Mar. 3, 2007: WFM, Global Governance & UN Tentacles in CA

Update Mar. 6, 2007: In the screen capture on the World Federalist Movement in Canada, otherwise known as the World Federalists Movement, below, is mention of the UNEP or United Nations Environmental Program begun by Maurice Strong.

Related: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Feb. 26, 2007: Strong: Environmental Guru -- re: UN Maurice Strong Environment Kyoto

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2007/02/
feb-26-2007-strong-environmental-guru.html

At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong , By Claudia Rosett and George Russell, February 08, 2007

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250789,00.html

[....] Strong, now 77, is best known as the godfather of the environmental movement, who served from 1973-1975 as the founding director of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) in Nairobi. UNEP is now a globe-girdling organization with a yearly budget of $136 million, which claims to act as the world’s environmental conscience. [....]

Rosset is worth reading; she has done considerable investigative work on the UN, its Oil for Food corruption, Tongsun Park and Maurice Strong's part in it and related journalistic work.


Related: Note mention of "Global Taxes": Frost Hits the Rhubarb Feb. 4, 2007: Science- Traditional Knowledge-Politics

Eminent Scientists' Conclusions, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, IPCC Summary a Political Document, World Federalist Movement and President, ex-Liberal Solicitor General Warren Allmand, Responsibility to Protect-R2P-R2PCS (Civil Society) ... Screen capture: WFM, UN Global Taxes which was updated Feb. 6, 2007 (I had typed 2006 in error.)

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2007_02_04_archive.html


Search for United Nations in relation to R2P and R2PCS:

[....] Sheila Watt-Cloutier [Inuit activist]

[....] Jan. 20, 2007: #2

Kyoto, The Science and the Scientists, Native Input, Funding, Special Arrangements and More

[....] She champions ... traditional ecological knowledge [....]

Responsibility to Protect - Engaging Civil Society R2PCS. The project, which is a collaboration of the WFM [....]

WFM = World Federalist Movement and ex-Solicitor General and Liberal Warren Allmand, President. Check for taxpayer funds.

R2P = Responsibility to Protect
R2PCS = "Responsibility to Protect" and engaging "Civil Society"

Note: R2P and Global Taxes, Warren Allmand, International Criminal Court

There is more in that post if you check.


End of Update

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I don't recall voting for this, that is, funding studies into the possibility of world federalism. Do you? It sounds too much like a world government run by the inept UN. Check further into the funding for all these helping, do-good, activist-filled organizations and homes for ex-politicians.

Double click the screen capture to enlarge the screen capture, then "back" to return.


Do you want Global Governance and to be taxed by the United Nations?


World Federalists Canada.org

Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly -- and here

www.worldfederalistscanada.org/




Search: world federalists movement [Note the S in federalists]

UNPA campaign -- Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly

www.vcn.bc.ca/wfcvb/unpafolder/unpa_home.html

UNPA = UN Parliamentary Assembly


If you Google "www.vcn.bc.ca", you will find this entry:

Home - Vancouver Community Network
Owns and operates a free, publicly accessible, non-commercial computer utility which provides public space on the internet.

www.vcn.bc.ca/

If it is free, who pays for it? Taxpayers?

Unfortunately, it may not be entirely apolitical. I am shocked.




Peace, Earth and Justice News -- or here

www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=
modload&name=
News&file=
article&sid=6599

Islands - Victoria News / PEJ Events
Date: Feb 09, 2007 - 09:57 AM
.
Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - Feb 6 07

1. FROM BETTY K: Pls write a letter to the Judge!!!! - sentencing, Feb 8th
[....]
6. COOPRADIO.ORG: Prosecuting War Crimes - LawyersAgainst the War & Gail Davidson - Feb 12 & 29th
7. Georgia Strait Alliance News & Events - Feb 7-11,21-25th
[....]
9. Saving the Commons and the Commoners, Thur. Feb.15
10. Maher Arar Speaks! - Feb 16th
11. COPE Dinner with Jinny Sims - Feb 17th
[....]
13. OAXACA :: CONNECTING COMMUNITITES FEB 18
[....]
15. Upcoming Courses at SHADE Consulting - Feb 23, Mar3rd [....]

Google: www.vcn.bc.ca , wfcvb

World Federalist Movement Canada - Vancouver Branch
e-mail wfcvb@vcn.bc.ca. URL: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/wfcvb ... 2002-2004 World Federalist Movement - Vancouver Branch • wfcvb@vcn.bc.ca ...

www.vcn.bc.ca/wfcvb/

World Citizens Unite! | ChangeEverything.ca

www.changeeverything.ca/world_citizens_unite


Is this representing one side of the political spectrum using other taxpayers' money?


Empower the United Nations ! - Canada Young Disgners - Kenya Young General Assembly - Worldwide ... Note there are three urls.

www.vcn.bc.ca/wfcvb/
www.renewableplanet.org
www.empowertheun.org/signeesorgendorse.html


WORLD PEACE HERO TO BE HONOURED AT WORLD PEACE FORUM -- Note prominent names , June 22, 2006

ploughshares.ca/libraries/
Statements/WORLD%20FEDERALIST%20MOVEMENT.pdf

2006 award recipient is Project Ploughshares cofounder, Ernie Regehr

Vancouver—“Nations rightly honour their military heroes. The Canada World Peace Award celebrates those courageous individuals who make outstanding contributions to world peace and justice.” says Warren Allmand, President of the World Federalist Movement–Canada(WFMC).

Since 1972, WFMC's annual award has paid tribute to such champions of world peace as Lester Pearson, Stephen Lewis, Louise Arbour, Lloyd Axworthy and Roméo Dallaire. This year, the honour will go to Ernie Regehr, cofounder of Project Ploughshares, the influential global peace advocacy agency of the Canadian Council of Churches. The banquet award ceremony will
take place during the World Peace Forum in Vancouver ... (University of British Columbia campus).... Robin Collins, Chair of WFMC's Executive Council. [....]

Empower the United Nations !

I do not have much respect for the UN, given what has been revealed about its corruption. Why do Canadian taxpayer funds go toward a World Federalist Movement and undoubtedly, if one were to dig, to its United Nations tenatacles in Canada? Do you want Global Governance and to pay taxes to the UN? Information on this was posted on Frost Hits the Rhubarb in February.



Responsibility to Protect

www.worldfederalistscanada.org/R2Ppapers.htm


International Criminal Court

www.worldfederalistscanada.org/icc.htm

Indigenous People's Declaration

www.worldfederalistscanada.org/allmand_dec06.htm


World Federalists [note the S] Movement
Peace Operations and Civil Society

www.worldfederalistscanada.org/powg_dec06.htm

Global citizens movement
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_citizens_movement

Global Justice Movement

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_justice_movement

[....] Visions of a Global Citizens Movement

Orion Kriegman, author of Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement, provides the most complete description to date of what a potential Global Citizens Movement might look like. In his introduction he states, “Transnational corporations, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) remain powerful global actors, but all of these would be deeply influenced by a coherent, worldwide association of millions of people who call for priority to be placed on new vales of quality of life, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability.”

