While making a comment on another blog post regarding a CBC segment of At Issue program, it made me realize just how important it is to constantly think about your fellow Canadians. The comment was as fallows;
I vote with the entire country's interest in mind. I don't have small children in daycare, however the young families I know find it impossible to get by without two incomes and the availability of day cares in the area is next to none. I also don't have aging parents to attend to, however I do work with people who have had to take large portions of time off to care for sick and elderly parents, all without receiving a dime from E.I. or anything else. I do have a number of young family members who definitely want to attend college or university and any programs that help them achieve that goal is welcome. I would also benefit by having a tax rebate for retrofitting my home with any of a number of renovations that qualify for the eco-home credit, thirteen thousand dollars per household put a lot of people to work in the construction industry. Canadians need to be less selfish and think about their fellow Canadians, it's not all about " greed is good and I love money" mentality.
As for Cathie's post I too was quite puzzled by the "At Issue" panel, puzzled enough to remove both Chantal Herbert's and Andrew Coyne's links from my blog page. What I don't understand is that these two columnist work for respectful news agencies and they publish articles bases on their expertise. I remember in the last federal election, this type of dismal gloom and doom directed towards the Liberals and the Liberal Party of Canada, and that the NDP would take over as the official opposition. After seeing that crap in 2008, I was surprised not to see either Allan, Andrew, or Chantal, appointed to the Senate, I guess their was only room for just Mike Duffy. I find it appalling that our media can get away this totally bias commentating, and when you look at all three major polls, it's beyond me how they came to those conclusions. The only reasoning I could come up with is either they still have hopes of making it to the Senate, or the networks need to repay by favours for all those Conservative ads and Harper Government ads. Anyways it just re-enforces the theme of saving our Canadian democracy that this election has taken on.
Kelowna B.C.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
My Opinion Letter For the Local Newspaper
Dear Readers,
While returning home from work the other day I was listening to the radio talk about how political signs were being defaced. It was stated that both Liberal and New Democrat signs were damaged but not the Conservative signs. I was saddened that these types of shenanigans are taking place here in the Okanagan. I had heard of other ridings in Canada having bull’s eyes drawn on the Liberal signs, similar to the cross hair bull’s eyes that Sara Pallins web site had drawn on various U.S. Democratic politicians. I also know that in our last Canadian election in 2008 the R.C.M.P. were investigating in London Ontario, they were trying to determined who had cut the vehicle brake lines of people who had Liberal signs on their front lawns. Since when did our elections become so hateful and divisive? What type of message do we send our children about how politics and debating actually work here in Canada? A good answer would be to look at the scandals of this government, were poor behaviour is almost a daily occurrence. For instance, the Prime Ministers hires an individual who had been convicted fraud, that same individual who is now being investigated for illegal lobbying, the same individual who at sixty-six years old has a twenty two year old fiancée. What type of people work for this Prime Minister? How would you feel if that was your daughter dating a sixty-six year old man? To me this says a great deal about the moral compass of our Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the associates he surrounds himself around. A few years ago it was a Minister who’s girlfriend had ties to the Hells Angels, or just last year the Ministers who was kicked out of caucus and the party because her husband had been pulled over for speeding and was found to be intoxicated while operating a motor vehicle, he was also found to be in possession of cocaine (all but the speeding charges were dropped by the crown). What type of law and order policies is this government trying to pull over our eyes, law and order for us but they are above the law? They want to spend billions of dollars building new prisons, but what I learned last weekend from watching a Michael Ignatieff speech, is that forty percent of the youths in prison today are native, is this Steven Harpers answer to native housing. It is shameful to hear and see what takes place for democracy here in Canada now! I find it ever more shameful to not see the media holding our politicians more accountable for their actions. In my opinion this is precisely why people think politicians are crooked, they are never held to account for any longer than a day or two, and all they need to do is run a ton of commercials during Super Bowl and other major events and that seems to change our opinion. In the last two elections we have all been told to stay the course, our future depends on it, and our economy is too fragile. Well I’m sorry but no job is worth having my moral standards reduced to nothing. Is our economy more important than healthy debate between political parties, or more important than finding solutions to some of our social issues here in Canada, or more important than dealing with global warming? This election should be fought through good honest debate of issues, rather than hateful divisive attack ads. That’s just my opinion.
