If a Cdn. Gov. Tree Falls in the Parliamentary Forest, Did It Ever Exist?

I had read that the Martin government had erased and shredded. Well ...... try to find anything ..... I found zip, zilch, nada. In no particular order, may I present the road to H***.

River of Liberal History and Accountability

House of Commons Committees

House of Commons Committees: Committee List

[.... Dead Links Grotto ....]

House of Commons Committees: Studies

“Studies” include those bills, subject-matter or self-initiated inquiries, Estimates and other matters referred by the House that the Committee has studied during the current session. [which ended with the fall of the Martin Liberal government] On the page for a particular study, you will find, where applicable: a list of meetings, reports and responses, witnesses, news releases and documents related to the study.

Official Languages (LANG)

[.... The Ring of Dyane .... ]

(1) Official Languages Accountability and Coordination Framework of the Action Plan for Official Languages and (2) Official Languages Overview of the National Defence Department

[ .... The Rack .... ]

Standing Committee on the Status of Women

[ .... The Cauldron .... ]

11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (CoP 11)

[ .... Black Hole of Historical Memory .... ]

Examination of the leasing agreement between the Federal Government and Alexis Nihon REIT



Certificate of nomination of Guy Saint-Pierre to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation


[ .... Crossing the River Styx .... ]

Auditor General's Reports: Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Federal Government (Chapter 6, November 2003); Placing the Public's Money Beyond Parliament's Reach - Canadian Television Fund (Chapter 1, April 2002); Other Audit Observations - Telefilm Canada (Chapter 8, November 2004)

[.... The Inferno....]

Menu & Diversity File, Bud: Civil Service Scandal & Ban Islamophobia?

Menu

Until I have time to play around with the template, what follows is a list of the posts after this one, since the menu is now at the bottom. I don't know why.

Harper: Emerson & Others Crossing the Bar & What You Should Know
Regulating Vice
More Peace
You Will Learn to Love Big Brother [ I have changed the title since this seemed inadequate for what I was writing; it had been "I Love Big Brother" -- hindsight being 20/20 and all that.]
Funding Politics, Nukes, Bud: Irony-Muslims & CBC Smear, SPARC
NB Justice Drew Stymiest found guilty
PM's Appointments & What Harper Said
The Peaceful Ones in Canada, Recount, Sex Ring, Money Laundering Indictment
Canada's Prime Minister Harper and Family
Impartial Justice
PM Harper & Short-term PR Hit
Know Radical Islam -&- Feminists' Plans for Marriage
PM Harper, East Coast Perennial Problem -&- Plans
SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE Only in California
More 'Peace' & CBC Concern: Offending Islam, Hirsi Ali -&- More
Updated: The Peaceful Ones Being 'Peaceful' -&- More
Welcome & Congratulations, Prime Minister Harper, MP's & Cabinet -&- Islam
Template Shenanigans [Feb. 3, 06]

It has been suggested that I choose which of these Appalachian Redneck Bird Dogs is really me; after all, the Applachians do end in the Maritimes. I like to think I am more like the squirrel that doesn't quite fit into the family, but is fed anyway. Whatever, I hooted over the dogs and went all sappy over the squirrel. Thanks those who give me my daily chuckles.






















MORE CBC BS! Sask-AZ, 2/09/2006

Now the glorious CBC is rounding up a plane load and heading to New Orleans in an attempt to raise up to $10,000 for charity. Spending how much? - they refuse to say - but you have to know it is ten times what they hope to raise.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/02/09/1434157-sun.html

It is time to privatize this black hole of tax dollars. If they can't support themselves why should the taxpayer put up with their outrageous effrontery??

Call or write to the new Heritage Minister, Bev Oda at:
National Headquarters
Canadian Heritage
25 Eddy Street
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0M5
Tel.: (819) 997-0055
Toll-free: 1-866-811-0055
TTY/TDD: (819) 997-3123

I agree. I believe the CBC is so biased that it is subversive to democracy; it promotes one view, a leftist/Liberal/NDP view. It promotes more government control but gives little airtime to the views of those who want less government control, more independent initiative and more personal responsibility. I could go on ad nauseam since CBC has come to symbolize the power of the state and of incumbency to garner support so as to remain in power forever. That is what the Liberals were accomplishing. The system must allow the citizenry input, whether the Toronto-centric media elites like the views or nor. The journalists' work is to investigate and to report. Since nobody is completely neutral--nor am I--my preference is that journalists state their personal biases, ties and networks (What is the political stripe of the boyfriend, husband, family member or friend in government, for example.), and then report as faithfully as possible. Media must be untied from government support. I hate advertisements but they are preferable to media control. I have become an expert at not seeing ads, fortunately.

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

Thanks to J from California who noted parallels between the Martin government and his own government. His pet peeve? He decries the handling of the border, in particular, the tunnels constructed between Mexico and the US, along with the incursions boldly being made by Mexicans into US territory. (See www.wnd.com for an article on the situation.) There are comparable problems not explored enough having to do with tunnels and also with our seaports, airports, the North and all along the Canadian land border.



The scandal in the civil service

CTV reported the fact that the Liberals were paying for luxurious hotel rooms and resorts, obstensibly to accommodate travelling civil servants. These rooms were in hotels stretching from Morocco to Mexico to Hawaii. The cost to the taxpayer for these comfy digs was about a million dollars a week. While some top civil servents have to attend conferences, surely they weren't there for the 800 nights of racked-up-for rooms in Cancun, or the 400 in Hawaii. The Canadian Taxpayers Association used the Access to Information bill to expose this They tried to match official government business against the locations. Even though there were a sizable number of rooms rented in Barbados, there was no business ever registered for that country. Do these people think they are operating out of Louis the Sun King's Versailles palace? The Liberals certainly dodged a bullet when this was revealed only after the election. Dingwall, Radwanski and the other bloated lads have their counterparts in the civil service. Harper had better drain this cesspool quickly. What other outrageous perqs are being exercised that have been hidden heretofore? This came to light only through expert diggers like the CTA. The honchos that approved these "free" rooms to vacationing civil servent must be sacked forthwith. This is just another blow to the public's confidence in government. The Conservatives must extend the Auditor-General's beagle eyes over the Civil Service, the Foundations and the Crown Corporations, and any other taxpayer-funded avenues for princely pork and porkers.

© Bud Talkinghorn


Ban Islamophobia?

This was one of the demands that a Montreal imam made at a press conference. Even if this phobia were more imaginary than real, one cannot erase an emotion without some new reality taking its place and, unless we want an Orwellian society, we can't have thought police. To even suggest such a law reflects on the totalitarian mindset which posited it. The litany of atrocities committed expressly in the name of Islam, their prediliction for even slaughtering those of other Islamic sects, and Islam's failure at stopping the extemism that flows from their mosques, has led to deep concern in the non-Islamic world. Whether you are a Thai Buddhist, an Indian Hindu, or an Indonesian Christian, you are fair game for radical Islam. Canadian-Muslims have to show more outrage at Darfur, Beslan, and the Sept. 11 Twin Towers atrocity. The poll out of Britain that showed the average Muslim-Britain hates his adopted culture and a scary minority sympathized with the London tube bombers. This causes huge apprehension among the native Brits -- as it should. Canada is listed consistently as one of the world's best countries--number one, at times. Not a single Muslim country makes the A list. However, they crowd the bottom, with Sudan anchoring them.

Canadians are correct to say: We have allowed you to flee those worlds; you have to adopt your attitudes to Canadian norms. We are not going to allow sharia law here as it is an affront to our ideal of gender equality. As well, some of your past customs are simply considered criminal in this society. Finally, this is not a theocracy that can punish "thought crimes". Accept these demands or return to your native lands. Multiculturalism can only be stretched so far. The recent firebombings in France, the breaking up of a large terrorist group in Holland have led to much stricter immigration and refugee legislation in those countries. Germany is screening Muslims much more closely, to weed out the hardcore extremists who will never assimilate. Remember, Muslims, that your actions speak louder than words.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Harper: Emerson & Others Crossing the Bar & What You Should Know

New posts today will be below this.

