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The Canadian Press
Date: Friday Jul. 4, 2008 7:34 PM ET
OTTAWA — Sources say former lobbyist and Reform party activist Kory Teneycke is the prime minister's new communications director.
Highly placed sources tell The Canadian Press that Teneycke will take over Monday from Sandra Buckler, who announced her resignation June 26.
As executive director of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, Teneycke launched a national ad campaign last year praising Prime Minister Stephen Harper personally for assisting the industry.
Elections Canada records show Teneycke contributed $1,000 each to five different Tory candidates -- all successful -- in the final week of the 2006 election campaign.
He quit the industry lobby group last fall to work for the federal Conservative research bureau, which prepares talking points for Tory MPs and digs up dirt on the opposition.
Buckler's tenure marked a particularly acrimonious period in relations between the Prime Minister's Office and the parliamentary press gallery.
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I applaud the budget, even though Health Care and education may stay unscathed. Sadly this cannot last and I worry to later this year where cuts will become enviable. If anything, this provides the Wildrose Alliance plenty of ammo when an election is called.
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IT Manager in Calgary
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Atta Boy Steve
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At least I think that digging up dirt on people is good. Isn't it? Steve thinks it is, so it must be.
Atta boy Steve. Don't go getting caught up in policies and ideas. That is just a big bad trap. Surround yourself with even more people whose only ambition in life is to hurt others. Very well done.
Chris
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Carmen
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Why the harsh criticism of Harper? The Liberals, NDP and the Bloc do the very same thing -- they all hire loyal political supporters.
George
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Did you happen to come across Teneycke's solution to the oil problems? He is one of the neocons pushing for wider use of ethanol.
Let's all say together, "My SUV needs that corn more than your stomach!"
IT Manager in Calgary
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Raj
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Timothy
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Darren
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John
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This is not a Conservative Party appointment, but a reinstatement of that most profoundly backward, hypocritical and narrow-minded of carcasses on the political scrap-heap, the loathed right-wing Reform.
Now Stevie is showing his true colours, and they ain't Tory blue.
Robin
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Cut taxes
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GT
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While I agree that a Conservative PM woudl be expected to hire a conservative Director of Communications, I think IT was hitting more at the fact that he was a Reform Party loyalist. This is signififcant because since the name change to Canadian Allaince and even Harper's own leadership campaign has been very much distancing itself from that old right of right wing party. Its kind of Liberal in a sense that, like the Liberals who campaigned on the left and governed from the center (yes, I said center and so do all political science text books), Harper is campaigning in the center and then moving right - seems to be a governing magnet moving both parties in that direction when in power.
For me however, the interesting part of this announcement is that the PMO is hiring yet another someone who appears to be a Harper loyalist. Yes men are great when you want to push through your authoritarian agenda, but they aren't as good when you should be having a staff that can bully you back on the stupid ideas. Lets face it, all of Harper's major mistakes thus far have been communications - fine budgets, great leadership (even if you disagree which political directioen he's going), and sound easy to sell policies.
Get a real communications director! Then you might see majority territory!
Richard D
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You are absolutely correct. The Tory party is history. There's just one problem with your argument, however: the Reform party is history too.
Neither one exists anymore. While you may be right about Harper appointing someone who is a former Reformer, you may want to get your arguments in order if you expect to be taken seriously.
After all, if you can't get the party names right, what else could you get wrong?
Ryan
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Kory Teneycke was a provincial Progressive Conservative before he got involved with the Reform Party of Canada. He is a former National Youth Coordinator of the Reform Party, and organized a very successful National Young Reformers Youth Convention in Ottawa in 1997.
I know that Kory will do a great job in his new role as communications chief for the Prime Minister.
DWB
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What does he believe in more starvation across the planet or a sensible technologically-based solution to future energy needs?
The Harper government and John Baird need to end it's Suzuki/Gore environment policy and replace it with one based on facts not some political UN model developed by neo-commie politicos.