"How can I express myself on Lebanon when somebody preparing a report for Stephen Harper is listening in on what I have to say?" said MP Minna.

Indeed. So what exactly does she want to say that she is afraid of anyone hearing?

voter choice-----from the article......

However, the Montreal event has been described as being anti-Israeli in tone, with Hezbollah flags on display, and some demonstrators chanting support for the organization, which calls for the destruction of Israel and is banned by the Canadian government.

Politicians attending the Montreal rally included Liberal MP Denis Coderre, who represents a downtown Montreal riding and is a supporter of Liberal leadership contender Michael Ignatieff, as well as Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe and Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair.

Lets see if
CBCpravda picks up on it or will it send us up to watch PeterPansbridge muttering away in the Arctic

Dang!

I was hoping some of them might be sporting those dopey protest banners I've seen in Trafalgar Square:

WE ARE ALL HEZBOLLAH NOW

Are you? Then you're under arrest for terrorism! Heh heh.

Oh i see, taking a " neutral stance " and being a " honest broker " as you march under a hezbollah flag

The actions of the three opposition parties are disgusting--opportunistic and even treasonous because the plans of Hezbollah (a proxy of Iran) for Canada are anything but peaceful. In fact, Hezbollah considers us paid up members of the decadent West (they're not far off on that one) and infidels to be subdued or destroyed.

The insanity of a befuddled and morally deluded West reminds me of the naifs, in the movie "Mars Attacks", who greet the aliens with white doves, which, along with the welcoming committee, are reduced to cinders by the "nice enemy." There's no fool like a dead fool, which we'll soon be in the West if we don't wake up from our long slumber and begin to face the music.

I thank God that the grown up PMSH's in charge, not the toddler Lieberals. But, unless more Canadians hop on board, we're toast!

Canadian politicos marching under the Hezbollah terrorist flag?
In Canada?
You bet!
Denis Corderre and Gilles Duceppe side by side protesting under the shadow of a terorist Hezbollah flag! Yes, in Canada!
Had the terrorists managed to carry out their mission to kill thousands of air travelers, one has to wonder which flag Coderre and Duceppe would continue to march under.
F@#^ing idiots!

The bloq marching? Well they don't even care about Canada so nothing suprises me about them, However the Liberals marching what were they thinking? As soon as terrorist flag was shown it should have been "have a good day I'm outta here"
Do the opposition support terrorism? Why are they are to afraid to speakout?, Why do they fence sit & attempt to lay blame on a PM that has at least had the balls to denounce Terrorism!
It sure looks like they support terrorism.
They should be ashamed of themselves and where is the Liberal leader he should have been calling them in & raking them over the coals. This is nothing more then a political ploy to try & demonize the CCP & PM & to buy votes.
It's time that decent hardworking Canadians start to denounce the Liberal & NDP parties of Canada for there support of Terrorist groups operating not only here in Canada but around the world.

As I have said here before, the leftern enemy within is the greatest challenge to the Western World. When you see them supporting terrorists you know their agenda is power at all costs and there is nothing they will not do or try. The lines are being drawn through out the Western World and I wonder when and how long it will take before our Western Civilization realizes that it's not Israel and Lebanon that's at war, it's us, and our way of life.

Just out of interest because I'm over here in the UK, are there any photos showing these MPs with, or next to, a Hezbollah flag?

What a gift that would be for anyone designing a Conservative election poster!

Funny, now they are demanding he resign from caucus...maybe he should cross the floor...oh I forgot somehow that means there was an unethical offer.....

Can't win for trying.

Clearly the only acceptable ethical position when your a member of the Liberal party is to be a member of the Liberal party and to work through the Liberal party...all other things are unethical or treasonous....sounds sort of totalitarian when I put it that way doesnt it???

Adrienne Arsenault, reporting from the Middle East for the CBC, has her own blog running at their/*our* site:

3w cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/middleeast/

The comments section is very active.

