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 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.

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 apologize for the inactivity on my blog since my last entry, now for something completely different . . .

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.

The Harper Conservatives have fallen five percent in the recent poll conducted by Decima/Canadian Press that leaves them in the lead with thirty-four percent. The Conservatives have been sporadic in polling numbers throughout their first year in government. Nor does the polling data seem to be leaning in their favour for a majority hold of the House of Commons to project their national agenda if an election was called.

This weekend as some of you know, I went to the LPCBC convention in Sun Peaks last weekend. Michael Ignatieff and Gerard Kennedy were both special guests. In recent weeks Michael Ignatieff has impressed me as a Liberal and I regret the things that I’ve said to his key youth supporters during the leadership race.

He said that he’s learned a lot about Stephen Harper from sitting ten feet away from him, “When I look into his eyes I see emptiness.” Stephen Harper has proved himself soulless on multiple occasions since taking the oath of office last year after his party’s election into government.

The Stéphane-Elizabeth Pact has successfully been spinned in favour of the Green Party that has finally given the party an upper hand dealing in Canadian politics. I am every so hopeful that the Green Party in the next election will be invited to the Leadership Debate since they’ve constantly proven that they are not a party of a singular issue and they’ve shown competence in environmental leadership that hasn’t gone commended for their tireless efforts since their founding in 1983. Elizabeth May herself has shown dedication to her country by actively pursuing a greener Canada. The Greens are comfortably sitting at eleven percent.

The Bloc Québécois have lost one percent since the last poll that was released last month through the Angus Reid Global Monitor’s website.

The New Democrats have seen some gains they now stand at fifteen percent. To me this is quite disalarming to learn that the NDP has gained more momentum over the course of the last several weeks. They are a party of only chit-chat. Not action. After all they were the ones that propped up the Conservatives into government. What resulted in their course of action? National Childcare, Kyoto, and the Kelowna Accord have been sacrificed. We have to remind Canadians that the NDP isn’t a party for them. I certainly wouldn’t entrust my life in a NDP government, federally or even provincially. Their bad blood. The Liberal Party must appeal to Liberal soft NDP supporters while we are working up to a possible election.

The Liberals gained only a single point in these polling numbers, I expect that we’ll see more gains from this party in the upcoming weeks due to the rumours that are building up momentum that the Stephen Harper Conservative government may call an election.

This video truly proves that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is clueless when it comes to comedy. The jokes are on him.

The Anth Zone is committed to exposing Conservative corruption one YouTube video at a time . . .

Former-Conservative Candidate for British Columbia Southern Interior, Derek Zeisman has admitted to his unsuccessful in smuggling liquor across the border into Canada in December 2005 he also faces serious dangerous driving charges while campaigning in the last election.

He ran to replace retired Conservative MP Jim Gouk. Fortunately he lost the election to the New Democrats (sadly). Derek has forfeited his vehicle, a Mercedes and will be charged five thousand dollars in penalties. I hope he ends up getting some jail time for dangerous driving.

Stephen Harper said that if Zeisman won the election he wouldn’t be allowed to join the caucus. Most likely he would have been welcomed into the caucus with open arms by Prime Minister Stephen Harper himself. We all know that the Conservatives are dirtier politickers.

A nine year old Canadian-born boy and his Iranian parents are currently being held at a United States Detention Facility outside of Austin, Texas. Kevin has serious case of eczema and asthma, his condition has eroded since his apprehension in Puerto Rico after a passenger on their flight from Guyana to Toronto suffered a mild heart attack.

The boy and his parents were traveling under stolen passports. I do not condone their illegal activities by stealing another’s identity to travel abroad under an assumed name. They’ve broken international law by committing these crimes, and are a probable threat to disallowing them to return to Canada.

The lawyer has laden out the family’s game plan to return to Canada. The lawyer will contact the government of Canada to grant them a permit to allow them into the country, where they’ll make official claims for refugee protection.

Kevin’s parents first came to Canada in 1995 for ten years they fought for asylum from the Canadian government. They were unsuccessful and were deported to Iran after starting a family. When they returned to Iran they faced torture and persecution and now they face indefinite detainment in an American detention centre. This plight was avoidable, the Canadian government could’ve granted them asylum which would have allowed them to live here freely.

The child feels hopeless, scared, and is desperate. He wrote Prime Minister Harper a letter to come to him and his family’s aid. This government is not compassionate about non-voting citizens. Issues such as this one shouldn’t be politicized, I know.

I’m not going to write anything this evening, however I saw these comics on CBC.ca, and I thought I’d share them with all of you.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’ll respect the passage of the bill that requires the government to meet the nation’s Kyoto commitments. Stephen Harper stated; “Of course, if and when that becomes law, the government would respect it.” It’s expected to receive overwhelming support from the Liberal dominated Senate.

The battered Prime Minister said, “I’ll just point out that the bill has no plan of action in it; the bill gives the government no authority to spend any money to actually have a plan of action.” I’m pretty sure that the government could act on the environment by taking the initiative to protect and by educating Canadians on how the country can take action to resolve the crisis of our time.

The Prime Minister appears to be taking a step backwards from previous government threats that they’ll ignore the Kyoto Implementation law and that they’d be prepared to face off against numerous lawsuits and even a non-confidence motion.

In other news relative to the environment, former-Vice President Al Gore has announced Live Earth concerts. Concerts already confirmed are going to be hold in the following cities: Shanghai, Johannesburg, London and Sydney, Australia.

The concerts will all be held on July 7th of this year. Artists and groups that have said they’ll take part of the behemoth event: Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, Korn, Black Eyed Peas, Duran Duran, Pharrell, Faith Hill and Bon Jovi. I do hope that they have a concert close or in Vancouver, B.C., I would so buy tickets to support Al Gore’s movement on the environment.

. . . . . . . . . . . I wished he’d ask me to be one of his Young Ambassadors for spreading his message around the world for climate change . . . . . . . .