Speech by Jacques Chirac, Nov. 2000;

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organisation which France and the European Union would like to see established.

Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference, Dec. 2007;

A panel of UN participants on Thursday urged the adoption of a tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.”
“Finally someone will pay for these [climate related] costs,” Othmar Schwank, a global tax advocate, told Inhofe EPW Press Blog following the panel discussion titled “A Global CO2 Tax.” Schwank is a consultant with the Switzerland based Mauch Consulting firm
Schwank said at least “$10-$40 billion dollars per year” could be generated by the tax, and wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest burden based on the “polluters pay principle.”

Local Transport Today (UK), Dec. 2007;

Hillman, senior fellow emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute, says carbon rationing is the only way to ensure that the world avoids the worst effects of climate change. And he says that the problems caused by burning fossil fuels are so serious that governments might have to implement rationing against the will of the people.
“When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it,” he says. “This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.”

Emphasis mine.

But nice try. Give the enviro-left credit – they start the hypocrisy training early. They even have a little logo!

– Liz McDowell (Vancouver, BC)
– Azra Shivja (Markham, ON)
– Robert Hamon (Montreal, QC)
– Sasha Pippenger (Vancouver, BC)
– Joanna Dafoe (Toronto, ON)
– Olivier James Lavoie (Montreal, QC)
– Katrina Genuis (Sherwood Park, AB)
– May Jeong (Toronto, ON)
– Claire Stockwell (Montreal, QC)
– Rosa Kouri (Saskatoon,SK)
– PJ Partington (Toronto, ON)
– Nicolas Nadeau (Hanwell, NB)
– Hannah McKinnon (Deloraine, MB)
– Courtney Price (Toronto, ON)
– Lise Richard (Antigonish, NS)
– Adam Scott (Guelph, ON)
– Laura Zizzo (Toronto, ON)
– Marley Parker (Halifax, NS)
– Aiden Abram (Guelph, ON)
– Jeff Beyer (Ottawa, ON)
– Jessica Wishart (Halifax, NS)
– Trevor Bennett (Guelph, ON)
– Genevieve Gilbert (Ottawa, ON)
– Josh Darrach (Charlottetown, PE)
– Jennie McDowell (Guelph, ON)
– Adriana Hoogenboom (Ottawa, ON)
– Adam MacIsaac (St. Peters Bay, PE)
– David Noble (Guelph,
– Micah Melnyk (Ottawa, ON)
– Johnathon Constantine (Conception Bay S, NL)
– Derek Pieper (Guelph, ON)
– Catherine Gauthier (Montreal, QC)
That’s right – there are thirty-two names. All members of a “youth delegation” that flew to Bali to demand a meeting with John Baird to discuss their earth inheritance.
Six of these motivated young “heroes” are from Guelph (about 6 hours from Ottawa by minivan), including David Noble, whose “consulting company” 2degreesC, is credited with allowing all 32 to travel “carbon neutral”. Click on the link if you wish – but there’s not much there.
Apparently, his principled objection to Canadian environmental policy fell just short of preventing the carbon neutral Mr. Noble from going taxpayer funding neutral – he secured contracts worth nearly $50,000 from Natural Resources Canada in 2007, for 15 weeks of work.

As the military took the keys;

Most of Latin America’s leaders breathed a sigh of relief earlier this week, after Venezuelan voters rejected President Hugo Chávez’s constitutional amendment referendum. In private they were undoubtedly relieved that Chávez lost, and in public they expressed delight that he accepted defeat and did not steal the election. But by midweek enough information had emerged to conclude that Chávez did, in fact, try to overturn the results. As reported in El Nacional, and confirmed to me by an intelligence source, the Venezuelan military high command virtually threatened him with a coup d’état if he insisted on doing so. Finally, after a late-night phone call from Raúl Isaías Baduel, a budding opposition leader and former Chávez comrade in arms, the president conceded—but with one condition: he demanded his margin of defeat be reduced to a bare minimum in official tallies, so he could save face and appear as a magnanimous democrat in the eyes of the world.

Now, it makes sense.

