Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:15:59 -0600 (CST) GUN CONTROL: Liberal Thinking: Death or injury to those who can't use martial arts or other non-lethal means of self-defense-- The young, the old, the infirm, the disabled, the weak, the small, and the pregnant--are simply the necessary sacrifice we must make to criminals, to avoid the risks of letting honest, law abiding people be armed. FIREARMS QUICK FACTS By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated April 29, 2005
Here's what THOSE Officers say about this Gun Registry Farce
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Gun registry could be tough to kill in a minority government. The Tories made a long and expensive list of promises in their campaign and local MPs are urging the public to be patient as the new government settles into power. For the the first time in more than 12 years Canadians asked a conservative party to take the reigns of the country, granting Stephen Harper’s Tories 124 seats this past Monday night, enough for a slim minority hold on Parliament. But to woo voters, Harper’s platform included several big promises, many of which will be difficult to keep in a minority situation. Among reducing the GST and introducing tougher penalties for criminals, one of those promises was the termination of the national firearms registry, and MP Gerry Ritz said although several of his constituents are looking to the Tories to abolish the costly program, the task may be easier said than done. “We’re constrained by the numbers in the House of Commons and the Liberally stacked senate, but having said that, we need to begin doing what we said we’re going to do,” Ritz said. “One option is just to financially starve (the gun registry) out. Nobody’s going to work for nothing. Buildings have to be rented, power has to be paid and those types of things. There is that opportunity too. It won’t be as quick as a piece of legislation, but at the end of this fiscal year, we’ll see the last of the money going to that registry.”(Once the Auditors report on the registry comes out, I don't think there will be a 'real' problem dumping this farce. Particularly once all the other panning documents the liberals have hidden from the public under a "cabinet secrecy" blanket are finally revealed. Misspent money, hidden money, under the table transactions, and outright fraud come to mind. It also wouldn't surprise me in the least to see 'more' reference to envelopes stuffed with cash changing hands. The billions this farce has cost Canadian taxpayer is outrageous, and compared to adscam, this liberal scam is going to be monumental. After Paul Martins shameful smear campaign, full of lies and distortions, it becomes apparent just how desperate the liberals were to stay in power, if only to keep things hidden. Now, after the investigations, some may even be going to jail.) To 'Rosies' Dismay, Canadian Election Dumps Liberals "It’s a very sad day for Gun registry changes coming, says top Tory A senior Conservative MP from northern B.C. says the new Stephen Harper government will move quickly to kill Canada's controversial rifle registry. Prince George-Peace River MP Jay Hill says the Conservatives plan to make good their promise to end what he calls the "financial fiasco" of the long-gun registry. Hill says he's not sure just what legislation is needed to kill the registry. But he says it will be history, when MPs return for the next session of Parliament. "Well, just as quickly as Parliament reconvenes, we're going to be moving ahead with that commitment to the Canadian people." 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.(As hard as it is to believe, there are a number of grits, and NDPr's that would like to see it gone as well.. Once the Auditor Generals Report comes out, and we all know it won't be good, the Lib's Block, and the NDP will look pretty foolish if they continue their support for this amount of waste. Particularly if she has tracked some, 'shall we say discrepancies' similar to AdScam .. Personally, I think it will make AdScam look like chump change..) Conservatives say they will keep promise to arm Canada's border guards The newly-elected Conservatives say they will make good as soon as possible on their leader's pledge to arm Canadian border guards, following a shootout on the Canada-U.S. border on Tuesday night. The Conservative MP for the area says when Canadian border guards are facing a gun fight, batons and pepper spray just won't do. "It simply reinforces the fact that our customs officers work in a very dangerous situation," said Russ Hiebert. The Peace Arch border crossing, Tuesday. "And as a Conservative government we're committed to giving them the resources and the equipment. And that includes giving them the sidearms that they need to handle these kinds of dangerous situations." A police chase near the Canada-U.S. border forced the closure of the Peace Arch border crossing south of Vancouver for hours on Tuesday. It also caused dozens of Canadian guards to walk off the job, fearing for their safety. (If Brinks Guards, Transit cops, and assorted others can be armed, it's absolutely absurd to leave the front line people on our very borders with only bullet resistant vests, and pepper spray. This should be one of many corrections to Liberal stupidity in the upcoming months.) Canadians Review Key Priorities for Harper (Angus Reid Global Scan) – A large number of adults in Canada believe their incoming prime minister should focus on two specific issues during his term, according to a poll by Environics Research Group released by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 80 per cent of respondents think the Conservative government headed by Stephen Harper should increase mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, and 71 per cent want to change the upper house so that future senators are elected and not appointed. Canadians renewed the House of Commons on Jan. 23. The Conservatives received 36.3 per cent of the vote, and secured 124 seats in the 308-member lower house. Harper will lead a minority administration after more than 12 years of government by the Liberal party. More than half of all respondents believe the Tory government should create a foreign policy with closer relations to the United States, and 49 per cent believe they should implement their tax plans, provide their proposed child care allowance, and repeal the gun registry for long guns.