Wake up Canada!

[French Castanut]

:ohmygod: I just learned today what Harper is doing right now on his royal throne in Ottawa. Bill C-38 will change Canada, for worse, for ever. This bill have 753 amendments, and will change 70 Canadian laws.

Some of the changes that will be voted by the CONS:

Species at Risk Act – This is being amended to exempt the National Energy Board from having to impose conditions to protect critical habitat on projects it approves. Also, companies won’t have to renew permits on projects threatening critical habitat.

Parks Canada Agency Act – Reporting requirements are being reduced, including the annual report. 638 of the nearly 3000 Parks Canada workers will be cut. Environmental monitoring and ecological restoration in the Gulf Islands National Park are being cut.

Age for retirement will go from 65 to 67

An immigrant that did his request prior to 2008 will have to do it again. A way for ottawa to cut off 280,000 names from the waiting list

IE changes, that will restrict even more the unemployement program.

& many many MANY more

Sources:
http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/7/2012-0 ... -bill-c-38
http://www.lactualite.com/societe/carol ... hange-tout

Goodbye environnement, goodbye socialism, goodbye agriculture

welcome to privately owned tar sand kingdom.

How come no one's talking about this? It's a HUGE mess!!!!

Bill is expected to pass before July 1st.

[GrooveTunes]

Don't expect much opposition to anything Harper and his cronies do on this site. But look at the bright side....after all his work is done a house will be half the price it is today in Kelowna.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/23/bill-c-38-anti-labour_n_1540825.html?ref=canada

[NAB]

Well, perhaps it is time some limits be put on the left wing entitlement crowd. And their leaders.....

‘When I needed it, I used it’: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she was repeat EI user

Excerpt: ""Green Party leader Elizabeth May objected Thursday to the Conservative government’s targeting of “repeat users” of the Employment Insurance system — because she was one herself.

Ms. May said that from 1975 to 1980, she received what was then called unemployment insurance during the off-season while working as a waitress and cook at her family’s restaurant and gift shop business in Cape Breton, she says.""

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/24 ... t-ei-user/

NDP leader has remortgaged his home 11 times since early 1980s

Excerpt: "New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair and his wife have repeatedly refinanced their home west of Montreal, gradually increasing the debt on the property over a series of 11 mortgages, land records show."

""It is unclear why Mulcair would need to refinance the modest two-garage home in Beaconsfield so many times, bumping the value of the mortgage from $58,000 to $300,000.

Before he became leader, Mulcair enjoyed a successful and well-paid career as a government lawyer and, later, a cabinet minister in the Quebec National Assembly. His wife, Catherine Pinhas, is a psychologist practicing in Montreal. Both their children are now adults with jobs — one is a police officer, the other an engineer.

Mulcair was hit with a judgment from a defamation case in 2005 after he accused former Parti Québécois minister Yves Duhaime of influence peddling. He was ordered to pay Duhaime $95,000, plus legal costs.""

""Today, Mulcair earns $157,731 annually as an MP plus a $75,516 stipend as Leader of the Official Opposition. When in Ottawa, he lives for free at the official residence, Stornoway.""

""If past opposition leaders are any example, Mulcair is likely to become the target of Conservative Party attack ads before the next election. As a New Democrat, his credibility as financial manager will likely figure into the critique.""


http://www.vancouversun.com/news/NDP%20 ... story.html

Ya. fer sure... Wake Up Canada!
Nab

[The Green Barbarian]

goodbye socialism.

we can only hope and pray, that your prediction is right. This garbage-bag political and economic theory should have died a long time ago.

[NAB]

This is what so many of the "Harper Conservatives Bashers" don't get... (...or simply refuse to address...) The federal government "gets it" though. But then they can see beyond next weekend.
Nab

Canada’s demographic ‘golden age’ coming to an end
JOE FRIESEN
From Monday's Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, May. 27, 2012 10:05PM EDT
Last updated Monday, May. 28, 2012 3:53AM EDT

Excerpts...

Canada is at a demographic peak, but the descent will be swift and steep.

A greater proportion of people are working now than ever before. The largest chunk of the population, the baby boomers, are in their highest earning years and only a tiny sliver of that cohort has slipped into retirement. Their relatively fatter salaries are filling tax coffers and funding social programs. And years of low birth rates have meant significantly fewer dependent children to support than in decades past.

“This is the golden age,” according to McMaster University economist Arthur Sweetman.

But the release of new 2011 census numbers this week will show that the period of “peak people” is about to end. Canada’s demographics are at an inflection point, as the number of people of retirement age begins to grow at a faster rate than any other group in the next few years.

This country is still in much better demographic shape than nearly any other in the G8, with only about 14 per cent of its population over 65, compared with more than 20 per cent in Japan, Germany and Italy. And with nearly 70 per cent in the working ages of 15 to 64, Canada ranks ahead of all of those nations except Russia.

But much of its current advantage is explained by the relatively large size of the baby boom in Canada, according to Western University demographer Rod Beaujot. That advantage is about to erode. As the baby boom retires, the ratio of the employed to the not-employed will fall, possibly for a very long time.

“It’s inconceivable that in the future we will see anything but a decline in employment rates,” said Prof. Beaujot.

For Stephen Harper’s government, that shift has a number of important policy implications, from pensions to health care. The government has already proposed a gradual rise in the age of eligibility for Old Age Security to 67 years from 65. Although an aging population is often cited as a reason to cut spending, governments have known the implications of an aging population for more than 30 years. It is among the least surprising developments a government could face.

