Daily Digest September 9, 2008

 

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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EDITORIALs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Vote with your head

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Pay attention during the campaign

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Many are called, but few are responding
We need a much more creative approach to attracting and keeping farm labourers.

CAPE BRETON POST -
May makes hay on her exclusion
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=169734&sc=151

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Cap insults, trade costs

AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Mayday ... Mayday
The plot thickens in the bid to keep Elizabeth May out of the televised federal election debates

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Wooing nationalists is a risky courtship

U.S. mortgage bailout was the least of several evils

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Assessing mealtime risks

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
AFGHANISTAN AN ELECTION ISSUE

Dion relegated to sidelines as federal campaign begins

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Will it take a disaster to take global warming seriously?

TORONTO STAR -
Fairness is in eye of the beholder

TV debate hypocrisy

Dithering on deadbeats

GLOBE & MAIL -
No sign of a hidden agenda
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.wecromwell09/BNStory/specialComment/home

Rescue and moral hazard
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.wemortgages09/BNStory/specialComment/home

A club without Greens
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.wemay09/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
What happened to fixed elections?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=777970

MISSISSAUGA NEWS-
Don't settle in this election

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Economy biggest of all the issues in this campaign

K-W RECORD -
Leadership is key election issue

SUDBURY STAR -
The eyes are already rolling

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Dealing With Our Digital Demons

CALGARY HERALD -
The Fannie and Freddie seizure

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Tory attack ads demean Harper

RED DEER ADVOCATE -
Dion misses target with first shot

PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN -
Harper's fear of the green

ASIAN PACIFIC POST -
General elections will be a Harper referendum

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Tobacco searches put rights at risk

ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -
US's 'good' war hits Pakistan hard

US warned over raids in Pakistan

Diplomat calls for Afghan 'surge'  

U.S. drones kill 16 in missile attack in Pakistan 

Haqqanis attack Pakistani forces in North Waziristan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/haqqanis_attack_paki.php

Rape Surrounded by Impunity and Silence
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (09/09/2008)

Afghans Incensed by Air Attack on Village
IWPR (09/09/2008)

Good Intentions
Newsweek (09/09/2008)

Ex-envoy attacks Afghan strategy
BBC (09/09/2008)

Afghan clan rivals 'led US forces to wrong target' in Nawabad attack
The Times (09/09/2008)

Blasphemy case shows Afghan divide
BBC (09/09/2008)

Afghans will dig up graves to prove civilian deaths
Reuters (09/09/2008)

Taliban learning how to win key propaganda battles
The Globe and Mail (09/09/2008)

Countering the Taleban's 20-year war
BBC (09/08/2008)


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Survey reveals anxiety over retirement income


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
U.S. seeks unified Russia policy with Europe  


PARTY POLITICS
Conservative candidate bows out in Halifax Comments


PROGRAMMES
Three more deaths caused by listeriosis

Toxic toys got into Canada, despite a 35-year ban

Border, health officials probe how toxic toys slipped into Canada  

Flaherty trumpets cash for abilities centre in his Whitby-area riding  


PRESSURE POINTS
Rainforest fossils show how climate change could look
Fossilised forests have provided prehistoric evidence of how tropical rainforests are destroyed by global warming.


OPINION AND INFORMATION
Race, gender poor basis to cast vote

Senate is at a standstill

• Sleepwalking to the polls  


INFOS 
Un oiseau virtuel tire la campagne vers le bas et éclipse les débats d'idées
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080909/N0909152AU.html

Gilles Duceppe s'insurge contre l'appartenance religieuse d'une candidate du PC
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080909/N0909140AU.html

Le Conseil du patronat du Québec adresse ses 5 questions aux partis politiques
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080909/N090996AU.html

Dumont suscite l'adhésion de Duceppe à ses revendications fédérales
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080909/N0909110AU.html

Les talibans veulent peser sur la campagne électorale canadienne
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080909/N090950AU.html

Élections fédérales
Julie Couillard hante la campagne
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/09/09/002-couillard-livre.shtml

Contestation judiciaire
Dion doublerait le programme
http://elections.radio-canada.ca/elections/federales2008/2008/09/09/004-Dion-contestation.asp

Le Canada verse 5 millions de dollars à Haïti
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080909/CPACTUALITES/80909218/1019/CPACTUALITES

Harper courtise les communautés ethniques
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080909/CPELECFED/80909199/7068/CPELECFED