While returning home from work the other day I was listening to the radio talk about how political signs were being defaced. It was stated that both Liberal and New Democrat signs were damaged but not the Conservative signs. I was saddened that these types of shenanigans are taking place here in the Okanagan. I had heard of other ridings in Canada having bull’s eyes drawn on the Liberal signs, similar to the cross hair bull’s eyes that Sara Pallins web site had drawn on various U.S. Democratic politicians. I also know that in our last Canadian election in 2008 the R.C.M.P. were investigating in London Ontario, they were trying to determined who had cut the vehicle brake lines of people who had Liberal signs on their front lawns. Since when did our elections become so hateful and divisive? What type of message do we send our children about how politics and debating actually work here in Canada? A good answer would be to look at the scandals of this government, were poor behaviour is almost a daily occurrence. For instance, the Prime Ministers hires an individual who had been convicted fraud, that same individual who is now being investigated for illegal lobbying, the same individual who at sixty-six years old has a twenty two year old fiancée. What type of people work for this Prime Minister? How would you feel if that was your daughter dating a sixty-six year old man? To me this says a great deal about the moral compass of our Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the associates he surrounds himself around. A few years ago it was a Minister who’s girlfriend had ties to the Hells Angels, or just last year the Ministers who was kicked out of caucus and the party because her husband had been pulled over for speeding and was found to be intoxicated while operating a motor vehicle, he was also found to be in possession of cocaine (all but the speeding charges were dropped by the crown). What type of law and order policies is this government trying to pull over our eyes, law and order for us but they are above the law? They want to spend billions of dollars building new prisons, but what I learned last weekend from watching a Michael Ignatieff speech, is that forty percent of the youths in prison today are native, is this Steven Harpers answer to native housing. It is shameful to hear and see what takes place for democracy here in Canada now! I find it ever more shameful to not see the media holding our politicians more accountable for their actions. In my opinion this is precisely why people think politicians are crooked, they are never held to account for any longer than a day or two, and all they need to do is run a ton of commercials during Super Bowl and other major events and that seems to change our opinion. In the last two elections we have all been told to stay the course, our future depends on it, and our economy is too fragile. Well I’m sorry but no job is worth having my moral standards reduced to nothing. Is our economy more important than healthy debate between political parties, or more important than finding solutions to some of our social issues here in Canada, or more important than dealing with global warming? This election should be fought through good honest debate of issues, rather than hateful divisive attack ads. That’s just my opinion.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
More Ranting about "THE HARPER GOVERNMENT"
To continue where I left Off from the last post I'll start with how this election was triggered. The Harper Government had been found in contempt of parliament, this situation has never happened before in any British parliament. The reason for this charge was that they were not disclosing the true actual cost of what those 65 F-35 were going to cost. originally the government said the total cost would be just under 16 billion dollars, what occurred next was that Kevin Page our parliamentary financial officer came out with figures that almost double the governments figures. We then learn that he had to go to the Americans, British, and Australians to get the true cost. Our supposedly accountable Harper government would not release how they got that 16 Billion dollar figure.
Another unprecedented occurrence from this Harper Government was that one of his ministers was found to have mislead and lied to parliamentarians both in the House and in committee of inquirer. She changed legal documents by inserting the word "NOT" in the middle of a sentence and when they questioned her about it she said she never did it then later said she ordered a staffer to do it. If that wasn't enough four high ranking members of the Conservative party who worked on the 2004 election were being investigated for election fraud, two of these for are now Senators that Stephen Harper appointed. Speaking of appointing senators, Stephen Harper had always campaigned on cleaning up the senate and that he would never appoint any senators, in reality he turned out to be the Prime Minister to appoint the most Senators. There's also the fact that as soon as was originally elected on the pretense that he would clean up Ottawa, he in fact has made it far worse. When he first became Prime Minister the first thing he did was cancel pretty much every one of the Liberal programs only to re-release them a year later as Conservative policies. I think the most iterating thing he did, and probably the main reason I started being interested in all the politics stuff, is because in his first year he went to the other word nations and said that he would not honor Canada's legal commitment to the Kyoto agreement, and since then he has appointed four environment ministers in under five years and has done absolutely NOTHING on the environment except obstruct the whole world debates and agreement process. Canada is now seen on the world scene as one of the worst components of the global warming epidemic.