Re: "any photos showing these MPs with, or next to, a Hezbollah flag?"

If not, I guess one can be photo-shopped quickly enough, that's obviously become part of the mainstream rules of the game, all's fair in love and war...

Check out Victor Davis Hanson's fine, "Worry About the West--Not Israel" at RealClearPolitics. He really puts things in perspective. I know that Western Canadian and many others here at sda will appreciate this discerning, concisely written article.

This is the second time Harper has gone outside his party to find the best person for a particular job, and just as happened with David Emerson, he is being criticized for it.

To me, this is exactly what a real leader does; he finds the best person for a job, regardless of party ties or loyalties. Good on Harper, and on Khan.

If I understand correctly, PMSH appointed the Liberal MP Wajid Khan to provide him with advice on the ME.

Mr. Khan's biography at www.wajidkhan.ca/biography.htm indicates that he is from Pakistan, has lived in Toronto since 1974, is in the automotive business, and has been an MP since 2004.

Can someone give me a hint about the kind of useful advice (or "intel", as Mr. Khan called it) a man with this background could provide to the Prime Minister of Canada on the situation in the ME?

agitfact,

A valid question about the quality of any advice that can be expected (after seeing MPs/MLAs in action, I would be surprised if any of them could give much useful advice on any topic). At least his useless advice will be cheaper than hiring one of the bandit consulting firms that often get hired to provide equally useless advice.

However, the fact that an opposition member has offered and accepted an assignment shows something very positive: a willingness to go beyond partisan politics to serve the country. Good on Mr. Khan for trying to help out rather than to simply criticize (or march with terrorist supporters) in an attempt to score points.

So we have MPs participating in terrorist activities.

Let them know what you think.

coderre.d@parl.gc.ca

duceppe.g@parl.gc.ca

In marching in support of hezbollah as mr.codere has, is this an act of treason against Canada?. Are there laws that exist in Canada to punish him when he is in the employment of Canada?
Or is it that he is just an ignorant liberal that don't give a S*** as long as he scores points.

Agitfact ,

Mr. Khan served as a pilot in Pakistan's air force before coming to Canada in 1974, and is prominent in Toronto's Muslim community.

Wouldn’t you agree that this is a relevant background given this morning’s news? Now reporting, 9 planes were planned to be targeted in the UK. Twenty-one British Muslims of Pakistani decent were arrested overnight.

Also, agitfact, Mr Khan works for me. Not the Liberal Party. Ditto MP Minna – what does she think about Lebanon? I want to know. I’m paying her salary.

Photos please. I would like to see any photographic evidence of politicans in a zone with Hez flags. Faster please.

Here are photos from that Sunday pro-Hezbollah rally in Montreal. There are literally dozens of people wearing Hezbollah t-shirts, carrying Hezbollah flags or placards with pictures of Nazrallah.

http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0438

Duceppe and Coderre marched with these pieces of shit. They have to pay for this, just like they would if they took part in a KKK rally.

Here are the photos of the rally in Montreal Sunday

http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0438

Duceppe and Coderre were marching with these animals who had numerous members carrying placards with Nazrallah, wearing Hezbollah T-shirts or carryin Hezbollah flags.

Hezbollah is a hate group and Duceppe and Coderre need to pay for this as if they had marched in a KKK rally.

...I'm sure someone can take that p*ss yellow flag of the Hezbollah and Photoshop the words under the rifle to Liberano$$$...

Don't worry about changing the other words, no one understood the Liberals either...

Anyone wanna try it?

;-)

Here is what i wrote to mr.Duceppe

Dear mr. Duceppe;
I am writing to you to convey my disgust with your actions (re; participating in protest march.)
I found it particularly dismaying that you would choose to march beside others that would support Hezbollah,a terrorist
organization (..and one declared so by the Government of Canada)

I can only infer from your actions that you are in support of these people and their policies.If this is the case,perhaps you should be quitting your job masquerading as a politician for my country,and don the green and gold for your new masters....

