Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Daily Digest July 8, 2008


The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
ARCHIVED at http://cdndailydigest.blogspot.com/

EDITORIALs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Wade in while you can - near-pristine environment to be wiped out,
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=150673&sc=80

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Province's surplus: Plenty of ways to spend it
http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=150519&sc=30

CAPE BRETON POST -
Symbolic numbers outweigh real cash
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=150515&sc=151

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
G8 leaders can't solve all the world's problems
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=6d0409cb-fccd-4ee9-a80e-3466a66b75b2

OTTAWA 5UN -
Love affair with cars takes its toll
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2008/07/07/6093436-sun.html

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Canada must blaze own path
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104277

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Employers -help old dogs learn new tricks
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104077

TORONTO STAR -
Africa shrugs off warning from G8
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/455940

NATIONAL POST -
Terror-friendly Tamils on parade
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=638653

Stéphane Dion's salvation schtick
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/08/national-post-editorial-board-st-233-phane-dion-s-salvation-schtick.aspx

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Don't delay green policies
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/398978

ST. CATHARINES STANDARD -
There's a lot we can learn from our guilt
Niagara is blessed beyond belief with an abundant harvest
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104724

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Health system will require transportation for patients
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104359

WINDSOR STAR -
CAW election
Contest better than coronation
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=be64e9c1-7e62-45ed-ad3f-72f0927d1988

SUDBURY STAR -
Free speech not so free on Net
Companies in charge of public spaces removing controversial content
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104766

Schools more vulnerable to drugs
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104772

Refugee board's ruling should stand
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1104773

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Wary whom you shame
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4195979p-4787355c.html

Disability elitism rears its head
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4196010p-4787388c.html

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Biofuel impact on food prices not all negative
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=5e37d7bc-6ac3-429d-bd0f-b184512b0871

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Stephane Dion stands by his plan
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=0f68d6ee-385c-465b-b227-84e5899bf30c

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Scrutinizing the election process
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/article_11301.php

NANAIMO DAILY NEWS -
Carbon tax confusion is all over the nation
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/opinion/story.html?id=694dedb6-5d25-4031-9fb0-ad221d867543


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -          
A bad decision on race-based fisheries
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=f8173a16-1153-40b8-a972-f3ab3bb7ebc0


AFGHANISTAN -
Afghan war finally grabs U.S. attention
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/456075

Now it's war against India in Afghanistan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JG09Df02.html

Afghans blame 'foreign agency' for Kabul bombing
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/456650

Suicide blast in Kabul stokes regional tensions
Worst attack since Taliban ousted a blow to NATO effort
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=89a0a1e1-6f22-493f-895e-448b52e76716

Wealthy Afghans keeping boys as sex slaves - UN
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23986276-5006003,00.html