Kriegman distinguishes this “coherent, worldwide association of millions” from the existing fragmented social movements active in the World Social Forum. These movements tend to be issue-specific – focused on labor, environment, human rights, feminist issues, indigenous struggles, poverty, AIDS, and numerous other interrelated but “siloed” efforts. Coherence among these movements would require a reframing of their work under the rubric of the struggle for a socially just and ecologically sustainable global society and the establishment of an institutional structure to defend the rights of humanity, future generations, and the biosphere. Kriegman asserts, “The upsurge of civil society activity, in the form of NGOs and social movements, over the past few decades can be understood as an early manifestation of the latency in the global system, and at the same time this transnational activity helps deepen the latency. However, existing social movements have not found a way to effectively balance the creative tension between pluralism and coherence to provide a collective framework for theory and action. Without a shared framework, it is hard to imagine how the latent potential would coalesce into a global systemic movement. The development of a shared framework will depend on new forms of leadership to facilitate engaged dialogue inclusive of diverse voices.” [....]

Mar. 3, 2007: Bud Talkinghorn & Security

Re: SCOC, Security Certificates, Maher Arar, Terrorists, CBC, Politicized Media

Three strikes and security is out

Talk about synergy. We have the Supreme Court disallowing indefinite detention of high risk terrorist suspects. The biographies of these suspects makes for interesting reading. Sprinkled amongst them are connections to various al-Qaeda affiliates in North Africa (e,g, Moroccans, Algerians, Egyptians). None are Canadian citizens, while most have visted or trained in Afghanistan. Following that court decision, up almost immediately was the opposition's voting down two more security measures. Now terrorist suspects who are thought to be within days of carrying out their attacks can no longer be detained and questioned without criminal charges being brought. Nor can material suspects to these plots be hauled in for questioning.

The case of indefinite detention without evidence given to suspects is a sad occurence. It smacks of a police state, but this measure is taken in the face of a hidden enemy. Al-Qaeda has planted sleeper cells throughout the Western world. Many of these sleepers have advanced educations and are invisible to all intents and purposes. A fairly recent al-Qaeda cell broken up in Pakistan contained a cardiologist, a teacher, and two professional engineers. They were only a week away from a horrendous plot to massacre hundreds. An insidious enemy with new tactics (think 9/11) must be dealt with differently. Especially as The Charter means we can't deport these people--another Supreme Court interpretation. [Brought to you by a mainly Liberal-larded appointment process -- FHTR]

The opposition's demand that the other security provisions be stricken was nothing but political opportunism. Both the NDP and the Liberals had to "whip" their caucuses to get the right vote numbers. Still one Liberal voted for the extension, and four others by not attending the vote, while Irwin Cotler, the former Justice Minister, abstained. He later told the press, "There was no need for this revision. It has never been abused in the years the laws were implemented. It is a necessary measure." However the majority saw the gains in the ever-growing Muslim voting bloc. Without going into elaboration, let's just say that many of that community harbour paranoid conspiracy theories. Also a huge amount of denial persists about what is being perpertrated in the name of their faith. Whatever party plays to that paranoia best gets their votes.

Stephen Harper said it succinctly after the vote. "This decision will come back to haunt the Liberals." I believe that will be true; especially should a major terrorist attack occur before an election. No mealy-mouthed spin doctoring will cover up their vote mongering over security. They proved that the combined leftist parties can hobble the Conservatives, but at what cost to Canada?

© Bud Talkinghorn--If Al-Qaeda could vote in Canada it would be hard for them to decide which left-wing party represent the greatest number of "useful fools". Probably the NDP. Unfortunately, they are perpetual losers in elections, so the Liberals would get them by default.


Related post: scroll down for: Mar. 1, 2007: Security: Domestic terror wins big -- "CSIS has identified over 50 terrorist groups operating on Canadian soil and over $256 million have been identified by FINTRAC in 2005/2006 as having possible links to terrorism."

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2007/03/
mar-1-2007-security-domestic-terror.html


Court considers strict bail conditions of terror suspect , Andrew Duffy, CanWest, Ottawa Citizen, March 01, 2007

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
82b6421f-365d-4659-8886-46c2290a8db8&k=29511

OTTAWA - Accused al-Qaida terrorist Mohamed Harkat says his bail conditions are so strict he fears his release has also imprisoned his wife and mother-in-law, one of whom must be with him every minute of the day - even in public washrooms. [....]

On May 23, 2006, Federal Court Judge Eleanor Dawson, citing unnecessary government delays in Harkat's security certificate case, ordered him released. But she imposed some of the strictest conditions in Canadian history.

Under terms of his release, Harkat must wear an electronic monitoring device that allows authorities to track his movements and he must be in the company of his wife, Sophie, or mother-in-law, Pierrette Brunette, at all times.

He is allowed three, four-hour excursions each week that must be approved in advance by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). He is not allowed to leave Ottawa, nor visit the airport, train station, bus depot or any car rental agency. He is not allowed to use a computer or cellphone. His mail is searched and his phone is tapped by federal authorities. [....]

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleges Harkat travelled to Afghanistan in the early 1990s and developed a relationship with al-Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubayda.

I'm afraid most of us experience a failure to empathize ... but that's not nice ... and we must be nice useful fools ... and we have the courts to help ... somebody. Harkat could leave Canada but he has such influential supporters here that he'll do fine right here, whatever the majority of Canadians might want.



Related to Bud's next post: Disturbing reality buried
Fear of causing offence and wilful blindness will only end the day innocent Canadians die -- or How many would Behead PM Harper? How many Canadian Muslims, that is.

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/
2007/02/18/3642930-sun.html

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/
viewtopic.php?p=16093&highlight=
&mforum=elwoodpdowd#16093


Muslim-Canadian attitudes: A most inconvenient truth

CBC recently commissioned Environics to do a survey of Muslim-Canadian and other Canadians' attitudes. On The National, CBC doled out their predictable multicultural Pollyanna-ish conclusions. "Look", it bannered, "Fully 73% of Muslims condemn the actions of the 17 Muslim-Canadian terrorist suspects." 73%, wow! What a strong majority! On their website, they trot out the words of some Muslim sociology prof, Haideh Moghissi, to baldly state, "That figure of 12% who thought mass murder of their fellow citizens was justified doesn't warrant attention." Oh, really? And the 15% who weren't sure? What are we to make of them? Your neighbour's family is mindlessly slaughtered, but 27% of the neighbourhood either applauds or is uncertain as to their feelings about it. Reason for deep concern or not?