Perhaps that,a one way ticket to Syria and a copy of the Internationale is all you really need to get back to your Marxist roots...

ahh..the good old days,'eh Mr.. Duceppe?

Doug Kenwright
Oshawa

Nomdenet,

no, I don't think that having been a military pilot in Pakistan over 30 years ago provides any expertise in current Middle-Eastern affairs, nor the modern terrorist use of aircraft, for that matter.

I am just curious as to how and why this appointment is in the national interest, never mind what Mr. Harper might have been thinking.

""Keith Martin, Liberal foreign affairs critic, said he takes Mr. Khan at his word. "I have to take it at face value in the hope that Mr. Khan is a good man, an honest man, and he will give his best to make a positive contribution to Canada and to the government on this crisis.""

Well. Surprisingly, Keith Martin has come up with an intelligent position.

Congrats, Mr. Martin.

And sour grapes to the Liberal whiners and naysayers who put partisan politics above all else, even when dealing with this crisis.

Schmidt,

Would you like us to get your slippers too?

So which part of the old saying, "Politics stops at the water's edge" don't the Liberals get?

Isn't Khan the "This is a win for Islam" goof, when he won the liberal nomination vote last year in his riding?
I understand he was a prisoner of war.

richfisher,
No. The man you are thinking about was a supporter(I think he was actaully identified as councillor for Markham) of Omar Algabra, who incidently didn't denounce those statements...

More eye-opening reading about one of the "moderate" voices of a newly elected Liberal:

www.danielpipes.org/blog/553

People seem to forget Duceppe is a separatiste, only cares about the Province of Quebec, so he may have some sympathy with the terrorist cause, who knows? Pompous little windbag Coderre will have an answer, it was a peace march, and that is all you'll get from that sorry twit. There will be nothing made of it. Now if a Conservative were involved it would be top headlines and chatter for days, as per usual. That's our Canada, weep if you wish, nobody cares.Hezbollah is declared a terrorist organization by Canada, why weren't the marchers carrying it's flags and banners arrested? It appears our declarations and laws are symbolic with no intent to apply them, they are toothless. We are a gutless Nation in this case, expect no glory and more of the same.

Right MarkV, thanks.

More eye-opening reading about one of the "moderate" voices of a newly elected Liberal:

danielpipes.org/blog/553

Mr. Alghabra made no attempt to distance himself from the statements made on the podium by Khalid Osman, which are reported to have occurred as presented in the press release

David Ouellette of Judeoscope.ca adds to this:

To Mr. Gordon's understanding, based on several eyewitness accounts, after Mr. Alghabra gave a standard acceptance speech, Mr.Osman, seized the microphone and made a series of "statements about this being a victory for Islam and how Muslims have now taken Mississauga". Only then, says the CCD's President, without distancing himself from Mr.Osman's statements, did Mr. Alghabra make the alleged statements after stepping down from the podium amidst his supporters

In a perfect world the next referendum would be held outside of Quebec and the question would read:

Do you want to expel Quebec from Canada?

OK agitfact, Khan’s automotive business background doesn’t help you. Being a pilot doesn’t help you. How about having come from a hellhole like Pakistan that breeds Islamofascists (as my Pakistani friends tell me is happening) and now seeing today’s events? Any dots connecting there?

I was just in Heathrow a couple of weeks ago. I was one of the few white guys there. If I was Harper I’d like to chat with Mr Khan about his views on the way the Western World is handling these problems – because as a white guy I think I need some diversity of thought. But as a Liberal I guess you like uniformity.

