tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.comments2023-06-21T07:47:48.993-04:00BACK OFF GOVERNMENT!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger699125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-30028742426875539972010-01-24T23:19:53.308-05:002010-01-24T23:19:53.308-05:00I'm not gonna give the globe and mail site any...I'm not gonna give the globe and mail site any traffic, so pass. You could of tried linking directly to a picture or three that were wide zoomed out shots assuming there is any there.<br /><br />None of those flickr pics had 25,000 in a pic let alone fit 7,000 since none of them were zoomed out to provide clarification. I didn't care to have to shift through pages of up close shots with sparse "wide" ones.<br /><br />That isn't to say that there couldn't of been 7,000 but it is to say that I doubt it was anything near 25,000. And 25,000 across the country? They really couldn't draw out more? Given all the media hype?<br />All this over 17 days of missed QP?<br /><br />Hmm.tao_taierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16233189614853368414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-30675178655195232712010-01-24T21:18:02.017-05:002010-01-24T21:18:02.017-05:00"It's not apples and oranges when compari..."It's not apples and oranges when comparing Canada-wide on both demos, or is it? And you used Canadian public in your post, not me."<br /><br />Either I'm getting confused or you're getting confused.<br /><br />Ottawa March for Life Protest attendance: 8,000. (This was in Ottawa on Parliament Hill)<br /><br />Toronto Pro-Prorogue Protest attendance estimate: 7,000<br /><br />Canada wide pro-prorogue protest estimate you gave: 25,000. If you want to compare "oranges to oranges" we should compare a Canada wide pro-life protest to this number - like <a href="http://lifechain.net/History.html%22" rel="nofollow">LifeChain</a> which saw 80,000 participants nationwide in 1997.<br /><br />The links by the way you gave don't seem to reference that number by the way. Please post the link to the 25000 reference at your leisure for everyone's knowledge.William Tellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14840575381956651912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-51747035974978955572010-01-24T21:05:19.806-05:002010-01-24T21:05:19.806-05:00It's not apples and oranges when comparing Can...It's not apples and oranges when comparing Canada-wide on both demos, or is it? And you used Canadian public in your post, not me.<br /><br />MsM biased? I couldn't agree more, but generally that's a corporate bias in favour of conservative values, don't you think?Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012567844101960274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-15363192870461373112010-01-24T20:47:49.063-05:002010-01-24T20:47:49.063-05:00"Let's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion ..."Let's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion against 25000 pro-democracy, who are you kidding?"<br /><br />My guess is that 25000 pro-prorogue number is the total for all of Canada. 8000 was the number of pro-life demonstrators in Ottawa alone during a particular protest.<br /><br />I respectfully submit Eric that if we wanted to compare oranges to oranges we would look at protest numbers limited to geographical areas. If we did the point is still a sound one. These Pro-prorogue protests have garnished more media attention than other similar conservative causes have received with higher numbers protesting.<br /><br />Am I suggesting a media Liberal bias? You betcha.William Tellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14840575381956651912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-59240494558675653892010-01-24T20:29:06.026-05:002010-01-24T20:29:06.026-05:00how many do you need?
Numbers of "Canadian p...<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=tgamprorogue&m=pool&s=rec&w=1276181%40N21" rel="nofollow">how many do you need?</a><br /><br />Numbers of "Canadian public" are Canada-wide, but if you had read the paper you would have known that. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/prorogation/your-pics-from-prorogation-protests/article1441825/" rel="nofollow">More here</a>.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012567844101960274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-42453277430392054332010-01-24T17:34:20.472-05:002010-01-24T17:34:20.472-05:00Hey Eric, got a photo to back up those numbers?