(If the current senators feel their doing a good job, then they should not be afraid to stand for election. But, many are simply Liberal hacks, that kissed enough ass in their time to be "entitled to their entitlements".. stand for election? Not a Chance!!! We'll just have to wait for them to reach the mandatory retirement age, or die off trying) Italy approves self-defence law The Italian parliament has passed legislation allowing people to shoot robbers in self-defence. The law permits the use of guns and knives by people in homes or workplaces to protect lives or belongings. The reform was introduced by the Northern League party, a right-wing member of the ruling coalition with a strong anti-crime platform. The opposition voted against the bill, which critics say will encourage people to take the law into their own hands. Controversy The new law will allow people to use legally registered weapons to protect themselves or others, and their property and the property of others, from harm. It applies if there is a danger of aggression and the attacker does not desist. Justice Minister Roberto Castelli backed the new law. "Today criminals will have more to fear while there will be fewer problems for honest people," said Mr Castelli, who belongs to the Northern League. However, the centre-left opposition expressed concern that it would encourage violence and lead to increased use of firearms. "This is a... measure that delegates the use of force to citizens with the sole certain result of increasing the risks for people's safety," said Paolo Cento of the Greens party. A criminal lawyers' group also criticized the law, saying it amounted to allowing "legitimate offence". (Well, I'm sure all those opposed to this law are not Store owners, or others that have been victimized. Self defence is a BASIC human right, and by denying that right, or the tools required to exercise that right, the government would be just as guilty of the assault, as the perpetrator. One thing for sure, break-ins and robberies are going to plummet in Italy!) The REAL story on how all those crime guns got onto Toronto streets -- and their not from the homes of legitimate owners Having invoked the fear factor that half the guns used to bathe Toronto in blood last year were stolen from law-abiding collectors and shooters, Prime Minister Paul Martin went to the polls Monday vowing to ban all handguns in Canada -- if constitutionally viable, that is, a caveat he later had to add when he misfired on the facts. Toronto Mayor David Miller sang the same statistical tune, despite contrary evidence in a report tabled last month by his own police service -- a report obtained through access to information that shows, if not twisted, that no more than 16% of "crime guns" in Toronto were obtained through the robbery of legitimate owners. And that is a far, far cry from the loud headlines Mayor Miller recently created when he claimed "almost half" the blood guns came from the break-ins of homes where guns were legally registered and stored. But politics is politics. And Mayor Miller, without question, wanted the Liberals back in power.(Well, Mayor Miller got Liberals and NDP elected! Not thanks to this, the people of Toronto have NO representation in the Tory government. Nice move asshole er.. Mayor Miller Perhaps Toronto will smarten up, and kick 'your' ass out at the next election..) Gun Owners Helped Dump Libs.. "Pissed off" Canadian gun owners played a major role in ousting the Liberals, according to the second largest gun lobby group in the U.S. Dave Workman, spokesman for the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said gun owners heard enough about the Liberals' gun registry and handgun ban and helped the Conservatives win Monday's election. "From our preliminary polls, gun control was a large factor in Alberta and many parts of B.C.," he said. "We're talking gun country up there and what happened was that these people spoke out and sent a strong message." Workman said the immediate effect from Monday's election is the death of the handgun ban, but he said the group will keep a close eye on how Harper deals with the "gun-registry fiasco."(The much feared "Canadian Gun Lobby" invented by Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for gun control, and in reality consisting of millions of pissed off legitimate gun owners. Martins phoney "handgun Ban" was the final straw. The writing was on the wall, soon ALL firearms would be banned by these Liberals thieving hoplophobes. and enough is enough.. In a message from the grave, Gord Hitchen (1933-2004) summed it all up in the message he left with a friend for Anne McLellan.. "ANNIE THE DEBATE IS NOW OVER" ANNIE AIN'T GOT YER GUNS NO MORE EDMONTON -- After surviving four razor-thin election victories, Anne McLellan, Alberta's lone Liberal and Ottawa's most powerful female politician, has finally fallen to defeat. After her Tory opponent, Laurie Hawn, pulled ahead by thousands of votes in Edmonton Centre, Ms. McLellan conceded. But she vowed to run again. Earlier, Ms. McLellan, 55, had reminded reporters that during the 2000 campaign, several reporters incorrectly declared that she had been unseated before all the polls had closed. Her downtown Edmonton seat has been at risk in every election she's contested since she first won in 1993 by a 12-vote margin. After that victory, she earned the moniker "Landslide Annie." (The long road back from the brink for most law abiding gun owners has started.. There 'should' be enough support from the MP's in other parties that have been waiting for a time to shut down the useless gun registry. Toronto, will just have to face the fact, that for the first time in history I believe, it does not have a single MP in the governing party. Miller better start kissing some ass..) HERE'S HOW IT ALL COMES TOGETHER What happens tomorrow? For Paul Martin, an end not just to his power but to his credibility. He had no belief or principle that he did not abandon in his desperation, from fiscal responsibility to Canada-U.S. friendship to his promise to respect the West. He said anything and everything -- and so now the country believes nothing. For Martin's backroom boys, the Greek tragedy of hubris. They so believed in their own inevitability, in their moral and intellectual superiority, that they were tone-deaf to what normal Canadians are really like. Worse, they began to despise normal Canadians, thinking them too irresponsible to spend child-care money properly or too gullible to see through hysterical attack ads. For the entire class of political hangers-on, lobbyists, government relations consultants and pollsters: Exile from the world of fat expense accounts and fat government contracts, of living at the taxpayers' trough, of blurring the lines between public interest and personal gain. Exile and excommunication will be followed in some cases by subpoenas as a Conservative government, with full Bloc Quebecois and NDP support, opens up a hundred sealed government accounts, everything from the $2-billion gun registry to off-the-books foundations the Liberals set up, to the wheat board, which has been exempt from access-to-information requests.(Just don't stand under any Ottawa Tall buildings for the next while, it may be raining desperate Liberals! At least their not armed!) *Rural Manatoba voters angry *Gun owners take aim at Liberal platform EVEN THE MOST WELL INTENTIONED LAWS CAN GO OFF THE TRACKS When it comes to gangs and guns, where there's a way there's a will -- whether it's casing, stalking or buyingg information that leads to legitimate gun owners. The law abiding then become the targets. A 1993 investigative report by Peel regional police called Project Gun Runner, written some 12 years before Toronto's infamous Year of the Gun, saw 52 men being shot to death in what was largely black-on-black warfare, the summary told of one tale that was then deemed worth mentioning because it went beyond the break-and-enters of gun shops and the homes of private firearms owners. It told of young offenders staking out the ammunition section of a Canadian Tire store in Hamilton, and then following home any person who bought handgun ammunition. "Their reasoning," said the report, "was that if someone was buying ammunition, he must have at least one gun at home and, as a result, they were able to steal a number of handguns that were subsequently sold on the streets." (Walmart home of the sloppy ammo sales department, and the 'book' on the front counter. The