This shows that terrorism propoganda works when you have jack-offs unwittinly marching with other jackoffs, blindly supporting an evil cause. Any person with a rational mind and fair perspective should very easily be able look beyond the falsed photo's and AP propoganda to see the true vicious nature of Hezbollah. Look up the true extent that the Israeli forces are going to prevent civilian casualities. I would say F-it and bomb it all but then again there are alot of unwilling civi-shields being used by Hezbollah as well.
If Islamic terrorism BS is pissing you off as much as it is me, check this site out, you wont regret it.
www.thereligionofpeace.com

Mr.Khan was caught on a video from a Mosque
where he makes a pro-Jihad comment and claims that Allah and the Quran allow 'Revenge" attacks
for any harm to Islam of Muslims.

The meeting at the Mosque was for tolerance
and anti-racism , Hezbollah menas Allah's Army , this means a Global Islamic world ruled by Sharia.

Mr.Khan was caught on a video from a Mosque
where he makes a pro-Jihad comment and claims that Allah and the Quran allow 'Revenge" attacks
for any harm to Islam of Muslims.

The meeting at the Mosque was for tolerance
and anti-racism , Hezbollah menas Allah's Army , this means a Global Islamic world ruled by Sharia.

Canada is at war with ISLAMIC FASCISTS. ...-

Bush: U.S. 'At War With Islamic Fascists'

News Max ^ | Aug. 10, 2006 | NewsMax Staff

President Bush said Thursday that a foiled plot to blow up multiple flights between Britain and the United States shows "this nation is at war with Islamic fascists."

"This country is safer than it was prior to 9-11," Bush said from the airport tarmac here where he was appearing at events focused on the economy. "We've taken a lot of measures to protect the American people but obviously we're not completely safe. ... It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America." The president laid the blame for the would-be attack squarely on...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681248/posts

Khan is my MP – he was parachuted in by Air Guitar Martin. To the best of my knowledge he still doesn’t live in the riding.

Oddly enough, just last week he had a letter in the local newspaper condemning PMSH for following the Americans too closely; there was an excellent follow-up letter by a guy who accused Khan and Alghabra of having “pan-Arabic” loyalties that override any loyalties they have to Canada. The guy really ripped into them, implying that they are Muslims first, Canadians second.

Nomdenet,

I am trying to see this thing beyond partisan politics. It would be write it off as an attempt to fish in the Liberal ethnic pool, but if the appointment is in the national interest, it should be discernably so.

The appointment of a former airframe driver who has lived outside of the "area of expertise" - even its Pakistan part - for 32 years and has been a success selling cars in TO does not speak to the national interest. By the way, is there no "diversity" in the conservative caucus?

Those Liberals just don't get it.

An opportunity to place a mole in the CPC caucus is being sqaundered.

But in all fairness conservatives don't get it either.

Looks good on Harper that there's nobody qualified in his own caucus so he has to ask a Liberal to do the job a CPCer could and should be able to do.

Fear and paranoia run far to deep in politics and we citizens always end up paying the price.

How ironic

The B'Nai Brith et al are now calling for banning of all things islamofacist/Lebanon Protest Rallies, etc.

This (these) groups have been powerful lobby group(s) for the most part flying under the Liberal banner for many years. They have been very successful in their lobby efforts and positioning themselves in all levels of the judiciary via Liberal appointments. The results of the lobbies of the power minorities can be seen in all that makes up the extreme political correctness scene that is now Canada - SC Decisions, Human Rights Tribunals, control of all things federal by Minority Rule, not majority Rule, etc, etc.

Someone like Heather R. makes a big show of turning her back on the Liberals now and publically supporting the PC's. Some 2500 made a big show of a "love Harper" rally. Like Shania Twain says in her song - "that don't impress me much". Motivation is more than a little suspect in all of this.

Liberals worth their salt should be working within their own party to mitigate against all of the negative fallout from the last 15 years of Liberal rule. How easy is it to just throw in the towel for something that has been supported for years in favor of making a big show of supporting a new government that appears that it may in fact come into power. How better to maintain a "power" position.

Banning is not going to happen. The legal/legislative systems since the Charter have seen to this.

