Deadbeat Dion

Deadbeat Dion cannot be trusted to keep his word. Deadbeat Dion promised to make a substantial payment towards his leadership debt on September 3rd, he failed to do so.

Stéphane Dion has violated his agent’s written promise to creditors to pay back approximately $230,000 by September 3, 2008 - almost ten days ago.

“Stéphane Dion was supposed to pay off all his campaign debts on June 3, 2008,” noted Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton. “He failed and got a generous extension, under which he promised to pay off 1/3 of his debts by September 3, 2008. His agent even signed a written promise to the creditors to do so. But yesterday we learned that Dion failed – again. He has missed another deadline and this time he has broken a written commitment to his creditors.”

Deadbeat Dion wants us to trust him on his on his "Green Shift", he says he will cut our taxes. Too bad he keeps making huge spending promises that are not costed for in his "Green Shift". Who knows where the money will come from.

According to this blog, Stephane Dion is not in violation of Elections Canada law, he was granted an extension:
Daniel Lauzon, the Deputy Communications Director for the Liberal Party states, "Stéphane Dion's leadership campaign reporting is, and has always been, in full accordance with the Canada Elections Act.

Lauzon explains, "In August an extension was requested to the upcoming reporting date for a thirty day period. This would be very similar to the 517 candidates, from all parties in the 39th General Election that were required to seek extensions to the filing deadline for returns. The CEO granted the extension of the filing deadline on August 29, 2008 in full accordance with the Canada Elections Act".

I am not sure what this above statement means, was the extension granted for the reporting, or for the payment? It is not completely clear.

The MSM is not surprisingly silent on this issue, I guess the pooping Puffin is more worthy then broken written commitments, blown filing dates, and spending commitments where no one knows where the money will come from.