The Anth Zone

The Peace Tower flag-lowering motion has passed 142-115 but the Conservatives have shown no intent to honour the motion. Therefore, I wrote a petition the other day. Please sign it.

I’m pleased that the Conservatives are set to lose the Peace Tower flag-lowering vote requiring the government to have a moment of silence on Parliament Hill and lowering the flag whenever a Canadian soldier’s life is loss abroad and here at home protecting our country and our citizenry from any threat whether it’s domestic, foreign or natural.

These men and women risk their lives daily in Afghanistan and countless other operations throughout the world everyday. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and remember these women and men who loss their lives for representing their country wherever their lives were taken. We owe it to them and their families for their countless efforts to promote Canadian principles and beliefs internationally.

The Conservative Government is believed not to honour this motion when it does pass in the House of Commons. The Conservatives are spurring out sentences that they’re committed to military families. They haven’t follow through with their campaign promises in reforming the military and there’s only one political party that truly wishes the best for our troops and their families because they’re one of the utmost important working families in our country that have been constantly abused in the political arena. This healthy for a country to honour our fallen soldier. It helps Canadians to mourn the loss of a soldier who fought and defended our values. This helps a nation ease her pain.

I’ve created a petition to pressure the government of Canada to follow through with this motion.

I have renounced my membership with the Liberal Party of Canada effective immediately today, at 11:59am PST, on Tuesday 1 April 2008. I’m discontent with the party as a whole.

UPDATE #1

Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party called me today to run for her party’s candidacy in Fleetwood–Port Kells. I’m proud to say, I’m honoured to be apart of this new political family. Together, we’ll take whats rightfully Canadian!

I have read the actual bill on the Parliament of Canada. The author of the bill and the House of Commons has forgotten two sections that should have been added to it in the first place, definitions and interpretations of the amendment should have been added for a better overall understanding on the intentions of the legislation.

I don’t believe that the Conservatives are trying to mislead Canadians. The Conservatives will make a horrendous mistake if they try to paint it anti-abortion or they’ll severely suffer the consequences in being pursuant on this issue. However, I disagree that C-484 is a stepping stone moment to abolish abortion laws in Canada. People have to remember that women’s rights should be upheld in any circumstance especially when a mother decides to keep their child or wants to terminate the pregnancy. Most pro-choicers have grossly turned this into an abortion debate when its not.

I am a liberal because social justice is extremely important to have in a country great as Canada. Unfortunately there hasn’t been any legislation proposed by a sitting Liberal MP that advocates for the strengthening of social justice. Indeed there have been bills introduced to uphold human rights and equality throughout our beloved country by Liberal MPs since the beginning of the 39th Parliament. These are just specks of the looking glass to form a socially accountable state.

Today I’m discussing the importance of Bill C-484: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Injuring or Causing the Death of An Unborn Child While Committing An Offence). I don’t know why my fellow pro-choicers are crazed on the idea that this comes into conflict with the woman’s right to choose. This is not an anti-abortion bill in any shape or form. People will only be charged under this amendment of the Criminal Code if they murder or cause bodily harm to the mother without her choice.

Join me in supporting C-484 today.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is deliberately trying to stall the Mulroney-Schreiber inquiry. Stephen Harper is a hypocrite. He constantly attacked the Liberals under Paul Martin’s leadership for the Quebec Sponsorship Scandal to launch an investigation.

He stated that he would hold public servants responsible for their involvement in such illegal activities. While Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has become a private citizen since being Canada’s worst Prime Minister, he embezzled money from Karlheinz Schreiber in his final days of office. The investigation must begin.

The Anth Zone awards Prime Minister Stephen Harper, The Idiot of the Year Award for 2007.

The Conservatives have demonstrated clearly that they are not looking out for the health and psychical wellbeing of Canadians. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn interfered with the country’s nuclear watchdog after they shutdown a nuclear reactor to do maintenance that was overdue. The nuclear plant was reopened on December 16th to operate for 120 days.

Lunn threatened the Head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Linda Keen that he would replace her if the commission failed to reopen the site. Stéphane Dion has been the loudest opponent against the Conservatives for failing to protect Canadians at all costs.

The Greens are calling for the Minister to resign from his post. I disagree; Prime Minister Harper must apologize to Canadians and fire Minister Lunn from his portfolio.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he’ll appoint an independent third party to investigate into the latest allegations brought forward against ex-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney by German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber. Schreiber is allegedly involved in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal that damaged Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s political legacy and reputation. Schreiber could be deported to Germany for fraud and theft charges brought forward against him. Karlheinz had recently been getting a lot of notoriety after he failed to sue the ex-Prime Minister for extortion for future business dealings.

Karlheinz was the focus of the Airbus scandal that involved the ex-Prime Minister. He stated that the Prime Minister obtained compensation from the Department of Justice after the charges were made public in 1995 for his business dealings when he was Prime Minister. He settled and received $2.1 million and an apology.

