Oops. My bad. The above poll was conducted by Environment Canada. Even so, polls mean nothing without putting the questions asked into context and that information is missing from the article.
* Pte. Herbert Peterson – 808723 “One of the discovered bodies was identified
as Private Herbert Peterson, above, a soldier
from Alberta born in 1895. Rest in peace.
*
Erik – your comment that Dion is insisting on the Wheat Board’s Monopoly is interesting, because it quotes Dion as saying that Harper is rejecting the WB’s monopoly ‘because of ideology’. Well, what on earth is the source of Dion’s rejection of this – other than Dion’s own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state?
Reid – agree; the questions are everything in a poll. The answers can be completely programmed and determined by the questions.
ET – nobody is saying that Glorious Comrade Leader Dion is honest, bright, competent, or a leader. Just that he can pander with the best of them.
From Dion’s quote, I believe there are three take-aways — That Liberals believe:
1. You don’t have the freedom to sell what is yours;
2. Barley farmers voted in a dishonest poll;
3. Barley farmers should not be permitted to decide what is good for them — a Liberal government, and Dion in particular, is the only dingbat “smart enough” to do that.
All three are insults to farmers and voters, an attack on freedom of choice, a slur upon KPMG, and Dion’s communist Nanny State rearing its ugly head again.
Time for Scott Reid to come into the picture and tell us again how only the government, not farmers, can decide how to sell their assets and products. Excl beer and peanuts, of course. As soon as he stops freaking out over the investigation into the RCMP pension fraud scandal.
Borat talked a lot about Harper’s idealogy yesterday, doesn’t he think that some of us don’t agree with his idealogy
ctv is all over this sponsorship stuff…nothing on cbc yet,just climate change fear-mongering.
Jean is probably with Jean and Maurice 🙂
Sammy:
There’s a reason the CBC has nothing on it. If they reported on it they would do so in a biased manner. By not reporting on it they avoid being accused of biased reporting. See how that works?
CTV’s Kahane reporting that they thought lafleur was in costa rica, Does Canada have an extradition treaty with Costa Rica?
new vote on ctv.ca
Do you want plastic bags banned?
Can’t wait to see how the Scottster spins this latest development…hmm,wonder who in the Cons.party he can blame?? Nuthin on Cherniak/Garthster about this either.
Also breaking in Wpg…home of prosecuting Crown Attorney(female) victim of home invasion related to case of last wk.3 arrested so far.Not sure of many details..Wpg police holding news conf.later in day(from CJOB)More “tough on crime” fallout?Wpg.judges have been taking a hammering in media recently,due to “mickey mouse” sentancing.Pitiful!
M. Strong had to move his Peace University from Costa Rica to Toronto, because of some dust-up with the government in Costa Rica, didn’t he?
I wonder if he still has a hidey hole for wayward Liberals there.
I was hoping for the headline “Dion hung by pissed off farmers in sask.”
cbcPravda
Canadian politicians visit war-torn country in an effort to beef up security.On the same day, at least 13 suspected Taliban militants and three police officers were killed in clashes and an air strike in southern Afghanistan. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/02/stockwell.html
AdScam Lafleur is on the lam. Get him.
Meanwhile, the AdScam ex-Unity Minister, one S. Dion, tainted by AdScam, walks freely. Dion sat at AdScam Chretien’s right-hand, at the AdScam table, doling out the $$$$$$$$ to AdScammers such as Lafleur. …-
Ad man Jean Lafleur charged with sponsorship fraud
[…]
An arrest warrant is out for former advertising executive Jean Lafleur after he was charged with fraud in relation to his involvement in the sponsorship program in the 1990s. …- http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/sponsorship_scandal_070402/20070402?hub=TopStories
However, the program became infamously corrupt and eventually played a key role in the fall of the former Liberal government.
For some ‘balanced’reporting by cbc,remember all the ‘unbiased’ coverage of Hollandjenningsgate fiasco??CBC was all over that..yet something as huge,as Sponsorship,mentioned so late after breaking,is quite telling.It was also telling,that crooked Lipstick Nancy(cbc) reports it in a one-line toss off,in such a sad,depressed way,yet the Stolen Boxes Incident,gor full coverage repeatedly.No media bias??Yeah,right.