Licia Corbella from The Calgary Sun was concerned, nay horrified, by these numbers. She wrote a column on it (Feb. 18, 2007). That 27% of respondents can't unequivocally see the sheer wickedness of this aborted plot is chilling information indeed. Even taking the margin of error into consideration on the humanitarian side, that still means a minimum of 47,000 Muslims are sympathizers with the terrorist suspects. It makes the citizens of the fictional prairie town in "The Little Mosque on the Prairie" sound not bigoted, but prudent. Periodically we have the reports of radical mosques in Toronto and Vancouver preaching jihad, to chew on. What the combined information shows is that, like similar polls in Britain and the Netherlands, there is naked hatred of Western standards of democracy and social equality. That much of this animosity is held by second generation Muslim-Canadians is doubly frightening. They are the invisible snakes in our multicultural New Jerusalem garden.

The omission of the negative side to this poll is typical of CBC. As with the old time Marxists, the facts make no impact. Even that the CBC headquarters was one of the targets of the terrorist suspects cannot shake their blindered view of our failed immigration policy. Only their success in social engineering could explain why they released these poll statistics in the first place. Ordinarily, any poll that exposes their failed ideological stance is buried. An example was the recent poll showing the Conservatives on a steep upward movement. Maybe they did report it, but not the day it came out. I never saw it and I was looking for it that day.

As for the supposed 73% who condemned terrorism, how many simply gave the answer that wouldn't mark them as religious psychopaths? This poll wasn't asking what their favourite cereal was. One can hope that these disturbing results are being absorbed by our lenient IRB and the present government. How many kissing cousins of Ahmed Ressam can we tolerate in our midst? Canadians, wake up and smell the cordite.

© Bud Talkinghorn


Related: The Toronto Star article referencing Maher Arar is no longer available: [Frost Hits the Rhubarb Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2007 -- Re: Arar ... Ex-consul grilled over what he knew, when, Sep1. 1, 2005]

However, it is available here:

Ex-consul grilled over what he knew, when
Last witness to testify at inquiry
Taxpayers to foot $8 million plus bill , by MICHELLE SHEPHARD, STAFF REPORTER - Toronto Star, Sept. 1, 2005

www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_mess
age_iframe.php?montrealmuslimnews+4913

Original link:

www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=
thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=
1125526233255&call_pageid=968332188774&col=
968350116467&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

[....] Portions of a censored government report, released at the inquiry only yesterday, make the claim that Arar told a consular official he was beaten with an electric cable while detained in Syria. That contradicts statements by the consul, Leo Martel, that he was never aware of the abuse.

The censored report was written by an unnamed government official about a conversation the official had on Feb. 8, 2004, with Martel, Canada's former consul in Damascus.

[....] Martel, the only Canadian official to meet Arar while he was in Syria, was the last witness to appear before the inquiry. Lawyers will present their public summary reports to the inquiry later this month, after which O'Connor will write an interim report. [....]

Even though the report concerned Arar's case, a government spokesperson said yesterday it had been censored on the grounds of privacy concerns, since Martel asserted the information concerned Nureddin. [....]

Search: Muayyed Nureddin

Mar. 1, 2007: Right Honourable Senators

Senate shuts down little-known emergency fund -- The Senate has shut down a slush fund that gave thousands of dollars to Liberals over the past year, and at least one Conservative senator only learned of the fund recently, CTV News has learned. , With a report by CTV's David Akin in Ottawa, 28/02/2007 11:18:54 PM

news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/Content
Posting.aspx?newsitemid=
CTVNews%2f20070228%2fsen
ate_fund_070228&feedname=
CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True

"There are all these arrangements made are beyond the knowledge of the public, let alone people in the Senate," Marjory LeBreton, the government leader in the Senate, told CTV News.

She said she discovered the fund last month -- only when the Liberal-dominated Senate decided to end the program. [....]

Last year, four Liberal senators received a combined $42,500 from the fund, and this year, another two Liberal senators got a total of $42,500.

Senator Serge Joyal ... $25,000. He is writing a book on Canada-U.S. relations. [....]

Liberal Senator George Furey is not amused ... nor are we, though our reasons may differ.

Just imagine what Senator Joyal would have to say about Canada-US relations and where that would fit into the near future ... in an effort to get things back to normal. I wonder what his sequel would be?

Mar. 1, 2007: IRB

Jean-Guy Fleury, chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board -- "Immigration Board head abruptly resigns amid changes" Maria Jimenez, Feb. 28, 2007, Globe and Mail

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2007
0228.wxrefugees28/BNStory/National/home

Jean-Guy Fleury, chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board, has unexpectedly announced his resignation, creating a leadership vacuum at the beleaguered tribunal. [A vacuum? Obviously, something must be done. ]

Mr. Fleury is stepping down eight months before his mandate ends ....

Immigration Minister Diane Finley. ....

Mr. Fleury's departure comes as Ms. Finley is set to adopt changes to the appointments process for IRB members, among them a proviso that the minister appoint two of the seven members on a newly formed selection committee. ....

Yesterday, the five members of the IRB's old advisory panel responsible for appointments also resigned ....

Search: competency test , $100,000-a-year , who the new chair will be

Those who resigned were concerned about "political patronage" ... Political patronage must never have happened before ... Why, bless their little pea-pickin' hearts ... selflessly concerned about Canada and Canadians ... to the end ... but, we're almost grown up now so ...

Mar. 1, 2007: Security: Domestic terror wins big

Domestic terror wins big in today's flip-flop vote by Dion's Liberals , February 27, 2007, Canadian Coalition for Democracies

canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/21539.shtml

Ottawa, Canada - Today, the Liberal opposition lead by Stéphane Dion joined with the other Opposition parties to kill two provisions of Canada Anti-Terrorism Act that were passed into law by the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien in 2002. With all the hyperbole generated by these provisions, it is essential that Canadians understand their implications and judge for themselves if today's vote was a win for human rights or for those plotting acts of terror in Canada. [....]

CSIS has identified over 50 terrorist groups operating on Canadian soil and over $256 million have been identified by FINTRAC in 2005/2006 as having possible links to terrorism. Today, Canadians lost vital tools needed to stop a massacre before it happens and to compel those with knowledge of terrorist activity to disclose such vital information to a judge.

Search: The "preventative arrest" provision , the use of "investigative hearings"

You may comment on that website.

Mar. 1, 2007: Updates & A Challenge

Four updates have been added to Feb. 27, 2007: Introduction which concerns the following -- copied from the top of that post.

