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The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. FIREARMS QUICK FACTS By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated February 9th, 2004
The Canadian Police Association only 'SAYS' it Represents Police Officers on the street. Here's what THOSE Officers say about this Gun Registry Farce
Is the Gun Registry 'Another' Liberal Slush Fund? Hundreds and Hundred of companies have much more sophisticated databases, holding much more diverse data, that has not cost a billion dollars + to create! What did the Liberals DO with all that money? ... I shudder to think! Please excuse the late postings for a while, 'sometimes' earning a living to pay the taxes that these assholes squander, becomes a necessity. Plutocracy in the Great White North As Canadian as Corruption In his Prime Minister's declarations, Martin tried to play the media as fools. His speech read through a list of gifts long requested by the Canadian public-even among Liberal Party electors. Its objective was to further highlight Chretien's dab with dictatorial decorum. The media gobbled the feed as if filet mignon were being given as bait. A host of "left-leaning" initiatives on health, education and governance marked the new Prime Minister's tenure with grace. And why not? After all, the public had been expecting Martin to repeal every policy move Chretien had ever embraced.(From the old Chrétien effort of a year or so ago, that tried to convince Canadians the Liberals were "honest" to Martin telling us he will get to the "bottom of this" seems to be coming about.. The more they tell Canadians that their "honest" the more they find themselves "at the bottom". He's not just trying to play the 'media' for fools is he?) Michael Moore Defends Bowling for Columbine Part Two - Objectivity, visual continuity and personal stuff See Below for Part one With all the hoopla surrounding objectivity in Moore's documentary, the filmmaker actually makes no claim to such a genre. "I don't know if you should call it a documentary," Moore said. "I think it's a nonfiction film. It's certainly not made up. Everything you see is real. It actually happened and I filmed it as it happened. But that word, I don't like that word. It has just some bad connotation to it. I set out to make a movie whenever I start one of these. I'm not thinking, 'Oh, I want to make a documentary.' I don't even know really what that means. I like to go to the movies. I go to three or four movies a week. I love going to the movies and I want to make a movie that I would go see. And that's what I set out to do."(If he makes no claim to it being a "documentary", why then, did he steal an Oscar from a REAL documentary film maker.. The statement that "Everything you see is real. It actually happened and I filmed it as it happened" is an outright lie.. Creative editing altered the timeline of Hestons speeches to make him and the NRA look like an uncaring bunch of rednecks. Only through the myopic view of a 'gun control fanatic' would this have been done. Right after 9/11 he made the statement on his website (which he has since removed) "This started out as a documentary on gun violence in America, but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed -- without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i.e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! -- I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand gun control laws would not have prevented this massacre. What am I doing? " A 'spark' of truth in a weak moment was finally emanating from this man...But, it didn't last long! What are you doing? It's simple! Your LYING to make money! Voices: Has PM done enough? (This is a collection of letters written to the Toronto Star. Keeping in mind, that the Toronto Star is the Paper for the 'Ontario' Liberal Voter, it would seem that the wool has finaly been pulled from their eyes. The Liberal Government is in REAL TROUBLE. It's almost like Christmas ain't it!!) REGISTER
CRIMINALS – NOT DUCK HUNTERS Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Deputy House Leader and Official Opposition Justice Critic for Gun Control, released the first draft of his plan to register criminals – not duck hunters (See link at bottom of the page). “Contrary to what the Liberals have been promising for the last decade, Statistics Canada data and information provided to the media by Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino proves conclusively that the soon-to-be-two-billion-dollar gun registry does not improve public safety or save lives. Homicides are up including domestic homicides, violent crime is up, suicides are up and the number of Criminal Code incidents per police officer has more than doubled since 1962. Based on such overwhelming evidence, any sane person can only conclude that federal gun control laws should be totally focused on keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. That is the objective of my plan,” said Breitkreuz. (Click the Link Above, cut and paste the survey into your email, and send it to breitg1a@parl.gc.ca For some reason there is not a 'submit' button on the page to send the form.. He may add this later, in the meantime use email. The little check boxes may not work correctly in your email, so put your check mark beside the box.. ) Russians are coming -- to our rescue (Canoe Link, will vanish with in 24hrs. or less) The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. And they're coming to our rescue. After all, it looks like Russia may ultimately save Canada from the folly of signing onto the Kyoto Protocol. Yesterday, Andrei Illarionov, chief economic advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, was in town as a guest of the Fraser Institute, and he gave a compelling presentation as to why the Kyoto protocol is akin to an economic death camp. Clearly it's an insensitive analogy, but indicative of his strength of feeling for the damage this would cause globally. Last year, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser described the Liberal government's "astronomical cost overruns" of the rifle registration program and the secrecy surrounding it as "inexcusable." She said the Department of Justice provided many reasons for the dramatic increase in the registry's costs -- from $2 million to $1 billion -- including delays in making regulations, the opting out of provinces and wrong assumptions. Ring a bell? It sounds identical to Kyoto. As Conservative Party leadership hopeful Stephen Harper has said: "How can Canadians trust the government on Kyoto -- which is on a much larger scale than the gun registry -- when it is running 500 times over budget on the gun registry?" Prime Minister Paul Martin says Kyoto will only cost a few billion dollars and about 100,000 jobs. Let's hope we won't be multiplying those numbers by 500. What's more, the feds will try to tell you they do have a plan. Here is, in part, what that plan says: " * Step-by-step and evergreen; * build on actions already underway; * assess progress, learn as we go, make adjustments, capitalize on new developments/opportunities; * further prudent and responsible actions as needed." It's not so much a plan as it is gibberish. ("A few billion dollars and a hundred thousand jobs"?? Lets make damn sure one of those jobs lost, is Mr. Martins! How cavalier with our money! Only a few 'billion dollars' It would look as if the liberals are so used to squandering our tax dollars, a "few billion dollars" is now only a trivial amount. IF money is no object Mr. P.M. how come your F'n ships are registered in a foreign country that saves YOUR tax dollars from being wasted by YOUR party? A "Few billion dollars" indeed...) Smith & Wesson's new chairman resigns after armed-robbery record revealed His resignation came three weeks after the Arizona Republic reported that he had spent more than 10 years in Michigan prisons in the 1950s and 1960s for a string of armed robberies and an attempted prison escape. Minder said he didn't disclose his criminal past to the other directors of the 150-year-old gun company prior to his election as chairman in mid-January. "Nobody asked," he said. After his release from prison, Minder founded Spectrum Human Services, a nonprofit agency serving delinquent and disabled youth in Michigan, and ran it for 20 years before retiring to Arizona in 1997. (40+ years of being a law abiding, productive citizen seems to mean nothing. What's the point of successful rehabilitation, if the persecution continues. How many people at the age of 74, are the 'same' people they were at 34? Most are a far cry from being the same people at 40 they were at 20! He's been living a crime free life, since virtually all of his persecutors were still filling their diapers with crap. I think he has proven himself to society don't you?) Martin Ignores MP's Election Delay Apparently, no one at the Prime Minister’s Office is picking up the phone. It looks like repeated calls from Liberal MP’s to hold off on calling an election are being ignore by Prime Minister Paul Martin. Some members of the caucus would like to see the election call later than spring, or perhaps even next year. It’s because they would like to see the sponsorship scandal completely taken care of before Canadians head to the polls. The proposal was brought forth at the Liberal meeting Tuesday night. Paul Martin and his advisors were apparently not listening, as party officials are now being told riding nomination meetings must be held by the end of March.("Who knows what lurks in the hearts of liberals" not even the shadow, that's for damn sure!.. Oooo what a dilemma for the P.M without a mandate! Do I do what liberals usually do, and time the election to when it's most inconvenient for the opposition, thereby winning by default? Or do I try and wait till the people who know corruption is rampant in our party, to maybe forget? Decisions.. decisions.. decisions.. Pass me another $4500.00 bottle of that wine from the 'case' that nice fellow at the ad agency gave me, and I'll think of something...) Conservatives attack Martin in radio ads Ottawa — The federal Conservatives are painting Prime Minister Paul Martin as a dithering doctor who lets a patient die on the operating table, a tax dodger, and a sinister Big Brother in pre-election radio ads that also attack the Liberal government's sponsorship scandal. The five ads, each 30 seconds long, take aim at the federal government's controversial gun registry, the sponsorship scandal and Mr. Martin's own personal business dealings. They will start airing across the country next month. a Caribbean-accented voice extolling Barbados's 2-per-cent corporate tax rate, a reference to the country where Mr. Martin's family shipping empire, CSL International, is registered. "Your Prime Minister Mr. Paul figured it out a long time ago, man," the voice says. Another ad features a stuttering surgeon whose patient dies on the table as he bumbles through the operation. An ad attacking the gun registry suggests law-abiding firearms owners are under the watchful eye of the government while pedophiles remain unregistered. The scathing ads characterize the federal government as sinister, incompetent and bordering on criminal intent. Finance Minister Ralph Goodale dismissed the ads yesterday as mud-slinging. "We will have the necessary responses and answers to all of the kinds of slings and arrows and mud-slinging that you'll hear from the opposition," he said outside the Commons. "Paul Martin is trying to pretend it's a new government," NDP Leader Jack Layton said. "It's time ministers took some responsibility instead of pointing fingers at absolutely everybody else."(Well, 'mud' is not what's hitting the fan here, and as everyone knows, what ever hits the fan is never evenly distributed.. From blaming a 'small band of 'rogue bureaucrats' to saying Jean Chrétien "is an honourable man" tells Canadians all they need to know to determine that this 'party' is over. What this country needs to to 'really' fix this problem, is for the Liberals to sit on the backbenches in opposition for 10-15 years. Over the years, by attrition, this will filter out the corruption which is systemic within this party. Perhaps 'then' they might be trusted with a 'minority' government just to make sure the 'attrition filter' worked.. By 'that' time, perhaps the Conservitive party will 'again' requre an 'attrition filter' as well (it worked the last time).. Most people are acutely aware, that no matter whos in power, its usually only a matter of time between the swearing in, and the swearing at anyway.. Also see:Biting ads slam Liberals) Call for crime summit rebuffed Mayor, committee also reject calls for emergency council meeting Calls for an emergency council meeting and a mayor's summit on crime were rebuffed by Toronto Mayor David Miller and a key council committee yesterday. Instead, the mayor's new anti-violence strategy -- aimed at reducing gun and gang violence -- was easily endorsed. Mr. Miller has already tapped Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry to chair an advisory panel seeking solutions to Toronto's problem with gun violence. "I think it's very important to have a plan and not just get together and talk," Mr. Miller said. "People want to see the city taking a lead in reinvesting in the young people in this city, and that's what this [plan] does." (Mayor Miller, a liberal thinking -well- 'liberal', has come to the conclusion that criminals in Toronto are selling crack cocaine, shooting each other, robbing, murdering, and terrorizing their communities because the don't have a place to play basketball!!!!! Well, I say to Mayor Miller.. Build those basketball courts and they will come... To sell crack cocaine, shoot each other, rob, murder, and terrorize their community.. But what ever you do, 'don't' listen to Chief Fantino who has told you that 85 percent of these guys are career criminals, and basketball ain't gonna save them.. or you...But then again, putting a criminal in the slammer for ten years, will make you safer for at least ten years!) Conservative leadership hopefuls all score points
The debate was generally light on policy, with the candidates agreeing
on tax cuts, the need to put the question of same-sex marriage to the
House of Commons rather than the Supreme Court, scrapping or at least
reforming the gun registry, and an elected Senate.(Mr Harper had better clarify himself on this fast !!!! There is NO SUPPORT for "Reforming the Gun registry".. If he's elected, and it's not GONE..
