Bank of Canada: New World Order Speech from June
“Remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the International Economic Forum of the Americas Conference of Montreal, Montreal, 11 June 2009.
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“The theme of this conference – “Adapting to a New World Order” – suggests that it is clear how global commerce and finance will be reorganized in the wake of the current crisis. However, the outcome is far from preordained. How we manage the rebalancing of the global economy could profoundly influence how open, equitable, and prosperous the New World Order will be.
“Globalized product, capital, and labour markets lie at the heart of the New World Order to which we should aspire…
“The second important correction in this period of transition to the “New World Order” will be characterized by significant stock adjustments in the financial and real sectors of major industrialized economies….
“The financial panic required a bold response from the public sector. The loss of faith in the solvency of core banking institutions at times threatened the very functioning of the global financial system. While absolutely necessary, the response to the crisis has profoundly shifted risk from the private sector to the public sector. Since October, the G-7 has committed that no systemically important financial institutions will be allowed to fail. Across the world, bank financings have been guaranteed. With securitization markets still moribund, assets have been purchased and tail risks assumed by the public sector. Governments have even guaranteed warranties on certain car models. With these precedents, there will be further pressure for a host of new risk-sharing arrangements…
“Fourth, all countries must accept their responsibilities for promoting an open, flexible, and resilient international monetary system. Responsibility means recognizing spillovers between economies and financial systems and working to mitigate those that could amplify adverse dynamics. It means submitting to peer review within the Financial Stability Board and external review by the International Monetary Fund….”
Conclusion: Banks are obviously in charge of governments.
Random Breath Tests: Canadian Parliament Proposes Eradication of Freedom
www.timescolonist.com, June 18, 2009:
“A parliamentary committee has recommended that police officers be given the power to conduct random roadside breath tests on drivers, a change that would remove the legal requirement for officers to have a “reasonable” suspicion that drivers are drunk…
“…Committee chairman Ed Fast conceded that such an amendment would likely be challenged under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects individuals against unreasonable search or seizure. He said, however, the committee concluded that random testing is the most “effective deterrent” available to police.”
I demand the freedom to drive safely without being harassed. I do not consent.
“Your” government is coming up with ways to train innocent Canadians to live in a totalitarian system where their lives are completely managed from cradle to grave. That is the direction in which all similar legislation and proposals are heading in so many areas. Restrictions on travel are part of the picture.
None of this comes from “the people”. Politicians receive their instructions from Establishment-funded policy institutes.
Maybe some of you will try to save the future instead of enabling tyranny?
All you big-wigs and “leaders” out there – you frauds – you’re just afraid. You know it’s wrong, but you’ll go along. You’ll let these politicians and police and “authorities” introduce these types of measures that invade our privacy and property rights. You’ll let them treat us all like slaves. You’ll hold on to your status as things get worse and worse for everybody. Most of you.
PressForTruth.ca interviews Dr. Andrew Mouldenfrom the Canadian Action Party (video below)
Down with Big Brother! Canada
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT COULD BE OUSTED
Stephen Harper's minority government could be toppled by opposition votes
Friday June 12,2009
The leader of Canada's main opposition party is set to announce on Monday whether he will seek to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government.
Opposition Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff warned he would try to topple the Conservative government if Thursday's progress report on the country's stimulus package did not show enough progress in rolling out funds.
Liberal spokeswoman Jill Fairbrother said Mr Ignatieff will react to the report and announce his intentions on Monday.
If all three opposition parties vote against the government in sufficient numbers next week, the government would fall, triggering an election.
The opposition New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois say they will definitely vote against the government.
C-6 is a bill passing thru the house of commons, here is part of the bill
Bill C-6 which was recently introduced is indeed the replacement for Bill C-52, the
Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. The purpose of this Act is to protect the public by
addressing or preventing dangers to human health or safety that are posed by consumer
products in Canada, including those that circulate within Canada and those that are
imported. Bill C-51 on the other hand was the proposed modernization to the Canada
Food and Drug Act and its purpose is similar to that of Bill C-6 (formerly C-52). Bill C-
6 is not a blending of the two prior Bills however having said that Bill C-6 does contain
some sensitive legislation not only for this industry but for Canadians in general
particularity where it refers to search and seizure powers granted to representative agents
of Health Canada. As of yet a new Bill C-51 has not yet been introduced into Parliament
but one will sooner than later.
At Community Natural Foods we are concerned with ensuring that products that reach
our customers are what they say they are and we will support the means that would allow
that. Recent events with food safety in Canada have only punctuated the need for a
system that can take the appropriate measures where it becomes necessary, but what
appears to be largely at issue here with C-6, and the eventual re-genesis of C-51, is how
much power does an agent of Health Canada need and the relative ease that amendments
could be made to Bill C-6 in order for it to include Natural Health Products (NHPs).
In the mean time we would encourage each of our customers that have a concern with
Bill C-6 to take action by writing to their Member of Parliament, including the Prime
Minister and the Minister of Health. Additionally, we would suggest that you make
contact with the NHPPA (Natural Health Products Protection Association) and support
them and their Charter of Health Freedom as well as the CHFA (the Canadian Health
Food Association)
To that end we will be posting information on our website so that our customers may
access and act, this is a privilege to which we must take part in.
