Justice-Injustice? Tsunami Aid-Sponsorship X 2? UN-Sex from Abused Girls, Corruption Cover Up, Links to Info of Interest and Import

Former Canadiens general manager sentenced to 23 months for taking bribe -- With sentences like these, there is no deterrence. -- Canada is s a safe haven for crooks and terrorists

Former Canadiens general manager sentenced to 23 months for taking bribe Ross Marowits, CP, Jan. 11, 05

MONTREAL (CP) - Former Montreal Canadiens general manager Irving Grundman apologized Monday after being sentenced to 23 months to be served in the community for accepting a bribe to change a zoning bylaw.

Grundman, who was Canadiens manager between 1978 and 1983, must also pay a fine of $50,000, Quebec court Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin ruled. "I am very sorry," the former city councillor said as he left the courtroom. "I hope that people will remember the good things that I've done."

[. . . . ] Fellow former city councillor Rene Dussault also was sentenced to 23 months to be served in the community for his part in accepting the $75,000 bribe with Grundman. He was fined $25,000.

Grundman, 76, and Dussault, 68, will be under house arrest for six months, except for six hours on Tuesdays and Fridays and for medical appointments.

The former politicians had pleaded guilty to one charge each of municipal corruption last September, the same day they resigned their seats for St-Laurent borough on Montreal city council.

[. . . . ] Meanwhile, two contractors who offered bribes to win zoning for a community centre received conditional discharges and were put on probation for two years.

Jose Sardano and Luis Vitorino, both of nearby Laval, were each also fined $25,000.

Martin hikes aid to $425M -- Ottawa matches $150M in private donations; sixth Canadian confirmed dead -- Sponsorship X 2? Who's doing the bookeeping?

Do you trust this government to handle such sums any more? I don't. Now, what firm in Quebec will be able to siphon off money? That's Canadian taxpayers' money! What was the impetus for the great rise in aid relief? It makes one wonder.

Martin hikes aid to $425M -- Ottawa matches $150M in private donations; sixth Canadian confirmed dead Mike Blanchfield, Sutton Eaves And Chris Wattie, Jan. 11, 05, National Post.

OTTAWA; SRI LANKA and THAILAND - The federal government will increase its tsunami aid fund to $425-million over five years, in part because it agreed to match the generosity of Canadians who privately raised $150-million.

That figure -- up from the $80-million Ottawa pledged last week -- includes $265-million in emergency aid, as well as $160-million in additional long-term assistance for the Canadian International Development Agency toward rebuilding battered South Asia, Paul Martin announced yesterday.

"This is a new and important commitment of previously unallocated funds for foreign aid," the Prime Minister said of the $160-million that will be doled out to CIDA starting this year, until 2009. "As the relief effort becomes more organized, the short term needs are effectively addressed, it is crucial that the world turns its attention to assisting in long-term reconstruction." [. . . . ]

Ah, note that it will go through CIDA. Does that ring any bells?




Troops buy sex from abused girls with scraps of food -- Somebody better keep a close track of the charitable money.

Somebody better keep a close track of the charitable money David Blair, Jan. 11, 05

Peacekeeping troops guarding refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo sexually abused girls as young as 13, giving out scraps of food or money in return for favours, the United Nations admitted yesterday.

A bar of chocolate or two eggs was the accepted payment for sex with young girls.
Many were orphans from a war that has claimed more lives than any since 1945.

Soldiers continued abusing children even after the onset of an internal UN inquiry.

Investigators found "freshly used condoms" littering guard posts and command centres around Bunia, where peacekeepers from Pakistan, Morocco, Nepal and Bangladesh are based. "We are shocked, we are outraged, we are sickened," said William Lacy Swing, who heads the UN mission in Congo. [. . . . ]

Utterly sick. Perhaps I am wrong -- but does the attitude toward women in some of these countries have anything to do with this? Don't any of these men have children of their own?

I wish I could take a child and try to heal what has been done. Some of us are sick over this and we want to help -- but we do not trust our government nor the UN.




Corruption and cover up -- Hong Kong, Triads, RCMP, et cetera -- a warning

Corruption and cover up -- Hong Kong, Triads, RCMP, et cetera CTV.ca News Staff, Mar. 27, 04

One could question what Prime Minister Martin and the rest are getting by pushing China's investment in Canada, particularly in major resources and resource industries. I just read this weekend that for $22,000 you can sit at a "platinum table" with access too even bigger big wigs than the $5000 table mentioned in posts.

McAdam was puzzled as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging turned up connections between the Triad members and officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to McAdam, High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.

According to Garry Clement, who worked at the time as an RCMP officer stationed at the High Commission, the freebies even included cash for betting on the horses at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack. But he was suspicious that those perks would come with a price.

“At what point do you draw the line? And you’ve got to ask yourself who are the people that are giving, and what do you owe in return? It was a Chinese gentleman that I had met … (who) told me very early on nobody in Chinese culture does anything for nothing.

Mr. Martin might be wise to heed his words.




Links to Info of Interest and Import

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January 8, 2005

Updates: Globalization - Business - Steel, Gas, Shipbuilding, the North

Man of the Year Arar -- Security -- IAEA ElBaradei's Warnings & the Reality, Nuclear Dangers -- Torture
January 7, 2005

Globalization, PM-CSL-Jolly Roger, China, Oil, Pipeline, Sinopec-Husky, Rigzone News, Outsourcing

Al Jazeera's Whodunit, Aid Tsunami-The West-The Gulf States, Charity Racket, Body Snatchers

Bud: Sharia, CAIR_CAN Sued, Mosul Massacre-Saudis-Terror, US-Secret Islamic Terror Network, Left Supports Terrorists

Updates & Terrorists, 'Big Surprise' for US, Theft-Vancouver Airport, Security, Borders, Immigration Enforcement, Drugs, A Failed European Policy

January 4, 2005 [four compilations]

* Updates & China Conference-Vancouver Port, Maurice Strong-China Car Salesman, China's Bricklin & Strong, China-Copied Chevy Design? -- There are now four compilations today and a new post on Frost Hits the Rhubarb

* Business: The China Connection, Canada China Business Council--Founding Sponsors, the Networks, Connections & Other Information

* Link within this section:

Compilation 2 -- The China Connection: Oil, Textiles, PM Martin, Sudan, Alberta Tar Sands, Cuba, South America and search for "Canada's global connections" or go to Judi McLeod's original for this reference to Premier Bob Rae’s brother John who shut down this investigation, it seems.

* Diamonds Fund Terrorism, Osama-Heroin Pusher, China-Russia, Racial Profiling, Border-Security-US-Canada-DART

* Bud Talkinghorn-A requiem for Ao Patong & Resolutions, Geologist's Alert, US Generosity, UN Sex Scandals-Funding "Peacekeeping"