Kemo sabay! Forensic audits? …-
Federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has written leaders warning of forensic audits of native organizations involved in “blockade & civil obedience to ensure monies intended for children were not used to plan these activities”.
The Minister is acting like a bully – provoking more confrontations
5.81%
It’s about time gov’t respond to incidents like Caledonia – and the current threat by native leaders to blockade rail lines
93.9%
Other (email mornings@cfra.com)
0.19%
Total Votes: 1032
Re: Lafleur charges. Sorry, dear leader Dionsky has decreed that we can’t bring sponsorship scandal up in next election. Old news. water under the bridge. So what if he was minister of intergovernmental affairs? BTW, QP yesterday was interesting; was there a single liberal on program? They are busy planning the Holland gambit. I love Stephane’s comment in Sask that CWB doesn’t cost farmers a cent. How naive and ignorant is that? Libs having terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. How can Harper resist election? Maybe the Chretien comeback will happen sooner rather than later. Remember, power, power, power.
Some Healthy Attitude for first thing in the week…..
*Death’s Door*
OMMAG: good one!
Everyone should go see some healthy attitude. I for one am very sick and tired of this brainwashing bandwagon that we seem to be on.
NEW CPC FRENCH LANGUAGE AD
Is posted at the CPC site:
javascript: expPopupWindow(‘http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4579/74924’,675,475,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1);
The ad is good.
I especially like the part where it says “pourquoi retourner en arrière?” (“Why return backwards/to the past?”) against a red background, and then a drain shows up and the words go down the drain. Kinda like our money under the Libs.
GREAT symbolism. Simple and effective.
Fromcbc noon news..David,in his sarcastic,sneering way,interviews Richard Cleroux,about Sponsorship.Asks RC’what do you make of the timing of this announcement,with a possible election(paraphrased some of this)cleroux responds”it is SUITABLE TIMING for PMSH”..so ya see folks..it IS all the Cons.fault! Bring on the Scottster..can’t wait!
I wwas tempted to get up and tell Wayne Easter to stay out of the Wheat Board debate and I wouldn’t tell him what to do with potatoes in PEI
CPAC now showing the Mar 23rd/07 Agriculture Forum from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, which was organized by CPC MP Garry Breitkreuz.
Chuck Strahl is now speaking….
Don’t Donate Through Garth Turner’s Website,
Says Liberal Riding Association
Garth Turner has started his cyber begging plan now asking anyone who posts on his website to donate 20 bucks via his website garthturner.com By keeping the donations UNDER 20 bucks…-
national newswatch
Eco-terrorists are advertising a “peaceful” rally all over my neighbourhood. http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=443834074&size=l
How is this legal? How can the most active terror group in America – the Animal Liberation Front – freely advertise on the streets of Vancouver? With images of terrorists in ski masks next to burning buildings – it’s pretty obvious what they’re planning.
Ever wondered why the Liberals scream for a years long multi million dollar PUBLIC Inquiry everytime there is an indication of criminal corruption that may link to them?
I caught an insight into this today on CBC in relation to the latest AdScam charges. According to an expert “no evidence given or used in a Public Inquiry can be used in a criminal court”.
So with LaFleur the only evidence the police could use was two file boxes of evidence that Gomery did not make public.
All of the other testimony CANNOT be used in criminal courts. THAT is why there are not more criinal charges. Paul Martin managed to protect everyone who testified at Gomery from criminal consequences – indcluding himself!
Soooooo – now the Liberals want a PUBLIC Inquiry on the RCMP scandals BEFORE A criminal investigation? Uh Huh. Now we know why.
Behold: Al-Ecce Cocoa found alive; it’s here in black and white. Ripley said it first; bullieve it or not. …-
Senator Barack Obama Depicted as Jesus at Chicago Art Exhibit
Fox News ^ | 4/2/07
WASHINGTON — A Chicago artist hopes his creation of Democratic White House hopeful Sen. as Jesus will bring attention to politics and religion. The exhibit, titled “Blessing,” shows Obama cloaked in white and red robes with a neon halo, is on display at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Click here to watch the video report from FOX News Chicago. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810733/posts
CBCpravda– now the political motives are the first line of the article. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/02/aerospace.html
just hope the next funding isnt for the politically important province of Ontario through a grant for CBC.
