Liberal Party of Canada
Brent Jessop || April 13, 2007
2007 04 13 - Liberals agree not to run candidate against Green leader
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will not run a Liberal candidate against Green party Leader Elizabeth May in the next federal election, the first time the Liberals won't plan on having a full slate of candidates.
2007 04 10 - Video - Paul Martin Asked If Canada a Police State?
2006 10 23 - When pushed to explain hawkish writings, Ignatieff goes personal
Pounded by his rivals over allegedly hawkish writings on the war on terror, Michael Ignatieff got personal at a Liberal leadership debate Saturday.
Ignatieff has backed away from his early position on Iraq and his supporters say he has never endorsed torture.
In a 2004 piece in the New York Times magazine, he wrote: "To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war."
But while the piece in question may raise the issue, Ignatieff says he has never actually endorsed measures such as torture.
The Times piece in question, for instance, concludes with a warning against human rights abuses.
"Even terrorists, unfortunately, have human rights," the piece concludes.
Related - Ignatieff Supports Methods Defined as Torture by the UN
2006 09 08 - Ignatieff says Canada belongs in Afghanistan because of 'moral promise'
Canadians have an obligation to keep their "moral promise" to Afghans despite a mounting death toll, Liberal leadership contender Michael Ignatieff said Wednesday as the bodies of five more soldiers returned home from the battlefield.
"This is an agonizing mission for Canadians but it's a mission that amounts to a moral promise," Ignatieff said following a rally in downtown Toronto where he unveiled a new campaign platform.
"It's a promise in which Canada said `We're going to help Afghans get their country back on its feet.' And the Canada I love and the Canada I respect always keeps its promises."
Related - 2006 12 04 - Ignatieff says he sees no reason to renew Afghan mission for Cdn soldiers
Related - More on Afghanistan
2006 07 10 - The Hon. Mr. Martin’s Dishonourable Secret
Madeleine Drohan, one of The Globe and Mail’s outstanding writers, was recently brought home from her European beat to inject some life into that paper’s fusty business section. But to stay in ascension G&M writers must encapsulate themselves in professional ignorance on certain touchy questions. That is why in her column of 22/9 ("Show me the numbers, Mr. Martin") Ms. Drohan embarrasses our former Finance Minister with a question that really puzzles her. "We are all adults here. So why doesn’t Finance Minister Paul Martin treat us as such and tell us how much of a budget surplus he is expecting this year and for the next couple of years?"
Related - 2006 01 13 - Majority government could allow bank mergers: analyst
There is no difference if it is a majority or minority government these banks will merge because no one is resisting it. Why are bank mergers bad?
Related - 2006 04 03 - Untouchable - For How Much Longer ?
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2006 06 09 - McGuinty's De-MOCK-cracy
The amendment is a politicians dream created by, not surprisingly, other politicians. The government claims this move is about “respecting our municipalities.” However it shows a total lack of respect for voters. Little to no public consultation was undertaken, and local voters had no opportunity to approve or turf this proposal in a referendum.
The premier pointed out that this move was requested by the “Association of Municipalities of Ontario.” Big surprise there. An association of municipal politicians selected by other municipal politicians supporting a move that only benefits municipal politicians by guaranteeing them an extra year of pay, benefits and unquestioned power … Shocking!
Some Liberal MPP’s suggested this move creates more “efficiency.” Efficiency for whom? Unquestionably it is more efficient for municipal politicians to spend less of their precious time asking the citizens they serve for their continued support. But is it really more efficient for voters? Are voters complaining that they have too much democracy right now? When’s the last time anyone heard an Ontario voter say, “Jeez, do I really have to go and vote for Mayor again? But I just voted three years ago and I’m still tired from exercising my democratic right last time.”
2006 03 31 - McGuinty and Harris Smash Poor
The thing about Mike Harris was that he always seemed mean. As he happily trampled the powerless under foot. Dalton McGuinty, on the other hand...
2006 03 06 - CIA Landed Up to 74 Torture Flights in Canada - Newly declassified documents show that CIA planes have landed in Canada 74 times since the 9/11 terror attacks, underscoring fears that the United States is transporting suspects through its neighboring country en route to foreign prisons for torture.
Related - 2006 04 24 - Canada: Security certificates overturn long-standing democratic rights
Related - 2006 03 27 - Minister Responsible for Deportations to Torture Refuses to Arrange Meeting
Related - 2006 03 06 - Forgotten man close to death
Related - 2006 03 06 - Canada almost alone in supporting Guantanamo
Related - 2006 02 22 - U.S. judge dismisses Arar lawsuit
Related - 2005 10 29 - Arar was tortured, inquiry fact-finder concludes
Related - 2005 10 18 - Man held in Syria questions Canada's role in 'torture by proxy'
2006 02 17 - Liberal Senator reveals hypocrisy on Universal Public Healthcare
The Hon. Michael J.L. Kirby, is the head of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology that has conducting research and producing Parliamentary Reports of "Reforming" Medicare in Canada. For the past fifteen years Senator Kirby has been an active member of the board of directors of the U.S.-based multinational private for-profit health care provider, Extendicare Inc. In its last annual report the company proclaimed that it is looking for expansion in long-term care with "positive impact on [commercial] profitability."
