No Laughing Matter -- Link for Hansard June 9, 2005, QP Excerpts

No laughing matter -- "Yes, reporters are used to liars, but good liars--ones who make the effort to sound moderately plausible. When the . . . " Kevin Libin, 13 June 2005


In the comments section, I'm with maz2 who wrote, "Down with National Socialism. Long live freedom and democracy."

The problem lies in the 'how to'. We have had governments which have used power increasingly over many years to subvert the will of the people . . . and, indeed, through various means, many sitting MP's. Examples:

* refusing to accept a vote in the House of Commons which was an obvious display of lack of confidence . . . and the GG appointed by the Liberals did nothing . . . as they probably surmised she would

* making activist judicial appointments and allowing the justices to make decisions which are properly the province of Parliamentarians

* pushing social legislation without due regard for constituents' wishes, and pushing more and bigger government, despite evidence that its big programs have been expensive boondoggles, or worse -- gun registry, health care, appealing to Quebeckers to stay in Canada, and now daycare which eliminates helping a parent who chooses to remain at home to parent

* holding advertising $$ sway over mainstream media to the extent that to cross the government is to negatively affect the bottom line and jobs -- hence, obfuscation and mendacity are reported with inadequate investigation, then repeated ad nauseam.

* acting with apparent disregard for Canadians' security, e.g. in allowing undocumented and possibly dangerous or criminal aliens to claim refugee having destroyed their documents, and then giving them the wherewithal to go about their business, et cetera

* refusing to answer reasonable questions in Parliament and in fact, coming nowhere near answering the questions put to them -- For the latest example, see Question Period- Hansard excerpts- June 9/05 -- or here for the government website.

It is difficult to fight all the means by which government controls information and maintains itself in power. . . . . not least of which is that Canadians in the Centre and the East seem to have shut off their BS detectors in return for . . . what?

Congratulations to the writers of the Western Standard for attempting to right this imbalance.

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