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In my opinion, true fiscal conservatives are those who look to long term gain, not short term profit and immediate political gain. There are lots of us true fiscal conservatives left, but we don't belong to the Tory party. They are faux fiscal conservatives who see only to the end of their nose ... or careers. Faux fiscal conservatives, for example, choose to pay over $40,000/yr to incarcerate people and keep increasing the number of incarcerations, instead of looking long term and investing the money in children's well-being to prevent future crime. It's like continually paying to patch and repaint bigger and bigger parts of your ceiling, instead of fixing your leaky roof: False economies! Tory fiscal conservatives are only looking to their own pocketbook, not to the future of all.

I believe Paul Bernardo is due for "faint hope" consideration, likely the reason for this bit of Tory 'window dressing'. It's just pandering to their core. There is no hope whatsoever of Bernardo getting out, but they'll play it for political gain. Waste of taxpayer money.

In a sense I agree with you - It's silly to blame a particular party in one country for something that is happening world wide, regardless of politics. However, it has to work both ways, so to turn around and try to blame another party is not an improvement.

That would have been another US debacle a la Vietnam, without Canadian diplomacy. Might is just one tool of diplomacy, not a solution in itself. Nope, it's an Israel 'thing'. You know, the country that killed hundreds of Gazan civilians, calling them "terrorists" because "they were still there" (having no place to run to)? I know and respect Jews who protest Israel's actions - "Not in our name!" - and the soldiers who spoke out against the orders they were given. You should try speaking out against aggression in your own country, b-c. You'll be among the majority for a change! Because you know ... your views don't represent the US people, only the war profiteers.

No, two: http://modern-canadian-history.suite101.co...earson_diplomat http://communications.uvic.ca/uvicinfo/ann...ment.php?id=201 And your point was ... ??? It's war that is expensive, not peace. The $3b the US sends to Israel would be better directed to peace efforts instead of contributing to arms. Then perhaps they wouldn't have to be so sensitive about a friggen literary festival. Drea: US ... "the weapons fairy" ... Something tells me the Cheney et all war profiteers won't like being called 'fairies'.

The 'Indian' Act itself has illegal elements and cannot be depended upon as it can be struck down by the courts. The land was never ceded to Canada. Canada can defend its borders, as defined in the Jay Treaty, but not from Mohawk Territory without their agreement. That's why this crossing has always been contentious. I think moving the crossing to the south shore is a reasonable solution.

The Mohawk Nation has free border crossing rights by law - via the Jay Treaty which defines Canada's boundary with the US. Canada is not the ultimate authority. Canada also has to abide by International Law and uphold its international treaties.

Clearly you don't know the law. We cannot force anyone to become Canadian. The feds don't want to acknowledge the truth of the sovereignty of Indigenous Nations. Stuck in limbo! Tell your MP you want them to recognize Indigenous sovereignty.

My my, that is quite the rant ... racist much? Ya, all the angst in your life is because of people with "brown skins". Mhmm You are not part of the majority, and you cannot speak for us. So McBorg, you like the way the economy of Canada supports you? Cos it's all stolen natural resources from Indigenous land, eh? Your tax dollars don't even come close to paying the real price of being Canadian. Didja know Canada would be broke if it didn't steal resources for you, to support your lifestyle? "Find a boat or a plane and leave" ?? The Indigenous Peoples should leave? You really don't get it do you? If anyone's leaving it will be you and your puny minority of white supremacists. Canada isn't the place for you. Go pick a fight somewhere else. How bout a nice 'white nation' waaaaaay up in the ice pack. Fortunately, and surprisingly, it appears the feds are finally seeing the light and moving the border crossing out of the middle of Akwesasne. Fortunately and surprisingly, the Feds are perhaps being reasonable.

Feds eye moving customs port Posted By KEVIN LAJOIE [email protected] Posted -53 sec ago It appears the federal government is considering relocating the customs facility on Cornwall Island. "In view of the circumstances, we're evaluating the long-term viability of this port of entry," said Chris McCluskey, an aide to Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, on Thursday as access to the Seaway bridge remained restricted for a fourth straight day. Border guards at the customs facility left their post late Sunday just minutes before a new arming policy was set to take effect, and the station remains closed. As a result, both spans of the international crossing were shut down, with traffic on the north span being limited to Akwesasne residents. Many Akwesasne residents fear giving sidearms to border guards could increase tensions and create public safety concerns in the residential area surrounding the customs facility. However, Van Loan has indicated there won't be any exemptions to the national policy of arming border guards. That's led to a standstill, and judging by the comments of both sides, there's no guarantee it will be over anytime soon. Local MP Guy Lauzon said he's very concerned about the situation, and he's working closely with Van Loan and his office to ensure the best interests of his riding are looked after. "I'm satisfied the minister's doing everything under his power to bring it to a peaceful resolution," said the MP on Thursday. Lauzon said he's getting daily briefings on the situation, however he wouldn't discuss the details of those briefings for confidentiality reasons. For his part, McCluskey said there's no plans to bring in a third-party negotiator. Meanwhile, a spokesperson from the Canada Border Services Agency said they continue to "work diligently to resolve this issue in a timely manner." read more http://www.standard-freeholder.com/Article....aspx?e=1599047 Logged ..... Well, I stand corrected! It appears the Feds are being reasonable. Who woulda thought!

