The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Who's minding the caffeine?
CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
An historic deal inked
CAPE BRETON POST -
PR strategy part of Taliban plan
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=164260&sc=151
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Dysfunctional arguments
Strongman's weakness
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
The logical next step against drunk drivers
Political will is what's needed to face down the Russian bear
OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Being practical about our health
The bear is back
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Trickle could become flood
TORONTO STAR -
A carbon election that clears the air
Bottled water drying up
GLOBE & MAIL -
Sarkozy sets an example on Afghanistan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080821.weafghanistan21/BNStory/specialComment/home
SUDBURY STAR -
Clement climbs slippery slope
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
The waste goes on
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4215880p-4808765c.html
SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
'Robbing us blind'
CALGARY HERALD -
Time for PM to scratch that itch?
CALGARY SUN -
Group asks Canada for more aid, observers, in Georgia
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
AIDS does exist in Canada - Federal gov't ought to do more to help the cause
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Intriguing oilsands interest
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
A welcome second look at medical mystery
ASIAN PACIFIC POST -
The madness on our streets
ISSUES
AFGHANISTAN -
Taliban forces, battle experience growing report
In Afghanistan, blurred lines cost lives
Afghan numbers don't add up
Goodbye Musharraf, hello Taliban
CANADIAN FORCES
Three Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
40-year-old aircraft will have to keep flying in arctic until at least 2015
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
US faces up to life without Musharraf
U.S.-India nuclear deal a non-proliferation disaster
Georgia's role makes it no squeaky clean statelet
Georgia conflict has NATO on ropes
Divide between 'new,' 'old' Europes may KO organization
Group asks Canada for more aid, observers, in Georgia
The outlook on a triple-superpower world
HEALTH CARE RELATED
Outgoing CMA chief inspired a better approach to health-care financing
Canada has more MRI and CT scanners but still lags other OECD nations
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
N.S. premier slams Liberal carbon tax plan
PARTY POLITICS
Dion links Walkerton, planned cuts to food scrutiny
Layton against early election call
Dion asks Harper to state his views on abortion
Dion test-drives green pitch
Tories pushing fall election to shut down probe, MPs say
Federal election? We're 'well prepared,' Bloc leader insists
POLITICAL OPINION -
Is the fix in on fixed election law?
PM eager to escape his own trap
Liberals must convince voters the Green Shift is not the shaft
Liberal tax plan so much hot air
Conservative agenda is changing Canada
There's no telling where Qu?bec's votes would go
Flaherty's $50,000 challenge
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=67793cff-2765-40f4-b7c4-da81bc190f09
Tories pushing fall election to shut down probe, MPs say
Witnesses can't be held responsible for boycotting hearing if Parliament dissolved
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080821.CONTEMPT21/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/
Party leaders' fates hang on results of a fall election
PROGRAMMES
Planned cuts to food scrutiny questioned
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080821.RECALLOTTAWA21/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/
Tories coy about plan to shift food inspection powers to industry
Law setting federal election date not binding
Docs condemn unborn crime bill
OPINION AND INFORMATION
You may know how you'll vote before you know it
Ignoring the harsh reality of a failing Afghanistan
Sensitive documents
Why can't we fight the Taliban at home?
INFOS
Trois soldats canadiens meurent en Afghanistan
Harper prêt à plonger avant la rentrée
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080821/CPACTUALITES/80820286/1025/CPACTUALITES
Soutien aux arts
Québec fustige Ottawa
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/08/20/002-Culture-st-Pierre.shtml
Des électeurs indécis qui ne le sont pas vraiment, selon une nouvelle étude
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080821/N0821115AU.html
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Promise Keeper><Promise Breaker
Should the Governor General be asked by the Prime Minister to issue writs of election
do you see him being viewed as forced to do so in order to keep promises or otherwise?
Promise Keeper><Promise Breaker
Should the Governor General be asked by the Prime Minister to issue writs of election
do you see him being viewed as forced to do so in order to keep promises or otherwise?
