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  3. “Toronto, Ont. (June 3, 2014) In a stunning setback for property rights, the Ontario Court of Appeal for Ontario today ordered Bruce and Donna Montague to forfeit ownership of their entire firearms inventory, an asset valued at $100,000.
    “This decision basically allows government to use punitive forfeiture laws to help itself to the life savings of Canadians who have violated the law, even when the crime committed caused no harm to anyone,” says Marni Soupcoff, executive director of Canadian Constitution Foundation, which represents the Montagues.
    A talented gunsmith, Bruce Montague purposely let his firearms business licence and firearms acquisition certificate expire as an act of protest. He then challenged the constitutionality of the gun laws until he was finally charged and sentenced to 18 months in jail and 90 days community imprisonment.”
    … more.
    http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=99ddf17099e8b3ba076a7d32b&id=27a390e0b8&e=482554565a

  4. Took one for the team and ventured over to CBC.ca to check out the analysis and response to Ontario debate.
    Really surprised by the number of anti-Wynne comments.

  6. Kate – how are you doing? It’s always worse a few days after the event. Hope you’re healing well. Good old ‘moose milk’ works wonders.

  7. She was implausible, IMO: no theme, no message, no narrative, and, most importantly, no answers. And the grasping hand gestures toward the camera! What WAS that about, anyway? “Listen you stupid people: don’t you know what’s at stake?” Paul Martin-esque, but not a third as good.
    I think the debate will help Hudak quite a lot, actually — not much at all among the other side (other than demoralization), but certainly among conservative-minded folks who may not have voted for him otherwise. He certainly delivered a good many base hits, both for his position and against his opponents, and definitely a few stand-up doubles.
    I feel pretty good about the debate, overall, and for our chances.

  8. I’m sure this nonsense ends when Harper gets his majority. Also: incrementalism!

  9. ‘Nordic model’ of criminalizing Johns ie people who just want to buy sex found to-surprise!-make the sex trade more dangerous, which is only a surprise to people with brain damage, like Stephen Harper, who will still implement this and end up getting owned by the Supremes again. One of his little minions seriously countered that the government has a (non-randomized, unscientific) POLL and is therefore right to put people in jail for a transaction. I am so going to savor the inevitable SC decision legalizing prostitution.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/03/criminalizing-johns-endangers-sex-workers-b-c-study-says/

  10. I have no idea who appointed those judges to the bench. Nor how many months (weeks?) it’d take for a new Liberal gov’t to foist upon us all the legislation I expected PMSH to repeal but didn’t.

  11. I’m a little better today, up on crutches a couple of times, but still napping a lot. I needed to catch up on my sleep, and now I guess I am!

  14. marc; the only promise made by the CPC before the last election was to chop the long gun registry. Individual CPC Candidates made more sweeping promises. I was in attendance when some of those promises were made. Not my MP unfortunately.
    If people who want the anti-Charter provisions of Bill C-68 rescinded, just lay back and hope, nothing will happen.
    Be a member at the next riding nomination meeting; make a difference.

  16. The so-called “Nordic model” in which only the man will be charged is a feminist’s wet dream, and should be avoided like the plague. Penalizing the buyer but not the seller is like the sound of one hand clapping.
    Meanwhile, we seriously need a way to rid the Supreme Court of its unworthy judges, which is pretty much all of them who have been there for any length of time. If we can’t (and we can’t), it’s like having appointed an Ayatollah until age 75.
    Every federal general election should have a referendum on each Supreme Court judge who has not been subject of a similar poll within the past three years. It would be omitted only in the case of elections that were close together. Recently appointed judges should be given a couple extra years grace.

  17. It is also a much more difficult economy than 10 or 15 years ago,not everyone is suited to be an engineer,and in the States, post secondary costs are outrageous. Even with a job it is hard for many young people to manage financially. The problem is systemic and not just because someone studied social sciences.

  18. I am saddened to note that the Senate is losing one of its truly able members, Senator JoAnne Buth.
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/conservative-senator-joanne-buth-to-leave-upper-chamber
    Senator Buth, a person of talent, energy, accomplishment and integrity — the sort of person who should be in the Senate and one of Prime Minister Harper’s best appointments, has decided to return to the private sector to work to advance Canadian agriculture. Unfortunately, she will not get the fawning coverage that has been given Senator Dallaire.