Dion tape sur le clou Flaherty
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080909/CPELECFED/80909181/7068/CPELECFED

Dion veut rétablir le registre des armes à feu
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/09/09/204609.html

• Layton veut un moratoire sur l'exploitation des sables
  
  
• Harper est sommé de respecter les règles du jeu électoral
  
  
• Les libéraux et le portefeuille des contribuables
  
  
• Duceppe et le Bloc partent à la reconquête de Québec
  
  
• Dion et le Québec

POLITICAL OPINION -

Full TORSTAR election coverage

POST Campaign In Brief

G&M Federal Election 2008

Dion first to drop the L-word  MORE...

No shortage of warnings for Liberals. MORE...

Liberals sputter out of the gate MORE...

Liberals having trouble whipping up excitement in Quebec. MORE...

Harper tries to resuscitate the Mulroney coalition MORE...

Harper best and worst of Tory weapons. MORE...

Why Harper hit the hustings. MORE...

Dion has to pick on the bully to win. MORE...

It's Scary Stephen versus Scary Stéphane MORE...

The evolution of Stephen Harper MORE...

Parties far closer than they admit MORE...

It's not easy going green. MORE...

TV debate hypocrisy MORE...

Real leaders are willing to take risks. MORE...

Don't go sleepwalking to the polls. MORE...

PM dons campaign sweater." MORE...

Alberta bashing begins early. MORE...

What happened to fixed elections?. MORE...

Short-term partisanship no way to get to the future

Publisher says Couillard doesn't hold back in book

Couillard's tell-all book to hit stores before election

Pledges and puffins dominate today's campaign

Harper says pooping puffin was 'tasteless'

Pooping puffin pulled from Tory ad

Dion accepts Harper's apology over puffin poop ad

Tory bloggers howl for heads to roll over puffins

Kinsella: "Unbelievably dumb"

Tories' pooping bird creates storm

When nine-year-olds attack

Oily has a friend...

Liberals Respond to Mayencourt's "Uncensored Video" Challenge

Vancouver-Centre Liberal ad controversy

E-mails threatening his sons were most concerning, Flaherty testifies

May calls out Harper, Layton, for boycott threats

Harper won't join other leaders in offsetting campaign pollution

Harper hits B.C. Premier over carbon tax

Taliban urges Canada's next PM to pull troops

Election shelves report on war costs

Bush promises more troops for Afghanistan

Nato rewrites rules for Afghanistan

Diplomat calls for Afghan 'surge'

'Sweet and colourful' Harper says he'd be 'a fruit'

Liberals up the ante in face of attack ads

Duceppe criticizes Tory candidate's religious beliefs

Liberals show 'another side' of Dion

Ridings to watch: the dirty dozen - 12 showdowns

Liberals losing ground in key ridings, poll shows

Web takes centre stage in race

Tories find inspiration in South Park

Voters, analysts weigh in on early party ads

'Green Shift' trademark fight settled, Liberals say

Can Dion get the message across?

Ex-PMs clear the air on climate change

Dawson welcomes Dion's gun policy

Sticking to his guns

Waiting for stars to rise - or fall

Tory leader courts women's votes

PM targets middle class to win cities

Tories far ahead in nominations

Layton drilling for green votes in oilpatch

Clemency reversal left government scrambling

Elect MPs who speak up for Ontario, McGuinty tells voters

Dion hearing problem common, audiologists say

Harper makes a pitch to new Canadians

Harper best and worst of Tory weapons

Greens slam debate exclusion

Parties far closer than they admit

If Tories pucker, will GTA kiss?

Dion would restore court challenges program

Harper lied about cleaning up politics in Ottawa: Duceppe

Parties use the Internet to troll for voters
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=777964

Dion makes the most of optics-challenged Tories
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/09/don-martin-dion-makes-the-most-of-optics-challenged-tories.aspx

Elizabeth May, causing quite a stir  Comment 96
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.wbriefing0908/BNStory/politics/home
Edward Greenspon on an old-fashioned, yet multimedia, interview with the Green Party Leader.