Stephen Harper is considering call an election before Parliament resumed on 15 September. His decision will depend on its imminent meetings with the heads of three opposition parties, it was said yesterday in La Presse. Everything will depend on the results of meetings with heads of other parties, "said Conservative strategist yesterday.
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The theoretical power of dissolution might remain, but the bill was a solemn declaration of Stephen Harper's intent. "This Prime Minister," Mr. Nicholson insisted, "will live by the law and the spirit of this particular piece of legislation." Another Conservative MP declared that Mr. Harper was giving up a power "that past prime ministers ... have used like a club." Months earlier, the Prime Minister himself told the House that "the government is clear that it will not be seeking an early election. At any time, Parliament can defeat the government and provoke an early election, if that is what the opposition irresponsibly chooses to do."
So the fixed election law - which the government probably introduced with half-innocent good intent in its early months of power - has become an awkward burden for the Prime Minister. Mr. Dion's erratic conduct on confidence votes has riled Mr. Harper. Does that justify the Prime Minister in violating the spirit of the election law?
The Governor-General, no doubt, is taking fresh advice on that question from her constitutional advisers. Could she reject the Prime Minister's advice to dissolve Parliament without a government defeat? Does the new law make any difference? There is only one answer: Despite the law, she would be obliged to do what the Prime Minister asks. She has no power, in this situation, to challenge the political judgment or the moral subtlety of the Prime Minister. Mr. Harper, like other prime ministers before him, can still wield the big club. The new law is a nullity without prime ministerial self-restraint. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080821.wcoelection21/BNStory/specialComment/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080821.wcoelection21
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich" Subject: DD
Joe--in our great zeal to take 'democracy to Afghanistan', we forgot to keep
any democracy for ourselves! The very fact that we have been told that
Afghanistan has to be forced to accept 'democracy' proves that our great
'leaders' in the West know nothing of democracy. Greed is the only driving
force for getting our children killed in the war for oil.
Sadly, even if asked what our opinion is in this 'war', it would be jury
rigged or ignored. Since when is it important for our leaders to know what
Canadians 'think'? Remember how the Liberals always told us what 'Canadians
want'? And now we are told what we will think!
The pipeline is the ONLY driver of this 'war'. We as Canadians are told
that we are there so women and children can be educated and to rid the
region of opium. We are told to forget that the Taliban erased almost
totally the growing of opium poppies before we even got there. We are fed
pap to make us ignore the reality of the situation. That reality being our
soldiers are cannon fodder for oil interests in the area, and that the very
people we are there to 'educate' are being slaughtered by us.
Of course the excuses for these murders are fed to us with 'a spoonful of
sugar'! We line the roadway when our dead soldiers return in a coffin and
don't think past our noses to the real reason our children are dead--that
being greed and power.
I doubt our 'leaders' are even made aware of our concerns. Who are we to
question the dictates of the Corporatocracy that rules this country? I never
get a response to my emails other than 'we have received your letter'! We
are not worth of taking part in any discussion.
Our children and grand children will continue to be deployed to protect
corporate interests, innocent people will continue to be murdered in any
country that has what our 'leaders' want and we will be patted on the head
and told to go away. No one wants to hear from us. Just shut up and keep
paying taxes!
What nerve to mention 'corruption in Afghanistan! We should clean our own
country up first.
becky
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Subject: "earthworm" 08 8 17
Publisher is Alan Heisey, 38 Avoca Avenue, L.P.H #6, Toronto, ON,
Canada, M4T 2B9 * N.B.: This email address, <hize@earthlink.net>
proving most reliable!
Personal phone 416 923 5381, fax 416 944 0133, south 239 513 0444
I welcome comments, always, on contents and how to improve presentation.
ON Tories should pack Winnipeg: prepare for floorfights!
I hope the following is a realisitc description of probabilities in
Winnipeg when it comes to giving Ontario five regionally elected
councillors where we now have four elected province-wide.