He will have shown himself to be just another political liar.. So WHAT
IS IT MR. HARPER ? SCRAPPING, OR REFORM? I WANT TO KNOW"NOW")City's safe image at risk, Fantino says Police were appealing for help in finding the killers of agency owner Paulson Chellakudam as well as Suzette Augustin, 26, of Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, who was visiting a Toronto friend during university's spring break when she was stabbed to death Friday at the travel business. Also dead in the weekend carnage were Eion Rush, 27, whose body was found lying on a road Saturday night, and music manager Elliott Reid-Thomas, 29, whose body was found in an alley. The latest slayings come a week after Toronto Mayor David Miller announced an anti-crime plan aimed at reducing gun and gang violence. Miller has asked Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry to head an advisory panel on community safety to find solutions to gun-related violence. Fantino said getting tougher on perpetrators of gun crime is key to stemming violence. "Anybody who takes a gun into their possession, deliberately puts bullets in there, . . . goes out there and terrorizes the community and uses it in any fashion, they should get a minimum 10-year sentence - and you watch what kind of message goes out," he said.(Millers approach has been called the 'group hug' theory, and has not worked 'anywhere'. Fantino is right, lock em up for ten years minimum. The latest man to die had been robbed four times previously. Perhaps Mayor Miller should explain why business owners should not be arming themselves! Had this man been armed after four previous robberies, he, and his customer, would in all probability, 'still' be alive today. The attacker? He might be the one being dropped in a hole and saving the taxpayer the future cost of his trial and his far too-short incarceration.. ) I got $50K from Liberal 'slush fund' Longstanding B.C. party member tells how he got money for music festival OTTAWA—From its quiet beginning in 1997 and for four years after that, the federal sponsorship program was basically run as a political slush fund for the Jean Chrétien Liberals. Political discretion rather than public accountability rules presided over the spending of its multi-million-dollar budget. Ministers and political aides rather than civil servants had the real run of the program.Contrary to the impression conveyed by Prime Minister Paul Martin since the release of Auditor-General Sheila Fraser's damning indictment of the program, the ministerial levels of the government were familiar with the special features of the program. Cabinet members as well as their staffers were aware of the very political status of the program, starting with the fact that it was exempt from normal government operating procedures. When Kelley called Anderson's constituency office, he found the minister's aides eager to help.They told me of a secret slush fund where they could access money for constituency programs," he says. "There was no application form, no process other than to write a letter to Mr. Pierre Tremblay at public works."Tremblay, formerly the chief of staff to Alfonso Gagliano, was at that point serving as acting executive director of the Communications Co-ordination Services Branch at Public Works Canada. Kelley wrote Tremblay a four-page letter and followed up his request for funding with phone calls to Anderson's office. He was assured the minister had personally put his case to Gagliano. Anderson's aides also acted as go-betweens with public works officials. As far as Kelley can recall, no public servant contacted him to review his request or to ask for more information about the festival. Instead, he next formally heard about his application from Media/I.D.A. Vision, a Montreal advertising agency. "The call basically came out of the blue," he says.Kelley was told he would be getting $50,000 in two instalments and that he should not worry about paying a commission on the money as that was being taken care off by Public Works Canada. (There are two things very unusual here.. First of all, this was reported by the Trudeau..er..Toronto Star!!! Second of all, How did this money get spent outside of Quebec? We all know the government is rotten to the core. The only thing that will fix that is for the Liberals to spend the next ten years on the backbenches while democracy is being repaired. Harper should produce at least one election prop used by Toronto Mayor David Miller.. A Broom..) Auditor-general's report detailed fictitious contracts, inflated commissions
Auditor-general Sheila Fraser revealed that tens of millions of dollars
were funnelled to Liberal-friendly ad firms in Quebec. She pointed to
fictitious contracts, artificial invoices and an elaborate accounting
mechanism. Groupaction was paid $795,000 for two contracts for which there is no
evidence services were actually provided - one to promote the federal
gun registry and another to sponsor, among other events, car races and
horse shows.(And
no doubt, a large portion of this cash was funnelled 'back' into the
gun registry. How else were they to hide the enormous cost overruns
from parliament. The 'slush fund' was the perfect answer.. till now!
And, if Paul Martin is calling this big inquiry, WHY ARE THE TAXPAYERS
FOOTING THE BILL? This inquiry is a Liberal Matter, and in no way
should be funded from the public purse. The taxpayers should NOT be
screwed by these 'criminals' twice.. THE LIBERAL PARTY SHOULD BE PAYING
THE EXPENSES, NOT THE TAXPAYER. If I were to embezzle (and that's exactly what this is)
money from my employer, it's not likely my employer would be footing my
legal bills. So why is the taxpayer getting screwed by the Liberals
again? )Michael Moore Defends Bowling for Columbine Part One - Answering the issues Michael Moore's latest film, Bowling for Columbine, an essay on violence in America as epitomized by the Columbine school shooting, had come under scrutiny from politically-minded critics who think Moore is oversimplifying the issue or slanting his interviews to support his views. Moore asked journalists on his press tour to challenge him directly, and he offered his defense. The film's main point is that the media has created a culture of fear with its constant reporting of murder and kidnapping at a rate disproportionate to the actual crimes. Reporting has gone up while actual crimes in some cases have gone down. But what stops Moore's film, which includes footage of Columbine, the World Trade Center attacks, war footage and more, from becoming such a piece of fear propaganda? (Although the film exposes the 'if it bleeds it leads' culture of the media, it also is doing exactly what it opposes, and that's the use of 'misinformation' to create fear. From walking out of a bank with a firearm, to withholding the information that the six year old child that took a gun from his uncles home, and shot a playmate at school, was in reality living in a known crack house, where a firearm was left loaded and unattended. Most six year old children have no concept of what a 'real' gun will do.. Then, blaming the action of the Columbine killers on the 'culture of war' because of the Lockheed plant that at one time, made missiles. Then, harassing Mr. Heston, a gentleman of ailing health, to answer questions 'no one' could possibly know the answers to. The theft of an Oscar from 'real' documentary makers should have been the last straw.. The Oscar was simply a 'politically correct award' from a group of 'ignorants', to make some amends for the violence they feel guilty about propagating in their films.. The movie is not nearly as entertaining when armed with the facts!) The Sky is Falling 'For Real' (?) Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. That is what a recent semi-secret report requested by the Pentagon and outed by several news outlets warns. The report says that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism it says. 'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.' 'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac River you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.(Is this 'junk science'? Maybe 'this' is the 'real' reason for gun registries, and the UN's obsession with disarming every one.. ? Nothing like electing a government that has what it takes to take what you have eh? Damn good job the Liberals have paid so much attention to our military! Boy, without them we'd be sunk! ....Protect what yours, it may be all you have left!.....) Freedom of Censorship 'Liberal Style' OTTAWA - Buying satellite access to your favourite TV show may soon be a crime, if you pay your money to a foreign satellite television service. Critics of the proposed legislation say the burden will fall most heavily on immigrant communities. Under Bill C-2, anyone who subscribes to a foreign satellite television service could face criminal penalties, including the possibility of a year in prison. The legislation is aimed at obliging viewers to buy their satellite service from Canadian companies. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters estimates it loses $400 million a year to when people buy from American satellite TV providers. Fitzgerald says the government is selling out Canadians' freedom of choice and freedom of expression, in order to please an industry lobby that has recently donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Liberal Party of Canada.