Compilation 1: Tsunami $ DART CIDA, PM Power Corp, Oil-for-Food, Cordex Petroleum, Strong, Chretien, Loopholes & More

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Money Tsnunami DART CIDA

"But even before DART was deployed, its soldiers knew full well they were being set up by the bureaucrats in Ottawa to fail."

What happened to our tsunami aid? by Garth Pritchard, Canadafreepress.com, Monday, April 26, 2005

Garth Prtitchard, now a columnist with Canada Free Press, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker living in Alberta.

Given the lack of interest in a federal election over the revelations from Judge Gomery's inquiry, one wonders how Canadians will react when they learn that Ottawa is sitting on more than $400 million in tsunami relief.

[. . . . ] All 200 of us realized very quickly that the money promised on Jan. 3 by the Prime Minister of Canada was not going to arrive, even though the interest alone on the original $80 million would have accomplished miracles.

What we received instead were . . . . This was not going to be a joint effort. [. . . . ]

Search: CIDA , two days' interest , NGOs and CIDA have an automatic response


Justice Gomery needs his own lawyer for representation; after all, how impartial would the government's lawyer be after all that has gone on? Is it possible the game has been rigged for a long time? Would the judge they are going before be impartial or was he a Liberal appointee?

Check here and here .


PM Power Corp Oil for Food Cordex Petroleum Maurice Strong

Chairman of Paul Martin company that accepted Saddam’s million worked for Power Corp. by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com, Monday, April 25, 2005

The former chairman of the Prime Minister Paul Martin-owned company that accepted $1 million from Saddam Hussein, worked with Martin at the Paul Desmarais-owned Power Corporation.

William Turner was chairman of Cordex Petroleums Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Alberta with an American subsidiary in Denver, Colo. [. . . . ]

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Canada Free Press has several related stories:

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The real Maurice Strong, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation style

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Oil-for-Food scandal: The French connection

Just check that website.




Mauled by China Inc. April 23, 2005, Jacqueline Thorpe, Financial Post

[. . . . ] After a slow and painful unravelling over the past five years, the company her family founded on the banks of the Grand River in this southern Ontario town closed shop yesterday for the last time.

Casualty of a 20% surge in the Canadian dollar, the incredible price-lowering power of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and China's unstinting competition, the story of Tiger Brand Knitting Co. is the story of globalization hitting home. [. . . . ]

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This article details how, even when a North American company does everything right, it can still fail. Is it not time to start buying Canadian?




Jean Chretien has been defending himself and his "saving" Canada, so I read this weekend.

Whither art thou Jean? -- Where have you gone, Jean? Apr.24. 05

[. . . . ] Surely, Chretien understands that even if, as he says, he did not know what was happening in the sponsorship program -- meaning he was incompetent -- that he is ultimately responsible for what it became?

And that what it became is looking more and more like an an elaborate money-laundering scheme to pass public money into the private, grasping hands of the Liberal party and its many friends in the advertising industry in Quebec.

Surely Chretien is aware that according to a recent Environics poll 84% of Canadians hold him either "very responsible" (52%) or "somewhat responsible" (32%) for AdScam, compared to only 9% who think he bears no responsibility. [. . . . ]

Loopholes

They'll be lucky if they can do damage control trying to just contain things to the sponsorship scam -- only the tip of the iceberg

Whistleblower: Taxpayers on hook for empty building Apr. 21, 05, Kathy Tomlinson, CTV News

It was supposed to be a sparkling new showpiece for the federal government in the old City of Gatineau, just across the river from Parliament Hill. But instead the 10-storey building -- designed to hold 900 civil servants -- sat empty for almost a year with taxpayers picking up a tab of $575,000 a month for a vacant building.

The company collecting the payments for the empty building is the Montreal based Alexis Nihon Group. In 2002 it won a $99-million contract from Public Works and Government Services Canada to develop the federal complex on Boulevard de la Cite in Gatineau. The company's CEO is also a Liberal Senator -- Paul Massicotte.

Unlike Members of Parliament, there are no rules preventing Senators from bidding on, or obtaining government contracts.

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Are the media shilling for Martin? Apr. 28, 05

Did you know that an Environics Research poll released last week found that a startling 73% of Canadians surveyed believe Prime Minister Paul Martin is either "very responsible" or "somewhat responsible" for AdScam?

