I cannot condone in the least the decision of Mr. Toews and his Conservative cronies who have tabled the C-30 legislation that will allow thousands of police officers, private contractors, and others to access details about the online activities of ordinary Canadians without a warrant. Any politician who believes that they have the right to grant sweeping surveillance powers to anybodyat all is not a politician who understands the bounds wherein any free society must operate. While it is true that no good and moral person could possibly condone the tragic events that mar some childrens lives, there is little we can do to prevent such things from occurring except to ensure adequate punishment is exacted upon those criminals when they are caught.
Legislation such as C-30 is Orwellian in fashion, fascist in nature, and reminds us of various hollywood movies that touch upon pre crime and other extreme prevention measures that form no part of a free society. In reality, the occurance of such miserable events as child pornography are so rare and so extreme, that implementing unwarranted and sweeping surveillance systems will catch not just child pornographers, but many other innocent people as well who are caught up in legal but none the less embarassing situations online.
To accept such surveillance without a fight would be worse than finding RCMP of the opposite sex appearing in your bathroom as you exit the shower or inspecting your fridge as you get home from work, because at that point you would know they are snooping, but this legislation comes with a gag order as well, meaning it would be a criminal offence for your provider to tell you if you were being surveilled. It would just be a constant but never confirmed feeling that someone was watching you everything you did, all day long.
Some that I have talked to have said: "I have nothing to hide, I don't do anything wrong". Probably not, but the question is not whether you have anything to hide, but whether you are the one who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong. If you're politically active or in the public eye in any way, you might be at risk for blackmail. Corporate secrets might be exposed. Family secrets might be exposed. Your general privacy might be exposed, and for me, that is enough. A person's home should be their castle. Have we gotten nowhere since the Magna Carta?
Not only that, but I believe people have the right to know who their accusers are, they have a right to privacy, and they have a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty -- not the other way around. I also believe that any foray into the lives of Canadians cannot be justified if they foray is not first justified before a judge, and that includes even sundry details such as email addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses.
The hyprocisy of Mr. Toews and the Conservatives is not lost on me either. To abolish the long gun registry because it was an "infringement on the rights of law abiding Canadians" is great, but how hypocritical for them to then make everyone in Canada not just a pre criminal for the same reason the gun registry was abolished, but a pre criminal and accomplice of the worst kind of criminal - the child abusing kind.
In my opinion, Mr. Toews extreme lack of judgment is not just worthy of retraction, or amendment, or of abandonment of C-30 alone, but this extreme oversight requires the immediate dishonourable resignation of Mr. Toews as well.
Following is a copy of an email I sent to the PM and Mr. Duncan (Vancouver Island North)
Mr. Duncan. Long time no speak. I hope you are well, and the best of the Christmas season to you.
I am dropping you a note to voice my vehement objection to the apparent permission granted to armed US law enforcement officials to operate on Canadian soil. Such an agreement opens the door to a host of problems in the future on top of being an immediate violation of Canadian sovereignty in principle. Any incidents with these officers will certainly be messy in terms of who is operating under who's laws, who is responsible in the event US officers attend during a violent confrontation, and even whether there are extradition agreements in place in the event an armed US officer commits any infraction while operating on Canadian soil. I think we have enough trouble getting the truth out from behind the blue wall of silence as it is. Such an agreement will certainly result in infringements of the rights of all Canadians involved in any operations involving armed US law enforcement on Canadian soil.
I suggest that if you wish to enforce Canadian law, you use Canadian officers to do so, and if operations on sea require the attendance of both nations, have them each bring their own boat.
That being said, I suspect that this agreement isn't about saving any trouble enforcing laws on the sea, but is reserved for future use by some who do not have our best interests at heart. If that traitor is not you, then wake up to what is going on. If it is you, then feel free to step aside and let a patriot and not a politician fulfill the duties of your office. You know what I mean John.
best regards,
Jason Draper
PS. If you think Canadians are going to sit around while the law prohibits concealed carry for citizens of this country but allow it for foreign agents because they have a foreign badge (which conveys zero authority in this country), I think you have another thing coming. You may think outrage is dead, I often think it is, but remember that what people say to you guys in the leather chairs is one thing, and what they say to me is quite another, and a truthful one at that I believe.