  20. HEy Marc, would this petition help in any Future Montague situation?
    PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
    We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT : as individual Citizens of Canada WE do NOT enjoy the protection of “PROPERTY RIGHTS” within the Constitution of Canada ! hence, THE LAW of Canada!
    THEREFORE: Your petitioners call upon Parliament to forthwith, incorporate and entrench FOREVER , individual “PROPERTY RIGHTS” INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA well as amending OR ABOLISHING THE Canadian Senate!!
    I AM Joe Molnar and I will walk ( or ride a donkey if need be) across Canada, gathering Canadian citizen signatures to present to the Harper administration before the next Federal election…..
    It’s ALL ABOUT PROPERTY RIGHTS!!
    BUT……… I NEED a sponsor to loan a Camper / motor home to live in while I WALK the roadS!

  21. So, my children’s small rural school has a child with a bad nut allergy joining Kindergarten in the fall and instead of removing nuts from that classroom and educating the rest of the school and the child with the allergies, they have designated the entire school, including the high school, as nut free. This is bad enough as I believe that it creates a false sense of security for the kid and the kids’ parents but they are having this month be nut free so the entire school can get “used to it” even though we are about to take a 2 month break and this can’t possibly train anyone. Anyway, not they have child lunch monitors acting as mini Gestapo checking lunches and removing any nut-containing items so your kid can’t have their sandwich and must starve over a trial period. I am wondering if I have any grounds for complaint to the school as I know the whole serious allergy camp is super entrenched in our society. This seems like super duper duper overkill to me. Looking for input into the best course of action.

  22. I’ve been watching the strange collision of Europe and North American energy policies. Europe is backing away from schemes which have caused energy poverty, grid instability, crony capitalism, corrupt carbon markets and deindustrialization while North American politicians seek to pursue what has clearly failed.
    “European nations are currently debating whether to make payments to standby power plants to make them available for electricity production when wind farms or solar panels fail to generate.”
    http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKL6N0OK2KH20140603?irpc=932
    Traditional energy market model:1) build public or private power plant that produces reliable, affordable electricity, 2) compete 3) sell power to customers 4) relative price stability and reliability keeps voters and industry content.
    Green energy model : 1) get taxpayer subsidies and preferential access to grid for expensive, unreliable green electricity, 2) get paid guaranteed above market prices, 3)get paid to not produce green expensive, unreliable green energy 4)preferential treatment and carbon pricing causes reliable, affordable traditional power to be unable to compete 5) traditional power companies threaten closure which will cause over reliance on unreliable green energy leading to shortages and blackouts 6) traditional power producers require subsidies and standby payments to prevent this 7)cost of all these subsidies and fees are loaded onto taxpayers, regular electricity consumers and industrial consumers 8) industrial users get exemptions to prevent closures/bankruptcies/relocation 9) regular electricity consumers and taxpayer get higher and higher taxes, fees and electricity bills.
    This is called progress and sustainability. Anyone who disagrees is an anti-science, climate change denier who hates the environment and should be charged with crimes against humanity.

  24. Absolutely awful idea. The judificiary is suppposed to be independent and not beholden to the whims of the ignorant masses.
    Be a member at the next riding nomination meeting; make a difference.
    Being a member of the next CPC riding nomination meeting will make absolutely no difference. The party’s central apparatus has all the real power.

  25. When is the raid to come on Wynne’s Ontario Liberal party headquarters in Toronto, Ontario?
    H/T PET Cemetery Report.
    …-
    June 4, 2014:
    “Quebec’s anti-corruption squad seizes computer data in raid on Liberal party’s Montreal headquarters”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/04/quebecs-anti-corruption-squad-seizes-data-from-liberal-party-computers-in-raid-on-montreal-headquarters/
    …-
    Feb. 19 2014:
    “Police execute search warrant in Ontario gas-plants probe”
    “A police investigation into the Ontario government’s billion-dollar cancellation of two gas-fired power plants has ratcheted up, with officers executing a search warrant, reportedly at a data storage company.
    The development in the case — which involves accusations former premier Dalton McGuinty’s staff destroyed government documents to cover up the scandal — signals that the Ontario Provincial Police have amassed enough evidence to convince a judge to let them step up their probe.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/police-execute-search-warrant-in-ontario-gas-plants-probe/article16980608/