 A vicious attack on India's crucial role in Afghanistan
The Times (07/08/2008)
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Bomb found on Afghan bus carrying Indian workers
AFP (07/08/2008)
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Attack reinforces Afghan mistrust of Pakistan
Reuters (07/08/2008)
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65 steps to the Afghan desert grave that began decades of war
The Times (07/08/2007)
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As Afghanistan boils, McCain keeps focus on Iraq
Christian Science Monitor (07/08/2007)
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U.N. envoy denounces hidden abuse of Afghan boys
Reuters (07/08/2008)
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Afghans implicate Pakistan in embassy bombing
The Guardian (07/08/2008)
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Afghan Bombing Fuels Regional Furor
TIME (07/08/2008)
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Terror in Kabul
The Economist (07/08/2008)
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Now it's war against India in Afghanistan
Asia Times (07/08/2008)
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Kabul bomb sign of worsening security in Afghanistan: Obama
AFP (07/08/2008)
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Afghan official: Pakistan spies behind Kabul attack
CNN (07/08/2008)
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War in Afghanistan ­ from bad to worse
Miami Herald (07/08/2008)
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Afghanistan's Struggling Security Services
The Washington Post (07/08/2008)
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Russians reflect on Afghan conflict
BBC (07/08/2008)
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Gory day in Afghanistan offers snapshot of record-setting violence
The Canadian Press (07/08/2008)
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Bomb rattles Afghan-Pakistani relations
Los Angeles Times (07/08/2008)
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Afghanistan May Trump Iraq in War Debate
ABC News (07/08/2008)
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Police arrest ministry's 'wheat thiefs'
Pajhwok (07/08/2008)
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Pak, Taliban want India out of Afghanistan
TNN (07/08/2008)
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Turmoil Puts Afghanistan At Center Of US Presidential Race
AFP (07/08/2008)
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Is a 'debacle' on the horizon for Afghanistan?
The National, UAE (07/08/2008)
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New Kabul police chief takes up his job
Pajhwok (07/08/2008)
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Bride among 23 killed in coalition raid - official
Pajhwok (07/08/2008)
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Pakistan's deal with the devil
Der Spiegel Via Salon (07/08/2008)
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The Taliban in Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations (07/08/2008)
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Afghan militancy, drug to put regional stability at stake
Xinhua (07/08/2008)


CANADIAN FORCES
A colonel in their corner
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2008/07/08/6093956-sun.html

Defence minister insists mounting death toll part of seasonal 'uptick' in violence
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/afghan_offensive

Top soldier vows to do more for Navy
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=effd1931-9d6f-4c05-bcae-aaa84fa71d38


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Shell abandons oil refinery plans for Sarnia area
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080708/shell_refinery_080708/20080708?hub=Canada

Bell, Telus to charge for incoming text messages
Plan will see customers pay 15 cents for every message -- including spam
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2527e80a-6260-47fb-b5ed-441d51cc0b79

Ottawa's wireless tax
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=aaa7c128-49ae-4677-ab28-bb304c567a87

Companies plan to raise prices for consumers
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080708.r-economy08/BNStory/Business/home

Canada's auto industry in emergency situation
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=ade22356-dd1c-464a-a7db-75a5a1226c58


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Iran Begins War Game With Warning to U.S., Israel
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377626,00.html

Moscow on edge as U.S., Czechs sign missile deal
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=640851

Russia warns over US-Czech shield
Russia has said it will be forced to react with military means if the US and Czech Republic go ahead with plans for a missile shield.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7496399.stm

G-8 Gamble: Pols Hope for Salvation in 'Clean Coal'
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/category/global-warming/carbon-emissions/

G8 making climate change sales pitch to China
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=640415

Mugabe Regime 'Illegitimate': G8
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=638642

G8 to move against Mugabe allies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7495807.stm

G8 talks for developing nations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7496703.stm

G8 sows climate confusion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7494891.stm

G-8 Leaders Pledge to Cut Emissions in Half by 2050
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/science/earth/09climate.html?ex=1216180800&en=9b79e56b00bc3d28&ei=5070&emc=eta1


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Being healthy means being responsible
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=9dad03f6-efaf-4434-9f89-b1d59d1b3090


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Tories set to hand N.S. $850M windfall
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=638547

Former Greenpeace leader now in nuclear power camp
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a1375ca8-d16b-45b1-aead-9b945ea1ff8e

Ont. premier supports Morgentaler's appointment to Order of Canada
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/mcguinty_morgentaler

Alberta spending $4 billion to reduce emissions with public transit, CO2 storage
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/alta_green_spending

Ont. Human Rights Commission releases report focusing on housing as a right
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/affordable_housing

Liberals ask Alberta's auditor to review allegations of widespread voting problems
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080707/national/alta_election_problems


PARTY POLITICS
Canada touts G8 statement as major breakthrough on climate change
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/g8_cda

Full Comment Podcast: The irrelevant G8
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/08/podcast-the-irrelevant-g8-and-a-green-shift-up-for-grabs.aspx

