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If she is so friggin smart why did she protest AFTER the election when Harper won a majority? Did she think Canada would RISE UP? LMAO

I'll vote for the conservative party before I ever vote for a party that has that brat running for it

Going all of the way to Durban to protest is a pretty big troll lol I hope taxpayers are not paying for it If the big emitters are not with Kyoto nothing we or any other nation does will matter which is why its a waste of our money

sorry everytime i see her name it pisses me off so who paid for their field trip to Durban?

Repubs haven't been allowing a lot of that... they couldnt control dont ask dont tell / DOMA though

I dislike her very much... she only did what she did cause her time was nearly up she didnt do what she did BEFORE the election cause she still had months left and the money was too good STOP HARPER? yeah, he just won a majority stupid girl her 15 minutes are up

The things the cons have been doing are not the things the liberals were doing so not sure how they are worse

The Cons will definitely lose the next election if they continue this kind of undemocratic behaviour

Bend over, pull down your pants and close your eyes this will hurt

Do you have any evidence that suggests they won't stick together?

How the hell is this acceptable to anyone? The man lost! And this Saulie Zajdel person is being paid by the government doing MP duties...probably to get enough influence to win the next election..6 months into his majority and his party is doing this..wow, just wow http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-using-taxpayer-dollars-to-pay-for-shadow-mp-cotler-charges/article2262081/ The Conservative government is using public money to pay a “shadow MP” in a partisan campaign targeting the coveted Montreal riding of Irwin Cotler, the veteran Liberal MP fears. For weeks, Mr. Cotler has been decrying a phone-call blitz organized by Conservatives, during which constituents of his Montreal riding were told he was about to resign. Now he's denouncing the Tories' hiring – as an employee of the Government of Canada – the man he defeated as a candidate in the last election. The governing party, which campaigned on a promise to tighten federal spending and balance the budget, is accused of employing a similar tactic in other parts of the country. Mr. Cotler said the Tory candidate, now employed in the office of Heritage Minister James Moore, is performing the duties of a member of Parliament. He said ex-opponent Saulie Zajdel is now offering to help municipal politicians in his Montreal riding secure federal grants and services. “We have had information conveyed to us that, in fact, he has had meetings with mayors and councillors in this riding, in which he has held out to them that he, in the course of his work, can confer a benefit upon them,” Mr. Cotler said in his office Tuesday. “What has he been hired to do and what is he, in fact, doing? ... The question is whether a defeated candidate seeks to perform the duties of an MP, as a kind of shadow MP on the public purse.” Mr. Zajdel, a former Montreal city councillor, lost to Mr. Cotler in the last election by fewer than 2,500 votes and is expected to take another run for the riding. The federal government wouldn't comment when asked about Mr. Zajdel, including what his job is and what he's paid. A spokesman for Mr. Moore said the department does not comment on internal staffing issues. Mr. Zajdel would not return messages left at his office by The Canadian Press. The Tories have high hopes of eventually winning the Mount Royal seat, which was once part of Pierre Trudeau's riding. A victory there would give the party their first Montreal seat in a quarter-century. The Conservatives admitted last week to ordering numerous phone calls to homes in the riding, telling constituents – falsley – their long-time MP was about to resign and a new one would be needed soon. The party defended the phone calls, arguing the callers had every right to comment or speculate on decade-old rumours that the 71-year-old Liberal would soon resign. But Mr. Cotler, a former justice minister, maintains he's not going anywhere and fully intends to finish his term. Last month, Mr. Zajdel gave a 15-minute presentation to about a dozen mayors and councillors at a gathering of a Montreal-area association of suburban municipalities. The meeting was held in the Town of Mount Royal, in Mr. Cotler's riding. The president of the mayors' group, the Association of Suburban Municipalities, said it was Mr. Zajdel who asked to meet with them. Westmount Mayor Peter Trent, whose city sits just outside the Mount Royal riding, said Mr. Zajdel left behind brochures about the different programs available. Mr. Trent, who has served for 12 years as mayor and another six years on council, couldn't recall such a presentation by a federal civil servant. He said he found Mr. Zajdel's request to meet the mayors “strange.” “It's not every day that you have somebody from the government coming and saying, ‘Here, you want money?’” Mr. Trent said, adding that Zajdel also requested a meeting with the cities' directors-general. “I must admit, as president, that I was a little confused as to what his role was.” The Westmount Mayor added that he was happy to learn about some of the programs, which include funds for arts, cultural spaces and museums. He didn't think Mr. Zajdel acted inappropriately and said the government staffer did not raise partisan politics. “To call that campaigning, that's a real stretch, again it's not for me to run to the aid of Saulie Zajdel,” Mr. Trent said. “I think it's a bit, really, [of] a tempest in a teapot.” Town of Mount Royal Mayor Philippe Roy, who also met with Mr. Zajdel privately, said the recently hired government staffer discussed Heritage Canada programs available for municipalities. “It's certainly odd when a civil servant goes to meet elected officials in a context like this, but he only came to present the different Heritage Canada programs to us,” said Mr. Roy, who was the only mayor present at the meeting from Mr. Cotler's riding. “It was limited to [the programs] –he didn't go further than that in playing the role of an MP.”

