Bud: The Economy -&- Selective Memory -&- Shopping List for Terrorists -&- Memory Help Lanes

Taking Credit for the Economy? It's that selective memory of our PM's again

The next time PM claims he is responsible for the economy--the positive aspects--remember, his memory is short. This is the PM who doesn't acknowledge any connection to the Party of Corruption, needless to say, the political party of government, which he heads.

Consider this: FHTR Dec. 3, 05, "A Report Card for Liberals Paul Martin & Team", Bud's words bear repeating -- noted also on CNEWS Forum rosemarie59

The economy

Ah, the linchpin of Liberal bragging rights. "Look at the deficit shrink and the surpluses grow", is their mantra. The truth is that the First World's economy has been expanding, our weak dollar has given us great trade surpluses with America, and China and India desperately want our resources. All these factors would benefit any party that governed during this period. Ironically, Paul Martin, who made his name on fiscal responsibility, has now carpeted Canada with most of that surplus. God forbid that the Conservatives should get elected and use it for their programs. If the Liberals are lucky and that happens, the Conservative cupboard will be bare when the next recession hits them.



'Shopping list for terrorists' -- Government's info website irks military hardware manufacturer Dec. 6, 05, Stephen Dylag, CNEWS

The street addresses of companies that make everything from high-calibre bullets to grenades are available on one website -- all thanks to the Canadian government.

Every company or individual in Canada that deals with military hardware or dangerous goods must register with the federal Controlled Goods Directorate -- cgd.gc.ca/ cgdweb/text/index_e.htm -- but the directorate may be giving away more information than is necessary.

Memory Lane: Outsourcing and Jobs

FHTR week of Aug. 14 to Aug. 20, 05

Outsourcing & Implications for Canadians with Few Job Skills -- Canadian, eh? Trying to buy made-in-Canada souvenir items . . . and guess what? Read how many jobs have disappeared in the last year alone. Kerry Diotte, Aug. 19, 05

http://
www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists/
Diotte_Kerry/2005/08/19/1179002.html

Trend toward contracts over full-time jobs Sandra Cordon, Aug. 18, 05

http://
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2005/08/18/1178720-cp.html


Memory Lane: CN/BC Rail Deal -- Plans

News Junkie Canada, Dec. 23, 04: Top cabinet ministers back BC Rail deal despite fraud charges; two fired

http://
newsjunkiecanada.blogspot.com/
2004_12_23_newsjunkiecanada_archive.html

the original article by Dirk Meissner, Dec. 22, 04

http://
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/
2004/12/15/784296-cp.html

VICTORIA (CP) - . . . . despite fraud-related charges against three former Liberal government workers accused of attempting to influence the deal.

[. . . . ] $1-billion deal. . . . CN Rail and the B.C. government. . . partnership last year that would see CN take over the freight operations of BC Rail under a renewable 60-year lease.

The 1,600-kilometre BC Rail main line runs from North Vancouver to Fort Nelson, including the resource-rich northern community of Tumbler Ridge. [. . . . ]

FHTR week of Aug. 14 to Aug. 20, 05

Search: Robert Virk and David Basi , trial Nov. 28 -- related to the BC Rail story, I seem to remember. [What happened with that? Or has it been delayed? . . . what with the election and one thing and another? ]


Memory Lane: Border and Security

FHTR week of Aug. 14 to Aug. 20, 05

The "Peaceful" Ones, Aly Hindy & Nuclear Sites, & More Weapons arrest at U.S.-Canadian border -- Two Canadians allegedly tried to bring guns, ammo from United States August 14, 2005

http://
edition.cnn.com/2005/
US/08/13/canada.weapons/

Aly Hindy Imam Salaheddin Islamic Centre

Fundamentalist, and proud of it -- Canada's most controversial Muslim cleric spent his professional life working around vulnerable nuclear facilities in Canada and the U.S., designing ways to protect them from explosions, tornadoes and plane crashes Mohammed Adam, Ottawa Citizen, Aug. 13, 05

http://
www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/
story.html?id=7a6a9cc3-0d73-4d
5e-8172-71e37702ede6

Nuclear facilities? This is the imam of the Scarborough Salahedin Mosque. . . . "I spent 21 years working to improve our nuclear facilities at Pickering, Bruce and Darlington.

Memory Lane: Security, Hijab & PM

Security: Muslim women allowed into Canada need not remove hijabs at security check, PM says -- "Identity Politics" alive and well

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin [in the interest of votes? Of rewarding Muslims who overwhelmingly voted for more of the same Liberal . . . call it what you will] decreed from on high, despite the fact that Muslim women increasingly are being recruited as terrorist jihadis, that Muslim women may enter Canada to "special" treatment. They do not have to remove the hijab at security checkpoints (The National Post, Aug. 14. 04, A5). Now the Canadian Islamic Congress will be agitating for the next concession to those who pursue the "religion of peace, that no Muslim woman in a bourqa be searched. After all, they are merely women, second class citizens. The fact that saheeds have been able to hide packs of explosives conveniently under their clothing eludes our politically correct PM. Identity politics is alive and well under with Martin. This is really comforting to the rest of us! We might appear "racist" if we don't mete out "special" rules for each identity group, mightn't we? [. . . . ]

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