Why has it become about a Pro-Israeli Rally or a Pro Lebanon Rally or a Pro Quebecistan (I like this one) Rally. Worse yet - is seeing the likes of Duceppe/Codere leading the parade where they are taking sides with the sole purpose of indirectly gaining support for the Francophone minority control. It seems they are likely to support whatever minority group that in fact is all about supporting minority rule in Canada - whether it is a terrorist group or not, it serves their purpose.

It is time for simultaneous Pro Canadian Responses that are louder and more vociferous than rallies for any minority group within Canada who seems determined to undermine the tenants of free speach in favor of what restricing free speech might do for their own (not-so-little) group.

How does one find out where these rallies are taking place before the fact?

It seems the radical protesters know exactly where, when they are going to set up shop (eg. the meeting of the PC caucus in a "site near Cornwall" as the press stated. Because they are the united front - it is much easier for them to get organized before the rest of us have a chance to get involved.

I heard something about some kind of a protest that occured on 17th Ave (The Red Mile) in Calgary but of course after the fact. So far the most activity seems to be in Montreal/TO. If there are rallies in Calgary, I'm prepared to go and fly the Canadian flag. I hope there are many others who will do the same.

If Canadian flags cannot fly at any protest rally and outnumber the radical protesters - to the point where the MSM cannot ignore them - then I guess the next flag I will fly will be the flag of Alberta. Quebecistan stimply is not going to have the option whether it goes or leaves (of course it never will) - it will likely be firewalled socially/economically if this Minority Rule of Canada is not reversed.

I sure hope partisan politics exist and that we get as good at as the NGO was for the past century.

Meanwhile , if you don't think Khan is in the national interest, then you need to look at your party riding that made him a candidate.

the mother of my children(my ex)is supposed to fly out of heathrow sunday...possibly the day of attack...and canadian politicos are marching under terrorist banners, supporting them with our tax dollars...money spent supporting terrorists killing our troops, and trying to kill the mother of my children....CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON??????

agitfact,

Don't you think Khan might have retained ties with people in Pakistan? Do you know how often he's travelled there? How often does he talk to or email his contacts?

The fact that he's a successful businessman probably means he has high level contacts in Pakistan. The fact that he was in the military makes it likely he knows senior military personnel.

I admit I don't know if any of these things are true, but I suspect they are, and thus, that's why Harper chose him.

david brown - you are making an invalid assumption, that a political party must, in itself, contain ALL areas of expertise in ALL areas of the world. Why should it?

Political representatives are not elected on the basis of professional expertise (eg; Middle East Expert, Latin American Expert, Fisheries Expert, Hydro-Electric Expert). They are elected on the basis of political agendas, i.e., service to the public within the political arena.

The experts remain in the professional zone. Mr Harper obviously asked Mr. Khan to chair this committee, on the basis of his background, and, his ethnicity. What's wrong with either reason?

With regard to 'Quebecistan', Duceppe, et al - Quebecers are fervently anti-american, because they consider the anglophone world, which includes the USA, the UK and the Rest of Canada, as 'alien', as uncivilized. They view the anglophone world as 'uncultured, greedy capitalists who don't know a good wine or cheese'.

Ouellet: Librano$$$$$$

The hug-a-thug-hug-a-terrorist Librano$ imported hundreds of thousands of Muslims, along with Tamil Tiger terrorists, into Canada.

For votes.

Meanwhile, Ouellet and the Librano$, were looting the tax base of Canada.