The Guardian is a more credible source than you Derek, these nations don't have to be on the side of the commonwealth...these nations will stick together because its in their best interests

All of this for 40,000 people is not necessary. I mean, most of us aren't criminals so we don't need to be tracked and don't need for anyone to notify anyone we're going to the U.S...no way in hell will Harper get away with this! http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/06/weston-border-deal-exit.html The federal government has lost track of more than 40,000 failed refugee claimants ordered deported from Canada up to 15 years ago, and who may still be wandering the streets illegally. Similarly, at any given time, there are about 300,000 foreign workers, students and visitors in the country on temporary visas, but the government has no accurate way of knowing how many are here illegally after their permits expired. In both cases, the problem is the same: Canada has no exit monitoring at the border. While everyone arriving in Canada has to be checked, cleared and registered, travellers can drive across the border into the U.S. without telling anyone in this country that they are leaving. Ditto for travellers leaving the U.S. and entering Canada – the American border service generally has no record of their leaving that country. The Canadian immigration department says that while there are currently outstanding deportation warrants for 40,815 failed refugee claimants who have been ordered kicked out of the country, no one really knows how many have already left on their own. One senior immigration official describes the situation as "massive and not getting any better." That should change in the near future. Exit controls a key feature CBC News has learned a new system of exit controls is the key feature of a proposed Canada-U.S. border deal intended to make trade and travel easier between the two countries.

Very good policy here U.S! I was expecting a 10.0 richter scale quake coming from the republicans..maybe I'm not looking at the right articles..wonder how Rush is taking it? LOL http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/united-states-to-use-aid-to-promote-gay-rights-abroad.html GENEVA — The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that the United States would use all the tools of American diplomacy, including the potent enticement of foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world. In a memorandum issued by President Obama in Washington and in a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton here, the administration vowed to actively combat efforts by other nations that criminalize homosexual conduct, abuse gay men, lesbians, bisexuals or transgendered people, or ignore abuse against them. “Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct,” Mrs. Clinton said at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, “but in fact they are one and the same.” Neither Mr. Obama nor Mrs. Clinton specified how to give the initiative teeth. Caitlin Hayden, the National Security Council’s deputy spokeswoman, said the administration was “not cutting or tying” foreign aid to changes in other nation’s practices. Still, raising the issue to such prominence on the administration’s foreign policy agenda is important, symbolically, much like President Jimmy Carter’s emphasis on human rights.