This is intended as an introduction to a group of posts that are related in that they explore microcredit, global banking innovations, Canada's aid, public-private partnerships, foundations and financial transparency when Canadian taxpayer dollars are involved, administration of this aid, research and technology deals involving Canadian and foreign universities, along with other deals which may be the main interest of the foreign companies involved (e.g. potash, uranium), and more. I believe there has been too little made known--or allowed to be--too much beyond the purview of Canadians about what has gone on and may be continuing; yet Canadian tax dollars are involved, along with issues of security and prudence. I believe the light of transparency and accountability need to be shed on all of this. It would help if our media would investigate, engaging our best journalists.


A challenge for our best journalists

I believe that some people would prefer votes and making money to taking care of Canadians' long-term interests and Canadians' security. There is too much hidden. I have tried to investigate but I am an amateur without the resources nor experience of good journalists. Some like me are not at all interested faux news, for example, articles concerning an Anna Nicole Smith or whatever is today's bit of diversionary fluff. We want news that is news, investigative journalism. Capiche? Scroll down to the beginning: Feb. 27, 2007: Introduction

Comments welcome, if they address the issues of concern.

Feb. 28, 2007: Global Warming

Environment , Global Warming

NOT THAT SIMPLE
GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT WE DON'T KNOW , By ROY W. SPENCER, February 26, 2007 via newsbeat1

www.nypost.com/seven/02262007/postopinion/oped
columnists/not_that_simple_opedcolumnists_roy_w__spencer.htm

The media is, almost by definition, most interested in extreme views on the issue, so reporting seldom reveals that broad scientific uncertainty still exists.

Feb. 28, 2007: Memory Lane

Update Mar. 1, 2007: This has several items related to The Legislature Raids

February 28, 2007 Bill Tieleman: new disclosures rock Collins, Clark, others

bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/

bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/2007/02/
bill-tieleman-new-disclosures-rock.html#links

A link at the bottom: www.billtieleman.blogspot.com/

New allegations made by defence lawyers in Basi Virk BC Legislature raid case touch top levels of provincial and federal Liberal Party insiders.

Lawyers defending David Basi, Bob Virk and Aneal Basi in the BC Legislature raid case have filed an application for disclosure with BC Supreme Court that makes a number of stunning allegations. [....]

Keep scrolling down that website for much more on that case which is ... muy complicado ... by accident or by design ...




Re: Court Challenges Program, Language, BC Legislature Raid, Basi / Basis, Virk, BC Rail, Telecom

Memory Lane: Court Challenges Program

What has been the purpose of the Court Challenges Program ... other than garnering votes from identifiable voting blocks? Read on.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 15, 2006
Oct. 18, 2006: Court Challenges Program Update -- and follow the links along the yellow brick road

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_10_15_archive.html


Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 3, 2006: Bud Talkinghorn

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10
/oct-3-2006-lets-look-at-law.html

What is ... The Law Commission of Canada, anyway?

[....] Oct. 3, 2006: Let's look at the Law Commission's Experts and their concerns.

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10
/oct-3-2006-lets-look-at-law.html

[....] This is the most informative article I have seen on the Court Challenges Program

Premier's propaganda in favour of Court Challenges Program , Church and State October 02, 2006

state-and-church.blogspot.com/2006/10
/premiers-propaganda-in-favour-of-court.html

[....] III) History of the CCP

“The Trudeau government launched the Court Challenges Program in 1978. It was designed to let language groups ratchet up pressure on the provinces to provide more bilingual services using the language guarantees in the British North America Act and, later, the Charter of Rights. In 1985, the Mulroney government extended the CCP to fund “equality seeking groups,” namely feminist, multicultural, gay, lesbian, and other groups…. The CCP has encouraged some groups to by-pass the political process by using the courts instead.

[....] IV) An Unaccountable Biased Program [.... Do not miss reading this.]

Related: Feb. 26, 2007: RCMP, Language, Privacy, Rights




Memory Lane: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 17 - 23, 2006

frosthitstherhubarb.blog
spot.com/2006_12_17_archive.html


Dec. 23, 2006: BC Rail Memory Lane [Who are providing the private money mentioned here and who benefit? .... B.C. Rail investment partnership agreement .... can he tell the House why B.C. Rail is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a taxpayer-financed gift to CN in the form of brand-new B.C. Rail trucks and vehicles? .... a billion dollars of private sector investment]

Basi / Basis - Virk - Third Parties

Somewhere, among the turkey dinner, the cocktail parties, the schmoozing ... lies the shadow ... the ghost of Christmases past [re: Udhe Singh (Dave) BASIS / Basi and Bobby Singh VIRK .... putting at risk the bidding process for the Freight Division of BC Rail .... Anne Cameron, on hearing of the Tsawwassen land deal ...]

Check for the words "money laundering". ... I seem to remember the words. Maybe it is only because this affected banks and a securities company , not just BC Rail and the BC government. Note the alternate spelling of Basi / Basis. FHTR

Website: The Legislature Raids

Header: Why did R.C.M.P. and Victoria police raid the B.C. Legislature on 28 December 2003? Why is the public left without answers to that question? Let's share what we know. [....]

Memory Lane: Philosophical difference: telecom policy review , Oct. 20, 2006

mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2006/10/20/
alt_telecom_policy_review_panel.html


Re: Sheila Copps

This is a crazy session! 1) she is all about the “content is king” model as opposed to the idea that communication is king. 2) She said (and later defended) the idea that free content is not very good. That the only creators that matter are people that are selling content (but that fits in with her political work -she helped put the tax on blank cd’s). 3) That government won’t respond to “the public interest” but only to interest groups. So that if Cracin wants to get stuff done they should figure out which interest groups are going to be effective allies. And that traditional enemies (like copyright groups) are not possible allies because of the changes in content and telecom realities.

*great* session. I’m really glad that they invited her and that she came. I completely disagree with her about the internet (she seems to see it as a distribution network, not as a communication network) but I love her realistic advice to this group.

Feb. 28, 2007: Update

I have updated yesterday's post: Feb. 27, 2007: Introduction

Feb. 28, 2007: Bud Talkinghorn

Canadian security? What's that compared to getting re-elected?

So the Liberal Party has voted against their own security bill, which allowed indefinite detention of those thought to be high terrorist risks. The provisions of the bill are draconian in many respects, yet are necessary because the Charter doesn't allow Canada to expel them to their mostly Islamic homelands. This is because every one of these countries employs torture and/or the death penalty. If they are merely innocently charged people, why would their governments do such things to them? The truth is that, often, they are known terrorist members back home as well.

So we are now caught between a rock and a hard place. If they are released, they will always remain a distinct threat. The message it sends to our sleeper cells here doesn't bear thinking about. The Liberals have come up with a solution to this extralegal security measure; however, they have nothing to offer for Canadian security. All they will would gain is the Muslim-Canadian vote in the cities. However, if you are completely opportunistic, that might be enough. On the other hand, should one of these "unjustly incarcerated" lads be involved in a horrendously successful terrorist attack on our soil, the Liberals could suffer irreparable damage to their brand. * The NDP--their cheerleaders on this legal position change--would suffer also. Small wonder that Dion had to "whip" his caucus on the vote. The stakes are very high indeed.