next time I see that book on the front counter, or simply laying on the shelf behind the counter, I will ask to speak directly to the manager regarding their sloppy handling of potentially deadly private information, and what kind of security precautions have been taken in regard to which employees have access to that book! Perhaps a group action litigation is in order against the government of Ontario for putting us ALL in danger!) As the crime situation up north goes south Canada's long-ruling Liberal government, now headed by Prime Minister Paul Martin, lately has been blaming the United States for a dramatic increase in violent crime up north. There's plenty of blame to spread around, but it all belongs north of the border. The problem isn't Americans illegally running guns to Canada, but Canadian criminals illegally importing guns from wherever they can get them. Blaming the United States for Canadian crime is an argument that does not pass the smell test. Canada's experience has simply demonstrated that no matter what kind of gun control law a government passes, that law is doomed to failure because instead of keeping guns out of the wrong hands, the law disarms the wrong people. Canada's gun control scheme has not just failed -- it has failed disastrously. Clear evidence of that can be found in a comparison of the crime rates for Canada and America. While advocates of Canada's type of restrictive gun laws will play with raw figures and show how there might be many more homicides in cities such as Chicago or Miami or Detroit than there are in Toronto, the real story is found by comparing the per capita crime rates. Do that, and you will discover that Canada's crime rate is skyrocketing while down in the states, overall crime is declining.(After today, the change will begin. GO VOTE He Says He's Saving a Seat in Prison For Paul Martin Being behind bars didn’t stop Brandon Correctional Centre inmates from sending a message to Ottawa. Twenty-five BCC inmates cast their vote in a special federal election ballot on Friday. Keeping up with the issues as best he can through newspapers, inmate Perry Robinson quipped that he’s saving a seat in his cell for Liberal leader Paul Martin. “He’s a criminal as far as I’m concerned,” said Robinson, who’s serving time for assault causing bodily harm. “It just seems like he’s got blatant disregard for his position.” Robinson, 41, wasn’t happy with the Grit sponsorship scandal and is unimpressed with the party’s national gun registry. “I believe in peoples’ rights to have guns,” he explained. “It isn’t the guns that kill people, it’s the people that kill people.” Robinson, a hunter, said the gun registry is a waste of money. Firearms will flow into the country from the United States regardless. “I realize that those guns are going to come,” he said. “They’re not going to stop it, they’re just making innocent people criminals.” But a Tory government lead by Stephen Harper — who says he’ll take away inmates’ right to vote — doesn’t appeal to Robinson either. Inmates have life experience and insight into possible legal reforms and their votes should count, he says. “They have different insight into the other side of life,” he said. Robinson doesn’t object to Harper’s pledge to double minimum sentences for 26 gun-related crimes, though. “Using a gun to commit a crime, that’s life threatening,” Robinson said. “That’s when the law should be laid down.”(Saving a seat in prison for Paul Martin, is futile. He is far too well connected to serve any time, even if investigations show without a shadow of a doubt, the he was a 'player' ! The prison time will go to bureaucratic scapegoats at first, then as the culture of 'save your own ass' grows, a multitude of plea bargains will happen, and only then will some of the bigger fish will get caught. None of them will be Paul Martin. He has money, and power, that makes him different from most of the others. That money and power, gives him his 'entitlements') Rights group rips Martin A civil liberties group accuses the prime minister of siding with the United States to derail a proposed United Nations treaty outlawing forced disappearances. In its annual world report, Human Rights Watch says Paul Martin apparently decided to run interference for the U.S. as a way for Canada to mend strained relations with its neighbour. The group says disappearances occur when governments seize people without acknowledging their detention, leaving them highly vulnerable to torture or execution. Several Latin American countries backed the UN effort because they experienced a devastating plague of disappearances in the 1970s and '80s. The group says the Americans opposed the treaty because they had begun using forced disappearances in secret detention facilities abroad in the fight against terrorism. It also accuses Russia of the practice in Chechnya, where young men suspected of being rebels have disappeared after their arrest by Russian forces.(Maybe it's all coming clear? The liberal government has passed laws to jail people without trial or public evidence, and maintains a revolving door 'legal industry" (it can't be called a justice system), has raided the home of a reporter that raised embarrassing questions, has laundered millions from the treasury back into their own coffers, refuses to grant 'property rights', has spent a ENORMOUS amount of money trying to make a list of those that have firearms, Martins recent vow to BAN handguns in the guise of "keeping you safe", and now this!!! IS THIS THE CANADA YOU WANT? ARE THESE "CANADIAN VALUES" January 23rd can't come fast enough to suit me!? Southwestern Ontario's blue tide rising You don't have to dig very deep to uncover a deep fatigue with the governing party, even among traditional Liberal voters like Paul Kobylka, a Blenheim pipefitter. "I just can't bring myself to vote for them this time. Paul Martin just seems so indecisive. He looks like a deer in the headlights whenever you see him." At Harrow's Colio Estate Winery, Lorri Stomp is another disaffected Liberal. "I'm at the point where I really don't like looking at Paul Martin," she says. Such sentiments bolster Mr. Watson's re-election chances in Essex, a prairie-flat riding of suburbs, farms and rural towns that encircles Windsor from Lake Erie to Lake St. Clair. He's locked in a tense rematch with Liberal Susan Whelan, whom he defeated by 829 votes in 2004, becoming the first Tory in 42 years to capture the seat. (The only liberal stronghold currently in Ontario is 416 Toronto.. My area, around southern Lake Simcoe, is a sea of blue just like the last time.. People are seeing Stephen Harper in a whole new light. Voting liberal will just mean more corruption, and when you vote NDP, you get "Jack" .. Once the gun registry is gone, sporting goods stores can look forward to a surge in firearms and hunting equipment business, and new stores will open. The sales of migratory bird permits will start to climb back next fall, the a long awaited thinning of geese will commence. Over ten million guns that have been 'stored away' for the last 3 years or so, will be back in use, and ammunition sales will also start their long return to normal. But what will please me the most, is seeing Wendy's liberal funding removed, and along with it, the demise of that bogus money sucking waste, her coalition for gun control. REAL effective gun control will be moved to the forefront. Gun control based on the 'criminal' use of firearms, not the