Or ... it might simply imply that some minds are thinking intelligently of the practicalities of a community cut in half, and taking long overdue steps to correct it.

The border guards seem to think it's a reasonable solution to a long standing problem. They're the ones working there. I trust their judgment more than politicians.

Relocation of border crossing considered to defuse standoff By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News ServiceJune 4, 2009 6:37 PM Canada's border agency is considering moving an eastern Ontario border crossing, shut down since Sunday, off a Mohawk reserve to defuse a standoff over arming guards at the post, the president of the border-guard union said Thursday. Ron Moran, the national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, said he met with Canada Border Services Agency president Stephen Rigby on Wednesday evening and pitched the union's long-standing desire to move the post off the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve, which straddles the Ontario-Quebec-New York State borders. Moran said Rigby indicated the agency was seriously considering the option as a way to settle the current standoff over armed guards at the post, and to solve long-standing conflicts between Akwesasne residents and border guards. The federal agency pre-emptively shut down the Cornwall Island border crossing Sunday, which is about 100 kilometres west of Montreal, after the Akwesasne Mohawk leadership said it would not allow armed border guards on native territory. The Canadian border post currently sits on Cornwall Island, which is on the St. Lawrence River. The U.S. border post is situated on the southern shore. more... I'm glad to hear that this is being considered. Makes much more sense than having it through the middle of the Akwesasne community. It's ridiculous for people going to work, to Grandma's, shopping, to work, etc., who have to cross it many times a day. Sounds like it was just a make-work project for border guards. I'm glad the management and union see it the same way. Now what will the politicians do I wonder. Knee jerk reactionary ... "Hell no we won't go!" I bet.

Ya, what's a few billion more added to Bush's deficit, eh?

It's important to any Canadian who wants to be able to leave the country, and then come home again. Freedom isn't something you 'have': It's something you work to keep every day.

Dump science isn't doing so well. Another dump using similar technology is leaking 200 years early. The dump located near Ashcroft is sealed with a liner and supposed to be secure from leaks for at least 200 years. But environmental consultants found traces of leachate almost everywhere they looked outside the site, as well as in groundwater. http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/C...0Victims%20Unit

Long fight over Midland-area dump heating up BILL SANDFORD FOR THE TORONTO STAR Aboriginal residents of Christian Island have set up a camp to protest the dump being built across the road. They want the premier to halt construction. Protesters argue water in aquifer near Midland is threatened by planned waste disposal site May 30, 2009 Moira Welsh ENVIRONMENT REPORTER ELMVALE, Ont. – At the roadside well where cottagers stop to fill bottles with cold, clear water, a sparkling white sign bears the indignation of a community. "Purest Water in the World," bellow bold letters. "The dump will fix that! Stop Site 41." One of dozens planted across Tiny Township, near Midland, the sign is the handiwork of Stephen Ogden, volunteer citizen leader of the long fight against Simcoe County's plan to build a waste disposal facility over lush farmland that bubbles with pure water flowing into Georgian Bay. More than two decades since it was first proposed, the county's newest garbage dump – approved by the Ontario Environment Ministry – is now under construction, with plans to open in the fall. Twenty hectares in size, it has the capacity to hold 1.6 million cubic metres of garbage from Simcoe County residents, enough space to last roughly 40 to 50 years. Maude Barlow, named the United Nations' senior adviser on water issues and chair of the Council of Canadians, has thrown her energy into the fight, vowing to lead protests at the site throughout the summer. "This dump will not open," Barlow vowed. As trucks with giant wheels roll down the site's gravel roads, Ogden watches outside the locked gates, under the No Trespassing sign. On the farm across the road is a growing collection of tents and trailers, a vigil manned by aboriginal residents of nearby Christian Island, on Georgian Bay, who say the clarity of the water that flows underground cannot be put at risk. Leaders like Vicki Monague say they will stay, keeping their sacred fire burning, until Premier Dalton McGuinty stops construction on the site. Monague said the site is on native treaty land, but there has been no consultation from the federal government. "The federal government has a duty to consult First Nations people when something like this is going on with treaty land," Monague said. "We are here to make our presence known." Ogden says the protesters have given up on the Ministry of the Environment, which has backed the project for years despite questions about potential for leachate in the water, whether there is a need for a new dump in a province that is leading a charge toward zero waste and why the county's two dormant dumpsites are not being used instead. If protesters like Monague, Ogden and Barlow claim it is a water and land issue, the chief administrative officer of Simcoe County says they have it all wrong. "They are trying to make the issue political," Mark Aitken said in a phone interview. "And they are trying to make it all about water. And frankly, the issue is not about water. The issue is about waste. Garbage." Aitken questioned claims that the water is the "purest in the world," but said that issue is not relevant. "This site has been designed to be protective of the water resources...." Ontario's environment commissioner, Gordon Miller, says the battle over Dump Site 41 is a political mystery – a site being built on an aquifer in 2009, using an engineering concept proposed in the early 1990s. "If we were to start this process today, we would not build this site," Miller said. "Is it going to fail? Not likely. There will be so much money and engineering spent on it." But protesters across the road from the dump site are taking no chances. "We are responsible for the water, for the future generations, and we are not going to leave until the site is closed," said Monague. Locals are donating fresh food to the protesters and clean drinking water is coming from a tap behind the farmer's hill, all under the watchful eye of an OPP officer. "We're going to let the premier watch. We don't have to do anything," Ogden said. "You can be sure that the police are calling him to let him know if things are going to heat up and interfere with his summer holidays."

