Wednesday 31 May 2017

Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas?

---------- Original message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:43:11 +0000
Subject: RE: Elections Canada - Required documentiation RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 Cya in Court SOON
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos commentaires.

---------- Original message ----------
From: Green Party of Canada | Parti vert du Canada info@greenparty.ca
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:43:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Elections Canada - Required documentiation RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 Cya in Court SOON
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 11:43:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Elections Canada - Required documentiation RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 Cya in Court SOON
To: Lorenzo.Prudhomme@elections.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Yves.Cote@elections.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

---------- Original message ----------
From: "Prud'homme, Lorenzo" Lorenzo.Prudhomme@elections.ca
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 13:50:01 +0000
Subject: Elections Canada - Required documentation
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: A friend

Hello Mr. Amos,

Thank you for sending the statement of surplus. However, the form
isn't completed and the declaration is not signed.

Please resubmit the completed documentation with the Official Agent's
signature on part 1.

Thank you,

Lorenzo Prud'homme (13-A-040)
Coordonnateur d'équipe régionale / Regional Team Coordinator
Financement politique et vérification / Political Financing and Audit
Élections Canada / Elections Canada
Tel: 819-939-2037 / 1-800-267-7360
[Logo of Elections Canada / Logo d'Élections Canada]



---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:43:59 -0400
Subject: Yo Bob Paulson For the record I just called Barbara Massey After admitting knowing I was she then played dumb after saying she thought my matter was over?
To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, ian.mcphail@crcc-ccetp.gc.ca, Gunther.Schonfeldt@cpc-cpp.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, mcu@justice.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, david.hansen@justice.gc.ca, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca, Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, andrew.baumberg@fct-cf.gc.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jensen, Jan" jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:43:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that
you corrupt FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will be out of the office until Monday June 5, 2017 and I will have
limited access to email during that time.   If you require immediate
assistance, please contact my assistant at (902) 426 1798.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo" Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:44:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt
FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas? (Away from
the office/absente du bureau)
To: David Amos

I will be away from the office until June 2, 2017.  In my absence,
Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at  (613)
843-6394.

Je serai absente du bureau jusqu'au 2 juin 2017.  En mon absence,
Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613)
843-6394.

Thank you / Merci
Liliana


Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r.
Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale
RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC
73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin
M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage
Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0R2
Tel: (613) 843-4451
Fax: (613) 825-7489
liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

Sharon Dickson
Executive Assistant /
Adjointe exécutive
(613)843-3540
Sharon.Dickson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

>>> David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com 05/31/17 12:43 >>>

For the record  I only spoke with one Crown Counsel before I appeared
before the Federal Court of Appeal  on May 24th. This was the number I
called and I talked to Liliana-Longo personally. She recalled our last
conversation in April of 2003 and i reminded her that the documents I
sent her in 2004 were now in the docket of the Federal Court. Need I
say that I did not consider it a coincidence when two members of the
RCMP attended the hearing in plain clothes on May 24th and refused to
identify themselves?

http://www.goc411.ca/en/93105/Liliana-Longo

Liliana Longo works as Senior General Counsel for Justice Canada.
Liliana can be reached at 613-843-4451

BTW I also managed to Speak to Trump's lawyer Mikey Cohen on his Cell
Phone (646-853-0114) because that is apparently how his boss wants to
do business these day. Seems that even the Yankee President does not
trust his own FEDS N'esy Pas Yves Cote and Mr Prime Minister Trudeau
"The Younger"???

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369


http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/05/re-federal-court-file-no-t-1557-15.html


Monday, 29 May 2017
Re Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 versus RCMP class action lawsuits
etc.Well May 24th came and went and not a peep from any of you or your
lawyers N'esy Pas?
I see that the RCMP's favourite sexually perverted shill on the
Internet is enjoying the circus N'esy Pas?

https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown

May 24th Hoedown
Topics RCMP
There is a certain irony in arguing her minions about suing the Queen
after the long weekend we are supposed to celebrate her position and
be forced to pay homage to the wealthy Brit N'esy Pas?

Reviews
Reviewer: ABoyNamedSue  May 29, 2017
Subject: King of IRL Trolls Strikes Again!!!
This guy's stuff never gets old. Hope the circus comes to Pretoria
before he hangs it all up this year as is the rumour. Give Gracie a
pinch on the chest for me will ya eh? lol Mean old Dog


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To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Subject: CRTC Reference: 770193

Good morning Mr. Amos:

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---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael Cohen
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos

Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
directed to 646-853-0114.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo" Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:44:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas? (Away from the office/absente du bureau)
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will be away from the office until June 2, 2017.  In my absence, Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at  (613) 843-6394.

Je serai absente du bureau jusqu'au 2 juin 2017.  En mon absence,  Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) 843-6394.

Thank you / Merci
Liliana


Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r.
Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale
RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC
73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin
M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage
Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0R2
Tel: (613) 843-4451
Fax: (613) 825-7489
liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

Sharon Dickson
Executive Assistant /
Adjointe exécutive
(613)843-3540
Sharon.Dickson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca


---------- Original message ----------
From: "Jensen, Jan" jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:43:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will be out of the office until Monday June 5, 2017 and I will have limited access to email during that time.   If you require immediate assistance, please contact my assistant at (902) 426 1798.


---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:43:46 -0400
Subject: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas?
To: jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, david.hansen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,  oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com, gopublic@cbc.ca, Whistleblower@ctv.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca, Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca, jkee@google.com, DDrummond@google.com,  ht.lacroix@cbc.ca, sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.ca, hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca, jean-pierre.blais@crtc.gc.ca, martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, political.financing@elections.ca, Yves.Cote@elections.ca, mdcohen212@gmail.com, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov

For the record  I only spoke with one Crown Counsel before I appeared
before the Federal Court of Appeal  on May 24th. This was the number I
called and I talked to Liliana-Longo personally. She recalled our last
conversation in April of 2003 and i reminded her that the documents I
sent her in 2004 were now in the docket of the Federal Court. Need I
say that I did not consider it a coincidence when two members of the
RCMP attended the hearing in plain clothes on May 24th and refused to
identify themselves?

http://www.goc411.ca/en/93105/Liliana-Longo

Liliana Longo works as Senior General Counsel for Justice Canada.
Liliana can be reached at 613-843-4451

BTW I also managed to Speak to Trump's lawyer Mikey Cohen on his Cell
Phone (646-853-0114) because that is apparently how his boss wants to
do business these day. Seems that even the Yankee President does not
trust his own FEDS N'esy Pas Yves Cote and Mr Prime Minister Trudeau
"The Younger"???

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369


http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/05/re-federal-court-file-no-t-1557-15.html


Monday, 29 May 2017
Re Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 versus RCMP class action lawsuits
etc.Well May 24th came and went and not a peep from any of you or your
lawyers N'esy Pas?

I see that the RCMP's favourite sexually perverted shill on the
Internet is enjoying the circus N'esy Pas?

https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown

May 24th Hoedown
Topics RCMP
There is a certain irony in arguing her minions about suing the Queen
after the long weekend we are supposed to celebrate her position and
be forced to pay homage to the wealthy Brit N'esy Pas?

Reviews
Reviewer: ABoyNamedSue  May 29, 2017
Subject: King of IRL Trolls Strikes Again!!!
This guy's stuff never gets old. Hope the circus comes to Pretoria
before he hangs it all up this year as is the rumour. Give Gracie a
pinch on the chest for me will ya eh? lol Mean old Dog


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CRTC DONOTRESPOND/NEPASREPONDRE
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:30 AM
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Subject: CRTC Reference: 770193

Good morning Mr. Amos:

Further to your correspondence of May 19th, and after an extensive
review of the other issues you have raised, we have concluded that we
do not have jurisdiction over these matters.

Therefore, we consider all matters you have previously contacted this
office about to be closed. Please note that we will no longer respond
to any correspondence from you on these subjects.

Sincerely,

Chantal Proulx
Client Services | Services à la clientèle
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | Conseil
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Ottawa, Canada K1A 0N2
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Outside Canada | Hors Canada 819-997-0313 / TTY | ATS 819-994-0423
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael Cohen
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos

Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
directed to 646-853-0114.
________________________________
This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate
thereof and is not sent on behalf of any other individual or entity.
This email may contain information that is confidential and/or
proprietary. Such information may not be read, disclosed, used,
copied, distributed or disseminated except (1) for use by the intended
recipient or (2) as expressly authorized by the sender. If you have
received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and
promptly notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed
to be received, secure or error-free as emails could be intercepted,
corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, contain viruses
or otherwise. The Trump Organization and its affiliates do not
guarantee that all emails will be read and do not accept liability for
any errors or omissions in emails. Any views or opinions presented in
any email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily
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electronic signature under applicable law.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-world-leaders-call-maybe-cellphone-010108194.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_16






Trump's use of private cellphone raises security concerns

VIVIAN SALAMA




FILE - In this March 24, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump speaksin the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief’s communications. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)




WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications.
Trump has urged leaders of Canada and Mexico to reach him on his cellphone, according to former and current U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the practice. Of the two, only Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken advantage of the offer so far, the officials said.