Harper has been named in the affidavit. It stated that he [Harper] allegedly invited the ex-Prime Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office (or 24 Sussex Drive) to meet and discuss Schreiber’s allegations against Mulroney. Steve has denied that no meeting was planned nor scheduled. The affidavit gave the possibility that ex-Prime Minister could have given the current sitting Prime Minister documentation for safekeeping to safeguard the reputation and the political legacy he has left.

Warren Kinsella is my hero. He also has an awesome new website.

Warren, good job so far. Keep it going!

www.warrenkinsella.com

The Conservative government has gone on a crusade to lower the GST. The Prime Minister has promised Canadians the most competitive taxes on the planet. The economy has become stronger due to the economic backslashes that our friends are suffering in the United States. President Bush has offered no real economic leadership throughout his seven years in office.

He hasn’t even brought forth strongly innovative policies brought forward to the American people. His only objective was to bring the country down after invading a country that had nothing to due with his crusade on terrorism. The Canadian dollar has only become stronger because the Greenback is dwindling.

Ex-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney crippled the national economy and gave its devastating blow. The Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico didn’t generate national wealth; in fact it created additional problematic issues that the Conservative Party was unable to resolve. The only smart thing he did was introduce the Government Sales Tax that the Conservatives continue to place blame on the Liberals for its introduction.

The economy will not suffer immediately from Harper’s cut taxes. The government is losing revenue to pay for programs like healthcare, giving border security agents handguns, and buying large carrier transport aircraft to transport our men and women in our armed forces overseas. Harper is becoming tax cut happy. Just picture him with a price gun, cutting prices in half at Wal Mart.

I am very saddened to learn that the Saskatchewan Liberal Party isn’t represented in the province’s legislative assembly. The Saskatchewan Party has won a majority government forcing the New Democrats packing to move to the opposition benches. Hopefully, Brad Wall is a moderate compared to the rest of his party’s supporters.

I’m also upset that a good man will not be representing the good people of Saskatchewan in it’s legislative assembly.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an election-style speech to Vancouver business leaders promising British Columbia additional representation in the House of Commons. Stephen Harper defined British Columbia “a relatively middle-sized province,” he went onto say that there isn’t any justification for under-representing British Columbians in Ottawa.

So the Prime Minister wants to give British Columbia additional seats. It’s a good idea on the Prime Minister’s part however; I feel there are other places throughout the country that are misrepresented. Hopefully he goes by it professionally and seeks Elections Canada’s advisement to establish an independent commission. This process is supposed to happen every ten years. It has only been a few since they added more seats federally.

I am supporting the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in tomorrow’s election which I am going to be watching the coverage closely on CTV Saskatchewan (got satellite a few months back). My family living Hodgeville (a small farming community located in the Wood River electoral district) has told me over the phone that the Saskatchewan Liberal Party’s candidate Michael Klein has won their votes. The future MLA for Wood River happens to be the father of a good friend and fellow blogger of mine, Saskboy.

The Conservatives have failed to manage their overbearing and solid lead in the polls. They have dropped in the polls for numerous reasons. They were unable to use their time most effectively in the post-throne speech boost because they failed to articulate new and innovative ideas to Canadians.

They have loss Canadians’ trust in their government after last week’s announcement after scrapping the government policy to seek clemency for Canadians overseas who have committed crimes punishable under the death penalty.

The Conservatives have launched a series of negative television ads attacking the Liberals that have found to be unfavourable to Canadians. Canadians recognize that the Conservatives want to Americanize the Canadian political system, like they want to do with our government.

I am pleased to see that the Green Party has a solid ten percent of national support. I do hope it continues and hopefully we’ll see a few Green seats in the next Parliament.

Conservatives – 33%
Liberals – 29%
New Democrats – 17%
Green – 10%
Bloc Quebecois – 9%

Polling information and data was conducted by Harris/Decima and obtained by Angus-Reid.

I have lurked many ultra-pro-Conservative biased websites and found them to be quite a large piles of bullshit. However to my surprise I was to discover the biggest pile yet (www.notaleader.ca). The Conservatives are prematurely proclaiming themselves to be the champions of Senate Reform on this new website. Like most Conservative pamphlets and other vessels of propagating their heart and mindless agenda (through the Harperbot 3000 or the Young Conservative Drones (YCD) they need to bash the Liberals every time they get).

This website worships the Conservatives’ plan for reforming our Senate. They want to place an eight year cap on the Senators’ service to their Canada. Okay these are patronage appointments, yes. They’re a major function of Canada’s political machine and major part of our democratic traditions and values. The elected Conservative Officials who haven’t done anything for Canada but having Canadians in submission to their oblivious agenda want to reform and take away these great men and women’s work and tear it up. These people have been appointed to these positions on their merit and credentials, not just party loyalty.

The Conservatives want to destroy Canada’s democratic traditions. Want me to name a few? Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire and the now retired Senator Jack Austin are just some examples. The Conservatives have to look at the appointments that their predecessor Brian Mulroney made. There are a lot of people who he appointed who don’t have merit, don’t have the credentials to serve in Canada’s highest chamber. Yet they did it. The Conservatives have to learn that they can’t take their frustrations out on Canadians – we aren’t your boxing bag.