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Ray Novak, chief of staff to the prime minister, is said to prefer an out-of-sight, out-of-mind role in Canadian political life. But thanks to the Mike Duffy trial he has suddenly found himself an object of public scrutiny.
Spotlighted
* Stephen Harper’s current right-hand man knew about secret Mike Duffy payment, court hears. Ray Novak knew! At least that’s the allegation made in court Tuesday as the Mike Duffy trial continued for another day. The prime minister’s chief of staff, had, via a Conservative Party spokesman, denied knowing anything about the plan by former chief of staff Nigel Wright to secretly pay $90,000 to cover Sen. Duffy’s Senate expenses. The allegation to the contrary is included in a statement made to police by Harper’s former legal adviser, Ben Perrin. It was read into the court record by Duffy’s defence lawyer, Donald Bayne.
* Spotlight on Ray Novak, PMO chief who lived above Harper’s garage. The few media portraits of Ray Novak available describe him as low-profile, discreet, with a preference for behind-the-scenes work, and, most crucially, staying out of the headlines. That, it seems, is no longer possible. With Tuesday’s courtroom allegations that he knew of the plan to cover Duffy’s $90,000 Senate expenses, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff as prime minister and key adviser on his election campaign has been shoved into the glare of the public spotlight.
* Christie Blatchford: A bombshell allegation at the irredeemably political Mike Duffy trial. Where to begin but with the bombshell, at long last arriving at the Duffy trial to set Parliament Hill and the campaign buses ablaze and potentially place the prime minister in the soup. What emerged at the trial late Tuesday was the revelation that another key Harper aide, Ray Novak, then working as Harper’s principal secretary and now on the election trail with the PM, was allegedly in the room when then-chief of staff Nigel Wright announced that he was going to pay Duffy’s ill-gotten expenses out of his own pocket.
Pluck the voters
* Toronto the kingmaker: A handful of GTA ridings will likely decide the election. With dozens of the 50 plus Toronto and GTA seats up for grabs, all three parties have targeted the region as likely the most important in the country. So while the focus now may be on Nigel Wright’s testimony in the Duffy trial, come October, Conservative, Liberal and New Democrat insiders all believe, victory will rest far more on who can best micro-target the myriad demographics in this city and its surrounding suburbs than on who knew about what cheque when. For the Conservatives, it’s a matter of holding on to what they’ve got, while the Liberals hope to regain what they lost. The NDP, meanwhile, believes it can break through where the party has never before, stealing seats not just in Toronto proper, but in the deep suburbs, too.
Buy the voters (with their own green)
* Trudeau promises $300 million a year to develop and market green technology. A Liberal government will invest millions of dollars to support a clean technology initiative to create jobs and wealth, says Justin Trudeau — $200 million a year to develop clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, mining, energy and farming. This will not only boost economic growth, he says, but will also meet environmental challenges.
* Mulcair promises $9M for disaster preparedness, training programs. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is promising to inject a “modest” $9 million into natural disaster prevention and relief as Western Canada reels from one of its worst wildfire seasons on record. Mulcair was campaigning in British Columbia, where a raging blaze recently tore through the province’s Interior, destroying dozens of homes and forcing hundreds to flee at a moment’s notice. “An NDP government will assist provinces to keep Canadians safe from fires and floods as the effects of climate change worsen,” he said.
Please the voters
* NDP MP, elected in 2011 without any campaigning, now popular in her adopted Quebec riding. The first time Ruth Ellen Brosseau set foot in the federal riding of Berthier-Maskinongé in 2011, it was as if the circus had arrived, and she was the oddity everyone had to see. She had just been elected without knocking on a single constituent’s door or putting up a single campaign poster, carried by the NDP wave that washed across Quebec. She was best known for flying off to Las Vegas mid-campaign to celebrate her birthday. “I was nervous — I’m not going to lie — the first time,” Brosseau recalls. “It was the unknown.” She left a meeting at Louiseville city hall to find a crowd of constituents gathered outside. There were no pitchforks.
Psych the voters
* Plus ça change: Leaders’ political slogans follow a pattern. A good campaign slogan is like a good fortune cookie line: concise, clever, enlightening and memorable. Winning ones exploit our notions and prejudices about politics, parties and candidates. Exceptional ones sound wise, even prophetic. Bite-sized are best. They’re more easily recalled and repeated. Getting voters to swallow the underlying campaign message is more psychology than linguistics.
ABC voters
* Veterans group starts ‘Anyone But Conservative’ campaign, plans to picket in uniform. A veterans group opposed to the Harper government says it is planning to regularly picket campaign events, post lawn signs and use social media in its Anyone But Conservatives campaign. The group kicked off its efforts with a protest outside the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Fredericton as Stephen Harper made announcements to boost the number of military reservists in the next mandate.
And, finally, curse the media
* ‘Lying piece of s–t’: Angry Harper supporter confronts reporters for asking about Duffy trial at rally. The Duffy trial continues to hang over the federal election campaign trial, sparking new anger and vitriol from Conservative supporters and fuelling continued NDP and Liberal attacks on Stephen Harper’s credibility. Tensions bubbled over at a campaign event in Toronto on Tuesday when Conservative supporters interrupted reporters during the prime minister’s press conference and hurled expletives at them as they were leaving the site.