*
The most cost-effective way… to break stuff
and kill people.
It’s probably not what you think.
*
Think Americas Most Wanted would help us find the adman charged today with fraud. Will the cbc cover this fraud like the cover Black’s case.
Let’s call Dog the Bounty Hunter.
April 02, 2007
Press shuts down blogger
A couple of weeks ago, I headed down the street to Parliament Hill to cover the budget for my blog and for Blogging Tories. …- http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000819.html
(via national newswatch)
Everyone’s seen the story about how Circuit City canned 3,400 low paid workers so they can re-hire new workers at “market wages” (read: illegal immigrant wages), right? Well here’s the fine print:
“Exceptions include those employees who are part of a protected class, such as minorities, women or disabled employees, he said.” http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/BUSINESS01/703290361/1066/BUSINESS01
So, to be clear, Circuit City fired white males exlusively, and on the basis of their race and gender, while protecting the jobs of women and minorities.
Kate ,while tis may be late for your links Whats up with Bill C-21 and Conservative thinking
by David A. Tomlinson, National President
A Conservative M. P. supplied me with a copy of its proposed “new” firearms control law. It is a grave disappointment, but I was expecting that; I know how Ottawa works. The Ministers tell their top bureaucrats to draft new laws, and what effects he wants the new laws to have. The bureaucrats then draft the new laws for Parliament to pass–laws that will have the effects the bureaucrats want them to have. Their draft Bill C-21 is scheduled to become law this fall.
In this case, the Conservative Ministers wanted new laws that would keep the firearms community in solid support of the Conservative Party–without alienating anti-gun soccer moms. The bureaucrats wanted new laws that would increase the number of their employees, the power of top bureaucrats, and the funding of their bureaucracy. You can judge the results:
To transfer a .22 single-shot Cooey rifle under the new Firearms Act section 23, “A person may transfer a firearm if, at the time of the transfer…the transferor [a dealer or an individual] has no reason to believe that the transferee is not authorized to acquire and possess that kind of firearm.”
The seller just has to see the buyer’s firearms licence, right? Wrong!
The new Section 23 goes on to say, “In the case of a transfer to an individual [by a dealer or another individual], the transferor informs a chief firearms officer and Âobtains the authorization of the chief firearms officer for the transfer…and…the prescribed conditions are met.”
So the seller has to ask the CFO for his permission to actually transfer the rifle to the buyer who has a licence. The purpose of the licence, we were told, was to identify a person as being a person who could acquire and possess a rifle. But after spending $1 billion in tax dollars on their flawed licencing scheme, the bureaucrats who drafted this are now telling us that the licence is meaningless. A licence cannot and does not identify any person as being qualified to buy any firearm.
Section 27 then creates new work for the bureaucracy. It says, “On being informed of a proposed transfer of a firearm under section 23, a chief firearms officer shall verify whether the transferee holds a licence [that requires a licence record check], whether the transferee is still eligible to hold that licence [that requires a criminal record check, and a complete check, including a mental health check, to make sure that the transferee has not fallen into ineligibility under FA s. 5(2)(a)(I), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (b), or (c) in the interval since he was issued his firearms licence], and whether the licence authorizes the transferee to acquire that kind of a firearm…(so that the CFO can) decide whether to approve the transfer…
That hands a lot of unjustifiable power over to the CFO. The buyer has already done everything required to satisfy all that, just to get his licence. He or she has paid all the required fees for training and the licence itself. Now–just to let him buy a single-shot .22 Cooey–the bureaucracy is going to assume that the licence he already has is meaningless. It is going reinvestigate the buyer to find out if he or she is qualified to have the licence the bureaucracy has already issued!
That makes no sense at all! If the law is going to require that, the licence should be totally scrapped as being a completely meaningless document that is totally ignored.
There is no requirement in this law for the CFO to notify either the transferor or the transferee of his decision. There is no time constraint on the CFO. That is a recipe for long delays, and for inability to determine the cause of a delay in a transfer decision. I have seen far too much of this sort of bad systems design to believe this badly-designed change can possibly work well!