(During the days of the 'cold war' Radio Free Europe, would broadcast the Western version of the 'truth' into countries where receiving foreign broadcasts was a 'criminal offence' ! It now looks as if democracy in Canada has fallen to the same low levels as the oppressed countries of the cold wars era. Has for example, anyone noticed that TNN (now Spike TV) seems to have dropped ALL their hunting shows lately. American Shooter was the first to go, now the others are gone. The 'only' show that has any hunting left at all in Ontario, is the OFAH on sunday mornings at 9:30.. I'm sure the hunting and shooting shows are still available on U.S. satellite systems, but Canada is now under a veil of censorship to keep the Liberal friendly 'Canadian' services in control of what you see and hear.. I wonder how long it will be before ALL foreign broadcasts are banned in this country?) $1B here, $1B there Chretien's legacy written in wasted dollars The legacy of Jean Chretien as prime minister of his country, as well as the Liberal government he ruled, can now be written off as one that scandalously lost billions of dollars. But who among us can comprehend a billion, let alone two billion? Or another billion that makes three? A little over a week ago, the CBC's French news network pegged the cost that has been spent on, or committed to, the cockup known as the national gun registry program as being in the neighbourhood of $2 billion. It is incomprehensible money. The population of China is now a billion-plus, as is India's. Give a loonie to each resident of each country, and it now comes close to representing what got lost in the translation of the HRDC scandal and the Indian affairs fiasco combined, but does not include the two billion poured into the national gun registry. The trouble, of course, is that many of those lost billions, plus other Liberal squanderings, are being paid for out of the fleeced pockets of a relatively small base of less than 16-million hard-working, taxpaying Canadians. And remember, it takes 1,000 millions to make a billion. A year ago this month, when the national gun registry was supposedly only a $1-billion boondoggle, then Canadian Taxpayers Federation director Walter Robinson calculated that $1 billion could have purchased 21 million trigger locks, 21 million long-gun carrying cases and seven million gun cabinets from outlets such as Canadian Tire. With $1 billion, a reward of $1.8 million could have been posted -- and spent -- towards getting a conviction for every murder committed in Canada during 2002. Imagine what Crime Stoppers and the Toronto homicide squad could do with that kind of dosh as an incentive to make unwilling eyes come forward with information regarding all the murders in our city that were obviously witnessed by many but supposedly seen by none. (All very logical indeed, but not so logical as to penetrate the tiny mind of a liberal on a social engineering quest. All Chrétien has proven to Canadians is that the old saying is true! Absolute power does corrupt absolutely..) Get tough on crime This past weekend at least four people were killed by criminals in Toronto -- including a tourist from St. Lucia who was stabbed to death when she walked in on a robbery at a travel agency. The killings are part of a disturbing trend. Last year, gun crime in Canada's largest city surged by nearly 15%. Home invasions increased by 57%. Overall, violent crime in Toronto is up 5% since 1999, while in the rest of the country it has fallen more than 8%.Mr. Miller must be about the last big-city mayor in North America who still buys into this group-hug approach to crime reduction. Nearly every large U.S. city has already tried and abandoned this strategy. Instead, they now favour a program of aggressive crackdowns on all offences, petty and major both -- an approach that has consistently been found to net repeat offenders and lower street crime. In the interests of being politically correct, Mr. Miller is ready to set Toronto on precisely the wrong path. He needs to reconsider before his inner city neighbourhoods go the way of the hollowed-out, decaying shells of the U.S. cities that trod this road before him.(It's no mere coincidence that the growing number of Americans that keep a 'home defensive shotgun' at hand, have contributed greatly to the reduction of violent crimes perpetrated against them. Canadian of course, are content to dial 911 and wait ..and wait... and wait.. for someone who 'is' armed to perhaps, come and help them before it's too late!.. But then again, insurance IS now available..) Insurance for home invasion, stalking TORONTO - A Canadian insurance company is offering home invasion, stalking and child abduction insurance. Susan Vella of Chubb Insurance of Canada told CBC News Online Thursday that the insurance will cost less in Ontario than in Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba because rates are based on provincial crime rates. Vella said the new insurance is for the "high-end market," meaning those who own homes ranging from $500,000 to $60 million. She said Statistics Canada figures show that property crime rates now are higher in Canada than in the United States, where Chubb Insurance started the program on a trial basis in 2002 in Colorado, Illinois, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Vella said the Statistics Canada figures show that per capita Canadians report 30 per cent more break-and-enters and vehicles thefts than in the U.S. (Now, isn't 'this' a sign of the times.. Interviews with literally hundreds of U.S. prison inmates have said they fear an armed homeowner more than the police. THAT'S why the break in rate lower in the U.S.A. than in Canada, and the U.K. Remember folks... Don't forget to dial 911 and spend the rest of your life waiting for someone to save you.. Also remember that if the home invader is armed, and it's not very likely he isn't, the police will wait outside your home until they feel it's safe to go in.. Just like they did for Marc Gamil Gharbi Lepine in Montreal.. I think the wait was 30 minutes or more... Got insurance? Nice to know it will cover your families funeral expenses. THANKS Allan,Jean,Paul, Annie...) TWENTY-TWO TIMES LIBERALS HAVE REFUSED TO REVEAL GUN REGISTRY COSTS! “Liberals have been keeping Parliament and the public in the dark since December 3, 2002!” Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Deputy House Leader and Official Opposition Justice Critic for Gun Control, provided everyone with a list of gun registry costs that the Liberals are still hiding from Parliament and the public. Since the Auditor General reported on this billion-dollar boondoggle on December 3, 2002, the Official Opposition has repeatedly asked the Prime Minister and Ministers in charge of this firearms fiasco to answer this one simple question: How much is it going to cost to fully implement the gun registry, and how much is it going to cost to maintain? “Liberals ridicule everyone else’s estimates but continually refuse to provide a truthful estimate of their own,” said Breitkreuz. “A billion dollars has been wasted – a full year ahead of government’s estimates uncovered by the Auditor General in December 2002. How many hundreds of millions more will be wasted before the gun registry is fully implemented? I don’t even think the Liberals know. Maybe that’s why they won’t answer our questions,” concluded Breitkreuz.(Well, Annie wants the CBC to show her their figures for the 2 billion dollar amount they claim this is going to cost. Why does she want to see 'their' figures? If she insists their wrong, then it would be a simple matter for her to trot out the 'real' numbers to dispute the CBC's numbers.. Nope, it ain't gonna happen.. Why? Because Garry is right, they either have no idea how much this farce is going to end up costing. Or, what is more likely, they 'do know', and they also know the public won't stand for 'another' exposed liberal waste so it stays a 'cabinet secret'. As a result, it will in all probability never 'end up' costing.. This useless squandering of tax dollars will continue as long as the Liberals feel the need to cast money to their friends and colleagues in order to get re-elected by the ignorant year after year! Perhaps the 'real' reason they want to see the CBC's numbers, is to give them a clue to what's really happening outside of the liberal dream world, and attempt to dispute them with the same bullshit rhetoric they've been hoarking out since day one! There is no way they will be back with a majority in the next election, and there is no way MP's like Annie will be elected now that the vote splitting is over. As long as the opposition keeps this information in the foreground, people will have to 'think' before they cast a ballot in the next federal election. Most of the 'new Canadians' that traditionally vote liberal, should consider the fact that they may have just 'left' a dictatorship.. Do they really want to be part of another one? If the liberals win this time, it will be a clear indication that they can do what ever the hell they want, with no consequences.. Except for perhaps a promotion as seen as normal punishment from within liberal ranks ) Martin takes heat in western Canada SASKATOON - Prime Minister Paul Martin heard heard looud and clear how western Canadians feel about a wide range of issues during an open-line radio show in Saskatoon today. Topics ranged from the gun registry and the ongoing mad cow crisis to the recent Liberal sponsorship scandal. "Alienation in this country exists because your Liberal party, by favouring Quebec, has demonstrated exactly who is more important to you and sure is not the west," said a caller named Helen from Saskatoon. People held a sign reading "Remember the firearms registry when you vote." A caller named Brian from Regina voiced his concerns over the gun registry directly to Martin. "I'm one of those typical alienated western rednecks. I own guns, I hunt and I trap. Could you please tell western Canada why Canada is safer now that your $2 billion government program knows about my guns," he said. Martin was also scheduled to make stops in The Pas and Thompson, Manitoba later Friday.(Unfortunately, no media printed the response to that last question! One thing that 'is' getting interesting, is the Trudeau..er Toronto Star has started leaning a little to the right since the change at the top! Could it be that even 'they' are seeing the Liberals for what they really are?) Liberals in line on gun registry Albina Guarnieri, in charge of reviewing the gun registry and control program, made it clear her mandate is to continue work on the registry, not scrap it. "The government's review of the gun registry is about building a better gun system," she said. "With this registry, gun (control) advocates will ensure that they have a sustainable system and owners of guns can expect a system that listens to their legitimate concerns." Liberal backbencher Paul Steckle, himself a fierce gun registry opponent, said it was na•ve to imagine the new government would allow free votes on money bills. "I have been here 10 years and that is not how it's done," said Steckle, a rural Ontario MP. "But I will work as long as I'm here to make sure the gun policy is changed to make it something that does not penalize law abiding firearms owners while putting money into programs that help tackle criminal use of firearms. I'm a persistent fellow." (Although this was posted by the Western Producer on the 17th it's hard to say what's actually going to happen! The Liberals are in free fall over, (compared to the waste of the gun registry), a measly 100 million dollars 'stolen', and laundered back into the liberal bank accounts through 'donations' . Out of the now approaching 2 BILLION dollar waste of the gun farce, it only stands to reason that this would be far too great a temptation 'not' to funnel at least 'some' to Liberal buddies and benefactors. Anyone that believes 'none' of this was used to the liberal party benefit, is welcome to bid on some warm sandy beach property in Iqaluit I 'might' be able to lay my hands on!) Breast cancer advocate Angela Vecchio-Ozmon dies HALIFAX - Angela Vecchio-Ozmon, a Nova Scotia woman who shared her experiences with breast cancer for more than two years on national television, died Thursday. She was 39. Vecchio-Ozmon was 34 when diagnosed with cancer. She agreed to let CBC Newsworld's show Health Matters follow her throughout her treatment. Her condition had remained stable until March 2003, when a series of tests showed the cancer was spreading. In 2002, St. Mary's University in Halifax presented her with the Distinguished Community Service Award. Vecchio-Ozmon is survived by two children, daughter Emma and son Griffin.