P...Hey Eric, got a photo to back up those numbers?<br /><br />Please do post it here. I'd like to see where you got that idea.tao_taierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16233189614853368414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-65393025170132780012010-01-24T15:30:57.964-05:002010-01-24T15:30:57.964-05:00I think the emphasis on protecting transfers is wr...I think the emphasis on protecting transfers is wrong headed, but that is because I don't see the idea of the State seizing wealth and property from the productive to give to political rent seekers and the non productive as being a proper role for the State.<br /><br />However, given political reality, cutting transfers to individuals would be electoral suicide, so about $61 billion is untouchable. <br /><br />We can still look at other areas like transfers to governments (especially governments with their own sources of revenue like offshore oil or hydro), which gives us another $46 billion to work with.<br /><br />Subsidies should be cut for another @ $30 billion<br /><br />Crown corporations should be cut as well, since that provides another $8 billion<br /><br />Adding that up, we can get $84 billion in cuts. Sustained for six years this would allow the <b>entire national debt</b> to be paid off, and if the program is sustained for 12 years then <b>all unfunded liabilities (CPP, pensions, etc.)</b> are also covered.<br /><br />Not included in this virtuous circle is the possibility of reductions in operating expenses due to the ending of so many programs, and of course the reduction of the $30 billion/year in debt payments. Real tax cuts can be made from the savings here, energizing the economy and in all likelyhyood speeding up the entire paydown process through increased tax revenues.<br /><br />Here is a real program to get behind: don't leave the debt to our grandchildren but pay it off before our children leave school!Thucydideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09828932214842106266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-68771864665601078132010-01-24T02:00:18.527-05:002010-01-24T02:00:18.527-05:00Let's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion agains...Let's see: 8000 Canadians anti-abortion against 25000 pro-democracy, who are you kidding?Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012567844101960274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-45035267818449474292010-01-24T01:53:13.728-05:002010-01-24T01:53:13.728-05:00Ouch. That thought will be rough on the people fro...Ouch. That thought will be rough on the people from <i>Dammit Janet</i>! Who wanted to appear at an anti-Prorogue protest dressed as a "blue fetus".Patrick Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-48028357698096928412010-01-24T00:03:18.399-05:002010-01-24T00:03:18.399-05:00Actually the Toronto rally had about 2000 in atten...Actually the Toronto rally had about 2000 in attendance.Jordanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04142507263272104381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-82018118731379334902010-01-23T12:36:31.021-05:002010-01-23T12:36:31.021-05:00I'm surprised no BTer picked up on the Charest...I'm surprised no BTer picked up on the Charest story (unless I missed it)<br /><br />Quebec does NOT need to cut taxes nor program spending to balance the books in 2014.....<br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-says-its-ahead-of-the-curve/article1439828/<br /><br />yah, <br />because the ROC is picking up the $8B tab.<br /><br />Do all the 'have' provinces have to make cuts ;<br />and the 'have not' provinces can cruise merrily along?<br /><br />something VERY wrong with that picture.wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03589410224972050999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-78957102356054981322010-01-23T06:38:14.418-05:002010-01-23T06:38:14.418-05:00Oh yes, and the salaries and benefits for clerks n...Oh yes, and the salaries and benefits for clerks need a big review.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16921877138481877250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-15377048246005462062010-01-23T06:36:48.514-05:002010-01-23T06:36:48.514-05:00Oh yes - Canadians never care about cuts to the Ci...Oh yes - Canadians never care about cuts to the Civil Service and they actually should be cut, along with useless programs that fund advocacy groups ( I was a gov't employee so I know that huge changes are needed). <br /><br />Some programs are obsolete/ill-advised - gun control, Status of Women (I am a woman), Public Service Commission. A lot of boards and overseers need to go. Anything to do with cities, health and education should go back to their own jurisdictions. CIDA needs a huge re-work. Rev Can needs downsizing with simpler tax rules. Immigration is a huge must revise. <br /><br />I would actually like to retain the entertainment portion of CBC, but they should not ever be funded for news.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16921877138481877250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-39408549207409845762010-01-23T01:59:32.004-05:002010-01-23T01:59:32.004-05:00A lot can be accomplished just by not replacing th...A lot can be accomplished just by not replacing the baby boomers who are retiring. The civil servants do not need to be replaced.hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14180857240945765697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-1579424040229022532010-01-23T00:19:34.117-05:002010-01-23T00:19:34.117-05:00Amen! I'm an Albertan and so OBVIOUSLY willing...Amen! I'm an Albertan and so OBVIOUSLY willing to do whatever it takes, we are astoundingly GOOD at this task.<br /><br />Are the the rest of those teat sucking Canadians? I doubt it.<br /><br />Conservatives, have NO problem with the notion of belt tightening, the entitled to their entitlements, despise it. CBC FIRST!Bechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197428781361903395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-29792005583345153522010-01-21T19:49:17.662-05:002010-01-21T19:49:17.662-05:00The Haitians will all end up in Montreal where the...The Haitians will all end up in Montreal where they are only superficially welcome. Visible minority youths are rarely hired by pure laine quebecois.Canada Goosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06182256383932792527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-76524638110962700452010-01-21T16:58:51.889-05:002010-01-21T16:58:51.889-05:00To me, I don't think he got it right. There&#...To me, I don't think he got it right. There's something to be said about due process - making sure that who you're bringing into the country is coming to bring something useful to society. As in, not terrorism or laziness, the latter of which you dealt with in your post - people who are attracted to a free ride. Would <a href="http://hincheysstore.