We need action now to stop the spread of guns used in crimes
It's ironic that, after the millions of dollars spent by the federal government on its much-reviled gun registry, weapons today are seemingly so much more readily available to criminals than ever before. And today's armed criminals aren't packing heat just to look cool. They're trigger-happy. In several recent execution-style slayings, the perpetrators have pumped bullet after bullet into their victims, in cold-blooded displays of calculated murder. It may be fanciful to talk of creating a "gun-free" zone in the Lower Mainland. But we can't just sit back waiting for the next inevitable tragedy. We need an urgent review of guns and crime: where they come from, who's dealing them, who's using them. And we need a plan of action to get guns off the street. If ever there were a need for "zero-tolerance" this, surely, is it.(This has nothing at all to do with "irony"! The government was warned that exactly this would happen. After all, it's happened 'every single place in the entire world' where strict gun control ONLY affects the law abiding hunters, target shooters, and collectors. Controlling, regulating and banning firearms, is almost always based on a knee-jerk reaction resulting in laws that only control the firearms that are least likely to be used in a crime. While, at the same time increasing the black market value of the millions of guns available to the criminal. The law abiding firearms owners in this country 'offered' to help write the laws that would stop the criminal use of firearm, but no, the Liberals figured they could gain more votes by treating ALL gun owners as criminals. They then listened to, and bankrolled a group of  complete 'flakes' in the Canadian 'gun control/grief industry' to cheer them on from the sidelines. Your children are dying in the streets today, because the Liberals choose to funnel cash to their friends via the gun registry 'slush fund' than to use it to actually control criminals using guns. Was Allan Rock right, when he told the law abiding firearms owners of this country that they were "trafficking in fictions"? If there is anything the Liberals are consistent at, it's the art of being consistently WRONG, and your children are paying the price with their lives.)
Phone police, get rid of guns(?)
Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh wants to disarm Manitobans. Mackintosh yesterday said police agencies across the province will hold a firearms amnesty for the month of June. Cops will not lay charges against anyone who turns in a gun during the month unless the weapon is found to be stolen or has been used in a crime, said the province's justice boss. This is the first time there's been such an amnesty in Manitoba since 1994. "In the interest of getting weapons out of communities, police will use discretion in laying charges," Mackintosh told a news conference. Tory justice critic Kelvin Goertzen said he supports the principle of a gun amnesty. However, he said Mackintosh's plan will do little to curb crime, noting gang members won't be the ones handing over their firearms -- it will be regular Manitobans. "We see more violence with guns than we've ever seen before," Goertzen said. "What does the minister do? He turns to law-abiding citizens and tells them to turn in their guns."
RCMP assistant commissioner Darrell Madill said the amnesty will help keep guns out of the hands of some criminals. Firearms are often stolen from homes during break-ins and can end up on the street, he said.
CONTACT POLICE  "My experience is if there's a break-in at a home and they see firearms, they'll usually take them," Madill said. (That's because they don't see the firearm 'pointed' at them. They will also take your T.V, Stereo, Money, and anything else they can lay their hands on. Does this mean we should give up ALL our possessions just because some low-life is going to steal them? Most of these thieves have been convicted and released several times now, if the courts and the cops were doing their jobs instead of "laying discretionary charges" (whatever in the hell that might mean) in the interest of public safety, and not in the interest of saving a buck or two, most of these thieving assholes would be in jail right now, not out stealing your property. Put blame where it's supposed to be, and not laid at the feet of ANY peaceful member of society. As long as the Liberals are pumping BILLIONS into some bogus registry of guns least likely to be used in a crime, don't expect any REAL progress disarming the assholes that SHOULD be disarmed.)
China's Frantic Crackdown on Corruption
By one estimate, corruption accounts for 15 per cent of China's GDP. To judge by some measures -- the increasing size of the embezzled sums and the rising number of corrupt officials fleeing to havens such as Canada -- the problem is getting worse. Corrupt oofficials have stolen billions of dollars from state-owned banks in several recent scandals.(Well, they ought to feel right at home with the Liberals in Canada Eh!)
Forensic study backs allegations from Brault
A key report released at the Gomery inquiry yesterday bolsters the allegations of advertising executive Jean Brault that he made illicit donations to Liberal organizers. The report, by the forensic accounting firm Kroll Lindquist Avey, says that the owners of nine well-connected agencies who benefited from the federal sponsorship program, paid themselves during that period more than $51-million in salaries and bonuses. Among the nine was Mr. Brault, the former president of the now defunct Groupaction Marketing Inc. ad agency, who has testified that he gave tens of thousands of dollars in unreported cash donations to some Liberal officials.(If you really think, that Paul Martin is going to call an election after the Gomery Report, your living in a dream world.. The Gomery report which will really report nothing that the public is not already, or will be aware of,  is simply a red herring to give the Liberals the benefit of 'Liberal Voter Amnesia' Or, like ALL of the reports that have been politically embarrassing to this party of thieves, most of it will 'never' see the light of day.. Just like the Somalia, report, and the many, many, reports on the farce and waste of the gun registry slush fund, it will be made a "cabinet secret". If the government does not fall in a future confidence vote, Martin will call an election when it's politically beneficial for him to call and election, and not before. Remember the Liberal Motto: "Power at ANY cost" Eh!)
No Long Pointy Kitchen Knives Please - Were British!
A team of British emergency-room doctors is calling for a government ban on the sale of long, pointed kitchen knives. Worried about the rise of violent crime in their country, the doctors see the sharp utensils as deadly weapons that should be kept out of harm's way. "Many assaults are impulsive, often triggered by alcohol or misuse of other drugs, and the long, pointed kitchen knife is an easily available, potentially lethal weapon, particularly in the domestic setting," they write in today's edition of the British Medical Journal.(And 'this' from a group that probably kills more people with "long pointy knives", other instruments, and just plain errors than any other segment of society in the entire world.. Including terrorists. But hey! it was only a accident. They didn't mean to leave that scalpel/clamp/towel/sponge/hockeystick in that person after closing him/her up.. )
Get power at all costs; keep power at all costs.
