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They weren't allowed to land a Lancaster on your football field on Rememberance Day when you were in high school? The PC bastard school administrators!

Oh gee, lookie here, another (truncated for brevity) opinion about the Occupy movement in Toronto. Simple fascinating.

Well they could be better educated on a wider basis about "history" if they went to the War Museum, don't you think? Actually, is sounds ridiculous to cancel this based on some misinterpretation of a tolerance policy, but it is one RC school in Ottawa so, really, who gives a flying f*ck? Is society coming to and end? Again?

From the local Metroland rag: Christine Elliott denies rumours she intends to resign Then Jim Flaherty, in this shoe-in PC riding, would get the seat and be in a position to pry the party leadership out of the cold, stiff hands of the Hudak 2011 campaign corpse. I am sure he is, but he is a distant second fiddle to the PM and that has to grate on any man's pride, especially someone like Flaherty. Although if the CPC were to lose Flaherty, it could be a significant blow and, if the PC had to submit Whitby to a bye-election, that is risky. A small risk, but a risk nonetheless. I can imagine the Liberals pulling out all the stops in a bye-election here. With hockey being more popular than politics, a local hockey hero as Liberal candidate could make things interesting.

They are a 15 minute drive away from the Canadian War Museum where there is far more memorabilia and artefacts than just WWII.

The War on Unreported Crime Bonds. I like that idea! Here is a poster for it:

How many unaccounted transfer payments are there in the thousands of federal government jobs in the West and Maritimes - you know, federal departments regional offices, Service Canada centres, military bases - etc.? Who pays for those jobs and pensions? Federal taxpayers across the country. There's more than just the transfer payments going to these provinces. There's billions in salaries and pensions for bureaucrats. Duh. See what I mean? You can't even argue properly because you don't know even what you are talking about. Real conservatives used to know the facts. Now all we have is backwoods idealogues. Get back in that mine and dig out our potash.

OK. Does anyone? I mean, can you guarantee everyone that you wash your hands after handling your parts? I would imagine that any food services would come under some sort of health inspection by-law, but I believe there are exemptions for certain types of services. However, if a clean kitchen is never inspected, that doesn't mean it will somehow become unclean and cause food poisoning. I bet your kitchen wouldn't be able to pass a typical health inspection. How often do you get food poisoning? The Occupiers are 'average Joes' in the sense you are referring to them. They get away with what they do because they are protesting and have the law behind them so long as they do it peacefully. Would you rather they strike down the right to peaceful assembly and association so you can sound coherent? It would likely be easier on everyone if you simply worked on your coherency. Truncated for important details is more like it.

The point is that once the registry is done, the information it contains no longer qualifies as a "record" for archival purposes. The best I can see is limited historical demographical data and that is with the personal information redacted. However, not all information the government has is retained as records. Such an accumulation of data would be almost impossible to manage nto to mention being a big waste of time and resources.

No, because there isn't - and never has been - a "free market." Unless you believe in the tooth fairy too.

One would think that once the license is no longer valid, the value would be nil. However, archivists might find some historical value in the statistics, etc. If you signed the PAL you did. See the various information holding policies from government departments and the ATIP Acts. The Firearms Act gives the Registrar the ability to destroy records, but there isn't anything saying they can't transfer the whole lot to the Archives as is. The government can, and usually do, make data-sharing agreements with other government departments, provincial and municipal governments. This is routine. Documents are leaked all the time? I am thinking the same thing, however archivists are weird, professional pack-rats of information. One thing that can be done is redact the personal identifiers from the registry and otherwise keep it intact.

Back in the day, the good old "righties" would know what they are talking about, but you obviously don't have a clue about how transfer payments work. Go be a good boy and pump our oil.

What part of: "Ontario's wealth is more than all the western provinces combined." do you not understand? Is English your second language or do you not know how transfer payments work? Maybe a little of both?

You don't think the NDP would side with the Liberals on this issue? Come on now... I think your understanding of the redistribution of the wealth is a little out of whack. No one gets "transfer payments from the West" they are federal equalization payments contributed back to a province on per capita calculations. Ontario's wealth is more than all the western provinces combined. Yeah, right, it's the hippies that don't understand.

On the grounds that they form historical records of a value to Canadian heritage, which could be done through the National Archives. Also, anyone could seek an injunction, but I highly doubt a court would give them one for this. Clearly, once the need for the registry has been completed, the information is of little value to the government and the Firearms Act gives the Registrar the ability to destroy it.

Under the Library and Archives Act, they are entitled to the registry providing it has some usefulness or archival value. The only things that are exempt from immediate custondianship by the Library and Archives, are Privy Council documents and documents or information according to Schedule II of the ATI Act. The Firearms Act is not listed in Schedule II. The RCMP can destroy the registry documents when they no longer become "records" as defined by the various Acts and policies. For example, when someone no longer has their license or dies or whatnot, their registration no longer becomes a record for the purposes of what it was collected for. If you signed a PAL you most certainly did sign consent: This includes any approved agreements between government institutions to share that information for whatever purpose they need it for. Also, records containing personal information are subject to subpoena by law enforcement agencies. I don't think you understand the nature of how the ATIP Acts work. The Archives holds millions of records that contain all kinds of detailed and possibly embarassing or harmful personal information as well as trade secrets, government secrets, detailed budgetary information and so on. This information is restricted by the ATIP Acts from being made public on the whole. If government staff leaked any such information they would be committing an illegal act and would be charged.

No he can print whatever he wants from whomever he wants. But chose to pay back his expenses because he is a guy with a lot of integrity. Quit being such a Ford-hater.

I think Rob might if it was for team bonding or something like that. Like a camp out. Good luck finding a suitable inflatable mattress though...

More precisely, the registry would no longer contain 'records' according to government record management policy. I suppose they might have some sort of demographic value which the Archivist could ask for preservation, but I doubt they ended up on the Records and Disposal manual.

Cool rant bro.

Nope, I stand corrected. It has nothing to do with ATI or Library Act which, even with the exclusions, do not give permission to destroy the records; the Firearms Act does. Firearms Act - Records of the Registrar On the surface, it seems perfectly legal to destroy the records in the registry.

Ford to pay for business cards As I understand it, the expense for business cards doesn't have to come under the scrutiny of tender and really, if you know the product and can get a really good deal, why not?

They've run out of tinfoil in Markham.

Especially you since the Access to Information and Privacy Acts refer to public access to government records, not access by the government institution charged with archival custody of all government records for the purposes of retention and disposal. The governmental institution charged with that archival custody is the National Library and Archives as established by the Library and Archives of Canada Act. That is pretty clear now isn't it? If anyone were to destroy those records without the approval of the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, they are breaking the law and it would be considered a significant breach of trust.

Don't overstate the obvious.