Click to download the complaint(pdf) against Macleans. I haven’t had time to read it, but the juicy part is said to be contained in the first 15 pages. Want to make your voice heard? Here’s the best idea I’ve seen to date;

“Regarding ways that we can all support Mark Steyn, isn’t the most obvious one buying his book (again)?”
Kathryn, better still. Order it online and deliver it to:
Canadian Human Rights Commission
344 Slater Street, 8th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1E1, Canada
Telephone: (613) 995-1151
Toll Free: 1-888-214-1090
TTY: 1-888-643-3304
Fax: (613) 996-9661

Meanwhile, Richard Warman’s reputation goes international; “You know you’ve lost your freedom when you cannot call a censor a censor.”
Well the Americans are noticing. So where are our Canadian media?
(Update: Welcome Warren Kinsella readers! (All 12 of you.) While you’re here, have a look around. I recommend this post, in which an individual using an assumed identity posts from a server registered to the Pollara polling company. )

“Under privacy rules, a photo of a convict can’t be released unless he gives permission and signs a release form, said Corrections Canada, even if he breaks out of jail.”

I agree with Leo – The Prime Minister should immediately fire the Director General of Correctional Services Canada. But let’s not stop there. I’d select 50% of the so-called “criminologists” on staff at random, and fire them too. Perhaps then, the other 50% would be reminded who they’re working for.
h/t

G&M;

Wednesday’s early morning shootings on Sheppard Avenue happened just steps from where 11-year-old Ephraim Brown was killed last summer when he was hit by a stray bullet from a gang gun battle. Toronto has seen 80 homicides so far this year, with 15 of them occurring in or around Mr. Mammoliti’s ward.
“There’s a crisis in the city, so if need be why not bring in the soldiers and arrest and detain the terrorists that call themselves gang members?” Mr. Mammoliti said. “Gang members have declared war on each other and they’re terrorizing our neighbourhoods, so let’s treat them as terrorist organizations.”

USA Today;

Jamaican soldiers will join police on patrols on the Caribbean island in a new strategy to fight rising violence, the prime minister said.
Nearly 60 homicides over the last week have pushed the number of victims this year beyond 1,430, police spokesman Karl Angell said. Most of the violence has been linked to gangs in the capital, Kingston, and the rural parishes of St. Catherine, Clarendon and St. James.

More – a crime map (via reader JM).

Backpeddle!

EVEN before he gets to Bali for crucial climate change talks, Kevin Rudd has found himself embroiled in the complex world of global warming politics.
The Prime Minister yesterday attempted to clarify a statement from the Australian delegation in Bali, which said Australia “fully supports” an earlier decision for developed countries to examine cutting greenhouse emissions by between 25 per cent and 40 per cent by 2020.
That stance suggested Australia was prepared to radically cut its emissions, forcing Mr Rudd and his Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, to issue statements stressing that Australia was not yet committing itself to any 2020 targets.
Mr Rudd said some countries had indicated “they do not necessarily accept those targets, nor do they accept those targets as binding targets for themselves”. He added: “That is also the position of the Australian Government.”

Canadian media broadcast widely about the new Australian government “signing on” to Kyoto. This, not so much.
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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and all worship at the Mosque of England;

OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients’ beds so they face towards Mecca.
The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff on bustling NHS wards.
But despite the havoc, Mid- Yorkshire NHS Trust says the rule must be instigated whenever possible to ensure Muslim patients have “a more comfortable stay in hospital”.
And a taxpayer-funded training programme for several hundred hospital staff has begun to ensure that all are familiar with the workings of the Muslim faith.

Had only he known, Hitler might have left the Luftwaffe in their hangers and sent Nazi immigrants over instead…

Depreciate with age;

The provincial gun regulator will begin inspecting the homes of older gun owners in Toronto to ensure they are storing their firearms safely, an initiative one sporting association said amounts to “harassing” seniors.
Ontario’s Chief Firearms Office says it is responding to concerns raised by Toronto police, which have in the past been called to the homes of gun owners who had either died or been hospitalized and did not have their registered firearms securely stored. In some cases, the guns were found lying around. Authorities worry they could get into the wrong hands.
[…]
“For the drug gangs they have to get a warrant before they go into their houses, and yet the Firearms Act allows them to come into our house when we’ve never committed a crime in our life. In fact if we did, we wouldn’t have a firearms licence,” said Larry Whitmore, executive director of CSSA.
The organization has advised its members to refuse entry, and also outlined exactly what the Firearms Act allows inspectors to do.
He said members have experienced a “creative interpretation” of storage regulations, and he worries inspections will turn into a “fishing expedition to lay charges against a very vulnerable part of our population.”