(I'm sure woman all over Canada appreciate the fact that the Government has spent only a tiny, tiny, tiny, fraction of the same amount the gun registry has cost, on breast cancer research. Is this registry 'really' more important than the lives of hundred of women annually? The women that run the coalition for gun control seem to think so. After all, what's 'really' important to them, is that THEY get what THEY want, and the government is not publicly embarrassed for it's failures. Keep voting Liberal, and pretty soon cats and dogs will will be more important than your wives and daughters) If Chrétien was Teflon, Martin is Velcro Things could not have gone more wrong if his oldest enemy had deliberately schemed to do him in. In his dark nights of the soul, Paul must be wondering if that's exactly what happened. Look at the facts. This scandal was supposed to break in November, when you-know-who was still in charge. But he stepped down and dissolved Parliament early, so that the Auditor-General didn't have a chance to drop her stink bomb while he was still in the room. Everybody knew she was very, very cranky. Jean Chrétien, for one, knew exactly how cranky she was, because he had already been briefed on the report. But he wasn't there to take the heat or have his farewell party ruined, he'd already skipped town. When the bad stuff hit the fan, he was halfway round the world. No wonder he's known as the guy who drove the getaway car.(The proverbial 'lid' is still not completely off this steaming pile! The Canadian people have been 'serviced' by the Liberals for 10 years now. The problem has always been that 'city folks' have no idea of what the word 'service' really means, so they just bent over and were ..well... 'serviced' ... while the rest of us were screaming 'rape'. The interesting thing here is: One of them must have spoke to a farmer and found out what the true meaning of the word 'service' really is! They now know that the Liberals were experts, and only Liberal friends and benefactors were getting 'kissed' during these sessions.. As for 'Teflon Jean'? They say that burning teflon will wipe out birds.. I wonder what it will do to 'Purple with anger' Martins?) Finding funds to stay tough on crime As police board vice-chair Pam McConnell noted in a somewhat acidic introduction to the chief's presentation, little can be done to control policing costs in Toronto. Most of the overrun in the requested budget, which is $47-million higher than what budget chief David Soknacki wants to pay, is the unavoidable result of the officers' latest lucrative labour contract. Labour costs account for 92 per cent of the operating budget, she noted, which means that the city budget committee will have to find its $47-million savings from the $55-million that's left. Short of cancelling every police program apart from the payroll, it's not possible. The other problem, which is almost too obvious to mention, is that people want the services police provide. There is not a single elected politician in Toronto, at any level of government, who would dare to recommend a reduction in the service's current 5,260-person cohort of uniformed police officers -- or that it go soft on gun crime or child porn, not to mention the poisoning of yuppie dogs.(Amazing.. As a DIRECT result of urban votes, the Liberals have been able to suck almost 2 billion dollars from potential police and border security funding, and push it ALL into a 'feel good' liberal farce called the 'gun registry'. Poorly conceived, and promoted with phoney statistics, distortions, and outright lies. This liberal farce replaced a 'working' firearms control system, with a bureaucratic nightmare that has squandered and wasted hundreds of millions of more taxpayer dollars than the current headline scandal.. WAKE UP URBAN CANADA AND SMELL THE DECEPTION..Relief is coming to a polling both near YOU! Ten years has been long enough! ) Ooops!
HOWARD, Wis. (AP) - A man and his wife ducked behind a
refrigerator when bullets began exploding in their oven,
authorities say. Capt. Craig Kohlbeck of the Brown County Sheriff's Department
said the husband had put the ammunition and three handguns in the
oven before the couple left on a vacation.
He told officers he thought the items would be safe there in
case someone broke into the home while they were away.
After returning from their trip Tuesday, the wife turned on the
oven to prepare dinner and the bullets ignited, Kohlbeck said. No one was hurt.
(Nuthin says loving like sompthin from the oven eh!)
COST TO PRIVATIZE GUN REGISTRY
BALLOONS FROM $290 MILLION TO $371 MILLION“Not once in 9 years of tracking gun registry costs have I ever seen a ‘downward revision’.” Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Deputy House Leader and Official Opposition Justice Critic for Gun Control, released another gun registry document stamped “SECRET” by the government. This most recent “SECRET” report shows that the cost of privatizing the gun registry ballooned from $290 million to $371 million in just one year. “The most outrageous thing about this document is that these costs have never been reported to Parliament,” said Breitkreuz. “The second most outrageous thing revealed in these documents is that EDS Canada is still on the gun registry payroll. This is the same company that the Liberals paid $227 million to for the first gun registry computer system – a system that had to be completely replaced.”(Of the millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars wasted on this farce, the odds that a good few of those millions have, in all probability, also found their way into the pockets of friendly liberal supporters would seem to be pretty well certain! After all, it's the way they do business in Liberal Ottawa! This is an OBSCENE amount of money! The Liberals have PROVEN they help those, that help 'them' first. It's going to be great fun watching them spiral down out of control, while Martin tries vainly to stamp on the rudder peddle and crank the stick in the other direction... The crash is simply going to be beautiful!) Chretien deflects questions on spending scandal Former prime minister Jean Chretien finally reacted to the sponsorship scandal plaguing his successor. Chretien told CTV News that the new government of Paul Martin should now be doing the talking on the issue. Chretien says there's no need for him to explain anything about the sponsorship scandal because he's no longer the prime minister. "You know for forty years I replied to all your questions, now I'm no more the government," Chretien said, advising reporters to re-direct their questions. It was the former prime minister's first comment on the scandal that broke last week while he was on a business trip to China. Chretien's hands off approach is leaving Prime Minister Paul Martin to do all the talking -- a challenge he has taken up with some relish. He continued his media blitz in Quebec on Monday. "The Liberal party is not corrupt," Martin told a news conference in Quebec City, repeating his pledge to step down if an inquiry finds he's to blame.(Teflon Jean may not be able to side step this issue for long. This will eventually stick to him like the aggressive snot at a public gathering he can not simply wipe off on the back of the drapes. Paul Martin may not be 'entirely' to blame for 'this' bit of larceny, but he still has to explain how the few thousand dollars to 'his' shipping company, grew to MORE than 'this' current scandal has wasted. If most people didn't believe Canadian politics was so boring, this would make a good television movie.. The title "Swindlers List" comes to mind! IF the liberals lose the next election, I predict that it will be discovered, that Canada does NOT have a surplus of any kind left, I believe that a complete government audit by the 'new' government will actually show the country has been 'spent and squandered' back to a deficit situation, which has 'also' been hidden from the public by the liberals!) Pepper spray - the weapon of choice When three people wearing masks breezed into her Laval jewelry store last week, the owner initially thought it was a joke. "The next thing I knew they were breaking glass and they were spraying this stuff," said the owner, who did not want her name published. The trio's mode of operating is not unique. A new breed of criminal has emerged in Quebec, armed not with guns and knives, but with pepper spray. Those who cannot get their hands on the stuff - its use is prohibited under the Canadian criminal code - make do with bear or dog repellent, which can be easily purchased at camping and outdoors stores. A few days after the jewelry store heist, two young men pepper-sprayed an employee outside a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in Laval and stole the afternoon deposit. In the spring of 2002, Laval police also saw a rash of closing-time robberies at bars where pepper spray was used to ensure no one would be able to identify the suspects. "It's become a weapon of choice and it's not just in Laval," said Constable Marc Morel, a Laval police spokesperson.(Hmmm Pepper Spray! Just not for Chrétien's 'plate' anymore... Does this mean 'another' billion for a pepper registry? Will Wendy be able to transfer her phobias from the useless 'gun registry' to the offensive ownership of a pepper grinder defiantly used to 'load your own'? Stay tuned, this is nothing to sneeze at!) Canadians are Finaly Waking Up! Anger over scandal may be enough to send the Liberals packing The snowballing response to Auditor-General Sheila Fraser's report indicates she has tapped into a wave of profound cynicism and anger toward the federal Liberals that goes far beyond a particular scam involving a handful of advertising and communications firms in Quebec. That wave has so much fury, as Prime Minister Paul Martin found yesterday when he fended off questions for two hours on CBC Cross-Country Checkup, that the so-called sponsorship scandal may just have become the tipping point, that coalescence in the collective Canadian consciousness of the notion that it is time to throw the rascals out. (Think of the pipeline scandal in the 1950s, when an all-powerful Liberal government facing a puny opposition was brought down, not because of the advance payment for a few sections of steel pipe, but because it came to symbolize a government's arrogance.)