ANALYSIS and RED WARNING:
Transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun by this very complex method will create very real problems. Obviously, the CFO has to do a lot before he can “authorize” such a transfer. What he “shall” do requires complex analysis of all government records pertaining to the buyer. The presence or absence of a licence is clearly not enough for the CFO to be able to “verify” the things he is required to “verify.” Verify is a very powerful word, requiring hard work and solid proof to satisfy the “verify” requirement.
If Bill C-21 becomes law in its present form, the entire licence program will become meaningless and should be discarded once C-21 comes into force. The additional workload will require more staff in the office of each CFO.
Bill C-21 isn’t going to save any of our tax dollars. It will make operating the gun control system even more expensive.
The bureaucrats who drafted the changes to FA s. 23 and 27 have produced a nightmare. For example, is the “notification” of the CFO to be verbal or in writing? Is the “authorization” by the CFO to be verbal or in writing? If either is allowed to be verbal, what will happen in a court case involving a transfer that may not have been done to the standard, “the prescribed conditions are met” [FA s. 27(a)(iii)]? The “prescribed conditions” are all set by Order in Council. There are already so many of them, plus so many changes to the older ones made by other Orders in Council, that no one in Canada fully understands what “conditions” are “prescribed.” This is just one more step in making firearms ownership more expensive, more complicated, and riskier.
This bill, if adopted, leads inevitably into a system in which all the “notification” and “authorization” is done in writing. That must be done to provide the necessary records. Instead of a simple transfer of registration done at one national (RCMP) central processing site, transfers of ordinary rifles and shotguns will be done at each CFO’s office. The processes will differ from CFO to CFO. There will be a record of the location of every rifle and shotgun in Canada–and how does that differ from registration?
There will be confusion when a rifle or shotgun is transferred from the jurisdiction of one CFO’s office to the jurisdiction of another CFO’s office. The confusion will probably be worse than a registration transfer, which does not require so much CFO activity. The transfer of a “restricted” or “prohibited” firearm requires all this, plus a great deal of activity in the Registrar’s office. The cost of transferring such a firearm will be approximately double the cost of transferring a non-restricted ordinary rifle or shotgun. The cost of transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun will be higher than the current cost. And this is supposed to save money? Pull the other leg!
The top bureaucrats who drafted Bill C-21 were not trying to please their Minister or the public. They were going all out to increase the number of their employees, their budget in tax dollars, and their own personal power over members of the firearms community. That is unacceptable.
If the new laws (Bill C-21, scheduled to be passed this fall) are unacceptable to you, join the National Firearms Association. The NFA fights for every member of the firearms community.
David A. Tomlinson has been fighting bad firearms legislation in Canada since the 1960’s.
Sorry ,I should’ve provided a link instead of posting ,like your helmets tho
ET: “Dion’s own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state”
OK. I get it. You’re making fun of sda by carrying it’s point of view to ridiculous extremes. Carry on!
Talk about your eco-terrorists, the proposed C-21 bill if the commentor is correct will surely kill more trees for the required paperwork.
I thought the CPC was going to add some sanity and CDF (navy slang for common sense) to the whole mess. If the bad guys don’t follow the rules now, just what makes anyone think they are going to do this extra paperwork? Stuck on stupid, eh.
Only in Canada, where we can’t stop 16 years olds from buying cigarettes and booze, would someone try to ban plastic bags.
Leaf Rapids, Man is the winner of the “Exercise in Futility” award.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/plastic_bag_070402/20070402?hub=TopStories
DION TO RESTRICT BASIC FREEDOMS
This should liven things up a bit:
http://www.thiscanada.com/2007/04/02/dion-to-restrict-basic-freedoms/
Poll shows 60% of Canadians favour a NEW environmental TAX???????????
What I want to know is why the author of this article fails to reveal the name of the pollster or anything about the questions asked.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=ce4b1268-a5c1-42d2-bb29-eca104f7feaf&k=93015
Oops. My bad. The above poll was conducted by Environment Canada. Even so, polls mean nothing without putting the questions asked into context and that information is missing from the article.
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Pte. Herbert Peterson – 808723
“One of the discovered bodies was identified
as Private Herbert Peterson, above, a soldier
from Alberta born in 1895.