Tory momentum slow in swing ridings since election call
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.welxnpoll10/BNStory/politics/home

Harper tries to resuscitate the Mulroney coalition

Dumont raises the accession of Duceppe its federal claims
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.branchez-vous.com%2FNationales%2F080909%2FN0909110AU.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en

Top lobbyist dealing with PMO is now acting for Tories

It's Scary Stephen versus Scary Stéphane

Green nowhere to be seen when economy is heading toward red

Edmonton shortchanged in Tory largesse

We are all prisoners of the Canadian consensus

What a cracked up government looks like on the street

Dion has to pick on the bully to win  

NDP: Layton to unveil plan for 'green' jobs

Greens: Voters outraged by Greens' exclusion, May says

Liberals: Liberals up the ante in face of attack ads

Conservatives: Tories to cut diesel, jet fuel excise

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SO MUCH FOR THE EFFICACY OF TOP DOWN CONTROL, EH?

Hand-picked Tory candidate with criminal convictions steps down Read more..

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FAMILIES OF CIVILIANS KILLED AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE ARE BOUND THER SAME WAY

The Haqqanis are bound by the Pashtun tribal codes to avenge yesterday's airstrike against the Manba Ulom madrassa. Two wives of Jaluluddin Haqqani, along with his elder sister and a sister-in-law, were among those killed, spokesman Maulvi Muhammad Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News. Another 15 relatives, including Badruddin and Qari Yahya, Jalaluddin's sons, were wounded.

Ahmedullah Ahemdi, a spokesman for the Haqqani family, warned the network would take revenge for yesterday's missile strike.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/haqqanis_attack_paki.php

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From: Glen Turner
Subject: For the DD

So, Joe.
 
I've been against the (Liberal) committment to Afghanistan since they made it.
 
I've been against the (CPC) extension of the "mission" since they did that.
 
I taught one of our 'casualties' in Afghanistan. Dead at 21. What a waste. For what? A 'political decision'?
 
Enough is enough.
 
I had coffee yesterday with the parents of another, about to leave (next week) for Afghanistan.
 
97 people dead there.
 
FOR WHAT?!?!?
 
Is there an organization/website/group that you know of....
 
That might be trying to start a groundswell of opposition to this freakin' 'war'? 'Police action'?
 
'Peacekeeping mission'?? 'Invasion'?? 'Military incursion'???
 
Enough is enough!!!
 
This HAS to become a large part of the new Election Campaign.
 
How?

Glen

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Standing for election.
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject:FW:

Subject: Ezra Levant confirms that he is a volunteer in the Conservative
>war room [The "conservative" party of Canada is an intervenor with the
>Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)against FREE SPEECH and Mr. Levant
>is "volunteering" for them!!!] Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:47:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
> http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/09/ezra-levant-con.html#comments

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From: George Pringle

Hi Joe,

I deleted this email account to try to clear some of the spam I get and have reactivated it recently as a secondary account.

I've read a couple of digests and like Jason Hickman was appalled by some of the flat old anti-Jewish crap that you as publisher sent out.

Please unsubscribe me.

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From: Joe  Hueglin <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
Subject: George . . .
Cc

. . . should you be of a mind there are those who receive ABOVE 30. Wthat is without the comments, aside from my own.

Let me know if that would be agreeable.

Joe

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From: "Shawn Patrick"
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe
 
I have read your commentary for a few years now and have enjoyed your news clippings.  However this is one of the few times when I have to disagree with something you wrote.
 
Canada's role as a 'Peace Maker' is a false impression, it's a lie.  It's the role our military has been relegated too by years of budget cuts and bad management.  Prior to the Trudeau years, Canada had established it's as a country who punched above it's own weight class.  How can everyone call ourselves peace keepers on one hand and yet claim Canada became a nation on the worlds bloodiest battle fields know as Vimy ridge. 
 
Instead, we should setting the example for NATO... putting our full resources behind restoring Afghanistan to a working Nation, with their own values not some western imposed dictatorship.  I still believe we have a role to play, but should be a lead role.  We need to show the world what we are really made of. 
 
Lets not fool ourselves any longer, we no the US have only their best interest at heart.  With the Russian bear stirring, it's time we stepped away from the eagle in to the light of what is good and decent.  We can not pull out of Afghanistan now and leave it's course to the US.  What will it change, nothing only 97 bloody fantastic Canadians died for what.. nothing.. We can let that happen, we must! Do what's right and not what's easy!!
 
Thanks for listening
 
Shawn D. Patrick

AND

Subject: Interesting

Hi Joe,

 

MAJOR EUROPEAN FIRM LOOKS TO UPGRADE RUSSIAN WEAPON SYSTEMS

http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/archive/2008/09/05/major-european-firm-looks-to-upgrade-russian-weapon-systems.aspx
 
an interesting article.
 