That's the highly successful unofficial motto of the Liberal Party of Canada. Going back to cunning Mackenzie King, it has worked -- no matter how devious and corrupt the moves. Power, baby. It's the only thing.  And, after some of the most devious stunts, the motto still works for unscrupulous Grit PM Paul Martin and his henchmen -- surviving on Thursday by a one-vote margin in Parliament. It comes after months of sworn evidence at the Gomery inquiry of federal Liberal officials and Liberal-friendly ad firms ripping off federal taxpayers' money -- at least $100 million -- for themselves. For doing little or nothing. And, of course, stuffing some of that money into federal Liberal campaign funds -- often hard cash in plain envelopes -- so they can buy vital votes in key ridings. Thank you, sucker Canadian taxpayers. Nine days earlier, the dithering Martin and his Grits were defeated by a 153-150 margin in the Commons on a confidence vote. Under the longstanding, honoured tradition of our parliamentary system, the PM should have immediately submitted his government's resignation to the governor general and called for a national election. Instead he refused to recognize the vote. He spat in the face of Parliament and said he'd hold another vote in nine days. Nine days to pull off some of the most desperate and vote-selling shenanigans in Canadian political history. First, he quickly bowed to the blackmail demands of the NDP socialists. That included adding a whopping $4.6-billion extra for social programs, dropping promised business-inducing tax cuts, and launching a new upward spiral in government spending and higher taxes. In other words, bigger spending, higher taxes -- and away we go. The last time such a Liberal-NDP coalition took place was 1972-74 when the NDP kept Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau in power. The result? Canada was plunged into a record federal debt. (Any Liberal/NDP coalition, is plainly a case of the 'blind leading the stupid', and ALWAYS ends up with the taxpayer footing the bill. In the case of the Trudeau Liberals and 'their' NDP coalition, it's us AND our children that have had to pay for the liberal, 'power at any cost' policies. Do you want your children and  'grandchildren' paying the cost of YOUR political stupidity? Then for christ sake pull your head out of your ass and quit voting these thieving bastards back into power time and time again!!!!)
Auditors dig up millions more spent on 'sponsorship-related' activities
A report tabled at the inquiry on Tuesday by the Kroll Lindquist Avey firm revealed a total of $355 million could be linked to sponsorship actions – that's more than the $250 million Auditor General Sheila Fraser pegged in her report. The auditing firm said it included spending going back to 1994 because it discovered special programs similar to sponsorship activities. Fraser's report examined contracts between 1997 and 2003. The Kroll Lindquist Avey report also found:  * $150 million of the $355 million went in commissions and fees to ad agencies. * Groupaction Marketing issued $406,514 in cheques in the name of the company's president Jean Brault, his wife or associates that could have been converted to cash and provided to the Quebec wing of the party under the table. * $780,000 was donated above board to the party by Groupaction. Kroll's investigators sifted through 7,000 boxes of documents. (It never ends!! The Liberals have ripped us off for Millions, and if you include the bogus 'benefits' they claim for the gun registry, it's probably closer to a Billion by now.. And 'STILL' people would vote for these thieves-- It boggles the mind!!)
The Smoking Gun Registry
The federal gun registry, administered by the Department of Justice, took effect in 1998. The cost of the program was initially pegged at $119 million but the true cost is now approaching $2 billion. The program has been managed by three Liberal MPs - Alan Rock, Anne McLennan, and Martin Cauchon. Interestingly, Martin Cauchon has been implicated in the sponsorship scandal... Carle testified that he also arranged sponsorship related talks with then-cabinet minister Martin Cauchon, former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano and now-retired public servant Chuck Guite, who signed the cheques in the sponsorship operation. Given the involvement of Cauchon in the sponsorship scandal and the massive, inexplicable cost overruns in the national firearms registry it is safe to assume that many of the contracts doled out in support of the ineffective registry were nothing more than contracts designed to launder money for the Liberal Party of Canada.(As shown in the link above, they are STILL uncovering money laundered by the Liberals.. To vote these thieves back into office would be a travesty. And, a monument to the gullibility and stupidity of the Canadian Voters..)
The Liberals' coup d'etat
Robert Mugabe is probably proud of Paul Martin and his indomitable Liberals right now, given that they managed to usurp parliamentary power and hang on to their jobs without actually having to kill someone. Mind you, they came close, but the fact that one of the Conservatives’ caucus members was having a cancer operation a day before their preferred budget vote and the fact that they bought Belinda Stronach’s vote with a cabinet post, kept them from having to take that drastic measure. Not that they aren’t up to it. But it seems they have managed to keep their jobs without having to take such precipitous actions and I do not for one minute doubt that it’s beyond the Libranos to put a hit on an opposition parliamentarian in order to get what they want. It isn’t like anyone in Canada would care if they did whack the odd opposition member. So long as women can continue to use abortions as a birth control measure on the government’s dime and so long as gay people can redefine matrimony and so long as we can fool city dwellers into believing that the $2 billion gun registry is keeping them safe and so long as the Tamil Tigers can continue to raise money uninterrupted in Canada, the Libs will get their vote. After all, you can‘t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, isn’t that right? So the Libranos will continue doing what they do best and the country will continue to function in a manner of speaking. A pantheon of Liberal prime ministers has had it right in that Canadians could care less about democracy; it’s a concept that many of us cannot understand. From Pierre Trudeau, who felt it necessary to declare military martial law because a few crazy Quebecers kidnapped a corrupt cabinet minister and a minor British diplomat, to Jean Chrétien, who knew that the power of the prime minister’s office placed him above the law, to the current paragon of mediocrity whose shenanigans have yet to be completely documented, the Liberals would turn their grandmothers into soap if it meant an extended mandate.(Canada will NEVER regain the world respect it once had, as long as there is a Liberal government in power. What do they have to do to get Urban Ontario to reject them? Send the police to kick down your door at 3 in the morning, confiscate your belongings and rout you off to jail based on a neighbours phone call? Ohh wait a minute, they've already done to some people that haven't they! To Quote Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice: "Keep in mind that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not suggest for a minute that any of the rights therein are absolute," Quite a statement from a 'supposedly' democratic government eh!)
Chicago Tribune Profiles IL's NRA Lobbyist
'It's a natural organization,' said Vandermyde. 'What does the anti-gun crowd do on a weekend? Get together and talk about the gun they didn't buy? The deer they didn't hunt? Gun owners get together all of the time and talk about the things we have in common.'For that reason, they're easy to mobilize. When word spreads via e-mail, phone tree or word of mouth that they are needed, NRA members are more than happy to volunteer for campaigns or to drive to the Capitol in their camouflage to remind lawmakers that they are paying attention to a gun vote. Even though Chicago Democrats control the governor's office and both chambers of the legislature, that doesn't mean an easy ride for gun control measures pushed aggressively by Mayor Richard Daley. The gun lobby is much stronger Downstate, and Democrats from outside the Chicago area are just as likely to vote to protect gun owner rights as are conservative Republicans. That's why Daley has long been unable to pass a bill restricting people from buying more than one gun a month......Vandermyde sees his job as similar to that of the Army Pathfinder he used to be--going in on the ground, assessing the situation and then coordinating the movement of troops.(Driving to the 'Canadian' capitol in camouflage would only result in even 'more' RCMP snipers on the rooftops than the last time..I wonder how many snipers they deployed to watch over the Anti Gay Marriage group this weekend?)