[. . . . ] But you wouldn't know any of this from the highly selective reporting of this poll last week by the CBC, which commissioned it, and by other media, who, incredibly, portrayed it as a positive finding for Martin. (For alerting me to this controversy, I'm indebted to blogger "Michael" of Winnipeg, who first wrote about it Sunday on his website, bluemapleleaf.blogspot. com). [. . . . ]

Search: Canadian Press , the way the Environics findings were reported




Lax laws invite corruption -- AdScam-type scandals are nothing new for Canada, writes Lorrie Goldstein, and 'throwing the bums out' every few years isn't enough. we need laws with teeth.

LET'S FACE facts. Even if we throw out Prime Minister Paul Martin and the Liberals in the next election -- as we should -- that's not going to end patronage, payoffs and political corruption.

It may seem hard to believe today, but Jean Chretien came into office in 1993 promising to clean out the corruption of the previous Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. Voters were as furious at the Tories then, as they are at the Liberals now.

The problem is, changing parties doesn't end corruption.

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This is a good article; don't miss reading it.




Saudi chief justice urges fighting U.S. -- Comments caught on tape encouraging battle in Iraq Apr. 27, 05

Is Saudi Arabia an ally or enemy of the United States in the war on terror?

The question is raised with the disclosure of secretly recorded comments from the kingdom's chief justice encouraging young Saudis to travel to Iraq to wage war against Americans.

"If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up the word of God, then he is free to do so," says Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan in Arabic on the October audiotape from a government mosque, obtained by NBC News. [. . . . ]

"Yes, this is my voice," the sheik confirmed in Arabic. [. . . . ]

Salim Mansur: Liberals' ethnic exploitation to be tested 2005-04-27, London Free Press

An unstated proposition of recent Canadian politics is that ethnic voters help the Liberals hold onto power as the country's natural governing party. [. . . . ]

Ethnic voters are now cultivated assiduously by giving undue weight to their concerns pertaining to politics in their native lands, or their ethnically-based demands here in Canada.

The recent federal announcement -- timed to a looming election campaign -- about relaxing immigration requirements for family unification, irrespective of merit, is an example of blatantly courting ethnic voters.

The anticipated election, when it comes, will test as never before this unstated rule of ethnic voters supporting predominantly that party most opportunistically exploitative of ethnic voters.

EDITORIAL: Confirm or deny, Mr. Martin Apr. 26, 05

Prime Minister Paul Martin, a straight answer, please.

Did you or did you not lead the Liberal caucus in a standing ovation for Jean Chretien on Feb. 9, the day after Chretien appeared before Judge John Gomery to testify about AdScam?

According to what you told the CBC's Rex Murphy on Sunday and the Globe Monday, you now say you didn't. You now say the caucus cheered and you were an innocent bystander.

Really? So does that mean all of the following media accounts of that caucus meeting that appeared Feb. 10 were wrong? [. . . . ]

Andrew Coyne (National Post, Apr. 30, 05) is worth reading on Martin also.

Paul Martin is a disaster, willing to spend any amount of your money to retain power. Are you going to let him?





Lust led to Liberal demise Janet L. Jackson, Apr. 27, 05, Calgary Sun

[. . . . ] Cools also explained how people associate lust with sex, but the lust for power and dominion is just as powerful:

"It makes people act in pretty strange ways," she said.

"When any political organization reaches a stage where its primary drive is ambition and the need for and the holding on to power -- it is most unhealthy. It means the primary drive is no longer actuated by principles of governance. The opinion of the people and caucus are no longer heeded." [. . . . ]

Did you know Anne Cools had left the Liberal Party? Some things don't get much air time on the Liberal Propaganda Channel. This must have been one of those items.




NDP-Grit deal is pointless Apr. 27, 05

The last time NDP Leader Jack Layton got this much media attention was in last year's election campaign -- when he rashly blamed PM Paul Martin for the death of homeless people on Toronto's streets.

[. . . . ] In other words, Layton is temporarily propping up a compromised government in exchange for spending promises that are likely never to become reality -- certainly not under this government. How does this help ordinary Canadians?

As for Martin, he still has no guarantee his budget will pass or his government survive -- plus, he's further established his reputation as a guy who caves in under pressure. What are all those voters who supported him because he was such a fiscally conservative finance minister to think of him scrapping tax cuts and raiding surpluses, however ficticious they may be?