I have bumped up Anonalogue's "What Harper Said" about politicians crossing the floor of the House of Commons because I have listened to enough media (faux) outrage over Minister Emerson's defection to the Conservative Party. There is much more to this story below ("Liberals say Emerson blocked deal with U.S. that Conservatives can now take credit for") but, before getting to that, consider:

These politians changed parties: They ran for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, later defected to the Liberals and did not return their campaign funds, to my knowledge.

Belinda Stronach: There is scuttlebutt that, since her father ran for the Liberals and apparently was a Liberal supporter, Belinda probably was too but became a Conservative to become a political leader there so nothing would radically change the status quo, as set up by Liberal honchos over the years, a status quo which benefitted her circle including Frank Stronach who returned from his own tax haven to help her in the latest campaign. When she lost the CPC leadership race, she stuck around the Conservatives long enough to learn and assess as much as she was capable of--girlfriend of Deputy Leader MacKay too--then bought negotiated a cabinet position when the Paul Martin Liberals needed her most to save their Liberal government with one vote. Stronach has never impressed me as having an astute political mind, but she could be useful--used by others?--since she travels in wealthy business circles. I have not heard her voice any political principles that did't sound as though someone had coached her for her speech and told her not to deviate, not to try to reason it out in public. Possibly wise advice. (All in my opinion, of course.)

Scott Brison: Another Conservative leadership hopeful who developed principles over the scary right wing Conservatives in order to get a Cabinet position, principally. I suspect Scott Brison's politics are really Liberal but he wanted leadership so ran for the CPC. Then he left for the Liberals when he couldn't win. Did he think conservatives would score and quarter gays or was it to his advantage to blacken the more right wing conservatives when he needed to prove his Liberal bona fides? Even many Liberals voted against gay marriage and in 1998 or 1999. Paul Martin, along with the rest voted to retain traditional marriage. However, it was politically convenient when crossing the floor to discover how scary the people he wanted to lead actually were -- not very astute if he missed that for so long. Scott was a useful catch for the Liberals because, while he was positioned as a new Min. of PWGSC, itself the subject of investigation in several areas, he responded in the House for ex-PM Martin. Brison did not answer questions there in any meaningful sense. Brison was a flak catcher for Martin and he had the nerve to write that he answered 1000 questions in the House during his flak catching tenure. ("Accountability means being in the House", A14, National Post, Feb. 10, 06.) Check my Hansard posts which high-light his non-answers and boilerplate rah rah rah for Martin and his team. That was NOT accountability; that was flak catching non-answering!

Keith Martin: Conservative to Liberal -- from BC, called Paul Martin an idiot in the last election over his notwithstanding clause remark ... or over something outrageous.



Progressive or Red Tory=Liberal: PC Leaders who became Liberal--card carrying or not--who did not receive excessive negative media coverage on crossing the bar, nor did they have to repay the political party they left

Jean Charest: leader of the Progressive Conservative Party after the split in the PC party and the emergence of a new party, Reform, led by Preston Manning and the precursor to the Canadian Alliance. Charest, from Quebec, was a PC (Red Tory) who was convinced to become the leader of the provincial Liberal party in Quebec by Liberal PM, Jean Chretien. There is little difference between the Red Tories and Liberal parties, in my estimation. The main idea is they resent any Western power and they are so socially liberal that they do not want any Blue Tory influence. Yet large swathes of Canada have faith-based views or simply conservative views about traditional marriage and the negative influence of: too low a legal age for sex (particularly the exploitation by adults), sex clubs and the concomitant entry of hookers-sex trade workers though they are termed exotic dancers (Remember Min. Judy Sgro? Think of human smuggling of women for prostitution), swinging, lap dancing, nudity in public and a few similar ideas on what they don't want Canada to become in an effort to keep life in Canada healthy for raising children and protecting what should be a social positive. They tend to support traditional marriage for the long-term good of society. Decent people may disagree on whether cohabiting gays who wish to regularize that situation may add to or detract from that societal good. Any party should be prepared to listen to and treat with respect traditional views, as well as the more liberal views, until and if those views are subjected to a truly free vote on the subject. The problem with Red Tories and Liberals is that they do NOT trust free votes for then, they would not control the outcome. All of the above led to Stephen Harper and uniting conservatives. May he succeed in gaining more freedom for all of us, our views, our votes and our Parliament.

Joe Clark, ex-Progressive Conservative leader, had a fit of pique that the West might gain some power after many left to form a Western-based political party, Reform. His pique overcame his good judgement at a Conservative Party of Canada under Stephen Harper. Joe Clark would not merge, so he told his followers to vote Liberal in the 2004 election, an action which amounts to crossing the floor in the House and joining the Liberals. He has since been quiet and has been rewarded with some position in the US (a university? think tank? lecturing? Washington? I forget.)

There have been other floor crossers not unduly punished in the media, so why persecute the latest one? It is a fear of loss of power where it has been centered since Canada formed, the Centre and the elites.

My point is simply that it is time for CBC Pravda to grow up and hope that a bunch of us don't agitate and petition for its well-deserved demise for its partisanship and efforts to get Mr. Emerson out of the Ministry.

CBC has been agitating for action and actively telling people where to go to sign a petition to remove Emerson, all under the guise of reporting the news. That is the job of citizenry moved to action, not the taxpayer-funded partisans at CBC. My disgust for this gang grows.


This bears repeating:

What Harper said Anonalogue, Feb. 7, 06

[....] Here's what Harper actually said during the election when asked point blank, edited only for length:

Colleen Belisle: Hello, my name is Colleen Belisle and I have a question for Stephen Harper regarding the accountability issue. In the past 18 months, I have noticed a number of MPs crossing the floor after the election. This makes me wonder why I should, as a voter, go and vote when my MP can change parties after the election. Mr. Harper, are there any policies that you plan to enforce after the election regarding this issue? Thank you.

Stephen Harper: My short answer is no. (notice how Stephen Harper is a straight shooter - Anon.) And I understand the voters' frustration. You can imagine I feel that frustration as much as anyone. I was the victim of a number of the particular incidents that the voter is referring to, that Colleen's referring to, but the difficulty, Peter – I know that many members of Parliament have put forward various proposals that would restrict the right of MPs to cross the floor, force elections, or whatever. I haven't seen one yet that convinces me that it would create anything other than a situation where party leaders have even more power over the individual members of Parliament...But that all said, I haven't seen one yet that I'm convinced creates a bigger problem than it's actually trying to fix.Peter Mansbridge: Do you think [. . . . check the site -- much info here ]

For what it's worth here's a list of Senators who have run for MP after resigning as a Senator:"Very few Canadian Senators have ever resigned their seat to run for a position in the Canadian House of Commons, but six have done so successfully:

Name Party Senate Commons
Joseph Edouard Cauchon Con 1867 1872
Peter Mitchell Lib-Con 1867 1872
Archibald Woodbury McLelan Lib-Con 1869 1881
John Carling Liberal-Conservative 1891 1892
William Templeman Liberal 1897 1906
Robert René de Cotret PC 1979 1984 [. . . . ]

There is more. Anonalogue seems to have an inside track in that he knows history .......




Liberals say Emerson blocked deal with U.S. that Conservatives can now take credit for James Travers, Toronto Star, Ottawa (Feb 9, 2006),

Except that there is another angle to this story -- the Liberals didn't want to announce a deal with the US because Paul Martin wanted to "bash Bush" as part of his election strategy. Announcing a deal would have spoiled that strategy and, not expecting to lose, Paul Martin would have announced "his" deal post election--positively Machiavellian on Martin's part except ..... the Conservatives won.

[Travers:] Here's the plot of a real-life political thriller: David Emerson defected to the Conservatives this week carrying a multi-billion dollar softwood lumber deal that Liberals, for political reasons, didn't finalize before the federal election. [. . . . ]

Search: an agreement Liberals say he blocked , higher stumpage fees , a less-than-perfect agreement

There is more to the plot. h/t newsbeat1, Small Dead Animals where you may read the whole thing as reported by Kate.