Oil tempers G8 climate talks: PM
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=640415

Group avoids long-term emission targets
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=638640

PM blocks progress at summit, critics say
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/456072

Canadians want climate action now, poll suggests
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456475

Canadians clueless on 'green shift' details, poll finds
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=638543

36 per cent support keeping troops in Afghanistan through 2011: poll
Firm finds limited enthusiasm for mission among 1,004 Canadians
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/07/afghanistan-poll.html

'Very rough road' for Dion: poll
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=2858b518-1656-4a10-ace8-873a33967dab

Author's claim false, Cadman's widow says
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=640429

How do you deny what was never said?
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/07/08/tale-of-the-tape-redux-how-do-you-deny-what-was-never-said/


POLITICAL OPINION -
Tale of the tape redux: How do you deny what was never said?
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/07/08/tale-of-the-tape-redux-how-do-you-deny-what-was-never-said/

Minority government has become workable
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=3150928d-74de-4c3c-b4a7-02cf3af06659

 Buckler never buckled
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/455932

The conservative case for a carbon tax
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=5ec68168-fea5-4e5e-92e0-1219b4c44b26

Meddling Dion got off lightly
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists/Waugh_Neil/2008/07/08/6093641-sun.html

Dion pushing carbon plan in Alberta a gutsy move
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=c655f21d-c83d-4748-a610-905559e72714

Dion's Green Shift isn't as painless as it sounds
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=d2a980e0-309d-491a-9515-2c793737bad9

Canada's days in elite club numbered
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/455933

Cash crunch hangs over Liberal party
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=640924


PROGRAMMES
Federal scientist fired over leaked food inspection memo
Documents appear to involve a significant revamping of food inspection
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=640857

TERRITORIAL CLAIMS
The security dimensions of environmental policy
Canadian defence policy changes along with climate in the suddenly accessible Far North
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/455931

 New forum to focus on avoiding oil spikes: Harper
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080708/canada/canada_g8_energy_canada_col


PRESSURE POINTS
Britain to put brakes on biofuels
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297212.htm?section=world

Biofuels fuel global food crisis
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/455937

Missed the 'Live Earth' Anniversary…How'd That Happen?
http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/07/08/missed-the-live-earth-anniversaryhowd-that-happen/


OPINION AND INFORMATION
world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1032909/Summit-thats-hard-swallow--world-leaders-enjoy-18-course-banquet-discuss-solve-global-food-crisis.html

Group to return Order of Canada
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=638602

Hebrew tablet 'predates Bible on resurrection'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hebrew-tablet-predates-bible-on-resurrection-862065.html

McGill ethicist refused OC because she was 'too controversial'
Margaret Somerville, who is opposed to abortion and gay marriage, was left off list
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=62cda378-0d93-4a8b-8d88-010af82ffe62

The G8 is showing its age
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=4cfded2e-1107-4cc8-84ae-9b60e8e6335c

Hands off that childhood
Children's lives have been hijacked by parents eager make sure they have the best of everything and are the best at everything -- but what they need is their own time and space to explore their world http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=f785b0b7-194a-4b1e-ab30-2c4a8270189e

Reagan made people happy
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=16162837-f671-4f5b-8197-cbb2eb123f0b

We have to stop wasting precious oil on frivolities
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=86809957-530a-432d-8be7-c0b8c38f26c4

Enhanced driver's licence gives license to snoop
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4196008p-4787329c.html

 Cheney's Office Sought to Change Climate Testimony
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The vice president's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on climate change, a former E.P.A. official said.