© Bud Talkinghorn--One could ask; why not just charge them and go to court? The rationale for not doing that is that it would destroy the inter-intelligence trust built up. The linkage for detaining these suspects is based on all kinds of secret sources. A court trial would expose these deep cover operatives, leading to chaos and possible assassinations of the agents involved. All future co-operation would disappear. A thorny problem, which perhaps the opposition can help solve. Don't take any bets on that support though.


* Which part undamaged would that be Bud? FHTR


Four Ex-Prime Ministers reflect

Roy MacGregor has written an interesting column in The Globe and Mail (Feb. 22 A-3). He corralled Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark and Paul Martin and asked them to reflect on their attitudes about the political scene. Some of their comments were right on target. Joe Clark opines; ["There was a time]...when the general assumption was that government was good. Now, almost the opposite applies. If the government proposes something, that generates suspicion about it. That's not a generational phenomenon factor; that's a broad phenomenon. It's societal."

Joe Clark is a good place to begin to examine why this has been happening. I can't think of a better example of why people so dislike and distrust politicians. Always the reddest of Red Tories, he never accepted that real conservatives could no longer stand his squishy, quasi-liberal platforms. When the various sections finally united under The Conservative Party banner, with Stephen Harper as leader, he did not leave the scene gracefully. Instead, he turned positively traitorous, urging his Red Tory rump to vote Liberal. As they did in a number of ridings. He does not reflect on that scurrilous business however. Rather, he blames the organization of government, saying it allows less and less latitude for change. How ironic that Harper proved him so wrong on that score.

Brian Mulroney is another one to look at for this widespread disaffection of the electorate. He wooed the likes of Lucien Bouchard to his party and watched them defect and form the Bloc Quebecois Party. Then, in a last ditch effort to appease Quebec, he thought up Meech Lake and The Charlottetown Accord. These would not have only given Quebec unequal benefits, but would have allowed their veto on any future Canadian Constitutional change. When the Accord was put to a national referendum, it was soundly defeated. This, despite the support of the media, Acadians and cultural elites. I'm sure that the rousing defeat of the government and its acolytes was so embarassing that another referendum will never be considered. Mulroney lamely stated afterward that "he had rolled the dice" on the issue. Unfortunately, for him and his party the dice came up snake eyes.

Brian brings us to Kim Campbell, the sacrifical lamb substitute for Mulroney in the next election. Campbell, who had held a couple of cabinet positions, was chosen but given no time to properly prepare for an election. This however cannot be an excuse for the infamous campaign comment, "An election campaign is no time to discuss ideas". Duh! She was doomed to failure anyway as the albatross--no, elephant--of Mulroney hung around her neck. The PCs were nearly wiped out, electing only Jean Charest and Elsie Wayne. Jean shortly crossed over to the Quebec Liberal Party and Wayne was anything but a Red Tory. Kim was given a golden parachute, the Consul-General position for LaLa-land, where she attends endless receptions. What business she has directed our way is a state secret.

Paul Martin ended up with two albatrosses to bear. Having the nickname of "Mr. Dithers" attached to you is heavy enough. Than he had the resentful Chretien clique to contend with. But for me it was his statement during the election debate that poleaxed him. After hysterically demanding that Harper not touch a single article in The Charter or The Constitution, he blurted out that if he won he would take the Notwithstanding Clause out of the Charter. That Harper shouldn't touch anything (without being labelled a fascist in waiting), but Martin then proposed to gut the only check on legislation which is a gold mine for our social activist industry.

MacGregor should have demanded some personal accountabilty from these four. Perhaps their egoes wouldn't allow for such intospection. The commonality among them is that they feel they have diminished respect from Canadians. How those sentiments might have come about from their own behaviour is never explored. Since they have left the area, we have witnessed shameless floor crossings, and renunciations of former policy positions. Each one is a slap in the face to the electorate. It proves that too many of them are mere opportunists. Along with the pols, the MSM also are losing ground to the used car salesmen in the trust polls.

To be fair, the Canada of the past has changed beyond recognition. As the ghettoization of our cities continues apace, the politicians have to keep recrafting their messages to fit the immigrant demands. The Charter challenges all seem to be curve balls. The split between lower case liberals and conservatives is becoming wider. Any discussion of political social policy is a party spoiler. Still, all the aforementioned party leaders have a sad role to play in this current divide.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Feb. 28, 2007: Prenatal Vitamin

Vitamins key for fetuses
Broad study finds daily prenatal vitamin with folic acid can prevent cancer and certain birth defects , Globe and Mail, February 26, 2007

Women who take a daily multivitamin before and during pregnancy sharply reduce the likelihood that their children will develop leukemia, brain tumors and other forms of childhood cancer, according to new Canadian research.

The startling finding that a cheap supplement purchased at the drugstore can prevent cancer as well as a range of birth defects adds weight to the theory that micronutrients have lifelong health benefits for the developing fetus. It also bolsters the case for having all women of childbearing age take multivitamins, particularly those rich in folic acid.

[....] A prenatal multivitamin is specially designed to foster normal fetal development. It contains more folic acid, more iron and less vitamin A than a regular multivitamin.

Earlier research has shown dramatic benefits of taking prenatal multivitamins. These include sharply lower rates of neural tube defects such as spina bifida, cardiovascular defects, limb deformities, cleft palate, urinary-tract defects and hydrocephalus.

Evidence of the importance of micronutrients - and folic acid in particular - has been growing for years. Folate is found naturally in leafy green vegetables, including spinach, in citrus fruits and in dried beans. [....]

Feb. 28, 2007: Morals, Terrorism, Female Genital Mutilation

In Chaotic Gaza, Islamists Firebomb Internet Cafes Over Morals , By Daniel Williams, Feb. 26 (Bloomberg)

www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p
id=newsarchive&sid=aVYd7ujnOFEs

Soon after a firebomb exploded at 3 a.m. and destroyed four computers in the Al-Shawa Online Internet Cafe in Gaza, owner Alaa al-Shawa clicked onto his e-mail at an undamaged machine.

The first message surprised him: It was from the bombers themselves, explaining that establishments such as his were keeping Muslims away from prayer and providing pornography. That's why it was hit.

``This just shows how confused these fanatics are,'' said Al-Shawa, 27. ``Even they use the Internet to circulate their statements, but they think everyone else uses it for porno.'' [Are these lads so fixated on sex? Is it possible that they have excessive urges that must be curbed? Or is this simply nuts? See below.]