Trump also exchanged numbers with French President Emmanuel Macron when the two spoke immediately following Macron's victory earlier this month, according to a French official, who would not comment on whether Macron intended to use the line.

All the officials demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal the conversations. Neither the White House nor Trudeau's office responded to requests for comment.

The notion of world leaders calling each other up via cellphone may seem unremarkable in the modern, mobile world. But in the diplomatic arena, where leader-to-leader calls are highly orchestrated affairs, it is another notable breach of protocol for a president who has expressed distrust of official channels. The formalities and discipline of diplomacy have been a rough fit for Trump — who, before taking office, was long easily accessible by cellphone and viewed himself as freewheeling, impulsive dealmaker.

Presidents generally place calls on one of several secure phone lines, including those in the White House Situation Room, the Oval Office or the presidential limousine. Even if Trump uses his government-issued cellphone, his calls are vulnerable to eavesdropping, particularly from foreign governments, national security experts say.

"If you are speaking on an open line, then it's an open line, meaning those who have the ability to monitor those conversations are doing so," said Derek Chollet, a former Pentagon adviser and National Security Council official now at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

A president "doesn't carry with him a secure phone," Chollet said. "If someone is trying to spy on you, then everything you're saying, you have to presume that others are listening to it."

The caution is warranted even when dealing with allies. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel's learned in 2013, when a dump of American secrets leaked by Edward Snowden revealed the U.S. was monitoring her cellphone, good relations don't prevent some spycraft between friends.

"If you are Macron or the leader of any country and you get the cellphone number of the president of the United States, it's reasonable to assume that they'd hand it right over to their intel service," said Ashley Deeks, a law professor at the University of Virginia who formerly served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs in the U.S. State Department.

The practice opens Trump up to charges of hypocrisy. Throughout last year's presidential campaign, he lambasted Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a private email server while she was secretary of state, insisting she should not be given access to classified information because she would leave it vulnerable to foreign foes.

Presidents' phone calls with world leaders often involve considerable advance planning. State Department and National Security Council officials typically prepare scripted talking points and background on the leader on the other end of the line. Often an informal transcript of the call is made and circulated among a select group — sometimes a small clutch of aides, sometimes a broader group of foreign policy officials. Those records are preserved and archived.

The White House did not respond to questions on whether the president is keeping records of any less-formal calls with world leaders.

Trump's White House is already facing scrutiny for apparent efforts to work outside usual diplomatic channels.

The administration has been fending off questions about a senior aide's attempt to set up a secret back channel of communication with Moscow in the weeks before Trump was took office. White House adviser Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, met in December with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. and discussed whether a secret line of communication could be used to facilitate sensitive policy discussions about the conflict in Syria, according to a person familiar with the talks. The person demanded anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the sensitive conversation by name.

The White House has said such back channel communications are useful and discreet.

Trump has struggled more than most recent presidents to keep his conversations with world leaders private. His remarks to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Russian diplomats have all leaked, presumably after notes of the conversations were circulated by national security officials.

It was unclear whether an impromptu, informal call with a foreign leader would be logged and archived. The Presidential Records Act of 1981, passed in response to the Watergate scandal, requires that the president and his staff preserve all records related to the office. In 2014, the act was amended to include personal emails.

But the law contains "blind spots" — namely, record-keeping for direct cellphone communications, said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, who specializes in public interest and national security law.

Under Barack Obama, the first cellphone-toting president, worries about cyber intrusions — particularly by foreign governments — pulled the president's devices deep into the security bubble. Many of the functions on Obama's BlackBerry were blocked, and a very small handful of people had his phone number or email address, according to former aides.

"Government sometimes looks like a big bureaucracy that has stupid rules, but a lot of these things are in place for very good reasons and they've been around for a while and determine the most effective way to do business in the foreign policy sphere," said Deeks. "Sometimes it takes presidents longer to figure that out."
__
Associated Press writer Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.


---------- Original message ----------
From: "Public Safety MCU / Sécurité publique UCM (PS/SP)"
ps.publicsafetymcu-securitepubliqueucm.sp@canada.ca
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:55:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from
the University of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the
documents I sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable Ralph Goodale, ministre de la
Sécurité publique et de la Protection civile.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Jensen, Jan" jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:55:36 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from
the University of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the
documents I sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will be out of the office until Thursday May 25, 2017 and I will
have limited access to email during that time.  If you require
immediate assistance, please contact my assistant at (902) 426 1798.

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/05/re-my-calls-about-peter-milliken.html

Friday, 19 May 2017
Re My calls about Peter Milliken, Iceland and The Federal Court of
Canada File # T-1557-15 and the upcoming hearing on May 24th in
Fredericton New Brunswick


For the public record after I received the responses found below I
call Ingrid back. Trust that she was not nearly as nice to me as she
was on Friday. Anyway after she denied reading my emails that the
computers of her bosses in Iceland acknowledged, she told to keep my
calls to Iceland at minimum. I can only presume that order also
applies to their spokespersons in my native land as well. Correct Mr
Mellish et al?

Birgitta Jonsdottier and her old paly Julian Assane or anyone else
should find this Interesting if one considers the fact that the former
Icelandic Prime Minister in October of 2008 promised to get back to me
and never did. Then after the worldwide ecomomy to a nosedive and he
was ousted the Icelandic Minister of Finance apologized for the delay.
Howver to this very day Iceland has NEVER answered the HARD COPY I
sent them byway of their Ambassador in Ottawa and the Speaker of the
Canadian House by tracked Canada Post in the spring of 2006. At lease
the Canadian lawyer Peter Millliken was alway polite to me even the
Kevin Vickers and his many buddies in the RCMP etc NEVER were.

Go Figure why I must sue Iceland in the USA someday EH?.

http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/05/yo-birgitta-who-is-more-of-crook-julian.html

>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> To: "whistleblower" whistleblower@ctv.ca; "Dan Fitzgerald"
>>> danf@danf.net; "terry.seguin" terry.seguin@cbc.ca; "Edith. Cody-
>>> Rice" Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca; "Barry Winters" sunrayzulu@shaw.ca;
>>> eachtem@hotmail.com; "danadurf" danadurf@hotmail.com; "dean Ray"
>>> deanr0032@hotmail.com; "dean" dean@law.ualberta.ca; "dean.law"
>>> dean.law@mcgill.ca; "Dean.Buzza" Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca;
>>> kevin.Jackson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Cc: oldmaison@yahoo.com; "tracy" tracy@jatam.org; David.ALWARD@gnb.ca;
>>> "Richard Harris" injusticecoalition@hotmail.com
>>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:06 PM
>>> Subject: Fwd: The Reykjavík Grapevine Al Jazeera Iceland
>>> WikiLeaks and
>>> British Banksters etc
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 01:58:58 -0300
>>> Subject: RE: The Reykjavík Grapevine Al Jazeera Iceland WikiLeaks
>>> and
>>> British Banksters etc
>>> To: grapevine@grapevine.is,
>>> Cc: editor@wikileaks.org,
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r879_ZTqaY8
>>>
>>> From: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM
>>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
>>>
>>> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGiPjIE1pE
>>>
>>> More info http://immi.is/
>>>
>>> Julian Assange Editor WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/
>>>
>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> To: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald" danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G" Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is
>>> something
>>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy
>>>
>>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304560/Speaker-Iceland-etc
>>>
>>> Then read on and chuckle
>>>
>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Dear David Amos
>>>
>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
>>> office.
>>>
>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
>>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
>>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
>>>
>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
>>>
>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
>>>
>>> From: postur@for.stjr.is
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
>>> waits attendance.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
>>>
>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
>>> letter ASAP EH?
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304560/Speaker-Iceland-etc
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352095/Tony-Merchant-and-Yankees
>>>
>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>> The Reykjavík Grapevine
>>> Hafnarstræti 15
>>> 101 Reykjavík
>>> Iceland
>>> grapevine@grapevine.is
>>> +354-540-3600
>>

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/11/yo-lionel-big-talking-yankee-lawyer-you.html

