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Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a flying visit through Rockland over the Aug. 24 weekend, meeting with a crowd of partisan supporters to announce a tax credit idea to benefit service clubs.
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the hecklers to be silent and let the reporters continue. Responding to the questions, Har- per continued to assert that he had no knowledge of the controversial $90,000 repayment of Duffy’s expenses. He blamed Duffy for making wrongful expense claims, leaving the Tory-appointed senator open to the corruption charge. The prime minister also blamed Nigel Wright, his former chief- of-staff at the time, for making the repayment but stated that he himself was not aware of the situation. Harper did state that he had discussed the overall matter with his current chief of staff, Ray Novak, but he did not elaborate on the details of those discussions though he said
“Mr. Novak has been very clear with me.” The prime minister also stated that he was not going tomake any comments about evidence coming out during the Duffy trial, which has been ongoing for the past four weeks, and still has at least another week or more of testimony and cross-examination scheduled. Following Harper’s departure on his own Sunday campaign route, MP Lemieux pre- sided over the official opening of his own Rockland campaign office. “I have a strong core team that is highly motivated and energetic,” stated Lemieux, adding that he believes he has “an excellent record” during his past terms in office to build a successful re-election campaign.
PrimeMinister StephenHarper was in and out of Rockland on a surprise Sunday visit during his weekend re-election campaign through EasternOntario and other regions. Harper was the special guest speaker for the official opening Sunday of incumbent ConservativeMP Pierre Lemieux’s campaign office in Rockland. Harper met, on Aug. 23, with a large crowd of partisan supporters in the grand ballroomof the River Rock Inn for his campaign speech during which he announced that if his government returned to power he would make membership fees for community service clubs like the Knights of Columbus or the Royal Canadian Legion eligible for federal income tax credits. “If we can support service clubs to keep doing what they already do so well,” said Harper, “I amconfident that Canadian com- munities from coast to coast will be better as a result.” Lemieux added his support to the prime minister’s announcement.The Conservative MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell noted that many service clubs in his riding would benefit with increased memberships from such a tax policy change. “I work closely with them and support them in their important work,” said Lemieux. “I am very happy that they will all benefit from today’s announcement.” Following the prime minister’s an- nouncement, reporters for themajor media assigned to follow the Harper campaign group during the weeks leading up to the October election fired questions at Harper regarding the latest revelations from the trial of Senator Mike Duffy and the corruption scandal now plaguing the Conservative re- election campaign. Reports from the CBC, CTV, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Canadian Press newswire service all noted that there were “noticeable groans” fromConservative supporters in the crowd when the subject came up but that Harper thenmotioned for
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Local media left out The Conservative election campaign team’s policy for dealing with media resulted in an absence of local and regional reporters when Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid Rockland a surprise visit Sunday. The Harper campaign media policy is to provide all media with a day-to-day notice of where the prime minister will be on his reelection tour but the notice is not released until the morning scheduled for each day’s itinerary. Local media are on the contact list but the email notice that Har- per would be in Rockland was not sent out until Sunday morning when reporters for Radio-Canada in Prescott-Russell, Le Droit and the Vision were either enjoying a scheduled day off or were already away on a previously-scheduled assignment and either out of contact or else not able to receive the notice in time to get to Rockland for the event. – Gregg Chamberlain
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MP Pierre Lemieux and his family cut the ribbon for the official opening Sunday of his Rockland election campaign office.
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