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Jason Draper
Vancouver Island North
independentpartycanada.ca
With Muammar Gaddafi reported killed, the mission to Libya is no doubt going to be labelled a success by the men running it. As far as I am concerned, Canada had no business being in Libya in the first place. But in this world, I suppose 25 cent per gallon gasoline (or less), free university, free medical care, and a refusal to let the international banksters bleed your country dry will get you killed (see the last video below). The next target is no doubt Iran. I wonder what role General Charlie Bouchard will be asked to play in that one, but whatever it is, it won't do anything but add to the blood that is on his hands already for leading one of the dirtiest wars to date in Libya.
Do not mistake my objection to the Libyan war as an objection to our troops in any way, save perhaps a few in the highest levels and their civilian political counterparts -- those who decide where and who we will kill. I just disagree that bombing women and children from 10,000 feet is the right way to get things done, nor do I agree that invading a soverign nations airspace is justified, especially when the real situation and purpose of the war is as obfuscated as this one was -- at least obfuscated from the general public. It is not obfuscated from me. The longstanding and accepted doctrine of using military force as a last option seems to now be out the window, setting an undesireable and dangerous precedent for the future. We have been told that Libya "does not meet the threshold of a vital or national interest" of the United States (Washington Times General Mark Kimmitt), and if it doesn't for the US, then how can it possibly for Canada? The answer, at least partially, lies here: Rebels Set Up a Central Bank. I suggest that if that doesn't disturb you, then nothing will, because if you think it can't happen here -- think again.
In addition, the question has arisen: who will replace Gaddafi now that he is gone, and who are these rebels that we have been supporting? In the 1980's, the west supported the "Freedom Fighters" in Afghanistan. One of the leaders of that group turned out to be none other than Osama Bin Laden. There are confirmed reports of ties between Al Queda and the rebels. The Washington Post has quoted the NATO Commander saying that some of Al Queda and Hezbollah freelance forces are fighting Gaddafi forces, with early estimates of more than 1000 Jihadists in Libya. And these are the rebels that we are supporting?
Now we are told that Gaddafi is dead, his convoy hit by a NATO airstrike as it attempted to escape. Apparenlty, they found Gaddafi bloodied and hiding in a drain pipe. Here is a video of your tax dollars at work Canada:
Now watch this and you will begin to understand the real reasons why Gaddafi was murdered.
It has come to my attention that the use of smart meters in BC entails a lot more than the innocuous project that BC Hydro makes it out to be. I am encouraging anyone with any concern about their privacy to consider sending notice to BC Hydro that they may not install a smart meter on their property.
A good discussion on the topic exists here, and be sure to make use of the authors denial of implied consent that you can send to BC Hydro:
From: Jason Draper
PO Box 3624
Courtenay, BC
V9N6Z8
To: Prime Minister Harper
Honourable Jim Flaherty
Honourable John Duncan
Re: World financial crisis
As the world financial crisis expands and begins to slap the Canadian economy around, the predictions I have made during the last election campaign and beyond are beginning to show. It is clear to everyone willing to admit the truth that any economy which requires more to be paid back to the lender than is lent is not sustainable. We the people, and you as the government, have ourselves in quite a pickle as we are forced, to maintain a vital circulation, to perpetually re-borrow ever escalating principal to cover the unpaid interest on previous loans, which is ever escalating until the sum of the debt is terminal, which is what we are rapidly approaching right now.
We the people have been collectively warned by several mathematicians for more than 25 years that this system is mathematically not sustainable. You sirs, collectively, will look very stupid and shortsighted in the near future when these facts become slightly better known than they are now. I suspect that the people, forgiving and disinterested while the bread still remains on the table, will make an about face when these facts are marginally better known -- and will be anything but forgiving when they discover that you know and have known and have even been warned that such a system as we have is untenable, to say the least.
To allow Canada to continue it's slide along with the rest of the world is not acceptable. I urge you to step aside from the mainstream rhetoric and the private pressure upon you, analyze the situation, and save this country. Your own roots, Prime Minister Harper, Honourable Jim Flaherty and Honourable John Duncan, are in the Social Credit movement, a movement that until recently was believed to be untested, but alas, documents have surfaced that prove that it's principles were implemented in at least one country over nearly a 10 year period, with extraordinary success. Now I am not calling for an implementation of social credit, but I am calling for an immediate public acknowledgement of the problem of perpetually escalating debt by interest before it terminates us, and also a termination of the obfuscation of the process by which currency is created.
