If you care about the environment check this out

From Scott's DiaTribes If you care about the environment and what Harper and the Conservative is doing to it, wanting to do to Canadian environmental laws, and how they are trying to silence environmental advocates dissent, check this site out:  

http://blackoutspeakout.ca/about.php 

From the Blackout Speak Out Site:

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Right now, Parliament is pushing through a bill to weaken many of the country's most important environmental protection measures and silence Canadians who want to defend them. Instead of using the usual process for sweeping changes, which allows for thorough debate, these changes are being shoehorned into a massive budget law.

Here are the top five reasons to Speak Out:

1. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act is being replaced with a totally new law. Under it, Ottawa will play a much smaller role in protecting people from harmful projects, while retaining the right to rubber-stamp big projects that powerful oil interests want. In addition, the new weaker rules are being applied to review processes that are already underway–so projects like the Enbridge Northern Gateway tankers and pipeline project could get an easier ride.

2. The government is adding $8 million in new funding for the Canada Revenue Agency to audit charities – including environmental groups – because they use their legal right to advocate for things like laws to fight global warming. This will have a chilling effect on democratic debate, with the big winner being powerful oil interests. Under the new laws, citizen groups will likely be shut out of environmental reviews of big projects like oil pipelines. Key government agencies with expertise will also have less input. Well-funded backroom lobbyists and political operatives will have greater influence.

3. The National Energy Board will no longer be able to say “no” to oil pipeline projects that are not in the public interest. Politicians in Cabinet will be able to overrule the expert energy regulator if powerful oil interests don’t like its decision. Permits that allow the destruction of habitat for fish and threatened or endangered species will now be issued behind closed doors without public scrutiny, if they are required at all.

4. Many lakes, rivers and streams that provide habitat to fish will be at greater risk of destruction because of changes to the Fisheries Act contained within the budget implementation bill. Healthy fish habitat is important for fish and for the people and businesses that depend on them.

5. The 2012 budget eliminates the funding for the last remaining government advisory body – the National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy (NRTEE)- focused on providing analysis and advice on how to meet our international commitments to reducing greenhouse gas pollution

Speak out on June 4, 2012 in defence of two core Canadian values: nature and democracy.

June 4th is the day of action for the new alliance of environmental groups that has formed. The Conservative government is taking it seriously enough to have Natural Resources Minister (and head Big Oil cheerleader of this government) Joe Oliver come out and issue a statement about it.

Join a committed group of organizations representing millions of Canadians as we darken our websites in protest against efforts to silence your voice.

Attention all proactive people from Occupy Canada

From a post on my Facebook page. Please Share, sign and mail

Regarding the Robocall Election Fraud that occurred last year:

PLEASE PRINT, SIGN, and MAIL the following petition calling for a public inquiry to:

The Fight for Democracy

221 Glendale Ave

P.O Box 25014 Pen Centre

St.Catharines, On

L2T 2K0

And have as many people as possible sign copies as well!! If you can only find one person to fill in a signature on a page, no problem, we can still accept it.

Unfortunately, only physical - and not electronic - petitions are certifiable in parliament.

PLEASE SHARE (and copy and paste these instructions!) Thank you!

Occupy Canada

Go to: http://www.thefightfordemocracy.com/Petition.html

Step 1: Open the petition file.

Step 2: Print it.

Step 3: Have you and somebody else sign it.

... Step 4: Put it into an envelope.

Step 5: Place a stamp on the envelope.

Step 6: Write address on the envelope and drop into mail box.

Step 7: Repeat process for your friends.

More from the Occupy Canada post:

Most people don't realize the utter significance of a stolen election. The democratic right to vote, unsuppressed, in order to create a legitimate democratic government, is the bedrock of our very foundation as a supposedly democratic society.

All else follows. The laws, they follow. The enforcement, it follows. But when an illegitimately won election creates an illegitimate government, all ...else becomes subsequently illegitimate as well. The laws they attempt to pass become illegitimate, etc. Therefore, it is the most fundamental concern of our democracy at this moment... and most people don't even realize it.

