David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks everybody knows Leblanc has several powerful billionaire buddies not just in the Irving Clan and they all need him to get better and stay in office for their benefit N'esy Pas?
Dominic LeBlanc makes 1st public appearance in months since non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis
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Fergus O'Ryan Sorry about the cancer, truly.
Resign. You symbolize everything that's wrong with politics.
Al Kennedy Reply to @Mark Baker: LeBlanc can't afford plane fare? He's a millionaire.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Kennedy: Methinks everybody knows Leblanc has several powerful billionaire buddies not just in the Irving Clan and they all need him to get better and stay in office for their benefit N'esy Pas?
Anne Bérubé Well, sorry Dominic, you can buy your own airline ticket just like anyone else
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Anne Bérubé:
Maybe there were scheduling issues. Maybe an Irving friend was going anyway, or offered a private flight when no airline could meet his medical needs. He's a sick man.
You remind me of Harper, who couldn't even wait a week to make personal attacks against Pierre Trudeau after his death (Globe op-ed).
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Merhinks the only dude you are fooling is yourself N'esy Pas?
Robert Petras Another Liberal that needs to be shown the door. Entitlement and corruption abound. Sadly Canadian choices are limited as they all know where to find the pig trough.
David R. Amos Reply to @Robert Petras: I concur
Al Anderson He is a Liberal..so he is entitled to his entitlements don't you know...
Fergus O'Ryan
Reply to @Al Anderson:
Its disgusting
David R. Amos
Reply to @Fergus O'Ryan: YUP
Paul Maceachern Maybe he can explain why all the judges appointed in NB are contributors to his campaign or his relatives.
David R. Amos Reply to @paul maceachern: Good luck getting an answer to that concern.
Jim Johnson It is not only the controversial flight through Irving but another ethics violations where 5 of the 6 judicial appointments in NB were friends and family.
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Jim Johnson:
All judicial appointments were merit-based and independently identified. CBC should not allow your smear to get up.
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Yea Right
Mack Leigh While my sympathies are with Mr. LeBlanc and his family for what he is currently going thru I cannot help but wonder if there is nothing that a Liberal won't stoop to to get elected... This whole thing smacks of using a man's illness as a means of gaining the sympathy vote.......Hopefully people will see this for what it is and vote accordingly... Hopefully the people will see thru this ploy and realize that re-electing Liberals come October is the last thing Canadians need...... They have sold out the people of Canada and fed at the trough long enough.
Ke Irwin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Hypocritical, heartless, inappropriate and sociopathic! Good luck on judgement day!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ke Irwin: Methinks its polling day that should worry you and your hero Mr Leblanc N'esy Pas?
Fergus O'Ryan Guy awards the lucrative clam contract to his friends who don't even own a boat.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Fergus O'Ryan: Welcome to the Circus
Dan Ridler What is the point of having an ethics commissioner with no concept of ethics?
David R. Amos Reply to @Dan Ridler: Methinks that is the point It has been that way since Howie Wilson took the job N'esy Pas?
Kriss Robinson It's good to know Canada's billionaires are standing by to offer the little guy help. Does anyone know what billionaire has been assigned to my family? Other than that, all sarcasm aside, get better soon.
David R. Amos Reply to @Kriss Robinson: Methinks Mr Morneau and his wealthy wife are always concerned as to whether or not all the little guys are eating enough french fries N'esy Pas?
Dominic LeBlanc makes 1st public appearance in months since non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis
New Brunswick MP asked about controversial Irving flight
CBC News·
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc says his cancer treatments are going well and he's ready to be on the campaign trail for the October election. (CBC)
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, who stepped back from his cabinet duties earlier this year to focus on his non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment, made his first public appearance in months this morning, telling reporters he intends to be in "fighting form" on the campaign trail this fall.
The longtime New Brunswick MP said his treatments for the cancer, which affects the lymphatic system, are going well.
"I have successfully completed five chemotherapy treatments," he said in Moncton. "The doctors at the Georges Dumont Hospital are very, very encouraged by the results, very positive."
He was also forced to respond, for the first time in person, about the controversial flight he took on a private aircraft owned by J.D. Irving to undergo cancer treatments in Montreal. The Irving family is tied to the shipbuilding, oil, forestry and agriculture industries.
The flight, first reported by the Globe and Mail, took place on June 13, according to a filing on the ethics commissioner's website.
LeBlanc reiterated to reporters on Wednesday that he cleared the flight with the ethics commissioner.
"The particular treatment that the doctors at the Georges Dumont hospital are pursuing in my case, which would constitute a cure, those particular treatments are not offered in New Brunswick and New Brunswick patients are referred in most cases to Quebec or to Nova Scotia," he said. "In my case the doctors referred me to Montreal.
"I can't speak to what other patients do."
Democracy Watch, an organization that advocates for greater government accountability, has argued Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion erred in preapproving LeBlanc's private trip aboard an Irving plane.
"The ethics commissioner acted like an unethical lapdog by approving this unethical gift of a flight," co-founder Duff Conacher said last month.
Leblanc plans to be in ' fighting form'
LeBlanc set up a conflict of interest screen with the ethics commissioner's office, after he was appointed to cabinet in 2015, that bars him from taking part in decisions that directly affect James D. Irving and his companies.
The Beauséjour MP served as minister of intergovernmental affairs and northern affairs before stepping aside in April for treatment.
Watch: LeBlanc 1st appearance in months after cancer battle
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc spoke about his use of a private plane - owned by the the J.D. Irving company - to get to his cancer treatments in June during his first public appearance in Moncton after stepping away for treatment for his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma earlier this year. 0:59
"I intend to be in fighting form for the election this fall and look forward very much to the campaign," said LeBlanc, following a funding announcement at the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, named after his father.
LeBlanc was diagnosed with lymphocytic lymphoma in 2017, when he was fisheries minister. Last October, LeBlanc announced that cancer was in remission.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has temporarily taken over responsibility for intergovernmental affairs, while Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, took over LeBlanc's duties for northern affairs.
Maybe there were scheduling issues. Maybe an Irving friend was going anyway, or offered a private flight when no airline could meet his medical needs. He's a sick man.
You remind me of Harper, who couldn't even wait a week to make personal attacks against Pierre Trudeau after his death (Globe op-ed).