rightsnotprivileges

Thanks for the welcome. I didn't realize I had jumped into a shark tank ....lol Below are some good links, its all up to the CRTC now and no decision as far as I can see, or possibly the appeal process. Also see my other reply posted a few minutes ago, to M. Dancer. Sorry if I mischaracterized it, its not a hostile takeover by any means... Late Nov 2007 news links http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/Story.html?id=108982 http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generat...0/wrcrtc20.html http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Media/2...4671494-cp.html http://www.stockhouse.ca/comp_info.asp?sym...&table=LIST

The deal was announced in January 2007, but it is only in the hearings stage. A decision hasn't been made, and no money has changed hands yet. Its all up to the CRTC which is very concerned about Goldman Sachs providing 2/3 of the financing, foreign ownership, domestic content and all that .... The plan is to scuttle much of Global in 2011 in favour of Atlantis Alliance, whose majority stakeholder will be Goldman Sachs. CRTC held two days of hearings in late November 2007 on the Global GS deal. As far as I can tell from their decision page, http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/public/2007/8045/decte.htm (no decision there) the jury is still out. BTW, the artistic groups are very unhappy and vocal, about the pending deal.

You are right - the Canadian people have never ratified a constitution. Without a Constitution there is no country. When Trudeau went to GB to repartiate the "consititution", he was after the British North America Act 1867 (BNA Act) also known as the Constitution Act of 1867. The BNA Act was actually an order or set of general instructions from Queen Victoria to the Governor General on how to govern Canada. The BNA Act itself expressed Queen Victoria's (and no one elses') authority. Funny thing about monarchs, they are the power and tell the government what to do. In 1893 the BNA Act was amended to remove the possibility of any successors assuming Queen Victoria's authority over Canada's Govenor General. Queen Victoria died in 1901 and so did her authority over Canada's Govenor General. BUT, noone did anything about it, like, maybe, draft a Constitution!? Hey, the Americans did it. The Govenor Generals and government of Canada just carried on AS IF they still had authority to govern derived from an ongoing succession of monarchs under the BNA or Constitution Act. NOT SO. In 1931 Great Britain "decommissioned" Canada, and it was no longer a colony. There is no continuity of constitutional authority in Canada. A Country needs a constitution to exist. A constitiution defines the country, establishes its government, sets the groundrules as to who has authority to do what. IT is the LAW of the land. Laws can be passed only if there is authority granted to governments to do so by the constitution or in a Monarchy, a monarch. No authority, no law. That is why laws which are "unconstituional" are thrown out. Yes we have a profound constitutional problem in Canada, which is: no constitution at all. JMHO If we don't take care of the problem somone else will.

Thanks!!!! for posting the link to doublespeak 101.. I have been sending it to everyone I can think of since yesterday. I joined today to thank You and to say: Watch Global News tonight. Global is doing a story about the Superhighway tonight, but given they are being bought out by Goldman Sachs (who thinks that won't be approved? ) and GS is very politically powerful in the USA, it could just be a whitewash, now go back to sleep folks, nothing to see here.....