Stronach Defection Boosts Tory Support: Poll

The defection of Belinda Stronach may have actually helped the Conservatives. A Compas poll, taken Tuesday, shows the Conservatives with 38% support nationally, compared to 29% or the Liberals. Voter intentions have also been swayed by her defection - 30% of those asked in Ontario said they were more likely to vote Conservative now, only eight per cent said they were less likely. Almost 40% of those surveyed felt she changed sides to get a cabinet post, only 27 % thought it was because she disagreed with Conservative party policies.( From a Backbencher to a Cabinet Minister and she said it's 'for Canada'! What a load of....Hey Aren't her initials B.S. ?)
Conservative Stronach joins Liberals

OTTAWA - Belinda Stronach, who ran for the leadership of the Conservative party in early 2004, has crossed the floor to the Liberal party and will sit in Paul Martin's cabinet. The millionaire businesswoman becomes minister of human resources and skills development, the prime minister said Tuesday morning. She will also help the Liberals implement the recommendations in the Gomery report on the scandal-plagued sponsorship program when it is delivered later this year. Stronach's defection could keep Martin's minority government in power as it faces two key votes on its 2005 budget Thursday. Hours after her announcement, the Tories changed direction and said they would support the budget but still try to bring down the government on an amendment. "After difficult reflection, I reached a conclusion," Stronach told reporters in Ottawa. "I cannot exaggerate how hard this was for me, but the political crisis affecting Canada is too risky and dangerous for blind partisanship." She also said Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is not sensitive to the needs of all parts of the country, and is jeopardizing national unity by allying himself with the Bloc Québécois. "The country must come first," she said. (Just like any whore available for a price, she's insisting that someone 'else' must come first... The fact that she ran for the leadership of a party she doesn't believe in, only shows she was running for 'power' and thinking like ANY liberal, their motto 'power at any cost' certainly seems to fit. This green MP, Jumping from Conservative backbencher to a liberal Minister was simply the result of another pay out in a "KEEP power at any cost" move by a corrupt government buying votes and people with our tax dollars.  This would be a perfect time for a Liberal (of convenience) like Paul Steckley to cross the floor, and and stand up for the 'real' Canada! Here's hoping we have some independent MP's that can see through this "anything for power and money" corrupt regime and vote to put Canada back on the 'Right' Track. )
Fraser tells inquiry
"Canadians expect better''
The goverment watchdog who helped expose sponsorship waste told an inquiry Monday that "Canadians expect better'' than the problem-plagued process under which $800 million in ad contracts were doled out. Auditor General Sheila Fraser told the Gomery inquiry that unwritten deals, missing documents and untendered contracting were common practice in government advertising through the 1990s and up to 2003. "I hope that in our co-presentation, we showed that there were major problems,'' said Fraser, who plans to conduct a follow-up investigation at the end of 2006. "The amounts concerned are very large, nearly $800 million over a five-year period (1998 to 2003). And I could conclude by saying that Canadians expect better when public funds are spent.''(They "expect" better, but as long as Ontario keeps voting these lying thieves back into office time after time after time, we 'won't' get any better results.  As for continuation of their shady 'friends first' policies, you need only check out the Judy Sqro caper  A little further on down the page, to see that Liberal business as usual, is alive and well in ALL of Canada!.. )
How the mighty PM has fallen
Life is different as prime minister. You have the whole candy store of government with nothing to limit your choice except the necessity of deciding. That was his downfall -- or one of his downfalls. Even when he was still finance minister, there were whispers in Ottawa that Mr. Martin was a ditherer, but even the whisperers had no idea of what was to come. Today, there are areas of the federal government that are virtually paralyzed because the Prime Minister cannot make up his mind. They have lost track of appointments to be made and the number of drafts of the white paper on foreign policy. Should U.S. President George W. Bush be invited to speak to Parliament? That's tricky, let's think about that again. Should Canada join the missile-defence system? That's tricky, let's think about that again. It's odd that Mr. Martin, who has been in politics or on the fringes of policy for his whole life, never learned that most essential of political truths, which is that governments can usually do one big thing at a time. There are lots of small things to be done, but only a handful that are really important and only one or two in which the leader of a government invests his own political capital. The attention span of governor, and governed alike, is too limited to handle more. Anyone who has listened to Mr. Martin at any length knows that he has a thousand priorities. Back to the government candy store -- so many temptations that he can never make up his mind. It was always said of Mr. Martin that he loved public policy but hated politics. That may be the happiest explanation of the crudeness of his leadership campaign, where the only art was shooting the enemy wounded. He shrugged Sheila Copps out of politics and allowed his lieutenants to hijack the riding of a cabinet colleague whose wife was dying of cancer. The people who won him the leadership were skilled in the craft of regicide, but governance was not in their curriculum vitae. Yet those are the people who are now his aides and advisers in government. Even for many non-Liberals, there is a certain sadness about the new Paul Martin. He had gone into office on the crest of enormous public anticipation. His was going to be a government driven by ideas and values and hopes. But it does not seem to have worked out that way.(For those that think Stephen Harper was only spouting a political slur when he said the PM was delaying a vote until later in the hope that one or more of the conservatives suffering from Cancer would relapse, not make the vote, need only look to what the Liberals did to one of their own who's wife was dying of cancer.  why would they not even hesitate to do it to a political rival! They are slime balls to the Nth degree!)
South African Strict gun laws may force mass court action
There has been growing anger among gun owners and lobby groups who say new regulations make it virtually impossible for citizens to obtain gun licences. Martin Hood, the South African Gun Owners Association (Sagoa) spokesperson, said the safety and security ministry must brace itself for a barrage of court actions. The Freedom Front has also threatened to launch a constitutional court action against the government, which it says is systematically disarming law-abiding citizens under the new Firearms Control Act. Hood said he had been inundated with calls from concerned licensed firearm owners regarding the Firearms Control Act of 2000.(The FACT that strict gun control has had no effect on 'reducing' crime any place on the face of this planet does not faze the governments that would confiscate your firearms at all. Why? because reducing crime is NOT the reason for strict gun control. The reason is simply 'control'. A disarmed society is much, much, easier to control. Despots and Dictators all over the world understand 'that' simple logic, and Africa has certainly had more than their fare share of 'those'!)
Calif. Senate bill would require serial numbers on bullets
Saying it will help police solve crimes, an Orange County legislator proposed a bill requiring bullets sold, made and owned in the state to carry a unique marking like a serial number. If passed, the legislation by Sen. Joseph Dunn, D-Garden Grove, would take effect July 1, 2007. It was referred to the Appropriations Committee earlier this month. Supporters say the bill will help police, because the bullets found at crime scenes will be traced to whoever bought them. Opponents, which include the ammunition industry, say it will cost millions to do what the bill requires and that it's not possible with manufacturing equipment available today to serialize bullets. "The cost will be minimal compared to what benefits society," said Jim Evans, spokesman for Dunn. "We're weighing the costs versus giving police tools to identify criminals."(Come on!! Say it!! You know you want to! It's the line every gun demonizing asshole blurts out... "If it only saves 'one' life"...  This California brain fart is right up there with the moronic idea, that not only would 'registration' of firearms solve crimes, but criminals would 'never' think of buying their bullets out of state, or even buying a file to remove the serial numbers 'from' the bullets.. And what about hand loading cartridges? Is every every bullet pushed into a case going to have a serial number? What about the guys that cast their 'own' bullets? Oh ya, I an see where this is going to work 'real' well.. This is more about making gun ownership 'inconvenient' than saving lives.. It always is!)