Another unprecedented occurrence from this Harper Government was that one of his ministers was found to have mislead and lied to parliamentarians both in the House and in committee of inquirer. She changed legal documents by inserting the word "NOT" in the middle of a sentence and when they questioned her about it she said she never did it then later said she ordered a staffer to do it. If that wasn't enough four high ranking members of the Conservative party who worked on the 2004 election were being investigated for election fraud, two of these for are now Senators that Stephen Harper appointed. Speaking of appointing senators, Stephen Harper had always campaigned on cleaning up the senate and that he would never appoint any senators, in reality he turned out to be the Prime Minister to appoint the most Senators. There's also the fact that as soon as was originally elected on the pretense that he would clean up Ottawa, he in fact has made it far worse. When he first became Prime Minister the first thing he did was cancel pretty much every one of the Liberal programs only to re-release them a year later as Conservative policies. I think the most iterating thing he did, and probably the main reason I started being interested in all the politics stuff, is because in his first year he went to the other word nations and said that he would not honor Canada's legal commitment to the Kyoto agreement, and since then he has appointed four environment ministers in under five years and has done absolutely NOTHING on the environment except obstruct the whole world debates and agreement process. Canada is now seen on the world scene as one of the worst components of the global warming epidemic.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Election Time
Well here we are at another federal election and not a moment too soon. I will start off with how we got here. First of all the Harper Conservatives where found to be in contempt of parliament, the only government in the history to do that here in Canada. Second Harpers key right hand man and chief advisor for over four years, is under investigation by the R.C.M.P. at the request of the Prime Ministers office. If that's not weird enough they also revealed that he had been jailed a few years ago for fraud and even Weirder he is a man of sixty one and he has a twenty two year old fiancee. I'm sorry but that just says way too much about the type of men making deals behind closed doors about our future here in Canada. There is also the Investigation of fraud from the Bev Oda affair, she changed a legal document and then mislead the house of representatives as to who did the forgery and when. This whole mess reminds me of the incident a few years ago when one of Harpers top ministers left confidential and secret documents at his ex-girlfriends house, the same ex-girlfriend who had ties to the hells angels motorcycle gang. Or when another one of his former top ministers was pulled over by the R.C.M.P. and arrested for impaired driving, and excessive speeding, and was found to be in possession of a substantial amount of cocaine. What was interesting about that case is that he was no longer a member of parliament because he lost in his seat in the most recent election, so what did Harper do, he fired his wife who was a Conservative cabinet minister and he kicked her out of the Conservative party. Still til this day Heleana Gorgis has had no explanation as to why she was kicked out, but everyone knows its because of her husbands screw up, as if she had any control over him and all but the speeding charges were drooped.
No, I guy could sit here and write all day about the numerous screw ups the Harper Conservatives have done in the last five years. Instead I am going to do this over a few different blog entries to make it easier. One thing is for sure, am I ever glad to be going to the polls again, this time I hope we have a fair and impartial media, the last election C.T.V.'s top political journalist and commentator was sabotaging the Liberal campaign and right after the election Harper made him a senator (which is like winning a millionaire for life lottery). Almost half of Canadians turn to C.T.V. for their news and they trust that they will hear the truth, unfortunately that was not the case in the last election. Here's to hoping for a reliable and truthful media coverage from our three news channels C.B.C., C.T.V., and Global News. Anyways that was post number one, and I'm going to keep posting until I finish my rant.