Yesterday (May 2nd)  I got 138 people to sign a paper petition that is certifiable by parliament. Technically, all electronic petitions are actually uncertifiable in parliament - parliament has the right to dismiss them. We therefore must not give them any avenue of recourse to say that people do not give a shit. People must sign paper petitions.

Ideally, by September, we'd like at least 10,000 paper petitions to personally and physically present to the House of Commons. Help us reach this goal by taking the time to print up the petition, sign it, and mail it.

We have paper petitions that can be printed up and mailed to the PO Box shown in the link below, with http://www.thefightfordemocracy.com/  , so that we may send them in en masse in September. Please spread the word.

-Jon A

 http://www.thefightfordemocracy.com/Petition.htmlSeeMore    

Occupy Canada has some interesting links

 Does anyone else see whats wrong with this picture in regards to the Election Fraud that just hit Canada...? Yesterday we found out complaints to Elections Canada totaled 200 riding's across Canada. Harper's 2012 federal budget just cut Elections Canada by $7.5 million starting THIS YEAR. The conservatives invited the head of Elections Canada today to testify the same day as the Federal Budget was being introduced for the sole purpose to sweep it under the rug and have the least amount of media attention.   All References/Sources Attached Below: Its a comprehensive list of references all fact checked, its very important for all Canadians to read this, please take the time! Researched/Shared by http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/OccupyCanada  —

"Elections Canada funding will be cut by $7.5 million a year, starting in 2012-13"
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/29/federalbudget-main.html?cmp=rss

Robo-call complaints received from about 200 ridings: Elections Canada
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/robo-call-complaints-received-from-about-200-ridings-elections-canada/article2385679/

Fraudulent robocalls pretending to come from Elections Canada are "absolutely outrageous" and should not be tolerated in a democracy, the chief electoral officer told parliamentarians Thursday. "These are very serious matters that strike at the integrity of our democracy," said Marc Mayrand. "Whether it was organized or bigger or whatever, the fact that electors, at least that we know in Guelph (Ont.), were misdirected by calls falsely made on behalf of Elections Canada is absolutely outrageous."
source: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Fraudulent+robocalls+absolutely+outrageous+chief+electoral+officer/6380092/story.html

Canada’s chief electoral officer has revealed around 7,000 illegal robocalls were made on election day from a phone number at the centre of the Pierre Poutine scandal in the riding of Guelph, Ont.
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/29/pierre-poutine-made-6700-robocalls-in-guelph-on-election-day-using-450-number/

”There’s going to be a new code on Parliament Hill, Bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.” -Stephen Harper quote in 2006
source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/25/bend-the-rules-you-will-be-punished/

SMOKESCREEN **THE CONS WANTED THIS SWEPT UNDER THE RUG WITH NO MEDIA ATTENTION, THE CONS INVITED THE HEAD OF ELECTIONS CANADA TO OTTAWA THE SAME DAY AS THE FEDERAL BUDGET WAS BEING ANNOUNCED.**
The head of Elections Canada, Marc Mayrand's appearance in Parliament on Thursday March 29th is the same day the Federal Budget is announced by finance minister Jim Flaherty , the timing of which was **decided by the committee's Conservative chairman Joe Preston**, comes at a time when many reporters will be "locked up" in the annual federal budget briefing, without access to the internet, and on a day when a lot of the public's attention will be on the budget."
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/26/pol-elections-canada-committee-thursday.html

***NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ACROSS CANADA MARCH 31ST***
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We call for the SECOND TIME on ALL CANADIANS to join in a Rally on
SATURDAY, March 31, 2pm-5pm in cities across Canada.
Events by CITY- Please check LOCAL TIMES:

ON May 05th, Its Occupy parliament Day!!
http://www.facebook.com/events/326943627328522/

