Electioneering & Priorities

$4.6 billion tabbed to buy military transport planes -- The specs to satisfy the area that must be satisfied must be ready.

Worth reading Third World: Sask -- part of the series of life as it really is on reserve. It goes along with Updated: Polly & the Parrots: the Potlatch Series? Abotech -&- Prosperity


I see the fearmongering about Quebec and separatism coming: Andrew Coyne: The latest separatist smackdown A16 -- his usual logical self


PM appointment: Friend of the family -- Head of Library of Parliament edited book by Martin's father


Government fall will hurt trade talks: Peterson -- Something might change . . . for the better -- more fearmongering to frighten people into voting Liberal


National Post headline today: "PQ will win Quebec vote, business worries"

The quote is from a Financial Post CEO poll [check for link] done by Compass -- No vested interest here, of course. (Where is Frank McKenna during all this brouhaha, anyway? Waiting for the call should the Liberals need him? )

Here we go again with the Librano$ "Vote Liberal and keep Quebec in Canada" schtick. The last time the Libs played this game, Canadians got Chinese-made Canadian flags, the ADSCAM / Sponsorship / Slush Fund Scandal--costs still unknown--no paper trail in some instances--though some figures have been bandied about--and the taxpayers of Canada got hosed . . . and Canadians will be paying for that and for the rest of the PM and Team's pre-election potlatch . . . More will be promised or given.

Paul Martin will pay any amount of your money to remain in the seat of power, font of the gushing funds from overtaxation that he spreads around . . . costing him nothing but he looks the generous Big Daddy for the photo-ops; there are other perqs of office.


Rae completes Air India report

It takes an election to do what's right? -- Report says Ottawa must hold Air India inquiry

Trudeau's ex-wife cites charter in acquittal on impaired charge

Do you think you would get the same result? . . . If not, how did you feel when you read this? The system kicked in to protect her good name? It is pathetic that this story even made the newspapers if all others charged with the same offense don't. I bear her no rancour; she had to live with PET, suffering enough for one who was a lively young woman married to an old(er) man. Her name would never have made the national news if she hadn't been Pierre Elliot Trudeau's ex-wife -- so position has been a mixed blessing for her.


PM's 'erratic' stewardship causing rift with U.S. -- but he's gaining with France and China -- no problems

Second finding of avian flu in B.C

The McGill mind behind 'soft torture'

Sweeping It Under -- Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices -- Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) Sept-Oct 2005, Alex Roslin

By the time the tunnelmen were done, the Tadoussac would be in Lake Erie. The ship’s master would swing the boom out over the water and pass Macdonald the word to have the electrician start the conveyor belts. The belts would whir into motion, and the sweepings would pour off the boom into the waters of Lake Erie for half an hour, leaving a trail of iron-ore dust in the ship’s wake—the only visible sign of the environmental degradation. [. . . . ]

CSL is only one shipping company dumping sweepings into the Great Lakes. Ships have discharged cargo residue there ever since armadas of ore carriers started criss-crossing the lakes in the 1870s. No one knows how much has collected on the lakebeds travelled by major carriers, but cargo sweeping is routine for the 130 lakers that ply those waters today. Fourteen of these lakers are owned or operated by CSL, the company held by Paul Martin from 1981 to 1993, when he became finance minister and transferred management duties to a trustee. [. . . . ]

Black will appear in court Nov. 30, says his lawyer

Alta. won't abide by gas regulations

Did Scott Brison jump to the wrong ship? Is he becoming unhinged defending the ship he jumped to? Overwhelmed with the job of defending the PM? PWGSC?

Brison faces war of words -- A longtime, loyal Liberal [Sandra McGrath] is demanding an apology from Public Works Minister Scott Brison Kathleen Harris, Edm. Sun, Nov. 22, 05

After serving two terms on the Human Resources Development Canada Board of Referees, she was upset that Brison had led her to believe she was a shoo-in for the reappointment she ultimately did not get.

During a chance encounter at Acton's Restaurant in Wolfville, N.S., McGrath aired her frustration and advised Brison she would not support him in the next campaign.

"He got very upset. He looked at me and said, 'Well I've got something to tell you. I'm going to be the MP for a very, very long time, and you can kiss my ass,' "

Memory Lane: Fuddle Duddle

Open Mouth, Remove Foot. -- comment -- Posted by: maz2 at November 22, 2005 11:20 AM

A word from Nostalgia : Follow the Leader. Find The Word of the Day. (Hint: Begins with F.)

'Fuddle duddle' incident - Unforgettable Moments - CBC Archives

Fuddle duddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Globe and Mail: Series So Mr. Trudeau, never a man of great patience, mouthed not "fuddle-duddle," as he later claimed, but ... just what you thought it was


MP John Efford says he won't run in next election

Misleading headline: It should have read: RCMP need funding to fulfil their mandate -or- RCMP do not have the funding nor the facilitiy to produce the officers necessary for their mandate What impression does this headline leave? -- "RCMP needs better training, recruitment: Fraser"


Auditor General's Report 2005 -- native land settlements in Western Canada -- RCMP

Auditor General Report 2005: Canadian content rules poorly enforced: Fraser


Mark Steyn: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone


The Most Famous Opera Duets -- sampler -- delightful while working


People are looking at:
Get the list of scandals -- Blue Blogging Soapbox

FHTR: July 17, 04 -- Those who ride bikes in groups

FHTR: July 17, 05


Motion Studies: Canada -- Pre-election Motion

It is always interesting to see what a government considers priorities just before an election.

Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee Report: Bill C-71, An Act respecting the regulation of commercial and industrial undertakings on reserve lands

Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee Report: Open Government Act

Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration Committee Report: Temporary resident visas

Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration Committee Report: Commemorative postage stamp Bill C-283

Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration Committee Report: Bill C-283, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Study: Nuclear Waste Management Organization Study Report entitled "Choosing a Way Forward: The Future Management of Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel"

Standing Committee on Finance Study: Study on the motion of John McKay
Standing Committee on Finance Committee Report: Bill C-273, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (deduction for volunteer emergency service)

Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans Activity: Briefing session on the Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the House of Commons for the year 2005

Why do I smell loss of privacy here? Check the fine print. Also, something in the ACOA / AIF grants about identification -- maybe it was voiceprint ID -- Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Study: Bill C-72, An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to DNA Identification

Standing Committee on Public Accounts Committee Report: Chapter 3, Passport Office - Passport Services of the April 2005 Report of the Auditor General of Canada

Standing Committee on Transport Activity: Briefing on Pont de Québec

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Study: Determination of non-votable items pursuant to Standing Order 91.1(1)

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