No, I guy could sit here and write all day about the numerous screw ups the Harper Conservatives have done in the last five years. Instead I am going to do this over a few different blog entries to make it easier. One thing is for sure, am I ever glad to be going to the polls again, this time I hope we have a fair and impartial media, the last election C.T.V.'s top political journalist and commentator was sabotaging the Liberal campaign and right after the election Harper made him a senator (which is like winning a millionaire for life lottery). Almost half of Canadians turn to C.T.V. for their news and they trust that they will hear the truth, unfortunately that was not the case in the last election. Here's to hoping for a reliable and truthful media coverage from our three news channels C.B.C., C.T.V., and Global News. Anyways that was post number one, and I'm going to keep posting until I finish my rant.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Years Goals
After revisiting my goals from last year I believe each of these goals should be continuously strived for, so I think I will just re-post the same goals.
I intend to continue that ever-elusive pursuit of physical fitness. I have already purchased the new stationary bicycle, with all the bells and whistles and now begins the time to adhere to the exercise regiment. My thought on this endeavour and how it pertains to my political blog is as follows; if everyone were to take seriously the goal of becoming absolutely as fit as they could be, I believe the results of that would have a tremendous benefit to our health care dollars spent. People need to take a more proactive approach to their own physical well-being, they to work as a partner with their physicians rather than just a quaint relationship that involves visits and prescriptions. Anyways the amount of health care dollars being spent is definitely high on my list because I believe if enough people take the correct approach to this issue it could have the same results as if everyone combined takes little steps to improve our environment.
This leads into my next item on the list of things to strive for in the New Year. I would like to continue to improve my personal environmental footprint by limiting my need for fossil fuels, through more improvements to the house and just an over-all conscience effort to use less and save more. This again leads into my next item on the list.
I would like to focus more outside of my immediate control when it comes to the topic of sustainability and environmental conservation. Some of the ways I intend to achieve this goal is to do more within my community by posting water saving tips at our poster board at the community centre and going to more strata council meetings to insist this item remains a priority as a community. Another way I intend to have more of an influence outside of my immediate circle is to get more involved and more vocal at work when I see a continuously gross waste of materials and energy. This not only benefits my employer by reducing costs it also acts as advertising as the other employees will have to act in a more conscientious manor when dealing with consumption, maybe the odd person will take those same measures home and apply them there.
Next goal is to have an increased level of involvement when it comes to an on-line presence on the social networking sites. I have recently joined a "Face Book" group called "Save our Rivers Society" and they have meetings and discussion that I could have a greater involvement with. I am also a member of the "Make Poverty History" campaign, this is the group made famous by the lead singer Bono of U2, and I can get more active in that as well. Then there is that new "Face Book" group "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament", in one week the membership went to 100,000 people who joined and today just a week and half after it started, the membership will be over 150,000 people. The good thing about this group is that it has become a meeting place where people can stay informed about up and coming events and they can also share their thoughts and ideas for the betterment of our great country "Canada".
Education is my next goal, I intend to continue to progress in my pursuit of knowledge and keep my brain as active as possible. An important aspect of my life, which requires a constant and never ending improvement, is technology. With the way technology makes advances daily, I believe this will always be a priority with most people who want to keep up with the various aspects of technology. Specifically the different social net work sites require that I stay informed in order to fully utilize them as constructive tools. Another specific aspect of technology I want to learn more about is the various ways of my smart phone works and the numerous activities it can perform especially the capability to interface with my computer. One more evident aspect I would like to improve my education of is, writing and the correct use of grammar and sentence structure. The best way for me to do this is to continue reading and continue writing comments and posting to my blogs. "I may not be the most intelligent person I know, however that does not prevent me from striving for that intelligence."(Me)
Another goal I think I need to make an effort to improve is reading, I intend to get more involved with a book club or a suggested reading list, there are many to choose from and I'm sure that I could probably pick a different club or list every month if I wanted to.
Continue to increase the number of posts to my blogs and to stay active with my comments on other blog sites, this is quite self-explanatory and was on my last year list of goals as well.
