Liberals still don’t get it.

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The NDP and Conservatives agree on a bill, desire to pass it to the Senate ASAP and it will be slowed down by, you guessed it, THE LIBERALS. Bob Rae is doing his best to show voters why they deserve less votes in the next election.

Comartin asked if the justice minister would commit to tabling and passing the bill before MPs leave Ottawa for the summer.

“That is the easiest pledge I will ever make,” Nicholson responded.

To speed up its passage, the government is seeking unanimous consent from Parliament to accept the bill in its current form and to send it straight to the Senate for a final stamp of approval. That would mean the bill would bypass the committee stage.

The NDP has no problem with that, Comartin confirmed Monday, and Liberal interim leader Bob Rae said his party also wants the bill passed before MPs leave for the summer, but he’s not as keen for it to skip examination by the justice committee.

“We think there should be a debate,” Rae said. “I’d like to see it go to the justice committee,” he said.

Parliament is on a tight timetable. It is only scheduled to sit until June 23 which doesn’t leave a lot of time to hold committee hearings. Rae said extending the session is an option.

“We’re not committed to any end date here, we’re committed to treating legislation fairly,” he said.

Comartin said there simply isn’t enough time to hold committee meetings on the bill, and that they aren’t necessary because its contents have already been studied by experts in the legal field.

“I want this thing to have royal assent … before the summer starts,” Comartin said Monday. “If it goes to committee, it won’t get through the Senate in time.

Honestly, if the NDP and Conservatives agree on something, do you want to get your name in the paper as wanting to work against it?

Why I am Proud to be Canadian

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As we waited for a van to take us to another briefing, a young soldier working on a helicopter looked up and saw us. He stared at Iginla, his eyes wide. Very few people on the base had been told we were coming.

From there we were taken to perhaps the best known part of the base, the ball hockey rink constructed by Canadian soldiers and home to the 14-team Kandahar Hockey League, or the “tougher KHL” as the Canadians like to call it.

One of the best articles you will ever read on TSN.ca (or the rest of BELL media).

Prisons and the USA

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One of the left’s distraction techniques when talking about the Conservative policy of stricter sentences is that the USA has run into problems of prison overcrowding and budget issues.

Ignoring the obvious cost savings when you don’t have to arrest the same guy 120 times a year, it seems that there is a bigger prison issue that the State of California deals with. This paragraph by Mark Krikorian in the Corner at the National Review states the real source of that problem.

“The GAO reported in March that in FY 2008, there were 27,000 illegal aliens in the state prison system for whom California was receiving partial (very partial) reimbursement from the feds. (See here, p. 30.) That’s close to the total number our black-robed rulers have ordered released. And that’s not counting the legal immigrants who’ve made themselves deportable by committing crimes.”

The Conservatives also have an immigration plan.

Racial Oxymoroning

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Racial profiling must be outlawed and Quebec schools, police departments and government agencies must lead by hiring more visible minorities, says a report by the Quebec Human Rights Commission.

So let me get this straight, until we do more hiring based on the color of the skin, we will never get rid of racial profiling?

Experts and politicians praised the report as a breakthrough for a problem that has bedevilled relations between law-enforcers and minorities.

They hailed the exhaustively researched, 131-page document as the first step toward eliminating a practice that by Montreal Police Chief Marc Parent’s own admission is a problem in his force.

At least they didn’t try and say politicians fit under experts.

But racial profiling is not limited to law enforcement, said the commission, which has received more than 200 complaints of racial profiling since 2005.

More than 200 complaints since 2005 would mean that there are more than 40 a year or almost one a week!!!! Note that these are just complaints, not proven.

Morton Weinfeld, a professor of sociology at McGill University who holds the chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies, said that while action on racial profiling is needed, it is only the tip of the iceberg.

“An even more profound problem is that of systemic racism in all dimensions of our society,” said Mr. Weinfeld, who pointed to immigration problems, cultural differences and poverty as examples of obstacles facing minority groups.