INFOS 
Changement climatique: Washington et Ottawa de plus en plus isolés au G-8
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080708/N070812AU.html

Un organisme catholique ontarien rend sa médaille de l'Ordre du Canada
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080708/N0708110AU.html

Un 87e soldat canadien est mort dans une explosion dimanche en Afghanistan
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080707/N0707132AU.html

Une compagnie veut poursuivre le PLC à cause du nom de sa taxe sur le carbone
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080708/N070804AU.html

Cellulaire
Des messages payants
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie-Affaires/2008/07/08/008-message-texte-frais.shtml

G8
Promesse d'aide à l'Afrique
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/08/002-G8-aide-Afrique.shtml

Le G8 reste optimiste face à l'économie mondiale
http://lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080708/LAINFORMER/80708114/5891/LAINFORMER01

Washington et Ottawa de plus en plus isolés au G8
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080708/CPACTUALITES/80708021/1025/CPACTUALITES

Droits de la personne - Les parlementaires condamnent l'inaction de la Francophonie
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/07/08/196914.html

Élection partielle dans Westmount-Ville-Marie - Le NPD ambitionne de faire élire un deuxième député au Québec
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/07/08/196912.html


La Teoria Conspiratoria
Do US Internment Camps Really Exist?
 http://www.vorchester.com/vnews/?p=13


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Wasn't there supposed to be protection for public servants being of service to we the pubic by informing us of such matters?

Federal scientist fired over leaked food inspection memo
Documents appear to involve a significant revamping of food inspection

The documents appear to involve a significant revamping of food inspection that will shift more of the onus for food safety to the suppliers that manufacture and distribute food and other products.

"The obvious reason for this immoderate response is undoubtedly the agency's fear that the public will react badly to the substantial changes in product labelling and food inspection methods and procedures being proposed by the CFIA. These changes will amplify risk management, and the risk will be to the health of Canadian citizens," http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=640857

Don't know about you but not being a corporatist nor convinced of the benefits of corporatization my view is Luc Pomerleau ought to have been commended rather than condemned as he was for bring these moved to public attention.  There is a question though, will they continue or end?

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich" <r.gingrich@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Ottawa's wireless tax
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=aaa7c128-49ae-4677-ab28-bb304c567a87

Just a few questions. Mr. Corcoran states that "As of 4:04 p. m. yesterday,
Industry Canada's wireless spectrum auction had racked up total revenue of
$4,196,804,287. That works out to about $210 for each cell phone user in
Canada, a tax paid to Ottawa for, essentially, nothing." I ask him to name
one tax that has ever done anything for Canadians--in other words--taxes for
NOTHING!

" David French, adjunct research professor at the University of Ottawa,
draws a nice comparison between the spectrum regime and local land
development. Imagine, he says in a paper for the Journal of Public Sector
Management, if a municipality owned all the land in town and then operated a
zoning system that allocated property in the way Ottawa allocates spectrum
licences. "Commercial property would not be sold, but leased for periods of
10 to 20 years." Lease restrictions would establish exactly the use of the
land, what kinds of products or services could be sold from it, what kind of
building, holding what kind of technology and whether the lease could be
transferred. No property rights would exist, and there would be no secondary
market."
May I remind Mr. Corcoran that there ARE NO PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CANADA!!!!!
There are business taxes and property taxes, and at any time, if the
government deems it for the 'greater good' they may seize any land they
want. They already dictate how any land can be used. It doesn't matter if
you 'own' the land or lease the land, their word is law, right down to the
signage you may want. This is true of all levels of government. We are
living in a fairytale country. Will we ever grow up?

becky

Subject: [On-Guard] Sounds like Canada?

Russian blogger's sentence for 'extremist' post raises fears
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=57d297b7-9a68-45a6-b807-6c749acabab9

MOSCOW - A Russian man who described police as "scum" in an Internet posting
was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday for extremism, prompting
bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online.

