Autopsy Report:-Roszko shot himself after murdering RCMP officers

More than likely he murdered the officers and then shot himself with a HK 91 308 calibre assault rifle.

Sounds more like an extortion racket than a "misunderstanding"

Assistance for Alberta Flood victims...........

Sgro Report- Office of the Ethics Commissioner-60 pages

EU- Odyssey to Nowhere

Kyoto-lite?

"Al Gore's top climate adviser, Tom Wigley, estimated that Kyoto, if fully implemented, would avert 0.07 Celsius of a degree of warming by 2050. McCain- and Bingaman-style controls would do even less. This is why Wigley called Kyoto only "a first and relatively small step" toward addressing global warming....

Although there is little that can be done to address greenhouse gases in the short term, who knows what technological advances will hold in the future? As far as the effects of global warming, most of the speculation is that it would harm the third world the most through increased disease, declining agricultural productivity, etc. If we worry about the fate of the third world, however, there are more urgent ways to address its suffering there than emissions restrictions. We could plow a portion of the cost from Kyoto-lite legislation — Bingaman's bill might cost $300 billion by 2025 — into directly battling HIV/AIDS, combating malnutrition, controlling malaria, and creating more potable water, the problems that kill millions every year."

Falun torture victim died

NEW YORK (FDI) – The grossly disfigured face of 37-year-old Ms. Gao Rongrong (photos) – the result of torture by Chinese authorities – was publicized around the world to the alarm of many. But it wasn’t enough, sources revealed yesterday, to save Gao from being tortured to death by Chinese Communist Party officials.

FDI has learned that Gao died just four days ago. Her death follows nearly two years of incarceration, brainwashing, and torture for her beliefs. Gao died in the emergency room of China Medical University Hospital of complications stemming from torture and abuse in custody.

Sources report that Public Security Bureau agents closely guarded the room in which Gao was held and stood watch at the hospital’s entrances. The agents intended to prevent news of her condition and maltreatment from reaching the outside world; this fits a pattern of complicity that reaches to the highest levels of China’s regime.


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UPDATE- FROM THE UN

Transcript of ABC 's Lateline on Chinese spying on Falun Gong

MARGOT O'NEILL: William Luo is a leading Falun Gong organiser in Brisbane. A few years ago he was approached at a Falun Gong gathering by a man in Chinatown. The man seemed to know exactly who William was and could even identify his daughter.

WILLIAM LUO: He says, "Suppose you are the leader of the group here" "and what about if I kill you and see you still do it?" I just feel how can he know I am the contact person in Queensland. So I just feel very strange about this. He pointed to my daughter, my daughter just close with me with other children, then he say, "What about if I kill your daughter "and see you still want to do it?" Then I figure he know everything. He know my daughter. I have in my mind he is a spy.

Hansard excerpts- Bill C-48( NDP Napkin Budget) June 20 /2005

Mr. Myron Thompson (Wild Rose, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to this two to three page document, although three pages may be stretching it a little, which would authorize the spending of 4.5 billion taxpayer dollars. I understand that it took up the back of a napkin under the leadership of the leader of the New Democratic Party and his finance minister, Buzz Hargrove, along with the Prime Minister who managed to put this little document together with no plan.

I have been listening to the speeches and I do not want to repeat a lot of things. I just want to say how pleased and proud I am of the member for Medicine Hat, the member from Peace River and our finance crew who worked on the finance committee and who talked about changing and raising the standard of living.

I have visited with several families in my riding. Some families have four kids and the mom and dad are struggling like one would not believe just to make ends meet. These families are trying to keep up a standard of living that is steadily going down and down. It is a real problem. Surely at this time of the year, following the income tax payments, members must realize how many constituents they have in their riding who are in serious trouble with Revenue Canada because they cannot come up with the extra money required to pay the taxes.

Taxes are killing us in this country. It is killing small business. It is hurting like crazy. It is slowing down that standard of living. I am proud of our boys who work in the finance committee. I am also very proud of our member from Red Deer who works on the environment committee and who has solid plans to present as to how to deal with these situations.

The government wants to spend up to $10 billion but I do not think it has a solid plan in place on where it is going to spend that. That is amazing. The Liberals talk about Kyoto and other things but it has no definite plan laid out as to how the money will be spent. They talk about throwing money toward the military. I am extremely proud of our critic on the military who just spoke.

