Updated: MacKay Says Fix the Watch Lists Now, Liberal Party Owes Cdns Scammed $$$, Response: Lifetime Muzzle On Security Info., Crosbie, & Books

Update 1:

Drugs 'n guns n' gangs....................Instead of name calling , they should be concentrating on dealing with the criminals instead of coddling them

There's a massive drug trade going on, it's been going on for years and everybody's been playing let's make a deal and now [. . . . ]

Just link and check.




Rick bell: "Embarrassed" -- no better candidates available? Rick Bell, Calgary Sun, August 18, 2005

[. . . . ] Pierre Poilievre is an MP [CPC] from suburban Ottawa who is pushing for real answers.

"This is the best they can do. It takes a full week of pressure for the head of state to actually support Canada. [. . . . ]

Stephen Harper in NB Aug. 19, 05

CPC Barbeque with Stephen Harper
Fredericton, NB in Marysville
Time: 5 pm Friday, Aug. 19, 05



You might want to bookmark these: Mackenzie Institute and The Monarchist



MacKay Says Fix the Watch Lists Now 16 August 2005

MacKay noted that the Conservative Party, at their recent policy convention, passed a resolution that would ensure agencies such as CSIS, RCMP, Canadian Border Services and Coast Guard were properly resourced both in manpower and equipment. [. . . . ]

Note the earlier post today on our security: scroll down for John Thompson, Pres. Mackenzie Institute: "Waiting for the Kaboom: Precursors of an Attack"




Liberal Party still owes Canadians $$$ scammed from them, $3.9-million?

COFFIN REPAYMENT WELCOME NOW HOW ABOUT THE LIBERAL PARTY? 16 August 2005

Official Opposition Public Works Critic Gary Lunn welcomed today’s announcement that Paul Coffin and Communication Coffin will repay $1 million of taxpayers’ money illegally received as part of the Sponsorship scandal. “It is about time some of this money got paid back to the taxpayer,” -- There is an "estimated $3.9 million the Liberal Party of Canada received through kickbacks from advertising agencies like Coffin."

Update: May I draw your attention to this comment from a reader re: muzzling whistleblowers for a LIFETIME and the proposed whistleblower legislation.

14 departments to be held in secrecy for a term of not 14 years or 20 years 0r 50 years but for a lifetime, and will that be extended to ensure continued Liberal control of Canada for virtually forever?

Not the citizen's idea of what Bill C-11 is for. In fact it is opposite to what the Whistle-blower bill is supposed to protect.

It's a special affront to the spirit of this blog with the Motto...

*No topic should be outside the realm of debate in a democratic society*; at least not for a lifetime term.

This is a minority government. The lifetime muzzle should be cut back to a more reasonable 7 or 14 years. 73s TG

The above is in reaction to my posts with the links below. Bless those journalists who write to keep Canadians genuinely informed, in this case, the Western Standard and the Ottawa Citizen.

The background posts which prompted Tony Guitar's response:

My post August 16, 2005 here; scroll down for Permanently Muzzling Security Info, the article with this link:

Bureaucrats face lifetime secrecy oath on national security -- to protect whom? Ottawa Citizen

A federal government plan to permanently muzzle current and former employees of 14 entities with access to national security information is an affront to press freedom, the Canadian Newspaper Association warns.

Updated: Conservatives, Harper & Media Bias -- Fight back against biased media! Permanently Muzzling Security Info, Muzzling Bureaucrats my post Aug. 16 and updated Aug. 17 based on the Western Standard article, "Silencing the whistles":

Update 2: Muzzling and Whistleblower legislation

Along with the RCMP, CSIS, and the military, those excluded from protection for whistleblowing include, according to foreign service officer Brian McAdam's testimony at SCGOE "a total of about 63 divisions or branches of government, and 49 corporations" -- and there is more.

John Crosbie

John Crosbie has mentioned just how bad Canada's governance and opposition situation is in an article in today's National Post, "The wit and wisdom of a candid John Crosbie" by Don Martin. I don't always agree with John but I loved his penchant for saying what he thought . . . or didn't think through. He was always good for a laugh, eh, Sheila (nobody's baby) Copps? How anyone could get her knickers in a knot over a John Crosbie comment and not just laugh is beyond me.



Books

As an aside, I have mentioned before Paul Palango's book on the RCMP, The Last Guardians, but his earlier book, The Crooks, the Politicians, the Mounties and Rod Stamler published in 1994, is revealing on the corruption in Hamilton, home of the Copps Centre with, it seems, a direct line between the port activities in Hamilton and those in Montreal. Well worth reading.

Then someone suggested I read Hells Witness by Daniel Sanger. If you can stand to learn about the low lifes and low lives, the disregard for life, the disdain for order of the civil kind while slavishly adhering to a militaristic code of organization in the service of evil for its own warped sense of order, read it and be disheartened. I don't really want to know about the lives of the principals; yet, I believe I should be more aware, so I read.

The rise of the Hells parallels the rise of a government with which we are all familiar and the rise of the lowest common denominator in both cases. Frankly, a devastating picture. I don't know how the author was able to do the research, for it would mean consorting with . . . whatever makes for despair about human beings.

Nothing and no-one means anything except the organization, power and money. Come to think of it, there are more parallels than at first it appears.

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