president of the conservative Saskatchewan Party, was   
   named to the Queen's Bench in the province.   
      
   Denise Ghanam, who ran and lost for the federal Tories against New Democrat   
   Joe Comartin in 2008, was named to the Windsor, Ont., port authority.   
      
   Troy DeSouza, a Victoria lawyer who thrice ran unsuccessfully for the   
   Conservatives, in 2006, 2008 and 2011, was named a part-time member of the   
   Military Police Complaints Commission.   
      
   A former colleague of Finance Minister Joe Oliver, investment banker Michael   
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   Mackasey, was named chairman of the Canada Development Investment Corporation.   
      
   Former British Columbia cabinet minister, Olga Ilich, a member of the   
   B.C. Liberal Party, was named chair of the Canadian Tourism Commission.   
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   The blizzard of appointments will, no doubt, have some recalling the preamble   
   to the 1984 election campaign, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau approved a   
   similar orgy of patronage of mostly Liberal supporters.   
      
   Left to pick up the mess after Trudeau resigned, Prime Minister John Turner   
   claimed during the televised leaders debate that he had no option when he sat   
   at the cabinet table when the appointments rubber stamped.   
      
   Brian Mulroney shot back, "You had an option, sir.  You could have said, 'I am   
   not going to do it.  This is wrong for Canada, '" scoring a decisive blow in   
   the debate.   
      
   The list of recent appointments include five new members added to the National   
   Capital Commission board shortly before a key meeting on the contentious   
   memorial to the Victims of Communism, planned for a space near the Supreme   
   Court of Canada.   
      
   Cabinet also made eight appointments to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Dispute   
   Advisory Panel, an obscure body that rules on the amount of money the federal   
   government pays municipal governments in place of property taxes for   
   government buildings.   
      
   The appointments made by cabinet on June 18 and 19:   
      
   ~    Appointment of JOHANNE BÉLISLE of Montréal, Quebec, to be Commissioner of   
   Patents, to hold office during pleasure for a term of five years; and   
   appointment of JOHANNE BÉLISLE to be Registrar of Trade-marks, to hold office   
   during pleasure for a term    
   of five years, effective September 8, 2015.   
      
   ~    Appointment of DAVID KRITTERDLIK of Whale Cove, Nunavut, to be a member   
   of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, to hold office during good behaviour   
   for a term of four years.   
       
   ~   Appointment of MICHAEL NEYELLE of Deline, Northwest Territories, to be   
   chairperson of the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board, for a term of five years.   
      
   ~   Appointment of LEONARD KENNY of Deline, Northwest Territories, to be a   
   member of the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board, for a term of five years.   
       
   ~  Appointment of JEFF WALKER of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, to be a   
   member of the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board, for a term of five years.   
       
   ~  Appointment of Janet E. King of Ottawa, Ontario, to be a member of the   
   Board of Directors of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, to hold   
   office during pleasure for a term of five years.   
      
   ~    Appointment of JEAN-ROBERT BERNIER of Ottawa, Ontario, to be a member of   
   the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to hold   
   office during pleasure for a term of three years.   
      
   ~    Appointment of TODD J. MCCARTHY of Whitby, Ontario, to be a director of   
   the Board of Management of the Canada Revenue Agency, to hold office during   
   pleasure for a term of three years.   
      
   ~   Appointment of PAUL ROBERT YOUNG of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be a member   
   of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Dispute Advisory Panel to hold office during   
   good behaviour for a term of three years.   
       
   ~  Appointment of NORMAN MAY, Q.C., of Toronto, Ontario, to be a director of   
   the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to hold office   
   during good behaviour for a term of five years.   
       
   ~  Appointment of MARIE-LINDA LORD of Dieppe, New Brunswick, to be a member of   
   Telefilm Canada to hold office during pleasure for a term of five years.   
       
   ~  Appointment of the HONOURABLE YVES de MONTIGNY, to be a Judge of the   
   Federal Court of Appeal, and a member ex officio of the Federal Court.   
       
   ~  Appointment of the MARIE-JOSÉE HOGUE, to be a Puisne Judge of the Court of   
   Appeal of the Province of Quebec, with residence in the territory of Ville de   
   Montréal or in the immediate vicinity thereof.   
       
   ~  Appointment of the HONOURABLE ROBIN B. CAMP, to be a Judge of the Federal   
   Court, and a member ex officio of the Federal Court of Appeal.   
       
   ~  Approval of the appointment by the Minister of Employment and Social   
   Development of VICTOR BRUNETTE of Gatineau, Quebec, to be a member of the   
   Board of Directors of the National Capital Commission, to hold office during   
   pleasure for a term of four    
   years, in the place of Richard Paul Jennings.   
       
      
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