punishment of duck hunters, and target shooters because of political correctness, and useless feel good liberal policies. Harper has promised to roll things back to pre-1995 and the issuance of FAC 's. Only then will Canadian shooters realize what they had to loose, and 'could' have lost.. I predict that the CSSA (Canadian Shooting Sports Association) will become (And SHOULD become) the Canadian version of the NRA, fighting for the rights of the Canadian sport shooter and collector. It's truly unfortunate that the 2 billion wasted on the gun registry is vanished into the pockets of liberal 'friendlies' forever, but Harper's plan for 'constitutional property rights' will go a long way to helping make sure this type of waste is never repeated.) Martin 'backs' sleazy Anti Harper Ads. TORONTO — Liberal Leader Paul Martin today defended an unaired TV ad accusing Stephen Harper of wanting to put armed soldiers in Canadian cities, saying the Liberals were simply showing the differences between the two party positions. He also defended the rest of the series of ads attacking the Conservative Leader, saying they are not attack ads because they are true. The military ad, which was never aired but which appeared on the Liberal website, was roundly condemned by soldiers who say it paints them in a negative light. But Mr. Martin told CTV's Canada AM "there's no attack on the soldiers. We support the soldiers." "I support our military," Mr. Martin said. "I've probably put more money into the military than almost any (Liberal) prime minister. "(The ads have) nothing to do with soldiers." "I have increased soldiers' pay. I have a huge admiration for the soldiers," Mr. Martin said. "Take a look at what we're attacking. There's support for the soldiers."(Soldiers always look ominous to a cowardly pacifist! Martin forgets, it was not a valiant group of cowardly liberal pacifists that kept our country free through two world wars. Martin gave the soldiers pay raises, and put some money into the military, only because he was shamed into doing it! Thanks to the Liberals, which could not give a flying fuck about the military, Canadian soldiers were living below the poverty line, in substandard housing. When the situation was exposed, Martin threw them a few crumbs. Liberal governments have not in the past, nor ever will in the future, support our soldiers, or the military in general. If Martin thought he might actually get away with it, he would disband the Canadian military, and continue to leach off the Americans, that his government so publicly despises. One thing for sure, once this bullshitter is out of power, our relationship with our largest and best friends in the world will instantly become better, and a lot more cordial.) NUMBER OF LEGAL GUNS STOLEN IS NO MORE THAN 16% - NOT 48% “It’s time to make criminals pay a heavy price for stealing guns,” says Breitkreuz. Yorkton – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville, released an academic analysis on the number of ‘crime guns’ stolen from law-abiding gun owners that brings into question claims by the Mayor of Toronto and data recently released by the Toronto Police Services. “According to Professor Mauser’s analysis the number of legal firearms stolen from law-abiding gun owners ranges between 2 and 16 percent - not 48 percent as claimed by Mayor Miller and reported in the media,” revealed Breitkreuz. Professor Gary Mauser, Ph.D., of Simon Fraser University, reported the following results based on his analysis of the following published data (see link to his full report at the bottom of the page): 1. Toronto Police Services Board report dated January 22, 2004: 16 (9%) of the 183 firearms (11
Debate highlights competing visionsregistered and 5 reported stolen) came from lawful Canadian owners. 2. Toronto Police Service report dated December 1, 2005: 35 (16%) of the 214 handguns were stolen from law-abiding Canadian owners. 3. Peel Regional Police, Project Gun Runner report dated December 21, 1994: 14% of firearms used in crime in Toronto had been registered at some point in the past. 4. Toronto Police Services Annual Report for 2000: 2% of the firearms came from Canadian owners. 5. Statistics Canada Homicide Report for 2004: 16% of the firearms used in homicide were in the registry. (Finally.. The truth once again wins out over the blatant lies of the gun grabbers.. Every time from now on when the 50% lie rears it's ugly head, the ammunition is available to shoot them down.. Once again we have Garry B. and his relentless efforts on behalf of the law abiding gun owners to thank... ) Liberals unleash anti-Harper ads
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Liberals, facing a deep shift in public opinion less than two weeks from voting day, have unleashed a dozen ominous TV ads accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of everything from disliking Atlantic Canada to accepting illegal campaign contributions. But it was a single, 30-second ad the Liberals suddenly yanked from their party website that was attracting the most attention late Tuesday night. The piece, which suggested incredulously and scornfully that Harper would send "soldiers with guns" into Canada's cities, disappeared without explanation. Starting with grainy, unfocused close-ups of Harper's eyes and a martial drum beat, the Liberal ads all follow the same format, using past comments by or about Harper - or simply Liberal characterizations - to paint a deeply unflattering portrait as his face comes into focus. Some of the ads end with the Liberal financing disclaimer stamped across Harper's upper lip like a Hitler moustache. The military spot, which plays off a Conservative promise to boost the militia, states that Harper wants to increase the military presence in cities. "Canadian cities. Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada. We did not make this up," says the woman's voice-over. (Paul Martin is a man that will say and do, absolutely ANYTHING if he thinks it will get him re-elected! It's truly amazing how stupid the Liberals think the average Canadian is! Out of touch is too tame a rationalization. They are so far out, their starting to look like the blathering morons most voters think they are! It would not surprise me for a moment, if companies like those pesky overpriced door to door vacuum cleaner pedlars, are taking note on who has a liberal sign on their front lawn, just to identify those that are statistically more gullible than average. Martin, knowing full well that he 'really' can't run on his governments record, finds the only recourse left to him is the old scare tactic one that has always worked in the past. The liberals think nothing of pointing a gun at you and pulling the trigger (remember that ad from the last election)? Martin and cohorts are 'really' worried this time around. Once out of office, all the skeletons will come marching out of the closet, and prominent Martin liberals will start folding like a deck chairs on the Titanic. Many, will try to save their own skins by becoming witnesses against the corrupt regime, and in doing so, the political pendulum of this country will once again swing to the 'right' and restore the balance of Canadian Democracy. January the 23rd is the date that pendulum starts it's long awaited move. A vote for your Conservative MP, will add your shove to the momentum needed for that restoration, so get out there and SHOVE.) Martin had the tough job last night, as he did in the 2004 debates.
