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And they do and they are.... Along with NFLD, NS, NB... infact they are in Sask and Manitoba working as well and have been throughout the last decade. Some people will make any excuse for Cheap Foreign Labour to work on Canadian Soil for foreign companies. And those who make out like bandits are the Companies and the temp agencies and there frontmen. http://tfwassociation.com/membership-service-details http://americanadian.ca/contact-us Regardless we are all aware of the hundreds upon hundreds of Asian Migrant workers who go missing in Alberta, lost before they are even out of the Calgary Airport.

I believe the Conservative Plan is to bring in more migrant workers to create the Workers Paradise described... erm.. someones paradise.. Complainers can go live in their parents basements... and at these wages, they are going to have to.

They ought to, but they don't....They seem to have a very sketchy track record. Arizona's private prisons are not cost-effective for taxpayers and are more difficult to monitor than state prisons, according to a new report by a prison watchdog group that is calling for a moratorium on any new private prisons in the state. The report examined the five prisons that have contracts to house Arizona prisoners and six private prisons that house federal detainees or inmates from other states, including California and Hawaii. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/02/15/20120215arizona-private-prisons-slammed-by-report.html#ixzz20nzO5PB4 And then this in the UK.. ------------------------------------- Not all private prisons in the United Kingdom have been successful. Ashfield Prison opened in 1999 and was the first private prison in the UK to house young offenders. The prison was soon mired in controversy after repeated riots and reports of poor management. Conditions at the prison became so bad in 2003 that the Youth Justice Board withdrew prisoners from Ashfield, and threatened to recommend that the prison should be taken over by the public sector And then this might be a benefit.. the tendering process put it back another prison back into the control of the crown... ------------------------------------ Buckley Hall Prison was originally opened as a privately managed prison in 1994, but after a competitive tendering process in 2000, management of the prison was transferred to Her Majesty's Prison Service and in the states more screwups for profit. ----------------------------- Industry-funded studies often conclude that states can save money by using private prisons. However, state-funded studies have found that private prisons keep only low-cost inmates and send others back to state-run prisons.[13] Others have suggested that cost savings come at the expense of security. In the wake of the escape of three murderers from the minimum/medium security Kingman Prison, Arizona operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard said "I believe a big part of our problem is that the very violent inmates, like the three that escaped, ended up getting reclassified [as a lower risk] quickly and sent to private prisons that were just not up to the job."[14]The private prison had inadequate patrols and prisoner movement, excessive false alarms, a lax culture, and inconsistencies in visitor screening procedures.[15] And Private Prisons play the shell game .... -------------------------------------------- A study by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the cost-savings promised by private prisons “have simply not materialized.”[22] Some research has concluded that for-profit prisons cost more than public prisons.[23] Furthermore, cost estimates from privatization advocates may be misleading, because private facilities often refuse to accept inmates that cost the most to house. A 2001 study concluded that a pattern of sending less expensive inmates to privately-run facilities artificially inflated cost savings.[24] A 2005 study found that Arizona’s public facilities were seven times more likely to house violent offenders and three times more likely to house those convicted of more serious offenses I will end it that the most involved study proved inconclusive of cost savings for Private Prisions. garbage in , garbage out. The winners would appear to be Corporate Prisons.

I am wondering if the Conservatives are going to turn tail on the Private Prisons and Contracting out of the gravy services. CSC officials last May urged Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to discuss Canada’s “interest in considering the privatization of penitentiary services on a limited basis,” according to a memo Bloomberg obtained under a freedom of information request. The Guardian reports that among the companies lobbying Ottawa for a piece of the prison action is Geo Group, a Florida-based corporation whose lobbyist met with Toews last year. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/13/prison-privatization-canada_n_1670755.html "The company is the target of a class-action lawsuit alleging that one of its youth facilities in Louisiana was plagued by sexual abuse. The suit alleges that guards engaged in sex with inmates -- who at that facility range in age from 13 to 22 -- and smuggled drugs into the prison. The facility allegedly denied health care and education services to inmates as well. A federal judge described the Geo Group prison as "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts." "

The RightWing President Sarkozky who governed France into this economic chaos, is now replaced by a Socialist President.However I consider this a red herring to the thread at hand. Which is that Mulcair is taking his talking points from Lougheed and Stelmach.