Again, the military/CIA do not allow sufficient time for detainees to 'talk', according to the FBI. Obama will follow due process of justice and law enforcement, both of which determine policy. It was Bush that wanted to make his own laws.

I stand corrected ... with pleasure. Ok, let's do it.

Worse, you'll have the other side effects of torture. It "endangers our soldiers on the battlefield by encouraging reciprocity." It does "damage to our country's image" and undermines our credibility in Iraq. That, in the long run, outweighs any theoretical benefit. Herrington's confidential Pentagon report, which he won't discuss but which was leaked to The Post a month ago, goes farther. In that document, he warned that members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees in Iraq, that their activities could be "making gratuitous enemies" and that prisoner abuse "is counterproductive to the Coalition's efforts to win the cooperation of the Iraqi citizenry." Far from rescuing Americans, in other words, the use of "special methods" might help explain why the war is going so badly. An up-to-date illustration of the colonel's point appeared in recently released FBI documents from the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These show, among other things, that some military intelligence officers wanted to use harsher interrogation methods than the FBI did. As a result, complained one inspector, "every time the FBI established a rapport with a detainee, the military would step in and the detainee would stop being cooperative." So much for the utility of torture. It appears it was used as an immediate intervention, not a last resort. Pretty unsavoury to break international law, while claiming to be the friggen white knight of Mother Earth. Delusional, in fact. But ding dong Bush is gone. Now the truth can be told. US reputation internationally is in the toilet. It's lost the moral high ground it claimed. To be seen, I guess, as the processes of justice continue, now in an entirely different context.

IMV it isn't about the Hindu, Muslim or Christian people or beliefs. But I do believe some religious institutions always associate themselves with power, and support our current greed-driven economy that funnels the wealth of the people to the wealthiest people. Some religious institutions support those who support them, regardless of the source of the wealth.

That can be just plain old sexism, and at the risk of discriminating by over generalizing, my own experience is that those are the sentiments of some lesbians, to whom men are not sexually interesting entities. Any woman who's interested in men would be unlikely to cut her chances that much ... except perhaps one who's temporarily 'off' men, because one was recently a big jerk ... then all bets are off. It's not shouldn't be taken personally in any case. Hell, there was a time when my favourite joke was "What do you call that useless piece of skin at the end of a penis?" A man. Just recognize that some women are either temporarily or permanently repulsed, and it has nothing to do with you personally. Think of it as ... they simply haven't had their best love yet. On another topic ... it's as if they want war to continue for ever ----- our leaders should shut up - and the jerks who own media also have shares in the weapons industry - someone should get these men under control - they add fuel to the fire because the sell the fuel. oleg ... awesome.

That the Poles are often maligned the way you have, as Nazi collaborators, in ignorance of their losses.

Tar baby was used as a derogatory description, as someone else said, referring to a child born 'with colour' clearly not belonging to the purported father. It's use evolved from that to mean any such 'sticky situation', but the reference is still based on the original, and it is still derogatory. And Poilievre is racist scum, just like Harper.

Because that isn't feasible from where we are now.