Seeking to galvanize a fading campaign, he tried to paint Harper as an
American-style conservative. "Tonight's debate will be about choosing
the kind of Canada you want," Martin said, noting there was a "deep
chasm" between himself and the Tory leader on basic values. "I don't
believe Canada was built on American conservative values," he said.But
Harper looked cool and unruffled during the two-hour debate. Buoyed by
polls showing the Tories have surged into the lead, Harper defended
himself by saying the Liberals don't deserve to govern after the
sponsorship fiasco. "We need a government that will be on the side of
the people who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules," he
said.Meanwhile, New Democrat leader Jack Layton, desperate to
revive his party's falling voter support, sought to guard his
threatened flanks by arguing a vote for the NDP is a prudent way to
keep whoever wins honest. "Enough is enough with Liberal arrogance and
scandals and enough to the vote-buying promises of the Conservatives,"
Layton said.(Quite
frankly, I 'really' don't fully believe any of them, but faced with a
choice, the choice is clear. The only one up there that LOOKED like a
Prime Minister was Harper.. Harper was cool, calm, and directly to the
point. Martin looked like a man with a with a thousand axes headed his
way, and he didn't know which way to run. Layton looked like the
persistent snake oil salesman who at every opportunity, pulled out his
bottle of NDP solution and plunked it on the table. No matter 'what'
the topic, the bottle of NDP solution was was the medicine that would
cure you. It was actually starting
to get funny !..
IT'S CLEANSING TIME!For everyone that was involved in the Martin Cliché 'drinking or BINGO game' {every time Martin uses one of his favourite words..i.e. "Clearly" } you take a drink, or dab your bingo marker, there were probably a hell of a load of drunks or ink covered patrons wobbling out of bars right across the country. One thing I was VERY pleased to hear from Harper, was his stand to amend the charter, and give Canadians 'Property Rights'. The right to own property is fundamental to a free society. The RIGHT to own property is NOT one of Paul Martins Canadian Values. The next round of polls will tell which way this country is headed. Forward with Stephen, or Mired with Martin. A perfect example of what Paul Martin would do to Canadians, was along the same lines as his goofy handgun ban. He would strip the right to use the not withstanding clause from the federal government, and make the Supreme Court paramount over parliament. This might work, if the Supreme court was 'elected' and not appointed by the ruling government, but as it is now, Martin feels pretty safe knowing that the Liberals have appointed all(?) of the Supreme Court Judges, and they ALL seem to think like Liberals for some reason. Now I'm no big fan of the 'notwithstanding clause', because our constitution is really meaningless as long as it's there, and able to be used to over ride charter rights. However, giving 'APPOINTED' judges the power to dictatorially impose 'their' views ALL THE TIME, RIGHT OR WRONG, is NOT the way a 'democratic' government should work. If this were to take place, it would only be a matter of time before the 'Supreme Court' decided that it should become the 'Supreme Council' and appoint it's own members from now on, and Parliament, along with your views, would then become redundant. If this is one of Paul Martins Canadian Values, and he get re- elected, this country is going to be in a lot of trouble. Martins right about one thing though! If this debate was about 'choosing the kind of Canada you want" Most Canadians would 'clearly' not want the Canada that Martin envisions, once they've read between the lines. Talk about a "Hidden Agenda" If this one is not enough to scare the shit out of you, then you truly deserve what he has in store for your freedoms and your 'new' Canadian Values! ) "The Liberals aren't desperately trying to hang to power simply because they like power -- and to keep their hands on the taxpayers' money-- but because they know if they lose the election a lot of skeletons will come tumbling out of their closest." Pithily, he says: "Once a Harper government starts going through the Jean Chretien/Paul Martin governments' books and revealing to the taxpayers' what has been going on we'll be seeing a lot of former cabinet ministers, MPs, Liberal bureaucrats and Liberal party insiders jumping off the MacDonald-Cartier Bridge." (Yes, it might be wise not to walk under any bridges, or stand too close to tall buildings in Ottawa after Jan. 23, because it might be raining liberals. The gun registry in particular will be a focus of attention. Consider only 'one' part of it! Half a billion dollars, that's "five hundred million dollars" for computers and software alone!!! It simply boggles the imagination. Not just the imagination of the average taxpayer, but it also boggles the imagination of people IN the computer/software business! Ebay didn't cost "five hundred million dollars" to set up, but the liberals claim the the gun registry with only the names of 2 million of the 7-10 million gun owners in the country, did. It makes one wonder, how many times they paid the same companies and friends, $2000.00 for the same pencil, over and over again? A forensic audit of the sponsorship scandal STILL can't find 40 million missing dollars. I wonder how much they will not be able to find from the same type of audit on the gun registry? Yup, according to 'Wendy' fewer guns are being used in suicides, but unfortunately, 'rope' suicides are way up. So, once the 'inquisition' starts, it just might be raining liberals after the 23rd. Perhaps, according to the information available from Statistics Canada, the majority will choose not to jump, but simply end up dangling around Ottawa like so many spiders! But then again, this is Canada! the most they would get is a fine, a community sentence, and a order to visit schools teaching the evils of corruption. Ahhh It pays to be a liberal writing the laws that will ultimately affect you doesn't it? ) Desperate Liberal Press Release: Stephen Harper’s Crime Plan a Facade? An accumulation of 'spin, panic, and hilarious attempts at fear mongering from the Liberal Website Conservative Leader Stephen Harper claims he is serious about cracking down on crime – particularly gun crime – but his record paints a very different picture. Mr. Harper has worked to defeat every gun control measure the Liberal government has brought in and even those passed by the Mulroney government in 1991. How can he say he will support gun control now? (Only a Liberal party, completely out of touch with realty would think that 'gun control' is 'crime control)' He claims to be serious about increasing mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, but by precipitating an early election he derailed a government bill that would have doubled these penalties. (The ONLY reason the liberals presented that bill, was to have something on the table they could point to when the government fell.. They were ALREADY ON THE RECORD for saying 'mandatory minimum sentences don't work' unless of course, they need them to get elected by people they think are to stupid to see through 'their' facade) And now he refuses to support the Canada Handgun Ban. (Martin laughable handgun ban is one of the goofiest proposals most 