>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:31:43 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Alain Rayes remember me?
>> To: Alain.Rayes@parl.gc.ca, pm pm@pm.gc.ca, "Gerald.Butts"
>> Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca
>> Cc: David Amos
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/10/mr-prime-minister-trudeau-younger-and.html
>>
>> Friday, 21 October 2016
>> Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" , the CBC, the RCMP and the
>> CROWN's many lawyers should understand why I appreciate Parliament
>> labelling citizen's words as EVIDENCE N'esy Pas?
>>
>> http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=e&Mode=1&Parl=42&Ses=1&DocId=8493010
>>
>>
>> Special Committee on Electoral Reform
>> NUMBER 039
>>      l
>> 1st SESSION
>>      l
>> 42nd PARLIAMENT
>> EVIDENCE
>> Friday, October 7, 2016
>> [Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]
>>   (1335)
>> [English]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Thank you very much.
>>     Mr. David Amos, the floor is yours.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos (As an Individual):
>>      Mr. Chair, I ran for public office five times against your party.
>> That said, I ran against Mr. DeCourcey's boss right here in
>> Fredericton in the election for the 39th Parliament.
>>     I was not aware of this committee meeting in Fredericton today
>> until I heard Mr. DeCourcey speaking on CBC this morning. I don't
>> pretend to know something I don't, but I'm a quick study. I thought I
>> had paid my dues to sit on the panel. I notified the clerks in a
>> timely fashion, but I received no response. At least I get another
>> minute and a half.
>>     The previous speaker answered the $64,000 question: 338. I can
>> name every premier in the country. Governor Maggie Hassan is my
>> governor in New Hampshire. The people there who sit in the house get
>> paid $100 a year plus per diem expenses. I think that's the way to run
>> a government. There are lots of seats in the house for a very small
>> state.
>>     My understanding of this hearing is that you have to report to Mr.
>> Trudeau by December 1, because he said during the election that if he
>> were elected Prime Minister, the 42nd Parliament, which I also ran in,
>> would be the last first-past-the-post election. You don't have much
>> time, so my suggestion to the clerks today, which I published and sent
>> to the Prime Minister of Iceland and his Attorney General, was to do
>> what Iceland does. Just cut and paste their rules. They have no first
>> past the post. They have a pending election.
>>      A former friend of mine, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, founded a party
>> there, for which there is no leader. It is the Pirate Party. It's high
>> in the polls right now with no leader. That's interesting. I tweeted
>> this. You folks said that you follow tweets, so you should have seen
>> what I tweeted before I came here this evening.
>>      That said, as a Canadian, I propose something else. Number one,
>> my understanding of the Constitution and what I read about law....
>> There was a constitutional expert named Edgar Schmidt who sued the
>> government. He was the man who was supposed to vet bills for Peter
>> MacKay to make sure they were constitutionally correct. He did not
>> argue the charter. He argued Mr. Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights.
>>     In 2002 I read a document filed by a former deputy minister of
>> finance, Kevin Lynch, who later became Mr. Harper's clerk of the Privy
>> Council. Now he's on an independent board of the Chinese oil company
>> that bought Nexen. As deputy minister of finance, he reported to the
>> American Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of the
>> corporation known as Canada. It is a very interesting document that I
>> saved and forwarded to you folks. It says that he was in a quandary
>> about whether the charter was in effect.
>>   (2005)
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Could it be in relation to a particular voting system?
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     According to Mr. Lynch, because of the failure of the Meech Lake
>> and Charlottetown accords, he was in a quandary as to whether the
>> charter was in effect. I know that the Supreme Court argues it on a
>> daily basis. That charter, created by Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Chrétien,
>> his attorney general at the time, gave me the right to run for public
>> office and vote as a Canadian citizen. However, in the 1990s, Mr.
>> Chrétien came out with a law, and because I am a permanent American
>> resident, I can't vote. Yet the charter says I can.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     That's a—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     That said, that's been argued in court. In 2000, Mr. Chrétien came
>> out with a law that said I couldn't vote. Right? He also took away my
>> social insurance number.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     I don't know about the case—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     No, he did.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     But I don't know about the case.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>      I did prove, after I argued with Elections Canada's lawyers in
>> 2004.... You might have taken away my right to vote, but you can't
>> stop me from running for public office, and I proved it five times.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Given that you're an experienced candidate—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Very experienced.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     —does that experience provide you with a particular insight on the
>> voting systems we're looking at?
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     In Mr. Trudeau's words, he has to come up with a plan and no more
>> first past the post. My suggestion to you, in my contact today, is to
>> cut and paste Iceland's rules.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     What kind of system does Iceland have?
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>      It's just what you need, just what Mr. Trudeau is ordering now.
>> It's proportional elections.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Is it MMP, or is it just...?
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     I tweeted you the beginner's book for Iceland.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Okay, we'll look at Iceland.
>>     We're just checking on the kind of system they have, but I
>> appreciate the input, especially from a candidate, from somebody who
>> has run many times.
>>     But we do have—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     I have two other points, because I don't think you can pull this
>> off. I don't think it will happen.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Well, I'm hoping we do.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Here is my suggestion. You guys are going north.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Yes.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Look how parliamentarians are elected in the Northwest
>> Territories. There is no party, and I like that.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     That's true. We were just up in Yellowknife, in fact, and we
>> learned all about that. That's why it's good for us to be travelling
>> the country.
>>     But, sir, I—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>      I have one more suggestion.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     One more.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Mr. Harper changed the Canada Elections Act and I still couldn't
>> vote.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Yes, I was in the House when that happened.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Anyway, that said, when you alter the Canada Elections Act, make
>> it....
>>     The biggest problem we have is, look at the vast majority of
>> people who, like me, have never voted in their life. Apathy rules the
>> day.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Except that you've put us on to an idea about Iceland—
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Let me finish.
>>     I suggest that you make voting mandatory, such as Australia does.
>> Make it that if you don't vote, it costs you money, just like if you
>> don't report to Statistics Canada.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Well, we're talking about that. That is part of our mandate, to
>> look at mandatory voting and online voting.
>>     You already had your last suggestion.
>>   (2010)
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Put in the line, “none of the above”, and if “none of the above”
>> wins—
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     That's right, we've heard that, too.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     Well, I haven't.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     We've heard that in our testimony.
>>
>> Mr. David Amos:
>>     You and I will be talking again, trust me on that one, by way of
>> writing. You answered my emails, Ma'am.
>>
>> The Chair:
>>     Thank you very much, sir.
>>     Now we'll hear from Julie Maitland.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trudeau-electoral-reform-critics-1.3813714
>>
>> Critics accuse Justin Trudeau of electoral reform flip-flop for
>> 'selfish' political gain
>> Prime minister insists he is 'deeply committed' to consultation
>> process on changes to voting system
>> By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Oct 20, 2016 4:44 PM ET
>>


Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

BTW folks are gonna have a hard time talking to me now but feel free
to leave a message on my old faithful MagicJack and I will get back to
you when I can.

---------- Original message ----------
From: Póstur DMR postur@dmr.is
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:56:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University
of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the documents I
sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.

Kveðja / Best regards
Dómsmálaráðuneyti / Ministry of Justice


---------- Original message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:56:05 +0000
Subject: RE: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University
of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the documents I
sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
commentaires.


---------- Original message ----------
From: Póstur FOR postur@for.is
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:56:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University
of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the documents I
sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið  / Your request has been received

Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið  / Prime Minister's Office


---------- Original message ----------
From: Póstur IRR postur@irr.is
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:56:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University
of Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the documents I
sent and answer me in writing
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

Þessu pósthólfi hefur verið lokað

Þar sem innanríkisráðuneytinu hefur nú verið skipt í tvö ný ráðuneyti hefur
netföngum verið breytt:
- Vegna erinda til dómsmálaráðuneytis sendið póst á postur@dmr.is
- Vegna erinda til samgöngu- og sveitarstjórnarráðuneytis sendið póst á
postur@srn.is


This e-mail is out of order

As two new Government ministries commenced operation on 1 May 2017 ? the
Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Transport and Local Government ?
which took the place of the Ministry of the Interior the e-mail addresses
have changed:
- For requests to the Ministry of Justice - use postur@dmr.is
- For requests to the Ministry of Transport and Local Government - use
postur@srn.is


---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 11:55:33 -0400
Subject: Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University of
Ottawa Therefore he should certianly understand the documents I sent
and answer me in writing
To: postur@for.is, postur@irr.is, postur@fjr.stjr.is,
birgittaj@althingi.is, smarim@althingi.is, marie@mariemorneau.com,
david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, emb.ottawa@mfa.is, pmilliken@cswan.com,
lmcquaig@sympatico.ca, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca,
glenn@glennsigurdson.com, con.winnipeg@mfa.is, benedikt@ucalgary.ca,
j.o.jonsson@accesscomm.ca, brinklow@upei.ca,
gord@prospectfinancial.net, jacqueline@girouardconsultant.ca,
iceland@forum-americas.org, kalbfleischa@bennettjones.com,
robert.hickey@mcinnescooper.com, rmellish@cbcl.ca,
n.remillard@forum-americas.org, postur@dmr.is
Cc: miami@forum-americas.org, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
mcu@justice.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca,
fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca

The lawyer definitely should not have had his assistant call me making
false allegtions before I appear in Federal Court tomorrow.

