Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stephen O who wrote (11141)	11/29/2006 10:12:01 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 38191

Negative bias? The Champion of Free votes, ordered his cabinet to vote with him in this vote. He knew he had lots of support from the Liberals, and the Bloc, but he still had to micromanage the vote. Harper ordered his cabinet to vote the way he wanted, regardless of their concerns or personal beliefs. Sounds just like Chretien to me. He decided the direction the government was going to go, and he did not allow dissension. There's a true believer in Democracy. Imagine if he gets rid of the senate, how much control will rest with the PMO.

To: Stephen O who wrote (11141)	11/29/2006 5:05:12 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 38191

Stephen, you wonder why I am upset over Caledonia. Perhaps this bill should be passed over to BC to pay on it's own, like Ontario is paying for Caledonia. I certainly have no problem with this becoming a bill for BC to take over instead of making all of us cover it. A U D I T O R - G E N E R A L’ S R E P O RT Spending abuses revealed Nov. 29, 2006 National Post Talks with B.C. natives near $1BOttawa, which began formal treaty negotiations with B.C. native bands in 1993, will have spent around $1-billion by 2009 and likely have only three finalized agreements, the Auditor-General reported. That projected total represents a tiny fraction of the 202 First Nation bands in B.C. eligible to participate in the process, which has so far cost federal taxpayers more than $700-million and hasn’t produced a single final treaty, according to the report. The original federal plan when the process began was to resolve all B.C. land claims by 2000. “The government needs to rethink its strategies based on a realistic timeline,” the Auditor-General said in a news release. While the federal government is close to bringing three treaties to Parliament, Shelia Fraser paints a bleak outlook. “Progress continues to be slow and there is a risk that the treaty process, as it exists today, may be overtaken by the changing legal, economic and political environments in which the negotiations are taking place,” she stated in a joint letter to the federal and B.C. parliaments with B.C. Auditor-General Arn van Iersel. “At this point, we believe that signing treaties with most B.C. First Nations based on the treaty process as it currently exists continue to be difficult.” Peter O’Neil, CanWest News Service

To: Stephen O who wrote (11141)	11/29/2006 7:10:34 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38191

Stephen I see harper wants to work on Equality for women. He wants them all home, barefoot, pregnant, and obedient to their husbands........ Good to see harper is on the job...... Stephen Harper working hard to make sure he is the last Conservative PM, leaving no stone unturned in his search for an election loss. thestar.com Tories close most Status of Women offices Nov. 29, 2006. 05:40 PM CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government has stunned women's advocates with a decision to close three-quarters of the regional offices of Status of Women Canada. Cabinet minister Bev Oda says 12 of the 16 offices will be shut by April 1. Status of Women Canada is a federal agency that works to advance women's economic equality, human rights and eliminate violence against women. Oda says the regional offices do little to serve women directly and money can be better spent by streamlining services. But Liberal MP Maria Minna calls the move "reprehensible." She says women still have a long way to go to reach equality with men and the government should be doing more, not less. New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen says the decision shows the Tories have no commitment to promoting women's equality.