ETHICS COMMISSIONER PROCESS BIASED, FLAWED
IMPARTIAL INQUIRY NEEDED INTO SGRO AFFAIR
OTTAWA - Today, Democracy Watch called the first investigation by federal Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro biased and flawed.  The investigation into the actions of former Cabinet minister Judy Sgro and others was undertaken in response to allegations that Sgro violated federal Cabinet ethics rules (which are set out in the Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders). Democracy Watch called for a new, fair, impartial inquiry into the Sgro situation. "Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro hired a Liberal Party-connected law firm to investigate a Liberal Cabinet minister, and that makes his ruling on minister Judy Sgro's actions biased and invalid," said Duff Conacher, Coordinator of Democracy Watch and Chairperson of the Government Ethics Coalition.  "If the Ethics Commissioner has any integrity he will declare the Sgro investigation biased and flawed and call on the government to establish a fair, impartial inquiry." To conduct the investigation into Sgro's and others' actions, the Ethics Commissioner hired (without a contract bidding competition) law firm Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG).  BLG donated $165,000 to the federal Liberals between 2000 and 2003 (2004 donation figures are not yet publicly available); donated more than $25,000 to Paul Martin's campaign for the Liberal Party leadership; has three partners representing Liberals before the Gomery Commission inquiry (David W. Scott and Peter K. Doody representing Jean Chrétien, and Guy J. Pratte representing Jean Pelletier), and; in February 2005 hired Gar Knutson, former Cabinet colleague of Sgro.(For the corrupt Liberal Party, this amounts to nothing more than business as usual .. Give the 'taxpayer' funded work to the people that gave the 'Liberals' money. This trough wallowing group, has got to be the slimiest bunch of politicians in the history of any 'semi-democratic' country in the entire world!.. This example alone should be enough to show that the corruption problem is NOT isolated to Quebec, but is systemic in liberal dealings throughout the entire country.)
Caught On Tape!
Paul Martin's photo-op from Human Tragedy

The picture that speaks 1,000 words: Jack Layton and Paul Martin in Sri Lanka. To download six-minute video right click and save as

 
You’ll never see this on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
That’s because it’s incredible, shot-on-site film footage that Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t want you to see. Canadafreepress.com editors decided to post it here so that you can judge for yourself. It’s never-seen-before film footage taking you back to January 3, 2005 when Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his entourage made an official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sir Lanka. It starts with the moment the Prime Minister’s helicopter lands in Kalumai, and coincides with the very moment that bereaved Sir Lankans are waiting for Padre Captain J.B. Hardwick to say a few words over their lost loved ones, laid out in 13,000 freshly-dug graves. See for yourself how the film footage shows the padre being pushed aside and how overzealous members of the Martin entourage physically knock a Sri Lankan mourner to the ground–without apology. Ostensibly, the Prime Minister’s official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka was about Canadian compassion.  See and hear for yourself how he shills the purified water of Zenon Environmental Inc., an Oakville-based company of which his lifetime mentor Maurice Strong is a board member. See and hear some of the film highlights, including Padre Hardwick trying to do the job he was asked to do: namely honouring the dead. Padre Hardwick calls for a Moment of Silence. Fifteen seconds into the Moment of Silence, Prime Minister Martin ends it, saying, "Let’s go." Mainstream Canadian compassion is understood globally. Average Canadians sent some $40-million to Sri Lanka--that has yet to arrive! Their prime minister disgraced the image of ‘The Compassionate Canadian’ in a single photo op. But even worse than that, Martin chose to shill for a Canadian-owned water company linked to his personal mentor in a Sri Lanka that was locked in heartbreaking grief. Not only Canadians would agree that Sri Lankans deserve so much better than that.( I wonder how much the Canadian taxpayer 'paid' for Zenon Environmental/Maurice Strong's water? $10? $20? a bottle? I also wonder how much Zenon Environmental 'donated' to the liberal party? Keeping in mind, of course, that's how business is done in the LCO (Liberal Criminal Organization).
The Gun Registries Deadliest Day
Business Report Magazine: Mayerthorpe tragedy may also come to be remembered as the straw that broke the $2-billion federal firearms program (when enforcement costs, compliance costs and economic costs are added in). From its original inception, the program was designed to, among other things, "provide police with important information to help prevent injuries and investigate firearm-related crimes," as stated by Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan last May. But it did nothing to protect the four young officers who were gunned down at about 10 a.m. on that chilly March morning. In fact, according to RCMP Corporal Wayne Oakes, beyond wearing standard bulletproof vests, the officers were not even taking any extra precautions, as they had no reason to believe they were in imminent danger. This, despite Roszko's being under a court-ordered weapons ban since 2000, and in spite of his publicly stated hatred for police and his known possession of several high-powered rifles.Not surprisingly, because the Firearms Act is a schizophrenic attempt to combine criminal law and regulatory elements into an administrative framework within the Criminal Code, the result is a hodgepodge of draconian penalties and gargantuan loopholes that allow gun owners to pull such mischief as legally registering their guns at multiple addresses ("Up to 20 if the guy is smart enough," says Tomlinson), and even legally buy and carry a concealed handgun without licence or certificate. (A calibre-455 Webley Mark II handgun, for instance, is classed as an antique and therefore under none of the rules and regulations of the Act.) Nevertheless, Canada's Liberal government remains committed to its registry, to the point of making claims for it that are at best unverifiable. In an e-mail to MPs last December, the Honourable Roy Cullen, parliamentary secretary to the minister of public safety, claimed, for instance, that "important client and public safety results [are] being achieved." "How can that be," asks Breitkreuz, "when strict logic declares that laying a piece of paper beside a gun will never stop someone from pulling the trigger?" He also notes that gun-registry "clients" are not really being "served"; they participate under threat of severe criminal penalties of up to 10 years in jail for failing to register. (Gee! I wonder how many of those wobbly webleys are still out there? I get so tired of the powder falling out of my 'flintlock' while carried in a crossdraw holster..ha.. This is an excellent article that really hits home about the utter waste surrounding this liberal brainfart called The Firearms Act.  Unfortunately for Canadian taxpayers, this is not just an "Act" but an entire comedy of errors! Which, in all probability is another liberal slush fund, hiding behind the ignorance of political correctness. Any luck at all, after the next election this farce will be history by hunting season.)
