Winnipeg Sun Letters: Letters Great reason to change- summary of events

Winnipeg Sun Letters: Letters: "Liberals betrayed trust
Paul Martin a champion of truth? I hardly think so.
I spent a good deal of the past couple of days reading opinions on and listening to debates respecting the timing of a federal election. There was a wide variety of opinion expressed as to whether an election should be now or later and why.
The debate made me uneasy although at the time I could not understand exactly why.
Reviewing some of the commentary, I think I have the answer.
Several participants referred to something called 'voter fatigue,' citing concurrent provincial elections and suggesting that people did not want to be bothered with another election, having just been subjected to a provincial and or municipal election. "

HamiltonPrivate-public partnerships flawed: Health watchdog

Watch dog for whom - the existing status quo and the special interest members that they represent- why are they so afraid of competition or innovation to a system which should allow consumer choice for better services ? -QJ

Hamilton: "SUDBURY, Ont. -- The head of a health-care watchdog group is urging the provincial government not to be misled by offers from private companies to build new hospitals. "

The Black Rod

A thinking mans blog with content- food for thought reading. particularly interested in the comments and insights on the water park whitewash Q-J
The Black Rod: "First Casualty of the Election
The election hasn't been called yet, already it's claimed the first casualty."

Osprey Media Group Inc. - Brantford ExpositorSmoke shop owners vow to prevent raids

Osprey Media Group Inc. - Brantford Expositor: "What would happen in Brantford if the police were called for help and they said no?� asked one man. "

News | canada.com network What a way to run a country - chaos continues -who is running the show?

News | canada.com network: "'I understand the criticism, and not everybody's going to like what we're doing; that's life, that's why we have a democracy,' he said.
'I couldn't sleep at night if I knew that I had the chance to help some people get off the street and I didn't take it because I wanted the political advantage.' "

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Police violated laws, privacy ruling shows

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Police violated laws, privacy ruling shows

News | canada.com network It is time to let the citizens decide

News | canada.com network: "It is the most disgraceful thing I've seen in all my years on Parliament Hill,' Harper fumed.
'I will be asking our caucus to put this government out of its misery at the earliest possible opportunity.' "

National Post Martin's sellout Desperation to buy a 10 month election campaign

Liberals sell out their financial principles -what next? PR
National Post

Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca Are there double standards ? Is no one accountable to the public?

Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: "Gagliano says he's victim of PM double standard
CTV.ca News Staff
Alfonso Gagliano says he's been unfairly singled out for blame in the sponsorship program, and believes the prime minister is a hypocrite for judging him so swiftly."

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Samson Cree lawsuit costs more than $45 million so far

Another example of public waste

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Samson Cree lawsuit costs more than $45 million so far: "OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government has spent more than $45 million on a mammoth legal fight against two Alberta native bands that could drag on for another decade. "

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Taxes lost in space

Six million a year of taxpayers money for an empty building? These people are hypocrites and mismanagers of our public trust money . They have got to go. PR
Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Taxes lost in space: "A Conservative MP is demanding answers on why taxpayers picked up a $500,000-a-month tab for a federal building that sat empty for almost a year. Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre is holding a news conference today to press the Liberal government to provide a detailed financial accounting for rent payments on the vacant building owned by the company of Liberal Senator Paul Massicotte. "

National Post Private Healtncare business booming

National Post: "Patients fed up with long waiting lists in Canada are fuelling a fast-growing demand for brokerages that arrange speedy service in the United States as well as in Quebec's burgeoning for-profit medical industry."

World's Worst Pick-up Lines - FLOWGO.com

World's Worst Pick-up Lines - FLOWGO.com

Sympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca Why does gov't administration cost 97% of budget?

More pork barrel - PR
Sympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca: "Jim Prentice, an Alberta Conservative MP, says he asked the government for details and what he found out was 'staggering.'
'Ninety-seven per cent of the money is making its way through, to the process. And only three per cent of the money is making its way through to the victims. And that's completely unacceptable.' "

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: 'Only when I say so'

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: 'Only when I say so': "Let's hope, then, that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper keeps hammering on the point he made last night in his rebuttal: How can Canadians believe that Martin, who was the finance minister and No. 2 man in Jean Chretien's government when the sponsorship scandal was happening, didn't know any of this was going on? And how can Canadians possibly trust him to clean up the criminal corruption in the Liberal party when he's spent his entire life engaged in Liberal politics"

You can have an election when I say so

A liberal not national crisis -How can Canadians believe that Martin, who was the finance minister and No. 2 man in Jean Chretien's government when the sponsorship scandal was happening, didn't know any of this was going on? And how can Canadians possibly trust him to clean up the criminal corruption in the Liberal party when he's spent his entire life engaged in Liberal politics

HamiltonSmoking ban will close farms: farmers

Where are the priorities? Do we not have other issues that could use our attention- a health care system that is falling apart, a justice system with over 2 years waiting time, a government with a 9 billion dollar deficit to name a few. Why hit depressed farmers and further encourage foreign tobacco products? Where is the logic in this?

Hamilton: "There's never been before a more pressing or health-related need ...for government to actually help farmers protect the Canadian marketplace from foreign threat,' said Luc Martial, a consultant with the Tobacco Farmers In Crisis, a non-profit organization which represents Canadian tobacco farmers. "

Pope Benedict's Vexed Inheritance

Pope Benedict's Vexed Inheritance: "Still, Benedict XVI could surprise the many skeptics. Now that he has finally become Pope at age 78, he could use his authority to push for solutions to some of the Church's most pressing issues. 'If he tackled them, he could do so with great credibility because he has such conservative credentials,' argues Groome. He draws an analogy to cold war hardliner Richard Nixon being able to open the door to China as President, precisely because no one could accuse him of being soft on communism. "

2002 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - April - Chapter 2 - Canada Customs and Revenue Agency - Tax Administration: Write-Offs and Forgiveness

2002 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - April - Chapter 2 - Canada Customs and Revenue Agency - Tax Administration: Write-Offs and Forgiveness: ".9 Under legislation, the CCRA does not start a legal action to collect income taxes owed until 90 days after it dates and sends a notice of assessment or reassessment. It will also hold off action to collect taxes that the taxpayer is contesting through the Agency's internal appeal process or through the Tax Court of Canada (except for large corporations, which are required in the interim to pay 50 percent of the tax amount in dispute). These restrictions on the Agency's ability to start collection proceedings do not apply to amounts that the taxpayer is considered to be holding in trust, such as employee deductions and GST collected. "

Sympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca This is not the way democracy works

Not allowing our elected public representatives to speak - indicates that the fall of the Liberal empire is imminent, -more chaos ,more public bribes , more roman circuses, all symptons of a group of people who are out of touch with public reality. We need an election now to clear the air. PR -if we are still a real democracy in the old fashioned sense that is.
Sympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca: "Opposition Day is when opposition parties can introduce any motion they want, including a vote of non-confidence that might topple the government. "