(Well, lets see what we can do to get History to repeat itself...) Gun registry cost soars to $2 billion MONTREAL - Canada's controversial gun registry is coosting taxpayers far more than previously reported, CBC News has learned. Nearly $2 billion has either been spent on or committed to the federal program since it was introduced in the mid-1990s, according to documents obtained by Zone Libre of CBC's French news service. The figure is roughly twice as much as an official government estimate that caused an uproar across the country. The gun registry was originally supposed to cost less than $2 million. In December 2002, Auditor General Sheila Fraser revealed that the program would run up bills of at least $1 billion by 2005. But the calculations remained incomplete, so CBC News obtained documents through the Access to Information Act and crunched the numbers. A large part of the $2 billion expense is a computer system that's supposed to track registered guns, according to one document. Officials initially estimated it would cost about $1 million. Expenses now hover close to $750 million and the electronic system is still not fully operational. (Well, it looks as if Chrétien has just crapped in a bag, lit it on fire, and left it on Martins doorstep... The sneaky little prick snuck out the first chance he got after reading Frasers report in November.. He finaly has a legacy worthy of him.. The leader of the most corrupt govenment in Canadian History! And of course, the recent Chretian Quote "I was the government, I replied to all your questions--a lot of them. Now if you have questions, ask the government," Yup, it's like he just farted in the elevator..then walked out as the doors closed!!) Straight-talking Fraser strikes fear on the Hill OTTAWA -- Auditor-General Sheila Fraser has become a folk hero across Canada for her blunt criticism of government misspending, but inside Ottawa she's feared as much as she is admired for her scathing commentary and far-reaching probes. "That's demagoguery, not democracy," Prof. Sutherland, who resides in Ottawa, says of the office's sprawling mandate, which she says has edged out non-government MPs as the real opposition and has "sucked the oxygen out of Parliament." Prof. Sutherland also is worried about what she calls "moral essays" penned by the auditor-general's office that stray beyond the facts and figures that could be considered the regular domain of auditors. Ms. Fraser yesterday defended her mandate and style, saying it's her office's prerogative to investigate spending where it sees fit, and to present its findings in easily understandable prose(The 'entire' problem for the Liberals, is that she has them nailed down tight, caught with their hands in the public trough, for 'their own' benefit. This government has been depicted as the most corrupt Canadian government in living memory. If it were not for people like Ms. Fraser, our country would be bankrupt, and the liberal party the richest political party this country has ever endured, it's already the most dictatorial. Mr. 'deficit' Martin, has even invoked 'closure' six days into his new job.. How's 'that' for a freer democracy.. Liberal Style..) Most of us couldn't care less? The silver lining may be that the latest revelations from the auditor general will finally embarrass many in the business community and the media who propagate the myth that the Liberals have been stellar financial managers. They have been good financial managers in the same way that Bill Clinton has been a pillar of marital fidelity. Despite the determination of the Liberals to distance their leader from this sordid mess, the fact is that through it all Paul Martin was the finance minister and senior representative on the Treasury Board. Upon retiring, former auditor general Denis Desautel asked, "Why do these problems seem so intractable? Why do they persist year after year, despite express commitments to set them right?" The answer is straightforward: Most of us couldn't care less.(This government has been so corrupt, people are starting to take notice. One of the smartest things the Conservatives could do during the next election, is to produce a pamphlet, hell, it might even be a book, outlining the waist. Just outlining the major 'indisputable waste' item by item, uncovered in several Auditor Generals reports of Liberal waste and patronage, should be enough to motivate 'any' taxpayer into dumping the liberals in much the same way Mulroney's bunch got dumped. ) Ottawa's foibles are tiny viewed from The West This is, I recognize, a Western view, one jaundiced by geography. It is one my Eastern brethren might tsk-tsk, given the Richter-like tremors rocking Ottawa this week. But Westerners have been saying as much, and screaming as much, and futilely marking as much on their Anybody But Grits ballots for years in the belief that the federal Liberals are sons-of-bitches who could not be trusted with the Sunday collection plates, much less a country. It is not a new thought here. Antipathy for Ottawa's Liberals is so much of the fabric of B.C. life that it has become the radio call-in-show cliche, the cry of the tiresome bore. Yes, ma'am, the Liberals are damn crooks. Yes, ma'am, taxation is theft. Yada yada yada. Next caller, please. One might as well be talking about the weather.(Fortunately, a LOT of People in Ontario are starting to think like Westerners.. and thankfully, it's happening close to a election call! At least we 'think' it's close to an election call.. If Martin wants to prove anything to the people, (much like Chrétien's lying 'we are honest' campaign) He should call an election SOON.. Let him face a 'confidence vote' from the people his government is screwing!) .Canadian Opposition Says Martin Ducks Controversy OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian opposition parties think they have finally found a chink in Prime Minister Paul Martin's electoral armor: the new leader's penchant for calling inquiries which allow him to duck tough issues for now. Martin, who took over from fellow Liberal Jean Chretien as prime minister in December, would like to capitalize on an overwhelming lead in the polls with a May election. But on half a dozen controversial topics he has set up inquiries or reviews which are likely to report only after the spring. He announced the latest on Tuesday to follow up on a separate inquiry on the misuse of public advertising funds. "Having inquiries one piled on top of the other, all of which will probably report after the election, is pretty shameless politics," Jack Layton, leader of the minority New Democratic Party, told reporters. Martin's team bristles at the idea that things are being put off till later. (Gee!! Perhaps what Martin need now, is an inquiry into why he's calling so many inquires.. Which ALL, by the way, put more even 'more' money into the pockets of liberal faithfuls) Liberal core voters now the only supporters of gun registry The real reason Liberals like McLellan continue to cling to the registry farce can also be seen inside the Ipsos-Reid poll numbers. "Older Canadians are more likely to want the federal gun registry to be dumped than the younger ... Men are also more apt than women to want ... (it) scrapped (58 per cent of men vs. 46 per cent of women)." Rural Canadians are more in favour of ending the registry than urban Canadians, Canadians outside central Canada are more in favour than those in Ontario and Quebec, and those without university degrees want the registry dumped more than those with degrees. In other words, the registry remains popular only with younger, university-trained, female voters in big cities in Central Canada. But those voters are the Liberal base. So the registry also remains popular with the Liberal government, even if all other Canadians long ago came to see it for the sham it is. (University educated also support it because of the length of time in school, where most of the weaker minded souls have been thoroughly brainwashed by liberal thinking professors. When McGuinty..Oops sorry...McYuppy.. Was elected in Ontario, a shadow vote was generated by schools all across Ontario, where 'surprise' not a single conservative was elected.. The Teachers and public servants are just now, facing the real McYuppy.. And they sure don't like what they see, now that the election camouflage has been scraped off...) Liberals Pilfering the Public Purse..'Again'.. 13 cases land in RCMP's lap And what an unlucky number it is! "This is a scandal of major proportions," said Conservative party MP John Williams. "This is worse than the gun registry because the gun registry was incompetence; this is downright illegal activity." Williams said the RCMP is in a "serious and complete conflict of interest" when it comes to investigating the circumstances around what he called its own $1.5 million "slush fund.""It's the RCMP and it's their reputation that's on the line."In the Commons, the Bloc Québécois's Richard Marceau accused the RCMP of being "involved in the scandal.""The RCMP was part of the problem. It was part of the system," Marceau said. "Does the Prime Minister understand that the RCMP has no credibility to investigate the government and the Liberal Party of Canada? It was walking hand-in-hand with them."(Well, "Who ya gonna call" now? What's the bet that Martin 'postpones' the election call expected this spring? Martin's comment, that says he was unaware of any of this, is not only patently absurd because he was the Finance Minister at the time, but, if it's 'true' he was unaware, it only means that this man is totally incompetent to run this country! How will the Liberals exist, now that their under the table, embezzled from taxpayers, 'slush funds', are falling one by one? If the Liberals 'do' win another majority in the future election, 'whenever', Canadians will truly have branded themselves as pathetic sheep, stupid enough to lose whatever democracy they still retain, and forever to be 'herded' to the left...But WAIT!!! Theres a poll on the Globe with the Question "Do you believe Prime Minister Martin was, at the time, unaware of the spending irregularities cited in the Auditor-General's report?" As I write this, the poll says 24% say yes he was unaware, and 76% say NO, he knew all about it! I think the Liberals are trying to pull the wool for the last time, And if the government wants the gun registry financing to be a 'confidence vote' then so be it.. Call a god damn election NOW, see if the PEOPLE have any confidence left in this bunch!) PETA's(People Eating Tasty Animals) debeaking ad nixed (Canoe Link, will vanish with in 24hrs. or less) An anti-meat commercial showing a chick being debeaked has run afoul of the organization that clears TV ads for Canada's private broadcasters. Although the 30-second spot by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals  is running on some
American stations, the group says the Television Bureau of Canada
decided the commercial was "just too graphic." PETA has also launched a
billboard campaign in Edmonton and Victoria showing a machine-gun-toting cartoon chicken and the line, "If the cow doesn't
get you, I might." Those ads
won' be coming to a billboard in Winnipeg any time soon. PETA's website
reports the ads were rejected by all outdoor advertising companies
here.(Well, someone left the tent unlocked, and all the circus freaks escaped again.