I think it will take an epic gathering of our best and brightest to
propel Ontario actually into increased and better focused roles for
our population in the party’s National Council.
I advise all Ontarions delegates, alternates and others who care, to
register for the convention by this coming Thursday, for the lowest
rates because there are signs that some in other regions of the party
have difficulty in seeing electoral justice carried out for our 12
million Ontarions.
The first sign is that the party’s central philosophical thrust is
enhancing the roles of the provincial and territorial governments
versus the national government, as distinct from the quite different
concept of rigorously representing populations as gathered in
municipalities and other local governments. The clearest expression of
this is the watering of Bill C-22’s proposed representation of
Ontario voters in the national parliament, keeping the province’s
seats some 10% fewer than any other province in relationship to our 12
million+ population. Ontario will not be a province like the others,
it will, for marvelously arcane considerations, be 10% under-
represented! I devoutly hope the present bill is withdrawn, quick!
One can piously hope that the party’s constitution committee will see
the reasonableness of addressing this population imbalance in the
party’s formal council structure by endorsing the resolution from
Whitby-Oshawa which will in effect raise the constituted provincial
councillors from Ontario from the present four to a more equitable five.
However, the very well understood concept of rep by pop had no place
in the setting up of this same constitution committee because all the
provinces have two provincial representatives, meaning eight from
Atlantic Canada to two for Quebec and two for Ontario!
Whitby-Oshaswa and St. Paul’s both submitted amendments to the
constitution committee before the end of last year favouring the
proposed five Ontario councillors also being elected from five
separate geographic districts, to clarify exactly which Ontario
councillor is responsible for the individual areas of the province.
The St. Paul’s proposal rigorously balances the populations of the
five districts while the Whitby-Oshawa proposal is less attentive to
this aspect. (Please understand that I drafted the St. Paul’s
proposal which its president forwarded to the constitution committee.)
My proposed five regions are detailed in an addendum to this edition.
There is said to be interest in regionally electing provincial
councillors in the three other provinces with two or more councillors
now constituted. Very recent enquiries by me to one of the Ontatio
chairs of the constitution committee clarify that no information has
yet been available on its processes, or thinking. A recent email to
one of the two Toronto organizers enquiring as to the probability of
regional meetings before the Winnipeg meet on constitutional issues
was not replied to, so this absence of any provisional information
leaves an open field for fresh thinking.
I like to think that the interest in the four largest provinces in
regionally electing provincial councillors will encourage fresh
thinking about Ontario’s case for five councillors. It should be
clear that organizing voting from these provinces by regional
districts at this convention would be no big deal, however some might
fuss!
Tri-Spa’s Doug Lowry differs on M.P. Goodyear’s denial!
The recent imbroglio in which the party’s assigned spokesman M.P.,
Gary Goodyear (Cambridge) issued a statement, challenged at least by
Toronto Tory Doug Lowry, will not likely cause us any lasting pain.
However, there is enough embarrassment to leave our caucus thoroughly
irritated at the party’s organizers publicly identified as doing what
Goodyear said we did not do!
It all boils down to the handling of party funds, a subject on which I
am persuaded that we are, all, grossly hobbled by excessive rules and
regulations. The hero of this tale, from my point of view is Tri-Spa
president Doug Lowry who felt obliged to attend a parliamentary
committee summons, although at least three others so identified were
told not to attend by a Toronto organizer - according to Lowry.
This public disagreement, at least in part on the front page of one of
the Toronto dailies, will, as one observer sees it, “add to the
cynicismâ€. As a longtime fan of Lowry I nominate him, if I can for
one of the “Maple Leaf Awards†to be announced at the Winnipeg
meeting. When it comes to whom one takes orders from, Lowry listened
to a parliamentary committee, rather than our organizers, setting a
splendid example when we may need it again!