When she accused me of something I did not do I hung up. She kept
calling back but her last call took the cake and I do not wish to
speak to her again. Trust that I will call Nicholas Rémillard's bosses
in Iceland after May 24th

You received a new 0:26 minutes voicemail message, on
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 09:18:13 AM in mailbox 9028000369
from "INSTIT INTNL D" 5142885759.

http://forum-americas.org/miami/mission

The World Strategic Forum is presented by the International Economic
Forum of the Americas. Its mission is to address the major governance
challenges of the new world economic order, focusing on the central
role of the Americas and in the global market.

The objective of the World Strategic Forum is to foster a better
understanding of opportunities and challenges at stake for the
Americas in the Global Market. The Forum also seeks to provide a
platform for business meetings in a broad spectrum of sectors,
including banking and finance, and to foster economic development.
...
YEA RIGHT

http://forum-americas.org/profile/nicholas-remillard

Nicholas Rémillard

President and Chief Executive Officer, International Economic Forum of
the Americas (IEFA); and Honorary Consul General of Iceland in
Montreal

Nicholas Rémillard, President and Chief Executive Officer,
International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA), is responsible
for the direction and strategy of the IEFA’s four major economic
events: the Conference of Montreal, the Toronto Global Forum, the
World Strategic Forum and the Conference of Paris.

Since the organisation’s inception over 20 years ago, Nicholas
Rémillard has held a variety of management roles, ultimately serving
as President and CEO from 2010. His contribution led to the rapid
expansion of the organization where he launched the Toronto Global
Forum and the Palm Beach Strategic Forum in 2007 and 2011,
respectively. The latter event is now held in Miami under its new
appellation: the World Strategic Forum. In addition to these North
American conferences, the IEFA has announced its shift towards Europe
and will be hosting its first edition of the Conference of Paris in
December 2017.

Beyond his role at the IEFA, Nicholas Rémillard also serves as
Honorary Consul General of Iceland in Montreal and President of RDÉE
Canada’s working group, the Economic Corridor of La Francophonie.

Nicholas Rémillard holds a law degree from the University of Ottawa.

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Hard Ball Politicking with 3 Premiers and Harper 2.0 within the LIEbrano Propaganda Machine on Polling Day in Nova Scotia

Out of the gate this morning Alpha Males with any sand had this nonsense to deal with so I did.

 

Liberals give Gallant authority to appoint 3 female candidates


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gallant-appoint-three-candidates-1.4135232


83 Comments
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 wayne guitard 
wayne guitard
Democracy by political correctness. How "progressive".


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@wayne guitard The ghosts of the "Progressive" Conservative Party and everybody else in the know knows that the Liberals forever proved that Democracy was a myth not long after the lawyer I call Trudeau "The Elder" took over the mandate. Trudeau "The Younger" further proves it everyday lately. As the Trudeau's love to say Just watch him.


Colin Seeley 
Colin Seeley
"Cathy Rogers, the province's first woman to take the role of Minister of Finance, said a lack of gender parity in politics is detrimental to government.

"Until we can get women and men equitably represented in politics, like in other leadership positions in business and in society in general, we're not going to get the best decision making," said Rogers. ".

Using Rogers talk to be the poster girl to talk about things detrimental to govt and best decision making . Really !

Has there ever been anyone more detrimental to govt making because of poor decisions than Rogers.

If this means we get more people thinking like Rogers elected this is not a good idea.

What we need are good people. Male or female or whatever.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Colin Seeley True


Wally E. Bamberger 
Wally E. Bamberger
I have no problem with a lady candidate who has demonstrated an ability to get the job. I try to vote for the best candidate, and they have often been ladies. An "appointed" Liberal lady candidate? Now that's entirely another issue. Actually, an "appointed" anybody is entirely another issue. They did not earn the job and they will not earn my vote.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Wally E. Bamberger The party system corrupted the myth called democracy. The way the party system works is you follow the leader or you are out. That is why I think the parties should be abolished.

In my humble opinion if Democracy were to have half a chance at all then every candidate would be an independent thinker with only the best interests of the folks in their riding at heart not the interests of any political party seeking mandate.

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@David Raymond Amos
Yes make them all independent. Lobbyist would have to lobby allot more people this way.


Jonas Smith 
 Jonas Smith
Gallant is only going to appoint women who toe the party line. Let's not kid ourselves here.


David Webb
David Webb
@Jonas Smith As would any party. The days of your local MLA representing their constituents is long gone (If it ever did exist).

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Webb I concur


Mack Leigh  
Mack Leigh
This is just more evidence of social engineering and manipulation by these Gallant Liberals... Politicians are now only being accepted into Cons/Libs if they meet specific criteria. Only talk about certain subjects, some are totally off limits and a candidate will be ousted if he/she speak the truth or stand up for democracy.... Politicians are becoming more like the public at an accelerated rate,,, just sheeple with a few at the top who call all the shots.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Mack Leigh Over the past 50 years most of the Alpha Males have been eliminated from playing their wicked little political games.




Then I went to the west coast and made the one of the first comments within the CBC domain before most folks in BC were out of bed 

 


NDP-Green accord touted as a way to give B.C. certainty provides Trudeau anything but


http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/b-c-coalition-what-it-means-for-trudeau-1.4137084


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Martin Howser
Mike Trout
I just love watching the little Punch and Judy gong show that is the Libs/Dippers going at it, even if it is at a provincial level.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Mike Trout Me too

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
Methinks the latest Liberal Honeymoon is officially over


Dwight Williams
Dwight Williams
@David Raymond Amos

Nope. Christy is a Tory in sheeps clothing. After Vander Zalm crashed and burned the card-carrying Socreds tossed their cards and bought Liberal memberships. Took the party over. The BC Liberals haven't been liberal since I was a young man.

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Dwight Williams Everybody and his dog knows that but did you forget that Trudeau "The Younger" supported Harper's evil C 51 Bill and has never altered it? Does that not make him the same sort of Tory as Christy?


Martin Howser
Martin Howser
@David Raymond Amos : have you read the whole of c51 to know for a fact it's "evil"!


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Martin Howser I read enough to file a lawsuit in 2015. Better yet, did you read Anne McLellan's latest plan to take away more of our rights while allowing folks to smoke dope?

FYI if you wish to argue me in public methinks you should come up to speed and read the text of the lawsuit I filed while running in the election of the 42nd Parliament or at the very least listen to what I told a panel of judges in the Federal Court of Appeal on May 24th before the Conservatives picked Harper 2.0 for a leader last weekend.

Lawrence Aaluuluuq (RedWhite)
Lawrence Aaluuluuq (RedWhite)
@David Raymond Amos

A conservative looks at every single Liberal failure, and can't look any farther. If there's a Conservative failure (and there are a -lot-), then the only courses of action are to clap their hands over their ears, or point the finger in the opposite direction without dealing with their own failures.

A centrist looks at ALL failures by ALL parties, then measures them against their successes.

Then we point and laugh at anyone without the intellectual self-respect to realize that the Reformers-in-Conservative-clothing think they can dupe Canadians again.

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Lawrence Aaluuluuq (RedWhite) Don't forget Independent Candidates such as I who ran five times thus far while CBC denied that I was on the ballot each time.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

For the record I am neither left or right but like my forefathers from Fundy Royal if old R.B Bennett was still alive and playing politics I would support him in a heartbeat.



Ron Vollans
Ron Vollans
@David Raymond Amos
16 years in? Strange honeymoon.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Ron Vollans Humm my math says it has been not even 2 years since Trudeau "The Younger" and his cohorts swept the floor of the House of all the Conservatives from the Maritimes. The awful fact is that Liberals didn't win but the NDP and the Harper certainly lost bigtime. Trust that I had a front row seat watching that circus unfold its tent.


Bob Kindle
Bob Kindle
@David Raymond Amos

It ended the day he entered office and just resumed Harper's polices! The Liberals are the Conservatives, are the Liberals... There is no difference between those two parties!