A group called the Swords of Islamic Righteousness has claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a leaflet distributed at Al-Azhar University last month, it said it attacked Internet cafes ``which are trying to make a whole generation preoccupied with matters other than jihad and worship.'' [....]

There are none so blind ...

Northern Virginiastan , Investor's Business Daily via newsbeat1, Posted 2/26/2007

www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?sec
id=1501&status=article&id=257386735556435

Homeland Security: Authorities across the pond now fear that even more Muslims — possibly numbering in the thousands — are plotting terror. On this end, however, U.S. officials still can't see anything in the pipeline.

Either the British have better intelligence than we do, or we don't have any radicalized Muslim communities here in America. Sanguine U.S. authorities are guessing the latter.

[....] Right across the Potomac from [Chertoff's] office is the second-highest concentration of Muslims in the country. Baileys Crossroads, Va., is teeming with Islamic radicals just as hostile to the U.S. government as their counterparts in London.

Baileys Crossroads is the heart of the Wahhabi corridor, which includes the safe houses where the hijackers stayed and the mosque where they and dozens of other terrorists have worshipped. [....]

Search: Taliban Towers , Saudi madrassa that's graduated several terrorists , residents are routinely subjected to , calls to pray blasted over mosque loudspeakers



What have the feminists done about this?

Memory Lane: cliterectomy , female genital mutilation , Inter-African Committee (IAC) , Women and Feminists , SoW , Status of Women

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 27, 2006

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/12/
dec-27-2006-suffer-little-children.html

Dec. 27, 2006: Suffer little children
Female Circumcision / Female Genital Mutilation (FC/FGM) / Cliterectomy

In Canada, Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females, Women's Int'l Network / Gale Group, 2002

Barbarism will never be eliminated if everyone hides it.

Incidence in Africa [screen capture]

advancing the notion that the cruel practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is actually a triumph for feminism

Re Immigration: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Nov. 3, 2006
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/11/
nov-3-2006-do-we-really-believe-that.html

Nov. 3, 2006: Do we really believe that ...
These minds are capable of being changed?

Muslim Rape, Feminist Silence

Where do Canadian feminists, the Status of Women (SOW) stand on this subject?

drawing attention to who fund the left

Feb. 28, 2007: Security, the Spin, Another Private Foundation

It has irritated me that, while repeatedly mentioning that PM Harper apologized to Mayer Arar, there was virtually no exploration of whether torture actually occurred, that is, proof other than Arar's word, and the mainstream media have been his champion. Nor was there any questioning of, if torture occurred, what went wrong under the previous administration(s), nor exploration of how this might have occurred, why Arar was under surveillance, nor discrepancies, and there were discrepancies. None of this has been explored by journalists, at least from what I read or listened to from the usual suspects. It is as though Arar's troubles were the current government's fault.

A world of Maher Arars
Why won't the U.S. admit Maher Arar's innocence? It may be fear of precedent. Tales of other suspects seized and sent abroad to face torture are beginning to come to light in Europe. This week, those stories helped bring down the Italian government. And as Doug Saunders reports, this could be just the beginning. , Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20070224.wararus0224/
BNStory/International/home

Note: PM "Harper apologizes to Arar for torture in Syria" -- Actually, he apologized on behalf of Canada. What occurred, whatever it was, occurred under a previous administration but apologies customarily come from whoever is PM when the issue is settled (Or said to be settled, considering that there may yet be a sequel, imho).

Does it serve the BCE/Globe and Mail/CBC political purpose to muddy the waters concerning Arar? While propagandizing for him, there is much missing, as the next article will detail.



Paid $10.5-million ... taken at his own word

What really happened to Maher Arar? Maher Arar received the largest government settlement in Canadian history. Even after an inquiry, the public should ask, why? Kevin Steel, Feb. 26, 2007

www.westernstandard.ca/website/ind
ex.cfm?page=article&article_id=2333

Excellent. Read this one closely.

The problem is, Arar's claims of physical torture have gone largely unchallenged. The Canadian media has been eager to report every dramatic detail and columnists write as if the allegations are established fact. But even though the Arar commission wrote that he had been tortured, it did little to substantiate the 34-year-old wireless technology consultant's assertions. [....]

When compared to the recommendations outlined in the Istanbul Protocol, the Toope Report can only be characterized as inadequate. For instance, the Protocol emphasizes the creation of a medical report by a physician with expertise in documenting physical abuse. But no such medical report appears to have been created .... Toope relied on an oral interview with Doug Gruner, a doctor who Amnesty International, which had politically lobbied for Arar, had recommended--hardly an independent expert. As for expertise, [....]

The Protocol stresses the selection of an unbiased physician, but Toope makes no effort to establish Gruner as unbiased and actually notes Gruner is also working for another political activist. [....]

Search: why Canadian police were suspicious of him back in 2001 , whipped with a two-inch-thick electrical cable , an experienced consular official , Martel , Even after Arar was released, he did not speak of beatings., Stephen Toope, president of the left-leaning Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, was appointed as fact-finder , rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances , al Qaeda teaches them to make a claim of torture , Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, otherwise known as the Istanbul Protocol , The credibility of Arar's allegations of physical torture , gone unchallenged , to obtain any documentation establishing Maher's whereabouts , produced none.


More on another Foundation

I thought the fact that the one investigating came from the Trudeau Foundation; yet Trudeau's son Sacha Trudeau was one of the ones supporting one or more of the ones picked up on security certificates was intriguing. What, exactly, is the Trudeau Foundation for, the one Canadian taxpayers kicked $125,000,000 into ... in honour of something or another?


A "Private" Foundation for "advanced research in the humanities and the human sciences"

Frost Hits the Rhubarb -- or you may find it here but it would not come up for me this morning. I posted it but it did not exist ... this morning. Try Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 5, 2006

Dec. 5, 2006: Ring around the rosie ...

Caveat emptor: Please note that, even as I was putting this up, the first link developed some strange extra marks ... maybe normal, maybe Gremlins.


Based on the Liberal leadership fest, yesterday, Dec. 4, 06, I posted "CTV interrupts convention coverage to interview Alexandre Trudeau in Havana". Intrigued, I searched and found the following; you might be similarly intrigued.

Table of Contents [....]

[Naturally, some information goes astray.]

Search:

Sacha Trudeau - Security Certificates
Missing history and screen capture

Trudeau takes up cause of hunger strikers held on security certificates

www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.ht
ml?id=c0c9c837-6ed5-4864-83e0-72fce4c6603f&k=4724

Filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau [Sacha] has come to the defence of two security detainees now on a hunger strike for improved conditions, appealing to federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler to intervene on their behalf.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb December 11, 2006
Dec. 11, 2006: Propinquity

It's wonderful how the concerns of various groups coalesce ... or appear to ... academe , "doing good" for students , academics , mentors , foundations , mining , mining engineering , investment banking , bank profits , taxpayer money

First, some background and / or related items, then the current news below those items -- Street race: Now TD vies for the prize

re: Toronto Dominion Bank, TD Securities, Frank McKenna and ranging over Falconbridge, CVRD, mining and energy, oil sands, Air Canada, AIM funds, Cheung Kong and its partners, Deutsche Bank and Bilfinger Burger, Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata PLC, Toronto-Dominion advisory deals, equity deals and more


Background

Dec. 5, 2006: Ring around the rosie ...