Flakes From PETA are at it Again!
LONDON - An international animal rights group is sending a protester dressed as a bear to follow the Queen when she visits Canada this month. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Britain to stop using black bear pelts to make the hats that ceremonial guards wear at Buckingham Palace. PETA says fake bear fur would look just as attractive. "We are hoping that we can get the Ministry of Defence and Buckingham Palace and the Queen's household to make a compassionate decision here to a cruel and outmoded practice," said PETA member Andrew Butler. To lobby for fake-fur hats, PETA's protester will wear a bear costume made of synthetic fur to all of the Queen's public engagements in Western Canada. (Well, it looks as if the Queens 'ass' really will be a 'bear behind'.. Here's hoping it's 102 deg. in the shade.. Nobody likes a fat bear ass!! PETA=People Emulating Total Assholes)
Bear caught after Sask. attack had rabies
See:'I thought I was dead,' says bear attack victim(below)
A black bear caught after a Saskatchewan man was attacked earlier this month has tested positive for rabies, the CBC has learned. However, it's not known for certain if the bear is the same one that mauled John Rudachyk on May 1. If that turns out to be the case, health officials say it's unlikely Rudachyk contracted the disease.
Rudachyk said he was walking through the forest in the Norquay area, about 290 kilometres northeast of Regina, when he encountered the bear. He climbed a tree when the animal charged, but it followed him. He drove it off but it came back up, bit down on his heel and flung him out of the tree. He managed to crawl to his vehicle and drive away. A bear was captured last week in east-central Saskatchewan and later killed. An autopsy at the University of Saskatchewan's veterinary college revealed the bear had rabies. Veterinarian Deanna Johnson, who examined the bear, said it likely contracted the disease from an infected raccoon, skunk or bat. "From there he developed the disease that takes about 10 to 14 days to fully develop and come to the point where it affects his brain," she said. "In this case it made this bear ferocious." Johnson warned people should take steps to ensure their pets are vaccinated and avoid contact with wild animals. (Good job he didn't have a gun with him.. As every good liberal knows, 'that' would have only 'increased' the level of violence during the attack.)
 It is amazing how tolerant Canadians are of incompetence.
Well, actually, scratch that. To be more accurate, it is amazing how tolerant Ontarians are of incompetence…and corruption…and greed…and dishonesty.From the list above, it is clear that I am talking about the federal Liberal party, and it is just as clear that people in Ontario are completely out of touch with the rest of this great country.
There isn’t a single soul who can deny that the Liberals look slimier than any Canadian political party has ever looked. Testimony about AdScam at the Gomery inquiry has been particularly damaging. The smoking gun hasn’t quite emerged yet to tie Prime Minister Paul Martin to the trail of bribery, corruption and the disgusting lining of pockets of Liberal-friendly firms and individuals, but if it wasn’t so infuriating, his attempts at denying any knowledge of all of the nefarious activity would be laughable.During all of this time, Martin was the country’s most powerful Member of Parliament outside of King Jean Chretien himself. He was minister of finance, and he was the man who controlled the purse strings of our federal government.(Well, right now it's mainly Toronto that can't see the forest for the bribes. This is probably the 'only' place in Ontario where the liberals will retain seats.. One reason is because they have tinkered with immigration, allowing a flood of  high maintenance grandparents into the country. At a time when most people in Ontario can't even find a family doctor, the Liberals have opened the floodgates to a huge wave of  geriatrics related to liberal voting, immigrant, urban families. I have nothing against any 'honest' immigrant coming to Canada, but for christ sake, the liberal priority here is VOTES and they don't give a rats ass if a wave of new geriatrics have doctors or not. The Ontario voters that think the liberals are doing them a big favour because they have 'compassionately' allowed their grandparents into the country, will have to think about how they wasted their vote. In reality, they will be able to do this 'thinking', while keeping vigilance over their ageing parent, dying on a hospital gurney parked in the hallway waiting for a doctor, )
Liberals will not quit despite losing vote
The House of Commons passed a motion that opposition parties claim should topple the government – but the Liberals have dismissed it as nothing more than a procedural matter. The motion passed by 153 votes to 150 on Tuesday night. All 99 Conservative and 54 Bloc Québécois MPs voted for the motion calling on the public accounts committee "to recommend that the government resign." The NDP and two Independents voted with the Liberals against the motion. Two cabinet ministers, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and Natural Resources Minister John Efford, were not there for the vote. Liberals have rejected claims by the opposition that this was a confidence vote, saying it is just a set of instructions to a committee, and that the outcome won't affect the government. (When the two missing liberals vote for the government, the vote will be 153 to 152.. If the one independent that was sick, and missed the vote this time, supports the liberals next time, the vote will be tied 153/153 which means the speaker gets to make history once more by breaking a tie.. If the speaker REALLY wants to get into the history books as REAL defender of parliament, he will recognized the true corrupt nature of this government. He will then do what's right for the people of Canada and put an end to this dysfunctional farce once and for all by voting once more with the Tories. Because it's not likely the third independent will abstain, or miss the vote. I wonder what kind of bribes the Liberals have ready for 'him' and the speaker?  We may never know if they side with the liberals and join them at the trough!  The Liberal plan of course, is to force a summer election and blame it on the Tories. )
Slush fund party!

In an unprecedented move, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale tabled new legislation yesterday: the Jack Layton Supplementary Measures Act, a special spending bill based on Mr. Layton's secret budget agreement with Prime Minister Paul Martin. Never before has a Canadian government given itself such freewheeling fiscal elbow room. Certainly Don Drummond, former finance official and now chief economist at TD Financial, has never seen anything like it -- a $4.5-billion slush fund that government can dip into at will. "For years government has wanted an instrument that would allow it to allocate spending without having to say what it's for. This act will do it." Readers can check out this blank-cheque spending legislation below. Here's how it works. Sometime in August, 2007, the federal government will check the final numbers from fiscal year 2005-6. If there's more than a $2-billion surplus, that extra money above $2-billion can be spent. For example, if the surplus is $5-billion, the first $2-billion will be used to pay down debt, but the remaining $3-billion must be spent on the grab bag of unspecified areas. Same thing the following year. As Don Drummond put it yesterday, this is the first time Ottawa has been able to "define the money before it defines the program." The Layton list, sprawling over a dozen broad issues -- environment, housing, transit, training programs, foreign aid, energy, education, aboriginal, tuition fees -- is an open field. Not only are there no programs, Ottawa doesn't even have a jurisdictional outlet for tuition fees, for example. (Oddly missing from the list is a $100-million union pension fund bailout, mentioned in earlier news leaks.) (This is why we must be rid of the liberals.. The National post Article is a subscription piece, but you can read it on another site by clicking the link above.  The Liberals have the equivalent slush fund of FOUR (4) Gun Registries,  or  SIXTEEN (16) Ad-Scams.. The waste will never end, the pork barrelling will never end, they have just built themselves the biggest trough in Canadian history. AND IF YOU VOTE THEM BACK IN, YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR IT!!!)