“If we eliminated racial profiling tomorrow, we would still have profound racial inequalities,” he said. “And tackling those problems will be much more difficult and much more costly than simply dealing with racial profiling.”

So lets solve the problem by ensuring that visible minorities are treated differently in hiring practices. There’s nothing like hiring quotas to make all things equal.

Hold on a second, did Mr. Winfeld just point out that cultural differences is an obstacle to racial equality? Obviously, Caucasians, or white skinned people, should all be required to adapt their cultures to include those of “visible minorities.”

Burkas mandatory for all girls? Should all boys carry kirpans to school for the sake of racial equality?

Actually, this report may be good news. It could get us kicked right out of the UN! Thanks alot Quebec Human Rights Commission!

CBC Funding to Remain or Grow

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I know P.M. Harper is a hockey fan but if the Conservatives really want to make a $4 Billion dent in the deficit, they are going to need to change their tune on the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars.

This is not good news for fiscal conservatives.

Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory.

“We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and we will commit to that,” Moore told CBC News in Vancouver on Tuesday morning.

As Kate says at SDA, “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”

Majority

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It is now with great happiness, I congratulate Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his excellent win tonight.

This is the results of the BRINW poll I was running over the last number of months. Conservatives have spoken and have given him the majority he asked for. Now it is time for him to deliver that badly needed reform.

52% – Scrap the CBC
32% – Kill the HRCs
10% – Lower Taxes

The other 6% was for other and most people wrote in “All of the Above.”

Goodbye Iggy. Goodbye Bloc. Layton, you can ask your question first now. Harper actually doesn’t need to answer.*

* Heard on CBC.

Please don’t Vote. If…

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I disagree with the notion of voting being compulsory or something that everyone should do. More people voting is not the cure as long as the people voting are acting like lemmings.

Everyone should vote. IF they have invested the time and energy to understand who and what they are voting for. The following list should disqualify be a guideline for people being involved in choosing who gets to run our lives.

Don’t vote if..

  • Your intellectual investment in this election involves change for the sake of change.
  • You have not read the actual policies of the party you are planning on voting for. Go beyond the glossy pamphlets with the broad generalized statements and read the fine print. The fine print is why there are policy conventions. {This may be too harsh, you should be able to at least go beyond talking points.}
  • Everything you know about the leaders, you know because you saw it on TV. This is true whether it is CBC or Sun News.
  • You are planning on voting for the same party you voted for last time, just because you voted that way last time.
  • Your union literature told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your church told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your parents told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your school told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • You actually feel that all parties are the same and it doesn’t matter.
  • Your going to vote for ______, because they offered to drive you.

Don’t spoil your ballot. I don’t think of spoiled ballots as anything other than wasting your time and Elections Canada’s time. We live in a country where every vote does count. Out of the people on the ballot, which do you want to represent you? Which do you want to make decisions, on your behalf?

I know that many will say that “none of the above” is their choice but that is not on the ballot. Apathy and intentionally spoiled ballots are the same thing. Both say that you don’t want to be a part of the decision.

How does one protest then? We all know that no party meets all of our desires, whether policy or implementation.

One, by withholding donations (this is why it is so critical that per vote subsidies are scrapped) and not renewing memberships. If I get called for a donation or am asked to renew my membership, I explain to the unfortunate caller that reasons A, B, C and D are why I will not support the party financially or renew my membership at that time.

Two, contact your current MP or person on the ballot. Explain where the party has deviated from its policies and/or made decisions that you don’t agree with.

Three, become a member of a political party closest to your ideals then work within that party to enact policies. You won’t get everything you want but that’s democracy in action. The difference here than at a general election, is that your vote carries a heavier weight.

Democracy at its heart, is giving everyone, not just elites, the ability to control their future. If you are going to vote, do so with understanding, not ignorance, otherwise you make the votes of the people that care, worth less (as a percentage.) People didn’t die in wars so people SHOULD vote, they died so people COULD vote.

Note: I understand that there is a historical feeling of spoiling a ballot as a means of protest. I just think it is pointless at this point in history.

This is just opinion, feel free to disagree or make your opinion known in the comments below.