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006
/12/dec-5-2006-ring-around-rosie.html

Scroll down to this section: The Pierre Trudeau Foundation - Scholar in Mining Engineering Grant -- Global Citizenship - Canadian Taxpayers' Contribution

Sacha Trudeau on Global Citizenship , UBC Report, Nov 3, 2006, Public Affairs, UBC / University of British Columbia [....]

Not exactly how it all began, my son, but moving in that direction , a bit of Memory Lane from Industry Canada, 2002 [....]

modern technology network

[....] Update 2:....

More Background

The halls of academe , CVRD Brazil , Trudeau Foundation Mining Engineering Grant , UBC Mining engineering , internships in Brazil at CVRD , Vancouver-based Teck Cominco Ltd. , Xstrata , Falconbridge and Inco , Noranda , Sumitomo , and more [....]

There is much more on that foundation, should you check.


Frost Hits the Rhubarb Sept. 21, 2006: Crying Wolf or ... what?

Al Shukrijumah, Adnan G. , tbk.com -- The Terrorism Knowledge Base

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_09_17_archive.html

[....] Bit by bit, the al-Qaeda operative allegedly managed to pilfer approximately 180 pounds of nuclear material from the university - - enough to build several radiological bombs.[xv]

CFP article: Al-Quaeda' "hidden arsenal"

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=359&mforum=elwoodpdowd

Feb. 27, 2007: Introduction

Updates 1, 2 and 3: Mar. 1, 2007 (set off with lines near the bottom) and Update Feb. 28, 2007: also near the bottom.

This is intended as an introduction to a group of posts that are related in that they explore microcredit, global banking innovations, Canada's aid, public-private partnerships, foundations and financial transparency when Canadian taxpayer dollars are involved, administration of this aid, research and technology deals involving Canadian and foreign universities, along with other deals which may be the main interest of the foreign companies involved (e.g. potash, uranium), and more. I believe there has been too little made known--or allowed to be--too much beyond the purview of Canadians about what has gone on and may be continuing; yet Canadian tax dollars are involved, along with issues of security and prudence. I believe the light of transparency and accountability need to be shed on all of this. It would help if our media would investigate. Comments welcome, if they address the issues of concern.

I have coloured headers and key phrases or words. Note anything in bright blue .


List of related posts:

Feb. 26, 2007: Innovations in Microcredit

This is intended to provide more background to other posts today on aid, microcredit, development, foundations, banking endeavours, and taxpayer money. Re: The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) , the Grameen Bank

Feb. 26, 2007: April Audits -&- Threads [It is the audit part that is related; the threads are discussions of interest, but not part of this]

April audits may bring Grits shame , Ezra Levant, Feb. 26, 2007, Calgary Sun -- Interesting days ahead?

Feb. 26, 2007: Strong: Environmental Guru
UN Maurice Strong Environment Kyoto

At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong , By Claudia Rosett and George Russell, February 08, 2007

Feb. 26, 2007: Foundations
Membership Transparency, Anonymity, Audit Committee

It appears that a foundation may have one member, may have no audit committee, and may have anonymous donors.

House of Commons CANADA Standing Committee on Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology NUMBER 022 1st SESSION 38th PARLIAMENT EVIDENCE Tuesday, February 22, 2005


Feb. 26, 2007: Global
This might provide some useful background to other posts today.

Memory Lane: Frost Hits the Rhubarb July 2 - 8, 2006

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_07_02_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Header: July 6, 2006: Global Expertise or Governance? Digital Universe & ManyOne.net

public-private partnership

Feb. 26: 2007: Global Development

Microcredit - CIDA - Aga Khan Foundation - Taxpayer Input - Public-Private Partnerships - Transparency - Ramifications


Private Microbank

The Micro Finance Bank Ltd set up by the Aga Khan Rural Support Program , the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

CIDA: a partner with the Aga Khan Development Network

Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), an arm of the Aga Khan Development Network

[....] The Canadian wing of the Aga Khan Development Network is a partner with the Canadian International Development Agency on several projects in Africa and Asia.

There may be more here: Under the heading: "Oct. 30, 2006: The shoe is on the other foot now", search or scroll down to information on Pluralism, the Aga Khan and the Aga Khan Global Centre for Pluralism -- the Aga Khan on the UN , Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 30, 06

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
oct-30-2006-shoe-is-on-other-foot-now.html


Aga Khan's Dealings Stir Questions of Financial Transparency , Nov. 23, 05 (Bloomberg)

Check carefully, since Canadian taxpayers' dollars are involved through CIDA's relationship. Check anything in bright blue, particularly.

A HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANI ISMAILIS, SECTION SEVEN

Search: Dassondh , taqiyya


Feb. 26, 2007: At the confluence of two rivers ...
Of Generosity and Business


Frost Hits the Rhubarb Nov. 5, 2006

Nov. 6, 2006: Charity begins ... in Hong Kong - China

A "Canadian Charitable Foundation" ...
Li Ka-shing

foreign-born Canadians start establishing private foundations

Canada and China have agreed to work together in the energy sector, including "the uranium resources field." [....]


Search: Husky Energy Inc. , medical research and knowledge translation initiatives , Chinese University in Hong Kong, Shantou University in mainland China

Billionaire Li Ka-shing: East meets West in new medicine exchange program
University of Manitoba and Shantou University.

Hong Kong-based global entrepreneur and philanthropist Li Ka-shing is helping establish the exchange program with a gift of $1 million.

Founded in 1981 by Li Ka-shing, Shantou University

ASIA MISSION TO PROMOTE SASKATCHEWAN "POWERHOUSE" , October 17, 2005

business relationships in potash, energy, agriculture and agricultural machinery, telecommunications, film production, forestry, tourism and research and development.

Kazakhstan

The delegation will meet in Hong Kong with Hutchison Wampoa Ltd. [Whampoa?] (parent company of Husky Energy) and the Noble Group; in China with Sinochem (potash), China National Cereals, Oils and Food Stuffs Corporation (COFCO), the China National Petroleum Corporation, Chinese film producers, the National People's Congress, and various Ministries; and in Japan with Hitachi, Sapporo Breweries, Nippon Flour Mills, the Idemitsu, Overseas Uranium Resources Development (OURD), Japan-Canada Uranium Company Limited (JCU) and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) uranium companies and Japanese outbound tourism operators.