Bob Kindle
Bob Kindle
@David Raymond Amos

It ended the day he entered office and just resumed Harper's polices! The Liberals are the Conservatives, are the Liberals... There is no difference between those two parties!

David Raymond Amos  
David Raymond Amos
@Bob Kindle Even you must find it interesting that the CBC allows an NDP/Green Party supporter to double post in order to bury my point of view while they often times block my comments as well N'esy Pas?


Robin Trower 
Robin Trower
Nothing wrong here folks, it is democracy in action.

It was not too long ago that a certain federal leader considered coalitions of duly elected representatives to be a "threat" to democracy...


Marcel Pellerin
Marcel Pellerin
@Robin Trower

I remember very well that Harper was leading the pack with the BQ and the NDP but the deal never materialized. Thanks God


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Robin Trower I would not count out the backroom politicking just yet particularly a very sly lady is still the Premier with the most number of seats.

What if Christy has secretly wooed away a few NDP members to her side of the fence just like Harper did with David Emerson after Martin did it with MacKay's beloved Belinda the year before?

What if Christy decides to entertain us all and goes all the way to starting the circus then when there is the predictable non confidence vote called a few NDP members vote for her? My My wouldn't I love watching that circus unfold.What say you?

David Raymond Amos
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David Raymond Amos
@Robin Trower Methinks we may witness a similar scene unfold in Nova Scotia in short order but this time the NDP will be the King Makers N'esy Pas?

 
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled.
David Raymond Amos
@David Raymond Amos Oh my my it was interesting that your minions you call moderators within CBC blocked that comment on today of all days N'esy Pas Minister Joly and Hubby Lacroix? Methinks I should contact your Ombudsman/lady again EH?


colin smith
colin smith
@David Raymond Amos

That's a good point. Not all the NDP are environment first. A lot are supported by trade unions. How do they reconcile that. The pipeline is a lot of good high paying jobs for BC trades.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos 
@colin smith Its kinda hard to respond promptly if at at when CBC moderators block one's comments for political reasons not legal reasons.

Lets see if CBC blocks this comment because even the NDP Premier of Alberta agrees with you and CBC did publish that irrefutttable fact.

Rachel Notley warns caucus members not to campaign for B.C. NDP

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-british-columbia-bc-ndp-notley-1.4070297

"It's difficult for one to be working for our government and also supporting candidates who would be opposed to the successful construction of the Kinder Morgan pipeline," Notley said Thursday.

"We see that as being critical to our economic prosperity and growth in this province. That is the message that has been delivered and I trust that people will follow it."


Bob Kindle
Bob Kindle
@Phil Kachanoski

That was an election promise that will come back to haunt Trudeau, and proportional representation may not have determined the BC election, but it will likely be a major issue for the new coalition government! Liberal/Conservative (they are the same party, just look at Trudeau's policies! TPP, pipelines, he's Harper with a pretty face! and a whole lot of "um" and "ah") dominance over politics is coming to an end!
 

David Raymond Amos   
David Raymond Amos 
@Bob Kindle If you think ERRE is possible then what did you say or do about it when the ERRE Committee was on tour last year? I know I predicted that it would go nowhere fast during the Public Hearing in Fredericton just before Thanksgiving last year. Check the Parliamentary record


Dennis McKeown 
Dennis McKeown
Great news for BC,move over Clark your time is done.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Dennis McKeown Methinks the Fat Lady ain't sung yet.


Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin
@David Raymond Amos

She's singing her head off trying to hold on to power. Harper succeeded by LYING. Hope the Lt. Gov. has more back bone than the GG at that time.


Tony Adams  
Tony Adams
Hopefully they will make a coalition. It will show Justin and the Liberals where Canada really stands. You are so out of touch that the other left parties have to get together. That says a lot.

Just say no to Trudeau 2019


Pete Shartin
Pete Shartin
@Tony Adams

don't be too angry when a few NDPers cross the floor in BC , it's bound to happen that or an election

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Pete Shartin My thoughts exactly (Scroll up you will see)

  
Pete Shartin
David S. Foley
Alberta students just came up with 100% leak proof pipeline technology. Let's see what the leftist excuse is now.


Pete Shartin
Pete Shartin
@Bob Kindle

this is going to be hilarious ! Clark is going to stay on , and the NDP/Greens are broke after the election , they will be forced to vote with her until such time as they build up money to fight an election campaign or vote non confidence and go through an expensive campaign with no money ending up losing more candidates due to being out of money and out of supporters who are now afraid of what these two may do , plus the fact that both parties will not want to jeopardize their paid three month summer holidays with campaigning with no money ! haha I love it it's hilarious , I bet both parties are out gathering up their campaign signs carefully scraping the dog poop off of them so they can re-use them in 4 or 5 months

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos 
@Pete Shartin I know for fact that I am enjoying the circus as no doubt the Conservatives in Ottawa are too. . I suspect Christy will call the coalition's bluff. Its logical. However if some dippers don't cross the floor to support her then the Liberals would lose the vote and the Lt Gov should ask the coalition to try to form a government. If perchance another election were to be called, methinks the Liberals could lose next time bigtime no matter how much money they have in reserve. Trust that they will be blamed for the expensive reelection by every left winger in Canada excepting of course the strange dippers in Alberta who did not support their own party in the first place. I have no doubt the Liberals in Ottawa are concerned with the election in Nova Scotia as well. As I said earlier the honeymoon appears to be over.


Pete Shartin
Pete Shartin
@David Raymond Amos

Add to that the softwood lumber dispute and tariffs are coming up shortly , trudeau holds the trump card so to speak , he can either get right on it and negotiate or just postpone negotiations and stall until such time as the pipe line is in and operating , all these eco-nuts on here are just jumping around but didn't think about what is coming within a couple weeks from now , and now that I have been thinking about it more I am thinking trudeau knows the softwood issue isn't going to go well for Canada this go round due to stumpage fees being dropped to basically nothing since 2008 , he is hedging on hopes that the pipeline can get going so Canada has income from exporting oil as the softwood issue may take a couple years to come to an agreement and he has to start campaigning again in 2018 , fun times !


Seth Whittaker  
Seth Whittaker
The Green Party of Canada is one of the most dangerous parties in Canada filled with failed politicians bolstered by a carbon tax loving ideological out dated perspective on the world only seek to erode the standard of living in Canada


Bob Kindle
Bob Kindle
@Seth Whittaker

Trudeau is going to push that carbon tax on us all! While approving pipelines and flying around the globe telling the world they have to lower their carbon output!

David Raymond Amos 
David Raymond Amos
@Bob Kindle Trudeau "The Younger" is a walking talking oxymoron just like all politicians are. If you think your hero in BC are any different methinks you are pipe dreaming but have no fear Trudeau is gonna make that stuff legal in short order in order to make some of even dumber than we already are.

  
Bernie Mack
Bill Laplante
Their association with Trudeau has destroyed the BC Liberals


Bernie Mack
Bernie Mack
@Bill Laplante Christy Clark's Liberals didn't need Trudeau's Liberal to succeed at being ousted.

Clarks over-the-top lies and bs about how BC was going to be transferred into an economic paradise just as soon as the world cut a shipping lane straight up to a BC Liquified Natural Gas depot.

We all know how that played out. Here we are building an environmentally disastrous dam on the Peace River which will leave us $20 billion or more in debt and for what. To provide electricity to a LNG industry that isn't and is less and less likely to ever come about.

I will acknowledge the federal Liberals certainly didn't help the BC Libs when Ottawa approved both the K-M pipeline and Site C dam based on review process appointees put in place by Stephen Harper.

David Raymond Amos      
David Raymond Amos
@Bernie Mack I would have to say you pretty well nailed it but I must also say that the NDP will be no better.


Then I checked what the Very Sneaky Mikey Gorman now working for CBC said about Polling Day in Nova Scotia and began to add my two bits worth for shits and giggles.


5 things that will determine the fate of Nova Scotia's election today


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/election-five-things-to-watch-halifax-cape-breton-pc-ndp-liberal-1.2670227


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Jim Pettipas  
Jim Pettipas
I would be nice to see the voter turnout over 60%. Sad that so many people do not exercise their democratic right.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Jim Pettipas FYI My daughter and I are not allowed to vote even if we wanted to



David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Raymond Amos Well it looks like its all over but the crying now.

