The more things change ...

Man with HIV jailed 15 years for unsafe sex -- The moral of the story is ......... ?

This story included three or four women, one or more children created and utter stupidity on the part of the women involved. Can't they read about AIDS? Or have they been indoctrinated with political correctness? Remember the Canadian blood scandal?




This webpage led to the article that follows the link.

Equality or sameness with several comments by caspar34, salamat, foxers, etc.

Equity Choice Capacity and Culture -- Transcript of Speech by Rt Hon John Reid, Secretary of State New Health Network Conference, 7 November 2003

Today in developing my theme of equity of access to health care I want to look at one simple question:

"How we can best place real power - the power of making real choices about health treatment and exerting real influence over those choices - in the hands of the many in this country inside the NHS, rather than the minority?" In its premise that question contains in itself a few provocative and interesting questions.

[....] Give patients more power and they will make sure they, all of them, get the health service they deserve.

The IRB & the Judge

Waiter sought refugees' bribes -- refugee claimants, Liu Wai Keung, Woon Lam (Bill) Wong former president of Montreal's Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) appeals division judge Yves Bourbonnais



Former ambassador Martin Collacott: Canada's Inadequate Response to Terrorism: The Need for Policy Reform Fraser Institute

Executive Summary: Failure to exercise adequate control over the entry and the departure of non-Canadians on our territory has been a significant factor in making Canada a destination for terrorists. [. . . . ]

There is much more, including a .pdf. See also the article below on "Ports and Security"


Is racial discrimination widespread in the Canadian labour market? "The CLC's colourful claims" Martin Loney, ImmigrationWatchCanada.org

Martin Loney is the author of The Pursuit of Division: Race, Gender and Preferential Hiring in Canada (McGill-Queen's)

[. . . . ] Canada has a thriving race industry and a plethora of individuals who gain a living in the employment equity and diversity training fields. Claims of pervasive discrimination are grist to the mill, for if, as many economists have long argued, the market penalises employers who discriminate and rewards those who recruit on merit there is little need for their efforts. The Canadian data are very clear. When those born-in-Canada are compared visible minorities do as well as other Canadians. It was true in 1986, when the federal government introduced its burdensome employment equity legislation, and its is true today. This might surprise those familiar with the cacophony of claims of victim status. Who has not heard that visible minority women are “doubly disadvantaged”?

Sociologist Monica Boyd, a feminist and supporter of preferential hiring, examined 1986 census data in search of support for this claim. Unfortunately, at least for preferential hiring advocates, Canadian-born visible minority women actually earned more than their counterparts, a full 13 per cent more. Adjusting for age, education, area of residence, marital status and a host of other factors Professor Boyd was still left with a slight advantage for visible minority women. Rather than rejecting the need for preferential hiring legislation Boyd turned to the experience of immigrant women, where the comparison of apples and oranges offered greater scope to those looking for proof of the bigotry of their fellow citizens. [. . . . ]

Related: What is the rationale for immigration numbers and is it justified?

Canada's federal government has never provided a rational answer to this question. At different times, it has claimed that it is bringing in large numbers of people to stimulate Canada's economy, to stop an alleged population decline, or to prevent problems created by an aging population.

However, the federal government's own research has told it that immigration consumes 99% of the economic benefits it produces. With regard to population decline, in 1990, when Canada had a population of 26+ million, Health and Welfare Canada demographic research told the federal government that Canada's population would continue growing for 20+ years, so population decline should not have been an issue to be looked at in 1990. The same Health and Welfare study concluded that Made-In-Canada alternatives are superior to immigration in dealing with a larger number of older people in Canada.

In other words, its research contradicts what it is doing. (See highlights of the major federally-sponsored studies entitled "Charting Canada's Future" and New Faces In the Crowd" in the "Research" section of this web site.) [. . . . ]

Who Are We and Why Have We Organized? -- "Immigration Watch Canada is an organization of Canadians advocating major reform to Canada's immigration policies."




Federal justice department employees have played fast and loose with travel and hospitality rules and cost taxpayers a bundle, an internal audit reveals.

The report, completed in March 2005 but just released publicly on the department's website last week, uncovered sweeping problems, including shoddy documentation, mixing personal and business trips, and flying business class instead of economy in violation of the rules. Weak control measures have left the department vulnerable to unauthorized spending, non-compliance to the rules, unjustified or fraudulent claims and excessive expenses, the report found.



Related: DFO broke spending guidelines, audit says -- $160m doled out for Mi’kmaq gear after Marshall decision without proper record-keeping Stephen Maher, Ottawa [ http://www.herald.ca/Front/486832.html ]

[. . . . ] The audit shows that the department hurriedly spent millions buying boats and gear, sometimes relying on the same boat brokers to set prices and negotiate purchases.