Be more charitable A) with my time and B) with my money. Again self-explanatory, I think the world would be a much better place if everyone donated a bit of time to volunteer his or her time to a charitable organization, and as for money I always feel I can do more then I presently do.
I also want to strive to be more patient with other people and make a more conscious effort to see things from the other persons point of view.
The last goal is to take the time to pursue my interest and hobbies more often and share in those hobbies with family and friends more often.
I intend to continue that ever-elusive pursuit of physical fitness. I have already purchased the new stationary bicycle, with all the bells and whistles and now begins the time to adhere to the exercise regiment. My thought on this endeavour and how it pertains to my political blog is as follows; if everyone were to take seriously the goal of becoming absolutely as fit as they could be, I believe the results of that would have a tremendous benefit to our health care dollars spent. People need to take a more proactive approach to their own physical well-being, they to work as a partner with their physicians rather than just a quaint relationship that involves visits and prescriptions. Anyways the amount of health care dollars being spent is definitely high on my list because I believe if enough people take the correct approach to this issue it could have the same results as if everyone combined takes little steps to improve our environment.
This leads into my next item on the list of things to strive for in the New Year. I would like to continue to improve my personal environmental footprint by limiting my need for fossil fuels, through more improvements to the house and just an over-all conscience effort to use less and save more. This again leads into my next item on the list.
I would like to focus more outside of my immediate control when it comes to the topic of sustainability and environmental conservation. Some of the ways I intend to achieve this goal is to do more within my community by posting water saving tips at our poster board at the community centre and going to more strata council meetings to insist this item remains a priority as a community. Another way I intend to have more of an influence outside of my immediate circle is to get more involved and more vocal at work when I see a continuously gross waste of materials and energy. This not only benefits my employer by reducing costs it also acts as advertising as the other employees will have to act in a more conscientious manor when dealing with consumption, maybe the odd person will take those same measures home and apply them there.
Next goal is to have an increased level of involvement when it comes to an on-line presence on the social networking sites. I have recently joined a "Face Book" group called "Save our Rivers Society" and they have meetings and discussion that I could have a greater involvement with. I am also a member of the "Make Poverty History" campaign, this is the group made famous by the lead singer Bono of U2, and I can get more active in that as well. Then there is that new "Face Book" group "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament", in one week the membership went to 100,000 people who joined and today just a week and half after it started, the membership will be over 150,000 people. The good thing about this group is that it has become a meeting place where people can stay informed about up and coming events and they can also share their thoughts and ideas for the betterment of our great country "Canada".
Education is my next goal, I intend to continue to progress in my pursuit of knowledge and keep my brain as active as possible. An important aspect of my life, which requires a constant and never ending improvement, is technology. With the way technology makes advances daily, I believe this will always be a priority with most people who want to keep up with the various aspects of technology. Specifically the different social net work sites require that I stay informed in order to fully utilize them as constructive tools. Another specific aspect of technology I want to learn more about is the various ways of my smart phone works and the numerous activities it can perform especially the capability to interface with my computer. One more evident aspect I would like to improve my education of is, writing and the correct use of grammar and sentence structure. The best way for me to do this is to continue reading and continue writing comments and posting to my blogs. "I may not be the most intelligent person I know, however that does not prevent me from striving for that intelligence."(Me)
Another goal I think I need to make an effort to improve is reading, I intend to get more involved with a book club or a suggested reading list, there are many to choose from and I'm sure that I could probably pick a different club or list every month if I wanted to.
Continue to increase the number of posts to my blogs and to stay active with my comments on other blog sites, this is quite self-explanatory and was on my last year list of goals as well.
Be more charitable A) with my time and B) with my money. Again self-explanatory, I think the world would be a much better place if everyone donated a bit of time to volunteer his or her time to a charitable organization, and as for money I always feel I can do more then I presently do.
I also want to strive to be more patient with other people and make a more conscious effort to see things from the other persons point of view.
