PM to Skip Commonwealth Summit, Peguis Reserve, "Refugees", Earnscliffe, CSL, PM & Pre-election "Budget"?

The question is: Will Pettigrew's chauffeur go?

Outrage grows over Martin's decision to skip Commonwealth summit

Ottawa Paul Martin's decision to become the first Canadian prime minister to skip the Commonwealth summit is drawing fire from abroad and at home. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference have met every two years since 1971. [. . . . ]

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Lloyd Axworthy, the foreign affairs minister in the former Jean Chretien government

Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew



Chief [of Peguis First Nation] accused of buying votes -- The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs is investigating allegations that a native chief in Manitoba manipulated a band election by offering cash bribes and four semi-trailer loads of furniture and appliances in return for votes.
Indian Affairs Minister is Andy Scott.

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a petition
signed affidavits detailing
travelled to a transport depot
RCMP detachment
Before casting my vote
$31-million
Jim Prentice, the Conservative Indian Affairs critic
Mr. Scott and Prime Minister Paul Martin
First Nations Governance Act

In Play!

Paul Martin refuses to "play politics" . . . as he plays . . . again.

Apparently, if it is a fiscal and economic "update", that's one thing . . . but the secrecy surrounding it indicates that it is, in reality, a "budget" . . . Has it been designed to buy votes? Consider your history. I did and my conclusion is below.

Conservatives threaten to block Goodale's fiscal update Monday -- "essentially a mini-budget and much larger than the usual mid-year update"

[. . . . ] "The government started out saying it was just an (economic) update, then it was a 200-page update, then an update that required a lockup . . . and we got to thinking it's obviously a lot more," than a mere economic forecast, Solberg said in an interview Thursday.

[. . . . ] But Judy Wasylycia-Leis, NDP member of the committee, said if she sees an election platform when Monday's document is revealed, she'll vote to keep Goodale from presenting it to the committee.

Otherwise, the Liberals will essentially be using Parliament as a campaign springboard, she said. [. . . . ]

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Guess Who Will Pay

Read "MK Braaten's Top Ten" before you vote; do it today.




PM is not "mad as hell" about some things.

MK Braaten's Top Ten via Need Inquiry into CSL/Earnscliffe Strategies etc -- written November 09, 2005 by Beryl P. Wajsman -- A reader posted a few items in CNEWSForum -- via Small Dead Animals

[. . . . ] Nor why there is no Inquiry into the $1.5 billion dollars in guarantees awarded under Mr. Martin’s watch as Finance Minister in favour of Bombardier whose lobbyist was Mike Robinson, a principal in Earnscliffe and national campaign co-chair for Mr. Martin, who admitted on CTV to having talked with Mr. Martin’s Chief of Staff on this file.

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Canada Steamship Lines contracts

contracts awarded to Earnscliffe Strategies

according to Radio- Canada’s “Enjeux” documentary, avoided $300,000,000 of taxes

not “mad as hell”

Guess who made that last comment. Ah, too easy.



Terror cell suspects named -- Sought refugee status: Five Algerians stayed in Canada after claims denied Stewart Bell, National Post, Nov. 11, 05

[. . . . ] But while the document indicates the government wanted the men held, the Algerians were released within days [. . . . ]

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Auberge Francophone, a Toronto non-profit group that helps French-speaking immigrants

Sunni Muslim extremists from Algeria and other North African nations

Groupe Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat (GSPC)."

failed refugee claimants who were able to delay their deportations for years

Only in Canada, you say?

Consider: A person may enter Canada 1995 / fail to be accepted as a refugee 1996 / not be deported / and REMAIN in Canada until arrested in 2005 and . . .




Bureaucracy costs were six times benefits distributed -- Compassionate care "during its first two years of operation, more than six times the amount paid in benefits to people caring for dying loved ones" Norma Greenaway, NP, Nov. 11, 05

OTTAWA - The federal government spent almost $70-million to administer its compassionate care program during its first two years of operation, more than six times the amount paid in benefits to people caring for dying loved ones, government figures show.

Conservative MP Lynne Yelich says [. . . . ]

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administration and advertising costs

changing computer systems

Stray e-mails outline Liberal plan to attack top

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http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/
news/story.html?id=04559d57-858c-457b-9fad-d01cae37b727

[. . . . ] - An e-mail from Liberal-connected Vancouver lobbyist John Paul Fraser urges political staffers from Industry Canada, Transport Canada, and Infrastructure Canada to help arrange a meeting with the Fraser River Port Authority and a handful of top bureaucrats. The subject was the port's demand for funds for dredging in order to prevent flooding.

- Sadar provided the racist and lewd e-mail to The Sun on condition that no details were published that would identify the government employees involved. However, it referred to sexual boasts by government employees and a reference to the sexual predilections of a person from a certain ethnic group. [. . . . ]

No, you don't say! Who would have thought?

During the election campaign whenever it comes, expect PM and team to brand Conservatives as anti-immigration, racist, xenophobic, anti-choice whether of artistic expression or abortion . . . Well, you know the rest.

Actually, Stephen Harper would leave decisions on contentious topics to a free vote in Parliament, particularly in areas where decent individuals have different opinions -- which, to Liberals is really "scary" . . . Why, the PM/PMO would lose CONTROL.

Bring on the election. I'm all for choice!

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