The power of incumbency: Immigration, Military Goose Bay-Happy Valley $$$ -&- the "unbearable lightness of ethics"

Is the National Post's politics showing? -- SSM vs Harper

Which was featured on the front page?



Same Sex Marriage: Elton John & David Parnish
or
Harper: to "end the culture of entitlement, big money and lobbying"


But of course, Same Sex Marriage photo and the news that "Market hits 5-year high" which, of course, is what PM & Team want emphasized. We should forget the corruption.



Harper: to "end the culture of entitlement, big money and lobbying"

PM: too busy handing out your tax $$$ to attend the House -- IMHO buying votes, $1-billion at a time

Claudette Bradshaw actually can speak -- mouthed something--sotto voce--as she left the empty of Liberals --a few min. only--House of Commons. I have read that Bradshaw has never graced the House with her dulcet tones during her tenure as an MP. I suppose it doesn't matter . . . as long as she votes the way she's told . . . that is, as Polly and the Parrots want. Democracy in Canada . . . doomed by faint practice.

Commons gets taste of 'dirt' to come -- 'Is that a threat?' Mike Blanchfield; with files from Anne Dawson

Poll Results

The Liberals have recently gone on a spending spree. Is this ....a) Good governance: 1%
b) Sound use of tax dollars: 7%
c) Responding to need: 7%
d) A bid to buy the election: 83%

Ordinary blokes -- cutting through it -- and I hope the voters roll another load away.



Immigration:

The government intends to raise annual immigration levels by 40%. Will they hold public hearings?

Immigration increase denounced as 'irresponsible' -- "An open letter to the Minister of Immigration and the chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration"

Worth reading -- from:

James Bissett, Ottawa, former ambassador and executive-director of the Canadian Immigration Service;

Martin Collacott, Vancouver, former ambassador:

Larry Comeau, Ottawa, former RCMP superintendent;

Wayne Goodfellow, Ottawa, adjunct professor;

Patrick Grady, Ottawa, economist and former official in the Department of Finance;

Herbert Grubel, Vancouver, former professor of economics and opposition finance critic;

John Meyer, Midland, Ont., former president of Zero Population Growth of Canada;

Ben Pflanz, Cochrane, Alta., former high commissioner and immigration official.

The Liberal Propaganda Organ aka CBC: Some program intended to be humorous, Friday evening, was attempting to make fun of those Canadians' concerns, questioning this massive immigration. They were distorting the concern, suggesting it is because bird flu comes out of China -- but not touching upon the the real problem with immigration from China, as has been detailed in various documents and news reports, the security aspect, organized crime, triad members and illegals entering. But that seems not to be a concern of our PM.

(Search ex-RCMP Cpl Robert Read, Mr. Brian McAdam, former Foreign Service Officer -- check this website: e.g. US Cox Report, RCMP CSIS report, etc. Also, see Prime Time Crime for several articles.)

Are CBC and their government handlers getting antsy -- what with all the plans ? . . . . . . . . Did I mention all the plans?

Paul Martin: scroll down for YESTERDAY'S SPENDING ANNOUNCEMENTS in $700-million to speed the processing of more than 700,000 prospective immigrants. in "Ugly sparring tosses up lawsuit threat", Anne Dawson, CanWest, Nov. 25, 05

More interesting is the Goose Bay-Happy Valley $$$

$96-million to put a Coast Guard ship in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and train local residents how to, among other things, search and rescue people and map the ocean floor off Labrador. [. . . ]

$25-million for new military equipment at CFB Goose Bay and $5-million to market the base for foreign military training.
$9-million to fix up Goose Bay airport and $20- million to help diversify the local economy.

Don't miss the list of them. If it weren't my country, and if PM & Team weren't so naked in their buying habits, their neediness, it would be amusing to read the list. Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery . . . but. . . well, keep reading.




The "unbearable lightness of ethics" -- "Next big scandal set to explode", Sheldon Alberts, NP, Nov. 25, 05 - on Jack Abramoff

Unlike better-known political insiders, the 47-year-old "super-lobbyist" resisted the allure of media punditry and allegedly became one of Washington's most influential men the old-fashioned way -- by buying it.

[. . . . They] wrote letters urging the Bush administration to reject a Louisiana native casino while receiving money from rival tribes and [. . . . ]

Search:

conspiring to defraud native tribes and to corrupt public officials
US$9-million to arrange a meeting
lobbied against his own clients to

Fortunately, Canada is . . . more . . . uh, how shall I describe it? . . . perhaps holier than thou?

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