HERE COMES THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION
Are Steven and George “birds of a feather”? A large and growing number of Canadians concerned about the erosion of Canadian civil liberties and sovereignty, feel that Stephen Harper has been spending far too much time in the company of George W. Bush and other extreme, right of centre, ideologues. Stephen Harper’s conservative commitment to champion the needs of big business through George W. Bush style (heavy handed secretive police state) government, may not be official public policy, but the actions of minority leader Stephen Harper seem to be painting a very troubling picture.
Is censoring public records of police abuse Stephen Harper’s idea of “transparency in government”? Just as the people of Canada are starting to realize that there may be serious problems in how the RCMP and other Canadian police forces are “serving and protecting us” (with OUR tax dollars), the Mounties have responded to this public concern by REMOVING ESSENTIAL DETAILS from “public” reports about Taser firings! This style of “redacting” (without black ink) of what is rightfully essential information to Canadian taxpayers, citizens, and law enforcement watch groups, is a very dangerous step in the opposite direction of Stephen Harper’s promise of government transparency!
Mounties caught hiding Taser weapon use details! The Canadian Press and CBC conducted a joint investigation in which they discovered that the RCMP are now refusing to release vital information that must be recorded each time Mounties draw their Taser electronic weapons. So if you are concerned about who is getting hit by controversial high voltage Tasers, whether or not the subjects were armed, why the Tasers were fired, and what, if any, injuries or deaths resulted, according to Stephen Harper’s police force, that’s none of your business!
Is Stephen Harper’s Western Canada becoming more like George W. Bush’s Texas? According to Taser report forms, the RCMP have used Taser weapons (an electroshock gun popularly known by the brand name “Taser”) over 4,000 times since the were added to their “toolkit” seven years ago. Even more alarming, is the fact that use of Tasers by the Mounties has increased dramatically over the past couple years! While it might not come as much surprise to some Canadians, the vast majority of Taser firings by RCMP took place in Western Canada. Are we the only ones who can’t help but wonder why there is such a similarity between George W. Bush’s Texas and Stephen Harper’s Western Canada?
Canadian taxpayers have NO RIGHT to ALL police Taser details according to Harper’s RCMP! So as the “Taser cowboys” seem to be relying on and using their electronic weapons MORE each year, the pertinent facts to monitor and assure that public safety is maintained to reasonable standards are NOT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC! This is information which was previously available to the public under access law. The police is, once again, “policing” itself and willfully shielding its methods (and problems) from informed public scrutiny and discussion.
Is this latest move to keep vital facts from the public a dangerous and familiar trend (if you follow US politics)? Does any or all of this sound vaguely familiar to the recent erosion of the American justice system from being a servant of the public to the brutal bulldog of the politicians? WE ARE CONCERNED. We hope YOU are concerned as well.
Globalization has many faces! This is not an isolated incident of a public funded institution closing its doors to the peering eyes of those who pay the bills - the tax paying citizens! This willful obstruction to oversight by those outside of “the loop” has been part of the modus operandi of the globalists for many years. Big business needs big government and your compliant participation (not to mention, your money!) - but your informed participation is NOT welcomed and you may be “punished” if you step up and speak your mind (at the very least, be prepared to be called an “anarchist”).
Expect even more secrecy as the Security and Prosperity Partnership sneaks forward! If this is the kind of government which makes you feel warm and safe, then keep on shopping at the “big box” stores and, by all means enjoy the “Blood Olympics” (the brutal rulers of China love you)! But know that globalization would not be possible without the ongoing support of those who don’t understand nor recognize the irreversible damage trade deals like NAFTA and SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) bring to local economies and sovereign nations.
But there IS much you can do, starting right NOW! If you value your civil rights and acknowledge that every Canadian has a duty to enable and support democracy (yes, it’s WORK we must all do), then be sure to take advantage of every opportunity you have to make your actions AND DOLLARS count!
Voting with your dollars EVERY DAY can be more effective than voting at the ballot box every couple years! Voting once every several years at the ballot box does not come close to the extraordinary collective power all Canadians have when they choose how to spend their hard earned money. REALLY Made In Canada ™ champions genuine Canadian businesses from “mom and pop” shops to large Canadian manufacturers who support LOCAL ECONOMY!
http://news.reallymadeincanada.com
Proposed Canadian Bill C-285 Might Allow For BlackBerry Wiretapping/Snooping
In one fell swoop Bill C-285 would allow the Canadian government to do what RIM had fought tooth and nail in India not to allow. Essentially compromise customers trust in the RIM infrastructure since all BlackBerry communications go through RIM’s servers in Canada which would be open to wiretapping and interception.
From the proposed bill:
The purpose of this Act is to ensure that telecommunications service providers have the capability to enable national security and law enforcement agencies to exercise their authority to intercept communications, and to require service providers to provide subscriber and other information, without unreasonably impairing the privacy of individuals, the provision of telecommunications services to Canadians or the competitiveness of the Canadian telecommunications industry.
The bill is just before the House of Commons now so it still needs to pass there before it goes to the Senate but still this is mighty troubling… The issue with giving such access to law enforcement is that once the door is open it is much harder task to keep it closed. I wonder if a warrant will be required or what level of justification…
Will Tory attack ads sting Harper?
MONTREAL—It is unprecedented for a sitting Canadian prime minister to approve – as Stephen Harper did this week – French-language attack ads that depict a fellow federalist leader as hostile to Quebec.