RCMP probing Polish immigration scam-- "There were no background checks required," said one Toronto-area Pole, who knew others who said they paid for visas. "Even the worst criminal can buy a visa for Canada." Tom Godfrey, Feb. 7, 06

Search: Etobicoke , embassy support workers



Update UNB conference: and correction re date of speech: Stephen Lewis, special envoy to the UN for HIV/AIDS in Africa spoke Feb. 2, apparently. I have some information on the content of his speech in my hands -- info later.

Regulating Vice

As a non-gambler, I have to ask: what is the difference among governments being in the business of profiting from gambling and hockey players, their wives or anyone else engaging in it? Feb. 10, 06

[. . . . ] Published reports have named Jones as one of those who is alleged to have bet on football games over the course of a police investigation by New Jersey authorities.

And another report in the Associated Press says Gretzky was allegedly heard on a wiretap talking to Tochett, discussing how his wife could avoid being implicated. [. . . . ]

Give Gretsky this; if true, at least he's a loyal husband.

Believe me, I hate the whole gambling business because of the criminal underbelly -- the reported unsavoury dealings and possibly criminal gangs, but I fail to see how, in one case, gambling is all right but in the other, not. What does this mean? "Under New Jersey law, it is illegal to operate a gambling business for profit." Why else, but for profit, would anyone engage in a business?

I am revealing my ignorance about the whole area of gambling but I am genuinely puzzled. Does it imply hockey games might be fixed so someone could make money? Is it something like the current attitude toward marijuana where a little bit might have been legalized, even in Canada, under a Liberal government, but a bunch of bales crossing a border would be a criminal act ... and therefore, not a good thing for society? How much alcohol or sex or gambling or any so-called vice turns it from a good thing for government in $$$ earned, to a bad thing for the rest of society if it is not controlled? I rather like free choice myself if something is not evil for society, in which case, why is a little bit all right? (Forgive me for musing, but I neither gamble nor buy lottery tickets; I could never be a madam and no-one is offering big bucks for my body so this is just questioning how one draws the line in any of this.)

Sometimes the attempt to regulate vices leaves me totally puzzled. I have been in places where children were at large parties that included flowing wine and even been in restaurant-bars with their parents attending large-group functions. Their parents' drinking seemed to affect the children not at all; they played together where everyone could see them, then returned to the table and went to sleep on their parents' laps or across a couple of chairs. None of the children ever came to the table wanting to try the wine and life went on normally. Everybody went to work or school the next day and they were the healthiest group of families I have known, as a group. So is drinking wine a vice that should be controlled? How does anyone decide? And who chooses who may decide?

More Peace

Canadian Muslims ask governments to condemn cartoons -- Did they speak out with such vigour after 9/11 and the various instances of Muslims' cries to Allah as they committed their crimes against innocents? Feb. 9, 06

Islam's more extremist practitioners readily reacted to cartoons ... once their imams added a few more, since the originals weren't offensive enough apparently; then the imams directed Muslims as to where to look to take offense ... as usual. Why does the Arab Street's reaction always involve rioting, torching, guns, bombings, general mayhem and destruction, calls for fatwas ... the usual catalogue of their narrow range of responses?

What was the Islamic world's reaction in the name of Allah to Islamic terrorists' commission of vicious murders and suicide bombers--9/11, Bali, USS Cole, Beslan, numerous instances of terrorist bombings in Israel? With a few exceptions, little outrage. For Islam, the rest of us are supposed to consider their possible hurt feelings and curb our literary reactions--ironic cartoons--to protect their delicate sense of dignity. My reaction? This goes into the 'gimme a break' file--more demands that the rest of us ignore the touchy nature of Islam's adherents and the often murderous aftermath of their so-easily-triggered outrage. Islam's outraged practitioners sound like a bunch of gun-toting drug criminal gang members who'll kill you for the social gaffe of dissing which may amount to something as serious as not paying respect to the local thug when on his turf. Is that the real equivalence?

My suggestion to Peter MacKay and to the Harper government: forget about trying to reason with the madness that sees a moral equivalence between cartoons designed to show the disconnect between a prophet and the far-from-peaceful-practice of so many of the prophet's followers--the Islamic world's reactions--murderous mayhem. No government can accomplish anything except to give in to a group who want to silence the rest of us. All this group of Muslims in Canada want is your compliance in curbing the normal reactions of people to the total disconnect between a Prophet worthy of respect and the murder, terrorists and suicide bombings under his banner.

Isn't it ironic that the Islamic protesters think that, by burning down embassies and threatening all infidels, they can counter the main message of the cartoons? What's next, demanding that we not broach the subject of female genital mutilation because it hurts their feelings? If nothing else, this world-wide rampage--along with the subway bombings and endless other murders of infidels--will open the West's eyes to the dangers of Muslim immigration. Hopefully, Canada will be a bit more cautious about who is invited into our country. Canadians just escaped from Ontario legitimizing sharia law; Quebeckers had more common sense.

For France and other Western European countries it is almost too late, as the huge demographic wave of Muslims will simply continue. It won't be a case of asking that sharia law become mandatory; it will be a demand. An East-Indian acquaintance has a family member who returned from Holland after two years working there. The kid says the Dutch are horrified by what their immigration / refugee policies have wrought. How does a Western country integrate people whose initial response to us is that we are hopelessly decadent and should be wiped out?



Officials: Malaysian, Malaysian engineer Zaini Zakaria, among militants involved in 2002 West Coast terror plot Eileen Ng, Calgary Sun, Feb. 10, 06

[....] Zaini travelled to al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in 1999, where he met senior figures in the terrorist group including Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin, or Hambali, a Malaysian security official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

[....] U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech Thursday outlined some of the details of an alleged plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into a skyscraper in Los Angeles, and said co-operation between Washington and several Asian countries helped expose it. [. . . . ]

You Will Learn to Love Big Brother

RFID spy chips -- "TWO U.S. EMPLOYEES INJECTED WITH RFID MICROCHIPS AT COMPANY REQUEST -- Government Contractor Adopts Controversial VeriChip Implant in Workplace" -- "The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment instrument when associated with a credit card." February 9, 2006, posted Feb. 10, 06 by gordholio

Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data center, Network Administrator Khary Williams told Liz McIntyre by phone yesterday. McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID," contacted CityWatcher after it announced it had integrated the VeriChip VeriGuard product into its access control system.

The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the flesh of the triceps area of the arm to uniquely number and identify individuals. The tag can be read through a person's clothing, silently and invisibly, by radio waves from a few inches away. The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment instrument when associated with a credit card. [. . . . ]

[Comment: BCNU2] Technology now allows one group of people, the government, for example, to control another group of people. This hasn't happened yet, but the technology is at the stage where it could be implemented. All the government would have to say is: You have to have this [. . . . ]

Finally, if implemented, Big Brother will have achieved exactly what is necessary to control us ... Resist...Resist...Resist. This comes right out of Orwell, doesn't it?

Up to now, the government has all this information spread over several departments not linked for data mining, it assured us. Of course, we suspect that all along, the government has had certain people with access to all of this and who used it as they wished ... particularly to retaliate against those who cross them. Think of Mr. Beaudoin of the Business Development Corporation. This chip's adoption would render the system legal and perfected for control.



Public Child Care - Build it Right From The Start -- 10 lessons: CUPE child care workers can learn from Australia October 26, 2005, posted on CNEWS Forum by gordholio

1. Major investments have not gone to improve wages and working conditions.

The Australian government has poured money into child care over the past decade – but it has not gone to the overworked and undervalued front-line workers. In some Australian states, child care workers earn the minimum wage of $11.80 an hour – less than $25,000 a year. As one child care worker told the media, “We’re looking after the future of our country and getting paid rubbish.” When a major Australian union surveyed child care workers, they found that for 95 per cent of those leaving the sector “the number one issue was low-pay – far ahead of concerns about working conditions or even lack of recognition” – though both are also major problems.

