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Not being a religious person, I prefer to contribute to giving kids a fair chance at survival. Kind of like what animals do to protect their young.

True, must be some kind of pride thing.

The biggest reason Canadians are interested in American politics is because we are saturated with American everything through out TV sets. If we had only been watching 100% Canadian content for the past 50 years, a lot of us probably wouldn't know who Hilary Clinton is either.

I am also a smoker but I completely agree with no smoking around people who do not smoke. I don't smoke when there are children in my house or in my car. Smoking in a closed up car when there are children in it seems like an irresponsible thing to do. If I had it to do all over again I would never smoke, so why would I blow smoke in the faces of little kids on a continuous basis? Not only is it detrimental to their health, it could also encourage them to take up smoking later on. Monkey see, monkey do. I even feel a bit guilty smoking around my dogs and cats.

Oh come on, we all know that the machines were strategically placed to compromise underprivileged African Americans and others from voting in 2000. The chad and dimple fiasco in Florida and the denying of voters in the larger states with feeble excuses etc. As well as no ballot paper trails and ballots found in the garbage etc. All of this came to light even before Bush/Cheney went to war or comitted other atrocities. I happen to believe that most right wing people will vote for a party that governs by administering their conservative ideologies and would not sanction a party that would compromise the democratic right of any citizen. Everybody loses in the future and both right, left or centre folks are wise enough to figure that out. The controversy had nothing to do with sour grapes and a lot to do with shock and fear of what the future could hold. .....

Nothing wrong with party faith so long as it's not blind. I didn't think it was possible that a dictactorship could form anywhere in the industrialized world, especially in the U.S. Others obviously feel the same. The reluctance to rectify this state of affairs is due to the fact that people, including those in power, can not seem to grasp the fact that it has ocurred. Never having had to deal with anything like this in its young existence, as well as the fact that democracy and the constitution has been held sacred and almost foolproof, the U.S. was not prepared. Trying to fight leaders who have broken all the rules by using the same rules, is akin to fighting a large fire with a garden hose. Next November, democracy can prevail, as long as the voting machines record the true will of the people.

Clinton lied but nobody died!

If there were serious criminals or terrorists attacking border agents, tasers would be futile. Once again tasers would be used to subdue ordinary type joe's. The border needs experienced armed guards whose only job is to parole for such. Let the border agents do their job of getting people through without the worry of having to go to instant war. They couldn't be too worried about it if they are unwilling to sink money into something as seemingly threatening as being overpowered by criminals or terrorists.

My referral to Mulroney as a "vicious criminal" was sarcasm. Clearly he's not. A corrupt politician from 20 or so years ago, probably. Chretien? Hmmm...he could be catorgorized as somewhat vicious depending on your definition of vicious. T'was a whole lot more money he misapropriated, as well as the fact that he used physical violence against a reporter. In these times of increasing corruption by all Governments, now begs the question of how do we create a system that could guarantee the prevention of corruption for whoever holds the power? Waiting around for a trustworthy Government is getting old and tiresome. It 's time for action of some sort.

Mulroney will suffer the idignity of being viewed, from here on in, as someone never be seen in the company of. At least there's some justice.

Schreiber is going to play this as a delay tactic and he isn't going to divulge anything of any consequence and they all know it. The whole thing seems like a "just going through the motions" sham. I would think there would be lots to find if they really wanted to find it. Gee, I wonder if anything else untoward went on during those years? When you're privvy to the back rooms and inner circles of Government, you would probably learn far more than you would ever want to know, I'm sure. Who knows what else they all really know? It would be hard for me to believe that this incident was a one off.

Ain't that the truth! This enquiry smacks of insincerity. They will skim over the surface; find a lack of evidence; Mulroney will go back to mentoring car salesman; while employing a battery of new lawyers to sue everybody he can get his greasy little fingers on; Harper will come out of it looking even more honest for carrying out due diligence on one of his own; and they will all pat that themselves on the back for their hard work and integrity in trying to bring this vicious criminal to justice.

Schreiber has already "cleverly" testified that the money was to commission Mulroney in assisting him with other businesses and the work was never forthcoming by Mulroney. IMO, the chances of the real truth coming to light is slim to none. I could only wish.