'thinking' people have ever heard. OF COURSE he refuses to support it. It's totally stupid, and won't do a damn thing but cost another hell of a lot of money just like their failed registry of duck hunters.) Mr. Harper let his Firearms Critic, Garry Breitkreuz, accept an award in April 2005 from the World Forum on the Future Sport Shooting Activities, a group that is affiliated with the National Rifle Association (NRA). (The World Forum on the Future Sport Shooting Activities, moron.. NOT the NRA. Just because the NRA might be a member, does not means this is a Sinister award presented by the likes of some terrorist organization.. By the way Sinister means LEFT.. get it? The dots this liberal moron is trying to connect, are four miles apart!) How are Canadians supposed to take Mr. Harper seriously on the issue of gun control when so many of his MPs have such strong ties to the NRA and the Canadian gun lobby? (How are 'intelligent' Canadians supposed to believe ANYTHING the liberal party coughs up after reading 'this' tripe.. It Only confirms one thing. The liberals are so used to passing this garbage off to the uninformed, that they now believe ALL Canadians are idiots. ) In fact, Mr. Harper himself recently told a Vancouver radio audience that he thought the gun lobby should have the status of a registered charity. (Who is "THE GUN LOBBY" in Canada??? There is no organized organization anything close to the NRA or any other Lobby group. There is not even a 'registered lobby group' known as the "gun lobby" it exists ONLY in the paranoid minds of mental midget liberals) Furthermore, Mr. Harper has yet to reveal the donors for his 2002 leadership campaign. Were the gun lobby and its leaders donors, and if so, how much did they contribute? (The ONLY "Gun Lobby" in Canada, consists of individual gun owners, a few clubs and interested groups involved in the shooting sports. There is no single identifiable "Gun Lobby"! And how much did they contribute? Well, I would imagine quite a bit. CP coffers are full, because THEY know how to mange money. unlike the liberals of course who had to depend on laundered kick backs from advertising firms, for 'their' election funds. This point by point paranoid garbage on the liberal website only shows how desperate they really are. AND how stupid they think the public really is.. These are the rantings of a dying party, that will say and do just about anything to stay in power. In all probability, once they are defeated, so much corruption will come to the forefront in future investigations that they are no longer able to cover-up or shut down, that some may actually end up in jail. There has never been, in the entire history of this country a government so corrupt and contemptuous of the public as this one. By the looks of the polls a lot of Canadians are finally starting to see the real wolf, right through their sheep suits! ) Cops Back Most of Tory Plan Canada's cops are embracing the Conservative crime-cutting plan, but they're leery about the party's pledge to abolish the gun registry. Tony Cannavino, president of the Canadian Professional Police Association, said Canadians have lost faith in a justice system that has become a revolving door for reoffending criminals. He praised the Tory pledge to tip the scales of justice in favour of victims. "For the most part, the Conservative Party's security platform seems to be the result of thorough thinking and to be guided by the willingness of instilling a tougher justice system and policies for the treatment of violent offenders," he said. Cannavino said Stephen Harper's commitment to invest more money into police resources and impose mandatory minimum sentences for more weapons and drug offences will give police officers an edge. But he denounced the Tory plan to abolish the gun registry, which he called a "useful tool" for police. (First off, The Canadian Police Association is NOT the police. They are a lobby group for the police, who originally put forth a list of criteria that the 'gun registry' would HAVE to meet, 'before' they would endorse it.. Well, the registry has not met one single item of their endorsement criteria, but for some reason (probably liberal funding of some sort) they call it a "useful tool"?? Never mind the FACT that the majority of 'real' police officers, you know, the ones 'out there' and not sitting behind a political lobbyist desk, think the registry is a total waste of money. The question the CPA should be asking the police, is "would you miss it it if were gone?" the resounding NO would be deafening.) `Landslide Annie' facing tough fight to beat the odds once again in Edmonton
Conservative Russ Hiebert is being challenged to “end the Conservative silence” on gun control.At the beginning of the last campaign, Conservative candidate Laurie Hawn sent Anne McLellan roses. He lost by 721 votes.By the deputy prime minister's standards, that wasn't even close. Since 1993, McLellan has beaten the odds and the Tories in iconoclast Edmonton Centre four times, once in a recount that saw her margin of victory jump from a single ballot to a dozen.That's made her a bit of a legend in a province where politics is personal and the important players are known by their first names. Ralph is the premier and Landslide Annie is the loneliest Liberal between Saskatchewan and the Pacific Coast. Knocking down the last standing Liberal is a Stephen Harper priority and in Hawn he has found a man who seems just right enough for the job. Personable and seasoned by the last election's lessons, he is arguably no more conservative than the most conservative minister in the very conservative Liberal government.Campaigning door-to-door, Hawn resists the temptation to agree with the most socially rigid constituents and downplays the suspicion that Liberals will again find some way to win. All he is willing to say is that electoral lists are full of holes and that it wouldn't be difficult for the determined to vote more than once.Truth is, Hawn doesn't need controversy. The wind of change is at his back and if it howls a little longer it could blow him to Ottawa and McLellan out of office.(I'm pretty sure my MP 'Peter Van Loan' is a shoe in, or at least according to the obvious lack of Liberal lawn signs in his riding, 'should be'.. So, I like most other firearms owners that have been following the failed liberal "Culture of safety" for years, will be watching two ridings in particular. ONE will Annie 'got yer gun' McLellan's, being defeated by Mr Hawn the Ex Fighter Pilot, and TWO is a certain power grasping bitch in Aurora Ontario. Just watching the woman with the suitable initials of B.S. crash and burn during this election will be very satisfying for any member of the conservative party, and Canadians in general.) Hiebert’s Liberal opponent said the Conservatives, and all candidates in South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale, need to explain their plan to end gun violence in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres. “Why are you and your party silent on the handgun issue when innocent children are losing their lives?” Jim McMurtry asked in a letter to Hiebert, referring to the Boxing Day shooting of Toronto teen Jane Crebo. The Liberals have promised, if elected, to amend the Criminal Code to outlaw posession of handguns.