CBC Yaps about a Political tit-for-tat but it will not allow you to mention their favourite Prime Ministers

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diefenbaker-award-stephen-harper-john-baird-human-rights-casgrain-liberals-trudeau-1.4007086

Diefenbaker award missing in action after Liberals take over

Political tit-for-tat? 'Diefenbaker' award in limbo after election of Liberal government

By Dean Beeby, CBC News Posted: Mar 05, 2017 5:00 AM ET

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Mike Trout

Liberals are so petty.

David Raymond Amos

@Mike Trout Methinks that thou doth jest too much.
However I did get a great chuckle when I read that Justin Trudeau's government removed a portrait of the Queen from the lobby of the Global Affairs building on Sussex Drive in Ottawa just five days after being sworn in. That explained to me why the Trudeau government did not mind the Harper government removing the Queen from my lawsuit while we were all seeking a seat in the 42nd Parliament.
What is truly funny today is that the Trudeau government is still supporting Harper's malicious actions against me even though they have known for 15 months that the Crown had put the Queen's name put back in my lawsuit AFTER Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister

Tanner Moorman

@Mike Trout This comment was small and petty.

David Raymond Amos

@Tanner Moorman Trust that my comment was neither small nor petty. Check the Crown's records if you don't believe me.
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T

Darren MacDonald

@David Raymond Amos Have you ever been successful in your suits against provincial, federal or foreign governments?

David Raymond Amos

@Darren MacDonald Yes I won four Judgements in the USA before the Yankee attacked our home in 2003 and bankrupted us. That why I came home a ran for public office five times perhaps you should read my lawsuit against the Queen.

David Raymond Amos

@Darren MacDonald Ask your Hero Obama why the transcript and webcast of a very important hearing went "Poof" before he got elected in 2008.
http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=90F8E691-9065-4F8C-A465-72722B47E7F2
Need I say I was involved?

Darren MacDonald

@David Raymond Amos "Ask your Hero Obama..."
Swing and a miss, he is not my hero.

David Raymond Amos

@Darren MacDonald You said you hope he files a lawsuit Correct? I presume it was against the buffoon Trump?
BTW I noticed a Newfy reading my appeal of a decision I won perhaps he should read the lawsuit now eh?

Bruno Vol

@Blanche Cote
that is simply not true--so lets not try to revise history..or is it simply ignorance?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-re-brand-government-in-stephen-harpers-name/article569222/

David Raymond Amos

@Bruno Vol Something else is that simply true without the need to revise history can be easily viewed byway of CBC.
In a nutshell now that Harper and some of his elite vanguard such as Baird, Kenney and MacKay to name but a few have gone the way of the Dodo Bird other Tories are bailing and cashing in on their once beloved party and even getting CBC to talk about their books whining about it.
Go Figure
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/award-season-not-my-party-mysteries-of-the-cosmos-former-bbc-head-on-public-broadcasting-1.3997618/former-tory-cabinet-minister-tom-mcmillan-whosever-s-party-it-is-it-damn-well-isn-t-mine-1.3997624

Jean Pilot

Diefenbaker!!!!
He burned the ARROW air planes ( the real flying ones, the prototypes, the parts etc..) and all associated drawings!!!
How could anyone destroy knowledge
Harper has done similarly with the gun register, the census etc..
How can people be proud of destroying knowledge is beyond my comprehension
and it is scary

David Raymond Amos

@Jean Pilot I agree with you about the destruction of a fine aircraft However I draw the line between you and I when you attack my right to own guns.



Arlond Lynds

@Lester Rowe
No we will not "get over" the Arrow, Diefenbaker sold out the Canadian aerospace industry to the USA. Nothing short of treason in my opinion.

David Raymond Amos 

@Arlond Lynds I agree

The Ghost of my Father would haunt til I met him on the other side of life if I did. The first model airplane he got for me to build as a kid in the late fifties was that of the Arrow. Trust that my dad instilled into me an immense pride in all forms of Canadian aviation history. He proudly went through WWII with the RCAF and has the Air Force remembered on his grave. He named me David after one of buddies who did make it through but was awarded the VC for his very honourable actions.

 

Brent Grywinski

Diefenbaker created Canada's Bill of Rights. Diefenbaker actually knew something about human rights. Harper talked a good game but tried to limit people's human rights.

