Canadians too fragile for a winter election? Hogwash! Bill C-53, Steyn & EU Riots

If you can shop for Christmas, you can detour a block or two to vote. Hardy Canadians ski, skate, run snowmobiles along lonely trails and play hockey outdoors in winter. Yet, supposedly, they don't want to or cannot make it to the polls? Gimme a break, lads. Stop tellling us we're spleeny; we're not. Bring on an election so I may help to vote out the purveyors of corruption and sleaze -- the governments of pork and power -- of outrageous patronage and money politics -- the ones who have exacerbated the separatist problem in Quebec , the alienation of the West and the rage of the rest of us. Bring on the vote! NJC

PS: Just call your local campaign political office for a driver if you have a problem with transport.



Bill C-53 -- Ye, gods, would you trust this government with this one?

Check the website for the exact link as I have an appointment and no more time.

George Jonas: "First the punishment, then the trial" -- "draconian laws and obstinate law enforcement are often mistaken for signs of health" NP, Nov. 4, 05

The other bill, called the Proceeds of Crime Act, would allow the authorities to seize anyone's assets obtained through crime -- before convicting them, or presumably even charging them, in court. How do we know their assets are the fruits of crime? Well, the authorities say so.

Never mind Eastern Europe 50 years ago. This seems to come directly from Alice in Wonderland: first the punishment, then the trial. A bill like this turns back the clock to before the days of the Magna Carta. Adscam is a picnic compared to Bill C-53 -- yet where are the headlines? [. . . . ]

Was it a deflection from Paul Martin's own conflicts of interest?

"Was the whole investigation taken out of the hands of the RCMP and the judicial system so that it could be politically controlled as a deflection from Prime Minister Martin's own conflicts of interest?"

A TOP TEN LIST OF GOMERY HYPOCRISY by Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Beryl P. Wajsman is the president of the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal.

[. . . . ] You may not read much of this in many of your daily newspapers whose reporters treasure their pre-conceived notions and ethnic caricatures like so many precious jewels. Add to that their lemming-like readiness to be co-opted by the current leaders of the Natural Governing Party, and you have a tailor-made recipe for the bodyguard of lies that has been characteristic of media coverage of the Gomery Inquiry. But I urge all of you to go to the Gomery website and read this eye-opening transcript and the full report that now follows. [. . . . ]

CBC Newsworld with Don Newman--and who is that female?--are bringing up every possible negative against Stephen Harper. They finally added that there is a difference between advocacy (Harper with the NCC) and lobbying (Liberal ex-MP's or Ministers working for $$$ to influence government) but the thrust of the CBC coverage is let's get the Conservatives. Their political affiliation worn on their sleeves.

Another reason to turn off CBC. The only reason I listen to CBC is to know the depths to which they will go to serve as the Liberal Propaganda Organ, which, of course, serves the same old, same old CBC hacks.



Minister Volpe accused of distorting facts on immigrant economics



“This area belongs to us”

Denmark Moslem youth riots ignored while Paris is burning -- "Is there a connection between the Moslem-led youth riots in France, and the ones taking place at the same time in Denmark?" By Judi McLeod, Friday, November 4, 2005



France: To crack down or to appease? That is the question.

Mark Steyn being interviewed -- transcript of a broadcast

[. . . . ] I think the European tendency to appease these people is coming into play in the French cabinet. And I would say the one consequence of that is that a lot more people are going to be voting for fringe parties in the next election.

[. . . . ] Polygamy is openly practiced in these...in les Bonlier, as they call these suburbs, these Muslim quarters of Paris. I mean, we're talking about five miles from the Elysee Palace. [. . . . ]

Search: train, airport, embarrassment, a fuse that's been lit all over Europe , now basically becoming a willful effort at misleading , it isn't until you get thirteen paragraphs into the story , European welfare state

Mark Steyn's description--he has actually been in Le Zone--is excellent.

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