I have been here 12 years and I look at the justice issues. For 12 years we have talked about a shortage of RCMP officers. I have 16 RCMP detachments in my rural riding and all of them are short of people. The penitentiaries in my area and in other places outside of my area are always short of personnel to take care of the penitentiaries. It is getting completely out of hand. Drugs and prisoners are in control of penitentiaries. Guards and personnel are slowly losing the battle. We do not seem to be interested in improving the situation with more personnel, better equipment and so on.

We have had very testy situations at border crossings since 9/11. How do we deal with this? The border closures made absolutely no sense at the ports. We know containers are coming in without being inspected. When I was at the Port Erie border crossing I watched trucks coming through and no one could tell me at the crossing what was on the trucks. They were coming into Ontario and being unloaded. A tracer was put on the truck but when the truck was found it was empty. They would issue a fine of $400 and send the truck back to the states.

We really have a shortage of people at our border and yet we are talking about protecting Canadians and the safety and security of our nation. One of the most elementary duties of our job in this place is to ensure we provide the country with laws that protect those very things.

I have been here for 12 years and we continue to talk about our children. Every year it comes up at budget time on how we are going to improve the situation. Child porn has been talked about since I came here in 1994. It has been a topic of conversation for nearly 12 years. It is improving somewhat but it is not because of what happens in this place. It is improving because of our dedicated police officers who are fighting it tooth and nail and doing an excellent job of it. I am very pleased with those people who are working in that category but we are not helping. We do not even have a national strategy with another international program to deal with child pornography. It is not getting better.

Question Period- Hansard excerpts- June 21/2005

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, as with so many Liberal promises, the details and results of the government's child care scheme remain a mystery.

The Minister of Social Development has admitted that $5 billion over five years will not create a system. He further admitted that he does not know how much money it would cost to create a system.

Now that the government has given him several hundred million dollars, could he at least tell us how many more child care spaces parents will see this fall?

Hon. Ken Dryden (Minister of Social Development, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the question is whether the budget bill passes. If the budget bill passes, then there will be $700 million that will pass to the provinces and to the territories. That $700 million will represent an increase of about 30% on all money that is now being spent by the different provinces and territories by all levels of government.

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, we should have known that not passing the budget would not stop announcements but passing it will not guarantee any results.

At best, the minister's plan to give all the money to bureaucrats and advocates will benefit a tiny group of children. It will leave most parents behind, including, obviously, those who work shift work, and those who use non-institutional options.

Why not give at least some of the $5 billion to parents and children themselves, as New Brunswick proposes to do?

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Hon. Ken Dryden (Minister of Social Development, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I need to remind the hon. member that a year ago, at this particular stage, early learning and child care in this country was fairly static. During the election campaign, the government decided to make a campaign promise of $5 billion over five years.

The party on the other side of the House made a campaign commitment that would result in an increase of about $320 per child per low income family. That is the difference between these two parties.

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the difference is that parents so far have not seen anything from the government and from this party they would have seen something by now.


Parents and the provinces want to be able to decide which child care system suits them best. With regard to the child care model that the minister wants to impose, Bernard Lord, the Premier of New Brunswick, said that he did not appreciate the federal government dictating what the province had to do.

Why is the minister continuing to ignore the provinces' demands for greater flexibility?

[English]

Hon. Ken Dryden (Minister of Social Development, Lib.): I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, I did not hear the question......




Technology Partnerships Canada

Mr. James Rajotte (Edmonton—Leduc, CPC): Mr. Speaker, Technology Partnerships Canada is again under scrutiny for its misuse of taxpayer dollars.

According to The Canadian Press, Industry Canada has ordered a massive audit into $490 million in handouts to dozens of technology firms. The department has already uncovered four cases where a lobbyist received more than $2 million in forbidden commissions.

Is it not true that this audit is so damning that the industry minister has had to establish a full team of audit control specialists, a damage control team, to try to assuage this audit?

Hon. David Emerson (Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, as a matter of fact, the payments that were made were part of a routine audit conducted by Industry Canada. It is part of the due diligence that our department does in reviewing Technology Partnerships' contributions. It was uncovered. We did identify $3.7 million in payments to intermediaries that are prohibited under the terms and conditions of Technology Partnerships. We have recovered every cent and we are broadening the audit as a pre-emptive measure to ensure that there are no further instances of improper payments.

Mr. James Rajotte (Edmonton—Leduc, CPC): Mr. Speaker, we expect that audit will be made public then. In fact, Technology Partnerships Canada has spent over $2 billion since 1996. Now we learn through the media that $2 million in forbidden commissions has been received by at least one lobbyist. This revelation has finally prompted an audit of this program, which this party has been calling for for years, yet the investigation remains incomplete and there is no word on when the audit will be completed.