Rest in peace.
*
Erik – your comment that Dion is insisting on the Wheat Board’s Monopoly is interesting, because it quotes Dion as saying that Harper is rejecting the WB’s monopoly ‘because of ideology’. Well, what on earth is the source of Dion’s rejection of this – other than Dion’s own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state?
Reid – agree; the questions are everything in a poll. The answers can be completely programmed and determined by the questions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/02/wsaudi02.xml
Saudi Arabia is running a rehabilitation program for Al-Quaeda personnel who’ve seen the error of their ways.
ET – nobody is saying that Glorious Comrade Leader Dion is honest, bright, competent, or a leader. Just that he can pander with the best of them.
From Dion’s quote, I believe there are three take-aways — That Liberals believe:
1. You don’t have the freedom to sell what is yours;
2. Barley farmers voted in a dishonest poll;
3. Barley farmers should not be permitted to decide what is good for them — a Liberal government, and Dion in particular, is the only dingbat “smart enough” to do that.
All three are insults to farmers and voters, an attack on freedom of choice, a slur upon KPMG, and Dion’s communist Nanny State rearing its ugly head again.
Time for Scott Reid to come into the picture and tell us again how only the government, not farmers, can decide how to sell their assets and products. Excl beer and peanuts, of course. As soon as he stops freaking out over the investigation into the RCMP pension fraud scandal.
Borat talked a lot about Harper’s idealogy yesterday, doesn’t he think that some of us don’t agree with his idealogy
Breaking!!
New charges in sponsorship affair
JEAN LAFLEUR CHARGED
But they can’t find him. More Liberal bagmen fleeing the country?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home
Any senior Liberal’s yet?
ctv is all over this sponsorship stuff…nothing on cbc yet,just climate change fear-mongering.
Jean is probably with Jean and Maurice 🙂
Sammy:
There’s a reason the CBC has nothing on it. If they reported on it they would do so in a biased manner. By not reporting on it they avoid being accused of biased reporting. See how that works?
CTV’s Kahane reporting that they thought lafleur was in costa rica, Does Canada have an extradition treaty with Costa Rica?
new vote on ctv.ca
Do you want plastic bags banned?
Can’t wait to see how the Scottster spins this latest development…hmm,wonder who in the Cons.party he can blame?? Nuthin on Cherniak/Garthster about this either.
Also breaking in Wpg…home of prosecuting Crown Attorney(female) victim of home invasion related to case of last wk.3 arrested so far.Not sure of many details..Wpg police holding news conf.later in day(from CJOB)More “tough on crime” fallout?Wpg.judges have been taking a hammering in media recently,due to “mickey mouse” sentancing.Pitiful!
M. Strong had to move his Peace University from Costa Rica to Toronto, because of some dust-up with the government in Costa Rica, didn’t he?
I wonder if he still has a hidey hole for wayward Liberals there.
So the CBC finally has a story up about Jean Lafleur. According the the Google News search the story appeared 8 minutes ago. CTV got theirs up 53 minutes ago.
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=jean%20lafleur&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
I was hoping for the headline “Dion hung by pissed off farmers in sask.”
cbcPravda
Canadian politicians visit war-torn country in an effort to beef up security.On the same day, at least 13 suspected Taliban militants and three police officers were killed in clashes and an air strike in southern Afghanistan.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/02/stockwell.html
AdScam Lafleur is on the lam. Get him.
Meanwhile, the AdScam ex-Unity Minister, one S. Dion, tainted by AdScam, walks freely. Dion sat at AdScam Chretien’s right-hand, at the AdScam table, doling out the $$$$$$$$ to AdScammers such as Lafleur. …-
Ad man Jean Lafleur charged with sponsorship fraud
[…]
An arrest warrant is out for former advertising executive Jean Lafleur after he was charged with fraud in relation to his involvement in the sponsorship program in the 1990s. …-
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/sponsorship_scandal_070402/20070402?hub=TopStories
However, the program became infamously corrupt and eventually played a key role in the fall of the former Liberal government.
