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I kind of feel bad for Tony Clement...he was never supposed to be a politician, he had failed a few times to even get elected until he did in 2006 I think Now he is the PMs fall guy...think of it like this Clement has FAILED at most everything hes done in politics but thats because hes Harpers political shield...harper needed someone to take bullets for him harper doesn't want insite in vancouver so he gets clement to "handle it", clement gets bitch slapped by the supreme court of canada, it would have been disastorous for harper if he were the main guy but harper used clement to shield him from the blow same thing for the census, harper enlisted clement and baird to take care of that and now stats canada is saying they need the traditional census back ... again, harper used his cronies to shield him from the blow back with this g8 slush fund...harper might have rewarded clement for the years of service to come..or he extorted harper either way they are all dirty but clement is just a pawn in harpers game harper cant afford to turn on clement cause clement knows all of harpers dirty little secrets does anyone agree?

Wish I could say I was surprised. Shouldn't the Governor General step in and say no you cannot do that? http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/06/pol-auditor-general-reports-shelved.html Auditor general reports into military helicopter overruns, the former integrity commissioner's half-million dollar severance and mismanaged renovations on Parliament Hill won't be investigated by a House committee after MPs voted not to study them. CBC News has learned that several auditor general reports will be shelved. And even the decision to keep the reports secret was made behind closed doors, CBC's Karina Roman reports. NDP MP Guy Caron, who is on the public accounts committee, made a routine motion to continue studying the auditor general's reports left over from last spring. The Conservative majority on the committee voted to go in-camera, meaning any debate and vote would be done in secret. Caron says his motion was not adopted. The studies are shelved for now, but he can't say more than that. "I really don't think it looks good, because it looks like they want to hide something," he told CBC News. One study would have called witnesses to look at the behaviour of former integrity commissioner Christiane Ouimet, who former auditor general Sheila Fraser found conducted herself inappropriately and retaliated against employees she thought had filed complaints against her. MPs would have likely also questioned why the government paid her $534,100 in severance. Ouimet appeared before the committee last spring and MPs wanted to recall her, as well as an official from the auditor general's office, to continue the study. Fraser found in a separate report that the Department of National Defence did not follow some of its own rules when it bought new helicopters, which still haven't been delivered. Total costs weren't disclosed to the Treasury Board at key points, and decisions were made without the required oversight and challenge by management boards within National Defence. Defence also underestimated the complexity of the helicopters it wanted to buy, which led to delays and cost overruns. Another report found renovations to Parliament Hill's West Block were moving too slowly. 'Masters of their own destiny' Government House Leader Peter Van Loan defended the move. "Committees are masters of their own destiny and they have always set their agendas in camera, so there's nothing different here." But Caron says three out of the past four meetings have been behind closed doors. "To act in this fashion, and to go in-camera to discuss these important motions ... To us, it's really going against what should be transparency and accountability, and if we have a Federal Accountability Act that doesn't prevent this, then it's not worth the paper it's printed on," he said. David Hutton is with FAIR, a group that represents whistleblowers. The group represents some of the people who sought protection from Ouimet. Hutton said the government has given Ouimet a get out of jail free card and has done so in an underhanded way. "You would hope at some point the government realizes it's paying a high political cost for this. But so far they seem utterly brazen," Hutton said. Caron worries what committees will look like now that they're dominated by the Conservatives, particularly the public accounts committee, which is the venue for oversight of government spending. Caron argues it doesn't bode well for all the auditor general reports still to come over the next four years.

obama doesn't want a photo op cause he doesn't want the mainstream americans to report it which means something sneaky is going on here

all heil king william and queen kate

lol, 3rd straight mcguinty majority all because hudak is a piece of shit and horwath is too far left

he didn't spin it, YOU did

still nutz how people are against this when it has been proven to work

only good immigrants US gets are Canadian actors other than that you get millions of dumb mexicans and central americans canada gets smart asians our immigration policy is one of the best in the world

I've been in unions too and I would be glad they not exist they keep the lazy, bad workers there and its the good workers that get stiffed, im liberal too so don't call me a union basher and if we got rid of unions that does not mean our min. wage would go down or we'd be forced to work slave hours, that is bullshit and ANYONE who claims that is a retard

oh the world hates americans, you get what mexixans immigrating? canada gets intelligent asians while you get central americans / mexicans

wikileaks said america wanted insite shut down that it was violating international treaties LOL how many intnl treaties do they break a year? fck em

not likely, canada always gets stiffed when it comes to the americans we'll let them without asking but if our cops want to cross the border i bet theyll have to beg

Elected by some but supposed to be serving All Canadians

This worries me a lot, I do not want Americans coming onto Canadian soil to arrest anybody...this is Canada, are Canadians just going to accept this? Yeah, they say they are going after "terrorists" but what else will they do? Will we see the DEA up here? The FBI raiding mom and pop type marihuana grow ops? This is an attack on our sovereignty. It's bottom line treason don't you think? http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada+cross+border+policing+tested/5410532/story.html WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Canada are preparing to launch a pilot project that would authorize American and Canadian law enforcement officers to cross the international land border in pursuit of suspected criminals or terrorists. The plan to create teams of “cross-designated officers” comes ahead of a broader Canada-U.S. border security and trade strategy expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama. “The creation of ‘NextGen’ teams of cross-designated officers would allow us to more effectively identify, assess, and interdict persons and organizations involved in transnational crime,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech to a border conference earlier this week in Lake Placid, N.Y. “They would also allow us to conserve precious resources, to avoid duplicative efforts, and to leverage tools and expertise.” Holder described the threats at the Canada-U.S. border as “unprecedented,” ranging from terrorism to human smuggling, drug trafficking and the illegal trade in firearms. Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Justice Department have been in talks on cross-designating law enforcement officers at the border since last December, Holder said. Read more

Some people take Darwinism too literally

There are other things to be more concerned about but removing the Canadian watermark is troubling seeing as he is Canada's foreign affairs minister and elected by the Canadian people

The Harper government is directly aiding and abetting criminal politicians Tiny Clement and John Goldbaird.

I can't wait until Darth Harper ignores the Supreme Court of Canada and sends in people to arrest the people at InSite. The Governor General would have to intervene and possibly an election would be in the very near future. Maybe we can get it right this time?