For as long as there has been a vibrant sovereignty movement, such a tactic has been deemed too potentially corrosive for the national fabric to be used to score points in a partisan game.
In the larger unity picture, the notion of a prime minister launching an advertising campaign to fuel a nationalist backlash against another national party leader is the equivalent of poisoning a common well in the hope that one's neighbour will be the first to die.
Moreover, over the past two decades, the Bloc Québécois has always been the prime beneficiary of federalist divisions on Quebec.
In this spirit, Gilles Duceppe must have thought he had gone straight to sovereignist heaven when he was apprised of the attack ads the Conservatives put together as part of their Quebec counter-offensive against Michael Ignatieff this week.
If Harper had wanted to do the Bloc's bidding at Conservative expense, he would not have proceeded otherwise.
The gist of the Conservative ads could have been lifted right out of an open letter Duceppe penned last week as part of the Bloc's own initial volley against a resurgent Liberal party.
The Conservative attack ads portray Ignatieff as a leader who uses Parisian French out of contempt for Quebec francophones and their accent.
The Liberal leader is quoted as describing Quebecers as people who fantasize that they are different when they are no more than North Americans who happen to speak French and as depicting Quebec's role at UNESCO as an object of international ridicule.
Like Pierre Trudeau, another ad asserts, Ignatieff feels it is important to keep Quebec in check.
Only a few months ago, Harper was accusing the Liberals – in English – of cozying up to separatists to secure Bloc support for their coalition with the NDP. Now – in French – the Prime Minister's party is portraying the Liberal leader as a detractor of Quebec's character and aspirations.
No federalist leader has ever been immune to having bits and pieces of his past record used against him in Quebec.
Harper originally belonged to a party that was committed to eliminating official bilingualism.
He was once a vocal supporter of the partition of Quebec in the event of secession and a staunch adversary of the province's iconic language law.
Jean Chrétien's role in the demise of the Meech Lake accord and the patriation of the Constitution was a long-standing irritant in francophone Quebec.
Yet, in similar circumstances as Harper's – whose party has been going down fast in Quebec – Kim Campbell and Paul Martin resisted the temptation of scorching the earth their federalist competition was standing on.
One reason was the legitimate fear of a boomerang effect on federalism. In the 1995 referendum, past public federalist divisions had a devastating impact on the No campaign.
Ignatieff was not an active participant in Canadian politics at that time. But Harper, who sat as an MP in the House of Commons, was also missing in referendum action, along with the rest of the Reform party.
It may be that if the Prime Minister had seen action first-hand on the unity front, he would be more wary of salting the federalist earth in Quebec for his own electoral purposes.
Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer. Her column appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
GET READY TO GET PULLED OVER AND TICKETED UP YOUR YOU KNOW WHAT:)
All 165 Ontario Provincial Police detachments across the province are preparing to support the annual national Canada Road Safety Week campaign – Road Safety Vision 2010, which has as a goal to make Canada’s roads the safest in the world.
The campaign focuses on increasing public compliance with safe driving measures through enforcement action. The goal is to save lives and reduce injuries on Canada’s highways by aiming at the major causes of road deaths and injuries, specifically, aggressive driving, impaired driving, speeding and failing to wear seatbelts.
This year’s campaign starts at midnight on May 12 and will end at 11:59 p.m. on May 18 and will run over the first long weekend of the summer season.
Kawartha Lakes OPP Constable Mark Boileau said that along with road traffic enforcement on the Victoria Day weekend, police will also be conducting marine and ATV patrols.
Last year in Ontario, 322 people were killed in crashes on roads patrolled by the OPP. Transport Canada statistics for 2006 (the last full year for which statistics are available) show that 2,889 people were killed in collisions across Canada and another 15,281 were seriously injured.
To date in 2009, there have been 91 people killed on Ontario roads patrolled by the OPP, down 12% from the same period last year.
Harper says $85B deficit may get bigger
THE CANADIAN PRESS
GATINEAU, Que. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suggesting the federal deficit, pegged at $85 billion over the next five years, could get bigger to fight the recession.
Harper told Quebec mayors today that negative balance sheets will grow "as large as they have to" while the economy struggles to recover.
The remarks follow forecasts from public- and private-sector analysts warning that the deficit will balloon because the economy and tax revenues have plunged more than expected.
The prime minister now is dropping hints that figures from the federal Finance Department may get worse.
He said Canada can afford to run temporary deficits because of its relative fiscal strength compared with other countries.
"Our deficits will be large, but they will be temporary," Harper said. "In fact, in the short term they will be as large as they have to be, to help us weather the recession.
"As a country we can afford it. But only if these deficits are temporary and our stimulus spending ends when the recession ends."
He said Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio is the envy of developed countries, and that the country can afford a flurry of spending.
The Conservative government has projected a $34-billion deficit for 2009-10 and an $85-billion shortfall by 2013.
The parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page, has already warned that the Conservative forecast is rosy, with the fiscal hole $9 billion larger than the government forecast.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank, one of the country's leading private-sector authorities on the budgetary implications of economic shifts, has gone even further than Page.
The bank says the deterioration in conditions since the January budget likely means the deficit could balloon an additional $17.5 billion during the first two years.
Although the budget does not give a figure for real GDP, the consensus forecast at the beginning of the year had been for a relatively modest 0.8 per cent decline in 2009.