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Spotlighted
* Stephen Harper’s current right-hand man knew about secret Mike Duffy payment, court hears. Ray Novak knew! At least that’s the allegation made in court Tuesday as the Mike Duffy trial continued for another day. The prime minister’s chief of staff, had, via a Conservative Party spokesman, denied knowing anything about the plan by former chief of staff Nigel Wright to secretly pay $90,000 to cover Sen. Duffy’s Senate expenses. The allegation to the contrary is included in a statement made to police by Harper’s former legal adviser, Ben Perrin. It was read into the court record by Duffy’s defence lawyer, Donald Bayne.
* Spotlight on Ray Novak, PMO chief who lived above Harper’s garage. The few media portraits of Ray Novak available describe him as low-profile, discreet, with a preference for behind-the-scenes work, and, most crucially, staying out of the headlines. That, it seems, is no longer possible. With Tuesday’s courtroom allegations that he knew of the plan to cover Duffy’s $90,000 Senate expenses, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff as prime minister and key adviser on his election campaign has been shoved into the glare of the public spotlight.
* Christie Blatchford: A bombshell allegation at the irredeemably political Mike Duffy trial. Where to begin but with the bombshell, at long last arriving at the Duffy trial to set Parliament Hill and the campaign buses ablaze and potentially place the prime minister in the soup. What emerged at the trial late Tuesday was the revelation that another key Harper aide, Ray Novak, then working as Harper’s principal secretary and now on the election trail with the PM, was allegedly in the room when then-chief of staff Nigel Wright announced that he was going to pay Duffy’s ill-gotten expenses out of his own pocket.
Pluck the voters
* Toronto the kingmaker: A handful of GTA ridings will likely decide the election. With dozens of the 50 plus Toronto and GTA seats up for grabs, all three parties have targeted the region as likely the most important in the country. So while the focus now may be on Nigel Wright’s testimony in the Duffy trial, come October, Conservative, Liberal and New Democrat insiders all believe, victory will rest far more on who can best micro-target the myriad demographics in this city and its surrounding suburbs than on who knew about what cheque when. For the Conservatives, it’s a matter of holding on to what they’ve got, while the Liberals hope to regain what they lost. The NDP, meanwhile, believes it can break through where the party has never before, stealing seats not just in Toronto proper, but in the deep suburbs, too.
Buy the voters (with their own green)
* Trudeau promises $300 million a year to develop and market green technology. A Liberal government will invest millions of dollars to support a clean technology initiative to create jobs and wealth, says Justin Trudeau — $200 million a year to develop clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, mining, energy and farming. This will not only boost economic growth, he says, but will also meet environmental challenges.
* Mulcair promises $9M for disaster preparedness, training programs. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is promising to inject a “modest” $9 million into natural disaster prevention and relief as Western Canada reels from one of its worst wildfire seasons on record. Mulcair was campaigning in British Columbia, where a raging blaze recently tore through the province’s Interior, destroying dozens of homes and forcing hundreds to flee at a moment’s notice. “An NDP government will assist provinces to keep Canadians safe from fires and floods as the effects of climate change worsen,” he said.
Please the voters
* NDP MP, elected in 2011 without any campaigning, now popular in her adopted Quebec riding. The first time Ruth Ellen Brosseau set foot in the federal riding of Berthier-Maskinongé in 2011, it was as if the circus had arrived, and she was the oddity everyone had to see. She had just been elected without knocking on a single constituent’s door or putting up a single campaign poster, carried by the NDP wave that washed across Quebec. She was best known for flying off to Las Vegas mid-campaign to celebrate her birthday. “I was nervous — I’m not going to lie — the first time,” Brosseau recalls. “It was the unknown.” She left a meeting at Louiseville city hall to find a crowd of constituents gathered outside. There were no pitchforks.
Psych the voters
* Plus ça change: Leaders’ political slogans follow a pattern. A good campaign slogan is like a good fortune cookie line: concise, clever, enlightening and memorable. Winning ones exploit our notions and prejudices about politics, parties and candidates. Exceptional ones sound wise, even prophetic. Bite-sized are best. They’re more easily recalled and repeated. Getting voters to swallow the underlying campaign message is more psychology than linguistics.
ABC voters
* Veterans group starts ‘Anyone But Conservative’ campaign, plans to picket in uniform. A veterans group opposed to the Harper government says it is planning to regularly picket campaign events, post lawn signs and use social media in its Anyone But Conservatives campaign. The group kicked off its efforts with a protest outside the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Fredericton as Stephen Harper made announcements to boost the number of military reservists in the next mandate.
And, finally, curse the media
* ‘Lying piece of s–t’: Angry Harper supporter confronts reporters for asking about Duffy trial at rally. The Duffy trial continues to hang over the federal election campaign trial, sparking new anger and vitriol from Conservative supporters and fuelling continued NDP and Liberal attacks on Stephen Harper’s credibility. Tensions bubbled over at a campaign event in Toronto on Tuesday when Conservative supporters interrupted reporters during the prime minister’s press conference and hurled expletives at them as they were leaving the site.
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