Opps.. THougth I had included the links.... Story above... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/07/12/edmonton-supreme-court-no-appeal-chinese-worker-deaths-case.html Original Story From 2008.. Chinese workers ripped off, gov't admits EDMONTON - Chinese workers who helped build a series of tanks in northern Alberta last year took home a small fraction of what their Canadian counterparts were paid. By The Edmonton Journal June 18, 2008 EDMONTON - Chinese workers who helped build a series of tanks in northern Alberta last year took home a small fraction of what their Canadian counterparts were paid. Some details of the wage discrepancy emerged only after the widows of two Chinese workers killed when a tank collapsed On Saturday, Liu Ruijuan, the 26-year-old widow of welder Ge Genbao, said her husband told her he would make the equivalent of $600 Cdn a month. He should have been making $30 an hour, or at least $4,800 a month, plus overtime and benefits, according to the union's collective agreement. Sun Shumei, widow of electrical engineer Liu Hongliang, said her husband made about $8,800 during the six months he worked here before he died. Her husband had 10 years of experience. A Canadian engineer in a similar field would make at minimum $23,000 for six months' salary. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e32a0e36-1bf6-4be0-a432-822901b860cf

to smoke another one.

The supreme court has smartly walked away from this tragedy. Sinopec is to face charges.... However..... Sinopec Shanghai, which brought the workers to Alberta, argued it has no official presence in Canada and therefore could not be charged. Backgrounder... Two temporary workers from China died in 2007 near Fort McMurray when a storage tank collapsed at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Horizon project. The are temp workers but they were Tradesmen, Electrian and Welder IIRC. They were making $600 per month working in Fort McMurray.

Nashville Revoked the $1.6 Million dollar grant upon hearing of IQT actions in Quebec. IQT screwed themselves. I also wonder why the Article keeps switching IQT with ITQ? Garbage in Garbage out.

Anders Breivik Another Newbie Nutter on MLW.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/07/12/nl-712-innu-company-penashue.html Move over Dean.... you got company... ---------------------------- Penashue took out a $25,000 loan from the Innu Development Limited Partnership to finance his federal election campaign in Labrador in 2011. On Wednesday, CBC reported that Paul Rich, the former CEO of the IDLP, took home more than $1 million in salary over two years, and other Innu leaders were paid $30,000 each to sit on the board of the company. Elections Canada documents said the loan was interest free, but a spokesperson for Penashue said that information was a typo, and the actual interest rate for the loan was seven per cent.

Interesting Article in the Calgary Herald. Its seems that Mulcair has been taking the position of past PC leaders when talking of the Alberta Oil Industry. Pretty Scary stuff. Because I think this article has nailed something I hadn't considered. Mulcair says it and he means it. I think this is good for the country as I also believe Harper Says what he means, even if he chooses to say it outside of Canada first. I see alot of fear mongering about Mulcair and it is similar to the fearmongering set upon Harper in his early days as opposition leader. It should be an interesting 3 years till the next election. Mulcair appears to be as tough as nails and so far it also appears that he means what he says. Perhaps a better version of Stephen Harper as Harper was far more radical before he was Prime Minister. A firewall advocate vs a nationalist. I never thought it possible, but perhaps this frontal assault on the maginot line of Conservative Alberta is opening up opportunities. It will be interesting to see who is the better strategist. Much Like Harper did, he took a party skeptical of his leadership and has quickly solidified it. And yet little of what Mulcair is saying strays to far from the PCs of Alberta,. He is taking positions they have held in the past. Its interesting to see this approach move the NDP in the high teens low 20s in the Province where he is getting the most negative press. That was until I read this piece. http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/leader+Thomas+Mulcair+Alberta+Conservatives+sounding/6926578/story.html

Reminds me of MikeDavid00. Nothing on the right or the left to support.

Not a fan of the ad. But it appears you bit and its the debate the NDP are looking to have...

Yeah and HOOTERS too..... LMAO...

If Prime Minister said, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver of Halifax were the Greatest City.... no one would bat an eye. This is stupid news....

What does this have to do with the Price of OJ.

Moodys http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128449659 July 11, 2010 A study by Moody's Analytics recently found that every dollar spent by the government on benefits for the unemployed produces an overall return of $1.61 for the economy. Guest host Lynn Neary talks with Moody economist Sophia Koropeckyj about what makes unemployment checks stimulate the economy, and why other types of government spending don't do nearly as much good. You can UNROLL your eyes now....

Well, 2 People called this one correctly. Kudos to both of you... and erm, for 10 mlw posters .. hell has frozen over lol...... She's gone, shes got her pension and she left on her own terms with kind words from the Prime Minister.

Let me ask Brian Mulroney and I will get back to u.

He's just an idiot. Who Cares..

LOL, LOL, You can't make this stuff up. :lol:

I prefer the government is getting hosed and like it. Greased would assume some competence combined with a devious procurement.