The Bank of Canada now forecasts the economy will tumble a full three per cent.
Harper's speech Thursday outlined a multibillion-dollar transfer of infrastructure money to municipalities, promised in the recent federal budget.
He urged mayors, premiers and the federal government to work quickly to get construction projects going.
"These billions of dollars will not be available forever," Harper said. "The stimulus money outlined in our economic action plan will expire at the end of the recession."
Infrastructure dollars have barely begun trickling down to work sites.
Transport Minister John Baird acknowledged the government has handed out only about $15 million from a $4-billion Infrastructure Stimulus Fund announced in the Jan. 27 budget.
But while past infrastructure programs have taken years to get off the ground, he insisted the government is moving at an unprecedented pace.
"This action is 10 times faster than anything in recent history. We are moving as aggressively and as quickly as possible," Baird told the House of Commons government operations committee.
Under pressure from Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay to detail projects that are underway, Baird was able to offer only a few examples of road work in British Columbia. Still, he said the number will "snowball" and promised a more detailed report next month.
Hall Findlay pointed to projects the government announced that are still not underway. And she expressed doubt that the trickle of money so far will turn into a stream for the summer construction season.
"This money simply has not flowed and we are not seeing shovels in the ground and announcements do not pay wages," she said.
McGuinty urges Ottawa to act on Sri Lanka
May 14, 2009 02:16 PM THE CANADIAN PRESS
A day after thousands of Tamil-Canadians staged a boisterous march in Toronto to protest the conflict in northern Sri Lanka, Premier Dalton McGuinty is raising the issue in the Ontario legislature.
McGuinty says thousands of civilians are dying in the South Asian country, and Ottawa must do what it can to stop the bloodshed.
He's urging the federal government and the United Nations to pressure all sides to bring an end to the conflict.
McGuinty is also calling for journalists, aid workers and international observers to be allowed to enter northern Sri Lanka.
The premier, whose daughter spent time as an aid worker in the country, says Ontario has a responsibility to speak out whenever human rights are violated.
Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Bob Runciman also supports ending the conflict, but warned that protesters will lose public goodwill if they break the law, as they did by blocking a Toronto highway last weekend.
Mulroney downplays Schreiber relationship
Mulroney denies wrongdoing Mulroney committee testimony (clips) Documents reveal warning THE INQUIRY
Oliphant Commission site Inquiry transcripts Terms of reference Schreiber to PM, Sept. 2007 DOCUMENTS
Johnston Report (.pdf) Mulroney statement Mulroney committee testimony Schreiber letter to Mulroney, May 8, 2007 Schreiber to Mulroney, Jan. 2007 Schreiber to Mulroney, July 2006 Excerpt: Schreiber to PM, Jan. 2007 Schreiber affidavit, Nov. 7, 2007 LINKS
Mulroney media site Committee transcripts 3 political dramas, one moral --> This week in Ottawa three political horror shows have been playing out at the same time. Counsel presses former prime minister on why he withheld detail about business dealings with German businessman while under oath
May 14, 2009 04:54 PM Comments on this story (12) Les Whittington
Richard J. Brennan
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA–Testifying at a public inquiry today, Brian Mulroney strenuously downplayed his relationship with German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber, whose involvement with the former prime minister has led to years of questions, suspicions and public probes.
Mulroney jokingly depicted Schreiber as the "Energizer Bunny" because of the way the businessman persistently used his connections at high levels of the Progressive Conservative government to bombard Mulroney with lobbying efforts in the 1980s and 1990s.
Schreiber consistently exaggerated the closeness of their relationship, Mulroney told the inquiry headed by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant.
Schreiber was pushing the Canadian government to move ahead with a plan for the manufacture in Canada of German-made light armoured vehicles.
Mulroney said today henow understands why Schreiber was pushing the project soforcefully.He was referring to the fact that Schreiber had received $6.5 million in "success fees" from the German company, Thyssen AG,after Mulroney's government in 1988 signed a loose agreement to build Thyssen vehicles in Atlantic Canada.
Mulroney said that, after that, the company must have been telling Schreiber to "get something done" about moving the project beyond the agreement-in-principle stage.
On the same subject, Mulroney said today said he had no knowledge of hefty payments made to lobbyists who were friends of his after his government signed the agreement in principle with Thyssen.
Inquiry evidence indicates that Schreiber issued cheques totalling $610,000 to various Canadian lobbyists, most of them with ties to Government Consultants International, a firm headed by former Newfoundland premier Frank Moores.
Among the payments were $90,000 to Gerry Doucet, Gary Ouellet and Fred Doucet, a former aide to Mulroney.
Mulroney testified yesterday that he knew people at Government Consultants International butwas not aware of the feespaid after theagreement in principle with Thyssen to Schreiber or to anyone else.(The project never went ahead).
Earlier today, Mulroney dismissed accusations that he tried to hide his lucrative business arrangement with Schreiber during a pivotal legal proceeding in 1996.
Richard Wolson, the lead counsel at the Oliphant inquiry, said repeatedly that, as a former prime minister, Mulroney should have been more forthcoming about his relationship with Schreiber when speaking under oath during the 1996 libel proceeding.
But, in sometimes heated verbal sparring, Mulroney said he had no obligation to disclose details of his business ties with Schreiber in the hearing because he was being questioned in a hostile environment by federal government lawyers and had been told by his own lawyers not to volunteer information.