It is starting to look like another sponsorship scandal or firearms registry fiasco. When will Canadians finally get the truth on this program? When will the industry minister finally come clean on this program, that over $2 billion--

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The Speaker: The hon. Minister of Industry.

Hon. David Emerson (Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, since I have been in the House I have heard a lot moaning and groaning and criticism of Technology Partnerships in spite of the fact that it has helped an awful lot of Canadian companies to become success stories, like Research in Motion.

We will complete the audit. I will produce a summary report by late September of this year........

Industry

Mr. Paul Crête (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, BQ): Mr. Speaker, Technology Partnerships Canada has unfortunately been a victim of such embezzlement that the government has had to launch an investigation into payments to lobbyists of companies that benefited from this program.

Does the Minister of Industry promise to make public the arrangements made with the four companies originally investigated?

[English]

Hon. David Emerson (Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, for any company that is a recipient of a Technology Partnerships contribution, where there is an error that has been made, it has to be released publicly. On the balance of the audit, we will make a summary report public as soon as we have it available.

[Translation]

Mr. Paul Crête (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, BQ): Mr. Speaker, these four cases raised so many questions that the minister had to launch a much broader investigation into the 47 companies that received $490 million from the Technology Partnerships Canada program.

Does the minister promise to make the results of this broader investigation public as soon as possible?

[English]

Hon. David Emerson (Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, as I said, we will be making a summary report public. This was part of a routine audit, which we are undertaking all the time. I would think the hon. member should be congratulating Industry Canada people for the diligence they apply in managing these programs and protecting taxpayers' money.....

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Information Commissioner

Mr. David Tilson (Dufferin—Caledon, CPC): Mr. Speaker, last week a motion from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics was overwhelmingly supported by a vote held in this House, 277 to 2 in favour of extending Information Commissioner John Reid's term by one year.

Can the government advise this House if Commissioner Reid's term has been extended on the order of this House, and if not, why not?

Hon. Reg Alcock (President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I can assure the hon. member that we pay attention to the House orders. I am looking carefully at it and we will come forward with an OIC when necessary.

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Justice

Ms. Paule Brunelle (Trois-Rivières, BQ): Mr. Speaker, according to the Montreal Gazette of June 13, the RCMP estimated in February 2004 that 800 people enter Canada annually to be sold, most of them in the sex trade. Traffic in human beings means their recruitment by some kind of intimidation or offer of payment by someone with authority over them, for purposes of exploitation.

What measures is the government taking to prevent this abomination of trafficking in people, trafficking in foreigners?

Hon. Irwin Cotler (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, we have introduced a bill on this type of trafficking. We will fight both nationally and internationally in this regard.

I hope that all parties in the House will support this bill so that we can pass it in the near future.

Pretty well explains how Kyoto is supposed to work

"Once again the dog owners were outraged. They complained that they paid all of that money 6 months ago to meet their emission targets and it’s unfair for them to be gouged again. But the non-dog owners pointed out that the emissions haven’t been reduced because the dog owners simply purchased credits which enabled them to maintain current emission levels by buying credits.

This left the dog owners fuming mad! They felt they were scammed! The dog owners then asked the non-dog owners “well then how are we going to reduce emissions so we don’t have to keep buying credits?”

The non-dog owners told them that in the long run people will be sick of buying credits and will be forced get rid of their dogs. “But they are our livelihood! We can’t live without our dogs!” Cried the dog owners.

In the coming months, the non-dog owners kept raising emission targets and offering new credits onto the stock exchange. The dog owners kept buying up the credits, bidding up the price, enriching the pockets of the non-dog owners with the goal of meeting their steep emission goals. The non-dog owners, on the other hand, realized that emission levels weren’t really going down that much. However they got addicted to the millions of dollars they were making off the dog owners from the credit sales on the stock market. They thought, “Well, one day we will use this wealth that has been redistributed to us to finally clean up the neighborhood. One day.”

Soon the dog owners began to run out of money and the yards were still filled with dog crap. Even though their yards contained 1000 times the amount of allowable emissions levels, there was no apparent decrease in pollution because all they had been doing is paying for credits. Soon after, most of the dog owners ran out of money and could no longer purchase emission credits. Many dogs died as dog owners ran out of money, homes were abandoned, and soon the homes of the dog owners looked barren and destitute."........