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David Raymond Amos

@Brent Grywinski Hindsight is 20 20 for old men such as I.
Hence in my humble opinion Diefenbaker like Trudeau "The Elder", Lying Brian, Creepy Chretien and Mindless Martin were just sneaky lawyers to mean old me. Harper and Trudeau "The Younger" are just puppets for the evil dudes hold the real power. For instance Trudeau supported Harpers Bill C 51 and still does to this day. So much for our rights eh?
I say that R.B. Bennett was the best and the only ethical Prime Minister we ever had but Lester Pearson and Joe Clark were not all that bad.

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David Raymond Amos

@David Raymond Amos As usual CBC had no reason whatsoever to delete that comment I guess its time to create another blog and Tweet about to you and your fans Nesy Pas Mr Trump and Mr Trudeau?

David Raymond Amos

@David Raymond Amos Gee I wonder what the lawyer Hubby Baby Lacroix and Minister Joly think of my latest blog

Neil Gregory

Does anyone else find it ironic that the Harper government created the 'John Diefenbaker Defender of Human Rights and Freedom Award,' but passed more than forty pieces of legislation that were thrown out by the Supreme Court of Canada because the violated the rights and freedoms of Canadians?

David Raymond Amos

@Neil Gregory It seems that Harper's forte was giving titles to things that did exactly the opposite thing. It seems to me he was relying on the fact that most of the electorate did not read his malevolent legislation. However other people read Harper's nonsense before it became law and blew the whistle.
CBC only spoke of this matter once that I can find and now it is gone.
https://www.facebook.com/cbcasithappens/posts/400621983358727
Now that we have a Trudeau government the most amazing thing to me is the fact that CBC nor did anyone else make mention of the recent hearing in this lawsuit by Edgar Schmidt, a senior lawyer with Department of Justice who used Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights against the Harper government. I suspect that it will wind up before the Supreme Court someday. My question is will anyone care?
.http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-105-16&select_court=All

Kay Smith

Dief, the guy who cut the Avro Arrow plan sending thousands of high skilled workers out of the country to work for NASA etc.
That day forced Canada to stop producing their own military equipment and buy from the USA.
Last time the award was given out was 2014

David Raymond Amos

@Kay Smith Do ya think fifty years from now they will have a Harper Award?

Kay Smith

Good old Baird , you remember him quitting the Con Government just before the election as he knew they were about to be beat
He did the same thing in Ontario years ago quit the Con party then run by Harris . Harris cut construction off the TTC extension AFTER construction started . Toronto is still suffering today by that cut that cost billions

David Raymond Amos

@Kay Smith Alas I remember Johnny "Never Been Good" Baird very well. Remember when Baird and his boss Harper wanted to bomb Syria and they tried to sell the idea at the G20 meeting in Russia in 2013?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/baird-to-meet-over-syria-with-russian-foreign-minister-1.1390870
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/baird-says-canada-cannot-allow-syria-to-act-with-impunity-1.1700080
Trust that I do and voiced my indignation bigtime long ago
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html« less

Stan Cox

Given the Avro Arrow debacle, perhaps the Diefenbaker Award should be given to those who kill Canadian innovation.

David Raymond Amos

@Stan Cox That is an excellent idea sir.

  

Meldrum Begin

The CBC argument as always Harper did it! Will baby Trudeau ever stand on his own two feet.

David Raymond Amos

@Meldrum Begin I see no need to defend CBC particularly in light of the fact that they denied that I ran for public office five times. However the awful truth is Harper cut their funding because CBC did not support him enough. On the other hand Trudeau supports CBC a lot because they support him. The truly sick and sad part of this is that we are the ones who pay the tab no matter what side of the fence you sit on.

Doug Lake

Is this the Trophy that goes to the most Corrupt politician? This one should be full of rich conservative winners.

David Raymond Amos

@Doug Lake True

Mike Hamilton

Yet more proof that the Liberals and Conservatives are very similar. Only those blinded by partisanship cannot or will not see it.