Ah yes, but that started in America, involved a helluva lot more money and affected a lot of powerful individuals. No comparison.

After watching these ying yangs on the news during this so called inquiry I am an embarrassed Canadian to say the least. Mulroney is an old man now and probably has done nothing that many politicians haven't done before him. Not to mention that the focus of attention is a sleazy business man who is wanted for fraud and other corruption. Our Government is allowing a con man to play cat and mouse while they all sit and laugh in amusement and furthermore, spar with him. The documentary that aired on "The Fifth Estate" was enlightening but really didn't tell us anything that we didn't already suspect about Mulroney. What the program has done, is spawn the most apalling display of political maneuvering that I have ever seen in this country. We the tax payers, have to foot the bill for this laughable demonstration of a serious lack of real priorities. There is no way, much to the disappointment for a lot of us, that Mulroney will ever spend one day in the clink for his apparent underhanded dealings. Mulroney has a fox mentality and he has no conscience. When he walks away from this, which he will, he will go on laughing at us all for the rest of his life. Hopefully and soon, the other fox in this charade will be packed up and sent back to face the music from where he doth come.

Findings on the shooting death of Ian Bush have been released/ Nov, 29 2007 - 9:50 AM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - The chair of the commission for public complaints against the RCMP has released his findings on the shooting death of a young man two years ago in Houston, BC. The report from Paul Kennedy finds the force used by the officer who killed Ian Bush was reasonable, but Kennedy has also made four key recommendations. They call for the RCMP to install closed circuit recording equipment in every detachment where prisoners are held, improving field training evaluation procedures, developing a policy to provide direction to on-scene officers in major cases involving the investigation of police conduct...and they need to develop a media strategy specifically for police-involved shootings ...recognizing the need for regular, meaningful and timely updates to the public. Kennedy also found Constable Paul Koester acted in self-defence when he fatally shot Bush and the RCMP investigation of the shooting was done in a timely and unbiased manner. Some recommendations have already been rejected by the commissioner of the RCMP, but details of the full report are now being explained by Kennedy at a news conference in Vancouver.

I bet the RCMP are gonna get a hot welcome in Poland, I don't think! Wonder if the family will be at the airport to greet them?

You won't get any insults from me.

Past interest in Iraq was over Iraq invading Kuwait and had nothing whats-so-ever to do with dictatorship of it's people or human rights. It was to protect oil. It's always been about oil. If the Mayor or Gov does not step up to the plate, do you just say "oh well, these citizens of America can go to hell as it's not my job". It's not Canada's responsiblity to look for Bin Laden.

Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. A whole country's infrastructure has been decimated, thousands of innocent people have lost their homes, businesses and lives for nothing but the fact that they were ruled by their own form of a dictactor. The U.S. Government, in the years prior to 9/11, couldn't have cared less that Iraq was under the rule of a dictator. They have never cared about human rights in the third world or anywhere else in the world unless there was something in it to be gained. They have financed, armed and set up strategies to enhance the success of dictators around the world to their own ends for years. The atrocities that occur in South African countries and the fact that the U.S Government has virtually ignored the lack of human rights in this part of the world is testament to this. Power and control over resources is the focus. Bush couldn't even deal with the aftermath of a hurricane that wiped out one of his own cities. He can't even ensure that the rescue workers from ground zero receive the necessary medical care they desparately need today. Gore or any President that had an honest agenda at that time, would have focused their attention on Bin Laden and would have been successful in bringing him to justice.

There was one woman who tried to communicate with him but they couldn't understand each other. Too bad she hadn't insisted that the lazy airport authorities get in there and help this guy. But then she may have been tasered too. Who knows now?

I would think after this, comunications will be greatly improved at YVR. Too bad that it took the loss of a life for improvments in the future.

His Mother gave him instructions to wait for her in the baggage collection room. She admitted that she did not realize that is a restricted area. When she got there, she waited in the room next door for 6 hours trying to convince somebody to get her son. They ended up telling her that he did not arrive on the plane and told her to go home. From listening to the Mom tonight on the news, neither her nor her son did anything wrong. It was a screw up by airport personel who plainly didn't give a rats ass about either one of them and couldn't be bothered to fully investigate the situation.

Me too.

Well Wilber, I have no doubt that the outcome to this whole thing will go in your favour.