For some ‘balanced’reporting by cbc,remember all the ‘unbiased’ coverage of Hollandjenningsgate fiasco??CBC was all over that..yet something as huge,as Sponsorship,mentioned so late after breaking,is quite telling.It was also telling,that crooked Lipstick Nancy(cbc) reports it in a one-line toss off,in such a sad,depressed way,yet the Stolen Boxes Incident,gor full coverage repeatedly.No media bias??Yeah,right.
Kemo sabay! Forensic audits? …-
Federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has written leaders warning of forensic audits of native organizations involved in “blockade & civil obedience to ensure monies intended for children were not used to plan these activities”.
The Minister is acting like a bully – provoking more confrontations
5.81%
It’s about time gov’t respond to incidents like Caledonia – and the current threat by native leaders to blockade rail lines
93.9%
Other (email mornings@cfra.com)
0.19%
Total Votes: 1032
Re: Lafleur charges. Sorry, dear leader Dionsky has decreed that we can’t bring sponsorship scandal up in next election. Old news. water under the bridge. So what if he was minister of intergovernmental affairs? BTW, QP yesterday was interesting; was there a single liberal on program? They are busy planning the Holland gambit. I love Stephane’s comment in Sask that CWB doesn’t cost farmers a cent. How naive and ignorant is that? Libs having terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. How can Harper resist election? Maybe the Chretien comeback will happen sooner rather than later. Remember, power, power, power.
Some Healthy Attitude for first thing in the week…..
*Death’s Door*
OMMAG: good one!
Everyone should go see some healthy attitude. I for one am very sick and tired of this brainwashing bandwagon that we seem to be on.
NEW CPC FRENCH LANGUAGE AD
Is posted at the CPC site:
javascript: expPopupWindow(‘http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4579/74924’,675,475,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1);
The ad is good.
I especially like the part where it says “pourquoi retourner en arrière?” (“Why return backwards/to the past?”) against a red background, and then a drain shows up and the words go down the drain. Kinda like our money under the Libs.
GREAT symbolism. Simple and effective.
Fromcbc noon news..David,in his sarcastic,sneering way,interviews Richard Cleroux,about Sponsorship.Asks RC’what do you make of the timing of this announcement,with a possible election(paraphrased some of this)cleroux responds”it is SUITABLE TIMING for PMSH”..so ya see folks..it IS all the Cons.fault! Bring on the Scottster..can’t wait!
I wwas tempted to get up and tell Wayne Easter to stay out of the Wheat Board debate and I wouldn’t tell him what to do with potatoes in PEI
CPAC now showing the Mar 23rd/07 Agriculture Forum from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, which was organized by CPC MP Garry Breitkreuz.
Chuck Strahl is now speaking….
Don’t Donate Through Garth Turner’s Website,
Says Liberal Riding Association
Garth Turner has started his cyber begging plan now asking anyone who posts on his website to donate 20 bucks via his website garthturner.com By keeping the donations UNDER 20 bucks…-
national newswatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zu9Hfse00U
one or two decades ahead of Hugoslavia.
Eco-terrorists are advertising a “peaceful” rally all over my neighbourhood.
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=443834074&size=l
How is this legal? How can the most active terror group in America – the Animal Liberation Front – freely advertise on the streets of Vancouver? With images of terrorists in ski masks next to burning buildings – it’s pretty obvious what they’re planning.
The National Press Gallery is given a tour. TO Red Star opts for a mixed metaphor: “gunning for an election with all its saber-rattling.” Or, is it an Irish bull? Tonda is mix-fused; but, she gets a “taste”.
…-
Tories unveil new attacks
Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA — The Conservative party showed off its organizational muscle today by escorting reporters through its new sprawling campaign headquarters and launching more TV ads attacking Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.
[…]
The briefing gave the national press gallery a taste of how the Conservatives intend to use their new location to strictly control the flow of information.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/198560
Ever wondered why the Liberals scream for a years long multi million dollar PUBLIC Inquiry everytime there is an indication of criminal corruption that may link to them?
I caught an insight into this today on CBC in relation to the latest AdScam charges. According to an expert “no evidence given or used in a Public Inquiry can be used in a criminal court”.
So with LaFleur the only evidence the police could use was two file boxes of evidence that Gomery did not make public.
All of the other testimony CANNOT be used in criminal courts. THAT is why there are not more criinal charges. Paul Martin managed to protect everyone who testified at Gomery from criminal consequences – indcluding himself!