We told you so.
(Ed note – This is probably covered under the same constitutional amendment that permits Saskatoon by-laws officers to enter private homes without a warrant – to search for unlicensed dogs.)

Borrowing an idea spotted at The Corner – help Ted Kennedy name his memoirs,
Update: The suggestions are beginning to roll in…

“Memories of Dead Things” – My liver and my lovers
Driving Miss Kopeckne
The Bridges of Chappaquiddick County

And the early frontrunner –

TEDDY: Not even worth shooting

What stroke of brilliance made him choose Chavez as a mediator?

In theory, a mediator should persuade two sides to each give up something to achieve a common end. The only one who gave up anything, however, was [Columbian President] Uribe, who watched Chavez cavort with terrorists before TV cameras, giving them a legitimacy in Caracas they never had known.
Even worse, Chavez proved to be acting as an agent of the terrorists. Uribe’s sudden cutoff of the mediation effort at a hastily organized press conference last Wednesday suggested disturbing new information.
On Sunday, Chavez confirmed it: “I think Colombia deserves another president, it deserves a better president,” he said.
That followed a discussion in a U.S. prison between extradited FARC terrorist Ricardo Palmera, aka “Simon Trinidad,” and another mediator and Chavez ally appointed by Uribe, Senator Piedad Cordoba. They discussed “a transitional government” with the terrorist as a bargaining chip for the hostage swap.
On Monday, Chavez repeated what he had in mind to make sure Uribe understood. “Reconciliation is impossible,” he said. “We have to wait for a new government in Colombia we can talk with. I hope it arrives sooner rather than later.”
No wonder Uribe lashed out, saying Chavez was less interested in mediating than in overthrowing Colombia’s government. That may have sounded far-fetched, but it’s what the guerrillas have been fighting for since 1964, and Chavez’s admiration for them is no secret. Uribe, who has come down on the guerrillas harder than any other Colombian leader, is the president they want gone.
“You seek continental domination” Uribe said, and “a Marxist FARC government” to replace Colombia’s elected one. He also pointed out that it was prime time for Chavez to be trying this, with the Venezuelan’s public support at home flagging just one week before a constitutional referendum to grant him absolute power.
What better way to make Venezuelans forget their problems than to whip up populist sentiment against Colombia. It also is noteworthy that he’s rousing military support against the neighboring state, something he may really find use for as rebellion grows at home.

If it means I can take her with me.
(I’ve been building a case for this for some time now.)

If this doesn’t prompt you to lobby your MP to have “Canada’s Almost New Government” do away with these kangaroo courts, nothing will.

On October 27, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a precedent-setting cease and desist order which forbids Jessica Beaumont from posting certain Bible verses on the Internet. If this 21-year old woman posts the wrong Bible quotation online – even if it is on an American website – she could face up to 5 years in prison.

The gainfully offended Richard Warman makes an appearance, as might be expected.

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Puff, The Extinguished Dragon…

A leading children’s author was told to drop a fire-breathing dragon shown in a new book – because the publishers feared they could be sued under health and safety regulations.
It is just one of the politically correct cuts Lindsey Gardiner says she has been told to make in case youngsters act out the stories.
As well as the scene showing her dragon toasting marshmallows with his breath, illustrations of an electric cooker with one element glowing red and of a boy on a ladder have had to go.
Ms Gardiner, 36, who has written and illustrated 15 internationally successful children’s books, featuring her popular characters Lola, Poppy and Max, says such editing decisions are now common.

Via Kathy Shaidle, who offers advice.

An exercise in nation branding goes horribly wrong.

Real Gross Domestic Product – 2006

Today’s “Great Moment In Socialism” was brought to you by Statscan.
h/t Ural

[x] hyper-inflation
[x] price controls
[x] currency revaluation
[x] food shortages
[x] nationalize banks
[x] nationalize industry
[x] land seizures and “redistribution”
[x] silencing opposition media…
[x] President for life
[x] live ammo
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