I find the ad's attack rather weak. I don't feel either Ignatif (sp?) or Dion were particularly strong during the debate but in the small clip of the ad, their conversation seems so trivial and out of context that I feel the conservatives are really stretching to attack Dion.
Harper by removing press from parliment and saying little has done a lot for keeping his "nose clean". He has cut funding to child care, health care, women's issues, old age pension plan with not much protest from the media. Unfortunately, Harper who was voted in by Canadians, seems to think Canadians are a mere inconvience to his plans for Canada and would rather sneak changes through then have open debate...
Harper has sent John Baird to observe the Paris Summit (starts Feb 7) on the Environment and he is promising the Canada will attend an emerency UN summit on the issue. WOW, he is sending someone to watch...hmmm sounds a mini bush to me...how about something with long term change?
French President Jacques Chirac has stated that he wants Baird to confirm Canada's support for a new United Nations environment organization. Baird's spokesman, Mike Van Soelen, Canada would not support the creation of the organization.
Harper wrote an open letter (2002) stating that the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" aimed at sucking money from wealth-producing nations. Dion asked the Prime Minister in Question Period to admit that the recent Conservative interest in global warming "is just an attempt to mislead the Canadian people." He demanded to know why Harper had changed his mind about global warming since 2002. Harper dodged the question twice,. Harper finally responded with one of his most direct acknowledgments that man-made climate change is a problem. "This government has made it clear in the election campaign and since that we accept the science and that is why we are acting." -um environment was not even on the conservative radar during the election. After the caucus meeting yesterday, reports tried to ask whether the mps believes in the science of global warming. No one answered, except Blaine Calkins, a Conservative MP from Alberta who is a member of the Commons environment committee, grinned, and replied, "I'm going to defer on that one."...hello shouldn't you have an opinion if you are on that committee?? Harper's rein of silence continues.
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In Vancouver, the conservative-leaning Fraser Institute has finished a 53-page report that contends global warming due to human activity is a "hypothesis" and says "there is no compelling evidence that dangerous or unprecedented changes are underway" in the world's climate. A leaked version of this report can be found at:
The report is touted as "a useful addition to the ongoing discussion on climate change" but it is spin..
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had a 1,600 page report of compelling evidence on global warming..a good portion of it was written by Dr. Andrew Weaver, a researcher at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Harper is like a mini bush and the sooner he gets that Canada is NOT receptive to American Republican ideals the better.
As far as climate change, the frequency and severity of storms and extreme weather should be a tip off. Only once the US was actually hit with a devestating storm did the government begin to see. However, the US predominately still is against saying climate change is happening because it would go against american (elite) interests.
It is estimated that Toronto alone has 50,000 illegal workers/immigrants..it seems like Canada needs to step up on enforcement and removals of immigrants. It turns out that we nationally average 40 illegal removals a year-wow!! Sure sounds like a broken system to me.
I'm sure there has to be somebody out there who would rather work a menial job than collect welfare. And if there aren't, it should say something about the state of our social assistance programs. of course something should probably be said about them anyway... the people who really need the help often suffocate on red tape, and often can't afford to get a job because they have kids to care for, but no daycare subsidy. Therefore, they actually lose money by working and paying for daycare, rather than staying home and collecting the welfare cheque. I have a friend who works for children's aid, and she says it's a fairly common story.
Of course, for those who don't want to work, but want more of life's comforts than they can afford on welfare, there's always prison...
Shiela copps actually had ONE good idea... give companies and businesses tax breaks if they set up daycare within their company... For us two kids at the babysitters would be an average of $1560 a month!! No single parent could afford that kind of cash!
Companies like the one where I work, would just try to find a way to put them to work for lower wages. Of course that would mean the kids could be earning their keep at home!
Ideally, yes... but the problem lately is that government tends to be widening the loopholes for companies thanks to corporate lobbyists and only shutting down the rights of the average citizen. Often I'll hear about another case where our rights are in danger from Michael Geist's blog http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ (but he's not all doom and gloom, so it's not like visiting Michael Moore's site)
Maybe it is time we put restrictions on corporate lobbists, criminalize elected officials for accepting corporate gifts or perks. Perhaps even reducing lobbists access to draft bills prior to the bills release to the public. Harper has banned MPs from working for lobbists for 5 years after they leave parliment in order to curb the passing of sensitive information..obviously knows where the loyalty is...$$
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