“Oh Canada…! Our home and native land…”I write this morning to help my Canadian Friends living overseas. I would like to tell them what they are missing by living away from our country at this time.
Two things are happening at a rapid pace… 1.) The trees are changing colours and losing their leaves as the weather cools, 2.) The Canadian Politics are keeping the country in lot of hot air.
I can tell you that most Canadians enjoy the changing of the tree colour – but the other is… well… kind of stupid.
What you are missing now is a big flap over one party having photos of their elected party politician, as you remember we call them “MPs” or “Member of Parliament”, taken presenting super large checks to people and programs in their home communities. I say these are super large checks physically… usually about four feet in length. They are also large in that the amount on the check is usually into the hundreds of thousands – if not hundreds of millions – of dollars.
Local projects are getting money granted to them to do special projects in their communities. These projects are called “Infra Structure Projects” from what I can see so far. It is all happening to try to help the local economy be jump started and stay alive with this recession happening now.
The opposing political party, the Liberals, are all upset with the ruling Conservatives and the way that they are doing this particular round of presentations.
The Conservative MPs locally are preparing the huge check with their Party’s Logo on it… making it look like it is coming from the Conservative Account… or Bank.
Talk about stupid! The Liberals think that I think that this is coming from a “Politically Minded” group called the Conservative Party of Canada! Too funny…
Tada…! All Political Parties are Politically Minded! Now there is a Wednesday Morning Revelation – they all are PM!
It is stupid for the Liberals to try to work up Canadians about a NON IUSSUE. WE DUMB CANADIANS KNOW IT IS OUR OWN MONEY THAT THEY ARE GIVING US BACK AGAIN. And the stupid Liberals try to make it look like it is a Canadian Crisis on a magnitude of a Tsunami washing out from Ottawa – with the Conservatives giving us “their money”
Come on guys and gals… it is like “playing house” or “playing tea party” when we were young. It isn’t real… play along with your little sister or brother… it is make believe!
This kind of Stupid Liberals think that they can get me to think that what the Conservatives are doing is stupid… and in fact so stupid… that I will change my feelings toward the Stupid Liberals… from a kind of Stupid Conservative Party.
If the Liberals were smart they would not keep yelping about a non issue – but rather grab up the phony checks that have the Signature of the local Conservative MP on it… and cash it… at least try to cash it. Everyone of us other Canadians know darn well that we would be charged with FRAUD if we wrote these play checks. It happens every day… this is FRAUD and people could go to jail. The MPs that have pulled this stupid trick off could have their empty seat in Parliament.
But there is something far more serious going on now...This ‘check fiasco’ is all fluff! And it is hiding something far more insidious. All of it is a huge smoke screen for something that is a real Tsunami coming from the Ottawa Thinkers… and most people have no idea what is going on.
The Bill C25 Tsunami is about to hit Canadians broadside. Actually it is better to say it is the amendments to this Bill C25 that will affect us deeply in ways we have little of no idea of.
The intent from what I can determine with Bill C25 amendments is to take away the privilege/opportunity of the man or woman charged with a crime of getting 2 for 1 days of time spent in jail while waiting for trial. Now an amendment to the amendment is being proposed by the Senate – and everyone is in a flap!
Canadians should be in a BIG FLAP!
I have read a huge amount of comments on this Bill C25 – many are listed below as Links.
The most balanced and clearest explanation comes from Heather Scoffield – The Canadian Press, October 20, 2009 in the Hamilton Spectator… I quote…
"The real story here is, do you think criminals should actually be spending time in jail for the offences they commit, or do you think they should be let out early on whatever excuse you can come up with?"
Faced with accusations of being soft on crime, opposition MPs did not block C-25 in the House of Commons. But senators say they want to have a better idea of the cost as well as the practical effects of the bill.
"We, as legislators, are requested to accept this bill without the proper figures and without understanding its impact," said Liberal Senator Serge Joyal at a recent committee hearing.
"You will understand that it is difficult for us to move on with this."
C-25 is now stalled in the Senate as Liberal senators, who dominate the upper house, question its effectiveness. They've proposed significant amendments, and could decide this week to send the bill back to the Commons.
The added costs stem from the fact the measures would likely extend the length of time many prisoners spend in the corrections system, and would also push hundreds of prisoners from provincial institutions into federal institutions.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, and now Van Loan, have said repeatedly that the corrections system has enough capacity to handle the influx. But Don Head, commissioner of Correctional Services Canada, told the Senate committee examining the bill that the number of prisoners will definitely rise, and will require an expansion of accommodation.
End Quote…
If this change happens there will be big costs involved in Canada. More prisons will have to be constructed, more renovations to present facilities, more beds for more people will be needed in an already crowded and aging prison system.
Now add to that the need to keep men in prison longer because of other proposed changes to the potential release of convicts earlier… due to a change in the “faint hope” clause… and other possible changes to parole eligibility when getting out…(take a breath here) IT WILL COST A FORTUNE – not a small fortune but rather a HUGE FORTUNE.
Sadly it will not help one man get better or be better upon his release. It will make a lot more angry and more dangerous. It could keep a lot more inside a lot longer – and as they age the costs will sky rocket!
If you think that the Political Funny stuff going on with the Phony Checks and Grinning MPs writing fraudulent checks signing their own names to it… is stupid… you have no idea how stupid things can get. Just wait.
The Liberals are backing away from this one… afraid that they will be looking like they are soft on crime. The Conservatives are not backing down no matter how much it costs because they believe certain supporters that give buckets of money to their war chest will not give anymore.
Now that is really stupid!
Personally I know what it is like inside of prison. I know how crowded the facilities are. I know the tremendous effort that CSC personnel put into the work that they do.
I am guessing here that very few of the Controlling Political Folk have ever stepped inside of a Prison. Most only know someone that has either worked there or have maybe heard a terrible story about the place.
And the part that no one has considered at all… are you ready…? Which Canadian will allow a new prison to be constructed in their back yard? After all we as Canadians are the originators of the NIMBY attitude!
Now… Canadians overseas… enjoy the warm days you have been getting every day… enjoy the freedom and the lack of Canadian News… You folk don’t know what you are missing – or maybe you are glad that you are missing it all!?!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
Party Logos on Funny Checks
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Party+logos+cheques+undermine+faith+government/2126825/story.html
Bill C25
http://www.prisonjustice.ca/starkravenarticles/2_for_1_credit_0409.html
Bill C25 Explanation – Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/article/656695
Bill C25 – origins 2008
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/Bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c25&source=library_prb&Parl=39&Ses=2
http://www.fintrac.gc.ca/publications/nr/Bg2007-10-25-eng.asp
Bill C25 now – amendments
http://larrycampbell.ca/blog/?p=44
Opinions and Reports
http://www.xtra.ca/blog/ottawa/?tag=/bill+c-25
http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=6c4b7e03-b5e0-4365-a7fc-1e2aa40d92c6
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