Soooooo – now the Liberals want a PUBLIC Inquiry on the RCMP scandals BEFORE A criminal investigation? Uh Huh. Now we know why.
Behold: Al-Ecce Cocoa found alive; it’s here in black and white. Ripley said it first; bullieve it or not. …-
Senator Barack Obama Depicted as Jesus at Chicago Art Exhibit
Fox News ^ | 4/2/07
WASHINGTON — A Chicago artist hopes his creation of Democratic White House hopeful Sen. as Jesus will bring attention to politics and religion. The exhibit, titled “Blessing,” shows Obama cloaked in white and red robes with a neon halo, is on display at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Click here to watch the video report from FOX News Chicago. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810733/posts
CBCpravda– now the political motives are the first line of the article.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/02/aerospace.html
just hope the next funding isnt for the politically important province of Ontario through a grant for CBC.
Ste ( no clue on how to do the accent / ) Guevara !!! Over at Cherniaks .
http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2007/04/fundraiser-with-stphane-dion.html
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The most cost-effective way… to break stuff
and kill people.
It’s probably not what you think.
*
Think Americas Most Wanted would help us find the adman charged today with fraud. Will the cbc cover this fraud like the cover Black’s case.
Let’s call Dog the Bounty Hunter.
April 02, 2007
Press shuts down blogger
A couple of weeks ago, I headed down the street to Parliament Hill to cover the budget for my blog and for Blogging Tories. …-
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000819.html
(via national newswatch)
Everyone’s seen the story about how Circuit City canned 3,400 low paid workers so they can re-hire new workers at “market wages” (read: illegal immigrant wages), right? Well here’s the fine print:
“Exceptions include those employees who are part of a protected class, such as minorities, women or disabled employees, he said.”
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/BUSINESS01/703290361/1066/BUSINESS01
So, to be clear, Circuit City fired white males exlusively, and on the basis of their race and gender, while protecting the jobs of women and minorities.
Kate ,while tis may be late for your links Whats up with Bill C-21 and Conservative thinking
by David A. Tomlinson, National President
A Conservative M. P. supplied me with a copy of its proposed “new” firearms control law. It is a grave disappointment, but I was expecting that; I know how Ottawa works. The Ministers tell their top bureaucrats to draft new laws, and what effects he wants the new laws to have. The bureaucrats then draft the new laws for Parliament to pass–laws that will have the effects the bureaucrats want them to have. Their draft Bill C-21 is scheduled to become law this fall.
In this case, the Conservative Ministers wanted new laws that would keep the firearms community in solid support of the Conservative Party–without alienating anti-gun soccer moms. The bureaucrats wanted new laws that would increase the number of their employees, the power of top bureaucrats, and the funding of their bureaucracy. You can judge the results:
To transfer a .22 single-shot Cooey rifle under the new Firearms Act section 23, “A person may transfer a firearm if, at the time of the transfer…the transferor [a dealer or an individual] has no reason to believe that the transferee is not authorized to acquire and possess that kind of firearm.”
The seller just has to see the buyer’s firearms licence, right? Wrong!
The new Section 23 goes on to say, “In the case of a transfer to an individual [by a dealer or another individual], the transferor informs a chief firearms officer and Âobtains the authorization of the chief firearms officer for the transfer…and…the prescribed conditions are met.”
So the seller has to ask the CFO for his permission to actually transfer the rifle to the buyer who has a licence. The purpose of the licence, we were told, was to identify a person as being a person who could acquire and possess a rifle. But after spending $1 billion in tax dollars on their flawed licencing scheme, the bureaucrats who drafted this are now telling us that the licence is meaningless. A licence cannot and does not identify any person as being qualified to buy any firearm.