"I know these people want to kill me – they wanted to destroy my family," Mulroney said, describing how he felt about the federal government lawyers who interviewed him at that time.
Questions have often been asked about the 1996 testimony in connection with the Mulroney's libel suit against the Canadian government. In testimony, Mulroney minimized his relations with Schreiber, who by then had already given Mulroney more than $200,000 as part of a business deal.
Wolson said today that Mulroney was "not quite fulsome" in his answers under oath at the 1996 discovery hearing and should have provided more information about his relationship with Schreiber.
"You have given to the examiner only part of the story," Wolson said. "The part you haven't given is the taking of the money."
But Mulroney defended that testimony, saying his business dealings with Schreiber were not the subject of the questioning in the libel case.
"I was never asked whether I had a business relationship of any kind with Mr. Schreiber," said Mulroney, who sometimes reacted hotly to Wolson's insistent queries.
"Had I been asked, I would have answered truthfully," he declared.
But Wolson objected to this line of reasoning, saying very few people knew of the secret payments that Mulroney had accepted from Schreiber.
Mulroney scoffed at the idea that it was up to him to help Claude-Armand Sheppard and the other government-hired lawyers who were questioning him in the libel hearing.
"I was not there to say to Mr. Sheppard or to anyone at the end of their day and a half of interrogation, 'Oh, by the way, you forgot to ask me such and such, why don't you go ahead and do that,'" Mulroney said.
The 1996 testimony was part of the libel case Mulroney brought against Ottawa after it became known that the RCMP had named the former prime minister in a fraud investigation in connection with the $1.8 billion sale of Airbus aircraft to Air Canada in 1988.
But the payments Mulroney received from Schreiber in 1993 and 1994 were for lobbying on behalf of Thyssen AG, a German manufacturer of armoured military vehicles. And Mulroney has maintained that he didn't mention it in the 1996 legal proceeding because it was not relevant to the Airbus suit.
The issue of what Mulroney said in the 1996 hearing has acquired prominence because former Liberal justice minister Allan Rock has said the government would not have made the $2.1 million settlement of Mulroney's libel suit had it been known that the former prime minister had taken large sums of money from Schreiber.
Yesterday, Mulroney recounted how he accepted large sums of cash from Schreiber without hesitation in Montreal and New York, and then stashed the money away.
In both cases – in a Montreal coffee shop in 1993 and in a New York hotel room in 1994 – Schreiber handed over legal-sized envelopes filled with $75,000 in thousand dollar bills. The commission has previously heard that Mulroney received another $75,000 at Mirabel airport.
Mulroney also explained why he didn't pay taxes until several years later on the $225,000 he says he received in total from Schreiber, saying he considered the payments to be "retainers" that didn't need to be declared for tax purposes right away.
Mulroney told the inquiry that, after later reporting the money to authorities, he paid $112,000 in taxes. The payments were made in 2000.
Mulroney told the inquiry he took it upon himself to use his international contacts to explore the possibility of worldwide sales of Thyssen's armoured military vehicles. Mulroney repeated his earlier admission that taking cash from Schreiber was a "significant error in judgment."
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McGuinty supports carbon tax, despite $1B bill ent.write(' Jun 25, 2008 04:50 PM
Maria Babbage
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The prospect of a billion-dollar bill isn't dampening the Ontario government's enthusiasm for the federal Liberals' controversial carbon tax plan, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.
McGuinty, who initially opposed a carbon tax, said Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's "green shift" plan is still a good idea, even though it could slap a hefty bill on emissions from Ontario's four coal-fired generation plants.
"We'll take a close look at the consequences of that but we expect that we will benefit from putting in place new sources of energy," McGuinty said.
"It's one more reason why we need to eliminate coal-fired generation."
Dion's carbon tax plan would initially peg the price of greenhouse gas emissions at $10 per tonne, rising to $40 per tonne in four years.
That would add a $1.1-billion tax on Ontario's four coal-fired plants, the province's largest industrial polluters, which produced about 28 million tonnes of emissions last year.
McGuinty failed to live up to a 2003 election promise to close all of the plants, shutting only the Lakeview station in west Toronto in 2005. The remaining four plants are slated to close by 2014.
The Ontario Liberals are currently overseeing an ambitious $26-billion plan to refurbish and replace its aging nuclear fleet, including building two new reactors, which would offset the need for coal-fired generation.
A spokeswoman for newly-minted Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman said the province is already working to reduce emissions by two-thirds below 2003 levels by 2011.
"In terms of what the price is going to be down the road, it's not something that you can try to pull out of the air right now," said Laurel Ostfield.
"The politics are out of the pricing right now in Ontario and we're going to keep it that way."
Ted Gruetzner, a spokesman for the government-run Ontario Power Generation, also refused to speculate on the potential cost increases consumers may face if Ottawa imposed the tax.
McGuinty seems to be Dion's only provincial ally in the carbon tax plan, which was unveiled last week after pre-emptive attacks by the governing Conservatives. Several provincial leaders have rejected Dion's proposal outright, while others have been reluctant to embrace it.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned last week that the plan would "screw everybody across the country" much like the old national energy program, which is still criticized for draining money from the West and sending it to Central Canada.