More attention to edas needed in party constitution
(I reproduce a large section of my December 23 2007 issue which gave
attention to a lot of party constitutional issues about which we, out
on the mushroom farm, know zip about where the great minds are tonight!)
This windy edition presents my thoughts for 2008 on how we strengthen
the ongoing activities of the citizen party, get S to give them some
bigtime, continuing media attention, and watch how our national
ratings in the polls tick upwards inexorably to whatever magic number
sees the plug pulled!!
I decry a specific neglect of our constitution!:
HQ ‘big 3’ short-shrift section 6.1.2
Preparing for the recent meeting of the Whitby-Oshawa-Ajax policy
committee meeting I read over very carefully every word of the
party’s constitution.
Our three key leadership groups ignore the last component of paragraph
6.1.2. The paragraph and context read as follows:
6.1.The governance of the Party shall adhere to the following
objectives:
6.1.1 full representation of the interests and views of members;
6.1.2 direct regular communication from National Council, Conservative
Fund Canada and the Leader to electoral district associations and
members to ensure accountability;
I contend, as a “lay†member of a Toronto area electoral district
association, that there is virtually no “direct, regular
communication†from the party’s “big 3â€, listed above, to this
interested member, nor to, apparently, literally many thousands of
other members.
I understand the subtleties of our language well enough to know that if
the drafters of this paragraph intended that “members†were to
receive communications through their local electoral district
associations the statement could have been set out accordingly.
As it is the paragraph should be refined to make it clear exactly who
the drafters intended as “electoral district associations†as
distinct from the general membership of each association.
In practise this phrasing has been used in the Toronto area to
authorize in some cases the presidents of associations to distribute
communications to the 30 members of the board of directors who elected
them to their positions, but not to their general memberships.
(However a late Saturday (yesterday) afternoon survey of nearly a
dozen random members of Toronto’s 23 eda boards suggests that
literally none of them has in fact received two recent, outstanding
emails from Ottawa!)
The two emails I have received, from two other associations than my
own, concern the Constitution committee and the Policy committee.The
three-page constitution committee email of August 1, 2007 I forwarded
with “earthworm†on September 30th and I attach the policy
committee’s 3-page email, apparently undated email, hereto!
The two emailings reveal very careful, national, orderly approaches to
inviting new submissions from associations for consideration in the
late 2008 annual convention. Interestingly, there is no mention of the
secrecy which overwhelmed all discussions of policy last time round.
Is it possible that media or un-washed, non-members could observe any
of our policy discussions this time?
For the country’s 308 district associations, emailings to all the
directors suggest that some 9,000 party members are eligible to
receive the communications but not the membership at large!! (I have
grave doubts that even a majority of the party’s eda directors are
seeing these reports, going by what I sampled in Toronto yesterday!)
There is a standard warning on all such emails from headquarters which
makes it quite clear that informing other members of each eda is
forbidden, if not illegal:
Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended
only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and
may be privileged.  If you are not the intended recipient, you are
hereby notified that any review, retransmission, conversion to hard
copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any
attachments is strictly prohibited.  If you are not the intended
recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and
delete this message and any attachments from your system.  Thank you.
I accept that various communications from one or more of the “Big
3†into elements of the national party must have varying levels of
restricted distribution.
I have long felt that the concept of leaving it to the president alone
for each eda to determine who is to have Ottawa communications passed
on leaves the communications chain vulnerable to a president who, for
whatever reason, does not forward communications to his/her board. A
backup arrangement might be for the board Secretary and Financial
Officer to also receive all such communications.
The Crying Shame of It All is that these two constructive invitations,
apparently to the whole party, have been deliberately held back from
the general membership, meaning there will be much less participation
than could otherwise be the case.
It Beats Me why the party does not release these invitations via the
mass media to illustrate the positive processes open to members only,
to encourage membership and participation!