2. Giant commercial operators now dominate the child care sector. [....]

10. The biggest player has his eye on Canada.

Speaking about Canada’s plans to inject billions of dollars into a national child care program, Eddy Groves told the Toronto Star “It sounds like a great opportunity.” Australian unions and child care experts have a clear warning: don’t go down the for-profit road our country chose. [. . . . ]

I have a better idea; get Big Government's hands off our children. Let parents choose; add the government stipend (Conservatives have promised this.) to what they would normally pay to choose whatever situation they want for their children. Except the situation offers optimal child care circumstances, or if in grave need of help, the last thing a loving parent wants is the use of what someone described as "the last legal sewer in America" for child care -- a bunch of untrained or newly trained children running around, sharing their little germs with the rest ... and we all fall down ... sick. Better a neighbour or relative with only one or two others, who cares about the child.

Besides, who else but a parent or a special someone, who, when a child wants to learn to help, would say, "Okay, you choose how to re-arrange the ... " And, you know something? The mistakes don't matter. Sometimes, a child does a brilliant job of the re-arranging or re-decorating. Even if they don't, they learn over time, anyway, and they learn that chores are part of living. Who cares about a little mess? It is part of the civilizing process. That is how children learn with a parent who loves them, one who can afford to stay at home and do the job chosen when they brought children into the world ... ah, I'm on my soapbox again.




Maybe children would not be so ready to try drugs if they had had lots of talks with caring parents, plenty of parental supervision, the kind of investment of time a stay-at-home parent provides until the other one comes home and helps until the children go to bed. For those who choose, help them. Bring on traditional parenting!

Hundreds of marijuana plants found in police raid -- Markham CTV.ca News Staff, Feb9-06

Police raided a Markham home on Thursday and found an elaborate marijuana grow operation that was producing approximately $800,000 worth of the illegal crop every year.

[....] 600 plants per year [....]

"It brings … the organized crime element into our neighbourhoods," Cardwell said. "We've had home invasions and a number of homicides and we don't want them in our communities."

Investigators think the grow-op is connected to criminal drug organizations from south east Asia.

Funding Politics, Nukes, Bud: Irony-Muslims & CBC Smear, SPARC

Tories top fundraisers during election run-up
James Gordon, CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, February 09, 2006

OTTAWA -- The Conservative Party of Canada dominated its federal counterparts in fundraising last year, adding $18.1 million to party coffers.

[....] Paul Martin gave the least of the three anglophone party leaders ($1,545) in 2005.
(OTTAWA CITIZEN)

You would think that, considering that taxpayers paid $161-million into his CSL, Martin would have wanted to contribute to the democratic process, in return.

Thanks, R, for this.




The irony of the Muslim protests

Surely, some Muslims see the contradiction between the violent demonstrations on the "Arab street" and their fury at the idea that Westerners could see Mohammed as the prophet of violence. It sort of follows the old joke: "If you call me crazy, I'll have to kill you." Nothing speaks louder than actions when it comes to judging a religion. We can look back at our autocratic Christian past, e.g. The forced conversions of the Latin American Indians by the Spanish conquistadores, the Inquistion, and we can repent. Meanwhile, we see the virulent hate spewed out daily by Islamic clerics and the Arab media sources towards we infidels. Jews are frequently portrayed as "pigs", "apes", or "world controllers". These eruptions are never condemned by the dictatorial leaders of the Muslim countries, nor unsurprisingly considering those who hold sway at present there, by our glorious U.N. Anything to deflect anger at how they rule their wretched countries. In fact, the threats by the Iranian president to "wipe Israel off the map" were met with a ho-hum--or secretly, "righteous, brother!" response in most of the Islamic world. Their public unconcern with a potential Iranian-induced Armageddon in their areas is chilling indeed. It is nothing except a death wish for their enemy, and even for themselves in its wake.

Another irony has been mentioned by Anver Emon, a professor of Islamic law at the University of Toronto. He pointed out that it is indeed ironic that millions of Muslims protest the tight censorship that marks most of their countries' media, yet are enraged by the Western truly free press.

These rabid responses to the cartoons shows the inherent emotional instability of many Muslims. Locked as they are in a compartmentized world of religion, they have missed the progress of the rest of the globe. It is part of their current rage. And it also shows the Trojan Horse that has entered the West. We blithely assume that our imams are loyal. Evidence is mounting to show that this world-wide violence over the cartoons was orchestrated by Danish imams, who travelled the Middle-East for months, whipping up support for massive demonstrations in the Islamic world. They included not only the real cartoons, but three totally obscene ones found on the internet.

From Hamza al-Masri, the hook-handed "cleric" of the infamous Finsbury mosque, to the prinicpal of Toronto's Islamic school, who turned out to be a al-Qaeda sleeper agent, we have seen the hand of the ultra-religious. I always laugh when I hear the parents of the latest arrested al-Qeada sleeper say, "But he is a good boy. He goes to the mosque everyday. That has turned out to be the modus operandi of practically every terrorist. You have to ask, who is teaching them this murderous message and why are we allowing it? The West has allowed, nay, encouraged, this virulent theology--through the tenets of multiculturalism--to infect even our second-generation Muslims. This Saudi Wahhabi teaching of hatred for the West and its values was exposed after the first bombing of The World Trade Center; yet nothing was done to arrest it. They are everywhere, from prison chaplins, to youth centers, to mosques. This is mainly bcause the collective West has created all sorts of "Rights laws". Our implacable enemies have used these "rights" to infiltrate our countries. Even if exposed they know how to play the law to stay here indefinitely. Our hate laws somehow neglect to see this venom being spread. [Would our appointed decision makers in the courts not have something to do with this, Bud? They don't have to answer to the populous in any way, either. Appointed for life or until age 75, they pronounce from on high, seemingly not cognizant of the ramifications of their decisions on the rest who have to live among those they allow to remain here.]

If Muslims really want to convince "infidels" of Mohammed's message of peace, they should start vehemently protesting the terrorist attacks that emanate from and are based on their religion. As well, they must stop their blasphemous utterances against non-Muslims. Remember, actions, not words, define everyone. And we are getting an eyeful of their actions.

© Bud Talkinghorn--They may hate our culture, but they certainly love our science, medicine and technology. Can't make that cave-to-cave terrorist plot without a cellphone.




The expected CBC drive-by-smear

This is the begining of a long undermining of all things Conservative. Karl Heinz Schriber, an old political acquaintance of Brian Mulroney, has said he helped Mulroney collect $300,000 as pay-offs for the Airbus deal. However, as one other former friend of Karl Heinz Schriber said, "He is the biggest f***ing liar the world has ever seen". Here we have a world class charletan , who suddenly breaks down for The Fifth Estate. A classic jailhouse confession, as he is wanted for various charges in Germany. Along the way, he gets to smear Elmer MacKay, the father of Peter, our new Foreign Affairs Minister.

Nothing terrifies the CBC more than a Conservative win. For a while, a conservative government will be the new boss of the Mother Corps. CBC's underwhelming presence (Friends of the CBC excluded, of course) is the major fear. How do you boost the "scary" quotion? Following the Fifth Estate episode the CBC National News re-ran some of the "expose". Then in a pile-on, they showed the outrage of Emerson's Liberal supporters. I don't remeber CBC examining the attitudes of Conservatives about Keith Martin, Scott Brison or Belinda Stronach's defections. A tad selective, what?

Let's us examine the next segment, which highlighted the poor U.S. army deserter, who want to squat forever in the bosom of a kindly Canada. He's a refugee from the Fascist America you see. Incredibly, even as I am writing this and listening to the CBC news, there is Julie Van Medusa (sorry, I forget her real name) telling us to place a watch on the Conservative's handling of the bureaucracy -- such sacrifice of vital resources. CBC is about to start their "encore" season. All the guilt-producing documentaries you never watched the first time around will be featured again. At a billion dollars, plus, they must strut their old stuff for the next eight months--starting in February? Don't pay attention to the government number that the Liberals pump out. There are various pipelines available to shunt more money to their favoutite propaganda organ. It has been brought to my notice the visits from CBC to the blog after my latest posts on their latest (never-ending) bias [Thanks, Frosty]. I welcome every offended party, but they never seem to respond. Don't simply believe my accusations; simply watch CBC do their thing. There is no stopping them.