Ouellet and his lawyers want more $$$$$. Once a hog Librano$, always a hog Librano$. ...-

Ex-president of Canada Post suing Ottawa
Ouellet alleges Liberals pushed him out for political reasons, asks for $3.2-million

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

Another insight into the Liberal mind. Since it's completely inconcievable to Liberals that anyone could put the interests of the country ahead of partisan politics, the only possible explanation for Khan working with Harper is that Khan has become one of THEM!!!!(Insert wide-eyed, thousand-mile, paranoid stare). Any failure to march lock-step with the Liberal party constitutes . . . BETRAYAL!!!! -- wrecker!, saboteur!, spy!, counter-revolutionary agitator! (begin chewing carpet now). While libs purport to want consensus, nuance, peace, love, harmony, all of us getting along -- okay, here it is. And look at the lib reaction -- pathetic.

Khan is window dressing, but important window dressing.

He is an attempt to show a unified bipartisan front. He is a muslim voice in the decision making process. Perhaps he may even be able to shed a perspective or two that the folks already there did not consider.

On the political end of things, it further divides the Liberal caucus.

Maz2 . .hehehe … that’s hilarious.

Rewards for party loyalty work both ways.

Mais Oui - Ouellette was “ pushed out for political reasons”.
Because he was put in for political reasons.

Or - Ouellette was put in as Postmaster because he knows how to mail a letter??
Like Dingwall was put in charge of the Mint because he knows how to put money in the bag???

Pakistan is the hotbed of terrorists. It is an artificial country made out of

Pathan
Afgans
Khurds
and istan means "the place of"
despite its location it is really Middle East in ethnicity.

Khan may have more insight than we think.

The only envelopes Oullette ever handled were brown ones.

richfisher: It's a pretty sure bet Mr. Alghabra would be in agreement with Mr. Osman's statement concerning a victory for Islam and we should be concerned and vigilant when people make such statements. Alghabra may look as innocent as a fruit bat, which he resembles, but we just have to be smart enough to realize there could be something more sinister and insidious afoot, or there could hopefully, be nothing at all.Let's hope it's the latter.

I sent a letter of disgust to the federal liberal party. The only problem is that people are being killed while these guys(the liberals)
play games with the media. Sick bastards!

A poster announces that what a real leader does is to go out and find the best people for the job. Since Mr. Harper's chief results to date have been to bring in a businessman that no body, not even the businessmen wanted ; create the impression that Canadian leadership is not just reactonary on climate but is sincerely stupid, even beyond the mental midget in Washington, sidelined Mr. Mckay to the point he has actually gained credibility, and so relentlessly insist that he is not to be swayed by the number of Canadians dead or wounded in Afganistan that even his closest acquaintences (he has no friends) now edge away from him......well maybe he might go find us a good Prime Minister. He could phone Dion.

garhane: Documentation, please, not just assertions.

I simply don't believe you. Prove your points.

The latest dope/flatulence/speckulayshun/asphyxiation from the Socialist/hezbollah/Power Corp. Liberal Party of Toronto.

It's McKenna or bust. ...-

"Hill Times columnist Angelo Persichilli, for instance, reckons former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna is winning the leadership battle – even though he’s not in it.

Perischilli points out that McKenna has until the end of September to enter the contest. (So do I, for all that goes.)

He says senior Liberals want to "create a vacuum" around the 11 existing candidates – "in an effort to asphyxiate them."

Then McKenna can descend from the heavens as both a saviour and a coronation candidate.'
chronicle herald, halifax

garhane, the last thing this Country needs is another crooked frog.

These bastards should be arrested for subversion and treason. Problem is you Canucks dont have the guts

I believe that one of the newspapers reported it was Khan who first approached the Prime Minister's office with the offer to help out in the area of middle east attitudes and events.

If so, PMSH wasn't the architect of this arrangement.

For those who question Mr. Khan's motives, perhaps they can take some comfort from the time-worn phrase "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer".

Garhane: "Since Mr. Harper's chief results to date have been to bring in a businessman that no body, not even the businessmen wanted"

Source, please? I assume you're referring to Emerson. I've never heard that the industry didn't want him. Is this a fiction of yours?