 
Jim Pettipas
Bobwatts
Vote PC. all the way!!! If the liberals get in again it will be the end pf NS as we know it. Another 4 years of Mcneil will ruin NS.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Bobwatts For what it is worth my best advice has always been is to vote for anyone your wish except one person. That person is the incumbent in every riding. If many folks did vote for the incumbents then we would have many new people seated in the house. Perhaps some would be very ethical and if so then we may see a true change for the better. I have always thought if we rid ourselves of professional politicians we would finally get the government we deserve.


Jim Pettipas  
james fryday
Heading out to buy some Chinese Hors d'oerves at M&M's. Gotta have some munchies for the "game of life" tonight on TV.It's do or die for Nova Scotia.4 years of McNeil government with very little growth combined with "tunnel vision" planning based on a fictional "balanced budget" will be the doom of a dying province.There is a reason why we have the oldest population per capita in Canada. Young people and families go elsewhere to find work.What company would want to invest in Nova Scotia when education is poor for kids and 45,000 using food banks and 100,000 without a family doctor..17 schools closed in Cape Breton last year. Where are you going to find a sustainable work force. Without the shipbuilding program supported by previous NDP we would be at zero or minus growth.We need to remake the province as a sustainable place to live and the Liberals and Tories are only interested in the rich getting richer, penny pinching the middle class and forgetting about the poor.Low wages,high taxes and poor services. Recipe for disaster.This province needs "life support or the NDP to establish the baseline of quality services to support growth and sustaintain and keep our children in this province. That takes investment in people.Now or never is the plan. NDP is the way forward.



David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@james fryday Methinks too many M&M's rots your brains and makes one walk in circles leaning hard to the left.


james fryday
james fryday
@David Raymond Amos -If you vote Tory you still walk around in circles,just in the opposite direction of the NDP. If Liberal they don't walk in circles, they just stand there looking off into the sky dreaming of the day things will get better. Like the play "Waiting for Godot".

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@james fryday Why else would I run as an Independent 5 times thus far?


Jim Pettipas
John Conrad
What difference does it make who gets elected? Food bank usage at an all time high. The VG hospital is crumbling. Value Village is the preferred store for clothes shopping. HST at 15%. High electricity rates. NS Liberals continue to fill up the bloated bureaucracy with Liberal supporters.. Government wants everyone to live in downtown Halifax. Property taxes high. Gouged at the gas pumps. Seems to be one government worker for every NS resident but you cant get any info or help from them anyway. Ship building contracts slow to start or will be cancelled by the federal Liberals and the workers are being recruited from outside NS anyway. Many seniors deciding between eating or buying medication or paying for electricity. None of this will change based on who gets elected.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@John Conrad I second your opinion Sir.


 Bob roberts 
Bob roberts
You will get my vote if your not afraid to take on BRAGGS and fix the govt funded monopoly they have created in the blueberry industry ,the rest of the world have blueberry prices around 60 to 80 cents a pound ,BRAGGS have so many govt sponsored acres of blueberries that they are at a point ,WE DONT NEED "YOUR" berries so 25 cents a pound
Take it or leave it ,so much for interest free loans ,


John Sollows
John Sollows
@Bob roberts

Good point. Their push to import bees stinks, as well. So does their treatment of folks in the southwest.

Larry Lippard
Larry Lippard
@John Sollows
Listen up Johnny. The situation here in Newfoundland is unique as the province is the last place on earth that has not been affected by bee diseases and mites with associated colony collapse. This is a result of a ban on honeybee imports that has been in place for more than ten years. The level of agricultural operations using toxic pesticides is minimal. The beekeepers of the province can manage their colonies without using chemical treatments. Our bees enjoy healthy immune systems.

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Larry Lippard Methinks there more Newfies who live off the Rock than on it. Perhaps that is why there are more bees?

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Bob roberts Here is your tip of the day about Braggs just Google the following words and look under TD Financial Group

Harper and Bankers

Then Google

David Amos and Oxford Frozen Foods

and say to the Liberals for me will ya?


Joan Walls 
Joan Walls
Nova Scotian's who are union based vote en mass to protect their pocket books ~ as mentioned we have not had a 2nd term government since 1988.We need some consistency and tough policies.The civil service are part of the problem working provincially and we know who they will vote for to protect their future pocket books and on it goes.

We continue to slid into debt with too much of our health care and education budgets going to salaries/ benefits / pension top ups and retirement bonus that are out of wack with the "average private sector Nova Scotian tax payer."

If the real truth be known about this entitled public sector's job behaviour people would understand why McNeil took the smart decision to stand up to them Yes the first strike by teachers ever ~ that should be every voters clue as to what this is really all about.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Joan Walls "The civil service are part of the problem" TRUE

However in my humble opinion the real problem is all the professional politicians over the years who created so many useless lucrative positions for their buddies to hold on to forever then retire in Florida with a fat pension to enjoy.


 David Sampson 
David Sampson
All voters need to grasp is the direct relationship between our out-of-control spending and our ability to adequately fund Health Care and Education. We have more civil servants than any other province and that fact alone inhibits our ability to adequately fund health care and education. The parties want to manufacture hope but they can't manufacture the money to pay for it. That comes from the taxpayer by way of higher taxes.

Vote for the party that will best control our mindless, endless addictive spending.

 
David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Sampson "Vote for the party that will best control our mindless, endless addictive spending"

So sorry to burst your bubble but methinks no such party exists.


Mike Sampson 
Mike Sampson
Our health care is a mess! Provincial equalization payments go mostly to HRM. The Liberal election rant about having grown the population applies to the HRM . The new "HOGTOWN". What about the rest of the province?? Seniors take note, this Gov't. is not there for you. Plus many millions of our tax dollars wasted on the Bluenose and the Cat. Put those dollars into enhancing the healthcare system! Enough is enough!


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Mike Sampson I concur
  

Max Merl
Max Merl
Canadians hope Nova Scotians make the right choice and elect a majority PC government.


Larry Lippard
Larry Lippard
@Max Merl
Listen up Maxie, the downfall of the PC government in Nova Scotia is when they announced a deficit financial position for the province. They sealed their own coffin. The residents of the province have no stomach for deficits. Dream On.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Larry Lippard Yo Larry Listen up. Nobody listens to clowns we are supposed laugh at their nonsense..


Larry Lippard
Larry Lippard
Listen up Nova Scotians. Its a foregone conclusion, the results will be a majority government for the Liberals followed by the Tories, NDP then the Green. I am still baffled about the riding of Dartmouth South without mentioning names. It makes me wonder about the electorate there. Get out and vote, its your constitutional right, vote wise and with your heart.


Larry Lippard
Larry Lippard
@Ken Norton
Listen up Kenny. After this election, it will be Send in the Clouds, it will be that dark and bleak.

David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Larry Lippard "Vote with your heart" No thats funny The Clown has it the mark.

FYI those were my last words during my televised debate in Fundy Roal on Rogers TV during the 2015 Federal Election.

Google

Fundy Royal Debate

to check my words.

David Raymond Amos
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David Raymond Amos
@Larry Lippard The song is "Send in the Clowns" but as you well know you are already here


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Raymond Amos WOW clearly @Larry Lippard has some fans among the CBC moderators N'esy pas? For the record not only was that comment harmless and funny it was also VERY TRUE.


I opted not to say anything about Harper 2.0 after I heard him described as such on CBC first thing in the morning. I figured my comments would be lost within a blizzard of comments throughout the day anyway. So I decided to wait awhile to see the top comments and make one or two within those threads to try the water with CBC's malicious moderators then wait until after the Nova Scotia election was a matter of history. 

That said Trust that I have no respect whatsoever for whatever Andy Baby Scheer or Mean Mr MacDonald of CBC have to say about anything anyway. The proof of the pudding was when CBC deleted Lorna Jensen's most popular thread that I had commented within  ( Anybody bother to notice she has the same last name as the Crown Counsel I have been arguing with about Andy Baby and the Boyz actions against me?)



Andrew Scheer says he won't impose his religious beliefs on Canadians. We'll see: Neil Macdonald


http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/andrew-scheer-leadership-1.4136808


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Max Merl
Lorna Jensen (Poof)
So...Neil MacDonald churns out more asinine assessments....what else is new ?

Religious beliefs "should not be examined by the government" if they violate existing federal laws granting citizens free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, sexual equality, and free choice in all matters. "Some religions" are still using 9th century beliefs that are not legal in Canada and they should be informed that theses practices will not be tolerated. Islam may be one of them.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos 
@Lorna Jensen I agree that Mean Mr MacDonald and his CBC cohorts churn out many asinine assessments. However to be fair to all and to give the little devils their due I did hear one very true assessment of the Conservatives latest leader first thing this morning.