At the G20, Mr. Prime Minister, I urge you to bring to the attention of the group of attendees the stupidity of continuing with such an asinine system, notwithstanding whatever internal pressure is exerted by the powers that be. You have your choice, you can risk your political careers by doing the right thing now, or you can risk the same again and more than that for yourselves and certainly for us all if you fail to act decisively very soon.
With all due respect,
Jason Draper
866-267-2773
jason@independentpartycanada.ca
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Jason Draper
Vancouver Island North
independentpartycanada.ca
In conjunction with the Remember Building 7 Campaign, we are very proud today to also release our powerful new 15-minute mini-documentary “Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7” as the essential educational component of the new campaign and an exceptional tool for all people who want to effectively expose the fraudulent official story of WTC 7’s destruction and the explosive evidence omitted from the NIST Report. It is compellingly narrated by actor Ed Asner and features a stellar lineup of AE911Truth experts including structural engineers, chemical engineers, physicists and others.
The Conservative government has made a strange move in returning the names of the air and sea branches of the military to their traditional nomenclature. A puzzling move indeed, certainly an unneeded one. Canada has been steadily moving away from under the wing of Great Britain, and this just reverses 43 years of progress.
Defence minister Peter MacKay said: "The country that forgets its history does so at its own peril,". But going backward in the progressive march to liberty is certainly not strengthening Canada, and I wonder how MacKay thinks that Canada is more secure now that it has reasserted it's roots of imperialistic reign, the type of imperialism that sparked the American Revolution, the benefits of which we all still enjoy in one form or another right now.
Part of MacKay's reasoning for doing this is the recent online poll which garnered 6000 votes in favor of the change, as well as the recent well received visit by the young couple William and Kate. I hardly think that Canadian politeness and hospitality to a newlywed couple should govern how the military is governed, nor do I think that 6000 names in a country of millions is enough to warrant a change in naming the military branches, especially since 42% of Canadians do not want the monarch at all, a number which certainly amounts to more than 6000.
Flaherty's recycled budget may need to take note of scarier world economy
By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press – 6 hours ago
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's plan to recycle essentially the same budget that was rejected in March may not prove as simple as it appears.
The difficulty will become apparent next week when the minister meets with private sector economists to get the latest estimate for growth on which to base his projections for revenue, expenditures, debt servicing and the deficit.
When Flaherty last met with the analysts in early March, he emerged a happy finance minister because the risks of a global train wreck appeared to be receding and the prospects for the recovery had improved.
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Scotiabank economist Derek Holt said Flaherty should do all he can to ensure he meets his early target for eliminating the deficit. A train wreck might indeed be coming and Ottawa needs to take out an insurance policy, he explained.
"I'm definitely pessimistic once we push into 2013, I'm very worried about that year," he said.
"I have God. I'm one of the richest men on this earth, 'cause I have God," he said. "Money is not my master. That's what's wrong with this world: money is its master."
Alex Jones calls in to warn about the potential for another false flag attack, urging listeners to activate, call the White House and try to stop the attack. Counter-terrorism expert Dr. Steve Pieczenik concurs with Alex’s outlook and urges the good men and women inside the system to say no to this shameful and dangerous tactic.
There have been increasing concerns about the fate of United States' prized triple-A sovereign debt rating. While Standard and Poor's recently downgraded its U.S. debt outlook to negative from stable, implying that a ratings cut could happen in two years, one independent ratings agency has given the U.S. sovereign rating a "C". "A 'C' is equivalent to approximately a triple-B on the S&P, Moody's and Fitch scales. It's two notches above junk and one notch above the equivalent of a single A," Martin Weiss, President of Weiss Ratings, told CNBC Tuesday.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest.
Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank’s early role in the reconstruction of France, Japan and other nations after World War II.
According to the IMF, Libya’s Central Bank is 100% state owned. The IMF estimates that the bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. It is significant that in the months running up to the UN resolution that allowed the US and its allies to send troops into Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi was openly advocating the creation of a new currency that would rival the dollar and the euro. In fact, he called upon African and Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make this new currency, the gold dinar, their primary form of money and foreign exchange. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed.
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.
According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China's economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now. Brett Arends looks at the implications for the U.S. dollar and the Treasury market.
And it’s a lot closer than you may think.
According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now. ... According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.
If the opposition combines to defeat the Throne Speech, or if it lets the Throne Speech pass but defeats the budget, then Mr. Harper would have no option but to visit Mr. Johnston and tender his resignation.
If he advises that Parliament be dissolved and another election held, Mr. Johnston would reject that advice. One of the chief responsibilities of the Governor-General is to make Parliament function after an election.
