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| In December 2006, he revealed on his ] blog<ref></ref> that his firm had been actively supporting the candidacy of new Liberal leader ], who won the leadership but lost the 2008 general election. In a previous leadership campaign, he supported potential leadership candidate Allan Rock. | In December 2006, he revealed on his ] blog<ref></ref> that his firm had been actively supporting the candidacy of new Liberal leader ], who won the leadership but lost the 2008 general election. In a previous leadership campaign, he supported potential leadership candidate Allan Rock. | ||
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| Kinsella also was involved in the 2007 re-election campaign of ] ] ] and his ]. In the 2007 campaign, he wrote a blog post suggesting that Progressive Conservative MPP ] would rather bake cookies than be seen on a stage with farm activist Randy Hillier, who later ran successfully for the Conservatives. Several candidates from opposition parties denounced the post as offensive to women, and Kinsella issued an apology.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thestar.com/News/article/240004 | work=The Star | location=Toronto | title=Kinsella to stay despite 'unfortunate' comment | first=Rob | last=Ferguson | date=July 26, 2007 | accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> The incident prompted MacLeod to write the ] '']''.<ref name="pm recipes">{{cite news|title=Conservatives, including PM, share recipes for cookbook|url=http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20100911/conservatives-food-100911/|accessdate=September 13, 2010|newspaper=CTV News|date=September 11, 2010}}</ref><ref name="MPP Bakes">{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Louisa|title=MPP MacLeod cooks up fundraiser|url=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/MacLeod+cooks+fundraiser/3513029/story.html|accessdate=September 13, 2010|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=September 12, 2010}}</ref> Kinsella supported Sandra Pupatello in the leadership convetion tht chose a successor to McGuinty. The leadership was won by ]. | |||
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- For the Canadian author, see W. P. Kinsella.
Warren James Douglas Kinsella (born August 1960 in Montreal, Quebec), is a Toronto-based lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, commentator on the Sun News Network, blogger and columnist for Quebecor newspapers. He is the president and co-founder of The Daisy Consulting Group.
Personal life
He is the son of physician and medical ethicist Douglas Kinsella, C.M., founder of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR).
He and his ex-wife have four children. He is now partner with Lisa Kirbie, a Liberal strategist. In late 2000, he established a blog.
Politics
Campaign strategist
Kinsella served as a strategist in the Canadian federal Liberal Party's 1993 election campaign "task force", as a staffer in opposition leader Jean Chrétien's office. After the Liberals won the election to form the government, Kinsella became chief of staff to federal Public Works minister David Dingwall. He also worked in the party's war room in the 2000 federal election, which saw the Liberals win a third mandate, where he gained national exposure by appearing on CTV's Canada AM brandishing a purple Barney dinosaur to mock Stockwell Day's creationist beliefs.
Liberal candidate
Kinsella ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of North Vancouver but was defeated by Reform incumbent Ted White.
Chrétien supporter
A vocal supporter of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Kinsella criticized the campaign of Chrétien's rival and successor, Paul Martin, several times in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections, in which the Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government and then defeated in favor of a Conservative minority government, respectively.
In December 2006, he revealed on his National Post blog that his firm had been actively supporting the candidacy of new Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, who won the leadership but lost the 2008 general election. In a previous leadership campaign, he supported potential leadership candidate Allan Rock.
Ignatieff supporter
In November 2008, Kinsella announced that he had returned to active involvement in the Liberal Party of Canada, and that he was working for leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff. One long-time senior Liberal questioned the hiring of Kinsella, calling him a "human shrapnel machine." In January 2009, Kinsella was revealed as the head of the Liberal Party's election war room but departed before the election after a media outcry over a Kinsella video blog that, perhaps jokingly, accused an Ottawa restaurant of selling cat meat. Kinsella posted an online video apology to Chinese-Canadians. He seems to be hoping now that the Liberal Party of Canada will have to "go negative" and he will have some role to play in a party that he has not supported in a federal campaign since 2003.
Sponsorship Program and Gomery Commission
During the Gomery Commission's inquiry into the Sponsorship scandal, the commission heard testimony that Kinsella, in his capacity as chief of staff to Minister of Public Works David Dingwall and at Dingwall's request, wrote a letter to the department's Deputy Minister, Ran Quail, requesting that bureaucrat Chuck Guité be appointed to review the government's advertising and communications strategy. Quail testified that he viewed the letter as political interference into civil service affairs though both Dingwall and Kinsella characterized this letter as a request rather than a directive.
Involvement in punk rock
In his youth, Kinsella was the bassist of the Canadian punk band, "The Hot Nasties". In 2005, Kinsella wrote Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk-Rock Manifesto (Random House, 2005), a history of the early days of punk.
In 2005, Kinsella founded a punk rock band named "Shit From Hell", which released a self-titled album later that year on Kicking Ass Records.
Kinsella wrote the song, Barney Rubble is My Double, featured on the Hot Nasties long play cassette tape and the Shit From Hell CD. It was also covered by The Evaporator's on their Ripple Rock album.
Writing
- Unholy Alliances (Lester, 1992)
- Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network ISBN 0-00-638051-4 (HarperCollins, 1997)
- Party Favours (HarperCollins, 1997)
- Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (Random House, 2001)
- Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk-Rock Manifesto (Random House, 2005)
- The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win (Dundurn Press, 2007)
Kinsella has also written commentary in most of Canada's major newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen. He was recently media columnist for the National Post and is now a columnist for the Toronto Sun and smaller Quebecor newspapers.
References
- The Daisy Consulting Group
- National Council on Ethics in Human Research
- National Post blog
- http://www.warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry081113-113000
- http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/10/the-prince-of-darkness-is-back-in-the-liberal-fold/2/.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Whittington, Les; Brennan, Richard J. (January 9, 2009). "Ignatieff inner circle choices raise questions". The Star. Toronto. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2009-01-29/city1233222027d1571825.html.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - "Gomery Inquiry: A summary of the testimony". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. June 3, 2005. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
- Punk History Canada The Hot Nasties Retrieved July 3, 2006.
External links
- Warren Kinsella's website
- Daisy Consulting Group, Team
- Official website of Kinsella's punk rock band