With emissions priced at $40 per tonne, the tax would raise about $15 billion annually. Dion said it would be offset by an equivalent cut in income and business taxes and a boost in tax breaks for poor, elderly, northern and rural Canadians who stand to be hardest hit by the increased cost of necessities like home heating fuel, electricity, food and travel.
When asked about Dion's carbon tax proposal last month, McGuinty dismissed it, saying his "first choice" for Ontario was a cap-and-trade system with neighbouring Quebec.
He also rejected the idea in February after British Columbia unveiled a carbon tax in its provincial budget, saying it didn't suit Ontario's economy.
McGuinty's flip-flop on the issue isn't surprising, said NDP critic Peter Tabuns.
"I don't know what's going on in the premier's mind on this," he said.
"I mean, he's a premier who doesn't have a climate plan, who doesn't take climate change seriously. So if he goes for a plan that's being put forward by Stephane Dion that has no climate protection targets, maybe that's consistent."
Nearly two weeks ago, McGuinty bristled at suggestions that he might raise taxes to pay for programs if government revenues fall drastically in the tough economic times ahead.
And yet he supports a new tax that will punish consumers by driving up the cost of electricity, said Progressive Conservative critic John Yakabuski.
"An additional billion dollars – that only gets passed on to one place, and that's the electricity consumer," he said.
"I just don't think people can absorb that at this time."
Mass Vaccination Centers Planned in Canada
MARIA CALABRESE
The North Bay Nugget
May 1, 2009 Health officials expect the World Health Organization to raise its alert to the highest level indicating a pandemic outbreak of the swine flu, says the area’s top doctor.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
As part of its pandemic plan, the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is preparing to set up flu centres in North Bay, Parry Sound, Mattawa, Sturgeon Falls and Burk’s Falls in the event of an outbreak in the area, Dr. Jim Chirico, medical officer of health, said at a news conference Thursday. This will take a lot of the pressure off of family doctors’ offices, clinics and emergency departments. We’re working with all of those involved,” Chirico said, noting people would be assessed at the centres and either transferred home or to a hospital.
Thirty-four mild cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been confirmed in Canada as of Thursday. Chirico said some people have sought medical help in the district, although there are currently no confirmed cases.
Local flu centres would be set up if emergency departments are overwhelmed by cases, and patients cannot be treated with antiviral drugs within 12 to 24 hours of experiencing symptoms.
There are eight confirmed infections in southern Ontario, and Chirico said medical officers of health are concerned hospital emergency departments there are already becoming overwhelmed.
Thirty nabbed in Montreal protest against police brutality
- Posted By THE CANADIAN PRESS Protesters tossed bricks and bottles at Montreal police officers on Sunday as an annual demonstration against police brutality resulted in about 30 arrests.
"At the end of what was a peaceful march, there was violence and vandalism,'' said Montreal police Sgt. Ian Lafreniere.
"Thirty people were arrested. People weren't arrested because of what they looked like but because they were carrying weapons, like sticks and things they could throw.''
One police officer was slightly injured when he was hit in the arm with a brick, Lafreniere said.
Police said some of the protesters were tossing fireworks.
Television footage showed some demonstrators throwing rocks at businesses, including hotels.
Protesters could also be seen clutching their faces because of tear gas released by police.
Hundreds of officers, some on horseback, attempted throughout the protest to follow the demonstrators as they dispersed in different directions.
The annual event has turned violent in recent years, with widespread vandalism leading to numerous arrests. Last year, more than 40 people were detained.
There were fears this year's demonstration could be worse because it was the first since police fatally shot 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva last August.
Organizers said before the protest they did not want violence but that they could not control everyone.
Get ready to pay out your butt people, carbon tax is here(global warming is a hoax people get that threw your heads) They want you to believe that were over populated and we should be taxed for it,Bull S%^T, we could fit the population in the world with an acre of land each in Australia. WAKE UP PEOPLE
B.C.'s carbon tax rated top climate policy MARK HUME From Thursday's Globe and Mail
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VANCOUVER — A think tank at the University of Ottawa has ranked British Columbia's carbon tax the most effective climate policy in Canada.
But the group, Sustainable Prosperity, noted that even the B.C. government has a way to go before it achieves eight key principles that must be reached if carbon pricing is to be effective in fighting global warming.
The group also took a cursory look at a provincial NDP plan to axe the carbon tax, and replace it with a cap-and-trade system, but said that approach would create “huge instability and doubt” in the market and would fall far short of attaining climate change goals.
Stewart Elgie, chairman of Sustainable Prosperity, said researchers spent a year talking to top economic, business and environment leaders across the country before identifying the eight key principles. The think tank then rated the existing carbon laws and proposals across Canada by measuring them against those principles.
Enlarge Image Cars make their way over the Lions Gate bridge between Vancouver and North Vancouver on April 29, 2009. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)
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Mr. Elgie said B.C.'s plan “was the most closely aligned,” with an 87 per cent compatibility score.
Quebec's plan was second (65 per cent compatible) followed by the federal government's plan and the multi-jurisdictional Western Climate Initiative (both at 48 per cent) while Alberta's climate-change strategy came last (30 per cent compatible).
According to Sustainable Prosperity, to be fully effective a carbon pricing plan must be: comprehensive, or covering all emission sources; national in reach; simple to implement; transparent and accountable; complemented by other measures, such as improving the efficiency of vehicles; environmentally effective in terms of meeting emission reduction targets; comparable to carbon prices in other countries and predictable, to provide investment certainty.