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-government-moved-at-speed-of-light.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> make Kenney's comments a little more palatable? Just my two cents...Hinchey's Storehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14118851443934204772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-20806084993444082052010-01-21T16:50:05.990-05:002010-01-21T16:50:05.990-05:00The government is already fast-tracking the reloca...The government is already fast-tracking the relocation of orphans that were in the adoption system pipeline.<br /><br />That, however, is not sufficient for the do-gooders who want all the orphans taken in without question. Well, here's one question: what if it turns out that the parents or relatives of some of these orphans turn up alive and well and want them back? With the chaos that is Haiti there is every possibility that parents, relatives, and children have become separated for any number of reasons. What happens then? Since the children are already in Canada, does that mean the parents or relatives automatically get to come? If the adoption process has commenced do we tell these children and their prospective parents that the deal is off? Let's wait until the situation returns to some semblance of normalcy before we embark on an ill thought out, helter-skelter child snatching scheme.<br /><br />As for opening the doors to masses of Haitian refugees: who is to determine if these people are truly refugees or, for that matter, if they are even Haitians? Probably most native Haitians have lost their documents as they fled their crumbling homes. The Caribbean islands are notorious for not having a very competent system of documentation. That has been one of the stumbling blocks in the ongoing talks aimed at finding a way for some of the islands to join Canada. There is no system in place that will establish a person's nationality or place of residence beyond a reasonable doubt. If Canada opens its doors wide, you can bet the number of people claiming to be Haitians will double overnight.<br />Lets be patient until some system of governmental control is up and running before we start accepting everyone who claims to be a Haitian refugee. Canada will end up taking in many hundreds, and perhaps thousands of Haitians at some point in the future since the island is damaged to the point that it can no longer generate any kind of viable economic system. It will take decades to rebuild that poor, blighted nation to some semblance of a working society and I am sure Canada will do more than its share to see that the people who will face the most hardship during this rebuilding are taken care of.<br />But let's not give in to some knee-jerk reaction to this disaster and let ourselves be made the victims of our own generosity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-434794241864622452010-01-21T16:13:08.152-05:002010-01-21T16:13:08.152-05:00Sorry.Iggy's talking abut the wholesale import...Sorry.Iggy's talking abut the wholesale import of thousands of people who will be a net drain on the Canadian taxpayer.<br /><br />Immigrants built Canada,yes, but not by handing them the keys to the store.KURSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00286593811913745188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-22287863878420906672010-01-20T16:33:37.898-05:002010-01-20T16:33:37.898-05:00What I find interesting, is that this is a relativ...What I find interesting, is that this is a relatively minor error in comparison to the overall picture of cover-up and corruption. Is the IPCC and Al Gore offering a couple of sacrificial (and relatively small) errors in an attempt to sway attention from the major ones?DaveRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589355335981916756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-32784698993016104682010-01-19T11:35:30.748-05:002010-01-19T11:35:30.748-05:00This is just not the way government funding of non...This is just not the way government funding of non-governmental organizations works.<br /><br />The government funds specific projects that NGOs are involved in. These groups have to account for every dollar spent down to the level of individual staff who split their time between different programs.<br /><br />The Government of Canada was certainly never funding any Kairos programs that had anything to do with political advocacy on the Israeli-Palestinian question. What appears to have happened is that the Harper government withdrew funding from unrelated programs and then one of its ministers implied that this was done to punish Kairos for their work/position on Israeli issues.RayKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849043290404443300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-36471533632391885112010-01-17T04:54:42.211-05:002010-01-17T04:54:42.211-05:00I had an interesting discussion with BCL regarding...I had an interesting discussion with BCL regarding those "bible wavers"-his words.<br /><br />In my opinion as long as those BW were useful and supported their idealogy they were allowed access to the taxpayer teat. If they did not tie the party line and idealogical left they were not to be tolerated.<br /><br />I discovered this through his concern for the Knights of Columbus who were donating a sculpture in a park.<br /><br />http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-monument-to-socon-moral.htmlCanadianSensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01010880162544507668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-23407643029024736392010-01-16T09:53:09.124-05:002010-01-16T09:53:09.124-05:00: ): )High Power Rocketryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11537203640644706903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-82887736606180054832010-01-14T08:36:27.628-05:002010-01-14T08:36:27.628-05:00What are you drinking?
Politicians act like adult...What are you drinking?<br /><br />Politicians act like adults?<br /><br /><br />2009 has been a busy years of stunts and props.<br /><br />I don't anticipate 2010 the games to stop. It is a reflection of what is how the MSM feeds(participates)this nonsense.CanadianSensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01010880162544507668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9578224.post-35088315663347403252010-01-13T22:15:16.852-05:002010-01-13T22:15:16.852-05:00The Liberals have been calling for an inquiry into...The Liberals have been calling for an inquiry into all handling of detainees since 2002. Harper continues to refuse and, in all likelihood, will continue to ignore and show contempt for Parliament.Ted Bettshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223729391428982448noreply@blogger.com