(Here is a perfect example of wasteful, liberal, myopic, pandering. The Criminal code ALREADY outlaws illegal handguns. As a matter of fact, it outlaws murder as well!! Canada does not have a 'gun' problem. Canada has a 'Criminal' problem, a 'Judicial problem', a 'Soft on Crime' problem, and a 'Border Control' problem. 'Baiting' a conservative MP on the 'myopic handgun' non issue only highlights the useless scope of the liberal agenda. ) Liberals rewarding their friends using taxdollars under the guise of "Relocation Services"? Bombshell: Liberals rewarding their friends using taxdollars under the guise of "Relocation Services"? 2.25 BILLION for "Relocation Services": Going to Luxury Hotels, Spas, Golf Resorts When most of us move, we load our stuff onto a U-Haul and spend the night at the Howard Johnson's. Not so if you are employed by the government and a friend of the Liberal Party. Besides van line contracts for the Department of National Defense, our money is being spent for some pretty over the top accommodations/vacation spots. Just look at some of the contracts awarded by Public Works and billed as "relocation services" Government Contracts for "relocation services" from November 2002 until October 2005 total: $2,243,154,797.00 Moving expenses or a slush fund for more undeserved perks for special Liberals? Note: It is likely that the vast majority of the money allocated for "relocation services" is used appropriately. Clearly, however, some of it is not and that appears to be a worrisome pattern with this Liberal government. :(This information from the Conservative life website "clearly" (as Paul Martin would say) shows taxpayers that the liberals are truly crooked, lying , thieves. Hilton Disney World Resort Lake Bueno Vista Date contract Awarded: January 1, 2004 Amount of Contract: $25,000.00 Reason(?): “Relocation Services” Is just One example there are others to: Club Golf Heritage Quebec January 1, 2004 $26,250.00... Marriott Resort and Spa Waikiki Beach, Honolulu $97,410.00... 1000 Islands Tours and Travel Colonial Resort and Health Spa Gananoque $67,500.00... Laguna Brisas Resort and Spa Laguna Beach California January 1, 2005 $25,000.00... Le Meridien Resort/Spa Cancun Mexico January 1, 2004 $25,000.00 January 1, 2005 $25,000.00... White Oaks Tennis World-Resort and Spa Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario $186,000.00... Club Regent Casino Winnipeg, Manitoba January 01, 2004 $25,000.00 January 01, 2005 $25,000.00.... Taboo Golf Resort and Spa Gravenhurst January 1, 2005 $25,000.00.... Melia Santo Hotel and Casino, Santo Domingo January 01, 2005 $25,000.00...I'm sure once all this is "Out There" Paul Martin will no doubt "Get to the bottom of this, come hell or high water" ..The problem is, the Liberals ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS!!! If you vote Liberal, Expect the theft to continue. By re-electing them, you have given them the mandate once again to rob you blind!) Reaping What We Sow If there is any problem in Toronto, the Mayor insists, it is traceable to the United States: "The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto," David Miller complained on Dec. 27. And naturally Prime Minister Paul Martin agreed. "What we saw yesterday is a stark reminder of the challenge that governments, police forces and communities face to ensure that Canadian cities do not descend into the kind of rampant gun violence we have seen elsewhere." Feel better now? Well, don't. The Prime Minister, the Mayor and the media are hiding crucial facts. Here are three: 1) America's crime problem has dramatically improved, while Canada's is becoming seriously worse. Toronto's 78 homicides in 2005 appears to compare favorably to the homicide totals of the three American cities cited by the Star. But those 78 Toronto homicides in 2005 represent a 28% increase over the 61 homicides recorded in Toronto in 1995. Meanwhile, the three U.S. cities cited by the Star each achieved dramatic decreases over the past decade: Chicago down 46% from 823, Washington down 46% from 365, Baltimore down 17% from 322. It is not guns from across the border that threaten Canadians. It is the weak and cynical policies of home-grown politicians, and especially the Chretien/Martin Liberals. The $2-billion wasted on the gun registry could have paid for more cops, more prisons, more of everything that would protect the lives and security of Canadians. It is the federal Liberal government that releases young offenders back into the community, the federal Liberals who appoint the judges who refuse to punish, the federal Liberals who run the prison system as if it were a summer camp, the federal Liberals who refuse to deport immigrants who break the law, the federal Liberals who have subordinated public safety to ethnic politics. And then it is the federal Liberals who have the gross and extreme indecency to try to exploit for their own selfish political ends the crime and grief and suffering for which they bear so much of the blame.(According to the polls across the nation, it would look as if most areas are starting to 'wake-up' to the fact that we have been 'had'. Now, if Toronto voter can actually pull their heads out of their collective asses and kick these 'hug-a-thug' liberals out of their cushy jobs, some of them may actually find out what life is like on the street.. They may even want to be armed themselves? After all, the shooters are just "the consequences of exclusion" the poor little bastards, and the victims where obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time.. i.e. Public, Daylight, Liberal Toronto! Perhaps someone should reach over, and turn on the "Miller Light" not that if he actually see the problem, he will abandon the goofy ideas of Messrs. Martin & McGuinty but just so that he can see what an ass he's making of himself..) Leaders trade shots over solution to crisis in Toronto "This is the second time this year that gunfire has broken out near Dundas Square. A place where students gather, where businesspeople walk, where tourists shop," the Tory leader said after a rally in Ottawa. "That is not the Toronto I grew up in. We would not have tolerated such violence then and Torontonians should not tolerate such violence today." Harper said unlike the Liberals, who despite a controversial $2-billion gun registry have been unable to curb violent gun crime, the Tories would introduce mandatory minimum sentences for firearms-related offences. "We've had private members' bills on this subject before the House for years," he said. "The Liberals have voted against every single one of them." (The liberals keep voting against private members bills for political reasons only.. They simply can not tolerate the 'other' parties doing what they 'should' have been doing. It's better that innocent people be shot, than the Liberals losing face, and being embarrassed for passing a bill that 'should' have been introduced by them, even though they didn't, and will never introduce one.. It would seem, the ONLY time they talk tough is during an election, and even then they rely heavily on the ignorance and naivety of Toronto ridings. It simply leaves the rest of the country shaking their heads in disbelief that after all the theft, after all the corruption, after all the lies, the Liberals are still popular in the provence that supplies them with a constant stream of people to lazy, or too stupid to get involved and see what's 'really' happening to their country! It's times like this, that I am truly ashamed to be a resident of Ontario. But, at