From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   The riding is currently held by NDP Member of Parliament, Nicole Turmel.   
      
   And this transfer of taxpayer dollar 'festival funding' - from Montreal to   
   Hull - is how the Harper Cons planned to do it . . .  by promising goodies to   
   a riding where they want to re-gain a seat they lost to the NDP in the 2011   
   election.   
      
   Who says 'money can't buy power'?  The Cons are using our money to buy   
   themselves power every day.  We need to take away their ability to do that   
   anymore.   
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   Conservatives: Etienne Boulrice, a veteran political operative in the Gatineau   
   area, stepped up Sept. 11 to announce he would be carrying the Conservative   
   banner. Boulrice, who ran for the ill-fated Coalition Avenir Québec in the   
   last Quebec election, is    
   a former advisor to ex-federal Tory cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon, (Harper   
   Conservative, defeated by NDP in 2011) as well as ex-MP André Bachand before   
   that.   
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   Ottawa Citizen - September 20, 2015   
      
   The Gargoyle: Hull-Aylmer Tory candidate considers dropping out over gaffe   
       
   The most recent addition to the ballot in Hull-Aylmer riding may become the   
   first candidate to drop out.   
      
   Etienne Boulrice, a veteran Outaouais political operative who threw his hat   
   into the ring with a "soft" launch about 10 days ago, says he's now   
   considering dropping out after "inadvertently" releasing confidential funding   
   information on a bid to bring    
   the "Mosaïcultures" botanical festival to Gatineau for Canada's 150th Birthday   
   in 2017.   
      
   At issue is Boulrice's revelation in an interview with Le Droit newspaper   
   earlier this week that organizers were seeking about $14.5 million from the   
   federal government to put on the massive exhibition, which normally takes   
   place in Montreal and draws up    
   to 1.2 million visitors a year.   
      
   People were a little surprised at the specificity of Boulrice's information.   
      
   Organizers, including a select committee headed by Gatineau Coun. Maxime   
   Tremblay, had been tight-lipped on their financing wish list but never really   
   argued with mentions of an overall pricetag in the $40-million range.   
      
   It turns out, Boulrice said in Le Droit Saturday that he obtained the number   
   in a conversation with Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin "several months ago" in   
   Heritage Minister Shelley Glover's office, where he's been working.  Glover   
   has also been in charge of    
   the 150th anniversary projects.   
      
   He insisted he had no idea the info was secret and also insisted he hadn't   
   been told by anyone in the Conservative braintrust to leak the info as part of   
   some campaign strategy.   
      
   That being said, Boulrice told the newspaper he was strongly considering   
   stepping down as candidate to save further embarrassment for his party and/or   
   himself.   
      
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