Constitution/policy issues bubble
If you are not one of the chosen to have already received the policy
committee’s latest memo you will find that it is in fact the fifth in
a series and gives edas the right to add until February 15th, 2008, an
additional policy proposal to those that have already been received,
huh!? The report includes a most fascinating list of policy topics
which have been already received, meaning some tories, somewhere, are
being plugged in right along
The constitution committee’s deadline, please note, for new
statements, stays at January 1, 2008!! I pressed Ontario’s
constitution committee co-chair Jason Hickman on this deadline and he
undertook to make minor allowances, but has no authority to have a
deadline parallel to the policy committee’s.
Out here, in our party’s nationwide “mushroom farmâ€, I find that
our caucus and leader are doing a solid job on most policy issues.
After all they have the backing of substantial civil service and
consultant resources - as long as they keep cutting the capital gains
tax firmly in mind!
The one policy exception is their continuing plan to short change
Ontario some 10 additional seats after the next re-distribution. I
address this issue in a separate section, and pray for a change of
heart - or should I call it a new song sheet? - wherever it is needed.
My fallback plan is prodding and pushing some powerful Grit friends to
have their beat-up leader score some big points across Ontario by
announcing soon that their caucus will move an amendment to bill C-22
to give the population the seats they are entitled to, if Peter Van
Loan does not see the error of his ways!
Seeing policy processes flow at the eda level is a special interest.
As policy vp of Tri-Spa’s p-cs I drafted the following which
president Arnold Kwok emailed to all members:
To Arnold Kwok, president Trinity-Spadina Provincial PC Association
and to all members of the association , cc Sean Martin, St. Paul’s
association 07 12 15
A, To stimulate interest in policy activities of our association in
the new year I set out here a brief review of two useful events this
past year.
First was a single “Policy Lite†event which we held mid June in
the garden at 38 Avoca Avenue. We had three formal motions submitted,
discussed, voted and then adjourned for coffee and dessert.
Second item was the adoption and dissemination of a formal motion from
our policy committee, and endorsed by the riding executive, to the
Prime Minister and to the leader of our party in Ontario, asking for a
larger number of M.P.s to be planned for Ontario. This past week our
Ontario caucus supported a Liberal motion thereon.
Membership in our policy committee was deemed by myself to consist of
those riding residents who chose to attend one or both “policy
lite†events of the past two years: They are Robert Aterman, Ken
Chan, Sam Goldstein, Alan Heisey, Arnold Kwok, Luc LeClair, Doug
Lowry, Adrienne Snow. (The 2007 event attracted five members of the
adjacent St. Paul’s asociation.)
This coming year we should try to convene quarterly “policy liteâ€
meetings, preferably in member’s homes, or party rooms. I favour
encouraging new members to participate by proposing their own favorite
issue for consideration and votes!
These could include urban and other levels of government or items
built around news, such as the Robert Latimer case. The essential
point is that until a topic of discussion is formally constructed as a
motion and voted it cannot be forwarded to the Tri-Spa board of
directors for further consideration.
Everyone who is a member of the association should consider this a
formal invitation to join the committee and develop policy processes
more effectively, Of course, public meetings should be considered when
an issue is of sufficient import and the board wants to put one on! I
am willing to serve this coming year or cheerfully defer to a fresh
face! Cordially, hize
Constitutional issues are an entirely different matter! The party’s
constitution, in contrast to government policy, has few apparent
devotees in the ranks of our professional politicians, since it is
mostly for and about us amateurs and our roles.
As a longtime student of the Progressive Conservative and our party’s
constitutions I find a lot which needs early attention. Much the
biggest shortfall is the general tenor of “Section 5, Electoral
District Associationsâ€, which I reproduce here.
(The pdf of the constitution is so rigged that one cannot copy and
paste any portion of it, meaning that I have transcribed this section,
an unnecessary obstruction!)
“Conservative Party of Canada Constitution
5. Electoral district associations
5.1 The electoral district association is the primary organization
through which the rights of members are exercised.
5.2 Recognition may be granted by the National Council to one
electoral district association in each federal electoral district, and
such recognition may be revoked, purusuant to rules and procedures set
out by by-law.
