Or not.
I am leaning toward not.
Our beloved Prime Minister and his boyz are going to bring United States style prisons to The Great White North and according to Michael Jackson, not the dead one, this one is a professor at the University of British Columbia, the idea sucks.
Graham Stewart co authored the report with Professor Jackson A Flawed Compass and is quoted by CBC News as saying that ""It tramples human rights and human dignity..."
Their report provides a scathing review of a government blueprint for corrections called A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety.
The whole idea behind Roadmap is to punish not rehabilitate according to Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart and is a recipe for violence. The CBC News story indicates that "... the program will eliminate gradual release and deny inmates rights that are now entrenched in the Constitution."
Apparently, according to the report, the Tory government has already allocated hundreds of millions to the plan, even though it has had no input from either Parliament or the public.
Mr. Stewart is quoted as saying the Conservative's plan is "...an ideological rant, which flies in the face of the Correctional Service's own research of what works to rehabilitate prisoners and ensure community safety."
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said, and I am paraphrasing, that Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart are full of it.
WFDS
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Showing posts with label Parliament. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
497...Happy Holiday;MoreBadNews For King James
Not LeBron, the other one.
Specifically today is the 319th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a bad day for King James VII and II [he was king, er, King, of England and Ireland as the 2 and Scotland as the 7] and a good day for Syracuse's own William of Orange, also known as William III.
The Blue and Orange, Protestants, beat the Roman Catholics and that was about it, eh?
The great victory is celebrated to this very day especially in in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.
It is also commemorated in other parts of the world including here in Ontario although not at the level it was previously to the end of World War II.
Still, any excuse to party is an excuse to party.
Give 'er.
WFDS
Specifically today is the 319th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a bad day for King James VII and II [he was king, er, King, of England and Ireland as the 2 and Scotland as the 7] and a good day for Syracuse's own William of Orange, also known as William III.
The Blue and Orange, Protestants, beat the Roman Catholics and that was about it, eh?
The great victory is celebrated to this very day especially in in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.
It is also commemorated in other parts of the world including here in Ontario although not at the level it was previously to the end of World War II.
Still, any excuse to party is an excuse to party.
Give 'er.
WFDS
Monday, June 22, 2009
349...We Love To Talk In Canada
Talk.
And talk.
And talk some more.
In my town, Ottawa, we have been talking about moving the Central Canada Exhibition, The Ex, since the middle of World War Two. Still at Lansdowne Park. We have been talking about building rapid transit, a subway, something something, in this town since, minimum, the 1974 mayoralty eleciton. Still no rapid transit.
Parliament Hill is in my town and on the Hill they have been talking about buliding a superfast supertrain from Quebec City to Windsor as long as I can remember and I can remember back into the 1960's.
Here we go again.
Mike De Souza of Canwest News Services writes this morning that Joe Volpe, the Liberal Party transportation critic, says that now is the time for such a train and that it would aid in nation building. Even though they are separatists, the BQ follows the Canadian way and to that end the Bloc Quebecois transportation critic, Mario Laframboise dit "no way", unless of course, the nation you are talking about is Quebec and then what do we need a train for anyhow?
Oy f'ing vey.
Do something already.
WFDS
And talk.
And talk some more.
In my town, Ottawa, we have been talking about moving the Central Canada Exhibition, The Ex, since the middle of World War Two. Still at Lansdowne Park. We have been talking about building rapid transit, a subway, something something, in this town since, minimum, the 1974 mayoralty eleciton. Still no rapid transit.
Parliament Hill is in my town and on the Hill they have been talking about buliding a superfast supertrain from Quebec City to Windsor as long as I can remember and I can remember back into the 1960's.
Here we go again.
Mike De Souza of Canwest News Services writes this morning that Joe Volpe, the Liberal Party transportation critic, says that now is the time for such a train and that it would aid in nation building. Even though they are separatists, the BQ follows the Canadian way and to that end the Bloc Quebecois transportation critic, Mario Laframboise dit "no way", unless of course, the nation you are talking about is Quebec and then what do we need a train for anyhow?
Oy f'ing vey.
Do something already.
WFDS
Monday, June 15, 2009
303...Michael Ignatieff Sent Me A Letter
The next Prime Minister of Canada, Mikey I., may have sent you one too, but, just in case, I thought I would cut and paste what he sent me.
Dear Dan,
Earlier today I spoke directly to Canadians about the need to replace confrontation with co-operation in the House of Commons and I laid out our party’s response to the Conservative government’s second accountability report.
Unlike the NDP and Bloc – who rejected the report without even reading it – we’ve been a party of government and hope to be so again. So we can’t afford to behave irresponsibly.
After studying the report and consulting with Canadians, we have serious questions about the government’s performance.
Click here to watch Michael’s statement to the press
There are four questions Canadians deserve to have answered:
The government needs to tell Canadians what its plans for employment insurance are – now, not in three months time.
Canadians want the facts on infrastructure: how much money was spent in the critical first 120 days? Not promised or flowing or committed – actually spent.
What plan does the government have to get our finances back under control? Mr. Harper’s past commitment to get us back to balance within 5 years is noticeably absent from the accountability report.
Although it does not figure in the report, the health care crisis is of urgent concern to Canadians. If Chalk River can’t supply the isotopes for needed diagnostic tests, where is the government going to find the alternative supply and what plan has the government put in place to manage the health care crisis in the future?
So where do we go from here? Canadians don’t want an election. I am not seeking an election. But doing our job means standing by our principles – standing up when the government lets Canadians down.
As Liberals, we are prepared to give Mr. Harper the time he needs to answer these questions, extending this sitting of Parliament if it’s necessary to get the work done. The real question is: does Mr. Harper want Parliament to work?
He can make it work this week by responding honestly to the concerns we have raised – by giving Canadians the transparency and accountability they need from their government.
Yours, Michael
Earlier today I spoke directly to Canadians about the need to replace confrontation with co-operation in the House of Commons and I laid out our party’s response to the Conservative government’s second accountability report.
Unlike the NDP and Bloc – who rejected the report without even reading it – we’ve been a party of government and hope to be so again. So we can’t afford to behave irresponsibly.
After studying the report and consulting with Canadians, we have serious questions about the government’s performance.
Click here to watch Michael’s statement to the press
There are four questions Canadians deserve to have answered:
The government needs to tell Canadians what its plans for employment insurance are – now, not in three months time.
Canadians want the facts on infrastructure: how much money was spent in the critical first 120 days? Not promised or flowing or committed – actually spent.
What plan does the government have to get our finances back under control? Mr. Harper’s past commitment to get us back to balance within 5 years is noticeably absent from the accountability report.
Although it does not figure in the report, the health care crisis is of urgent concern to Canadians. If Chalk River can’t supply the isotopes for needed diagnostic tests, where is the government going to find the alternative supply and what plan has the government put in place to manage the health care crisis in the future?
So where do we go from here? Canadians don’t want an election. I am not seeking an election. But doing our job means standing by our principles – standing up when the government lets Canadians down.
As Liberals, we are prepared to give Mr. Harper the time he needs to answer these questions, extending this sitting of Parliament if it’s necessary to get the work done. The real question is: does Mr. Harper want Parliament to work?
He can make it work this week by responding honestly to the concerns we have raised – by giving Canadians the transparency and accountability they need from their government.
Yours, Michael
He is the man, but, please, Mr. Harper, do what you are supposed to do and run the country rightly not wrongly.
No election, please.
WFDS
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