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ROBORECALL! NEW ELECTION NOW! 7 RIDINGS DISPUTED IN COURT
"A citizen advocacy group is asking the Federal Court of Canada to overturn election results in seven ridings. The Council of Canadians is backing the first legal challenge of election results in closely fought races in British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Yukon and Ontario. All of the ridings named were won by Conservative candidates and all but one was decided by fewer than 1,000 votes."
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/27/activist-group-files-legal-challenge-to-overturn-election-results-in-robocall-ridings/


Conservative Party may have broken 2011 election law
source: http://www.brockpress.com/news/external-news/conservative-party-may-have-broken-election-law-1.2828426#.T3IfndXO-So

Conservatives Made 6 Million Election Calls, Refuse To Hand Over Call Records For Investigation
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5tkPBysJQY

Investigating their own tapes before elections canada or the rcmp? Election call tapes under review by Conservatives Investigators planning to interview staff at call centre http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/01/pol-robocalls-elections-canada.html

Misleading election call traced to Conservatives
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03/01/bc-suspicious-election-calls-dimond.html

RMG (Responsive Marketing Group) clients - 2011 election
Full list of expenses- see bottom graph on CBC (($15,000.01 per client))
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/robocalls-watch-conservative-party-linked-to-calls-directing-voters-to-different-polling-stations.html

***Robo-calls worse than Watergate***
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/rod-mickleburgh/robo-calls-worse-than-watergate-dirty-tricks-op-opines/article2356142/

***Election Fraud promoted at conservative campaign school***
source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/uvic-professor-claims-voter-suppression-promoted-conservative-campaign-005940775.html

A slew of former employees at a call centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., revealed on Monday they were using a script to make live calls on behalf of the Conservative party direction voters to goto wrong polling stations.
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/28/robocalls-probe-centres-on-disposable-burner-cellphone-linked-to-guelph-black-ops/

Elections Canada confirms over 31,000 complaints in RoboCall Scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGuB5GzfJOI

Harper ignores opposition calls for by-elections in ridings hit by robo-calls
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harper-ignores-opposition-calls-for-by-elections-in-ridings-hit-by-robo-calls/article2351508/

Stephen Harper says Election Fraud in 57 Ridings is a "Smear Campaign" and is a Lie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYikT1WWV8

Measuring the impact of robocalls in the 57 ridings allegedly targeted
source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/28/robocall-ridings/

cbc news: photo posted to Facebook by (Robocalls) RackNine CEO Matt Meier, in which he noted that "government does pay"
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/order-paper-watch-ndp-wants-info-on-government-money-going-to-racknine-rmg-and-campaign-research.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Link Between Racknine President Matt Meier and the Harper Government , personal facebook photos of Racknine President Matt Meier released.
source: http://thecanadianpoliticalscene.blogspot.com/2012/02/ndp-leaks-more-links-between-racknine.html?m=1

Another personal facebook photo of Racknine President Matt Meier shows computer servers and his written comment
"adding the final servers for the political superweapon"
http://404systemerror.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/racknine-image.jpg

First election scandal casualty: Democracy
source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/27/first-election-scandal-casualty-democracy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=First+election+scandal+casualty%3A+Democracy

February 27th 2012- The word is "script." And we're not talking about the Oscars here. source: http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2012/02/script.html#.T0un-seMCJM.facebook

February 27th 2012- "I made misleading election calls for the Tories: Call centre workers speak out." source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/27/i-made-misleading-election-calls-for-the-tories-call-centre-workers-speak-out/

February 27th 2012- CBC News- Robocalls : **Confirmed** Conservative Party linked to calls directing voters to different polling stations. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/robocalls-watch-conservative-party-linked-to-calls-directing-voters-to-different-polling-stations.html

February 27th 2012
Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011 election, say call centre
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1137273--conservative-scripts-misdirected-voters-in-2011-election-say-call-centre-staff