Section 27 then creates new work for the bureaucracy. It says, “On being informed of a proposed transfer of a firearm under section 23, a chief firearms officer shall verify whether the transferee holds a licence [that requires a licence record check], whether the transferee is still eligible to hold that licence [that requires a criminal record check, and a complete check, including a mental health check, to make sure that the transferee has not fallen into ineligibility under FA s. 5(2)(a)(I), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (b), or (c) in the interval since he was issued his firearms licence], and whether the licence authorizes the transferee to acquire that kind of a firearm…(so that the CFO can) decide whether to approve the transfer…
That hands a lot of unjustifiable power over to the CFO. The buyer has already done everything required to satisfy all that, just to get his licence. He or she has paid all the required fees for training and the licence itself. Now–just to let him buy a single-shot .22 Cooey–the bureaucracy is going to assume that the licence he already has is meaningless. It is going reinvestigate the buyer to find out if he or she is qualified to have the licence the bureaucracy has already issued!
That makes no sense at all! If the law is going to require that, the licence should be totally scrapped as being a completely meaningless document that is totally ignored.
There is no requirement in this law for the CFO to notify either the transferor or the transferee of his decision. There is no time constraint on the CFO. That is a recipe for long delays, and for inability to determine the cause of a delay in a transfer decision. I have seen far too much of this sort of bad systems design to believe this badly-designed change can possibly work well!
ANALYSIS and RED WARNING:
Transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun by this very complex method will create very real problems. Obviously, the CFO has to do a lot before he can “authorize” such a transfer. What he “shall” do requires complex analysis of all government records pertaining to the buyer. The presence or absence of a licence is clearly not enough for the CFO to be able to “verify” the things he is required to “verify.” Verify is a very powerful word, requiring hard work and solid proof to satisfy the “verify” requirement.
If Bill C-21 becomes law in its present form, the entire licence program will become meaningless and should be discarded once C-21 comes into force. The additional workload will require more staff in the office of each CFO.
Bill C-21 isn’t going to save any of our tax dollars. It will make operating the gun control system even more expensive.
The bureaucrats who drafted the changes to FA s. 23 and 27 have produced a nightmare. For example, is the “notification” of the CFO to be verbal or in writing? Is the “authorization” by the CFO to be verbal or in writing? If either is allowed to be verbal, what will happen in a court case involving a transfer that may not have been done to the standard, “the prescribed conditions are met” [FA s. 27(a)(iii)]? The “prescribed conditions” are all set by Order in Council. There are already so many of them, plus so many changes to the older ones made by other Orders in Council, that no one in Canada fully understands what “conditions” are “prescribed.” This is just one more step in making firearms ownership more expensive, more complicated, and riskier.
This bill, if adopted, leads inevitably into a system in which all the “notification” and “authorization” is done in writing. That must be done to provide the necessary records. Instead of a simple transfer of registration done at one national (RCMP) central processing site, transfers of ordinary rifles and shotguns will be done at each CFO’s office. The processes will differ from CFO to CFO. There will be a record of the location of every rifle and shotgun in Canada–and how does that differ from registration?
There will be confusion when a rifle or shotgun is transferred from the jurisdiction of one CFO’s office to the jurisdiction of another CFO’s office. The confusion will probably be worse than a registration transfer, which does not require so much CFO activity. The transfer of a “restricted” or “prohibited” firearm requires all this, plus a great deal of activity in the Registrar’s office. The cost of transferring such a firearm will be approximately double the cost of transferring a non-restricted ordinary rifle or shotgun. The cost of transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun will be higher than the current cost. And this is supposed to save money? Pull the other leg!
The top bureaucrats who drafted Bill C-21 were not trying to please their Minister or the public. They were going all out to increase the number of their employees, their budget in tax dollars, and their own personal power over members of the firearms community. That is unacceptable.
If the new laws (Bill C-21, scheduled to be passed this fall) are unacceptable to you, join the National Firearms Association. The NFA fights for every member of the firearms community.
David A. Tomlinson has been fighting bad firearms legislation in Canada since the 1960’s.
Sorry ,I should’ve provided a link instead of posting ,like your helmets tho
ET: “Dion’s own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state”
OK. I get it. You’re making fun of sda by carrying it’s point of view to ridiculous extremes. Carry on!
Talk about your eco-terrorists, the proposed C-21 bill if the commentor is correct will surely kill more trees for the required paperwork.
I thought the CPC was going to add some sanity and CDF (navy slang for common sense) to the whole mess. If the bad guys don’t follow the rules now, just what makes anyone think they are going to do this extra paperwork? Stuck on stupid, eh.