Thursday, December 22, 2011

Helena Guergis Suing Stephen Harper For $1.3 Million Dollars

While it is fair to question whether or not Stephen Harper should have banished Helena Guergis from caucus over busty hooker allegations, it is ridiculous to suggest that he's guilty of intentional infliction of mental suffering. The Prime Minister was concerned about surviving in minority parliament and winning elections, not deliberately trying to hurt her feelings. What we do know for sure is that she was removed from caucus after the busty hooker story came out, and she was not reinstated when she was cleared of wrong doing in that case. The truth is that there was more to her expulsion than just Magnum PI's cocaine and prostitute story. Her husband Rahim Jaffer created his own business and was using her office, even her e-mail account, to lobby Conservative MPs for government contracts. They even had a website that suggested Jaffer had special access to the government, unnerving considering he was married to a Cabinet Minister.

People seem to forget that there was more to Guergis-gate than just hookers and blow. There was the airport meltdown that prompted Mark Holland to accuse her on national television of "assaulting airport security", though I don't see his name included in the defamation lawsuit. Anitta Neville accused her of being a drug dealer, but she's not getting sued either. While Guergis may have been cleared of trafficking drugs, her husband was still picked up driving dangerously while in possession of cocaine. I always believed that Helena's permanent expulsion from caucus had as much to do with the indiscretions of her husband than anything she had been accused of. It had everything to do with winning the next election in a minority parliament with a rabid media and opposition, not the intentional infliction of pain and suffering on Helena Geurgis.

The less covered story is that Guergis had several family members involved in local politics in her riding, and they were all wiped out in municipal elections in 2010. The family brand had become toxic in that area because of their support for a very unpopular development project. Why was the riding association in Simcoe so quick to let her go?

"Tony Guergis received a letter from Helena Guergis, his cousin, touting a green technology company to Simcoe County officials while her husband, Rahim Jaffer, and businessman Nazim Gillani were involved in a plan to take the firm public in a $1 billion deal.


Meanwhile, David Guergis became famous for wanting to dissolve the Nottawasaga Conservation Authority. He drew criticism when it emerged that his wife owned potential development property on a local flood plain."

It was the Prime Minister's right to remove the candidate if he felt they damaged the electoral prospects of the party. The illegal lobbying and her husband's indiscretions caused more harm to her political career than Stephen Harper removing her from caucus. She still ran in the 2011 election and lost. Her constituents did not want her to be their MP any longer.

12 comments:

  1. What about Wayne Easter,lggy,Toronto Star and the CBC? Looks like sour grapes against the conservatives instead of where her anger should be going...LIBERALS.

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  2. Helena knows dam well that the PM had stood by her through thick and thin defending her time and time again against Easter, Ignatief and others who wanted her to resigned fired. CBC followed the opposition in attacking her daily and still she runs to CBC to tell her story. She walked right into hell.

    I hope that the defense call on Easter and asked him if he was drunk before boarding a plane when he was still an mp and did the CPC call on him to resign.

    The liberals wouldn't mind her running for the leadership of the LPC since they have after damming her not are sucking up to her. USE THEM Helena.

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  3. jen that's not wayne Easter that was John Macallum just correcting you. your rite though she should be I remember when harper stood up and defended her rite to the hilt. untill he found out she lied.

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  4. That you Roy for the correction.

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  5. sorry Roy, I meant 'thank you'

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  6. You can't tell how dangerous a person is by looking at them,and PM Harper is very dangerous,and I'm darn well glad he is.Yes, he did keep sticking up for her.I liked Helena a lot before this all happened, even though I didn't know to much about her.I still kind of like her,as she is conservative.Gerald

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  7. "The family brand had become toxic"

    What is with you people and "brands." LoL

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  8. Wrong..it was Wayne Easter...He got sent the letter from the airport about Helena

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=Wayne+Easter+and+helena+Guergis&form=AARTDF&pc=MAAR&src=IE-SearchBox

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  9. no anon john macallum was to drunk to fly that is who jen was talking about. wayne easter may have done what you said but she was talking about to drunk to fly. john Macallum missed his flight because of it

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  10. The brave John McCallum blamed his mother for giving him too much wine.

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  11. John MacCallum also caught being unaware of what kind of car he owned. Talk about being out of it.

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  12. Yeah... that drunken blowhard McCallum didn't even know the difference between the Nazi led Vichy Government and Vimy Ridge.. typical "Liberal", Trudeauvian history... Thanks for posting the above info Iceman... I used to have some sympathy for Guergis, but this latest stunt is inexplicably stupid.

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