Harper didn't "win" by much (6201 votes is the sum of the closest 14 margins of victory in those ridings)
source: http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2011/05/canada-votes-2011-margin-of-victory.html

The Conservatives won their majority with 166 seats. That's a margin of 11. That means the legitimacy of the Tory majority is in question. It's simple math.
source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Tandt+Investigation+into+robocalls+sc%C2%ADandal+must+public+biased/6212272/story.html

Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, Rona Ambrose and Tim Uppal amongst those whose campaigns paid for RackNine's auto-dial services.
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/election-robocall-data-dump---12-conservative-candidates-on-the-2011-racknine-client-list.html

Misleading election campaign robocalls linked to company that worked for Conservatives source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/misleading-election-campaign-robo-calls-linked-company-worked-174209326.html

********NATIONAL EMERGENCY***********
ALL REFERENCES /SOURCES ATTACHED BELOW:
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Canada is in a National emergency, that's the truth. The Harper government has declared the Canadian people to be enemies of the state and most people don't even know it.

Stephen Harper thinks Canada is a dictatorship and even wrote about it- courtesy of the CBC
So, let's consider that obscure but intriguing article, written in 1997 by two brainy conservatives, Tom Flanagan and Stephen Harper. Yes, it calls Canada "a benign dictatorship."
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/03/30/cv-milewski-harper-coalition.html

Enemies of the State:
It seems hard to imagine today that a Canadian government would approve a plan to round up thousands of law-abiding Canadians and lock them away simply because they were perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy.
CBC Fifth estate: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/enemiesofthestate/

The government of Canada has been hijacked
conservatives re-brand the Canadian government in Stephen Harper’s name
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-re-brand-government-in-stephen-harpers-name/article1929175/

Harper Government broke the law when dismantling Wheat Board: Federal Court, This will allow corporate GMO companies to take over Canada: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/07/government-broke-the-law-when-dismantling-wheat-board-federal-court/

Harper Government labels environmentalists "terrorist threat" in new report
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/02/10/are-canadian-environmentalists-terrorist-threat

Under Harper's government: CSIS and RCMP equate Greenpeace and PETA with terrorists
source: http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/csis_and_rcmp_equate_greenpeace_and_peta_with_terrorists/c166a26d

Under Harper's government
Natives decry military's comparison of protests to terrorism
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/natives-decry-militarys-comparison-of-protests-to-terrorism/article2200798/

Harper government’s muzzle on federal scientists
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1139734--prestigious-science-journal-slams-harper-government-s-muzzle-on-federal-scientists

Harper's public safety minister Vic Toews said 'Your With us or with the child pornographers' if you were opposed to bill C-30 which is spying on ALL Canadians including your internet access and cellphone records all without warrants. source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/with-us-or-with-the-child-pornographers-doesnt-cut-it-mr-toews/article2337425/

Harper's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a new anti-terrorism strategy that identifies as threats eco-extremists, animal-rights radicals and anti-capitalists. source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/security-services-deem-environmental-animal-rights-groups-extremist-threats/article2340162/

Macleans Magazine: Harper's promise: a warrantless online surveillance state source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/13/harpers-promise-a-warrantless-online-surveillance-state/

**MUST WATCH**
WARNING: Harper/Toews want 1984 Big Brother Government
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlfL9iwxu4

CBC News: Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother
Section 34 gives Orwellian powers to government-appointed 'inspectors'
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-vp-terry-milewski-bill-c30.html

Toronto Sun: Say hello to Big Brother Harper Government
source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/14/say-hello-to-big-brother-government

Stephen Harper breaks election rules, campaigns on radio on election day
source: http://www.examiner.com/canada-headlines-in-canada/stephen-harper-breaks-election-rules-campaigns-on-radio-on-election-day

Conservative Party fined for breaking election laws
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/10/pol-conservative-election-in-and-out.html

Conservative Party may have broken election law
http://www.brockpress.com/news/external-news/conservative-party-may-have-broken-election-law-1.2828426#.T3QbGdXO-So