My company received an email from someone at PETA the other day asking
if we would be willing to give them a discount on promotional products,
buttons etc.. Biting my tongue harder than I have ever done before, I
replied with a one word response.. NO ! I couldn't give a 'rats ass' if
we made thousands on them. People or organizations that make a point of
scaring children by issuing crap like their latest comic title "Your
Mommy Kills Animals" should be shunned as the sick bunch of misfits
they actually are) NB ignores Ottawa's gun law FREDERICTON — Justice Minister Brad Green is defending his government's decision to stop prosecuting federal gun registry offences, even though he doesn't know how much time or money the province is saving by ignoring the rules. Last August, the New Brunswick government announced it would no longer prosecute violations of the federal gun registry law, because it was too time consuming and too expensive. CBC Radio asked the Department of Justice for statistics to back that up. But it turns out there hadn't been any prosecutions to consume the department's time and no way to measure the projected cost savings. Green says Ottawa should pay for the prosecutions, because the gun law was developed by the federal government. "This is something that was not developed in consultation with the province, and if the federal government wishes to see these matters prosecuted, I think it's reasonable that the federal government should pay for it." The province will still lay charges if a non-registered gun is used in a crime, but will let non-registration offences slide, if that's the only crime.(The 'criminal use' of a firearms 'should' be the only thing prosecuted) Seize Freedom Australia’s gun ban and gun registry has been declared a colossal failure that squandered billions, while more and more gun crime sickened their society.As of last week, Canada’s gun ban and gun registry has been declared a colossal failure that squandered billions, while more and more gun crime sickened their society. England’s gun ban and gun registry has been declared a colossal failure that squandered billions, while more and more gun crime sickened their society. South Africa’s gun ban and gun registry has been declared a colossal failure that squandered billions, while more and more gun crime sickened their society. But in America, since 1991, the number of privately owned firearms grew by about 70 million guns. In America, since 1991, the number of states with Right-to-Carry more than doubled, from 17 to 37 states. In America, since 1991, the percentage of the American population living in Right to Carry states doubled from 30% to 60%. So we have more guns, more gun owners, more citizens carrying guns, and more citizens living among citizens carrying guns.... And what’s the effect on crime? In America, since 1991, the total violent crime rate has been cut 35%, dropping every single year to a 30-year low. Murder, down 43%. Rape, down 22%. Aggravated assault, down 28%. Robbery, down 47%. (As you can see, the Liberal plan seems to be 'give criminals the edge'.. Anne McLellan, during her first stint at 'just-us' minister, supported the liberal view of the gun registry by saying SHE DOES NOT WANT TO SEE 'HERE' WHAT YOU SEE IN THE UNITED STATES. In other words, the government want YOU to be dependant on the 'state' for your protection. Look at the liberal record: Prison inmates now have the right to vote! C68 'clearly' targets only farmers, hunters, and other sports shooters, while so called 'mandatory' sentences for the use of a gun during a crime are 'always' the first to be bargained away. They banned the relatively low powered, and inaccurate .25 and .32 cal. handguns, and handguns with barrel lengths of under 105 mm.. So now, the criminals have much better access to much more powerful and accurate firearms with longer barrels.. The only thing missing so far, is what the U.K. has, and that's the crime of using a gun against a criminal 'even a toy gun' to cause the criminal 'fear'.. Absolutely insane...) Liberal MPs fear scathing auditor's report could hurt election chances OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal MPs say they fear an explosive auditor general's report Tuesday could erase a decade's worth of credibility on fiscal issues and put the party on fragile footing on the eve of an expected federal election. Quebec MP Nick Discepola said Sheila Fraser's long-awaited report on the federal sponsorship and advertising scandal could have an immeasurable impact, and the mood among MPs is one of "great apprehension." "The anticipation is that it will be a very scathing report attacking the credibility that it took us 10 years to build. "Up until this point, we've always been perceived by the Canadian public as very sound prudent administrators. And if all of a sudden this amount (of misspent money) comes out, it doesn't matter if it's $50 million or $100 million . . . It will hurt us. "Eventually, we're going to really, really suffer the consequences at the polls."(Oh 'Really'? And in 'what' mythical world did the Liberals get this "credibility on fiscal issues"? These clowns are living in a dream world. They actually think Canadians perceive them as prudent handlers of the public purse! Hell, even the N.D.P. could have balanced the budget during the time Martin was frittering away BILLIONS that could have 'deleted' the national debt! I couldn't think of a BETTER time for this kind of report to be pushed to the front. The Billion Dollar waste of the gun registry is only one of the bigger squanderings.. At least I hope it is.. But who knows what these weasels are hiding in their burrows... We may be about to find out!) PM may recall Gagliano from Denmark OTTAWA - As federal Liberals prepare for the release of what's expected to be another scathing report on government spending, speculation is growing about the future of a Canadian ambassador. Alfonso Gagliano used to be minister of Public Works, but two years ago he was dropped from cabinet by then-prime minister Jean Chrétien during a scandal over a federal contracts program. He became the ambassador to Denmark. Opposition parties have been demanding that Gagliano be recalled since his appointment. They argue that he should be held accountable for a federal advertising and sponsorship program severely criticized by the auditor general. But Chrétien stood firmly by his old minister. But in 2002, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser said bureaucrats had broken countless rules in awarding contracts. Police were then called in when doubts were raised about certain payments. Millions of dollars had been given to ad firms with ties to the Liberal party, but it was unclear whether some work had actually been performed, investigators said. (Ahh it's not going to be a good day for the Liberals, and their pulling back this Chrétien protected 'ambassador' to take most of the heat and deflect most of the fire from Martin and the weasels.. Why this may even postpone the election call if it gets too messy. The last thing Martin wants is a fresh view of liberal squanderings right before an election!) The Sanity of Self-Defense I have been called numerous things in the many years I have spent embroiled in various causes; but, until a couple of years ago I had never been called a gun wacko. Oddly enough I was labeled as such because of something I wrote that advocated individuals taking responsibility for their own defense. Because I encourage people to educate themselves in the area of self-defense, to avoid finding themselves at the mercy of criminals and over-zealous bureaucrats, I was labeled a gun nut. So, that is how it is these days? If you encourage people to defend themselves, you are some sort of mentally-challenged individual best suited for a private, padded room? My how times have changed. I am not a nut and I am certainly not a wacko, I am just a realist. I do not buy the propaganda that strict gun registration or stiffer penalties imposed by a myriad of new laws will put a stop to violence in our society. I do not believe the lie that government can protect my family and I from that portion of society that chooses to live outside the limits of the law. As long as human beings inhabit the earth, some will always seek to do each other some amount of harm. The only sane reaction to this stark reality is to prepare a proper self-defense. As I have said before many times, "Enough is enough! Buy a gun, the life you save will probably be your own or that of someone you love."(Well Said! Whether Canadian or American, the choice to NOT be a victim is yours!) Bank Robbers Love Gun Control, Group Says A pro-Second Amendment group says bank robberies have tripled in New York City over the last three years, because it is easier to rob a bank than it is to legally own a firearm in the Big Apple. "Thugs thrive where law-abiding gun owners are scarce, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. In many cases, Gottlieb noted, the New York City crooks aren't even using guns. "They just stroll into a bank, hand the teller a note, and walk out with the loot." Because it's unlikely that bank robbers will encounter any resistance from armed citizens, they have good job security, Gottlieb added.(In Canada, the police are always advising to give the thief what he wants, don't resist. Bullshit.. If your fit and able, and unless the gun is pointed right at your head, I say surprise the hell out of him and attack. Part his skull with a 'fish bat' (small and handy). If he says he's armed, then anything you do will be self defence. The law does NOT say you HAVE to be a victim. If more thugs got a rap in the skull with a bat, more thugs would think twice about attacking you.) Bellesiles Misfires An antigun "scholar" as today's Galileo? Oh please, just shoot me. History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles. The officials of the prestigious Bancroft Prize stripped him of his award, he left Emory and Knopf chose to stop publishing his book. Most of us sighed happily and figured that was the end of that academic scandal. But oh, no. It turns out that Mr. Bellesiles is still riding his dead horse, his nonexistent guns still blazing. Soft Skull Press (which takes pride in putting out books that other publishers avoid like ricin) has not only agreed to reissue "Arming America" but has decided to release Mr. Bellesiles's latest response to his critics. This 59-page pamphlet, "Weighed in an Even Balance," is a spirited attempt by Mr. Bellesiles to turn himself into the world's latest misunderstood genius. As such, it's worth reading for pure entertainment value. As the old saying goes: "To be a persecuted genius, you not only have to be persecuted; you also have to be right." (Isn't it amazing, that virtually 'every' book, article, and pamphlet put out by organizations who's sole existence depends on firearms paranoia, has been thoroughly debunked, as being based on poor statistics, false information, and outright lies. The liberals use of all of these elements was obvious to all but the ignorant while forcing bill c68, the billion dollar firearms farce though parliament.) 'Happiness is a warm gun' (The Jamaica Observer) The words at the head of this article come from John Lennon, the most famous of the pop group known as the Beatles, and many Jamaicans seem to have taken the message to heart. For how else can you explain the proliferation of guns in the society and the casual way in which they are used - almost in the manner of a dinner-table implement. Almost without fail, the radio newscasts and newspaper front pages serve up a daily diet of shootings, some in a quite brutal fashion. Almost no one seems immune, even old, harmless people and children sleeping in their beds far away from the front lines of the drug and gang wars. As a youngster the only guns I would sometimes see were rifles carried by soldiers on parade, or the odd shotgun some people used to shoot birds. Handguns were extremely rare - the only other people I saw carrying them were paymasters visiting work locations to issue the regular paybill in cash. Most policemen didn't carry guns - hardly any even knew how to use the confounded things.