The way the cookie crumbles

Update note:

Please note that I have corrected link errors or omissions by reposting with changes in red; see menu for "Things fall apart" -- Links: Additions, Corrections

concerning "Multiculturalism, IRB, Vietnamese Immigration via Philippines, Vietnamese Asian & Other Criminal Gangs in Canada" Frost Hits the Rhubarb, Feb. 24, 05 as part of the week of Feb. 20, 05
-- originally posted with this link:

http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005/02/multiculturalism-irb-vietnamese.html

With all the talk of emerging markets, immigration, etc. it behooves Canadians to know some of this.




Criminal Intelligence Service Canada: 2005 Annual Report

http://www.cisc.gc.ca/annual_reports
/annualreport2005/coverpage_2005_e.htm




Check the long-term ramifications: First Nations--oil and gas exploration and exploitation, AECL, Emerging Markets, Language

Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development: Bill C-54, An Act to provide first nations with the option of managing and regulating oil and gas exploration and exploitation and of receiving moneys otherwise held for them by Canada



Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development: Study of First Nations Specific Claims



What, if anything, does this have to do with a scandal previously mentioned by FHTR?

Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates: Leasing agreement between the Federal Government and Alexis Nihon REIT


AECL

Standing Committee on Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology: Certificate of nomination of Robert G. Van Adel to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited


Which emerging markets?

8512-381-180, 15th Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, "Elements of an Emerging Markets Strategy for Canada"



Language

Standing Committee on Official Languages: Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (promotion of English and French)

It has reached the point where I snicker when I see "promotion of" with English. Is that unfair?

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PM Paul Martin has been on CTV television this morning with his "huffing and puffing" anti-American-speech-designed-to-raise-US-hackles-approach to the softwood lumber dispute.

Anti-Americanism is always a winner for some. Never a negative word about France, of course, though there has been news that could have received a smidge of Prime Ministerial concern this year. Never anything negative about the corrupt UN, either.

Ta dah!

Prime Minister of France to visit Canada October 28, 2005, news release

Prime Minister Paul Martin today announced that French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will visit Canada from November 2 to 4, 2005. Prime Minister de Villepin will be accompanied by several members of his government, representing education and research, health, youth and sports, cooperation and La Francophonie, and foreign trade, as well as a senior-level parliamentary, business and scientific delegation.

“Prime Minister de Villepin’s visit underscores the highly productive and friendly relations we share with France,” said the Prime Minister. “France is one of our largest trading partners, and a key friend and ally on many issues of global importance, including climate change, international trade, cooperation on health and international security.”

The two leaders will discuss further strengthening of bilateral political and economic relations, and international cooperation in Haiti, Africa and elsewhere. They will also talk about the strengthening of multilateral institutions and discuss La Francophonie. [. . . . ]

On November 3 and 4, 2005, Prime Minister de Villepin will travel to Quebec city and Montreal, where he will meet with political and business leaders.

Entitled to their entitlements

The wheel turns and the other crowd gets in Rex Murphy, Oct. 27 2005 -- link via Newsbeat1 -- as are many of the others below, though which ones, I forget.

On the David Dingwall saga, the real question was never the wretched pack of gum.

The gum just supplied an absurd and petty emblem for the narrow world of Ottawa entitlements, patronage and cronyism in which politicians are seen to reward each other to their friends. [. . . . ]

A test moment for this culture of political entitlement is just about upon us. [. . . . ]

Ken Epp Award Nominee: Paul Martin The Files of the Phantom Observer via Newsbeat1, Oct. 28, 05

"We have had cabinet meetings with aboriginal leaders. We have had round tables. He has done everything to build up toward the first ministers meeting."

The PM has made a rhetorical substitution: he has substituted activity for action. The fact that he lists all these meetings, instead of actual actions taken, pretty much makes Mr. Prentice's point for him.

Capturing the essence of the PM and team.


Ralphie Goodfella Kate McMillan, small dead animals, Oct. 28, 05

Ralph Goodale makes it official - the only Canadians who are allowed to shield income and retirement savings from the insatiable vacuum of Liberal government taxation are those with holdings in the shipping industry. CPC candidate for Wascana, Brad Farquhar has the dirty details; [. . . . ]

Note the comments on that site, for example, Justzmgai (His comments are usually worth reading.), who starts with:

Most Canadians have no savings of any kind, let alone investments in trust funds. You can depend on their continued support for policies which promise to plunder the accumulated savings of their more wise and frugal countrymen.

[. . . . ]

It's da Canajun way.



Liberal sleaze laid bare Leo Knight, Oct. 15, 05, via Newsbeat1

[. . . . ] And Adscam was only a piece of chump change compared with the so-called 'Shovelgate' scandal where $3 billion was administered through the HRDC ministry in dubious grants and sponsorships and job-creation projects to Liberal friendly groups, companies and organizations. A scandal that spawned, I might add, 19 separate criminal investigations and has seemingly disappeared off the radar screens.

Neither former Prime Minister Jean Chretien nor the current PM ever called a public inquiry into that scandal despite the fact that it involved more than ten times the amount of money in question in the Adscam scandal. I guess for Paul Martin, that was "acceptable." [. . . . ]

Poll -- Has the Gomery Inquiry been factored into the vote yet? Neale News, Oct. 28, 05


'Suspect' Royal Group money transfers probed KAREN HOWLETT AND PAUL WALDIE, Saturday, October 29, 2005

[. . . . ] The documents describe transactions involving cheques whose common characteristics make them "suspect," the affidavit alleges. Four separate cheques, sequentially numbered and totalling $192,000, were drawn on Aug. 18, 2003, from an account held by the resort at a Scotiabank branch in Puerto Rico, the affidavit alleges. [. . . . ]

Search: a luxurious resort in St. Kitts , Sorbara , de Zen



Ah, Reg Alcock, that plucky reformer of government Lorne Gunter, October 25, 2005

[. . . . ] Now Reg the Reformer is claiming the solution to big, expensive, inefficient government is what? Make government bigger and more expensive, of course. Government isn't too big, it's not big enough. What is needed to make Ottawa work is a horde of new, mid-level auditors, not reporting to the Auditor General where their ferreting skills might be honed, but rather embedded in the departments. Nope, they're not going to be co-opted there. Uh, uh. [. . . . ]

The better to "control" . . . . .

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