Jerry J. Fortin

Look folks there is not a lot of room for error here. He is a Canadian citizen, with that in mind the responsibility is ours to have him face justice. Face it, the Americans have not exactly tried and convicted him in a manner that we can accept. Even the court system here suggests that as a citizen he needs to be brought back to Canada. So what is the hold up? Strangely it is a Conservative government that is preventing a Canadian citizen from attaining justice, or facing it in my opinion. Being held without a proper trail is rather bogus in my view.

I think you are misreading the situation dude. The way I see it, the Conservatives want to hold onto power and everyone else wants to get it. You can change the names but the song remains the same. There is no great ideological gambit at stake here. There is no call or reason for anything aside from the quest for power, in this nation there usually isn't. Of course we have had some issues in the past worthy of seeking a public mandate for, its just that they are indeed few and far between. Iggy needs to seek an issue that will ignite a fire in the belly of the citizens. That is not to say that Harper doesn't need to do the same thing, its just that Harper can only claim to maintain an even strain because that is the ideology of the conservative movement. That simply doesn't apply to the other political parties. I am of course concluding that the reason for seeking office for Iggy was to enact change, if that wasn't the goal then he is in the wrong party.

He is an adult now. Ask him what he believes, that should provide the necessary information.

That office rarely makes mistakes.

So try him on a charge of treason. It seems to me a charge worthy of the effort.

Argus I agree with you, but the simple fact is that the public is now getting some concept of the depth of the problem. I can only hope that the next government will actually do something before it is too late, if it isn't already.

The man in question needs to be tried in a court of law. Guilt or innocence is determined there.

Over taxing? I have been saying that as long as I have been filling out forms for Revenue Canada, thats 47 years now. Yet the problem is one which I have struggled to understand for almost as long. I have concluded that the problem is a result of the "great system" of things. These systems were designed by man to aid them in their endeavours but have since been proven to have changed into mechanisms that men serve instead. Our problems will not be solved by trying to isolated them into their basic components, because that opens the door to special interest groups and their self serving agendas. What we are talking about is a paradigm shift in terms of society. You simply can't alter a political concept and have it function as an economic tool. Nor can you modify an economic concept and have it function as a political tool, without large implications to society. The society we have created is very complex. What we need is systemic change, a pervasive all encompassing shift of concepts and objectives that becomes a national will, a desire to achieve something far beyond our present abilities. We need to define what it is that we want and become fixated upon its realization. The way must be found to incorporate both capitalism and socialism into a single cohesive means of governance that provides individual freedom and responsibility in conjunction with private venture productive efforts within a regulated framework designed to protect society from itself.

Exactly! The court has ruled.

I have to agree with BC on this.

Bring him back and charge him with his crimes.

Lets all hope that it does for the good of the nation. There are things that need to get done, and the only way to do it is with a majority government.

Unions are an option for workers in this country, its up to them.

I am very happy about this entire thing. Some focus is finally being placed upon the government with respect to arctic sovereignty.

Whether there is an election or not, the Canadian public will become polarized over the coming weeks and months to the extent that minority governments will become far less desirable.

Of course the only poor people are natives. These are the folks that can hunt and fish to feed themselves all year long. These are the folks who can own and operate casinos on their land that don't pay a dime in taxes. Some of these folks don't pay taxes themselves. In addition a great many of these folks receive checks every month from the government. I simply won't head down the poor you path and say we need to do more for them. They need to start doing for themselves. The casinos are a start, and a good one at that. Why doesn't one band help another band? Why don't they start taking care of each other? Why should the federal and provincial governments accept that these people are all entitled to live for free? It costs everyone else to live why not the natives? Lets start thinking about the reality of the situation here people.

Yet he retains power.

You are a head case. Why not just go back a little further to see that the so called "First Nations" were a direct result of European and Asia citizens meeting and breeding in North America. So why not back off and smell the coffee. You can't pick a single time in the past and ignore everything else, the now is the relevant position. First Nations already have more than they need. The entire concept of all of the agreements from the last two centuries were designed to allow natives to continue to "live" where they were, not have their areas expand. The contractions in territory were a result of those residents "selling" what they had in an attempt to adapt to the more modern European culture. What the natives "NEED" is a degree of latitude to manage their own affairs, in their own determined best interests. In my opinion the best way to handle the issue is to grant them complete self government. An immediate stop of any kind of public funding is of course the result of that. If you want your independence, then have it. Just realize that in the adult world of reality there is much responsibility involved in the acquisition of freedom.

We are heading into a new financial age. The current system of central banking is becoming to say the least problematic. I can see where the nations of the world are going to start to make noise about the stability of the financial industry, because the cross border issues with differences in regulations and policies make their operations more complicated and that translates into more expensive. We will see a shift from the current mix of operational methods into a single minded bean counter approach. An international agreement if you will. The line has been crossed folks, things are beginning to change.

Once again folks are trying to compare apples to oranges. The tax load on a private citizen, an individual tax payer, is in fact much higher than on self employed folks. Those folks who are getting paychecks suffer from with holding taxes and pay every two weeks and then must attempt to claw back funds from the government at the end of the year using the current tax regime. Self employed folks pay either annually or quarterly, and even then they deduct expenses to reduce their tax load. Employees have expenses too, but they can't claim them. What I am suggesting is that the system favours business, period.

Okay folks, how do you"get out" of a recession? Keeping in mind you are walking along the lines of the government acting to end something it did not start. Isn't it about time we realize that the government is very limited in what it can do? As I have suggested, the government can control both its spending and its revenues, and to a certain extent through tax manipulation can also influence private sector developments. The heart of the problem is still found in the financial end of things. Getting control of that should equate to job number one, and with that in mind I suggest eliminating fractional reserve banking in this country. Legislating the sector into mandatory utilization of the central bank, in order to do what it was supposed to do in the first place seems a logical way to begin the process.

Lets step back here. How does EI play into things with respect to the economy? Dealing with increases to EI or expanding the payment base does nothing to better the economy now does it. The fact is that EI costs money we don't have and we are now borrowing to pay it. Look folks, why do we not simply convert EI into and education plan? Really, call it a student loan and have the graduated student pay it back once employed. The reality is that many if not all folks now losing their jobs will not return to the same position and will require new skills or at least additional training anyway. Why not create a growth industry out of education? Why not fund it with taxpayer loans repaid at interest? We need to fix the economy, not pay people to not work!

Canada should do nothing it isn't already doing. In other words we take no new position, maintain that terrorists are criminal scum. With all due respect, take a choice here and tell us what is worse. Somebody building on lands that you claim are in dispute, or somebody tossing rockets into school grounds and markets? Take your pick then support that side.

Are you really ready for this? Eliminate income taxes, convert to transaction taxes, the percentage calculated to provide sufficient revenue streams to account for designed budgets. Currently that amounts to a little over 12%, those numbers are from a few years ago. Eliminate fractional reserve banking. Require the central bank to loan to all chartered banks sufficient funds to cover deposits at interest. These two things will eliminate deficits and debt within five years.

If you are waiting for the big plunge, I think it will happen in October. That is as long as I think lots of folks can hang on until. It will start as a housing crash in Ontario as thousands of homes are either walked away from or foreclosed on.