Thank you,
 
Shawn Patrick

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From: Ray Strachan
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe....You can have me certified insane if you like but I observe just about
every situation possible and I say without hesitation.....Israel and Israeli
CELLS are now running, The Usa Britain,FRance,Georgia and CANADA.  And it
beats me why the SILENCE ABOUT THEM IS STEADFAST......While they preside over
the destruction of us all.    There is No Answer......Ray Strachan

PS....I think I mentioned it to you on the phone...There is not ONE CANADIAN
Politician who can make a Negative (But Honest Public remark about
Israel,,THEY CANT,,,,What does that say about the state of Democracy in this
country that I am presently ashamed of after 76 years)

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From: "Reaj. Gagne"
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe:

Your question deserves more than a knee-jerk off-the-cuff response.

I'll send along my two cents worth in a couple of days.

Real

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I look forward to your always thoughtful response
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From: "Suan H.Booiman"
To: <dpeterson@casselsbrock.com>
Subject: carbon

September 9, 2008
 
The Hon.Mr.David Peterson,
 
Hearing your comments on the CBC about the meeting of elites to tell
others what to do and pay for it on the Carbon. So wonderful to have
all those experts making recommendation without getting their hands
dirty, sounds like Dr.Suzuki, making a fortune on telling all where to go.
Al Gore, $ 100,000 per speech.
Time is now and here to come with logic examples that work and not
in the first place pick the pockets of those than can least afford it.
Prime Ministers and Premiers are not the most trusted to do anything
constructive, that is why they lose elections. It is difficult to be perfect
but at least gave it a try with something positive. Talk is cheap (sometimes)
 
Respectfully yours,
 
Mr.Suan H.Booiman

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From: "Barbara Reid"
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

I choose negotiations through NATO with a purpose of getting the heck out of there as quickly as possible. 
 
We have lots better places to spend our tax dollars within Canada. It looks like a never ending drain on our economy and not enough bang for our hard earned bucks. Our guys are too precious to loose any more.  
 
It's not our place to insist on other [much older] cultures as to how they should conduct themselves and saber rattling is a no-brainer.  We seem to be taking in any who desperately need help.
 
Barbara Reid
British Columbia. .

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From: "Donald C. Kerr"
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe, an excellent piece. I have forwarded it to my MP, Bev Oda, for potential transmission to the PM   D C Kerr

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From: Bill Dunkley
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe-
With all due respect-- this is complete balderdash!
 
Anyway- hope you and the family are ok---- all the best--personally I specify!
 
Forgive me if i sound truculent- put it down to "campaignitis"--already suffering from lack of sleep---
 
Take care ok?
Bill Dunkley

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Thanks Bill, get in some power naps, eh?
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From: Bob Taubman
Subject: Re: Baird vs McGuinty on Carbon Tax and Tories Plan (Youtube video)

Hi Joe,
 
Thought the crowd might (or might not) enjoy the following video;
 
http://www.desmogblog.com/no-wonder-the-harper-government-is-against-a-carbon-tax
 
And there are those who think the Liberals' plan is tough to explain.  Baird can't explain his own,
and he is the minister of the environment?  Just what we need;  four more years of this diatribe.
 
Bob Taubman

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: RE: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Joe--I am listening to Rutherford and a caller just stated that 'if we
aren't fighting them in Afghanistan we will be fighting them here'!  HUH??? 
I thought we were in Afghanistan because the nasty Taliban wouldn't let the
girls go to school?

We are there for oil for the US/israel cabal, nothing more, nothing less. 
All the spin and rhetoric does not change the fact that innocent people are
dying for our greed.

The Liberals sent us to Afghanistan and the CPC is keeping us there.  Our
troops will be used to guard oil pipelines and nothing more.  This will cost
the Canadian taxpayer more than the current expenses of increased prices for
oil, gas and heating fuel.  We ain't seen nothing yet.

I heard an CPC ad on the radio today stating that 'this is not the time for
a carbon tax'.  Meaning the time is coming when it will be the right time?

Now we will be going into Pakistan?  I thought they already had 'democracy'?

  After all, they just had an election didn't they?  That seems to be the
only democracy left to us in Canada.  And even that can't be trusted for
honesty.

