Angry in the Great White North

Is Farhan Chak planning another political run?

I know it's hard to believe, but I wonder if Farhan Chak is planning to run for office again.

The Chak came back, we thought he was a goner

Remember Farhan Chak?  He was the Liberal nominee for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont who was forced to resign when it was revealed that he had told a bunch of whoppers on his application.

Well, like the cat in the Harry Miller song, he comes back when you expect that his story is over and done.

Blair Wilson might be able to fight the Liberal Party

Disgraced former Liberal MP Blair Wilson has not given up the fight.  Embroiled in a controversy over allegations of election spending irregularities, he has been told by the Liberal Party that he will not be allowed to run in the next election for the Liberals.

The justification?  Though Wilson has yet to have had any of the charges against him tested in a court, the Liberal Party has concluded that Wilson was not forthcoming on his applications to run as an MP.

Blair Wilson has promised to fight this decision, and has retained Jay Straith, the same lawyer who represented David Oliver in his fight against the NDP.

Looking over the rules, I think Blair Wilson has a fighting chance.

The Liberal Green Light Committee needs a new light bulb

How did Blair Wilson ever pass the tests all nominees must undergo before being allowed to stand for the Liberal Party as a candidate for a riding? Some of the news being reported about Blair Wilson's resignation today makes me wonder if that part of the process is going to undergo some intense, and perhaps uncomfortable, scrutiny.

Curiously, though this incident on balance is just more bad news for Stephane Dion, in one way, it might work in his favour.

Chakmate!

Farhan Chak has bowed to pressure and has informed the Liberal Party that he will not be the candidate for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont. I have some thoughts on all of this.

Gary Goodyear demands action of Stephane Dion in the House of Commons with regards to Farhan Chak

My member of parliament, Gary Goodyear, took to delivering the most recent jab at Stephane Dion and the Liberals over Farhan Chak.

Farhan Chak's doctorate degree in question

Farhan Mujahid Chak has some problems on his hands. As the Liberal Party candidate for a riding in Alberta, he has been in the news dealing with the fallout of extreme-sounding writings of his, and serious firearms-related criminal charges that he seems to have not disclosed to the Liberal Party.

I'm going to add a new one to this list. His doctorate from the University of Durham? No such thing.

Segolène Royal, Elizabeth May, Farhan Chak -- They demonize the opponent and we live with the consequences

Segolène Royal, Elizabeth May, and Farhan Chak have all recently engaged in vicious attacks on their opponents, likening them to dictators of the worst possible kind. When violence erupts because well-meaning fools decide that history ought not to repeat itself, and that these budding Hitlers must be stopped by any means possible, they insist they've been misinterpreted. That is, of course, nonsense.

B'nai Brith demands action from Stephane Dion on Farhan Chak

B'nai Brith is adding its voice to the chorus demanding that Farhan Chak be removed as the nominee for the Liberal Party in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont.

Pierre Poilievre raises the issue of Farhan Chak in the House of Commons

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre raised the question of Farhan Chak in the House of Commons today. Poilievre brings into it the question of Liberal leadership, as well as what the attitude of the Liberal Party as a whole is towards terrorism and extremism.

Farhan Chak was exonerated

Just pondering the details of Farhan Chak's exoneration on the gun charges.

Farhan Chak tries to defend himself

Farhan Chak is snapping back. He is arguing that his prior views have changed and that the firearms charges were dropped. But that doesn't matter. When he applied as a Liberal Party candidate, he was obligated to tell the Liberal Party all this information. And it is clear that the Liberal Party did not know.

Conservatives demand action on Farhan Chak

In the first official response concerning Liberal nominee Farhan Chak, Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, Jason Kenney, has called on Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion to denounce Chak as an extremist with a history of violence who has no place in Canadian politics.

Is anyone listening to Diane Marleau?

If the Liberals want to win the next election, they have to stop talking to the media. Or so says Diane Marleau. I guess some Liberals are more interested in other things than winning.

Did Farhan Chak, who is now out of town, discharge a shotgun into a crowded club?

Given the information dug up by Kevin Libin at the National Post, Liberal Party candidate Farhan Chak is a poster boy for gun control.

Is Liberal candidate Farhan Chak a nut with a gun?

Was Farhan Chak, Liberal Party candidate, charged with discharging a firearm in a nightclub? Some people would think his opinions would classify him as a nut. Would this make him a nut with a gun? And is he enjoying the protection of Stephane Dion's people?

Farhan Chak's views in focus at the National Post

Farhan Chak holds some strange views for a person running for political office in Canada. Running for the Liberal Party, he is an apologist for terrorists and a promoter of conspiracy theories that shift the responsibility for terrorism onto Western governments. Jonathan Kay has written an editorial in the National Post that holds that, in Canada, the concept of multiculturalism requires us to nod our heads when faced with such nonsense, lest we be labelled as cultural atavists who pine for the good old days of colonialism.

Stephane Dion and Farhan Chak -- the question that will never be asked

A scrum question I'd pay to see:

Intrepid reporter: Monsieur Dion! A question please. As a citizen of the French Republic, are you personally offended by the position taken by your candidate for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont, Farhan Chak, who seems to deny that Algerian Islamic fundamentalists exist or were responsible for massacres in Algeria and attacks on French citizens in North Africa and in France itself, but maintains that shadowy groups within the French government itself perpetrated these atrocities? As a Frenchman, do you have a response to Mister Chak's allegations painting France as a sponsor of terrorism?

Monsieur Dion? Monsieur Dion?

Not likely.

Liberal Party candidate Farhan Chak and his views on terrorism and a few other things

Sometimes you come across someone who wants to seem so reasonable, that you just have to check on what he's really all about. Farhan Chak is one of those people. He is one of the newest members of Stephane Dion's new Liberal Party and a supporter of Dion's during the Liberal Party leadership race. His views on Stephen Harper and on the Western media and on Islamic fundamentalism make for interesting reading.