David Raymond Amos

@Mike Hamilton Oh So True

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diefenbaker-award-stephen-harper-john-baird-human-rights-casgrain-liberals-trudeau-1.4007086

Diefenbaker award missing in action after Liberals take over

Political tit-for-tat? 'Diefenbaker' award in limbo after election of Liberal government

By Dean Beeby, CBC News Posted: Mar 05, 2017 5:00 AM ET

An award created by Stephen Harper's government, which honoured former Progressive Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker, seems to have disappeared. (Chuck Mitchell/CP) 

A Harper-era award, named after Conservative icon John Diefenbaker, has gone AWOL under the new Liberal government.

The 'John Diefenbaker Defender of Human Rights and Freedom Award' remains in limbo, last handed out in late 2014 by then-foreign affairs minister John Baird, a keen admirer of the late prime minister.

The annual honour was inaugurated in early 2011, and given out for four years running before disappearing in 2015 and 2016.

The Diefenbaker human-rights award was last handed out in 2014, by then-foreign affairs Minister John Baird, a huge fan of Diefenbaker and his legacy. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Liberal insiders declined to comment on its status, other than to say that it could be "reoriented" and that nothing is imminent.

The missing award may be the latest twist in the symbolic game of erase-the-legacy, which every political party plays to some extent when a government of another stripe takes over.

Justin Trudeau's government removed a portrait of the Queen from the lobby of the Global Affairs building on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, for example, just five days after being sworn in.

Two paintings by modern Quebec artist Alfred Pellan were then restored to the space, exactly reversing a move that Baird, an outspoken monarchist, had ordered in 2011.

Awards killed, resurrected

Stephen Harper's government, for its part, quietly killed the Thérèse Casgrain Volunteer Award in 2010, which had been established by Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government back in 1982.

The Justin Trudeau Liberals resurrected the Casgrain award last April, and killed the Prime Minister's Volunteer Awards, which had been created by Harper in 2011.

A memo to then-foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion last year pressed for a decision on the future of the Diefenbaker award.

The heavily censored May 2016 document, obtained by CBC News through the Access to Information Act, appears to argue that the award should continue in some form.

Improve chances at UN?

"In the last few months, the government of Canada has taken a number of steps to highlight the importance it places on the respect of human rights both at home and abroad," says the so-called 'memorandum for action' from deputy minister Ian Shugart.

"You have outlined that harassment of human rights defenders is one of the key emerging human rights challengers of concern."

Stephen Harper in 2010 quietly killed a Liberal-era volunteer award named after Therese Casgrain, and replaced it the next year with the Prime Minister's Volunteer Awards. The new Liberal government then axed Harper's creation last year. (Canadian Press)

The document appears to suggest that maintaining the award in some form might improve Canada's chances for a two-year term at the UN Security Council, beginning in 2021.

The memo suggested Dec. 10, 2016 — the UN's annual human-rights day — as an appropriate award date. But no decision was taken, and Dion was subsequently shuffled out of the portfolio, in favour of Chrystia Freeland.

"No decision has been made at this time," said Alex Lawrence, Freeland's spokesman, declining to provide details.

The memo explains that the 2015 version of the award was not handed out "due to the Canadian election cycle and government transition period."

Multiple winners

The Diefenbaker award requires Canada's diplomatic missions to produce an annual shortlist of candidates for presentation to the minister, who was also free to ignore the recommendations in favour of her or his own choices.

Diplomats and others were asked to seek out individuals or groups "who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in defending human rights and freedom internationally, especially in the face of repression."

Honorees to date have all been foreign nationals. And in three out of four years, there were multiple winners.

Prominent British Conservative William Hague was among the most-recent recipients of the Diefenbaker human-rights award, in 2014. Baird flew to London to give a speech in Hague's honour. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)

Baird travelled to London, England, in late 2014 to give a speech honouring winner William Hague, the U.K.'s special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict.

Hague, a prominent British Conservative, shared the honour with Carl Bildt, former conservative prime minister of Sweden, and with two girls'-rights activists from Nigeria and India.

Stephen Harper's Conservatives were particularly keen to recognize John Diefenbaker, 13th prime minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963, whose government passed the Bill of Rights and who rebuked South Africa's apartheid regime in the early 1960s.

An Arctic icebreaker, still not launched, and an Ottawa federal building were named for Diefenbaker in 2008 and 2011, for example.

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