After Ottawa started its shopping spree, the price of Yarmouth-area lobster licences rose from about $300,000 in 1999 to $850,000 now, industry sources say.

The entire section of the audit having to do with the purchase of equipment is blacked out. Some of the vessels were in terrible shape, said Mr. Paul."In one case I know of a story where the vessel sank," he said. Sometimes, DFO did not even end up legally owning the vessels it paid for because bureaucrats failed to follow proper title-transfer procedures. [. . . . ]

Justice and Parliamentary Hearing

This came to me from a friend. It is from a press release.

NGO in SPECIAL consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
P R E S S R E L E A S E
For immediate release February 22, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario

[. . . . ] When recently retired Chief Justice of Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal, The Hon. Madam Justice Constance Glube appeared as a witness on November 15, 2005 before the House of Commons Justice Committee which was reviewing the judicial appointments system, she acknowledged in her testimony that the judicial appointment system must be changed because the appointments were based not on merit, but rather on political considerations. This marked the first time that a chief justice in Canada has publicly challenged the appointment system of judges.

On December 1, 2005, Chief Justice McLachlin stated in a speech given to the law students at the University of Wellington, New Zealand that judges may render their opinions based on ‘unwritten’ Constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion. She defined unwritten norms as those ‘essential to a nation’s history, identity, values and legal systems.’ Such norms, according to Judge McLachlin, could be properly understood and interpreted by appointed judges.

Under these circumstances, the introduction of public hearings of proposed Supreme Court of Canada judges is not only a reasonable procedure, but a necessary one in view of the authority and power now assumed by the Supreme Court of Canada over the lives of ordinary Canadians.

Canada Begins Judicial Reform Under PM Harper Paul Jackson, March 2nd, 2006

Most assessments were there was not a single conservative voice on the court since Alberta’s John Major retired in December. Conservative MPs have charged the Liberal government had purposely appointed activist judges to put in place policies that may be unpatable to many Canadians and that Liberal politicians dared not institute themselves for fear of a voter backlash.[. . . . ]

Almost certain to come before the Supreme Court in the near future will be the question of legalizing polygamy as a religious right guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There are some offshoots of radical Mormon sects in Canada – one in British Columbia openly practices polygamy – and it is thought to quietly exist in certain immigrant communities.

Rothstein, who made his reputation as an expert on commercial law, continuously made it clear the federal Parliament and provincial Legislatures are the supreme law-making bodies in the nation. [....]

Veteran Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy said after the hearing she believed Rothstein had “a strong respect for the democratic role of Legislatures” in the nation. Alternatively, Real Menard, a member of the separatist and left-leaning Bloc Quebecois party, said he preferred to see activist judges on the bench. The Bloc Quebecois has also criticized the appointment because Rothstein does not speak French and is not familiar with the Quebec Civil Code.

Francophones have been so used to using bilingualism as a way to award the best-remunerated and powerful positions to Francophones, as well as to keep Anglophones out of power positions, that how this plays out should prove interesting. I believe there is a problem with the Francophone concept of fairness. It will be interesting to see if there will be any fairness accepted or instituted. It is unconscionable that ability to speak a minority language can prevent a majority of Canadians from working for their own government. Whatever the Red Tories, Liberals and the CBC have been telling us for years about equality of languages, what has been occurring is demonstrably unfair, since most of the country is not francophone and does not need to operate in French--except to satisfy a never satisfied minority language group. It might be wise to develop other linguistic abilities for trade and other good reasons -- Spanish, Arabic, whatever Chinese language is currently most useful if it is not Mandarin, etc.

People have told me I'm not supposed to mention this unfairness -- all in the interests of maintaining peace, I assume. People will always be happier if they get their own way, if everyone caves in to them *. Well, why not? That has been the problem with Canada. Only minority groups are given license to demand ... whatever and the rest are supposed to give in. Why should any noisy group get all the attention and funding, as well as the jobs? The rest of us have heritages and some Canadians have other languages that they believe deserve attention ... through the education system, for example. What the eternally unsatisfied group does not yet realize is that they have built up a residue of ill will. They fail to understand that they cannot force people who form a majority of the population and not expect them to react negatively eventually.

(* Caving in is always pleasing to those who try to force their will upon us, as we are learning from the Muslim extremists who cow people with their statements about how the West's journalists and bloggers are 'dissing' their religion with a bunch of cartoons. Actually, mostly Islamists kill each other ... any excuse for a rumble, it seems, so the cartooons are not the cause, simply an excuse.)