The last goal is to take the time to pursue my interest and hobbies more often and share in those hobbies with family and friends more often.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
What's new on the Canadian political scene
Well it has been a while since my last blog post and their sure is a lot to talk about. First thing to talk about is the "Gun Registry". A Conservative M.P. Candice Hoeppner had put forward a bill to scrap the gun registry program back in May of 2009 Bill C-391 and after all this time they finally had the vote. The bill was struck down (thank goodness), however what is important to talk about is the way the Conservative government conducted themselves here. The reason the vote took so long is because Steven Harper continues to obstruct and officiously gum up the whole political process, he has prorogued Parliament on two separate occasions were all legislation not yet passed in then dead on the table and has to be re-introduced. He and his Conservative M.P.'s also purposely obstruct and delay these committees tasked with debating these bills. They lie to Canadians and say that the program is a huge amount of money wasted every year, however the fact is that the initial set up of the program was a massive mismanaged cost overran fiasco but the actual cost of running it now is very minimal and very cost effective. I think one of the most striking fact of this escapade is that all of the top R.C.M.P. brass said they found the registry to be a useful tool that many officers use daily and that it saved lives. Also the head of the police chiefs for every municipality were strongly opposed to scrapping the registry and that the city police use it daily as well. The whole time the Harper government stood by decision and kept smearing the people who opposed their point of view. One last notable thing about this debacle of events for the Harper Government is that after loosing the vote he came out of the chambers and in front of all the television cameras stated that his government would not rest until the gun registry is repealed, makes you think what else would they never rest for if they didn't get their way.
Another item to talk about is that over the summer the Harper government descided to do away with the mandatory long form census that Canadains fill out periodically for Statistics Canada. Whats important about this is that other countris have tried this but have always gone back to the mandatory form, yet this govenment refuses to listen to facts and does whatever they feel like. I personally think they don't want Statistics Canada to disagree with some of their wild claims, for example the Conservatives have alwways said they were the tough on crime party and that things here in Canada are really bad (fear mongering) and when the opposition parties pointer out that in reality crime in canada has been on the decline for the last ten or so years, the statement from the Conservatives (Stockwell Day) was that they weree talking about unreported crime and that unreported crime was at epidemic propotions. My question and many other journalist is, if its unreported how do they know a crime actually was committed? This seems to be just another major step away from a free and democratic Canada.
The last but not least item to blog about is that Canada has for the first time since its inception, lost a bid to have a seat at the United Nations Security Council. Many people say that it is because Canada is losing it reputation on the world stage. Canada used to be a peaceful nuetral country that would mediate and negotiate between other countries, now we are an extention of the George Bushes shoot them up blow them up bring it on policies, tough on crime tough on terrorist and we'll kick their asses. However the world now knows that George Bushes Republicans fooled its people and the rest of the world by constantly keeping us fearful and worried that life as we know it was hanging by a string and all we had to do is be good little sheep and listen to our leader, who was starting wars in the name of war on terror but was actually a greed driven plan to secure oil reserves. Now that President Obama has ended that stupid war in Iraq and put the real enphasis on Afgahanistan where the real terrorist are (there and India), people are now learning about the many and huge lies told to us to scare us into letting the politicians do what ever they want in the name of "a true leader". I'm glad Canada lost its bid for the seat on the Security Council because maybe this will be a huge wake up call for all Canadians as to what is taking place in Ottawa with regards to our foriegn polocies. Maybe Canada will get rid of this right wing parisan Conservatives and start correcting and reversing the descission made such as; YES Canada DOES cares about climate change and we WILL honour our commitments made even if they were made by a different political party, and YES we do care about Africa and WILL honour our commitments made, and YES family planning is an essential part of helping mother and children health around the world and we don't need to make this about religion. Right now our foriegn policy seems to be about ridding the world of Muslims and making everyone devoted Catholics, everyone should have the right to practice whatever religion they wish as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else. Maybe just maybe this is the wakeup call Canadians need to get back on track and start having that world vission we once had and not just doing things for big oil companies from Alberta. Anyways tthats my rant for today and that was just three of the main issues within the last couple of weeks.