(Reading this, it's hard to believe that Jamaica, being a small island, with some of the 'strictest' gun control and highest licensing fees in the world, is literally awash with guns and criminals! Well, maybe its not so strange, seeing that every other place in the world with very strict gun control laws is also awash with guns and criminals. Could this be due to the fact that the vast majority of their citizens are law abiding, and therefore unarmed, and make very easy pickings? ) House leader contradicts own parliamentary secretary on database's demise The comments contradict Saada's parliamentary secretary Roger Gallaway, who had suggested recently that MPs may kill the registry in the coming weeks simply by voting to cut off its funding. The role of MPs in reviewing government spending has been a central part of the campaign to reform Parliament and Saada's remarks left MPs confused as to the government's commitment to free votes. Saada argued that spending estimates are on par with budget votes and must be considered matters of confidence in the government, meaning a government defeat would trigger a national election. However, there are examples throughout parliamentary history of MPs reducing spending estimates for individual departments without causing an election. Conservative MP John Williams said he suspects Saada and Prime Minister Paul Martin are purposely confusing the large budget votes and the individual spending estimates to avoid giving MPs true influence over government. "The budget is a confidence vote because it is the fundamental core of government , (but) there's $180-billion of line-by-line estimates. The stack is three feet high and surely there is one in there that the government would gladly get rid of themselves if somebody had the guts to stand up and say 'I move we delete or eliminate program a, b or c.' It's got nothing to do with confidence." He said allowing free votes on the estimates would allow MPs to reduce government waste and mismanagement. NDP MP Pat Martin, a member of the government estimates committee and a gun registry supporter, said he was surprised that Saada would not commit to free votes on all estimates. "No sooner is the ink dry on the pages of the speech from the throne and they're already starting to introduce qualifiers and weasel words associated with what they really mean," he said. (I believe the 'Martin' is a member of the weasel family is it not? So the words certainly fit. If a free vote is not allowed on this 'estimate' then there is truly no hope for democratic reform of any kind under the Liberals. Voting to continue the waste of this farce, means voting to continue the under the table funding of the parasites that also feed off it. The Coalition for Gun Control is one of them. The CGC is registered as a N.G.O. or 'Non Governmental Organization' that is in fact, financially supported by the liberal government in the form of grants etc.. Your tax dollars are also supporting these parasites in a symbiotic relationship with the firearms act. If the firearms act ever makes it before the Supreme Court of Canada, it will never survive, and the parasites that feed from it will disperse to form yet another organization feeding off yet another section of the 'grief industry'. If any organization, 'can not' exist without government grants, then it's not wanted or needed by the general public. If there is no free vote on this, then Roger Galloway,Parliamentary Secretary for Democratic Reform, should take this as the slap in the face it really is, tell the government to 'stick' its phoney "democratic reform", and cross the floor to the Conservatives. THERE, he will make a difference. If he does not, then as a Secretary, he will be FORCED to vote yes, and continue this useless waste of ANOTHER billion dollars. I'm sure his constituents will make their feelings known in the upcoming election, whether it's triggeredby a confidence vote or not.) Wrongfully Dismissed and Persecuted. By Liberal Command? MONTREAL - François Beaudoin, the bank executive at the centre of the "Shawinigate" loan controversy surrounding former prime minister Jean Chrétien, has won a wrongful dismissal suit against the Business Development Bank of Canada. Justice André Denis of Quebec Superior Court ruled that Beaudoin must have his $200,000 annual pension and $245,000 severance reinstated. "The court considers that Mr. Beaudoin suffered an unspeakable injustice as a result of this matter," he said. "He was unfairly deprived of all of his sources of revenue." Beaudoin had argued he was the victim of a political attack and had been forced to resign from the bank he once headed.(I guess this is what happens when you screw with Chrétien.. Point the finger at him, and he uses all his power, like any liberal leader would, to have you persecuted for as long as possible. THIS is the type of government we have currently residing in Ottawa.. Democratic reform on the horizon? Not F..n Likely!) The Opportunistic Rats are infesting the Good Ship Hypocrite OTTAWA - Former Tory MP John Herron announced Friday that he will switch political sides in the coming federal election, seeking the Liberal nomination in his New Brunswick riding of Fundy-Royal. "After careful consideration, I have decided that as a Red Tory, the Martin Liberals represent my values and vision for the future of Canada," Herron said in a news release. "Under the activist agenda of the prime minister, I will be more able to help my riding, my region and students." He defeated Liberal MP Paul Zed to take the seat in 1997, riding a wave of anti-gun-control anger in the traditionally Tory riding.(Well, Looks who's going to be carried 'out' of Ottawa, riding 'another' big wave .. Why look! It's John Herron, surfing along on the Good Ship Hypocrite.... I guess the values and visions he want to convey are lies, squandering, patronage, and of course, the vision of hopelessness for ALL his constituents.. His ass is grass in Fundy-Royal!) Liberal MPs would have to toe the party line on a gun-registry vote OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin's promise to allow more free votes in Parliament does not appear to include the gun registry. Government House leader Jacques Saada said Thursday that anything to do with fundamental positions of the government would not be subject to a free vote. Free votes allow MPs to vote as they wish, not follow the party line. Saada was asked about a free vote on more money for the gun registry after he spoke at the National Press Club. He said any budget issue would be one of confidence and "My answer is no."(Well, there you have it.. The ghost of Chrétien's past! Unless Liberal backbenchers 'grow a spine' the wasteful, dictatorial policy of the Liberal government will continue. Your Liberal MP does not, and will not represent 'you'. Your M.P. 'MUST' represent the party line regardless of what the 'clear majority' of Canadians want. I don't know how many Liberal M.P.s read this stuff, I know 'some' do, and to those I say:-- So What if it's a confidence vote! -- What have you got to lose? An election is to be called in the spring anyway! Show your constituents that YOU have a spine.. Vote what your constituents want 'just this once'. PROVE to your constituents that YOU are fiscally responsible. Either VOTE NO to this upcoming money bill, or do ALL Canadians a favour and STAY HOME.. The political credibility you save may be your own!) And Martin Blathers On... (Canoe Link, will vanish with in 24hrs. or less) OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Paul Martin reversed a government promise to pull all Canadian soldiers out of Kabul this summer. Martin said he'll yank back only 1,500 of the 2,000 Canadian soldiers serving in Kabul when they reach the end of their six-month rotation this summer. Martin also opened the door to increasing the size of the military, admitting that the ranks will need to be swollen to "make sure we're ready to fight the next threat." Also, during the meeting, Martin turned down requests to scrap the controversial gun registry, but promised to clean up the program's overspending and make it easier to register weapons. (Seeing that virtually anything can be a weapon, what does he plan on registering now? Acting like a 'true' Liberal, 'he just doesn't get it'.. The registry does not need to be "cleaned up" it needs to be dumped, and the majority of Canadians agree! How can you "clean up" overspending that has already occurred. The only way, is to eliminate the overspending department! Blowing another 100 million a year on a liberal pipe dream/fairytale will not make anyone safer, or save even a single life. The deception of this Liberal Farce can not continue, while other, far more worthwhile programs, languish. To continue the unsubstantiated propaganda that 90% of the firearms and 80+ percent of the owners are registered is a complete fallacy, believed only by those parasitic organizations and friends of the government, that feed off the tax dollars spilling out of the Liberal trough.. This can be proven. Every single writer of any 'letter to the editor', that has been published in any newspaper saying the gun registry should be supported, comes from people who are directors, or card carrying members of the Coalition for Gun Control. This organization has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Federal Government simply to be public cheerleader for this failed program. .. Think I'm wrong? Do a 'Google search' on any name, of any letter supporting the registry, with +"coalition for gun control" and you will get 'hits' outlining their association.. Every single time... Coincidence? I think not... Mr. Martin! Canadians are not as stupid as you seem to think they are, and this will certainly be affirmed in the next election!) Martin rides the Liberal horse of many colours The 'good' the 'Bad' and the 'Ugly' The Good: A renewed commitment to not go into deficit. America faces a strangling deficit of $500-billion US in the wake of George W. Bush's huge tax cuts. Even his fellow Republicans complain of a scam strategy that will see their deficit chain soon hit trillions of greenbacks.- A start on the "new deal" for cities and towns by ending GST collection on municipal purchases, saving them$7 billion over 10 years. Martin commits to more in the form of gas-tax money or a fiscal equivalent; provinces whining about jurisdiction should get on side.The Bad: Nary a throne speech peep about marijuana decriminalization, the gun registry or same-sex marriage. Duck! Cover! Run for the hills! - A new Health Canada audit detailing a ministry OK of $1.2-million in vacation pay and perks ($153,000 in Caribbean jewelry) for the head of a Manitoba addictions centre. The guy faces fraud charges and the rules are (ahem) tighter now. Are we feeling warm and fuzzy? Now, a drumroll for The Ugly. - Martin resembles a Zeppelin full of hydroogen with his ultra-lame denials of any knowledge of Canada Steamship Lines contracts with Ottawa. A year ago the government claimed the deals totalled $137,000; now it's $161 million. "Somebody should have spoken out," Martin told the House. Well of course -- somebody like Paul Martin. - On the Arar inquiry, Martin initially claimed he was waiting for a report by the RCMP Public Complaints Commission -- but it never launched an Arar probe.(Something Liberal Governments always need, A fist full of dollars, then a Few dollars more... and more...and more.. and more..and more...and more) N.Z. Gun Control Coalition Renews Gun Law Reform Press Release: Coalition for Gun Control (i.e. propaganda that no one cares about) New Zealand's gun control laws are lax in comparison with most other developed nations and are second only to those in the United States. The 1997 Thorp report which was commissioned by the then National government, cost the nation $1 million and took the retired High Court judge a year to complete. It produced a number of key recommendations to make major changes to existing gun laws. This included tightened provisions for vetting and licensing of gun owners with more stingent rules for secure storage. It also recommended a three year licensing period for gun owners instead of the current ten years - in other countries such Australia, Canada and the U.K. there is a five year license period. A key recommendation was that all firearms be registered to their owners in addition to owner licensing.