Canada v. Khadr, abridged
By Alison@Creekside
Shorter Supremes :While it is true that the Canadian government violated the Canadian charter rights of a Canadian citizen when it sent Canadian agents to interrogate him in a foreign concentration camp and then turned the contents of that interview obtained under duress over to the owners of that concentration camp, and while it [...]
“Everybody does it,” and other reasons to prorogue democracy
By Alison@Creekside
Top Ten Reasons to Prorogue Democracy . . . so far:
~ Recalibratin’ Economic Action Plan Pt 2 — but not making any changes
~ We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway
~ Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie circuit
~ Everybody does it, albeit mostly in the 19th century
~ Only “elites” and “chattering classes” [...]
Democracy is so last year
By Alison@Creekside
This is what democracy looks like.
It’s 1.2 million people marching on Mexico City in 2006 to denounce the abrogation of their right to fair democratic representation by their government.
You know why I’m posting this picture.
For the second time in a year, Steve the Despot and Her Excellency of the Rubber Stamp have dismissed Parliament [...]
Richard Colvin’s devastating reply
By Alison@Creekside
On Airshow Peter MacKay’s attempt to discredit Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan:
He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days and had not met with any detainees yet. And even if he had, protocol [...]
The Cons’ torture blackout continues
By Alison@Creekside
Among the many fakeries and falsehoods foisted on the House on Thursday by the Cons, in their bid to maintain the most secretive and unaccountable government evah, usual frontrunners Laurie Goldie Hawn and Cheryl Gallant got beat out by Gary Goodyear, Minister of Creationism, Science, and Technology. Here he is explaining why the motion [...]
Steve hides behind his troops
By Alison@Creekside
Faced with mounting condemnation for government ass-covering over Richard Colvin’s testimony about Afghan detainees, Harper resorts to an oblique slight-of-tongue blackmail :
“There were allegations of Canadian troops involved in torture. We’ve been very clear that’s not the case.”
So who is pointing fingers at the troops?
No one.
No. One. But. Steve.
Least of all Richard Colvin, as [...]
Richard Colvin and the Wankers
By Alison@Creekside
Wow. More of the smearing of witnesses we’ve come to expect from the Cons, this time at the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan.
- Cheryl Gallant. Although Richard Colvin took pains in his opening statement to the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan to make clear that he had nothing [...]
Rumours of its death . . .
By Alison@Creekside
Just three months shy of 2010 — the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the SPP would be completed — some people have been mourning and others celebrating for years already.
The SPP is dead (a short history):
Oct. 10, 2007 “The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead,” [...]
Bernie’s version
By Alison@Creekside
In February, Bernie Farber, CEO of the CJC, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, and 10 other Lib and Con MPs attended the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism.
From Farber’s Feb 25 column at Canadian Jewish Congress:
“Of all the strategies and tactics reviewed, one stood out for broader emulation. It was the development of all-party enquiries [...]
Kenney: Leftists = Nazis
By Alison@Creekside
Haaretz, May 25, 2009 :
A “new anti-Semitism” that emanates from an alliance of Western leftists and Islamic extremists is more dangerous than the “old European” form of Jew-hatred, Canada’s minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism said as he wound up a four-day trip to Israel Sunday.
“The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily [...]