A number of new co-operation agreements will be signed on the mission, including agreements between the University of Regina and Jinan University, between the University of Saskatchewan and the Beijing Institute of Technology, and between the China National Petroleum Corporation and the Regina-based Petroleum Technology Research Centre.

Uranium Saskatchewan Development

China interested in Sask. uranium, Calvert says

Feb. 26, 2007: Memory Lane: Judicial Appointments

Feb. 26, 2007: What happened with this?

Witnesses changed their story at sponsorship inquiry -- "The report goes back to October 2005 and found discrepancies, inconsistencies or contradictions in the testimony of about half a dozen witnesses." , Kathryn May, CanWest / Ottawa Citizen, February 08, 2007

Background:

New sponsorship scandal charges could be in the works, book says Machouette


Related: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Jan. 7 - 13, 2007

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2007_01_07_archive.html

Jan. 13, 2007: Financing Disaster #2 Introduction

There are several posts that go together as explorations of EDC, the Canada Account, nuclear sales, transparency, the environment ... screen captures and more information.

[.... Scroll to: ]

Several posts go together in that they reveal how difficult it is to find out information: for example, about exactly what has been accomplished with CIDA aid money and then what the loans through the Export Development Canada's Canada account entail. There is a lack of transparency. It took more time than I expected to find out what companies were involved in nuclear projects and under what acronyms or names; hence, I have included information on where I looked and search terms.

Jan. 13, 2007: EDC-Competition, Disclosure, Access to Information -- which leads to the posts below: CIDA officials present Evidence before the Standing Senate committee on National Defence [See below for information on one of those giving evidence, Hau Sing Tse.]

Jan. 13, 2007: #1 CIDA Evidence to Senate Committee [i.e. Where has Canada's Foreign Aid been going in Afghanistan? - Continued below]

Jan. 13, 2007: #2 CIDA Evidence to Senate Committee [52-million-dollar micro-financing program in Afghanistan - $100 million per year - supervised by ARTF and the World Bank - Middle Eastern accounting firms - women trained in communication and media - radio - $3-Million out of $90-Million for basic education for girls]

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Update 1: Mar. 1, 2007:

Jan. 13, 2007: #3 CIDA - ARTF [Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the World Bank - officials from the Canadian International Development Agency: Hau Sing Tse, Vice-President of the Asia Branch, and Phillip Baker, Director of the Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Division - Afghan ARTF Expatriates Services Program - artfexpat.gov.af which leads to iom.int or the International Organization for Migration - Lateral Entry Program to place 100 lateral entrants from NGOs and international organizations in middle- and senior-level line positions in government ministries and agencies -- more below]

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Update Feb. 28, 2007:

Hau Sing Tse, Vice President, Asia Branch, Canadian International Development Agency , Rights and Democracy, Speakers - Biographical Notes. There is also information on others and their interests, such as Claire l’Heureux-Dubé, Former Judge, Supreme Court of Canada, and a couple from Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), a woman from Shan Women’s Action Network, and more.

Hau Sing Tse was born in Canton, China and grew up in Hong Kong .... He joined CIDA in 1984 and occupied various positions on the Pakistan Program, the China Program and with the Canadian Embassy in Beijing , China. He spent one year, 1996-97, as Policy Advisor with the Priorities and Planning Secretariat of the Privy Council Office (PCO) .... Upon his return to CIDA from PCO, he served as Director General of the Performance Review Branch for two years. ...

How very interesting that someone born in China whose formative years were spent there or in Hong Kong would be working in the Privy Council Office as a Policy Advisor. Of course, he was a native speaker of ... would that be Mandarin? Cantonese? China has made it known that Canadians who want to do business in China would be advised use a native speaker who knows his/her way around. Was that not in the era of the Team Canada's (Prime Minister and businessmen) trips to China to drum up business were taking place?

There is biographical information on others, for example, Luke Peterson
International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD)

... research consultant for the Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) , the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development .... Mr. Peterson currently works on a number of IISD trade and investment policy projects, including ones focused on the impacts of international economic rules on health, human rights and development. He is also the editor of the INVEST-SD News Bulletin, IISD's news service dedicated to tracking developments in international investment law, policy and dispute settlement.

Would INVEST-SD be "Sustainable Development"?

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Update 2, Mar. 1, 2007:

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 28, 2006

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
oct-28-2006-cida-kenny-hansard.html

Oct. 28, 2006: CIDA, Kenny, Hansard, Chretien & Martin & ...

CIDA's Malaria Meltdown -- Why is the Canadian International Development Agency perpetuating malaria deaths?, By Amir Attaran, Thursday, October 26, 2006 -- Bednets, DDT, Malaria.

"The problem is with CIDA"

In the Senators Defense, Kevin Steele, Western Standard

westernstandard.blogs.com/shot
gun/2006/10/in_the_senators.html

UN & the Communist Bloc

Bolton's Bravery by Ion Mihai Pacepa [re: John Bolton -- I think this is the item that is worth reading.]

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Update 3, Mar. 1, 2007:

Afghan Compact - This is from a press release from the Afghan embassy

Dep. Minister Saikal addresses the Conference on Afghanistan organized by the Aga Khan Foudation Canada

www.afghanemb-canada.net/en/press_release/embassy/
2005/december/Last_embassy_press_release.php

Afghan Deputy Minister Highlights Development Strategy December 6, 2005

Ottawa – ... a policy event on Afghanistan’s development and met with a group of Afghan-Canadian businesses.

During his meetings with Acting Deputy Minister Mr. David Mulroney at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier and Deputy Minister of National Defence, Mr. Ward P.D. Elcock, CIDA President Mr. Robert Greenhill and VP Asia, Mr. Hau Sing Tse, and Mr. Jonathan Fried, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor at the Privy Council Office, Mr. Saikal briefed Canadian officials on the outcome of the recent Kabul Conference on Regional Cooperation and the upcoming international conference on Afghanistan to be held in London in January.

... “Afghanistan Compact”, ... the new framework for cooperation between Afghanistan and the international community. He stressed on the need to address the reconstruction priorities of Afghanistan that is part of an Afghan-led National Development Strategy document. [.... Was that part of the necessity for radios? For women?]

At the AKFC [Aga Khan Foundation Canada] event, Omar Samad, the Afghan Ambassador to Canada, also spoke of the need to “consolidate the gains and achievements of the past four years while facing with determination the challenges of the future,” by focusing on security and development priorities, in addition to special attention needed for enhancing rule of law, governance, anti-narcotics and capacity building. [....]

Embassy of Afghanistan
December 9, 2005

Capacity building? What does that mean in the context of a meeting with businessmen at the Aga Khan Foundation Canada event?