5.3 Electoral district associations shall comply with such
requirements as to their governance, financial management and
reporting, as may be implemented by National Council by by-law or
otherwise.â€
The present section 5 of the constitution gives short shrift to the
vital roles of the local EDAs and offers a head office view of
ensuring that they act in accordance with the National Council.
The following re-draft starts with:
recognition of the individual and their family, and clarification of
their immediate opportunity to serve and support their own address, as
a Steward, rather than the militaristic term, “poll captainâ€;
introduces as the name of the governing group within the eda, a
deliberate shift away from “Boardâ€, with all its connotations of
corporate structures and secrecy, to District Council, as more clearly
a local counterpart to the National Council, and as resonating with
community councils and their open operating characteristics;
introduces some needed balance into the importance of serving the
continuing political aspirations of our citizen members, as well as
the priority of electing a professional to represent them in parliament;
and reminds all that authority flows upward within the party as well
as downward!
5. Individuals and their roles in Electoral District Associations
5.1 The central element in the Canadian community is the individual
citizen and their family.
5.2 Individuals and families substantially sharing the beliefs
expressed in the the Party’s constitution are welcome to join and
participate in their local electoral district Conservative Association.
5.3 Individuals members can serve vital, immediate neighbourhood roles
when elected as a continuing Steward for their particular apartment
building, or city block, or concession.
5.3 The Association in each electoral districts enables members to
participate fully in the citizen processes of the federal government.
This participation is led by a members-elected District Council.
5.4 A priority in that participation is successfully nominating,
electing and sustaining a Conservative Member of Parliament to
represent their overall community in the Parliament of Canada.
5.5 Other priorities include providing forums for members and for
others to nurture national and local values and priorities in public
life, assisted by regular communication with the local communities at
large.
5.6 Electoral district associations through the body of laws and
practices delegate authority to the Leader, National Council, and
Conservative Fund Canada which in turn establish national models and
bylaws for the recognition and operation of the local associations.
Never having received even a single sentence from my own eda about the
processes for reviewing proposed constitutional amendments - and with
the deadline only a few days away - I intend submitting this re-
statement of section 5 direct to the policy committee chair in Otawa
though I have also forwarded a draft of it to Jason Hickman.
The “Peter Tudisco Amendment†Two weeks ago in Whitby,
the Whitby- Oshawa and Ajax edas adopted the thrust of the motion I had proposed
on regional elections for the desired five national councilllors for
Ontario on the national council. Their amendment calls for a different
way of balancing the populations of the five regions from the strict
balance I had proposed. I will forward a resetting of my statement so
that the committee can evaluate which approach they may choose to put
before the convention.
Election at large of both the national party president and electoral
district associations presidents. James Small, vice president of the
St. Paul’s e.d.a. suggested informally to me some months ago that the
national president should be elected by all the delegates to the
national convention rather than by a decision of the elected members
of the national council. I support this reversion to the approach of
the former federal Progressive-Conervative Party. This would create
the office of the president of the national party as a powerful,
citizen counterbalance to that of the national leader!
I strongly favour also changing the method of election of the
president, and probably all officers of the individual eda executive,
to at-large, meaning by all members present at the annual meeting of
each association rather than the present method of election from among
the maximum 30 members of the board. This would serve to remind the
officers that their base of authority is the entire membership of the
local association not just the comparative handful elected to serve on
the board.
Election of national directors from regions is known to have support
in Britich Columbia and Alberta so will probably be in the recommended
changes put to next autumn’s national convention.
On the other hand, direct election of the national president and of
the presidents of individual edas would benefit from endorsements by
whatever number of constituency committees and associations are taking
a direct interest in the work of the constitution committee.
Improving communications between the “big 3†and both individual
edas and individual members.
I charge the Ontario and national constitution committees and the
“big 3†with the need to urgently address the gulfs in
communication between the pious statement in present section 6.1.2 and
the realities.
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