Somebody on the CBC radio airwaves funded by the taxpayers hard earned dimes called the dude I always called Andy Baby Scheer "Harper 2.0" In my humble opinion that is the perfect nickname for the young fella who was always good at playing "following the leader". Hence from this time forward that is what I am gonna call him as I watch him try to herd cats with poor rhetoric and a fake smile.

As much as I have no respect whatsoever for the lawyer I call Maxy Baby but at least the Quebecker spoke his mind, broke his own ground and hoed his own rows. Much to my chagrin I must confess that I largely agreed with the French libertarian.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/election-five-things-to-watch-halifax-cape-breton-pc-ndp-liberal-1.2670227


5 things that will determine the fate of Nova Scotia's election today

How voters answer these questions today will determine who forms the next government

By Michael Gorman, CBC News Posted: May 30, 2017 6:00 AM AT


These three men are vying to be Nova Scotia's next premier. From left: Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil, Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie, and NDP Leader Gary Burrill.
These three men are vying to be Nova Scotia's next premier. From left: Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil, Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie, and NDP Leader Gary Burrill. (Canadian Press)

After a month of promises, platforms, debates and attack ads, provincial politicians are putting their futures in the hands of Nova Scotia voters.

Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil and his team are looking for a second straight majority government, which would be the first in the province since 1988, while Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie and NDP Leader Gary Burrill have each made the case that McNeil and the Grits aren't even worthy of being reduced to a minority government.

As people make last-minute trips to the ballot box before the polls close at 8 p.m. AT and results begin to flow in, here are five storylines worth watching as we await the final numbers.

What will happen with the rookie Liberal MLAs?


The Liberals' march to victory in 2013 included electing 22 first-time MLAs. They added two more rookies during byelections in 2015. What happens to those 24 candidates in their bids for re-election will ultimately determine if McNeil and his team return to Province House as the government.

While some of those candidates, including those who served in the Liberal cabinet, should have a clear path to a second straight electoral win, others are in tight races — with NDP and Tory candidates trying to capitalize on anger about the state of health care in the province and the Liberal government's recurring feuds with organized labour.

Can the NDP win its most important seat?


Burrill has been on a mission to remake Nova Scotia's NDP along its more traditional social-democratic roots since assuming the party leadership in February 2016. For Burrill to continue that effort, it is crucial for him to have a seat in Province House.

Burrill served one term as MLA for Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley from 2009 to 2013, but lost his bid for re-election. This time he's running in Halifax Chebucto, a seat that for years was considered safe for the party but went to the Liberals in 2013. Burrill will be hoping some of that old NDP magic will be present tonight.

If the NDP were to win only one seat tonight, this is arguably the most important seat.

Will health care be the No. 1 issue?


Throughout this campaign, the Tories' Baillie and the NDP's Burrill have argued that the health-care system is in crisis as procedure wait times mount and people struggle to find family doctors.

They clearly see it as a weakness for the Liberals, who have acknowledged there's much work to be done, while stopping short of calling it a crisis.

With massive town hall meetings recently in Cape Breton to voice concerns about the system and doctors being more vocally critical than they've perhaps been before, health care could be the deciding factor for any close race, particularly in Cape Breton.

Did McNeil's shift from salaries to services backfire?


As the Liberal leader had one fight after another with organized labour — including health-care workers and teachers, the latter culminating in the province's first-ever teachers strike — McNeil and his team made a calculated gamble: that there are more people in the province who are not in unions than are, and that that majority would be receptive to the Liberal argument for slowing public-sector salary growth in an effort to balance the books and increase services.

Nova Scotia teachers legislature
The province's teachers staged a one-day strike in February. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)

During this campaign, many criticized McNeil's approach in his first mandate, which they characterized as confrontational, sometimes mean-spirited, and stubborn. But McNeil has countered throughout the campaign that his party has received support from plenty in the very groups with whom he's had tense times.

Whether he's correct will dictate his fate.

Who will win?


If the pollsters are correct, Nova Scotia will either have a Liberal or Tory government by the end of tonight. There are several things that need to happen for each scenario to play out.

For the Tories, they need to win seats in rural Nova Scotia and suburban Halifax that went Liberal in 2013 and they need the NDP to regain strength — and seats — in Metro Halifax and parts of Cape Breton. If those shifts happen, Baillie and his team will be sitting on the government side of Province House.

For the Liberals, it's pretty simple: they must retain enough of their gains from 2013 to offset any losses. To form a majority government, they must be strong in Halifax, just as they were in the last election, as well as maintain their rural seats. For a minority government, they can afford losses in one area or the other — but not in both.

The other thing that would benefit the Grits is if there is a strong opposition vote, but split evenly between the Tories and NDP, allowing them to come up the middle.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/b-c-coalition-what-it-means-for-trudeau-1.4137084

NDP-Green accord touted as a way to give B.C. certainty provides Trudeau anything but

PM worked hard to get B.C. on board with Kinder Morgan expansion; this 2-party team might not be so willing

By Chris Hall, CBC News Posted: May 30, 2017 5:00 AM ET

B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Leader John Horgan speak to media on Monday after announcing they'll be working together to help form a minority government.
B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Leader John Horgan speak to media on Monday after announcing they'll be working together to help form a minority government. (Chad Hipolito/Canadian Press)

 When the leaders of British Columbia's NDP and Green Party stood before the microphones in Victoria on Monday to say they'd reached a deal to join forces, the reverberations were felt clear across the country, on Parliament Hill.

While the deal won't be finalized until later today, it could spell an end to Christy Clark's chances of holding on to power before she can even introduce a throne speech that might take into account the priorities of the province's three Green MLAs, on things like political finance reform, more affordable housing and funding for clean technology.

"The reason we are standing here today instead of waiting for a throne speech to be put forward is precisely to give British Columbians certainty," Green Leader Andrew Weaver told reporters.


For the federal Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.'s certainty is creating nothing but uncertainty in Ottawa.

Here's why.

Both Weaver and NDP Leader John Horgan oppose the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline between Edmonton and Vancouver. Their accord comes just a day before the company is to make its initial public offering for shares in the $7.4-billion project.

The federal Liberals approved the expansion in November as part of a strategy to get Alberta's NDP government to introduce a price on carbon. One depended on the other.

"The decision we took on the Trans Mountain pipeline was based on facts [and] evidence, on what is in the best interest of Canadians," he said, during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Rome Tuesday.

"Regardless of a change in government, in British Columbia or anywhere, the facts and evidence do not change," Trudeau said.

"We understand that growing a strong economy for the future requires taking leadership on the environment.

We have to do those two things together," he said. "That is what drives us in the choices we make, and we stand by those choices."


"The prime minister's been clear that, without a climate plan, we can't get a pipeline, and without a pipeline, we can't get a climate plan," one Liberal had insider said Monday as government officials met behind closed doors to craft strategy.

The PMO statement issued late Monday was more anodyne.

"Canada has strong institutions at the federal and provincial level that are able to work through complex situations."

This, apparently, qualifies as one of those complex situations.

Pipeline politics revisited


The truth is the Trudeau government worked hard just to get Clark's Liberal government on board with the Kinder Morgan expansion, even though the province has had a carbon tax for years.

First, Trudeau's government approved the Site C hydroelectric dam despite significant opposition from area residents and First Nations. Then, in November, Ottawa gave the go-ahead to an $11.4-billion liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C.

Both projects remain central planks in Clark's economic plan for the province — and in her election campaign.

Today, the future of all of those projects is less clear than yesterday.

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The Trudeau government worked hard to get Christy Clark's Liberal government on board with the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. It remains to be seen if a NDP-Green coalition would be as willing to negotiate on the $7.4-billion project. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

"I believe, firmly, that all these approvals were part of a political trade-off Justin Trudeau didn't need to make to keep Christy Clark happy and to keep Alberta Premier Rachel Notley happy," said federal Green Leader Elizabeth May.

"It's the kind of unprincipled set of trade-offs that causes disillusionment with politics."

So what's next? In Kinder Morgan's case, the province of B.C. still hasn't issued all the required permits. An NDP government, supported by the Greens, presumably won't feel the need.

Or this new government could order a provincial environmental assessment of the project — something the Clark government didn't do.


"Our objective as we form a government is to ensure that we keep the economy going and that we prepare for the economy of the future," Horgan said Monday.

"That's the exciting part about looking at our two platforms together, and bringing them together in the form of this agreement on key issues we can absolutely agree on: to grow the economy, to create the economy for the future, as well as making sure foundational industries, like forestry, are front and centre."

Neither Horgan nor Weaver said a word about energy being a foundational industry.