PM under fire for missing VE-Day parade in the Netherlands
The Prime Minister's decision to mark the sixtieth anniversary of V-E Day in Holland, a day after the fact, has upset some veterans who say this may be their last opportunity to attend ceremonies. Paul Martin and opposition leaders arrived Monday as workers were cleaning up after a parade with more than 200,000 spectators wound through the streets of Apeldoorn. Martin cancelled a trip that would have brought him to the Netherlands in time after Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's pledge to introduce a non-confidence motion to defeat the government as soon as possible. Dutch officials organized a special ceremony at a cemetery in the countryside where 60 Canadian fighters are buried. "It's unfortunate that they didn't realize this is the last time this is going to happen. We're all over 80," one Canadian veteran told CBC. (He probably thought it was OK.. After all. there are no liberal politicians that were veterans anyway I Believe history showed Trudeau spent the war as a conscientious objector (read:coward), riding his motorcycle around Quebec back roads wearing a Nazi helmet.. A true liberal indeed!)
Evening vote could defeat Liberals

OTTAWA - The Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois say they have a significant chance of defeating Prime Minister Paul Martin's government in a parliamentary vote Tuesday evening, though Liberals are dismissing the claim. At issue is a motion calling on the opposition-dominated public accounts committee "to recommend that the government resign because of its failure to address the deficiencies in governance of the public service." The vote is scheduled for about 6:15 p.m. EDT. If the motion passes but the Liberals refuse to resign, Conservative member of Parliament Peter MacKay says the moment will be "perhaps one of the lowest points in Canadian history." In an interview with CBC Newsworld Tuesday morning, MacKay said the motion is clearly a confidence motion, meaning that its passage would topple the minority government. "I don't think Canadians will be at all impressed if this government chooses to slap democracy in the face," he added. However, the Liberals say the vote approved by Speaker Peter Milliken Monday does not amount to a confidence motion. "Constitutional experts, procedural experts are saying this is nothing more than a procedural motion," Liberal House leader Tony Valeri told Newsworld on Tuesday. The Liberals have already dismissed a similar motion – involving the finance committee and scheduled to be voted on next week – as a procedural matter and not a matter of confidence.  (Clinging to power, like dogshit to a boot, the Liberals will ignore any, and all motions that simply say 'get out - your not wanted' . After all, they have been in 'power' for a long time, and feel they should not have to listen to what the majority of members of parliament say they should do.. After all, what's parliament? The liberals have shown time and time again, they have no regard for parliament, and consider it nothing more than a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience to the Liberal party agenda!).
Liberals will ignore Tory non-confidence motion
A virtual deadlock exists in Parliament. A Liberal-NDP alliance is struggling to stave off defeat at the hands of the election-ready Tories and Bloc Quebecois. The Liberals appear destined to face a confidence test soon, either in a vote on the budget or in a confidence motion sometime before late June. The opposition insists a federal election should be automatic if they capture the vote on the motion. "You can't have more of a confidence motion than this one. . . It asks for the government to resign," said Bloc House Leader Michel Gauthier. "I can't sincerely believe there's not at least one person in that government with enough honour to say, 'Look, they've just asked us to resign. Let's stop, it's pitiful, we're clinging (to power).'" The Tory House leader agreed. "If a motion passes . . . that clearly says the government should resign; how could they say that's not confidence?" Jay Hill said. But he struggled when pressed to explain what he could do if Prime Minister Paul Martin ignores the vote result. "I think it will be up to the Canadian people and the people in the media to convince him otherwise," he replied. Appeals to the media and public might be the only device in the opposition's political toolbox. The Constitution apparently offers little help. Three experts said the government would not be forced to resign if they lost the vote on Thursday's motion. But the Liberals would be skating on thin ice by ignoring the vote result, all agreed.(Liberals are all praying for a miracle.. A giant hand reaching down from the heavens to undo the screwing they have given the Canadian Taxpayer.. But guess what? It ain't gonna happen. Fugeddaboutit.. The Librano$ are about to be fitted with concrete boots, and tossed in a river of pissed off Canadians. Just because they can make a boat out of concrete, doesn't mean the new Librano boots will float. Ignoring a parliamentary sea of  'motions' is only going to make the taxpayer 'puke' . The upcoming campaign will see the Librano$ 'again' trying to scare people with a multitude of lies and false innuendoes about the 'dangers' of conservative government. And 'this' from a government that has financed previous election bids with graft, kickbacks, and outright fraud. What's 'scary' would be seeing this bunch of thieves be re-elected by the ignorant Toronto masses, that never read a paper, or have any interest in politics other than what the liberals tell them, or give them. Whats worse, is the liberals are counting on people like this to give them another kick at your can!)
Guite says Martin and Manley knew of plan to guarantee business for ad firm
MONTREAL (CP) - Chuck Guite says he was told in 2000 that Paul Martin and John Manley backed an alleged plan to guarantee federal government business for a prominent Liberal-friendly ad firm. Guite, who headed the sponsorship program in the late '90s, told the Gomery inquiry he heard from his successor, Pierre Tremblay, that then-public works minister Alfonso Gagliano had spoken to his two cabinet colleagues about maintaining advertising contracts for Vickers and Benson. Martin spokesman Scott Reid dismissed Guite's testimony, which he gave last week but was released Wednesday when a publication ban was lifted, as a third-hand - and false - allegation. "There was no such discussion between Mr. Martin and Mr. Gagliano," Reid told The Canadian Press. "The prime minister has never involved himself in the contracting process. "There was never a discussion between Mr. Martin and Mr. Gagliano with respect to ensuring that any individual supplier receive contracts from the government of Canada. "The prime minister never involved himself in the contracting process - never involved himself in the determination of contract awards. Period." Tremblay has since died, while Manley denied speaking to Gagliano about making any contract guarantees.(Well of 'course' their going to deny it.. Only an idiot would think this would result in a confession.. But then again, only an idiot would truly believe that Paul Martin, the finance minister, and main federal man for Quebec, would NOT know what was going on and was kept totally in the dark. Why wouldn't he be aware of all this, after all, this was simply liberal politics at work.! It's always worked, and it's always the way they have done it in the past. This was simply liberal business as usual, and they had the 'power' to do what ever in the hell they wanted. Why would he even think it was important 'at the time'.. )
Interest heats up to replace Liberal Ur
The political temperature of the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex riding rose a few degrees yesterday as the Conservative bid to replace retiring Liberal MP Rose-Marie Ur became a two-way race. Peter Aarssen, 43, a financial planner who lives near Wyoming, announced his bid to seek the nomination. Denfield-area farmer Bev Shipley, mayor of Middlesex Centre, has already declared his intention to run for the Conservatives. Meanwhile, former Lambton County warden Todd Case filed his papers for the Liberals. Case, mayor of Warwick Township, is in sales. Aarssen said Ur's pending retirement isn't the reason he wants to run. He was inspired to seek the nomination by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, who spoke last week in Wallaceburg. Harper connected with an audience desperate for an alternative to the governing Liberals, Aarssen said. "I decided to think about running" right there, he said. His decision was final by Friday and he announced it yesterday. "I'm the underdog," said Aarssen, who is working to put together an election team and already has a website (www.peteaarssen.ca).