Ports and Security

Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott Michael Freund, Feb. 28, 2006 2:55 Updated Mar. 1, 2006 13:24

The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The firm, Dubai Ports World, is seeking control over six major US ports, including those in New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is entirely owned by the Government of Dubai via a holding company called the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCZC), which consists of the Dubai Port Authority, the Dubai Customs Department and the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area.

"Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced," Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of Israel, told the Post in a telephone interview.

"If a product contained even some components that were made in Israel, and you wanted to import it to Dubai, it would be a problem," he said. [. . . . ]

'Koran permit, must acquit' Mark Steyn, Feb. 28, 2006

[. . . . ] Mr. Fitzgerald opened the case for the defense by arguing, according to The Daily Telegraph, that "Hamza was urging his followers not to murder British people but to fight in holy wars where Muslims were being killed in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Kosovo and Palestine." Asked if he had ever intended to urge or incite murder, Hamza replied: "In the context of murder, no. In the context of fighting, yes."

Hmm. Mr. Hamza wants to see a caliph installed in Downing Street and to have Muslims "control the whole Earth." [. . . . ]

Nick Griffin, leader of the highly non-multicultural British National Party, is also on trial, "accused of using words or behavior likely to stir up racial hatred" - and, unlike Mr. Hamza, he's unable to avail himself of the but-I-got-it-straight-from-the-Koran defense. [. . . . ]

Perspective -- John Thompson: Mackenzie Institute: The Cartoon Jihad

The uproar over some political cartoons in a Danish newspaper is a coordinated and deliberate assault on one of the most fundamental and hard-won rights in the Western World. After years of seeing freedom of speech being defended by the likes of pedophiles, pornographers and Neo-Nazis, it is a welcome relief to speak up for editorial cartoonists against the two-faced demagogues of the Islamic World.

The seeming outrage is only expressed by a tiny minority within the Islamic world, and could be characterized as the work of rabble-rousers and professional activists from the Jihadist movement. To acknowledge their point and adjust our behavior in any way only rewards this group and invites their next act of carefully coordinated 'spontaneous' outrage. Their concerns neither merit serious consideration nor our respect.

Those from Western societies who miss these points are making a grave mistake if they believe that refraining from publishing 'offensive' cartoons about Islam (let alone making any sort of intellectual inquiries) will solve the problem. Frankly, any concessions at this point is like tossing meat to a misbehaving canine… you are only rewarding bad behavior and can expect more of the same in the future. Try a rolled up newspaper and some firm language instead. [. . . . ]

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.”
-- C.S. Lewis

“We have a tradition of freedom, personal freedom, scientific freedom. That freedom isn't kept alive by caution and an unwillingness to take risks.”-- Robert Heinlein [. . . . ]

Thompson is always worth reading.


There have been several links about the ports situation in the US on newsbeat1 (see link in menu), so there is not much point in my repeating them. There is one article on ports and security which affects Canada and therefore, it might interest readers.

"The United States is concerned about the Chinese billionaire's growing influence .... helping the Chinese military

"....has compelling financial reasons to maintain a good relationship with China's leadership," ...

.... could threaten to shift some business from Panama to its facilities in the Bahamas, thus giving the company additional leverage over the Panamanian government."

"... containerized shipping facilities in the Panama Canal, as well as the Bahamas, could provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items from the west to the PRC, or facilitate the movement of arms and other prohibited items into the Americas," concluded the U.S. military intelligence report.

Missiles Sent Airmail; Arming American Gangs

... helped found China International Trust Investment Co. (CITIC) with the direct approval of Beijing. CITIC later would set up the Chinese army's front company .... has sold billions of dollars of Chinese arms around the world with financing provided by ....

Since there are connections between some of Canada's first families, this immigrant to Canada, and CITIC, I think it is important for Canadians to be aware.



Memory Lane

An eagle feather presentation ceremony will recognize 21 graduating Aboriginal students -- Husky Energy, United Way Program -- a mark of pride for CBE aboriginal students

The Aboriginal Pride Program at Jack James is designed to increase the graduation rate of Aboriginal youth by enhancing their awareness of their own heritage and culture and by providing them academic and social support within the school. The goal is to positively influence students’ self-esteem, pride in their culture and sense of identity, motivating them for success in many endeavours, including the completion of high school.

[....] "Husky Energy is proud to support the Aboriginal Pride Program because of the important work it is doing at Jack James High School to increase the graduation rate of Aboriginal students and to promote greater understanding and awareness of Aboriginal culture." [....]

If you want to come to Canada and do business in the North .... Why, it's almost as if this kind of thing were programmed by Liberal governments. Mouth the mantras; get onside. Follow the money.