The Anth Zone

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.

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.

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.

There is no doubt that the New Democrats and the Conservatives are in league together. There have been moments in Canadian political history where they’ve supported each other’s democracy to perverse the Canadian democratic tradition that has been celebrated for over a century.

Conservative and NDP sources have told CTV that the Harper government will back a NDP motion slated to call for a national referendum to abolish the unelected Senate that’ll be introduced to the House of Commons next Tuesday.

The NDP-CONs will be able to pass Jack Layton’s motion in the House. I have a good feeling that the vote will be defeated in the Liberal dominated Senate. I find it awkward that the Conservatives proclaim themselves to be the defender of traditions that Canadians hold when in fact it’s just a white lie to earn their vote during their electoral mode.

I have a good feeling that the Liberal dominated Senate will make the right decision in defeating this motion.

…so I’m writing this. I’m blog-sitting for a little while, to keep the pace at The Anth Zone above that of a giant tortoise.

I know Anth would be thrilled to hear the news of Harper being protested against during his South American tour.

“There’s a shortage of water in the summertime, and it’s only sustained because of the glaciers,” one protester told CBC News. “Because of the destruction of the glaciers, there won’t be water in the short term, there won’t be water for the communities.”

Barrick says the glaciers are melting due to global warming.

So either way, by Harper going to visit Barrick, or here in Canada by denying the existence of global warming he’s painted himself into a corner with the Chilean people.

~ Posted by Saskboy

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 . . .

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 . . . . . . . .

I found this amateur animated cartoon to be funny in some parts, I thought I’d share it with the rest of you.

h/t to While the Earth Burns.