He said he thinks the Conservatives can take the riding and "right the ship" of state. Aarssen said he thinks the government has spent too little on the military, too much on the gun registry and wasted too much in the Quebec sponsorship scandal. He doesn't believe the federal government should redefine marriage to legalize same-sex unions. (In the case of Ur, I think this was a riding where the people were voting for the canditate, and not the party. The Conservitives have a great chance to take this area from that criminal organization nicknamed the "Librano$")
'I thought I was dead,' says bear attack victim
A Saskatchewan man who was attacked and mauled by a black bear over the weekend managed to escape and drive himself home. "It was a pretty big bear," said John Rudachyk, 32, who's recovering in a Regina hospital with a mangled foot, broken bones, cuts, scratches and bruises. John Rudachyk "I thought I was dead. I thought that was the end of my life and all I could do was try to fight, stay alive or whatever." The attack happened Sunday when Rudachyk was looking for deer horns in the woods near his home in Norquay, about 290 kilometres northeast of Regina. Rudachyk's brother called for an ambulance to take him to hospital. His recovery is expected to take months. Conservation officers are looking for the bear. Conservation officer Doug Lucyshyn says black bears are primarily scavengers and rarely attack humans. "You have a much better chance of being in a car accident or being killed by a bee sting than ever being attacked by a black bear," he said. (All things considered, I think I would rather be stung by the bee.. There is no logical reason someone in the bush, in bear country, can not be armed with a suitable handgun. holstered, and ready to save 'that one life'.. I have been looking for a few acres of land in the Haliburton/Muskoka region of Ontario. When walking a potential land purchase, I carry a 12 Ga tactical short barrelled shotgun, loaded with slugs. Since the spring bear hunt cancellation here, you take your life in your hands while being in the bush. I have no intentions of being bear bait.)
Tories allege Liberal job offers
The Liberals are engaging in squalid horse-trading in a bid to forestall their defeat in the Commons, the opposition Conservatives said Tuesday. The Tories said at least four of their MPs had been offered plum government jobs to remove their votes from a coming showdown in the House. The Liberals denied the charge and no evidence was put forward by the Tories who made the claim, MP Inky Mark and deputy leader Peter MacKay. Mark said a cabinet minister called to offer him an ambassadorship. MacKay said he was aware of similar offers to at least four Tories. The allegations come in a political climate so intense the fate of the government could turn on a single vote. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper confirmed Monday night he will attempt to bring down the government in a confidence vote this spring. His fortunes could rest on one missing MP, on a coming byelection in Newfoundland, or on a new Senate appointment from the opposition benches. (Any Tory that would accept a 'greed based' appointment would be ostracized by virtually everyone on both sides of the house. For the liberals to stoop this low, really shows how corrupt and desperate they really are. They will do anything, simply anything to keep power. Tory MP's should be looking over their shoulders to see who's behind them at all times. It's rather 'un-Canadian', but a single person 'accident' could decide the fate of the liberal government. And I for one would not put it past them as a party, to at least consider it!)
RETIRED MOUNTIES EXPOSE BIG PROBLEMS AT RCMP LABS
“This is where they should be spending $100 million a year – Not the gun registry!”
Ottawa – Today, two retired RCMP officers with 70 years collective experience blew the lid off the whole DNA backlog cover-up at the RCMP forensic laboratories. Retired forensic scientists, Dave Hepworth and Gary Mcleod delivered a scathing report on the status and effectiveness of the RCMP forensic laboratories to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice. Their testimony and the evidence provided in their report contradicted the statements made to the committee on March 22nd by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and Deputy Commissioner Peter Martin. Saskatchewan M.P. Garry Breitkreuz, Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice moved the motion that approved the appearance of the two former RCMP scientists. Breitkreuz’s motion was opposed by the Liberal members on the Justice Committee.(Well, no wonder his motion was opposed! The problem with giving the RCMP forensic scientists the 100 million a year, is they would probably just want to use it for the lab. When in all probability, the 100 Million in the gun registry will just 'be absorbed' with no paper trails as to where it went, and therefore can be used just as most of the billion was probably used, to buy votes, fishing trips, Challenger jets, box seats, sports tickets, meals, vacations, and ad agencies. This was a no brainier for the liberals, which culminated with the possible statement "We don need no steenking DNA Lab")
Arar report might never see light of day
OTTAWA (CP) - A government "culture of secrecy" could mean that the interim report of the Arar inquiry will never see the light of day, says a key mediator involved with the commission. Ron Atkey, a former Conservative cabinet minister who is acting as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) at the inquiry, said Tuesday that it's possible the document could stay under wraps if the government pushes its claims of confidentiality. The interim report is expected to be finished late this year. Marlys Edwardh, lawyer for Maher Arar, called Atkey's suggestion "chilling." "I would be unbelievably concerned about that," agreed commission counsel Paul Cavalluzzo. But Atkey's speculation is "baseless," said Stephen Bindman, a spokesman for the government's legal team at the Arar inquiry. "The government reviews everything for national security and privacy issues but has every intention of releasing the public version of Justice (Dennis) O'Connor's report." (I predict, that if the Liberals win the next election, and the  Arar 'report' looks as if it will cause any embarrassment to the party, it will find itself on a shelf along with the many reports and audits of the gun registry, and the Somalia reports. And, it very well may have company from a substantial part of the Gomery report as well.. Why? Because 'that's' what the liberals do, and have done, with every report that points the finger of incompetence at 'them'!)
Sperm donors sought for study
OTTAWA (CP) - Health Canada is looking for a few - actually, quite a few - good men. Researchers are seeking men willing to offer their sperm with no expectation of reward other than the joy of giving. Ottawa has called for bids from among the approximately two dozen reproduction clinics scattered across Canada that might be willing to figure out how to recruit and retain volunteer sperm donors. (Liberals are having a hard time recruiting new members, so it looks as if they are planning to grow their own! Its always heart warming to remember: No matter what your social status, looks, mental abilities, or self esteem. In a race of millions, YOU are the product of a 'winning' sperm !.. ha..)
