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To: Gulo who wrote (11112)	11/28/2006 2:27:32 PM
From: Stephen O	Respond to of 38172

Gulo no-one could have said it better, I'm glad you took the time.

To: Gulo who wrote (11112)	11/28/2006 2:45:58 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38172

If you look into the Caledonia situation and find natives on all terrain vehicles terrorizing the citizens, and closing roads, and preparing to spend the winter on land they are occupying, and realise that it is costing the province at last estimate 40 million dollars, or about 4 million dollars a month, and harper is doing nothing, that is a significant problem. Because it is in Ontario harper doesn't care. Whether parliament is divided or not, both groups citizens and natives need to see some progress. The Burden of this should be on the Federal Government, the extra policing should be mounties and not OPP who have a record of problems with natives and should not be our Front Line in this matter. Harper had 40 million to give to poor women in the third world, where is his help here. 10 months to cure this is too long. And harper has so far shown no interest. His Conservative MP is conspicuously absent in the dispute although John Tory has been magnificent. This did not need an act of parliament, or a vote, it needed leadership from Ottawa. That has been completely lacking.

To: Gulo who wrote (11112)	11/28/2006 9:18:06 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38172

G, It's (to belabour a point) the method he allowed Flaherty to use on the income trusts, not the trust. The medium IS the message... to quote MM. It was just not correct and frankly I think it cost him political capital. I'm already on record as being behind his stance on the NW passage, I do not think the Nation manoeuvre is a disaster.. as he has given up nothing and at the very least.. Quebecers know he is listening, plus he took the thunder out of the Bloc.. It gives me cause for concern that he would so definitively contravene an election promise which was the ultimate cornerstone of his platform... honesty and integrity.. He could have accomplished the shutdown of the trust avalanche without breaking one single promise. In lieu he acted like a fool. Amateurish at best.. Hopefully it will be his only big gaff.. Preventing the trust express is plainly NOT the issue although it is being used to condone a sloppy job. Al