the same time very happy I don't live in Toronto, nor do I have to suffer any 'Miller' time in that bastion of Liberal stupidity. There is a rumour that Julian Fantino will run for Mayor in the next election!! If elected, that would be a welcome 'hard right turn' that's almost too good to be true! We'll just have to see what happens.. Fantino as Mayor, and Harper as P.M. there would be enough will power to clean the scum bags out of Toronto. But don't EVER expect the Liberal 'hug-a-thug' team of Miller, Martin, McGuinty to accomplish anything worthwhile ) A Year For Change! If ever there were a year for change, this is it. In a few short weeks, Canadians will head to the polls to elect a federal government -- the first step in an era of new accountability. One thing has become apparent over the past year: This tired Liberal regime has had its day. The sponsorship scandal and ensuing Gomery report should be enough to convince all Canadians that what we have now is an ethically corrupt government riddled with misplaced loyalties and little, if any, concern for the average taxpayer. An ineffectual gun registry that cost us more than $1 billion, the continuing mishandling of Canada's military and a job-creation fiasco at Human Resources Development Canada that misspent many millions more of our dollars are just the foul icing on this indigestible cake. And they are only the most recent muck-ups in an infamous list that dates back to 1993. As a country, we are faced with several daunting challenges as we head into 2006. Among them is escalating gun violence in our largest city -- a problem that certainly won't be resolved by hollow promises of a handgun ban -- a health-care system on the verge of breakdown, and a tax system that gives little relief to those who need it most. While the Liberal government may appeal to some voters as the devil they know, it's more than time to breathe fresh air into the halls of power at Parliament Hill. Let's make 2006 the year we vote for honesty and accountability. (The year for change is well past due. Even while the election is on, the Liberals are mired in a fresh scandal, of who they were able to 'assist' financially by allowing a "leak" of trader information regarding trust fund taxation. But, you can sure bet not many lower and middle class taxpayers had any benefit. Only 'inside' liberals had this info, and only insiders had any benefit what-so-ever. The 58 monthly page links above only document the HUNDREDS of instances of screwups/theft/fraud/incompetance since this website was started in March of 2001. There were at least 8 years of this incompetence previous to this! Time for a change is a vast understatement). Canadian Whitewash Toronto's mayor is blaming rising gun crime in Canada on the export of guns and violence across the U.S. border. Or maybe it's Canada's gun-control laws? The day after Christmas a drive-by shooting in Toronto killed a 15-year-old girl and wounded six other bystanders. Toronto Mayor David Miller didn't think the shooter was to blame but rather the U.S. The incident, he said, was "a sign that the lack of gun laws in the United States is allowing guns to flood across the border that are literally being used to kill people in the streets of Toronto." The fact is that violent crime rates in the U.S. have declined dramatically since 1994, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reaching the lowest level ever recorded in 2004 in terms of crimes per 1,000 population. So if lax U.S. gun laws are causing violent crime to rise in Canada, why is it falling here? Perhaps it's because during the 1990s, when countries like Canada, Britain and Australia were regulating, even banning, gun possession, the U.S. was going in the opposite direction. Thirty-seven of the 50 states now have "right-to-carry" laws that let law-abiding citizens defend themselves against armed predators. Gun-control advocates in the U.S. predicted an upsurge of violent crime and murder, particularly of police officers, when the assault weapons ban expired. It never happened. If lax gun laws are the problem, why is Canada's reported violent crime rate of 963 per 100,000 in 2003 more than double the U.S. rate of 475? Maybe because our law-abiding citizens can defend themselves and our criminals know it.(In Canada, it is much more acceptable that a young woman is raped and murdered, than allowing her to carry something as simple as even a can of pepper spray to defend herself.. Since Trudeau: What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a Politically Groomed Victim, Living Within a Culture Of Defencelessness!) Thugs know they won't be severely punished There isn't any question that looking at the "root causes" of crime, and funding programs designed to prevent people from turning to violence, are worthy endeavours. But there also isn't any question that once someone belongs to a gang, or is willing to murder, carjack, rape, or steal, root causes are pretty much points rendered moot. Once the crime has been committed, the fact that the perpetrator may come from a bad neighbourhood or have been the victim of racism or be young, no longer matters.Plenty of people feel alienated but don't commit violent (or any) crimes. Once someone is behaving this way, our justice system needs to be effective, not only because this might actually deter some potential criminals, but because this would keep actual criminals off the street, hence, protecting the rest of us. Isn't that the point? Rather than banning handguns, assuming that were possible, or wasting money on a gun registry (how many of the Boxing Day offenders do you suppose would co-operate with that?), how about a mandatory minimum prison term for gun crimes? Creba's death was the 78th homicide in Toronto this year. In November, when Amon Beckles was attending the funeral of murder victim Jamal Hemmings, he was shot to death outside the church. Mayor David Miller referred to Beckles' assailants as "despicable thugs." He talked tough, and truthfully. I'd like to hear more of that from every level of government — and reforms to our overly generous justice system.(I'm going to say something here that is Horribly politically incorrect, so just get over it!!! A toddler was shot to death while strapped in a car seat... The Liberals did nothing ... A young mother taken out by friends to celebrate her birthday was shot in the head and killed ... The Liberals did nothing ... A young girl riding a Jane St. Bus was shot in the head, an may loose sight in one eye... The Liberals did nothing.. A 4 year old boy, caught in a crossfire was hit by four bullets, and will have to undergo even more surgery, and may never be ok... The Liberals did nothing... A 18 year old boy was shot through the throat while standing outside a church attending a friends funeral. The shooter was probably the same guy that killed his friend... The Liberals did nothing... What does it take for the Liberals to finally look interested? It would seem a combination of three things.. An Up coming election, The liberals dropping in the polls, and finally, the death of a pretty blond 'white' girl.. Were the 'other' high profile victims all as Martin says, also examples of "the consequences of exclusion"? The first two reason are highly plausible, and It's highly unlikely that 'race' really has anything to do with this, but it does make you think! 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