On Tuesday a shock-wave ran through the world’s markets. It was set off by an advisory issued by one of the premier credit rating companies regarding the long-term creditworthiness of the US federal government. This is how the Wall Street Journal reported it:
“Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Inc. cut its outlook on the U.S. to negative, increasing the likelihood of a potential downgrade from its triple-A rating, as the path from large budget deficits and rising government debt remains unclear.”
The question is not only what took Standard and Poor’s so long to issue the warning, but why they did not go further. How can a respected outfit like S&P still maintain triple-A rating for the US government is beyond one’s ability to comprehend.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's sounded the alarm Monday about persistent federal deficits, saying there was a 1-in-3 chance that it would downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds by 2013 from their current AAA level. Unless President Obama and Congress agree quickly on a meaningful plan to reduce the federal red ink, the agency said, the government could find itself too deep in debt within two years to justify its current, impeccable credit rating.
Alex Jones addresses the cynical, pre-planned announcement by the EU to officially launch ground forces in Libya, a policy set in place since late February / early March when U.S. and British originally deployed special forces. Despite the marching drums of escalating war, the Western powers are still trumpeting that operations in Libya are limited to humanitarian action.
A new report based on exit interviews with former MPs serves as a warning to the hundreds of aspiring candidates around the country -- life on Parliament Hill can be frustrating.
The report from the Samara, a research organization on democracy, entitled "It's My Party: Parliamentary Dysfunction Reconsidered," suggests MPs' biggest source of frustration is with their own parties.
Behind in the polls and weaker on the ground, the Liberals are instead concentrating on fears that Mr. Harper could pose a threat to the future of public health care. On Sunday, Mr. Ignatieff promised to convene a first ministers’ meeting within months of taking office to start work on hammering out a new funding accord after the current agreement ends in 2014.
“Announcing a first ministers’ meeting now says how serious we are,” Mr. Ignatieff said. “This doesn’t get fixed overnight. This [health care] is the biggest expenditure provinces have. They want help. They want us at the table.”
So says Mr. Ignatieff. But is he right? In BC over the last 5 years, the province has spent from $2.6 to 4.4 billion dollars on healthcare. (www.fin.gov.bc.ca/OCG/pa/09_10/PA_2010_ProvDebt.pdf) During the same stretch, they spent about $3.5 billion annually on debt service, meaning they paid the banksters a lot of money on interest payments. So he's right and he's wrong. But just think about it: the government of BC pays nearly as much and sometimes more to the PRIVATE BANKSTERS as they do for health care? And we continue to elect these stooges? You have to be kidding me. And what about the feds? Are they any better? Let's see. Over the last few years, the feds have spent about $30 billion a year on debt payments - the majority of which are the interest portion of the debt. (www.fin.gc.ca/afr-rfa/2010/report-rapport-eng.asp#a5) That also is a huge amount of money and over the last 10 years the payments of provincial and federal governments to the private bankers amounts to nearly 1 TRILLION dollars.
Jason Draper
Vancouver Island North
independentpartycanada.ca
The Conservative campaign was hit by a bombshell Monday when a report by the auditor-general found that the Harper government did not act "transparently" when it sought permission from Parliament to spend $50 million on a G8 fund.
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You can also sign a petition to force a release of the documents related to G8-Gate here.
Whether it's Global Warming, Global Cooling, or Climate Change, it is all the same to me. It's rubbish. The climate of the earth is in flux either up or down, never static, and always has been since life began on this rock. Any politician who claims to have the holy grail of truth on this issue other than "it happens" ought to give up his/her place among intelligent beings.
Something is wrong with the Canadian court system. Maybe the American system too. In Florida, a woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison for having sexual relations with her son's friend. (I probably shouldn't but will mention that just a couple of years ago in Texas, she could have married the guy legally, or at least escaped with no jail time). I'm not condoning her actions. My point is that here in Canada, the killers of Kimberly Proctor, who brutally murdered her and did unspeakable acts to her dead body including mutilation and necrophilia, only got 10 years and then they'll be out on the street, maybe even your neighbor. I'm not sure this woman from Florida deserves 30 years, but I am sure the killers of Kimberly Proctor deserve a lot more than 10. In fact, I think they deserve life. Actually -- to lose -- their lives.
Here's one for the Guinness Book of Records. The Libyan rebels in Benghazi said they have created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by leader Muammar Qaddafi whose assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council and have formed a central bank!
