Tory official resigns over website posting
Last Updated: Saturday, December 31, 2005 | 5:42 PM ET
CBC News
Gordon Stamp, manager for Tory MP Peter Goldring, posted the comments on a website called Free Dominion.
"Many of us in Alberta are working on our last federal campaign," he wrote, posting under the pseudonym 'Psycho.'
"If the Liberals remain in power, we will be working on Alberta separation after January 23."
Half of Goldring's campaign team would work toward separation if Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals win, he wrote.
Hours later, Goldring issued a statement saying he was "disturbed" by the comments.
"This evening I learned about comments posted on the Internet by Mr. Gordon Stamp, who has been serving as manager of my campaign in Edmonton East," Goldring said.
"I was deeply disturbed by these comments, which in no way reflect my views or those of the Conservative Party. To the contrary, I have spent my entire adult life fighting for a united Canada, and, in fact, was drawn into public service to fight for Canada as a united federation," Goldring wrote.
It's the latest in a series of website-related blunders in the election campaign.
- FROM DEC. 29, 2005: NDP slams Liberal attack on Layton's smile
- FROM DEC. 26, 2005: Liberal exec quits over his blog remarks about NDPers
Mike Klander, the executive vice-president of the Liberal party's Ontario wing, resigned on Boxing Day after he compared NDP candidate Olivia Chow to a dog in a written blog entry.
Days later, Industry Minister David Emerson was criticized after his comments likening NDP Leader Jack Layton's smile to a "boiled dog's head smile" were published on a Liberal blog.
