Sponsorship Scandal: More Smoking Guns, Costs of Kyoto, Oil, CA-India Open Skies, China, South America & More, CRTC, Crack Cocaine

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Greg Weston: Public purse purge -- A TAXPAYER'S WORST NIGHTMARE, GREG WESTON BELIEVES April 8, 2005

(Morselli was also the unfortunate owner of a car that mysteriously blew up in his driveway in 1989, but that's another story.)

This time Brault was coughing up the first of $5,000 in monthly cash payments he had agreed to make to the Liberal Party at Morselli's request.

Search: CHRETIEN KIN, niece

On an instinctive level, didn't you know this all for a long time?


Increasing from $5 billion and it hasn't started yet -- another $2 million gun registry unfolding

Ottawa's Kyoto plan to cost between $8B and $10B Apr. 8, 2005, CBC

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to spend between $8 billion and $10 billion by 2012 to carry out its Kyoto commitments, CBC News has learned.

[. . . . ] Under former prime minister Jean Chrétien's first plan, large industries, including the oil and gas sector, had to cut 55 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by installing new clean-air equipment.

Search: private industry, build east-west, Climate Change Fund, a partnership fund for provinces



Kyoto's outcome in one word -- recession: 'The costs are huge' Paul Vieira, Financial Post, April 08, 2005

OTTAWA - The House of Commons environment committee was warned yesterday the economy could shrink annually by over 5% until the end of the decade if Ottawa insists on meeting the short-term obligations under the Kyoto environmental protocol.
The evidence, tabled by Kyoto critic and climate change expert Ross McKitrick from the University of Guelph, painted a dire economic portrait of what Kyoto means to Canadian households -- and that is, undoubtedly, a recession.

"People would be astonished if they understood what Kyoto entails," said Mr. McKitrick, an economics professor. "The costs are huge."

[. . . . ] Canada is a signatory to the accord, as are Russia and most of the European Union. However, Canada's biggest trading partner, the United States, is not, and neither are the emerging economic powers of China, India and Brazil -- countries Canadian industry will be forced to compete against in the decades to come.

Stephane Dion, the Environment Minister, is scheduled to release the Liberal government's strategy to honour Kyoto next Wednesday -- nearly two months after the environmental accord went into force worldwide.

Search: set aside $5-billion, buy emission credits

Read the details. This is a huge story that is being outshone by the corruption. But then, that has happened with many items of crucial importance to this country -- for years.




Any "Business Network" Connections in this? Any "Partnerships"? any "Technology Partnerships" $$$ ?

Note that anything which includes trade also includes SHIPping. Just musing -- yet.

Or has this government just increased my cynicism?

Canada, India to begin talks on open skies -- Move comes as Ottawa seeks to expand ties Chris Sorensen, Financial Post, April 08, 2005

Canada and India are looking to lift restrictions on air travel between the two countries, a move that comes as Ottawa seeks to expand its economic relationship with one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Search: an increase in trade and commerce between, Canada's trade with India, an application to Transport Canada and the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, Philippe Sureau, a spokesman for Transat, access to China


The Greater Toronto Airport Authority was privatized a few years ago, wasn't it? There have been complaints from the airline industry that the fees are too high, I believe. If you don't ship by air, you could ship by . . . . ah, cynicism, again. Check the ownership of Transat and where is it based?

Little happens with government that doesn't reveal a web of political connections. Think about what you know already. Making money from Canadian taxpayers is paramount; they do not want care about Canada.

The government has left people who have been following its shenanigans with nothing but cynicism. Is this not sad?





The oil well has no bottom Sherry Cooper, Financial Post, April 08, 2005

Sherry Cooper is global economic strategist and executive vice-president, BMO Financial Group and chief economist of BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Much of the current debate regarding the future of commodity prices, particularly oil, hinges on the continued strength of the developing world. This, itself, is a presumption, and it may not be the sole or even primary determinant.

[. . . . ] To be sure, G7 growth is slowing, and so is emerging market growth. The developing world is growing at twice the pace of the developed world, it represents 87% of the world's population, and it uses twice as much raw material per dollar of GDP than the G7; in the case of oil, usage is roughly three times as much. China is now the largest consumer of cement, iron ore, steel, aluminum, tungsten and coal. It is the second-largest consumer of energy at 12% of the global supply. But developing economies represent only one-fifth of global GDP. The combined industrial production growth of China, India, Brazil and Russia--the four largest developing economies--is slowing and the United States consumes 24% of the world's supply of oil, twice the level of China. So the more the United States slows, so will U.S. consumer demand for Chinese and other foreign imports; the bigger the U.S. slowdown emanating from rising gasoline prices and interest rates, the bigger the slowdown in China and the rest of the world. This is the equilibrating mechanism that the triple-digit oil price crowd plays down. Or, at least, if oil hits triple digits, it will soon be on its way back down to US$30 a barrel. [. . . . ]

China's move on Latin America -- Beijing alliances have U.S. intelligence nervous WorldNetDaily.com

Is it just about raw materials? Is it just about oil? Or is there much more to China's growing interest and alliances in Latin America?

Some U.S. intelligence sources are sure there is much more than meets the eye.
Last November, Chinese President Hu Jintao toured Latin America and completed a number of economic deals. Hu's first stop was Brazil to meet with Fidel Castro acolyte President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to renew the "strategic partnership," which had been declared during Lula's visit to China earlier last year.

[. . . . ] Deals were struck to assure China's growing need for food was satisfied in part by Brazil's exports of chicken, beef, soy beans. There were also deals for minerals, including more oil.

Search: unfair advantage, second-generation 094 nuclear, Cuba, Iran, Burma, and North Korea, Argentina where another "strategic partnership", Chile where a "free trade" agreement, "Hugo Chavez, a Fidel Castro acolyte", By utilizing stolen, "a gigantic harbor in Gwadar, Pakistan", oil fields of Kazakhstan, through Pakistan





CRTC sets May 12 for Internet phone ruling Kevin Restivo, Financial Post, April 8, 2005

[. . . . ] The CRTC set the May deadline as part of a response to a request by Cogeco Cable Inc., Quebecor Media Inc. and the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Commission that Bell Canada be prevented from offering its Digital Voice Internet phone service in three Quebec cities.

Free samples of crack cocaine handed out near Winnipeg school 08 Apr 2005, CBC News

WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg have arrested two men they say were handing out free samples of crack cocaine near a high school.

[. . . . ] Crack is an extremely addictive and relatively cheap form of cocaine.

What has been done about this? Our policing and security have been of somewhat less interest than "saving Quebec from separatism", I suppose. Sentencing? . . .