Security, Boundaries, Business, 'Justice' & Related

Central Asian alliance calls for U.S. pullout date -- Russia, China among those seeking firm date for withdrawal from region AP, July 5, 05

[. . . . ] Alliance members Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan both host U.S. bases whose troops are involved in Afghanistan.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, at a summit in the Kazakh capital, said in a declaration that a withdrawal date should be set [. . . . ]

Russia, Kazakhstan sign $23 bln Caspian oil deal

Islam Karimov, the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan, said radical Islamists are among the forces seeking instability in Central Asia.

[. . . . ] The Shanghai Cooperation Organization includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [. . . . ]

Search: Chinese leader Hu Jintao




EnCana eyes Chinese rigs

A spokesman for the Calgary energy giant said the company is exploring the possibility of having rigs built in China and then imported to the United States, along with crews to run them.

EnCana is North America's largest producer of natural gas.




Beijing keeps tabs on Chinese Canadians: report Jim Bronskill, Montreal Gazette / CP, July 1, 05

Han decided to speak out in an interview with The Canadian Press and the Epoch Times newspaper, which publishes in several countries, to help muster public support and to warn Canadians about Beijing's alleged tactics.

He echoed accusations from some in the Chinese-Canadian community, particularly practitioners of Falun Gong, that Beijing's officials continue to meddle in their affairs. [. . . . ]

Han also confirmed the widely argued view that Chinese spies are determined to collect economic and scientific intelligence from industrialized countries. [. . . . ]

Global warming opens Northwest Passage Levon Sevunts, Washington Times

[. . . . ] Far more important, he says, is Canada's dispute with the United States over the Northwest Passage, as well as a dispute over the boundary between Yukon and Alaska in the Beaufort Sea. [. . . . ]

The ultimate issue, however, is over control of the resources. [. . . . ]

Canada also has disagreements with Russia over how the Russians determined their continental shelf.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which Canada ratified in November 2003, Canada has 10 years from ratification to determine its continental shelf. [. . . . ]

Canada is preparing to launch a new satellite, RADARSAT-2, which will dramatically improve surveillance capabilities in the North, the think tank official says.

Canadian forces are buying unmanned drone aircraft for surveillance of the Arctic. [. . . . ]

Is it possible that it doesn't matter what surveillance is done? That the die is cast with the business deals? That government will ensure everything goes smoothly so the usual crowd may make money? That Canadian sovreignty and the securing of its own supply of resources for future generations will take a back seat to some people's making money today? Think of who are involved in oil explorations. Think of investor immigration. Ah, too late? Think of those who tried to warn Canadians, McAdam and Read.



Injustice: yet it seems this man was correct, but we wouldn't want to impede the money making business, would we? Despite a Parliamentary Committee's efforts on his behalf after a Parliamentary investigation, a Justice Sean Harrington "reaffirmed his firing and effectively took away the whistleblower's pension and benefits."

There is no connection, of course, between the appointment of justices during the Jean Chretien mandate and this conclusion.

Read‘s investigation involved very rich and powerful members of the business community in Hong Kong, political connections in the People‘s Republic of China and the Liberal government of Jean Chretien.

One of the cases Read pursued involved three Taiwanese brothers who brought 3,000 Asian families into Canada under our much maligned immigrant investor scheme. The trio was linked to fraud, bribery and the Chinese mafia.

But all the cases against the brothers-one of whom was photographed on Feb 28, 1996 talking to Chretien about a hotel deal in the prime minister‘s riding-have died mysteriously. [. . . . ]

For more on Cpl. Robert Read, and on this topic go to:

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/5.html

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/195.html

Some background on the judge who made the decision against ex-RCMP Cpl. Robert Read: Justice, the Honourable Sean J. Harrington

Born 24th April, 1944 in Montréal, Québec. Educated at Loyola College of University of Montreal and McGill University Law School. Called to the Québec Bar in 1969 and the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1978. Partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Past President of the Canadian Maritime Law Association, Past Chairman of the Average Adjusters Association of Canada, Past Treasurer of the Bar of Montreal, Vice President of the Association of Maritime Arbitrators of Canada. Appointed Judge of the Federal Court and ex officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal, 16th September, 2003. Address: Federal Court, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H9.

OTTAWA, September 17, 2003 -- The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment:

Sean J. Harrington of Montréal is appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Canada. He fills a newly created position [. . . . ]

Note: "a newly created position"

Am I just too jaded when I suspect a quid pro quo? I look at his decisions, not just the Robert Read affair, but check some other decisions.


Chicoutimi Inquiry -- Judge Sean Harrington rejects media bid for open military inquiry into the fire aboard HMCS Chicoutimi -- one of the second hand subs bought for Canada by Jean Chretien CTV.ca News Staff, Nov. 7, 2004

Lawyers for the media outlets said they had a right to fight for a public hearing into the sub tragedy which killed Lieut. Chris Saunders, 32. He died of smoke inhalation after a major electrical fire on the vessel Oct. 5.

Was any fault found by this enquiry? I have heard rumours about some detail which might have been attributed to a degree of incompetence . . . but the individual involved possessed excellent capability in the first requirement for anyone to rise in the military . . . or to be hired for the civil service. However, who knows? JC ordered those subs and . . .




First a pizza, then a vote May 3, 2004

AS A BUNCH of the boys at the minimum-security Frontenac Institute sue the feds for $1 million after their cable access to soft-core porn was cut off, and word comes that Ottawa is considering setting up sanitized tattoo parlours inside selected joints, it now comes to light that the inmates at the Joyceville pen get delivery, not Delissio.

Federal Court Judge Sean Harrington thinks the porn-deprived inmates may have a case, just as a spokesman for Correctional Services Canada (CSC) thinks the idea of in-house tattoo parlours is well worth a trial visit, in hopes of curbing the Hep C epidemic inside prison walls. [. . . . ]

Who's watching the watchdog? editorial, National Post, July 5, 05

Apparently, not even Ottawa's watchdogs can be trusted. Consulting and Audit Canada (CAC), a special operating unit under Public Works Canada, . . . .But a recent external examination of CAC's own tendering process shows that in half of the 112 cases sampled, CAC split larger contracts into smaller ones for no other reason, it appears, than to avoid the need for competitive bidding.[. . . . ]

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