"create the impression that Canadian leadership is not just reactonary on climate but is sincerely stupid, even beyond the mental midget in Washington"

Yes, the global climate appears to be warming. However, the case that it is anthropogenic in cause is very much in doubt. The earth has gone through much wilder swings in climate *MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE MAN EXISTED*. Why we in Canada, a cold country relative to the rest of the world, should sacrifice our standards of living, while China continues to pour billions of tons of pollutants into the air, in the name of very dubious science is not at all evident to me.

"relentlessly insist that he is not to be swayed by the number of Canadians dead or wounded in Afganistan"

I don't take the deaths of any member of our armed forces lightly; they have the courage to put their lives on the line for us, and I have the greatest respect for them. But only 24 Canadians have died in Afghanistan in four years. That's one every two months. More Canadians died in the first 30 minutes of D-Day than have died in *FOUR YEARS* in Afghanistan. By any military standard, this war has been prosecuted with clinical precision. Are we to presume that if you had been Prime Minister in 1944, you would have withdrawn from WWII because the death toll was too high?

Now that we are entirely off topic - global warming is the symptom of the real, very large, elephant in room. Global warming may very likely be due to one inescapable fact: we are polluting the planet with --- people. All of the "greenhouse gas" drivel will do nothing to reduce or prevent GW. The solution is a solution recognized in the 70s - ZPG zero Population Growth, or less. The planet is heating because we are reducing the absorptive green biomass, replacing it with reflective urban concrete. No solution as long as we continue to breed. ... No solution.

Show us the way Skip, show us the way.

an idle thought...how many of the recently rescued tens of thousands of "canadians" were demonstrating in Montreal?

Khan dumps the Liberals. ...-

OTTAWA -- MP Wajid Khan is poised to temporarily give up his job as Liberal defence critic after accepting new duties as a special adviser on the Middle East to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

“If I cannot justify being in a position that I can perform, then I must move out and let somebody else take over while I’m busy with this (new assignment),” the Mississauga Liberal MP told The Canadian Press late Thursday.

“That’s only fair.”

Khan refused to elaborate but said his office will issue a news release on Friday.

A Liberal colleague said Khan is planning to step aside as the party’s national defence critic.

The colleague also told CP that Khan will not attend the Liberals’ summer caucus retreat in Vancouver later this month, to allay concerns from some MPs that they won’t feel free to speak their minds if an adviser to the Conservative prime minister is in the room. ...-
Joan Bryden - Canadian Press - August 10, 2006

The Libranos never cease to amaze.

Skip - perhaps you would be happier with global cooling.

small drops of temperature in the 14 century caused empires to fall, crop failures etc.

on a grander scheme and ice age could put everything north of about the 45th parallel (Black hills of south dakota are the terminal of the continent ice) back under a mile of ice.

humans are a result of global warming not the cause. the naked ape wouldnt have made it far from olduvai gorge. If you want a reduction in population step to the front of the queue.

Hey Skippy - population levels are falling almost everywhere, Moslem states being about the only exception (the USA maintains it growth largely through Hispanic contributions). Wikipedia has the data, as do various NGOs.

The portion of the planet covered with concrete is vanishingly small. Do the math.

Green biomass (i.e., forests) have now exceeded their 1850 levels in North America. Look it up.

I could spend my entire life correcting errors of fact. I rarely bother any more as the cost/benefit ratio has skyrocketed.

"These bastards should be arrested for subversion and treason. Problem is you Canucks dont have the guts"

And neither do you, Pissedoff, or so it would seem.

On the subject of casualties and death tolls:

Anyone who cannot accept that government policy might result in the death of the sailor, soldier, airman, police officer, firefighter, bailiff, parking attendant or dog catcher ordered to enforce it cannot seriously hold public office at any level.

how are that poster family "the Khadrs" staying out of the limelight. usually mama Khadr is full of opinion and venom to her chosen country.

You armchair biologists are priceless. Wikipedia? Now there's a credible source. You really need to go outside and play with some real science.