Another item to talk about is that over the summer the Harper government descided to do away with the mandatory long form census that Canadains fill out periodically for Statistics Canada. Whats important about this is that other countris have tried this but have always gone back to the mandatory form, yet this govenment refuses to listen to facts and does whatever they feel like. I personally think they don't want Statistics Canada to disagree with some of their wild claims, for example the Conservatives have alwways said they were the tough on crime party and that things here in Canada are really bad (fear mongering) and when the opposition parties pointer out that in reality crime in canada has been on the decline for the last ten or so years, the statement from the Conservatives (Stockwell Day) was that they weree talking about unreported crime and that unreported crime was at epidemic propotions. My question and many other journalist is, if its unreported how do they know a crime actually was committed? This seems to be just another major step away from a free and democratic Canada.
The last but not least item to blog about is that Canada has for the first time since its inception, lost a bid to have a seat at the United Nations Security Council. Many people say that it is because Canada is losing it reputation on the world stage. Canada used to be a peaceful nuetral country that would mediate and negotiate between other countries, now we are an extention of the George Bushes shoot them up blow them up bring it on policies, tough on crime tough on terrorist and we'll kick their asses. However the world now knows that George Bushes Republicans fooled its people and the rest of the world by constantly keeping us fearful and worried that life as we know it was hanging by a string and all we had to do is be good little sheep and listen to our leader, who was starting wars in the name of war on terror but was actually a greed driven plan to secure oil reserves. Now that President Obama has ended that stupid war in Iraq and put the real enphasis on Afgahanistan where the real terrorist are (there and India), people are now learning about the many and huge lies told to us to scare us into letting the politicians do what ever they want in the name of "a true leader". I'm glad Canada lost its bid for the seat on the Security Council because maybe this will be a huge wake up call for all Canadians as to what is taking place in Ottawa with regards to our foriegn polocies. Maybe Canada will get rid of this right wing parisan Conservatives and start correcting and reversing the descission made such as; YES Canada DOES cares about climate change and we WILL honour our commitments made even if they were made by a different political party, and YES we do care about Africa and WILL honour our commitments made, and YES family planning is an essential part of helping mother and children health around the world and we don't need to make this about religion. Right now our foriegn policy seems to be about ridding the world of Muslims and making everyone devoted Catholics, everyone should have the right to practice whatever religion they wish as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else. Maybe just maybe this is the wakeup call Canadians need to get back on track and start having that world vission we once had and not just doing things for big oil companies from Alberta. Anyways tthats my rant for today and that was just three of the main issues within the last couple of weeks.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
BP Oil Spill Finally Over
Well it has been around three months of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and British Petroleum (B.P.) has finally been able to cap the well head and cement the shaft. After eighty seven days and 4.9 million barrels of crude oil, they now have it permanently sealed. This oil spill turned out to be the largest marine oil spill for the whole history of the petroleum industry. The clean up efforts will probably continue for years to come, however reports show that the rate at which the ocean is absorbing the oil and breaking it down are high or fast. Here is a link to B.P's latest commercial http://bp.concerts.com/gom/beaches2_60natl_080410.htm Here is another commercial http://bp.concerts.com/gom/cleanup2_60_final_030810.htm B.P. seems dedicated to doing the right thing and clean this mess up and compensate fairly the people effected by the disaster. My hope is that humanity learns from this situation and that more is done to protect our environment, more precautions need to be taken and more restrictions need to be enforced, especially in Eco sensitive areas such as the Arctic. Many countries have looked at imposing moratoriums (stopping all drilling until thorough investigations are done) and the United States still has their moratorium in effect. Canada has chosen not to hold a moratorium, instead the Conservative government held a brief two day parliamentary committee hearings in which they felt comfortable with the oil companies emergency plans. Canada continues to drill the deepest off shore oil rig in history, Canadians can only hope nothing goes wrong, as Canada already has a terrible reputation because of our Tar Sands on going environmental damage. Again Canadians need to elect a government that will force these oil companies to spend the extra money and clean up the oil extraction methods, anyways one can only hope.
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