Updated-Reid Info Commissioner to Court, Media Bias: The Bell Tolls for Thee, Loyalty, Chairman Mo & Other Connections

Update 2, July 21, 05:

You might be interested in mailing a copy or your own version of the letter that follows to Paul Martin.

TonyGuitar at BendGovt.blog.ca posted a comment on a June 9, 05 post. Currently this is relevant, given the information below on Information Commissioner John Reid, so I am copying the letter here.

John Reid holds the noose that will be applied to Chretien and Martin but he's on thin ice and needs our help.

Prime Minister, Martin,

Your order to limit Information Commissioner John Reid’s tenure to three months, when the House of Commons voted 277 to 2 in favour of extending his tenure to one full year, appears to be outrageously dictator-like rather than democratic.

There is a dictator in recent history who solidified his iron grip on a nation in exactly this gradual way. Out of respect, I will not mention his name here.

Politically, it will look much better for you and the Liberal Party to respect the 277 to 2 vote and allow Mr. Reid to serve his full one year term rather than try to crush him under the heel of a jackboot.

Democracy first, A. Robinson

Grounds for this at BendGovt.blog.ca

For more information on any bill, check the Library of Parliament, specifically, Library of Parliament: LEGISinfo -- then to Whistleblower Legislation or Bill C-11


My post that prompted this: Check Again -- Out of the West



What follows was posted yesterday, June 20.


Update 1, July 20, 05:

Information commissioner John Reid seeks access to PM's agendas in court Glen McGregor, Jul. 19, 05 CanWest

[. . . . ] The agendas are the subject of lengthy legal dispute between Mr. Reid and the federal government over the scope of the Access to Information law, which allows anyone to obtain government records for a $5 fee. [. . . . ]

The French media connection -- Barbara Kay -- Excellent!

The French media connection Barbara Kay, National Post, July 20, 05

Unlike the free press of the U.S. and Britain, French newspapers receive heavy governmental subsidies, and are dominated by powerful, in-all-but-name communist unions. In return for their support, the national dailies toe the party line on sensitive political issues, bruiting French "exceptionalism," and self-censoring their commentary when criticism might prove awkward for either.

[. . . . ] French intellectuals, who never met a tyrant they couldn't admire, as long as that tyrant hates America, are the last people on earth to tell Quebecers the truth about Islamofascism. The truth is that the bell doesn't toll only for Americans and Brits: it tolls, my complacent talk show-phone-in fellow Quebecers, for thee.

This could be about the CBC. In fact, it is the CBC, our Liberal Propaganda Arm, which, like our government leans more toward the views of France and the Arab world.

I have mentioned before Canada's government leaning more toward France in many ways. The same thing is at work with the CBC; its political positions and analyses are more akin to France's, IMHO. Think of its careful, walking on eggshells approach to the Palestinians and terrorism.

Search: Alain Hertoghe , a book called La Guerre a Outrances: Comment la Presse nous a Desinformes sur L'Irak (All-Out War: How the Press Lied to Us About Iraq)


French Lies About Iraq -- interview with Hertoghe Nidra Poller, FrontPageMag.com Feb. 19, 04

Journalists didn’t keep a decent professional distance from what was happening. They were more excited by bad news about the offensive than good news. I think they themselves were totally surprised by the outcome, as were the readers. I see three reasons for this. One is the extraordinary anti-Americanism at that time. I think this has a lot to do with the personality of G. W. Bush and his administration. G. W. Bush is the kind of American the French love to hate. Then there is some kind of nostalgia for a time when France was an important player on the international scene. Jacques Chirac and Dominique De Villepin were able to inflame the French nostalgia for that time. And also there is Arabophilia…in a very bad sense of the term. Arabophilia is not a problem in itself but here it is in a bad sense.

It’s nothing new, it’s not just in connection with Iraq; it has to do with the history of France in Algeria. There is more compassion … we see this in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sometimes there is more compassion for the Palestinian victims than for the Israelis.

Related: CBC and its lack of journalistic integrity

It seems to me, the CBC is not just biased. They are manipulative in that they deliberately stand in the way of a true Canadian identity, by scripting Canadian values. This is journalism at it's worst. How are we supposed to get a sense of who we are in this vast nation, when our honest opinions on the issues of the day are not deemed up to CBC standard? rosemarie59, CNEWS Forum, 7/17/2005 10:02:21



Loyalty, flags, muticulturalism -- Loyalty, the forgotten virtue By Gary Reid, July 20, 2005

[. . . . ] Boris Johnson, in London’s Daily Telegraph, encapsulated it nicely in a column entitled, Ashamed of being British. [. . . . ]

It is not just that most British children no longer know much about British history. The disaster is that we no longer make any real demands of loyalty upon those who are immigrants or the children of immigrants…

UN: Chairman Mo [Strong] pinkslipped Judi McLeod, July 19, 2005



This will blow your mind -- "Topic: 9/11, the Mob, Maurice Strong"



Canada's global connections by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com, December 15, 2004

[. . . . ] Power Corp. now maintains controlling interest in BertelsmannAG, Germany’s large publishing empire [. . . . ]

Indeed, during the days of the Third Reich, BertelsmannAG was the biggest publisher of Nazi texts, [. . . . ]

The publishing empire which employs some 80,000 workers in 51 countries, posted an overall cash flow of $18.3-billion in 2002.

Originally run by the Heinrich Mohn family, the company donated money to the SS and to various ecology Save-the-Earth factions of the Nazi movement.

Continuing to join the dots on Volcker and potential conflicts of interest is Volcker’s number two man on the IIC, Reid Morden. Morden has connections to Desmarais in his role of selling nuclear plants to China and others for companies dominated by Desmarais.

Although he is Canada’s former intelligence chief, Morden does not answer to the Canadian government. [. . . . ]

They cared about the earth, if not the Jews, which is just about the CBC emphasis currently.

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