The prime example is health care. Its funding formula is a pay-as-you-go system, where the taxes collected in one year pay for the services provided. It could have been placed on much firmer footing if governments hadn’t cut taxes when taxpayers were abundant, Prof. Beaujot said. Now the key to sustaining expensive social programs will be getting even more people working,...

“We need to employ people longer and get people on the fringes of the labour force, disabled people or aboriginal groups, for example, more involved,” Prof. Beaujot said.

An important implication of this impending demographic shift is the possibility of labour shortages.

Forecasts have suggested as many as a million jobs could go unfilled over the next decade. Provinces and business leaders have suggested increasing immigration rates to help fill some of the shortage, but the federal government has kept rates fairly steady at about 250,000 newcomers a year.

The new census numbers will also reveal how regional differences could be exacerbated by the aging of the population. Already Atlantic Canada has a significantly higher proportion of people over 65, while Alberta is considerably younger. That could worsen in coming years under proposed changes to the Employment Insurance system that will push working-age people toward jobs in the young and booming West. Today, projections show that nearly one in three people in the Atlantic region will be over 65 within two and a half decades. In Alberta, that number will be closer to one in five.

More at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol ... le2444908/

[French Castanut]

It looks like the protests have reach the Okanagan:

http://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/ ... P-s-office

[bob vernon]

There was a small group that met at the office of Colin Mayes in Vernon and then marched through the streets with signs. They had a few musicians with them who were actually pretty good. They were well behaved and most who drove by honked their approval.

[twobits]

They were well behaved and most who drove by honked their approval.

They weren't honking their approval, they were telling them to grow up and find a real job.

[Logitack]

and you know that how? must be wonderful to be a mindreader

[zzontar]

They weren't honking their approval, they were telling them to grow up and find a real job.

Did you ever think that they do have jobs but are in disagreement with Harper's way of pushing through his legislation? Maybe they don't like that Harper is setting things up so big corporations can do massive damage to the environment with little or no recourse and the people honking agree. They're staging a peaceful demonstration with the hopes of getting enough signatures on a petition to change things... perhaps they should riot instead. You're protesting about their protesting, you're just lazier about your protests than they are...with your way of thinking I'm assuming you don't have a real job then either?

[Captain Awesome]

and you know that how? must be wonderful to be a mindreader

Well, it's kinda obvious...

[butcher99]

Well, perhaps it is time some limits be put on the left wing entitlement crowd. And their leaders.....

‘When I needed it, I used it’: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she was repeat EI user

Excerpt: ""Green Party leader Elizabeth May objected Thursday to the Conservative government’s targeting of “repeat users” of the Employment Insurance system — because she was one herself.

Ms. May said that from 1975 to 1980, she received what was then called unemployment insurance during the off-season while working as a waitress and cook at her family’s restaurant and gift shop business in Cape Breton, she says.""

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/24 ... t-ei-user/

NDP leader has remortgaged his home 11 times since early 1980s

Excerpt: "New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair and his wife have repeatedly refinanced their home west of Montreal, gradually increasing the debt on the property over a series of 11 mortgages, land records show."

""It is unclear why Mulcair would need to refinance the modest two-garage home in Beaconsfield so many times, bumping the value of the mortgage from $58,000 to $300,000.

Before he became leader, Mulcair enjoyed a successful and well-paid career as a government lawyer and, later, a cabinet minister in the Quebec National Assembly. His wife, Catherine Pinhas, is a psychologist practicing in Montreal. Both their children are now adults with jobs — one is a police officer, the other an engineer.

Mulcair was hit with a judgment from a defamation case in 2005 after he accused former Parti Québécois minister Yves Duhaime of influence peddling. He was ordered to pay Duhaime $95,000, plus legal costs.""

""Today, Mulcair earns $157,731 annually as an MP plus a $75,516 stipend as Leader of the Official Opposition. When in Ottawa, he lives for free at the official residence, Stornoway.""

""If past opposition leaders are any example, Mulcair is likely to become the target of Conservative Party attack ads before the next election. As a New Democrat, his credibility as financial manager will likely figure into the critique.""


http://www.vancouversun.com/news/NDP%20 ... story.html

Ya. fer sure... Wake Up Canada!
Nab

The NDP leader has remortgaged his home 11 times in 30 years. Yes, and how many times did you do it? If you had one year mortgages you would have done it 30 times. So it turns out he he took on average, a 3 year mortgage. Is there a point to that point?

You bring up how much Mulcare makes, how much does Mulroney opps sorry, I mean harper make?

So he worked for the government in one job or another for most of his life. So has Harper. Harper has never really held a "real" job in his life. EVER. Neither is he a lawyer.

Stephen Harpers credibility as financial manager will likely figure in the next election. Especially when despite huge cuts in taxes and spending he is not even close to balancing the budget. Although I am sure he will have a great excuse and that all the right wingnuts will believe him.

[Fritzthecat]

we can only hope and pray, that your prediction is right. This garbage-bag political and economic theory should have died a long time ago.

Yeah beacuse the right wing have done such a good job preventing a world wide finacial meltdown...oh wait a minute.....

[NAB]

The NDP leader has remortgaged his home 11 times in 30 years. Yes, and how many times did you do it?

Never. I consider it stupid.

Nab

[The Green Barbarian]

Yeah beacuse the right wing have done such a good job preventing a world wide finacial meltdown...oh wait a minute.....

They did a darn good job in Canada - too bad the rest of the world wasn't listening to them.