© Bud Talkinghorn--Friends of the CBC rise up. You have nothing to lose but your ideological chains.


Bud, it's Julie Van Dusen. Anyway, it is time for Canadians to rise up against their tax dollars being wasted on this biased broadcaster.



Saint Olivia of the entitlements has started her pilgrimage ... shouldering the cross of long term taxpayer funding for public daycare for working parents and the poor ............ hoping to make funding as close to forever as her caring soul can get it, I expect. She does mention standards which may be a good thing except that I have some knowledge of how government rules can be used to exclude a business ... maybe unintentionally, but nevertheless. Give parents choice and let parents decide what is appropriate care.

Obviously, now that they're making something in the vicinity of $250,000 between them as MP's in Canada's Parliament, Olivia Chow and Jack Layton have moved onward and upward ... from their days of living in public housing in Toronto. Now, they will apply pressure to the need for government involvement--as with health care--in publicly funded institutional child care ... Ironically, they have no children themselves, I believe; they simply work for the good of the people ... a pity they wouldn't develop an acquaintance with a few stay-at-home parents ... and a little time away from being so close to government, whether as municipal or federal politicians ... just to get a taste of what ordinary people want in the way of freedom to choose.

One of the most loving women of my acquaintance cared about all children in her orbit, whether directly related or not. She would not have passed muster in a government rules-based system, but if I wanted to know my child was with someone who would let everything else wait while she played with or talked to my child, she is the one I would choose. She had a big heart, intelligence and knew local politics. She always had a coffee pot on and I remember her fondly. Frosty



No Nukes Is Good Nukes? Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Feb. 8, 06, on TCS Daily / Tech Central Station -- Technology, Commerce, Society website hosted by James K. Glassman -- via newsbeat1 and Pyjamas Media

China Leaps Forward -- The people's republic is embarking on the world's biggest nuclear building spree Sarah Schafer, Newsweek International

Feb. 6, 2006 issue - American businessman Edwin deSteiguer Snead went to China seeking a future for nuclear energy. He's pretty sure he found it. [. . . . ]

I wrote about this technology, and more on nuclear energy and China on News Junkie Canada Oct. 24, 04, section 5 or 6, I believe. Search: pebble bed nuclear or reactor technology


You just have to accept that men are evil

SPARC: Separated Parenting Access & Resource Center

Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, activist, and expert on sex equality. [. . . . ]

Beginning in the mid 1970s, MacKinnon pioneered the legal claim for sexual harrassment as a form of sex discrimination. Beginning in 1983, with Andrea Dworkin, she conceived and wrote ordinances recognizing pornography as a violation of civil rights. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. The Supreme Court of Canada adopted, in part, approaches that she created with the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) to equality (1989), pornography (1992), and hate speech (1991).

Professor MacKinnon is involved in litigation, legislation, and policy development on women's human rights domestically and internationally. She is currently representing pro bono Croatian and Muslim women and children victims of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities seeking remedies under international law.

What about men's rights in the West? Rights to have access their children, sometimes denied in very questionable circumstances, since the West had activist feminists like MacKinnon.

Did Justice Kruzick know about porn as a violation of civil rights? He must not have when he made the decisions mentioned in a post yesterday: "Impartial Justice".




Binding Democratic Referendums kilkee, Feb. 8, 06



News flash from Newfoundland

Recently a routine RCMP patrol parked outside a bar just off the main Highway at Goobies, Newfoundland. After last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stayed in the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing.

After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car which he fell into. He sat there for a few minutes and then threw a hook and line out the window and seemed to be trying to catch a fish. A number of other patrons failed to observe this crazy drunk as they left the bar and drove off. Finally the drunk started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine, dry summer night) flicked the blinkers on, then off a couple of times, honked the horn and then switched on the lights.

He pulled in the hook and line and moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a! Little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the other patron vehicles left. At last, the parking lot was empty; he pulled out of the parking lot and started to drive slowly down the road.

The officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, and promptly pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyzer test. To his amazement the breathalyzer indicated no evidence of the man having consumed any alcohol at all!

Dumbfounded, the officer said, I'll have to ask you to accompany me to Headquarters. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken." "I doubt it," said the truly proud Newfoundlander. Tonight I'm the designated decoy."

Maybe he's sticking up for the little guys who can't afford a high-priced lawyer to get them off, as one ex-PM's wife could. (Was she not charged with DUI? Can't have anyone related to one of the gods treated the same as an ordinary citizen, can we?) This may be an example of the little guys fighting back in their own way ... or just a Maritimers' chuckle ... whatever. I wonder if they also carry an Arkansas credit card ... a siphon hose and a five gallon can.

Thanks to S for this.

NB Justice Drew Stymiest found guilty

Source: very late at night television news Feb. 8, 06 -- you'll have to check further for I switch from channel to channel and forget which one broadcast this. Below is what I found in a quick search online. Is it possible there is no discussion of this quite momentous aberration in the court system? If a judge falls in a NB forest and there is little media noise, did it happen?

Judge's fraud trial study in contrasts -- N.B. jurist aided toddlers, elderly -- But it's alleged he defrauded hospital Kelly Toughill, Dec. 19, 2005

According to those Halifax prosecutors, Stymiest, 56, is also a crook. They allege he set up shell corporations to defraud the hospital, that he took kickbacks, that he double-billed his expenses, that he faked invoices. In short, that he regularly pocketed money meant to help heal the sick and comfort the dying in the river towns of Miramichi.

Stymiest and three hospital employees have been charged with 40 counts of fraud and breach of trust. Stymiest alone faces 20 criminal counts.

The other defendants, hospital CEO John Tucker, vice-president of finance Ian Jamieson and hospital accountant Darrell Doucette, have also been accused of pocketing bonuses that were supposed to lure badly needed new doctors to the region, and keeping rebates on hospital equipment. [....]

Search:

he gave about $50,000 in cash to two unnamed men from Toronto and Montreal without getting a receipt.
CEO John Tucker $120,000 in bonuses
vice president of finance, Ian Jamieson
forensic accountant testified
the RENT account
appointed the first chair of the Region 7 Hospital Corporation
Frank McKenna [Was the justice appointed by him?]

New Brunswick Judge, Drew Stymiest, On Trial In Massive Fraud

[. . . . ] A jury of seven men and five women have sat through three months of testimony in the case, listening to secretaries and businessmen, physicians and forensic accountants. They have heard about safety deposit boxes full of cash, cash paid to secretaries of consulting companies, cash paid to anonymous "fellas" from Toronto and Montreal, and bonuses paid to physicians who never got them. [. . . . ]

when Premier Frank McKenna decided to set up regional health boards. Stymiest was appointed the first chair of the Region 7 Hospital Corporation [. . . . ]

Unavailable on the Canada.com website when I looked but it might be in a newspaper at a library

MIRAMICHI, NB -- A much-anticipated trial is expected to begin soon in New Brunswick
... Judge Drew Stymiest, John Tucker, Ian Jamison and Darrell Doucette. ...
www.canada.com/national/story. html?id=7d173ac9-8379-4c36-92ae-0f82050215ce

PM's Appointments & What Harper Said

What Harper said Anonalogue, Feb. 7, 06

[....] Here's what Harper actually said during the election when asked point blank, edited only for length:

Colleen Belisle: Hello, my name is Colleen Belisle and I have a question for Stephen Harper regarding the accountability issue. In the past 18 months, I have noticed a number of MPs crossing the floor after the election. This makes me wonder why I should, as a voter, go and vote when my MP can change parties after the election. Mr. Harper, are there any policies that you plan to enforce after the election regarding this issue? Thank you.

