ROSS REBAGLIATI, Okanagan-Coquihalla Liberal MP Candidate

For Immediate Release
November 30, 2009

On CBC Radio’s “The House,” top Conservative strategist Tom Flanagan said this about ten-percenters:

As a prominent Conservative insider who served as Harper's Chief of Staff and campaign director, Mr. Flanagan would have helped to craft the Conservative ten-percenter strategy in his former posts.
 
His suggestion that launching political attacks in ten-percenters based on “half-truths” and “distortions” are an acceptable practice is indicative of how the Conservative party operates.  As he also said earlier this fall:

Mr. Flanagan’s most recent comment comes on the same week that his party was twice admonished by the Speaker of the House for using ten-percenters to distort the record of opposition MPs on the gun registry and on the Liberal record on fighting anti-Semitism and terrorism.

On the latter issue, Peter Milliken ruled that a ten-percenter sent into Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s riding violated his privilege. MPs in the House of Commons are voting this afternoon on a motion to refer this ruling to a House committee for further action.

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