Subject: [On-Guard] Gives a whole new meaning to 'pigs at the trough'!
Over caviar and sea urchin, G8 leaders mull food crisis
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/over-caviar-and-sea-urchin-g8-leaders-mull-food-crisis-862051.html

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From: Charles Tupper
Subject: Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying

Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying
Watching Wall Street and the American real-estate market crumble over the past 10 months has not inspired great confidence in our wonderful free-market economy or the land pirates who run it. As someone who recently wrestled with the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, I find the current economic shipwreck not merely spooky but downright terrifying. http://www.sltrib.com/Opinion/ci_9794754

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From: "Suan H.Booiman"
Subject: copy
                                             Suan H.Booiman C.C.D.H.
                                                 204-1220 Fir Street
British Columbia                       White Rock V4B 4B1                      Western  Canada

 
July 8, 2008
 
The Standing Committee of Finance,
 
Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
Learned today that you are asking for presentation in preparation to the 2009 Budget.
 
Even as I do respect the invitation but the question remains will anyone be paying
attention to suggestions or recommendations, particular when they may be controversial.
 
The use of tax-payers money has proven to be one that is decided regardless the views
of the forced payee.
 
For me it is the use of taxpayers money on a matter they have never been consulted the
Liberal dictated enforcement of the two official languages for which billions are spend to
primate and dictate the acceptance of the French language. An enforcement that is
taking place beyond the reasonable necessity of the need of the French language.
 
Sadly much of that is done through bureaucratic backdoors, as recently has been
demonstrated in the undemocratic way in the Township of Russell, Ontario. The
pressure to accept the French language outside New Brunswick, the only official two
language province, and the French unilingual Quebec, has no economic value but
is only presented to hand the French (heritage or speaking) self confidence.
 
The corrupt way that it is handled should be enough to have a full enquiry and
Auditor General investigation, not only what is going on today, but the past funding,
as was learned that from 1969 to 2005 some 972 billion dollars were used to
plant the French language, while no, not even close, equal amount was used to
do the same with the English language, contrary the political negligence is found
in the lack of English language knowledge in English speaking Canada. Not even
to mention the undemocratic way the French language is used in Quebec, controlled
by a Nazi-style language Gestapo.
 
Altogether it is a demonstration that Canada as a Nation, whatever that means, has
lost the respectability, outside the country as well as inside, for it's Liberalism that
has been placed within in the later part of the 1960's.
 
To finalize my request it should noted that languages are a provincial responsibility
and the federal government in it's arrogant form is overriding this right. for what,
a minority that is directed to black mail the country if they are not served they want.
 
It has little to do with the French individual but the domination of French fanatics, that,
as proven, would go through anything to get their way.
 
A British Columbian,
 
Suan H.Booiman
 
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National Media <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
From: Joe Hueglin <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
Subject: F.Y.I.: Government "Credit for Early Action Program"

Why have we not heard of this as part of the alternative to the Green Shift?

On June 29th this news release Government Launches Credit for Early Action Program was carried in a CP release "Companies that curbed emissions before 2006 can now apply for carbon credits" By The Canadian Press http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080629/national/tories_ghg_regs .

Comment on the programme or mention of it in comparison to Green Shift has not come to my attention.

Such being the case, though you may be fully aware of it and if so my apology, the following is sent for your information

Joe Hueglin

Canada's Credit for Early Action Program
Phase I is now open. ===================================
Subject: FW: Something to Ponder
From: "Efstratios Psarianos"

Sent to me by my Mom. Makes perfect sense to me ...
 
Stratos
 
THREE THINGS TO PONDER: 
 
1.  COWS
 
2.  THE CONSTITUTION
 
3.  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
 
COWS:  Isn't it amazing that during the Mad Cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost 3 years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington.  AND they tracked her calves to their stalls.  BUT this sme government is unable to locate 21 million illegal aliens wandering around our country.  Maybe we should give each of them a COW.
 
THE CONSTITUTION:  The government keeps talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq.  Why don't we give them ours?  It was written by a lot of really smart guys and it worked for over 200 years...and we aren't using it anymore.
 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: The real reason we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:  You cannot post "Thou shall not steal",  "Thou shall not commit adultery and Thou Shall not LIE"  in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians....It creates a hostile work environment.
Seems to say it all for me.

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