Registering concern
Canadians can be forgiven for shuddering when they hear plans for another national registry, in this case a new federal agency offering foreign-trained doctors a single-source credentials-assessment process. Experience has shown that creating a national registry to harmonize information from the provinces -- such as the long-gun registry -- is complicated and expensive and carries no guarantee of success. Despite this, the Martin government wants to establish a National Credential Verification Agency, using some of the money in the $5.5-billion Wait Times Reduction Fund. ("Wait times" is shorthand for all the ills of the health-care system: Reduce wait times, so the thinking goes, and you've fixed the system.)(What's actually happening is, as people wise up to the money pits, and payoff cash sources already in use by the Liberals, they have discovered that yet 'another' registry is the ideal place to hide money for payoffs and projects that are difficult, or damn near impossible for the Auditor General to trace. It worked in the past, no reason to suspect it won't work again. I'll bet 'this' one is only going to cost two million dollars as well! BRING ON THE ELECTION!!)
Harper issues call to arms
Conservative leader Stephen Harper vowed last night to take down the Liberal government even if it means taking Canadians to the polls in a summer election. Harper emerged from a two- hour emergency caucus in Ottawa to repeat his battle cry: The Grits have lost the moral authority to govern and if they think they can stall an election they'll pay the price. "There's a unanimous view that the Conservative Party cannot support the government. We can't support its program, we cannot support a government that is mired in these kinds of corruption scandals," Harper said. "I think a summer election is a problem for everybody. The summer is the worst time to have an election. But we have a responsibility to decide whether we can or cannot support the government's program and its budget." The first opportunity the Tories may have to bring down the government would be May 18, the earliest date the Grits are expected to table their budget implementation legislation.(Unless the liberals get kicked out, NOTHING will ever change. Canada will still be saddled with the same old corrupt government. The faces may change, but the tactics, graft, and political posturing for nothing more than power will continue. The Liberals are just Too Comfortable with OUR money! It started with Trudeau, and hopefully will end with Paul Martin. Canada needs a complete 're-start'. When the system is corrupted, and all functions cease to work, the ONLY way to get things going again, is to shut it down, and reboot. It's time to press the Canadian 'RE-SET BUTTON'!  Now that the Conservatives have decided to do it, here's hoping everyone else follows through. Virtually EVERYTHING the Martin government has on the table, that 'they' say will end if an election is called, has been one of their 'previous' red book promises that they never got around to doing. As a matter of fact, they never got around to doing the VAST majority of previous red book promises, from childcare to tax relief . Ontario courts have already told the people that election promises are not really 'legally binding' promises, so there is nothing to loose, and everything to gain.  The liberals are notorious liars, and have proven time and time again that they will say and/or do simply anything, to hold power. When in fact, a government should ONLY hold 'office'. The Liberals are about to find out, that they are not RULERS, but simply CARETAKERS that have taken everything 'but' care..)
Brault, Guité seek delay in criminal trials 
Lawyers for Jean Brault and Chuck Guité have requested that their clients' joint trial on fraud and conspiracy charges be delayed until September. Jury selection is currently scheduled for June 6 but lawyers for the two men say the sponsorship inquiry will still be sitting at that time. A judge will decide Wednesday whether to grant the request. Ad man Mr. Brault has already testified at the inquiry, while Mr. Guité, who ran the sponsorship program in the late 1990s, continued his testimony Monday under a publication ban. They were charged in connection with alleged improprieties at the program. The men's criminal proceedings have already been delayed. Jury selection originally was set for Monday but was put off last month until June 6 after lawyers argued May was too close to their clients' appearances at the sponsorship inquiry, led by Mr. Justice John Gomery. Meanwhile, Judge Gomery will likely announce Tuesday or Wednesday whether a publication ban on testimony before the inquiry provided by Mr. Guité late last week and early this week will be lifted.(If  Justice Gomery lifts his ban, and Guité's testimony is anything like the last batch, most Liberals will not be able to get elected as a small town dog catcher ! Harper may have planned this just right! Any luck at all, C-68 and many other liberal follies will be only a bad memory by next hunting season)
A lot to lose
The Liberal government’s ship is sinking and it’s trying to buy a life raft. The $4.5-billion budget agreement between the Liberals and the NDP and Martin’s child care deals with the provinces could prove costly for Canadians.There are other hidden costs of an election in these politically troubling days.After the Gun Registry fiasco, Human Resources Development Canada scandal and, of course, the sponsorship program revelations, Canadians are becoming increasingly disillusioned about the country’s leadership. A political reality in Canada is that most Canadians would place themselves in the centre, or a little to the left, on the political spectrum. Given the options of the avowedly left-wing NDP, a seemingly corrupt Liberal party or a Conservative party that many voters see as having a hidden agenda, many who voted Liberal in the last election will have a tough decision facing them on election day. And many of these voters can be found in Ontario, which, as Canadians have seen, can make or break any party’s aspirations for power. The story is a lot different in Quebec, where support for sovereignty has rebounded and the Bloc Quebecois is poised to sweep the province. After everything that has happened, what are Canadians likely to have gained? A fiscally irresponsible government grasping at strings to stay in power. A dissolution electorate. The potential break-up of the country. Things don’t have to be as bad as they seem. This could be a perfect time for Canadians to discuss political renewal. An elected senate, proportional representation, and other reforms have been batted around for years. Perhaps it’s time to give some serious thought to some of these ideas.(Change Requires Change, and a 'new' bunch of 'liberals' is NOT change!)
Tax Deadline break impresses few
The sponsorship scandal is touching a raw nerve with Canadians as they scramble to meet today's tax-filing deadline. Because the normal end-of-April deadline falls on the weekend, filers get an extra two days to wrap up their tax returns. But many see that as the only break they're getting from the federal government this year. Conservative MP John Williams, his party's waste watchdog, said private accountants are getting an earful as they help Canadians complete their returns. "They're asking, 'Why do we have to pay all these taxes when all they do is waste it,'" he said. "When they have to write the cheques for the balance owing, they're saying, 'There's no value here.' They're outraged." (Well, if they had been "outraged" before the LAST election, they would be looking at Tory Tax breaks now, instead of more Liberal theft and corruption.. Thanks Ontario. Perhaps urban Ontario voters better pull their heads out of their collective asses next time!! As a business person, I don't have to file until June 15th and if I owe, I still have to pay interest from the end of April.. However, Even though it costs me money to do it, I'm not sending these liberal thieves a thing until AFTER the election. I would much rather pay interest to a government that is NOT corrupt, and labelled a 'criminal organization' then to give these bastards one penny more, any faster than I have to.. Do us proud Steven.. I have a 'Tax bill' waiting to be paid, and like most, I would much rather it be paid to a NON Corrupt government than Paul Martins band of thieves.  )
Tory blasts Grit 'whores'

Liberals 'will do anything to try and scare people,' B.C. MP says