B.C.'s plan lost marks because it lacks national reach and because it is environmentally effective in the medium term only.
“It needs to be stronger on long-term goals beyond 2012,” said Mr. Elgie. “That said, it's the best carbon policy in the country both for the environment and the economy.”
The NDP plan wasn't assessed as part of the study, but Stephanie Cairns, director of carbon pricing for Sustainable Prosperity, said she subsequently looked at it.
“There's very little detail in what they released,” she said, “... [but] our score card would rate this as the weakest policy in Canada.”
Ms. Cairns said the NDP plan, to axe the Liberal carbon tax and replace it with a cap-and-trade system, would apply to only about 32 per cent of emissions in the province.
She said a cap-and-trade system, without a tax, could be effective, but it would have to apply far more widely than the NDP has proposed.
“They need to address the other 68 per cent of emissions,” Ms. Cairns said.
And she said the NDP plan, to get rid of the tax and then develop the details of the cap-and-trade policy later, would be destabilizing to business.
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Just the beginning in the Carbon tax era
Carbon tax bill in the mailGaz Métro passes it on $15 per year for residential customersMAX HARROLD, The GazettePublished: Thursday, January 24 2008Quebec energy consumers - not just energy producers - are the ones who will end up paying for the province's new green fund. The bills are in the mail.
It wasn't supposed to be this way: When the provincial government imposed the country's first carbon tax last fall, it wanted producers to pay.
But just as oil refiners have already done, Gaz Métro started passing on the cost of the carbon tax this month.
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It will then remit $38 million to Quebec this year for its new $200-million annual green fund, aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.
The hike means about $15 more per year for the typical Gaz Métro residential customer.
"I don't care how much it is, even if it's just half a penny," said Leonard, a Laval resident who called to complain about his gas bill. He spoke on condition that his last name not be used.
"They said consumers would not pay for this - and now here we are, paying for it."
When the Liberal government introduced the carbon tax, it said it was targeting oil companies with deep pockets.
"We are asking them to be good corporate citizens," Natural Resources Minister Claude Béchard said at the time.
He added that the plan is based on the principle that the polluter should pay.
The Quebec Energy Board, which monitors the price of gasoline, natural gas and electricity, and, in some cases, regulates prices, made a temporary ruling Dec. 19 that Gaz Métro and Gazifère, an Outaouais company, could charge their customers for the carbon tax levied on the companies.
Pierre Méthé, a board spokesperson, said there had not been enough time to render a final decision on the matter because the law establishing the green fund was modified in November and its application was set for Jan. 1.
However, it was the companies' choice to pass the levy on to their customers. All the board did was determine how much they could charge, based on an estimate of how many greenhouse gas emissions various types of energy produce.
About 40 other oil and gas importers, refineries and distributors will have to pay into the green fund, Méthé said.
Pascal D'Astous, a spokesperson for Béchard, said yesterday the government never intended to compel companies alone to pay for the green fund.
"How could we ever have such a mechanism?" he asked.
"We're in a market economy. We could never prove whether or not the carbon tax was or was not part of their prices."
Gas prices at the pump did rise, and the hikes in many cases compensated for the .08-cent-a-litre carbon tax that started being levied on distributors on Oct. 1.
Companies that sell natural gas and heating oil were assessed as of Jan. 1.
Frédéric Krikorian, a spokesperson for Gaz Métro, acknowledged the company could have absorbed the cost.
"We had a choice, but it wasn't much of a choice," he said.
"Our annual profit is $140 million. They told us to pay (nearly) $40 million of it back."
Notices were mailed to customers explaining changes to their bills. Gaz Métro's invoices now come with a one-line addition called "Contribution - Green Fund."
New federal bill would end long-gun registry
Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan shown in the House of Commons on March 4, told reporters on Wednesday that his government has introduced a bill in the Senate to end the long-gun registry. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)The federal government introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday to abolish the long-gun registry.
"It's totally inefficient and ineffective against crime," Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, told reporters on Parliament Hill.
"We believe the long-gun registry as a device simply does not work … It's a misdirection of resources," he said.
"I know there are a lot of members in the NDP, some members in the Liberal Party who have shared that view, who campaigned on that view, have spoken publicly on that view and we hope to achieve their support for that."
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Van Loan said the bill was introduced in the Senate because the House already had a heavy legislative agenda.
Some observers said the move is likely more strategic — the Conservatives can blame the Liberal-dominated Senate if the bill is voted down.
However, Kory Teneycke, current Director of Communication for the Canadian Prime Minister's office, told CBC News, that with 18 new Conservative senators appointed in December, the bill stands a better chance of passing in the Senate than the House.
ATTACK ON NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCT
Bill C-51 and the Regulation of Natural Health Products - Fast Facts PDF Version in Mandarin (78.6 KB)
Natural health products are generally considered to be lower-risk but they are not 'no risk.' Canadians benefit from risk-based regulation that promotes continued access to safe, effective and high quality natural health products.
The vast majority of the natural health product industry develops safe products of high quality. Bill C-51 will help us target the minority who behave irresponsibly.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that tainted products are found and recalled.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that what is on the label is actually in the bottle.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that health claims on packaging are supported by appropriate levels of evidence.
