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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Regarding the Premiersâ announcement in Quebec City last week, I would reiterate what I wrote a year ago about a very similar federal proclamation by then-Minister of Industry, Maxime Bernier. The main piece of real news is that Premiers have attached financial penalties to the existing Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT): Premiers announced an enhanced and [...]
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Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Pierre, did other parties do this? : A former financial officer for the party confirmed last month in a court examination that expenses incurred by Public Works Minister Christian Paradis and former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier were assigned to other candidates. NDP MP Pat Martin, a member of the ethics committee, said if the party did shift expenses from Bernier and Paradis to other candidates...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
He was seen at Schwartz's in Montreal on Wednesday night with said friend, along with a crowd including Joan Rivers who had given a show that night. In addition to that development, apparently Maxime's super-sized ego was also present: Tourists caught in the middle started clicking photos with their cellphone cameras. Almost lost in the shuffle - and no doubt grateful for that - was ex-federal foreign...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I always thought that the In and Out 'scandal' had something to do with former Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier, anyways.... What did I learn today from the wonderful live blogging of Macleans Kady O'Malley? 1. Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand notes that voilations of the elections law might result in criminal charges. Nothing new there I suppose, but it sure had nice ring to it. 2.
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Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Gazette's masthead editorial says "Maxime Bernier has his faults, but when he was industry minister he pushed hard for more competition and a better deal for consumers in telecommunications. His successor Jim Prentice seems to be moving in the opposite direction."
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
I have done my share of pictures on Julie Couillard and Maxime Bernier. When I think about the scandal, what becomes clear to me is that the sole responsibility for what happened rests on the shoulders of Bernier. No matter how much he tries to weasel out of it, this reality remains. To begin with, let's briefly look at Madame Couillard's life story. She grew up in a very tough environment where her...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Maxime Bernier says he is anxious to clear the air and turn the page on his dramatic resignation as foreign affairs minister. But Bernier's first public appearance since stepping down May 26 – he spoke to supporters Wednesday night in his home riding of Beauce, Que. – managed to raise more questions than it answered.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The sight of Julie Couillard's decolletage at Rideau Hall last summer was met with shock and awe, and eventually followed by her then-boyfriend Maxime Bernier's ouster from cabinet.
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Globe and Mail is suitably (and appropriately) unimpressed : Still waiting for answers June 26, 2008 At long last, Maxime Bernier has deigned to speak about the scandal that ended his cabinet career. But only his most ardent supporters - the ones chanting his name last night as he addressed them in his home riding - could seriously believe that the former foreign affairs minister has laid the matter...
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Stageleft:. Life on the left side (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Simply not believable.
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Mack the Hackistan (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
CP reported a few days back that McClelland and Stewart will publish Julie Couillard's memoir. Story here Total waste of ink and paper. This memoir can be written in exactly eight words. "I fucked Maxime Bernier and a few bikers." End of memoir.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
With his first public statement in over a month, Maxime Bernier yesterday denied his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard ever told him about her past and criminal associations.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shuffled a weak Conservative bench to plug an embarrassing hole by formally confirming David Emerson as foreign affairs minister yesterday. He replaces the hapless Maxime Bernier, who resigned last month after his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard revealed he left classified documents at her home.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Just as Stephen Harper's last cabinet shuffle was largely concerned with accommodating the demotion of Gordon O'Connor, yesterday's was narrowly in response to the departure of Maxime Bernier. That Mr. Harper's ambitions were so limited is a good thing. As it stands, there have now been three cabinet shuffles in the past 18 months. It is hard to see how a major overhaul would have benefited the administration...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Maxime Bernier was never cut out for monastic life.He tried it, briefly, in the days after Julie Couillard's career-limiting (for both of them) prime-time TV interview last month. The solitary hours spent ''without BlackBerry, without cellphone, without television, neither newspapers nor radio'' at the Abbaye Saint-Benoit-du-Lac, the Quebec Benedictine monastery famous for its cheese, may have helped...