(Didn't N.Z. go through all this crap years ago, and then come to the conclusion that gun registries were pretty well useless, and repealed it? Now these 'Coalition for gun control' paranoids are off again? I assume to gather government funding they need a cause, and whether the idea works or not, much like the 'Canadian Coalition for gun control', the funding is what they 'really' want.. These plans rarely save any lives at all, and because the result usually ends up confiscating guns from the public, the now unarmed public sees a HUGE increase in violent crime just like it has 'everywhere' else these lame brains get their way.. They keep saying, "If it saves only one live", but what about the lives it's 'costing'? I guess 'they' don't count..) Martin democratic reform plan won't give MPs full freedom OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin's promise to make Parliament more democratic starts taking shape Wednesday with the tabling of an "action plan" to allow more free votes, but not for all MPs and only on some issues. Insiders say that, under the plan to be presented by Jacques Saada, the government House leader in the Commons, cabinet ministers will still have to toe the line on virtually all legislation. Some of the parliamentary secretaries who assist ministers in their duties may also be bound by party discipline. The long-term impact of the reforms will be hard to gauge because the judgment on how tightly to hold the reins on allowing free votes will be made case by case as each measure comes before the House. "For every bill and every motion we're going to have to make a decision," said one strategist. "And we'd like to involve pretty much everybody in the consultation." That means nobody can say yet how much leeway backbenchers will have on hot-button issues like decriminalizing marijuana, legalizing same-sex marriage or maintaining funding to the federal gun registry. (In other words, business as usual.. Follow the party line which is basically, Martin saying as Chretien did: "My way of the Hi-way". Some reform?.. Another standard Liberal dictatorship!) Crime gangs get free roam on Canada Indian reserves The Jan. 12 arson attack caused the chief and his family to flee for their lives from this Mohawk enclave about 30 miles west of Montreal. And as the flames shot into the night sky, gangs of self-described "warriors" -- many with reputed ties to biker gangs that control drug trafficking and other smuggling in Canada -- blockaded local roads. Then, for 36 hours they besieged the tribal police chief and more than 50 Indian law officers inside their barracks. Anywhere else in North America, the incident would have triggered a massive police response, with tactical squads quelling the disturbance and teams of investigators pouring in to determine how law and order could go so horribly awry. But this is Indian territory, where Canadian elected leaders -- as well as federal and provincial police agencies -- dare not tread because of political sensitivities, according to police, analysts of Indian policy, and the few Indians willing to risk retaliation by speaking out against the increasing lawlessness on some reserves. "If they can burn out a chief, they can burn out anyone," said a 46-year-old Mohawk woman in Kanesatake who, with her grown daughter, spoke briefly with a reporter after insisting on anonymity. "People who want a normal life are frightened. But there is nowhere for us to turn. The smugglers, and the pot growers, and the goons for the Hells do whatever they please."(Now, all they need is a Casino, and a Whorehouse! They have everything else. The Liberals will probably find the resources to give them a 'grant' .. God forbid we piss off the Indians! After all, they 'do' give those poor fellows in the Hells Angels a place to call home! I guess it's unfortunate that 'they' don't have an old brewery that can be converted to 'agricultural uses' such as the old Molsons one in Barrie Ontario! I hear they buried most of 'that' crop in the dump rather than burning it. That, would result in a weather report showing a 'high' moving over Southern Ontario!) 52% of Canadians Say Dump the Registry According to an Ipsos-Reid-Globe and Mail-CTV survey released yesterday, 48 per cent of Canadians agree that Mr. Martin's health care plans are good, while 30 per cent do not view his plans positively. Twenty-two per cent did not volunteer an opinion. "People are adopting a wait-and-see approach," on Mr. Martin's health care plan, Darrell Bricker of Ipsos-Reid said. "The numbers are polite at best." The poll also found a majority of Canadians want to see the gun registry dismantled and the country is still split on the issue of same-sex marriage -- two other hot-button issues faced by Mr. Martin's government. Poll results: Guns; marriage and health care 1,000 people were read the following statements about Canada's new Prime Minister, Paul Martin, and they were asked if they agreed or disagreed. Should get rid of Canada's federal gun registry :52% agree; 43% disagree; 5% don't know, refused Should change Canada's marriage laws to include same sex couples: 47% agree; 48% disagree; 5% don't know Has a good plan for dealing with our health care system: 48% agree; 30% disagree; 22% don't know, refused (Governments only listen to whom they agree with. Makes no difference whether their right or wrong.. If Martin thinks he can win more votes in Ontario and Quebec, then he will go with that.. It's not about 'Canadians' It's about the Liberal Party. I'm sure all those that think Martin is a big improvement, were polled before the news that he gave his shipping company 48 Million while 'he' was finance minister, to total ANOTHER 1000% more than they told the public about. It's amazing how they can keep making these 1000% errors, and stupid people in Urban Ontario and Quebec keep voting for them!) Gun registry rests on free vote 'Financial malnutrition' could kill beleaguered program, MP contends OTTAWA -- The final battle over the $1-billion federal gun registry is set to be waged during the next two months, with a senior Liberal MP telling constituents he believes the controversial program may die of "financial malnutrition" after a free vote in the Commons. Sarnia, Ont., MP Roger Gallaway, designated by Prime Minister Paul Martin as the parliamentary secretary for democratic reform, says he expects the government to allow a free vote when a request for more funding is presented to parliament during government estimates in March. Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, who has relentlessly attacked the program over the decade since it was launched by former prime minister Jean Chretien, says he expects nearly 50 Liberal MPs will side with opposition Conservative MPs to refuse the funding. NDP MPs from Western Canada may also vote against the registry or abstain. Breitkreuz says several Bloc Quebecois MPs also oppose the program and would vote against funding if they also have a free vote. The leading advocate for the registry, Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for Gun Control, calls the prospect of its demise "tragic" and accuses Martin and his government of undermining the program through anonymous leaks about a current review of the scheme. She also criticized the January declaration by Albina Guarnieri, the minister for emergency preparedness who is reviewing the program, that all options are open. Cukier expressed frustration at the meagre resources available to mount a last-minute lobbying campaign to retain the program. She accused the government of failing to communicate positive aspects to the public and MPs. (The 'meagre resources' she laments, is the continued half million dollar 'funding' her group will now NOT receive from the government. It's very, very, hard to "communicate positive aspects" when those "positive aspects" are all contained with-in imagination, and manipulated statistics. Her Problem is that she's been dealing in these lies for so long, she now actually believes them herself! Will the new 'Just-Us' Minister do what was done the last time a money vote was pulled from the table, and rob other departments to keep funding this mess? Any Liberal that would vote to keep dumping money into this mess is so far out of touch with the people, they have no right to run in any future election. I would suspect, that Martin will do what was done before, and pull this bill. To declare it a money bill, and therefore a 'confidence vote' would make no difference this close to an election.. If indeed he calls one at all!) Canadian politics as Reality TV reruns As Canadians anticipate today's Throne Speech and a probable spring election, we have a tycoon Prime Minister leading the Liberals and the possibility of a telegenic youthful blond female leader for the Conservatives. This season, federal politics brings us a combination of two reality shows that bombed last time they aired. It's déjà vu all over again: I watched, with fascinated dread, when John Turner took over the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1984. The longtime heir-apparent promptly called an election and led the Liberals to their greatest election defeat in the 20th century. Now Paul Martin is the new leader, and I have to wonder: is he destined for the same fate? Admittedly, John Turner was rusty when he became Prime Minister, whereas Paul Martin is oh-so-smooth. But, like Turner, Martin seems to think the whole world functions like the Old Boys' Club — the constituency he knows best.(It's February the 2nd, and as the 'Martin' sticks his head out of the hole, will he see his shadow? or more to the point, will the rest of us continue to be stuck under the Liberals shadow of waste, corruption, and patronage? Will Martin now get to channel Millions and Millions of more tax dollars to his Shipping Company while saying it was 'only' a hundred and some-odd thousand dollars? Will we be stuck with the lies and ongoing waste of the 2 million to 2 billion dollar error of the gun registry? Will the Liberal shadow keep parliament in the dark and hiding special interest and grants to 'my buddy's business' raids on the tax trough ? Or will the Liberals turn a new leaf, right all the wrongs, and turn Canada into a democratic country? ...Ya Right!!!) Gun-control advocates plead for PM's support The gun registry has been successful by providing a clear database of who has a permit and who has registered their gun, Haviernick said. It has also fostered a culture of accountability around firearms, she said. Members of the gun lobby now criticizing cost overruns helped create them by deliberately sabotaging the registry by falsifying forms and ignoring the law, Laplante-Edward said.(What a load of crap.. The registry as it stands today, or anytime in the future, can not, would not, could not, stop the madness that Gamil Gharbi (A.K.A. Marc Lapine) a 'licensed' gun owner by the way, inflicted on the students of École Polytechnique.. Ordinary people that happen to hunt or target shoot, are sick and tired of being the scapegoat for a madman. GUNS are not the problem MAD MEN ARE THE PROBLEM! If your children had been mowed down by a drunk driver, you would not be campaigning to ban cars, or booze, but trying your damnedest to get 'this' drunk behind bars, not wasting your time blaming his car! Nor, begging the government to spend ANOTHER billion registering duck hunters. Were sorry for your grief, but perhaps more counselling is what you really need! Not more knee jerk reactions, and wasted tax dollars. This 'firearms act' C-68, by definition, is the epitome of waste, uselessness, and civil rights infringements. It MUST be repealed!) |
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