Wasn't Oil found around those islands too? Argentina doesn't want a war with NATO...it probably should stop Aren't illegal blockades an act of war? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/8936750/Argentina-launches-naval-campaign-to-isolate-Falkland-Islands.html Argentine patrol vessels have boarded 12 Spanish boats, operating under fishing licences issued by the Falkland Islands, for operating “illegally” in disputed waters in recent weeks. Argentine patrol commanders carrying out interceptions near the South American coast told Spanish captains they were in violation of Argentina’s “legal” blockade of sea channels to the Falklands. The warning has been backed up in a letter to Aetinape, the Spanish fishing vessels association from the Argentine embassy in Madrid warning boats in the area that “Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces are an integral part of the Argentine territory.” The confrontation strategy targetting foreign boats marks an escalation of tensions in seas that Duke of Cambridge, a Flight Lieutenant with the RAF, is set to patrol during a tour of duty last year. The Duke is to be deployed to the Falklands next February as part of a routine training duties. Commanders would face the dilemma of despatching the Royal to take part in an operations to monitor or contain the Argentine challenge President Cristina Kirchner has adopted a steadily more beligerent stance towards Britain’s South Atlantic possessions. A newly formed gathering of South American nations meeting in Venezeula backed Argentina’s sovereignty demands at the weekend. Argentina’s claim over the Falklands was backed by a newly formed block of South American and Caribbean countries, CELAC, on Saturday with unanimous approval. Mrs Kirchner used the last UN General Assembly meeting to put Argentina’s claims of sovereignty over the Falklands on a par with Palestinian claims to statehood. But it is the Falklands economic lifeline that has been most affected by Argentinian manoeurving. It announced permits were required by all ships using Argentine waters en route to the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, all of which are UK controlled. Argentina declared vessels were “operating illegally” in the South Atlantic if they did not request permission to enter Argentine waters. The authorities declared their willingness “to put an end to all those illegal fishing activities”. The vessels, from Galicia, were boarded as they were making their way across the huge Rio de la Plata estuary, which separates Argentina and Uruguay, before off-loading their catches in Montevideo, Uruguay. Mrs Kirchner, 58, has also threatened to suspend a vital Falklands air link — the only one off the islands — which was established in a 1999 deal between the UK and Argentina unless Britain entered into talks leading to sovereignty negotiations. A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain had lodged an official complaint about the Argentine action. “We are aware that Argentina has recently challenged vessels transiting between the Falklands and the port of Montevideo,” the spokesman said. “The UK has protested to Argentina. We consider that it is not compliant with international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Mike Summers, a member of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly, said Argentina was trying to cut the Islands off from the South American mainland. “The Falkland Islands Government has no doubt about its right to issue licenses to foreign companies to fish in its waters,” he said. “There have been other difficulties in recent months with Falklands flagged vessels seeking to use South American ports; Argentina seeks to prevail on its neighbours to implement its foreign policy for it, by denying access to their ports for vessels doing business in the Falklands.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-liberals-gain-on-ndp-conservatives-poll-finds/article2251570/ The Nanos Research Poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV, shows the Liberals with 28.1 per cent, up from 23.4 per cent last month. The Tories, meanwhile, edged down to 35.6 per cent from 37.7 per cent in last month’s poll, and the NDP dropped to 27.3 per cent from 30 per cent. So which is more accurate?

So I imagined The Patriot Act?

Going on a SAR isn't something you'd forget about in his position I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt

Derek is..but that is no surprise

misleading is a kind word, this is an outright lie.. cancelling opportunities to go on a SAR for 3 years..yet he actually DID go on one that definitely is lying

“After cancelling previous efforts to demonstrate their search-and-rescue capabilities to Minister MacKay over the course of three years, the opportunity for a simulated search and rescue exercise finally presented itself in July of 2010,” a Sept. 21 statement from Mr. MacKay’s office said. BUT as you know a year or so before this he did join in a SAR? Yeah, that IS lying

why don't you grow a set and actually call me an idiot

people who defend liars when they can't be defended because they are liars anr generally liars themselves

Vic Toews...cheating on his wife and having an illegitimate baby in the affair..is one of the highest ranking members in Harpers government What about the advisor Harper hired who was guilty of fraud among other things?

I thought it was understood that he's never been on a SAR demonstration?