American greed-driven Private health care and insurance companies are eager to profit from the dismantling of the public health care system.
Related - 2006 11 27 - Vancouver to get Canada's First Private ER
Related - 2006 11 27 - N.S. introduces legislation to regulate private health clinics
Related - 2006 09 29 - Ontario allows hospital to hire private company to run ER
Related - 2006 08 23 - Private health-care advocate wins CMA presidency
Related - 2006 07 08 - Nova Scotia's D'Entremont reopens private health debate
Related - 2006 06 14 - The Pharmaceutical Health Minister
Related - 2006 03 24 - MDs want hospitals kept public
Related - 2006 02 17 - Private health care has role in Quebec, says Charest
Related - 2006 02 15 - Conservatives want fully privatized healthcare
2006 08 09 - Canada's Participation in the War in Iraq
Back in March 2003, then-U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci admitted that Canada was of greater assistance in the US-led war against Iraq “than most of those 46 countries that are fully supporting us.”
What? But how can that be? Canada gave a defiant ‘no’ to the war in Iraq, didn’t it? Well, actually, no. While the Liberal government wanted Canadians to believe that they had stood up against the U.S. and opposed the Iraq war/occupation, Canada was (and still is) very much involved.
What’s worse, despite the still-prevailing myth that Canada never joined that war, our government, corporations and military are still closely collaborating in the U.S. occupation. Here are 14 ways in which Canada joined the fray.
Related - 2006 06 02 - Canada Digs Iraq's Oil
Related - 2006 06 02 - Canada: A Dedicated Presence in Iraq
Related - 2006 03 20 - PM says 'it's possible' Canadian soldiers in Iraq
Related - 2006 02 01 - Canada's "Secret" Contribution to the War in Iraq
2006 01 16 - Liberal’s fiscal forecasting lacks credibility - “The Liberal government has so poorly predicted past surpluses that its credibility to calculate future deficits or surpluses is simply not believable today,” said CTF federal director John Williamson. “It is like the boy who cried wolf, only Mr. Martin is crying ‘deficits, deficits’ and taxpayers, fooled before, should not be duped again.”
2006 01 13 - U.S.-style private health clinics coming to Ontario - Plans to establish 40 clinics across Canada in the next five years, including three in Ontario by the summer. There are goals for clinics in 12 cities by 2008... The fees also cover access to family doctors and specialists, and advanced screening for multiple diseases.
Related - 2006 01 27 - The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Medicare Waiting Room
Related - 2005 11 24 - Vancouver clinic a 'toe in door' for private medicine
2005 12 09 - Liberals vow to ban handguns - At least this article briefly mentions how ridiculous this idea is. If you pass a law to ban guns will the criminals had them over? Here is an article describing the results of a similar law recently passed in Australia.
Related - 2006 09 15 - College shootings likely to rekindle debate over gun control
Related - 2006 05 23 - Gun Registry Still a Billion Dollar Boondoggle
2005 12 09 - Martin urges nations to get tough on energy consumption - Of the $12 billion in money Martin allocated to climate change $1.4 billion is earmarked for purchasing credit from foreign governments (ie. Russia, Eastern Europe). "This is absurd public policy: tax dollars spent overseas with no tangible benefits to our environment, the economy or Canadian taxpayers."
2005 12 07 - The Insanity of Indian Affairs - One definition for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Canadians have witnessed this insanity in the delivery of Indian affairs. Regrettably, this insanity is not likely to stop anytime soon.
2005 11 28 - Buying Votes With Your Tax Dollars - The governing Liberals are using every trick to improve their electoral fortunes. Their preferred tool? The government’s spending powers. Over the last three weeks, Prime Minster Paul Martin, cabinet ministers and Liberal backbench MPs have made pre-campaign spending commitments totaling $16.5-billion. This is equivalent to $785-million per day.
2005 11 20 - “Disgusting” - Reinstatement of Gold-Plated Pensions - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) reacted in shock to news that Liberal and NDP MLAs quietly agreed to millions in salary, benefit and expense increases. “After a wage fight with teachers and negotiations upcoming with almost every union in the province, the timing of this pocket-lining exercise is the height of stupidity,”
Related - 2006 01 27 - MP's 77.5 Million Dollar Pension Jackpot
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