Stephen Harper: My short answer is no. (notice how Stephen Harper is a straight shooter - Anon.) And I understand the voters' frustration. You can imagine I feel that frustration as much as anyone. I was the victim of a number of the particular incidents that the voter is referring to, that Colleen's referring to, but the difficulty, Peter – I know that many members of Parliament have put forward various proposals that would restrict the right of MPs to cross the floor, force elections, or whatever. I haven't seen one yet that convinces me that it would create anything other than a situation where party leaders have even more power over the individual members of Parliament...But that all said, I haven't seen one yet that I'm convinced creates a bigger problem than it's actually trying to fix.

Peter Mansbridge: Do you think [. . . . check the site -- much info here ]

For what it's worth here's a list of Senators who have run for MP after resigning as a Senator:

"Very few Canadian Senators have ever resigned their seat to run for a position in the Canadian House of Commons, but six have done so successfully:

Name Party Senate Commons

Joseph Edouard Cauchon Con 1867 1872
Peter Mitchell Lib-Con 1867 1872
Archibald Woodbury McLelan Lib-Con 1869 1881
John Carling Liberal-Conservative 1891 1892
William Templeman Liberal 1897 1906
Robert René de Cotret PC 1979 1984 [. . . . ]

There is more. Anonalogue seems to have an inside track in that he knows history ..... Do you suppose he spent more time learning history than on classes in victimology, guilt, "I feel your pain" and learning to smile and ask, "How much money do you say the UN wants for ..... ? (insert name of a country over which the UN cries crocodile tears ... after the UN's lack of action that might actually address the problem of another outrage in some basket case country) ........ How insensitive of me to even say it, I suppose, but then, I'm just noting the obvious about the UN and its success rate in the Third World. Why does the West not form a group of democracies and work for greater success? The UN is just propping up their own failures, along with the membership enjoying the perquisites that go with being employed by or representing the UN in NY, Paris, Geneva ...........

Does Anonalogue sound like someone who would be attending Stephen Lewis' UN Grand Guilt Gabfest at UNB this week or might he know too much history to fall for all that guilt that is bound to swirl? I wish he would write on this and on the UN in Canada, one of my pet peeves.



Prime Minister Stephen Harper: appointments

Central Canada, it seems to me that the centre of mainstream media haven't been presenting lovingly rendered fawning news on Canada's new PM and family as I have noted in the past over Liberal Prime Minister(s) ... the media being too busy with negative commentary on the new Cabinet. News of Liberals and Paul Martin still are featured on CBC, which seems to be behind the news ... obviously into reruns.

As for the uproar, fed--or instigated?--by the mainstream media, over Min. Emerson owing money to the Liberal riding association (EDA?) I don't remember such mainstream media vitriol over the defections of Belinda Stronach, Keith Martin or Scott Brison, who also would owe their Conservative constituencies money, if the same standard were applied to Liberals as to Conservatives. Instead their defections were blogger fodder ... or have I missed the same arguments applied to all four?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- information and photos

Jay Hill, Member of Parliament for Prince-George – Peace River, has been appointed Chief Government Whip

Rahim Jaffer, Member of Parliament for Edmonton–Strathcona, as National Caucus Chair

Senator, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate

The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella was a senior public servant serving as Associate Under-Secretary of State of Canada when he was summoned to the Senate of Canada on September 12, 1990.

Since his appointment to the Senate, Dr. Kinsella has served as Opposition Whip, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and most recently as the elected Leader of the Opposition. He also has been a member of Senate Standing Committees, including Human Rights; Social Affairs, Science and Technology; and National Finance.

Prior to his appointment as a Senator, Dr. Kinsella served as Chairperson of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission for 22 years, beginning in 1967 and is well-known nationally and internationally as a human rights advocate and academic.

Dr. Kinsella earned several university degrees, including doctorates in philosophy, theology and psychology. He has had a successful career as an academic, psychologist and labour arbitrator, with three books, several monographs and more than 50 articles published in the fields of psychology and human rights.

In 1984, he was made a Knight of the Order of Malta.

Dr. Kinsella was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1939. He is married to Ann.

The Ministry Feb. 06 -- It looks like a great team.

Prime Minister announces Parliamentary Secretaries

(In order of date first elected to the House of Commons)

James Abbott
Kooteney – Columbia (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women

Diane Ablonczy
Calgary – Nose Hill (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance

Jason Kenney
Calgary Southeast (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Multiculturalism

Deepak Obhrai
Calgary East (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

David Anderson
Cypress Hills – Grasslands (Saskatchewan)
Parliamentary Secretary (for the Canadian Wheat Board) to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board

Betty Hinton
Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs

James Moore
Port Moody – Westwood – Port Coquitlam (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services

Lynne Yelich
Blackstrap (Saskatchewan)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources
and Social Development

Colin Carrie
Oshawa (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry

Steven Fletcher
Charleswood – St. James – Assiniboia (Manitoba)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario

Helena Guergis
Simcoe – Grey (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver – Whistler Olympics

Russ Hiebert
South Surrey – White Rock – Cloverdale (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence

Brian Jean
Fort McMurray – Athabasca (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

Randy Kamp
Pitt Meadows – Maple Ridge – Mission (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Ed Komarnicki
Souris – Moose Mountain (Saskatchewan)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

Tom Lukiwski
Regina – Lumsden – Lake Centre (Saskatchewan)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform

Dave MacKenzie
Oxford (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety

Ted Menzies
Macleod (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages

Rob Moore
Fundy Royal (New Brunswick)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

Pierre Poilievre
Nepean – Carleton (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board

Peter Van Loan
York – Simcoe (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Mark Warawa
Langley (British Columbia)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment

Sylvie Boucher
Beauport – Limoilou (Quebec)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister

Rod Bruinooge
Winnipeg South (Manitoba)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians

Jacques Gourde
Lotbinère – Chutes-de-la-Chaudière (Quebec)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board

Christian Paradis
Mégantic – L’Érable (Quebec)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources

The Peaceful Ones in Canada, Recount, Sex Ring, Money Laundering Indictment

The gift that keeps on giving, Liberal immigration and refugee policies

Some groups' are more equal than others in the protection area. Guess what Propaganda Organ is going on ad nauseam over the insult to Muslims? Obviously, they haven't done enough news gathering to change the topic.

What about Canadians' right not to be blackmailed with threats of violence? How about the security of Canadians in their homeland ......... which means protect us from extremist Muslim entrants to Canada, from undocumented aliens who turn out to be dangerous to us, from the entry of terrorists, gangs, criminals ...... a whole panoply of dangerous entrants.

Peter Worthington: Spontaneous anger? TorSun, Feb.8, 06

[. . . . ] Were they outraged when Muslim terrorists lethally bombed a Bali nightclub? When they killed children by attacking a school in Russia? Killed 50 in the London Underground attack?

Killed 80 tourists in Egypt?

None of these outrages drew anything resembling the outrage fabricated over these Danish cartoons.

Closer to home, our politicians and media go to absurd lengths not to offend Muslim extremists precisely because we fear their reaction. Hypocrisy and cowardice anyone?

Well said, Worthington.



Now, a Professor from St. Mary's University has been threatened by two men (I have heard reported "five" also) because he believes in free speech and he had posted the cartoons on his campus office door. He planned to discuss them in class. However, his administration stepped in to protect Muslim sensitivities, perhaps because they're afraid of Muslim peace and tolerance. It appears that Muslims who come to "tolerant" Canada cannot tolerate cartoons so neither should the rest of us. They claim that it is a sin to show the face of Mohammed; yet, throughout the world there are depictions of Mohammed, even in the Islamic world. A UPEI student newspaper has been forbidden to spread the newspaper around campus because it contains the cartoons and, while Muslims behead and are filmed for all the world to see on Al Jazeera, etc., in Canada, those who would discuss the cartoons--are forbidden to see them ... in universities. The sight might inflame Muslims' tender sensitivities, the ones who scream bloody murder at the drop of a cartoon, at the sight of a Jew ..... at the usual incitements to their extreme violence, but do not seem to be bothered by the slaughter of women and children, the endless calls to violent jihad and its actuality in their own world.

Canada is so tolerant of their intolerance .......... or else!



