Politics, Governance & Aid to Africa

CBC has been gleefully "reporting" the Grewel story. I assume they are hoping that it will help to bring down Stephen Harper or at least wrest leadership back to where it belongs.

Left mostly out of the reporting is the part the Prime Minister,Paul Martin, Tim Murphy, and Ujjal Dosanj played in the whole affair. As with the fellow who was turfed over the Judi Sgro -- importing of "dancers" program, Grewel will have to be deported; meanwhile, those whom the courts have deemed should be deported, merrily float around Canada and/or the US. Governance . . . Canadian Centre & Liberal style.



This is how the mainstream media keep power in the centre -- in the Ottawa, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto area. This is a perfect example of what the writer here is talking about.

Editorial: Harper hits the skids Jun. 13, 2005

Where many Tories wisely distanced themselves from Grewal, Harper kept defending the embattled MP, even after he took a leave from Parliament because of "stress." [. . . . ]

Has it ever crossed their minds that a decent, honest man, would not automatically expect dishonesty from his fellow Member of Parliament . . . or has it come to this . . . that we must immediately assume our MP is crooked, corrupt . . . rather like what our governing party has revealed itself to be? If the Liberals are so willing to wait for Justice Gomery to prepare his report on Liberal corruption, should not they be willing to wait to find out whether MP Grewel has done anything wrong in his entering Canada? Should the media not wait, as well? Or were they looking for anything to blacken Stephen Harper and then move power from the West to the Centre where it has always been?



The high price of vague promises June 12, 2005. Greg Weston, Sun Ottawa Bureau

Today's tour of taxpayer hell takes us to Paul Martin's great government garage sale and giveaway, where the prime minister has something for everyone and no one leaves without a piece of the public treasury.

At the bargain-budget table, we find a most unusual spending goodie worth a whopping $4.5 billion that may not exist for federal programs yet to be invented.

The ka-ching collection in question is known formally as Bill C-48, informally as the NDP budget amendment, and affectionately as Layton's Larceny. [. . . . ]

A good one.




Ethics in Ottawa?


Gomery Transcripts




There have been reports of documents online disappearing.

Something to hide?

Comment from: Sean [Visitor] · http://www.polspy.ca/
If you still have the original addresses bookmarked, feed them into the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org.

Here's a sample of what you can find:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041015031529/http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inoec-bce.nsf/en/oe01379e.html

E. g. Paul Martin - 6th Disclosure and search sums such as 50,000.00 and 100,000.00 -- and a strange little entry: "returned at the request of the donor"




Aid Africa

Africa must learn the boring stuff By Mark Steyn, (Filed: 07/06/2005)

[. . . . ] Given that you and Bob and "Make Poverty History" and all the rest are as one in your indestructible conviction that Africa's such a hopeless case it needs to be put on an ever-more lavish drip feed of Western "aid", it's surely a bit late in the day to begin raising self-esteem issues. I'd have low self-esteem if I'd been taken on by Western do-gooders as a permanent poster child for the world's irredeemable losers.

Bob and Andy agree that paternalism and condescension are the only ways to deal with Africa, they're just quibbling over the particular form of condescension.

[. . . . ] The issue in Africa in every one of its crises - from economic liberty to Aids - is government. Until the do-gooders get serious about that, their efforts will remain a silly distraction. [. . . . ]

Search: US tax returns , India , CAT scans analysed overnight by radiologists in

Steyn also mentions enjoying the music, particularly "the lyrics of Andy Razaf, nephew of Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar". Add to that the music of Miriam Makeba and Cesaria Evora (of Cape Verde).

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