The Natural Health Product Regulations, introduced in 2004, will continue to operate the same way under Bill C-51. Canadians will continue to have access to natural health products that are safe, effective and of high quality.
Natural health products will not be regulated as pharmaceutical drugs; they will continue to be regulated under their own regulations - separate from drugs and foods.
Bill C-51 will not increase the costs of natural health products.
Bill C-51 does not regulate growing an herb garden.
Bill C-51 does not target practitioners who compound products for their patients.
Bill C-51 does not target Canadians' personal use of natural health products.
Health food stores will not require a special license to sell natural health products.
Canadians will not require a prescription from a doctor for natural health products.
Bill C-51 will not result in more compliance and enforcement action taken for regulated products, including natural health products. Action on natural health products will continue to be undertaken according to the product's level of risk, and to the Compliance Policy for Natural Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate's Policy-0001, which sets out this risk-based approach.
Inspectors will not be able to enter a private home without permission or a warrant.
Bill C-51 does not enable Health Canada to seize bank accounts.
9/11 Truth Events in Walkerton, Ontario - 05/09 and 05/24
9/11 Truth Events in Walkerton, Ontario - 05/09 and 05/24 Posted by Stephen Eli Harris | 5:45 PM | 0 comments » Thanks to 9/11 Blogger and Reprehensor for this heads up:
Dr. Paul McArthur and the White Rose Coffeehouse Present:
May 9th - Walkerton, Ontario: Victoria Jubilee Hall - 2pm until ?
There will be a screening of 9/11 videos, live music and some refreshments, to generate public interest for the main event on May 24th;
May 24th - Walkerton, Ontario: Victoria Jubilee Hall - 6:30pm until 10pm
The Public Mythology of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
With speakers:
Dr. Graeme MacQueen - Dr. Anthony Hall - Dr. Michael Truscello
Both events are free, but donations will be accepted -- any money collected above the cost of the event will be donated to the Walkerton Medical Clinic Fund.
Contact White Rose Coffeehouse for more information:
519-889-0181
(Also see linked flyers: - May 9th event - May 24th event)
Canada May Label Synthetic Estrogen Plastic as Toxic
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
April 18, 2008
According to the New York Times, the Canadian government is “ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans.”
The chemical is called bisphenol-a, or B.P.A., and is classified as a hormone disruptor. Studies have linked low-dose B.P.A. exposure with permanent changes to the genital tract, increased prostate weight, a decline in testosterone, creating breast cells predisposed to cancer, prostate cells more sensitive to hormones and cancer, and hyperactivity. Moreover, when ingested B.P.A. mimics the effects of estrogen.
“Repeated exposure to either bisphenol-A or the natural estrogen over several days produced insulin resistance, a pre-diabetic state in which tissues lose their sensitivity to normal concentrations of insulin,” reports Ben Harder for Science News Online. “Animal studies have suggested that exposure to the chemical early in life causes obesity” and “might contribute to gestational diabetes in women.”
Tom Mosakowski, writing for Natural News, adds that the “damaging effects of the chemical include impairment and unnatural changes to sex organs and their functions, increased tumor formation, hyperactivity, neurotoxin effects, and signs of early puberty.” A cursory glance at headlines reveal that cancer, obesity, diabetes, and hyperactivity are rampant and on the increase, thanks mostly to B.P.A. in canned foods, baby bottles, water pipes, dental sealants, plastic water and soda containers and plastic wrap, etc.
“The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, concluded that there was ’some concern’ that fetuses, babies and children were in danger because bisphenol A, or BPA, harmed animals at low levels found in nearly all human bodies,” writes Marla Cone of the Los Angeles Times. “An ingredient of polycarbonate plastic, BPA is one of the most widely used synthetic chemicals in industry today. It can seep from hard plastic beverage containers such as baby bottles, as well as from liners in cans containing food and infant formula.”
Other studies indicate very “low doses of BPA completely inhibited the activity of estrogen. Because estrogen normally increases the growth and regulates viability of developing neurons… these results support the idea that BPA may harm developing brain cells,” according to Scott Belcher of the University of Cincinnati. In short, B.P.A. is a complimentary cocktail for the dumbing down process, now well underway.
In EU dominated Europe, the level of B.P.A. is apparently not high enough. The EU recently increased the level of exposure it considers safe for human health, or maybe that should be effective for dumbing down the commoners and increasing cancer, early puberty, obesity and diabetes, as mandated by our eugenics obsessed rulers. In fact, if a study conducted by the Yale School of Medicine is any indication, synthetic estrogens in plastic may be a near perfect eugenics tool, as “widely-used plastics have a detrimental effect on a developing fetus [and] cause fertility problems.”
Jack Bend, a professor of pathology at the University of Western Ontario in London and one of the Canadian government’s outside scientific advisers, told the New York Times B.P.A. “may prove to cause damage in much the same way as early exposure to mercury.”
But then we are told mercury is safe, even healthy for children. If synthetic estrogens are in our food and drink — including baby bottles — maybe our rulers can phase out destructive vaccines, especially now that increasing numbers of people are learning about the link between autism and mercury-laden vaccinations.
However, this surreptitious poisoning may be tough if Health Canada has a say. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program has “endorsed a scientific panel’s finding that there was ’some concern’ about neural and behavioral changes in humans who consume B.P.A.,” that is to say just about everybody.