Halifax's St. Mary's University -&- UPEI Admin. & UPEICadre

University administration "ordered the papers taken off the stands" at UPEI; at St. Mary's University, philosophy professor Peter March was told to remove the cartoons from his office door ......... and two threatened him with an "or else" if he took them to class, it seems.

PEI and St. Mary's Universities fear Muslim backlash, don't defend freedom of speech -- Is that because we have already seen that Muslims might go berserk; think Concordia. CTV, Feb. 8 2006. The title given is mis-leading since it mentions the publication, not the universities' reactions.

[....] Ray Keating, the editor-in-chief of the [UPEI ]campus newspaper, defended his decision to print the cartoons. He said they were published along with commentary to provide the information people require to make an informed decision.

[....] Meanwhile, at Halifax's St. Mary's University, a philosophy professor [Peter March] was told to remove the cartoons from his office door on Tuesday, and has now said he will post them in his classroom to make a point about freedom of expression.

[....] March said he will file a union grievance against the university.

"There's a great deal in my collective agreement that says that what I am doing, which is engaging public discussion using my skills as a philosopher, is part of my job description," he told CP. [. . . . ]

Have a Sanity check "What would it take to get you out on the streets with bottles full of gas and a pocket full of stones?"
Duke's Place, Feb. 8, 06


Would this be a tolerant meeting or an ........ or else! one? A must read thread

Elmasry Seeks Dialogue With Leaders of New Cdn Police State -- We can only hope the police play a significant role

ISLAMIC CONGRESS WARNS OF EMERGING POLICE STATE AS P.M. HARPER APPOINTS "MOST FEARED FIVE" TO NEW CABINET -- NEW MINISTERS DAY, MACKAY, CANNON, TOEWS, AND SOLBERG COULD BE BAD NEWS FOR CANADIAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS [. . . . ]

If Elmasry hates the new cabinet then I love it. Steve Majewski

His support for the Liberals was all I needed to tell me that [the] Liberals would not protect my family and children from fascists like Elmasry. Maybe we now have a government that is more interested in the lives of all Canadians than the votes of Muslims.

Recount begins in Northern Saskatchewan riding



Police probe allegations of St. Johns sex ring



Anti-Money Laundering Regime Defended After $1 Billion Indictment -- "laundering $1 billion for drug dealers, tax cheats and swindlers" Tameka Lundy, The Bahama Journal, via newsbeat1

The Securities Commission of the Bahamas moved to give an assurance yesterday that it acted with due diligence in the matter of Dominion Investments Ltd. – the Bahamas based company caught in a whirlwind of scandal over money laundering allegations.

The president of the company Martin Tremblay was indicted in a U.S. federal court earlier this month accused of laundering $1 billion for drug dealers, tax cheats and swindlers. Tremblay transferred the ill-gotten gains to bank accounts in The Bahamas, the U.S. Canada and elsewhere, according to federal prosecutors.

Bahamian securities regulators maintained yesterday that they acted swiftly on this end, taking their lead from U.S. authorities [. . . . ]

Search:
Financial Intelligence Unit , FIU
Financial Action Task Force , FATF




Memory Lane: PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES -- 2000

Mr. Peter MacKay (Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough, PC): Mr. Speaker, another day, another story about the Prime Minister wasting taxpayers' money to bail out campaign donors.

Like a scene from The Godfather, Liberal donator Pierre Bourque, senior, needed a financial favour. Reports have said that the Prime Minister's cronies tried to force cabinet to accept the purchase of a Hull office building for almost $30 million more than the appraised value.

The estimates show that as of March 31, 2000, $70 million had been pegged for the purchase of Place Louis St. Laurent. How can the government justify such a dubious and blatant waste of taxpayers' money?

Hon. Alfonso Gagliano (Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Lib.): [. . . . ] my department made a reasonable and fair offer [....]

Mr. Peter MacKay (Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough, PC): Mr. Speaker, obviously this government is not against breaking contracts signed by Conservative governments. It turfed the helicopter contract then bought the same helicopters. We know that the cheques may not have been written as yet, but it was the clear stated intention of the government to go against the wishes of the treasury board and pay off Mr. Bourque. It is obvious that when you get in the way of the Prime Minister's slush fund efforts, you will pay the price.

Treasury board civil servant, Peter Harder, who resisted the sale of the building at such an inflated price, has been transferred out of the department. [....]

Hon. Herb Gray (Deputy Prime Minister, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, first, the hon. member's premise about Mr. Harder is totally wrong. Mr. Harder has been promoted to another senior deputy minister's position.

It's called being kicked upstairs to keep him quiet, is it not? Was it an accommodation a whistleblower was forced to make or lose his job?


Memory Lane: Canada's Liberal Heritage Department & UNICEF supported this for schoolnet

One World Radio Sample

Canada's Prime Minister Harper and Family

Impartial Justice

Impartial Justice, Racial Profiling & Grow-ops, Family Law, Legislating Morality Wrong, No Social Engieering & Justice Emile Kruzick, Superior Court of Ontario, Family Court

A burgeoning drug industry is confirmed in its position in society and, if you read further, there is more, much more "impartial" justice. Perhaps you will come up with more intriguing bits of information. I do not think his views are exactly family friendly ... but you must judge for yourself. Note when he was "appointed".

Should one be able to pass Liberal Social Views 101 to be appointed to the upper courts? That is what the system has brought, obviously. Or am I not being impartial enough in my assessment? We wouldn't want any morality to impinge on the grow-ops, the Ecstasy manufacturing digs, the heroin and cocaine cartels, the massage parlours, the human smuggling of sex trade workers ... would we?

Grow-op case stopped over racial profiling Tracey Tyler, Feb. 7, 2006, via newsbeat1

[. . . . ] A Superior Court judge has halted criminal proceedings against a man accused of running a marijuana grow operation, saying police engaged in racial profiling by targeting the man because he was Vietnamese.

The investigation began when an Ontario Provincial Police officer went to the Barrie land registry office and looked up people with Vietnamese surnames who had recently purchased homes. [. . . . ]

Search: Van Trong Nguyen's rights , Justice Emile Kruzick , 596 marijuana plants , theft of hydro and mischief to


This is the most ridiculous decision I have heard yet. It was simply good policing, in my opinion. Based on what police have learned reading and on the job, they had an idea where to look, did, and found exactly what they expected -- a grow-op, theft of power and other infractions.


Think about this; I did when I posted it a year ago: FHTR: Feb. 24, 2005 -- Multiculturalism, IRB, Vietnamese Immigration via Philippines, Vietnamese Asian & Other Criminal Gangs in Canada

FHTR: Nov. 17, 2005 -- "Religion & Multiculturalism: the last refuge of... -&- Keeseekoose $ -&- Spies, ICAAN, OSM" -- or -- FHTR: week of Nov. 13, 2005 as there may be more than the Feb. 17 post.

There are several items, for example:

MULTICULTURAL MADNESS ["whiteness" is the underlying cause of practically every conceivable social ill and that white people are almost inherently evil.]

Lawyer guilty of money laundering [Bermuda Short -- stock-market manipulation and money-laundering scams]

Immigration [Note: I had mistyped it as "Immigrantion -- the IRB"]

Canada to welcome Vietnamese boat people with family here [Also, search: Philippines -- Note that throughout Southeast Asia each country has large numbers of citizens and illegals who have come from other countries, such as Vietnam which has been a transshipment point for heroin from China, etc, perhaps the Shan states in Burma-Northern Thailand, home of Kuun Sa, heroin king who managed to "escape" from jail in Thailand, if memory serves me. Kuun Sa, in 1977, was arrested with 100 kilograms of pure heroin; however, during a hospital visit by Kuun Sa, accompanied by eight Thai police, he managed to escape and make his way back to Northern Thailand/Burma. No buying of police or guards help there, of course. Kuun Sa has never been arrested since. The border area is freely crossed in Northern Thailand by those with the right protective gear ... power and $$$. Caveat: This whole situation and information may have nothing to do with immigration to Canada. It is simply an area which might prove interesting to investigate ... just in case. ]

ASIAN ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN CANADA, 1999-2002

Vietnamese groups control approximately 80 to 85 percent of the heroin trade

How "Li Qing Mai, and her husband, Zhi Wen Tang, of Mission, B.C." got away with running a grow op -- a lesson for all

[....my comment:] Seriously, this ruling gives enough time to the criminal element to flush the cocaine or methamphetamines away, provided there aren't too many. ....