The US already calls all the shots for NATO and the UN.  So nothing would
change there.  NATO should be disbanded immediately.  They are just another
group of criminals supporting and dying for  US hegemony.

becky

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From: Caspar Davis
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Well thought and well said, Joe.

Caspar

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From: Jim Ford
Subject: Re: Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic

Hello Joe,
 
With regard to your cyber-editorial.
 
Canada and the United States are currently embroiled in a political change from elections. It seems to me the priorities are;.
 
1. Establish first, who is going to be governing Canada and United States.
 
2. Establish those governing body's programs relative to Afghan, Pakistan, Russia, U.S..
 
3. Establish support from Canadians for a peace-process.
 
 
Jim Ford

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From: "Jacob Rempel"
To: "MP:StephaneDionLiberalPartyLeader" <Dion.S@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: "GianCairo" <cairog@parl.gc.ca>
Subject:  Canada: Peace Maker and Paramedic
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:41:13 -0700

FORWARDING  FYI from Joe Hueglin's online journal
The DAILY DIGEST. Joe Hueglin is a retired history teacher
in Niagara Falls, and a former Progressive Conservative
Member of Parliament

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Subject: Federal Election 2008 - illegal televised debates.
From: rRobert G. Gauthier, Ottawa

Dear Joe: Just a note to let you know that eternal vigilance must still be ptscticed in Canada.
All the best, (enclosed is copy of my letter to the Toronto Star).
Bob

The Editor,
The Toronto Star.

"Greens slam debate exclusion," p1, by Tonda MacCharles, Sept. 9, 2009.

Here we go again.

In the 2006 Federal Election, the Leader of a Party that fielded merely 75 registered candidates, all in one province, participated in the nationally-televised debates while the Leader of a Party that fielded more than 300 registered candidates, in all ten provinces and 4 territories was excluded.

That the CRTC and the Chief Electoral Officer is again failing to enforce the provisions in the Canadian Constitution that protect freedom of expression and access to all electoral information for registered voters to make informed choices must not be repeated.

The current CRTC and Elections Act legislation also violate the provision that (presumably) ensures that any law or procedure that overrides any provision of the Canadian Constitution is of no force or effect.

It is the responsibility of the CRTC and the Chief Electoral Officer to adhere to and enforce the provisions in the Canadian Constitution.

These provisions are not arbitrary in their application - they are law of Canada, and the Canadian Constitution is the SUPREME LAW of Canada.

This matter was wrongly dismissed before the Courts at the last election in violation of our law.

Incumbent Politicians and Government Bureaucrats do not have any privileged powers to interfere with the rights of voters (or other political parties) to have access to all information about this election and are in violation in trying to do so.

Unimpeded and fair elections require that equal treatment be provided to all 15 registered political parties in Canada and that televised debates (particularly on State-owned CBC facilities) be open to all interested Party Leaders.

Unless these televised debates are made open equally to all Party Leaders, the election will have been in violation of our law and therefore invalid, as was the last one.

Freedom of Expression, the right to seek, receive and impart information without interference is again being violated in Canada for some 22,000,000 registered Canadian voters and this violation is not instigated and perpetrated only by government agents but by the journalists (and their employers) in the media (The Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery Inc.) who should be protecting these fundamental human rights.

"We would not have expected to see such violations of freedom of expression in the more advanced democracies," wrote a Ugandan newspaper publisher to me with regard to earlier and continuing violations of Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I am no fan of Elizabeth May of the Green Party but she is right, not because she is a woman, but in Law, to demand and to be provided equal participation in the debates over public airwaves. If the Green Party Leader is not included, the debates should be cancelled.

Robert G. Gauthier,

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From: "John Halonen"

First Brush

          This election will be ugly with negative ads leading the way.

          The Conservative Party has joined the ranks of the swift voters and George Bush.  Issues will become secondary, and one will never know Harper`s real agenda.

           Trying to link the civil war in Afghanistan to that of World War II to excuse the loss of Canadian lives lost there, shows really the total lack of care by our PM.  There is absolutely no similarity.


           Better to look at the rest ( including the Green Party that has been refused the right to debate on Televison ) and make a decision on where the vote should rest. 

          Canadians have the opportunity here to set the tone for future elections.   Negative Ads forever, or let`s discuss the issues.

          If Harper should ever win, look for "More of the Same" next time around.  We used to be above that, but times appear to be changing.
 
John Halonen

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