Stephen Harper's closest advisor Bruce Carson was convicted on five counts of fraud -- three more than previously known -- and received court-ordered psychiatric treatment before becoming one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's closest advisers. And his lawyer told The Canadian Press that Carson disclosed his entire criminal record during a security check that was required to become a senior staffer in the Prime Minister's Office.
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110403/carson-pm-fraud-110403/#ixzz1qUZMcgq3

Can't forget Harper's $1Billion dollar security summit which hijacked Toronto and led to the most violations of civil rights and most mass arrests in Canadian history

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In the midst of the con's election fraud scandal, another very sad day for Canada happened without enough noise, the evil CON crime bill C-10 got passed although no sane person wanted it, even the Texas conservatives said it won't work since they already tried it without success. The Harper "cons" are actually forcing crime rates to rise to fill those jails.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Hates Harper's Crime Bill
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1idBPLpw

The omnibus crime bill is a crime
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1144453--fiorito-the-omnibus-crime-bill-is-a-crime

Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973
Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before. source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html

Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low
Public safety minister pleased, but says Tories won't change crime approach
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/10/26/homicides-statscan.html

**Omnibus Crime Bill: Mental Illness Not A Consideration.**
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illness, including young offenders who find themselves being sentenced as adults. source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/01/canada-omnibus-crime-bill-mental-illness_n_1124184.html

Controversial crime bill to cost Canadians $19 BILLION: study
http://www.vancouversun.com/Controversial+crime+bill+cost+Canadians+billion+study/5832700/story.html

The cost of the federal prison system has risen 86% since the Harper government took over in 2006, government reports show. Prison costs soar 86% in past five years: report- By 2013-14, the cost of the federal penitentiary system will have almost doubled to $3.147-billion, according to budget projections.
Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

Keeping a male inmate in jail per year cost tax payers $109,699 according to a 2009 corrections Canada report: in 2011 it rose to $113,974 a year.

Recent government reports on the cost of Canada’s jails show costs rising on all fronts. For instance, the cost of keeping a male inmate in prison rose from $88,067 per year in 2006 to $109,699 in 2009, according to the most recent data from Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview.The cost of staffing Canada’s federal prisons has also increased significantly, with 5,745 more staff hired at Corrections Canada since the Conservatives took power. Staffing numbers have risen from 14,663 in 2005-06 to 20,408 full-time equivalents in 2011-12, according to Reports on Plans and Priorities.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

$312 per prisoner, per day
Land a bed in jail via rape, murder or any other heinous criminal act, and you’re suddenly worth $113,974 a year to the federal government — nearly ten times as much. Fair? Hardly. But that’s annual average cost for keeping an inmate incarcerated in Canada, according to the latest report from Corrections Canada. It means the federal government is paying $312 per prisoner, per day, to keep Canada’s worst citizens healthy, happy and secure in the penitentiaries our killers and cretins chose to live in.
source: http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/02/28/canadas-criminal-sitting-pretty-as-price-tag-for-prisoners-soars

Americans shocked Harper crime bill gives more time to pot growers than pedophiles
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/americans-odds-harper-crime-bill-gives-more-jail-160536154.html

Texas conseratives to Stephen Harper : Omnibus Crime Bill a huge mistake
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jdw2YJb7Hw

**Texas conservatives** reject Harper's crime plan
'Been there; done that; didn't work,' say Texas crime-fighters
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/17/pol-vp-milewski-texas-crime.html

Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/crime-bill-unfairly-targets-women-aboriginals-critics-say-132223703.html

The Ontario government says the omnibus federal crime bill will cost the province's taxpayers more than $1 billion in increased police and correctional service costs.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/01/23/ontario-federal-crime-bill.html

Quebec, Ontario won't pay costs of federal crime bill
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111101/quebec-justice-minister-jean-marc-fournier-says-province-wont-pay-costs-of-new-federal-crime-bill-111101/#ixzz1oxR05oU3