B.C. Supreme Court says police gave too little warning at grow op bust Greg Joyce, CP, Feb. 23, 05 [. . . . ]

Then there is this one: "CISC Report 2004 -- "Across the country, Vietnamese-based groups remain extensively involved in multiple residential marihuana grow operations with distribution within Canada and to the U.S."

After reading this, I decided to look into "impartial" Justice Emile Kruzick, in hope of finding why he would consider this situation racial profiling and not simply good policing, in fact, a display of policing initiative and intelligence based on knowledge -- what is, from the average citizen's perspective, exactly what we need to eradicate this drug curse on our children. Note that a 13 year old died yesterday after taking what is thought to have been Ecstasy. I have no further information.

Racial profiling has become such an elastic term. Useful to anyone who wishes to stop anyone who might try to change the status quo.

Very interesting. Justices are appointed for various reasons -- one reason being that they share views on justice, common sense would suggest. Search Google: Justice Emile Kruzick

You may need to translate; check Google for a translation program:

FORMATION LINGUISTIQUE DES JUGES par l’honorable Emile Kruzick Cour supérieure de Justice de l’Ontario

Depuis ma nomination comme juge en 1996, j’ai pu constater que l’un des meilleurs programmes deformation offerts aux juges fédéraux et provinciaux est le Programme de formation linguistique. En 1969, après la présentation du projet de Loi sur les langues officielles, un programme deformation linguistique pour les juges a été mis sur pied à la demande de la magistrature. Depuis 1978,une division spéciale du Bureau du Commissaire à la magistrature fédérale s’occupe d’administrer cetteformation linguistique. Le programme comporte un objectif général et un objectif fonctionnel. L’objectif général est d’habiliterles juges à comprendre et à communiquer dans la langue seconde. L’objectif fonctionnel est d’habiliterles juges à communiquer efficacement en langue seconde dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions. [. . . . ]

SexHerald.com loves Justice Kruzick

Google search: Justice Emile Kruzick -- SexHerald.com: Canadian Judge Strikes Down Anti-Massage Parlour Laws 07/04/04, By SexHerald Staff

When Brampton, Ontario passed a number of new amendments to their criminal code in May of 2003, the city thought it had taken a large step forward in curtailing the operations of massage parlors in the area. However, an Ontario Superior Judge recently overturned each of the new laws saying that the city greatly overstepped its bounds. [. . . . ]

Emile R. Kruzick of Toronto is appointed a judge of the Ontario Court (General Division) in Brampton. He replaces the late Mr. Justice M.J. Fortier.

In 1995-96, he was appointed Dispute Resolution Officer of the Ontario Court (General Division). He has mainly practised in the area of family law.

Mr. Justice Kruzick has been involved with the Family Law Mentor Programme of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1983. He has also been extensively involved with the Canadian Bar Association and the American Bar Association. [. . . . ]

What would Justice Kruzick have contributed to this?

THE 2001 WORLD CONGRESS ON FAMILY LAW AND THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Bath, England, 20 - 22 September 2001

Patron: H.E. Mary Robinson

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [....]

[....] And these people are further removing rights over children from parents, and transferring these rights to themselves, the lawyers and judges, using the excuse of 'protecting children'. This excuse, combined with the application of the 'no-fault' divorce principle, is what has led to the disenfranchisement of fathers. We see in the agenda of this 'congress' a re-inforcement of these evil principles. ....

[. . . . There are several speakers and topics listed, one of which is the following: ]

4. Softening the Blow - A Non-possessory approach to Children

Chair:

The Honourable Justice Emile Kruzick, Superior Court of Ontario, Family Court (Canada)

SexWork.com loves Justice Emile Kruzick, Superior Court of Ontario, Family Court

Google cache -- SexWork.com: "Brampton Body Rubs WIN in Court" -- "Judge loosens rules for body rub parlours -- Nudity, sex act bans struck down" as retrieved on 24 Jan 2005 03:23:09 GMT, SexWork.com

May 2004 Update GREAT NEWS!

Ontario Superior Court struck down sections of a Brampton bylaw prohibiting nudity and sex acts in body rub parlours.

Why I Love Canada vs. U.S. Morality Laws
Canadian law similar to most of the rest of the world except the U.S.

Jun. 16, 2004 The Toronto Star
Judge loosens rules for body rub parlours
Nudity, sex act bans struck down
Brampton bylaw oversteps bounds

A judge has struck down sections of a Brampton bylaw prohibiting nudity and sex acts in body rub parlours. Mr. Justice Emile Kruzick quashed a rule forcing female staff to cover their breasts and workers of both sexes to cover their pubic areas in the city's 16 parlours, because "it legislates morality and criminal law," which is beyond the city's powers. He overturned an amendment barring sexual contact between parlour workers and clients because, he said, that is also the job of Canada's Criminal Code, not local bylaws. [. . . . ]

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FHTR June 30, 2005 -- "Nuclear Fusion Reactor, France, Canada, AECL, G-8 Summit"

FHTR week of May 29, 2005 -- several posts having to do with China, etc.

PM Harper & Short-term PR Hit

I think we finally may have a PM who thinks that getting the job done right is more important that a short term PR hit... Cloud of Idiot Gas, Monday, February 06, 2006

[....] The only reason to jump into a fire like this one is to do it on purpose... which means there would be a damn good reason... and the ONLY reason that could possible even closely compare to the PR disaster is that Harper… looked around, found the best guys for the job, and decided (in the case of both Emerson and Fortier) that having the right, competent guys running certain key files, working for the good of Canada is more important than bad press.

if that’s the case... which I kinda think it is.. then Harpers cabinet appointments is simply the gutsiest political move I've seen.... EVER!

time will till but I think we finally may have a PM who thinks that getting the job done right is more important that a short term PR hit...

Andrew Coyne does not agree. I don't like the optics of it but:

* Had PM Harper not got representation for Montreal and Vancouver, mainstream media would have been all over him, negative about his not having representation from the whole country -- that the Conservative Party is not a national party.

* I have read enough to know that Canada, security and our ability to even have a democracy not controlled by ... shall I say those who stood to benefit (think power and $$$), those who would not necessarily act in Canada's best interests if it conflicted with their own; therefore, I do not like Harper's move but it may be necessary to accomplish what has seemed impossible ... to end the fact that our country has been run by self-serving cr**** or cr*******. (Make an educated guess.)

* I have been appalled by what I have learned over the last four years ... and I read more than many and still know too little. Think how little most Canadians who have family duties know of what has really been going on -- too little time and too many responsibilities. I am willing to trust this decent Canadian, Stephen Harper, to act in the best interests of Canada ... even when it will leave the mainstream media/CBC apoplectic and garner nasty comments. I suspect Stephen Harper knew that, and yet, he was willing to go through the negative for something that has to be done.

* Look into the Prince Rupert Terminal business, BC Rail, the Olympics and contracts, and related items. Check who are on the Olympic Organization Board and then check further. Check the development on the Sea to Sky Highway. Check into the Asia-Pacific ... Association? (I forget the exact name--check) Min. Emerson under the Liberals learned a few things on that file. There was much Liberal massaging of Asian representation, perhaps in a lead-up to the Olympics, perhaps for business in China, much push for Chinese from China for translation and networks, as I remember. Oh, yes, did I mention the Prince Rupert area? Do look into that. Industry Minister Emerson may know where some bodies are buried in all of this ... or not and he's just a guy PM Harper appears to respect.

* Fortier? I know too little yet but he is going to have to go through an election so I'm willing to wait for the people to speak. He does come from the city that needs some government representation while a clean-out / clean-up occurs. He may know where a few bodies are buried too. I hope so.