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Hephaestion
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: Mr. Morality Vic Toews in adultery scandal |
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Is he now headed for a judicial appointment?
| Quote: | About six months before I spotted Toews at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Stephen Harper shuffled him from the high-profile Justice portfolio into the influential but less noticeable job of Treasury Board President. It was Jan 2007, and the move puzzled cabinet-watchers. It was seen as a demotion, even though Conservatives seemed to like Toews as Justice Minister. Apart from some controversial views, he hadn't done anything scandalous — at least not that most people knew about at the time.
In light of new revelations about his personal life, though, the move is now seen as Harper's attempt to distance himself from Toews.
That's because the Treasury Board President's formerly squeaky-clean image as an upright, Christian family man is now in tatters. His wife of 32 years, and the mother of his adult children has filed for divorce. A few months ago, another woman gave birth to a baby — his.
Many people would say that's nobody's business, except for one thing: the way the Conservatives are allegedly trying to deal with the sticky situation of having an adulterer in their ranks.
Recently, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that Toews has been vetted for a vacancy on Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench, a position the prime minister gets to fill. Meanwhile, rumours are flying around the province that the provincial Tory MLA for the seat that Toews represents federally is being groomed to run in Toews' place.
After Harper's late-June cabinet shuffle, in which Toews kept his job at treasury, the Free Press quoted a Conservative party source as saying, "I think we're looking more towards the end of August (for Toews' possible judicial appointment and departure from cabinet). Now just was not the time."
So, instead of being punished for his hypocrisy, it looks like the 55-year-old Toews might actually be rewarded. After all, a quarter-million-dollar salary as a judge (on top of his lucrative public sector pensions) would come in handy for someone who's taking a trip through Divorce Court.
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In Canada, hypocritical Bible-thumping politicians seem to be less common. But the Toews case is a doozy — not so much because of his divorce and out-of-wedlock baby, but because he's always taken a hard line against judicial appointments that look political. Back in the days of Paul Martin's Liberal government, when then-Justice Minister Irwin Cotler named his chief-of-staff to the Federal Court, Toews said, "It's just one more illustration of how who you know gets you on the bench." Politics, he bemoaned, plays an important role in judicial appointments.
Well before Toews became Canada's Minister of Justice in early 2006, he told a national anti-abortion conference, "Parliament is limited in its ability to act because of judicial activism." He also did an interview with a U.S. group called Concerned Women for America (mission: "to protect traditional values that support the Biblical design of the family") in which he said, "We have seen these radical liberal judges who have their own social agenda coming to the bench and forgetting that their responsibility is to interpret the law and not to make the law. And so we are very, very concerned about that."
But what about the possibility of a Judge Toews? Should we be concerned about that? In light of Toews' rumoured judicial appointment, let's take a look at his own social agenda and the types of positions he's taken over the years.
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The day after Toews was appointed Canada's justice minister, he announced that teenagers couldn't be trusted to make their own decisions about sex. He introduced a bill to raise the age of consent for vaginal sex from 14 to 16 (with a near-age exemption of five years), while maintaining the age of consent for anal sex at 18. That bill became law May 1, 2008.
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And, at the same time, Toews has said that kids should be held responsible for committing crimes at younger ages. In other words, reducing the age of responsibility from 12 to 10. |
Lots, lots more @ link...
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Reverend Blair
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Toews is a freak, that's for sure. He has no personal morals or scruples, but he does have some sort of bizarre personality disorder that causes him to want to lock up others who do exactly the same things he does.
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DSquared
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Introducing vikileaks:
| Quote: | Someone identified as "vikileaks30" started a Twitter account and began posting details from the court file of Toews’ divorce from his former wife, Lorraine Fehr.
"Vic wants to know about you. Let's get to know about Vic," reads the first tweet.
More than three dozen followed, quoting mostly, it appears, an affidavit from Fehr in which intimate details about their marriage are laid bare.
Toews is under fire this week by privacy activists and opposition MPs over a bill he introduced Tuesday. The bill, given the short title, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, will require Internet service providers to give police basic subscriber information about their clients, such as names, addresses, email addresses and IP addresses.
Toews insists the legislation gives nobody access to emails or websites people visit without a warrant. It’s instead forcing companies to reveal six pieces of information about who people are that police need in order to get a warrant in the first place, Toews said in a news conference this morning. |
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Vundo Draxon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| It seems that vikleaks30 has already been taken offline. |
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| Someone remind me again the punishment Toews' god prescribes for adultery? |
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Senor Magoo
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Does anyone have Ken Starr on speed dial?
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Sibjyn
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Tell Vic Everything!
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23TellVicEverything |
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sparqui
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:21 am Post subject: |
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That was inspired. I'm sure I amused myself for more than an hour reading the responses.
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Vundo Draxon
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| Vundo Draxon wrote: | | It seems that vikleaks30 has already been taken offline. |
It further seems that it's mirrored at https://twitter.com/#!/VikiLeaks2
(I can't make that a clickable link for some reason...) |
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The Evil Twin
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| F. wrote: | | Someone remind me again the punishment Toews' god prescribes for adultery? |
A few years ago (when I believed that Christian Conservatives actually took their Old Testament morality seriously), I would have been shocked, but not anymore. See, what I've come to realize is that these hypocrites don't really care about sexual immorality, as long as the sinners are heterosexual conservatives. What else can one conclude after looking at the HUGE list of offenders in North America over the last few years? From the likes of Toews, the Palin family, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter etc we have got: Adultery, prostitution, premarital sex, having children out of wedlock, living together before marriage, and if Gingrich's ex is to be believed, seeking to engage in threesomes and swinging....and all these are okay, as long as the sinner is 1) a heterosexual conservative Christian and 2) seems to (or pretends to) "repent".
It seems Christian morality and outrage only apply to gays and lesbians as well as heterosexual "liberals" like Bill Clinton or Elliot Spritzer. Gawd doesn't seem to mind if Christian conservatives break his commandments (as long as they're doing it with other conservative heterosexuals - preferably white* - of course). 
*although I should add, even not being white is okay, as long as the sinner has sufficiently ingratiated himself with the Christian right, as we see with Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas and in Canada, the lovable "party animal" Rahim Jaffer (though Harper did eventually get tired of him).
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