Canada wins dumbest gov't at World Stupidity Award

[Mad_Michael]

Mikey:

Amen to that brother. We still owe it to ourselves to keep trying for better though.

If this be me you refer to, I'll ask you not to use such a diminuative. If you must shorten a username, I much prefer MM.

[SirSpanky]

Um OK, sorry to offend.

[Leader Circle]

Spelling Lesson for those who didn't get what was going on above!

1.knwo=know

2.liek=like

3.oppinions=opinions

4.ocuntry=country

5.difers=differs

Throw in a whole bunch of commas, a few paragraphs and you'll have yourself a nice post!! (At least a readable post!) LOL

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not to be pedantic or anything, but these are clearly typographic errors by the look of them.

I can't imagine why anyone would bother to point such things out.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You're right...was poor taste on my part. Will not go there again!

He will fade away eventually.

[Mad_Michael]

Um OK, sorry to offend.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

None taken. Just that name is always used for taunting/teasing/fighting in my life so when I hear it, I'm ready for battle which is not a good way to approach a polite discussion.

[canadian_conservative]

*i have edited and removed comments from this post** please dis-regard it

[Epictetus]

How much latitude is appropriate.

Paul Coffin pleads guilty to 15 counts of fraud.

Raphael Schacter: "If you have any type of a heart, you understand that everybody has his story," he told reporters. "It's very difficult. It's difficult for the client, it's difficult for the family and it's difficult for any lawyer who has a heart."

What difficulties could Raphael Schacter mean?

How difficult could it be (Mr. Coffin has already acknowledged his guilt) for a man to differentiate right from wrong and choose to behave as a criminal?

Mr. Coffin should not only be expected to repay the funds he stole from Canadian taxpayers, he should be facing a minimum of twenty years in prison.

As prosecuting attorneys and judges so often like to say, “This criminal activity demands that a strong message be sent.”

Let’s get moving!

There’s a whole cabal of thieves and liars waiting to have their day in court.

The sooner the better, and Canadians will have the opportunity to judge for themselves if the Canadian judicial system recognizes one “law” and one “justice” for the wealthy and one for the rest of us.

Just how “unfortunate” and “difficult” is the decision to break the law?

Former Liberal Party of Canada president Stephen LeDrew will have to get back into the habit of paying his income taxes.

A judge has just scolded the $250,000-a-year lawyer for years of tax delinquency and the extravagance of buying a $1.8 million Rosedale home just 16 months before he was tipped into bankruptcy.

Justice John Ground of the Superior Court of Justice stopped short of requiring the high-flying Liberal to pay his entire tax debt — the demand made by tax officials that finally pushed him over the brink financially.

But LeDrew noted ruefully yesterday that a requirement he pay 74 per cent of the $364,140, uncontested portion of his tax debt is a higher proportion than personal acquaintances and former federal privacy commissioner George Radwanski were able to negotiate with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Ground used strong language to criticize LeDrew's behaviour, and pointed out that he took on substantial obligations that made it difficult for him to pay his current tax obligations while catching up with late payments.

"The evidence is that LeDrew consciously and continually neglected to pay income tax instalments when due and appeared to regard his obligation to pay income tax as subordinate to all other personal obligations," Ground wrote in a 19-page ruling.

"I am unable to conclude that a person who intentionally neglects to pay income tax obligations of hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of many years can be regarded, by any standard, as `unfortunate'."

[THELIBERAL]

RE::WE should be so proud of our government

I'am!! Just love balanced budgets single digit unemployment and a surplus!