Environmental groups noticed: The Pembina Institute, Clean Energy Canada and Stand.earth all released statements not long after Monday's news conference, hailing the NDP/Green accord as a positive step for clean growth and a greener energy future.

Effects on the NDP


But the impact of this accord won't only be felt by Liberals in Ottawa; it makes the federal NDP leadership race potentially more difficult, too.

Notley's NDP government in Alberta wants the pipeline. Alberta's New Democrats, along with trade union members from the province, played a pivotal role in preventing Tom Mulcair from winning a leadership review at the NDP convention in Edmonton last year.

NDP Leadership Debate 20170312
Federal NDP leadership candidates (from left) Guy Caron, Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton and Peter Julian look on during the first debate of the party's leadership race in this March 2017 file photo. A change in B.C.'s provincial government may affect the New Democrats' federal race, if pipeline politics come into play. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Leadership candidates will now have to make a choice between the anti-pipeline New Democrats of B.C. and Notley's pro-pipeline government. It's one or the other. Pick your partner.

One of those candidates, B.C. MP Peter Julian, told CBC Radio's The House earlier this month that he remains opposed to Kinder Morgan.

"I believe we need to make the transition to clean energy. What we need to do is work with energy workers in Saskatchewan and Alberta, retraining them for the clean energy potential that is there."

Others in the race may well feel the same, especially now that there's the distinct possibility of a second provincial NDP government in B.C., where, unlike Alberta, New Democrats have a track record of electoral success.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gallant-appoint-three-candidates-1.4135232 

Liberals give Gallant authority to appoint 3 female candidates

Liberals can only appoint candidates in unheld ridings, the move aims to create gender parity

By Jordan Gill, CBC News Posted: May 29, 2017 7:41 AM AT

The Liberals have given Brian Gallant the ability to appoint up to three female candidates in ridings the party does not hold in a move to boost the number of women in politics.
The Liberals have given Brian Gallant the ability to appoint up to three female candidates in ridings the party does not hold in a move to boost the number of women in politics. (CBC) 

The provincial Liberals have given Brian Gallant the authority to appoint up to three female candidates to achieve parity in women running in unheld ridings in the next provincial election.

The motion was passed unanimously by the New Brunswick Liberal Association's board of directors.
Cathy Rogers, the province's first woman to take the role of minister of finance, said a lack of gender parity in politics is detrimental to government.


"Until we can get women and men equitably represented in politics, like in other leadership positions in business and in society in general, we're not going to get the best decision making," said Rogers.

In addition to the new authority given to the Liberal leader, Rogers said the party is also actively recruiting more women candidates among other initiatives to achieve parity.

"There's a number of things that people can do to try to get better representation of women in politics and I see this as one of them," said Rogers.

What the new authority does not fix, however, is the number of women currently sitting in the legislature.

NB Budget 20170207
Cathy Rogers, the province's first woman to take the role of minister of finance, said a lack of gender parity in politics is detrimental to making government decisions. (James West/Canadian Press)

There are only four women in the Liberal caucus, resulting in 15 per cent. But Rogers said giving the leader the ability to appoint three candidates is still a step in the right direction.

"We'd like to see a lot more but if we can appoint three [candidates] that helps," said Rogers.

If the number in the legislature remain the same until the next election, and all sitting Liberal MLAs reoffer, Liberals would have to nominate 11 or 12 women to reach near-parity [parity wouldn't be possible as the number of unheld ridings would be odd.]

There are no plans, however, if there isn't parity even with the leader's three appointments.
"We're going to do everything we can to meet that goal," said Rogers.

Rogers said this isn't the end of initiatives the party has in mind to reach parity.

"I would say stay tuned, we'll probably talk about some other initiatives down the road," said Rogers.

 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/andrew-scheer-leadership-1.4136808


Andrew Scheer says he won't impose his religious beliefs on Canadians. We'll see: Neil Macdonald

Social conservatives in the United States have used all sorts of creative schemes to impose their views

By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: May 30, 2017 5:00 AM ET

Social and religious conservatives helped make Andrew Scheer the leader of the Conservative Party this past weekend. It remains to be seen how much of a say they will have in policy.
Social and religious conservatives helped make Andrew Scheer the leader of the Conservative Party this past weekend. It remains to be seen how much of a say they will have in policy. (David Donnelly/CBC) 


Academics who study such things tell us that we naturally tend to seek shelter in our own intellectual cohort, and that this insularity is a bad thing, because absorbing only the viewpoints of those with whom you agree makes you less smart.

That makes sense. To ignore political views that clash with your own eventually leads to irrational obduracy.
There is research indicating that misinformed people rarely change their minds, even when presented with facts. They merely pursue alternative facts. Which creates a stupidity feedback loop.

So by all means, cast your attention net wide. Consume information and analysis across the political spectrum. I read the Weekly Standard and the National Review regularly. Having your mind changed by fact is a sublime experience.

Religion, though, is something else. It is by definition not fact-based. It is a pure belief system.

Religion in politics


To be clear here, I am all for a person's right to believe in whatever he or she desires, to embrace foundational myths of aliens, or miracles, or extreme positions of love or hatred, as long as it remains in a place of worship, with the door closed.

But it usually doesn't.

Religion most often involves a deep commitment to telling other people how to live their lives. In the U.S. — and to a lesser extent Canada — evangelical conservatives, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, are often a relentless and formidable political force.

Many expect and obtain supplication from candidates for public office. They push for laws that amount to moral dictation, often using their tax-free status to amass funding for their activism.

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Religious lobbies in the U.S. have waged an all-out assault on Planned Parenthood. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)

As a result, abortion, which the U.S. Supreme Court legalized decades ago, remains effectively inaccessible in several states. If Christian conservatives had their way, there'd be precious little access to contraception, either. Just look at the current assault on Planned Parenthood.

They fought bitterly against same-sex marriage, speciously and viciously arguing that it would somehow contaminate heterosexual marriage, or lead to pedophilia and bestiality.

They oppose transgender rights (transgender people are apparently freaks of nature or charlatans who must at all costs be restricted to a bathroom of society's choosing).

Their political lobbies want to force prayer back into school, and replace — or at least match — the teaching of science with superstition. (Yes, superstition. The word is defined as a persistent belief in something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and there is overwhelming evidence of evolution.

Humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist, as creationists would have us believe, and the Earth is a lot more than 10,000 years old despite what the so-called young earthers say).

A matter of faith


Faced with legal barriers to some of these efforts, they decry judges as "activist" and seek to install more religious judges.

And whenever someone calls them on what is often plain old hatred-laced bigotry, they smile and say, "No, no, you don't understand. It's a matter of 'faith.'"

"Faith," apparently, confers licence to discriminate, bully, marginalize and deprive someone of liberty (such as the liberty to end an unwanted pregnancy).

Which brings us to the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Andrew Scheer, who, if the preponderance of political analysis is correct, was pushed over the top by social and religious conservatives.

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Scheer has described a bill normalizing same-sex marriage as 'abhorrent.' (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)

He seems a nice fellow — a bit like the current prime minister. Both men wander around with what seem like permanent smiles plastered on their faces.

Scheer likes to be described as a "happy warrior," and reporters are constantly describing him as "jolly" or "impish." Well, good for him. Relentless cheerfulness must take effort.

But Scheer opposes the very notion of a woman deciding to end her own pregnancy. He has described a bill normalizing same-sex marriage as "abhorrent," not only to him and other Catholics but to every member of every "faith community."

Well, Reform Jews, Unitarians, Buddhists and Hindus, among others, might take issue with that.

But notice the "faith community" reference. The good old catch-all.

Otherwise put, it amounts to this: "I and a bunch of other people like me think homosexuality is an abomination, but because we meet in church, you have to respect that view."

No, we don't.

Religious conservatives make the same basic argument when they argue that people suffering horrible, terminal pain shouldn't be enabled or even allowed to end their own lives.


Or when, inexplicably, they publicly oppose, as Scheer has, strengthening protection for transgender people, who have to be among the most vulnerable in society.

Canadians do have Scheer's word that despite his strongly stated positions, he would not as prime minister introduce legislation re-opening the abortion question or same-sex marriage.

But social conservatives in the United States have used all sorts of creative schemes to impose their views on populations in states where they hold sway. You often don't need legislation to get your way.

Canada's a different place, but a prime minister enjoys much broader power than a president.

A little de-funding here, a little creative regulatory tweaking there, and you can accomplish what you want without big, loud, bothersome House of Commons debates.

We shall see. Scheer has already wiped his policy platform off his leadership website.

Other than all that, by the way, congratulations. May the road rise up to meet you, the wind be at your back and the sun shine warm on your face.