tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post2229710055750468078..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: The Tucson Massacre and the Harper ConsSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-77869234350462720672011-01-12T13:14:32.623-05:002011-01-12T13:14:32.623-05:00January 12, 2011
To: Look up an MP via Postal Co...January 12, 2011<br /><br />To: Look up an MP via Postal Code: http://tinyurl.com/look-up-mp <br />Look up an MP by region: http://howdtheyvote.ca/findmember.php<br />If you live in Toronto, find your City Councillor:<br />http://app.toronto.ca/wards/findAddressForVotingPlace.do<br /><br />Re: Public G20 Inquiry<br /><br />Last summer's G20 abuses in my city were appalling. I demand a full official G20 Public Inquiry, with the jurisdiction to ask all fundamental questions and the authority to compel the answers. I wanted to take my family to peacefully protest that weekend but I was too scared. Where is our democracy? Where are my rights and freedoms as a Canadian I am supposed to be entitled to?<br /><br />What we need is a full public inquiry, we need a judicial inquiry, we need an independent inquiry, we need an inquiry with full powers to hear sworn evidence, subpoena witnesses and compel the production of all relevant documents. I demand this.<br /><br />• There needs to be a Commission of Inquiry into abuses of individual rights and freedoms by the G20 Integrated Security Unit. <br /><br />• There needs to be an investigation into the options, risk analysis, and decision-making that led to the G20 Summit being held in Toronto Ontario. <br /><br />• There needs to be an investigation into imputed G8-related spending in federal ridings held by CPC Members of Parliament.<br /><br />• There needs to be an investigation into all G8/G20-related expenditures made without a tender process.<br /><br />• There needs to be a plain English explanation of all agreements and commitments made by the Government of Canada and opportunity for parliamentary debate and vote before they become binding on Canada.<br /><br />Thanking you in advance for your attention to this matter.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Canadian Nobody<br />Address<br />City, Province<br />Postal Code<br />Tel No.<br /><br /><br />cc:<br /><br />Stephen Harper - Prime Minister of Canada, Harper.S@parl.gc.ca,<br />Michael Ignatieff – Leader of the Liberal Party, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca,<br />Gilles Duceppe - Leader of the Bloc Québécois, Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca,<br />Jack Layton - Leader of the New Democratic Party, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca,<br />Elizabeth May - Leader of the Green Party of Canada, leader@greenparty.ca,<br />Marjory LeBreton - Leader of the government in the Senate, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,<br />Dalton McGuinty - Premier of Ontario, dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org,<br />Rob Ford - Mayor of Toronto, mayor_ford@toronto.ca<br /><br /><br />--------------------------Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-25348252045172060222011-01-11T11:54:11.149-05:002011-01-11T11:54:11.149-05:00Simon, I can't argue with anything thing you s...Simon, I can't argue with anything thing you said regarding assimilation,yet I remain stubbornly optimistic.<br /><br />As for Frum, coining of that one little phrase has done much to destabilize our world and will take a great many good deeds on his part to make amends. <br /><br />And oh yeah, I'm envious as visiting at least one of the Mayan cities has been on my to do list for some timeKevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141832889857833324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-57018920410213560572011-01-11T02:49:00.870-05:002011-01-11T02:49:00.870-05:00hi Kev...I like to believe that ordinary Canadians...hi Kev...I like to believe that ordinary Canadians will stem the Americanization of our society. But there is a problem. A lot of Canadians may not be aware of how Americanized our society is becoming. Cultural assimilation is insidious and hard to quantify. I first noticed this phenomenom on a moon lit night at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza... after the sound and light show. Everywhere I looked I could see the beautiful sculptures of the gentle heaven watchers. Then I looked behind me and there was the grinning skull rack of the cultural invaders from the north. And guess who won eh? ;)<br />Seriously though, because Americanization is so subtle, we need to remind Canadians of the values that make us different. We like medicare, they don't. They are gun crazy, we're not. We believe in government, they want to destroy it. etc etc.<br />Pollsters say Canadians are one of the most nationalistic people on earth. Okay I say.<br />Show me....<br /><br />P.S. Don't be so harsh on the Frumster, it's a long and hard road back from the Axis of Evil... :)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-4236911273067828182011-01-11T02:22:30.707-05:002011-01-11T02:22:30.707-05:00hi O.B....thank you I'm glad you liked the pos...hi O.B....thank you I'm glad you liked the post. But all I did was remember the sinking feeling I had when I realized that this country had been taken over by some kind of alien ideological cult, that was absolutely ruthless, and totally devoid of Canadian values.<br />And express what I consider to be the main reason the progressive side isn't getting anywhere. The lack of an emotionally powerful, common narrative that can fit on the back of a cigarette pack.<br />Because unless we can come up with that mobilizing narrative, in this distracted age, we will not win...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-49883802261210459692011-01-10T22:21:48.210-05:002011-01-10T22:21:48.210-05:00Just as it was the people not the Liberals or Cons...Just as it was the people not the Liberals or Conservatives that checked the deregulation of our banking system so too will it be the people who will stem the Americanization of our society.<br /><br />As for Frum the scariest thing about him is his apparent reasonableness which masks the fact that he is a raving neoliberal lunatic.Kevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141832889857833324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-79300409975402841582011-01-10T21:46:12.630-05:002011-01-10T21:46:12.630-05:00Damn straight. Good post.Damn straight. Good post.Orwell's Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17777852618134159328noreply@blogger.com