  27. I live in Porter Waggoner’s home town. My very old neighbor used to buy her meat from Porter Waggonner.

  28. Liberanos
    Toronto, May 28, 2014 – An examination of Ontario government spending over the period from fiscal years 2003/2004 to 2012/2013 shows that the unions behind the union front group known as Working Families Coalition received over $83 million from taxpayers in what can only be interpreted as a payoff for their high-profile interference in election campaigns during those years. “It is well-known that Working Families Coalition spends many millions of their union members’ dues on high profile, expensive advertising to interfere with the democratic process in Ontario elections,” said Working Canadians spokesperson Catherine Swift. “What Working Families does here in Ontario would be illegal in any other Canadian jurisdiction, and it should be illegal here too. I’m sure many of those unions’ members do not appreciate their dues being spent in such a reckless, partisan and irresponsible manner.”
    http://www.workingcanadians.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Working-Families-Coalition-Corrupting-Democracy-in-Ontario.pdf
    http://www.workingfamiliesexposed.ca/how-it-affects-you.html

  29. Q: When is pause not a pause?
    A: When it’s global warming/climate change/extreme weather, etc.
    “No one now in high school has lived through global warming.”
    …-
    “The pause continues – Still no global warming for 17 years 9 months”
    “According to the RSS satellite data, whose value for May 2014 has just been published, the global warming trend in the 17 years 9 years since September 1996 is zero (Fig. 1). The 213 months without global warming represent more than half the 425-month satellite data record since January 1979. No one now in high school has lived through global warming.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/04/the-pause-continues-still-no-global-warming-for-17-years-9-months/#more-110805

  31. The anti-nut parent obviously lobbied to have nuts removed from the school. The best way to fight this over reach is to get a petition countering this. Takes a little effort and most parents can’t be bothered to fight back, which is why these foam at the mouth nut jobs usually get their way.

  32. Liberal Citoyen Dionky’s Page.
    Kyoto has been shafted/buried via PET Cemetery.
    H/T Green Shaft.
    …-
    “Climate Treaties Like Kyoto Aren’t Coming Back: Ex-UN Climate Chief”
    “Pacts like the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. Senate blocked by a 95-0 vote in 1997, are probably a thing of the past, said former UN climate chief Yvo De Boer. He is now director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute in Seoul.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-04/climate-treaty-like-the-one-gore-signed-isn-t-coming-back-ex-un-climate-chief.html
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DZH2cmCoois/RfBvvzqr2dI/AAAAAAAABVQ/y3FqTPxj6oc/s400/Dion_and_Kyoto.jpg

  33. Natural end result of socialism’s welfare state: “his despair”.
    Socialism is a false humanoid religion: “Harry Leslie Smith: ‘The ­creation of the NHS made us understand that we were our brother’s keeper.”
    …-
    “The coalition’s attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse”
    “In 1926, Harry Leslie Smith’s sister died of TB in a workhouse infirmary, too poor for proper medical care. In 1948, the creation of the NHS put a stop to all that. In an extract from his new book, Harry’s Last Stand, he describes his despair at the coalition’s dismantling of the welfare state”
    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/04/coalition-attacks-nhs-return-britain-age-workhouse

  34. PET Cemetery Report.
    Bienvenue! Librano$ = Ad$cam.
    …-
    “Mounties investigating former Chretien chief of staff Fournier”
    “MONTREAL — The RCMP is investigating how and why $1.5 million in payments made their way into Swiss bank accounts belonging to Michel Fournier, the former boss of a federal Crown corporation that operates the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges in Quebec.”
    “Fournier, a long-time Liberal, is an ex-chief of staff to Jean Chretien when he was opposition leader.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/04/mounties-investigating-former-chretien-chief-of-staff-fournier

  35. You’ll have to speak for yourself with regards to being part of the “ignorant masses”. Some of us are well aware of how the Charter of Rights and the Supreme Court’s often rogue “interpretations” are vandalizing this country.
    “Independent” sounds like a good thing, but “answerable to no one” doesn’t. What would you suggest to deal with the times the Court fouls up?

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